Gift Vid: The Dream Before - for ghost lingering

[chaila]

Title: The Dream Before
Recipient: ghost lingering
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before"
Summary: To repair the things that have been broken.
Notes: canon-typical violence

Link: Link to signed vid post

Comments

[chaila]

CAN WE TALK ABOUT JESSE AND CHARLES FISCHER SOME MORE?!

Because, man, I am just never over the scene when Derek would kill young Charles Fischer and Jesse preempts him to kill old Charles Fischer. Jesse takes action to punish for acts already done where Derek would take action to try to prevent future acts. So it's arguably Jesse as much as Derek who keeps that loop a loop and allows young Fischer become the old one (again? before?). It's interesting all by itself, but together with her Riley plan it's just unbelievably fascinating that this is where she draws the line. Jesse's anger and hurt is so terribly precise and targeted; she's on a specific mission and she sticks to it. Limiting collateral damage? Trying not to change too much, so she doesn't moot the changes she is actually trying for? I don't know, but I just think it's fascinating.

[sanguinity]

And there's also the bit where the only reason DEREK EVEN KNOWS about Fischer's actions in that other timeline, is because Jesse told him. Which makes whatever Derek's involvement is totally dependent on Jesse's actions.

But yeah, that differential choice about who to shoot is fascinating. Derek going for young!Fischer is not too surprising: it's exactly in keeping with his decision about Andy. But Jesse is willing to sacrifice others for a mission, cf Riley or the sailors who died behind the fire door on the sub. But not here. This is not her mission.