#colonel scott riggins

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ok the initial post for brotzly fake couple's therapy au has already gotten way too long, so i take this as a sign i should start posting things separately and establish a new navigation tag

so, either way, a lil background on the characters

todd: exactly the same shit as canon, just imagine that instead of the seer-of-universal-truths syndrome there's some regular non-magical neurological disease running in the brotzman family.

farah: mostly similar to canon, just a bit toned down. she's not exactly an one-woman army, but she is freakishly physically fit, combat-ready, and proficient with common types of firearms — significantly more than you would expect any random person to be; she had always wanted to become a part of the police force like her brothers and father, but never passed the screenings due to debilitating anxiety, ocd and autism (never tried to join the fbi or the military tho; both her skills and her family expectations aren't That high).

her father had gotten terminally sick when she was a teen, and that significantly cut their income and added to their spendings, usa healthcare system be damned; old family friend, successful enterpreneur patrick spring, had stepped in to support them both financially and morally. farah ended up being halfway raised by him, always hanging out at his house and playing with lydia; out of all her family, save for her father, farah was the closest to patrick.

some time before the main timeline events, maybe half a year or a year ago, farah, patrick and lydia were having a nice family outing — up until patrick had been shot to death in broad daylight. his history of rising to success hadn’t been exactly pretty, you see, and the organized crime eventually took what was due. farah still blames herself for letting that happen despite her training and her worrying habit of never leaving the house without her gun; but if you asked her, really asked her how would she go about preventing that, she wouldn't be able to give you a good answer — it's just that one second he was alive, and the next he was not.

lydia, as both the key witness and the fortune's inheritor, had been taken into the witness protection program; farah hasn't heard from her since. she misses her like crazy, possible even more than patrick. therapy was meant to help her cope with the ruinous ptsd from those events, and she's been slowly, slowly making progress. that day she was having an especially Bad One — after which she and dirk got shit-faced — was soon after her father's death.

dirk: he grew up in the foster care system, and as a pre-teen was adopted by a kind and soft-bellied, if a little strict, ex-military man on a good pension, scott riggins. dirk had always been a bright kid, fascinated by complex mathematics (oh, the patterns! the beauty chaos and order! the language of the universe!) and some strains of physics (especially quantum studies; it all started with an article on shrodinger's cat and went downhill from there), quickly picking up on underlying logic within numbers (way quicker than his little undiagnosed autistic brain picked up on most social cues); teachers always promised him a bright future, even with the chronic lack of resources. scott had made sure dirk would get access to the best education possible, be taught by best tutors available, enroll into the best school imaginable; he gave dirk everything, and all the boy had to do is put in some effort. and he tried, oh god did he try; but he didn't do it hard enough. the new schoolwork load was multiple times bigger and harder than the worst he had ever experienced before, and he would often grow exhausted, distracted, unfocused and loose-minded (the adhd never got diagnosed either). some days a new and curious configuration would catch his attention and he would crack down on it with fervor, but some days he would just sit there and chew on the same three problems for hours on end to no avail. on those bright days scott saw his potential, his true and exciting and wonderful potential, and wanted the kid to live up to it; on the brain-foggy days, when he failed to do so, scott grew dissappointed. and whenever he felt disappointed, dirk felt it tenfolds on his skin. scott wasn't violent, godforbid, he's not a monster — just a little strict: it's just that he frowned, and tutted, and shook his head, and told dirk off, and didn't kiss him, and said things that dirk deserved to hear no matter how it felt, and took his books away (if there was anything the kid loved as much as math, it was thrilling detective stories, and sci-fi, ans fantasy, preferably all at once, read in one sitting) so that he wouldn't get distracted, and sometimes wouldn't call dirk down for dinner until he was done with the homework.

it hurt terribly to have the only person who'd ever cared about dirk, who had chosen him out of everyone else, who had chosen him and stuck by him, the only person in the world who loved him, be upset with dirk. for the longest time, dirk was convinced that he simply was lazy, and awful, and ungrateful, and hopeless, and the worst person to ever live, with how he let his father down time after time. but over the years, his self-hatred got so large he couldn't carry it anymore, and it spilled onto the mental image of scott, just so that he could breathe again; over the years, he grew bitter and disillusioned. as a young adult, he still couldn't tell if scott's demands and ambitions were fueled by simple materialistic hopes of fame and monetary grants, or a vain desire for glory, or some weird roundabout way of achieving personal fulfillment, but he knew for sure: scott riggins wanted himself a pet boy genius, not a son.

