how do you write dialogue? thinking about how your characters have distinct voices and phrases they use
oh boy this was the sleeper agent activation phrase. needless to say and probably very obvious i LOVE dialogue (insertyoubigintodialoguedontevenjokelad.png)
anyways let me give seirouses writinge advice.
first of all, a lot of my dialogue choices are influenced by three things:
the world around the character (where do they live? how were they raised? are there any cultural values or things they put over others?)
who they're talking to (is it a friend? an enemy? somebody they care for but wont say so? somebody they hate?)
the character itself (what are they feeling in this situation? are they more open or closed off? stoic/aggressive/flirty/shy? what situation would get them to say This or That? is it more poignant if they DONT say anything?)
of course ive done this for a very fucking long time and have painstakingly clawed my way into pretty damn good dialogue if i have to compliment myself on something and most of this is on autopilot for me. if im writing a character and its the FIRST time ive written their dialogue i usually quickly decide what would most likely be their speech patterns (are they eloquent/lengthy or prone to short sentences? does one character speak more "modern" than the other? is there a certain phrase or quirk that they like to use? (fiddy's "i seldom x" quirk is fun to write but it also helped me decide her dialogue: snooty, posh, trolly--has a bit of an attitude but in a scientific way)
i think what people often forget about writing dialogue is subtlety. characters can lie, omit details, say something but there's one piece that's missing--when a character's dialogue is too on-the-nose ("hello my name is talkalot and i talk a lot") it takes me out of a story. i think the phrase "write like your character's can't directly say what they want to talk about/buried under 7 layers of emotional baggage and trauma" and that is what i do. i just find it more fun that way!
here are muy. exmaples.
these are from my orig stuff and everyone there has a secret that they fucking refuse to speak out loud otherwise they will be instantly vaporized. it is also--i think--some of my best dialogue in terms of how confident i am in my own writing askdhadha
here's a miss lowey example with clara. (from a widening rift) their banter was fun to write merely because clara's pushing against marlowe in this convo and in most others.
this conversation was fun to write mainly because of the last sentence--marlowe actually DID enjoy clara calling her out and she responds in tow with a "lighter" insult than what she did before hand (making fun of her age/pregnancy/"uselessness")
spoiling my own fanfic here's a section from the 5th chapter that i am. still fucking writing. marlowe ALWAYS has something in the back of her head while speaking to the LF's crew and only really clara can Tell that shes spiraling a little on the inside. hephaesta doesn't have the context of marlowe getting buried alive but marlowe does and all of her dialogue with hephaesta is tinged by this indignant hatred that "why did you come and help me?" but shes obviously not going to fucking say it and keeps it hidden.
here's an annie/md moment too
from rot .
that latter section? "every single one of your siblings hates you"? that isnt true actually. the mad dog is lying here. she's saying it to hurt annwyn since she's pissed--and the thing is both annwyn and the md are quite different but they do share the same self loathing in some way--so the mad dog knows that THIS would be the thing that makes annwyn really upset enough to cry.
its both to annwyn and to herself. also--there's a bit of misinformation in her statement (totally not bc i didnt decide it later uhhh) in that annwyn's father and mother are dead lmao. but this is the mad dog pointedly using both of their traits against annie by hitting her where it hurts the most. it actually isn't true in both lives!
oskar would come down to the neath to pester annie, ottilie in the mad dog's timeline quite literally tracked down her sister in an open warzone because she refused to accept that they would forget about annwyn. the mad dog (and annwyn) think their siblings hate them bc of their self loathing. the md uses this against annie because she knows it would hurt but is lying since she doesnt have all of the information necessary to accurately do so.
and for a silly moment to end this: fiddy and annie in the party convo
i have. no idea if anyone caught this. but it was so fucking funny to write this to me. fiddy says "i shan't have a second" to "the taste of [annie's] dirty disgusting little fingers." its supposed to imply fiddy made annwyn check her mouth and annwyn responded by shoving her fingers in fidelia's mouth. i was giggling to myself writing this and i dont think anyone got it JKSAHDKJHKEJRDHKHJSDHFKJSDHGSG
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
â Live Streamingâ Interactive Chatâ Private Showsâ HD Qualityâ Free Actions
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
Jericho had previous issues with Urban/shade. Despite the company's attempts to cover up the disappearance of parents, Jericho knew better. And chased every lead he could to uncover the truth, using any means necessary to do so. After being pushed to violence, the company had the means to take him in. As well as any proof he may of had- and promptly destroying it.
