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I feel like Maine and Carolina’s friendship is like something that should be talked about more. They’re so tragic for just being implied to be close. Out of anyone in the series, Carolina, sees Maine as yknow, human despite forgetting that about herself. She talks to him like a friend and she doesn’t take Any of that shit South was talking about him in the freelancer ai class, yet like Carolina said, it was her AI that made Maine the Meta. And Carolina never knew that was going to happen
Even her giving up Sigma for Maine was like a major thing because you can tell how important AIs were to the more competitive freelancers who’s yet to receive one.
Carolina trusted Maine, and even when The Meta literally tossed her off the cliff, she still felt bad for what had happened to him, despite being generally unforgiving
a fic i wrote at 5 am about being an alien parasite jesus allegory whose father doesn’t call enough. something we can all relate to.
(also on ao3 if you prefer to read there)
Your name is Junior.
When you get older, you’ll be told this isn’t really a name. They’ll give you real names. Real names with real meanings to them.
The Sangheili call you Jaen ‘Kelossai. A name that was destined for you. It’s meaning chosen by the gods themselves. The soul who lights the prophecy of the sword. It’s a rough translation.
The humans call you Lavernius Tucker Jr. It’s meaning doesn’t work the same way. Not a thief and a tormenter, nor a soft cloth in the spring. But instead it holds the weight of your father. A meaning just as heavy as one chosen by gods.
You just go by Junior.
You are the child of a failed prophecy. The savior of a dead religion. This makes a lot of people want you dead. You’re used to that, though. People have wanted you dead since you were born.
It makes a lot of other people want to use you. You’re used to that, too. You get paraded around for one political reason or another. One day you’ll learn what these all mean. One day you’ll make an amazing ambassador. Or so they tell you. Today you just want to outside and play.
You’re too alien, the humans say. You want to play with the other kids but you are larger than them. You have too many teeth. They’re just jealous, your father says. You don’t know if that’s true.
There are kids your size you can play with. But your father spends all the time he can with humans. And you do too.
You’re too human, the Sangheili say. They never should have let your father stay around. Never should have let him get his fingerprints on you. But they were in there from the beginning. Baked into your DNA.
And though the old gods may be dead, no one can deny that he is the sword bearer. It may just be an ancient relic. But ancient relics hold importance.
Many want to kill him for it. He doesn’t deserve something as important as that, they say. He’s human. Others respect him for it, but even they hold their breath for the day he dies. To scavenge it from his corpse.
That key was your birthright. You can use it, but it’s not yours. It holds no connection to you. It should have.
One day you’ll learn that you were supposed to kill him. To rip from his stomach and feast on his flesh. To take the key to your birthright by force.
You’re glad this didn’t happen. You don’t know if he knows. You hope he never finds out.
You’ve never met your other father. The one who’s genetic material makes up your own. He died before you were born. It makes you a little sad. But not very.
One day you’ll learn how he died. You’ll know what he did to make you. You’ll want to find his grave and spit on it. Today you hold your true father’s hand as you tell him about your schooling.
You need to go on a mission. You need to be paraded around again. It’s hot, but you have fun in the sand. They bring you home before your father; negotiations are getting more tense, and he needs to stay, and you need to leave. You need to be protected. Why doesn’t he need to be protected?
As you go, you tell him you love him. He laughs and ruffles your nonexistent hair.
You don’t hear from him for months. You ask why no one has gone to help him. No one tells you the answer.
You know the answer.
…
It’s almost a year before you hear from him. About him. He’s a fugitive now. You thought he was dead. From the way they speak, you wonder if that might have been better.
He’s stealing technology. Betraying the UNSC. Betraying the Sangheili. Betraying you. That’s what they tell you.
You don’t know if you feel betrayed.
You follow the news. Closely. Closer than any of the other kids your age. But you’re bigger than them. You have more teeth. And you wonder if you should even be with them. Your father was the one who wanted you to go to this school, wasn’t he?
News comes.
He’s not a fugitive anymore. He’s a war hero, now.
They tell you you should be proud.
You don’t know if you feel proud.
He contacts you. You feel his warmth. You missed him. He says he misses you. He tells you about his journeys. You tell him about your team. He tells you about his friends. You don’t tell him about your lack.
He’s going to come see you soon. You’re excited. You missed him.
You tell him you love him. He tells you he loves you, too.
He never comes.
…
It’s another year until you get news.
He’s a war hero again.
You thought he was dead.
You feel. Proud.
You’re supposed to feel proud, right?
You’re a great ambassador now, they tell you. You’ll tell him that, when he calls again.
You’ll wait for him to visit.
He’ll come, this time.
You’ll look at the key that was your birthright.
He’ll tell you he loves you.
You’ll think about tearing him apart with your teeth.
i think something that fucks me up about south haters is like. she’s. a villain. and she’s a minor villain but. “she killed north!” okay even if this was uncomplicatedly true she. she’s the bad guy. she does. villainous actions. like you NEVER see this much vitriol towards wyoming for killing york or the meta for. y’know. being the one who actually killed north. it’s just like. really interesting that you can understand villain characters acting villainous when they’re men but hold a different standard when it comes to women huh.
Thing about Tucker is he can only be honest when he's specifically using his I'm Fucking With You And Being Over dramatic On Purpose To Call Out Your Shit And Distract From The Situation so he'll say some shit like "Church go fuck yourself you're being such a prima Donna. You wear a dress worse than when my mom made me dress up like a girl that one time and it was weird. Oh, and I think your dad's a whore, which is all kinds of wrong dude. All kinds. Ugh. I'm bored. Can we go, like, throw rocks down at sarge and grif or something. This blows." and if you EVER ask him if he made that up or was being serious he'll get mad as fuck and clam up or act like he doesn't know what you're talking about
now I'm imagining CarWash sibs as Hunters in a Supernatural AU.
