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Oct 07, 2010 18:46

[and video turns on with this lovable cat boy sprawled comfortably in his cabin, not really feeling all that up to joining the rest of the world quite yet. He still hadn't managed to find the guy who Faith had mistaken him for, and while he was sure that yeah, that was probably a good thing, he's still keeping himself indoors during the day, just ( Read more... )

dean winchester, alec mcdowell (x5-494), aisling, sam winchester, gabriel, karrin murphy, jo harvelle

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tearsandtildes October 8 2010, 20:13:58 UTC

Who are you?

tearsandtildes October 9 2010, 00:50:31 UTC

Sounds like you lead an exciting life with best friends like that.

im_apimp October 9 2010, 15:29:26 UTC

Oh, you have no idea. The life of a bike messenger is the stuff of great TV drama.

[a beat]

Normal's also never handled a gun in his life before then. I'm just considering myself lucky that all he got was my arm. And it's not like I've never been shot before. I've been shot by people with much better aim and I've survived. It wasn't anything personal, and I've accepted that. He's just had a lot of shock to his system that day.

tearsandtildes October 9 2010, 15:52:24 UTC

Bike messenger. Right. Doesn't seem like the kind of job that would normally land someone in the line of fire time after time. What exactly were you delivering?

im_apimp October 9 2010, 15:57:57 UTC

You haven't lived in my Seattle dude. People have gotten shot over way less.

And Normal's my boss, and we were at dispatch, so technically I wasn't delivering anything.

tearsandtildes October 9 2010, 19:27:45 UTC

So what was this thing that happened in '09?

im_apimp October 9 2010, 19:36:46 UTC

Terrorists set off an electromagnetic pulse that crashed America financial networks. Everyone who stored their money in a bank instead of under their mattress pretty much lost everything.

Country -- and the rest of the known world, actually, because of course America's in everyone's debt -- has been in an economic depression pretty much ever since.

tearsandtildes October 9 2010, 20:52:29 UTC

That explains the gunfire.

I don't think anyone's even talked about a technological threat like that in our world. Not on that scale, at least.

im_apimp October 9 2010, 20:57:42 UTC

Lucky you, then. The Pulse set us back technology wise as well, but there have still been a lot of other scientific advancements, biologically speaking. Viruses that can be targeted to a specific person's genetic code, some really fancy genetic engineering -- it's just that the public as a whole doesn't have access to a lot of this shit, or have any idea that it was going on.

Well ... up until the past few months, anyway.

tearsandtildes October 9 2010, 23:22:46 UTC

Let me guess. That information going mainstream didn't exactly go over too well with the public.

im_apimp October 9 2010, 23:27:13 UTC

Not really, no. And people didn't seem to get that they were just looking to live just like everyone else. That they weren't out to hurt them.

They ran them down in the streets like dogs. One of them got strung up by a lynch mob. They torched his corpse and hung him up like he was some kind of warning. The rest of the genetically engineered community didn't take that too well, as I'm sure you could understand.

[that ... might have gotten a little more personal in tone than Alec was planning, but too late -- what's done is done]

tearsandtildes October 10 2010, 00:51:21 UTC

[Oh believe me, Sam notices.]

So when you say 'genetically engineered', do you mean to be free from diseases, better physically, that kind of thing?

im_apimp October 10 2010, 00:55:02 UTC

Occasionally mixed with some nice animal DNA, had military training since they were old enough to walk ... that kind of thing.

Some of them could pass for human, but some of 'em can't. They're the ones that get more of the media attention, but most of 'em wouldn't hurt a fly.

tearsandtildes October 10 2010, 01:59:32 UTC

Animal DNA? Sounds a little Jurassic Park. What kind of animal DNA?

im_apimp October 10 2010, 02:03:39 UTC

Feline mostly. In the beginning they experimented with canine. Lizard or fish DNA for ... custom models, so to speak. You could use lizard DNA and body conditioning to survive longer in the desert, fish to deal with underwater missions.

But a lot of the ones who pass for human are a human-feline mix with X-series bonus features. They were building better soldiers. They wanted to be the people who could send in a small group of ten into battle and lose no one, rather than a platoon of a hundred and lose half.

tearsandtildes October 10 2010, 03:12:09 UTC

Makes... sense, I suppose.

Now when you say 'they' you're talking... the government? What kind of missions exactly were these?

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