hackitude: happy (down in the heart and in the stars)
Skye ([personal profile] hackitude) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2014-10-15 05:43 pm

aww yeah it's question meme time

Time to bring back one of my old faves...

the QUESTION meme





Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:

1. POST a top-level with your character name

2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character

3. ANSWER the question you were asked

4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!

We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!

QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.

Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!
hostage: (genius ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-15 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
:C

Kid Jesse wanted to grow up to be a superhero. Failing that, he wanted to draw superheroes.

So I guess his first wish came true. Good for him. Too bad about how the reality of that sucks major balls and also it comes too late to have spared him a life of villainy.

I think he also might have settled for being a rock star, but only if the other two didn't pan out.

Basically what I'm saying here is that Jesse was born to be a loser.

What about kid Skye?
hostage: (trapped ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-15 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesse would... cry. A lot.

Okay but before letting himself spiral into a sobbing freakout he'd make sure she's okay. Like, does she need to be healed? Is she having withdrawal symptoms? He'd take care of all that stuff and then probably drive her straight to the nicest rehab facility in Florida. He'd have to lie to her about it, too, because he knows she'd flip her shit. So he'd just be like, "Okay, let's go to my place," and take her there instead. And she'd be really mad at him maybe but he hopes she'd go in for treatment once they were actually there.

And then he'd never talk to her again and basically be a check in the mail L M F A O.

It's Jane, though, so who are we kidding? She'd probably track him down once she was released from rehab and guilt him into letting her stay and then she'd weasel her way into his business and we'd have a new kingpin in town and her name is Jane Margolis. And Jesse, being the sucker that he is, would let it happen because he owes her and she is the love of his life.

The answer is pretty much the same re: Andrea and Brock. He's not romantically interested in Andrea anymore, the dream of his perfect family is already shattered, and the priority there is just keeping them safe. I don't think he would tell Jane about them.

If Skye found out she was something inherently evil, would that change her perception of evil in general? Raina seemed to think so, or at least using that as a carrot for Ward. But what do you think?
hostage: (timid ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-15 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
The temptation would be great, but I honestly don't think he'd use it.

First off, he doesn't want Skye - of all people - to see him that way. He's ashamed of being an addict, and she'd be his first serious girlfriend who isn't an addict. So if she saw him like that, all twitchy and tweaked out, he knows he wouldn't be able to face her again. Drugs will never give him the same comfort she gives, so why would he give her up for them?

And his life in general has seen a vast improvement since he's been clean. He has difficulty coping with stress, but he also hasn't spiraled out of control. Business-wise, he's more on top of things than he ever was, which he surely has to attribute to his sobriety (because it couldn't be that Walter White was a really fucking terrible business partner and anyone would be better off without him). But also, just... People like him? They talk to him like he's a person? Sometimes they even respect him? And they show up to his birthday party? This is major stuff. He hasn't been treated like this before in his adult life.

So basically no, thanks to anything that might destabilize him. He might be numb to most of life's pleasures now but at least people love him.

What if Skye is Ms. Marvel???
hostage: (relaxed ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-16 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
I WON THE MEME
hostage: (bad ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-19 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
If you look back to S3 or early S4, you can get a basic outline of how a purely villainous Jesse would come about. He has to lose everything else. The business has to be the only home he has and his sole purpose in life.

So how I see that playing out in MoM is... Everyone finds out what he's been doing and there's no pretending otherwise. Maybe he does some jailtime or maybe he's on house arrest or maybe he's too good to get sentenced but it's obvious and he's now a pariah. Whatever happens, he can't keep pretending he's a decent citizen.

So he doesn't try. He embraces the villain label. It matches his self-image, anyway, and god knows he's not going to go around making excuses for his behavior. It'd start with that kind of "So what?" attitude. Like, "Yeah, I'm a bad guy. Now you know. Always have been and always will be. Now watch me do all the stuff you expect bad guys to do." He'd be an asshole on purpose. Not necessarily more violent but more callous and cruel. Mocking people for ever having believed in him. You know how it is. It's his way of daring them to put him down, because he's suicidal but he can't pull the trigger himself.

Since he probably won't actually end up in the electric chair, it only escalates from there. He has nowhere to go but further into the darkness, so he'd steer into it. And he's already killed people now, so if the situation dictates - or if whoever's pulling his strings gives the order - then what's a few more? What is there for him but to act as the monster people say he is?
hostage: (scoffing ☣)

[personal profile] hostage 2014-10-19 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
Was almost canon, too. Jesse was originally meant to be Heisenberg after Walt's retirement and Walt was going to use the M60 to bust him out of prison. But then the creators decided that depicting your protagonist slaughtering hundreds of law enforcement officials was maybe not the best note to end on. Especially since the DEA was so nice about working with them during filming. Aww.