#ben 51

[lingi-15]

[whatudottu]

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Ben 51

Area 51 Behaviors and Opinions Three Fun Activities to do at Area 51 Freyd, Bellicus, and Serena Alien Names Zs’Skayr Omnitrix Life Support

(These next three AU don't contradict one another, so assume they run concurrently with future headcanons)

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General + Tech

Specified Xenobiology

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[lingi-15]

I'm really sorry I'm spending 10 years to finally finish Dimension 15(Ben15)'s concept...🥲 (I wonder if someone is still remember him?)

Actually, I already had many thoughts about his story, but I'm into too many fandom (So many things I want to draw!!😭), and during this time I had to study and work at the same time, so I put it off until now.......🥲

If you have any questions and advice please share with me!! I hope you like it!☺️

And If I have enough time and ability, I hope one day I can draw his story from beginning to end in the form of comics....🥲🙏

Btw, English is not my first language, sorry if my gammar is wrong!!💦

[lingi-15]

[lingi-15]

[whatudottu]

Let’s get into some Ben 51 angst today lads, and hopefully little me’s cruelty is watered down and given decent explanation. Oh it’s still definitely cruel but probably not mindless.

Firstly, let’s set the situation, the tech-xperts of the facility rigged up a cheap Omnitrix controller. It’s not the highest quality, but it’s relatively bug free. Unfortunately it requires a receiver. How is this unfortunate? Because the Omnitrix has retreated into Ben’s systems. This means an embedded receiver, hard to remove and easily adaptable, needed to be installed.

As a collar.

The Omnitrix is never put into rest mode so it can help be Ben’s life support system, and while that does mean he gives off an energy signature at all times, it reduces the signature of his transformations. This I believe is because there’s a degree of separation between canon Ben and the Omnitrix that the alien forms are kept at their peak.

Ben 51, who would be energy deficient, can’t afford to be peak performance nor without the support, so the Omnitrix is less effective at its peak than canon.

SO! Moving on to the specifies, Ben’s stay at Area 51 consists of 3 rotating activities with varying times and lengths. Starting off we have the Isolation stage. As it implies, this ‘activity’ as Ben calls it out of sarcastic boredom has him spending a nonspecific but long duration of time in his claustrophobic cell.

However, that’s not the main event. This is a chance for the faculty to observe Ben’s behaviour... without invasive intervention, relatively speaking. During the isolation period, the Omnitrix remote is set to random selection, changing Ben into a different alien every time. He used to constantly try to escape, using the abilities he had as an alien to find any weaknesses, but he only accidentally helped Area 51 develop better tech to keep him in.

How did they stop him?

Well, the collar is not only a receiver, but a ‘disciplinary tool’ (read: shock collar).

So, overall, Ben doesn’t try to use his Isolation activity as a time to escape. Unless he randomly unlocks a new alien. Which finally worked when he got Alien X, who he would probably name Freyd (based on freed and frayed, yeah I know, on the nose and everything, but it’s BEN) after how Bellicus and Serena are named.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The second activity is the most energetic, Physicals! And by energetic, I ACTUALLY mean life threatening, because unlike PE at schools, this little activity is designed to find physical weaknesses of Ben’s alien selection.

What this involves typically are either battle scenarios or environmental scenarios, depending on what the suits up top wanna test. This isn’t meant to train Ben to be better, this is meant as a test for any tech the science team have developed, before sending them off to any dispatch team for on field use. Of course, they can’t just kill Ben, that’ll leave them with highly inefficient leftover alien test subjects, who have less chance of survival than Ben.

Needless to say, quite horrific.

New aliens get subjected to nonspecialised but definitely dangerous bots and environments, and the longer this goes for, the longer Ben refuses to play along. Of course, he’s ‘disciplined’ into doing as he’s told eventually.

Freyd was spared of the experiment, but it’s not like they could ever begin to try.

Last but not least, the Medicals! Probably the most gruesome, so proceed with caution, this sounds exactly like it does on the tin. This is the activity that Ben spends the least awake out of all 3, and at least there’s enough mercy to do so. Sure, Area 51 is cruel and inhumane (or perhaps the term should be xenophobic) but at least logistically, it would be a detriment for them to do live surgery.

Unfortunately, aliens have quite the different biology in comparison to humans, so sometimes the types and dosages of anaesthetics don’t... exactly... last through the dissection.

New aliens may have this issue, especially species with wildly different physiology to humans and even other aliens. Ben can’t count on his fingers how many times he’s awoken to glaring fluorescent lights and bloodstained silhouettes, but he can’t exactly list an exact number either. But he’s definitely got some bad memories about that, and knows a little more about alien biology that canon Ben does.

