make me choose: sam in a flower crown (OF THORNS) or
an actual crownokayokayokayokay so i kind of cheated because technically this is both?? a crown of thorns is basically my headcanon actual crown for boyking!sam—and i think a lot about creatures and little demons putting flowers in it without him realizing.
they turn it into a game sometimes, the new demons, the young ones. the ones that listened to stories of the awful times before the boy king, and then felt the gentle hand of Sam Winchester soothing them when their souls cried out in agony as hell twisted them into grotesque forms. he tells them they’re beautiful when they recoil from their own reflections. but they know true beauty from his face, even if he denies it. so they remind him, placing flowers in his crown, telling him he’s beautiful without disrupting him. they make it a game—shh before he notices—but Sam knows, of course he knows. he has touched their souls and he recognizes each and every one of them.