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lostatsea2000-05-28 04:57 pm
most_unwanted) wrote in lostatsea2000-05-28 04:57 pm
AUs for Mulder
1. Alien Invasion AU
The regular X-Files backstory involves a consortium of shadowy conspirators making deals and plans with aliens, mostly in order to ensure their own safety when the aliens began to invade and colonize the planet. Unfortunately, in THIS version of events, that deal all backfired. Bill Mulder's argument won favor in this universe, so that the conspiracy did NOT make a deal with the alien colonists. Ironically, this didn't help matters as intended, but instead everything escalated into an all out war. Black oil jumped into people and unleashed radiation bursts upon all major cities of the world, spaceships landed, alien bounty hunters roamed the land, people were used to gestate new alien life, and faceless rebels burned and ravaged the land. All hope for a vaccine was destroyed. The catastrophe was worldwide, effectively ruining life on earth as we know it.
Fox Mulder was twelve when the world all went to hell. He and Samantha grew up from that point living on the edge quite literally, every day being a struggle for survival. Since his dad was in a position of some power, he was somewhat reasonably protected... but of course, that didn't last long. Bill Mulder was largely blamed for how things turned out, and as a result his entire family was handed over to colonists to be used to grow new alien life. Mulder's entire family lost their lives this way, but he managed to escape at the last minute... due to the Cigarette Smoking Man of all people (but he didn't learn about this until decades later). CSM for his part snuck his way into the alien's favor, essentially betraying his own species in order to keep some semblance of power and save himself.
From then on, Mulder lived a life on the run from the colonists, who'd begun steadily populating the world. There were only small pockets of human resistance left, and they were very scattered, few and far between. He spent most of his teen years in one of these hidden barracks. In this safe haven, he met Jeffrey Spender, who ultimately betrayed Mulder to gain favor with the CSM. Mulder went on the run again, living on his own for another decade or so... Eventually he came across a stronger resistance group... called the Lone Gunmen. He became fast friends with its three leaders, and together they founght off aliens. He befriended or clashed with other people along the way- Alex Krycek, who still played the double agent role, Walter Skinner, who initially started out working for CSM/the aliens but soon turned sides... and then there was Dana Scully, who became the most important person in Mulder's life once they'd met and started fighting together.
The main differences with Mulder:
He's not exactly "book smart", having spent his young adult life in a post-apocalyptic word fighting for survival. But he's still as clever as ever, still witty and sarcastic. He doesn't get a lot of pop culture references anymore, since none of that really happened the same in his version of the earth. He HATES extraterrestrial life, because they killed his family and destroyed his entire world. He's not so much concerned with uncovering truth as he is with gaining vengeance. He's spent life on the run and fighting, so he's coming in with a much more warlike attitude, and overall is not going to be comfortable with a settled lifestyle.
2. Mulder Abducted / in the Conspiracy AU
In the 1970s, Bill Mulder had to make a choice- to send away one of his own children as insurance of a sort, for them to become an experimental test subject. That child was Fox, his son, who was abducted away from his house at age 12 before his sister Samantha's eyes. For her part, Samantha never got over the experience, although years of therapy explained away the "alien abduction" she thought she'd witnessed.
Mulder on the other hand, was subjected to the tests, and eventually ran away from the facility in his late teens. He managed to take the conspiracy on quite a chase to find him, eventually being caught and brainwashed... this time to become one of the conspiracy's agents. For a while, he worked without questioning his place, doing odd jobs for them whenever needed. But something was just WRONG somehow, even if he couldn't place it. He began dreaming about Samantha, knowing that she was somehow someone very important to him. He had several run-ins with the law, of course, in his position, including going against Agent Dana Scully and her partner, Agent Alex Krycek (who in this universe became a regular FBI agent). Despite being on different sides of the law, he began to see Scully especially as an equal, a great challenge to go against.
An ill-fated trip to Russia led to Mulder's left arm being chopped off- a measure taken to "help" him avoid being used in their tests. He continued going against the agents until a complete breaking point was reached- he met Samantha once again. Suddenly memories flooded back to him, and with those, more of his real personality. Of course, he knew better than to just turn on the conspiracy openly... so he acted as a double agent for the side of good from that point on. He and Scully started growing closer, their relationship turning into a forbidden love of sorts. Mulder will have come to Luceti at some point where he's gearing up for a big fight against the conspiracy he'd worked for blindly, an attack from within to bring them down.
Main differences:
Mulder's sense of humor is intact, and all of the typical late twentieth century culture. He's never been in the Bureau, although he probably impersonated a federal agent at some point. In fact, he's very used to acting, after playing double agent for so long. He still has a strong sense of personal ethics. There are some lines he still refuses to cross, and he has a lot of self-loathing over anything he'd been made to do while brainwashed. But he believes that fighting for good causes will be his way to finding his redemption. Even so, at the same time he's also even MORE of a rogue, loose cannon than the regular Mulder... since he's never had to operate within the bounds of the FBI, and he had to adapt to be able to keep up with the people on his side of the law. He's also got a prosthesis in place of his left arm.
