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Character Name: Adam Milligan
Series: Supernatural
Timeline: Post-5.22.
Canon Resource Link: Here or here!
Character History:

First and foremost, the most important thing--and in many ways, the only important thing--about Adam Milligan is that he's John Winchester's son.

In Supernatural, the Winchester bloodline has been a fundamental aspect of history down to the days of Cain and Abel. Sam and Dean Winchester, born to John Winchester and Mary Campbell and Adam's half-brothers, are key players in starting and ending the Apocalypse as told in celestial prophecy. Go figure. Unbeknownst to Adam, the Winchesters descend from a long line of men who involve themselves with the supernatural. Their grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather were a part of a secret society called the Men of Letters, "preceptors, beholders, chroniclers of all that which man does not understand." Mary Campbell's side of the family, meanwhile, has been hunting the supernatural for generations, all the way back to the Mayflower. The Winchester family is famous throughout the supernatural world, basically.

According to prophecy, these two families had to come together to produce two children: Sam and Dean. Why?

Well, it all comes down to the war between Heaven and Hell. Dean's destiny is to break the first of sixty-six seals trapping Lucifer in Hell and to act as the mortal vessel for Michael, the archangel who will fight Lucifer on Earth. Sam's destiny is to break the last seal and act as the vessel for Lucifer once the Apocalypse begins. Long story short, they've got big, big shoes to fill.

Adam knows nothing of his father's side of the family or his brothers, and he doesn't find out until he's nineteen years old. Thanks to his ignorance, he's the exact opposite of his brothers in many ways: he goes to school, he has friends, he lives in a quiet, uneventful town and leads a quiet, uneventful life.

His story starts in 1990 when John Winchester, injured during a hunt for ghouls in the local town, meets Kate Milligan by chance, a nurse at the hospital. When the hunt is done, John leaves, never knowing that his time with Kate resulted in a pregnancy. Adam is born and consequently raised by Kate on her own, living a normal life, one free of anything to do with the supernatural. Only after he turns twelve and begs his mother to contact John does John realize he has a third son; from that point on, he begins a relationship with the boy, visiting once a year or so. However, he chooses to protect Adam by not revealing his life as a hunter to him, nor revealing Adam's existence to Sam and Dean. John dies, taking these secrets with him.

Adam remains oblivious to the danger his bloodline puts him in until 2009 when things finally come to a head. The surviving ghouls, wanting revenge for what John did nineteen years previous, attack and devour Adam and Kate in their home.

The thing about ghouls is, they can take on the form and memories of the person they last ate, and a ghoul disguised as Adam reaches out to Sam and Dean to lead them into a trap. Suspicious, they arrive to investigate this so-called sibling of theirs. This is the first time the two "meet" their younger brother, and the ghoul wins them over by acting like Adam in every way that matters: showing them a scared, confused boy who has no idea that monsters exist and is just looking for his missing mother. Sam is ready to take Adam into the family fold by the time the ghoul reveals itself for what it is, and after they exterminate the ghouls, they lay Adam to rest properly.

Properly, maybe, but not permanently.

Desperate to change their fate and prevent the Apocalypse from happening on Earth, Sam and Dean refuse to act as vessels on multiple occasions, and this confounds the angels, as angels can't enter a body without permission from the vessel itself. In early 2010, Michael finally tasks a fellow angel, Zachariah, with resurrecting Adam and using him like a carrot on a stick to lure Dean into position, knowing that both Dean and Sam will strive to protect their brother. Adam is no more than a pawn, a bargaining chip.

In order to convince him to cooperate and leave Heaven, Zachariah tells Adam that he's chosen to fight Lucifer, that he can save the world by acting as Michael's vessel, and if he does his job he'll get to see his mother again. An angel promising you good things? Why wouldn't you believe that? Since Adam lacks the hunter experience to know better, everything Zachariah says has the ring of truth to it, and he buys into the ploy. The angel goes on to remind him that the Winchesters were never his family and in the process warns him that his last surviving family members, his half-brothers, are not to be trusted. Consequently, when Sam and Dean interfere and take a newly-resurrected Adam into their custody, believing Heaven might truly be attempting to use him as a vessel because he's related to them, he's uncooperative at best.

Although Sam and Dean remember the previous "Adam," this is the real version's first time meeting them. What he sees are two strangers standing in the way of him getting his mother back. Unsurprisingly, Adam doesn't have a lot of sympathy for his brothers after the havoc the Winchester curse wreaked on his life; it was, after all, because of the Winchesters that Adam was forced into this situation in the first place. Yet when Sam points out that he wouldn't have wanted to grow up around John and live their lives, Adam argues that he had no one but his mother to depend on. No brothers to guide him, no father to protect him, just his mother, and that makes him utterly determined to follow Zachariah's commands. If the Winchesters intend to stop him they can, frankly, go screw themselves.

Finally, after a failed attempt at escape, Zachariah is able to communicate with Adam in a dream and he then tips the angel off to his location, unknowingly letting himself be taken captive by Heaven's forces. At this point, Zachariah reveals the ruse: Adam was never meant to play a role in the prophecy, he is merely the "illegitimate half-brother of the person we do care about." As a member of the Winchester family, he's the perfect bait to use and cast aside.

The betrayal is almost enough to reduce Adam to tears, but since he is a Winchester, Sam and Dean do ultimately risk everything to free him before Michael can get to him. A pleasant surprise, to say the least.

However, Zachariah starts to torture both Sam and Adam in front of Dean, encouraging him to accept Michael, and Dean almost relents until he sees Sam suffering and decides not to let Sam down by letting his resolve crack. He kills Zachariah instead, but it's too late for Adam. Before Adam can escape, Michael descends and they disappear together.

In a desperate Hail Mary, Sam eventually decides to be Lucifer's vessel with the plan of taking back control of his body long enough to send Lucifer back to Hell. The plan succeeds, but not without some collateral damage. On the final battlefield, Michael, now using Adam's body as a back-up vessel, tries to stop Sam from opening a portal to Lucifer's Cage, but when he grabs Sam, Sam pulls him into the doorway, trapping himself, Lucifer, Michael, and Adam inside.

Over a year later, Dean finds a way to retrieve one of his brothers and must make the choice between Sam or Adam. He chooses Sam, leaving Adam in Hell where he currently resides.

Abilities/Special Powers:

He's a regular, everyday human. No powers here!

He was in a pre-med program at university along with having a nurse for a mother, so he does have some background in the medical profession, but other than that and some Eagle Scout training, he's pretty average.