Paranormal Who Walks Between Worlds

An RP Journal for Roger Price of The Tomorrow People

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Cara: Why didn’t you tell me?

John: Because of the way you’re looking at me right now. Like I’m some monster.

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I have so feelings about this. So many.

Because there’s a narrative with the Tomorrow People that “killing is bad”.

Roger backs this up, and probably really really encouraged it.  And that’s a common troupe in fiction - “the good guys don’t kill”. Batman is famous for it. Even John seems to buy into it, that killing = bad, evil, wrong.

And certainly, the Prime Barrier enforces that.

Except, and here’s a huge thing.

Roger. Can. Kill. 

Sure, it’s under special circumstances. But Roger can kill. He’s always been able to. Roger, Jedikiah, and Bathory all know this, and it’s possible a few others do too. 

Roger could have killed Bathory. He didn’t. He refused. Despite the very clear threat the man posed to the world and to Roger’s family.

But John.

John hesitated. He worried. But still, when it came to it, John acted. He killed to protect his family, because the option of not killing was an option. But not killing meant more people, people he loved, people who depended on him, would be killed.

John probably doesn’t agree, but I’d say this, this willingness to make himself uncomfortable to protect his family makes him a far better man than any of the men who raised him.

Roger knows it too.

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Listen to me, Stephen. Jedikiah ordered me to kill your father. There was no plan. Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind. I held his body in my hands. So trust me when I tell you your father is dead.

Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind.

Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind.

Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind.

Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind.

Roger didn’t know! I saw it on his face, I read it in his mind.

Roger is a scarily good telepath, pass it on.

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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey anaxpraetor and imaginativeideas and someone tag in other Johns.

Something dawned on me today.

Roger didn’t agree with Jed for John to undergo the Anax Project so John could kill him. (I maintain Killian was supposed to. But then things happened.)

He did it so John could kill Stephen, for Stephen to learn to get to Limbo. That’s why he left that tape of him and Crick for John to find.

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Go sit in a fucking corner and think about what you just did. *grabs Brodie and drags into the pillow fort away from where Komix can hurt our muses*

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I just. 

sorrynotsorry

Stephen needing to die a little to get to Limbo to get instruction from Roger…he wasn’t shocked really? Surprised but not shocked. He knew what would have to happen. So it just…lines up. One from Anax to put Roger in Limbo, one from Anax to teach Stephen how to get there.

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My dad is in surgery to remove a tumor and at least part of good kidney. Any thoughts, energy, prayers, etc if you are so inclined would be welcome.

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So update, under a cut

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Dad is still doing very well. He’ll probably come home this weekend.

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Guess what we are almost certainly looking at reoccurring? WE MADE IT ALMOST TEN FUCKING YEARS

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the 'screw everyone else why didn't you tell ME' line always gets me because how could he not tell her that is the real betrayal. its not that he can kill someone its that he didn't trust her enough to TELL her that he could, trusted her as much as he trusted everyone else and she told him everything always bc she loves and trusts him more than anyone and that's what hurts the most, that he didn't let her share in his pain and be there for him so he wouldn't be alone and help

No. No no no. *enters ramble mode because my brain is a total mess right now, wheeee*

It’s not that he didn’t trust her. Remember, this is John ‘forever a martyr because he’s a self punishing asshat’ Young we’re talking about here. He was truly scared she would hate him, which is why he never told her. Because eventually the question would be asked “Well, how do you know you can kill… have you ever killed someone?” and that was just TOO close to the truth about what really happened to Roger. Let’s be serious here. 

John only told that story about Roger ‘looking for the ‘refuge’’ to collect people and keep them safe. He never actually expected that Roger would come back. He was 100% sure Roger was dead until Stephen was like “I TALKED TO MY DAD. WE HAVE TO FIND HIS BODY”.  John really was having a rough fucking couple of episodes there tbh.

And let’s be honest, in the Pilot, John apparently had no idea what file he picked up from the hospital– one of those things I squint at because he was literally rifling through doors and had no idea who he was looking for? Originally in the first script, it was John who was like “Guess who I found.” and Cara is the one who is like “It can’t be!” which in retrospect would actually make less, yet more, sense than what they did. 

I just find it hard to believe John didn’t read the name off the file and someone just managed to pluck the file of his previously thought dead mentor’s son who he totally promised to protect 6 years previously.

