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Tyr ofic *ponderyponder*
So I was reading the fics I was pimped in my last post. (oh my god i did like the 1xR ones. My 1x2 fanclub card is probably bursting in flames right now. Actually I liked all of them, thank you hon ♥ ♥ ♥ ) And then of course there was that 1x2xR one from Sol/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kaigou ... which also has sort of werebeasts in it...
So of course, between the were thing and the Heero & Duo & Relena thing I needed to find something to do that wasn't wailing that Sol hadn't finished it or else the gods would smite me for above and beyond hypocrisy.
So I started thinking about Territoriality. It makes sense because Tyr is still pretty much Heero. Well, more like my old Garou!Heero, who after several years living in the back of my head is another brand of Heero from the generic canon one. Problem being garou!Heero is also reaching the end of his potential story arc -- he's settled in with a good job and good relationships and a family that's weird by normal social standards but works for him, so now I have to regress Tyr back toward the start of that progression, but also try to do it in a path different from Heero.
... I hope that wasn't too confusing. Basically now that I know where it goes I have to figure out another lane to drive down in reverse for his history. Not only in terms of background swaps (old uncle instead of fortysomething hitman! living isolated with uncle instead of living with hitman! joining the army instead of being trained as a solo operative! ... oh hey I should think more about how well *that* went, I'm sure there's plenty of shinies in there.) but something genuinely different. I have a few ideas but I'm still exploring them in the back of my head right now, but suggestions are also welcome.
Anyway the issue with the last time I tried to tell this story was that (okay, apart from the fact that I had NO PLOT) Tyr came onscreen, and he had a past as a black ops soldier, but he had already made his peace with it, and he likely had a traumatic past that led him to black-ops-ness but that didn't seem to even ping his radar anymore, and his only hurdles left were the becoming a werewolf thing and the learning how to be a pack with his teammates thing. Otherwise he was at peace with himself as he was.
IT'S BORING.
Also something that should happen mid-character arc, or at the end of it! Not as a starting point! Or else I might as well just scrap the Black Ops thing, since it only impacts things enough to enable him to out-badass the local weres and doesn't give him any problems, personal or otherwise. Marty-stuuuu.
... Anyway.
Another issue I have is, the government is only pretending to dismantle their were-soldier section; they're doing that mostly by pushing out people who are less useful, or who want to leave badly enough that they'll be less useful anyway, and keeping those who can be shuffled into other units and kept discreet. (if the war hadn't ended, hey, you always need more meat shields, so some soldiers being substandards wouldn't have been a problem.)
Tyr is pushed out on medical grounds -- kidneys being all "fuck you, medication, I don't like you anymore." Neve Serrano, well, she's missing an eye. Xiang Lin is still in the program. Gabe Wright and Dian Keller I have no idea, since they're both very angry young men in their own ways and would still like nothing more than being allowed to stay just in case they need to quell a last uprising.
Actually for Dian I just figured it out. So there's both physical effects and mental ones in the treatment, since you have the were virusthing but your meds keep you from transforming. Some people become bugfuck crazy because they can't deal with the animal in the back of their head. (or the animal can't deal with being unable to get the hell out, tomahto, tomayto.)
I think Dian is pushed out because he's dealing too well. :DDDDDDDD As in, he's freaking out people by acting predatory, and they think he's close to a breakthrough, and/or a little old fashioned serial killing and snacks of human livers and fava beans.
... I still don't know what I'll do for Gabe. Gabe is a charming, friendly, apparently-gregarious liar who is covering up unhealthy amounts of redirected rage and hate (really, it's himself he hates, woohoo fucked up family history -- basically his father freaked out and abandoned their family when Gabe grew up to look a bit too much like the pseudoelves who raped gabedaddy's mom and produced gabedaddy) but he's such a good liar I don't know if the psych tests would have caught it.
-Maybe he slipped up on the lying front? It'd have to be a massive slip-up if he does, though.
