#Agent Riker

[ask-the-becile-boys]

Story. The Renegade

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[ID: Eleven digitally sketched panels in greyscale.]

[Panel 1: Bird's eye view. The scene is still shadowed heavily by the offscreen fire. Hare and The Skull walk toward the van, which is being turned around. The Jack rushes ahead of them toward Scratch, who stands next to the Becile Industries car. Hare asks The Skull, "You OK, big guy?" The Skull responds, "I'll be fine." The Jack calls to Scratch, "Scratch! Your bag is in the car!" From within the van, Dee says, "No, don't drive (em-dash) we can't leave (em-dash)" Riker responds, "We gotta, Dee. I'm sorry."]

[Panel 2: In the foreground, Hare opens the door to the back of the van and steps up into it, saying, "Dee? Dee (em-dash)" The Skull's head can be seen in the corner of the panel as he follows Hare. In the background, The Jack has gotten Scratch's duffel bag out of the Becile Industries car. The Jack says, "I'm (ellipses) I'm so sorry (em-dash)" Scratch, voice rough (denoted by a particle effect around his words), replies, "Blame Lock. Not you. C (em-dash) Can you carry (em-dash)" The Jack quickly says, "O-Of course."]

[Panel 3: The Skull, now standing in the van, reaches a hand out to Scratch, who offers his broken left hand. The Skull says, "Hurry, you two. Give me your hand, Scratch."]

[Panel 4: In the foreground, Scratch looks up with an appreciative look in his eye, half in shadow. He says, "Thank you." In the distant background, two red eyes shine, and a light glimmers.]

[Panel 5: SFX: (all caps) Bang! Scratch gives a gutteral "(all caps) hhk" as he's shot in the back with a dart that sparks green light.]

[Panel 6: The red eyes are revealed to be Agent Ester's. She stands impassively, her robotic eyes partially opened up along the seams, holding a crossbow-like device that has a green light in the barrel.]

[Panel 7: Scratch SFX: "slump"s forward into The Skull's arms. The Skull despairingly cries, " (all caps) No!!" The dark in Scratch's back is shown to have four arms and a center spoke, each with a green light on them.]

[Panel 8: One of the RO-bots SFX: (all caps) "rush!" past Agent Ester, claws extended.]

[Panel 9: The RO-bot runs up behind Scratch and raises its clawed hand to strike.]

[Panel 10: White claw marks on a black background.]

[Panel 11: The Jack stands, flinching, holding the duffel bag aloft. The RO-bot's claws are embedded in the bag and its contents. End ID]

[fardell24b]

25th November 2022 Writings

25th

Excerpt from: Horrors of the Delta Quadrant

It was working perfectly. But the illogical feeling was still there. He looked at his PADD and saw that there were a lot more malfunctions to investigate. He located the closest.

  Janeway looked at the latest report from Engineering. The situation was getting worse. So far, Kim’s scans hadn’t detected anything definite and Kes hadn’t had any more premonitions.

 Words: 59

  Excerpt from: Rollercoasters and the Start of Summer

“Ladies and gents to the greatest Coaster Ever.”

 “Wow!” Stacy said as she looked up at it and saw a bird crash into it and fall down.

 Phineas looked around. “Hey, Where’s Perry?”

  Agent P, otherwise known as Perry, entered the lair provided to him by the Organisation Without a Cool Acronym.

 “Good Morning, Agent P,” Major Francis Monogram said. “Doofenshmirtz has covered much of the eastern seaboard in steel foil. Get going and find out what his plan is and put a stop to it.”

 Agent P nodded.

 Words: 89

  Excerpt from: Strategies

“Where’s Worf?” he asked.

 “He’s checking out the engine room,” Crusher reported.

 Worf returned. “Antimatter containment is stable, but we’re dead in the water,” Worf reported.

 They then heard a sonic boom. “The Romulans are still looking for us,” Data said.

 “Of course, they are,” Riker commented.

 “And the subspace transponder is also offline,” Worf reported. “The only advantage we have is that we’re mostly covered in snow, which will make detecting our life signs and the ship difficult,” said.

 “On the other hand, the temperature control functions of the life support system are offline,” Crusher reported..

 “Then we’re going to have to start repairs,” Riker said.

 “But first, we’ll have to tend to our injuries,” Crusher said.

 “Of course,” Riker said, he noticed the gash in his forehead. “Start with me

 Crusher finished regenerating Riker’s forehead skin. “Done.”

 “Thanks. Now. The Romulans are definitely searching for us. We need to stop them finding the Calypso,” Riker said.

 “So, you’re going out by yourself?” Worf asked.

 “No, you’re coming out with me, while Crusher and Troi try to fix the ship,” Riker responded.

 “Understood,” Worf said.

 Riker turned to Crusher and Troi. “Maintain radio silence.”

 “Got it,” Troi said.

 Worf and Riker gathered some supplies and left.

  “We need to mark our path somehow.”

 Words: 214

  Excerpt from: Brittany

“You can go bother that weak-hearted sap of a Language Arts Teacher.”

  Brittany thought about what DeMartino said as they moved on. That Ms. Li was lining her own pockets wasn’t surprising. But why were his funds meagre?

  Brittany, Daria, Andrea and Donna were far from the only students doing fundraising for the Coffee House. They saw another group of students in the distance as they left DeMartino’s neighborhood.

 Words: 69

  Excerpt from: Galactic Crises

Junior opened it. “Um, Uncle Keith…”

 “Let me guess, weapons?”

 “Not only that…” Junior began.

 Brocklethwaite looked. “Poisons… Various knives… Not exactly something borrowed and something blue.”

 “What?” Elseran said incredulously. “It’s not nice to go through someone else’s personal effects.”

 “A neutron bomb…” Brocklethwaite commented. “One large enough to sterilise a city as a large as the R’sadoak capital.”

 Words: 60

 Total: 491

[lady-sci-fi]

Which Star Trek character's holodeck outing are you joining them on?

*The characters and outings are a package deal. No mix-matching.

[thebeast-dennis-etcetera]

Dream Fever

Gibbs X Reader One-Shot

Prompt: You have a dirty dream about Gibbs and try to play it cool.

Mentions: Sexual acts, death

Mostly angst/tension/no smut

————

Anxiously, you tap your pencil on your desk, grabbing the attention of Bishop and McGee.

“Y/N? You good? You’ve been pretty distracted all morning,” McGee asked, concerned.

“Yeah I’m fine. Just a little too much coffee I guess.”

Except you weren’t fine. You were busy replaying last nights dream in your head. The dream that included a certain grey haired agent. The reason for the dream?

It could’ve been the way you saw Gibbs interrogate your suspect yesterday. Or the way he walked into a room like it was a runway show. Regardless, it was keeping you from doing your job correctly and you weren’t sure you’d even be able to look your boss in the eyes today.

“Grab your gear. Dead Naval officer in Norfolk,” Gibbs spoke, walking into the bullpen and grabbing things from his desk. Quickly, you grabbed your bag and practically raced into the elevator before anyone else could accompany you, let alone Gibbs.

You chose to sit in the back seat with Bishop on the car ride there but couldn’t help but steal glances at Gibbs through the rear view window. He only caught you looking twice, both times, you immediately looked out the window, a redness forming at your cheeks.

“Hey, what’s up with you,” Bishop asked as you two walked toward the crime scene, McGee and Gibbs walking ahead, out of ear shot. You were pretty close with Bishop, you two sharing a lot of commonalities so you decided to tell her.

