Fanfic Fuel / Live-Action TV

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Fanfic Fuel in Live-Action TV.

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• Alphas: Since the team is already established and fighting Red Flag in the pilot (having already met people like Skylar and Marcus), it's interesting to speculate about their unseen earlier adventures.
• Every season of American Horror Story thus far has ended with at least one open-ended plot thread left dangling, leaving the door wide open for speculation about what happens after the finals credits roll. And now that Word of God confirms that all seasons take place in the same continuity (with Pepper, Sister Mary Eunice and Marcy the Realtor appearing in multiple seasons), the door is also wide open for characters from different seasons meeting each other. Considering the show's vast online fandom, you almost have to wonder if the creators are encouraging fanfic writers.
  • Murder House: What sort of an upbringing did Michael Langdon have, and how did he turn out when he grew up into the Antichrist? What are his plans for the world?
  • Asylum: What plans did the aliens have for Kit's two children? What happened to Kit after the aliens abducted him for the last time?
  • Coven: What sort of adventures did the Salem Witches get up to after Cordelia became the new Supreme and the student body of Madame Robichaux's multiplied tenfold? How did the world react to Cordelia coming clean about the existence of Witches? How did Zoe and Queenie handle becoming teachers at the Academy?
• Battlestar Galactica (2003) has the idea of what if the refugee fleet wanders into the territory of space where Earth is a dominant power like the United Federation of Planets and find that the Thirteenth Colony is a mighty space power capable of helping them fight the Cylons.
• Bones:
  • The post-Season 5 hiatus (during which time Booth and the Jeffersonian team went their separate ways for nearly a year) has produced quite a few fics. Many of them are also Fix Fics, designed to get Booth and Brennan together, usually eliminating Hannah Burley in the process.
  • The fact that we didn't actually see Booth and Brennan finally resolve their Unresolved Sexual Tension in "The Hole in the Heart" has been fodder for more than a few fics. One notable(and lengthy, at nearly 200 chapters and still going) fic, "The When And The How: A Bone to Pick", suggests that they didn't actually do the deed while she was staying at his apartment after Broadsky killed Vincent, but sometime a few days later, prior to "The Change in the Game", after dealing with Vincent's death and getting some perspective on what they really mean to each other.
  • Angela and Hosgins having a second child post finale. Boy or girl? Any more run ins with Angela’s dad over names? How was it different for Hodgins as a parent in a wheelchair?
• Breaking Bad:
  • How Gustavo Fring built his meth empire, and the beginnings of his vendetta against the Salamanca Cartel.
  • Mike Ehrmantraut's time as a cop before he became a PI and got involved with Gus. Better Call Saul appears to be focused on showing this as a secondary plot line.
  • How Saul Goodman went crooked and built his network of underworld contacts. The producers apparently thought so too, since they decided to actually greenlight a prequel spin-off centered on Saul.
  • How the One-Scene Wonder Peter Schuler got Madrigal Electromotive involved in the meth trade, and how the alliance between Madrigal and Gus' empire started.
  • Events in Walter White's early life that may have triggered his Start of Darkness; his friendship-turned-subtle rivalry with Elliot Schwartz and former romance with Gretchen, his initial involvement with Gray Matter Technologies and maybe how he met Skylar.
  • How Jesse became a player in the drug game, his time as a student in Walter's class and getting acquainted with and having misadventures with Badger and Skinny Pete.
  • Post-finale:
    • Jesse's post-Heisenberg life. How will he cope with the resulting psychological trauma from his year in the Aryans' captivity? Will he ever put his life back in order and make an honest living?
    • With "Heisenberg" now one of the most infamous drug lords in American history, what kind of life will his surviving children have? How will Holly White (last seen as an infant) grow up?
    • Did Huell ever leave the safehouse?
• CSI: The gap between “immortality” and the CSI: Vegas revival has some. What led Catherine to step down as supervisor? And everyone else is gone in the start of the revival. We know a little about Grissom and Sara and Hodges from season 1 and Catherine and Lindsey as of season 2, and another character is set to appear, but a lot still remains unrevealed.
• Dead Man's Gun: The fates of various (usually villainous) characters who take the cursed gun at the end of an episode but no longer have it after the next Time Skip can be interesting to think about.
• Given that it's a show about Time Travel, Doctor Who has lots. Pretty much anything that isn't shown onscreen or in an audiobook/audio drama is game. And sometimes even then!
  • The fact that the Doctor can travel anywhere throughout time and space allows for near-limitless Crossover opportunities with other fandoms.
