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superiorspectre) wrote2008-10-27 06:38 pm
superiorspectre) wrote2008-10-27 06:38 pm
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{rp} Will you defeat them, your demons and all the nonbelievers, the plans that they have made?
Suzie hasn't been to see Tosh. She hasn't even tried. If Tosh needs anyone around her right now, it's people she can trust. And Suzie's got no illusions there.
Instead, she's working at being useful, working out her story. She's got something no one else has when it comes to infiltration and deception -- her cover story, if she plays it right, is the absolute truth.
In her own timeline, she'd have betrayed Torchwood. It was only a matter of time. And, sickening as that thought is, it's her armour here and now. He can't spot a lie when there isn't one.
Gwen might've said she wanted to save that for when there were no other options, but right now, the best efforts of geniuses and aliens haven't brought her Captain back. Maybe a manipulative, backstabbing little bitch might have a chance.
After all, she thinks, she was good enough to fool Jack Harkness, in the future everyone else remembers. Maybe, just maybe, she's good enough to play Thane as well.
She knows a few things about what she's walking into; the kind of man she's dealing with, the way he likes having power over others... And her facade has cracks in it, places the old scars still show. She'd be stupid if she didn't think he'd exploit them. And again, she's better-suited than anyone else to go in -- she's been there before, after all.
And maybe, just maybe, this will count as penance, somehow, for the things she did that led to the things she didn't.
She's doing this. She won't be argued with. However, she does have a concept of chain of command, informal as that's always been around Torchwood. Ideally, she needs to speak to Gwen Cooper, but she's not keen on going right over Sam's head. And given what she's about to do...
Well. It might help if there's someone she can't lie to, to reassure (Tosh) everyone of her intentions.
So this is the plan: find Sam, then talk to Gwen, then... Do what else she needs to do. She's going to want a word with the Vesmier, but first, to talk things through with her commanders.
Instead, she's working at being useful, working out her story. She's got something no one else has when it comes to infiltration and deception -- her cover story, if she plays it right, is the absolute truth.
In her own timeline, she'd have betrayed Torchwood. It was only a matter of time. And, sickening as that thought is, it's her armour here and now. He can't spot a lie when there isn't one.
Gwen might've said she wanted to save that for when there were no other options, but right now, the best efforts of geniuses and aliens haven't brought her Captain back. Maybe a manipulative, backstabbing little bitch might have a chance.
After all, she thinks, she was good enough to fool Jack Harkness, in the future everyone else remembers. Maybe, just maybe, she's good enough to play Thane as well.
She knows a few things about what she's walking into; the kind of man she's dealing with, the way he likes having power over others... And her facade has cracks in it, places the old scars still show. She'd be stupid if she didn't think he'd exploit them. And again, she's better-suited than anyone else to go in -- she's been there before, after all.
And maybe, just maybe, this will count as penance, somehow, for the things she did that led to the things she didn't.
She's doing this. She won't be argued with. However, she does have a concept of chain of command, informal as that's always been around Torchwood. Ideally, she needs to speak to Gwen Cooper, but she's not keen on going right over Sam's head. And given what she's about to do...
Well. It might help if there's someone she can't lie to, to reassure (Tosh) everyone of her intentions.
So this is the plan: find Sam, then talk to Gwen, then... Do what else she needs to do. She's going to want a word with the Vesmier, but first, to talk things through with her commanders.
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"I can tell you a great deal," he says. "How much of it will be helpful, I can't say.
"Thane's mind is damaged." And oh, if that isn't an understatement. "It was damaged before he came through the Rift. Rational exposure to a temporal paradox – a brute physical and mental trauma which was never addressed, simply buried. This is, so far as I can tell, the originating point for a great deal of his current violence, though by no means all of it.
"That trauma was buried with enough memory, at a high enough level of consciousness, that it formed a relatively cohesive whole – interconnections, internalized reasonings, without the actual impulse consciousness to grant it will. Because it was so clearly partitioned, it formed an exclusion against other data – while its separated history and the personality which developed in its absence are not foreign psychic material, it reacts as though they are. Thane, as he exists now, cannot easily process information which comes from outside of that structure. This makes him both inaccessible and vulnerable."
He paused, tweaking the display, re-reading, re-interpreting the patterns there.
"Thane's mind, the last I had any mental contact with him, had been..." He spends a moment looking for a polite term. He doesn't find one. "Severely and irrationally damaged. This damaged the mechanism by which the formerly dominant personality was being kept suppressed, though I still can't say how, precisely, this will manifest. I do know it would be much harder for me to trigger a reversal the likes of which brought him to the fore in the first place.
"More important is the effect it likely had on his rationality... if one can call it that," he appends at a mutter. "Thane is capricious. This will have made him more so. I do not believe he has any form of unified plan, or the capacity to create or enact one. ...I do believe, however, that he is aware of the damage done to his mind, and likely of strategies to work past it."