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[bluemoonbabes]

SIREN CALL IV

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[wannabesewcrafty]

Year’s End

Fandom: Debris (TV)

Notes: I had this idea that the men of Orbital should do a calendar photo shoot, and then I had to contrive why. (In which Bryan and Finola are two oblivious idiots agents partners in love.)

“I’m never playing cards with you again,” Bryan vowed to Mallory.

“That’s what you said last time,” the younger agent said with a smirk.

They stood talking in the shelter of a makeshift tent that Orbital had set up as a temporary work site. Last night, in the very same tent, out of boredom for her and insomnia for him, the two colleagues had decided to play poker to pass the time. During their game, Mallory had brought up the subject of a charity calendar, and now she was collecting on the promise she had extracted from Bryan as the wager they had made on their final hand.

Now, in the light of day, he didn’t respond to her comment, choosing instead to sulk. “This is a dumb idea. We’re a top-secret government coalition.”

“An international one,” she pointed out. “That means a lot of eyeballs. And all the money’s going to good causes.”

“Don’t make me dress up,” he half-warned and half-pleaded, his eyes wide with trepidation. He pictured himself wearing nothing but the yellow pants and red suspenders of some cheap knockoff of a fireman’s uniform and suppressed a shudder.

“Of course not,” Mallory reassured him. “The clothes you usually wear are fine.”

“Except I’ll be shirtless,” he muttered.

She grinned. “Exactly.”

-*-*-*-

“These are really good,” Finola murmured a few weeks later. She stood with Bryan in a quiet, out-of-the-way spot in a wooded area, slowly leafing through the calendar in her hands.

Bryan closed his eyes. “Don’t show it to me. I don’t want to know.”

“They started off with Gibson. Have you met him?” At Bryan’s nod, she continued her report. “Muntz is next.”

He snorted derisively. “The shortest month of the year? Why am I not surprised?”

“Now it’s Ahmed... Grace has a really good eye.” Jones flipped to the next page and let out a chuckle. “Oh, Lester,” she murmured. “He played it like comic relief,” she explained, not looking up from the calendar page.

While Bryan tried to figure out exactly what that meant, Finola continued through the calendar.

“I don’t know most of these men... I’m at November now, and it’s Tom…wow…” Jones’ voice was soft and sounded thoughtful, making Bryan crack one eye open.

She had fallen silent but he heard her turn to the next page in the calendar. When he didn’t hear anything else, he sighed with relief and opened his eyes again.

“You reached the end.”

“It’s you,” she said.

“What?”

“You’re the month of December. In the calendar.” She still didn’t seem able to meet his gaze.

He started to smile. “Yeah, I know what the last month of the year is, Finola.”

She didn’t respond to his bait, but she closed the calendar and used it to fan herself, making his smile broaden into a grin.

“I guess I look good, huh?” he asked, seeing a telltale blush spread across her skin.

“Well, you might say they saved the best for last. Better watch out... What’s the expression? You’ll be beating them off with a stick after this.”

He slid his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket. “Nah. I saw Kazemi this morning, and she said something weird to me. She told me, and I quote, ‘Don’t worry. Everyone knows you’re taken.’”

“They know you’re…? Since when? By who?”

He shrugged. “Damned if I know.” He tilted his head upwards to stare at the sky, deciding to leave the subject there. It seemed pointless for him to tell Finola of all people that he didn’t have time to date anyone. She was the person he spent the most time with, after all.

The MI6 agent nodded slowly, still mystified by what could have motivated that latest rumor about Bryan. She snuck another glance at the December page of Orbital’s charity calendar and made a mental note to compliment Grace on her photography skills the next time she saw her.

[none-of-them-were-you--caskett]

My first vid about Bryan and Finola from the TV show Debris (NBC)

Hope you’ll enjoy !! :)

[mymostimaginaryfriend]

debris 1x09:

gotta love that bryan finds himself in an alternate reality in which alt-bryan clearly doesn’t know finola and was even likely involved in killing her dad (as mentioned by this new reality’s “partner”) and his first moves are to a) immediately track down finola and b) be completely honest with her—about her dad, about being from another reality, even about her importance to him. never mind that he has no clear status of the conspiracy in this reality or that by doing so he is putting himself in danger from his new partner.

even in another reality he is telling her the truth no matter what. she really went from barely a coworker to person he trusts the most in any universe like—when that boy commits, he commits.

[heyyitza]

Literally, Debris getting canceled was something I saw from a mile away, even from when I first started the show. I knew I was about to start a dead show walking, because that’s what all these networks do nowadays, but I still did it nonetheless.

This show truly had its potential if played right, but it felt like the cards were stacked against it. The lack of promotion also wasn’t a good thing, and the fact that they never got an Instagram account kind of confirmed for me that NBC was never serious about it (that’s how I usually tell if a show is gonna get axed or not lol).

I truly wanted to see a second season so we can have our questions answered and to see Brinola continue to grow, both separately and together, but I guess I’ll add this show to a long list of shows I watch that end up getting axed.

[juliemolinaz]

LMAO at Bryan’s “She’s falling in love with me” line in the first episode when it’s been obvious he’s the one who was falling the whole time.

[kalena-henden]

Jonathan Tucker Interviews | Debris

Syfy Wire ( Apr 27, 2021):

What has been satisfying about playing out who your characters are as people and figuring out that you both would rather be aligned with each other than the organizations you work for?

[Creator] Joel [Wyman], Riann, and I had a very strong sense of what the arc and those beats were going to be upfront. It was about attempting to maintain the courage to stick to that overarching commitment to the unwinding, versus getting sucked into the false, surface-level ways in which sometimes writers put characters together. And [Bryan and Finola] are seen as not romantic, so that is an additional challenge. It's always easier when they're romantic.

But, the mission becomes more and more clear for these two characters. And the way in which to succeed in the mission is ultimately in taking on different parts of one another. Particularly for Bryan, it's taking a page from Finola's book of vulnerability, and understanding that vulnerability can be a powerful tool. We're starting to see clearly that what Influx is willing to do to win, and it becomes evident that the only way to get ahead of them is to do this together.

TV Insider (Apr 26, 2021):

When he says to Finola that the person that he’s desperate to get back to is her, that she is very important to him, that didn’t read as a romantic confession at all. I read it as almost like she is an emotional anchor back to that home.

Exactly. It’s the embrace of mother or father or friend. It is the anchor that makes us feel like home. She equals going home.

And all along, she is literally the only person who has made him feel comfortable in this world.

Yep. That’s absolutely dead-on. And to the credit of not just Joel but also the network, they have allowed us to reveal and unravel the characters over the course of now 10 episodes, not forcing our hand to make all of that so clear within the pilot and the next two episodes.

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HUH?! We’re supposed to believe Brinola is NOT romantic. *rolls eyes*

[jjstew22]

ALSO DID Y’ALL MOTHERFUCKERS CATCH OUR MAN BRYAN REACHING HIS HAND OUT TO TOUCH FINOLA BUT WAS INTERRUPTED BY TINKERBELL FLYING OFF INTO THE NIGHT?? CAUSE I SAW IT!!!