#listen to What Have They Done To Us from arcane and i get inspies

[baylardo]

ive posted about it before but in my halfbaked threshold au future ideas i envision philippa having a lil story before FAT squad surrounding her and her sister’s contentious relationship (its at its worst around now, peppa cant stand amelia, shes succeeding at everything blah blah blah) involving the DTI recruiting her and the collapse of the Endgame timeline, so like pip’s an ensign, 20-25-ish i forget what time it is for the admiral but i think about that timeline ending shortly after the admiral goes back to chance things. and the story also involving the endgame timeline’s version of Amelia where shes searching for her sister in the DQ (see Lesson Plans???) but gets involved with the Krenim. and i think the DTI recruiting philippa bc that timeline was supposed to vanish and it hasnt bc of the krenim tamporing with things, the DTI wanting to use philippa against the alternate timeline’s version of her sister or to convince her to stop manipulating the timeline, its causing problems. maybe the goal is to make it the true timeline or whatever they call it and DTI is trying to prevent that. figure theyd keep philippa pretty in the dark tho like only telling her what she wants to hear, leaving out that shes gotta stop this version of her sister to save the universe or something idk. anyway i figure everything does end up leading to her needing to kill amelia, or amelia dies and everything is salvaged, idk what i like more but philippa gets a little ptsd from it and very likely gets this broadened perspective about amelia from it.

so in FAT arc when amelia years later eventually disappears on a mission to the DQ, philippa has this heightened sense of what amelia is like and why she’d run away or not be okay, and shes in the DQ with no contact home. so i think philippa would be worried about amelia potentially falling into the hands of the krenim like the endgame timeline’s version of her. and i think shed also simply dread the thought of having to deal with her actual sister dying. so she decides to find her. :)