Name: @10kiaoi
Minion ID: QB-X8
Division: Evidence fabricator Artist, weapons developer Headcanon-er, Night shifter
Target: 7 pieces of art
Time Zone: GMT +8
Hello Q branch, I’m a Tier One tech. Please take care of me. I’m a multishipper with a preference for 00Q, JAQ, and James/Vesper though I usually end up drawing only 00Q most of the time... I’m going dark for the first ten days or so but you bet your nerdy merch I’ll make up for the lost time! Looking forward to working with the rest of Team Q Branch to take down those pesky double ohs!
I wanted to do something for Trans character day, but I couldn’t come up with something. Instead, this happened. Well -shrugs-.
“Trans-”
Short for transgender or transsexual
Trans also is sometimes used as a shortened term for Cis-trans isomerism, Trans-lunar injection, Trans-acting just to name a few.
Needless to say this word "trans" means a variety of things depending largely on the context of course.
Same can be said for the word "bi" or "poly" - especially when these words are being used within the R&D or Science departments of Q-branch.
Misunderstandings and mis-hearings is something bound to happen when you mix the staffs of the different levels and branches of MI6 into the one staff cafeteria (because MI6 will not part with the budget of paying for more catering workers who need to undergo such thorough clearance and briefings just to make food that feeds the humans who do Her Majesties important work)- anyway coming back from that tangent.
It happened one day in the cafeteria, that this person overheard that person say something bad-sounding about something-trans or so, as such the rumour was passed down that trans people and others in the LGBTQ+ community were treated unfairly in MI6. Which somehow escalated to Q-branch having yet another - small unimportant task which snowballed into an issue - piled on top of their ever growing list of technological related issues that IT department deemed "not my department".
The rumour in question had led to a staff generated poll, on one of those benign staff feedback portals, that had gained a viral response following. The strength and width in which the rumour and the poll in question had spread, had resulted in a portal crash so bad IT department submitted a request for budget approval of a new system because they couldn’t fix it. Which then became Q-branch's problem because well, Q was the youngest and smartest of all branch heads and that's just the way things worked much to Q’s annoyance.
The poll in question asked.
MI6 does not provide adequate support to staff belonging to the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
The idiot who created the poll made the mistake of not only allowing all options to be selected instead of one. But also allowed the maximum character limit for long-answer responses which was a 1,000 character limit.
The dear, poor, minion QB-X8 who was tasked to "fix that system, we don't have the budget for a new one. Q-Branch you fix it because of that 1.2 million project of yours." managed to uncover the source of the issue.
The 1,000 character limit, was long enough a character limit, for a single keyboard smash response to somehow be translated to a line of code that led to the system crashing. It didn’t help that the system was already glitching to begin with.
After going through approximately four thousand eight hundred and fifty two responses on LGBTQ related matters, in which over a thousand of them came from how they couldn't use the company medical benefits for LGBTQ+ related treatments. QB-X8 was understandably delirious enough that a loud branch-wide rant ensued.
[[Disclaimer: MI6 medical benefits does allow coverage of any and all medical treatments as long as it is prescribed and administered by a professional physician. This includes coverage for cosmetic plastic surgery. Though of course like all medical insurance coverage. There is a cap. The cap is also dependent on your salary grade.]]
This led to Q authorising QB-X8 to send out a MI6-wide email blaster - with monthly reminders which included a pop-up box which would last a whole year, especially for those who took the time to flood the poll with multiple responses or those who did not answer properly. It was only due diligence, if those responders did not abide by the basic rules of completing a poll, then they obviously needed additional reminders.
The email entailed, in detail, the medical benefits and HR staff entitlements document pasted out onto an email word by word format (no document attachment, because some people don't open attachments). Which amounted to three hundred and twenty one pages of words. In Comic Sans font 15. No fine print excuses now.
