Being Human: Rewritten By Machine [Hal]
Title: “Rewritten By Machine”
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: AU!future as shown in episodes 4x01 and 4x07
Summary: The 2030s come in a flash, bring blood, war and a bogus messiah, and take away Hollywood and the meaning of life. Hal thinks they’re mostly great.
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC. Lyrics quoted ( Read more... )
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: AU!future as shown in episodes 4x01 and 4x07
Summary: The 2030s come in a flash, bring blood, war and a bogus messiah, and take away Hollywood and the meaning of life. Hal thinks they’re mostly great.
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC. Lyrics quoted ( Read more... )
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I love how it cyclically starts and ends with pop art, but Hal and Nick have very different definitions of it :D
I also love how Eve wasn't technically present, her presence was very strong and I could see her there, out of the corner of the eye, the strong, hardened girl, burdened with humanity's last hope.
Hal stares at the garish poster and wavers between tearing it to pieces and tearing Cutler to pieces. ahahaha, I knew the poster was Cutler's design :D
People need to see Hal. Humans do, too. I love *subtle* lines creeping on the reader like this one.
“Yeah, but Copacabana! Ipanema. And you can wear white and act like a dick and walk barefooted in the sand and no one will say a word.”
“No one talks to you as it is.” flawless Hal/Cutler interaction<3
“For over twenty years now we have waited for that slip of a girl to go John Connor on us,” says Cutler and plays the Judgment Day theme on his phone. LOL, perfect pop reference for this context.
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Of course it was Cutler's design, muhahaha))) The kid is Lord Harry's best PR agent! XDDDD
Hehehe, Hal will never be nice to Nick))) Not even in the scary future. T_T
Tbh I had the most fun writing Fergus here))) He's not doing anything at all except dreaming of killing Cutler))))))) Best character ever))) Loads of personality))
Cuteler wants ebil Lord Harry back. T_T
Yeah, he's probably too shocked by it anyway))) And he probably won't tell him later either b/c the way things are going, he'll just lose his mind... T_T Angsssst!
Thank you once again for reading and for such kind words, darling! <333
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“You said once that you wanted them to give you Brazil. Why? There is a giant statue of Jesus in Rio.”
Hahaha, maybe he wants to demolish it? But nooo, nobody touches Big J!
The Terminator references really cracked me up. And Nina Simone!
Six bodies on the floor. Hal resists an impulse to rearrange them by size or weight category.This is so creepy but in a good way! Projecting his OCD on bodies now? I can definitely see him do that. I wonder how much baggage he's really carrying, you know. Probably twice as much as we've been shown because we've only been shown the bad things but if his "mood swings" came in cycles, then he had friends before, too, whom he could be betraying every time he goes back to being Lord Harry. I think it's an interesting way to show the strain he's under, and how he gradually breaks beyond repair: he is a soldier (originally), fighting a ( ... )
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Hahaha, or maybe they're gonna run around it in circles? It's a dare: who will come the closest to Big Jesus? XDD Without burning up at least))
You know, I haven't really thought of that... I did keep Leo and Pearl in mind, but you're right: smb had to have helped him before... A perfect insanity ingredient))
Mr Snow creeps the hell out of me. XD But he wasn't as difficult to write as I feared he might be. XD
LOL, you do that, monster man)))
Yay for you and coffee)))
<333 Thanks for reading! And sorry that it's not really tied to the prompt, like, at all. XDDDD
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