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

[veira]

Okay, here we go!

I'm pretty partial to the idea that Dirk is avoidant of large crowds and terrified of thunder and thunderstorms. Imagine living in the middle of the ocean on an oil rig and having no way to escape a storm if it hit you? Plus he has his whole complex about being in control of everything, so it would drive him up the wall doubly. Also, the smuppets aren't for show! He's pretty furry too! I'm waiting for the day someone has him say, "Wanna yiff?" unironically in a fic, and then they do.

I love Jane a lot. She's so determined and confused, and one of my favorite tropes is people realizing they haven't been thinking critically about society, and then proceeding to think critically about society. Jane's going to go on a fun arc of that in canon and I can't wait. I also sort of headcanon that being MADE OF LIFE means that you are basically invincible. If she dies, she will revive. If she takes damage, she will heal. If Dersites mow the four of them down with Tommy guns, she will resurrect and go into a berserker rage to slaughter the lot of them before kissing her friends alive again. This may pose a problem if she ever tries to go god tier.

I really want to write a story about Roxy growing up in a carapace slum! So much! Just the idea of a child raised by an alien society is the coolest thing. Also, she made mutated cats! That is awesome. I like the idea that she would be completely scientific about her clonings, too, keeping huge charts and spreadsheets of thing she'd tried and traits she wanted to accentuate, not to mention alternate sheets for her experiments with the windows. She's so driven by her experiments and that's really interesting to me. I like science Roxy. I also like video game nerd Roxy, and I adore the idea that while Dirk studied the past like a textbook, she plucked out enjoyment from it. She loves her mom's books. She has a video game and console collection. She kidnapped a cat and gave him a silly name.

I think my Jake headcanon is kind of convoluted because he is too? He seems to live with a million fantasies in his head, different splinters of existence that he's lived out and thought over a million times in his head because he is alone on an island with nowhere to go, and he just has that much time. He has fantasies for everything. He's dreamed up a romance with each of his friends, in detail, and he has no idea which of those dreams he wants to become real. Maybe all of them. When Jane said she didn't fancy him, it was a relief because it collapsed that one fantasy and left him with one less to worry about. Her just wanting to be friends fell into the other fantasies just fine. He's got a lot of irons in his mental fire. All the irons. But he's a go-with-the-flow kind of guy, so whatever comes his way, he is very much ready for. Life's an adventure after all.

How do I ship the OT4? Dang. I have a hard time imagining them not having incredibly large places in each other's lives? I'm really partial to Jane and Dirk's absolutely amazing friendship in canon. I am pretty much incoherent over how much I love them and I tend to carve out dumb little paragraphs of them interacting in anything alphaverse that I write. Moreso than I tend to for the other twosomes in the foursome. I also really like Jake/Roxy mostly because fandom seems to ignore it entirely, and thus isn't supplying me with fodder as to how they work together. Lately I've been less big on Dirk/Jake and Jane/Roxy simply because it's everywhere and I feel a bit overexposed. But that doesn't mean I love it any less. Jake and Jane give me all kinds of feelings and sometimes I sit and remember back before she blew it when they had cute flirty pesterlogs, and I sigh fondly. Dirk and Roxy are. Well, they are complicated and I ship them the least, because I guess I'm a bit uncomfortable that Roxy doesn't seem to respect his choice to not talk about his sexuality (a thing I'm touchy about IRL). But as friends, I have a thousand feels about them, and I think that if they sat down and finally ironed out their issues with each other, I would be all over that ship. Which is what AUs and fic are for.

I JUST THINK ALL THE ALPHAS SHOULD SIT IN A PILE AND CUDDLE AND KISS. That's basically how I ship it. I'm not good at this. I'm the patron saint of gen. Why am I on this team? D:

I will be writing for HSO. I'm way out of practice with art and don't have the patience for it anymore. My taste in music is rappelling off the side of "hipster," so any fanmixes I would put together would make little sense.

[playerprophet]

Lanta I love that OT4 Dirk Stormfic so much I can't even.

I love everything you do so much

I love you a lot

[thatreevesgirl]

"I JUST THINK ALL THE ALPHAS SHOULD SIT IN A PILE AND CUDDLE AND KISS."

Kissing piles. They should be a thing. I could totally see Roxy lounging across everyone's laps with a martini with Jane inbetween Dirk and Jake where the two of them could make her blush while they take turns kissing her till she's dizzy. Then Roxy shows the boys how it's done. Oh yes. Kissing pile needs to be on the list of things we do.

Everyone overlooks Jane and Dirk's friendship. I adore it too. Dirk wants Jane to believe him so much, and to wake up and see the light like the rest of them. Jane is the one person that he seems the most genuine with. It is adorable and makes my heart just swoon.

Why does everyone overlook Jake/Roxy. The two of them would be a riot. When Dirk and Jane are being complete sticks in the mud, Jake and Roxy will go and light the world afire. I just know they would. (The hottest sex would be Jake and Roxy in my opinion).

[veira]

I can't read Jane/Dirk pesterlogs without dissolving into a pile of feelings. It's embarrassing. But they are so much more honest and open with each other than they are with the other two, and I find that really sweet. Not to mention Pony Pals and Lil Seb. I can't wait until they talk again.

The hottest sex would definitely be Jake and Roxy. I mean, Dirk is the master of kink, but they are so unrestrained. It would be adorable.