Coin flip!UA (meta)

==The Beginning==
pickle-plum: mind if i borrow a bit from
pickle-plum: http://athene-noctua.wikia.com/wiki/Gingers,_Cats,_and_Ginger_Cats#2025_March_Coin_Toss_.28Cats.29
pickle-plum: for my holiday swap ficlet?s
pickle-plum: (specifically, Kirra breaking Chuck and him needing a new PPDC career?)
shmoo92: Ooooo, go for it!
pickle-plum: thanks! FINALLY figure out how to get everyone they want in one place AND keep the Kaiju.
pickle-plum: I just had to wreck Chuck. XD
shmoo92: ohmigosh awesome--lol, sorry not sorry, ducky!
shmoo92: I can't wait to see it!
pickle-plum: wish me luck on tweaking my outline for the new circumstances!
shmoo92: Luck luck luck!
12/25/2016
==Pairings==
pickle-plum: it's coming together~!
pickle-plum: but I have a question of pairings.
pickle-plum: there's a bit of a holiday party and the only one currently invited without a date is Mako. all the other couples are same-gender.
pickle-plum: do i give her a male for some het representation or do i give her a female because why the fuck not?
shmoo92: What about a triplet?
pickle-plum: they're on the short list, but how do i explain them being in anchorage?
pickle-plum: (also, which triplet? or are they switching places all night so they all have fun?)
shmoo92: What's the time frame?
shmoo92: (They switch :D and it's /really obvious their switching but they're always referred to be the same name)
pickle-plum: it's an AU, with quite a bit of pilot shuffling (/completely different Team Striker for example), but I picked 2022 or 2023 to make Chuck and Mako 19-20.
pickle-plum: (perfect!)
shmoo92: Stuck there after a drop?
pickle-plum: ....
pickle-plum: that was easy.
pickle-plum: XD
shmoo92: :D
==Striker==
pickle-plum: it's an AU, with quite a bit of pilot shuffling (/completely different Team Striker for example), but I picked 2022 or 2023 to make Chuck and Mako 19-20.
shmoo92: Whos team striker?
pickle-plum: they're completely offscreen for this, but it's Kirra and Pietr. (needed to move Herc to Anchorage as Stacker's XO)
shmoo92: Awe/some
pickle-plum: \o/
==One Triplet==
pickle-plum: on e more thing: which name do the triplets use when they're trying to pass themselves off as one person?
Shmoo92: Probably Cheung. He's the sensible one. XD
pickle-plum: and thus the least suspicious. clever, those triplets.
shmoo92: Exactly >ominous thunder roll<
pickle-plum: you are most excellently evil.
shmoo92: >preens<
shmoo92: Ooo, so, note everyone's outfits; Raleigh goes over to talk to Mako and Cheung in their matching sweaters, [party happens], Raleigh bumps into mako and Cheung again--"weren't you wearing blue earlier?"
"Uh, no? I've been wearing green all night?"
"But--"
"Need to get your eyes checked, Becket?"
pickle-plum: perfect! (and it's Raleigh's POV, which'll make this easy to do)
shmoo92: Esssssellent
==Name==
pickle-plum: question! do you think post-neural surged wash out Chuck would change his nickname to stop people asking what the hell happened to him, wasn't he supposed to be on the fast track for a Jaeger? or would he keep it, because goddammit it's his /name?
shmoo92: On the one hand, Angela gave it to him. On the other hand, it's also Kirra's nickname--I think he would keep it such that she may have stolen his Jaeger but she won't steal his name, too
pickle-plum: good, good.
pickle-plum: (story is coming together)
shmoo92: (Eeeee!)
==Sweaters==
pickle-plum: is another story involving ugly christmas sweaters too many for one holiday season?
shmoo92: Nope
shmoo92: ALL the ugly sweaters!!!
pickle-plum: didn't think so, but wanted to check. XD
pickle-plum: preeeeetty sure herc and stacker are going to match again.
shmoo92: Essssellent
pickle-plum: yancy's lights up.
shmoo92: omg!!
shmoo92: I once saw a sweater that, sitting on the shoulders, were a pair of flamingos in Santa hats
pickle-plum: we've found tendo's!
shmoo92: >cackling!!!<
shmoo92: Ooo! Remember those sports team themed ugly sweaters?
pickle-plum: oh boy.
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: would the first part of that christmas chaleigh fic help?
shmoo92: Yes please!
pickle-plum: check your email in a mo'!
shmoo92: Thank you!
pickle-plum: 'welcome!
