#alternate universe FTWD

[noemitenshi]

Excerpt

Fuck, Troy had almost groaned with the zeal -the lust- for it. With what that one simple -sweet- touch had done to him, awakened long-lost wants, oh god, how long had it been that someone had touched him like this? Without meaning to cause harm or stop him. With the intention of making him feel good – that had been the intention, hadn’t it? At least, it had felt like it, had felt so achingly careful, so painfully sweet—

He’d do anything. Anything, he realized in this moment if the other man would just touch him like this again. The injured, the dead, the ranch, he didn’t give a damn about any of that in this moment.

God, they’d all been right, his mom, Jake, and all the rest, too.

He really was a monster.

[marchweres]

Hi everyone!

We have a proper icon and banner now!

The prompt list is finished! I'll be working on making a proper post for it and put it online this week!

This should give evergone enough time to prepare works and share the word to anyone who may be interested in joining the event!

[johnmurphysgirl]

Chris AU Oneshot: Alive

Please don't use or share my work without credit.

You could at least let your appetite reflect it.

The words ring around Chris' brain in a cacophony of sound. The seventeen year old could only stare down his father blankly, equally surprised and afraid, but the words wouldn't come. He can't admit it. He can't admit that he does feel it, but this is the world now. They have to adapt and overcome. If Travis couldn't understand… Chris knows well enough to not delude himself into thinking Brandon and Derek wouldn't kill him just because Chris asked them. They'd kill Travis, and then Chris would be alone. Without approval. And without a father. 

He couldn't – no, he won't let that happen. If Chris hadn't shot James, then they could have all been killed. He did what he had to do. Yet, that doesn't keep his mind from spinning in circles when Chris decided to ditch his father. If his mother would have known Travis would only bring him down, then he has no doubts that she'd side with him now. Right? 

Goddamn you, Chris!! 

The last words his father said to him almost made him jump out of the truck. Almost. Instead, they scream at him, and beg him, but Chris couldn't allow himself to care. They're better off without him. Now, Travis has no excuse but to run back to Madison, gis perfect girlfriend, and forget he ever had a biological son. They could focus on Nick's drama, and perfect Alicia instead of looking at him like he's some kind of monster destined to destroy their lives. 

Chris stares off into the distance, replaying the look of betrayal in Travis' eyes, before he shakes them off. The look of disgust, the disappointment. None of it matters now. Besides, he can't turn back now. He's been gone for an hour, and Travis probably wouldn't be there if he went back. 

"Hey, buddy. You gonna keep staring off at your old man like a sad little puppy, or do you wanna drive?" Brandon shouts over the loud music blasting from the radio.  

Chris turns to face him with a wide grin, long gone were the thoughts about his father, and if he had made the right choice. 

"Hell yeah, I wanna drive." 

Chris tries not to let his anxiety show; after all, he's only ever driven once. In fact, it was just a few days ago with Travis. Not now, he thinks, and instead slips into the driver's seat. Derek, having been kicked to the back by the tailgate, sits with a grumpy looking face, but Chris blocks that out, too. He can barely focus as is with the music. It's too distracting; it takes his mind off Travis, yes, but it also takes his mind away from the road.

It's exhilarating. Speeding down the seemingly empty countryside. Mexico is beautiful, Chris decides. It's too bad his only memories here are of death and destruction. 

"So," Chris calls over the music, glancing over at Brandon out of the corner of his eye. "What happens when we get to your safe haven in San Diego?" 

Brandon turns to look at Chris with a mischievous grin, although that was lost on Chris; if he had just taken his eyes off the road, he would have seen the scheming look in Brandon's eyes. If, if, if, but he hadn't. 

"Just drive man." Brandon chuckles. "You'll see it when we get there." 

Chris nods. It is plausible. Besides, Chris doesn't really wanna push his luck. If something were to go wrong, he'd be alone. He'd have nothing and nobody. He has to trust in this. To believe it will all work out, and to have faith. The result if it isn't is too catastrophic to dwell on. 

