Gift Vid: Connection - for Sanguinity

[chaila]

Title: Connection
Recipient: Sanguinity
Vidder: ghost lingering
Music: The Reborn Identity, "The Elephant Connection" // mashup of Sarah McLachlan & The Elephant Man
Summary: Someday we'll find it.
Vidder Notes: Well, this was creepy. With apologies to elephants, John Henry, and, most especially, Kermit the Frog. [1]
Content Notes: Implied violence towards and around children, as per the show.

Link: Link to signed vid post.

[1] P.S. For the purposes of the credits: clearly if vid = baby then recipient = mother because it is her(/his) vid. (Gendered language becomes problematic here, I am aware; listen! I am just working with the tools that the show gives me ok, and what they gave me was an "I'm a boy!" baby name tag with a slot for the mother's name, rendering mother gender neutral in this specific instance because it means recipient. OR SOMETHING, IDEK, I HAVE BECOME WEIRDLY INVESTED IN THE RECIPIENT = MOTHER, BLAME MY CRAZY VIDDING EYES.) I, the vidder, am the mother's doctor because I made sure that the vid survived its gestation period. (Clearly the vid's (/baby's) doctor is the show from whence the footage came.) Which is to say, Sanguinity it is your turn now, you get to feed and clothe and start college funds and change diapers and take care of this thing because my work here is done. Vid is birthed, it's out in the world, which means that it is officially yours. NO APOLOGIES. EXCEPT TO KERMIT. I TAKE NOTHING BACK. ESPECIALLY NOT THE BABY. I MEAN VID.

Comments

[nicole_anell]

Wowwww, that was incredibly unsettling. Grabbed me right from the beginning, great use of a moment that was just a humorous throwaway thing in the episode. :) It strikes me how children are often witnesses - like the elevator boy and Savannah with her "mother" - to things that they know are scary or strange but can't really verbalize why. I also liked the way you used the Cameron-killing-pigeon scene and the lion and other animal imagery contributed to the creepy circusy feel of the music. And of course, loved "the dreamers" both times. :)

[ghost_lingering]

Thank you so much! The kids see so much that the adults don't see on this show, which is fascinating to me -- glad that it came across. (And terminators are totally dreamers of course!)