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thief_in_the_walls) wrote2013-03-07 04:46 pm
thief_in_the_walls) wrote2013-03-07 04:46 pm
Profiles
I play three versions of this AU. The first two take place in his canon universe, with only his involvement being different. In one, he remains a pilot with a specialized gundam. In the other, he avoids the war as much as he can, helping out only Howard with information. The other version is fully AU, and easily moved to any timeline or time period. All may be adjusted as need be for different plots.
AC Timeline
When the colonies were launched, Borrowers didn’t take a long time before they started to sneak onto shuttles for the promise of better safety on the colonies. Fewer predators, and more places to hide from Beans within the very structure of the colonies themselves. It was good for a time, and then the war came.
Duo was orphaned young (too young to remember) in an accident and taken in by an older Borrower child named Solo who took care of him. He and Solo lived in an abandoned building sharing an alley with a restaurant until plague swept the colony. While Duo managed to stay healthy, Solo caught it and died, leaving Duo to himself. In his friend’s memory, Duo (formerly ‘Kid) took the name as a memoriam, living for both himself and Solo. Living on his own for a while, he was forced to leave when the building he’d been staying at was condemned and demolished. It was a stroke of luck that he was spotted napping one evening by a priest picking up the day-old breads from the restaurant (even if Duo didn’t think so at the time), instead picking up the tiny child to take to the safety of the church he ran across town.
Of course, when Duo woke up in the ‘clutches’ of a Bean, he panicked and fled into the walls of the old building. But instead of trying to trap or re-catch him, the Father and Sister of the church mostly let him be, leaving bits of good food where he’d be likely to find them along with other helpful things, including a few little notebooks they’d written beginning reading lessons into, like they would for Bean children they took in temporarily from time to time. For a while, life was good for a Borrower, even if they did know he was there. Then came the rebels, and the destruction of the church by the Alliance for hiding them. Duo was fortunate enough to escape the destruction, but only because Sister Helen had spotted him and grabbed the Borrower, protecting him with her own life.
A little older now, he set out on his own again, angry for what the Beans had cost him, but unable to hate them as a species because of how kind Father Maxwell and Sister Helen had been to him. But L2 was becoming dangerous for a Borrower, so it was time to leave. He snuck onto a departing merchant shuttle by getting into a shipping container. The shutter was caught in a crossfire between rebels and Alliance and crashed.
The salvage group Sweepers found the shuttle, and in the process of salvaging it, the container that Duo had sealed himself in. Howard immediately decided to take the boy in, agreeing to let him stay hidden from any Sweeper who wasn’t on the ship at the time. Through Howard, Duo was able to further his education and took up an interest in the machines on the ships and how they worked. An interest that Howard was only too happy to foster.
Pilot
Being around the Sweepers of course, Duo couldn’t remain as separated from the war as he would have liked, and when Howard’s friend G asked for his help in finding a pilot for the Gundam he was finishing, Duo spoke up to volunteer. The scientist was of course skeptical, first of the fact that he was seeing a teenager small enough to fit in his hand, and then of Duo’s ability to pilot. But Duo was determined to make a difference and take down the Alliance who had cost him his first truly happy home, and helped G to design a scaled cockpit in the gundam (along with a small room to live in as safe houses would have been out of the question), along with showing him the tools he’d learned to make in order to make getting around and working on the Sweeper machines easier and possible. Together they advanced those tools to the point where Duo would be able to do missions outside of the gundam, using his natural stealth to remain unseen.
When the Barton foundation ordered his gundam to be used in dropping a colony on the earth, G had Duo ‘steal’ Deathscythe, telling him to forget his orders and strike out on his own, sending him to Earth under the disguise of a falling star.
He didn’t find out that there were other gundams until running into a second pilot, Heero Yuy, while the pilot was trying to destroy his own damaged gundam.
