#BILL MULDER IS THE FATHER HEADCANON

[randomfoggytiger]

Requiem's Deleted Scene Confirms Bill Mulder Was Mulder's Father (...Again?)

Did you know the writers were stating Bill Mulder was still Mulder's father as late as the first draft of Requiem script? ...Which, in effect, erased dream CSM's Amor Fati claims?

Now, of course: this scene was deleted. BUT it was written to slot in right after CSM was kicked down the stairs (read: killed); and slotted in exactly how Mulder last saw Bill Mulder: reclined on a bed looking upward. And the wording of 'father' instead of 'dad' is important in X-Files-ese: 'father' is used broadly to determine paternity; and CC and Spotnitz and others used it whenever Mulder or another character discussed paternity worries. Because Mulder says "Father" and the script notes it's been "years"-- and the other man acknowledges this, even if it might be an alien pretending to be Bill-- this firmly places Bill (in the viewer's minds, at least) in the role of biological connection. In short, it's crystal clear canonical acknowledgment (and erases Amor Fati dream CSM's claims.)

NOW, does that mean this erases later canon? That is up for one to decide: CC doubled down on CSM's paternity (and paternity of William, so....) For me, it mucks up a few things he and the other writers used Bill Mulder to say.

Thanks for reading~ Enjoy!

[fmluder24]

Might Be One Yourself: A Brief and Normal Look at Jewish Fox Mulder

As the only Jewish fan of The X Files that I know, I feel compelled to make some comments about this show’s writing around Judaism. This is all in the spirit of being a fan and criticizing something I enjoy, not an attempt to “cancel” anyone or anything.

One popular headcanon in the X Files fandom is that Fox Mulder is Jewish. I think headcanons are all well and good but many people seem to be under the impression that Fox Mulder is canonically a Jewish character. I think this assumption is telling and I don’t entirely fault people for interpreting the character in that direction given how the writers play with tropes and stereotypes around Jews and Judaism. That being said, I do not think that this interpretation of the character would exist if not for David Duchovny’s personal background as being Jewish on his father’s side. I think the writers want to entertain the possibility of Mulder being Jewish as a way to heighten tensions in certain episodes and along the way they intentionally or not brought in a lot of antisemitic tropes into the narrative. This will be my attempt to aggregate these odd moments of tension and their implications into an analysis of how Fox Mulder being read as a Jewish character shapes how we can think of the X Files as a whole

First of all I think that the X files inherently plays with some antisemitic tropes with the focus on conspiracy theories. On top of that, there’s ways that the X Files references the history of World War Two that trivializes that history. I think on some level the writers were aware of some of that and wanted to use Mulders ambiguous Jewishness to deflect from criticism. Let me summarize the tropes that are used in the show with regards to Mulder and Jewishness.

1. The elephant in the room

Mulder was literally born into the elite globalist cabal headquartered in New York City. It doesn’t get much more stereotypical than that.

2. Rich and a cheapskate

His family is quite wealthy and is shown as having several homes due to all of Bill Mulder’s shady business with the government. Despite this Mulder is implied to be a cheapskate with numerous scenes where he refuses to tip or tips next to nothing to a disgruntled service worker. Both of these tropes play into historical stereotypes around Jews and money.

3. Operation paper clip

Bill mulder is implied to have helped nazis escape justice after World War Two by involving them in US government projects related to the alien conspiracy. This is similar to the current right wing conspiracy theory that certain Jewish families were complicit in Nazi crimes to get ahead for themselves. If you look at how the far right talks about George Soros, you will see what I mean about antisemitic accusations of collusion.

4. Died in the holocaust

Mulder literally recovers his repressed memories from dying in the holocaust in his last life during the events of “The Field Where I Died.” There are not many experiences more pivotally Jewish in the eyes of non Jews than that. I get that Scully also canonically died in the holocaust in her prior life as well but I personally think the weight behind it is quite different when delivered by an actor who wouldn’t be here if his grandparents had missed a boat out of Eastern Europe in the 1920s.

5. In with shady figures

He strikes up a very fast friendship with Mr Saperstein in “Fight Club.” Saperstein greats Scully by saying “Ma Nishtana,” the opening phrases of a Passover song. Jewish people do not use this to greet each other but Chris Carter apparently thinks we do. Mulder is delighted by this and then says goodbye to him in Yiddish with the phrase sholom aleichem (peace be upon you) to which Saperstein replies “yo momma.” I think this is Chris Carter taking a swing at Jewish people, Black people, and Black Jewish people all at once. But for our purposes this is a scene where Mulder is supposedly sharing in some culture knowledge with a person who is implied to be Jewish. Saperstein is stereotypically for both communities out to hustle people rather than deal honestly

6. Dislikes his appearance

The season 4 episode “Sanguinarium” has multiple scenes where Mulder entertains getting a nose job. I would like to think the writers were trying to be aware around gender by making Mulder the vain one instead of Scully, but the decision to portray a nose job specifically must have been an intentional dig. Beauty is political. Being conventionally attractive or not is political. A character played by a Jewish actor, who is written with many stereotypes around Jewish men as we will continue to see, wanting to have a different nose is not in my opinion an innocent writing decision but rather an intentional message about beauty standards and adhering to a white Gentile idea. This is underscored because the final message of the episode is that one should rise above one’s tendencies to be vain, not that Mulder should like the way he looks.

7. Faces antisemitism

The episodes you are almost certainly thinking of when reading the word antisemitism are Kaddish and Drive. In both of these the villains see Mulder and going off appearance alone assume he is Jewish. If this happened in more benign circumstances in addition to or instead of these malevolent ones, it would not have the oddly accusatory weight it has in the world of the show. People only clock him in situations where violence is a factor.

There are two other episodes that are not brought up as examples of antisemitic violence towards Mulder but that I think cannot be separated from the overall context of the show. One of these is Triangle, where Mulder is trapped in the 1940s on a boat with Nazis. The majority of the fans seem to just see this as a fun homage to the Alfred Hitchcock film Rope, but coming off the heels of Drive, one cannot escape the parallels of him being trapped in moving vehicles with violent antisemites two weeks in a row. The escapist time travel fantasy is hampered by the fact that most families like Duchovnys were wiped out by men like the villains in the episode. It takes an ahistorical white American eye to decontextualize Nazis and Jewish people so thoroughly as to make Triangle what it is —- all style, no substance.

The other episode with subtext that people seem to have missed is The Pine Bluff Variant. In it Mulder has to gain the trust of a right wing militia. The one character that seems to see through his act is the shaved head thug who gleefully tortures Mulder in the course of the episode. The fact that the character with the shaved head distrusts him and takes such delight in harming him is intentional, because this character is a skinhead. The political affiliation of the character is made obvious by Mulder referring to him as a Nazi in the torture sequence. While it is never directly stated, the fact that antisemitic characters regularly assume Mulder’s Jewishness on sight , combined with what a shaved head means in the world of the militant far right, gives the strong implication that this is further antisemitism.

