#jeffrey spender

[vampirewalterskinner]

High School AU where the X-Files gang go on wild (and sometimes stupid) teen adventures in search of the supernatural and the unexplained in their town.

Fox Mulder —17, used to be on the baseball team but quit for unknown reasons, an outcast, almost a rebel bad boy except he doesn’t get girls ever, a believer

Dana Scully — 17, in like every science club imaginable, valedictorian, skeptic

Walter Skinner — 18, the oldest in the group, class president and star football player, a secret believer

John Doggett — 18, also on the football team, the popular kid, a major skeptic

Monica Reyes — 17, works summers as a camp counselor, reads palms in the cafeteria for five bucks a hand, believer

Alex Krycek — 17, also used to be on the baseball team and quit when Fox did, the actual rebel bad boy (but Gay™️), a believer

Jeffrey Spender — 16, the youngest, no clubs and no outstanding talents, his only hobby is proving that he’s better than his big half-brother by doing nothing amazing at all lmao, a skeptic

[xfiles-vibes]

One thing that I will always be desperately sad about is the relationships that Baby William never got to have with not only Mulder and Scully, but other people in his life—particularly his actual half-uncle, Jeffrey Spender, and his pseudo-uncles, The Lone Gunmen.

While Jeffrey’s attempts to get close to William are ultimately to the end of “stealing him away” from CSM and making him normal, I still believe that Jeffrey cared enough for his half-brother’s child to not want him to live a life in danger and potentially be subjected to experiments as he was. If Mulder and Scully had gone into hiding with William, would Spender have still dropped by to visit? What would his relationship with his half-nephew be like?

Meanwhile, the Gunmen purely care about William because he’s the child of two of their close friends. They understand from the beginning how special he is, and are the only three people we see who show up after his birth bearing gifts. They are also the last line of defense in protecting William when he is threatened by the alien cult, with Scully specifically telling Monica Reyes that she is giving William to the “only ones left we can trust”. Whether or not they would have been wholly competent babysitters is debatable, but their care and concern for William is there, and it’s a shame we didn’t get to see them interact with William more. One can easily imagine Byers reading the baby back issues of the Lone Gunman to get him to fall asleep, Frohike teaching him to say curse words as a toddler, and Langly not being mad when the baby messes with his hair.

Anyway, we got robbed of Baby William actually knowing his uncles and I will forever be furious about it.

[scullyswifey]

Babe wake up new reaction meme dropped

[randomfoggytiger]

CSM Inflicted Insanity On the Syndicate

POV: You're the Syndicate.

You've just been contacted, threatened, and struck a deal with mercenary alien overlords. Your partner Carl Spender decides this is the perfect time to have a messy affair with another partner's-- Bill Mulder-- wife. They dodge that issue for years (because Bill either A. willfully blinds himself to that reality or B. doesn't care to know the details) while butting up against biology concerns with the Mulder children; and, because he hasn't caused enough trouble, Carl then helps direct the abductions from each Consortium member's family but somehow loses Samantha Mulder in the process. You don't know until later that this IDIOT didn't return her because "she was his daughter", which sent Bill Mulder's son on a crusade that will unravel the entire Conspiracy and send the planet into possible Colonization.

Now that Idiot Carl caused unnecessary fracturing in the group, twice-- within the same family-- he will abandon his own son and near-crazed wife to hover over Bill Mulder's instead, claiming the boy as his own (to which you will roll your eyes in a "what does it matter, you have a son RIGHT THERE, CARL" manner) and indulge that insanely smart and talented young man to eventually discover and take over the files-- so much so he sends a recruitment girlfriend to intercept him out of college, steer him towards FBI, guide him to said files, then reassign her when Mulder gets mired in Squatchin' instead of the "more important things"... which Carl didn't foresee because, again, he's an idiot.

Idiot Carl will then, because he's bored, send Schrodinger's Son a scientist to-- he assures you, hand on his heart-- debunk Mulder's work, which will, most definitely, get him off our tails, guys. (He will then claim, later, when she helps instead of hindering Maybe Son's work, that this was his long-game recruitment for his Second Son all along.) Scientist Partner will then ring your necks with logic and data; and you will grasp at Carl's when he has the gall to say "in due time" to all your concerns.

You decide Idiot Carl has bitten off more than he can chew, sending his close friend Alien Shooter to monitor the Mulder situation in 1993. All of you are fooled because he was the first of a long line of double-crossers, somehow believing Spooky Mulder is saner than Idiot Carl (agreed) and the lot of you (highly offensive.) Alien Shooter is shot, the files are closed, you scowl Carl back into his place, the end. Problem solved.

...BUT THAT IDIOT'S PET PROJECT WON'T LET THE FILES GO. Because Carl decided to play god and not recruit Schrodinger's Son from the start, Mulder is now on a self-pitying "how dare you take my life's work away from me" quest (despite the fact he's only had the files barely three years.) And because this brat was indulged since Carl indulgently stole away his sister after breaking up his family after having an affair with the Purposefully Forgetful Tena Mulder, you're stuck with this convoluted mess because someone else-- likely a loyal disciple to the late Alien Shooter-- is now double-crossing for the cause your betrayer colleague was killed by last year.

