#brand jwcc

[withdenim]

Day #2 - favourite friendship/duo

Two posts in one day, what is this, day two of chaos theory countdown??? (I posted my first one late whoops) anyway have my favourite duo in the whole show even though they’re together for like. Maybe five minutes of total screen time. Those five minutes mean a lot to me ok

Ignore the shitty quality I drew this entirely in a magma board

[campbenji]

it's so hard being a BowmanKon brothers enthusiast in this economy

[toasterdrake]

couldn't sleep so y'all get this. coulda diverted from the audio and adapted it to be one of brooklynn's devices but i was having feelings abt kenji and parents (just got to daniel's scene in my ct rewatch)

[ineffablejaymee]

i need more big brother Brand content in chaos theory this is not a request

[angxliquel]

In honor of Chaos Theory tomorrow do you guys ever wonder what would’ve happened if, instead of Darius, some grown ass twitch streamer gamer guy beat the game first. Like would he go to camp 😭😭

[campfam4lyfe]

Got any campfam aus or ideas in the works?

hey anon! I wouldn’t say I have any ideas in the works, because I have what I like to call commitment issues when it comes to writing fic.

This means that while I have an abundance of ideas, outlines, and wips in my Google docs for the fandoms I’ve been in. I’ve never actually finished a fic and posted it.

In fact, the only single time I have, (diff fandom!) I am not counting properly, because it was a collab with a close mutual, and a lot of the legwork was them. I had the initial plot bunny and was going to leave it as a one off tumblr post, but my mutual rlly liked the idea and we bounced drabbles and such back and forth. We wrote a bunch of snippets and put them together in a doc, until we had cohesive chapters, as we filled the empty spaces with more and more work, ending up to a total of 18 chapters. It took us a year and a half to post it, and that was mostly my fault, as where my mutual had finished most of their allotted sections, different hyperfixations kept pulling me to other unfinished works. This is why I won’t promise anything—I don’t want to disappoint anyone.

But, that being said. I do have ideas, hcs, and aus! One that is currently consuming me, was actually inspired by this one other post I saw recently. (When I find the post ima link it dw!) OP of the post was saying that there should be a Carmen Sandiego au for CC and I jumped on that SO fucking fast anon. I LOVE Carmen Sandiego, and have since it first aired when I was in HS.

So. Here’s some of the Carmen Sandiego au thoughts copy/pasted from my Google docs. (Yes I do always write out my outlines as if I’m taking to someone but that’s bc i sometimes end up sharing the doc link with some friends)

JWCC Carmen Sandiego AU:

Y’all know Kenlynn is my JAM and so is RedCrackle. So obvi I thought of mixing the two right? But here’s the thing. While I love Carmen/Gray, I am also in love with Carmen/Ivy and Carmen/Julia.

So with that in mind. Kenlynn is going to take a backseat for a second (meaning tho they'll become a thing and obvi they will bc they are a constant to me, theyre not the center of this), and my fave girls YASAMMY will be at the forefront of this au.

I’m thinking. Carmen Sammy. But I’m not entirely sure about whether or not that’s what I want? It could be argued that Sammy’s love for her family is a core driving force in her character, and Carmen doesn’t KNOW her family. But also—a huge plot point is that she’s looking for her mom. So. Tentative Carmen Sammy.

MANTAH CORP AS VILE MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E

So I figure not everything is going to be one-to-one. This means I am placing Kenji in the role of Gray/Crackle. His story is going to be different tho, bc whereas Gray was a recruit, with MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E that means Daniel is already on the board. So kenji trying to make his dad proud? More likely than you think.

(I just wanted my Sammy&Kenji besties. Bestie betrayal can be just as good as romantic betrayal)

I’m sure you know where I’m going with this if we’re not going the redcrackle route. Thats right. YASMINA JULIA.

I considered at first, YASMINA CARMEN and SAMMY IVY, but in the end the need for Sammy Carmen was too great.

So I also considered Dave and Roxxie as Chase and Julia but, I decided to scrap that idea for now. You know me, at some point I might revamp most of the au anyways lol, now is not a time for fine tuning it’s just a tentative starting point.

