#and rimmer assumes they're going to be trying to act the same as they did back then around other people

[deadgit]

Red Dwarf story ideas I’ve had while intoxicated: Hologram ghost story: In a future, distant even from the point of the show, Lister and the Cat have passed on. Kryten has stopped working. Red Dwarf itself is slowly deteriorating. Holly has mostly stopped working; the ship can only move forward, still picking up enough fuel as it does to continue shuffling forward, lights flickering through the massive gaps gouged into the sides. A hologram is still running, even though the hologram suite was badly damaged in a trip through an asteroid belt. He can’t store any new memories, and many of his old memories are lost, but he wanders around the deteriorating ship, and sometimes wonders where everybody has gone and why he’s alone, and if it’s all his fault.

Changing the past: Lister and Rimmer have gotten old in deep space. As Lister’s health begins to decline, they discover a technology that allows someone to force their current consciousness into a past form of themselves. Lister could go back to before the disaster and avoid everything. In one universe, he decides that he can’t do that - he’s lived an entire life, and that’s enough for him. In another universe, he and Rimmer suddenly wake up on Red Dwarf, young and alive and surrounded by people, with decades of memories of the lonely end of humanity. Lister is aware that if he saves himself from the disaster, he’s condemning Kryten to millions of years more in total isolation and making it so Cat will never be born. Despite how badly he wanted to be surrounded by people again, he finds it hard to spend time with anyone but Rimmer. All of his friends think that there’s something wrong with him, because overnight he’s changed completely. He and Rimmer try to warm people about the faulty drive plate, but they feel like no one listens to them. They both get off of Red Dwarf at Titan, adopt Frankenstein, and try not to think about the past or the future too much.

#apparently i come up with REALLY DEPRESSING STORIES when i'm a bit loopy #though. to be fair. that second story is only about half angst actually #the angst is the most interesting part but there could also be a pretty substantial shippy element to it #a la ''it took me decades to fall in love with this guy but suddenly we're both young and hormonal again and wheeeee that's kinda heady!'' #and rimmer assumes they're going to be trying to act the same as they did back then around other people #but lister is just ''nope you're me babe and i WILL be flirting with you in public' #and all his friends are just O_o #anyway!