AND BECAUSE CARL CAN'T LEAVE WELL ALONE, he hires a spy to spy on said Maybe Son-- who is already off the X-Files, lest that detail be forgotten, CARL-- to possibly suss out the new double crosser and help bury any leads Mulder comes across... and then Idiot Carl sends this New Rat to send Mulder right into a conspiracy-alien hornet's nest just to set up an unnecessary abduction for his brat's scientist-ex-partner-not-girlfriend who was ALREADY REASSIGNED ELSEWHERE anyways and who IS RETURNED BY IDIOT CARL FOR NO REASON... and survives. Because of course. (And Carl also had a chance to kill Mulder in his apartment but never did and probably never told you, his buddies, about that because you likely would have killed him sooner than Redux II.)

Idiot Carl Spender lets the clones get loose, bringing Bill Mulder back into the game briefly; then Idiot Carl Spender's two-penny goons assassinate Bill Mulder and THEN they willy-nilly shoot the wrong Scully sister, reigniting HER dedication to the cause. CARL HAS MULDER IN HIS GRASP, grenades a traincar and sets fire to it for good measure... AND SCHRODINGER'S SON LIVES. Not only that, but Rat Boy Rootin' Tootin' Wrong Person Shootin' threatens Idiot Carl with exposure and he loses the group's leverage in a deal with Skinner. Mulder escapes a face full of alien blood, being blown up in a train car TWICE, and being shot at by a fleet of agent operatives all by Season 3.

Because of these escapades, your contempt of Carl Spender's methods have reached new heights; and you send out another colleague-- the British one-- on behalf of the Group to Scully. She seems to have a good head on her shoulders; so from here on out, the members continue to trickle to her throughout the year 1995 whenever CSM can't stop Mulder's zany shenanigans.

1996 brings another problem: Russians and that Rat double agent that Idiot Carl hired back in 1994. (He also tag-teams with Mulder before double-crossing him again.) This particular thorn is far from done his double-crossing ways, however: elevating them to TRIPLE crossing the following year in a three-way between your group, Mulder, and the Russians (throw in the UN for a quadruple feature.) Before that, however, IDIOT Carl makes a deal with Mulder's groupies during Scully's cancer because he just won't let her die without playing god some more.

At this point, you're done. You hire an assassin and have Idiot Carl taken out before he can do something INSANELY STUPID like hand over a cure to the one person that validates Mulder's work-- oh, wait.

Just as you've gained a breather-- your newest dead colleague's family and ego drama is over, Mulder drops his belief and is no longer a threat, and British Colleague has taken back from Triple-or-Quadruple Agent what was yours-- Carl's infuriating legacy lives on: Triple-or-Quadruple (T or Q) Agent pops up from the dust like a cockroach and triple-quadruple-crosses all of you again by siding with Mulder. NOW all of you have Carl's vanity project to deal with again without Carl there to corral or counteract him (not that that helped.) But at LEAST the one person Carl hasn't tampered with seems the most promising. Oddly enough, it's his own child-- Abandoned Son.

BUT THEN CARL HAS TO RUIN A GOOD THING BY CONTACTING ABANDONED SON... which means the Idiot's alive. So, having no choice, you send a Triple-or-Quad out to track down his master; and the quadruple-crosser brings back your not-dead colleague, who sweeps in and... actually helps out, for once, cleaning up the Psychic Kid Mess and closing down the X-Files for good. Wow. He's changing, you think.

Foolishly.

AND THEN your last "on the ground" colleague-- the British one-- betrays all of you by siding with and giving Mulder the cure for Scully's viral infection after you all agreed, soundly, that she needed to be done away with.

AND it turns out Idiot Carl is STILL an idiot, because he's back to his melodramatic family drama by RE-OPENING THE X-FILES HE CLOSED DOWN AND PUTTING HIS OWN SON ON THEM WITH HIS SCHRODINGER SON'S RECRUITMENT GIRLFRIEND. Not only that, but he muddies the waters further by having former recruitment girlfriend string along Schrodinger Son Mulder to pull him away from scientist Scully (because Well-Groomed-Now-Dead British Colleague saved her life) while also forcing Abandoned Son to rot in the basement-- hoping to ignite his passion with Recruitment Girlfriend or the Truth or some such thing that worked the first time around. And, of course, Idiot Carl fails-- no dice.

Abandoned Son then TURNS ON ALL OF YOU because Idiot Carl abandoned his mother; and he and the Rat T-or-Q spy split off from your efforts to save yourselves from Colonization by attempting to stop your plans. NOT ONLY THAT, but Schrodinger's Son joins the cause from a talk with Idiot Carl and Recruitment Girlfriend... BUT THEY DIDN'T DO A GOOD ENOUGH JOB BECAUSE SCIENTIST PARTNER THAT CARL RECRUITED ALL THOSE YEARS AGO TALKS HIM OUT OF IT AGAIN AND STOPS HIM FROM JOINING.

