#S03E06 Dust to Dust

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Something, something about how Hannibal kills his victims brutally, for example by ripping out their lungs, while the victim is still alive vs how he gives Will an injection when he wants to eat his brain...

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Dust to Dust

Dust to Dust https://ift.tt/KDq4hXe by kenaran Each entry of this series is a tagalong of some sort to the episode of the same title. In this case: A short bit on how Susan reacts to Bester mentioning Talia's dissection. Words: 356, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 27 of Revisitations, Part 8 of Revisitations (Susan/Talia) Fandoms: Babylon 5 (TV 1993) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F Characters: Susan Ivanova, (memories of) Talia Winters, (mention of) Alfred Bester Relationships: Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters Additional Tags: Psi Corps (Babylon 5), Episode Tag, Angst, Episode: s03e06 Dust to Dust, (flashbacks to) Episode: s02e19 Divided Loyalties via AO3 works tagged 'Babylon 5 (TV 1993)' https://ift.tt/QzxncLI October 06, 2024 at 12:34AM

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B5 s03e06: Dust to Dust table of contents • previous episode

Lame that there are so many insubordinate soldiers under Sheridan's command!

Bester, my best guy <3 This should be a delightfully creepy episode! Psi horror! I love him so much. His threatening vibe is sooo gooood. Hope Lyta stays safe!

Did Stop Falling On Me guy just do a murder? 

The new opener is so good. Maybe because I always watch this show high, but it is so excellent. 

Casually discussing my best guy's murder! I will be fair to them. Bester is a murder-danger-level threat. But he's also the war criminal who has my heart. I want to squish him. Like a stuffed animal.

Vir! And awww, don't be mean to him, Londo! His Minbari robe of welcoming looks much more comfortable than Centauri clothes. 

Londo: "Do they speak of me often?" Vir: "Only behind closed doors."

lmao?? I can't believe that only a season ago I was fully "meh" on Vir, and now I would kill for him ^_^

Telepathy accident? Strange. I like strange medical mysteries, but B5's seem to tend to be extra tragic. I don't trust 'em not to be tearjerkers. 

Oh my goddddd. Is Susan about to murder Bester with the station? She was! but for Sheridan's interference. tsk. well, probably the rational choice. But I support Susan Ivanova no matter what. 

lol Bester, being hit with a feeling of strong personal danger. I should say so! 

Delenn's non-murder solution is blocking Bester with Minbari telepaths! This must be so unexpected for Bester. And it is also unexpected for me! Delenn has this kind of pull still? Or again? I love that for her. However, it does tell Bester that they know things they're lowkey desperate to keep him from knowing. Hope that doesn't come back to bite them later!

What a good set-down by Sheridan. Doesn't faze Bester a bit, though!

Dissection of Talia? Fuck thaaaat. And Susan stays so cool! She's so badass, damn. And right after her murder attempt was thwarted. She has iron emotional control. 

Bester: "You choose not to trust me. That's sad. And unfortunate. But unlike the rest of you, I have no intention of letting it get in the way of my work. Doctor. Trust, Captain. You should try it some time. The [telepathy inhibiting] drug requires three hours to take effect. See you in four. Perhaps then you'll all be a little less hysterical, and little more productive. I'm here to save your butts! Next time: show a little gratitude." Dr Franklin: "On the other hand, maybe wounding him isn't such a bad idea after all."

Lol!! I love Bester so much. He's such a pragmatist!! And it certainly got the point across that he's here to cooperate over a case.

The Drazi seem to be occupying a similar sociopolitical niche in the show as the late Markab. Which gives me concerns for their long term prospective. Regardless, good for them, giving Londo and Centauri a hard time. Especially since Londo can't help but be a dick to the Drazi and the Narn on the way out. 

Vir has gained much confidence while he's been away. And he likes Minbar and his new assignment! He deserves some appreciation and respect. 

Awww Lennier, that's such a gentle denial for Vir's request that Londo visit Minbar for a mental health vacation. Is it just me, or is Lennier really developing a shiny backbone? He's come so far from the hyper-sheltered religious acolyte, and I'm glad he hasn't lost any of the stars in his eyes about Delenn. She is that cool. Vir has astonishing faith in Londo's goodness. I hope he's right one of these days!

