#beta is an introject of Allison

[its-no-biggie]

omg do you guys wanna hear about the church family tree from my rvb fantasy au. i spent quite a bit of time working it out bc, since its fantasy, theres no ai and i had to figure out how it would translate lol

this will contain mild spoilers for my au but a) it doesnt exist yet and b) most of them are derived from the plot of rvb so theyre kind of already spoiled. so. anyway, on to the actual post

ok so first off. church (alpha) has DID. so all the ai fragments exist but theyre no longer ai and theyre in his head the whole time. and this includes beta!tex (tentatively called beth? since tex also exists. we'll get to that). it also includes epsilon which will be. interesting. i have some ideas for how to handle that but its kinda besides the point.

the director is churchs father, and allison is churchs mother (who dies when church is a kid). the director is also carolinas father, but carolina has a different mother, so church and carolina are half siblings. tex was also raised by the director but she is not blood related to any of them - she bears a coincidental resemblance to allison (in personality, not necessarily physical appearance), which is why the director favours her over carolina (keeping the carolina/tex favourite child tension, of course). i havent worked out exactly when the director took in tex, but if it was early enough that the director named her, he probably would have named her allison (i mean, he also named his son after himself in this au. you know he'd do it, ESPECIALLY if allison is already dead at this point) and she chooses to go by tex or smth. alternatively, the director named her tex the same way he named the other freelancers like washington and york, keeping the whole "leaving your old name (read: old self) behind when you join the freelancers" thing from canon, meaning that her previous name (and whether she had one at all) is irrelevant. hmmm now that i say that, its probably the latter tbh

now, i may keep beth being based on allison, but while i know what an introject is, i dont know if i feel comfortable really. representing one. so it may not be CANON canon but itll probably be canon to me. additionally, church is raised separately from carolina, tex, and eventually the other freelancers [the freelancers are kinda like a family in this au btw. but like a fucked up hierarchal one. and church is completely isolated from it even though the director is "raising" him. anyway] for plot reasons, but he coincidentally runs into tex one day as kids and they meet in secret for years until tex eventually helps him escape the director. which is to say. beth will likely pick up traits/mannerisms from tex just by virtue of tex being churchs only friend in childhood, combined with the fact that allison and tex are kind of similar in personality. so shes blood related to allison and potentially an introject of her, and has spent a lot of time with tex/knows her very well, so shes gonna have similarities to both of them but she is ultimately her own person. in churchs head.

uhhhh i think that covers it? anyway this means i get to write interactions between tex and beth which will be extremely fun. i like tex as a character and itll probably be difficult to decide how to characterize her in 2 different ways (plus allison but shes gonna be dead for most of it so i dont really have to worry about her) and then to have them interact? they would be chaotic besties i just KNOW it

[implodingcacti]

anyways my osdd having ass really sat here, thinking about rvb (as i tend to do right around this time of year because it’s getting to be rvb season), watching season 10 because it’s a good season (and I wanted to yell about Xi on discord but needed timestamps), and as Epsilon is joking about the fragments, I laughed and went “Oh wow, he’s a DID icon.”

And then proceeded to lose my shit.

I’ve read so many fics. So many. And, granted, it’s been a second since I last read some RVB fic, but I’ve never seen someone take that approach for Church.

The fragments? Boom, they’re alters now. He’s the Alpha system. Metastability thing with Sigma? It’s an alter trying to gain mass integration within the system because he wants to be the host, is convinced that he can protect the body better if that were the case.

The fragments getting EMPed? It’s a ton of integration into the system, and an entirely different host as a whole.

(and god it’d be interesting to see the evolution of epsilon as he changes as a person, he goes from an alter who’s only fronted a few times to suddenly being the host, he’s not really sure who he is but he’s relearning it all, and hey- at least he still has Delta and Theta)

[khimkito]

thinking about tex again, thinking about tex, thinking about how she is tough, how she is aggressive, how omega is in her head and poisoning her thoughts, how she came into this world confused and scared, and the director kept obsessing over her, how she found out she was allison, how she wanted to take alpha with her but he declined and she HAD to leave him there, how she had to watch her daughter being thrown of a cliff, how she couldnt kill private jimmy and how she met him again being the fucking body to host her husband??? who has no memories of her only some fake ones, how she plays along, how she hates him, how he hates her, how he loves her, how he loves her too much it seams, how blues are /her/ idiots and she will do anything to keep them safe, how she has to leave her friend to die alone, how she needs to win the war and humanity matters most, how she leaves, how she is captured by the meta and stays there along the fragments, how she meets the alpha one last time. how they die together.

how she mattered to church so much epsilon's system has an introject of her and how that tex doesn't want to exist, how she is trying to find the director and that is her sole goal, how she shapes the memory unit as much as epsilon does, how he tries to keep her close, how he lets go and how she can rest

how epsilon then finds another shadow of her, a bleak silhouette of a person she was, how she is tired tired tired and tormented and how he tells her to rest just like she as beta told alpha all that time ago