“I had a dream about Gibbs last night and it won’t leave my head.”

Her jaw dropped and she had to keep herself from laughing out loud.

“Shut up Ellie. It’s not funny. I can’t even look at him in the eye.”

“You’re right, I’m sorry. But why Gibbs? Is he your type?”

“I don’t know. Something about his tough yet caring exterior just seems to do something for me. You know I’m into older men.”

“True. What was the dream about?”

“Well he called me into the elevator for some reason and then did the whole stopping it in between floors. There wasn’t much talking but a lot of kissing and-

“Hey! You two done gossiping over there?!” Gibbs yelled, causing the both of you to rush over. He gave you a stare that you completely avoided by staring at the floor and eventually walked over to the cop that called in the death.

“So you said you there was a witness that might’ve saw the suspect fleeing?” You asked.

“Yeah, she said it was a guy wearing a black hoodie and jeans. Didn’t get a good look at his face though.”

Just as you were about to ask another question, you felt the presence of Gibbs standing right beside you, overwhelming your senses and making you completely lose your train of thought.

“Where is she so we can ask her a few questions,” he asked for you.

“Getting checked by the EMT’s. I guess your guy also tried attacking her as well once she saw him.”

You followed behind Gibbs, appreciating that runway walk he had and let him do all the talking with the witness as you just wrote everything down and occasionally gave him a once over.

Back at the squad room, you all began gathering all of your evidence when you found something interesting.

“Hey McGee. What non profit did you say our Petty Officer donated to?”

“Um, just WWF and PETA once a month. Why?”

“Well I was looking through his financial records and found a reoccurring payment starting in July to a Riker Humanitarian Organization.”

Both McGee and Gibbs came over but Gibbs decided to lean over your shoulder to get a better look at the computer screen, hand supporting himself right beside yours. You never really noticed how big his hands were until now and found yourself staring at them, remembering how they caressed and squeezed your body in your dream.

“Y/N? What am I looking at?” Gibbs asked slightly irritated as you snapped out of it. You clicked on the payment tab, sending Bishop a “help me” look at the same time which she only grinned at. She was loving how uncomfortable all of this was making you.

“Three thousand seems a bit steep for a humanitarian donation boss. You think his wife knew anything about it?” McGee asked.

“You and Bishop go find out. Talk to the wife. See what she knows.”

“I can go too if they want some more help,” you offered, not wanting to be alone with Gibbs.

“It doesn’t take 3 people to ask a few questions Y/N. You stay here. See what else you can dig up.”

You watched Bishop get up and giving you a wave and mouth good luck to you before following after McGee, making you die inside.

After a bit of more searching through the victims records, you didn’t find anything. Looking over at Gibbs, he had his glasses on and was staring intently at the case file in front of him. The glasses were a nice touch to his look. Made his facial features a little softer and only made you pay more attention to his icy blue eyes.

You hadn’t realized how long you had been staring until he looked up at you, catching you red handed.

“Can I help you Agent Y/L/N?”

“Huh?”

“Why do you keep staring at me?”

Not being able to come with an appropriate answer, you stuttered for words.

“Uh, I don’t- I think I’m gonna go see if Abby has anything for us.”

Thoroughly flustered for the upteenth time that day, you left a confused Gibbs and scurried downstairs to the lab.

“Abby. You gotta help me,” you pleaded, walking through her doors and seeing her typing away on her computer.

“Is it about your Gibbs dream?”

“What? How did you- Dammit Bishop.”

“Hey, I think it’s cute. Gibbs barely gets romantic admirers and I could totally see him being your type.”

You covered your face with your hands and groaned. “I don’t to want to be his romantic admirer Abbs! He’s my boss!”

She shrugged and continued typing on her computer. “I’m just saying, there’s nothing wrong with dreaming about Gibbs. He’s a dreamy guy. If you like that gruff, quiet, brooding type.”

“Just tell me something about him that would be a turn off so I can just think about that instead of my dream.”

“Dream about what?” Gibbs asked from behind us, making the both of us jump. Oh God, please tell me he didn’t hear anything before your last few words.

“Y/N had a dream about someone and is trying not think about it,” Abby snitched.

“Abigail! Shut up!”

She smiled as your cheeks got tomato red. “Anyone we know?” Gibbs asked, stepping closer. I could’ve died right then and there.

Before Abby could say another word, you interrupted. “No! It’s nothing. Just a stupid dream, it doesn’t matter.”

He gave you that look that usually gives your suspects when interrogating them. The one where he looks into your eyes, then your lips, then back at your eyes again. Your breathing increased ten fold and you wouldn’t have been surprised if he noticed.

Thankfully he seemed to drop it and walk over next to Abby and ask her about the case. You have to remember to kill both her and Bishop.

>>>>

Once McGee and Bishop had come back from questioning the wife, you were all surprised to see them also come in with the suspect you had been looking for.

“Y/N. With me in interrogation,” Gibbs ordered while walking away. By now, McGee also had that dumb grin on his face so your sure Bishop had told him about the whole situation as well. You just flipped them both off while leaving to follow after Gibbs.

The suspect ended up not being any help. And neither were you. Anytime Gibbs got frustrated with him and started raising his voice, you just stared, not realizing that you didn’t ask one question during the entire conversation. “Y/N. Elevator. Now,” he said after you both exited the room. Shit.

You silently followed after him, dreading what was about to happen. You didn’t even look at Bishop and McGee as the both of you passed them to the elevators. He let you in first and walked in behind, letting the doors close and move both of you up a few seconds before pressing the emergency stop button.

“What’s going on with you Y/L/N? Is this dream really that distracting?”

You had no idea what to say. You just kept your eyes glued to the wall behind him, trying to ignore the intimate lighting and how similar this situation was becoming to your dream.

“How many times have you dreamt about this person?”

Oh jeeze. To Bishop and Abby, it was only one dream but in reality, it was probably like 5.

“Is this why you’re being weird with me all day?”

He stepped closer, making you instinctively take a step back, finally getting you to look him in the eye.

“Is the dream about me?”

You didn’t say a word but you didn’t have to. Gibbs was smart. He knew how to read body language. And you were giving all the tell tale signs of nervousness and attraction.

He looked down at your lips and back up at your eyes like earlier and you swallowed hard.

Finally, he stepped back and pressed the emergency button, bringing the lights back on and giving you a chance to take a huge breath. Just as the doors opened, he turned to you.

“We’re not done here.”

[crispyfishsticks]

Okay I’m about to make you go DEEP into those archives.

Who’s the first ever character you drew and how did they evolve as you started drawing more? 👀👀👀

First character was a Lock named Rippington. I eventually changed his name to Xahvin, because he was named after one of my fav smooth jazz bands at the time. Used to draw him frequently and he hasn't changed much. He is large for a lesser will and is a barely tempered, seething ball of outrage. He acts as diplomat to a particularly contentious empire that alternatively keeps trying to assassinate him and bury him in unnecessary paperwork. He's scarred up for reasons, half probably from the murder attempts and half because he's combative and has tussled with other Locks in the past. Riker (Archaeon) is one of his agents, the hate is mutual.

He also dislikes Scott, the Team, and all Traders. Kitra is still his Bonded Companion and about the only peaceful thing in his existence. Outside of her, he has a fairly agreeable relationship with Vel, a human that was lent to him by Movallo (diplomat to another empire) to help with diplomat duties. Vel earns his respect and they get along OK.