This is a reasonable request for cooperative behavior. Bester wants help tracking this drug which allows for a high degree of mental assault with a high for the perpetrator, which usually permanently incapacitates the victim if they are also a telepath. sounds like someone's gonna use it in war! 

This person selling it to G'Kar says it turns the user into a telepath and lets them directly experience the life of the target. But it might not work on Narns. More Narnuan lore! There used to be Narn telepaths, but they were "exterminated." Brutal. By the Shadows, I wonder, or perhaps the Centauri?

If G'Kar ends up a telepath, that was not on my season 3 bingo card! 

Bester's giving a "there are existential horrors you never have to worry about because we take care of them before anyone knows they exist," and it's downright unnerving. How many chill-ass folks have they taken out for fear of what they could be capable of?

G'Kar's No Good Very Bad Acid Trip does seem to be coming with some sort of mental abilities, though not particularly controllable. And since it works on people who aren't telepaths, but turns on a telepathy gene (in humans), does it also turn every human who uses it into an active telepath? That'd be a huge reason for PsiCorps to want to contain it. 

Garibaldi working with Bester is highly effective and very extralegal, what with all the threats and civil rights violations. He's a bad influence on Garibaldi. He's already too inclined to threaten civilians, he doesn't need any encouragement of Bester's type. 

Even though Garibaldi argues with Bester about it later, he still goes right along with it while their detainee was present. Bad! Influence!

Bester: "The badge and the uniform do have certain advantages." Garibaldi: "Like intimidation?" Bester: "Absolutely. Just like your badge, and your uniform."

Exactly!! Love me a self aware villain.

Londo arranged for Vir to be appointed the Ambassador to Minbar because he didn't trust him. Didn't trust him to keep himself intact in Centauri's political climate, didn't trust him to make wise decisions for himself, and wanted to send him somewhere safe. And now he isn't trusting Vir's assessment that the Minbari are trustworthy potential allies. That's sad for Londo. He'd be making much better decisions if he would take Vir's advice.

Go G'Kar, go! Fulfill Londo's death dream! One can dream. 

Bester my sassy, amoral little guy. <3 His snark is such a good mixture of strangely wise, self-aware, inane, and troubling. 

Their fascist sonic weapon crowd control devices are super effective. At least they didn't use them on the Dockworkers Union, but that's a small at least. Don't like knowing they exist in universe. Statistically, now that they've been introduced, they're going to be used to commit horrible war crimes. 

Oh...I was so caught up in the euphoria of G'Kar potentially strangling Londo that I quite forgot about the Narn telepathy subplot. Well. Go G'Kar, go, anyway. I also support his telepathy plot. Good keeping it together while very disorientingly drugged! He might pull it off, except I'd be surprised if Londo knows anything of particular value. 

And he has so much more clarity inside Londo's mind! Compelling! Get him! Collaborating with Morden and the Shadows! Seeing the fuckin evil that Londo arranged on fucking purpose! It's meaningful for G'Kar to know, but like....with no proof will it do G'Kar any good? 

Interesting that G'Kar had far more control than the drug guy suggested, able to target memories and types of knowledge, before absorbing all of Londo's life.

Oh, grim. G'Kar's vision of his father and another Narnuan elder is a type of sorrowful that feels so extra heavy today. 

Is...G'Kar having a vision of Kosh?? Oh damn! Kosh is making moves while G'Kar trips hard! If that was Kosh, the voice is very different. 

I really. Really wanna give G'Kar a nice warm robe, and a vacation. And some rest. And a cute little roast animal for him to eat, snoot-first. 

Surprisingly soft interaction between Vir and Londo in the medbay.

Disappointed this went to trial! Let G'Kar Assault Centauri And Particularly Londo Mollari!

At least it's only 60 days in prison, I guess? I don't trust Babylon 5 prisons not to be horrific. 

Vir's hair is less cresty then usual, I feel. Or is somehow Differently Shaped. 

Hmmm. And some advice from Londo that's somewhat decent. When he chooses to use his brain, it works sorta ok. 

Bester says the Dust didn't work! Didn't produce one telepath of a reasonable strength! Go G'Kar, go! Of course PsiCorps was responsible for it. 

I really would not have guessed New Telepaths, Particularly G'Kar as a plot point in B5! I guess they sorta primed the pump with metamorphosing Matt Stoner's telepathy to empathy, elevating Jason Ironheart to a telekinetic high order being, and the other general mind fuckery, but that's cool! And I can't wait to see what they do with it. 

