#alt!astrid

“What I did was inexcusable. Barbaric. The collateral damage has been extensive. But know that we had noble goals. We believed that our world needed guardians. Protectors. And that you children would be those protectors. Fostered your talents because we foresaw that the day would come when both universes would be in jeopardy. So, horrible as it is to say, today is the day for which you were created.”

“My father... I cannot get the thought out of my mind that... that I couldn't give him what he wanted because of the way that I am. That he secretly wished I could love him back in a way that he could understand. Do you think if I were more like you, he would've loved me more? If I was normal?”

And they didn't really show how she dealt with it but Astrid got slapped in the face with some hard truths about how things could have been and perhaps the true nature of her father (Alternates aren't you and her father isn't yours; they're all different in some way but you can never be sure and now there will always be that shadow of a doubt Astrid carries for her father. It taints their relationship and she fights every day to keep it at bay but when he cooks her dinner she always gets a flash of Astrid's face - of her face but not her - with her eyes averted towards the wall asking if her father could have loved her and she tastes the food a little less)

"Over There" Opening Credits by TatyanaOracle - cool fanmade Fringe credits for the altverse.