Sunshine Challenge
Prompt 7: Sunshine Jasper
A stone with a banded appearance, Sunshine Jasper is often used to keep negative energies at bay and keep your outlook positive so you can realize your dreams. It's also called Bumblebee Jasper and is often a warm sunshine yellow. Interestingly, it's an agate and not a jasper as the name implies. It is a new stone, first discovered in an Indonesian volcano in the 1990's. As it has not yet been found anywhere else in the world, the consensus is that this rare stone helps to attempt the impossible.
The idea of attempting the impossible suggested immediately to me one man: the one and only Walter Bishop from Fringe, crossing over to another universe to save that universe's version of his son. And can I really mention him without mentioning his counterpart from Over There, Walternate?
Walter was the first Fringe character who ever made me want to write - I'd started watching Fringe not long after Lost ended, and picked up on the fact that his institution St Claire's was in Essex, Massachusetts, which also happens to be where Daniel Faraday was living when Widmore recruited him for the freighter mission. So it's been in my personal canon ever since then that these characters were in St Claire's together. It took over a year to write, due to the need to catch up on Fringe and get to know Walter, but this was the result:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1039238
One that I'd written as a pinch hit for an exchange, that with hindsight and more time to have worked on I could probably have done better, is another Lost/Fringe crossover which hints at Walternate trying to attempt the impossible by using time travel to prevent Our Walter taking Peter in 1985:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1039233
And something new created for the challenge, just because I want to:
In those early days of his work with Belly, Walter had dreamed of achieving the impossible; well, he had succeeded in that, having crossed over to another universe. And he’d saved the other universe’s Peter from the death that had befallen his own son; how could he have known at the time that doing so would lead to the tears to the fabric, and eventual destruction of, Over There?
In all the time Walter was in high security prison, he’d had time to reflect on what he could have done differently, ranging from not crossing over at all, maintaining the balance of the universes but still having to live without Peter, to experimenting with time travel to create a different outcome (which could have come with any number of problems of its own and potentially led to the degradation of the universes anyway); he had eventually come to the conclusion that trying to do anything that would have led to a better outcome for Peter, for himself, for the universes, would itself be attempting the impossible.
A stone with a banded appearance, Sunshine Jasper is often used to keep negative energies at bay and keep your outlook positive so you can realize your dreams. It's also called Bumblebee Jasper and is often a warm sunshine yellow. Interestingly, it's an agate and not a jasper as the name implies. It is a new stone, first discovered in an Indonesian volcano in the 1990's. As it has not yet been found anywhere else in the world, the consensus is that this rare stone helps to attempt the impossible.
The idea of attempting the impossible suggested immediately to me one man: the one and only Walter Bishop from Fringe, crossing over to another universe to save that universe's version of his son. And can I really mention him without mentioning his counterpart from Over There, Walternate?
Walter was the first Fringe character who ever made me want to write - I'd started watching Fringe not long after Lost ended, and picked up on the fact that his institution St Claire's was in Essex, Massachusetts, which also happens to be where Daniel Faraday was living when Widmore recruited him for the freighter mission. So it's been in my personal canon ever since then that these characters were in St Claire's together. It took over a year to write, due to the need to catch up on Fringe and get to know Walter, but this was the result:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1039238
One that I'd written as a pinch hit for an exchange, that with hindsight and more time to have worked on I could probably have done better, is another Lost/Fringe crossover which hints at Walternate trying to attempt the impossible by using time travel to prevent Our Walter taking Peter in 1985:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1039233
And something new created for the challenge, just because I want to:
In those early days of his work with Belly, Walter had dreamed of achieving the impossible; well, he had succeeded in that, having crossed over to another universe. And he’d saved the other universe’s Peter from the death that had befallen his own son; how could he have known at the time that doing so would lead to the tears to the fabric, and eventual destruction of, Over There?
In all the time Walter was in high security prison, he’d had time to reflect on what he could have done differently, ranging from not crossing over at all, maintaining the balance of the universes but still having to live without Peter, to experimenting with time travel to create a different outcome (which could have come with any number of problems of its own and potentially led to the degradation of the universes anyway); he had eventually come to the conclusion that trying to do anything that would have led to a better outcome for Peter, for himself, for the universes, would itself be attempting the impossible.