A concept: The Mad Ones but with a quintuple-cast Samantha.
Under the cut for some length and detail.
Current Samantha embodies her current fears, insecurities, and grief, being essentially an older, more traumatized, and even less certain version of Skittish Past Samantha (with whom she often speaks lines in unison). She is often sidelined by her alternate selves, who occasionally try to take over some of her lines, and she dresses in all black as an indication of her mourning.
Skittish Past Samantha is in past scenes where she is uncertain. She dresses in a very dull, disheveled manner and doesn't have great posture either. She and Normal Past Samantha encourage Current Samantha's decision in the finale and leave in unison.
Normal Past Samantha is in more lighthearted or emotionally neutral past scenes, which tend to be on the rarer side, and she presents as a version of the past to which Current Samantha wishes to return despite never having truly had her. She is the youngest-looking and most innocent of all Samanthas, and she dresses moderately vibrantly, but not as vibrantly as Popstar Samantha.
Popstar Samantha is a free-spirited guitarist who represents an idealized, more confident version of her during numbers like "Freedom" and "The Mad Ones." She wears the most colorful clothes of all the Samanthas and has a guitar pick necklace, which she gives to Current Samantha as a symbol of becoming more certain and secure in herself during the finale before leaving.
Kelly Imitator Samantha imitates Kelly's manner of dress and hairstyle, albeit poorly and more watered-down. She wears a green sweater and gives it to Current Samantha in the finale as a symbol of healing, hope, and the ability to keep her memories while still finding closure.
Should we double-cast Kelly as Living Kelly/Ghost Kelly (neither of whom feel quite real) and Beverly as Overbearing Beverly/Fearful Beverly acting as two sides of the same coin? Whatever is done to them, I know I want Adam to have only one actor. He's a constant for Sam who just has her best interests at heart.
3 notes
·
View notes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Mad Ones - Lowdermilk & Kerrigan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Samantha Brown & Kelly Manning
Characters: Samantha Brown, Kelly Manning
Additional Tags: Hurt No Comfort, Angst, are there any happy endings? not in this fic, inspired by that mischalia fic i wrote a while back, the major character death is kelly, references to violence, References to the accident, slight graphic imagery, Not really tbh, i just dont know if any of ye are squeamish, ye being the two other members of the mad ones fandom, i wrote this in about fifteen minutes total, Oneshot, no beta we die like ao3 on july 10th and 11th, oh yea and kelly too ig, Shakespeare quote, less based on shakespeare more on that one first kill episode, kinda a character study, No Dialogue, Grief, Mourning, kelly is a black hole and sam has been sucked into it
Series: Part 1 of therefore, love moderately; long love doth so.
Summary:
"Shakespeare warned to love moderately. Kelly did not love moderately."
Sam deals with Kelly's death.
Title from: Run Away With Me
1 note
·
View note
Small thing, may or may not continue, sorry if it's wonky lmao.
When Sam had told Danny and Tucker that Gotham Galas were a whole unknown level of boring, they hadn't believed her.
That had been before they'd gone to one with her, after much begging of her parents and many compromises for them all.
She had been so right, it sucked so bad.
So in Danny's defense, he'd needed fresh air and if he could fly while invisible, why not?
To be entirely fair, Danny hadn't meant to find the Batcave. Neither had he meant to find Batman with his cowl off, revealing a very tired Bruce Wayne.
And he really, really hadn't meant to find Bruce Wayne in the middle of a mental breakdown all alone in that big, lonely cave.
Floating forward, and very carefully remaining invisible, Danny looked over the overly-large screen to see what had the man so-ah. It looked like a mission had just ended, and judging by the chatter he could hear Red Robin was missing.
Apparently, the warehouse had blown up, and no one wanted to assume the worst.
Well, one intangible and super-strength minor superhero on the way then. He couldn't see Red Robin's ghost, which meant the other hero was probably just unconscious or hurt.
He'd have to hurry though.
But Danny didn't want to leave Mr. Wayne here, muttering how he never did it right and how it was all his fault. The man clearly needed someone to talk to, and that person could not be Danny.
Danny wasn't good at emotions, nor was Mr. Wayne in a place to meet a new hero if the rumors about Batman's paranoia were to be trusted. It was better to have the man meet a new unknown on his own terms than to randomly show up in his city when he was raw and hurting.
