Yes I have seen the gifs for season 3!! As I've said, I'm not a huge TV series watcher, but I love the expressions that Farrant makes, they're so on point lol. But I literally love your ideas so much lemme go through them 😭
OKAY I've always been a bit curious on what MI6 would do if they really deported Jack- after Stormbreaker, I don't think MI6 would ever let Alex go and without Jack, everything would only get worse for Alex. (ALSO: i've written a post-mission alex breakdown scene before for a time loop fic i never finished LMAO if you're interested i can send it your way!!)
BUT ALSO Alex teetering on the edge of losing it all would only be quickened by the loss of Jack and once the truth comes out- well, there's not much tethering him to his past life other than Tom, who unfortunately doesn't know anything.
AND I would love Apprentice! Alex, although I think tying it in with SCORPIA would be a whole pain to figure out LOL. And the wording of Yassen being quietly furious is. UGH it's so good.
Yassen carrying out orders for Alex is always such a self-indulgence to read haha. I think it would work really well with both Yassen-killed-Ian or Wilby-killed-Ian. There would be a different feel in the Yassen-killed-Ian AU- Ian's death haunts them in a different way because there's this underlying unwillingness to forgive and a sense of fury and loss on Alex's side and an inability to truly feel sorry for killing Ian (other than the fact that it hurt Alex) on Yassen's end, because Yassen would just like. Rather die than face the consequences of choosing Alex over SCORPIA or vice versa (as we see in the book). In the Wilby-killed-Ian AU there would definitely be a smoother dynamic cause they mirror each other so well and Alex deserves a little Yassen-inflicted murder as a treat.
Anyways, they start with Wilby (YES) and then go to Blunt (EVEN BETTER). Yassen pulling Alex back is just. Ugh. It's not even a role reversal but like,, THE PARALLELS OKAY the hurt/ comfort yes yes yes. AND THE FAKE DEATH (John Rider hello????) YES I would love to see MI6 react to that. :)
Alex Rider dies with a bullet to the lung, choking on his own blood, alone and terrified. Jack Starbright screams in Tulip’s face, as if she can bring the boy back with the force of her grief, all-consuming and hungering.
"We miscalculated," she tells Crawley, as if it will fix anything. "Gregorovich holds no affection beyond his past mentor."
(Miscalculations get agents killed all the time, but Alex was a child.)
An assassin codename??? I honestly have been thinking about it and can't really mentally connect any name to Alex other than... Alex,, but I would absolutely love to see Alex's codename being connected to Cossack, the same way Hunter and Cossack was said. :D
Alex seeing Ian's death himself?? In the Wilby-killed-Ian AU, it would just. Immediately change him in ways that didn't happen in canon. It would definitely take a toll on him- I think a big part of Alex falling into MI6 was also his curiosity but knowing who killed Ian and being unable to do anything about it? Or later on he starts to grapple with the fact that he didn't do anything in that moment and saw his uncle get shot? Just, ouch. And the thing is, Wilby is not like Yassen or Ash- he is not well-connected or skilled enough to get away with it, and doesn't care about the Riders in any way. The truth would tear Alex apart.
ALSO IF YOU'RE THINKING OF WRITING IT?? AND DRAWING ILLUSTRATIONS??? Go for it!! Writing fic is super fun and I will 100% read it if you do. :D
FALLEN-FLIER DROP THIS FIC AND MY LIFE SHALL BE YOURS!!
AHAH this is so flattering LOL. If I end up writing the Stormbreaker AU I'll tag/ credit you + add some elements of your ideas if that's okay with you!!
(And yes this has become a yapper session of ideas haha but I love bouncing ideas off of other people :D)