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: (complete Chaleigh xmas fic is in your inbox. it's looooooong for my recent stuff.)
shmoo92: (Awesome!
===Bunny===
shmoo92: Is the bunny supposed to be ugly?)
shmoo92: ((I can't figure out to phrase it without calling it ugly))
pickle-plum: yes, it's ugly and wonky, but Raleigh loves it 'cuz it's a gift
pickle-plum: the gift /was gonna be a blanket, but i found that picture and couldn't resist.
shmoo92: It's /perfect
shmoo92: You can see the maker kept misjudging how much yarn it was gonna take XD
pickle-plum: yup! and's not the neatest stitcher either.
pickle-plum: \o/
shmoo92: Even more perfect!
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: (just in case you're thinking of looking at it, i'm doing a heavy revise of that chaleigh thing to make it fluffier)
shmoo92: I've been mulling it over, and what I'm thinking so far is Tendo getting Raleigh to get him a drink refill, Raleigh grumping to the refreshment table and running into Cheung I, returning to tendo, and then seeing Mako and Cheung II complete with drinks
pickle-plum: liking it ... i'll work that in.
shmoo92: \o/
shmoo92: Tendo says something like "he may be by the punch bowl which you can check when you're getting me a drink."
"/You can get you a drink."
"I just sat down!"
pickle-plum: aaaaah! perfect!
pickle-plum: thank you~!
shmoo92: You're welcome!
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: (writing!pickle play-by-play: now Raleigh has his own ugly sweater, Tendo begs a refill, Cheung1 steals a plate of cookies while Cheung2 has punch)
shmoo92: /excellent
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: (Chuck now expresses less self-loathing, the rabbit gets a fuller description, Herc found some felt antlers somewhere, and it's in your inbox.)
shmoo92: Eeeee!!!!
pickle-plum: >preens<
==Drift Gone Wrong==
pickle-plum: kirra finds out the test Drift with ducky's wrecked his brain. what does she do?
shmoo92: She thinks the drift test succeeds so disbelief and that rushy, panicky euphoria, then ducky' behaving oddly and she gets /so /angry that he's being such a fucking /baby, then she realizes something really is wrong and she goes shrieky and panicky, and when she learns his brain's so badly hurt she's in denial--/he's the golden boy, he's the one they're all rooting for, she's just .... she takes it upon herself to be the one to tell Ducky tho, she feels she owes that much to Herc.
pickle-plum: thank you~!
pickle-plum: this universe won't leave me alone, so i'm feeding it a little in the hopes it'll let go so i can get back to CM.
shmoo92: Good plan!
==Scott==
shmoo92: Does Scott get a new copilot or are is Chuck sent to Anchorage without Herc?
pickle-plum: herc's given a leave to go to Anchorage with Chuck; when Chuck wakes up, he throws a fit about herc 'abandoning' his post and Herc goes back. Herc and Scott still wreck Lucky in Manila.
pickle-plum: ...
pickle-plum: WAIT.
shmoo92: >roadrunners back to Tumblr<
pickle-plum: so, since Herc has to lose all his family (it's the pain of being Herc) and Chuck lives, what about offing Scott in the Manila fiasco? Would also give a nice excuse to keep Herc out of Striker.
shmoo92: Personally, I like to keep UAs down to one alteration
pickle-plum: this makes good sense.
Pickle-plum: i'll consign that to a twig of a twig, then.
Pickle-plum: scott shall just fuck off into the sunset!
shmoo92: NO WAIT
pickle-plum: ???
shmoo92: It could be that Herc takes the blame for Lucky, the brass can't discharge him because Chuck had an awful seizure when he heard the report and the news leaked to the press and it would look seriously bad, so they transfer Herc to anchorage as an admin of some sort
shmoo92: (Someone sympathetic/with an ear to the gossip mill tweaks the assignment so he lands in the marshal's department)
pickle-plum: ooooo ... this is good.
pickle-plum: scott and kirra /definitely aren't Drift Compatible, so: hi, Pietr!
pickle-plum: (or maybe AGNIS just does the tweaking)
shmoo92: Scott takes one look at how besotted Kirra is with Pietr and, knowing how command works, knows Pietr's gonna get the boot in favour of creaky old him, so he has a couple simulations run and when he's sure he's not shooting her in the foot by not being a backup pilot, he's like, "oh my back" and the physio's like "yea his back is totally fucked he can't pilot, like, ever"
pickle-plum: nicely done.