Jericho was swiftly used in an experiment to push the limits of the human body, and find ways to ensure it could withstand a variety of extremes. There wasn't much need for this? Since they'd already uncovered the let-vand- zone. It was more or less torture, and a chance to challenge what they could create with the human body in mind as a blueprint. Turning him into a cyborg, one they had so much difficult controlling, that they opted to place him in the hadal blacksite. This way at least he''d be unable to escape, and they'd be able to monitor him.
He is outwardly,,, humanoid, but mostly metal. Very similar to his appearance in any other verse. But darker, sharper, and more worn from his time spent there, having to do his own maintenance. His organs are mostly synthetic, and a combination of different sea creatures contributed to the dna and build of each. All in all, granting him a great deal of stamina, the ability to breathe underwater, to create his own fuel, and a resistance to specific anomalies ( ones used in his creation? ). Which can be a pain when encountering him in specific environments.
Boothill has moments of clarity, where he can be more passive. But he's still snarky and seems malicious to any prisoners he crosses paths with. Unfortunately outside of what are deemed safe zones- he is incredibly aggressive, and actively hunts anyone who wears the urban/shade logo.
you can't hide from him in lockers, and vents are risky. if you're not quick enough he will see you go into one- but on the flipside, if you stay in one too long he's going to find you that way too.
the flash beacon does work on him; but it's use is prompted only when he's challenged you to a duel. which he will initiate once he's caught you. it's basically a QTE where you have to flash him right when he fires his gun. you've got to do this a total of six times- one for each bullet in his revolver.
his footsteps are heavy, and you can hear the jingle of his spurs as he walks.
friendly with seb, and painter. despises the crooked. will kill wall dwellers, and actively avoids searchlights.
In a more. Open ended horror concept; Boothill has lost himself to his hate and anger- driven blindly by revenge. It's clear he's been experimented on by someone, and in brief moments of clarity he can recall himself and things beyond what seems to drive him now. Whenever asked for further details he gets uncomfortable, and if he sees certain things that remind him of who or what put him where he is- it can trigger him into " hunt mode ".
  [ Saix/Isa ] [ Impressions on other Org. members list. ]
   Kind of in order, but also kind of not.
  -Just, like, right from the start, I am bad at communication. Always have been.
  -I donât remember much about my actual home growing up in Radiant Garden, and this is probably largely due to simply not being at home most of the time since Lea and I tended to roam around all day.
  -I was an only child, Iâm pretty sure, with both parents around, but they seemed to be pretty hands-off in terms of parenting? Suited me fine, I guess.
  -My mother might have been artsy? Somehow?Â
  -I was trans (dfab) and liable to break your hands if you so much as commented on it. Probably part of why I wore a jacket all the time.
  -I was kind of a fighty kid in general? Not Leaâs kind of fighty, definitely not that obvious, but not going to take anyoneâs shit. Might have been part of why I didnât have anyone but Lea for a friend, but that also suited me fine.
  -Surprisingly tolerant of insults, though, depending on what they were? I donât know. I was a weird kid. Probably would be more liable to fight someone on insulting Lea than myself.
  -I was kind of protective of Lea in general. He was far too nice for anyone to be mean to him. I mean, sure we could both kinda be gremlins at times, but still.
  -Iâm the one kid you know who definitely knows and/or uses more swears than they probably should.
  -I remember Merlin and I liked him. I tried sneaking into his place once because he had books that seemed interesting and I wanted to read them ( so basically books in general ). I think he caught me, but laughed it off and just said that I could read some of them if I wanted to, which surprised me because I guess I had it in my mind that he wouldnât let me if Iâd just asked. He was just... a weird, wizard guy with a bunch of books. I kind of wonder if I ever saw him again later on after everything. I definitely didnât know that he was significant, considering his status as a wizard, at the time.
  -Lea and I liked to prowl around the castle and see if we could sneak in for one reason or another. More Leaâs idea than mine, probably. I think the goal was generally just to see what was going on in that castle because no one seemed to know. Combine that with the allure of the forbidden and youâve got yourself a couple of curious and adventurous kids. I think we pretty much always got found at one point or another by one of the guards and tossed out, rinse, repeat. It got to the point where it was just kind a regular thing that was expected of us. I think Dilan was probably annoyed by it, Aeleus was kind of neutral about it, and I think Braig just thought it was amusing more than anything. Pretty sure Even also was aware of it and definitely did not like it. Ansem âthe Wise,â I canât really say if he ever knew. Or cared. We never really seemed to actually see the guy? At least I donât really remember him.
