A discussion about Team Alphachronism

[thatreevesgirl]

I love the really great conversation we have going in the intro post. There are so many other things I want to know about everyone, so I got the okay to start another discussion post.

Let's start with our lovely OT4. Here are some questions that might spark some good discussion about our favorite alpha kids.

1. Do you have any particular headcanon for Dirk, Jake, Jane, or Roxy? Like having to do with their personality, sexuality, past, etc.
2. playerprophet shared her headcanon for how she ships the OT4 in the welcome post (with a diagram and everything). How do you ship it?
3. Do you ship anything inside of the OT4? (Like Jake<3Jane, Roxy<3Jane, or Dirk<3Jake)

Random Bonus Question:  Everyone kind of eluded to what mediums they do in the intro post, but I'm curious to know where you think your strengths are going to be when we get going with the HSO.  Art, fiction, other media, cosplay, both art and fic, etc.

Comments

[thatreevesgirl]

I have no experience making them, but I love flash and text games as well. Perhaps a flash game or something similar like that would be a great idea for the collab project since it doesn't have a media limit. Plus, that final collab round has the longest time to be prepared (June 2nd until July 28th according to the chart in the HSO faq), so all of us could contribute some really awesome stuff.

Also, I love, love, love your shipping chart. It looks like a big disaster of ships, but all of them work and make sense. It is the most organized chaos I have ever had the pleasure of looking at.

(p.s. I could totally see Jake being attracted to Jade and being all kinds of upset by it, and Dirk being like, "Go for it." Because Dirk seems to have a more "ancestor" view of his relationships with Dave and Rose. I think Dirk would be very supportive of weird, ectobiological incest. Just one more thing that makes me wonder why he is my favorite character.

[nextian]

Hahaha, yep, Dirk is definitely the one being like "I don't get it."

GT: Its not right Dirk! Confound it a young man is supposed to believe that his grandmother is the delightful source of whatever it friggin is on the mainland. Cookies and mothballs I guess. Not a smokin hot babe with an excellent trigger finger!
TT: I can't decide what's fucking funnier here, the airquotes I know you're levering around "smokin' hot babe" or the fact that you think it matters who your genetic donor was.
GT: Well dont forget she did her fair share of raising me. Before she was murdered and cremated I mean.
TT: You might as well admit it now, Jake. You are passionately in the throes of sexual attraction for Jade Harley.
TT: You want to ram your meat sausage into her porcelain cave.
TT: Okay, that sentence backfired on me.
GT: I dont see you being so cavalier about makin the fancy dance with your brother!!
TT: That's because I want to put his head through a wall.
TT: What do you even think Rose and I have been doing during all our councils of war?
TT: The answer is fucking, Jake.
TT: The answer has always been fucking.
GT: ....oh!!!
GT: I get it!! This is all a funny joke! Hahahhaaa!! You really got me there chum!
TT: No.
TT: This is a literal statement of fact. I can see how you'd get the two confused.

[fayharley]

Oh yes, it would be perfect for the big collab project if everyone was on board. I played some of the ones from last year's HSO and they are just completely charming and look like the team had a lot of fun. Plus, like everyone has pointed out, it really just works for the characters.

Thank you! Yes, chaos is so great. I think it would be sort of a natural result of these kids' entanglements. They're all up in each other's business all the time so they can't do anything without pulling everyone along with them.

I see Jake's thing for Jade forming before he meets her in-game, during the time when they're sending letters back and forth and he's confusing beta!Jade with his deceased grandma. For him Jade is much more immediate and real than Rose and Dave are for Roxy and Dirk. Not only does he have faint memories of her holding him he can talk to her, but only in little scraps because it takes so much energy to send letters back and forth. So I see him agonizing over every little detail he puts into his messages to her. We see him working himself to the bone trying to get the rabbit right and it's not even for her! It's for John! Jake things John must be the greatest because that's what Jade told him and Jade is always right because she's just the best! That birthday letter he sends to John is so awkward and heartbreaking because he wants to meet other people so badly. But yeah, he rips all the uranium out of all his stuff to make that stupid rabbit just because Jade tells him it's important. It's almost fatalistic how he's focused on that goal and willing to doom himself to get it, I can see why some people think that he misinterpreted Dirk's lecture about the future to think he was going to die on 11-11-11.

Also this comic breaks my heart. I like to think Jake saved at least a bit of her hair and made something out of it like the Victorians. I wonder if he had anything of hers survive the house exploding. Maybe Dirk and Roxy could steal some of her things and send it to him as a gift, just so he doesn't feel so lonely? They both seem to get that it's important to feel a physical connection to your guardian figure, especially Roxy with alpha!Rose's scarf, so I'd like to think that they'd do something like that for him.

On a happier note, I'm also fond of the idea of Jade and Dirk being great buddies. You like robots and yiffing too? We have so much to talk about!!!