Final thoughts

Taken together what are we as fans to do with this? I believe that the writers knew that they were playing with a lot of antisemitic elements with the general conspiracy theories format. They tried to cover for this by having some antisemitic villains come at one of the main characters. In doing so they enforced the trope that Jewish people have a certain look. Furthermore, combined with the stereotypes present in how Mulder is written there is the awkward dynamic of writing a stereotypical character, trying to make it clear they were not endorsing the stereotypes, and then reinforcing the equation of the stereotypes with Jewish people. So we are left with Mulder as a character with many Jewish stereotypes, who is fetishized as a perpetual victim of antisemitism, with no positive aspects of Jewish identity and community portrayed.

However, Duchovny himself headcanons Mulder as Jewish and if it makes any of my fellow fans happy to do the same, they should go right ahead and enjoy. There are many good fics on AO3 that explore the possibility of Mulder’s Jewishness in ways that exceed what the show portrayed.

[baronessblixen]

Saw your tags! I admit the angle about Bill knowing abt Scully's past relationships might be a stretch; but I find it interesting that from the get-go he intuits that Scully follows leadership "blindly" (as he sees it); and that she tends to "lose" herself in whatever "role" she's trying to fill before he even met Mulder or thoroughly assessed the situation. And it's no secret she and her father had pet names for each other, so it'd be easy for him to add 2 and 2 to get 4.

I can see him knowing about Jack Willis at least-- maybe not enough to care, but enough to know she was publicly dating and celebrating birthdays with him. Daniel's an if; but he was a big enough turn in Scully's life that she transferred out from under him and caused a big stink when recruited to the FBI. And Bill pegged Scully (not altogether rightly) as being a second mate to Mulder's insane quest, quietly judging the whole situation at Maggie's party.

I guess it wouldn't surprise me if preS1 and S1 Scully kept her family more in the loop, not having distanced herself because of her experiences: openly talking about her cute partner to Ellen, filling in Mulder on her own personal life, talking about her brothers casually in Roland's episode. I think reticence came later: before her abduction. she spoke her mind (little girl yelling at her brother and calling Mulder "Spooky" with her other peers before assignment, for instance.)

But I'm open to having my mind changed, of course~. ;))))

They don't seem particularly close to me and it's probably just a headcanon of mine, but I'm not sure how often they see each other. So I imagine Scully telling her mother - and before she died, her sister - things and then Maggie Scully slips that information into conversations with her other children. I wish we'd seen more of that whole family dynamic. Bill does seem a bit like he's trying to fill his father's shoes and be the head of the family after his death. So of course him not knowing something about one of his siblings would bother him.

Maybe he thinks she follows leadership blindly is because he doesn't understand what she does for work and he only sees her follow Mulder. Probably much like she used to follow their dad around and maybe even him when she was young. Do we know if their dad only had a nickname for her? Maybe each of them had a nickname.

I can't see Scully give Daniel as a reason why she's accepting the position at the FBI. I'm not sure the show intended it like that either. I think she and Melissa talk about it in a flashback and they're just talking about it being a challenge.

Totally agree that she probably kept them more in the loop pre her abduction. Especially pre-season 1. and can you blame her? What can she talk about? There isn't much. The only other person who fully gets it is Mulder. It's all very interesting and I really wish we could have had more of their family dynamics.

[randomfoggytiger]

WAIT-- So it's not JUST CSM that calls Mulder his son????

...Welp. Glad that was cut. It would mess with my personal headcanon of Bill Mulder still being the biological father (dates, plot threads, character themes would all add up.)

And Samantha's kids were adopted???? CSM just pony-ed up some grands in Mulder's imagination?? I mean... believable.

The X-Files - “The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati”

Written by David Duchovny & Chris Carter

November 2, 1999 (2ND BLUE)

Deleted scene: Mulder is reunited with Samantha...

A vision of the apocalypse...

Deleted scene: CSM recovers from brain surgery...

[leiascully]

5 hc prompt: melissa lives to smack mulder and scully’s dumb heads together

1.  “So how long have you two been madly in love?” Melissa asks as soon as Scully gets out of the hospital.  Mulder spits out his coffee.  Scully buries her bright pink face in her hands.

2.  “You should ask him out,” Melissa says as she and Dana sit on the couch, their feet touching, bowls of ice cream propped on their knees.  “He’s cute.”  “He’s not cute,” Dana protests, but Missy just looks at her.  “Okay, fine, he’s cute,” Dana mutters.  “He’s cute?” Missy prods.  “He’s...very handsome,” Dana admits.

3.  “She likes you,” Melissa says as Mulder waits by the door.  “I hope so,” Mulder says, deliberately obtuse, “She’s my partner.”  “She likes you,” Melissa insists, “and you should do something about it.”  Scully comes out of the bathroom still smoothing her hair and they both look sideways at her.  “What?” she says defensively.  “Nothing,” they say in unison.

4.  Missy insists that they invite Mulder to Thanksgiving.  Bill blusters at him, all protective big brother, but Missy rolls her eyes and sweetly puts him in his place.  Maggie slips him an extra piece of pie.  Scully surreptitiously doses their after-dinner coffee and Missy’s with bourbon and they get gently tipsy in the corner until Maggie brings out the Christmas ornaments.  Scully smiles at Mulder from the other end of the string of lights, her eyes glowing.  

5.  He’s already decorated the tree, so of course he has to come to Christmas.  It isn’t as if his family celebrates it - his mother is Jewish and his father barely communicates.  The Scully family does Christmas dinner the night before and then Mass.  He doesn’t know what’s happening, but he goes with them and kneels next to Scully.  Her shoulder brushes his.  They have coffee and cookies after and then stash the presents under the tree.  Mulder spends the night on the couch, listening all the while for Scully to sneak down the stairs.  She does, eventually, and they sit together watching the embers of the fire die out.  “I’m glad you’re here,” she says before she heads back to bed in the room she’s sharing with Melissa.  She brushes her fingers through his hair as she leaves.  In the morning, there are presents for him under the tree, and Grinch-like, his heart grows three sizes.  Outside, it starts to snow.

give me an AU and I’ll give you five headcanons

[frangipanidownunder]

X-Files was always set in Australia AU.

My five headcanon response:

1

Samantha’s disappearance is officially recorded as a crocodile attack. His mother moves to Brisbane but his father keeps the Queenslander near Airlie Beach. He spends the rest of his childhood scuba diving on the reef and watching the Southern Cross.