when the time came to attend college, dirk picked cambridge over harward, mostly because he would take any excuse to get an ocean away from scott. and he passed the exams — with flying colors! he was, after all, exceptionally smart. the teachers were delighted to have him; three months later he got booted because he missed half the classes and didn’t do any homework: drunk on the newfound freedom, stressed out by a trans-atlantic move, and lacking the only accountability system (however flawed) he'd ever had. he didn't tell scott, of course — he wasn't ready to go back home, he would do anything to avoid going there. so he took the college-student-allowance his foster father kept sending him, none the wiser, and set out backpacking across britain and then the rest of europe. soon it turned out that travelling cross-country is slightly more costly than living at the dorms, and there were only so many plausible excuses he could use to cajole more money out of scott, and coming clean about his strategical-omissal-of-crucial-information-that-wasn't-tecnhically-outright-lying was out of the question, so dirk had to cut some costs: skip a meal here, sleep on a train station bench there, get chased out by foreign policemen once or twice, a few times of staying overnight at some shady moldy place with some shady people whose language he didn't speak too well — nothing any other travelling young person hasn't seen, truly. he was coping alright. eventually scott caught wind anyway, and dirk, not that dirty and scrawny, had been forcibly dragged home. from there it's been a steep decline in the relationship: more harsh demands and more desperate pleading, more affection followed by more coldness, threats and promises from scott, and a few failed attempts at coninued education, a few move-outs followed by a few move-back-ins, plus a few ultimately abandoned career choices from dirk, who never seemed to grow out of whatever it was that was wrong with him, even as a decade slowly passed and gave way to another one.

when todd meets dirk for the first time and asks the inevitable "so what do you do for a living?", dirk introduces himself as a writer, which, combined with his rather frivolous spending habits and impressive disposable income, leads todd to assume that dirk must be some literary genius, top-nyt-bestseller, author-of-future-classics madly successful type of guy — but in reality, he sits on his arse and writes experimental-storytelling-style sci-fi/fantasy/whodunnit fusions that no agency interested in commercial success wants to look at, he's been published only once by a tiny indie house that paid him jack shit and a penny in royalties, and half his money still comes from scott. that financial dependence is the main reason dirk's in the us at the moment — he's been pulled from his latest bout of doing volunteer work for a queer nonprofit in eastern europe by the threat of cutting his whole goddamn allowance off. as a compromise, he returned to the country but not to the city, claiming that he needed fresh scenery to inspire his creativity and maybe actually write a profitable book for once; really, he just hadn't been mentally ready yet to be in the same town as scott so soon. so, settle, washington it is, why the hell not.

by the way, "dirk gently" is his pen name — legally, he's still dirk riggins. also, in the skype calls he's sometimes talked into having, dirk still calls him "father", but behind his back it's been "scott" for almost two decades now: at some point growing up he felt the need to put some mental space between himself and that man in order to stay sane.

after his fateful Big Talk with todd, where dirk admitted the less pleasant parts of his childhood and youth in most detail he had ever did in his whole life, todd convinces him to start looking for a better job to support himself, change his legal name, and someday cut riggins off for good. also get some therapy, for fuck's sake, god.

[protecticarus]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[randomstring11111111]

Re: Dirk being manipulative

I bet he learned it from my boy. -B

(Referring to the Colonel Scott Riggins, probably)

[detectivedirks]

Dirk, I am not the enemy here. And you’re not a detective. You’re going to get yourself hurt, or killed, if you keep...

[asacolyte]

1.03 // 1.08

Saying ���not now” to Friedkin

[takadasaiko]

You’re not gonna put me and my Rowdy boys back in no cages, man.

[vorkin]

Blackwing: deadnaming as a bad guy power move (+ that one bad guy who didnt read the files)

[yakichoufd]

Part 2 of my Dirk Getly fancomic

You can read Part 1 here

[arguablefficiency]

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency + Actual Quotes From Script part 3/8 (parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  bonus)

[sweetfoxglove]

Svlad stays tense, watching with wide, cynical eyes as the trolley is wheeled into the room, before looking at the Colonel with an expression more suited to a Mafia boss offering candyfloss. “What’s that?”

“It’s a CD player,” Scott explains, gesturing to the machine atop the trolley. “It plays music.”

The aforementioned follow-up/prequel to ‘lessons’ as part of the checkmate series. Was called ‘PARKLIFE’ but I changed my mind last minute!

[protecticarus]

Would You Fuck a Clone of Yourself?

-dghda edition

[maddynene]

I can't wait for Dirk Gently to come back. I'll see all my favorite people again, like Dirk, Todd, Farah, Amanda, and the Rowdy 3. 