  • The Doctor isn't the only Time Lord renegade, either. How did Romana do freeing the Tharils from slavery? What does the Master do when not fighting the Doctor? What about the adventures of the Corsair? Or the Monk?
  • Various fan attempts of fleshing out companions into more rounded and complex characters than presented in the show; Tegan, Nyssa, Peri, Mel, and other underdeveloped companions get this treatment in fan fiction (and the Expanded Universe, for that matter).
  • The two years worth of memories that were erased from Jack's memory were never mentioned after his first appearance. So what WERE those memories? And how, and why, were they lost? ^note Addressed in Big Finish Doctor Who.
  • There is the alternate universe that was first visited in series two and where Mickey decided to stay to help the effort against the Cybermen; at the end of the series Rose is trapped there with her family and in series four Human!Doctor and Rose are living there together; a deleted scene showed that they could eventually grow their own TARDIS, though Word of God from Steven Moffat denied this idea of the TARDIS. What else could the fanfic writers want?
  • Rose's time as a Torchwood operative between the events of "Doomsday" and "The Stolen Earth". We know that she worked for the alternate version of Torchwood in Pete's World, but the show never gives any details about what she got up to during her time with them.
  • The introduction of the Chameleon Arch in Season 3 opens up some great potential for crossovers, since it means that any character in any series could potentially be a Time Lord with temporarily implanted fake memories. Suddenly, all those Wild Mass Guesses don't seem so stupid.
  • Any adventures Jenny may go on to have. ^note  This is eventually addressed in the comics, when it's explained that she ran out of fuel, worked as a mechanic for more, and kept hopping along until she found an ancient Time Lord time-ship, hopping back to the past to meet the Twelfth Doctor, Eleventh, and Tenth Doctors.
  • Though she's certainly a prominent character in-show, the vast majority of River's time-travelling adventures with the Doctor happen offscreen, with many memorable ones only obliquely referenced. Of the fourteen episodes where River plays a central role, in fact, only ten of them occur at points when they both know each other — leaving plenty of gaps in both of their lives that might actually explain how they grew close enough to consider themselves a married couple. Her appearance in "The Husbands of River Song" added a ton of new fuel to the fire with the reveal that their last night together at the Singing Towers of Darillium lasted twenty-four years!
  • During the Dalek invasion in "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", we saw that Sarah Jane, Rose, Jack and Martha helped with the fight. But what about Ian, Barbara, Ben, Polly, Jo, the Brigadier, Tegan and Ace? All of them encountered the Daleks and were presumably still alive and on Earth at the time. Seems hard to believe they would have just been sitting around...
  • Donna's becoming part-Time Lord in "Journey's End" has led to some speculation that she has the ability to regenerate.
  • Lady Christina de Souza's past and future capers, especially now that she has a flying bus, could qualify.
  • Rory's more than 1,800 years guarding the Pandorica and The Doctor's time with Queen Elizabeth I^note later addressed in the 50th-anniversary special are just the tip of the iceberg.
  • The two-parter "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon" has the three months that The Doctor, Amy, Rory, River and Canton Delaware spent fighting the Silence's secret occupation of America.
  • Or for that matter, any adventures Vastra and the other Jenny already had — and have later with Strax the quirky Sontaran as the Paternoster Gang. The trio are now Expanded Universe mainstays.
  • Then there is the fact that Clara was scattered through the Doctor's timestream to save him from the Great Intelligence. She could be written into old or new stories — or crossovers, such as her cameo in Captain America: The First Avenger.
  • One of the reveals in the Series 9 finale is that the Doctor ultimately spends four-and-a-half billion years and countless selves figuring out and escaping the castle of torture he was imprisoned in, with no company but an Implacable Man monster who never speaks and kills with a touch. That's a long time to be lonely. How did he pass it?
  • After Series 9, Clara and Ashildr, two women who are essentially immortal, piloting a TARDIS in the shape of an American diner around time and space.
  • Ashildr's many, many unseen adventures taking The Slow Path from Viking days of yore all the way to the end of time itself, as she outlasts virtually everything else that ever was. The Expanded Universe jumped on this quick, with a collection of short stories set between "The Girl Who Died" and "The Woman Who Lived" published shortly after the Series 9 finale aired!
  • As of "The Doctor Falls", Bill's adventures with Heather.
  • "Spyfall": The Master is forced to spend 77 years on The Slow Path after getting stranded in 1943, and implies he spent a great deal of that time escaping from various locations, implicitly including a few prison breaks. What was he doing?