After Oxford, he sets up his consultancy in Melbourne, after parting ways with the violent crimes taskforce of the Victorian police. His first client is a woman, Kelly Cahill, who claims she was abducted by aliens while driving in the Dandenongs. She claims she lost an hour of time and she bears strange marks on her abdomen. He requests a full medical.

2

The doctor is new. She’s also a short, fiery redhead with an attitude the size of the MCG.

“You must barrack for Collingwood,” he quips as she tells him for the third time that time just does not disappear. Universal invariant aside, Doc Scully can explain neither the marks or the cause of the womb infection for which Ms Cahill was hospitalised.

“I don’t follow Aussie Rules, Mr Mulder,” she says and he hopes that means she’s into real footy. “I’ll buy that this woman is suffering from some pronounced psychosis, but whether it’s organic or as a result of those marks, I can’t say, but to say that they’re riding around in flying saucers, it’s crazy.”

He is crazy. He’s been told a million times. As crazy as a cut snake. But there’s a feeling in the pit of his stomach that tells him he needs to find out more. Not just about Kelly Cahill and the hundreds of other abduction cases he’s uncovered, but about Dana Scully.

She agrees to investigate the site of the abduction with him ‘because it’s on my way home’ and that’s how their working partnership begins.

3

She provides him medical data when he requires it, becomes a trusted sounding board even when she dismisses his ‘theories’ as having more holes that than the entire coral surface of the Reef (which is nearly 350,000 square kays, Mulder);  she takes him to all the best coffee shops and teases him when he claims he’s cold in 20 degrees. He’s not sure what he brings to the relationship other than a steady supply of Violet Crumbles and a bad habit of turning up at her place on weekends with potato scallops (they’re called potato cakes, Mulder), and bottles of New Zealand sav blanc. He buys her a ticket for the State of Origin match but she tells him she doesn’t follow rugby either. But that’s real footy, he says and she digs him in the ribs, before offering him a Tim Tam and a sly smile.

He’s never had a friendship like this. He doesn’t quite know how to handle his growing feelings and when she disappears, he goes out of his mind. She’s returned without ceremony with no memory and will not discuss his fears that her abduction was as a result of her connection to him. When her sister dies in a shooting, he’s more convinced than ever, but she dismisses him. When he suggests the red mole on the back of her neck is new, she tells him it’s just a skin tag and not to be such a worry-wort.

4

Her diagnosis is a gut-punch and he spends hours trawling the net for treatments he knows she’ll flip off. Cancer happens to 1 in three people, Mulder, she says, as though acceptance is going to help. Dana Scully is one in five billion, he knows that much. His mates at the Lone Gunmen find a man who knows a man who knows a quack who’s got some idea about her type of cancer. Her brother flies in from Sydney and they end up in a brawl at the pub. Bill calls him a ‘fucking nutjob’ and throws his VB in his face, ‘that’s what I think of you and your Victorian beer. Leave my sister to die with dignity’. When Mulder goes back to the hospital Scully agrees to try the treatment. She goes into remission and he sends Bill a slab of VB as a gift.

5

He’s on to something big. He tells her about but she’s tired. She’s in line for a promotion at work and she needs to give it her all. She can’t just drop everything and help him out on some wild goose chase whenever he demands it. When she shows up at his door and tells him she’s moving to Sydney he can’t breathe, can’t think. She leaves and he chases her down the passageway. He tells her she’s made him a whole person. Her eyes moisten and she rests her head on his shoulder. Tells him he’s always been whole all by himself. But it’s not true. He kisses her. She’s still in his arms. He whispers sorry but she shakes her head, lifts those big blue eyes and kisses him back, with such intensity that he feels time disappear, snap back and alter the way he thinks about life and the future.

They fly to Sydney to watch an Origin match and Queensland win. They win the series. But he’s the biggest winner of them all, when she says yes to his spontaneous proposal in the stands surrounded by a sea of maroon and white fans. They rent a campervan and travel the country, sometimes sleeping under the stars, sometimes tussling for the doona in the confines of a camp bed. They only settle when she’s pregnant. Within earshot of the Ninety Mile Beach, they buy a block in east Gippsland and he’s certain their kids will grow up respecting the ocean, supporting the Maroons and adoring their mother as much as he does.

[ms31x129]

MSR/other/long winded responses

@likos064

This is from another blog discussion @likos064 responses in italics and then my thoughts. The other thread was getting long and the tumblr kept timing out for me.

‘Personally, I have no interest in Mulder or Scully/Other. Regardless of whether it is before they met, during the show pre or post relationship, though I ignore any breakup because I find it redundant, even though I understand the limitations of a TV show and Drama 101. What I cannot ignore, however, are double standards when it comes to writing these Other-relationships. Generally, when its Mulder/Other, regardless of whether he and Scully are involved or not, Mulder is portrayed as the bad guy. Excepting pre-X-files, but even that might be a stretch.

Conversely when it is Scully/Other she is portrayed to be in the right, a woman who is simply being true to her desires and taking what she deserves. It doesn’t matter whether she is involved with Mulder, at the cusp or committed she is still entitled to have sex with whoever she wants. But this only applies to her. Even in fics portraying a breakup she is allowed to move on while he has to wait for her to come back, if he wants companionship. And at that point, I don’t want them together any longer.

Retrograde as mentioned above is a good example. I don’t want her anywhere near him and I find it preposterous that he is completely alone so that she can prey on him in his weakness. People can write, like and headcanon what they want. But I am disturbed by the abuse that is so often encouraged towards him. Why make her as damaging as Phoebe and Diana?’

I agree with pretty much everything you said above and perhaps that’s why the ‘break-up’ eps have bothered me, I have trouble with getting into Scully’s mind – perhaps that’s a result of male writers? And no ‘show bible?’ I am a Mulderist through and through and I try not (I might not always succeed) to ‘cut’ Scully down in order to praise Mulder.

Through the seasons I think there have been hints as to Scully wanting a relationship/family – at some point, and it’s actually hard for me to pinpoint when she really chose Mulder – although running away with him in the Truth was a pretty good statement. Jersey Devil, Revelations (her instinct with Kevin,) Home are 3 right of the top of my head. (What’s wrong with a woman who doesn’t want children?) In the back of my mind I think I could always see Scully as being the one to move on and be just another person who left Mulder.

Mulder I think does want a family, I just don’t know if he thinks he deserves it? He really is so good with children in the eps – is that due to his psychology background – maybe? He didn’t ‘bond’ with Kevin in Revelations partly I think due to the Religion aspect although he doesn’t naysay Scully when she wants to keep Kevin with them either. In Home Mulder is telling Scully a happy memory of being a kid, baseball his sister – that dialogue stood out to me as well as the remarks about the kind of home he’d like to settle down in. Cliché it is, but I think he’s was searching for the family he lost the day Samantha disappeared. Even if he hadn’t believed it was Aliens I think Mulder would have kept searching regardless.

