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legaciestold · 1 year ago

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@spookyagentfmulder

variables.

her parents had always taught her to look at context clues to unravel the truth of the past, the truth of a people, the truth of society. one couldn't ascertain what had befallen a lost city in the jungle from a single piece of broken pottery or bone or understand the social dynamics that resulted in finding two distinctly different artifacts from two warring tribes within the same ruined household buried under a mountain of dirt. you had to investigate, you had to look at the ruins as a whole, the uncovered weaponry, the uncovered art, and chemical residue from the clay pots unearthed that held traces of foods from the other side of the country (even if it hadn't been that country at all back then). you had to look into what'd happened on that side of the land too, consult geologists that helped support, through their own independent research, the theory that a geologic event caused an ancient migration that forced two societies to merge into one.

it was much the same thing investigating how the dead became that way. one in her field didn't just look at the body, though the primary and secondary causes of death were always important in the work of a forensic pathologist. but one had to examine a victim's life, their medical records, speak to family at times. one had to understand how this person met their fate and what factors predisposed them to such. one sometimes had to understand the suspects too, the fact one favored one arm over the other and how that matched with the angle of a wound. it aided the investigation of detectives as they went about their side of things. though, doctor ariadne cross could readily admit her role these days has been drastically blurred. she'd seen things and learned things she'd have previously been hard pressed to understand while working for the foundation and now consulting with the bprd she'd seen more. she'd ended up in the field too, something she'd never quite been officially trained for but when the body was going to dissolve into a pile of goop in an hour or the body in question had gotten up and moved to another location, you learned quickly to go with it.

so it's variables which she takes into consideration as she works at the post mortem in the smaller theater of the medical examiners office, leaving the larger one to her collages who weren't privy to the work she did for the 'fbi' (except this time it really was the fbi wasn't it?). the local news had been discussing crude grave robberies for the past three weeks which rivaled what one would hear centuries before when medical students paid for cadavers in secret no questions asked. (how many of those had been undead? she wonders morbidly.) there'd also been a rash of murders the press had dubbed with a sanguine moniker due to the lack of blood and viciousness of the attacks. most of them had come through this office, some had found themselves a jurisdiction over, and a few even crossing state lines into new york.

she imagines that's what'd alerted the fbi.

of course the bprd had been aware too, eventually, once the independent pieces had started to come together and the last body she'd examined had decided to get up and grab her before she'd called john and a team had... dealt with it. that'd been yesterday, another body already fresh on her table-- an escalation. the issue had become the fact that the actual or the normal part of the fbi had come become involved in the case and from what she'd been told director manning seemed convinced it'd cause more issues to attempt to block the other division than just let some spooky agent he seemed annoyed with after talking to some other director she thinks was named skinner investigate the case himself. why she'd even been there when manning was having it out on the phone she wasn't sure. she'd been called in and had waited to be told what they expected of her.

was she supposed to tell him the facts she knew to be true and the ones she suspected? would the agent even believe her?

then again, that all seemed rather above her paygrade. if the bprd wanted to run an investigation at the same time as some random fbi agent that was their choice. she supposes they likely think they'll have it wrapped up before this agent does. some alternative explanation able to be presented eventually or maybe they plan to tell him what they think is causing the influx of undead. she doesn't know. she also kind of thinks manning might be getting some enjoyment out of making this agent mulder (their brief introduction an hour before had told her) go on a wild goose chase that'd actually be close to the truth only to pull a fast one. (if she'd guess, this wasn't the first time said agent has caused him issue even if the agent hadn't known it.) of course this is all conjecture. it wasn't as if she had afternoon tea dates with director manning. she didn't know him well, only from the sidelines.

so, doctor cross continues noting her findings to the blinking light of a camera feed, stating how the marks and her findings were consistent with the other bodies that had been found drained or nearly drained with blood. she queries aloud (the speaker in the gallery actively on) that if a strigoi (also known as a vampire) like the press was stirring the pot with allusions to had been responsible it seemed strange for any victims to still have blood if the goal had been to kill for sustenance. perhaps such a wild theory is just her unserious commentary given the newspaper reports, though it's said with a seriousness as if it's something valid. it wasn't as if her co-workers would see this video. the bprd would though. she goes on to state that such findings were also consistent with the few bodies that had been stolen from the graveyard that pre-dated the more recent bodies. the ones that all evidence indicated, as she states, the same killer had caused those deaths and it had failed to be realized until their bodies had been reexamined. further, the brutality of the crimes appeared to be getting more extreme and frenzied. she held theories about that one though she hasn't voiced them yet. maybe she wants to what the agent up in the gallery will say first. go from there. "you can come down here now, agent mulder. i'm about to put him on ice."

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reaping-cain · 8 years ago

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2016 Writing Review

I got tagged by @mysdrym and although I don’t have a lot of writing done in my repertoire, I’ll take a stab at it.

Total number of completed stories

13...I could’ve finished First Date but the final chapter is still a WIP. *sigh*

Total word count

I did a separate post that discusses my total word count for 2016. It’s 43,507.

Incomplete/WIP? 14,913

Putting the rest under the cut.

Fandoms written in

Dragon Age

Looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

I expected to write more but seeing as this was my first year of writing and publishing, I’m not surprised that I under performed. It’s been a hectic year, balancing grade marking, moving out and all sorts of crazy life events.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?

Considering that I only posted one story related to my darkverse au, I’m going to have to go with my Mountie!AU. Specifically the excerpt, Northbound, which establishes how the stoic mountie!Cullen met Kaeran. It was a cullavellan week prompt (soulmates au) and I had a wicked good time writing it.

I actually showed it to a dear friend who has absolutely no clue about Dragon Age and she enjoyed it. I also get a kick out of writing Samson as a total asshole.

Did you take any writing risks this year?

The riskiest thing I did was hitting that post button in the first place. The last time I wrote something fandom related was over a decade ago. Mental.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year?

Fanfic goals: advance enough through Single Fereldan Man Seeks Female Companion to start focusing more on my Mountie!AU. I’m still keeping my darkverse close to my chest for later. I’ve had that idea in my head since January 2015. I’m also planning on writing more consistently and being less picky with my words. It’s a tall order.

Profic goals: I’m actually working on an original story idea with my friend I mentioned before. It’s a horror story. She says that it’s very Stephen King. I have never read Stephen King. :O

I have one other story but it’s more dark humour/supernatural themed. I’m also going to collaborate with the same friend. She has an interesting story as well so I think this means we’re co-author buddies. For now we’re working on the horror one and hoping to publish it once complete. We actually met up last week to discuss the main events and little details like era, mood and general structure of the narrative. I’m stoked because all that atmosphere writing is going to help me.

Best story of the year?

I have a soft spot for Single Fereldan Man because it’s the first longfic that I invested myself in. It’s nowhere complete but I keep getting ideas and I’ve fleshed out both Kaeran and Cullen’s respective stories. I’m immensely proud of what I’ve come up with, especially in terms of how I integrated the side characters.