Probably The Biggest Piece Of Evidence For Illinois Being Aroace-spec Outside Of Just A Vibe Or The "but

Probably the biggest piece of evidence for Illinois being aroace-spec outside of just a vibe or the "but I'm married to the job" line is actually (in my opinion) his iswm appearance.

He specifically states, and I quote: "Sorry friend, I don't have time for your ancient curses. Doesn't matter how handsome and or beautiful you used to be."

Now, this wouldn't mean much out of context, HOWEVER, it is brought up REPEATEDLY that the captain has this almost supernatural attractiveness. That basically everyone thinks they're drop dead gorgeous. So a character suddenly being like 'yeah...I don't really care about that' at the very least STANDS OUT.

Granted, you could probably argue that since the captain looks like a mummy to him they're less attractive then when they first went into cryostasis, which I wouldn't really agree with personally for a couple different reasons, but that is still completely valid.

Am I the only one who can't help but picture a star trek "au" for iswm that doesn't feel like it's really an au because everything's pretty much exactly the same, except the Invincible ll functions more like the Starship Enterprise?

Like instead of the cryopods, both the colonists and crew have their own living quarters. There are areas like the recreation deck/room and the holodecks. Multiple crew members can have the same positions but different ranks based off their place in the chain of command, so you could have Head Engineer Mack without the universe tarring itself apart. (I think anyway) Maybe after getting the colonists settled in on the planet you get a new mission from home base to "seek out new life and new civilizations" and "boldly go where no man has gone before" or something, who's to say?

Idk. I grew up with Next Generation. Maybe the idea of a self-insert slice of life space adventure is just naturally appealing to me.

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I don't ship securitywaiter (mike x ness) but I am very tempted to write a fic where Ness tries breaking into Freddy's to gather clues for his investigative true crime podcast (or whatever the equivalent of that would be in the year 2000) and Mike catches him and it's just a silly little meet-cute with some silly little breaking and entering.

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POV: your demonic serial killer boyfriend kidnaps you and says he wants to "get to know you better"

that's it.

that's the route.