Old arts:

[quasi-normalcy]

Legacy character who have appeared on Paramount+ era Trek by series:

TOS:

Kirk (SNW)

Spock (Disco & SNW, PRO kind of)

Pike (Disco & SNW)

Number One (Disco & SNW)

Uhura (SNW, PRO kind of)

Scotty (SNW, PRO kind of)

Sulu (LWD kind of)

Chapel (SNW)

M'Benga (SNW)

Harry Mudd (Disco & Short Treks)

T'Pring (SNW)

Sarek (Disco)

Amanda Grayson (Disco & SNW)

Khan (kind of) (SNW)

Romulan Commander (SNW)

TNG:

Picard (PIC)

Riker (PIC, LWD)

Troi (PIC, LWD)

Worf (PIC)

Data (PIC)

Geordi (PIC)

Crusher (PIC, PRO kind of)

Wesley (PIC, LWD)

Q (PIC, LWD)

Ro Laren (PIC)

The Borg Queen (PIC, LWD kind of)

Bruce Maddox (PIC)

Lore (PIC)

Guinan (PIC)

Holodeck Moriarty (kind of) (PIC)

Jellico (PRO)

Okona (LWD & PRO)

Zephram Cochrane (kind of) (LWD)

Leah Brahms (kind of) (LWD)

Sonya Gomez (LWD)

Nick Locarno (LWD)

Sito Jaxa (LWD)

B4 (kind of) (PIC)

Literally a background Romulan (Disco)

DS9:

Kira (LWD)

Quark (LWD)

Rom (LWD)

Leeta (LWD)

Martok (kind of) (LWD)

Odo (kind of) (PRO)

I guess Worf, technically? (PIC)

VOY:

Seven of Nine (PIC)

Tom Paris (LWD)

Janeway (PRO)

Chakotay (PRO)

One of the refugee kids from "Counterpoint" (PRO)

Dr. Chaotica (LWD)

Fear the Clown (kind of) (LWD)

Michael Sullivan (LWD)

Lizard babies (kind of) (LWD)

ENT

Agent Daniels (Disco)

[darkmaga-retard]

Tyranny Is Closer Than You Realize

Paul Craig Roberts

It is strange that there is no discussion of it, but in two weeks and one day on September 18 Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president in the November election in two months, is scheduled by a corrupt Democrat “judge” to be sentenced for 34 felony counts pulled out of thin air by a corrupt Democrat prosecutor for how Trump’s accountants reported an expense.

Trump’s accountants reported the expense as a legal expense, which was a reasonable classification of the expense, but the corrupt Democrat prosecutor said it was a campaign contribution by Trump to his own campaign and that by reporting it as a legal expense he is guilty of interfering in the election.

It is this absurd personal opinion of the corrupt Democrat prosecutor–are there any Democrat prosecutors who are not corrupt?– that turned a non-issue of how an expense was reported into 34 felony charges. In fact, there is only one charge. But the corrupt Democrat prosecutor wrote it up 34 different times in order to create an appearance of large scale crime. Few jurors have the intelligence to see the wool being pulled over their eyes, especially when all they hear from the whore media is that Trump is a criminal and a threat to democracy, a traitor to America, a Russian agent, an insurrectionist, and so on. No one in the whore American media tells them any different.

What is the Democrat judge going to do on September 18? I can’t say that I know. If common sense were involved, the Democrat judge would have set the sentencing date after the election, or he would issue a suspended sentence. But common sense is not part of the script.

According to the scuttlebutt, the Democrat Justice (sic) Department has decided on a one year prison sentence. According to the scuttlebutt the Democrat Justice (sic) Department has been working it out with Rikers prison a way of accommodating Trump’s Secret Service protection that is required by federal law for former presidents 24/7. Whether the Secret Service will do any better job of protecting Trump in prison than they did at his Pennsylvania rally is the open question.

[a-different-stroke]

Open Pinch Hit -- French

If you can and want to take up any of these fandoms, please contact us:

Dix pour cent | Call My Agent! (TV): Andréa Martel/Camille Valentini (Dix pour cent)

Rien à Foutre | Zero Fucks Given (2021): any

Star Trek: The Next Generation & Star Trek: Picard: Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi, William Riker/Deanna Troi, Jean-Luc Picard/Q Raffi Musiker/Seven of Nine, Laris/Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher/Laris/Jean-Luc Picard, Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios

For All Mankind (TV 2019): Margo Madison/Aleida Rosales (For All Mankind), Margo Madison/Sergei Nikulov (For All Mankind), Margo Madison & Aleida Rosales (For All Mankind)

[staringdownabarrel]

Thoughts on the new episode of Discovery, Erigah.

For a lot of years, I didn't think Discovery could do an episode like this. Traditionally my issue with the show has been that it's so fast paced that it doesn't really let any of its plot points breathe. Erigah doesn't have that issue. While it's still fast paced in comparison to an episode of the original series or any of the Berman era shows, this episode moves slowly enough that the tensions can rise steadily as the episode goes on.

I think this episode built the tension very well. Some of this is just because of what we know came before. In Face the Strange, Burnham and Rayner see an alternate near future where the Federation headquarters had been destroyed by a Breen attack, which presumably happened over this same dispute. Erigah is also leaning very heavily on parallels between how Rayner is acting here and how Burnham was in the pilot, The Vulcan Hello.

However, it was also just over the circumstances. Starfleet deciding they won't hand over two prisoners when one is a vital party to an ongoing dynastic dispute is grounds for going to war. Previous Star Trek shows have had similar style episodes where part of the set up is that it's a situation that could lead to war if things get too far out of hand, but they've usually had the kind of stakes where it'd be more likely to be a serious diplomatic incident written up to one rogue agent than an invitation to war (e.g., Thomas Riker's actions in The Defiant; Maxwell's actions in The Wounded).

Usually the other issue with Discovery, and realistically every Kurtzman era live action Trek, has been that every season has been an end of the Federation level threat. This season has done a good job at sidestepping that issue entirely and this episode continues that. While there's no doubt that this is a serious situation, it's also not built up to being an end of the Federation threat; just a major inconvenience at a time when they don't need one.

Overall, I think this may actually be my favourite episode of Discovery to have been released. It's just a good episode.

[worst-t4t-couple]

ALL Pairings are out! Long post, so look under the cut!

