#Bradley has made a lot assumptions because he doesn't have all the facts &is just assume the worst

[nixie-deangel]

Well now I can't get Jake crocheting out of my head, Red AND him crocheting a gift for Bradley! Which wasn't what I was even thinking about XD!

I'm thinking Jake learned when he was little (5-7) from his grandma and while he didn't enjoy it at first, eventually fell in love with it and kept it up till high school and then he got sort of serious about his academics and sports to ensure he could put his best application for the Naval Academy, so it sort of fell to the way side and he just stopped doing it for more than a decade.

Doesn't really pick it up again until after The Mission and he needs something to do with his hands, to keep them moving, to quiet his mind, to not constantly thinking about how he almost truly lost Bradley forever. And it's during a talk with his mama that he even thinks about getting a hook and some yarn and starting up again, but he does. Goes out to a 24 hour Walmart and grabs the first skein his hand lands on and the correct hook size for it and spends the next few days attending meetings and debriefs during the day and the nights getting all pissed and angry because it's not coming back to him until it does (after maybe a few tutorials on YouTube because he doesn't remember the basics of his old favorite hobby at all!) and he starts making this again. Mostly he takes it apart when he finishes, so he can just keep reusing the same yarn, over and over again. Which is helpful as he relearns.

But then he and Bradley finally talk it out and get back together and then the Dagger Squad is made a permanent squadron and are stationed in San Diego but need to finish out their current assignments.

And it's while they're finishing that up that Jake gets the idea to make Bradley something, a blanket because it's a huge commitment to undertake, but he's determined to do it, to finish it in the months he's got because he wants to show Bradley he's serious about him. Serious about them.

(it works. for their one year anniversary Bradley has knitted them a blanket with the question, 'will you marry me?' on it.

spoilers, Jake says yes!)

I need to stop getting ideas while I'm cooking dinner 😔😭😭😔

[jet-bradley]

AGENT 8: DAMIEN

When Damien escaped from the Blender Subways (tm), my Agent 4, Link, found him and took him in under his wing. Link's family basically adopted him, but Damien grew to despise Link, because Link's special interests mostly revolved around military history, and despite it setting off flashbacks for Damien, Link couldn't stop talking about it around him. (Also, Link is the kind of guy who genuinely thinks anything that's interesting is above criticism, deep down... and that really bothered Damien as a former Octarian soldier.) As soon as he graduated high school, Damien went zero-contact with Link and went to a university on the far end of Inkadia. He successfully graduated with a degree in biology and is currently pursuing a master's somewhere.

Damien's quiet, but when he does talk, he's got a dry wit that some people really vibe with, and some really hate. But he can also be uplifting. He's genuinely honest, for better or for worse. He's come to terms with the fact that he'll never fully remember his life in the Domes, because nothing good happens to him when he does remember it, and no amount of therapy is gonna convince him it's worth it to try to get over it "properly".

I'm putting the TRON characters under a cut for brevity:

Yori isn't someone who really speaks to me TBH. She deserves more of a role, but she's trapped in being a side female character in an 80s movie, TBH. Lora's got a lot more of a role in the plot than she does. She's incredibly perceptive and smart, but one of the scenes that really characterized her well got deleted because... it was also the sex scene. Like, hardly a sex scene by non-TRON standards, but we all know the intent was there. Come on.

I really wish we'd seen more of her in later TRON stories. There's people out there who write her into Legacy and Uprising better than I ever could, so I won't try to shoehorn her into there. I really wish she'd made an appearance in TRON 2.0, but I understand why she isn't there? Not only does it not make sense for her to be there, since the digitization system has been entirely reworked (although she could have been on the antiquated system)... I also don't think a scene between her, Jet, and/or Alan fits the tone of the game at all. Great fanfic idea, but that side of the game would have to be beefed up a lot for it to make sense.

Where I think she could have fit better is Ghost In The Machine. I know I bring up GITM at every opportunity, but GITM faces that side of the Baines-Bradley family story head-on. It also doesn't completely fit the plot here - all the characters are people Jet (et. al.) are imagining from their memories of being in both the real world and the computer, and the version of Yori that would be there couldn't be the real thing. But maybe after they combine and wake up, Yori could... be... there... somehow? Okay, it doesn't fit here either, but just from the title, it should have happened.