‘You’re right she did want to be with him. However, I don’t view the desire to be the same as action though there is definitely emotional cheating on Daniel’s part. A Platonic Romance can be just as threatening to marriage as one with a sexual component. Nevertheless, the fandom interpretation takes the relationship in a direction far different from the one that Gillian intended and that’s what I thought of when you complained about Scully’s involvement with a married man.’

Hmm… I could be wrong, but I thought GA said in several interviews that she intended for it to be obvious Scully and Daniel had been lovers. Even though she knows Scully’s character is Catholic and had been brought up to respect marriage it was one of Scully’s rebellion’s? GA doesn’t have a strict religious view point, so I thought this part of AT was more GA than Scully especially since she seemed to scoff at her sister Melissa’s more open / nature new age beliefs. At the same time within the ep I could view it as did knowing Mulder allow her to open up to other religions? Ideas? IMO it would have been nice to let Mulder know that occasionally.

I will confess that I too have some reservations over her behavior in all things. According to Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter, Mulder and Scully are already involved in all things. The scene at the beginning with Mulder in bed was to indicate an ongoing sexual relationship not the start of one. Gillian knew this and still wrote Scully as deciding to leave Mulder, per the original script, only to change her mind again.

Well unfortunately we can’t take what FS or CC says for granted. I would love to read those statements though the only one I can recall is Frank S. reminding fans that AT wasn’t the first time M&S were in each others apartments overnight. How many times were we told William is Mulder’s son. For me that rankles as just another way to hurt Mulder, regardless all those years he thought he had a son out there.

‘My issue lies more in that this confirms Mulder’s fears, something that I see him being mocked over consistently; primarily when he runs away from her in Detour. I see numerous complaints about how he waited too long, but I always interpreted it, beyond TV show limitations and the patterns that existed in the 90s, as her not being ready for a relationship. Nor did I see an invitation of wine and cheese as a guaranteed sexual offer.’

I agree with this, I also wonder how much the whole experience with Scully almost dying affected him and wanting to be more, and of course Bill’s reaction I’m sure dug a little spot in his mind too. What is dying but another form of abandonment in a sense. I didn’t like ‘3’ either, but that was much earlier in their partnership so it was a little (very little) more palatable.

‘Nevertheless, I’m curious about your aversion to Scully’s attraction to older authoritative men. I don’t understand why you think she’s too smart for this. I always saw it as a father complex, an extension of the affection and more importantly approval she so desperately wanted from her father. Similarly, I viewed Mulder’s attraction to older women as a mother complex rooted in the affection his mother deprived him of following Samantha’s abduction.’

I know my aversion is mainly from a life experience and a friend’s story. I only took one college class and you could just see the professor eyeing up every girl that walked in until it landed on my friend. She was a straight A student, she wasn’t shy or outgoing we all thought her feet were planted firmly on the ground. He praised her, but you could also see subtle ‘put downs’ – you shouldn’t do it that way only an infant would things like that some worse. And all of us were shocked when she started a relationship with the professor who was 17 yrs older I think. Long story short he was married had 3 or 4 kids, she got pregnant he dropped her like a hot potato, she got an abortion and tried to commit suicide. We ended up finding out she’d been sexually abused as a child by her father or step-father. She moved and I haven’t seen or heard from her in over 30 yrs.

I know there wasn’t any hint of that in Scully and her father’s relationship, but the whole older-man/daddy issue has just always made me angry/disgusted in general.

­­­­­­­­­­­­’I see Daniel as an authority figure as well as a teacher who values her intelligence and makes her feel as though she matters. While Jack has a more obsessive quality towards his work, like her father who prioritized the navy over her. Both would have given her approval because they were teachers and she did her assignments. She mostly met their expectations. Until she didn’t.’

I agree with some of that. Mulder is different than those two men, I don’t see that many similarities. In NA when people say Mulder was treating Scully like her boss – jerk is the term I see most. Well technically he is the dept. head and he could assign her things. When they jointly investigate cases it makes sense to split up when their particular skills are better utilized – he thinks outside the box and she provides the facts/science when possible.

I always saw it as how much trust had formed that Mulder knew Scully would handle things. When he sort of scoffs at Scully handing off the case, I don’t take it as him not trusting/believing her – I think he was looking for any excuse to come back – I could be wrong.

And as I recall Scully has made jokes about Mulder’s dating or ala Jersey Devil Mulder’s “I have a life” reply to Scully. It seems okay when she does it but when he does it’s wrong.

‘Phoebe was manipulative but her mind games could still lead to rewards.’

I’m curious what rewards do you mean?

‘Diana I see as terribly accommodating but just as manipulative as Phoebe.’

Groan – I just hate the character of Diana for so many reasons. I hate when shows just drop in a character for shock value. I can’t believe in almost 5yrs of working together Diana’s name never once came up. That Scully never saw her name in a case file. That the LG never mentioned her before either you’d think there’d have been a comparison of the two, unless DF wasn’t a ‘work’ partner.

This is the man who opens up to Scully on their 1st case together and tells her about his sister in a very intimate way - even though he initially thinks she’s sent to spy on him. Yet when DF appears – initially its just generic basics about her, she gets shot and FTF come out with the whole ‘almost kiss’ scene. I’m sure DF would be too confusing for the ‘new’ fans Fox/CC were hoping to entice.

Then the Beginning – no mention of a kiss – Mulder appears so frustrated with Scully, but he trusts her completely with Gibson and it makes sense she’s the doctor. In the other eps with DF we never see Mulder seeking her out, yet he doesn’t seem to be sharing with Scully why he trusts Diana or the audience. To me that whole season (6) was Mulder making a choice to be with Scully at work and after work on cases like Dreamland.

I think the perfect time to introduce a new set of agents would have been right after FTF, are we to believe scientists worldwide wouldn’t have gotten notice of seismographs going off - tremors in Antartica they wouldn’t be down there investigating the cause.

Maybe that’s one of the problems with XFiles trying to straddle that line Aliens – but also real world cases happening in real time?

‘In both cases, Mulder’s need to please and be acknowledged would’ve been satisfied. I feel that Mulder and Scully partly satisfy these complexes in each other. Mulder is in a supervising role and Scully does want his acknowledgment and unless the script says otherwise, see Never Again, she gets it. Likewise, Scully acknowledges Mulder and appreciates him, unless the script calls for otherwise, like in all things. And if you decide to acknowledge the season 10-11 breakup.’

Quite the difference in DD and GA’s script(s), especially in the Unnatural it’s all about learning, a connection to someone, something even though neither M or S are in the ep, but for 7-8 minutes. I know some still get mad for the ‘ticking of her biological clock’ reference, but that is a common saying and Mulder was using it in that light-hearted way. Hollywood AD was a quirky ep and one of the ones that it’s hard to put in the XF ‘case’ universe, but even it had some poingnant moments and again M & S spending time outside of work together enjoying each other’s company.