Torn between DARIUS as Player or Brooklynn as Player. I considered Ben of course, but I think we need to put him on an island at some point—he needs a Bumpy, no matter the universe.

WAIT. REVISITING BEN AS PLAYER. BECAUSE DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. This means no Carmen/Ivy vibes but since we ditched the Gray/Carmen as well in this au I think it’s fine.

Ben still has to end up with Bumpy somehow tho? Original Ben plan, when Darius was a Player candidate, was Ben is also a V.I.L.E recruit.

V.I.L.E having a faction that deals with genetics and cloning (in addition to like. Kash and his robots) and ending up with a dinosaur—Bumpy! And that being Ben’s flip to the other side/Team Sammy. He defects and steals Bumpy on his way out.

Okay I’m a little too attached to that, so yeah. V.I.L.E recruit Ben, so Brooklynn as player??

Oh! She doesn’t have!!! IRL friends!! Brooklynn being an Internet famous vlogger as in canon. So we get that running gag of Sammy and Brooklynn always being in contact and Brooklynn being a big part of the heists through investigative work and such, yet she’s constantly on the other side of the globe? Sammy needs to be in Sydney but Brooklynn is in New Orleans. That kinda stuff.

Works with Brooklynn having traveled all over the world, she can also do those factoids player does—she’s got the deets.

Oh!???? THATS HOW WE GET MY FAVE DUO OF DINOSTAR BESTIES!!! They both love their facts. They’re nerds.

Mae as shadowsan? Tentatively?

Okay. Player Brooklynn. Except instead of being home most of the time, she’s usually on the go. She’s talked to kenji a few times during Sammy and Kenji’s V.I.L.E recruit era.

Kenji as the Gray of this au. he’s a V.I.L.E legacy. he became friends with sammy his recruitment year, and he'd talked to brooklynn a few times, due to sammy introducing them because kenji was curious about whether or not sammy has friends in the outside world, and sammy noticing brooklynn feeling a little left out/jealous that sammy had friends she was hanging with in person rather than over a phone call.

kenlynn kenlynn kenlynn

does he recognize her voice from her vlogs? does he even watch them? i dont think hed be a brooklander, guys got a lot on his plate and thats impressing his dad

ben is a V.I.L.E. recruit. maybe a bit of mime bomb, in that he was. not as close? with the other recruits. i do think having ben come in as a recruit the year sammy defects would be cool tho. so he doesn't know her as "black sheep" or whatever code name V.I.L.E refers to her as. he'll first meet her as Sammy.

yaz as JULIA!!!!! a junior agent? a former athlete. trying to make it make sense, but i think it fits.

omg. yaz. is alex rider basically holy shit

was thinking of dave as chase, and decided that i was going to keep it.

roxxie as the Chief.

mae as shadowsan.

yes. it IS because i want a roxxie/mae/dave love triangle and that need's final form was ot3

DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. i dont want their mom to be dead. but i dont know WHAT happened to her and why theyre involved in this life of crime? i love the og carmen&ivy&zack meeting. and i love that they were involved with racing. trying to find a way to incorporate it and make it make sense

important question.....is darius and his dad's great shared love still dinosaurs?

OR IS IT CARS? RACING?????? BRAND BEING INVOLVED IN THE RACES BC IT WAS IMPORTANT TO DARIUS AND THEIR DAD AND DARIUS CANT DRIVE YET

AND. SAMMY. AS CARMEN!!!!!!

okay so carmen's dad was a former V.I.L.E. agent who left it all behind for the woman he fell in love with right? well. obvi this au isnt a one to one. like there clearly have been changes in characters and dynamics. but i think involving elements from this could work. lemme map it out to make sense

okay so in cc sammy spies for mantah corp despite her parents not wanting her to. meanwhie carmen's dad defects from V.I.L.E., i think shadowsan was there and so was the chief and he dies.

