it’s been a long time since i last personally added anything to my horrible headcanons tag, but a thought struck me, and anyone who knows me knows i live to share my horrible thoughts.
What if Jon’s grandma knew exactly what she was doing, when she gave him A Guest for Mr. Spider
So Clio and I were tossing around this AU idea the other night and it has stayed with me, so here’s an attempt to describe it.
Wherein the Normandy SR-1 never encounters the Collector Ship, and everything still ends up terrible...
The Normandy continues its fruitless search for geth, then is dispatched on a series of other peripheral missions. Rumors say that Shepard is being kept far away from the halls of power, that neither the Alliance nor the Council wish to allow her to garner more fame or glory. Her inconvenient habit of talking about Reapers, Reapers, the Reaper threat at every opportunity means she is best used on the frontier.
Her squad, her crew, begin to melt away. Tali returns to the Migrant Fleet, and Wrex goes back to Tuchanka. The Alliance offers new positions to her human crew, and many accept them - the Normandy’s long frontier missions are exhausting, and after all they had signed up with the Alliance, and on the Normandy they are betwixt and between, an Alliance ship commanded by a Council operative. Shepard recruits where she can, but her crew becomes more polyglot, haphazard, different shapes not quite fitting together. Even Kaidan or Ashley eventually returns to the Alliance, though they promise to work to build support against the Reaper threat.
And then human colonies begin disappearing.
The Alliance’s response is tepid and ineffective; the Council does not act at all. Shepard is not sent to investigate the disappearances, but after half a dozen she can stand it no longer. Once again, she ignores her orders and takes the Normandy to investigate the problem. She again gives her crew the choice to participate in the mutiny or to leave the ship. This time, many take the latter choice, but her strongest supporters stay with her: Pressly, Joker, Chakwas, the Virmire survivor, perhaps Liara and Garrus.
They follow a trail of bread crumbs until it leads to a dead end at the closed Omega-4 Relay. Shepard is able to gather some information about the Collectors, but she lacks the Illusive Man’s intelligence-gathering apparatus. She doesn’t hear about the attack on Horizon until far too late. By the time the Normandy reaches there, every trace of the attackers is gone, along with the colonists. And the Virmire survivor.
Shepard, grieving and embittered, has no leads left to pursue. Hoping that pooling their information will help, she turns herself in to the Alliance. They prove less tolerant of mutiny when she has not heroically saved the day, but still, in view of her fame, propose to avoid a court-martial. Instead, a honorable discharge and the revocation of her Spectre status. Oh, and if she could refrain from public speculation about the Reapers?
She holds up until news comes of another colony abduction. Then she goes on a three-day bender and wakes up in a drunk tank.
And then is when Cerberus chooses to approach her.
We believe you, Shepard. We’re the only ones who do.
Rigleen is taking its sweet time in happening and Cloudicai is taking its sweet time in making up its mind on if its going to happen or not!
I seriously love both but the wait is starting go get to me that I've began devising my own horrible headcanons just to pass the time!
1: Rigleen may never happen. Never ever, but thats okay because it'll be alive in our hearts and fanficfions.
2: F*ck. What is CJ is pregnant and thats why she keeps flipping out so violently and breaking her own character? O.O Granted, Mordo did betray her trust twice, but hey. I wouldn't be surprised if she was. I mean, Adventure Time pulled that same twist FOUR TIMES! So maybe o.o
I just wanted to share a horrible head-cannon with you if you don’t mind.
We all know that Stiles believes he killed his mother. Most of the fandom takes this to be metaphorical (He eased her pain, or they were to busy with him to worry about her until it was too late, ect.), but what if its not. We now know that her mind was literally deteriorating, which had to be happening for a while. We also know that because of what happened to Stiles, she was most likely less than lucid towards the end but her body was fine. Maybe one day she couldn’t remember who Stiles was and attacked him and in the struggle he ended up hurting her bad enough that she eventually died of the wounds. His dad still loves him dearly but what really sent him into the bottle was thinking about his wife’s killer has eyes just like her.
Do I mind? Are you kidding?
I'm so fucking here for this.
And the sheriff obviously knows what happened. The hospital staff told him, explained. And he knew how she'd been at the end there. But he and Stiles didn't talk about it. At first he tried giving Stiles time to come to him, and then when it became obvious that Stiles wouldn't, well, the sheriff just couldn't bring himself to broach the subject. So there were months and months of silence in their home, both avoiding a topic neither could get past. Until eventually they just seemed to decide not to talk about it, even if it was still weighing on them.
So the years went by, and they dealt with it in their own ways, each alone, and they built up their relationship again, and the sheriff eventually stopped drinking so much. But it's still there in each of them; in Stiles's nightmares of his dad accusing him; in each glass of whiskey the sheriff drinks, holding it up and seeing the color of his wife's, and her killer's, eyes in the glass.
Pipeyna headcanon: Reyna is sick and she is in her pjs with wet hair cuz Piper is convinced it helps you Get better but Reyna really wants a braid so Piper gives her a French braid and that's all Reyna wears after that