He takes his eyes off the road for only a second. Just a second. It's amazing how long a second could feel like, as if Chris is an outsider looking in. The second was all it took for everything to go to hell, when Brandon grabs the wheel, jerking it out of Chris' hand; grabbing Chris' head and slamming it into the steering wheel. Blood pours from his now broken nose, when Brandon lets go of the wheel altogether. 

One second. 

His surprised yell gets lost in the wind. 

One second. 

The truck's brakes squeal as he slams on them, but it's too late. He can't control it. 

One second. 

Chris watches helplessly, screaming, as the truck wraps itself around a tree; it doesn't stop. It flips and rolls, bringing Chris' body to fly out of his seat and back in it again, and again, each time the truck rolls. He can't hear anything. He knows he's screaming, but it sounds foreign even to his own ears. 

One second. 

That was all it took for Chris' world to crash down around him. Time seemingly stands still, as shock courses through his veins as he's thrown out of his seat again, collapsing through the windshield, bloody and broken. His eyes close involuntarily, blinking continuously to stay awake, but it's no use. 

Dad was right. 

— — — — — 

Chris comes to in a blaze of fire. The horrendous smoke fills his lungs and nostrils, and a strong sweet smell he can't exactly identify. Antifreeze, his muddled brain thinks, but he can't focus. Ash covers his body where he lay only ten feet away from the burning inferno; the truck. 

Brandon and Derek are gone. 

They left him. Defenseless. With nothing but the soot covered clothing on his back and a bruised and battered body. He blinks back the tears filling his eyes as he struggles to his feet, pain surrounding him like a fence of determination. Desperation had never felt so angry. 

They will pay. 

From the ashes, I rise. 

[hirotheinkling]

The Walking Dead: Decomposition Progression Bonus

Here’s my illustration of a few walkers from Season 6 of FTWD or alternatively the first five episodes of Season 9 of TWD, which both take place at around 3 and a half years after the global outbreak! This is the fourth and second to final illustration of this type which I have been producing lately as bonuses for my artwork series TWD: Decomposition Progression, which covers the gradual decay of a walker throughout the course of TWD universe.

[talktomeinclexa]

Hold me tight

By: TalktomeinClexa

Ratings: Mature

Warnings: None

Status: Complete

Summary: On The Abigail, Alicia strikes up a conversation with a stranger on the radio. When the woman shows up uninvited and steals some of their food, neither of them knows that it is only the beginning of their story. But the dead are not quite gone, and the living are hungrier than ever.

Will the two women get the happy ending they deserve?

This story loosely follows the plot of FTWD season 2 before taking a life of its own.

***

Alicia never thought that she would get tired of the ocean view. After all, she used to enjoy going to the beach with her friends on weekends. But after two days on The Abigail, she was already longing for land. Between the lack of personal space, the stress of the past few days finally catching up to her, Chris lashing out during Liza’s funeral, and the storm that had hit the night before and had kept her from sleeping more than an hour or two, she was exhausted.

Tired of the wind that wouldn’t stop sending her hair into her mouth, she had retreated with the radio into the room she shared with her brother. When Travis had asked her the day before to man the radio and listen for possible instructions from the military, she had thought that he was only trying to keep her mind off the strangers on the boat that they had not stopped to help. But now, despite the depressing messages she kept hearing, she was glad for the distraction.

Lying on the left side of the bed, she started falling asleep, lulled by an old song on the radio, when she heard a raspy, female voice over the music. The woman was singing, pretty much in tune as far as Alicia could tell, despite sounding pretty sad. Once the song was over, the brunette expected her to continue singing along to the next one, but she was surprised to hear her talk instead.

“Man, that was super nostalgic. Sorry about that. I used to love this song, but it’s not quite the same when you are alone on a boat. Oh well, I’m still alive; I guess there is that. Anybody out there? Hello? If you hear this, give me a shout. It’d be nice to talk to someone else other than the fish before I lose my sanity. They don’t make for great conversationalists, to be honest.”