okay so--sammy's dad was a V.I.L.E. agent, fell in love, defected. V.I.L.E. catches up with him, and does A.C.M.E. and in the fallout, the house collapses. A fire? an explosion? they think sammy died. (im not killing off sammy's dad bc damnit she needs a happy ending)

yaz losing faith in the system and having her hot girl summer being romanced by the pretty thief she's supposed to be catching

ben ditches VILE/Mantah Corp with Bumpy and meets Darius at some point--oh!!!

mae/shadowsan joins Team Sammy at the end of s1 i think? okay, so, when she joins, she brings ben, a fresh defector with her.

obvi ben left after he stole bumpy from them

at some point during their occasional talks, kenlynn became friendly with each other. then The Train scene happens. and kenji is promptly deemed a disappointment and dealt with the way gray is.

brooklynn ends up coming across a memory-wiped kenji during one of her vlogs. he doesnt know he knows her, just that something about her voice seems familiar.

brooklynn brings it up and the other are Concerned but also have a lot on their plate rn/dont truly trust him again or are unclear on whether or not they should. darius/brand bc their experiences havent been good so far, and sammy doesnt want to risk them. but he was still one of her first friends. shes torn

brooklynn making contact with him. smth smth she ends up needing a camera man for one of her vlogs and kenji volunteers. they grow closer during her sporadic visits. he asks her out.

DANIEL KON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT. SAMMY NEEDS BROOKLYNN TO DO HER THING. SHE MISSES THE DATE.

Meanwhile, that entire interactive ep??? of carmen sandiego with the julia/carmen??? THAT. THAT HAPPENS. YASAMMY DANCE AND WE GET THAT SCENE YOU KNOW THE ONE

[jupitersrising]

I am pushing the "Brand Bowman was swim team captain in high school and Kenji was on the team before camp™. So they bond over it when Kenji starts living with them. It's what makes him feel like he's not just Darius' brother, but Brand's too" agenda.

(Plus Brand loves getting to have a sporty brother bc he'd never got that...mentorship feeling that comes from teaching a younger sibling/cousin sports. Unless video games count bc that definitely Darius and Brand's thing.)

[swan2swan]

On Isla Nublar, you never know what lies ahead...

[mangosaurus]

eternal short king darius is endlessly endearing to me but even better than that is darius showing everybody up with the most insane growth spurt imagineable. move aside kenji darius is the tallest camper now

[rynfloros]

i just knoww darius can be one of those annoyingly protective younger siblings when it comes to brand n kenji

[zline]

Might I recommend:

It about Darius and Kenji adjusting back to not constantly in danger and Brand trying his bestest. Amazingly written by Jupitersrising

If y'all find any similar settings pls tag me I wanna read

One thing I really like to imagine is like. How the Nublar 6 adapted when they returned to the mainland. Like, in Chaos Theory, random people recognized Darius and Ben, so it's clear that the five of them (Brooklynn was already famous, so not really counting her) became pretty well known and must've been on the news for months, to the point that some people still recognize them six years later. How did they handle that? How did they handle going back to school? I mean, imagine you're a parent and you send your kid to a camp at Jurassic World and you think they're dead for —according to CT— nearly a year, and then they come back. How do you act around them? Do you treat them normally eventually, or do you start off being very overprotective because you're scared of losing them again? How do you get used to this new version of your child, or your sibling, or your friend? Because for example, Ben had a radical change at Isla Nublar; he's definitely not the same person he was before leaving, (none of them really are), how do you handle that? How did their classmates at school treat them? Did they find them intimidating, were they all suddenly the coolest kids at school and got asked questions all the time? Most of all, how did they get used to live like that again after everything? And did any of them have to repeat a year? Lmao. I'd just like to know how they handled everything, because really, it must've been a lot and it probably took them a while to get used to it.

[withdenim]

Gentle and evil and fucked up reminder that if the whole thing about Chaos Theory being set after Dominion is true, then Darius will be at minimum 18 years old, and Kenji will be in his mid twenties.

[campbenji]

Kenji carved "Darius, Brook, Sammy, Yaz, Kenji and Ben were here" onto a tree with his butterknife when he thought they were about to leave.

