There are a lot of post-apocalyptic scenarios.

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isurrendered: a community for the TV meme that ate your flist, because writing fic and meta for nonexistent shows is weirdly compelling. I've been commentficcing sgrio's fake show and will fic be_themoon's fake show, and down below I've made another fake show and who knows when the madness will stop. (LET'S HOPE IT DOESN'T.)

From Sgrio: "Sci-fi show about scientists trying to discover why almost 70% of humans have just... disappeared."

OH SHIT WHERE DID EVERYONE GO?! Is it aliens? Is it the end of the world? No one knows! Some smart people are trying to figure it out, but paranoid governments are trying to interfere and a secret organization is becoming not so secret. Who are the Consortium? What is the Prometheus project? Watch this nonexistent scifi action/drama to find out.

For the record, I ship everyone/everyone.


We start with a group of three friend, each of them a badass in their field, all of them with the predilection for pretentious conversations about the space-time continuum and the human spirit, when not engaged in ridiculous eyefucking. Then again, when are all the characters (Tracy aside) NOT engaged in ridiculous eyefucking?


Annie Coleman (Jennifer Connelly), astrophysicist



Annie's sister, DJ, was one of the people who disappeared. Her research was initially driven by the desire to find DJ, and it's leading her to the verge of either answers or a breakdown, no one's quite sure. Annie is single-minded and thorough, and also developing a tendency towards bleak philosophizing which is only aggravated by the nature of her work.


Matt Hobbes (Mark Pellegrino), anthropologist



He's kind of a hippie and, pre-rapture, was often camped out at some far-flung corner of the globe, writing ethnographies, deconstructing geographies, taking notes on the local cultures. While Annie and Arjun get to be the mouthpieces of science, Matt takes on a more romantic view, and is the go-to guy for mysterious lore and artifacts. He secretly likes that there's 70% less people in the world. Something he doesn't know: he'll need to be careful in France near the end of season one because he has no idea of the forces he's messing with there.


Arjun Rao (Sendhil Ramamurthy), particle physicist



Between Annie and Matt, Arjun is the straight man. He's good at his job, he stays healthy, he's generally well-liked, and stays on a relatively even keel while Annie freaks out and Matt goes further inside himself. OR SO ONE THINKS. Why exactly is CIA agent Daniel Reed paying him creepy secret visits and talking cryptically about something called the Prometheus project, that Arjun insists he's washed his hands clean of? Reed is unimpressed and Arjun is unmoved, at least until after Reed leaves, when Arjun collapses into a chair and buries his face in his hands.


DJ Coleman (Evangeline Lilly), archeologist



The three musketeers pictured above used to be the four musketeers, with the D'Artagnan being Annie's missing sister here. DJ will be a recurring character in season 2 when some of those who disappeared return, but Matt will not trust her motives.


Daniel Reed (Milo Ventimiglia), CIA agent



The CIA agent pestering Arjun. He's creepy, ruthless, manipulative, and has a penchant for intruding upon other people's personal space. What is clear is that he is trying to protect a government secret. What is not clear is whether he is actually looking out for Arjun's interests as he claims to be, or just manipulating him. Reed has a tentative alliance with MI6 agent Maxwell Lewis, who knows the same things he does.


Maxwell Lewis (Alex Lanipekun), MI6 double agent



Actually, he knows more than Reed does. Lewis was the first to start putting two and two together about the top-secret Prometheus project. Mistakes have been made, and Lewis's primary objective is damage control. He made an alliance with Reed because he knows Reed gets things done. Prometheus must be destroyed.


Christina Morgan (Rosario Dawson), Consortium agent



The one who knows that if people don't get their shit together, the other 30% of the world is also fucked. Christina tries to convince Annie to share her research with the Consortium instead of the government, but Annie tells her to fuck off. Christina doesn't give up. Sometime later, she takes a bullet meant for Annie, but don't worry -- she lives. After that, Annie was like fine you can look at our research I guess. (That's Annie-speak for 'thank you'.) Henceforth, Christina passes on information to Annie and her team that might be useful to their work.


Jake Talbot (Adrian Grenier), conspiracy theory nut



Already spastic and overinvested to begin with, the disappearance of 70% of the human race has driven Jake into more manic glee than his roommate/best friend thinks is healthy. He is a huge dork, basically, and has been yapping about his conspiracy theories non-stop until Ethan finally yells "JESUS CHRIST, WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE ANASAZI?!" Jake wanted to go on an expedition to find out what's going on, but this changed when he and Ethan found Tracy.


Ethan Li (Ken Leung), everyman and purported voice of reason



Look, Jake's like a brother to him, but how can it be that your reaction to 70% of the human race mysteriously vanishing is... vindication? Jake is beginning to worry Ethan, but Ethan also has to worry about the day-to-day maintenance of their frankly bizarre life. "Talbot, get up, we have to loot for food," he says these days without batting an eye. They arm themselves to go grocery shopping, and Ethan surprises himself with how easily lying and stealing come to him, and how ready he was to shoot that one guy that time who almost killed Jake over the last can of tuna.


Tracy (Jadagrace Berry), the Prometheus project



Ethan and Jake find a hurt and bleeding Tracy on one of their food runs, and argue about taking her home. She's obviously frightened, shrinking away from Jake's attempts to inspect her wounds, and Ethan says forget it, Jake, just forget it. Ethan says: we don't need someone else to take care of, you can barely take care of yourself. Jake says: then who will take care of her? Obviously, Jake wins. At their apartment, Ethan bandages Tracy up and feeds her Twinkies. She doesn't say much at first. It takes two days for Jake to get a name out of her, but eventually she starts becoming part of the household. Tracy stands on a chair to help wash the dishes, and she sits companionably with Jake and Ethan at night when they're cleaning their guns.

"Well, look at you," Jake grins when he walks in on Ethan pulling a blanket over a napping Tracy.

Ethan scowls. "What?"

"Fatherhood suits you."

"Fuck off."

So Jake fucks off, and Ethan brushes a lock of hair from Tracy's face. He wonders what she'd like to eat for dinner.



THE TV MEME THAT ATE YOUR FLIST
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal and isurrendered.

Comments

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

And I was actually initially confuzzled about what to do with your prompt because I'm less comfortable with scifi, which you can probably tell from how there are only two scientists. I was gonna throw in a couple of characters whose main function would be to wax theological, but thankfully I cobbled together enough plot before I had to resort to that XD. Weirdly enough, plot happened after I established slash subtext between Arjun and Daniel? Jake and Ethan were at first just gonna be comic relief, but then suddenly Ethan gets all Dean Winchester on me and I'm like \o/.

So I'm glad it worked for you! thx 4 d prompt