Whenever he’s Big Chill, using a more gender neutral name Ava (lanche), he mourns.

And feel free to beat me until I’m blue for that one this addition wasn’t even on baby me’s mind this is recent angst laddies!

In Ben’s escape, however, does he accidentally leave behind a treat for Area 51’s medical and biological staff. Having violently removed the embedded collar, the hidden tracker less effective if it’s taken out before teleporting, the faculty of Area 51 now have a sample of a Celestialsapien.

The missing chunk of Freyd’s neck.

With that piece of DNA.

They are now one step closer to capturing a God.

[whatudottu]

Hmm, brain has me thinking about the Area 51 AU, but because I’ve thought all too long about the major angst side of it, I can hold that off for a later date.

Here? I wanna talk about how Ben behaves and feels about his aliens (whether that extends to other aliens depends on where my thoughts will take me).

When in captivity, Ben doesn’t have all too much of a personality. What’s there to prove when nobody listens? Either way, he tries infrequently to say that he’s human and stuff, but he stops saying things after a while.

But this is where he first forms his opinions on aliens, though initially, it wasn’t very positive. Blaming the Omnitrix - and indirectly hating whoever made it - for his impromptu incarceration, he sees his alien forms as Area 51 does; with hate and contempt. His perspective shifts quickly, because he stops looking at himself, but towards the stands of onlooking humans.

From there, he feels terrified, but not for himself. Ben is the prime resource for xenobiological medical and physical experiments, unwittingly providing the foundation with better knowledge on how to capture (and kill, if necessary) any alien that happens to appear in his selection. This is when he starts to... grow detached from humanity, but that’s not the focus of the post.

Ever since Zs’Skayr started to talk to him like a person and names were exchanged, Ben began thinking about the other transformations. He’s gotta call them SOMETHING other than their species name (if he actually gets to learn them) or their appearance. So he starts to name them.

Unlike our hero Ben Tennyson, wielder of the Omnitrix, this Ben tries to come up with... what he thinks are alien names. Essentially coming up with names he thinks best suits each alien, even if he’s still influenced by earth terms.

“Geode? No, that’s just a rock. Geodude? That’s a Pokémon.”

“Geo?”

There’s no one here to answer.

A snap of crystalline fingers echo in the cramped cell.

“Geo!”

At first it gets a little hard to remember, but eventually he grows used to it. He imagines his aliens as people, stuck in the same situation that he is. Doesn’t help that Zs’Skayr is literally that, which is why he doesn’t have a different name. It helps stop him from going... COMPLETELY insane.

That attitude is taken with him when he escapes.

I feel that he is with someone, whether it be his family or someone who knows his family (specifically Max) who may or may not have been ex-plumber and is trying to protect Ben. Anyway, I wanted to dump Ben off into the family road he missed out on, and the peeps are super supportive, if not out of the loop.

ANYWAY! When they find out what that mysterious watch can do (and after some panicked explanations and no immediate dispatch), Ben likes to talk to them about his aliens as if they too were people. He probably notices the missing icon for Ectonurite, but he smiles and talks about how Zs’Skayr got to be free, but not exactly knowing what he’s up to nowadays.

But on to behaviour, Ben’s suddenly been thrust into freedom and has to adapt to an ever changing environment, instead of the same torment that he’s been in for years.

With him now able to taste fresh air, his claustrophobia has a chance to shine, any room small enough to touch fingertip to fingertip sending him to a real bad place. Even indoors he carries that energy, especially if there’s no natural lighting. But if he’s forced into being inside, he prefers it when it’s dark. People can’t watch you when they can’t see.

However, staring into the sky, especially the night sky, deeply terrifies him too. For one, he hasn’t seen it in so long, and it’s like an endless eldrich being he can’t understand like he used to. For another, it’s a terror that he holds for beyond, whether terrified for any extraterrestrial, or because of them. He still doesn’t particularly like the humans in charge of Area 51, but surely there’s a reason for their hate... right?

Aside from the one time he spent in the hospital (somewhat immediately after his escape) now one is allowed to touch his neck. His stay was shortened because the Omnitrix had spent most of its time acting as a life support system, sealing the worst of the wound that doctors couldn’t fix even with the technology on hand. Now, why was he wounded?

Let’s put a gore warning here and in the tags.

Because Alien X ripped out an embedded electric collar (which acted as a taming tool, a tracker and a receiver for the Omnitrix remote) during escape.

And if it weren’t for the currently nameless and faceless family that happened to be in the area, the Omnitrix may not have been able to keep him alive.

Okay I lied there is angst here, but not the stuff in Area 51 angst.