Ken and Bart being on-screen again is going to add a hundred years to my life. 

I'll even be happy to see the familiar faces of those good ol’ Blackwing heads, Colonel Scott Riggins and *squints at smudged writing on hand* Huge Fry Skin.

[ao3feed-brotzly]

Get it Right

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by Project_Marzanna

"Looking up at the blank ceilings and plain walls in his empty cell, the Holistic Detective found himself exceedingly bored, given the only objects of interest around him were the thin lights on the walls and the tiny black Icarus symbol on his door. He had woken up from yet another dream, the same exact dream that had been plaguing him since he arrived."

|A short one shot based off the Season 2 teaser scene with a captive Dirk|

Words: 1965, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency One-Shots

Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Dirk Gently, Todd Brotzman (Mentioned), Farah Black (Mentioned), Amanda Brotzman (mentioned), Seargant Hugo Friedkin (mentioned), The Rowdy 3 (Mentioned), Colonel Scott Riggins (mentioned), Patrick Spring (mentioned), Lydia Spring (mentioned)

Relationships: Todd Brotzman & Dirk Gently, Todd Brotzman/Dirk Gently, Farah Black & Dirk Gently

Additional Tags: Musings in CIA captivity, Forced drug use and human experimentation vaguely mentioned, Angst, A little bit of fluff but mainly angst, Dirk's POV & Thoughts, post Season 1 finale, Set Directly After the Season 2 Teaser, Brotzly (implied/pre-relationship)

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[singingpuddle]

Does it ever cross your mind

Svlad Cjelli better known as Dirk Gently; the project name they gave him was Icarus after the greek myth of Icarus. I, knowing the story of Icarus find this heartbreaking, worrisome, and quite telling.

For those who dont know, Icarus was the boy who flew to close to the sun. His father, Daedalus a great inventor, and him where imprisoned. In order to escape his father created two pairs of man sized wings which had feathers that he had attached with wax. When the time for their escape finally came Icarus, to excited by his new found freedom, ignored his fathers warning and flew to high. The sun then melted the wax and Icarus fell to his death. As for his father, he escaped and vowed never to fly again.

Does this sound familiar.

Dirk was imprisoned by the government. He spent a long period of time with Colonel Scott Riggins, who is the father in this story. Dirk escaped in order to start a life of his own, thus the whole emphasis of dirk having a friend. This also explains the little comment that Friedkin makes about the exchange between Riggins and Dirk. “He said somthing about having a rough childhood.” because as pointed out by Bart, they are brought in as children. Meaning that in basicly all senses Riggins is tge closest thing Dirk had to family, that is until he escapes and finds Todd. That is also why he latches on to Todd like he does, hes the only person he knows will be there.

Dirk flew to close to the sun. Over the course of the case he is flying. That is up until Todd and him get the masks. In that scene you see his wax start to melt, you can see it in his face. From then on he is melting. When todd finds out the truth and when they are arguing on the peir, thats the fall. When Dirk gets harpooned twice and he finishes the time loop, thats the crash. Luckily he survives. But we do get one final parrallel.

Icarus’s father or in Dirk’s case Colonel Scott Riggins. While Dirk is in hospital, passed out. We see Riggins talking to him, saying how proud he was, and how Dirk gave him hope. But when Dirk opens his eyes Scott is gone. Riggins right there was vowing never to fly again, vowing to never restart project Blackwing.

The reason this worries me is because, Icarus is still Icarus. Dirk may have learned a few things but now he is trapped again, his story is seemingly on loop. Except this time Riggins is out of the picture. So what does that mean?

Hopefully in Dirks case everbodys favorite assistfriend comes to the rescue badass Farrah and Rowdy 3 in tow. But it could also mean much worse things.

We will have to wait and see.

[takadasaiko]

That’s low... even for your kind of scum.

I’m not sure what I think of Riggins... I’ve been trying to decide if he’s just a manipulative bastard or if he really is trying to help them all on some level. Anyone have any thoughts about Riggins they’d like to share?

[dirkgentlyandfriends]

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Character Bios from BBC America’s Website

DIRK GENTLY | SAMUEL BARNETT Funny, eloquent, rude and a tiny bit presumptuous, Dirk Gently has strange psychic abilities that enable him to sense tangential connections. He’s turned these abilities into his new profession: that of a “holistic detective,” a term that reflects his belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. However, his abilities have condemned him to a lonely life devoid of human connection. A man with an interesting sense of style and a brusque manner that quickly annoys, Dirk exists on the assumption that everyone around him will instantly recognize his authority… even though said authority doesn’t exist, and pretty much no one ever acknowledges it, ever.

