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Shelby dared Laura to make a fully functioning video game by the end of the day from scraps from the Science and Technology Department. Laura accepts and accomplished the task. Unfortunately, they were caught...

(Lucy only found out the day after.)

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hello friends, romans, countrymen. The Laura-Wing dynamic fascinates me, especially in the period between the ending of bloodline and the epilogue, so let me share why.

THERE ARE TWO DYNAMICS GOING ON.

Wing has accidentally, unconsciously, put Laura on his shit list. Wing doesn’t know this. Laura’s not too sure either, but she can infer some sort of energy.

Down to the roots of her soul, Laura is wildly jealous of Wing. She hates that this is happening. Unfortunately, being self aware does not make the problem go away. Wing has no idea.

Now that Otto can no longer be a buffer, this makes everything so much more interesting. Let’s expand.

At the base of his morality, Wing sees things in very black and white aspects. It gets a couple more shades by the end of the series, but that’s because he’s consciously choosing to interpret things that way. Not because he doesn’t believe in the ideas of good and evil anymore. I don’t really think he ever truly forgives her for the Glasshouse, esp given his pretty concrete views on murder. It also led to Otto getting expelled, possibly removing him from his life forever. Not great. In Bloodline, she’s also the one that goes with Otto to try and stop Anna from breaking in digitally. That doesn’t really work out, and it’s not her fault, but it makes another sort of unconscious link to what eventually leads to Otto’s death. Also in Rogue, she’s the one to shoot Otto which is for his own good, but can’t have created too many positive associations with Wing either. Probably a couple more things too, but also her rather looser moral compass. Anyway, ‘Laura, my friend’ and ‘Laura, not a good person’ are two thoughts that are kind of incongruent to Wing, so he’s trying his damndest to not think the second one.

Good lord, where to even begin about Laura being jealous of Wing. His consistent and stable relationship with Otto: they are bros and dudes, Wing consistently has the agency and exercises it to help him (eg, Wing sneaking off the island in Rogue), the open-ness and honesty (at least from Wing’s end). Even though Laura and Otto eventually become romantic partners, she doesn’t really have that with her starting off jealous of Otto’s nerd skills, then the Lucy stuff which she also couldn’t talk to him about, and then the Glasshouse stuff that she also lied to him about, and then her trauma with Zero. And then more on the agency, Wing and Otto are not competing at the same game at all, and they are both completely fine with that. But Otto and Laura are, and it’s set in stone that she can never be better than him at the one thing she’s supposed to be best at, and therefore she can never help him.

Also Wing is jacked as hell and I think deep down Laura kind of believes she could’ve brute forced her way out of the Glasshouse situation if she had Wing’s abilities. Which ain’t true.

Laura can never say this to anyone, but there has to be something said about their family situations. Wing is always out there making the ‘right’ decisions, and finding ‘third’ solutions. He always believes in the best possible outcome, which Laura can’t (eg, in Deadlock she doesn’t believe that the HIVE team will rescue her, only the other students), and made the ‘right’ choice about his family. Yes, his dad is a supervillain, but that’s still his dad and he made a no killing vow with his mom. But he kills his dad anyway, for the greater good. However, as Laura views it, equivocating unfairly, that she is sacrificing the ‘greater good’ (possibly the lives of everyone around her) for her family, and given this, jealous of his circumstance and that he had the guts to make the ‘right’ choice.

Wing and Shelby are doing good together. They’ve been doing good for a while, and they basically have kids now. Laura had about one year of things going good with Otto. Now he is dead.

Wing, as Otto’s best friend is carrying on his legacy, applying his HIVE education by beating the shit out of Local Bad Guys and probably committing tax fraud or something, and the result of his grieving process is really fucking good with the Malpense orphanage. Laura, however, isn’t involved, and doesn’t visit. From the epilogue, it seems that she’s really trying to uproot and start over, re-doing her education being one of the steps.

okay the end thank you for coming to my ted talk. I don’t know that I could put this in a fic as comprehensively because they are both unreliable narrators. However, that’s how I think the interlude era of Wing and Laura go.

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done................this song fits laura imo so i HAD to make this.....i dont even like laura that much but shes still cool

dont kill me if its offbeat i struggled with that part °_°

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Two low resolution memes

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HIVE BIRTHDAY BUNDLE 2024: LAURA BRAND (+ yellow)

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Playlist:

(I don’t have Spotify so this is just a list of songs haha)

-Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl (Broken Social Scene)

-Sweet Hibiscus Tea (Penelope Scott)

-Casual (Chappell Roan)

-ballad of a homeschooled girl (Olivia Rodrigo)

-You’re Not Good Enough (Blood Orange)

-Francis Forever (Mitski)

-Motion Sickness (Phoebe Bridgers)

-Ribs (Lorde)

-lacy (Olivia Rodrigo)

-Girl so confusing (Charli XCX)

-Not Strong Enough (boygenius)

-I Want You To Love Me (Fiona Apple)

-Racetrack (Beach Bunny)

-I Wait For You (Alex G)

-Two Slow Dancers (Mitski)

Fanfic:

one year later - 5.4k - a character study of Laura in the year between Bloodline and the epilogue. Obvious spoilers for bloodline. Rated T; brief reference to sex (seriously, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brief)

Further prompts/headcanons:

-Laura and Wing have a competition to see which one of them knows Otto best; the loser has to tell Franz they want to be re-subscribed to his monthly email newsletter of Very Important Life and Fitness Tips

-Shelby convinces Laura they should get matching tattoos; what do they get?

-Laura once goaded Shelby, Otto and Wing into playing Drunk Poker with her, beat them all at poker, drank them all under the table, and still had no hangover the next morning. Obviously Shelby and Otto took this with grace and decorum and humility :)

-Laura’s a good cook, but hopeless at following a recipe, and once almost killed Nigel because she forgot to tell him about the peanuts she put in her stirfry

-AU where Laura is never caught hacking the nuclear early warning system, and ends up working for MI6 instead - do her and Otto still cross paths?

-Despite being great with computers Laura is actually terrible at video games and very embarrassed about it

-Laura likes a lot of ‘dad music’ - Rolling Stones, Oasis, Blur, Queen, etc - and this is a HUGE point of contention for Shelby when they’re on a roadtrip together

-Olympics AU - what sport does she compete in? (and why is it something horse-related)

-“I ran into Mandy McTavish the other day - you know, the girl who was spreading all those rumours about me - and you’ll never believe what she had to say…”

-The reason why Laura does so badly in all her vehicle simulator tests is because they make her VIOLENTLY motion sick; she’s a decent driver IRL, but Otto still refuses to get in a car with her

-Laura eventually helps Pike work on developing the third generation AI for HIVE 3.0 in exchange for a no-strings-attached IOU from Nero. What does she cash it in for?

Thank you so much Mitch (@dr-nero-is-god) for hosting!!

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When in doubt, grab your blorbos, shove them into colorful bottles

#addendum: do not use a jar for this process DO NOT USE A FUCKING JAR FOR THIS PROCESS #h.i.v.e.#h.i.v.e #otto malpense #wing fanchu #laura brand #shelby trinity #this is fun i should do it more often

The Most Laura Brand Ingredient Is...

scottish

beef with the United States military

more significant beef with Mandy McTavish

star wars nerd

actually just regular nerd

can't drive

misses her family

betrays everybody

otto malpense's #2 girlfriend choice

nonetheless devoted to otto malpense

Voting ended onDec 17, 2023

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