February 2022

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Cartoon: Rhys is carrying plates for one of his mothers, a friendly butch woman with shaved hair and a cat logo on her jacket. She looks at a photo and asks 'is one of these two your new someone?' Rhys: what? Mom, no, that's Vaughn and Yvette. He's the one in the back. In the photo, Vaughn and Yvette are tiny silhouettes on Elpis. In the back blotting out the view of space is Helios, the handsomest yet most difficult to photograph boyfriend Rhys has ever dated.

A nice photo of Jack to show the family (which, based on the clearest estimation of ‘a family’ Tales provides, I’m just going to assume consists of two mums, two dads, and one flying robot.)

Left this in my drafts for five months, but I read a certain fic that mentions Space Station Jack and that is like my Bat Signal.

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Darkened image of Jack slightly uplit in blue. His eyes are modified echo eyes, and a line runs down the skin of his throat where it's been wrapped around an endoskeleton. He is looking down at his hand that's dripping glowing red droplets. Red digital artefacts run over his face and chest, and blue lights are emanating from his eye and head. ALT
Drawing of a younger Rhys looking at the viewer. He has a metal band wrapped around his head, with framing touching his skin. His organic eye is open and appears frightened; his echo eye is obliterated in orange and white light from the device wrapped around him. ALT

For Cyber CEO AU
Post BL2, AI Jack hashtag back after six months marinating in the digital void; gave Helios a new ring of discarded employees visible from Pandora, and immediately jammed an endoskeleton into an unlucky body double to feel more human. Didn’t make him feel more human. Did make him feel not-human in a new, much more unpleasant way. He’s got plans. Plans, and soon a crap-ton of former Atlas cryotech. It’s a great really bad day.

Rhys in the charred crater formerly known as Atlas, about to experimentally reprogram part of his brain and maybe-hopefully-not completely obliterate himself because six months after ‘you won’t believe what just happened to Hyperion’, you really really really won’t believe what just happened to Hyperion. Plus side: he’ll be able to see if the thing inside Helios comes for Atlas. Downside: might split his mind like an apple, which is still not the worst thing that could happen to him today. Hooray?

[Putting these here to bring the AU all into one tag: https://sf-bl.tumblr.com/tagged/cyber%20ceos mostly Rhack, totally out-of-sequence]

Shifting the backlog of unposted stuff in no particular order …