  -Most of the âtrouble makingâ we would get up to was around the castle in general. We werenât actually that bad. For the most part. Could be biased on that, though.
  -I liked to stargaze and usually Lea would stargaze with me. Sometimes I think we would try and perch or climb up on things to try and get a better view ( ...as if that really mattered that much, but oh well ). Iâd point out things like stars or the constellations and rattle off some random fact Iâd read about somewhere and heâd usually reply with something like âthatâs cool,â but probably not remember what I actually told him later on. That didnât matter, though, because I didnât expect him to.
  -I donât know when exactly, but at some point I realized that I actually liked Lea romantically and then proceeded to shove those feelings ten feet under the ground and never speak of them. They always seemed to pop up again whenever I felt like Iâd forgotten about then, though. Still. Lea never knew.
  -I was around... 14-ish? When we died? Lea was younger, but not by more than a year.
  -It started off as pretty much... the same thing we were always doing, sneaking into the castle to see what was up or something like that, just. Something went wrong. I think we saw something we werenât supposed to. Some kind of a confrontation happened, I think Lea mightâve pretty much frozen on me, so I shoved him and told him to go/run. Donât think he actually did. I really donât remember anything else between then and becoming a Nobody.
  -Iâm 90% sure nobody of the original RG crew actually knew what the fuck we were doing in the beginning. The scientists were MacGyvering a bunch of shit at the start. Seriously. No one was really sure what would happen beforehand, so after the fact it was just like one big âlearn as we goâ kind of deal. Kind of funny, in hindsight? Axel and I werenât really expected to know shit from fuck about most of that stuff, though. We kinda just... got swept along for the ride.
  -Basically, you know that period of time as a nobody where you had to figure out how the fuck to function as a nobody? Yeah, we had no prior knowledge of what to do, unlike with Roxas and newer members, so it really was just everyone bullshitting everything. It is due to that bullshitting early on that we actually knew what to do with the people like Roxas who came later on. Think Roxas kinda got the speedrun version, though, because we needed him active as soon as possible.
  -I did not and really never did get the hang of magic. It was just... not my thing for some reason? Any magic that wasnât my own attribute was basically useless for me. It sucked, but I learned to manage without it.Â
  -In fact, Iâd venture to say that my attributeâs âmagicâ wasnât even technically my own. I didnât say things like âMoon shine down.â for no reason. I think it was basically like borrowing a little sliver of KHâs power to try and use. It was also kind of an... all or nothing sort of deal. Where most other people could use their as, say, 20% or so of their full power, if I was using mine, it was pretty much as 90% or more at all times. Thatâs why it was so tiring to use - it was exhausting afterwards if I was using it for any lengthy period of time. Also probably part of why âberserk modeâ was... what it was.
  -As Nobodies, we definitely had some inhuman features/auras to us, which varied from person to person. I got the pointy ears, for sure. My canine teeth were sharper and longer than they used to be. I had a slight yellow glare to my eyes ( like the kind you get from an animal with light reflecting off their eyes ) - along with slightly better lowlight vision as well. Generally stronger than a human, but part of that was because of training/working out, too, just... more. If I was around humans for any reason, Iâm pretty sure theyâd inherently be intimidated to some extent. Couldnât say much more about my own aura, though, youâd have to ask someone else for that, probably? Berserk mode also had more noticeable differences too - like the full yellow eyes, for instance, which had a dull glow to them, I think. That change in the eyes came with a change in vision, too, better to see in the dark with, but everything was tinted a little bit yellow. My scar would get more jagged, teeth would get sharper as a whole, my hair tended to fan out and get choppier?Â
  -Early on, sparring with other Org members was pretty commonplace, but I think it may have just been with the guard trio, in my case? Usually with Lexaeus, who was more evenly matched for me than either of the other two. The difficulty level for me in a spar with them basically goes, from easiest to hardest to fight, Lexaeus, Xaldin, Xigbar. Trying to hit Xigbar is like trying to hit a particularly active fly - who would also port around and shoot you. No hard feelings ever came from any of that, though, as if we wouldâve been capable of it anyway.