Throughout the war, Duo managed to keep from letting the other pilots see him in person, using only voice and the video comm that showed him in scale with his own cockpit to communicate with the others. A hacked signal got his face released to the media when his heavily gundam was captured, but the cockpit was never found by the Alliance, leaving them to believe it was controlled from him elsewhere. Unfortunately for Duo, a member of OZ did find him, bringing the tiny prisoner directly to Khushrenada in secret. Fascinated by Duo’s size, and highly respectful of the pilots, especially one so small putting himself at risk, Treize let him escape.
Finding out that the builders of the gundams are secretly rebuilding the destroyed Deathscythe and Altron while in captivity, Duo sneaks in to take it and flee, almost getting spotted by Wufei in his escape from the base, able to return to the war once more armed.
Quatre did his best to convince him to come out and properly team up with him, but as much as Duo wanted to, he knew he couldn’t let them find out about him, and just did his best to help in the way that he could, slipping into bases to hack their information and when the others were captured, gather information and place tiny charges to aid in their rescues and escapes.
With the end of the war, Duo started to try and find a peaceful life again, finding it more difficult to go back to hiding in walls after a life traveling and fighting. He’d just moved in to a small apartment not too far from the new Preventers headquarters where an older woman lived, when a message arrived addressed to him, which he heard the resident arguing with the delivery man over. Instead of taking it back as undeliverable, the man tucked it under the entryway mat while the woman went to grab her glasses, where Duo pulled it from once she’d gone to bed.
The message was simple. A vaguely worded admittance from Une saying that Treize had informed her of what the pilot 02 was, and a request to meet with her in the empty apartment down the hall a little ways. As much as it was a huge risk, Duo took the chance and received an offer to come work for her. In secret. Unseen. And with a secure apartment in the headquarters themselves. He agreed, becoming the smallest Preventer. Only one other agent was informed of his size, Doctor Sally Po, in order to get a proper physical done, though a dummy medical file was drawn up for him. To the other agents, Duo Maxwell became the agent that no one saw, that only did special missions for Commander Une herself. Even the other pilots didn’t see him, just as they hadn’t in the war.
Non-pilot
As the Sweepers grew more involved in the war, it became obvious to everyone that it wasn’t safe for Duo to remain with them. After a while of no one being willing to suggest it, Duo took the initiative to ask Howard about getting him a small enough homing device, in case he got into trouble and needed rescued. Away from the ship. He additionally offered to keep an ear out for information that could help them, his ability to stay out of sight surely useful for spy work. Howard agreed on the condition that Duo not put himself into danger for them, and dropped him off in Brussels.
Staying as far from combat as he could, Duo managed to stay alive for the duration of the war, catching bits of news and passing on whatever information he could to Howard. And when the end of the war came, he found himself living in the new world capital, specifically at the new Preventer’s headquarters. Reckless, maybe, but it enabled him to keep an ear to the pulse of politics without the danger of the high security surrounding the politicians themselves.
Full AU
Duo was orphaned young (too young to remember) in an accident and taken in by an older Borrower child named Solo who took care of him. He and Solo lived in an abandoned building sharing an alley with a restaurant until Solo died when a sickness swept their city, leaving Duo to himself. In his friend’s memory, Duo (formerly ‘Kid) took the name as a memoriam, living for both himself and Solo. Living on his own for a while, he was forced to leave when the building he’d been staying at was condemned and demolished. It was a stroke of luck that he was spotted napping one evening by a priest picking up the day-old breads from the restaurant (even if Duo didn’t think so at the time), instead picking up the tiny child to take to the safety of the church he ran across town.
Of course, when Duo woke up in the ‘clutches’ of a Bean, he panicked and fled into the walls of the old building. But instead of trying to trap or re-catch him, the Father and Sister of the church mostly let him be, leaving bits of good food where he’d be likely to find them along with other helpful things, including a few little notebooks they’d written beginning reading lessons into, like they would for Bean children they took in temporarily from time to time. For a while, life was good for a Borrower, even if they did know he was there. But that ended when a violent group of activists bombed the church, destroying it utterly without warning. Duo was fortunate enough to escape the destruction, but only because Sister Helen had spotted him and grabbed the Borrower, protecting him with her own life.
