#apprentice!Adam AU

[williamschenk-banks]

Previously incompatible interests:

John had never anticipated that the two men that he’d trapped into one of his earlier games would turn out like this. Would prove to be one of his most reliable allies. And mark no mistake, John considered them allies. Even if he would sometimes catch Adam giving him a speculative look - as if measuring his worth and finding John lacking. John took it in stride. He considered it one of his greatest accomplishments noting that the Doctor and his Photographer were so quickly surpassing his wildest hopes for them.

OR:

After their trial by fire in the warehouse bathroom Adam and Lawrence find themselves partnered together by their former captor John Kramer. Lawrence considered it luck that John had even allowed Adam to be retrieved from the bathroom in the first place. Adam knew better though. John Kramer had never accounted for Adam surviving his game in the first place. And if it weren’t for the fact that Lawrence would not let Adam’s fate go, or that Hoffman refused to let John betray the rules that he had set for Adam’s game, well - Adam knew that he would have been destined to become nothing so much as a pile of bones in that bathroom, if not for fate’s intervention.

However:

Adam and Lawrence both did survive their game and the experience had linked them incontrovertibly - had turned them from two people who never would have pinged each others radar to two halves of a whole. Something that had been tempered into a weapon that was made to last. Made to outlast, in fact, John Kramer’s very long shadow.

I.e. Adam and Lawrence are not so secretly John’s favorites, and Hoffman can see which way the wind is blowing. He is not pulling an Amanda and trying to kill Dr. Lawrence’s partner anytime soon. (Amanda’s said she’s sorry, why wont Larry let it go?!)

…Yes, I do have plans to turn this into an actual story, but for now have this.

[4lphaless]

every band needs their groupies

[gattobamboom]

a happy father of two

[algoreithms]

got the brainworms (sawtism)

[jambread23]

Some old saw sketches (ik it’s been forever don’t kill me🙏💔)

[avocadoraisin]

Now you gotta do vampire Lawrence (not obligatory)

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[final-act]

a mimir

[anatomical-puppet]

another saw doodle dump bc i need to start drawing people that are not hoffstrahm lmao

[reblogs appreciated!]

[zer0point5ive]

[ostendird-oddie]

Magma doodles with @littlesapphicraccoonguy ! Be sure to check their post when it's out ^^

First drawing is saw rehab. Mandy lives with jill during the mourning and adaptation period. She often wakes up from nightmares but jill is there for her.

Furry TappSing angst

Also i personally don't really subscribe to apprentice adam idea. I think if he survived he'd help Tapp investigate the case

[brainfreeze27]

redraw

[motheroftheantichrist]

Theories that I don't actually believe, but have fun thinking about: Saw edition

Adam was the original Jigsaw apprentice.

While I know this isn't true, and don't actually believe Adam would even be a good apprentice, it's just funny to me how well it could actually fit into the bat shit crazy narrative of this franchise.

Consider...

John Kramer has just begun his work as Jigsaw. He's killed Cecil, and maybe a few others. Jill Tuck, concerned by his increasingly erratic behavior, hires a private investigator to tail her ex-husband and report back. Enter: Adam.

He trails John to his warehouse and either springs one of the traps and escapes, earning John's regard, or is caught by John and deemed useful for his particular skill set. Seth Baxter has just been killed and John needs someone to tail Hoffman, so Adam is recruited.

He finds most of the people in Logan's game, other than Logan, Anna, and Mitch, who John new personally. The others seem more like people that Adam would have found, or found out about given his line of work. He probably saw Carly steal the purse and inhaler and was able to track her down. I always thought that it was a stretch that John had happened to know about that, and managed to find her as well.

Adam is planted in the bathroom game because it requires two people, and to test Amanda. If you look carefully at John's reasons for testing Adam in Saw 1, they are pretty flimsy compared to Gordon's. He dislikes that Adam stalks people, even though that's what John does to grab victims as well as get a feel for Hoffman as a person, and claims he is passive in his own life, which may be true, but is a considerably weaker excuse than he usually uses when choosing test subjects. Not to mention the fact that Adam is never given any actual instructions. He was simply there to act as Amanda and Hoffman did in Saws II and IV.

The bullet that Lawrence had was a blank. It was enough to injure Adam, and would have been believable if Lawrence had decided to actually try to kill him, but he would have survived.

John can tell that Amanda is teetering on the edge over Adam's fate and has a feeling she is going to go back, so he puts Adam back in the bathroom, which is why he is still seemingly trapped there when she returns to "kill" him. This is then followed by the usual theories about the plastic not being held on for long enough, and the corpse being someone else's.

Adam was the one who switched the chain on the decoy corpses foot when he found out that John was going to leave a tape to lead Lawrence to the bathroom (maybe he's the one who convinced him to do it) with the hopes that Lawrence would realize he was still alive.

Thank you for coming to my insane and completely pointless TED Talk.

[4lphaless]

what if adam and amanda had a band?

[real-odark]

strahm and adam at work

[ID: A digital drawing of Adam and Peter Strahm from the Saw movies. They are in Adam's red room, surrounded by photographs and vague shelves. Strahm, looking somewhat upset, says to Adam, "You didn't render literally the only photos John asked you for?" Adam is looking away from him and sweating. Holding a picture towards himself so Strahm doesn't see, he says, "Ummm. They. Didn't turn out." A fainter arrow points to the picture Adam is holding, and in a connected circle, suggests that the photo is 'Freaky..' with a small drawing of Adam winking with his tongue out. End ID.]

[illusory-scripted]

grrrr adam apprentice au brainrot

[thestanheightspecial]

thinking about adam and his work. thinking about how he would have to go about it, even pre-trap/apprenticeship, learning his target's schedule, watching them like a hawk from just out of sight, taking choice moments to snap a picture when it was convenient. if you've ever played dead by daylight i imagine he's very close to how danny johnson (ghostface) is characterized in that.

continuing my thought, post-trap apprentice AU, he'd be the perfect person to sic on prospective players. he's observant, careful and blends into a crowd amazingly- far better than amanda 'wanted in several states' young and mark 'big, distinct-faced detective' hoffman. but i also imagine he'd spend no small amount of time watching the others- lawrence and hoffman in particular, keeping tabs on them while they're out and about for their day jobs, reporting back to kramer like one of odin's crows, feeding that crazy omnipotence he gets later in the series. you know?