#ac 207

[ziskeyt]

Hello!! Re: ask game—curious about AC 207!!

Hello!! Thank you! This one is one where Heero's gone to university after the wars, he has one phd in biomechanics and is currently working on one in Archaeology! It's straight up just called this cause I knew how old I wanted them to be and haven't given it a name yet lol. A little snippet from chapter 1 (which is also as far as I've gotten)

Heero twirled his pen in his hand as he blinked himself back to the present, he was trying to focus on the book he’d taken out to add some more source material to this thesis. He was surprised to find that the change in the air with the start of a new term seemed to be making him feel uncharacteristically nostalgic. It had been a while seen he’d seen any of the other old pilots, usually he’d see at least one of them every few weeks or so, but he just got back from a dig in Ancient Merv a few days ago. Though it had been many years since the wars, it was still so strange to realize he missed people, something he would have been sent for retraining for even showing a tiny minuscule yen toward. He put his pen down in the spine of the book that was open on the table before him and picked up his phone he’d put down earlier. He tapped on the screen idly as he thought of who to reach out to, it’d be nice to set up a lunch or meeting with any of the other pilots — but really, there was only one person he wanted to see first. The first few names in his texts weren’t Duo, but after Elias, who’d insisted on picking him up after he landed, and his team he worked with on the dig, Duo’s name was right there with a message from a few weeks ago that said, “Have a good trip, buddy!” Heero tapped on Duo’s name and quickly typed out, “Busy?” As soon as he sent it, he felt slightly foolish. Of course he’d be busy — it was early afternoon so Heero expected Duo was, in fact, busy with work. He set his phone back on the table and picked up his pent to return to his book. Barely a page of reading later his phone buzzed on the table, and kept buzzing — not a text then. Deciding to give up pretending he was even able to focus on his studies, Heero flipped his book closed as he picked up the phone. Seeing Duo’s name on the screen had him raising his eyebrows, why wouldn’t he just text back instead?

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daniel's scene with vernon masters is /delicious/ because you know precious, straightforward s1 daniel could /not/ have come up with the whole fake call and dealing with masters the way he does here

ok. i undersell him. he also knows how to deal with people like vernon /because/ he is a sweet, straightforward person who doesn't hide secrets or take advantages or bite off more than he can chew. which is not something that can be said about, uh...everyone.

[ziskeyt]

I don't think you've told me about AC-207?

Oh! Another for this one!! Thank you! I think I have actually lol it's the first fic I started writing coming back to Gundam Wing. Where Heero's gone back to school and is working on his second phD. He's going to get kidnapped by a group who want to use his knowledge to build gundams, and they are working in conjunction with another group that they fight with who ultimately end up with Heero and are trying to make clones of him to have an army of perfect soldiers. They drug him, but he's got his healing factor and it doesn't work as they'd like but he is a bit incapacitated so they try torture instead. Eventually he's rescued while trying to break himself out and he ends up half carried by Duo, and I have this line in my notes that while he's in this escape scenario still a bit loopy he looks at Duo and the phrasing from Homer of "the wine dark sea" pops into his head when he sees Duo's eyes. Anyway! It's on the back burner while I work on the two major WiPs, once FUBAR is finished I'll probably pluck away at it again. (Though, then I'd be working on two pretty serious fics so I'll have to come up with another that's silly to keep me level I think haha)

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AC you’ve got to make up your mind. I know I’ve gone on about this before. But two episodes ago Peggy gets hurts in much the same way as ana, arguably worse, and she’s up and at it running an op the following morning. And now they say they don’t even know if ana will make it out of surgery?

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Do you think Daniel legit calls his mum MotherTM or is he just doing that for code word purposes

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The Whitney and Dottie interrogation scene is so good

[ziskeyt]

Please tell us more about your AC 207 fic!

Haha okay! Thank you!

So in this Heero has been at the university he's at for a few years (I think he's been in Paris for eight but I don't think I nailed down how long he's been studying. it is his second phD though so. a while!) Actually, so I knew I wanted him to study biomechanical engineering first cause he'd be interested in learning what he can about what he went through. But I was talking to my fiddler friend about how she likes cross stitch more than other more like "freestyle" arts and I asked her if it was cause it was because of how with cross stitch it's directing you and also involves counting which is like... music a little too and she agreed it kind of hit that same thing in her brain. And then that got me to thinking of Heero finding himself interested in music theory and that was what he was originally going to be studying-- and in part because I really love Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach Knee Play Five (which I first encountered in a music theory course in undergrad). And while I do not think Heero would think this romantically, the idea of him encountering this language and thinking about people having this depth of love is something I may end up still playing with.

"How much do I love you? Count the stars in the sky Measure the waters of the oceans with a teaspoon Number the grains of sand on the seashore Impossible, you say. Yes and it is just as impossible for me to say how much I love you My love for you is higher than the heavens, deeper than Hades, and broader than the Earth. It has no limits, no bounds Everything must have an ending except my love for you.""

ANYWAY He's not studying music theory in this he is studying archaeology and just came back from a dig for his thesis at the start of the story. He got interested in going to school and even just, studying old civilizations during his travels after Endless Waltz. He was exploring in Peru and well, here's a bit:

The landscape was so different from the colonies he spent much of his childhood on, and when he stood in ancient ruins from a time far beyond even the pre-colony years the burn to keep moving finally snuffed out. In the ruins of a city that was once full of people who probably never could have conceived of living up in space, Heero stood and felt overwhelmed at how very big the world was and, how long people had been around trying their best to live a good life.

Thanks for the ask! I do want to get back to it, but it'll keep.

[redvanillabee]

ok but why does Daniel + Jack = bbc John Watson