#I'm picturing bbc ghosts style jack having full on conversations with a hoard of invisible bickering weirdos
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Jack au where he's a psychic who can commune with ghosts. Almost every major character from Supernatural is a ghost. Including Sam Dean and Cas. This would serve these major tennants of his relationships:
Isolated. The people Jack spends the majority of his time with are NOT part of the normal world. Sam, Dean, Cas and Mary live in a bunker and don't know how to be people. The AU hunters are literally from another world. His mom is dead. Kaia is split between realms. The only Real people he knows well are his young adult nerd friends and arguably Harper. You don't want 1/4 of your tie to reality to be a witch who wants to be Cheryl Blossom from Riverdale as her life's aspiration. That's no way to live!
Intangible. Because of Jack's immense power, he is, in a sense, untouchable. He is stopped when people hug him or push him or shoot him because he chooses to stop. There is a veil between him and them. There is also a scarcity of common ground. There is nothing else out there like him. Dean might stomp and bark and howl but, ultimately, what can he do to Jack physically? Nothing. The only power the ghosts have is emotional and social. Imagine being outcasted by the ghosts who can only see you and each other. Ouch!
Fleeting. Everyone he cares for is doomed to die. This happens even before he's born with Cas and Kelly and Mary, but also throughout his life. He both has long strings of tragedy in short periods AND he's immortal and worries about it. Loss and loniness are inevitable for him on a massive scale. Cas might claim that he'll be there with him but he dies like twice a year at least. Picture ghost!Cas midway through a reassuring speech that he's always going to be there with him fading out into the veil mid-sentence.
Guilt-ridden. Life is wasted on the living, isn't it? Youth is wasted on the young. He's got dozens of ghosts needing him to live in the way they want him to so they can feel alive again, and he's not capable of being that (literal) lifeline. He needs to learn how to say no and stick to it. He needs to learn how to live with the fact that he has to disappoint people to live well sometimes. He has to engage with the living, because the dead are going to kill him if he hangs on to them too long.
So if someone could write this devestating yet beautiful 25k+ fic for me that'd be really swell.
#jack kline#spn au#I'm picturing bbc ghosts style jack having full on conversations with a hoard of invisible bickering weirdos#the biggest hurdle i think is him not emerging fully formed as a young adult for this#because like. I cannot picture a jack childhood at all. that WOULDN'T radically alter his character.#if he's raised by kelly then he needs a strong relationship with her which fucks with that#if he's raised by (distant and grieving) mary that weirds up the sam and dean stuff like is mary still their mom or like a distant relative#how did she come into parentage of jack.#if he's raised by lucifer or dagon that's a whole new can of worms that would be very distracting from the quiet lonely vibes of the rest#if he was in foster care or state funded homes that's another set of traumas and cast of characters who would inevitably have shaped him#if he's raised by au!bobby then he'd have to have a stronger relationship with him than feels right to me#if we handwave his past that also feels weird#maybe he has amnesia. lol. but that really would need there to be a history he comes back to#maybe he really is a magical baby still. he already has magic powers to talk to the dead.#cawis creates
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