I'm having difficulty with my Supernatural Sentinel-Guide AU series. The first story, Therewith Instantly (Sam/Gabriel) needs a complete revision of Chapter 4 and I'm having problems with it. Basically, Azazel kidnaps Sam believing him to be the sentinel who foiled his bomb plot, and Gabe of course finds them and (in the revised version) kills Azazel.
I need Sam to be very frightened and a bit hurt, but not deliberately tortured (this is one of the mistakes I made in the first version). The reason for this is that the second story (Dean/Castiel) opens with Dean having been tortured by Alistair. Sam has to be able to empathise and advise Dean later on, so he has to have had some damage and a mild traumatic stress reaction, but Azazel and Alistair are very different villains and I need to emphasise that in the way they treat their captives.
Alistair is a psychopath and a sadist -- everything he does is for his own amusement and that is relatively simple to portray.
Azazel, on the other hand, is a villain with a higher purpose. In the show, it's building an army to free X (where anyone who has seen Season 5 knows who X is) and for the life of me I can't think of a suitable equivalent to fit my story -- it needs to cover both the original bomb plot and whatever reason Azazel has for capturing Sam rather than killing him and Gabe outright. NB There is no place for X as a character in this series, though he might be an off-screen person/object.
Any help would be appreciated, since I've been sitting on this for six months now with no progress whatsoever.
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Date: 2015-02-07 11:14 pm (UTC)I need Sam to be very frightened and a bit hurt, but not deliberately tortured (this is one of the mistakes I made in the first version). The reason for this is that the second story (Dean/Castiel) opens with Dean having been tortured by Alistair. Sam has to be able to empathise and advise Dean later on, so he has to have had some damage and a mild traumatic stress reaction, but Azazel and Alistair are very different villains and I need to emphasise that in the way they treat their captives.
Alistair is a psychopath and a sadist -- everything he does is for his own amusement and that is relatively simple to portray.
Azazel, on the other hand, is a villain with a higher purpose. In the show, it's building an army to free X (where anyone who has seen Season 5 knows who X is) and for the life of me I can't think of a suitable equivalent to fit my story -- it needs to cover both the original bomb plot and whatever reason Azazel has for capturing Sam rather than killing him and Gabe outright. NB There is no place for X as a character in this series, though he might be an off-screen person/object.
Any help would be appreciated, since I've been sitting on this for six months now with no progress whatsoever.