Alicia could not help the corners of her mouth from moving upward. The woman sounded funny, a bit crazy too, but who was she to judge after all? The world seemed to have descended into madness; a stranger singing on the radio was hardly the weirdest thing she had seen recently. Before she realized what she was doing, her index had pressed the microphone switch. She held her breath and lifted her finger slowly, hoping that the stranger had not heard her, when the voice came back.

“Hello? Is someone listening? Hello? Please, don’t leave me hanging, I haven’t talked to anyone in days. I promise I’ll stop singing if you answer me. Please? Pretty please?”

“Hi,” replied Alicia after taking a big inhalation.

“Hi there. For a second, I thought I had lost my mind and started imagining things. How are you doing?”

“I—I’m okay. And you? You sounded good earlier; I didn’t want to interrupt your performance.”

“Haha, thanks. You should see what I can do after a couple of beers.” Alicia could not stop herself from smiling again, for the second time in less than five minutes. Maybe it was the relative carefreeness in the woman’s voice or the fact that her own family had been pretty much ignoring her for the previous 24 hours. Either way, the young girl did not want the conversation to end so soon.

“My name is Alicia, and you?”

“Elyza, Elyza Lex, at your service, young Alicia.”

“Hey! What makes you think I’m young?” asked Alicia while rolling her eyes. “As far as you know, I could be a 50-year-old crazy cat lady with a bad perm and fluffy slippers.”

The mysterious woman did not immediately respond. Her laugh resonated through the device that the brunette was holding, making her smile. “You’re right, love, I can’t be sure. However, I can’t imagine a crazy cat lady surviving on the ocean or knowing how to operate a radio. Anyway, tell me about yourself? How long have you been out here?”

The conversation continued like that for what felt like ages, but it was probably closer to an hour. Alicia learned that Elyza was Australian and used to have a dog as a child. She had just moved to LA to be a resident in a teaching hospital when the dead had started coming back to life. Since those fateful days, she had not heard from her mother and step-dad back in Sydney and had little hope to do so.

In return, the teenager told her about her brother’s regular escapades, her mother’s protectiveness, and the life on The Abigail with her new makeshift family. She even surprised herself by mentioning Matt and how she wished she had said goodbye to him, back when she had not known that a bite was a death sentence.

Elyza was easy to talk to. She listened when needed, joked at the right time to lighten the atmosphere, and the most refreshing part, she seemed to take Alicia seriously. She asked for her opinion on the situation, wanted to know what the brunette would do differently if she could go back in time, and showed interest in her and her family’s plans. For the first time since they had found Nick at the hospital, Alicia felt like someone was talking to her like the adult she almost was, and not like the little girl with chubby cheeks and eyes too big for her face that she had once been.

Eventually, she had to say goodbye and join her family for dinner, but not before promising Elyza that she would talk to her again the next day if she could.

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[louisahalewrites]

New FanFiction

“Fear The Living More”

Troy Otto/OC

Fear The Walking Dead

Complete (for now)

[someone-worth-racing-for]

Hey guys 😊 I just wanted to say that this is my first Fanfiction about Troy Otto and at the same time it’s not only about him. I really, really love his character on FTWD (and of course I’m also in love with the actor Daniel Sharman), but I always imagine Troy, even when he was such a strong and sometimes also brutal character, that when it comes to sexual tension and flirting, all shy, cautious and nervous. This FF plays in another universe and even when I have never ever seen just one episode from Teen Wolf in my life, the character of Jackson also plays in my FF. I have only seen one scene from that show and it didn’t let me sleep any more, till I have written down the next sides. I don’t know how Jackson is in the show, but I fell in love with that character (and also Colton) the second I have seen that scene and in my FF he is the total opposite to Troy. My story doesn’t really have to do anything with FTW or TW, but at the same time it also has 😁 So don’t expect the same characters from the series here. I just needed these two handsome looking guys to create this FF and give them new beings 😉 I really hope you will enjoy my story and I would be very happy for your reviews in the end!