  -I was... so taken by the idea that we didn't have hearts or feelings that I feel so hard for the lie that we really couldn't feel anything. In the beginning, yeah, that was pretty much true, but later on there was definitely something there, I just ignored it. Always reminded everyone else that there wasnât any real feeling there, too.
  -I really did want to get my heart back, though. I really did. Thatâs part of why, when Roxas and Xion started acting not quite according to plan, I was so harsh on them. They were âour only chance,â or so we were led to believe. Any contrary actions they took were taking away from possible progress towards everyoneâs end goal, thatâs pretty much what I thought. I didnât understand why they seemed to want anything other than that.
  -I knew there were many things that Xemnas wasn't telling us and Xigbar definitely knew more than I did, which was frustrating considering that I Like To Know Everything ( no doubt a carryover from my prior life ), but there sure wasn't any way I was going to ask them either.
  -Earlier on, maybe a year or two into being nobodies ( and I donât think Demyx was around yet at the time ), Axel and I got it in our heads somehow that we were going to just. Leave for a while. Like a little vacation - we planned to come back, but I think he was just bored and I was inclined to agree with him to take a break. Iâm pretty sure it was his idea, like how it was his idea to sneak into the castle usually, and Iâd have probably followed him pretty much anywhere just like I used to do before anyway. Donât think we really... had much of a plan? Just roam around like we used to do? I daresay Xemnas knew what was up before we even left, but we went. It probably looked like actual desertion to him and the others. Pretty sure it was Xigbar that got sent after us to bring us back. The interaction with Xemnas that followed isnât something that I really remember, but I know it wasnât good. I think Axel kind of froze up on answering like heâd done before a year or two ago and that gave me enough time to speak up and say it was my idea. Probably habit from back then. I think Xemnas knew I was lying, too, but I think that might have been what earned me my scar as a sort of punishment. Canât go anywhere without them knowing with a big X on my face, no matter what I did. I daresay he did it with his hand, not any kind of weapon. Xemnasâ attribute was âNothingâ and we were âNothing,â after all. Thatâs part of why he was so fucking scary to other nobodies in particular.
  -Pretty sure we were the reason for the âno desertersâ rule.
  -The X was part of why, if Axel and I were planning anything, it had to be Axel wandering around getting any of it done. Plus, I was busy.
  -Not sure if that incident was also when both Axel and I were norted. If it wasnât, then it wouldnât have been much time after that. Yes, Axel was norted, but he shook his off somewhere in KH2.
  -The nort that I had earlier on wasnât that strong, but it definitely made a different. My thoughts and actions were influenced more by what Xehanort wanted, like a re-alignment of goals. It worked well enough.
  -The nort that I had in DDD, though, that was something else. A whole different level. Much less control on my part, or at least it seems that way? Pretty sure Young Xehanort had something to do with that. I really donât remember, though, and I may have still been knocked out when it happened.
  -Pretty sure I did indeed claymore Axel when he came to try and free Kairi, didn't even regret it at the time.
  -I did go on missions of my own, though almost never with a partner and I only left after everyone else was already gone on their own - usually also tried to return decently quickly, so probably before most other people returned. I genuinely donât know if some of the lower numbered members even knew I did go on missions at all for that reason.
  -I definitely did, especially closer to Days/KH2 time period, have that 'everyone goes quieter when I walk in' kind of effect on a room, but less so with people like Xigbar or Axel who knew me well enough and/or didn't care.
  -Later on, I have no idea what exactly happened in terms of getting rid of the nort, but I am pretty sure it was not a pleasant experience. Might not have been a voluntary one on my part either. Not sure when in the timeframe it happened, either.
  -I donât remember much about anything that happened shortly after that point? Pretty sure I dissociated for a fair bit of that time. Functioned on auto-pilot for a while. Figuring out how to be a person again.Â
  -100% the type of person who probably had to make reminders for myself to eat, too. This is probably in part because, as a nobody, I didnât need to eat unless I wanted to, so I hadnât usually. Came back to bite me, I guess. Probably also made lists for things.
  -I honestly have no idea what happened to most of the others? Not sure I really cared.
  -Lea was a definite presence, though, and so were the rest of the trio like Sora, Riku, and Kairi by proximity.Â
  -Talking to Lea for a while was Hella Awkward and I honestly didn't understand how he could still be so damn happy to see me after everything, but that's just how he is, I guess. How he was before, too.
  -A flannel gay. Lea and I got together at some point, I think. God knows how exactly it happened.
