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ways_back_room2013-06-28 09:54 am
gone_byebye) wrote in ways_back_room2013-06-28 09:54 am
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Emergency substitute DE
Good morning! Today's substitute DE, stolen from a writing exercise on Tumblr:
Your character has been in jail for five years. Why? What have they been doing in that time? What do they do upon release/transfer/escape?
Your character has been in jail for five years. Why? What have they been doing in that time? What do they do upon release/transfer/escape?
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In prison he would probably... read a lot. Especially anything he can gets his hands on about mythology and folklore. Maybe get bored and try the Derek Hale shirtless pushups training plan. Make friends and/or enemies with the other supernatural elements in the prison. Pine for Derek.
Upon release... back to the pack, natch. Lots of bro hugs with Scott. The return of the plaid. Burninating the
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He probably wouldn't be held for 5 years, though. Jack'd bust him out before then. Then he goes back to doing his thing, saving the world by reconstructing The Machine.
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There are a few Les Mis AU fics along those lines for Enjolras! NONE OF THEM ARE HAPPY.
He wouldn't be in the same kind of situation as Valjean, but French jails in the 1830s were not fun places*, especially if you're a political dissident who would see any trial as an opportunity to make a loud stand against the despotism of monarchy and is perfectly willing to martyr yourself in so doing. Given Charles Jeanne, the historical leader of the Saint-Merry barricade in the 1832 June Rebellion, I think it's safe to say that what he's been doing in those five years probably includes ruining his health.
Also, all of his friends would either be in the same situation (if probably less obstreperously so) or dead, depending on how one does the AU. So, uh.
*Not that I'm saying that US jails in 2013 are either.
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Thor: ...I don't even know. Especially since this has to be an Asgardian jail; an Earth one couldn't hold him. And we won't see much of what the Asgardian justice system and/or the penal arrangements for princes really entail until Thor 2 comes out. What he's been doing in that time probably includes character development, though.
River: ...Let's don't and say we did, okay.
Regan: I don't know what would have gotten her put in there, since Regan tries to be law-abiding as a rule. Some kind of trumped-up political framing for both Gabriel and her? Some kind of accidental aiding and abetting? Government takes way more of a turn back towards oppressive, and the fact that her kids were fugitives from the law and part-time smugglers comes into play somehow? I dunno. Anyway, she is the most normal of my characters, and her reactions would be too. She would basically try to put her life back together afterward, as much as whatever circumstances there were allowed.
Trowa: Biding his time.
Clare: A human jail would only hold her as long as she wanted it to. The organization... I'm pretty sure that either Clare would be dead, or a lot of dramatic plot would kick off, or both. (She would do her best to just come to Milliways and ditch the whole thing in favor of Teresa and, if she had reason to want to come back to her world eventually, figuring out a plan of attack, though.)
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OK.
Gene: would probably be there for either going too far with his vigorous interrogation methods (killed someone), finally losing his temper with a scumbag he had a grudge against (kill them), or getting fitted up with/finally brought to task, for corruption. (This last only in the 70s.) He does, canonically, walk a fine line at times, and very nearly got fitted up for murder at one point. It says something about his temper that a lot of people thought he might actually have done it.
When in jail, he would mostly be trying to stay alive, I would think. Coppers get a very bad time of it in jail, particularly if put in a prison with a lot of people he nicked in the first place (which probably wouldn't happen, in reality). So he'd either be in a whole lot of fights, and then hospital, or spend his time smoking himself to death on the nonce wing. Where he'd still get in fights, because he hates nonces.
When he got out, he would immediately drink the equivalent of the North Sea in whiskey. And I suspect, wouldn't last too much longer. He tends towards the maudlin at times, and after losing his reputation, career, family, self-respect like that, I think he'd either drink himself into an early grave, or bite a bullet.
Bruce Wayne: Hmm. The only way I could see him in prison would be if he were arrested for stuff he did as Batman. He'd spend his time working out, and probably managing Wayne Enterprises stuff from his cell. First thing he'd do on release would be to get on with life.
Bruce Banner: He'd be locked up in a military installation designed to contain the Hulk, I would think. He'd spend his time working and researching, if they let him have books, etc. The rest...well tbh, I can't imagine the Hulk letting him stay locked up for very long, really. On release/escape, he'd try and disappear as much as possible. Retire from the world. (It wouldn't work.)
Javert: HAHAHAHA. Well. The only way he'd get locked up is if he insisted on being punished for something he perceived he did wrong, a la trying to get Madeleine/Valjean to have him kicked out of the police for thinking the mayor was a convict. He'd spend his time toeing the line, doing as he was ordered, paying for his crime. He'd be a model prisoner to the point of being annoying.
On release; hmm. Go and be a farm hand somewhere, and live in shame. Strange really, that I can't imagine him finding a bridge to dive off in this scenario. It would be a clear-cut case of him being wrong, being punished, and moving on. He can handle that. It's only moral quandries that derail him to that degree.
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SPEAKING OF DRAMATIC PLOT.
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Didn't Bruce canonically spend a few years in prison, for nicking his own stuff and getting caught at it?
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Ben is in an alien prison for standing up for a member of a lower caste against an upper. He spends his time working out Iroh style while the F4 try their damnedest to get him released without having to fight an entire planet. They succeed after a few days, unfortunately the cell had a time accelerator , thus accounting for the five years Ben experiences.
Once free, he challenges the upper crust for the right to take the lower caste guy with him when he leaves. He of course succeeds but the lower caste guy politely rejects the offer as he intends to fight for social equality having been inspired by Ben caring about him.