Can't decide if the AIs would be angels and demons, or what.
Freelancers as Hunters, Reds and Blues as The Ghostfacers, but more competent. (even if only by accident.)
And yes David still goes by Wash(ington) because: David Church > D.C. > Washington D.C. > Washington > Wash
"It was a long strange high-school year, it just kind of stuck, let's move on you said items were moving by themselves?"
Carolina is Caroline "Carolina in state name solidarity with my big brother" Church.
"Dad went on a hunting trip and hasn't been home for a few days."
"Awesome, that's our problem why?"
"Bastard owes me fifty bucks, help me find his corpse so I can go through his wallet."
Alright I want to expand more on this reply and this reply I wrote because I was cooking and these thoughts are so good they deserve a whole post dedicated to them (this post will make more sense if you read those two posts I linked first btw, but it’s not 100% necessary lol).
I believe Wash’s role in Project Freelancer was to see what kind of impact a hyper-competitive, heavily individualistic focused environment would have on an individual who has previously been deeply embedded into the forced collectivist assimilation seen in the military, and vice versa; What kind of impact an individual of Wash’s inherently outgoing and collaborative temperament would have among a group of hyper-competitive, introverted loners.
Wash really stands out to me because he seems to outright refuse to compete with the other Freelancers. I mean, admittedly, all the guys in pfl come off as significantly less competitive than the women (which is its own can of worms), but Wash is the only Freelancer who shows no competitiveness period.
North for example, was not happy about Carolina showing up at the oil platform and voices as much to South. I think North’s displeasure is directly related to pfl’s competitive nature, because normally when you’re outnumbered and outgunned—As he and South were—You’d be very glad for reinforcements. So logically, North being upset about Carolina showing up must be because it will reflect on them poorly.
Maine and Wyoming are characterized as sore losers—They were so pissed about Tex handing their asses to them that they were willing to seriously injury, if not outright kill her, by using live ammo and live grenades in a training exercise.
York’s competitiveness is portrayed in a similar vein to North’s, as in it’s very subtle. York was just as frustrated as Maine and Wyoming were, and I don’t see another reason for why he’d force himself to leave medical early after having a grenade blow up in his face beyond the longer he’s off the roster, the further down the board he gets.
We don’t see any type of competitive behavior like the examples above from Wash throughout the entirety of the flashbacks, but we do see a different type of behavior from him.
Project Freelancer creates an environment that is trifled with animosity, exclusion, and favoritism, and while The Director is able to fool the other Freelancers into perpetrating this behavior among their ranks, he isn’t able to fool Wash into it—In fact, Wash refuses to tolerate it, and he actively fights against it everywhere that he can.
When Ct is beating herself up over a failed mission, Wash is the one that goes to comfort her, and what kind of language does he use to do so? Language that avoids pinning the blame on Ct alone and instead puts it on the whole team. “It wasn’t your fault, Connie.”, “So the ball got dropped, we were all there.”, “Everyone make mistakes.”
When Maine and Wyoming bring out the live ammo, and York gets injured because of it, everyone else is mad at Tex. But Wash? He’s pissed at Maine and Wyoming, it was their choice to use live ammo that lead to York’s injury, so he expects them to get punished for it—And he’s rightfully baffled at The Director’s refusal to do so.
When York shows up for the heist, Wash makes a point to approach Carolina about it. He understands that she doesn’t want to appear weak and unsure of herself in front of The Director, and that she doesn’t want to give her teammates any more reasons to dislike her than they already do. By approaching her first, he’s able to give her an out if she chooses to do so—And if she had agreed York wasn’t ready, then it’s Wash who York can blame for it.
Wash recognized almost immediately that Tex was going to get the brunt of the team's anger and outrage over York’s injury, and he makes sure to let everyone know that she likely kept him from getting killed. He also recognized that she was being set up to be excluded from the rest of the team, so the very first thing he did when he got a moment alone with her was reach out by making friendly small talk, trying to establish a connection so that Tex could use him as an entry into the team's inner dynamic.
Now going back to the blurb I opened this post with, I ask these questions:
What would Wash—As someone who sees himself as one part of a bigger whole—Be willing to do in order to appease the people around him? What actions would he take to try and lower the mental burden that such a competitive and inherently hostile environment would put upon his teammates?
The answer? I think Ct puts it very well with this line:
“Some of us very specifically make mistakes, and some of us don’t seem to make any mistakes at all.”
This line is meant to be seen as half Ct calling Wash out on his bullshit, and half her being genuinely upset over Carolina’s status as ‘Ms. Perfect’, because in Ct’s mind, Wash and Carolina are very much two sides of the same coin; Intentionally making mistakes that don’t get you or your teammates killed requires the same level of skill and attention to detail that it would take to avoid making any mistakes in the first place. This is why Wash’s talk about them being a team makes her so angry, and why she sees it as him trying to make excuses for her: There are no excuses for fucking up when you work with people who have to intentionally choose to make the same mistakes that you unintentionally do.
uuuhhhhh idk how to end this post but I really love looking at Wash through this lens because it speaks volumes about him, and it adds so much more complexity and nuance to his already incredibly layered character.
i'm always thinking about church and tex . they were never even together . they’re exes . they’re still together . they’re both dead . they’re mourning each other . they killed each other . they’re alive together . they’re cheating on each other . they hate each other . they love each other more than anything . they have a long history together . they were inseparable . they created each other . they only met once before the first episode . they tried to save each other and they failed . they’re EVERYTHING
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