#i’m more on the side of vinny was in love with evan & then got caught up in a weird gay thing with habit

[splattergutz]

vinny falling in love with evil incarnate while also having a complicated history with religion (religious trauma in the fairmount iteration vs him praying in the princeton iteration) is something that can be so important

[instabilitae-blog]

watch_dogs au notes that don’t make sense but i’m trying

jeff and alex’s parents were killed in the northeast blackout of 2003; jeff is more understanding about why it happened than alex is, but neither of them are particularly spiteful ( not that they’d just chill with ray like the wd2 cast, but, y’know )

they’re raised by another family member until jeff turns 18, at which point he takes custody of alex and they split from the rest of the family

she’s where the two of them gain interest in computers

jeff, steph, evan, and vinny are new jersey’s most prominent dedsec members

evan is the “fixer” of the group, vinny does the most hacking but never goes out and about, jeff can deal with violence and hacking like a real wd protagonist, and steph takes on a leadership + spokesperson roles

this isn’t saying too much, because it’s one of the less ctos-heavy states in the northeast, but they still know it + act like it

other local members include side characters we know and love: jessa, jessie, nick, daniel... etc

alex is specifically forbidden to join dedsec; jeff thinks it’s too risky / future-damaging and won’t allow it.

alex actually isn’t very involved in anything until later

poppy works with blume because her adoptive mother is a prominent employee; she becomes the local dedsec leak, and shares information through the main four in order to stop things from being traced back to her directly

she’s been caught hanging around dedsec affiliates ( main four ) by ctos, but learned her lesson and got away with it without significant punishment

since she can’t be around them without arousing suspicion, she tends to end up staying behind with alex whenever they decide to leave the house

“the habit virus,” as dedsec calls it, was designed by the nj divisions of blume to quickly tag, target, and often eliminate dedsec affiliates ( this is all done off the books, of course )

vinny is paid off and ends up turning on dedsec; he becomes blume’s rat, and is the one who starts of the distribution, purposefully covering his tracks by making it seem like evan is doing this work

although he was promised jeff, stephanie, and evan would be safe, he most likely knew they wouldn’t be; they’re are killed within the following months / year

poppy doesn’t find out about the virus until it’s too late, and doesn’t find out about vinny until blume’s fixers have already taken care of the rest of the main four. knowing he has won immunity, she kills him herself.

once everyone is dead, and dedsec seems to have been eliminated, alex finds himself alone, and he needs to make a decision: revive the revolution, or let sleeping dogs lie

alex graduates from high school, then decides he doesn’t care about going to college; he wants to bring dedsec back, like jeff and co. would’ve wanted

he contacts poppy again after a long period of no communication, and asks her to help him

poppy leaves blume, abandons the life she has, and devotes herself to breathing life back into dedsec like he has ( once she’s made sure all of the information on the habit virus is gone )

they’re extremely effective in the beginning, as using this dirt they have on blume - all of these deaths - works like a charm

neither of them are doing so well personally: alex being extremely damaged and empty from what he’s lost; poppy honestly shouldn’t have abandoned everything like that because this isn’t a life anyone should live

they expand, however, and continue the old work with their lives - and others’ - no longer on the line