{Big Bang - J2} Dreaming in Cordite - Cyberpunk AU - Master Post

[deannawol]

Title: Dreaming in Cordite
Author Name: deannawol
Artist Name: sandrainthesun

Master Fic Link: Master Fic Post
Master Art Link: Master Art Post

Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki
Characters: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Sam Ferris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christian Kane, Various Others.

Rating: 18 Overall – Sexual situations, graphic violence in places and adult language
Warnings: Slash (M/M) relationship, oral sex, violence, off-screen death of a non J2 character.
Word Count: ~51,000

Summary: J2 Cyberpunk AU; Jared is a free spirit with a passion for mercenaries and street fighters. He doesn’t want to be involved in the family business, but during an extremely hostile takeover bid for Padalecki Microcybernetics, he finds himself to be the heir to the empire. When he starts to make moves to take control of the business however, someone takes exception to this and puts a contract out on his life and the life of his little sister. Enter Jensen Ackles, ex-soldier and current mercenary ready and willing to put his life on the line to save Jared and get them to safety. However, things get more complicated when they start to develop non-professional feelings for one another during the run. Will they? Won’t they? Find out in Dreaming in Cordite.


Author Notes: This is a slow build up story with a slightly schmoopy ending. Cyberpunk specific terms have been explained in mouse-overs for people unfamiliar with certain phrases so that explanations will not slow down the story. If you see a word or phrase underlined, simply hover over it and a small dialog box will appear with the definition. Feedback is welcomed. Enjoy!

I want to say a huge thank you to my beta, aramuin, whose painstakingly good beta means that you won’t have to put up with the many errors that existed in the first draft. As always, any existing errors are my fault. I, also, want to apologise to my friends who have been avoided during the editing phase or been subjected to daily progress reports. My artist, sandrainthesun, is fantastic so make sure to check out her artworks and I just want to say thanks for choosing my story outline.

Disclaimer: This is not real and no insult is intended. Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, as well as the various others in this story, are real people and I have taken extreme artistic liberty with their characters. No profit is being made from this work. All situations are purely fiction and any relationship to real life is strictly coincidental. However, if people happen to discover cyberware, I’ll be first in line!



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Comments

[lalover-lalover.livejournal.com]

The summary sounds really promising...
But what is Cyberpunk? I've never heard that term before.

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

Cyberpunk is a concept born of the 80's and can generally be summed up as Near Future (usually 2020-2060) where the world went to crap, the morals and clothes of the 80's never went out of fashion and technology has moved on in leaps and bounds.

The world that I built is Dallas mid-this-century where you have mercenaries who hire themselves out to do jobs, kidnappings, assassinations, theft, for money. Anyone can call to get something like that arranged. The good live to retire rich around mid-thirties. The bad, well, they tend to die out fairly quick.

For practical examples of Cyberpunk that you might know, think of Johnny Mnemonic, Matrix, Blade Runner. Even things like My Own Worst Enemy and Dollhouse have Cyberpunkian concepts in them.

[lalover-lalover.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the clarification! :)

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

No problem :)

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

Good God. I...I am looking forward to reading this, but wow. No wonder you felt so pressed for time - that is an impressive length of fic!

...and now I need to get washed and dressed and go to work. (I already had an hour-long conference call, leave me alone.)

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

Hiya honey :) Yeah, the editing part added another 10,000 words so I may have been a little frantic. I like how it turned out though, so that's a good thing.

It's close to the Shadowpunk world so you should recognise most of it. It's coloured iwth how I see that world and how the tech works but hope you enjoy it when you do get enough time to read it honey :)

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

I'm glad! It'll be nice to see a bit more of the world; I've mostly been limited to Via's because of time and the like.

I just made it to work. Between that and not being in yesterday, and only coming in at 4 on Tuesday because I spent the morning making moving arrangements, I don't know what my colleagues must think. (In my defence, I worked 3.5 hours Tuesday and was travelling/attending that conference for 15 hours yesterday, and I did my hour this morning, and I'll probably just count the three days as 2.5 days' work anyway...)

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

That's not bad in fairness. You can always put in some extra time after the move if you need to.

And yes, when it comes to Cyberpunk worlds (Cyberia, Shadowpunk and straight-forward Cyberpunk - but leaving out Shane's world because that's of his own invention) I'm happy to give all the insight that you never wanted or needed. I love the system, the concepts... So if there's ever anything you want to ask or anything you want to read about .. Don't hesitate. I'm always looking for prompts.

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

And I would never say anything about getting up, dressed and going to work. I spend half the day in pj's if I'm working from home. It's generally only the fact that I want food that gets me dressed. :)

[omegar.livejournal.com]

So finished Reading, enjoyed it. Skipped the parts that don't interest me, I am sure you can guess which bit:)

as I have said before, I am not a fan of RPS, however I worked it in my head by just saying actors cast in roles, and that helped me.

As I said by text this is a pretty good story, and slight changes, characthers renamed, and also renaming certain products that may belong to TSR, this story would stand well as a publishable story.

The only problem I had was that Even after what happened to his family Jared never tried for revenge, he just meekly rode of into sunset, it just feels wrong. Of course that may be just my disapointment that the story ended!

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

That's where the sequel comes in. I had a plan for the revenge but honestly it would take another 50,000 words to tell and there just wasn't time.

[omegar.livejournal.com]

Hmm luckily I was in work when you mentioned sequal or I may have had to do some form if happy dance. And that is something that should never be seen!!!

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[miriemirie.livejournal.com]

Four hours and three boxes of cookies later, I have finally finished this fic! I'm the type that lurks; I'm usually too timid to post feedback in any of the fandoms I belong to but this time I couldn't resist. Cyberpunk is one of my favorite genres, and I love the way you weaved it into a J2. (This story actually kept making me think of the show Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba? It was on a while back) I agree about the revenge...I'd love to know how Jared gets back at Kane (is he's still alive?). If there is a sequel, count me in!

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

I know Dark Angel well. ;)

I am a huge Cyberpunk fan. The original story idea was Pirates but I couldn't get it working so I ended up thinking about what I like writing and out popped Cyberpunk.

And yeah, I'm starting to think that I have to finish the story and give Jared the revenge he should have. :)

Thanks for delurking and leaving a comment, hon. Means a lot.