That 15 characters meme, answered!
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chanter1944This took me a while, mainly because people kept giving me excellent questions worthy of detailed answers!
First, the characters.
1 Luka Couffaine | Viperion
2 Eugene "Doc" Roe
3 Émilie Agreste | Paon Bleu
4 Seth Goddard
5 Hikaru Sulu
6 Dr. Maura Cassidy
7 Jeffrey Sinclair
8 Floyd Talbert
9 Nyota Uhura
10 Kit Rodriguez
11 Janice Rand
12 Clara Clayton Brown
13 Benjamin Sisko
14 Sariel Rager
15 Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
And now, the answers!
Viamuccamukk
5 Hikaru Sulu and 10 Kit Rodriguez are on the run from 15 Leonard McCoy. Why are they running, and will 15 catch them?
"Damn it, Sulu, I know you've got more sense than this. Rodriguez, I don't much care about the temporal issues that have you runnin' in circles, and I mean that, but from where I'm standing, they're not a problem to begin with seein' as I'm already talking to you both down a comm line. Listen, I'm thrilled the Errantry was a success - that mechanical interface spellwork you collaborated on is one for the books, I'll bet - but you haven't gotta keep avoiding me until that timeslide reactivates. C'mon, let's get the pair of you patched up. I can leave the technological side of things out of it if you're concerned about a variable going ping when you're back in your New York, kid. That offer's for you too, Sulu."
Assume this is my These Are The Voyages 'verse, if you like. :)
Viastealthsubsystem
4 Seth Goddard and 8 Floyd Talbert want cookies but there are none. They coerce 2 Eugene Roe and 13 Benjamin Sisko to help. What kind of crack ensues?
Either this is Easy raiding some half-depleted storehouse and then doing their clumsy best with whatever they find, or the students left enough in the way of relevant supplies in Christa's galley for once. That, or everyone's docked at DS9, in which case Sisko takes the reins and everyone benefits mightily. Roe gets dragged in on the basis of being, from a few hints and as many foxhole stories of home, a better cook than Tab, Goddard can't maintain even performative irritation in the face of things and, after a while, gives up trying (though you'll never get him to admit it), and Talbert learns a double handful of phrases in two distinct Francophone dialects, because the other three got chatting somewhere amid butter-flour-chocolate chips-Vulcan-style protein nibs-Bajoran groundfowl eggs, and Tab got curious.
Viakellan_the_tabby
Okay, hmm. 11 Janice Rand! is 11 in love with 4 Seth Goddard or 9 Nyota Uhura? or both? how do 4 & 9 feel about all this?
Weeeeell, there are plenty of fics out there that say Rand/Uhura is the way to go, ahem! I tend to view their relationship through an Enterprise: The First Adventure lens, which brings them much closer to platonic mentor and protegee, if anything. I can't see Rand/Goddard either (he might well intimidate her during her younger days), though he'd probably platonically appreciate her fierceness, and she his, as she grows into herself.
Viakellan_the_tabby
6 Maura Cassidy & 7 Jeffrey Sinclair, enemies to lovers. 1 Luka Couffaine & 14 Sariel Rager do color commentary a la Statler & Waldorf.
Oh dear. So one, these two would not be enemies. No way. If anything, they'd end up on the same side of a mission of mercy - disaster relief, etc, and depending on the length of the deployment, sparks charged with some level of each of their respective backgrounds might fly. As for color commentary, Luka and Sariel would not manage it in the slightest; he could possibly get in the occasional amused bit of wordplay with a twinkle in his eye, but Sariel's not one to comment on other people's relationships, and is shy enough that she'd be terribly awkward if she even tried. Besides, both the would-be snarkers genuinely like Dr. Cassidy and Commander Sinclair. They'd absolutely default to honest happiness for the pair, then go back to learning the finer points of humanitarian response and diplomacy (Luka, under Cassidy's guidance) and starfury versus shuttlecraft handling (Sariel and Sinclair).
Also viakellan_the_tabby
2 Eugene Roe, 3 Émilie Agreste, 9 Nyota Uhura, 12 Clara Clayton Brown & 13 Benjamin Sisko in a found family situation: 'This is my family. I found them in a dumpster. We're all disaster queers. I wouldn't trade them for anything.'