  -The islands trio were wary of me at first, but they trusted Lea, so they didnât question my being around. Or, at least, they didnât do it to my face. Pretty sure Sora was the first to rebound back and trust me more. Didnât understand how, but then thereâs a lot of things about Sora that I just didnât understand and didnât question either at that point.
  -I donât think the islands trio was really around that often, though. They were younger than Lea and I and had their own world/lives to live in, so?Â
  -Riku and I didnât get along still, though - we werenât much different from one another in some ways, however, and I couldnât tell you when, but that ânot getting along with each otherâ ended up being⌠a joke? Of sorts? Maybe we did get along eventually, but we pretended like we still didnât, probably because we were both stubborn, but it wasnât hostile, it was more like⌠the kind of teasing youâd expect of friends or siblings. Like calling each other stupid names. Like Rice. Or Rikki. Riolu. Ricola. Reekoo. I could go on, but I think you get the picture.
  -Really donât remember much about Kairi, though. I know Iâd seen her around to some extent? Donât think she was scared of or hated me after a while, though I honestly wouldnât have blamed her if she had.
  -Honestly, I was surprised all three of them didnât.
  -May or may not have been a part of the group restoring Radiant Garden? I know I didnât like seeing what it became and, honestly, Iâm not so sure what Iâd really be up to otherwise. I feel like I probably got along well enough with Sid.
  -Acquired? Dog(s)? I hope I had dogs. I feel like I had dogs.
  -I continued working out and such to keep up my strength. If anything ever came up again, I wanted to be able to deal with it. Even if my way of dealing with it would have just been hitting it really hard.
  -Honestly probably just kept to myself for the most part unless other people interacted with me first. Thatâs mostly how Iâve always been, though.
  -I think people were definitely wary of whether or not my Berserk Mode would happen again at any point, but I kept a pretty tight lock on that for multiple reasons. I could have done it again, I think, despite KH not being around, because I could have pulled from the actual moon, but it wouldnât have had as potent an effect ( which would have been for the better at that point, probably, using it wasnât exactly safe? ).
vengeuse replied to your post: sometimes i think it would be really fun to try a...
you have a lot of scenarios??? i would like to hear them all thank you
LMAO OKAY UH HEREâS A CUT ITâS 1.3K OF ME BABBLING ABOUT BOY KING SAM
THE CLASSIC:Â itâs s4, Dean has gone to Hell, and with Rubyâs help Sam storms Hell to get him back
RESULT 1: Dean is already a demon. Depending on how Sam was characterized this could either end really serial-killer-y with them staying in Hell together or maybe Sam, using his newfound Hell resources, isnât okay with it and tries to cure Dean? Boy king Sam trying to cure a demon is kind of hilarious to me because I donât think any other demons would be okay with it theyâd all be like âWTF my lord, whatâs wrong with being a demonâ and Sam would be like âno no itâs not that I donât like demons itâs just that this one canât be a demonâ but that would also be so tied up in self-hatred for Sam because heâs a demon he just feels like he actually deserves it ahhhhhhh
RESULT 2: Dean is not a demon yet. Sam has to choose between Hell & his brother. On my Dean-negative days this ends way differently than on my non-canon Dean-is-a-good-brother days lol. either way, sam stays the boy king. you canât take that back.
RESULT 3: The angels got there first. Sam is like âwell thatâs... not the worst thing that could have happenedâ but as he learns about the plans for the apocalypse, it starts seeming a whole lot worse. + because Sam isnât actually there with Dean, I figure it would be even easier to manipulate Dean into thinking that his brother is a lost cause and he needs to say yes to save the world. Sam declares war. this one could end all sorts of ways like maybe Sam looses Lucifer by accident preventing Lilith from taking his throne and it runs pretty close to canon; maybe Sam faces down with Michael at the end and kills the vessel Dean in the process; maybe we get endverse but itâs actually Sam in the white suit this time!!!
