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doyl1st · 11 months ago

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Isaac and his siblings

I haven't quite decided exactly how many children were raised at the Facility, but there are five concrete ones at the moment. The children aren't biologically related, but considering the circumstances, think of themselves as something of a family. They'll be getting posts of their own eventually, but I'm gonna give somewhat short summaries here.

None of the siblings share a surname, but they all have the same initials of ID. It's a joke, because they needed some form of identification.

In no particular order, we have Ike, Iggy, Imani, Ivan, and Isaac.

Ike didn't live past his teens. He'd killed himself in his room at the age of 16, no longer able to cope with life as an experiment. Isaac used to consider him weak and a waste of effort, but after his own experiences with attempted suicide, he now considers Ike the brother he never got to know, and the most tragic victim of the Facility.

The next is Ignatius, or Iggy, as he prefers. He and Isaac share a lot of similarities, to the point where they've considered they may have the same father. Both of them are short. Isaac is 5'3, and Iggy is 5'4. They both make highly animated facial expressions, and they're both adrenaline junkies. They're also prone to violence with poor impulse control, but Iggy is definitely worse than Isaac.

Iggy is a few months younger than Isaac, but you'd think it'd be years, with how Isaac looks after him. He fusses over Iggy and encourages him to make good choices, and he'll give anyone an earful if they talk poorly about his brother.

Isaac is a very impulsive person, but around Iggy he tends to display a lot more self control. He sort of feels like one of them has to be level headed, or they'll both probably die horribly. But he's absolutely not above joining in on some of Iggy's more violent or impulsive fun. Iggy likes to call himself and Isaac The Beastie Boys and Isaac does Not get the reference.

Iggy's very big on music, which Isaac is kind of clueless to. He's one of those "I listen to everything :)" people and his favorite genre is the heaviest metal known to man. Isaac can't stand it, but he does like 80's hits, so that's what Iggy usually plays in the car.

Isaac thinks a lot about how differently things could have been if they'd reconnected earlier than in their 50's. He feels horribly for the mess Iggy got into.

Then we have Imani, the reason why Isaac says he's the smartest man on Earth, rather than the smartest person. At the Facility, the two were often neck and neck with each other in regards to test scores. Some years Isaac would be on top, some years she would be. By the time they left, Isaac was considered the greatest success, but that's not really true. He may prove smarter in the sheer amount of knowledge he holds, but she is by far more emotionally intelligent and grounded than he is. Imani's the only one of the four defined siblings that was able to successfully integrate into society. She's a college professor, and a mother of two, with very little interest in her brothers' misadventures.

She's relatively new, so I don't have much developed for her just yet, but I do know that she's integral to helping Isaac catch their fourth sibling, who became a serial killer. That's when they reconnect for the first time since they were teenagers, and she tells Isaac and Iggy that she doesn't want to be a part of their world. Not them as people, but the cases they get into, and they have to respect that.

They do exchange letters, though. Isaac sends cards with too much money on the holidays, and Iggy sends toys. Just a little thing that helps them feel normal.

The fourth still living sibling is a man named Ivan, whose killing spree is currently Isaac's most difficult case yet.

At the facility, he was always considered third place behind Isaac and Imani, and that left its mark on him. He wanted prove he was the best and since Imani has (in his opinion) given up, Isaac is his primary target.

His murders were staged in a way to directly challenge Isaac to prove which of them was the most intelligent, with Ivan confident that Isaac would never catch him. Even if he did figure out his identity, he'd never be able to pin him down and arrest him.

If Isaac was the person he thought he was, though, that might have been true. He'd assumed that Isaac was as cold and detached from the world as him, but he's very much not. He proves as much by setting his ego aside and asking Iggy and Imani for help, outside factors that Ivan didn't count on.

It leads to a confrontation between the three brothers, ending with a bullet in Iggy's stomach and one going through Ivan's skull.

I haven't mentioned it just yet but Iggy is like, really good at fighting and he's got no qualms about killing people he feels deserve it, so it's necessary to handicap him for the climax of the story.

Iggy's on the ground bleeding out, so he can't really help. But what he does do is goad Ivan into trying to strangle him, giving Isaac the opportunity to kill Ivan.

After his death, Isaac kind of regards Ivan as another tragedy. He thinks his brother could have done great things and changed the world, if not for his ego and self importance. The whole ordeal causes Isaac to take another lesson in humility, and he's a bit more tolerable afterwards.

#off the record (ooc) ❌#That’s My Rap Sheet (about) 📄#very long post #also #suicide tw #ike doesn't have a photo bc he didn't make it to adulthood

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boombox-fuckboy · 3 years ago

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hi! ik you just answered a recommendation ask so sorry!! but do you have any non-comedy sci-fi podcast recommendations? i really like stuff that's set in space and the mystery/drama genre. i loved wolf 359, so doesn't need to be 100% serious but at least semi serious. (also queer characters are a bonus but its podcasting ofc there are gonna be queer characters)

No apology required. Here's some Non-Comedy Space Podcasts I enjoyed.

