I am weak. Weak.
Email sent to Bee last night:
"Now the question is, if one were to write a Matrix AU -- which I absolutely am not, because that would be silly, and I'm only plotting it for, um. Further use, yes -- who would you rather have? Because see, I'm enamored with both Ways as Neo, because they'd both work just as well.
Okay! So, they're both based on the same thing, right? One of them disappears at a young age, 16-17 maybe, because of some hacker related type business and the other spends the next ten or so years desperately looking for him. He's closing himself off from all the rest of the world, hating his soul-crushing job and spending every last penny he has on finding his brother. During his searches, he keeps stumbling over two things -- first of all the Matrix, which is something that his brother was obsessed with, and second the person known as, for lack of a better name, "Morpheus". Now he becomes convinced that this Morpheus person knows what happened to his brother.
And this is where he meets his Trinity. For Gerard, Frank. For Mikey... well. You choose. I could go either way (heh. Way). But either way, there would be lovely brotherly angst -- "what the fuck happened to you? You're not my brother anymore, I don't even know you!", "Fuck biology, we're still brothers and we always will be", "I believe in you. I always have" -- and people dying like flies, because it wouldn't be Matrix if people weren't killed. Which is sad, yes, but that is kind of the way you'd have to go with this. And then at the end, Mikey/Gerard dies (slightly mutilated) together with the love of his life, and Gerard/Mikey lives on in Zion (probably continuing to preach what his brother tried to tell people) with the love of HIS life.
Depressing. SO WHY AM I SO TEMPTED GODDAMMIT?"
*facepalm*
"Now the question is, if one were to write a Matrix AU -- which I absolutely am not, because that would be silly, and I'm only plotting it for, um. Further use, yes -- who would you rather have? Because see, I'm enamored with both Ways as Neo, because they'd both work just as well.
Okay! So, they're both based on the same thing, right? One of them disappears at a young age, 16-17 maybe, because of some hacker related type business and the other spends the next ten or so years desperately looking for him. He's closing himself off from all the rest of the world, hating his soul-crushing job and spending every last penny he has on finding his brother. During his searches, he keeps stumbling over two things -- first of all the Matrix, which is something that his brother was obsessed with, and second the person known as, for lack of a better name, "Morpheus". Now he becomes convinced that this Morpheus person knows what happened to his brother.
And this is where he meets his Trinity. For Gerard, Frank. For Mikey... well. You choose. I could go either way (heh. Way). But either way, there would be lovely brotherly angst -- "what the fuck happened to you? You're not my brother anymore, I don't even know you!", "Fuck biology, we're still brothers and we always will be", "I believe in you. I always have" -- and people dying like flies, because it wouldn't be Matrix if people weren't killed. Which is sad, yes, but that is kind of the way you'd have to go with this. And then at the end, Mikey/Gerard dies (slightly mutilated) together with the love of his life, and Gerard/Mikey lives on in Zion (probably continuing to preach what his brother tried to tell people) with the love of HIS life.
Depressing. SO WHY AM I SO TEMPTED GODDAMMIT?"
*facepalm*