So now, anyone who touched his neck activates a feral Ben, the type of Ben that acts like a cornered animal following any path it takes to get out. Even if it means through teeth and claw.

Though, outside of a life and death scenario, he can still be growly, especially if it revolves around what he himself went through.

Even if it’s himself from another universe.

“So, as I was saying, I hope I get to see Zs’Skayr aga-!”

“You lost Ghostfreak too?”

“...”

Brows crease and the growling begins

“What...?”

“Ghost... FREAK!?”

Ben has some opinions, and in most cases he is justified in his feelings. Sometimes his anger gets ahold of him, but he never lashes out. Not against those he cares about.

Ben 51 has sworn to pacifism, but that doesn’t mean he can’t lose himself in the moment. The only blood on his hands are his own, and the many different aliens he can become (who have blood at least).

I feel this post fell off by the end, so I don’t know exactly how to feel about this.

[whatudottu]

I am experiencing brain rot and all I’m thinking about is the Ben 51 au, so lemme just go at it and tell y’all what’s been on my mind.

With a little dash of angst here and a whole heap of body horror there, at some point the Omnitrix has become a life-support system. That’s… probably already been mentioned before, but what hasn’t is that it renders the Omnitrix itself more… unremoveable than before.

That’s not a word, I know, but the watch understands that removal from Ben Tennyson would be a death sentence for him, so it acts accordingly and becomes… super integrated into his body. Instead of having an obvious watch that may or may not be growing if left uninterrupted, the Omnitrix has receded beneath the skin and into the muscles like a second, reinforced nervous system.

This carries on through each alien form, and prevents a lot of deep injuries from being fatal, and that also means that the symbol is hidden quite often too. So no DBZ gut punches of death here, just gut punches of maybe internal bleeding or slightly penetrative blocked by… reinforced biomechanical tissue. It sounds probably very gross and also very op, but…

Just like the immune system, it needs energy to maintain. During Area 51, food intake wasn’t the best so the Omnitrix took all its energy from all the times Ben slept, which didn’t leave Ben himself very energetic. Post 51, the Omnitrix had a more balanced diet of energy, easing off on Ben’s negligible sleep intake and taking more of the food and drink energy. And because of the significant drop of brutal physical and medical testing, the life-support system grew lax in times of null.

As for the level of control it has, it’s probably got what early AF had gunning for it, an energy meter. Ben can easily get whatever alien he wants to be, either with the Omnitrix popping out of his skin or just semi-master control through thinking who he wants, and it lasts depending on how stressful the situation is. Reverting to human and having it recharge between transformations is rather new to him, but at least he gets to set the pace himself.

Another thing, because of this semi-master selection that Ben has, sometimes his desire to be someone else gets him to transform at seemingly random. If he feels like Ava needs to take the time to grieve over their lost children, he finds himself in their body, doing whatever they need to do to mourn. Sometimes it’s more an instinctual desire, like Lan wanting to hunt tooth and claw for fish in the nearby lake or river, maybe even ocean, and doing so because Ben felt it so.

Sometimes, if the urge to transform arises for no concrete reason, Ben looks at himself in the mirror and looks for the person he’s become. That could be super figurative, all metaphors and being existential and what have you, but it’s also very likely to be literal.

Look in the mirror, what do you see. Front facing-eyes of a predator, side-facing of a prey. Sharp teeth of a carnivore, blunt of a herbivore, and a myriad of varieties and combinations for omnivores and generalists. How much sleep did you have, how much seemed necessary, how many times did you per day?

am i just inserting my love for xenobiology? maybe but don’t tell anyone yeah?

These little… let’s call them exercises, helps Ben feel less like a freak he was considered in Area 51 and more like a collective of people. And that includes his humanity, which is one of his toughest lessons to learn. Yeah, there’s a lot of trauma, and maybe some not so great coping mechanisms that, for example, compartmentalise the trauma across each individual alien. But to learn that not one people are all bad and the other not all good is his greatest struggle and goal.

I don’t just want this to become ‘humans are inherently evil’ or ‘aliens are uncomprehendingly different’ angst dark au. It certainly seems that way, especially from the perspective of ‘the world is cruel and you just have to accept it is’ little me, but that’s too grimdark for my liking. Call this a hurt/comfort au with a heck ton of hurt that makes… perhaps a large majority of the story into a recovery one.

Not that you uh… have heard about what goes on in that… let’s arbitrarily give it 80% for a reference point, of the story, it’s all trapped within my thoughts. But I guess what the uh… ‘theme’ you could say is that ‘monsters wear many skins’.

When did this post become analysis of grimdark vs superhurt/comfort?