Round 1 1/4

Sweep, cap’n, k_k VS Jay Walker, Nya

Vee, Marsha VS Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle

Cherry Blossom Joe VS Doofinsmerch, His Ex-Wife

Percy jackson, Annabeth Chase VS Jack O Valentine, Sol Badguy

Josuke Higashikata, Yasuho Hirose VS Lug, Anode

leorio, kurapika VS Nepeta Leijon, Equius Zahhak

Luz Noceda, Marcy Wu VS Varian, Hugo

Swap, Neo VS Queen Roger and Fly Minetti

Daffy, Bugs VS Vash, Wolfwood

Ren Amamiya and Goro Akechi VS Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson

Sam, Max VS Hunter, Willow

Stepan trofimovich, Varvara Petrovnad VS Rex Salazar, Noah Nixon

nellie lovett, sweeney todd VS Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd

bubby, dr coomer VS Neku, Beat

Dave Miller, Jack Kennedy VS Kermit, Mrs. Piggy

Cleo, Etho VS Zelda, Link (Rip)

Chip, Gillion VS X, Zero

kagayama shigeo, hanazawa teruki VS Kris, Berdly 

Caranthir, Haleth VS Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood

Marc Anciel, Nathaniel Kurtzberg VS Miyamoto Uran, Sapphire

Texas, Church VS Solid Snake, Otacon

Gundham Tanaka, Sonia Nevermind VS Phillip Carlyle,Anne Wheeler

Soos, Melody VS Red, Blue

Jungleberry Cookie, Royal Berry Cookie VS Blaze, Sonic

LDshadowlady, Smallishbeans VS Mr. Neighbor, Wegg

clark kent, lois lane VS Popeye, Olive Oyl

Round 1 2/4

Brandon Quark,  Doctor Robotnik VS Elrond, Celebrian

Yoo Joonghyuk, Kim Dokja VS stanford pines, fiddleford mcgucket

Pepa & Félix Madrigal VS Duskie & Hibiscus

Emu Otori, Rui Kamishiro VS momoe and kaoru

C!fundy and c!hbomb VS Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright and Marcy Wu

Agent 3 and Agent 8 VS c!schlatt & c!connor

Zoro Roronoa and Sanji Vinsmoke (Black leg Sanji) VS Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy

Herbert West & Daniel Cain VS Snorkmaiden & Mymble Jr 

charles "trip" tucker and t'pol VS Mytho & Princess Tutu (NOT duck; just her princess form)

Gregory House and James Wilson VS luz and amity

Paintbrush and Lightbulb VS Vriska Serket & June Egbert

geordi and data VS peter sqloint and rumi sqloint

Q!ElMariana and Q!Slimecicle VS Poor Boy and Love Interest

Scar and Grian VS Jolyne/Anasui

Kian Stone, Rolan Deep and Timothy Rand VS Dr. Boris Habit and Kamal Bora

red guy and duck VS MK & Red Son

jonathan harker and mina murray harker VS Zagreus/Thanatos/Megaera

Crowley and Aziraphale VS Denki Kaminari and Kyoka Jiro

Tuor and Idril Celebrindal VS Snorpy and Chadlo

jack harkness x the tardis VS Mizuki akiyama and mafuyu

Jackieboyman and Marvin the Magnificent VS Arashi Narukami and Mika Kagehara

Barbie, Ken VS ron and desiree delite

Steven Universe & Connie Maheswaran VS Magnus Burnsides and Julia Burnsides

Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla VS castiel and dean winchester 

Eda and Luz’s mom VS Jadzia Dax & Kira Nerys

c!Tubbo and c!Ranboo VS Rex Salazar & Circe 

Round 1 3/4

Pixal + Zane VS Apollo Justice + Klavier Gavin 

The Monarch and Dr. Ms Monarch VS Juno Steel and Peter Nureyev

Kaito and Meiko VS Kamille Bidan & Fa Yuiry

Sun Wukong and Six-Eared Macaque VS Skwydd & Cricket

Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello VS Wade Ripple & Ember

Byakuren Hiijri and Toyosatomimi no Miko VS Cosmo, Wanda

Roboky and Venom VS Cellbit and Roier

Numerous BFDI ships VS Hiccup, Astrid

Beatrix and Casey VS anakin skywalker and captain rex

Raven and Beast Boy VS Neo and Trinity

Mario, Princess Peach VS Rashmi Jamil and Amelie Maçon

Denji, Asa Mitaka VS Vivi Yukino and Lewis Pepper

Benrey and Gordon VS Lace and Hornet

Beren and Luthien VS neku sakuraba, joshua kiryu

Shin and Noi VS Morticia and Gomez Addams

Paul Matthews and Emma Perkins VS Moomin, Snufkin

james t kirk + s'chnn t'gai spock VS  Nico Robin and Franky

Dave Strider and John/June Egbert VS Moominmamma & Moominpappa

Edward Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot VS shaun riley and liz

louis and lestat VS Spamton, Jevil

fox mulder and dana scully VS will t riker + deanna troi [+ worf rozhenko]

Amy Rose, Metal Sonic VS Quackity and Slimecicle

Diego Brando & Hot Pants VS Elrond and Celebrian and Gil-Galad

mia fey & diego armando/godot VS Luigi and Prince Peasly

C!Quackity, C!Karl, and C!Sapnap VS Sonic, Shadow

Drey Ferin and Finn Tidestrider VS Edward Elric and Winry Rockbell

Round 1 4/4

Shaggy and velma VS Surge the Tenrec and Amy Rose

Yamato/Portgas D. Ace VS audrey & seymour

Randy Jade and Oliver Swift VS Tsukishima Kei and Yamaguchi Tadashi

Lup and Barry Bluejeans VS Reimu and Marissa

Mizuki Akiyama & Rui Kamishiro VS Jimmy The Robot and Mc Bat Commander

C!Quackity and C!wilbur VS Espresso cookie and Eclair cookie

Junpei, Akane Kurashiki VS Obi-Wan Kenobi & Satine Kryze

Raine Whispers and Eda Clawthorne VS Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen

Maxwell 'William' Carter and Charlie W. VS Mothwing and Leafpool

Naruto Uzumaki & Sasuke VS Baxter Stockman and The Alien Computer 

Keith Kogane and Lance McClain VS Wood Man and Robbie Rotten

Scott and Barda Free (Mister Miracle and Big Barda) VS John Notwoodman + Nick Lushwood

Caranthir and Haleth VS Susie and Noelle

orpheus and eurydice VS The doctor, Rose

luke skywalker and mara jade VS Princess Daisy and Luigi 

time and malon VS Simon (Scissor) and Spoon

Dave strider, Karkat Vantas VS Miles “moles,” Edgar, and Madeline

Mary Anta and Reginald Tetra VS Koichi Haimawari and Kazuho Haneyama

Yoshi and Birdo VS lazlo & nadia

Celebrimbor and Annatar VS Rendog and DocM77

Jesse + Jane VS Adira Tal and Gray Tal

Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson VS Dazai Osamu and Nakahara

Jessie and James VS jeff and britta

Anji Mito and Baiken VS Shiver and Frye

ALL of MLP* VS ALL of TF2*

*Minus any familial relationships

[bainofjustice]

Payday's Most Forgotten Main Character - Speical Agent Jordan Griffin

Introduction

Hello, as my description at time of writing says I am Jordan Griffin's number #1 fan but you see I haven't given myself this title because I've made lots of fan content (I'm working on that) but because I am one of only two of her fans (I recruited a friend to her Fandom). (Might be three but IDK who wrote the Payday 2 character tv tropes page)

I want to have to fight for this title, I wanna see others think about & explore her character.

So I am writing this! It will cover all of her canon appearances, where I would have taken her character within Payday 2's plot & some theories and headcanons.

Payday: The Web Series

Jordan is one of the main characters of The Web Series & outside of Bain, Vlad Kozak Gage & brief scenes is one of the only characters to appear in multiple episodes. She is also the only character I would agure has a arc thoughout the episodes & acts as a recurring pov.

The audience first meets Jordan Griffin in episode 3, she is discussing with her partner (Agent Riker) about her thoery that Hector Morales is working for Crime.Net, Agent Riker attempts to brush off this thoery by both pointing to how little evidence she has found about Crime.Net & pointing to her mental health (stating that she must just be tried, implying she is not in her right state of mind). When this scene ends it is revealed Bain already has eyes on her and placed Riker as a mole.