actually i just thought of the endverse ending and i fucking love it iâm keeping that as a scenario on its own
THE POLY S4: Dean comes back from Hell, but heâs still a demon. Sam is with Ruby (who in this AU does not intend to raise Lucifer). Dean is upset because heâs a possessive fuck, but heâs also gained something of a new perspective being a demon, and itâs like... basically all Dean x Ruby fighting over Sam with Ruby usually winning because she has more experience and Ruby is all like âYouâre not the only one who loves Sam or the only one Sam lovesâ and Dean is like â-splutters-â but eventually after a disaster they come to a truce to get rid of Lilith and put Sam on the throne and itâs a happy poly V or triad, whichever you preferÂ
THE PRODIGY:Â Sam doesnât make it out of the house with Dean and John and is raised by Azazel from six months old. I donât know where this one goes I just like the idea of it. sometimes the other special children are his siblings and sometimes heâs the only child, the heir from the beginning.Â
THE KNIGHT OF HELL: s9 Dean gets Sam back on the blood. I donât really like the way most fics go with this bc they always end with Sam really dependent on Dean and like ... ehhhhhh. (This sambenny one by waterbird13 is a really good take on it tho not boyking) BUT I do like the idea of Sam pretending to drink it for Dean but actually taking it for the power boost. Thought you could lead Sam around like Ruby did?? THINK AGAIN. HEâS KING NOW.Â
THE RACK: The crossroads demon wonât trade Sam for Dean, but he does offer Sam a way into Hell. See what you can do with that, he says. Better than what youâve got now, right? (Look, if you like boy!king and you havenât read Threefold Path To Redemption what the fuck are you even doing unless you don't like wincest or torture then okay)
TORTURER 1: itâs Dean whooooo is surprised. I have this headcanon that the longer a demon stays on the rack, the more powerful they are when they get off so I personally like this one because I just have this image in my head of Sam finally agreeing to get off the rack and Dean is thrilled and lets him off and then Sam force-slams him and grits out âWeâre getting out of here.â Except once a man tortured into demonhood always a man tortured into demonhood OOOH especially because he wasnât dead when he went to Hell (that would cheat Deanâs deal). (and yeah you have to shed blood in Hell but it doesnât say torture I think murdering a bunch of demons on the way out probably counts)
TORTURER 2: itâs someone else, Samâs personal Alastair, who raises not a torturer but a king. tasty
THE QUEER RULER: This one is just one where Sam is trans (sometimes I like it to be trans girl Sam and sometimes I like it to be trans boy Sam or nb!Sam) & itâs like...one more thing for people to be disgusted by and it drives home the âfreak/pariahâ themes they were going with Sam (kind of overshadowed by the addict themes, but theyâre there) and then Sam takes the throne and fucking. owns it. this one is just cathartic for me cos i am trans
THE ANGELS: Sam has been dreaming of an angel with blue eyes and he doesnât know why. I donât know why either, but I do like me a Hades/Persephone boy king sastiel mmmm
THE SELF-INDULGENT SAMCEST:Â these ones are just... you know what, donât judge me.
YOUNG SAMâS WORLD:Â idfk but this one is like a sitcom where Sam is still in Stanford and something fucked up on the boy kingâs end and he ended up in Samâs dorm and is out of juice so he has to crash for the time being. Shenanigans with Brady! Shenanigans with Sams! God, why canât Samâs life be normal!
BOY KINGâS WORLD:Â Somehow regular!Sam ends up in the world where heâs the boy king (ANOTHER FIC REC (SASSY/GEN)) anywaysÂ
1: Boy king Samâs Dean has been dead for years; really, properly, inaccessibly gone. Mad with grief, he performs a summoning spell across dimensions (if he canât have his Dean, a different one will do) with the Samulet as the focal point, but itâs a Sam that ends up in the circle instead of a Dean. This Sam has the Samulet on him because in his world, Dean died as well, before Sam was 18, and it was the catalyst for Sam leaving. These Sams have some things to learn from each other, cos other Sam has managed to deal with his grief and move on, and boy king Sam has managed to deal with his destiny, so I just think it would be a fun character study
2: Older Sam (s9-s11 i havenât watched s12 yet but i probably will when it comes to netflix) fucks up a spell and ends up in Boy King Samâs world. Older Sam is a little shellshocked from the travel, meeting his other self, and like...how much respect his other self commands? his other self even has friends and trusted confidants? being a hell-bound freak didnât ruin his other selfâs life? Boy King Sam figures out both a spell & Older Samâs emotional state, and, because, well, heâs really helping himself, sends Older Sam back to his dimension with a few tips and some contacts from the old guard of demons who wanted Sam on the throne from the beginning. MAYBE THEY FUCK IN HERE SOMEWHERE
okay iâve run out WAIT NO
THE SEASON NINE:Â Gadreel happens. Crowley happens. Being possessed by a demon for the first time since...Meg? reawakens Samâs powers, cleanly, without the use of blood (he SHOULD be able to use them without blood, everyone else could) and SAM IS FUCKING PISSED. The healthy way to resolve this is Sam just leaves forever and fixes the big bad by killing/recruiting Abaddon.