Summary: Ella had moved into the city for a restart. To find her first job, manage her life all on her own, do whatever she wanted, even making mistakes and finding new friends.

And finally she even found two new, sexy friends in one hot Saturday night.

Fanfiction

AO3

[skyline0000]

Another Lexark! 💀🔪

“You can’t lose Hope. We’ll make it. Trust me, Alicia.”

This wasn’t planned. This was a kind of request from friends on twitter.

Hope you like it…Goodnight ❤️

[thereadersmuse]

The self reflection that'd come after the fact had been ugly.

*Also posted on ff.net.

[popchoc]

WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN

Fandom: The 100 / FTWD / TWD

Main Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa i.e. Alicia Clark

Tags: Crossover | Adventure | Romance | Friendship | Family | Conflict | Plot Twists | Alternate Universe - Canon | Probably too much fluff for a zombie apocalypse | And yes most likely some adult cuddling too ;-)

Summary: A new planet brings new enemies, but help is just around the corner. “I told you I’ll always be with you.”

A The 100 / FTWD / TWD crossover, following two long lost lovers, together with their friends and foes.

CHAPTER 47 - LEXA | ALICIA

With my eyes glued to the blood on Clarke's fingers the world around me suddenly seems to have faded away. Has nightblood always seemed this thick, this black? Or is it because for the first time ever I'm looking at it through my mother's eyes?

"Alicia, step away from her."

Blinking as if to break a spell, I draw away my gaze from the blood and look at Mom.

"What?"

"Step away. Now!" she tells me again, this time with even more urge.

Mom's voice is as sharp as the knife she's pulling. When she points it at Clarke I can feel panic starting to raise all through my body.

"Mom, what- what are you doing?"

"Can't you see?" she cries out. "She's infected!"

Before her words are out she's already reaching for me with her free hand, trying to grab me, to pull me towards her. Yet all she finds is thin air as I quickly step aside.

"Alicia!"

"Mom, it's okay. She's okay!"

Shaking her head in disbelief she points at Clarke again. "No! No, she's... Look at her! Alicia, please. Please!"

Desperation colors her voice. It scares me, since fear might just be the worst possible counselor right now, but most of all it breaks my heart.

I step closer towards her, warily, and take her trembling hand in mine. When I slowly lead it away from Clarke, I watch how the other one clings to the handle of the knife - her knuckles white from squeezing.

"Clarke is fine," I try to reassure her again. "Trust me. She won't hurt any of us. She-"

"She's infected," Mom keeps insisting. "She knows she is and yet she didn't tell anyone. She's willingly bringing us all in danger." She turns to me, though making sure to keep Clarke within her eyesight. "She's bringing..." She swallows when her voice falters. "She's bringing you in danger."

[ full chapter on AO3 ]

[forgotmyart]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The 100 (TV), Fear the Walking Dead (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Alicia Clark/Clarke Griffin, Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Alicia Clark & Clarke Griffin, Clarke Griffin & Lexa Characters: Alicia Clark, Clarke Griffin, Nick Clark, Victor Strand Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Endgame Clarke Griffin/Lexa Summary:

Clarke is so heartbroken that she begs Raven to attempt to make a time machine. Raven messes up and Clarke ends up into….the house of a 2008 family in Australia called the Lexes?

Or, Clarke time travels and ends up in Australia 2 years before the start of FTWD and becomes Elyza Lex after faking memory loss. She’s paranoid and tough because she remembers. She trains for the next two years before deciding to go to America to see what the world she once knew looks like in this universe/timeline, where she sees Alicia right before the apocalypse starts.