Frowning, Danny thought hard before letting out a breathless sigh and tugging out his phone, sending a text before dialing Jazz, and placing it on top of the keyboard in speaker mode while removing it's invisibility. Mr. Wayne could look up who owned the phone and make his own conclusions; Danny knew who he was, so it was only fair.
And Jazz was the best Emotion Person Danny knew. Whether the man talked to her or not was his choice, but the least Danny could do was throw it out there.
Without looking back, Danny memorized the coordinates and teleported as close as he could get based on landmarks.
He left just as Jazz answered and Mr. Wayne flinched, and arrive just in time to see another small explosion. Probably a propane tank.
The temptation to make a propane and propane accessories joke was strong, but Danny valiantly resisted and sunk through the rubble.
The search was quick and done quicker; Red Robin was definitely still alive and protected by two steel beams that had landed perfectly to form a protective cross over him. Unfortunately, those had probably also been what had knocked him out.
Danny frowned, thinking. He knew he wasn't supposed to move people with head wounds, but then how was he supposed to....well. Surely one of the other heroes digging above and around him would know.
Danny sighed, floating up. He really wasn't looking forward to revealing himself to heroes associated with the League, but saving a life was a bit more important.
"Hey!"
Danny found himself at the end of way more weapons than he would have liked, and almost stumbled over his next words.
"I found him!"
Great news, the weapons were gone. Instead they were just staring at him, barely-there hope sparkling in their eyes. He got that. They didn't want to get it just to find out he was lying or against them.
"But I think he's not safe to move? I don't know for sure, but I think he got hit in the head, and I'm not a doctor."
"Is there a pulse?" Nightwing asked, his voice shaking as he stumbled forward.
"Yeah, he's alive. Just like, really hurt-" Danny didn't get a chance to elaborate before Red Hoods helmet was shoved into his hands, the Red Hood himself getting into Danny's face.
"This has a video feed, take this and this-" and oh hey, something was being shoved into Danny's ear, and Hood's hands were shaking really badly- "-and do what she tells you."
A little bewildered, Danny nodded.
"Um...Hello?" He tried, and a brisk, no-nonsense voice answered.
"I don't know who you are, but show me Red Robin. Now."
Damn, the voice in his ear was demanding. Fair enough, though.
"Yes ma'am," he said, not bothering to go invisible and just going intangible instead, floating down through the wreckage until he found Red Robin again.
What followed was roughly thirty seconds of silence as he dutifully held out the helmet and let earpiece lady look at the fallen hero.
"I need a list of your powers, now."
Danny jumped slightly, almost losing his grip on the helmet.
"Uh, um, I...I can turn invisible, I can fly, I can go intangible, I have super strength, I can scream really loud, and um...regeneration? But only for me. And Ice. And Teleportation, but that one's new and I'm not very good at it so there's like a 50/50 chance of ending up halfway through a wall-"
"Okay. Alright, focus. What's your name?"
"Uh, Phantom."
"Clarify Ice"
"I can create it and control it, and it will never melt unless I want it to."
"Staunch the bleeding by freezing the wound on his head. Do not move his head if you can help it."
Danny nodded, forgetting she couldn't see him, and set down the helmet to move forward. It took a bit, but the headwound was in a fairly awkward place. Luckily, he couldn't see skull bone, and he tried not to let the smell of blood get to him as he froze the wound. Human blood always smelled so different from his own.
"I'm. I'm done freezing the headwound, Miss Lady."
"Oracle. Now for the next part I need you to make a neck brace out of what you can that's around you. You said super strength, can you bend steel rebar?"
"Yes, easily."
"Use that, just stay with us so that we can remove it once we get him treated."
Arts and crafts, huh? He could do that, no problem!
Thirty minutes later and Red Robin was as stable as he was going to get under a collapsed building, and Danny managed to maneuver him onto a door he had found to act as a backboard.
"Okay, I'm gonna turn us intangible and go above now, we ready up there?"
"Yes, the team is ready to get him out of costume and into civvies. After that, you're taking him to the nearest hospital."
"Got it."
Danny carefully floated himself and Red Robin up and clear of debris, and even more carefully held himself and Red Robin still as Robin and Spoiler hurried to cut Red Robin out of his hero get-up and haphazardly throw on some jeans and a random torn off shirt sleeve.
"Now go," Spoiler whispered, pointing in the direction of the nearest hospital.
And Danny went.
part twoooooo
6K notes
·
View notes