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

[nextian]

I'm rolling around in delight at everything so far. What a good team.

Skipping the first three for now, except to say that I guess I'm the token Cotton Candy representative! But I mostly really don't ship them outside of the OT4; my headcanon for the kids is that they've been living in each others' pockets for so long that they can't develop a stable romantic relationship between any two or any three of the kids without the fourth there to balance things out, hence all the disastrous sixteen year old drama we've been watching so far.

I can't draw for beans so I'm here to write :) I can also songwrite and sing a bit, but I really make terrible recordings so any musical contributions will have to be covered by someone else, haha. I'm hoping you guys will be up for collabs!

[nextian]

OK I guess I should also say that the primary quadrant I ship them in is "revolution." Because I love that you have Leia and Luke, but Leia was actually raised to be Lady Vader, and Luke was totally abandoned on an island in the middle of nowhere, and then you've got, I guess, in this metaphor, Chewbacca the son of the original revolution and R2D2 the party robot who used to be a masterspy, and they're all sixteen. The powerfulness of their relationship is the only conceivable threat to the forces of Empire. In both universes, really! I mean, the beta kids are my darlings, but for different reasons--they wouldn't have stood a chance against Sburb without some serious parental assists due to their frequent and even post-mortem collaboration.

[veira]

I ship them primarily as revolution too! Just, the whole alphaverse is set up for it. It's all political intrigue and this tiny punk group of four kids who somehow have to take down the game from the inside. Not to mention the Condesce is in charge of everything. She is so powerful and somehow they have to go up against her and win. It's fun.

[nextian]

Yes!! And they're sort of tailored to it--I mean her superpowers are technically unlimited, but we've got a hunter vs. her monsters, a mindgames expert vs. her psychic powers, an heiress vs. her access to human power structures, and a carapace ally vs. her access to Derse and Prospit. Kind of cool!

[thatreevesgirl]

I love having a group of people to finally discuss this with. I have a lot of ideas that are on the cusp of being part of my headcanon, but I never can quite articulate them, and then you guys spell it out so well. Yes. I agree with this. That is why the dynamics of the alpha kids are so interesting. So much hinges on them, and they add in more political intrigue. Yep. Yep. Yep. I like this theory very much.