Villain motives: Stargate mirror verse
Jun. 20th, 2014 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFlip the elements a little from the movie and first episode: Daniel Jackson visits an alien planet and gets given a wife. And keeps her. And decides he loves her, despite the minimal acquaintance and huge language gaps. Then she gets taken away to be a queen, gets a symbiote, and rejects Daniel. He spends the rest of her life trying to find her and get his wife back from the symbiote.
Twist: the symbiote is value-neutral. It doesn't take over, it just carries a whole ton of data. At most more like a Dax/Trill than a goa'uld. So the wife pretty much went to instant genetic memory university.
She maybe loved her husband when he was brilliant smart guy from somewhere more advanced that could teach her so much, but now she gets a new perspective and decides hey, maybe someone who'll accept a wife he's gifted isn't such a great guy. He refuses to believe that's 'his' wife talking, blames the symbiotes, and starts an interstellar war to wipe them out, eventually resulting in genocide when he interrupts their maturation cycle by talking the pouch bearers into taking out their political structures. When he catches his wife he has the symbiote surgically removed. When she still doesn't love him like she used to he sadly blames the years of captivity and keeps her until she comes back to herself.
If all the people they meet are young and uneducated, in a slightly sideways 'verse that could be because symbiote implantation will take care of their education in an instant, so they never develop schools. Children play and young people work at unskilled tasks, waiting for a symbiote to be available. Jaffa are warriors to protect their symbiote pouches, since they still need to mature before they can blend with a host. But they can't then be hosts, so the blended think they're kind of very stupid, which is sad and all but there's no fixing it so they might as well do the strong arm stuff. Jaffa think the science brained symbiote hosts are weak and dependent, so everyone's looking down on everyone else. Nobody set out to enslave anybody, but societies end up observably unequal.
And then Earth's interpretation of it all is based on one anthropologist who can't believe she left him.
Nobody's going to want to read that as fanfic. I'm just practicing bad guys, because I have trouble inventing those. Good guys with a dark side interpretation has potential.
Twist: the symbiote is value-neutral. It doesn't take over, it just carries a whole ton of data. At most more like a Dax/Trill than a goa'uld. So the wife pretty much went to instant genetic memory university.
She maybe loved her husband when he was brilliant smart guy from somewhere more advanced that could teach her so much, but now she gets a new perspective and decides hey, maybe someone who'll accept a wife he's gifted isn't such a great guy. He refuses to believe that's 'his' wife talking, blames the symbiotes, and starts an interstellar war to wipe them out, eventually resulting in genocide when he interrupts their maturation cycle by talking the pouch bearers into taking out their political structures. When he catches his wife he has the symbiote surgically removed. When she still doesn't love him like she used to he sadly blames the years of captivity and keeps her until she comes back to herself.
If all the people they meet are young and uneducated, in a slightly sideways 'verse that could be because symbiote implantation will take care of their education in an instant, so they never develop schools. Children play and young people work at unskilled tasks, waiting for a symbiote to be available. Jaffa are warriors to protect their symbiote pouches, since they still need to mature before they can blend with a host. But they can't then be hosts, so the blended think they're kind of very stupid, which is sad and all but there's no fixing it so they might as well do the strong arm stuff. Jaffa think the science brained symbiote hosts are weak and dependent, so everyone's looking down on everyone else. Nobody set out to enslave anybody, but societies end up observably unequal.
And then Earth's interpretation of it all is based on one anthropologist who can't believe she left him.
Nobody's going to want to read that as fanfic. I'm just practicing bad guys, because I have trouble inventing those. Good guys with a dark side interpretation has potential.
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Date: 2014-06-21 02:00 am (UTC)~
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Date: 2014-06-21 10:42 am (UTC)But man, that's a spooky reimagining/reinterpretation/mirrorverse.
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Date: 2014-06-26 11:42 pm (UTC)