Escaping the wreckage, he salvaged what he could before the investigations could start and reveal him, and left to go as far as someone his size could from the site. He used his skills of staying out of sight to catch whatever transportation he could to go to another city, finding a new home to try and settle in at. While he didn’t make any more attempt to attach himself to Beans, he did take with him the name of the church, Maxwell.
AC Timeline
When the colonies were launched, Borrowers didn’t take a long time before they started to sneak onto shuttles for the promise of better safety on the colonies. Fewer predators, and more places to hide from Beans within the very structure of the colonies themselves. It was good for a time, and then the war came.
Duo was orphaned young (too young to remember) in an accident and taken in by an older Borrower child named Solo who took care of him. He and Solo lived in an abandoned building sharing an alley with a restaurant until plague swept the colony. While Duo managed to stay healthy, Solo caught it and died, leaving Duo to himself. In his friend’s memory, Duo (formerly ‘Kid) took the name as a memoriam, living for both himself and Solo. Living on his own for a while, he was forced to leave when the building he’d been staying at was condemned and demolished. It was a stroke of luck that he was spotted napping one evening by a priest picking up the day-old breads from the restaurant (even if Duo didn’t think so at the time), instead picking up the tiny child to take to the safety of the church he ran across town.
Of course, when Duo woke up in the ‘clutches’ of a Bean, he panicked and fled into the walls of the old building. But instead of trying to trap or re-catch him, the Father and Sister of the church mostly let him be, leaving bits of good food where he’d be likely to find them along with other helpful things, including a few little notebooks they’d written beginning reading lessons into, like they would for Bean children they took in temporarily from time to time. For a while, life was good for a Borrower, even if they did know he was there. Then came the rebels, and the destruction of the church by the Alliance for hiding them. Duo was fortunate enough to escape the destruction, but only because Sister Helen had spotted him and grabbed the Borrower, protecting him with her own life.
A little older now, he set out on his own again, angry for what the Beans had cost him, but unable to hate them as a species because of how kind Father Maxwell and Sister Helen had been to him. But L2 was becoming dangerous for a Borrower, so it was time to leave. He snuck onto a departing merchant shuttle by getting into a shipping container. The shutter was caught in a crossfire between rebels and Alliance and crashed.
The salvage group Sweepers found the shuttle, and in the process of salvaging it, the container that Duo had sealed himself in. Howard immediately decided to take the boy in, agreeing to let him stay hidden from any Sweeper who wasn’t on the ship at the time. Through Howard, Duo was able to further his education and took up an interest in the machines on the ships and how they worked. An interest that Howard was only too happy to foster.
Pilot
Being around the Sweepers of course, Duo couldn’t remain as separated from the war as he would have liked, and when Howard’s friend G asked for his help in finding a pilot for the Gundam he was finishing, Duo spoke up to volunteer. The scientist was of course skeptical, first of the fact that he was seeing a teenager small enough to fit in his hand, and then of Duo’s ability to pilot. But Duo was determined to make a difference and take down the Alliance who had cost him his first truly happy home, and helped G to design a scaled cockpit in the gundam (along with a small room to live in as safe houses would have been out of the question), along with showing him the tools he’d learned to make in order to make getting around and working on the Sweeper machines easier and possible. Together they advanced those tools to the point where Duo would be able to do missions outside of the gundam, using his natural stealth to remain unseen.
When the Barton foundation ordered his gundam to be used in dropping a colony on the earth, G had Duo ‘steal’ Deathscythe, telling him to forget his orders and strike out on his own, sending him to Earth under the disguise of a falling star.
He didn’t find out that there were other gundams until running into a second pilot, Heero Yuy, while the pilot was trying to destroy his own damaged gundam.
Throughout the war, Duo managed to keep from letting the other pilots see him in person, using only voice and the video comm that showed him in scale with his own cockpit to communicate with the others. A hacked signal got his face released to the media when his heavily gundam was captured, but the cockpit was never found by the Alliance, leaving them to believe it was controlled from him elsewhere. Unfortunately for Duo, a member of OZ did find him, bringing the tiny prisoner directly to Khushrenada in secret. Fascinated by Duo’s size, and highly respectful of the pilots, especially one so small putting himself at risk, Treize let him escape.
