#arits

Guess who is taking note of characters and certain plot points to explore in ARITS?? Yeeeeeeep that was kind of the reason I decided to watch it.

Now this is a large can of worms, Nonnie, and you know that hah

Jocelyn happened. Joanna happened, by extension, but she’s not a biological daughter of his. He met them sometime in the… 22nd century? Nothing is set in stone just yet, but I am doing this.

He was Jo’s doctor

The three of them got along much better than Joss and Joanna did with the ex-husband/father, but 

He was sort of drafted by Section 31 in 2227 (the year Leonard McCoy was born as an identity for him), no way they’d let him walk away from them

In 2255, after almost 30 years just in S31, he decided to join Starfleet

No, he didn’t like Jim, for plenty of reasons, but the kid wouldn’t leave him alone 

Reaps had his own single dorm, courtesy of S31 since they couldn’t talk him out of this idea

But Jim and his roommate, Finnegan, fought a lot. Physically, even. And the latest one started when Jim instinctively (and maybe drunkenly) started on “Bones” defense after Finnegan made some unfortunate comment about him (not that he cared, honestly, the guy is 230 something years old at this point)

Bones decided then that hey, maybe this kid ain’t so bad, but that was just really dumb and had Finnegan change rooms with him, so he and Jim were roommates and he could stop that idiot from getting himself killed before even leaving the Academy

His fear/hatred of space, flying and transporter tech is definitely warranted, but in those three years Jim never learned what caused them

He somewhat knew of Admiral Marcus’ plans. He also knew Carol beforehand.

(Smuggling one Jim Kirk turned out to be easy enough, bringing aboard someone who can cover their tracks better couldn’t be so bad either)

He knew of Khan, Khan knew of him, and Reaps is just glad he kept his mouth shut

He may have played a part on why Khan ultimately decided to guide Jim through the Vengence

Oh, Samantha is actually around (this one made way into many things I’ve written of Reaper!Bones already, no real spoiler here anymore XD)

They are non-identical twins and she took one hell of a gamble by taking C24 herself

She laid low much better than John, and they met in the Academy.

She, in general, has kept it together better than John

WELL, I think this is a good moment to stop. I have many, many Doom (game) related HCs too, but that’d properly qualify as spoilers for my fic so I’m not including any of them :D

I had way too much fun writing this version of chapter 2, but I’ll only update the work in AO3 when all 4 chapters are ready, so... Be patient.

I’m the type of writer that often thinks “what am I trying to accomplish with this” and for once, a fanfic is receiving this treatment and I’m not sure what that says about me. That I’m giving the “literature” thinking to a fic. That it has a purpose in my mind beyond the entertainment value all stories have.

Because they all do have entertainment value and it is perfectly okay to stay at that. But here I am. Giving A Reaper In The Stars so much more than what I initially thought I would. The 209 years between Doom and Star Trek, I’m covering most of them. And surprisingly, it doesn’t feel like it’s that much time. It feels natural and a compelling thing to write about.

In the fic, I feel like there’s a bit of an exaggerated thing that happens to everyone at some point. I hadn’t quiiite realized I was going down this route but now that I know, I want to keep at it. It’ll be good, I hope.