[kutie106]

Jwcc/ct texting headcanons:

Darius: Pretty nirmal honestly, the occasional typos here and there. He punctuates his sentences and types everything in one or two bigger messages unless he’s excoted or something.

Ben: Hed probs use a lot of abbrevs, first to save time, then bcz it’s a part of his brand. Only the numb3r ones if hes feeling s1lly.

Brooklyn: She’d use all the text slang in casual conversation, lots of “real”s and reaction emojis 💙💙. She’d be lowkey brainrotted tbfr 😭😭

Kenji: His favorite emoji is 😎. He signs off every text with 😎. And where the periods here are 😎. Are individual texts 😎.

Sammy: She’d be the one friend who texts like a suburban mom, using 😂 and 😀 unironically. She’d also be asking what literally every abbreviation means because she’s the least chronically online of the six

Yaz: Impeccable spelling. Her messages take a little longer to send because she goes back and fixes whatever her autocorrect didn’t fix for her. She also forgets to respond to people sometimes 

[ineffablejaymee]

darius had an older brother, spend 2 years running away from dinosaurs and somehow scored another older brother and i love him for it

[sabi0229]

Darius HeadCannons:

He loved Mac and Cheese so much he refused to eat anything other than that for months as a kid

Would scare Brandon by leaving Dinosaur figures in front of his face when he woke up, walk up behind him and have his dinosaurs bite him

Him and his dad were such big Dinosaur nerds that his mom made their phone contacts Dadsaures and Sonsaures.

When Darius was a child his parents would put Dinosaurs fossils in the backyard for him to dig up

Stays up until 6 in the morning playing video games

When kenji moved in with them Darius convinced Kenji to prank Brand with him

His fave color is yellow ( the boy has a yellow jacket in Jwcc and Jwct)

He loves grape juice

Is very oblivious and dense

Played soccer

Cut his own hair once as a toddler that when his mom saw she started to cry so much that his dad came upstairs and laughed his ass off, While Brand, just stood there.

He lives in a two storie house

Had a shark phase but went back to Dinosaurs after 3 months or so

When Ben visited he would make sure everything is extra clean and they would stay up watching movies and fall asleep in each other's arms because they were too lazy to move and kenji snapped a pic and bullies them about it to this day

When Darius first saw Ben with long hair and a beard he said out loud Shaggy and Ben looked behind him confused

Darius would braid Bens hair for fun

When Darius would hang out with Brooklynn they would make fun TikToks

He loves mint chip, banana , and bubble gum ice cream

Loves blue slushes

Gets sick a lot before nublar ( that's what you get for staying up late playing video games)

He definitely sprained some part of his body with all those falls and getting slammed into trees

one day at camp he didn't leave Roxies side at all so he won't get into anymore trouble and Roxie was unbothered by it but Dave kept making his jokes

He listens to Dave's Demos to remember what he and Roxie sounded like

When he was stuck with Kash he would hum to himself to fall asleep ( where did he sleep like so many questions there are for when Darius was with kash)

Looks a lot like his dad ( prove me wrong in the flashback he's a mini Fredrick )

He mostly took after his dad but picked up his mom sarcasm

When he is just done with someone ( kenji) he starts rollin his eyes so much that his eyes hurt

While he was in the DPW he practiced some crazy car tricks to chase after dinosaurs but his mom would't let him practice alone so she made Kenji go with him so he doesn't get hurt. Darius got the hang of his cool car tricks while Kenji is traumatized and won't let Darius ever drive again if their in the same car, ever

Darius wakes up in the middle of night puts on his dinosaur onesie goes downstairs and watches all his favorite dinosaur movies

His favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry and caramel in chaos theory he still likes bubblegum and banana ice cream but decided that he didn't like mint chocolate chip anymore

Is a introvert

He dyed his hair once

When he was a child ( elementary age) he would go to Brands room and night to steal all his blankets so when brand woke up he would go to Darius room to sleep with him because Darius never wanted to get in Brands bed because he sweats too much.

Is a biter

he bit kenji once

Ate a grub once because he lost a bet with Ben. But only he knows about it

Will be making more soon