On the plus side. HR was glad that 80% of the staff were finally fully utilising the benefits of the company’s medical insurance coverage - which had the company paying a very large six figure number paid monthly for the premiums. Employers and people in general always lost money to insurance companies. Well this year. MI6 would say they gained - in the sense that their staff were filling claims to the insurance company. Their staff were happy and healthier, the LGBTQ community included. And thanks to the 10 year agreement they just signed with said insurance company. It was all good on their accounts end too.
On the minus side. Q-Branch was on the receiving end of random and frequent death glares whenever they were identified (should their staff pass be visible) when they visited the communal space which was the staff cafeteria. (So you see guys, this is where the hearsay that the cafeteria food is lousy came from. Q-branchers would rather just avoid the place, well at least for a year till the monthly emails stopped.) And medical's stock of hormone treatment suddenly depleted resulting in a month long waiting list for staff receiving timely service from medical. Thus irking their head to no end because medical has never failed to deliver.
Overall. It was all good.
The next poll that went up asking the same question (with the ' improved by Q-branch' modifications made so the system wouldn’t crash again) received an overall 87% satisfaction rating on MI6's staff benefits including support for LGBTQ+ staff.
All is well.
Now if only people just read the damn fine print and hundred page document on terms and conditions. None of this would’ve happened. To think these people work for the government of Her Majesty for god's sake!
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A/N: The title may be a bit superfluous but it just wanted as many trans-words in it as possible, haha, sorry. XD
Q loves sugary foods, but by god give him cake and he'll kick you. Nobody quite knows why, but the man cannot stand it. Maybe it's the texture, but the minions are yet to find a flavour he can stand.
Q also curses like a sailor, but almost never in public. The first time R heard him swear, they walked into a wall out of shock.
He also pointedly hates being in pictures, but loves taking them of others. Even if it isn't of his friends faces, but aesthetics or backdrops. Eve started an Instagram for them a while back, and it's rather successful.
Q has literally no clue about the political state of the UK. Ask him about a foreign country and he'll give you a detailed analysis and possibly go on a rant about foreign officials, but this man doesn't even realise when it gets close to general elections. M and Tanner hate it.
Q works with tech, and can make it dance for him, but that doesn't mean he trusts it. He knows how it can be used.
Q-Branch is the only branch in the building where you can get away with messing with the dress code. Minion 12 frequently comes in in full emo makeup and dresses like a teenager. Minion 42 hasn't had his natural hair colour for close to 5 years. Minions 13 wears slippers to work, but only the ones with grip as the last time they didn't Q told them off for putting their own life at risk due to slipping in a place where they make the agents weapons.
Hiring runs a dating scheme to try and get operatives together. They claim responsibility for not only 00Q but MoneyR
Speaking of Hiring, it's not just Q and M that have letters for names. A is head of Accounting, H is head of Hiring, D runs Medical (as in D for Doctor), P runs the Psych teams. Even if they aren't official code names, it became a bit of an inside joke after they all met Whishaw!Q who down right refused to share his name.
James, as we all know, hates medical, but he hates being sick even more. An injury will have him running for the hills to avoid medical, but if he's ill you'd find him calling in sick.
Most of MI6 field agents are orphans, but not all. Q had a huge family, but got disowned when he was young. Mallory!M had many siblings but not so many extended family members, but most assume he died due to his injuries at the hands of the IRA due to him cutting contact after becoming M. 3 of the Q-Branch minions are triplets, 2 are cousins, 4 are related in increasingly funny ways.
The Double-Ohs have lots of little ways they remember fallen friends. 004 leaves the door open of his office even if he's busy, just like the old 009 used to do. 003 gives chocolate to the Hiring branch every year on the 13th of March, just like the last 002 used to do. 005 sends flowers to the other Double-Ohs who are home when they're off on a cover mission that should last more than 2 months, just like the 5 that came before her.
Similarly, MI6 has a private cemetery out in the countryside. No names, only empty graves, dates, and designations. In the HQ in London, there is a commemorative wall of names. Small plaques, with designations, first names and the last place they were seen inscribed on them. People leave things behind on the anniversary of the deaths, personal things, or simple things like a shot of whiskey or a single petal.
