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PB prompts: Ask Jason Tancredi!
I'm fannishly bribing myself by writing something from Jason's POV. Because the idea of Jason and the happy little domestic life of Sara/Michael/Alex makes me ridiculously happy at the moment.
So to make this fun, how about a prompt? Ask Jason a question and I'll promise a reply.
So to make this fun, how about a prompt? Ask Jason a question and I'll promise a reply.
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Here's mine: What's Jason's favorite holiday memory?
Jason's answers: favourite holiday
My favourite holiday is Christmas. When I told Uncle Linc he laughed and said it must be because of all the presents, but what I like about Christmas is the elves. I know everyone likes Santa and getting their photo with him every year, but I think the elves are cool. They get to spend all year making toys, like Daddy spends all year making toy buildings. But they'd get to make cars and trucks and dinosaurs and new Mario games, and then they'd have to play with them to test them before Christmas.
I told Uncle Alex I want to be an elf when I grow up, and he said it would depend on how tall I grow. I think that's why Daddy only makes buildings. He must be too tall to be an elf.
Mommy said I'd have to show Santa that I could take care of toys, too, so I pack my toys away when I'm finished playing so Santa knows I'll be a good elf. I don't always remember but I try.
What's Jason's favorite holiday memory?
My favourite holiday memory is the Thanksgiving before last year when all the power went out. There was a huge storm with lots of lightning and all of our lights turned off. It was scary. I didn't like standing in the dark by myself. This was before I went to school so I was only a baby and that's why I cried. Mommy found me and hugged me, and Daddy came in with a torch. He let me hold it and showed me that my room was still the same. My bed was still there and the toy boxes were there, and there weren't any monsters waiting under the bed and the lightning was outside and couldn't hurt me. Mommy told me that the thunder was loud but it was just a noise, like having the radio turned on too loud.
Then Uncle Alex came in and lifted me up and took me into his room. He had candles all around so it wasn't dark anymore. And he had cards, so Mommy, Daddy, Uncle Alex and me all played Go Fish and I won twice. It's my favourite holiday memory because Mommy said I'd been very brave and Daddy let me stay up past my bedtime and we all had a sleepover in Uncle Alex's room.
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Oh, Michael and his toy buildings.
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Oh, Michael and his toy buildings.
To a six year old, making toys would have to be the Coolest Job Ever.
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:D :D :D (Poor, poor Michael. He never gets to realize this elf dream.)
This is beyond adorable!
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I'm sure he cries himself to sleep over it. Or possibly concocts brilliant schemes to break into the North Pole and take the place of an elf!
This is beyond adorable!
Thank you!
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Hee.
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Awwwwww!
I love them all playing Go Fish, too. This is adorable.
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Um...
So, Jason. I noticed you have a lot of uncles, but Uncle Alex is the only one who lives with you and your mom and dad. How come?
And/or:
What are three things your family taught you how to do? One you learned from dad, one you learned from mom, and one you learned from Uncle Alex.
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I think it's because Mommy and Daddy are scared of spiders. Daddy was reading a bedtime story to me and Mommy, and a great big hairy spider dropped from the ceiling and fell on my covers! Mommy screamed and Daddy grabbed me, and they both ran for the door. It was Uncle Alex who got a shoe and went into my room to kill the spider. Mommy and Daddy both laughed about it, but I think they need Uncle Alex for spider-killing.
They won't admit it though. If I ask, they always say that they love Uncle Alex almost as much as they love me and that he's part of the family. When I asked how come Uncle Linc and Uncle Nando don't live with us, Daddy looked surprised like he hadn't thought of it. Mommy said that we only have three bedrooms, so if Uncle Linc and Aunty Sofia and LJ came to live with us we wouldn't have enough bedrooms. And Uncle Nando has four kids so that would be even worse.
But I still think it's the spider thing.
What are three things your family taught you how to do? One you learned from dad, one you learned from mom, and one you learned from Uncle Alex.
My Daddy taught me how to tie my shoelaces all by myself. You have to make a little bow with the shoelaces and then wrap one over the other, and then pull one loop through, and then tug. It was really hard to learn but Daddy said that if I was good and tried hard that he'd make me a paper shoe when I could do it myself. Daddy likes making things out of paper with lots and lots of folding, and now I keep my paper shoe in my schoolbag so I have it with me all day at school.
Uncle Alex taught me how to make purple. If I'm good, after school Uncle Alex will make cookies and let me choose the shape and colour. Sometimes, we use the star cookie-cutter or the round one or the triangle one or the snowman one. Uncle Alex has a little box of food dyes with coloured lids, so we can make the cookies different colours. We can make them red or green or yellow or orange or blue. I said that purple cookies would be really cool but we don't have purple and Uncle Alex told me to put in a drop of blue and a drop of red, adn when we mixed it together, it was purple. The next day, I tried it with my paints at school and it worked too but my teacher, Miss C, wasn't happy that the red pot of paint turned purple.
Last weekend, Mommy taught me how to fold a boat out of paper. We used wrapping paper in different colours and made a red one for Uncle Alex and a blue one for Daddy and a silver one for Mommy and a gold one for me. I gave Daddy his and he really liked it. Then Mommy ran a little bit of water in the bathtub and got Uncle Alex so we could race our boats across the water. Daddy didn't want to play because he was sad that the water might wreck the boat but I promised to make him another one if it did.
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*DIES*
*revives enough to hug ficlets tight*
Uncle Alex is clearly for spider-killing. *nods* Actually, I love the metaphor of that. I can imagine Jason holding on to that image and using it to describe who Alex is and his role in their lives throughout his life, more so when he's old enough to understand his family's past and Alex's profession/training. Of the three of them, Alex is obviously the hunter/warrior/guard. (In my own babblings about what this threesome would be like with a kid, I suggested that the child might grow up to follow in Alex's footsteps and become a law-enforcement agent. If that's Jason, I can imagine that when someone he's close to - partner, lover, friend - asks him why he went into the FBI, he'll think about it for a minute, and then he'll tell them about his Uncle Alex, who killed the spiders so that Jason and everyone he loved would be safe.)
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He is. And to a child's mind, it would be kind of funny that the adults reacted that way, but at the same time, it shows their immediate response to danger (gather those they love, get out of there, group their resources and then attack the problem in the safest way possible).
I think the thing I love the most about Jason is that it gives me a chance to play with the idea of Alex as the protector and nuturer role, more than the guard/warrior. I like the idea that while Alex is adept at the physical hunting side of things, he's also impressively capable of adapting to other roles when needed. I think I also like the idea of Michael and Sara taking on some of that guard role, at least when it comes to dealing with the outside world. And there's a huge part of me that loves how insulated this little group is. I can imagine them as the type to keep their own company -- apart from linc, Sucre and their families -- and be perfectly happy in their little world.
(In my own babblings about what this threesome would be like with a kid, I suggested that the child might grow up to follow in Alex's footsteps and become a law-enforcement agent. If that's Jason, I can imagine that when someone he's close to - partner, lover, friend - asks him why he went into the FBI, he'll think about it for a minute, and then he'll tell them about his Uncle Alex, who killed the spiders so that Jason and everyone he loved would be safe.)
Oh, that's kind of awesome. *loves the idea* I especially like the way it mirrors Michael's way of sharing things through parables and stories, the information always there but still needing to be decoded. Very, very cool.
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It's so adorable! I also think that Alex makes great pancakes, and that Jason is his official Kitchen Helper who stirs the mix so it won't get gluggy and gets to decide if they're having round shapes or funny shapes.