shmoo92: And then maybe he does fuck off into the sunset XD
pickle-plum: maybe~!
shmoo92: Ooo
pickle-plum: ???
shmoo92: Re your "maybe~!"
pickle-plum: >eagerly awaits<
shmoo92: O, I was intrigued about /your 'maybe'!
pickle-plum: ah ... that maybe was merely me saying 'i have no idea what i'm going to do with him'. XD
shmoo92: Whoops XD
pickle-plum: heh.
pickle-plum: now, to make use of this information.
pickle-plum: send anything if anything else occurs to you~!
shmoo92: He's an admin in Harlequin
pickle-plum: 'he' being 'herc'?
shmoo92: I meant Scott but it occurs to me the two of them were co-handlers in Harlequin
shmoo92: Hence the confusion
shmoo92: Scott could also stick around as a tech on Striker until his contract runs out and then he heads off to Koffiefontein as another pair of hands
pickle-plum: i'm teetering between making him an admin of some sort or just letting him retire to be Nate's arm candy.
pickle-plum: also good plans.
==Test==
===Lurking===
pickle-plum: does kirra's reaction to chuck's brain meltdown change if Jackson's present? since he'll certainly be stalking her in this universe, too? XD
shmoo92: She doesn't even notice him XD
shmoo92: Plus i think they leave through a different door
pickle-plum: gotcha~
shmoo92: (Like in ANSK i have a very strong suspicion Kirra snuck out the back door while Chuck slammed through the main lab doors)
pickle-plum: so, how, in ANSK, did Jackson wind up outside the correct door?
pickle-plum: he was expecting it to fail and kirra to sneak out?
pickle-plum: so when they strut out the front door in this 'verse, he's hovering alone outside the back one?
shmoo92: It was more that he didn't want to be seen hovering around the test so he skulked around the back--exactly!
pickle-plum: aha! whoot!
shmoo92: I don't think they made it to strutting, though, I think EMTs whisked them away
pickle-plum: so you're figuring ducky dropped before they make the front door?
shmoo92: Yep
shmoo92: Same time frame as in ANSK
pickle-plum: noted!
pickle-plum: gotcha!
pickle-plum: where d'you figure herc would be when this all goes down?
shmoo92: Being anxious, I expect, somewhere
shmoo92: Maybe he and max are making their Xth lap around the 'Dome
pickle-plum: Sounds about right. XD
pickle-plum: Who gets the job of telling him to get his butt to Medical? Henry? AGNIS? The marshal?
shmoo92: I think he looks at his watch, thinks to himself that the test should be done by now, so he meanders inside and to the lab but it's empty and trashed and there's a first aid kit thrown about and he's got max in his arms and the receptionist in Medical's getting to their feet--
pickle-plum: >wibble<
shmoo92: :D
pickle-plum: Omg.
shmoo92: Omg?
pickle-plum: 'omg this is so beautifully awful'
==Name==
write write writing AU.
shmoo92: Does the AU have a name yet beyond "chaleigh!au"?
pickle-plum: i was mentally calling it 'flip of the coin' after Siqi's line when she talks multiverses with ghost!Chuck in "Gingers, Cats"
pickle-plum: so maybe "coinflip" would be a more manageable name?
shmoo92: Oooo, like that
shmoo92: Bler
shmoo92: Ooooo, I like that?
shmoo92: ffs
shmoo92: *!
pickle-plum: excellent!
pickle-plum: 'Coinflip!AU" it is.
pickle-plum: (i'm having finger trouble, too, apparently)
pickle-plum: XD
shmoo92: 'Coinflip!UA', I think, because it's still pcificbrim peeps in the pacific rim verse
pickle-plum: gotcha!
shmoo92: >awkward highfive fistbump< >hits self in face< XD
pickle-plum: *snork*
==Scene X==
pickle-plum: (first two bits of coin-flip are up)
shmoo92: !!!!
pickle-plum: (if you have suggestions for images for the second coin-flip bit, i'm stuck)
shmoo92: I shall ponder!
shmoo92: What about a pet with a cast?
pickle-plum: hmm ....
shmoo92: in a bed/nest of blankets
pickle-plum: well, isn't /this Chuck-like:
pickle-plum: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kayveeinc/4841469943/
shmoo92: Perfect!!
pickle-plum: yay!