This scene established a lot of interesting stuff

Jordan with the limited info of the events of PD1 & the earliest heists of 2 was able to put enough evidence together to both figure out Crime.Net existed & its name. Remember that during the events of the web series it is just coming out of beta, likely meaning it's number of users was low & trusted allies so for Jordan to find all this meant some serious digging

I forget if it's on the board or if she says it (limited wi-fi so avoiding watching stuff) but she mentions Bain's name as the owner of Crime.net, not the most impressive as it seems like his name is mentioned a lot in the criminal world to the point that even yakuza clans know about him. Still I feel it worth noting.

This scene is also the first we see anyone (on screen, obviously off screen between 1 & 2 the FBI found out) in the FBI suspect Hector of being related to the Payday gang, it's also worth noting that Jordan already has him pinned of other crimes, possibly the same ones that got him got by the fbi. It's also interesting she didn't know he was a rat for the fbi & was working to arrest him.

Speaking of the board I mentioned, she has a whole conspiracy board in her office for the payday gang & crime.net, it has multiple of the contractors on it, including Vlad (whom at least by the time of Hoxton breakout the FBI believe is a law abiding civilian).

It is also established that Jordan deals with some ableism as a part of how Bain tries to deal with her, it's seen in Rikers comment and made more notable by the fact that Jordan is shown later taking unknown meds from a prescription bottle.

It is also established that Bain considers Jordan enough of a threat to have a mole specifically keeping an eye on her.

As a whole I consider this a strong start for building her up as a threat to the gang & a foil to them, much like them she is working semi out of the system to achieve her goals & like them is seeking answers for questions much bigger than herself, only issue is these traits are directed at taking down Bain & Crime.Net.

In Episode 4, Jordan interviews Dallas whom is undercover as the bank manager for First World Bank, thoughout this Jordan is very suspicious of him & he ends up leaving earlier than likely planned, taking his obertunity when Jordan is called away for something.

I find two things about this very interesting, first being that the series went semi out of its way to allow Dallas & Jordan to meet, while the cover was also used for the heist & the scene also allows for a interesting story telling device of showing different versions of scenes the audience already saw the scene could have easily been from Dallas pov woth random cops but no: it's a mixed pov scene & Jordan is used despite it actually making little sense given how she's treated in the FBI (I will get into that later)

I also find it noteworthy how Dallas treats her, it's very much as a real threat & he does his best to tell her the cover story straight but as it becomes clearer that she is suspicious & isn't falling for it he ends up taking a chance to escape before she can ask more questions.

Also funfact is that this scene is what established Nathan Steele as Dallas civilian name. Jordan also established in this scene being particular about being called Special Agent (Jordan) Griffin.

In Episode 5, Jordan manges to leak to a reporter her theories about crime.net, which ends up in the tv news. Jordan & Riker get pulled aside by their boss and get royalty told off because as it turns out, this isn't their job! Jordan has just been doing all of this on top her real cases for the fbi! She hasn't been getting any backing for them & clearly couldn't ask for help with the case given gets in trouble for it! No one told her to do this! She has just been doing it for herself while everyone tells her no!

She follows this up in the next scene by revealing to Riker that she suspects that there is a mole within their department of the FBI, it's later confirmed that she suspects him & told him as much, though also still keeps him close at hand, including when she goes otherwise alone to confront a member of Crime.Net.

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY REVEALING THAT RIKER'S HANDLER IS FUCKING VLAD "THIRD SHADIEST CONTACTOR & KATRU KING" KOZAK

So uh, yeah a lot happens at the end of an episode about the worst assassin Crime.Net ever hired aka Greta.

But wait! There's even fucking more! In episode 6 aka the finale of the web series most of the focus is on her & Vlad (well it's more about Vlad dealing with her) (& Gage but this ain't about him, I'll talk about him when I talk disability in Payday)

this wild episode starts off with Vlad getting called by Bain warning him that Jordan has taken an interest in him & has placed a tracker on his truck, this results in him blowing off Sofia (Aka the woman he has with him when visting the safe house) & as she insists on him staying with her that night (intercut as Vlad thinks with Jordan doing research about Vlad) he ends up pulling a gun on her asking if she isn't useful why does he keep her around. (This is interrupted before goes farther) (I'm noting that last bit for a reason.)

Next we see of Vlad he's getting driven to the spot that's been set up as a trap for Jordan as she follows, he is singing in a slavic language during this (also in previous scenes he has mostly talked in a slavic language besides from his threats to Sofia)

Then the big scene is next for the Jordan & Vlad storyline, Jordan arrives at the parking garage, this is when she confirms in banter with Riker that she is sure that he is the mole, she searches for a lil bit being very on gruad & then reaches the stairs.

This is when Vlad appears & holy hell this convo is interesting to me, especially looking back knowing a lot more about Vlad. So I am going to break this down a lot.

First Vlad says hello to Speical Agent Jordan Griffin, he very clearly already knows some of her quirks well. Meanwhile Jordan jumps right to questions, speaking in the same Slavic language Vlad has throughout the episode used when speaking with his men, she starts off asking how he knows her name which he answers a little birdie told him. Which does line up with what Bain did, including referencing her full status while warning Vlad.

Vlad follows up with

"I know many things, especially how in over head you [Jordan] are."

I'll come back to this later.

Vlad was interrupted by having to tell one of his men to stand down & that he has everything under control.

Vlad then tells Jordan that he doesn't have time to explain things but:

"-You must understand: You got too close to the truth and they will not let you live if you get any closer." -Vlad

Jordan then questions who "they" is, suspecting Crime.Net & Overkill (this was made back when the company included itself as refs & didn't decide yet the name belonged to a biker gang).

Vlad follows up by not answering but saying

"I like you special agent, we are like each other, more than you know."

He then shares that this all has been a "friendly" warning & warns that the next one won't be the same.

He then says that he hopes the pair will meet again under better circumstances, to which once again in a slavic language Jordan repiled with "Perhaps"

Vlad then leaves with his enforcer. Riker whom was waiting in the wings, gun ready arives as Jordan steps back to the floor they parked and when asked she says that she lost them.

Now lemme break down what I can

It is very interesting to me that throughout episode 6 using slavic language is almost showing your in with Vlad, when Vlad is pissed at Sofia he speaks in English, also speaking with Bain & Riker in English but with his enforcer in Slavic & then Jordan starts off speaking in his language and when he says he hopes they meet again under better circumstances it's also in slavic. This to me really shows there was at least some idea that Jordan would continue to be a force in Vlad related stories, perhaps working with him?

This is the first we see of Jordan actively lying & no less lying to cover her & Vlad's assess, til this point she is not shown actively lying

This is also we see of Jordan choosing to not chase a trail and call it quits before getting herself in shit, I do honestly believe in a convo with someone else Jordan would have not lied at the end saying they got away but instead tried to press forward.

Vlad in the very same episode made it clear that even minor things done by people he doesn't need may result in death, which to me brings up: what does Vlad want from Jordan? What does she have that neither Bain or another FBI agent could supply?

Thoughout the convo he treats her with more respect than really anyone else we see him in canon talk to, not once swearing or acting out but instead acting very calm & put together.

From some of the stuff he says it seems like he honestly wants to tell Jordan more but can't (he blames a time issue, but tbh I feel like it's more because the location was set up by Bain likely meaning he was watching.)