Directive: Heart-crushing podcast about a man tasked with taking care of the sleeping passengers aboard a colony ship, over the course of 20 years. Reflections, happenings, and something that's not quite as it seems.

Erraticus: Three individuals - one who's not a comdemned criminal, one who's not a bomber, and one who's not an AI - find themselves together on a ship fleeing danger toward the edge of the edge of the solar system, and a dangerous conspiracy none of them signed up for. Not far in yet but I like the characters, banter, and the creator's policy to release episodes only on their own schedule.

Girl in Space: If you liked Wolf 359, please do not go past Girl in Space. The Girl in Space lives alone on a station, doing science, making cheese, watching Jurassic Park, chatting with the old AI, recording her journals... It's a pretty good life. Would be a shame if something were to change that. Really well made, performed, written. Queer.

InCo: Follows the travels of a disgruntled interstellar information trader, her peppy AI, and the strange boy they find floating in space. I sometimes have a hard time believing this is the product of one person, because they do such a good job at voicing, writing, audio, music, worldbuilding (oh, the worldbuilding). And, though subtle, it's queer!

In Transit: Aboard The Eurus, a ship bound for a new world, things are going smoothly: crops are growing, oxygen is high, morale is decent, and they're making great time. So when a series of murders following a notable pattern occur, they call in (or, unthaw) a specialist, one who must use all the skills, training, and limited resources she has to solve it, while trying to adjust to life 113 years after she last went to sleep. The mic qualities vary and can be a bit rough, admittedly, but I enjoyed the story and writing. Oh, and it's queer!

Janus Descending: Do you like horror? Perhaps having your heart torn out and ditched at the nearest wall? Janus Descending follows a xenopaleontologist and a xenoanthropologist who travel to a new world to study a lost civilisation, but find far more then they bargained for. A really interesting framing device: her tapes are from first to last (chronologically), and his from last to first, and they use this really well. I heavily recommend listening to the supercut instead of each episode individually.

Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne is an isolated space station with duel purpose, both prison and shady testing facility. The show follows the people involved in one experiment in particular, both in their daily lives aboard and as part of the testing of a potentially revolutionary piece of technology. It does have a healthy dose of humor in it, but I'd not call it an outright comedy. I would call it underrated. Queer.

Moonbase Theta, Out: Messages to Earth from the communications officer of Moonbase Theta, as the facility prepares for shutdown, both to the people overseeing the project, and to his husband. Season one has short episodes (listen to the supercut), but longer for seasons 2 and 3. Really well made, and very queer.

Novitero: The princess of a planet is banished until she can make up the excessive funds she's lost, and is picked up by a group of wanted criminals. From a shared interest in getting rich fast, they reach an agreement: the ultimate heist.

The Orphans: I could spoil this podcast, (it'd still be great), but I won't. It's very well made, set in the far future, features AI, unethical science, quality worldbuilding, heart-crushing tragedies, and a dash of political intrigue. A bit queer, but you'll need to wait til season 3.

The Pasithea Powder: The last major interplanetary war was full of atrocities, but possibly none more infamous then the creation of Pasithea Powder, a memory altering drug which was used to horrible effect and landed it's entire team of creators in prison. So when decorated war hero Captain Sophie Green sees one of them wandering free, worlds away from his prison, she gets in touch with a very old, estranged friend: one Dr. Jane Gonzalez, who's behind bars for the very same reason. Very good, and absolutely queer.

SAYER: Crisp sci-fi horror. You are an employee of Ærolith dynamics on Typhon, an artifical moon orbiting Earth. A selection of ominous and highly advanced AI speak in your ear, helping you to adjust to your new life, and guiding you through your daily (and often disturbing) tasks. Pretty popular, but for a good reason.

Second Star to the Left: Follows a scout tasked with investigating a new world and preparing it for a new human colony, and the minder back home tasked with keeping an eye on her, as they each deal with various challenges, try to help each other from half a galaxy away, and become closer in the process. I really enjoyed this podcast. Queer.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: When the shuttle carrying the crew of scientific research ship Iris explodes, Violet Liu finds herself stranded in space, the last survivor with no way out. Until her emergency broadcast is picked up by a passing ship. But the crew aren't who they seem to be, there's more going on here than anyone knows yet, and Violet must decide who she can really trust. Very queer.

To Starlight We Come: A very new podcast about a talented young thief who ends up working on a station as part of her prison sentence, a new program which claims to rehabilitate young offenders. She's been working her ass off, dreaming about returning to her lucrative life of crime and beloved girlfriend when she gets home, and it's all going pretty smoothly, until she's framed for murder. Now she's got to work out who the real killer is to prove her own innocence, or she's leaving the station early, and without an oxygen supply. Queer.

VAST Horizon: An agronomist tasked with kickstarting agriculture on a new world wakes on the ship before they arrive, to discover something has gone horribly wrong. The ship is adrift, nobody but the malfuctioning AI to be seen, and the ship riddled with issues, she must do her best to save the ship and herself, and work out what happened. Great sci-fi horror.

Hope you find something here you can enjoy

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