 but I also have a pissy catharsis dean-whump version where Sam, furious, does exactly what Abaddon threatened, burns off Deanâs tattoo, and lets his most favorite demon have Deanâs body indefinitely. See how you like it, Dean. (HAS DEAN EVER FUCKING BEEN POSSESSED EVER??? NO????? WE JUST GOT THE ABADDON SCENE. MAKE IT HAPPEN WRITERS.)
okay thatâs actually all of them. for now. maybe iâll come up with more later! do you see my dilemma
EDIT: TWO MORE THAT I FORGOT
THE SPECIAL CHILDREN: it occurs to me that since the foresight kids (sam & ava) had initial visions keyed into the other psychic kids to start with⌠if sam had gone with Meg proper in Scarecrow and done a little focusing, it would have been unbelievably easy for him to find the other special children. whenever he summoned a vision heâd know where another one was. he could have hunted the non-premonitionary kids down before the death matches even started happening. he coulda won before there was even a competition
THE DEAD FAMILY: there are some who headcanon that hellfire takes you, guess what, straight to hell. Sam gets to hell, and finds his mother and his girlfriend are there?? obviously he rescues them from whatever tortures they may or may not have endured. jess learns all of sam, no more secrets, and sam gets to learn who mary is (and mary tells sam she was sorry, it wasnât his fault she died).
EDIT THE SECOND: EVEN MORE THAT I FORGOT
THE FALLEN ANGEL: Instead of falling in love with humanity, Castiel falls in love with the boy who the entire world hates, whose destiny is to rule Hell, and yet is still pure of heart & soul. When he gives up Heaven, he gives it up to go to Hell.
THE GODSTIEL:Â Sam is the boy king. Cas is God. Enemies to lovers. A lot of snarky negotiation between the two as they duke out what exactly the roles of Heaven and Hell will be in this new world order.
CONSORT!DEAN: aka, what 90% of boy king fics are. i donât really care? but it probably deserves a place here anyways.
THE REPLACEMENT: all those wincest aus where Sam uses another person as a surrogate Dean. fleshflutter had an amazing and absolutely horrifying one with adult!Ben. i have one with frenchmistake!jensen. absolutely terrible.Â
THE AMPUTEE:Â Samâs coup goes poorly and results in him being really physically fucked up, but successful. Compatible with most other AUs. Basically like...what if Sam wasnât the all powerful godking we usually picture but just, still Sam, fighting through broken arms and missing fingers, and being badass at the same time.
If anyone reading this wants to steal one of these idears and write a fic/do art, blease, i will sacrifice my firstborn child to your boyking
Ah, London! The air here was so unfresh, smoggy && it rained as if God was crying upon the unholy city. Giovanni loved it, naturally. The differences were so fun to explore! Cafes were dour, sombre affairs where people brought their laptops && plugged in instead of engaging in conversation. The people watching was better than television.
&& now, here he was, in the back of a town car going to meet another one of his husbandâs brothers. If he was half as delightful as Q && a third as pleasant as Sherlock then it was shaping up to be a rather fantastic day. In his satchel, an expensive leather piece that Sherrinford gifted to him for his birthday, rested a container of his most excellent baked goods. A piece offering of scrumptious quality!
Giovanni exited the car && followed the men who served as a guard into some fancy office where his blue-green eyes found, well, he laughed to himself, he found a Holmes! They were terribly easy to spot. âMycroft Holmes! I am so delighted to finally be seeing you. Iâm Giovanni Aldemaro-Holmes, as I am certain you know! Holmes know everything there is to be knowing, of course. Here, here.â Giovanni pulls the dour man into a hug before presenting him with a black && silver box of goodies. âSpecially crafted for you, dear brother! Orange and cranberry scones with a light champagne glaze. Very delicate! So, how are you? Keeping up the spirits in such weather, I hope?â
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
â Live Streamingâ Interactive Chatâ Private Showsâ HD Qualityâ Free Actions
Free to watch ⢠No registration required ⢠HD streaming
i just rewatched the torchwood s2 finale for the first time probably since it aired. and i have many thoughts. it is my only 5* rated episode of torchwood. impeccable.
spoilers abound:
so to preface, going in i remembered a few things about the episode - owen & tosh die, jack is buried underground for millenia, and jack's brother is the 'villain' here. i also, broadly, knew it impacted cardiff generally.
