#dark matter syfy

[words-of-a-fanboy]

So it’s the 10th International Fanworks Day today, and I saw that the OTW are doing a drabble fest with a theme of the number 10. And that just worked too perfectly in a fandom like Dark Matter where the characters are numbers. So I worked out three groups of three where the numbers add up to 10, and just… started writing, with absolutely no idea what was going to come out. This happened, and it’s probably one of my favourite things I’ve ever written xD Granted, it ended up a bit longer than a drabble, but hell it was too fun and I didn’t want to shorten it for the sake of it. It’s mostly gen but pre-slash if you squint ;)

So here’s a random silly slice of Raza life fic featuring all our favourites and a mystery to solve… what the hell happened between One and Three?

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round Two (Bracket 4)

[doggirlbuffysummersmain]

Three from Dark Matter has probably the most growth out of any character in the series and it's entirely because he spends the whole first season trying to be the person he used to be, when the only information he has about that person is a Most Wanted bulletin.

But. He can never truly be that tough loner, no matter how much he tries, because he never was that type of person. His character growth comes not from changes in who he is, but in his acceptance of the complexity present in who he always has been.

[tacodestroyeravenger]

If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a cast of characters that were named after numbers, I would have three nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened thrice.

[wafflesinthe504]

Don't know if anyone else has done this already but.....

If I had a nickel for every time Melissa O'Neil played a doppelganger version of herself in a show she starred in I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice.

It could also be noted that both of her characters have been kidnapped and ended up semi- adopting a kid. I think both characters have also gone undercover as their respective doppelgangers. So yeah, for two shows and characters that are pretty drastically different there are quite a few similarities between her two characters which I find absolutely delightful.

The other show she's in is called Dark Matter which is a sci-fi show. If you want, you can watch it on the CW's website for free.

Anyways Melissa O'Neil is a great actress I hope to see her in more stuff in the future.

[keclan]

i’m rewatching dark matter

[hopefullythingspanout]

[shinyspacepirate]

Sometimes a girlie wants to watch an episode that starts with a guy having to learn French to convince his friends he's stuck in a time loop and ends with a girl in bad old person makeup giving out cryptic spoilers.

[isharaneith]

Whumptober 2023 – No. 6

“Do or die, you’ll never make me; Because the world will never take my heart.”

Recording | Made to Watch | “It should have been me.”

[noybusiness]

Dark Matter Fanfic Prompts

@butfirst-wesavethegalaxy

@dark-matter-of-opinion

@darkmatterftl

@fyeahdarkmatter

These are the prompts I have for Dark Matter fanfics. The first one comes from a friend and the others are my own imaginings. If you use one of the prompts listed here, please come back and put a link to your fic in a note or reblog so that we can check it out. Please note that more than one person can do their own version of any of these prompts and in fact I encourage it; the more the merrier. If you think of a way to combine any of them, that's okay, too.

And of course, if you have prompts of your own you can post them in a note or reblog.

* The one that I'd most like to see realized comes from a user on Tumblr called RavenMcbainMonkeymouse who asked me to shop it around because she doesn't feel she can write conversations well (the working title she gave it was "Mind Games"). Instead of killing Jace Corso, the crew capture him and use One's neural imprint on him (either from when they took Transfer Transit in "Episode 8" or a later upload they discover in the ship's computer). Either replacing his own memories or giving him both sets. And what happens after that (identity issues!). I'd really like to see this realized.

* During their conversation in the hotel in "Welcome to Your New Home", One and/or Six either get a vision of what is going to happen or are snapped back in time to that moment. If One gets a vision that includes all of Seasons 2 and 3, then he should be impressed by Three's character development.

* Inspired by the fact that the crew weren't told which of them was the traitor in the Season 1 finale until shortly before that last scene was filmed, a series of AU vignettes where One (and/or Corso posing as One), Two, Three, Four, Five and the Android each turned out to be the traitor instead of Six. Could be from the perspective of the betrayed or the traitor.

* One of the crew wishes for One and Three to be polite to each other, which is magically granted with hilarious results such as being stuck because each insists on holding the door open for the other to go first.

* An AU where Marcus Boone's life is different because his parents were never killed.

