Fuck it, it was bound to happen. Inspired by @waokevale ’s incredible AU, but almost completely different from theirs. This is fairly long but I have a mighty need, so y'all gonna have to bear with me.
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IMPOSTORS: Logan/Blue, Roman/Red
CREWMATES: Patton/Cyan, Remus/Lime, Janus/Yellow, Virgil/Purple, Thomas/Pink, Emile/White, Remy/Black
???: Orange, Brown
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THE SKELD
The Skeld is manned by the core sides.
Logan is their physician/scientist and spends most of his time in Medbay, which made it easy to fabricate scan and sample datas to pass him & Roman off as crewmates.
Janus is the elected captain. He knows how to command a room and has a sharp mind, which makes him likely to spot impostors. He works in Communications and Admin.
Patton is their chef and janitor. He spends most of his time in the Cafeteria and is the only one authorized to use the vents. He takes care of the trash and cleans the vents and O2 shoots.
Virgil is their engineer. He’s all over the place, from Electrical to the Reactor to the Engines to Storage, but he spends most of his time in Electrical. He’s partially colourblind and struggles with the wires.
Roman is their data analyst and head of security. He alternates between watching the cameras in Security and transferring data to Admin. He’s a master of sabotage and can fake tasks flawlessly. He sometimes helps Virgil with the wires.
Remus is their technician and weapons specialist. He spends most of his time playing asteroids in Weapons, but also primes the shields and checks Navigation from time to time. The ship is on autopilot, but it requires occasional manual adjustments.
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MIRA HQ
Mira HQ is run by Thomas, Remy and Emile. It serves as a home base to The Skeld and a permanent residence for them.
Thomas is in charge of the base. He spends most of his time in Admin and the Office, and regularly checks in with Janus in Communications.
Emile is their primary physician, who also doubles as a therapist/gardener. He keeps track of their storage, keeps the Cafeteria stocked and looks after the Greenhouse. He does checkups for the crew when The Skeld stops by.
Remy is their engineer and technician. He’s all over the place, doing wires, checking O2, monitoring the weather or doing asteroids. When The Skeld is docked he spends most of his hours at the launchpad checking for anomalies. The rest of the time he alternates between Reactor and the Balcony.
Bonus:
*The vents on Mira HQ are never secured and Remy uses them frequently to get around faster, even though he’s not an impostor. He’s the only one authorized to do that.
*No one on base uses the laboratory, but they let Logan loose in there when The Skeld docks.
*Neither Logan nor Roman can go through Decontamination safely. The chemicals burn them.
*Emile is the legal guardian of two orphan children: Elliott and Kai. They both like to water the plants. Elliott never strays far from Emile, but Kai sometimes plays asteroids with Remy.
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POLUS
The Polus research station is technically abandoned, but it has yet to fall into disrepair.
It used to be manned by a full crew of ten. Most of them were reassigned after it supposedly closed down due to unstable weather conditions, but Thomas still receives regular updates from the station that are definitely manually sent.
The Skeld is not authorized to enter the sector of space in which it is located. They were assigned only once, to investigate the updates, and while the station looked to be in use, they found no life forms and had to depart prematurely.
Logan was the only one who had anything noteworthy to report: all the vital monitors had been disconnected from the mainframe except for two people, under the codenames Orange and Brown.
Virgil claimed to have seen silhouettes through the snowfall, but couldn’t identify them.
Logan and Roman have their suspicions, but they can only recognise a fellow impostor if they meet them in person and they hadn’t managed to run into anyone on the station, even with their superior vision.
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Fun Creativitwins Facts:
*Roman and Remus are not biologically related, but they do look very much alike.
*Remus knows his brother is an impostor and keeps trying to coax him into committing murder for fun.
*No one suspects either of them because impostors are not known to have siblings, but if they had to guess they would pick Remus.
*Janus knows. He figured it out. Remus knows that Janus knows, Roman suspects that Janus knows, and Janus knows that they know that he knows. None of them have brought it up.
*Virgil made a dark joke once and Remus immediately adopted him as the Third Brother. Neither Virgil nor Roman had a choice in this matter, but they’ve warmed up to each other.
Other Miscellaneous Facts:
*Virgil has mild Protanopia, a type of red-green colour blindness. He sees the world in shades of yellow and blue, which makes it difficult to identify people when they’re fully suited up. He tends to stick with Logan or Janus.
*Patton kept scaring Virgil half to death by popping out of vents at inopportune times, so they had to learn each other’s schedules and work around them.
*Thomas was suspicious of Janus for the longest time, because he carried himself like someone who had something to hide, but eventually learned that no, he’s just really skilled at keeping a level head and mediating conflicts.
*Virgil once fell asleep in Medbay listening to Logan talk about samples. Logan, who was used to people being discomforted by his presence, decided he would protect Virgil with his life.
*Roman likes to personally check in with people around the ship, just to have some company. The only person who passes by him when he’s on Cams is Virgil, who does a lot of back-and-forth trips between the Engines.
*Remus often neglects to prime the shields, but claims to compensate by doing double and triple shifts on asteroids, because “the ship can’t get hit if there’s nothing left to hit it”. This has caused multiple emergencies that had nothing to do with either impostor.