The regular X-Files backstory involves a consortium of shadowy conspirators making deals and plans with aliens, mostly in order to ensure their own safety when the aliens began to invade and colonize the planet. Unfortunately, in THIS version of events, that deal all backfired. Bill Mulder's argument won favor in this universe, so that the conspiracy did NOT make a deal with the alien colonists. Ironically, this didn't help matters as intended, but instead everything escalated into an all out war. Black oil jumped into people and unleashed radiation bursts upon all major cities of the world, spaceships landed, alien bounty hunters roamed the land, people were used to gestate new alien life, and faceless rebels burned and ravaged the land. All hope for a vaccine was destroyed. The catastrophe was worldwide, effectively ruining life on earth as we know it.
Fox Mulder was twelve when the world all went to hell. He and Samantha grew up from that point living on the edge quite literally, every day being a struggle for survival. Since his dad was in a position of some power, he was somewhat reasonably protected... but of course, that didn't last long. Bill Mulder was largely blamed for how things turned out, and as a result his entire family was handed over to colonists to be used to grow new alien life. Mulder's entire family lost their lives this way, but he managed to escape at the last minute... due to the Cigarette Smoking Man of all people (but he didn't learn about this until decades later). CSM for his part snuck his way into the alien's favor, essentially betraying his own species in order to keep some semblance of power and save himself.
From then on, Mulder lived a life on the run from the colonists, who'd begun steadily populating the world. There were only small pockets of human resistance left, and they were very scattered, few and far between. He spent most of his teen years in one of these hidden barracks. In this safe haven, he met Jeffrey Spender, who ultimately betrayed Mulder to gain favor with the CSM. Mulder went on the run again, living on his own for another decade or so... Eventually he came across a stronger resistance group... called the Lone Gunmen. He became fast friends with its three leaders, and together they founght off aliens. He befriended or clashed with other people along the way- Alex Krycek, who still played the double agent role, Walter Skinner, who initially started out working for CSM/the aliens but soon turned sides... and then there was Dana Scully, who became the most important person in Mulder's life once they'd met and started fighting together.
The main differences with Mulder:
He's not exactly "book smart", having spent his young adult life in a post-apocalyptic word fighting for survival. But he's still as clever as ever, still witty and sarcastic. He doesn't get a lot of pop culture references anymore, since none of that really happened the same in his version of the earth. He HATES extraterrestrial life, because they killed his family and destroyed his entire world. He's not so much concerned with uncovering truth as he is with gaining vengeance. He's spent life on the run and fighting, so he's coming in with a much more warlike attitude, and overall is not going to be comfortable with a settled lifestyle.
2. Mulder Abducted / in the Conspiracy AU
In the 1970s, Bill Mulder had to make a choice- to send away one of his own children as insurance of a sort, for them to become an experimental test subject. That child was Fox, his son, who was abducted away from his house at age 12 before his sister Samantha's eyes. For her part, Samantha never got over the experience, although years of therapy explained away the "alien abduction" she thought she'd witnessed.
Mulder on the other hand, was subjected to the tests, and eventually ran away from the facility in his late teens. He managed to take the conspiracy on quite a chase to find him, eventually being caught and brainwashed... this time to become one of the conspiracy's agents. For a while, he worked without questioning his place, doing odd jobs for them whenever needed. But something was just WRONG somehow, even if he couldn't place it. He began dreaming about Samantha, knowing that she was somehow someone very important to him. He had several run-ins with the law, of course, in his position, including going against Agent Dana Scully and her partner, Agent Alex Krycek (who in this universe became a regular FBI agent). Despite being on different sides of the law, he began to see Scully especially as an equal, a great challenge to go against.
An ill-fated trip to Russia led to Mulder's left arm being chopped off- a measure taken to "help" him avoid being used in their tests. He continued going against the agents until a complete breaking point was reached- he met Samantha once again. Suddenly memories flooded back to him, and with those, more of his real personality. Of course, he knew better than to just turn on the conspiracy openly... so he acted as a double agent for the side of good from that point on. He and Scully started growing closer, their relationship turning into a forbidden love of sorts. Mulder will have come to Luceti at some point where he's gearing up for a big fight against the conspiracy he'd worked for blindly, an attack from within to bring them down.
Main differences:
Mulder's sense of humor is intact, and all of the typical late twentieth century culture. He's never been in the Bureau, although he probably impersonated a federal agent at some point. In fact, he's very used to acting, after playing double agent for so long. He still has a strong sense of personal ethics. There are some lines he still refuses to cross, and he has a lot of self-loathing over anything he'd been made to do while brainwashed. But he believes that fighting for good causes will be his way to finding his redemption. Even so, at the same time he's also even MORE of a rogue, loose cannon than the regular Mulder... since he's never had to operate within the bounds of the FBI, and he had to adapt to be able to keep up with the people on his side of the law. He's also got a prosthesis in place of his left arm.