[ao3feed-the100]

Flatlined Heart

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37ew515

by forgot_my_art

Clarke is so heartbroken that she begs Raven to attempt to make a time machine. Raven messes up and Clarke ends up into….the house of a 2008 family in Australia called the Lexes?

Or, Clarke time travels and ends up in Australia 2 years before the start of FTWD and becomes Elyza Lex after faking memory loss. She’s paranoid and tough because she remembers. She trains for the next two years before deciding to go to America to see what the world she once knew looks like in this universe/timeline, where she sees Alicia right before the apocalypse starts.

Words: 1083, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The 100 (TV), Fear the Walking Dead (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/F

Characters: Alicia Clark, Clarke Griffin, Nick Clark, Victor Strand

Relationships: Alicia Clark/Clarke Griffin, Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Alicia Clark & Clarke Griffin, Clarke Griffin & Lexa

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Endgame Clarke Griffin/Lexa

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37ew515

[scavengurs]

adrian quinn + available verses.

blue flu. primary/preferred canon, follows the timeline, obviously. open for plotting for major character developments + relationships + arcs.

tlou. a university student, 23 at the time of the outbreak. he survives at weston-rhodes, which exists as it does in primary canon. branching paths available for WR to be either wlf or firefly affiliated, or solely independent/just Existing in canon. open for plotting (which is heavily encouraged.)

twd. closely follows primary canon (living at weston-rhodes, etc) with the obvious difference of walkers instead of bleeders. weston-rhodes is part of the militia, and participates in the savior and whisperer wars (same as jay). open for plotting, however, to Switch It Up.

ftwd. survived briefly at weston-rhodes before it falls to the horde attack, rather than surviving as in canon. ends up in one of virigina’s settlements. (open to plotting of branching/alternate paths based in s1-5.)

the 100, version one. adrian was part of the original eligius mission that settled on sanctum; killed by russell, resurrected by gabriel. a reluctant prime with similar ideals to ryker, he ‘surrenders’ in the season 6 finale, choosing not to go to the mothership with the primes, staying behind to help save sanctum with john and emori instead. fc(s) tbd.

the 100, version two. a member of tree crew; this is the jumping-off point for prequel-based interactions. developments tba.

the 100, version three. an expanded version of v2, where adrian and a small group of tree crew activists are arrested & convicted of t*rror*sm for their open support of diyoza and eventually sent on the mining mission. fc tbd.

the 100, version four. skaikru born, dreaming of the earth since his childhood. plot/arc for this verse is undecided; plotting highly encouraged. fc tbd.

dying light. on vacation in harran to watch the games; when hell breaks loose, he finds himself at the tower, eventually becoming a runner for brecken.

days gone. in oregon on a field study of the lava caves; when the virus hits, he cycles through settlements, only briefly living beneath tucker before leaving and eventually finding his way to lost lake camp.

[clexaao3feed]

A Different Apocalypse

by heda_is_life

This is an alternate universe inspired by FTWD and TWD times. The characters are from The 100, but instead of living in a nuclear apocalyptic world the characters now live in a walker infested world. There will be love, loss, and struggle. This is no ordinary AU, this one has the best characters mixed with the best tv show times.

Words: 2759, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Fear the Walking Dead (TV), The 100 (TV), The Walking Dead (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M

Characters: Clarke Griffin, Lexa (The 100), Raven Reyes, Indra (The 100), Gustus (The 100), Octavia Blake, Bellamy Blake, Lincoln (The 100), Abby Griffin, Marcus Kane, Anya (The 100), Echo (The 100)

Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Octavia Blake/Lincoln, Abby Griffin/Marcus Kane, Anya/Raven Reyes, Bellamy Blake/Echo, Gustus/Indra (The 100)

Additional Tags: Clexa Week, Walkers, Love, Smut, Fluff, Badass, Alternate Universe - The 100 (TV) Fusion, Inspired by The Walking Dead

Read Here: http://ift.tt/2zjRnaJ via IFTTT

[head-and-heart]

T100 is a dark show but I feel Jason is so focused on trying to shook the audience that he's forgetting the biggest strength of this show, the main characters and love. Don't you think so? What's the point to make Jasper's death so dramatic if it's not going to affect his friends at all? and Clarke wanted to save them but she hasn't connected with them since the last interactions of s2. It's a kind of mess imo. I wish they'd start writing consistent relationships and plots about fighting to live

I don’t entirely agree with this, nonny.