-Maybe someone noticed how much he looks like a pseudoelf when his skin is less tanned and he's all woohoo blood loss? (oh, he's been telling me his mom was black for a century, I should have listened to him and figured it out sooner. I'll have to edit his pics now. He's not very dark-skinned, his sisters are both darker, but that only makes him hate himself more since pseudoelves, being mostly european, tend to come in the usual array of "white" hues, and he's too close as it is) But would they kick him out over that, when he's been such a good trooper about killing as much of them as he could?
-Maybe his (repressed) magic has been acting up (were injection would boost it) and they want him to get training because he's dangerous on the field?
-Maybe... idk.
Maybe his mom pulled strings, but they're estranged from each other so I don't know if she'd have bothered/knew how&when to. His big sister? Hrrrrm. I need to develop them a bit, maybe they'll want to be in the story. ... crap, if I introduce that plot thread I'll need to solve it, and noooo, it's not a story anymore, it's like a sausage stuffed almost to bursting. Too many things in it!
Which reminds me, another issue Sol's fic brought back to light is how sad I am I can't stuff a Relena-character in Territoriality. No! Bad Asuka! Forbidden! Too many copied characters and too many plot threads already! She'd be one of the pseudoelves anyway, and I'm not writing political messes for her to star in. Nooo, go away, politics! Also like I need another potential love interest in this story! Tyr's having vibes with all four of his teammates already, plus his commanding officer, that's seriously enough. D: I'm sure he'll also find some way to mack on the werewolf characters I haven't come up with yet, so hey, enough is enough.
... but anyway, back to Gabe. Things I know about Gabe: his first name is Cameron but he goes by Gabe from his middle name Gabriel because Cameron is someone he doesn't want to be anymore, friendly liar, two older sister, his oldest sister has a very young daughter he didn't get to meet from being off to war at the time, his father was born of a rape and had Issues and scampered off, his mother is a badass, cranky old lady with whom he doesn't get along (MASSIVE UNDERSTATEMENT), and his were animal is a brown bear. And that makes him secretly freak out because Wikipedia sez 50% of bear cubs die before they get to be adults, one of the main causes of death being adult male bears. Which, uh, yeah. Good thing he was never going home anyway, right? :D :D :D Man, he doesn't even want to. No problem there. haha. ha.
What was he doing on Wikipedia, srsly.
Okay, so now how to kick Gabe out of the military. Halp plz? .___.
notes on magic, because maybe it'll interest someone: this is a low-magic setting, at least on the humans' side; they have legends of great spells that did amazing things but since pseudoelves are better at it humanity turned toward technology instead.
Anyway, Dian is pretty good with basic cantrips (mostly proximity alarms and "get the hell out of here right now before the mountain falls on you" things), but has no schooling; Neve has zero natural ability in any of the magical fields; Tyr ... I don't know, because as a professor of history his great-uncle might have known some actual spells but he doesn't ping me as having any special ability, and he was pretty young when the man died anyway, so for all I know he wasn't taught anything either But even if he knows some spells usually he doesn't bother, since that expends more effort than going at the expected result in some other way. Xiang I think is too rational to truly believe (and belief is a core component of magic) but she'd be pretty okay if she tried seriously. (also I think she classifies physical effects as magic, and stuff like praying to her ancestors for guidance as normal stuff, even when it ends up actually affecting events.) Gabe, being one fourth pseudoelf, is better than good, but seeing as he hates this part of himself, oops.
And then it turns out werebeasts have their own special kinds of magics as well. XD Still pretty low-key, and nothing like elemental attacks or getting the darkness to devour someone or raising zombies, but... Mmh. The world might be less low-magic than humans think it is. Bwahaha.
kaigou ... which also has sort of werebeasts in it...So of course, between the were thing and the Heero & Duo & Relena thing I needed to find something to do that wasn't wailing that Sol hadn't finished it or else the gods would smite me for above and beyond hypocrisy.
So I started thinking about Territoriality. It makes sense because Tyr is still pretty much Heero. Well, more like my old Garou!Heero, who after several years living in the back of my head is another brand of Heero from the generic canon one. Problem being garou!Heero is also reaching the end of his potential story arc -- he's settled in with a good job and good relationships and a family that's weird by normal social standards but works for him, so now I have to regress Tyr back toward the start of that progression, but also try to do it in a path different from Heero.