pickle-plum: think the Sydney crew will be as concerned about Ducky's welfare as they were about Kirra's?
shmoo92: I think it depends to what degree ducky was on their radar
pickle-plum: everything would be the same up until the Drift--so he's the obnoxious kid with the dog who'd been stalking Kirra and the Jones boys had been tormenting, so ....
pickle-plum: I guess it depends on how much Jackson decides to care ....
shmoo92: One thing that might happen is each team makes a gift basket
shmoo92: Or something
pickle-plum: oh god. i can totally see chuck grumping at everything but the TimTams.
shmoo92: Ducky's also been a brat whereas Kirra's prickly but not actively rude and thinking she's god's gift (unlike ducky)
shmoo92: She might be quicker to throttle Jackson, too
pickle-plum: yup. very true.
pickle-plum: quicker to throttle him in coin-flip than ansk?
shmoo92: Yup
pickle-plum: so ... his plan of trying to protect her is going to backfire rather spectacularly?
shmoo92: (Now she can get away with it, having a jaeger (almost) 'n everything)
shmoo92: I believe in coin flip at this point (2018, correct?) he's infuriated because in his eyes, Kirra just keeps /winning
pickle-plum: don't think he grudges her /winning, more that she won't pay attention to him.
pickle-plum: (2018, correct)
shmoo92: After the mark III, /she had sympathy while Juliet made it her mission to heckle him. Kirra nearly hangs him, she gets a slap on the wrist and he gets a reprimand. On top of all the slights against him, she's going to get a jaeger!
shmoo92: I forgot about the not paying attention part, oops
pickle-plum: aaah ... yeah. all of that's probably gnawing on him. i forgot.
pickle-plum: this discussion explains the most-of-a-scene i found where Logan harasses her into trying to kill him. his backward way of trying to protect Jackson by drawing her fire.
shmoo92: I can definitely see that
shmoo92: Considering Jackson's going to keep antagonising her, though, Logan's not going to help much >_<
pickle-plum: no ... but it's not going to stop him from getting a good fight or two out of it. XD
shmoo92: Way to capitalise, Logan! Very clever of you! XD
pickle-plum: i'm also kind of wondering if Chantell or even Scott would pull Jackson aside and tell him to back the hell off until everything settles down. even so, would he listen ...?
shmoo92: So the situation in Sydney is going to keep getting uglier and uglier until one of them (Kirra and Jackson, but also perhaps Logan) kills each other
pickle-plum: but would it start to get better after Pietr arrives in January 2019 (if they all live that long)?
shmoo92: It definitely would!
pickle-plum: so ... now all I have to do is find a way to keep the Jones brothers alive that long.
shmoo92: Kirra mellows out muchly, and Jackson kinda gives up when she stops reacting
pickle-plum: sounds about right RE Kirra and Jackson.
pickle-plum: (well, keep Jackson alive for a year, since he's definitely the least likely of the three to survive this sort of firestorm)
shmoo92: (So true XD )
pickle-plum: good lord, how would Kirra handle actually /killing a human being?
shmoo92: She'd be more worried about crippling the PPDC, honestly
shmoo92: I don't know how much Jackson's aware he's being like this? Like they might pull him aside and he'll get on an intellectual level that he's gotta take it down a notch, but take it down a notch from what? He's not even allowed to say 'hi'?
shmoo92: But what they probably do is shuffle the 'Dome layout so Kirra and Jackson can go days without going anywhere near each other
shmoo92: And possibly give Jackson an ankle monitor that zaps him whenever he strays out of 'allowed' territory
pickle-plum: RE: kirra and jackson, should be fairly simple to keep them apart--keep her /in the hangar working on Striker-to-be, since Jackson is more or less banned from being in there 'coz he's a hazard.
pickle-plum: and the ankle bracelet, of course.
pickle-plum: XD
pickle-plum: (good lord, is coin-flip /sad. I'm looking at the organic programming scraps and Ducky's got nowhere near as many people looking out for him, no Tilda and station to go home to, no Liu to pull strings. at best, he's got Nate and she only cares because he's connected to more important people. At least he has Max. DX )
shmoo92: I bet the beckets'll take to him like, ahem, sucks to water
pickle-plum: good lord ...
pickle-plum: if they meet him during his recovery, he's 14 and a half. a literal kid.
pickle-plum: that makes the chaleigh a bit awkward ....