... Oh, shells. Well. First off, no one was found in an actual physical dumpster, just for the record. There was a bunch of multiversal overlap for a minute or two, but the closest anyone came to the garbage was Émilie making an emergency landing in an alleyway while transformed as Paon Bleu. The temporospatial shenanigans themselves are still somewhat in question; Uhura, Sisko, and Clara all agree that their respective situations could have lent to the initial snarl somehow, though the former two have at least some means of accessing multiple universes and admit it, where Clara is open about she and Emmett working solely in time as yet, once it's established that everyone else involved is trustworthy with scientific secrets. Émilie doesn't believe the rabbit Miraculous has any facility with timelines beyond repairing them, and Gene is honestly well out of his depth once the conversations about multiple realities and dates start flying. He's frankly amazed by Émilie's ability to gain functional wings and tail when necessary, and it's fair to say everyone is charmed by Duusu.
As for the found family aspect, that happens while the five of them are sorting out the interdimensional SNAFU - Gene gets the first try at explaining that term to both Émilie and Clara, given it's his war's slang turned common usage, before Sisko takes over and saves the poor man the awkwardness. They're all fairly good friends by the time everything is disentangled, and a couple others have been looped in - Emmett, for one, Jake Sisko for another, and if Émilie brings a tiny Adrien around to meet her friends, she may or may not tell Gabriel the truth of the matter. Some things form nigh unbreakable bonds, and untangling a five-way snarl involving four different universes and the Temporal Prime Directive is one of them. It doesn't hurt the link-up that all of them have at least some portion of a Francophone language to their name, either.
Émilie is probably the least likely to dispute the disaster designation, at least for herself. It does make Uhura laugh when she hears it, even though she immediately denies it as applicable. It takes a while for both Gene and Clara to reconcile queer as a positive term against what they've usually heard, though Clara does have at least something of a time traveler's advantage there. Sisko isn't talking much about either half of the phrase, though he's doing even less denying, whatever his variables are.
For the authorial record, at least three of these people are demi, grey-ace, or some combination of the two, but only one of those three has the slightest idea such terminology even exists (Émilie). Clara may have had a few suitors interested in her, but only one man will ever turn her head in that particular way, and she's wearing his wedding ring, Émilie's relationship with Gabriel took time to evolve, and Gene just doesn't seem to think about those things as much or as often as most of the other fellows in Easy do. Babe and Renée are the rare exceptions, and even they took a while. Uhura says readily enough that she definitely isn't as straight as some members of the press would make her out to be, but also that she doesn't go around admitting the fine details of her love life to the news services. And Sisko isn't talking, between Jennifer, and Kassidy, and Julian--he's playing his cards close. Never mind his own time travel excursions.
First, the characters.
1 Luka Couffaine | Viperion
2 Eugene "Doc" Roe
3 Émilie Agreste | Paon Bleu
4 Seth Goddard
5 Hikaru Sulu
6 Dr. Maura Cassidy
7 Jeffrey Sinclair
8 Floyd Talbert
9 Nyota Uhura
10 Kit Rodriguez
11 Janice Rand
12 Clara Clayton Brown
13 Benjamin Sisko
14 Sariel Rager
15 Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
And now, the answers!
Via
muccamukk5 Hikaru Sulu and 10 Kit Rodriguez are on the run from 15 Leonard McCoy. Why are they running, and will 15 catch them?
"Damn it, Sulu, I know you've got more sense than this. Rodriguez, I don't much care about the temporal issues that have you runnin' in circles, and I mean that, but from where I'm standing, they're not a problem to begin with seein' as I'm already talking to you both down a comm line. Listen, I'm thrilled the Errantry was a success - that mechanical interface spellwork you collaborated on is one for the books, I'll bet - but you haven't gotta keep avoiding me until that timeslide reactivates. C'mon, let's get the pair of you patched up. I can leave the technological side of things out of it if you're concerned about a variable going ping when you're back in your New York, kid. That offer's for you too, Sulu."
Assume this is my These Are The Voyages 'verse, if you like. :)
Via
stealthsubsystem4 Seth Goddard and 8 Floyd Talbert want cookies but there are none. They coerce 2 Eugene Roe and 13 Benjamin Sisko to help. What kind of crack ensues?
Either this is Easy raiding some half-depleted storehouse and then doing their clumsy best with whatever they find, or the students left enough in the way of relevant supplies in Christa's galley for once. That, or everyone's docked at DS9, in which case Sisko takes the reins and everyone benefits mightily. Roe gets dragged in on the basis of being, from a few hints and as many foxhole stories of home, a better cook than Tab, Goddard can't maintain even performative irritation in the face of things and, after a while, gives up trying (though you'll never get him to admit it), and Talbert learns a double handful of phrases in two distinct Francophone dialects, because the other three got chatting somewhere amid butter-flour-chocolate chips-Vulcan-style protein nibs-Bajoran groundfowl eggs, and Tab got curious.