I'm gonna start by explaining a couple of things on here. I don't think Rinzler needs any more or less angst. Like Yori, he's hardly a character in his own right, because they just don't... go into what makes him him enough for me to have an opinion on the matter. But I can respect a well-crafted antagonist and I'll say this: I think the amount of like, trauma/romance/whatever he has is appropriate for his role in Legacy.

Rinzler isn't a character I'm particularly opinionated about, but I will say this. I have a lot of thoughts about him that I've only ever expressed in private, and will continue not to post on Tumblr, because to be frank... They concern things that aren't Tumblr's business. If you've found my fics on ao3, you might be able to figure out what I mean, but I'm not discussing it here and will continue to not discuss it here.

I'll say this. I don't care how people write him, but I take issue with people making bold assumptions about peoples' mental health over like, how they write a fictional character. I've seen some of that in the Tronblr tags lately. People don't need to list their diagnoses to justify their opinions on like, some guy from TRON Legacy to anyone.

Anyways, thanks for the ask!

agent 8 rinzler n yori for the blorbo sheet🙏

I was dumb and checked my inbox in the middle of a cram session but remind me to do these when I get home in a few hours 💯

[nixie-deangel]

reblogging myself here, @redfurrycat, because I realized tumblr cut off some of the tags 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 so doing this to ensure the mpreg idea is all there share:

but no the idea for hangster I got while cooking yesterday was an angsty mpreg where Jake and Bradley sort of start working out their issues before Bradley is tasked with a blackout comms mission and he's away for nearly 14 months and he's hoping like hell that Jake will still be waiting for him.

only to come back to Jake living with IceMav and has a baby girl and Bradley with his massive self esteem issues assumes that IceMav have replaced him with Jake (because he KNOWS that Jake is more like them than he'll ever be) and that Jake has clearly moved on so Bradley spirals because in his mind he's lost the love of his life AND his family has clearly replaced him with who he believes to be a better fit for them and sort of pulls a Mav with his don't think just do & pulls in any and all favors he can

& tries to get himself transferred out of the pacific fleet and in the Atlantic fleet but can't because of the commander of the Atlantic fleet is slider, who won't approve the transfer without talking to ice who immediately shows up with a ?!?!?! &then there's a fight because of course there is with Bradley and ice realizes that there are still a LOT of underline issues with what he & Mav did by pulling his papers and realizes that Bradley has made a lot assumptions because he doesn't have all the facts &is just assume the worst but after a bit eventually Ice gets Bradley to agree to come home to talk to them all &if after he still wants to go; Ice will ensure he gets to go without any issues

(Mav Ice & Jake in this all realizing that they've all kind of assumed Bradley had gotten over/worked out through his issues with them and are horrified to learn he's actually just buried it because he's just been so grateful to have them all back in his life that he never actually learned that he didn't process all of the hurts he had with them or worked through all the issues his mom's promised wrought for how he interacted with the world and how he trusted and assumed he should be loved and treated)

Jake is especially horrified by all of this because BRADLEY worked so fucking hard to ensure that all the shit he spewed at Jake over the years and the damage he caused was made up for and worked to be truly forgiven before Bradley went off on his blackout comms mission and Jake nearly has a breakdown because he realizes he never extended the same sort of effort to Bradley which is in part of WHY Bradley was so nervous and unsure about Jake truly willing to wait for him. what I'm really saying here is that Bradley has no fucking self esteem and everyone in his life assumes he knows he's actually loved but he doesn't because babygirl has no self esteem or self worth.

IceMav and Jake work really hard with Bradley to ensure he knows they love him and want him. that Jake hasn't let any person touch him since Bradley kissed him all soft and unsure when they were celebrating THE MISSIONS success and hasn't ever really seriously entertained the idea of settling with ANYONE but Bradley, since the FRIST time they got together! but it's a lot of work and a lot of tough conversations, ones Bradley doesn't really start taking seriously until he gets informed that the baby girl, Nicole Elizabeth Carole Bradshaw, is in fact his child, that Bradley actually starts putting in the heavy work to get himself mentally healthy because like fuck is he going to let his child grow up feeling or thinking about themselves like Bradley does to himself.

I need to stop getting ideas while I'm cooking dinner 😔😭😭😔