minutes of the meeting
a control fic
“Dr. Darling,” Trench murmurs, “appears distracted.”
Darling thins his lips. He’s anything but distracted, now; his eyes had held Trench’s the whole time the Director had been speaking.
“You forgot a point,” he responds, carefully, at the same volume.
“Did I.”
“11:15am: Director Trench lights a cigarette.” A pause. “He looks Dr. Darling in the eye as he does it.”
Trench considers this. He hums--the sound rumbles in the back of his throat.
“So you were paying attention.”
“To all the wrong things, maybe.”
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a trench/darling fic about the path that had been laid out for trench, 23 years in the making.
i haven't even finished this game but those two old men are haunting me. there is something deeply wrong with the both of them and i think they can only see that through the eyes of the other.
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[id: the post contains two images of the same size. the first image has a light gray background. on the left side of the page, the words "federal bureau of control" are printed in bold, black letters. underneath it is "quarterly assessment" in the same style.
on the right side of the page is the logo of the federal bureau of control from the game control.
transcript begins:
10:30am: Meeting begins.
In attendance are Director Zachariah Trench, Dr. Casper Darling, alongside Helen Marshall and Alberto Tommasi. The meeting had been called to assess each department’s quarterly status.
10:45am: Tommasi releases an object of power into Dr. Darling’s care.
10:50am: After careful inspection, Dr. Darling remarks that the (here, the text is obscured by a black rectangle) may have power of its own, or it may be the power in question.
11:00am: Marshall, head of Operations, reports another venture into The Pit. Exact number of casualties is unknown, as the Mold had begun digestion immediately.
11:15; Director Trench lights a cigarette. He looks Dr. Darling in the eye as he does it.
11:20am: Director Trench then questions Dr. Darling about the entity, and the progress his department has made in containing it.
Dr. Darling does not answer. Dr. Darling appears distracted.
11:30am: Break for lunch.
11:45am: Dr Darling sits in Director Trench’s office. He’s been thoroughly (another black rectangle censors the text).
on the bottom left of the image is the number 1, denoting the page number.
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transcript begins:
12:00pm: Director Trench puts his cigarette out on Dr. Darling’s neck. Dr. Darling wishes he had done it sooner.
12:05pm: Director Trench runs his (text is obscured) up the inside of Dr. Darling’s (text is obscured).
Dr. Darling lets him.
Dr. Darling reminds him they have
the font changes to bigger, bolder text. the page's gray color turns white in a gradient. each sentence that follows is enclosed in angle brackets.
Twenty-five Minutes/Not Enough Time
to Themselves/To Enjoy
12:05pm: Director Trench
The Push/the Pull
Synapses/Tendons
The Question/(text in red) The Answer
1:00pm:
Dot, Dot, Dot/...
The font returns to its original style.
Meeting adjourned.
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Y'all remember Carlos saying at the end of last season that he was gonna go back to the DOW? That there's "still so much to learn about that place"?
And how he has a portal in the lab? How Kevin used that portal to come through and fight Boy Kevin? How there's now a sign saying "DO NOT ENTER PORTAL" so nobody could possibly go through it?
How Year 11 was a sort of alternate Year 1, with a new scientist trying to explain everything? And Year 12 being very similar to Year 2 with all its Kevin/Strex talk? The very beginnings of Cecil lore dropping with Cassette and The Auction? (A Story About You and A Story About Them are Year 1 and 2 as well)
How did Year 2 end? With Carlos getting trapped in the DOW for a year, and Cecil falling back into alcoholism to deal with the loneliness as well as being puppeted to fight Hiram and FOW.
And now, with a son and visions of his father that won't go away but also won't stick, what will he do if Carlos leaves again?
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tf2 ship prompt
I had a funni little engiescout idea that I know i'll never write but i have to share. BTW I picture this as being a Mann v. Machine kinda thing
this is not a happy prompt
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Scout dies. Do not pass go, do not collect 200$, Scout dies.
Engineer refuses to accept this- he's the Engineer, he fixes things, why can't he fix this? He's never been above playing God- and starts to dedicate his time to replicating Scout's consciousness in a robot. It takes him years, with a little reluctant help from Medic regarding the transplant of human souls, but at long last the day comes where he's finally ready to turn it on to observe his creation.
Scoutbot comes to life and all seems well for a time, though he has no memories of his time being a real person. This is rather disenheartening to the Engineer, but he can live with it- it's better than the alternative. He can help Scoutbot learn to be a human, and try to replicate the life that Scout lost. It's not the same. It'll never be the same, but it'll be as close to it as Engie will have have again.
One day, while Engie and Scoutbot are spending some time together, Scoutbot asks him a question along the lines of, "What's it mean when you look at someone, or you listen to someone, and it's like everything in the world starts to revolve around them? What's this feeling I get in my chest?".
Engie says that sounds like love, or at least some kinda infatuation. It kills him a little bit inside- see, he had a thing for Scout long before the incident that killed him. Over the years they got closer and closer, and Scout always made him feel so young, and he had this same feeling about Scout that Scoutbot was describing now. Engie had been this close to just saying fuck it and confessing when Scout was killed. That was part of why he did this terrible, wonderful thing to begin with.
"Oh, well, 'cause I get this feeling every time I look at you. I think it might be coming from the old Scout. He must've really, really, loved you," Scoutbot says. He didn't understand love quite yet, but it seemed like an important feeling to have.
Then Engie has to deal with that. Knowing Scout loved him about as much as he loved Scout, and now having this abomination against God with his voice and personality yet intrinsically lacking everything that made Engie fall for him the first time.
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