And then AT – all about Scully, more of a character study. Mulder is flirty with his projector in the beginning and she’s stabbing her salad and snapping at him. I definitely didn’t care for snarky Scully. In the whole ep the only section I like is their conversation on the couch, the way DD plays Mulder and the way he looks at her – that man is in love, period.

S10-11 Breakup = stupid. As per the ratings immediate drop from week 1 to week 2 and kept on going. The idea that Mulder had to choose Scully over going back to work for the FBI – if that’s what he wanted to do is just wrong. And Scully just happening to work for a hospital and one or more of the patrons/dr.’s happening to experiment on his own children. There would have been the perfect ‘case’ to draw Scully back to working on the X-Files with Mulder and if they’d set up those other agents in S6 who knows how the series would have ended. 

One other thing that bothered me as the show progressed is what I call the dumbing down of Mulder. In Deep Throat Mulder has the line about his hotshot pilot friend and asks a technical flight question in other eps he also would pull facts both unusual and technical out in dialogue. Then it seemed that slowly faded. Was it to prop Scully up as being smarter? I don’t know I just missed those little moments of Mulder’s brilliance.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

Prompt for your IVF headcanon - any interest in expanding on #3 (Christmas with the Scullys)? I keep imagining M&S cuddled up on the couch at night and exchanging looks when Matthew comes over to S for a hug and M trying not to be too obvious that he can't keep his hands of S's tummy.

sure, what the hell. the original story is here. this is for @2moms-0fucks, who i promised a full story and never came through for. i’m sorry i never finished that, but here’s something else??

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1. They’re both nervous as hell. Scully in no way regrets asking him to go along, but it’s undeniably an awkward situation, showing up at the airport with her partner in tow, to the complete surprise of her mother. She blinks at the both of them, and Scully rushes to explain that Mulder was going to be alone for Christmas again (she knows they both remember the last Christmas he nearly spent alone well), so she invited him along. (Which isn’t a lie; just an omission.) The awkwardness is palpable in the moment, and Scully excuses herself to call ahead to California to warn Bill (since she knows that will be a million times more awkward without warning). But when she gets back, she finds Maggie and Mulder engaged in polite conversation, probably spurred on by the fact that he’s been in an incredibly good mood since some time this morning. He keeps catching her eyes over Maggie’s shoulder and grinning dopily. Scully smiles back.

On the plane, he grabs her hand and she can’t bring herself to pull away. Maggie doesn’t comment.

2. Scully forgets what is happening half the time. The fact that she’s pregnant, the fact that Mulder is at her brother’s with her. Every time she remembers, she can’t quite believe it. The last time she was here, she had to face the fact that she wasn’t going to have children, the death of her daughter. And now… now.

(She feels guilty about it, just a little, when she catches Melissa’s baby face in an old photo and thinks of her daughter. A heart-stopping moment. Mulder drives her to visit Emily’s grave and waits patiently in the car, wraps her hand in his comfortingly when she returns with red eyes. “Are you okay?” he says gently, rubbing her knuckles with his thumb.

She nods, sniffling a little and smiling wobbily at him. “It doesn’t stop hurting,” she says, because it doesn’t. “I don’t think I’ll ever stop regretting not being able to save her. But... Emily didn’t know me. I never got the chance to be her mother. But now...”

This new baby will never be a replacement. Never. But it feels like a second chance. A first chance, to get it right this time. A baby who she can protect, a baby that is wholly and completely hers. Theirs. She is having a baby with her best friend.

Her voice breaks off, her hand over her stomach. Mulder’s eyes are full of a quiet understanding. He leans forward and presses a gentle kiss to her forehead. Scully squeezes his hand gratefully. “Thank you,” she whispers, and means for so much more than this moment. “Thank you, Mulder.”)

3. Scully would’ve thought that being in a situation where they can’t talk about the baby for a few days would be an excellent way to mentally work things out, but it’s almost impossible not to, staying in a house with a toddler. Matthew is almost two now, and she’s barely seen him in the past couple years, so she is trying to enjoy the chance to spend time with her nephew. (After all of the family members she’s become distant from, she wants to hold onto the family she has left.) He’s sweet and chubby and sticky-fingered, and he seems fascinated with her and Mulder both. “He’s not shy at all,” Tara says affectionately, bouncing Matthew on her hip before passing him to Scully. “Yes, you remember your Aunt Dana, don’t you, Matty?” she coos, and Scully smiles. 

She holds Matthew on her lap while he watches his cartoons, and Mulder sits beside them, pats her knee absently with one hand, tickles Matthew’s bare foot until he giggles, and Scully wants to cry. She bounces Matthew up and down on her knee absently, reads him a story at her mother’s request, and sees Mulder looking at her with a tremendous amount of affection in his eyes. When Maggie scoops up Matthew and takes him upstairs for his bath, he scoots closer on the couch until their legs bump, reaches out with tentative fingers to touch her stomach. 

Scully smiles, happy tears welling in her eyes. “Mulder,” she says, and he yanks his hand away as if he was burned. She catches his hand before he takes it too far, places it back against her stomach. 

He smiles back warily, sheepishly. “Sorry,” he says gingerly. 

She shakes her head, presses her hand over his. “Don’t be sorry,” she says. She can’t stop thinking about how this will be them, in a year. Their baby. And she doesn’t know if they’ll be doing it together, but she truly hopes they will be. “Don’t you dare be sorry,” she says, and leans in to kiss him. The first time she will have kissed him since that morning they woke up, tangled up together in her comforter.

“Hey, Danes?” Bill calls, and they can hear his footsteps approaching. Mulder leaps back again, in an almost teenagery way: prom dates caught after curfew. Scully blushes madly and pretends she isn’t, pretends she isn’t pregnant and hiding that fact from her family. Bill sticks his head in. “You guys want salad?” he asks, nodding at Mulder in an almost courteous way. (They’ve actually kind of gotten along during this visit. Scully wants to joke that it is a Christmas miracle.)

Scully nods. “Yeah, sounds good, thanks,” Mulder says in a rush. 

Bill shoots them a suspicious look, but nods. He turns away and walks back down the hall. As soon as he’s gone, Mulder reaches for her stomach again, and Scully wants to giggle.

4. She knows that, as far as her family knows, she and Mulder are just partners; she knows that their Catholic ideals would want Mulder to stay down on the couch even if they did know. She knows that they have spent more time in separate beds than together. But she can’t shake it, the urge not to be alone. It’s too cold, even in California. It’s too cold for California. She can’t sleep.