I don’t think that Jason has at all forgotten what the heart of the story is and if anything should be an indication of that it should be Praimfaya, of all episodes, one of the two Jason wrote this season. It focused basically exclusively on our delinquents heading to space, and then very briefly on Octavia (also a delinquent, I might add). THAT’S the heart of the show. That relationship among the delinquents, those characters we’ve grown to love? That’s always been the endgame Jason has been striving for season after season.

Which means that they can’t be together all the time. And, yes, they have to go on individual journeys, and struggle, and that’s the point. Because they are stronger together. But our characters can’t be strong all the time, they can’t always be with the people who complete them, who make them a perfect unit.

Why not, you ask? Because if they were always with those people, they would never grow. If they have everything they need, they would never learn to evolve on their own.

It’s the same idea with separating Bellarke so that Bellamy can develop his head-side without Clarke, and Clarke can develop her heart-side without Bellamy. They can’t be interdependent all the time, because the truth of the matter is that in the universe of The 100, there’s never a guarantee that they’ll have that person at their side. People die, they leave (something we’re a little too familiar with in the Bellarke fandom after 2x16 …).

Then what?

Then, our characters grow. On their own. And once they’ve gone through their individual journey, they come together and they kick even more ass than before. 

That’s kind of how it goes every season isn’t it? (With the exception of perhaps Season 1 where the sets and the budget was smaller, and they were introducing all the main characters/plot/relationships so it made sense to keep everyone so shuttered in together for the majority of the season.) Our characters work together for parts of the season, then they split up to go on their individual journeys, and then they come together again in the finale and kick ass as a team.

In Season 2, it started with all our characters separated, working to get to each other. They reunited in the first half of the season, created a battle strategy, and then separated to go through their own character journeys. Bellamy embarked into Mount Weather on his redemption arc to save his friends (simplifying the depth of his arc, obviously, but that’s not the point of this post). Clarke fell into her downward spiral as she took advice from L.exa. Jasper had to learn to become a leader in his own right. Raven struggled to come to terms with her new disability and pain. Octavia started training with Indra as a warrior. Murphy was off on his adventure with Jaha.

… See the trend?

Our heroes were all working together towards a common goal - defeat the Mountain (Murphy excluded) - but they were also struggling within themselves. It makes for interesting TV.

And then what happens in the Season 2 finale? They all end up in Mount Weather, working with and alongside each other using the lessons they’ve learned over the course of the season, in order to save their people.

What were huge themes of Season 2? Finding their family again - lots of reunions. The fight to see their friends/family again, to save them. What happens when you push away the people you love …

Because those themes: found family, love, and the things people will do to keep those things alive … THAT’S the heart of the show. And it hasn’t changed.

Then in Season 3, we spend the first half of the season with everyone isolated and struggling with their inner demons. Clarke struggling to face her people, Bellamy struggling to save them at whatever cost, Raven struggling with her pain, Jasper struggling with his PTSD, Monty struggling with stifling his own trauma while holding up his own family (Hannah and Jasper), Murphy struggling to survive on his own (like always … until Emori comes along), Octavia struggling to find her place in the world (struggling with Lincoln, with Bellamy, with Indra) and NONE of them sharing any of these things (for the most part) with each other.

And, yes, it was dark. And depressing and heavy and disheartening to watch sometimes. But that was the POINT. Season 2 was the descent into hell. 3A was hell itself, and 3B and Season 4 was our heroes rising from the ashes.

