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Dean and Michael Winchester are identical twins. They have a younger brother named Sam that they care deeply about. They are seniors in high school and are seventeen years old.
You can tell the difference between the two if you look closely. Dean has more freckles than Michael, a light dusting on his face and shoulders that you can only see if you get close to him. Dean has green eyes and Michael’s eyes are more blue. Their hair is always styled differently, though it is the same color, Dean keeps his hair short-cropped and sort of spiky. Michael keeps his hair a bit longer and styles it neatly with gel.
You can also tell them apart if you don’t look closely because they are complete opposites. They dress differently, talk, walk, and carry themselves differently. Dean is always in worn-in jeans, boots, and usually a classic-rock band t-shirt. He is rarely seen without either the leather jacket his dad handed down to him or a flannel. Michael, however, is the only Winchester without an affinity for flannel and jeans. Michael dresses formally to everything. He likes nice, expensive clothing.
If the way they look isn’t enough for you to figure out which twin you’re talking to right away, then you should figure it out the second they open their mouths. There is a large gap in intelligence between the twins, and it’s evident in their speech. Talking to Michael is like talking to a sixty-year-old English professor and talking to Dean is like talking to your average highschool jock.
Michael and Sam are similar in their high intelligence. They talk circles around Dean and their dad. Their father loves hearing his boys be intelligent. Dean, however, thinks Michael sounds precocious (a word Sam taught him). Dean thinks it's wonderful and loves to listen when Sam goes on and on about folklore and history though, because he adores his little brother. They both adore him, but Dean especially so.
Dean and Michael are obviously the same age and live in the same school district, but they don’t go to the same school. Dean goes to a regular highschool, Lawrence High School. Michael got into a special school for gifted kids, Elysian Heights Academy.
Michael is the president of the United Nations Club, vice president of the Arabic Language Club, and treasurer for the Debate Club. Dean’s only extracurricular is football (American) and he is the captain of the team.
Michael gets straight A’s and would have an aneurysm if he got so much as a B. Dean is a solid B and C student and is proud to get anything above a D. He knows he is different from his brother and would be disappointed if Sam started getting the grades he got, because he knows Sam can do better.
Dean doesn’t care about school for himself. He has no need for it. He plans to go full time at his Uncle Bobby’s shop as soon as he graduates and eventually own the place. He is already working there and would drop out of school if his dad didn’t insist he finish.
Their mother died when they were little in an accidental fire. Dean and Michael have memories of her, but Sam doesn’t. For the most part their whole life has just been their dad, them, Sammy, and their Uncle Bobby.
Though Michael is technically the oldest, Dean was the one who stepped up to fill in the mother role throughout their childhood. Their dad was good, but he was only one man and he worked a lot to support three growing boys, so Dean took care of everyone. He nurtured Sam like he was his precious, fragile, baby bird. Michael was smart, but he took longer with life skills as most smart kids do, so Dean was there to cook him dinner and bandage his wounds.
As they got older Michael and Dean grew apart a bit. As little infants they were attached at the hip. When Sam came along Michael momentarily disappeared from Dean’s line of sight. Being the same age, they went through everything together, but were never one of those extremely close pairs of twins. When they had a class together they treated each other like they would anyone else in the class, except they knew more about the other than any of the other kids. They helped each other on homework (a.k.a. Dean copied Michael’s homework) and talked about their classmates at home and home life at school.
Soon the school they went to wasn’t challenging enough for Michael. Their teachers told their dad that they thought Michael needed to go to an advanced program or to skip a grade. John asked, “What about Dean?” and they told him he was just fine where he was. He probably needed a little extra help, but the teachers couldn’t bear to tell him that after suggesting his other twin was too smart for the grade.
Dean did get extra help through much of school, he wasn’t stupid, he just had a touch of dyslexia and no motivation for anything he didn’t care about. Michael was the one giving him extra help most of the time, but eventually Dean had to get a real tutor because Michael was too far ahead and didn’t know how to “dumb himself down" for Dean.
Though the twins are very different they are similar in some things, like their sexuality. They both are attracted to almost all types of women and they have the absolute same type in men, which has caused some trouble over the years. The two have had to make many truces and treaties to prevent boyfriend problems. They have the same type physically, but not really personality wise. They are teenage boys though, so they haven’t looked at personality much in dating over the years. They’ve both mostly stuck to women because of this. If only they could find two guys that look exactly the same, they could handle having boyfriends.