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[aromantic-ghost-menace]

Thoughts about Citizen Brown in the CTM AU

Cause consider, since he wouldn't be the one to invent or fix a time machine in the Citizen's Time Machine AU, he would have every reason to believe that cb!timeline Martin is psychologically disturbed for even ATTEMPTING to build a time machine in the first place. Citizen Brown would of course at first refuse to believe that he himself or Edna did anything that might've pushed Martin to take such drastic measures, especially with the Citizen Plus program Lorraine went through.

Cause on paper, every possible issue should've been solved, shouldn't it?

Now imagine his surprise when Citizen Brown finds out through a forcibly Citizen plused Tiffany Tannen, that Martin did not only get his hands on a DeLorean, but that he had also been up to some other suspicious activities. Ones that got only ignored so far because of technicalities, like him technically never committing them himself. Especially when it turns for example out that there were some hidden blue prints and calculations for a time machine at the McFly's house, that not even George would've known about. Meanwhile Citizen Plused Lorraine goes on all about how tired Martin always seemed to be the last six months and so on, seemingly unaware but maybe also Lorraine subconsciously protecting er son by being intentionally ignorant to his antics.

Either way, this all would very likely lead to Citizen Brown himself wanting to confront Martin and just... trying to talk the kid out of that madness like a reasonable leader adult in his position would do.

And unbeknownst to Citizen Brown, Edna had already sent some police men after the kid, to achieve the same thing by force and without any mercy, while also keeping her husband protected.

So... whatever trust Citizen Brown may have managed to built up between himself and Martin ends up getting completely obliterated by the arrival of the police forces. And of course leads to Jennifer just straight up grabbing Martin and accidentally time jumping them both to the future. Brown however doesn't know that for certain, so from his perspective 2 teenagers just ended up getting themselves killed by self disintegration in front of his eyes.

So... that night does end up haunting him for the rest of his life/existence and he basically ends up blaming himself for that, while simultaneously Citizen Brown also so desperately hopes that Martin's temporal experiment was actually a success (without knowing when that kid is supposed to reappear again).

Could he have done the experiment himself with just some other test subjects/volunteers to check for himself? Yes, but for all he knows: what if they too do actually also end up just disintegrating as a result?

And since Christopher Llyod is still around (today in 2025)/made it to 2016, why the hell shouldn't Citizen Brown too do so and end up getting some closure on that?

[aromantic-ghost-menace]

Thoughts about the Future (2016) part of the CTM AU

I don't have a fully solid plot for this one ready yet tbh. but there are a "few" corner points and stones I can already put down about it (with which I mean, a lot, because I couldn't stop writing):

Hill Valley would still be a Police state, just Edna as the first Citizen instead of Brown, more or less as a direct result of cb!Marty and cb!Jennifer having made that kind of accidental time jump to the future. Citizen Brown had either already willingly abdicated or Edna "lovingly" pressured him to, to take over herself.

Either way, between the two of them a nasty divorce might just as well have happened and Citizen Brown is just full of life regrets by that time.

Another thing: I can see almost all adults in 2016 having been turned into Citizen Plus citizens or at the very least a worrying majority of them and it's propagandized and sold to the children at school as basically a rite of passage into adulthood to undergo the Citizen Plus program at around 16/17 or so, and not sooner because turns out that there are some nasty psychological side effects to it that even Edna cannot afford to just ignore for her own version of a well ordered and iron clad utopia.

The children in the meantime are basically effectively emotionally neglected by their citizen plus parents. And the laws of course got even stricter with even more ridiculously worse punishments, so... WAY MORE PUNKS. With a lot of nerds and dorks (and queers) among them under the aesthetic to the surprise of both Jennifer and Martin. (And the police doesn't make a difference between those two groups really, since everyone not 100% in line is just called a slacker or a hooligan anyways.)

Before really knowing about the nerds and punks mix, Jennifer may have gone "Hey, that's MY NERD to push around and not yours!" when they attempted to make a grab for Martin for that time machine and even punched some of them in the nose. (She would later meet those guys again and apologize once they're on the same page)

And also because of that semi accidental time jump, Jennifer and Martin are lowkey local urban legends there. Of course the Hill Valley Police state tried to keep it all secret and erase that from history, but maybe someone found out or thanks to Citizen Brown just spilling the beans at some point post abdication to someone, which then got passed on until it became a rumor.

Martin might actually end up getting himself into trouble by accident, just because he reflexively attempts to blend in and stay in line, unaware of any updated etiquettes and rules of the past 30 years added since. Like for example the shade of orange of his polo shirt just being a tad bit too saturated and red, because it got officially changed, that kind of thing. He ends up having to learn how to ride a skateboard/Hoverboard on the spot while running for his life and it is NOT graceful at all.

Jennifer ends up saving his ass, since Martin is also her only realistic way to go back in time as well, but she also doesn't exactly escape. So Martin now has to find a way to break her out instead. And he has no fucking clue how to, until he finds the scary looking punks and nerds and what do you mean with we could just easily hack ourselves into the facility that's keeping Jennifer right now with just a small and portable computer phone?? What's blue tooth and this internet thing supposed to be and why do I find it only out now? (they end up meeting Jennifer halfways while breaking in as she was breaking out at the same time)

George... I can see him being one of the few adults who somehow managed to not undergo the Citizen Plus program, even though Lorraine did undergo it. (Maybe he is just hanging out in the sewers or something idk, make your dystopic suggestion or pick there.) But he would also be an old man and idk how he would react to finally seeing his son Martin reappear 30 years later without having aged a single day. He may or may not end up helping with basically housing Martin and Jennifer there, with some super awkward conversations there.

Now, Martin and Jennifer would obviously still need to somehow get the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity to make another time jump (into the past to prevent the worst from that future to ever end up happening), but because of their initial jump, all the possible power lines that would theoretically give them that much power, had been buried deep underground, by demand of Edna. To prevent another public hazard and tragedy like that from happening again of course.

Mr. Fusion has still been invented in that timeline by someone, but: it is also outlawed in Hill Valley for being a potential nuclear hazard if used improperly (remember the smoke and fires you'd end up seeing near the end of the 5th episode of the game). And turns out the only one in town who has one just lying around is former first Citizen Emmett Brown. Why does he have it? Former first Citizen privileges I guess and him himself officially attempting some small scale experiments with it. He may just also be hiding it pretty well, like "hmm... I'm not going to risk getting turned into a vegetable by my 'lovely' wife and just pretend like it is something else I work on to distract myself with".

And also him just holding onto it, because he knows that if Martin and Jennifer did successfully manage to make that time jump into the future, that they would then also need it for sure to make a jump back in time again. In a way maybe the only the reason he clung onto life and stayed alive for as long as he did in that future.

stopping this here now, because it is getting long and also late on my end.