And sure enough, our main delinquents reunited in 4x11 and for the last six episodes of the season, it was all about them working together, piecing themselves back together, working towards a common goal as a team. In 3x16, we had Clarke going into the City of Light with Monty and Raven, Harper, etc working from Arkadia to help make it possible while Bellamy and Octavia kept her alive from the outside. It was a group effort. It involved all three elements for them to succeed in defeating ALIE.

What was a huge theme of Season 3? To put it simply, “together”. It was about showing our heroes and how they fall apart when they isolate themselves, and how they are stronger when they come together.

That’s always been the theme of the show, and - contrary to what many believe - the writers didn’t just drop that theme in Season 3. They took a dark approach to it, revealed an extremely grim perspective on the human condition, what happens to us when we fall down and there is no one there to pick us up, and people didn’t like that. But it doesn’t change the fact that the endpoint they were always building up to was our mains working together, stronger than before, in the end of the season.

Same thing in Season 4: they started off working together, they split up for awhile in the middle to embark on their own character arcs, and finally came together in the final few episodes to survive - together.

I think that ever since 3A, people have been stuck in this mindset that - just because they separated our favs from each other - that the writers don’t know what they’re doing. That they’re forgetting their own story, that they don’t realize what their fans want to see.

What I have to say to that is this: you listen to the anti’s too much. That is not the story the writers are telling. It never has been, and anyone who is ACTUALLY convinced that the writers are way up L.exa’s ass haven’t been paying attention. Appearing as a guest star in sixteen episodes does NOT make a show. And if it did, ADC would have been signed on as a regular before FTWD jumped.

I have no doubt Jason is well aware of where the heart of the show is and if anything is an indication of that, it is the finales he has written every single season. Each one consistently focusing on our delinquents working together to save the world. THAT’S the story he is telling. And I feel like a broken record, but I really can’t express this enough.

What’s the point to make Jasper’s death so dramatic if it’s not going to affect his friends at all?

I’m not going to argue with you about Jasper’s death because Jasper’s character arc is such a disappointment to me and I wish (oh god DO I WISH) it was handled in a way better way. I wish he had chosen to live, I wish Season 4 wasn’t just some long drawn out death sentence for him carried out from the Season 3 finale. I wish Jason could have thought of a better way for his character to continue to exist on the show, but that didn’t happen. And it sucks. And Jasper was my second favourite character (after Bellamy, loml) and I’m upset about it. And he was such good PTSD rep and they could have done amazing things with him.

I really feel like Jason had his mind set on killing Jasper in Season 3 but decided that would be too much, but never actually planned out another character arc for Jasper to have where he chooses to live instead. In his mind, Jasper’s story was over before Season 4 even began. Sometimes that happens with writers. They write themselves into a dead-end or they can’t think of another story that works for a character so instead of choosing the storyline where Jasper decides to live, he chose the alternate - darker - one where Jasper doesn’t recover from his trauma … and his story ends in tragedy.

It’s not the story I would have told, and I wish the way the characters on these shows responded to suicide was something other than saying, “you’re a coward”, but I’m not one for censoring what stories other artists choose to tell. They chose to write the dark one. Really, all that I can do is be sad and bitter and wish that the writers decided on a different character arc.

But they didn’t.

That still doesn’t mean that the writers have lost sight of what this story is about, though.

It’s still about the delinquents. It’s still about the theme of “together”. It’s still about life and hope and, yes, some of our characters die along the way or lose their path but - ultimately - in the end, this story is about family.

We don’t know for certain that Jasper has been forgotten, that he won’t be remembered. There are still those flashbacks Jason promised, and they always do callbacks to previous seasons. Yes, I wish we got more of a reaction out of characters like Clarke and Raven (grrr… still bitter over what could have been) and OCTAVIA, but I chalk that all down to being another problem to pile on top of all the other issues with Season 4 that could have been resolved with three extra episodes.