But less sense, because why would John want to let this kid in? Other than Roger’s promise and all that, everyone should have known that Stephen would want to find out what really happened to his father. Everyone sorta oopsied and forgot to tell Stephen Jed was his uncle, while we’re at it. I mean, I’m sure they didn’t expect the fact he was gonna bail out, despite the rule of they have to stay for a few days and think it over before they are allowed to leave (John you knew what a little shit Roger was! Did you think his son wasn’t going to be the same way?!)

No but John trusted Cara. He loved her. He just was really scared, because everything in his world depended on that one lie not being revealed.

I mean All Tomorrow’s Parties 1x05

and then… The Citadel. 1x11? (PS I ALSO WENT AND MADE THIS GIF WHICH IS WHY I TOOK FOREVER REPLYING XD)

And then everything hit the fucking fan, not just the shit.

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Also something I thought I’d added to this last time but didn’t.

Who was the bigger proponent of “Our kind can’t kill, killing is bad” etc?

This guy. Who could kill - if only through a loophole due to being a mutant, a freak, within his own subspecies. Who knew this, I don’t doubt, byt the time he taught John those lessons.

I think Roger meant well. Killing someone is a serious thing, there should be a cost. I honestly think he started to teach these things to John long before they decided to “allow” John to under go Anax. I’ve always thought they meant Killian to kill Roger, but that went badly. I wouldn’t even be shocked if Killian had been sent after Roger FIRST and his line to John “What did he do that finally pushed you too far” wasn’t a reference to that. I think he meant to teach John to be a restraining hand. To pull his friend back from the brink, to help him hold on.

But then they needed John for Anax and Roger couldn’t really switch lessons - in part because he does deeply believe them.

But I don’t think Roger ever totally understood the trauma John had already been through. I don’t think he understood abused children and children of addicts - John was both - already have the pathways laid to hate themselves.

Because if the adults who are supposed to take care of you don’t, then it’s your fault right? Because other kids’ parents love them and take care of them. Clearly I’m the problem.

And John never got the support or the care he needed. I don’t think it was malicious. Ultra wouldn’t provide it, it’s in Bathory’s interests if his agents are a little broken, Jed and Roger have an understandable contempt for the field, and Jed has his own psychological problems. But John needed therapy. Badly.

He needed to learn he wasn’t the problem.

Jed and Roger love John - deeply. But they couldn’t fix that issue, just by loving him. And they damn sure couldn’t fix it while in the midst of a cold war.

I don’t think Roger ever knew how much damage he did to John.

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#JOHN VS TOASTER#KILLIAN VS TOASTER#JEDIKIAH VS TOASTER#ROGER VS TOASTER#/THE FUCKING FOUNDER/ VS TOASTER

Ultra Toaster Body Count:

Bathory:

One through a window after particular grueling night with the first paranormal he crossed like Julian, who got off on the pain of triggering the Prime Barrier.

One at Roger’s HEAD when he did his teleport-and-start-talking-immediately thing that Jedikiah swears he’s going to shoot Roger over someday

One near blown up after a night of Cassie’s pop-out-of-anything-and-scream-HI DAD shenanigans

Jedikiah:

One SHOT after the same night hunting a paranormal

One table kicked over, taking the food, coffee pot, and toaster out with it after being awake for near 70 hours

One bruised John after tackling the kid to the floor after a week of dealing with Roger and Killian bombing the SHIT out of things

Roger:

At least fifteen he’s broken, stopped time, and fixed

Killian:

There are still parts of the toaster embedded into the wall after the first Toaster Incident

Four in various levels of “smashed via telekinetic wave”

John:

One thrown, caught, burned his fingers, and thrown again

Darcy:

One best described as “half asploded” from shortly after her time spent as a runaway

[anaxpraetor]

syncrgist 

“One near blown up after a night of Cassie’s pop-out-of-anything-and-scream-HI DAD shenanigans”

[foundlimbo]

Send ♆ for a BODY headcanon.

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Roger doesn’t have a scar from a childhood accident, he has near a dozen. Three small scars on his left shoulder blade from hitting some metal bracing on an old fence, a grate pattern on his right knee from falling onto a heating grate while wrestling with his brother, one of his cheek from some accident as a toddler neither he nor Jed remember, a couple on his left forearm from landing in thorny bushes during a bicycle accident, scarred road rash from a car accident and one on his head under his hair from the same, and some across the knuckles on his right hand from throwing a punch, missing, and hitting bricks.

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She’s having a nightmare, the same thing happened to me when I was breaking out.