I also find the lines he says about her search for the truth really interesting as it really reminds me of what later happens to Bain, when he starts getting closer to the truth about the Katru he is nearly killed (in the bad ending is fr killed)

I also find the line that they are alike curious, at this time in the story Vlad wasn't too known for a inquisitive nature nor had he shown much interest in uncovering hidden truths. In the context knowing the story wasn't planned from the start I'm not sure what they were planning with this line BUT looking back with what lore we have for Vlad by the end of 2... I'll get to what I think in its own section.

Since this was the final episode this is the last we see of her in live action & even if she shows up again I think will be with a revast or non-live action as her actress is now a right-wing news caster in france 🙃

Appearances In Game

Jordan has two in game appearances!

First is on the second day of Hoxton breakout where she is one of the models spawned in FBI agents can have (model based off her episode 1 outfit).

She does not have any special A.I or anything else meaning any of the following can happen

Her model does not spawn, implying she was not at the office during the attack.

Her model does spawn but one way or another the gang does not interact with her, implying she hid during this.

Her model spawns & the gang zip ties her, leaving her somewhere she isn't killed, this is personally my hc for the canon of the game)

Her model spawns & she guns down a member of the gang, good for her! (This probably the least likely since she is not a special unit & would be in combat with the gang before any assault waves meaning fullish health)

Her model spawns & she is killed (Outside of not spawning this is one of the most likely for a player to do)

Her model spawns & the Joker skill is used on her, making her help the very gang she is trying to catch, possibly dying along the way.

At the end of the day this heist does very little to actually tell us anything about her or her fate as it is totally random what state she's in by the end, especially because as the tv tropes page for her points out most players don't even know who they'd be killing.

But... There is another heist she can spawn in, which neither the tv tropes page nor her wiki (which I need to update) mentions.

Her model can spawn in the Payday 2 version of Taxman, which if I'm not wrong is one of the few remasters that is a flashback/not happening a second time.

Which means that Jordan, likely unknown to Bain or the gang has been long on their trail, this also lines up with what her actual job in the fbi is (which in short is wire fuad, which is mentioned in a episode but I forget which one).

On the flipside if this isn't a flashback we can assume that Jordan is still alive post Hoxton breakout & that it sets a president that unless it's outright a part of the story of the heist named characters like Jordan don't die in heists where there's other options (Makes sense since Bobble Head Bob like Jordan can spawn in heists & die like she can)

I also suspect that Jordan can spawn whenever the game calls for a unarmored FBI agent to spawn but I am yet to test this. But if true basically means Jordan survives well into the endgame & only could for sure have died post Breakin' Feds.

Why I Wish She Was Used More/How I Would Fit Her Into The Plot

Why I Want More:

1. She is my blorbo & I love her 💖💖💖

2. The gang's enemies look like this rn (not counting post game dlc or 3):

A guy relying on the fbi to protect him who was merely a pawn of the fbi (Hector)

A bunch of mindless male police officers

A male police caption who only provides a physical threat

A male fbi head who is only a puppet to people

A male technical guy + military guy, provides a very real intelligental thread with implied help from a female hacker, later redeemed and helps the gang (Locke & Joy)

A mostly male (we never see a woman in Murkeater but I'm gonna assume there's at least one) paramilitary that doubles as a conspiracy group, provides both a physical & social threat

A male puppeteer master, is the only non-physical threat.

You might already see my point, thr gang lacks any non-male enemies which isn't great when combined with theor already low female cast. The developers have mentioned that they wanted to do better on that front & I think a female antagonistic force to the gang would have helped.

Also the gang is really lacking in intellectual threats, only briefly having Locke/Joy hack them which is resolved quick & they aren't a real threat after this & The Dentist whom pulls strings & is a threat to everyone's identities, their serach for The Secret & the world.

But really I think having another intellectual threat, especially one uninvolved with Murkwater would both help feel like the gang has a real risk of something like getting arrested or having their identities leak, I think it would also balance the cast a lot more.

Now while I wanna fix the above making Jordan a main angtag from the get go would change a lot & deserves its own post so here is some closer to canon ideas.

Here's a few ideas of how she could have been used, keep in mind these ideas are based off the limits that 1. The story wasn't planned from the start, 2. The story is mostly shown in heists & fbi files & 3. Jordan is not a main character & 4. My core Jordan thoery is not canon, otherwise this section would be more complicated & require inorging the lack of a plan plotwise.

Without the above limits I would just be giving a pitch for a fanfic I am planning.

Route 1: Mole For Vlad

This in my opinion is one of the more boring options but it is one of the more likely options they would have went with in canon.

For this Jordan would likely off screen started working for Vlad as a dirty fbi agent & in game either be mentioned as a informent or as someone setting things in the fbi hq for the gang in heists they go there.

This route would work well for fics or art that wants a easy route for Jordan to interact with the gang on friendly terms but I feel like outside of fanwork options this isn't the best route.

Ultimately it would make Jordan a bit of a non-character & betray the very justice focused Jordan we see in the web series plus it doesn't address the problems above.

But it is a option that other than what we did get is close to likely.

Route 2: FBI Pov

In this Jordan would remain looking into the Payday gnag though not being as forward, until the FBI files were added.

At that point I would have Jordan serve as the owner of the fbi computer that was hacked, perhaps having her leave notes on all the fbi files about her theories & what she's found.

Perhaps this results in a heist where the gang has to retrieve her evidence & kill her like the Hector heist.

It could also lead to her being the fbi member Kento contacts & sends codes to, perhaps desperate to catch the gang she helps him arrest The Elephant & possibly other contractors.

Or perhaps she remains uninvolved with the emails & instead serves as a pov for the fans not secret hunting by leaving confused files about the Katru related heists & files on clues she doesn't understand.

Route 3: Katru Investigator

Okay so this slimmer to the above, having her leave notes on fbi files & the hacked computer being hers but... The emails aren't, she hacked into the commissioners email & leaves notes on the emails, perhaps acting like a hint for them.

She would also take up what Spetkicguy did in the arg, hacking into things & finding more clues about Mrukywater.

This route likely ends with a callback to what Vlad said, Jordan would get too close to the truth of Murkwater and they would kill her.

My Core Thoery For Jordan Griffin/Route 4: King's Watcher

Okay before I start with this theory let me establish a few things that I will write metas about later:

Vlad is a Katru king, a member of a group of three humans that were selected by powerful beings to guard their secrets, this granted conditional immortality.

The other kings are The Elephant & The Dentist

Each king has a watcher, it is unknown how they are picked but I suspect it is decided by a higher power at their birth. They are meant to prevent the kings from abusing their power, they are also the condition for their King's immortality when they are alive their king cannot die & when they are dead their king can die. (after Dentist loses his he is able to be gunned down)

The known watchers were Bain & Kento, Bain leaves notes about this & Duke comments on & notes that Kento is a watcher as well which lines up with his role in Murkwater

Now that we have that established onto the thoery, which simply put is that Jordan is Vlad's watcher.

Let me first address the main counterpoints

Vlad's watcher is the Commissar!: that is a theory which well would make Dentist wanting the guy dead make sense. It would not make sense that Vlad never mentions him, we know Vlad loves revenge, he won't let his watcher being killed slide no matter how much he likes the gang

Vlad's Watcher Is His Brother In-Law!: Okay this is more likely than the last one & is one of the more likely canon options, so I won't aurge against this theory. Simply it isn't my taste, I find more interesting stories can be told with other options for watchers.

