A little fic idea that won’t let go of me but I am not quite sure how to progress…
Space Controller Conrad
I’m intrigued by Conrad’s character - he uniquely of all the TAG rescuees ends up back on Tracy Island. He has the idea that saves Virgil and Two and they seem to adopt him a little but we never hear from him again. This saddens me it would have been great to have a little check in at some point later in canon like we do with the recurring characters.
And the Fosters wrote such a gut-twistingly beautiful theme for him (“Slough”) which really stands out from the rest of the soundtrack as something completely different. He’s so sad, and guilty and, despite clearly having been promoted to a fairly senior role doesn’t feel good enough… I want to know more about him and his family.
His model is a lot like Scott’s… he even has similar greys at his hairline in one shot. Scott also seems to carry the sense of never being quite good enough - is Conrad what he would have become had he been in Alan’s position in the family order, perhaps?
I also keep coming back to the moment where Alan sympathises with him about having an intimidatingly heroic family to live up to, but then looks slightly awkward and doesn’t say any more. I imagine that he is trained as most people in a public service role are to encourage people to talk to calm / distract but not to give away personal information. I felt like Alan found a kindred spirit though and given Conrad does come back to the island maybe they form a friendship where they can discuss these things? I envisage it very much a platonic friendship (he’s a fair bit older, neither he nor Alan see each other as anything else) though.
Would anyone else be interested in reading that? Or helping make it happen? I’d love to share thoughts of how it could work, or co-write, or run with ideas someone has and then let them wrangle it into something good, or even role play it somehow to tease out the story I’m sure is there for the finding.
