13 years later Sam Winchester is still my favorite character. He’s just one the reasons why I love watching the show, of course that is next to the amazing bond between the brothers. I mean they are always willing to sacrifice their lives for each other. But still I’ve always thought of Sam’s character as the most inspiring of all the characters. I mean his own father thinks he’ll go dark-side but he was able to prove them wrong. I love how he listens to other people and hears their problems, and he doesn’t belittle their problems even though he usually has bigger ones. He honestly cares about everyone and I can see it on his face. If he’s talking to a victim’s family he never says a mean word to them and is always consious of their feelings and attitude. He is just a really awesome character for me.
Poor, brave, strong, tortured Sam. He’s gone through so much agony in the past that Lady Bevel is just an “accent in a pantsuit” in his rational mind, but his body and his instincts as a human being aren’t going to play along nicely with this idea. He knows that it’s just some posh British woman in front of him, but his body is remembering that cage, just like that traumatized part of his brain that, as a result of that PTSD, is likely actually reliving that pain. And yet, he keeps it together (or pretends to) so well that he can actually talk back with sass (read: coping mechanism) and maintain his silence beyond the point where his torturers can’t even comprehend how he hasn’t broken. All this is hard even for someone who hasn’t just lost a brother, as Sam believes he has. What absolutely astounds me is how strong Sam must be to show so much spirit here, and just how horrific the cage must have been to make him this way.