She gives up on the second night, climbs out of bed and retrieves the Oxford sweatshirt she stole from Mulder’s suitcase. She slips it over her head before padding downstairs quietly. This may only be a replication of her childhood home, but it’s enough; she knows how to sneak downstairs without getting caught.

The Christmas tree is unplugged, dark, and she can see Mulder on his side on the couch bed. She isn’t sure that he’s even awake until she draws close to the edge of the cot, and Mulder immediately turns over. “Scully, hey,” he says, his voice somewhere between sweet and worried. “Are you okay? Is it morning sickness?”

Scully chuckles quietly, sitting down on the bed gingerly, one leg folded under her. “Oh, no, Mulder. That’s still a few weeks away, fortunately.”

“Oh.” He extracts an arm out from under the blanket and reaches up to cup her cheek. “What’s up?”

“Oh...” She is suddenly embarrassed, unsure of what the hell to do now; they haven’t officially decided whether or not he’s going to be a part of the baby’s life yet (although she’d thought that night in her apartment when they found out was a good indicator); a week ago, they were just partners, for fuck’s sake. She turns her face into his palm a little. “I dunno,” she says quietly. “I guess I just got...”

“Cold?” Mulder tugs the sleeve of her sweatshirt between two fingers. 

She nods gratefully. “Cold.”

He brushes his knuckle over her abdomen slowly, gently. “Is the baby cold?” he whispers in the voice she’s only ever heard him use with her nephew or her daughter or the scared children on cases.

Scully grins. “I don’t know, Mulder. The baby might be cold.”

He traces a circle slowly over her stomach, bumps his cheek against her hip. “C’mere, Scully,” he says, and she comes. She rolls over and nestles against him, back to chest, and he wraps his arms around her, presses sloppy kisses to the side of her neck. She shivers, squirming a little, brushing her cold feet over his legs, laces her fingers with his. 

“I’m... I’m so glad we did this, Scully,” Mulder says in a choked voice. He kisses the nape of her neck, the curve of her shoulder. “I know how... I knew how important it was to you. But I had no idea how much I wanted it until...” 

“I know,” she says in a breathy voice. Blinks tears from her eyes as she stares at the unlit Christmas tree. She thinks of the baby, their baby. “God, I know.”

5. Christmas morning is bright, sun streaming through the window. Matthew is the star of the show, overjoyed at the influx of presents. He’s sitting on the floor with Maggie and Scully, throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper. Scully is laughing, and Mulder can’t help but think that it’s the most carefree he’s seen her with her family. He catches her eye over the top of his coffee mug, and she smiles her thousand-watt smile, and he melts a little. He still can’t believe that he’s here, that he’s kissed Scully and she’s having a baby and he’s going to be a father. That everything is seeming to work out, for once. Everything’s working out okay.

Christmas dinner goes down without any hitches. Mulder tries to goad her into a thumb war under the table, and Scully keeps a remarkably straight face as she kicks his ass in the midst of a story from Tara about Matthew. Maggie talks to him the most out of anyone at the table; he’s starting to think that she knows that they’re together. He thinks it’s likely a good sign that she still wants to make conversation with him over the dinner table.,

Everyone goes to bed early--Tara and Maggie are yawning, and Bill is rubbing his eyes, and Matty has fallen asleep in Scully’s lap. Scully passes the baby to Bill, says, “Get some rest, big brother. I’ll lock up.”

“Thanks, Dana,” he says, kissing her cheek. He locks eyes briefly with Mulder, cupping the back of his kid’s head with one hand. “I’m glad you could come,” he says to Scully--but Mulder gets the sense that said eye lock is a sign of acceptance, if nothing else. 

Scully hugs her mother and sister-in-law goodnight, and they go upstairs. And then Mulder and Scully are alone. They sit together on the couch, listening to the bustling sound upstairs. Scully slips closer, underneath the hook of his arm, her cheek on his shoulder. He kisses the top of her head. “Merry Christmas, Scully,” he says softly. ’

“Merry Christmas.” He can hear the smile in her voice. She rubs her cheek against his chest softly. “I’ve been thinking about it, Mulder,” she says softly, and he covers her stomach with his hand. There’s something in her voice like amusement, like joy; after everything that’s happened, he can’t believe they’re here. “I’ve been thinking about all the stuff you said to me a few months ago,” says Scully. “In your apartment hallway.”

“Oh,” Mulder says with a throaty, self-deprecating laugh. “All that corny stuff, huh.”

She swats at his chest. “It was sweet, Mulder.”

“It was cheesy,” he says. “But I meant every word of it.”

“Mmm.” She taps her head against his chin, almost questioningly. “Every word?”

“Every word.” He nods. “You’re my constant, Scully, you always have been. My touchstone.”

She ducks her head as if embarrassed, but speaks smugly to his chest: “Your one in five billion?”

“I think that one was a couple of years ago,” he says bemusedly, tapping her on the shoulder, and she giggles a little, tips her head back and kisses him. 

Every time she kisses him feels brand new. Knocks him off his feet. He loves her so much.

He bumps his forehead against hers, mumbles, “Two,” against her mouth.

“What?”

“Two,” he says, and he rubs a slow circle on her stomach. “Two in five billion, now. You two.”

Scully looks up at him in weepy surprise, her eyes glittering with the Christmas lights; she sniffles a little, kisses the side of his jaw before burying her head against his shoulder. “You were right, Mulder,” she says, “about that stuff being corny,” and he laughs, wraps his arms tighter around her.

[starbuckskeptic-a]

A   VERY   DESCRIPTIVE   &   DETAILED   PROFILE   OF   YOUR   MUSE   :

repost   with   the   information   of   your   muse  ,    including   headcanons  ,    etc  .    if   you   fail   to   achieve   some   of   the   facts  ,    add   some   of   your   own   !    when   you’re   done  ,    tag   other   people   to   do   the   same   !

NAME   :  dana katherine scully AGE   :   54 ( born feb. 23, 1964 ) SPECIES   :  human with alien dna    GENDER   :  female    ORIENTATION   :  bisexual    PROFESSION   :  retired. ( prev. special agent, x-files division, fbi. doctor of internal medicine, our lady of sorrows. paediatrician [ as dana blake ]. instructor, forensic pathology, quantico. )

–––––    PHYSICAL    ASPECTS   ,

BODY   TYPE   :  thin, small.  HAIR   :  naturally titian. dyed various shades of red over the years.  EYES   :  blue with flecks of green and brown.  SKIN   :   white. HEIGHT   :  5′3″ on a good day.  

–––––    FAMILY   ,

SIBLINGS   :  william ‘bill’ scully jr. ( older brother ), melissa ‘missy’ scully ( older sister, d. 1995 ),  charles ‘charlie’ scully ( younger brother, estranged ) PARENTS   :  margaret ‘maggie’ scully ( mother, d. 2016 ), william ‘bill’ scully sr. ( father, d. 1994 )    ANY   PETS?   :  i’d like to think she and mulder have a dog by now to play with the new baby. and maybe daggoo still. she’s had dogs all her life. she loves them.