shmoo92: O_o
shmoo92: Yes, yes it does
pickle-plum: uh ... maybe we bring Lightcap to him in Sydney until he's out of his coma and back for regular checkups? Let Donnelly and company handle most of the day-to-day stuff?
pickle-plum: !!!
pickle-plum: Maybe Nate volunteers one of the family homes as a place for him to recover away from the 'Dome? the equivalent of the station for Kirra?
shmoo92: Maybe she keeps him in Anchorage for a couple months--out of the coma, assessed, and on a functional treatment plan, and then to Sydney--oooooo, I like!!!
pickle-plum: this seems like a good plan and a good way to keep him from crossing paths with the Beckets.
shmoo92: He may still cross paths with the beckets, but he won't be remembering much for a while
shmoo92: (That's what I did with Kirra, anyway)
pickle-plum: it's more a question of them remembering /him.
pickle-plum: that's what squiffy for me.
shmoo92: !!!!
pickle-plum: ???
shmoo92: Chuck is the golden boy of the PPDC. Command has a lot invested in him getting better and the media's circling
shmoo92: As such, Ducky isn't transferred to Anchorage as Charles Hansen, he's checked in as Victor Martjin
pickle-plum: niiiiiiiiice. i love it!
shmoo92: They keep his hair very short, and he loses a /lot of weight in the first couple weeks
pickle-plum: /definitely.
shmoo92: So he's virtually unrecognizeable as Chuck
pickle-plum: yea! and probably looks even /younger than 14.
shmoo92:Ooo, good point!
shmoo92: They probably help the illusion along as much as they can, too, with more child-like PJs and studf
shmoo92: Max is probably the biggest problem, tho
shmoo92: Maybe the quarantine fails or something and he's not allowed to stay in Anchorage?
pickle-plum: well, if 'victor's in an ICU, they wouldn't allow pets for germ control reasons, quarantine or not.
shmoo92: Oh yea, but after, when they've got him up and about with physio and what not
pickle-plum: hmmm ...
pickle-plum: maybe stacker is worried about Max getting hurt in /his shatterdome and won't let him out of Chuck's quarters and the immediate vicinity?
pickle-plum: which is part of the reason Chuck wants to get the fuck back to australia where he can just be with his damn dog?
pickle-plum: and since Chuck's not moving well yet, someone else is the one taking him out for walks while they're in Anchorage?
pickle-plum: (the vague idea of Nate, while Chuck is sulking at her place, bringing in Jimmy Fitzroy to talk to him [since he's so good with messed up kids] and the two of them trading stories about how they kicked Logan's ass on occasion)
shmoo92: *u*
==Name==
pickle-plum: which mentally sounds more like 'lieutenant', 'lew' or 'lou'?
shmoo92: 'Lew'
pickle-plum: thanks!
shmoo92: Reasoning: 'Lieutenant' is an 'ew' sound, where as 'lou' sounds more like 'oooooooo'
pickle-plum: exactly.
pickle-plum: (this is the sound of me giggling like a maniac while trying to avoid a third 'Chuck')
shmoo92: You're welcome!
===Chief===
pickle-plum: (also learning /Danger's J-Tech chief is the polar opposite of the /Vulcan chief: he doesn't. stop. talking.)
shmoo92: Looooooool
pickle-plum: i'd really hate to see this man caffeinated.
pickle-plum: or maybe this /is caffeinated and he just passes out when he doesn't have any.
shmoo92: I was either going to say 'NYOOOOM' or 'maybe he has caffeine blood like Tendo?' XD
pickle-plum: i'm gonna go with 'NYOOOOOOM'.
pickle-plum: the crew has to keep moving the coffee maker to make sure he NEVER finds it.
pickle-plum: no one wants a repeat of THAT incident.
shmoo92: XDD
shmoo92: they have to declare a stay of work after that incident with their chief so sluggish
pickle-plum: yep. XD
pickle-plum: (the /Danger Chief's first appearance is up on the wiki)
==Equerry==
pickle-plum: we ever find a name for Pentecost's Equerry?
pickle-plum: (kinda wanna namedrop them ....)
shmoo92: As for Equerries, we don't have names for either of them or a concrete idea of the junior's appearance
pickle-plum: RE: Equerry: I'll just cut out that step of protocol then. XD
shmoo92: Herc can (possibly) manage most things
==Smokescreen==
pickle-plum: working on Ducky's medical transfer to anchorage and who'll be setting up his fake ID and distracting the press.