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Helena would probably be arrested for many things in the Victorian Era, from skulking around to flirting with women. As with Joshua, however, Josephine (the Warehouse 12 version of Mrs. F) would make anything go away. Canonically, her bronzing is a bit of a 'jailing', you could say. What she did was stew in her own juices and think way too much about Christina.
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It was made out of spoilers. It ends with looting a library or three and moving to a new world. (Five years trapped as an ermine makes her cranky.)
Robo's is run on a sort of work release program if it's the government. Anyone else gets punched. A lot. Maybe a scene were Robo has burrowed out through a tunnel hidden behind a Godzilla movie poster.
Artemis isn't saying anything. She's really, really quiet and sullen and since I don't need the Gotham vigilante ready to break my fingers, we'll move on.
Tyler writes a lot. Mostly he gets published under pseudonyms. None of his friends visit, but he gets letters and the occasional phone call. I think he looks at shedding his old identity once he gets out, before he drops it as a bad idea when he realizes that he can't see his daughter if he does so. Not that they would let him see her now, but still.
Janet, like Ben, is probably in an alien prison probably in a dimension where time goes much faster. She interfered with a ritual sacrifice and is supposed to replace the next one in the cycle. Things do not go well for her jailers. (Hi Guys! Glad you could make the party. GET THESE CHAINS OFF OF ME!)
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He's been biding his time working out, scaring the locals, and probably working out some more. Of course he's going to try to escape, and probably will succeed because lock technology has advanced quite a bit when he's originally from. As soon as he's out he heads to see Abigail, and then...once that's squared away he goes after anyone who gave him crap while he was locked up.
Mike: Possession of a controlled substance. Mike's been pretty much making friends with anyone he talks to, which is good because it makes his whole Hidden Badass thing that much more horrifying to the one dude who tried to ruff him up. If he didn't up and escape he'd probably ask for a transfer to the Milliways Security office, and then Baby just lets him out.
Bumi: Insubordination. Oh he says the entire time. Biding the entire time. Plotting against the people who locked him up in the first place. I'm his mother, brother, and father tried to pulls strings, but Bumi was not budging. He was going to keep his moral high ground and do this on his own. When he's out he acts as if nothing had happened, and then keeps on keeping on.
Aang: Murder, but it was really something one of his past lives did. Aang befriends everyone, gets romantic advice from hardened criminals, eventually gets his sentence commuted to time served and community service.
Ida: Probably because of friendly fire. Would stay arrested for as long as it would take for her to get to her final cell, and then she'd bust herself out. Literally.
The Loompas: Were arrested and held for behavior unsuitable for being a loompa. (They accidentally threw out Indiana Jones.) And they would have stayed locked up if Mike and Turtle Wexler hadn't busted them out. Now they work at Milliways.
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eta: FROM BENEATH YOU HE DEVOURS.
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Clint: TBH, I have no clue. Fury's pretty good about keeping his operatives out of jail. But assuming he did go to jail (for unknown reasons), he'd spend his time exercising and listening to books on tape. Which Natasha would bring him, as she's heavily invested in books. Working with his hands, if he's in a facility with a shop. He's kind of a loner, but a loner most people like or at least have a quiet respect for. He'd avoid physical conflict as much as possible, which he's good at. Afterwards? I'm not sure. Maybe teach archery classes at YMCAs, or I any of his friends are in civilian security consulting get hired on to work with them.
Darcy: Probably mocking up an identity for the wrong person, legally. She would sulk, and study for law school from books, and be so annoyed. SO ANNOYED. Afterwards I have no idea what she'd do; most of her interests kind of demand you have a clean record.
Legolas is too depressing, so. That's it, I think.
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At least he got better? At fighting.
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(Okay, he sleeps, but he sure doesn't languish.)
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She probably spends the time being beaten up people she put away who are out for a little revenge. I guess that means she spends a lot of time in solitary and or the medical wing, where she'll catch up on some reading.
She also knows exactly how to escape, should she need to.
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Probably not for raising the dead. And if she did, it wouldn't be long before the officials that sent her to prison would get their houses leveled. Other than that, she would laugh at the sentence and spend her time fighting the prisoners she didn't like and training the rest to fight. A prison riot would eventually happen.
Fairy Fixit would probably go to jail for making the wrong person "disappear." What would she do? Reading, studying. Building in secret. Making people disappear once the building is done. Why not, she's a criminal now, she might as well act like one.
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He is in jail because he aided and abetted a known terrorist when he returned Mystique's powers post-XM3. Yes, her powers would have likely returned on their own but they didn't know that at the time.
He spends his time in prison doing his best to improve the lives of his fellow inmates and open roads to mutant relationships. Any mutants he comes across within he befriends and does his best to share Xavier's dream, adding his own views and those of Magneto's that had merit and encouraging the mutant to develop their own opinions. He writes essays about mutant rights, which get published on a website. He is reluctantly doing his best to take on Charles' mantle since in this work Xavier is believed dead.
Once he is released, he returns to teaching at the Xavier Institute.
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I mean, I enjoyed the book, and the 10th-anniversary recording's part of my regular mp3-player cycle, but... it's really not a happy story.
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Juliet would probably protect Shawn on something, get out on good behavior, then try to open a dance studio.
Dixie's past would catch up with her; Brisco would break her out immediately, and she'd go to cool her heels with Dolly while waiting for the controversy/heat to blow over.
Pinkie would probably be imprisoned due to her support of Celestia, and she and the girls would work themselves free fairly quickly. And then she goes back to trying to be her best and most Pinkie self.