Torchwood audios

I am now caught up with Torchwood again, all the audio ranges, so the only ones I havent listened to dont have Torchwood in the title ie Captain Jack and Captain John.

Despite the fact the Among Us story continues ranges arent giving me what I want from Torchwood, I am not pleased with the idea of running out of Torchwood.

The Among Us set I just listened to, though, did not annoy me. They did some good interesting stuff. Didnt love them, still not attached to the new in audio characters, but I can see what they're doing, and they're doing it pretty well.

I just want something else entirely, is all.

Characters need all the hugs

I know that the problem
this story is not exactly what I want in a story
has the answer
make new story
but

I kind of just want to hug Jack and tell him the mean authors and the aliens they wrote are all Wrong? And he does in fact have a right to exist in the time he lives in? And every single character calling him a corrupting influence is actually a prick?

I mean I could certainly puppet characters into saying some or all of that, I'm just unconvinced it would be compelling art when I was done.

Meanwhile the mental images I'm finding particularly compelling lately involve

Ianto Jones getting extensive protective tattoos

which is a bit of a stretch to put in that 'verse, even though technically the rift can drop anyone anywhere and crossovers get easy, because the Torchwood stories are fine with demons but not keen on magic, so then it would just be tattoos, sort of in general.

There's only so many places you can give canon Ianto tattoos which we would not have seen.

And I really like the protective bit, since in Pathfinder it would be simples to (a) bring him back to life and (b) give him magic items that would mean he wouldnt have died in the first place, including ones in the form of tattoos, so he'd always have them handy.


Of course that's the same impulse as wants to put every character I like in a particularly secure castle and just... let them have nice food and a place to sleep and no more problems ever.


I also want to drop the team into Golarion for the changed perspective on the whole 'being undead' thing. But the audios did tempt Owen with that pretty thoroughly. Just in ordinary Cardiff so no one knew to watch out for it.



I feel like there is story in dropping one person (Ianto) through the Rift onto a world where resurrection is simple but paywalled
and the having him make a List
and work through it to build up a whole Torchwood Golarion
who would have such the different attitude
and lists of their own.

... logically Ianto's list is a sizeable proportion of Torchwood One, not just Three.

Drop them somewhere cover ups are no longer an option and ... see many of them take Golarion as a whole as proof they should have mindwiped any and everyone, just to avoid all this.

Plus the only one you could never bring over there that way is Jack, the immortal.
But it's only fun if he gets himself there by other means.



Trying to think of Torchwood fic in a Torchwood universe doing Torchwood things is just... I feel like I'd have to throw out so much stuff to make it fun to play with again.

Probably go right back to the TV episodes.
And House of the Dead.

... for very specific values of fun...