Yeah, but between you and nightanddaze egging me on, my ego's gonna get so big I won't be able to fit through doors.
But I did figure out background stuff! Waaaay back on Boeshane, it was Gray who got home safely and Jack who was abducted. He was rescued rather sooner than Gray was, so his sanity was still mostly intact, if heavily damaged. He was allowed to join the Time Agency with the more experienced John as his partner. When they got stuck in that time loop, though, Jack's sanity snapped, and he disappeared after they escaped. Shortly thereafter, John was summoned to Time Agency headquarters and told, "Right, so there was this thing your partner was supposed to do in twenty-first century Cardiff, but somehow things have gotten all fucked up, so we're going to have to send you instead to fill the gap." And thus John became leader of Torchwood Three.
This is probably significantly more elaborate than is necessary, since lord knows the actual TV shows never bother with explanatory backstory for every single character in an alternate universe, but whatever, it was fun.
Think about how much bit B will fuck with people!
Yes! This is an issue I'm having with an AU I'm trying to write. There's a bunch of boring crap that is absolutely vital to setting up the stomach punch at the end of the first part, and I think I finally figured out a way to make it less boring (and less likely to chase people off), but we shall see.
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But I did figure out background stuff! Waaaay back on Boeshane, it was Gray who got home safely and Jack who was abducted. He was rescued rather sooner than Gray was, so his sanity was still mostly intact, if heavily damaged. He was allowed to join the Time Agency with the more experienced John as his partner. When they got stuck in that time loop, though, Jack's sanity snapped, and he disappeared after they escaped. Shortly thereafter, John was summoned to Time Agency headquarters and told, "Right, so there was this thing your partner was supposed to do in twenty-first century Cardiff, but somehow things have gotten all fucked up, so we're going to have to send you instead to fill the gap." And thus John became leader of Torchwood Three.
This is probably significantly more elaborate than is necessary, since lord knows the actual TV shows never bother with explanatory backstory for every single character in an alternate universe, but whatever, it was fun.
Think about how much bit B will fuck with people!
Yes! This is an issue I'm having with an AU I'm trying to write. There's a bunch of boring crap that is absolutely vital to setting up the stomach punch at the end of the first part, and I think I finally figured out a way to make it less boring (and less likely to chase people off), but we shall see.