* AU for the pilot where the Raza crew don't recover their last plotted destination (the mining colony) right away or find their Wanted Files in the ship's log, and thus are untethered in the galaxy with even less idea who they are than in canon.

* An accident or head trauma causes One to regress to Derrick Moss before his wife died and he infiltrated the Raza, so he has to learn about her death all over again and is understandably freaked out to be surrounded by infamous criminals and told he's part of their crew.

* When Two laid claim to Alternate Portia's jacket at the end of "Stuff to Steal, People to Kill", there was a spy fly on it that now secretly flies around the ship and relays audio and video of our crew's doings to the alternate crew (that's why Portia didn't put up much of a fuss about the jacket). Could be played for laughs.

* Something that incorporates the sentence "One and Five shrieked. Two and Four reached for their weapons. Three and Six did both."

* The Android throws the crew a surprise birthday party on the anniversary of their awakening. Half of them shouldn't even know their birthday birthdays anyway. Since it was her awakening, too, perhaps she'd even wipe her own memory of doing the planning after it was all set up, so that she could be surprised as well. Preferably in an AU where One wasn't killed off or he's head of CoreLactic again. This came to me because Alternate Wexler said in Season 3 that it had been a month since his counterpart died in Season 1, and Mallozzi confirmed that this is accurate and relatively little time passes between episodes, so it occurred to me that their birthday hadn't passed yet. (A user I gave this prompt to a while ago has used it in a fic on AO3, but as I said, the more the merrier.)

* What each of the crew's original selves was dreaming about at the moment that the amnesia hit them in stasis. This occurred to me because of a scene cut from "We Were Family" where the Android asked Four about when he first started dreaming, because people without memories to process can't dream. That and the pilot episode script saying we start by focusing in on One in his pod oblivious to his surroundings, and Five explaining in Season 3 that when someone is in stasis their digital consciousness is uploaded to keep their mind active, which is how she saved Sarah.

* The crew realize that Five (per another cut scene from "We Were Family") has a crush on Devon, and the guys mess with him by doing the inevitable big brother "if you ever hurt her" speech thing. Two eyerolls at them and acts like she's exasperated with their behavior.. but then turns around and makes the scariest threat yet.

* Two puts off an annoyingly helpful salesperson in a shop on a space station by pointing to One and Three across the shop and saying her friends are a married couple ("You can tell they're married by the way they argue.") shopping for their little girl and they could really use the salesperson's assistance much more than she could. One and Three are unable to get a word in edgewise return to the Raza laden with bags of little girl's clothing ("Don't. Ask.")

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[words-of-a-fanboy]

Links Masterpost

Featured Fics

Revenge - chapters 48/48 Rating: Explicit Category: M/M Fandom: Dark Matter Relationships: Derrick/Marcus (One/Three) Main Tags: Prequel, Secret Identity, Enemies to Lovers, Angst, Smut, Emotional Slowburn

Privacy - chapters 4/? Rating: Explicit Category: M/M Fandom: The Maze Runner - James Dashner Relationships: Newt/Thomas Main Tags: Horny Teenagers, Public Sex, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Embarrassment

The Scent of You - one shot Rating: Teen Category: M/M Fandom: Harry Potter Relationships: Draco/Harry Main Tags: Amortentia, Attraction, Embarrassment, Mocking, Kissing

A Job Well Done - one shot Rating: General Audiences Category: Gen, M/M Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen Relationships: Yuuji & Megumi & Nobara, Yuuji/Megumi Main Tags: Fluff, Cute, Sleepiness, Best Friends, Cuddling, Hair-stroking

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[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 4)

[doggirlbuffysummersmain]

Personally I think it would be really funny if either Dark Matter itself or the creator acknowledged the fact that almost every planet seems to have a single biome: Canadian forest. Almost entirely positive that they used the same forest for like 80-97% of episodes that involved a planet.

[bisexualmultifandommess]

Just started writing a Dark Matter fanfic where One and Three are mistaken for Five’s fathers on a mission and have to pretend to be husbands and fathers for the duration of the mission. I’m excited for this one I’ve been thinking about it for ages love a good bit of fake dating.

[perfectlittlesoul]

i finished rewatching dark matter yesterday and now i kinda just want to scream about it.