Vlad can die in dlc heists!: Yeah, that does point to his watcher being dead but there is nothing pointing to Jordan having to still be alive at this point. We also don't actually see his death, just that the timer says that but that could be either obsecing Vlad's involvement with the secret or simply not thinking out a different wording. So while him dying is what is said to happen I feel like for a thoery like this. Which is already... Shaky since it rests on a forgotten character I don't think it kills the thoery

Now onto my supporting evidence!

Vlad goes out of his way to make sure Jordan survives & was personally dealing with her. We see him both push aside others in his life like Sofia to focus on Jordan & go against the spirit of Bain's orders who said to deal with her by simply warning her.

The lines: "I know many things, especially how in over head you [Jordan] are." & "You got too close to the truth and they will not let you live if you get any closer." Which Vlad says to Jordan can both read as simply a detective being warned to avoid criminal conspiracy but... It's also close to some of the stuff Bain & the gang says as they investigate the Katru.

There is also that Vlad wanted to tell her more but couldn't, again he said it was a time issue but I really believe it was because he knew Bain was listening in.

Vlad drawing a comparison towards himself & her would make more sense if there was a literal bound between them, as the scribe/a king I'm sure Vlad has done a lot of the sort of stuff Jordan is doing & probably has had watchers like her before.

Thematically it'd line up for Jordan to be unknowingly in his inner circle given that language = Vlad's good graces thing I got talking about.

There are a lot of parallels between Jordan & Bain, especially if you put together some of the stories from clothes that imply Bain was a cop or in the fbi at some point. Both start off locking into things beyond them, both have blue as their main color (Jordan's outfits are mainly black & white say for her periwinkle shirt which her model wears), they both start getting so deep that people are sent after them & with outfit lore in mind it seems like Bain had a encounter with Elephant slimmer to the one Jordan had with Vlad.

Thematically wise it'd be nice if there was 1 criminal watcher, 1 corrupt lawful watcher & 1 justice minded watcher. Bain is morally grey, Kento's morals got fucked up & Jordan has pretty clean morals compared.

It'd also mean that Bain's mind games with Jordan later get reflected at him as Kento played mind games with him & unlike Bain dealt with the person getting close to the truth. In short watcher on watcher violence.

Also sanity is a theme with Vlad, he is the "mad king" the one that found things thay broke his mind & even in the modern day is considered insane. This is intrestingly mirrored by how Jordan is both dismissed based off mental state & likely has a mental illness she takes meds for.

I will probably think of more & make a post just about this thoery eventually but for now the last reason is that I simply think it makes for a interesting story, it means all the watchers are pitted against each other, it means Vlad has another thing to hide from the gang, it means Vlad's watcher is an established character whose a bit complex, it means at least a single woman is relevant to The Secret.

As for what this world look like in story? Well it depends on how you veiw the watchers but for my own hc's & theories I am planning a fic about this.

I will also note that if something makes it clear someone else is Vlad's watcher I will keep this as a au instead of theory/hc.

Ideas For Fan Content

So after reading everything here I hope you dear reader wanna give me a lil more challenge in calling myself her biggest fan by including her in your own content!

To help get this started I'm gonna list a few ideas of how to include & use her in fan content. Obviously I would also be trilled to see ideas not listed written about & if you do make something based off tbe list below or theories & ideas I talk about on this meta you don't have to credit me, I just want to show off a character I like!

Jordan easily can fill the role of a fbi agent that would otherwise go unamed or be a one-off oc, so say for a fic you want to add pressure by having a agent on one of the heisters trail, Jordan would make a good fit!

Jordan would also work well as a mentor or partner to a fbi oc, being able to quickly inform them of details about the payday gang & either aid them if they are a enemy of the Payday gang or provide tension if they are/start helping the gang.

Jordan would also work well for writing enemy to lovers fics since she is a enemy of the gang but it's based off impersonal things, so becoming close with specific members isn't out of the question & could lead to interesting drama for all parties.

Jordan also works well for if you need a pov outside the gang but is aware, let's say you're writing a mystery fic & you need someone to first find something or encounter the killer before it's revealed to the gang. Jordan would work! She would likely investigate that sort of thing but lacks ways of telling other members of the cast.

Jordan does at the end of her story show some more willingness to do shady things, so having a story explore her becoming more & more involved in crime would work really well, this would also be great to use for fics about Vlad's criminal stuff (Just please, I beg, do not have Jordan start working at his postuion house, that I am asking you to not do on this post. I can't stop you but I am gonna read or share stuff about that)

Jordan would also work in camo appearances, need something for Vlad or Bain to be doing before being interrupted? Perhaps they were keeping an eye on a special agent.

Jordan could also work as someone to info dump info about things that happened off screen in your fic, maybe you're writing a future fic & want to quickly establish what everyone is doing, having a scene or a few where Jordan is sharing her theories with someone would be a good way to do it in universe & add some unreliable narratorness to it if you want to hide info.

Also Jordan would work well as some canon fodder to be blunt, as much as I love her it doesn't seem like she's amazing at tech, so if you want establish a character killing enemies of the gang or some mass death event like a zombie au Jordan could work 😶‍🌫️

Lastly there isn't a lot about Jordan outside of what's here, we don't know her past, or much about her future past the web series & there are a lot of parts about her personality we won't have got to see so she's a character that could really be expanded on.

ETC

Agent Riker: Funniest Non-Clown

Yeah I couldn't fit this anywhere else but thoughout the series Riker is really funny due to how it seems like he is almost always moments from a mental breakdown. He will often swear to himself shouting loudly FUCK almost everytime Jordan is getting deeper in the mess.

It's also funny how degented he looks while his boss scolds him & Jordan, they both look like kids getting told off.

It is also extremely funny to me that Jordan straight up tells him to his putposly sweating face she knows he is the mole & then still takes him as backup to confront Vlad which like...

While Riker pulled out a gun & was waiting in the wings it also took him forever to call out for her & it was pretty unclear what his game plan was. He is like less than useless to both Jordan & Vlad.

He also has a family which he mentions when talking to Vlad also it was hard for me to make out his name due to my hearing sorta sucking so I had to find his name on the imb page for the series

Jordan's Job:

I wasn't sure where to mention this but in one of the episodes, I believe when being told off by her boss it is mentioned she works in wire fuad. I believe due to her having her own office space in the department that she is likely either very high ranking or it's local head.

How I Incountered Jordan:

So I was vaguely a Payday fan at the time, I knew things like Jacket x Sokol & things like the Halloween nightmares for the crew but I had yet to see the wider picture.

This is when I decided to read the tv tropes page for Payday 2, specifically the characters page & then I read the Minor Characters page & read Jordan's section.

Which made me interested enough to go & watch the web series & then I watched more & more videos until I ended up watching The Knowley's lore series & since then I have been searching for more lore & info.

And that won't have happened if some tv tropes writer I will never likely meet hadn't decided to put Jordan on the page & describe her well in tropes & in the little bio.

The Wiki:

So a funfact is that I am the one who made Jordan's wiki page & added her to the web series page. Admittedly the page needs some work to better explain things but I thought something was better than nothing & I will work on it more.

[ask-the-becile-boys]

Story. Guess Who

Previous | Next

[ID: 7 digitally sketched panels in greyscale.]