but my word i had forgotten so much. starting off strong with forgetting how much 'captain' john had in this episode. i spent until he took jack back to 27AD utterly confused because i couldn't get a read on his tone. he was off, but i couldnt work out why - until he says he's being coerced. and then it clocked. it was so well done, giving him things his character would do - but taking away the glee and enjoyment of causing mayhem his character would usually have. perfect. i adore that they wrote it in that he truly loves jack - i think he really does, and just is too messed up to be able to express that in a healthy way - and that doing all this was so hurtful for him. jack telling him to do what gray said & start burying jack was so good. he would have sacrificed himself for jack and he did a great job with expressing nonverbally in that scene.
always love seeing andy. he had some good lines this episode. actually, so did rhys - 'have you never been in a scrum? push!' (paraphrasing) was perfect & so in character.
i had forgotten jack gets unburied in 1901 & frozen - so i was waiting with baited breath to see what the banging noise was as well. i did think it was jack, but i wasn't sure how he'd escaped. it didn't help that i was thinking of jack being freed in children of earth - where ianto puts his coat round him - and expecting that in this episode, thinking it was after they uproot him (so to speak).
tosh & owen's deaths... it sounds weird but they were perfect deaths for them. if they had to kill off a character*, i think killing owen would lose a lot of the sadness - he's already had that grief cycle - but keeping him alive to grieve tosh would be cruel, tbh. killing just tosh... it doesnt have the gravitas. her death was so tied to owen's and their speech together was so important that i don't think theres any real weight to her just being shot by gray. the fact he stopped her from having any real option to save owen and doomed her in the process makes it much more than just being shot 'in the line of duty'. i am so pleased that they let the team find her before she died - jack saved her from UNIT and then she died in his arms smiling... it just feels perfectly cyclical. the only thing i was.. meh about was her video, but that isn't really an issue. their deaths weren't just for shock value, they built up to it - foreshadowed it from the start & gave them the space they deserved and the conversations they deserved to have - which made it even better deaths for them.
*i don't think they could have killed off anyone else - ianto was tied to jack in their relationship, gwen is the 'heart' of torchwood, and jack is obviously not an option. owen and tosh were tied to each other, but not to the others in a way that would impact further plot beyond 'isnt it sad they died'.
--
i am ending my torchwood rewatch here. i am not in the mood to watch children of earth - i don't want to watch ianto die in a way which really was just for shock value, and i don't broadly enjoy children being harmed. the less said about miracle day the better, but suffice to say i didn't get past episode one when it came out, and i am not interested in a torchwood tv series without ianto.
actually i was talking earlier about why i think they're so distinct from each other and why i don't like anything past s2 (and why others like just s3, or whatever) and i think it's down to how they're presented/what they're based on.
s1&2 are sort of rompy, sort of serious but lowbrow entertainment tv. they're here for a monster of the week vibe where they develop the team's characters/personalities. it's focus is on aliens, with an undercurrent of "wow humans suck".
s3/Coe they went for hardhitting political commentary. yes, the main context is aliens, but the focus and commentary is on how the government responds to it. how they choose terrible things because they can handwave away who is being impacted by it - its not their kind of people, it can be the 'useless' children that go away. the aliens are secondary to the real villain, and the torchwood team is more of a tool than a main character. it's an overcurrent (lol) of "wow humans suck". (see also: shock value death).
s4 went for âamerican tv thrillerâ. i think had they made it an offshoot, torchwood: america rather than torchwood s4, it might've been less jarring. but no, they took the show and made it... american. my lack of interest in watching past episode one (the helicopter on the beach scene with gwen & baby in the house, if you're curious) was only added to by the fact that i don't have any real strong connection to gwen, and only a mild one to jack as characters. i mainly watched CoE for more ianto content.
--
so i return to the world of torchwood in big finish. and now i can read through my torchwood magazine collection & not be spoiling anything. excellent.
athlete x athlete things. teammates who live together and do everything together. carpooling, and eating, and spending time away from the rink. and everything is great! they're living the dream and getting to do it together, but then oh noâone of them is traded and now they have to deal with that, and maybe there are more than just platonic feelings there? and the next time they see each other they're playing against each other, and when they meet before the game, things are just not the same because they've kinda fallen into different circles, and whether or not there are feelings there, everything is so different and it won't ever be the same