Overall, exactly what I've come to expect from a Bester episodes. And I love G'Kar, so I love this for him. And more Narnuan lore! I also enjoy that a lot.

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Nothing like a level playing field to ruin a psi-cop's day, am I right Mr. Bester?

10 Caps from Babylon 5 S03E06 - Dust to Dust

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he refused to die, a Musketeers Whumptober fic

No 4. RUNNING OUT OF TIME  Caged | Buried Alive | Collapsed Building

Summary: After the building explodes over them, after the dust settles and Porthos is trapped in the dark, after he squeezes d’Artagnan’s hand and prays—d’Artagnan doesn’t wake up. Not a death fic. Coda to S03E06: Death of a Hero

Rated T, Gen, 600 Words. Cross-posted to ao3 and ff.net (Bookdancer)

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Porthos opens his eyes to darkness. It’s not something entirely unfamiliar—growing up in the Court, they didn’t always have enough candles for everyone, and on the new moon their room would turn pitch black. But this, with something heavy atop his chest, with dust in his lungs and dirt tickling his nose… this is different.

He coughs, then tries to stretch, but he doesn’t get very far before he bumps into something hard all around him. It’s rough, almost like rock. Or concrete. Porthos closes his eyes tight as the memory of the building exploding washes over him.

“D’Artagnan?” he rasps, then coughs again. He hadn’t been alone, he knows that—his brother had been with him. Where—? “D’Artagnan?”

No one answers him, though, not even after he repeats himself again. Terror seizes through his whole body; he doesn’t want to imagine a world without one of his brothers. Porthos reaches out wildly, desperately, grasping for anything but concrete in the direction he’d last seen d’Artagnan.

Someone else’s hand brushes up against his, and he grabs it. It doesn’t move, but he clings to it with everything he has—it’s a sign he’s not alone, that d’Artagnan is still with him, and he rubs his thumb over d’Artagnan’s knuckles, trying to wake him.

“Please, please,” he says, voice breaking. “Please… d’Artagnan…”

The concrete shifts above him, and there’s the faint sound of someone talking, but Porthos doesn’t care. Either it’s Grimaud here to kill them for good, or the other musketeers here to rescue them, and Porthos can’t do anything about it either way.

“Please,” Porthos says again, and there’s something wet in his eyes, something that sounds a lot like begging in his voice. “D’Artagnan, please, you said ‘not my day.’ Not this day. Not now.”

His hand shakes, fear choking him. But he doesn’t let go—D’Artagnan is not dead. He can’t be. He was just talking about Constance, and children, and a future.

“We refuse to die!” Porthos gasps, clinging to d’Artagnan’s hand even harder. “So refuse! Wake up!”

He roars the last words, and there’s a muted commotion above him, the weight on his chest getting lighter as more debris is moved faster than before. Finally, there’s sunlight. Porthos reaches for someone’s hand, but there’s no relief when he sees that it belongs to Athos.

Porthos barely has time to choke out d’Artagnan’s name before he’s turning back to the wreckage, pulling at concrete with his bare hands. Other musketeers are there, too, and within seconds they have d’Artagnan’s limp body lifted up and out.

“Aramis?” Athos says. He sounds frantic, but Porthos doesn’t have time to reassure him when d’Artagnan still hasn’t woken.

D’Artagnan’s whole left side of his face is bloody, streaming from a head wound right at his hairline, and the musketeers lay him next to the fallen building. Porthos falls to his knees at his side, grabs his hand, and squeezes it hard.

“Aramis?” Athos says again.

Porthos looks up at him, frustrated. “He’s not here! He had to go with the king, he’s fine!”

Finally, finally, Athos turns and seems to see d’Artagnan for the first time. “His head…”

“He needs a doctor,” Porthos says. “I don’t know—”

He doesn’t finish his sentence, the words stuck in his mouth. He doesn’t know if d’Artagnan will be okay. He doesn’t know if d’Artagnan will wake up. He doesn’t even know if d’Artagnan will survive this. All he has is the slow movement of his brother’s chest as confirmation that he’s still holding on, still keeping their promise.

We refuse to die.

**Note: I know this is open ended but I do imagine that d’Artagnan wakes up soon after this, so no worries!

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Thinking about how in Coquilles when Hannibal asks Will if he ever feel abandoned, Will answers, “Abandonment requires expectation.” and in Dolce he tries to stab Hannibal.