–––––    SKILLS   ,

PHYSICAL    PROWESS   :    7  /  10.   she may be small, but she is mighty SPEED   :    7   /  10.    she’s been keeping up with mulder all these years. she be fast. MAGIC   :    6   /  10.   that alien dna has definitely made her more magic than normal people. plus she’s immortal.

–––––    LIKES   ,

COLORS   :   green, red, blue    SMELLS   :    pine, sea salt, freshly extinguished fire, warm spices, petrichor FOOD   :    ice cream. she loves ice cream. and popcorn. FRUITS   :    strawberries, cherries, limes DRINKS   :   spiced apple cider, bourbon, hot cocoa 

–––––    OTHER   DETAILS   ,

SMOKES?   :     yes   [   ]       /     no    [    ]    /    occasionally   [  x  ]   DRUGS?   :     yes   [   ]       /     no    [   ]     /    occasionally   [  x  ]    like a couple times in college, experimentally, but not now DRINKS?   :     yes   [    ]       /     no    [   ]    /    occasionally   [  x  ]   DRIVER’S   LICENSE?   :     yes   [  x  ]       /     no    [   ]     /    other   [   ]  though really she shouldn’t be allowed EVER   BEEN   ARRESTED?   :     yes   [  x  ]       /     no    [   ]     /    almost   [   ]   contempt of congress

–––––    DONE   !

tagged   by   :     @belieder ( bless you ily! ) tagging   :    anybody who wants to do it

[haywarde37]

Wayfarer

Author’s Note Thank you, @wheres-mulder for betaing and thank you @markwatneyandensemble for being you and fueling my happy headcanons.

It’s Bureau policy that cases must be four hundred miles away to warrant the cost of an airplane ticket. Anything less, it’s just you, your grumpy partner, a rented Ford Taurus and the long stretch of the interstate.

After their tangle with the possessed Charlie Holvey, Scully agrees to share a hotel room with Mulder. He approached her with the idea after he spoke to the Călușari. He isn’t a religious man but their ominous warning spooked him enough for Scully to take pity on him.

They sleep on separate twin beds, comforted by each other’s breathing. It’s surprisingly nonsexual but still domestic and intimate. Mulder can almost pretend they were just a normal couple on vacation.

Scully sets the digital alarm clock on the nightstand that separates their beds. She keeps her pajamas hidden under an ankle-length bathrobe because there’s still secrets between them.

“Do we sleep in since we don’t have a flight to catch?”

Mulder shakes his head as he watches Scully struggle to keep her gaze from drifting to his bare chest. Normally, he sleeps naked but tonight he has the decency to keep his boxers on and Scully seems appreciate that in more ways than one.

“No. I want out of this town.”

Scully hums and sets the alarm for seven thirty. “The hotel serves breakfast at eight. We’ll grab some coffee then hit the road.”

“Thank you.” Mulder has a half a mind to kiss her but their boundaries on kissing are murky at best. It’s been two weeks since the peck at Bethesda with no lip lock since. He tried kissing her goodnight on the Fiji Mermaid case in Gibsonton, Florida but she shoved him away and he fell on his ass in front of a snorting Mr. Nutt.

Mulder pulls back the covers of his neatly made bed. “Tuck me in?”

“In your dreams, Mulder.”

“Trust me, you have.”

Scully grins at him then turns off the lights. In the dark, he hears her robe fall to the floor and the rustle of sheets as she climbs into her bed.

Mulder closes his eyes and tries to not think about children like Charlie and Samantha and the evils that plague them.

They’re the first ones at breakfast but the pickings are still slim. There’s just a pot of coffee, a rack of bagels, various fruits, and cups of yogurt in a metal bowl filled with ice.

Mulder fills a cracked mug with coffee as Scully roots through the yogurt. “Would it kill them to have eggs or something? I know Europeans eat like this but a red blooded American needs protein.”

“You could stand to eat less cholesterol, Mulder.” She hands him a cup of plain yogurt and a tiny plastic spoon. “Here. Protein.”

“If I have to eat the healthy crap, at least let me have a fun flavor like strawberry or something.”

She chooses an apple for herself then sits at the nearest table. “Quit complaining and eat the fucking yogurt.”

He takes the seat across from her. “Bully.”

“Infantile gadfly,” she fires back.

“I don’t know what that means and I went to Oxford.”

“You wasted all that money when you could have gotten a better education at a public university like I did.”

The sound of biting into an apple shouldn’t be a turn on but somehow, Scully makes it sexy. The way her tongue pokes out to taste the waxy skin before her teeth sink into the apple’s flesh makes Mulder wonder what it’d be like to have his cock in that cute mouth of hers.

He wouldn’t last a hot minute.

Mulder tries to will his dick back into its flaccid state as he stirs his yogurt. Guests are appearing in the breakfast hall—now is not the time to be sporting a semi.

“We should probably check out soon. It’s almost a six hour drive back to DC.” Another seductive bite. She has to know this is turning him on. “You have a date I don’t know about?”

“No date. Just, uh, need to feed my fish.”

“Ripely, Bowman, and Flynn?” She knows the names of his fish. Not even the Gunmen remember their names.

“Yeah. They’re a needy bunch.” Scully smiles. “They take after you then.”

“Scully, are you hitting on me?”

She shrugs and takes a sip of his coffee. “You flirt all the time, Mulder. I don’t see why I can’t.”

“You most certainly can but,” he hooks a finger through the handle of the mug, pulling it away from her face, “you’ll need more than lip service to steal my coffee.”

She looks up at Mulder from underneath her eyelashes and pouts. “Please?”

He lets go of the mug. The succubus and incubus envy that pout. “Fine but only because I don’t want to spend a six hour drive with you uncaffinated.”

When they finish eating, Scully offers to throw away the trash.

“Got a date I don’t know about?” He teases as he hands her his empty yogurt cup which she tosses in the trash can with the core of her Granny Smith.

“In a way,” she says. Mulder raises an eyebrow in mock-Scully seriousness.

“Not a romantic date,” she clarifies. “I’m just having dinner with Melissa and her new girlfriend.”

Mulder follows her to the front desk. The smiley receptionist takes their keys and wishes them a safe trip home.

“She’s serious about this one then.” Melissa has a worse track record than he does. Most of her girlfriends only last the night and sometimes, they cost fifty dollars.

Scully nods. “Very. She even invited Bill and Tara.”

Mulder whistles and holds the door open for Scully. Chilly morning air greets them. “Do you need moral support? I could draw Bill’s fire, be his scapegoat.”