... I hope that wasn't too confusing. Basically now that I know where it goes I have to figure out another lane to drive down in reverse for his history. Not only in terms of background swaps (old uncle instead of fortysomething hitman! living isolated with uncle instead of living with hitman! joining the army instead of being trained as a solo operative! ... oh hey I should think more about how well *that* went, I'm sure there's plenty of shinies in there.) but something genuinely different. I have a few ideas but I'm still exploring them in the back of my head right now, but suggestions are also welcome.
Anyway the issue with the last time I tried to tell this story was that (okay, apart from the fact that I had NO PLOT) Tyr came onscreen, and he had a past as a black ops soldier, but he had already made his peace with it, and he likely had a traumatic past that led him to black-ops-ness but that didn't seem to even ping his radar anymore, and his only hurdles left were the becoming a werewolf thing and the learning how to be a pack with his teammates thing. Otherwise he was at peace with himself as he was.
IT'S BORING.
Also something that should happen mid-character arc, or at the end of it! Not as a starting point! Or else I might as well just scrap the Black Ops thing, since it only impacts things enough to enable him to out-badass the local weres and doesn't give him any problems, personal or otherwise. Marty-stuuuu.
... Anyway.
Another issue I have is, the government is only pretending to dismantle their were-soldier section; they're doing that mostly by pushing out people who are less useful, or who want to leave badly enough that they'll be less useful anyway, and keeping those who can be shuffled into other units and kept discreet. (if the war hadn't ended, hey, you always need more meat shields, so some soldiers being substandards wouldn't have been a problem.)
Tyr is pushed out on medical grounds -- kidneys being all "fuck you, medication, I don't like you anymore." Neve Serrano, well, she's missing an eye. Xiang Lin is still in the program. Gabe Wright and Dian Keller I have no idea, since they're both very angry young men in their own ways and would still like nothing more than being allowed to stay just in case they need to quell a last uprising.
Actually for Dian I just figured it out. So there's both physical effects and mental ones in the treatment, since you have the were virusthing but your meds keep you from transforming. Some people become bugfuck crazy because they can't deal with the animal in the back of their head. (or the animal can't deal with being unable to get the hell out, tomahto, tomayto.)
I think Dian is pushed out because he's dealing too well. :DDDDDDDD As in, he's freaking out people by acting predatory, and they think he's close to a breakthrough, and/or a little old fashioned serial killing and snacks of human livers and fava beans.
... I still don't know what I'll do for Gabe. Gabe is a charming, friendly, apparently-gregarious liar who is covering up unhealthy amounts of redirected rage and hate (really, it's himself he hates, woohoo fucked up family history -- basically his father freaked out and abandoned their family when Gabe grew up to look a bit too much like the pseudoelves who raped gabedaddy's mom and produced gabedaddy) but he's such a good liar I don't know if the psych tests would have caught it.
-Maybe he slipped up on the lying front? It'd have to be a massive slip-up if he does, though.
-Maybe someone noticed how much he looks like a pseudoelf when his skin is less tanned and he's all woohoo blood loss? (oh, he's been telling me his mom was black for a century, I should have listened to him and figured it out sooner. I'll have to edit his pics now. He's not very dark-skinned, his sisters are both darker, but that only makes him hate himself more since pseudoelves, being mostly european, tend to come in the usual array of "white" hues, and he's too close as it is) But would they kick him out over that, when he's been such a good trooper about killing as much of them as he could?
-Maybe his (repressed) magic has been acting up (were injection would boost it) and they want him to get training because he's dangerous on the field?
-Maybe... idk.
Maybe his mom pulled strings, but they're estranged from each other so I don't know if she'd have bothered/knew how&when to. His big sister? Hrrrrm. I need to develop them a bit, maybe they'll want to be in the story. ... crap, if I introduce that plot thread I'll need to solve it, and noooo, it's not a story anymore, it's like a sausage stuffed almost to bursting. Too many things in it!
