Hi! I'm new around. I go by Mirror_Mirror, and it's very nice to meet you. I'm writing to back up your community, because BB is an amazing world, and it needs more stories than it has. And with that in mind
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Well, what the hell. I am bored, I have exams and essays and general Very Important Stuff weighting on me, and apparantly no one looks this place up anyway, so I'm just going to run the show by myself until somebody stops me.
Sticking with the post-series, what if he does manage to leave the crime behind? Is Alaska possible?
Personally, I think Alaska is not really on board anymore. It's not Jesse's dream, anyway. It never was; it was his place for atonement. Cold, white, isolated: a perfect Purgatory on Earth.
But Jesse desn't want to atone anymore. Maybe he didn't get his Purgatory, but he did get his Hell. The guilt is old now, new is the damage.
So what now? Jesse never was good at making his own decisions, even before months of being told what to do evey second of every hour.
This, thiS is the scenario that I think is absolutely the most likely for Jesse, poor kid, and lord do I worry about it. Getting by without money, I trust he'd manage one way or another--he's determined and he's got a sweet face (though perhaps not quite so much after Todd), and he can be persistent and annoying as fuck if he wants to, so I think he'd probably get by okay between crazy dumb luck and, like, accidental charm.
But mentally, I don't know...I think he'd be quite a wreck. So the real question with this scenario, I think, comes down to how resilient Jesse is, and whether, in a world where Andrea, Mr. White, and Mike are all dead (because of him), Jesse would be able to find anything to keep him going. The wonderful (co-mod!) sparrow_lately always calls Jesse "bottled will to live," and I think it's an accurate characterization, but everybody has limits, and I'm just not sure where Jesse's are.
All that said--I would pay about an arm and a leg, approximately, to read some good fic of this.
tbqh I've always thought Jesse, outside of the realm of fix-its and rose colored glasses, doesn't live long, wherever he lands. Maybe a few (spotty) years, but not long.
First of all, major apologies for the comm blowing in the wind the last few weeks--I was on the road and staying in places without internet access (i.e., the WORST).
But, GOd, I love this idea of yours (and Oliver is a perfect name, and I approve), and somebody ought to write it, because I want to read it.
And now I'm gonna read all of these riding into the sunset speculations, because I'm mad intrigued and having a ball here. :D
Hey look, it's alive! Well, kind of. Two people is better than one, and I guess the other mod will show up sooner or later, too. Maybe there's hope :)
Sorry, I couldn't resist :)
I want to read it too, and honestly, I was so surprised when Jesse didn't take the kid with him at the end. It's the first thing that comes to mind, and in his panicked state, it really doesn't seem like Jesse to think of some other, less impulsive solution...
I'm going to contribute a prompt (such as it is) of my own: anything, truly anything, exploring Jesse's relationship with his Aunt Ginny.
We know from the pilot that he moved in with her while he was still in high school (if Walt found him through his school records), and we know from what Jesse's told us that he took care of her for quite a while before she died of cancer.
But that leaves a lot of leeway: did he move in to take care of her, or because his parents wanted him out of the house? Did she die a little while before the start of the series, or a long while? Personally, I'm convinced that she was a great lady and that she and Jesse were pals, but tell me more about them; show me Jesse driving Ginny to a doctor's appointment, show me Ginny dealing with Jesse's attitude problems, show me a family Christmas with Jesse and Ginny and Jesse's parents and baby Jake and the mile-high wall of family tension.
Run wild, man. I just want Jesse and Ginny. (Writers of BCS season 2, take note :P)
I've always thought Ginny and Jesse were kindred spirits, in that way aunts and uncles who don't have families of their own often bond closely, and sort of conspiratorially, with nieces and nephews. Jesse and his parents didn't get along, Ginny'd always liked the kid, and she invited him to stay when she got sick.
I've always imagined they were very, very close though, but not necessarily in a way that means sharing lots of Close Personal Details with one another, so much as just getting each other and thoroughly enjoying one another's company.
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Personally, I think Alaska is not really on board anymore. It's not Jesse's dream, anyway. It never was; it was his place for atonement. Cold, white, isolated: a perfect Purgatory on Earth.
But Jesse desn't want to atone anymore. Maybe he didn't get his Purgatory, but he did get his Hell. The guilt is old now, new is the damage.
So what now? Jesse never was good at making his own decisions, even before months of being told what to do evey second of every hour.
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But mentally, I don't know...I think he'd be quite a wreck. So the real question with this scenario, I think, comes down to how resilient Jesse is, and whether, in a world where Andrea, Mr. White, and Mike are all dead (because of him), Jesse would be able to find anything to keep him going. The wonderful (co-mod!) sparrow_lately always calls Jesse "bottled will to live," and I think it's an accurate characterization, but everybody has limits, and I'm just not sure where Jesse's are.
All that said--I would pay about an arm and a leg, approximately, to read some good fic of this.
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First of all, major apologies for the comm blowing in the wind the last few weeks--I was on the road and staying in places without internet access (i.e., the WORST).
But, GOd, I love this idea of yours (and Oliver is a perfect name, and I approve), and somebody ought to write it, because I want to read it.
And now I'm gonna read all of these riding into the sunset speculations, because I'm mad intrigued and having a ball here. :D
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Sorry, I couldn't resist :)
I want to read it too, and honestly, I was so surprised when Jesse didn't take the kid with him at the end. It's the first thing that comes to mind, and in his panicked state, it really doesn't seem like Jesse to think of some other, less impulsive solution...
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We know from the pilot that he moved in with her while he was still in high school (if Walt found him through his school records), and we know from what Jesse's told us that he took care of her for quite a while before she died of cancer.
But that leaves a lot of leeway: did he move in to take care of her, or because his parents wanted him out of the house? Did she die a little while before the start of the series, or a long while? Personally, I'm convinced that she was a great lady and that she and Jesse were pals, but tell me more about them; show me Jesse driving Ginny to a doctor's appointment, show me Ginny dealing with Jesse's attitude problems, show me a family Christmas with Jesse and Ginny and Jesse's parents and baby Jake and the mile-high wall of family tension.
Run wild, man. I just want Jesse and Ginny. (Writers of BCS season 2, take note :P)
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I've always thought Ginny and Jesse were kindred spirits, in that way aunts and uncles who don't have families of their own often bond closely, and sort of conspiratorially, with nieces and nephews. Jesse and his parents didn't get along, Ginny'd always liked the kid, and she invited him to stay when she got sick.
I've always imagined they were very, very close though, but not necessarily in a way that means sharing lots of Close Personal Details with one another, so much as just getting each other and thoroughly enjoying one another's company.
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Even Walter wasn't selfish enough to intentionally get a voulnarable teenager attatched to him while he knew it couldn't last.
Also, hi! I'm Mirror_Mirror. Nice to meet you.
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