The writers took on too much in one season and they didn’t have enough episodes to tell it properly. Pacing was an issue, and a lot of things got cut or weren’t fleshed out as much as I would have liked because of it - including the response to Jasper’s death.

The writers just didn’t allocate themselves enough time for those emotional beats… and it’s annoying, but there’s really nothing that can be done about it at this point.

I find that most of the problems with storytelling on this show have much less to do with the actual story itself, and more to do with the pacing. This particular instance is no exception.

Clarke wanted to save them but she hasn’t connected with them since the last interactions of s2.

Clarke has pretty much always been kind of distant from most of her friends, with the exception of pretty much only Bellamy. I mean, hell, she even started the show in isolation. This has always been her struggle. Valuing her head over her heart (and sometimes sacrificing her relationships in the process). I thought that the way we ended Season 4, with Clarke waiting every day to reunite with her friends, never giving up hope … that bodes very well for that long-drawn out arc of Clarke holding herself apart from her friends to finally reach some sort of resolution. I’m very excited for where her arc is going next season, and I think the writers are well aware of Clarke’s tendency to isolate herself.

It’s being addressed.

I wish they’d start writing consistent relationships and plots about fighting to live

Sorry, disagree. They’re already writing those things.

This show has consistently been about our characters’ fight for survival. Isn’t that basically the premise of the show? Fighting to live? Say what you want about everything else about the show, but I’ve always felt that part was pretty consistent.

As for consistent relationships … I think most of the relationships we’re invested in HAVE been consistent. They spend time developing the relationships that are most important to the audience. Like Bellamy and Clarke, Abby and Raven, Monty and Jasper (while it ends tragically), the Blakes (as dysfunctional as they are, I don’t feel like it’s really developed unnaturally for how their dynamic started off and evolved), Kane and Abby, Memori, etc, etc. 

I must be reading the show differently than a lot of people because I feel that many are disappointed, thinking that the writers have lost sight of the show they first set out to be, but I disagree. The show has evolved, matured, and gotten more complex. Our characters have grown, they’re older, and they’ve changed. As a result, the relationships have too. But our core relationships on the show? Those have always been front and center, and our delinquents have always been the focus of each resolution to every season. 

We haven’t lost that many of our main delinquents. Jasper and Finn - that’s basically it. Think how many Grounders we’ve lost? How many other characters who aren’t Sky People? Anya, L.exa, Roan, Ilian, Luna, Lincoln, Maya, etc … These characters - as much as we may love some of them - are supporting characters. 

The delinquents are less expendable, and when you actually start cracking down on numbers, it shows that the writers don’t view them as being unimportant in the way that many “fans” would have you believe.

This is a way longer response than I intended on ever writing, so I’m just going to wrap it up here. I think my opinion has been expanded on more than enough.

[ao3feed-chilton]

Murder Husbands & Children of Violence

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by gutsandroses

Will Graham has been called in to investigate a strange case... a case involving something he is newly but intimately familiar: Cannibalism. A young heroin addict stands accused of a ghoulish crime. Nick Clark maintains his innocence, but the truth that he suggests is unbelievable. Can Will figure out the killer’s design before they strike again?

Troy Otto may not have been born broken, but something in him had snapped early in his formative years. A recent arrest for aggravated assault - not his first and certainly not his last - has landed him twenty hours of court-mandated therapy. Who better to help him learn how to control his darker urges than Dr. Hannibal Lecter?

Set soon after Hannibal 2x09/the opening moments of FTWD 1x01

Words: 5254, Chapters: 5/12, Language: English

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Fear the Walking Dead (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Troy Otto, Nick Clark, Dr. Frederick Chilton

Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Hannibal Lecter, Nick Clark/Troy Otto, Nick Clark & Troy Otto

Additional Tags: Murder, Attempted Murder, Drug Use, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Reference Animal Cruelty, Implied Relationships, Meet-Cute, Alternate Universe, Zombie Apocalypse, Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Zombies

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