Finding out that the builders of the gundams are secretly rebuilding the destroyed Deathscythe and Altron while in captivity, Duo sneaks in to take it and flee, almost getting spotted by Wufei in his escape from the base, able to return to the war once more armed.
Quatre did his best to convince him to come out and properly team up with him, but as much as Duo wanted to, he knew he couldn’t let them find out about him, and just did his best to help in the way that he could, slipping into bases to hack their information and when the others were captured, gather information and place tiny charges to aid in their rescues and escapes.
With the end of the war, Duo started to try and find a peaceful life again, finding it more difficult to go back to hiding in walls after a life traveling and fighting. He’d just moved in to a small apartment not too far from the new Preventers headquarters where an older woman lived, when a message arrived addressed to him, which he heard the resident arguing with the delivery man over. Instead of taking it back as undeliverable, the man tucked it under the entryway mat while the woman went to grab her glasses, where Duo pulled it from once she’d gone to bed.
The message was simple. A vaguely worded admittance from Une saying that Treize had informed her of what the pilot 02 was, and a request to meet with her in the empty apartment down the hall a little ways. As much as it was a huge risk, Duo took the chance and received an offer to come work for her. In secret. Unseen. And with a secure apartment in the headquarters themselves. He agreed, becoming the smallest Preventer. Only one other agent was informed of his size, Doctor Sally Po, in order to get a proper physical done, though a dummy medical file was drawn up for him. To the other agents, Duo Maxwell became the agent that no one saw, that only did special missions for Commander Une herself. Even the other pilots didn’t see him, just as they hadn’t in the war.
Non-pilot
As the Sweepers grew more involved in the war, it became obvious to everyone that it wasn’t safe for Duo to remain with them. After a while of no one being willing to suggest it, Duo took the initiative to ask Howard about getting him a small enough homing device, in case he got into trouble and needed rescued. Away from the ship. He additionally offered to keep an ear out for information that could help them, his ability to stay out of sight surely useful for spy work. Howard agreed on the condition that Duo not put himself into danger for them, and dropped him off in Brussels.
Staying as far from combat as he could, Duo managed to stay alive for the duration of the war, catching bits of news and passing on whatever information he could to Howard. And when the end of the war came, he found himself living in the new world capital, specifically at the new Preventer’s headquarters. Reckless, maybe, but it enabled him to keep an ear to the pulse of politics without the danger of the high security surrounding the politicians themselves.
Full AU
Duo was orphaned young (too young to remember) in an accident and taken in by an older Borrower child named Solo who took care of him. He and Solo lived in an abandoned building sharing an alley with a restaurant until Solo died when a sickness swept their city, leaving Duo to himself. In his friend’s memory, Duo (formerly ‘Kid) took the name as a memoriam, living for both himself and Solo. Living on his own for a while, he was forced to leave when the building he’d been staying at was condemned and demolished. It was a stroke of luck that he was spotted napping one evening by a priest picking up the day-old breads from the restaurant (even if Duo didn’t think so at the time), instead picking up the tiny child to take to the safety of the church he ran across town.
Of course, when Duo woke up in the ‘clutches’ of a Bean, he panicked and fled into the walls of the old building. But instead of trying to trap or re-catch him, the Father and Sister of the church mostly let him be, leaving bits of good food where he’d be likely to find them along with other helpful things, including a few little notebooks they’d written beginning reading lessons into, like they would for Bean children they took in temporarily from time to time. For a while, life was good for a Borrower, even if they did know he was there. But that ended when a violent group of activists bombed the church, destroying it utterly without warning. Duo was fortunate enough to escape the destruction, but only because Sister Helen had spotted him and grabbed the Borrower, protecting him with her own life.
Escaping the wreckage, he salvaged what he could before the investigations could start and reveal him, and left to go as far as someone his size could from the site. He used his skills of staying out of sight to catch whatever transportation he could to go to another city, finding a new home to try and settle in at. While he didn’t make any more attempt to attach himself to Beans, he did take with him the name of the church, Maxwell.