What's in there? Infinite Possibilities

[notafuckingnut]

Tonight has lasted long enough
From dusk 'till dawn we tear it up
I just want to hear your sounds
You'll be lost and never found

Being a record of all verses I have thrown or plan to throw Richie into, with all related verse-type details.


BASE (AKA Movie-Movie Verse):

IN GENERAL, either pre-movie or in that week before getting to Texas and meeting up with the Fullers in Big Springs.

'Verse Nuts 'N Bolts:
• Product Placement: Red Apple cigarettes, G.O. Juice, Big Kahuna Burger (replace Marlboro, Minute Maid, and Burger King respectively). Throw-back cereals (Fruit Brute, Yummy Mummy, Boo Berry, and the like) are much more wide-spread, beating out the "newer" things we're familiar with like Kix, Pops, Apple Jacks, and Cookie Crisp.

• Verse Compliance (within Tarantino-verse): Compliant with the Movie-Movie 'Verse (Desperado and Once Upon A Time In Mexico - they come afterwards, Natural Born Killers - occurs in the one week between the breakout and where the action picks up in FDTD, and the Kill Bill duo - come afterwards). Not (directly) compliant with the Realer Than the Real World 'Verse (includes Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, and Four Rooms) or the Elmore Leonard 'verse (Jackie Brown).

• Important AU Deviations: Hitler was killed in 1944 during Operation Kino when the theater was blown up during the premiere of "Nation's Pride". Lee Donowitz, a film producer, is the son of Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, one of the Basterds under Lt. Aldo Raine who was directly responsible for Hitler's death prior to the building blowing up. The world under this change is much more centered on the importance of popular culture and more desensitized to violence.

BARGE (AKA lastvoyages):

Following his first death, Richie found himself on-board a prison ship, a place whose main goal is rehabilitation of less than savory characters. He's been assigned a Warden, and we'll just see how it goes.

Beards Required (AKA Barge Mirror!Verse):

Alternate Paths. Instead of Wardens being charged with the rehabilitation of Inmates, they're given already redeemed Inmates and charged with trying to corrupt them to their former "glory".

Alternate History:
Richie follows Seth around like a little puppy always. In any 'verse; this is one of those constant things. BUT. In mirror!verse, Seth picks the path of social adjustment instead of a life of crime; they run away after papa!Gecko loses his shit, but they go with the cops after, get settled in a Home with minimal fuss, attend school regularly, etc. Yes, Richie is still one sick puppy; he kills about every pet in the Home that isn't watched closely from 15 to 18, graduates to Peeping Tom around 17, delivers his first almost!rape at 19 and his first successful one at 21. There's some minor scrapes with the law on the part of both brothers, but nothing MAJOR; the successful rape gets hushed up and the almost!one gets discussed away with the legal equivalent of a slap on the wrist but no actual jail time.

At 22 though, things get a little hairier. Seth's 25/26 now, and starting to try to break away into the Real World, leaving his brother behind after years and years of keeping him relatively sane. The stars align just right, and through a series of unfortunate circumstances...Richie ends up picking up another girl, only this time he kills her afterwards. It's...a mess (think Gloria if you're not sure, only with a girl closer to his own age). Seth finds him (and the girl) afterwards, and bugs the fuck out, since while he knew he wasn't exactly all there...he didn't realize he wasn't entirely harmless. Especially not to this degree.

Unlike in the base 'verse, however, Seth actually does something about it instead of sweeping it under the carpet and pretending it's not an issue. He gets Richie checked into a hospital, gets him the treatment he actually needs - a regimen of psychotropic meds and talking with a therapist a couple times a week, and while he's not 100% at least he learns that yes, this kind of thing is bad, and unacceptable, and he really needs to work on NOT doing it. So he tries his hardest, does what they tell him to, and if he occasionally slips up...well it's usually not TOO bad, and he usually feels pretty bad about it afterwards. You can't exactly call it guilt because he doesn't really HAVE a guilt complex, even in this form, but he reeeeally doesn't like making other people upset (because it ends up working out worse for him in the end if he does) so he tends to get worked up about it pretty good. Not to mention he doesn't get to see his brother if he slips up too much/often.

Once aboard the Barge, it's...an interesting process. He's been stuck with a Warden who has a disturbingly solid grasp on psychology and seems bent on exploiting the fact, leading to a multitude of chinks and cracks in his resolve.

Dark Night:

Picks up after Richie's Rising, only instead of going on to trying to eat everybody Seth was able to talk him down. The two are currently down in El Rey trying to stay under the radar (for as long as that's due to last).

Mythology for this particular 'verse can be found here.