shmoo92: Anywho, very interested in the press distracting and fake ID making
pickle-plum: i'm figuring it's mostly Chantell (with backup from Jamie) leading the effort on the Sydney end ... it's the Anchorage end I'm struggling with.
shmoo92: What parts?
pickle-plum: new thought: would it help the illusion of they shipped Scott north, too, and say the Hansen brothers are there for a refresher course or something?
pickle-plum: like, who's running press interference because there was this weird burst of activity at the Shatterdome and someone might've seen Herc Hansen at the airport? and rumours are starting?
shmoo92: Why are they not sending Herc via Jumphawk? Those are coming and going all the time
pickle-plum: from the airport to the Shatterdome, sure. but jets are loads faster than helicopters for crossing an ocean.
shmoo92: How's Chuck being transferred?
pickle-plum: ye know what .... it would be much easier and safer for Chuck to bring Lightcap to him.
pickle-plum: And, since the Shatterdome is probably not set up as a neurological trauma center, maybe get him as stable as they can there and ship him to the nearest capable hospital.
pickle-plum: which would /really start rumours swirling, though.
shmoo92: Yea ....
shmoo92: I kept Kirra in a Shatterdome 'cause of the rec facilities they can repurpose for physio, and Anchorage because lightcap's got all her stuff there
shmoo92: ^ Thoughts! have them XD
pickle-plum: !!!!
pickle-plum: (one i had was to say, it's not that Chuck /never goes to Anchorage, just that Lightcap comes down in the immediate aftermath and then he goes back to Anchorage with her when he wakes up)
shmoo92: (Aha, I follow)
===Plan===
pickle-plum: Hokay. I think this's the plan I'm gonna go with:
pickle-plum: The Sydney Shatterdome staff get Chuck out of immediate danger, transfer him to the proper Sydney hospital via helicopter ASAP.
pickle-plum: The doctors there consult via video with Lightcap.
pickle-plum: Chuck wakes up in Sydney. Once he's well/stable enough to transfer, they ship him to Lightcap in Anchorage for a couple of months to get him assessed and a treatment plan sorted.
pickle-plum: Then he goes back to Sydney.
pickle-plum: *for the rest of treatment.
shmoo92: Would he /want to stay in Sydney now that his career's over and everyone'll be looking at him pityingly? Or does he have a choice?
pickle-plum: No, he wouldn't, but he's a minor and his legal guardian is there, so.
shmoo92: He doesn't have a choice
pickle-plum: nope.
pickle-plum: which would be where Nate's offer of a place away from the 'Dome would come in handy.
shmoo92: Oooo, good point!
pickle-plum: she would have access to the right places and people and /privacy.
===Mangrove===
pickle-plum: (jesus, now i'm picturing Chuck with some Fitzroy polish from Jimmy being assigned as one of his minders at Nate's place and I DO NOT WANT TO GO DOWN THIS RABBIT HOLE.)
shmoo92 sent a GIF
pickle-plum: EXACTLY.
shmoo92 sent a post, "sometimes i hate being a writer"
pickle-plum: yup. it's so true.
shmoo92: So Jimmy's a minder for Chuck, and then what happens in that twig?
pickle-plum: I AM NOT GOING THERE! I AM NOT GONNA THINK ABOUT IT. I HAVE ENOUGH TWIGS FOR FREAKING MANGROVE SWAMP.
pickle-plum: *AS IS.
shmoo92: Okaaaaay :(
pickle-plum: argh. don't look at me like that. XD
shmoo92: :D
pickle-plum: okay, i'm gonna tell you.
shmoo92: Whoot!
shmoo92: I was just about to ask what happens in Sydney but this is more new!
pickle-plum: basically, Chuck comes out a slightly better person, more even-tempered. he's not exactly /likable, but he's less of an egotistical jerk.
pickle-plum: he's also got a better poker face and's learned (mostly) not to pick fights.
pickle-plum: (what about what happens in Sydney?)
shmoo92: I think I've tangled my brain
shmoo92: So it's Drift -> Medical -> Sydney -> Lightcap -> Anchorage -> Nate's place?
pickle-plum: yea, that's what i'm thinking now for Chuck's travel.
shmoo92: So when he's at Nate's, Jimmy's his minder? Or is that a twig?
pickle-plum: that's a twig.
pickle-plum: jimmy does /visit, though. i have, like, half of that written already.
shmoo92: Awesome!!!!
shmoo92: Who's looking after him otherwise? Just a generic nurse?
pickle-plum: I'm thinking nurses in shifts. The physio for regular appointments. Nate and assorted Hansens for visits. Maybe Chantell (being the sweetheart she is) drops by, too.
shmoo92: Ooo, and Henry!
pickle-plum: yes! (and, of course, Max is there full-time)
shmoo92: But of course!
pickle-plum: :D
pickle-plum: (went back and poked at the Jimmy fragment and he started trying to invite himself over more often and i had to stop before he talked the twig into existence. DX )
shmoo92: There's no reason why it /can't exist
shmoo92: And it's not super different from the main UA so they may merge
pickle-plum: all very true, i just want to focus on getting the big hunks of story outta my head before i waste too much time on this.
pickle-plum: *le sigh*
shmoo92: Oooo, okay, that's reasonable
shmoo92: Right! Thing I thought on my (mostly successful) walk!
pickle-plum: do tell!
shmoo92: The Jimmy visits conversation in which he brings up bringing fluffles can happen the /next time he comes over!
pickle-plum: oh lord. Ducky vs Tykes.
shmoo92: And thus the twig works itself in!
shmoo92: (I fears greatly that it gets lost *n* )
pickle-plum: yup. (i have no choice. Tykes must happen.)
pickle-plum: (oh my god, this might mean he /still meets Ruby!)
pickle-plum: (along with Jimmi and Ames, of course)
pickle-plum: (good lord, the ginger power trio of Ducky, Ames, and Ruby ...)
pickle-plum: (and Jimmi the tagalong blond)
shmoo92: >blink blink<
shmoo92: What have I/you/we done
pickle-plum: We've created a monster
pickle-plum: (it gets better/worse! Ames just offered to makeout with Ducky for 'something to do' DX )
shmoo92: Aaaaames >__<
pickle-plum: i definitely have a love/hate relationship with the Fitzroys.
pickle-plum: Stop being so entertaining! Seriously, folks!
shmoo92: Isn't that the problem tho? They're /not serious? XD
pickle-plum: oh god you're right.
shmoo92: :D
==Scene X==
pickle-plum: (revised 'herc finds out' and new 'herc sees chuck again' up)
shmoo92: Eeeeee!!!
pickle-plum: :D
==Kirra==
===Recovering===
pickle-plum: PR wants to document Kirra and Pietr meeting a recovering Ducky. Her response?
shmoo92: she gets very defensive/cagey, and says it'll depend on how he's feeling
pickle-plum: and if they say they're definitely going (and Ducky's feeling well enough)?
shmoo92: she slaps on her media starlette smile and says it'll be wonderful to see him
pickle-plum: noted! thanks!
shmoo92: you're welcome!
===Braid===
pickle-plum: kirra can't keep her braid as a Ranger? what does she do with her hairstyle then?
pickle-plum: whoa. that sounds really cool.
pickle-plum: i'm seeing Pietr /insisting on getting some sort of stars for /his hair.
==Security==
pickle-plum: (something which just occurred to me: Ducky as the Corps golden boy ... they'd be worried about his security, yea? some nutjob could target him for being the golden boy or as a way to hurt his very well-protected father? who better to provide both protection and a cover story for him than Sydney's best bodyguard, who, as a fellow burly ginger, could pass for Ducky's family?)
shmoo92: (O_o
shmoo92: Well ain't that convenient!)
pickle-plum: (Jimmy brings wife and daughter along and we have a housekeeper and someone to keep the golden boy from getting /too lonely and a perfect cover story as the new neighbours!)
shmoo92: And neighbours of big houses are /always the snoopiest
pickle-plum: indeed! (and they can add more kids, like Ames and Ruby, to 'fill' the house if they need to)
shmoo92: Kirra wears her hair in a crown braid under her helmet; PR would absolutely /not let it be cut but it's probably been thinned and patches have been dyed with invisible ink such that when it's braided the patches make stars
==Scene X==
pickle-plum: (new Chuck & Raleigh coin-flip scene in need of a picture suggestion on the wiki)
shmoo92: Awesome! I'll look better at it on the morrow
==Jachlan==
pickle-plum: (random new year observation: with no Max in the Shatterdome in 2018 to trip over, Jason might escape without hurting his knee)
shmoo92: One less thing for the Medical to bet on, the poor souls
shmoo92: XD
===Scene X===
pickle-plum: (jason & lachlan have visited Ducky in Anchorage now, with about the same results they got with Kirra in ANSK)
shmoo92: O boi
==Logos==
pickle-plum: coin-flip question! what do you think Kirra and Pietr do for striker's logo? keep the original design kirra has tattooed on her ribs, used the max-n-missile design (to make Ducky a part of the team in a way, maybe), or design something completely new?
shmoo92: I didn't think the max-n-missiles design existed yet
shmoo92: The new logo may be a bee or wasp, perhaps
pickle-plum: max design didn't, just offering it as another possibility for something they came up with.
pickle-plum: oooo ... bees!
