Its Player Week Time, Folks!!! Get Your Gremlin Hackers Ready!!!@playerappreciationweek

It’s Player Week time, folks!!! Get your gremlin hackers ready!!! @playerappreciationweek

(Written alt prompt 1, "Get ready to rack up more frequent flyer miles!")

Summary:

Coarse ropes bite into Player’s skin, cloth fabric covers his eyes. His bindings are tough, knotted by expert, practiced hands. He’s not the first person they’ve done this to, and if history repeats itself, he will not be the last. Some have escaped, others haven’t, but both were far more skilled than Player. He’s no operative, he’s no trained thief, he’s a tiny, scrawny little hacker, and he’s- “Oh, calm down, Player!” He squawks as an arm wrap around his neck, inhibiting his ability to breathe as his attacker drags him closer. “You’re being so dramatic!” -Been kidnapped. By his own friends.

-- Or, alternatively:

For his nineteenth birthday, all Player wants to do is curl up in bed and sleep. Unfortunately for him, he ends up kidnapped by two overzealous red-heads.

*kindly offers you yet another Carmen Sandiego fic to help advertise Player Week (please go check it out I included a link in the fic)* Summary:

“Just five seconds,” Player pleaded, sounding almost as frustrated and hurt as Carmen felt,” Please. I know you can fight it just long enough to-”

“Don’t.” Carmen warned, again, as the music finally began to lower to a finish. She tried to ignore the subsequent sting in her chest when Player’s expression fell. “Not here."

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Or, alternatively; In the wake of their capture by VILE, Team Red attends a gala for VILE and their investors, their wrists fitted with the same mind-control technology they've thwarted countless times before. Only this time, Carmen finds herself unable to fight against the orders she's given, no matter what they are... or which member of her team they happen to hurt.

As a kind gift for my fellow ADHD friends; Player? Neurodivergent. Hotel? Trivago.

@playerappreciationweek

Summary:

During a 'routine' prisoner psychological intake examination on Carmen Sandiego's favourite little hacker, Maelstrom finds something. Something Player isn't too happy to learn.

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Alternatively: Maelstrom takes one look at Player and immediately clocks him as neurodivergent

(Made for Player Week Day 4 "I'm happy here in my dark little cave.")

I finished my Player Week stuff!

... two weeks late, but hey, now I get a nap! @playerappreciationweek

Summary:

When Player announces that he's going to a real party, with real teenagers, Carmen and the rest of their former team are nothing short of ecstatic. Unfortunately, that feeling vanishes very quickly, when Carmen gets a phonecall from him, begging for a ride home.

Alternatively; Player gets mean girl'd.

Doodles

Carmen Sandiego fans, consider: Carmen with a paintball or a BB gun.