Which reminds me, another issue Sol's fic brought back to light is how sad I am I can't stuff a Relena-character in Territoriality. No! Bad Asuka! Forbidden! Too many copied characters and too many plot threads already! She'd be one of the pseudoelves anyway, and I'm not writing political messes for her to star in. Nooo, go away, politics! Also like I need another potential love interest in this story! Tyr's having vibes with all four of his teammates already, plus his commanding officer, that's seriously enough. D: I'm sure he'll also find some way to mack on the werewolf characters I haven't come up with yet, so hey, enough is enough.
... but anyway, back to Gabe. Things I know about Gabe: his first name is Cameron but he goes by Gabe from his middle name Gabriel because Cameron is someone he doesn't want to be anymore, friendly liar, two older sister, his oldest sister has a very young daughter he didn't get to meet from being off to war at the time, his father was born of a rape and had Issues and scampered off, his mother is a badass, cranky old lady with whom he doesn't get along (MASSIVE UNDERSTATEMENT), and his were animal is a brown bear. And that makes him secretly freak out because Wikipedia sez 50% of bear cubs die before they get to be adults, one of the main causes of death being adult male bears. Which, uh, yeah. Good thing he was never going home anyway, right? :D :D :D Man, he doesn't even want to. No problem there. haha. ha.
What was he doing on Wikipedia, srsly.
Okay, so now how to kick Gabe out of the military. Halp plz? .___.
notes on magic, because maybe it'll interest someone: this is a low-magic setting, at least on the humans' side; they have legends of great spells that did amazing things but since pseudoelves are better at it humanity turned toward technology instead.
Anyway, Dian is pretty good with basic cantrips (mostly proximity alarms and "get the hell out of here right now before the mountain falls on you" things), but has no schooling; Neve has zero natural ability in any of the magical fields; Tyr ... I don't know, because as a professor of history his great-uncle might have known some actual spells but he doesn't ping me as having any special ability, and he was pretty young when the man died anyway, so for all I know he wasn't taught anything either But even if he knows some spells usually he doesn't bother, since that expends more effort than going at the expected result in some other way. Xiang I think is too rational to truly believe (and belief is a core component of magic) but she'd be pretty okay if she tried seriously. (also I think she classifies physical effects as magic, and stuff like praying to her ancestors for guidance as normal stuff, even when it ends up actually affecting events.) Gabe, being one fourth pseudoelf, is better than good, but seeing as he hates this part of himself, oops.
And then it turns out werebeasts have their own special kinds of magics as well. XD Still pretty low-key, and nothing like elemental attacks or getting the darkness to devour someone or raising zombies, but... Mmh. The world might be less low-magic than humans think it is. Bwahaha.
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CO: "Maybe you wanted this mission to fail, Cameron. Maybe you're soft on the elves. You wouldn't be the first one in your family to..."
Gabe: ROAAARRRRRR!!!!!!
CO: *hauls ass / has said ass saved by Gabe's surviving teammates*
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Not sure I want to go that far down the CO route, I was talking with Jo on AIM and we got this idea that at first he was transfered to a normal unit because he was supposed to stay on (that way Tyr and the others wouldn't have heard the rumor; otherwise the cat is out of the bag way early), and (as he loses his tan from being outside nonstop XD) they started harrassing him for looking gwel. I think it'd be easy to have a bigoted CO slip up with the info and then oops everyone in his unit knows, but I'm not sure a normal CO would have access to his classified files in the first place. Well, not legally, but... if he has friends who are a bit loose with security procedures... hmm. *__*
So I don't want him to get a dishonorable discharge because Tyr & Co would ask about it, but basically he'd realize he's going to kill them all if they keep it up and it will NEVER stop and will likely escalate until he has a convenient accident down the stairs or something stupid like that, so he might as well negotiate a normal discharge instead of being kicked out on a dishonorable one because he beat them up. He'd be real pissed about it, mind, but he's smart enough to know when to stow his pride. (he'd also be plotting to get them back when they least expect it. He's a snaaaake. XDDD ♥)
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