(OOC: So basically, if your character is old enough to go to the camp, they can't see this post. Yep, it's gonna be that kind of post. YAY TEENAGE REBELLION!)
I really hope sticking my neck out like this doesn't come back to bite me in the a Hi. My name’s Michael Barrett. I’m a native of this world, like Sam and Dean, but unlike Sam and Dean, I’m not a hunter.
Yet.
I’m sixteen. That means I’ve got two years to go before I can go to that camp Sam was posting about. That’s all fine and well, I get why they don’t want to teach kids stuff that could potentially lead to an unmarked grave on the side of some crappy backwoods road, but I don’t have the two years to wait. I need to know how to fight the things that go bump in the night now. I’m sure some of you feel the same way. I don’t really care why, I know I have my reasons and you all probably have your own, and they’re nobody’s business but yours unless you want them to be. So while I respect that eighteen-or-older rule, I don’t really plan on abiding by it. They don’t have to teach me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t teach myself, y’know? Which was my plan originally, before I saw the camp post. But that post got me thinking.
It got me thinking that I’m not the only one that wants to learn. So here’s what I’m proposing: All of us that don’t qualify for the camp work together to try and learn the hard way. Now before we go any further, please understand that I don’t have the resources for a camp. I actually don’t have any money just yet. So that means that if we do this, it’s going to be all live fire exercises, which for people who haven’t played enough military video games to pick up a couple terms means that since we don’t have the resources to train in a contained, controlled environment, we’re just gonna have to put our boots on the ground and learn with the real thing. That means it’s gonna be dangerous, we’ll probably take some hits, and I won’t lie, it’s possible we might bite the dust along the way. I’m not trying to scare people, but if you sign up for this I need you all to know exactly what you’re getting into.
Those of you that are interested, here’s how I’m envisioning this working: We keep our eyes peeled for anything weird. I know that’s pretty broad, but until I actually do some learning, I can’t really narrow it down that much. That said, if you happen to catch a Youtube video of Bigfoot, you can probably give that one a pass, but reports of people seeing shit inside a haunted house are probably worth a little more credibility right out of the gate. A lot of this probably isn’t going to be pleasant, considering the kinds of supernatural we’ll be looking for are the types that hurt people, but if you want to learn and don’t want to wait for the camp, this is how we do it. So what happens once you find something you think is worth checking? You bring it to the rest of the group. We can do some preliminary research via the ‘net, and if it seems worth it, whoever found it can go out with one or two of the rest of us and see what there is to see. Obviously it’ll be more difficult for us considering we won’t be able to fake being authority figures (unless some of you magic types have a way to magically convince people to believe us, or look the other way, which would be really awesome if you do) but if we can, we’ll work around it. If not, we leave it for the adults to look into. We’ll each have spiral notebooks. I have a little brother I’m planning on enrolling in school, so I can probably snag enough extra for us if I mutter something about back to school sales or wanting to plan ahead or whatever. We use these as our case notebooks, filling them up with facts about cases and information about supernatural things we run into. I’m sure there are plenty of hunters out there who had to learn exactly the same way, so I’m thinking that as long as we’re carefully we might actually be able to pull this off. That said, I want to stress again that this is going to be unpleasant and some of us might get hurt. I know I’m harping on this, but I don’t want anyone coming at me later all, “YOU DIDN’T WARN ME AHEAD OF TIME!” Stupid, I know, but in a world where you can sue a fast food company for getting fat on their food and win, I gotta cover my ass. So having said all that, if you’re interested, I need names. You don’t have to share your capabilities if you don’t want to, but if you’re comfortable with it, it’ll help figure out who’s best suited for what when we actually do go out on stuff. I’ll be doing that in a reply myself, solely because this is already a huge freaking post and I don’t want to make it any longer than it needs to be.
If you’re not interested, that’s fine too. All I ask is that you pretend you never saw this post. If Sam, Dean, or one of the other adults asks you outright, you do what you feel you have to, I’m not asking anyone to lie for me or anyone else. Just don’t volunteer the information, yeah?