zombie!Bond again...

[beccaelizabeth]

Been thinking on it, and I think I've overlooked the possibilities in simple inversion.

That way 007 becomes agent 700, the newest member of the service, giving it that sense of 'many' without that sense of 'armies of backup', especially once I explain how many become confined to the base for various reasons.

M becomes W.
Which handily is the first letter of both Wight and Wraith.
GURPS Undead says Wight just meant creature, but Wraith derived from the same word that gives us Warder, hence Guardian. That's promising.


I was fiddling with the idea of Bond, dead, bonded... and how to introduce the whole service while keeping that cooler-than-thou central character and the kick arse opening sequence.

So, say we get agent 207 leading a small group of commandos into battle. They're the best of the best, but he's just that bit better. Faster, stronger, tireless, barely blinking, practically a machine. And he's doing it all with no armour and much less equipment than the rest of them.

Then everything goes FUBAR, and the redshirts start dying rapidly. I'm thinking the opening sequence to... bugger, which Dalton was it where they had that training exercise go real? Something a bit like that, with parachutes and stuff.

So then it's down to one commando type and agent 207, and they reach the objective and blow it up... unfortunately without leaving.

all goes red and then black.

and then red again, with screaming.

"It's not 207."

"What? The hell it isn't."

"His face just grew back - look at that! That's never 207!"

"I could only ID what you gave me - the DNA matched."

"I'm telling you, it's not!"

"Well parts of him are!"

... newbie agent 700 starts screaming again for entirely different reasons ...

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[laligin.livejournal.com]

Whoo... I'm going to be keeping an eye on this. Looks fun.

(And it was The Living Daylights. ^_^)