Since I’ve got a new AU cooking up, might as well throw in some new headcanons about these idiots now that they’re more British and kooky than in canon
I think Inspector Tino’s tie obeys the same rules as Mabel’s sweaters in Gravity Falls, as in it changes in every appearance. Usually still purple or grey, but patterns will vary quite a bit. He likes question mark and space/star themed ones the best, but is also rather fond of paisley. Same goes for jewelry and other accessories (except for one ring he’ll eventually get that’s not going anywhere).
One of his favorite things to do whenever he gets attached to a new planet is figure out what zodiac he is under their stars. He’s got a list somewhere where he’s written down all of his zodiac signs and what traits they have. He’ll do the same for his companions, too- oftentimes, Logico will say something and Tino replies with “Such an (equivalent to Capricorn) thing to say” and Logico just rolls his eyes. (However, Logico does buy him an Aquarius tie for his anniversary of meeting Logico and it becomes Tino’s new favorite thing).
According to Tino, the stars of each new galaxy have different vibes and ways of guiding him. It’s thrilling, in his mind. Every time and place he travels he gets a new way to get advice and it makes him feel like a much more well rounded traveler. Unless, of course, he hasn’t figured out how these stars communicate. Which usually happens when cosmic answers would be really helpful right about then.
Inspired by the Eleventh Doctor’s first introduction, Inspector Irratino has a thing for weird food combinations. Always making sure they’re vegan/vegetarian beforehand, sure, but he’ll try some insane things that usually only come by from pregnancy cravings. (Look, Eleven decided to go for fish fingers and custard)
Logico took quite a bit of time to adjust to the whole “being the companion of the time traveling alien creature” thing. If it weren’t for repeated happenstance pushing them together time and time again, Logico would’ve written “The Inspector” off as a very strange dream. Or hallucination from a gas leak in his admittedly crappy apartment. Considering how he reacted to an impossible triangle in SoM, I think the TARDIS being bigger on the inside made him downright woozy at best. And it probably trips him up for a good few times afterwards. He still tries to not think too hard about it. Though, the sounds of the TARDIS revving up and whirring through space has taken on the same effect as white noise in terms of helping him sleep, so there’s that!
Murder still seems to follow Logico wherever he goes, and not even passing through different periods of time and space can change that. He’s managed to go from a murder mystery solving deductive to an interstellar murder mystery solving deductive. It’s still a Murdle AU after all, of course there’s still murder. Half of the adventures are murder mysteries, half of them are aliens of ever-changing threat levels to humanity or whatever new planet they’re on. (And, of course, Daleks because this is still a Doctor Who AU)
The whole “Mister Shadow” incident was nearly what broke off Logico’s companionship with Irratino for good. Spending so much time trying to complete Irratino’s mission to save whatever worlds (that wouldn’t even know that someone incredible died for them) only to realize it was a lie the entire time…there were no phone calls, no letters, nothing. Logico swore off time and space travel and the stupid blue box. What brought him back, however, was a realization that he liked uncovering all the conspiracies that occurred across planets and helping more people than he could as a deductive. And he missed getting to sleep in a room completely customized to be his own with all the amenities he could ever want in the TARDIS, all without rent. (And maybe he missed the man who brought such excitement into a life he’d resigned to be monotonous, too)
This is probably the most beat up Logico in my AUs, just with how many combat situations he ends up in. The chess boxing past is really quite helpful in getting out of quite a few scrapes, sure, but he’s been nicked with quite a few blades, Sci fi ray guns, evil thorny plans, you name it, which has resulted in quite a few scars across his body. Tino wishes they didn’t have to happen, but he can admire the rugged charm that they give Logico.
The Director (yep he’s getting headcanons too!!) is very touchy about any of his things being damaged, and even make so about having to replace anything. Which is why he keeps around a helmet that’s cracked as anything. It’s his helmet. It’s one of the few things in this timeline that’s truly his. So he’ll wear it beyond its breaking point and further still.
I think this B paints and sketches a lot, in between his evil deeds. You know how there was a painting of him and Ripley in QftQ? B paints her once or twice. It doesn’t help him move on or anything, but he’ll try it anyway. He also paints anything he can remember from his timeline, the one that got erased, before it all slips from his memory. In his stolen TARDIS, there’s an endless gallery of his recreations of memories. Ty is also featured in a fair few. Just because he’s a convenient model, of course. Nothing more. Even if there’s paintings of things that matter to Ty, too, from an Association that was wiped out at the same time as the Division, details revised until they’re just right. No matter how painstaking.
B also has his own death cult here, too. A little more scattered than QftQ, but it turns out there’s quite a few people who have suffered unintentional consequences of the Inspector’s meddling. And even if they can’t rewrite their timelines, they can at least stop the Inspector from ruining any more. It’s probably not “Praise Be”, but B sure as hell goes by Holy Being or Death Themself. When you can’t die, and time warps around you, it’s very easy to convince people you are a god.
I think this B has incredibly mixed feelings on Ty, none of which he’ll ever say. Ty is the closest thing he has to a friend, but he still remembers what happened with Ripley. Ty is too kind, too soft. He’s a damn good mechanic. He’s so avoidant in combat that it makes him an annoyance at best. He’s the only proof B has that the time he was from was real, once. And I think Ty can tell all of this, because B is a horrible liar, and knows that B cares more than he’ll ever let on. Which is part of why he stays as B wages war.