And you realize, too late, that the only intelligent member of this entire, foolish, fumbling charade was the British one who chose to go out in a car bomb after saving all the necessary pieces.

So, in the end, you all toast.

Because of Idiot Carl's idiotic melodrama.

[cock-holliday]

She was so hot for this

[deathsbestgirl]

hmm has anyone talked about the similarities between fox mulder & jeffrey spender?? feels like we should talk about that more

[geez-how-to-choose-a-nickname]

daydreaming about The Spooky Squad ™️ being spooky and doing normal friends things because I project myself into Fox Mulder and wish I had a friend group :(

[moiraiinesedai]

THE X-FILES | Two Fathers (6x11)

— well, he’s not wrong.

[90smovies]

[vampirewalterskinner]

Is no one gonna talk about how FINE Jeffrey Spender looks in the newer seasons? No? Just me? Huh, must be the burden of good taste.

[xfiles-vibes]

One of the things that really strikes me when I go back and watch The X Files is how—despite not appearing in the series much at all—Samantha Mulder’s presence consistently haunts the show and its characters.

Her abduction first inspires and then continues to fuel her brother’s search for the truth over several years. Even characters who have never met her seem to know immediately who she is, such as the moment that Scully sees Samantha’s clone on the bridge in Season 2. Knowledge of the torturous experimentation she was subjected to as a teenager by the Cigarette Smoking Man haunts not only her brother Fox Mulder, but also the boy she was raised alongside: Jeffrey Spender. She is simultaneously grieved for by her parents, and also overlooked by them, both choosing lives of shame and secrecy, endlessly guilt-tripping their son into believing he was responsible for his sister being taken, saddling him with a guilt that will weigh on him for years to come.

Anyway, if you’ve read this far, Samantha Mulder was done dirty and she deserved way better of an ending than what she got, especially after so many things in the show can be traced back to the mystery around her initial disappearance.

[scullyswifey]

[randomfoggytiger]

"Mulder Will Be Back"

(Fictober, Day 24)

Giving a side character some limelight today~.

****

Fox Mulder was a scourge. 

For some inexplicable reason, he’d been allowed to run without restraints, make a mockery of the hardworking men and women of the FBI, and involve the Bureau in embarrassing scandal after scandal for five long years. Reprimands fell through the cracks, career ending punishments disintegrated into raps on his knuckles-- the closest chastisement he’d ever been given was that his waste of space and taxpayer dollars office was taken from him, twice. (He’d had very unmanageable declarations before review boards both times, daring to rail against the decision of his superiors while snidely making a mockery of the whole proceeding.) 

Transcripts of his long speeches into black and white terms showed what a lot of other people missed in civil conversation: it wasn’t ego that drove him, or even strictly pride-- it was hubris.

For all his heroic professions of finding “the Truth”, Mulder didn’t care to look for, grasp, or investigate anything that didn’t fit his dangerously erroneous personal beliefs. It wasn’t just aliens-- that might be tolerable, though wincingly embarrassing-- it was the people who believed in them: sick people who needed a shrink and medication, not a couple days of being catered to, batted around, then left with nothing more concrete than a “well, we tried.” It was all in the files, this lack of care or interest. It was appalling.

Agent Fox Mulder had to know these infuriating facts given his collegiate and BSU training, not to mention and the years he’d spent on the VCU. Agent Scully knew, even had a reputation for trying to talk down her partner’s wilder assumptions; but she always went along with his angles, his theories, as much as she professed to being a scientist in need of evidence or proof. 

If Jeffrey Spender had any doubts as to the motives of his fellow agents, the disappearance of his mother-- their explicit involvement despite his warnings, despite his mother’s obvious mental incapacity, despite his later vindicated anger-- and most gallingly their lack of care afterwards-- Fox Mulder sardonic and sarcastic, Dana Scully denying and defensive-- showed that their reputation and his early assessments had proven him, as always, correct.

Now, he had a mother missing-- a fact which Agent Mulder should have understood, if the few bits of memorabilia recovered from his hallowed-out office were to be the judge. And he had a father-- a fact which still struck Jeffrey as a cruel twist of fate, forcing him to wrestle with the abandonment he and his mother endured at the hands of this shadowy benefactor. 

The X-Files were supposed to investigate unsolved cases with the intent to provide answers, perhaps even closure. That was a blatant lie: Jeffrey Spender had read enough-- files on files with nothing but a few days’ vacation in Loo Loo Land and a short report notating little accomplished-- to thoroughly understand that if he seriously considered this post, these witnesses, this job, he’d have to go as mad as Spooky Mulder. 

And he was not willing to lose himself, too. He had a mother to find.

*****

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

Tagging @today-in-fic and @xffictober2023 and @fictober-event

[cock-holliday]

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Whoever did the lighting on Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man deserved an award! Chris Owens is STUNNING in this lighting! | X-Files 4x7

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