#bby sam

More fanart from @whump-tr0pes Honor Bound series after a wave of incorrect quotes which absolutely made my day!

This is all just guesswork and headcanon since the show never gave us anything concrete, but here’s what I think…

Sam never really liked hunting. He was never opposed to saving people, but the thing about hunting is that it’s largely about the “hunting things” part of the slogan, and Sam, from a very young age, felt impure. As a young teen, he met and bonded with Amy—someone he was supposed to hunt—and saw the shades of gray in the black and white.

It probably didn’t help that Sam likely felt, at some point, closer to “something that should be hunted” than “someone who should be hunting.” Even becoming a police  would potentially put Sam in the position of “hunting” again, except this time, he’d be hunting without his brother beside him. (A part of me imagines that Sam didn’t like to think about what he’d lost, especially since John pretty much disowned him.)

The thing about being a lawyer is that it’s not about the act of hunting. It’s (ideally, I suppose) about seeking justice. It’s about knowledge and wordplay and argument in front of a judge and/or jury. It’s reason and logic and charisma, and Sam is good at those things. And even if Sam planned on getting into—I dunno, tax law (he was, after all, a mathlete), it’s still normal life. 

It’s safe. 

Sam could still put away bad guys (or defend the innocent, or catch discrepancies, or bury himself in corporate files or whatever types of research his specialization required) without having to be at the other end of a deadly weapon if he didn’t want to. 

But who knows? That’s just one of way too many possibilities. In any case, I think Sam, with his quick mind, his way with people, and his eye for detail, would have made a wonderful lawyer.

Hnghhh just. Imagine lawyer Sam decked out in a nice suit (and maybe glasses haha) sweet-talking a witness on the stand and just making the witness feel comfortable and deftly questioning them and the jurors eating it all up because of course Sam is the kind of guy you trust.

Sam would make the most badass lawyer.

Consider: PUPPY EYES IN THE COURTROOM.

“Objection! Irrelevant.”