[Panel 1: In the still dark dawn outside of Becile Manor, Locksmith and Agent Ester walk away from the car they left The Jack in. Both of their eyes are glowing, and Agest Ester is talking into a walkie-talkie. She says, "Operative, you are clear to enter the premises." Someone on the other end responds, "Finally."]

[Panel 2: Another car, parked and empty, in the foreground. Behind it, a Becile Industries van has its back open and several large, bipedal robots with single eyes, digitigrade legs, and fins on their heads like elephant ears are getting out. The most visible one is wearing a large backpack. On the ground there are several of the previously seen eye drones skittering along the ground, carrying rectangular packages on their tops. The mystery speak says, "Looks like your drones and RO-bots are deploying themselves."]

[Panel 3: A walking boot. The mystery speaker asks, "Stairs to the workshop are in the right-hand wing, right?" Locksmith responds over the walkie-talkie, "Correct." The mystery speaker says, "Good. This won't take long."]

[Panel 4: The boots descending a staircase into the Becile Manor basement. From below come lyrics from Creedance Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising:' "♪ Hope you got your things together ♪, ♪ Hope you are quite prepared to die ♪"]

[Panel 5: A hand wearing a fingerless glove pushes open the door to the workshop where The Skull is laid out and Riker is working. Riker has his back turned to the viewer and is looking at soe blueprints. An old radio on the bench near him continues to play the song, "♪ Looks like we're in for nasty weather ♪, ♪ One eye is taken for an eye ♪"]

[Panel 6: Riker in profile, smoking a cigarette and oblivious to the pair of hands reaching for him from behind. The song continues, "♪ Well, don't go around tonight ♪, ♪ Well, it's bound to take your life ♪"]

[Panel 7: Jaime Huron covers Riker's eyes with his hands, leaning forward toward his ear and saying, "Guess who." The cigarette falls from Riker's mouth, and the song finishes, "♪ There's a bad moon on the rise." End ID]

[myfaveisfuckable]

Pleakley:

First off: yes, that's his canonical first name. It means "brave warrior" in his native language which is why he doesn't like/use it.

Also, I don't mean to invalidate anyone's interpretation of what the heck's going on with his gender. I usually hc Pleakley as some flavour of transfem these days but the form says *his* pussy so I'm using the canonical he/him pronouns.

Now, Pleakley is possibly the most queer coded character in all of Disney history. The exact flavour is unknown but oh man, that's not a cishet guy. He's always dressing up in traditionally feminine clothing, even calling himself "Aunt Pleakley", he has a Thing with Jumba (down to multiple references in the show to them sharing a (bunk) bed) and he's just unbelievably fruity. Since he's an alien we have no idea of his genital configuration but whatever kind of hole is down there is sure to get used ;)

Riker:

I want to believe <3

[doctorbeverlycrusher]

Do you have any favorite P/C fics you’ve read and would recommend others read?

Oh do I ever!

I’ve only been in the Trek fandom since about 2019 but I have gone through and read so many fics.

I’m going to separate these by site.

AO3

Closer to Fine - This one features Beverly and Data ending up on a planet and trying to uphold the Prime Directive until they can’t.

The Quality of Mercy - The P/C in this is not that important but it’s a very good Beverly focused fic where she’s helping a friend who ends up being involved with the Maquis and they incur the wrath of a Cardassian.

Across Other Moments - This is based on the events of the novel Q Squared (which if you have not read, I highly recommend it) where at the end, there are five different things they offer that Beverly might say in an alternate timeline. This explores each of those.

You Found Me - This was written by my friend @agent-troi and gives Beverly’s perspective during The Best of Both Worlds with some canon divergence near the end.

Synthesis - This is a series that unfortunately was never completed but it’s an AU of season 7, starting with Gambit where that line that Riker says at the beginning to try and get information on Picard’s whereabouts by saying he impregnated his sister (Beverly) comes into play. Also includes some Riker/Troi and Janeway/Chakotay content if you also like those pairings.

Her Winter Passed - Another @agent-troi fic which is specifically based on the novel Death in Winter (Another one I highly recommend)

Letters to Bev - A canon divergent take on season 2 where Picard and Crusher send messages to each other while she’s at Starfleet Medical

(i don’t need a) parachute - A five times fic set across the entire series with five times Picard and Crusher almost sleep together (and one time they actually did)

Meal - Beverly tells Picard about her experience with his doppelgänger in Allegiance

Lost Arts - A very fluffy little post-Attached fic where Beverly makes coffee and croissants

FanFic.net

Planting Memories - An alien group takes over the Enterprise with psychotropic plants and Beverly is the only one who seems to be figuring out something’s wrong.

Meld - Picard’s perspective during the mind meld scene in Sarek

How Good It Is To Sleep - A bit of a canon divergent take on things from the end of Final Mission up until Data’s Day.

The Beginning of Good Things and Next Tuesday - Set after the poker game in All Good Things and Next Tuesday is the sequel which has Picard and Crusher at next week’s game.

Defensive Tactics - An away mission goes wrong and it leads to some feelings coming up.

Evolving - A canon divergent fic set after Genesis while Beverly is recovering from Worf’s acid attack. This is quite possibly my favourite P/C fic of all time.

Knot - Little missing scenes or different perspectives during Conundrum

Resuming Time - An epilogue to Timescape, which I was very excited to find because I was glad to see I wasn’t the only one who thought of Picard’s reaction to finding out Beverly was being hit directly with a disruptor.

Fragile Bonds - An epilogue to The Bonding.

Finally, I’d also like to mention Addictions from the Trekiverse fanfic archive. It’s a great fic that deals with a drug epidemic in the TNG era, so big warnings for drug addiction. It’s also set post-Sub Rosa and directly addresses that in a really thoughtful way.

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The bracket finally arrives!

Sorry for the wait everyone. Preliminary round will be going up 12:00 pm PST on Sunday, and then the tournament will begin at the same time on Tuesday!

Full list of participants under the cut, for those who can't read the image.

Preliminaries:

Chakotay, Kira Nerys, Spock, and Will Riker competing in the Star Trek preliminary

Bandana Waddle Dee, Escargoon, and Taranza competing in the Kirby preliminary

Starscream and Soundwave competing in the Transformers preliminary

Round 1 Side A:

Luke Triton from Professor Layton versus Right Hand Man from The Henry Stickman Collection

Agent Stone from the Sonic Movies versus Mele from Juken Sentai Gekiranger

Number Two from The Mysterious Benedict Society versus the winner of the Star Trek preliminary

Vinegar Doppio from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure versus Horatio from Hamlet

Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist versus Sasha Waybright from Amphibia

Luigi from Mario versus Moloch Von Zinzer from Girl Genius

Pearl from Steven Universe versus Gwen Cooper from Torchwood

Zoe Washburne from Firefly versus Pirate with a Scarf from Pirates! Band of Misfits

Round 1 Side B:

Graystripe from Warrior Cats versus Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium

The winner of the Kirby preliminary versus Smee from Peter and the Starcatcher

Daniel Jacobi from Wolf 359 versus Maria from Mad Father

Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove versus Dominic Badguy from Muppets Most Wanted

Commander Peepers from Wander Over Yonder versus Shego from Kim Possible

Izzy Hands from Our Flag Means Death versus Diamonds Droog from Homestuck

The winner of the transformers preliminary versus Rose from Humans-B-Gone

Roronoa Zoro from One Piece versus Sancho Panza from Don Quixote

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