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Bester: For what it's worth Mr. Garibaldi, I enjoyed working with you. We made a good team. Perhaps we'll do it again sometime.

Garibaldi: not a chance.

Me, someone who knows how season 4 goes down: (Hatelaughing/crying)

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Flashback Londo still has immaculate hair (compared to the frizzy pilot and s1 mess) but a nice nod to the pilot with the unadorned jacket

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Nothing like waking up to Bester’s smirking face

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G’Kar goes deep in Londo’s Mind, and finds pieces of himself instead.

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I forgot that Sheridan meets Bester with a group of Minbari telepaths to stymie him.

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Bookdancer’s Whumptober 2020 Masterpost

it’s the end of whumptober 2020! so i'm not a completionist (i'm currently at 11/31 prompts/fics, 8 for fanfic and 3 for dnd), but as i said before i’ll still be finishing the rest in the future, and i’ll update this post with each one. for now though here’s our roundup!

just as a reminder, all fics have been cross-posted here on tumblr, and also on both ao3 and ff.net (under “Bookdancer”). the links in this post go to their tumblr postings, and each fic also has its own warnings listed at the top of its respective post

No 1. LET'S HANG OUT SOMETIME Waking Up Restrained | Shackled | Hanging

Hang Ten, Supernatural, T, Gen, 1.2k+ Words: Dean is far too aware of the real consequences of crucifixion—and he’s far too aware of the fact that before he can rescue Sam, he has to beat the monsters.

No 2. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY "Pick Who Dies" | Collars | Kidnapped

untitled, DnD, T, Gen, 976 Words (because this is a dnd prompt fill i won’t be posting it anywhere)

No 3. MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY Manhandled | Forced to their Knees | Held at Gunpoint

in the summer day, BNHA, T, Kiribaku, 1.7k+ Words: Kirishima’s never been held hostage before now, but it’s not something he’s a fan of, especially when his quirk isn’t working.

No 4. RUNNING OUT OF TIME Caged | Buried Alive | Collapsed Building

he refused to die, BBC Musketeers, T, Gen, 600 Words: After the building explodes over them, after the dust settles and Porthos is trapped in the dark, after he squeezes d’Artagnan’s hand and prays—d’Artagnan doesn’t wake up. Not a death fic. Coda to S03E06: Death of a Hero

No 5. WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? On the Run | Failed Escape | Rescue

hear the noise (it’s a voice he can’t forget), Julie and the Phantoms, T, Gen, 1.1k+ Words: Bobby wears Trevor Wilson as a cover, uses Sunset Curve’s music as a safety blanket, but it builds and builds and builds, snowballing until the moment it’s too late and he can’t take any of it back.

No 6. PLEASE.... "Get it Out" | No More | "Stop, please”

Scared to Shell, Rise of the TMNT, T, Gen, 538 Words: The first time Mikey goes into his shell, he refuses to come out.

No 7. I'VE GOT YOU Support | Carrying | Enemy to Caretaker

Sunshower, Lord of the Rings, T, Gen, 353 Words: Someone has to carry Boromir’s body to the funeral boat. As his brother, as his captain, as his king, Aragorn will gladly take up the mantle. It’s strange, how a sky with no clouds can still rain.

No 8. WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO? "Don't Say Goodbye" | Abandoned | Isolation

timber, Supernatural, M, Gen, 744 Words: If a moose falls in the middle of a forest when there's no one around to hear him, does he make a sound?

No 19. BROKEN HEARTS Grief | Mourning Loved One | Survivor's Guilt

electric hammer to the heart, Julie and the Phantoms, T, Gen, 844 Words: Bobby is the last one standing, and he doesn’t know what to do with himself. Aka the night 3/4 of Sunset Curve died, from Bobby’s POV.

No 26. IF YOU THOUGHT THE HEAD TRAUMA WAS BAD... Migraine | Concussion | Blindness

untitled, DnD, T, M/M, 715 Words (because this is a dnd prompt fill i won’t be posting it anywhere)

No 28. SUCH WOW. MANY NORMAL. VERY OOPS. Accidents | Hunting Season | Mugged

untitled, DnD, T, Gen, 1.6k+ Words (because this is a dnd prompt fill i won’t be posting it anywhere)