Andromeda Promptathon

[scribblemyname]

Prompts can be:

1. Quotes from the beginning of the episodes
2. Quotes from the actual episodes/characters
3. Prompts for the characters/world
4. Prompts for fusions/crossovers
5. Prompts for original characters in the Andromeda world

Comments

[scribblemyname]

Brother as AI ship, siblings as crew or other remaining occupants scenario

[(Anonymous)]

This is because I mentioned how Alik could really be a robot if he was AI, isn't it?

[scribblemyname]

:blinks innocently:


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Of course.

[(Anonymous)]

I should never have mentioned it. :P

Well... I might have a start for this. I'll see.

Dorky name: My Brother the Ship 1/1

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so maybe a bit too much thought went into this, though I am relieved that I managed to keep it short despite that. Maybe because it's all background and no real plot.

Still, I think Alik would be like this ship (http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Typhoon) because if the ship was going to be a family's home it would be smaller and less of an attack vessel than ones like Balance of Judgement and Achilles, also smaller than Andromeda and her class of ships were all sisters and wouldn't have a male AI and since my thought was that Enadar and Malina ended up on a salvaged Commonwealth ship from before the fall. I tried to follow Commonwealth naming patterns and picked a myth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_of_Alexander) for the name of the ship.

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Enadar had not been surprised to learn that his older brother was actually an android.

Not, as some people would think, because he hadn't grown with them and never seemed to age, since while his parents were alive, they'd made sure that Alik kept pace with him and Malina, but because of so many little things that all made sense after learning that Alik was a machine—a ship's avatar.

When Enadar was little, his parents would send him off to find his older brother if he had a question. Go ask Alik, they'd say, and Enadar would. Alik always had the answer. Enadar loved that about his brother. It was nice knowing that he could ask anything of Alik. They discussed everything from mundane questions every stupid kid asked to temporal physics. No matter what the conversation, though, Alik talked like a machine. Always had, probably always would.

He acted like a machine, too, not just in the way he talked, but in his emotional distance and unswerving devotion to logic and practicality. He always thought two steps or three ahead, which was annoying when he was left in charge and could stop Enadar from both fun and trouble before he could even start it. Alik was overprotective and knew everything, things he shouldn't know (but did because he was a ship that heard and monitored everything.) Technically, he spied on them every second of every day.

That didn't make him any less their brother. They still snuggled with him on the couch in the common areas. Alik had always felt real, like an older brother should, not cold or metallic even if he might have been made of synthetic parts. His arms were reassuring, a place where both Enadar and Malina would curl into and be held to feel safe and protected. He told the best stories, watching over them long after they'd fallen asleep to his voice and missed their favorite moments.

Malina always said Alik was home and safety. She hadn't known how right she was, not until after their parents failed to come back from a supply run and Alik's emergency protocols activated, revealing him to be much more than their brother—he was The Gates of Alexander, a glorious heritage class transport from before the fall of the commonwealth.

All and all, it wasn't hard to adjust to having a ship for a brother. Alik's hologram would show up and answer questions if Enadar spoke aloud, and he had stopped jumping after the first few times it happened. As for all the announcements and warnings over the comms being in Alik's voice, well that Enadar liked. He had hated the boring computer voice from before, and he found it easier to use the screens to communicate with the ship when the ship was his brother.

After all, his brother had always been a robot.

Re: Dorky name: My Brother the Ship 1/1

[scribblemyname]

Love it! Every little backgroundy detail of it!

Re: Dorky name: My Brother the Ship 1/1

[(Anonymous)]

:)

It does actually fit them all rather well.

Too well. :/