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*Full disclosure, these are kinda rambley and I’m fully prepared to have them all proven wrong in the next episode lol.  They’re just the vibes I picked up on from the first two episodes that I expanded into headcanons and then built potential plot points around. 🤷‍♀️😅

The Manes are a multi-generational military family. Alex’s father could reasonably be a veteran of the Gulf War, his grandfather of Vietnam, and his great grandfather of WWII, etc.

Alex didn’t really want to join the air force. From what we’ve seen so far of high school!Alex, he was a skateboarder and a musician, which doesn’t automatically mean he didn’t want to join the military—but the bitter way Michael says "Father must be proud", "A real Manes man" and specifically stresses to Alex "what do you want?" at the reunion implies to me that Alex initially resisted joining the military (at least privately to Michael) before ultimately caving to his father’s expectations.

Michael and Alex bonded over feeling like outsiders.  This one ties into Alex not wanting to join the air force—maybe this aversion to the military and his more ""skater""/musical interests left him feeling like an outsider in his own family.  Michael calls him out for pretending to be someone he’s not at the reunion; when Alex asks "does the macho cowboy swagger thing ever get old to you?" Michael counters with the “did it get old for you?"

Michael didn’t hide the depth of his feelings for Alex—and Alex was the one who "ended" things.  Ultimately, we know Alex left.  The "I’d stay in Roswell if only he kept kissing me" could suggest Michael did something to make Alex feel like leaving, but I think Alex’s desire to make his dad proud/conform to family expectations/traditions is what did it.  Michael’s, "my feelings haven’t changed" and just his general attitude towards Alex makes me think that Alex was the one who hurt Michael when he left.  Plus, it’s mostly been Alex seeking Michael out, engaging with him first/showing up at his caravan, etc. (with the exception of the "nostalgia’s a bitch, huh?" scene) and Alex generally?? doesn’t come across to me as someone who got dumped?? On the other hand.... Michael’s... almost frantic?? way he lunges for Alex when he kisses him.... 🤔

Michael doesn’t trust Alex.  Okay—I don’t think Michael doubts Alex’s feelings for him or anything... but I do think there’s an uncertainty for Michael on whether or not Alex will let himself have what he wants or if he’ll just "follow orders."  Which… I want to pay more attention to the ways Michael and Alex interact when Alex is wearing his uniform and when he’s in civvies, because the Alex we first meet in his uniform at Michael’s caravan… is tbh almost unrecognizable in facial expressions and demeanour to the Alex at the bar with Maria and Liz.

[Verse 1] Tell me something, tell me something You don’t know nothing, just pretend you do I need something, so tell me something new Choose your words 'cause there's no antidote For this curse, what's it waiting for? Must desert you just before you go [Chorus] Oh, tell me something I don't already know Oh, tell me something I don't already know [Verse 2] Brooklyn saw me, empty avenues There's no water inside this swimming pool Almost over, that's enough from you I've been praying, I never did before Understand I'm talking to the walls And I've been praying ever since New York [Chorus] Oh, tell me something I don't already know Oh, tell me something I don't already know Oh, tell me something I don't already know Oh, tell me something I don't already know

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In this AU, Priscilla is more humanlike in appearance, due to her solely divine heritage. However, in an attempt to lengthen the rule of the gods, Gwyn (or some unknown conspirator???) would seek Seathe’s assistance. They would experiment on Priscilla as a child, attempting to infuse her with dragonscale/blood in order to mimic their immortality.

Eventually, they would deem the experiments a failure. They would do nothing but make her connection with death all the more literal, allowing her to access her innate Lifehunt abilities.

She may have been locked away, were she not already a member of Gwyn’s family.

Soon, the world would see the end of the Gods reign. Unlike most of her brethren, Priscilla would remain, determined to see her duties as the goddess of death through to the end, even if it meant assisting in removing the previous king from his burning throne.