“I appreciate the offer but it won’t be necessary. Bill declined.”

Anger burns beneath Mulder’s skin, scorching and furious. He’s had his fair share of ignorant family members from his father who spat in college boyfriend’s to his mother who told him bisexuality wasn’t real.

Scully takes his hand, her touch soothing him like a balm. “It’s okay. I have a feeling Bill will change his mind if their girl really is the one. Above all else, he wants Melissa happy.” She stops and looks out at the mess of the hotel’s parking lot. “Now where the hell did we park the car?”

The drive back to D.C. is uneventful. They’re cut off at least a half a dozen times on the I-68 but that’s normal human behavior so Mulder welcomes it. He may be a hunter of the paranormal and an adrenaline junky but even he enjoys the occasional boring, abduction-free car ride.

Since the car’s a rental, Mulder drops Scully off at the Bureau parkade. She opens the passenger door but lingers in her seat a moment. He’s about to ask if something’s wrong when she kisses him.

“Wish me luck,” she whispers against his lips.

“Good luck?” It comes out more like a question and Scully laughs, warm and breathy.

“Thank you.” And with that, she steps out of the car, leaving only a ghost of her perfume to keep Mulder company.

Bonus points to anyone who recognizes the names of Mulder's fish.

[randomfoggytiger]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have long thought that CSM was proud of Mulder and was always pleased when he had to report to the syndicate when Mulder didn't get killed. He used "you'll make me a martyr" as a guise to hide his pride. Maybe he saw Mulder as a reflection of what his drive, intelligence, dedication, etc to a cause even if it was on the other side.

Or, he loved Mulder because he was part of the woman that CSM seemed to be most in love with. Could he have seen Scully as Mulder's "love of his life" as he saw Mulder's mom as the love of his life? That is why he had Scully saved by returning her the first time and providing Mulder the cure to his cancer.

I would have like to have known if Bill Mulder knew Cassandra. It's too bad that conversation didn't come up. Well, not that I know. In reading all of your analysis, I have learned that I have tons of episode gaps because I have completely blanked out on some of them.

I think this holds up in the later seasons of the show, definitely.

Originally, CSM was the background villain who was only fleshed out once he became a fan favorite. When Bill Mulder was introduced, paternity questions weren't even on the horizon yet. However, Musings of a CSM introduced the thought that CSM himself wanted Mulder to reopen the files because he saw potential in him. Redux I and II brought that idea back to the fore, and Two Fathers-One Son hammered it home when CSM directly tells Jeffrey that he's disappointed his own son pales in comparison to Bill Mulder's. (The only paternity concern that had been raised canonically, at the time, was Samantha's.)

I say later seasons because, again, CSM was purely and strictly a villain who tried to have Mulder killed multiple times in the beginning, the most notable of which (to me) was the Anasazi train car explosion.

If you want the show to hang together completely, I would say you could use CSM's own logic against him: in his mind, he's always the martyr; the god head, with this or that son acting as the sacrificial lamb to grant him his powers to save the planet. In short: he's fickle, and changes the truth-- what he believes of himself-- to fit his current megalomaniacal narrative. OR-- and this is an intriguing idea to someone who hates the paternity reveal (me)-- maybe CSM found out Mulder was his son later in canon. It would have to be post-One Son because that plot hung on the differences (biologically and otherwise) between Mulder and Jeffrey.

As for Scully, CSM seemed to want Scully for himself-- En Ami, for example. Originally, she was the scientist hired to debunk and discredit Mulder's work; but the canonical narrative shifted to CSM selecting her on purpose to aid Mulder's discovery of the truth (which, he presumed, would lead the wayward agents straight to him.) After One Son destroyed the figureheads of the Conspiracy, the left, we're led to assume, were scattered or became disparate entities. We're shown CSM had cohorts and minions working under and for him in En Ami, but he didn't consider them, their intent, or their possible intrigues worth much anymore. His quest burned out, and his heroic image of himself has collapsed. That's why he grasped for more so feverishly in Requiem, which allowed Krycek to take advantage and kick him down the stairs, killing him (RIGHT? Sigh.)

Bill Mulder did meet Cassandra! In the script for Two Fathers (here), CSM brought his new girlfriend Cassandra to the Mulder family barbecue cookout. (Tena was angry at CSM's arrival and told Bill to make him leave.) The scene was unfortunately deleted, but it can still count as a headcanon for those who want it to.

Those are my thoughts! :DDDDD

[starbuckskeptic-a]

1 & 4!!! blows a kiss.

mun/portrayal questions / @hdtvtits

1. What is the biggest headcanon deviation from the canon material that you have incorporated into the way you write your muse? Why did you come up with it?

oh man...that’s a tough one. honestly, i tend to try and stick to canon as much as possible ( with one glaring exception that i’ll talk about for the next question ). i think it’s the actor in me, whose job it is to make a given script come alive no matter how shitty it is ( looking at you, ms4 ). however, what i will say is that i incorporate a lot of other canons besides the tv show into my portrayal of scully.

the two biggest examples of these would probably be: devil’s advocate, the origins book written by jonathan mayberry and certain aspects of the comics.

devil’s advocate has been hugely influential on my portrayal of scully, particularly of her early years on the x-files when she is still, to use her own words, “afraid to believe”. there are a lot of things in here that don’t necessarily go against the tv show, but certainly open up a lot of possibilities. these include: bill scully being involved with the syndicate, scully being experimented on/developing psychic abilities at a young age, a supernatural experience when she was in high school and her family’s reaction to it being a large reason she’s so adamantly skeptic in the first few seasons, and more. 

as for the comics, even in verses where i keep tv canons mythology ( honestly i think the one in the comics is a lot better/more thought out/makes more sense but sure ), they helped me flesh out mulder and scully’s life in between s9 and iwtb a lot. 

basically my scully is a weird paper mache collage of different canons. huzzah.

4. Have you made any outright changes to the canon material in order to write your muse the way you wanted (entire scenes you chose to omit, chapters you say never existed, things you assume were never said, etc.)?

okay, so like i said, i almost always do my best to incorporate canon at least a little bit, even if i disagree with the decision the writers made. it’s just part of my process as an rper. like i said, i think it’s the actor in me.

HOWEVER, in no way shape or form in my portrayal of scully is carl spender william’s father. the farthest i’ll go with it is that he MAYBE tampered with her pregnancy somehow. he calls himself william’s “creator”. that i believe. his father ? biological or otherwise ? no way. i’m not interested in that storyline. i don’t think it’s edgy or cool. i’ve disagreed with a lot of decisions cc has made, but i can at least semi-understand most of them. that one was just a slap in the face and i refuse to let it be part of my canon.

also i just wanna re-write the whole diana arc. but that’s another rant for another day XD