Via
kellan_the_tabbyOkay, hmm. 11 Janice Rand! is 11 in love with 4 Seth Goddard or 9 Nyota Uhura? or both? how do 4 & 9 feel about all this?
Weeeeell, there are plenty of fics out there that say Rand/Uhura is the way to go, ahem! I tend to view their relationship through an Enterprise: The First Adventure lens, which brings them much closer to platonic mentor and protegee, if anything. I can't see Rand/Goddard either (he might well intimidate her during her younger days), though he'd probably platonically appreciate her fierceness, and she his, as she grows into herself.
Via
kellan_the_tabby6 Maura Cassidy & 7 Jeffrey Sinclair, enemies to lovers. 1 Luka Couffaine & 14 Sariel Rager do color commentary a la Statler & Waldorf.
Oh dear. So one, these two would not be enemies. No way. If anything, they'd end up on the same side of a mission of mercy - disaster relief, etc, and depending on the length of the deployment, sparks charged with some level of each of their respective backgrounds might fly. As for color commentary, Luka and Sariel would not manage it in the slightest; he could possibly get in the occasional amused bit of wordplay with a twinkle in his eye, but Sariel's not one to comment on other people's relationships, and is shy enough that she'd be terribly awkward if she even tried. Besides, both the would-be snarkers genuinely like Dr. Cassidy and Commander Sinclair. They'd absolutely default to honest happiness for the pair, then go back to learning the finer points of humanitarian response and diplomacy (Luka, under Cassidy's guidance) and starfury versus shuttlecraft handling (Sariel and Sinclair).
Also via
kellan_the_tabby2 Eugene Roe, 3 Émilie Agreste, 9 Nyota Uhura, 12 Clara Clayton Brown & 13 Benjamin Sisko in a found family situation: 'This is my family. I found them in a dumpster. We're all disaster queers. I wouldn't trade them for anything.'
... Oh, shells. Well. First off, no one was found in an actual physical dumpster, just for the record. There was a bunch of multiversal overlap for a minute or two, but the closest anyone came to the garbage was Émilie making an emergency landing in an alleyway while transformed as Paon Bleu. The temporospatial shenanigans themselves are still somewhat in question; Uhura, Sisko, and Clara all agree that their respective situations could have lent to the initial snarl somehow, though the former two have at least some means of accessing multiple universes and admit it, where Clara is open about she and Emmett working solely in time as yet, once it's established that everyone else involved is trustworthy with scientific secrets. Émilie doesn't believe the rabbit Miraculous has any facility with timelines beyond repairing them, and Gene is honestly well out of his depth once the conversations about multiple realities and dates start flying. He's frankly amazed by Émilie's ability to gain functional wings and tail when necessary, and it's fair to say everyone is charmed by Duusu.
As for the found family aspect, that happens while the five of them are sorting out the interdimensional SNAFU - Gene gets the first try at explaining that term to both Émilie and Clara, given it's his war's slang turned common usage, before Sisko takes over and saves the poor man the awkwardness. They're all fairly good friends by the time everything is disentangled, and a couple others have been looped in - Emmett, for one, Jake Sisko for another, and if Émilie brings a tiny Adrien around to meet her friends, she may or may not tell Gabriel the truth of the matter. Some things form nigh unbreakable bonds, and untangling a five-way snarl involving four different universes and the Temporal Prime Directive is one of them. It doesn't hurt the link-up that all of them have at least some portion of a Francophone language to their name, either.
Émilie is probably the least likely to dispute the disaster designation, at least for herself. It does make Uhura laugh when she hears it, even though she immediately denies it as applicable. It takes a while for both Gene and Clara to reconcile queer as a positive term against what they've usually heard, though Clara does have at least something of a time traveler's advantage there. Sisko isn't talking much about either half of the phrase, though he's doing even less denying, whatever his variables are.
For the authorial record, at least three of these people are demi, grey-ace, or some combination of the two, but only one of those three has the slightest idea such terminology even exists (Émilie). Clara may have had a few suitors interested in her, but only one man will ever turn her head in that particular way, and she's wearing his wedding ring, Émilie's relationship with Gabriel took time to evolve, and Gene just doesn't seem to think about those things as much or as often as most of the other fellows in Easy do. Babe and Renée are the rare exceptions, and even they took a while. Uhura says readily enough that she definitely isn't as straight as some members of the press would make her out to be, but also that she doesn't go around admitting the fine details of her love life to the news services. And Sisko isn't talking, between Jennifer, and Kassidy, and Julian--he's playing his cards close. Never mind his own time travel excursions.