Everyone avoids the water stations, vending machines, coffee machines and storage lockers on Basement Level 2. Nobody new is quite sure why. Even some of the older staff aren't exactly sure.
The best food is served in the MI6 canteen between 2 and 6 AM.
I have a few more of these, but they are more suited for other day's so they can stay in my drafts for now :]
James Bond knows and has a fatherly relationship with Alex Rider. They met on a join mission between MI6's Double-Oh branch and the join MI6-MI5's Special Operations Branch that is the only branch capable of operating both inside and outside of the United Kingdom. James was assigned to play the role of Alex's father on an op and, well, he never really stopped playing the role. James and Q have plans to adopt the kid once they get enough time alone to sort out the paperwork and talk to Alex about it. Jack and Eve also get along in a way that none of them really understand.
I also like to think Ian Rider was OO2 and the go between for MI6 and Special Operations - hence why he was one of the few Double-Ohs cleared for operating legally on UK soil.
All the Double-Ohs see each other as more or less siblings - which when added with the idea that Silva was OO7 before James was all the more painful. The parallels work, their messed up childhoods because there is no way Silva didn't have childhood trauma, being Ms favourites and the personal meetings between the two - Silva meeting the his new 'baby brother' who took his place as 'Mummy's' favourite.
The Double-Ohs also play very competitive games whenever most of them are on shore leave. Things such as poker, manhunt and hide and seek. R has shot OO5 at least twice because she scared them and of course they carry?
Tanner could have been a Double-Oh. The only reason he didn't qualify is that sadly he suffers from asthma. Instead he took up the role of Chief of Staff, and Ms personal body guard. Most didn't know that about him, until that one time someone made a run past security and Bill took them out in less than 2 seconds. Even some of the official Double-Ohs are afraid of him - especially after he becomes Chief of Staff.
People seem to forget Q isn't just deadly with a laptop - as well being proficient in hand to hand combat, the Quartermaster is deadly with a sniper rifle and has startlingly good aim with a pistol. Good enough to rival James'. After all, MI6 wouldn't let him build the Agent's weapons if he didn't at least know how to use them.
James cannot watch spy flicks without tearing them to shreds - Eve and Tanner enjoy them because the pair love tearing them to shreds. Q enjoys the obviously impossible plots but by god will he point out the plot holes and rant about how things could have been done better. R loves them because they're easy to watch and so unrealistic they help to unwind.
MI6 as a collective will bet on literally anything. Will it rain tomorrow? £5 on at midday. Will OO7 bring his gear back? Is our darling Quartermaster related to the detective that faked his own death a few years back? Are Tanner and M dating? Does Eve know Dame Maggie Smith? (spoiler alter: yes she does.)
Eve and Tanner have very quietly-aggressive games of chess. The set lives in Ms office, he plays too sometimes but mostly its the Secretary and the Chief of Staff. Current score is 127:112
Expanding on my Q curses like a sailor headcanon - he frequently does do in other languages but never ever around kids. One time he swore in Spanish in front of Minion 27s kids and didn't forgive himself for 3 months.
Q rarely sleeps, but when he does it's usually on someone. He has a habit of sleeping on James' shoulder even before they were together - once they were that shoulder nap became a lap nap. James loves to play with Q's hair when that happens, Q can't really object. Even if it does make, as Eve put it once, him look like a "disgruntled kitten".
Everyone assumes Eve is the Gossip Machine of M-Branch and the higher ups and boy are they wrong. Sure, she'll share a lot of it, but most of her gossip isn't Moneypenny sourced. She gets most of it from Bill. As Chief of Staff with exceptional field and espionage training, its hard to find something that Bill doesn't know in the building. He has a list of questionable people who might maybe be up to something.
I have absolutely 0 basis for the headcanon apart from I like it and my brain made it up last night.
Fills the work for the Suit and Tie pallet
Cupids Arrow pierced my heart, and yet came no affliction
AroAce Bill Tanner
I once again have no basis for this headcanon, its partly the vibes and partly me firing my identity at a comfort character.
