yes, to everything above, except I want to add a suggestion of my own:
Sammy is as much an endearment as a children's nickname, and in my opinion, Sam allows Dean to call him Sammy under certain circumstances, namely when it's said as an endearment, not as a belittlement. And someone outside the family calling Sam Sammy (like the meat-ball in the Benders), that's just not right.
I've been known to use this line, too, in my fics. See TWIT:
Once, when Ronan, who hasn't seen Sam in a couple of years and knows him as a child, calls him Sammy - he calls him Sammy because I wanted to show, that Ronan is familiar with the Winchesters, is a friend of the family, and Sam corrects him, because he wants Ronan to know he's NO child anymore, he's a grown-up, (and how come he fucked his brother!)
The second time it's going to happen (I've already written it, but it hasn't been posted), Sam refuses to accept one of Dean's verbal endearments, asserting a certain kind of distance between them.
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Sammy is as much an endearment as a children's nickname, and in my opinion, Sam allows Dean to call him Sammy under certain circumstances, namely when it's said as an endearment, not as a belittlement. And someone outside the family calling Sam Sammy (like the meat-ball in the Benders), that's just not right.
I've been known to use this line, too, in my fics. See TWIT:
Once, when Ronan, who hasn't seen Sam in a couple of years and knows him as a child, calls him Sammy - he calls him Sammy because I wanted to show, that Ronan is familiar with the Winchesters, is a friend of the family, and Sam corrects him, because he wants Ronan to know he's NO child anymore, he's a grown-up, (and how come he fucked his brother!)
The second time it's going to happen (I've already written it, but it hasn't been posted), Sam refuses to accept one of Dean's verbal endearments, asserting a certain kind of distance between them.