TODD BROTZMAN | ELIJAH WOOD A frustrated loser and fallen punk rock front man, Todd’s life is a dead end. But when he stumbles into a bizarre murder scene, everything drastically changes. A random encounter with the eccentric detective, Dirk Gently, draws him into a web against his will. As Todd reluctantly joins Dirk, he quickly discovers he’s just flat out better at detecting and pretty much everything else than Dirk. He always attempts to solve matters with the fewest steps possible. But despite being a compassionate, smarter-than-average man with biting wit, Todd often finds himself at a moral crossroads. His bad habits of lying and stealing have dire consequences that he won’t be able to avoid forever. He’s not a bad person… he’s just not a good person, but he’ll get there. Maybe. Hopefully?

AMANDA BROTZMAN | HANNAH MARKS Amanda always wanted to be in a band like her brother Todd. Her spunky, smart, wild and impulsive personality defines who she is… or at least who she was. Sidelined by Pararibulitis — a hereditary disease that turns everything around her into a potentially agonizing physical hazard — she’s remained isolated, leaning on her brother for support. She’s deeply connected to her brother but a number of issues in their relationship are slowly being triggered, and Amanda will find herself drawn towards the dark forces converging on Todd’s life.

FARAH BLACK | JADE ESHETE A neurotic, bad-ass security officer to a millionaire, Farah has brooding, nervous energy and an easy snarl that’s triggered at the slightest provocation. A tactical prodigy, Farah is a dominant figure who is also a bit odd… much more than she’s prepared to accept. She subconsciously talks to herself and if provoked, unleashes a biting deadpan sarcasm. After her boss is killed and his daughter kidnapped, Farah is determined to solve the case alongside Dirk and Todd without the help of police. She makes every attempt to keep the group safe, even if she herself isn’t so sure she’s capable of doing so.

BARTINE “BART” CURLISH | FIONA DOURIF Bart is a terrifying, homicidal, deranged, fearless, and nearly invincible self-identified “holistic assassin.” Like Dirk, she is a causality psychic. Bart doesn’t determine who she kills or when and how she kills them. It’s all instinctual. Drawn towards people who kill or endanger others, she feels a second nature urge to eliminate them, which she can do with very little effort. She’s rough, rude, kind of gross and an upsetting person, but there’s a complex sweetness to her. Bart is comfortable with who she is and unlike Dirk, she’s found peace with her power.

KEN | MPHO KOAHO A nerdy, friendly-faced tech trapped in increasingly difficult and bloody circumstances, Ken’s side job as a hacker lands him face-to-face with some odious characters, including Bart, a self-identified holistic assassin.

GORDON RIMMER Rimmer (Aaron Douglas) is an enigmatic loser with an impressive series of horrible secrets. A high ranking member of a cult called Men of the Machine, Rimmer is by nature, a perpetually scrambling, unreliable, egomaniacal agent of the Brotherhood’s intent. Rimmer loves giving orders and whenever possible, remind his fellow brothers of his seniority within the cult.

THE ROWDY 3 The Rowdy 3 — all four of them — composed of the aloof Martin, the manic Vogel, the ever-stoic Gripps and the deranged Cross, are vampires. Not the night walking bloodsucking kind, but rather something much stranger… if that’s possible. They feed on emotion and the electrical energy of the human mind, which they extract in blasts of crackling electricity. Ex-test subjects, the Rowdy 3 have tried to make a life for themselves out in the real world, forever hunting Dirk Gently; deliberately entering his life in moments where it will cause him the most emotional terror.

ESTEVEZ AND ZIMMERFIELD Estevez (Neil Brown Jr.) and Zimmerfield (Richard Schiff) are missing person’s detectives operating increasingly off book as they follow the trail of a complex and mystifying case. As bizarre events continue to converge around one person, they find themselves more and more flummoxed by the investigation.

COLONEL SCOTT RIGGINS AND SERGEANT HUGO FRIEDKIN Beleaguered CIA head of a defunct secret bureau investigating the paranormal called Black Wing, Riggins (Miguel Sandoval) used to be a bright-eyed West Point grad. A born optimist with a cheery demeanor, Riggins is a true believer: Aliens? Yes. Psychics? Yes. Demons? Magic? Past lives? Yes, yes and yes. He’s hoping to rebuild Black Wing but gets stuck with Friedkin (Dustin Milligan), an unpredictable, wildly ambitious and dangerous moron. Though he supports Colonel Riggins in his quest to peacefully achieve his goal, his boneheaded nature may derail the Colonel’s plans altogether.