Fills the Maniacal Mint prompt
A Teaspoon of Feelings can be found: here
I loved and I loved and I lost you
Fills the Bleeding Out prompt
This was going to be for a fic but I haven't and probably won't have time to publish it before Fest ends, though it shall be linked when/if I do end up sharing it.
Covered in the Colours of You
Moneypenny x R
Fills the Cotton Cuddles prompt
The Quartermaster Rules it All
Fills Free Space with use of the suggested Siren's Call pallet
Mood board/Aesthetic made for Whishaw!Q
Moneypenny Knows Best
Fills the Watermelon Punk prompt
Learning To Fly
Upcoming Wingfic AU with a hint of Fix-It and a whole heap of 00Q
Fills the A Fern-y Feeling prompt
The Role of a Lifetime
Vesper Lynd - Badass, Double Agent, and all round twister <3
Fills the Mid-Afternoon Train prompt
9 for 9 there
And that, my friends, is a wrap! I am never making another mood board again (at least not for a little while)
I was so happy to be a part of 007 Fest this year, and being Co-Captain of Q-Branch has been absolutely wonderful! Lots of plans fell through, lots of things got written that were entirely pulled out of my arse and made up on the spot, but it is all over now until next year!
My overall total for this year is 504 points... I think. I'm not too certain but eh it's done and maths was never my strong suit.
Writing Total - 132 points
Two Birds :: 15 points
Filled 1,000 words prompt, prompted work via Q-Branch prompts (this one supplied by 3NIGM4)
Lost, Never Found :: 5 points
Filled 200 words prompt
Change. :: 5 points
Filled 300 words prompt and made for NTTD Fix It Day
Moneypenny Knows Best :: 7 points
Filled the Getting Together prompt, prompted work anonymously of "Write a (00Q) fic with the title of Moneypenny Knows Best" from 2020 Fest. 719 words.
On The Prowl :: 5 points
Filled 100 words prompt and the Free Space theme prompt of Humour
Rumour has it :: 15 points
Filled 850 words prompt, Outsider POV prompt and featured a rare pair in Bill Tanner & OC
gift giving and alarms :: 15 points
Filled the 750 words and Established Relationship prompts and featured a rare pair in Moneypenny/R
Quanker Anustickle Iggywumpus III :: 5 points
Filled Fluff/Humour prompt and 650 words prompt.
A Father's Love :: 10 points
Filled prompt provided in 2022 Fest "Q got thrown out as a queer teenager and ended up being adopted by Boothroyd".
learning to fly :: 15 points
Filled the Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies prompt
How 002 learned not to pick a fight with R :: 15 points
Filled the Hurt/Comfort prompt and 2,000 words prompt and featured a rare pair in Q & R
Multichapter Works
where worlds collide (and days are dark)
Ch1 :: soldier keep on marching on (10 points)
Filled the Mission Fic prompt
Ch2 :: careful son you've got dreamers plans (10 points)
Filled the 950 words for Free Space
Other Fan Creation Total - 124 points
Atlantis edit :: 5 points
Let Me Down Slowly edit :: 5 points
Another Love edit :: 5 points
Transition edit :: 5 points
NTTD Age edit :: 5 points
Dench!M edit :: 5 points
My Future edit :: 5 points
Filled Angst prompt
Sweater Weather edit :: 5 points
Queering the Characters edit :: 5 points
Queering the Characters Headcanons :: 6 points
Headcanons Pt 1 :: 15 points
Headcanons Pt 2 :: 13 points
Prompt Table Mood Boards :: 45 points (5 points per mood board x 9 mood boards)
Theme Days
NTTD Fix It
Animals of Bond
Headcanon Day
Queering the Characters Day
Participated in response to Villain Day challenge (code)
Miscellaneous Total - 27 points
Comments :: 17 comments (17 points)
Attending an Event :: 5 sessions (5 points)
(Casino Royal Watch Along
Short Fic Readalong
Q-Branch Productivity Hours x 2
Cards Against Bondmanity)
00Q Fanmix (5 points)