#they being gwen and jack

[doctorwhommm]

got silly with this one ◡̈

[quietwingsinthesky]

its so funny to me how torchwood’s employment process is both ‘incredibly fucked up thing happened to them and jack swooped in to take advantage of the situation’ (owen & tosh) and also ‘u wanna recruit me so bad it makes u look stupid :3’ (ianto & gwen)

[golyadkin]

Would you believe me if I said I have more of these

[riverharkness]

i yearn for torchwood

[screaming-sparrow]

jack harkness loves like a dog

[just-an-enby-lemon]

The people are different versions but still exist in TMAGP and that absolutly is the one thing moving a very specific TMA AU.

Basically besides joining the Institute, Tim gets very into online supernatural foruns trying to find people with similar experiences. So one day he gets a mysterious mensage from someone about the "thing wearing my brother's skin". The e-mail is about a young lady that says something very similar happened to her and her uncle and she has been investigating similar stories since. They chat more and with Sasha advice Tim decides fuck it and meets the woman, both pretend it's a date.

Everything is well until Tim mentions working dor the Magnus Institute, she, who presented herself only by Gwen, pales and goes "oh you're one of them" and leaves after saying "I'm not playing his games. I'm not feeding him." Tim is very confused, he thinks maybe the Institue tried to investigate her case and failed. They are not in the archive yet so he asks Jon and Sasha with help without giving any detail, basically hoping Sasha conection with Gertrude means she has acess to the archives and Jon being way to into spending long nights working will help them sort whatever Sasha finds.

Except Sasha finds nothing. Until a random day were she comes up with a big grim and goes "you guys won't ever be abble to guess what I found out?" and open in a very funky web page advertising Gwendolyn Bouchard, paranormal lawyer. Sasha is laughting, Jon is ranting about what a paranormal lawyer would even be but Tim is like "oh shit, that's her".

He doesn't connect the dots at first. Or doesn't want to. But he keeps thinking about "I'm not feeding him" and he is like "random question what do you guys know about Elias" and Sasha goes research into it.

At this point he and Jon aren't close friends but they are friends and if their boss is one of the things that ate his brother he needs to figure out something. With the assumption Elias is a clown, Tim does actually notice how creepy Elias is with Jon and is fully "Jon won't belive me but Elias is totally into eating his insides or whatever". So he tells the truth to Sasha and tricks Jon into visiting Gwen's lawyer thing for answers.

I still did not figure out most of the other things, except that Alice and Gwen are together in this verse and Alice made the web design for Gwen's page. I also know I want alt Sam and I want just our Celia who keeps almost meeting them but never doing. Or even a Celia that came back and has a dificult time being at her world and interacting with different versions of people that mattered so much to her.

I don't know still what to do with Sam, because I think Martin was very clearly Jonah backup archivist and the thing is Elias will try to convince Jon Gwen is the crazy/evil one and either he'll suceed making Jon betray his friends and be the archivist but with different assistants (except Martin) or he won't and Martin will start as the archivist. And while backup archivist/archival assistant Sam makes sense I'm unsure I want that for him. I'm thinking maybe this version of Sam after failing to get into Oxford went into a "rebelious" phase instead of doubling down in trying to met his parents high expectations and ended up joining Melanie ghost hunting channel. But not sure.

Like if I actually go the route of Celia is back trying to find help for both her worlds a Sam that's not quite the Sam she knows/cares about would be interesting. Like he is deep down the same but also he isn't in some obvious ways and she might just miss her Sam more. But if this is an AU not as connected with Protocol than maybe a Sam that's pretty much our Sam but if he was in Archives would make sense. Idk.

And ofc Basira and Daisy that I'm always partial to but I have no clue how to add, except maybe with them starting as Gwen and Alice rivals because Gwen attorney bussiness interferes with their sectioned police work. Also Gwen being an attorney is a 100% because I fully think she was her normal manipulative rise to the top and keep the Bouchard's name girl and went into law school for it except she mets Alice and by the same period Jonah happens and she was close to Elias (even if in parts was because she looked better in the family eyes when they were together by comparison) and it changed everything.

I don't know a lot about Alice either but she was Lena's college roomate and atended classes with Colin (yes he is here as well, unsure what to do with him tho). She had a paranormal encounter that left a scar similar but in oposition to Georgie's where she has a "spider sense" sort of think and can feel when the fears are involved, she knows if a library or book fair has a Leitner and where for example. It happened when she was young and possibly involved meeting my boy Gerry but she tried to avoid the supernatural ever since. She was very reluctant over helping Gwen except she acidentaly overheard her talking to "Elias" and Jonah messed with her head. More importantly she knows that ignoring sometimes is worse because some secret involving her baby brother who may or may not have joined Grifters Bone and becamed a Slaughter Avatar.

The supernatural lawyer was a joke from Alice but Gwen took it seriusly and Alice was loke "really?" and guess this moron will need help to not die/became an avatar and became her paralegal (tho it had nothing to do with her actual college diploma).

[violetmessages]

dont be a coward, the torchwood found family experience means that they fuck each other, it’s not jack being the dad and either gwen/ianto (depending on who you talk to) being the mom,,,,,,,altho I do think gwen and ianto would absolutely be into a roleplay where they’re both Jack’s bitter ex wives who fuck in front of him to make him jealous

[doctorwhoisadhd]

my gwen cooper insane woman edit <3 (original track)

[dang-dood]

i completely forgot that house md was canon in torchwood

[benevolenterrancy]

torchwood is very lax about uniforms compared to certain other alien monitoring groups

[wide-eyedbrowns]

there's a very underrated scene in COE where it shows rhiannon, gwen, and, alice fighting soldiers and trying to take back their kids (not exactly her kid, in gwen's case), and i just think it's one of the most devastating parallels in COE. they're all fighting, gwen's own child hasn't even formed a bump in her yet she's running for her and this little girl's life, both mica and steven were taken from their mother's arms. i don't know, i think it's the best portrayal of motherhood in the show, i liked that the scenes focused on the three of them.

[doctorwhommm]

we’re so back

[atlasisnothere]

apparently my post about gwen is doing the rounds and the discourse has ignited again. so. tapping the sign. I do not care if you dislike gwen. I really don't. there is no mandatory rule saying that you must like every protagonist in every show you watch. but hating one character for having certain characteristics and loving another character for the same thing is the problem. going out of your way to write a character so OOC that you're practically fabricating them a new personality because you hate them that much is the problem. I've read fics that have painted such a negative caricature of gwen cooper that they might as well have put her face on a dart board and started throwing knives at it. I think some of you need to brush off your hating gwen hats and check for any unconscious misogyny. you might be surprised what you find in there.

[witchofthemidlands]

i love tooth & claw because it shows the very foundations of torchwood, how it was birthed from queen vic not being amused over tenrose acting like silly gooses whilst a werewolf potentially turned the royal family into werewolves whilst extreme chomping on a bunch of folk & that it eventually evolved into spawning torchwood three, where ✨captain jack harkness✨ lead a bunch of delightfully unhinged bisexuals who gave off questionable vibes around cardiff whilst somehow managing to remain semi hinged to save the world from aliens & the swansea countryside from cannibals 🤩

[teslapunk3327]

Ianto and "Disco" were such a powerful duo.

Yes, they're toxic for each other but they both enjoy being corrupted by each other's toxins. And they make each other's lives literal Hell. Without knowing the true extent of how they destroyed each other's lives, until their deaths.

The chronic liar and the narcissist. The King and his Guardian Angel. They're literally two sides of the same coin.

And it's a secret they both take to their graves.

[quietwingsinthesky]

am i the only one who can see this. hello.