Emma! Aria! input required

[fahye]

Look, Ji & I may have gotten a little bit carried away following this exchange.

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Ji: I got your comment and am thrilled but afraid to reveal how much in public

me: REVEAL

Ji: It is true, but that just means they are the BADDIES

me: EVEN BETTER

Ji: I KNOW

me: thomas b. would have made a good spy actually

Ji: Thomas M. is the one you don't know is a baddie
except you totally know.
because you have seen movies before.

me: if he hadn't been so keen on science

Ji: Yes, he would!
He has the people skills as well.

me: And the edge of moral flexibility which he would have slowly discovered as the situations required it

Ji: And I think he would find it really satisfying as well.

me: Yesss. Okay, tell me about Thom in this AU

Ji: I think he likes knowing things other people don't know
/being smarter than other people

me: that is true!

Ji: and spies are!

me: I have just realised that his relationship with Melody as regards Thom is EXACTLY THE SAME as if Thom were a metaphor for a dirty past in the spy business

Ji: I'm not sure. he is like a cross between the sulkiest Bond girl ever, a fucked up version of M and a terrorist
YOU ARE RIGHT

me: you only tell her when you trust her, and never tell her everything, and feel a bit weird when the two worlds intersect

Ji: Yes. And if she ever did know everything, it might not be The End
but that is almost worse ..

me: kjhdsd I am trying to imagine Thom as a Bond girl. Thomas B. would lose all patience with him halfway through the movie

Ji: he wouldn't be a good one

me: no

Ji: at all.
I will put my money on strangely alluring terrorist.

me: he might be okay if he STARTED the movie as a Bond girl and then morphed into some kind of triple agent

Ji: I also just can't imagine Thom finishing up on the Good Side.

me: I wish you would not say that, it makes me long DESPERATELY for a Spooks-Tom/Thom story
where Thom is an alluring terrorist
but that is TOO MANY TOMS

Ji: HAHAHAHAHA
oh my god
you could combine that
with our James Bond AU

me: HAHAH YES

Ji: THREE OF THEM
how many more Toms do we know??
that could be the glue

me: and then put them all in a room and have Henry laughing uncontrollably in the corner

Ji: er, Irwin
I'll now pause to imagine him in James Bond universe attire.
For some time.

me: I can see Irwin being an analyst type person
jksjdfh
yesssss

Ji: Yes, me too.
He doesn't do any of the actual spying work.

me: he considers situations in the light of their historical context
DAKIN would be a spy
in this scenario

Ji: HE WOULD
he would LOVE IT

me: YES

Ji: He already is a spy in his head.

me: oh god I love this universe
I think Henry is M
or the equivalent

Ji: is he?
but he has an evil overlord alter-self

me: if he was old enough

Ji: that would be even more fun
because we need one

me: he definitely has a Past with obviously-a-villain Thomas M.

Ji: Yes.

me: Thomas M and Thom would do well on the same side
if they could stop arguing long enough

Ji: I would love to see them forced to work together because they would be so bad at it.

me: yeah, they are more suited to working alone but towards the same goal
than ever, EVER having to cooperate

Ji: Yes, that is a very good point.
And trying very hard never to have to be in the same place at the same time.

me: so on the side of probably-good we have....Spooks-Tom, Thomas B., and Dakin
and Irwin and Henry behind the scenes
we need more bad guys

Ji: I said Henry for bad guy!
master bad guy

me: oh yes

Ji: so that's four to three
if we can think of another Tom I think we will be set

me: ....hmm. I am running a little dry on Toms. could we maybe cheat and recruit Mai Linh solely for purposes of BAMFism?

Ji: But then it isn't a fair contest, is it?
I feel like any James Bond universe cannot really support a person like Mai Linh
/vice versa

me: Alas :( Hmm.
the only other fannish Tom that springs to mind is Tom Riddle. not a lot of help.

Ji: hahahahahahaha

me: how about I post and appeal to Emma and Aria

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(because clearly what we need is ANOTHER version of the Mystique in which to drabble)

Comments

[nextian.livejournal.com]

1. I find it really cute that you think Henry's delusions of evil overlordism DISQUALIFY him from being M are you a CRAZY PERSON

2. THEY would happily recruit both Thom and Thomas B ... but that is because their hiring policies consist of "whoever Meligot feels like introducing into the soap opera of their lives today." DON'T CONTRADICT ME, ARIA. YOU KNOW THE FACTS.

3. I SAY WE HIRE THOMAS A BECKET FOR THE BAD GUYS. It would be IRONIC. Also, he would be really good at it. I used to keep a list of Thomases and Johns but I have forgotten most of them ... Tam Lin was on the list, as was, um, Thomas the Tank Engine. I am consumed with love at Tom Irwin making it in.

4. Shockingly, eating cookies at 1:00 makes you more hyper and alert, not less.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Fahye and I are both leaving now! But not for long ...

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*is not Emma or Aria, but approves in the extreme* :D