INAUGURAL COMMENTMEME PARTY
Like science fiction? Like supernatural? Want someone to finally write that story where Robo!Sam is actually a robot version of Sam? Well then, come join our inaugural commentmeme party!
Fic and art both welcome!
( Details and rules underneath the cut )
Fic and art both welcome!
( Details and rules underneath the cut )
"Who's Azazel?" Sam asked.
Ruby smiled, "He was our leader, for a while. One of the first." she bowed her head, "The Angels took him out last week during the raid on Center-City."
"Wait you mean..."
"That's right." she nodded, "The raid your brother was on."
"They're trying to recruit him. I told him not to join, but he..." Sam shook his head, "he doesn't listen to me anymore." He looked down at his leg, and watched as his quadriceps finished reforming. Skin cells started to form over the exposed muscle in perfectly symmetrical strips.
"Why doesn't he listen to you?"
Sam laughed bitterly, "Because he knows what I've been doing."
Ruby leaned down over Sam's thigh to inspect her handiwork and turned back towards him, "What have you been doing, exactly?"
"Mods. I didn't mean to, at first, really, I was just..." He ran his hand through his hair and sighed, "After what happened with Dad, I just needed to get away, you know? And then the dreams started. I just wanted to know what they meant." He swallowed, "So I went to Crossroads."
"You found a seer?"
"Yeah, well...she found me, I guess. She said that I was different. Not a Demon, but not a human either. Something in-between. She told me she could make the dreams go away, or I could learn what they meant."
"You chose knowledge instead of ignorance."
Sam nodded.
"Nothing wrong with that."
Sam let out a huff, "Yeah there is, when it involves hypothalamus modification."
"Did it work?"
"Yeah. It worked. Really well. I went back to her...a few times."
"So what were the dreams about?"
"Demons, mostly. It was like..." Sam closed his eyes remembering, "like I was one of them. One of you. I'd fall asleep and be someone else. I was...strong and I could do things. Crazy things." He opened his eyes again and saw Ruby staring back at him.
She looked at him oddly, "What kind of things?"
Sam laughed, "This one time, I dreamt I was an Angel, but I was protecting Demons. Hundreds of them. I held up my hand..." Sam lifted his right arm and spread his fingers wide, like he had in the dream. "...and all the other Angels stopped moving. It's like they just...shut down."
"Can't shut down an Angel. They have self-perpetuating power cells. They're networked, you can't -"
"I did." Sam shook his head, "I mean...in my dream."
Ruby stood up and grabbed Sam's hand. "Come on. Get up, your leg's as good as new."
Sam took her hand and swung his legs over the side of the operating table. His leg felt good. He felt good, better than he had in years. "These nano-bots. Are they disposable?"
"Hell no." Ruby laughed, "Demonic technology is built to last. They run on X5 cells. They've outlive you." She winked at him, all five hundred years or so you've got ahead of you."
"What - what do you mean?" Sam stopped walking.
"Sam, I told you, you're one of us."
"But I -"
"How many mods have you had, altogether?
"Too many."
"How many?"
"Twenty-seven."
Ruby let out a low whistle. "Well I'll be damned." She laughed and added, "Yeah, you can't come back from that. When was the last time you passed a scanner-check?"
Sam shook his head, and said. "Over a year ago."
"How many gene-hacks to your neural network?"
"I -I lost count."
"Okay." Ruby nodded, she turned her back on Sam again and walked towards the door. "There's some people I want you to meet."
Sam followed her through the black door into a huge room filled with...servers. He turned and stared at the walls, counting dozens and dozens of computers. The processor power in the room had to be massive.
"Pretty cool huh?" asked a man with dirty blond hair. "Hi, I'm Brady." he added, holding out his hand. "You must be Sam."
Sam shook his hand and peered over the heads of the other people circled around them asking, " The computers. What's all this for?"
Ruby grinned at Sam and said, "This..." she gestured at the countless servers, "is Lucifer. Our Angel." She put her hand on Sam's shoulder. "And he needs an avatar."
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YES! ... I mean, oh dear. You are too clever by half. I really enjoyed watching you unfold this AU, and the reveal at the end is thrilling.
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I've never written such a drastically different AU before- but it was really fun!
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Sulfuric signatures(!!!!!) Sam. Angels. Susceptible infants! Demons! Lucifer! Sam.
This has robbed me of coherency it is so great. Seriously, I would read ninety chapters of this.
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I had sooo much fun writing this (and I've never written an AU quite like this before either). I posted the full piece over at my journal (complete with typo corrections), and will add any new chapter links there. It's very, very likely I'll be adding more. This is quite the intriguing setting.
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Monica, bb, this is fantastic!
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thanks very much!
I'd never written an AU this different from canon before, it was a lot of fun though!
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More please? Christ that is awesome, so good. And I love how the ambivalence is sorta built in in this universe. It was meddling that made the problem, it isn't really the demons fault that they want to survive.
*draws hearts around it all*
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There's definitely more on the horizon. I've posted this fic (with much-needed typo corrections!) over at my journal and will link new chapters there (and presumably here, too, lol).
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