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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stargate Atlantis Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Evan Lorne/David Parrish Summary:

Why the hell not. Right, here’s some words of Central Park living statue rivalry.

“Hey. Hey. This is my patch, dude.”

It’s six am, early enough that the morning is still cool and crisp in the park and Foggy can feel grateful for the warmth of his costume. He’s a little bleary-eyed still, which maybe why he gets all the way to the Maria Stark memorial bench before he notices the guy set up in his spot.

It’s a living statue, clearly going for a ninja aesthetic, posing on one leg on a thin pole that looks — and the key to these things is always looks — unsupported. It’s a decent rig, but Foggy’s seen similar before. Never on his patch though.

“Hey,” he says again. Unsurprisingly, the guy doesn’t so much as blink. Foggy is not impressed. “Dude, some professional courtesy, please, I know you can see me.”

“I really can’t,” the guy says, before looking like he regrets the slip. But, in for a penny: “And I’m not professional either. This is my first day.”

“I’ve apparently adopted my roommate... As such--”

The thing about the Ackermans is: they’re amazing supersoldiers… but not all of them happen to profit from this genetic quirk. There are Ackermans who experience the Awakening and proceed to achieve ultimate fighting badassery, but there are also Ackermans who scrape by as normal humans, no matter how dire their circumstances get.

Some are Kenny, some are Kuchel. Some are Mikasa, some are her dad.

And you could say that it’s just because some of them don’t get the chance for their powers to unlock. Like, maybe they just never encounter the battle circumstances that are needed for it, don’t get the push for their will to surge and flick that switch inside their brains.

But here’s a much more likely explanation: everyone who gets special powers is in fact possessed by the ghost of the First Ackerman.

The First Ackerman was the first of their line to get these amazing skills, and, like the Reiss powers and the coordinate, his fighting abilities are passed down from generation to generation. The Reiss coordinate holders inherit the memories of their ancestor. The powerful Ackermans don’t inherit the memories of the First Ackerman, but they inherit his powers. It’s a convenient way to share family love that doesn’t involve snacking on your relatives! The Ackermans have it much better than the Reisses.

And this is, in fact, the source of their discord. The Reisses have always been mildly jealous of the fact that the Ackermans have their inheritance deal unlocked in a far less traumatic fashion, but for a long time they were willing to put up with it just for how useful the Ackermans were. One doesn’t, after all, alienate one’s supersoldier subjects.

And that went well… until the day when the ghost of the First Ackerman just buggered off and didn’t haunt a whole bunch of the king’s special elite forces. This coincided with the First King building the wall and putting humanity inside it. The First Ackerman just didn’t feel the wall thing, you know? He wasn’t down for it. So he just kind of… didn’t turn up for a while.

This was a source of major embarrassment for the Ackerman clan, and it made the Reisses realize that this was their time to strike in a way the Ackermans couldn’t retaliate against.

So the Ackermans went down. Hard.

When the ghost of the First Ackerman returned, he was like, I leave you guys for five minutes and my whole family’s in shambles, what the hell. So he got back into the business of haunting those of the Ackermans who were showing signs of promise, and he’s planning to stick it out until the end now.

Anakin: