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allele_apocalypseThemes I like: Plotty gen. Hard SF. Worldbuilding. Angst. Humor, either by itself or sprinkled into heavier fic. Character studies that reveal something new that canon does not provide. Well-thought out fake science or alternative biology. Aliens and pseudo-aliens such as robots. Competence and intelligence. Smut’s fine (any rating) but totally optional. I generally do not have OTPs/NOTPs or strong preferences on pairings, but if you do, feel free to incorporate them with the nominated characters.
Kinks I like: Pretty much anything with a power differential: D/s (negotiated or not), incest/clonecest, teacher/student, non-con and dubcon (especially where the victim resists to the best of their ability), psychological manipulation.
Do not wants: Fluff & saccharine romance, excessive or graphic violence, bodily fluids, crackfic, character bashing, mundane AUs (canon divergence is fine).
Almost Human (Dorian) –
Dorian interacting with any of the other characters is welcome here. I have a longstanding interest in the history and future of the DRNs. Here we have a group of androids who are clearly Turing-compliant and possess free will, and yet are not only treated as property, for the most part seem to acquiesce to their treatment as property. Do they ever get sick of their status as slaves, and begin to self-organize? There were some deleted scenes on the DVD with Dorian tentatively pestering Rudy about his past, indicating Dorian himself was perhaps not so accepting of the official line. Is this one of things that makes Dorian “special”? What does Maldonado know about it, anyway, and why did she keep him around? Does John ever come to any greater awareness of the android predicament, or does he continue to view Dorian as a quasi-human exception? Romantic Jorian is fine, or not, your choice.
Babylon 5 (Delenn and/or Lennier and/or Neroon) –
Minbari! This alien race always fascinated me from the show, so anything which incorporates their culture or POV – could be the Anla Shok, or the religious caste's rituals, or the warrior caste's insularity, or interactions between any of these groups. (Since “Minbari do not kill Minbari” and they seem to be rather isolationist as a whole, what do the warriors spend all their time doing?) I love all Delenn-Ivanova interactions, and Lennier's quiet devotion (although the jealousy/betrayal storyline left me cold), and Neroon's slow acceptance of humans as equals.
Dark Angel (Max, Alec) –
This show had an enormous amount going for it in terms of its concept and setting. The second season was hit and miss (the biggest miss for me was that they downplayed the dystopian/apocalyptic police state that had been a major plot element in the first season). But second season had a bunch of genetically engineering chimeric supersoldiers raised in captivity and then running around on the loose, and I'm never not gonna love the worldbuilding possibilities there, even the heavy-handed transgenics = race stuff at the end. Max and Alec are fun due to their argumentative smart-ass similarities, only one's been out in the world awhile, while the other was more or less tortured into partially-effective obedience. I do like any conflict over those differences in upbringing, or Alec discovering some new thing he's never had before, or flashbacks to Manticore. In this fandom, heat fic and psuedo-bestiliaty never get old, either.
Orphan Black (Cosima) –
(Note: I haven't seen any of the new season yet, so this will only reflect through season three). If my own personal dorky-cool Mary Sue were in the dictionary, Cosima's picture would be next to the entry. I'd love anything which explores her role as a scientist in an organization which spies on her and her siblings and treats them as literal guinea pigs, even as one of her sisters runs the place. I also love her sisterly interactions with Sarah and Alison on not-always positive terms, and possibly Beth. A romantic story with either of the girlfriends is also fine (or, uh, the other clones). My one request is that if you do Cosima/Delphine, that it address the fucked-up nature of their relationship instead of pure fluff.
The Pretender (Jarod, Sydney) –
Since I'm the only participant who requested/offered this show, I'll assume it was not the one matched on. Some background, though: This show from the 90s involved a genius (Jarod) who was kidnapped as a child by an evil corporation and forced to perform “simulations” up until his escape as an adult. Sydney was his handler/shrink/father figure who ostensibly was working to bring Jarod back – or was he? Sydney obviously loved Jarod but also had conflicting motives for showing that love: the desire to remain an impartial “scientist” (and surviving the Centre himself, in what has to be the most Kafkaesque research environment ever) vs keeping an emotional hold over Jarod. It’s hard to believe a massive amount of psychological conditioning/manipulation wasn't involved in keeping Jarod from running away all those years. Anything set before Jarod's escape would be great, especially with Jarod as an adult. The show had a lot of flashbacks to Jarod as a kid, but comparably fewer as an adult, when Jarod must recognize that he's being manipulated. Or, a story on Sydney's thought process post-escape, how he gradually shifts over from apparently rooting for Jarod's recapture to blatantly helping him escape by the end of the second season, a fact that Jarod's surely aware of.
Kinks I like: Pretty much anything with a power differential: D/s (negotiated or not), incest/clonecest, teacher/student, non-con and dubcon (especially where the victim resists to the best of their ability), psychological manipulation.
Do not wants: Fluff & saccharine romance, excessive or graphic violence, bodily fluids, crackfic, character bashing, mundane AUs (canon divergence is fine).
Almost Human (Dorian) –
Dorian interacting with any of the other characters is welcome here. I have a longstanding interest in the history and future of the DRNs. Here we have a group of androids who are clearly Turing-compliant and possess free will, and yet are not only treated as property, for the most part seem to acquiesce to their treatment as property. Do they ever get sick of their status as slaves, and begin to self-organize? There were some deleted scenes on the DVD with Dorian tentatively pestering Rudy about his past, indicating Dorian himself was perhaps not so accepting of the official line. Is this one of things that makes Dorian “special”? What does Maldonado know about it, anyway, and why did she keep him around? Does John ever come to any greater awareness of the android predicament, or does he continue to view Dorian as a quasi-human exception? Romantic Jorian is fine, or not, your choice.
Babylon 5 (Delenn and/or Lennier and/or Neroon) –
Minbari! This alien race always fascinated me from the show, so anything which incorporates their culture or POV – could be the Anla Shok, or the religious caste's rituals, or the warrior caste's insularity, or interactions between any of these groups. (Since “Minbari do not kill Minbari” and they seem to be rather isolationist as a whole, what do the warriors spend all their time doing?) I love all Delenn-Ivanova interactions, and Lennier's quiet devotion (although the jealousy/betrayal storyline left me cold), and Neroon's slow acceptance of humans as equals.
Dark Angel (Max, Alec) –
This show had an enormous amount going for it in terms of its concept and setting. The second season was hit and miss (the biggest miss for me was that they downplayed the dystopian/apocalyptic police state that had been a major plot element in the first season). But second season had a bunch of genetically engineering chimeric supersoldiers raised in captivity and then running around on the loose, and I'm never not gonna love the worldbuilding possibilities there, even the heavy-handed transgenics = race stuff at the end. Max and Alec are fun due to their argumentative smart-ass similarities, only one's been out in the world awhile, while the other was more or less tortured into partially-effective obedience. I do like any conflict over those differences in upbringing, or Alec discovering some new thing he's never had before, or flashbacks to Manticore. In this fandom, heat fic and psuedo-bestiliaty never get old, either.
Orphan Black (Cosima) –
(Note: I haven't seen any of the new season yet, so this will only reflect through season three). If my own personal dorky-cool Mary Sue were in the dictionary, Cosima's picture would be next to the entry. I'd love anything which explores her role as a scientist in an organization which spies on her and her siblings and treats them as literal guinea pigs, even as one of her sisters runs the place. I also love her sisterly interactions with Sarah and Alison on not-always positive terms, and possibly Beth. A romantic story with either of the girlfriends is also fine (or, uh, the other clones). My one request is that if you do Cosima/Delphine, that it address the fucked-up nature of their relationship instead of pure fluff.
The Pretender (Jarod, Sydney) –
Since I'm the only participant who requested/offered this show, I'll assume it was not the one matched on. Some background, though: This show from the 90s involved a genius (Jarod) who was kidnapped as a child by an evil corporation and forced to perform “simulations” up until his escape as an adult. Sydney was his handler/shrink/father figure who ostensibly was working to bring Jarod back – or was he? Sydney obviously loved Jarod but also had conflicting motives for showing that love: the desire to remain an impartial “scientist” (and surviving the Centre himself, in what has to be the most Kafkaesque research environment ever) vs keeping an emotional hold over Jarod. It’s hard to believe a massive amount of psychological conditioning/manipulation wasn't involved in keeping Jarod from running away all those years. Anything set before Jarod's escape would be great, especially with Jarod as an adult. The show had a lot of flashbacks to Jarod as a kid, but comparably fewer as an adult, when Jarod must recognize that he's being manipulated. Or, a story on Sydney's thought process post-escape, how he gradually shifts over from apparently rooting for Jarod's recapture to blatantly helping him escape by the end of the second season, a fact that Jarod's surely aware of.