===Tattoo===
pickle-plum: which gives me grounds for my next question: what's your take on what Ducky with /his logo tattoo? i'm torn between wear it as a badge of honour or have it removed because it's a reminder of failure.
shmoo92: Hmmmmmmmm
shmoo92: Maybe he forgets about it? Like it's just a collection of lines until he actually looks at it and it's "oh, right. that." On the one hand, in Anchorage, he's never in short sleeves. That not the case for LA, tho, and removing does leave a scar--what if he comes up with a varient of the max-n-missles to cover it up?
"Why do you have a tattoo of your dog?"
"'cause I love him, asshole."
pickle-plum: this is a brilliant idea.
shmoo92: >preens!<
==Age==
pickle-plum: (working on the Nate 'organic programming' scraps and, man, does a lot have to be binned because of Ducky's age [she can't hit on him because 1) ick, 2) she wouldn't])
shmoo92: yea, a lot of that could turn out creepy
pickle-plum: yup. very, very creepy.
pickle-plum: the more of this i play with, the harder it hits that this character is a freaking /kid. not a little adult, not a little Ranger, an honest-to-god /child.
shmoo92: >wibbles<
pickle-plum: what's making me wibble is that it's not like we've de-aged him. HE'S PARACANONICALLY A /CHILD in a lot of his backstory.
shmoo92: jesus
shmoo92: what was command thinking?!
pickle-plum: i mean, i should've made this connection back working on "SK" when i literally had to look up the international standards on what constitutes a 'child soldier' to make sure Chuck /wasn't one. (it's under-16 for frontline service, so Chuck squeaks by with a couple of months to spare), but JESUS.
===AGNIS===
pickle-plum: AGNIS question: Ducky's asking AGNIS who Nate is. How much does she tell him?
shmoo92: As for AGNIS,
"Who the fuck is this?"
"If by 'this' you're referring to the other humanoid life sign in the room--"
"Who the fuck else?"
"Unfortunately, Mr Martjin, my sensors are limited to the corporeal. As such, the only person who satisfies the conditions of being humanoid, in this area, and corporeal is Nate Barclay-Harvey of Shinohara Heavy Industries."
pickle-plum: re AGNIS: *snork*
pickle-plum: and if he follows up with something along the lines of "do I know her from somewhere?"
shmoo92: i had something like "they make jaegers" but that wasn't it and i've forgotten the original
shmoo92: i assume it's not the original because i can only see chuck getting sullen after
pickle-plum: hmmm ... i will continue my ponder and ways to make this encounter as non-creepy as possible.
shmoo92: i wish you the best!
==Draft X==
pickle-plum: (Nate meets recovering Ducky now up on the wiki)
shmoo92: Ooooo
==Hang Out==
shmoo92: Another scene that I've imagined with Kirra is that day when Kirra's routine says 'hang out with people' but her go-to hang out person's got a last minute conflict so she ends up having to hang out with the beckets and is Not. Happy. about it.
pickle-plum: oh dear.
shmoo92: Cue Beckets happily pushing her and the wheelchair aaaalll the way to Charlie's place, Yancy motherhening to the nth degree, Charlie and Raleigh advising him to Stop, and Kirra pouring her tea on him
pickle-plum: *snork*
pickle-plum: I love Kirra's default defense (or offense) of tea-pouring.
pickle-plum: (I'm going to assume Ducky either doesn't have that assignment or it's with someone who they can be almost certain has no idea who he really is)
shmoo92: (It may not happen with Ducky as he's probably Down Under st that point (I think this is post relapse))
===Media===
pickle-plum: (or would it be the opposite by that point? press releases about famous people dropping by to see the golden boy recover?)
shmoo92: Hmmmnn
shmoo92: Heh, affronted Beckets when the press basically ignores them XD
pickle-plum: *snork*
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