for Lsellersfic: "Helen Watt" (Primeval fic)

[rodlox]

Title: Helen Watt.
now crossposted to Archive of our own - "Helen Watt".

Author: Keenir.
Written at the request of Lsellersfic for Help HaitiPrompt: What if Helen had never met Nick Cutter

Comments

[nietie]

In any world or AU, Helen is Helen, always distinctive.

I liked the description Aeryn Sun and Eowyn and girl!Bobba Fett all in one body

[rodlox]

thank you.

>In any world or AU, Helen is Helen, always distinctive.
welllll....in any world or AU worth reading, that is.

yeah, that took a while, but I figure it was right up Connor's alley.

[fredbassett]

Yes, Helen's certainly distinctive, there's no doubt about that.

[lsellersfic]

This is great!

Helen is still very much Helen, without the connection to Nick, but with less of the bitterness. I love the sequence where she kills the predator.

Thank you!

[rodlox]

thank you. I'm pleased you like it.

>Helen is still very much Helen, without the connection to Nick, but with less of the bitterness.
I wanted to show that she might be more harried (ie chased by man and creature alike), yet she can still vanish in the blink of an eye.

(don't even blink)
*Gibbsslaps muse*

>Thank you!
you're quite welcome.

the original draft involved steampunk australopiths.

[canadian_jay]

Oh this was great! I especially liked the lines at the beginning. Helen was so... Helen! Great fic. ^^

[rodlox]

thank you

[sar_kaz_m]

Cool! I like Helen. A lot. Like her better than Cutter. Enough that I'm working on a rewrite where SHE's the professor, and Nick is the one that vanished. (and Connor is her teaching assistant -- I think they'd probably have plenty of wild theories.)

[rodlox]

if you need a beta for that intriguing story, I'm right here.

Connor'd be a good teaching assistant...it might help rein in some of his (flightyness?).

thank you for the reply.

[sar_kaz_m]

A big motivation for the rewrite was this: If Connor is really that brilliant, shouldn't SOMEONE have taken him under their wing? Srsly, this is a guy who memorizes dinosaurs, builds an interactive database, somehow manages to design & build the detector, and the hand helds (yes, adapted satnavs, but still), writes a virus that piggy-backs on an unauthorized hack and has a reverse data download built in, figures out how to manipulate a free-floating possibly-naturally-occurring electromagnetic field.... and built a remote control robotic scout on par with military robotics from various scrounged parts. Honestly, they're lucky he uses his powers for good, yeah? He should at least be smart enough to know when to keep his mouth shut.

[rodlox]

thats a good reason for a rewrite - a very good reason.

>Honestly, they're lucky he uses his powers for good, yeah?
*nods*
can you imagine if Leek had recruited him?

sometimes, the smarter they are, the worse the filter between their brain and mouth. (or the filter's too good, and they barely talk)