  • Torchwood establishes that Jack has been working for Torchwood for a century. That's loads of adventures. Then there's all the, ahem, adventures he had with various men and women. And aliens. Plus, since the series ended on a cliffhanger, what happened to Rex after he resurrected at the end of Torchwood: Miracle Day?
  • The Sarah Jane Adventures also ended partway through its fifth series, due to the tragic passing of the lead actor. What did Sarah Jane do before she met the kids? Who did they help or fight between stories? What happened afterwards? Did Sarah Jane die at around the same time as her actress?^note Canonically, no. What did her gang do after leaving Bannerman Road? Did Clyde and Rani ever hook up?
• Cold Case: The compelling natures of most of the victims' stories and the happy Imagine Spot or alternate universe in "Bad Night" make it interesting to imagine the events leading up to the the murders in other episodes being avoided due to plot deviations.
• The Good Place: Michael restarted the neighborhood over 800 times, including one that lasted 11 months. Only a handful of moments from a handful of these restarts are seen onscreen.
• Horatio Hornblower:
  • What exactly has Jack Simpson been doing to Archie and other midshipmen? Clayton's line ("You don't know half what he's capable of") implies horrible things. Archie is particularly scared by him and his presence gives him seizures. His ominous "Jack's missed you, boy" implies sexual abuse.
  • How come Archie knew Drury Lane like it was his home? Was he an avid theatregoer? Was he a teenage actor? To what extent did he know Kitty Cobham? Usually involves lots of love for The Bard, because Archie was fond of Shakespeare and quoted him, both sober and delirious.
  • What happens between Archie and Horatio in the Spanish prison when they return and they share the cell like before, but sans surly Hunter?
• House of Anubis: Fabian's the only character whose parents had never even gotten a single mention during the course of the series. Naturally, fans are interested in exploring his missing backstory, often trying to come up with a reason why he never mentioned his parents.
• iCarly:
  • Everyone's parents. Out of the six parents of the main trio (and Spencer, who is Carly's brother), only one was shown (Freddie's mom Mrs. Benson), one was referred to (Sam's mom) until she showed up in a single episode, Spencer and Carly's dad is in the military and rarely shows up in one-sided phone conversations. This leaves Sam's father, Freddie's father and Carly/Spencer's mother, and they have never even been mentioned.
  • Why did Freddie end up in Seattle, or more accurately, why did his mother come to Seattle on her own, with him. Often combined with the father question.
  • Since the revival of the show, Sam Puckett's now a part of a biker gang dubbed the Obliterators. Curious as to how her adventures with the gang would turn out?
• It's easy to wonder about all the possibilities for adventure surrounding the concept of the Red Pirates in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, as they traveled the universe gathering the Ranger Keys.
  • What does Claire find after sailing to Europe (the show has a post-apocalyptic setting) in "To Sail Beyond the Stars"?
  • Why are there no children in the Valhalla Sector in the "Letters from the Other Side" two-parter? And if they are there, out of sight, what happens to them after Meghan wipes out the adults there?
  • How a lot of the communities (even well-equipped ones like Thunder Mountain) shown in the show, despotic and peaceful alike, made it through the initial years after the death of adults is interesting to imagine. There are also a lot of blanks to fill in about how the leaders of so many settlements (like Millhaven and the village from "The Touch" fell under the Valhalla Sector's influence.
• Legends of Tomorrow:
  • An example similar one to Buffy below; how did Season 3 and Season 4 go with Behrad instead of Zari?
  • In a smaller example, since Leonard Snart's brief mention of the name "Alexa" while recalling a robbery that went wrong in Season 1, a few interpretations of the mysterious Alexa have appeared in fanfic, usually in the form of a female criminal who screwed Leonard and Mick over.
• A surprising number of Lois & Clark fics were inspired by the episode "That Old Gang of Mine", specifically one scene where Clark is shot at point blank range by a mobster's bullet. More than a few stories tried to explain how Superman dealt with the possibility that he might never become Clark Kent again, since the rest of the world thought Clark had been killed.
• The alternate universe on The Middleman. What happens with Fatboy Industries? Do alt!Middleman and alt!Lacey save the world? And what does aerosolized soup taste like, anyway?
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Only days after the airing of Season 1, Episode 8, fan fiction portraying Galadriel saying yes to Sauron's proposal appeared.
• NCIS: Season gaps tend to inspire this on NCIS. How did Tony hold the team together after Gibbs quit? How did Gibbs adjust to his temporary team? How did Ziva survive Somalia? Look up "NCIS" and "Somalia" on fanfiction.net, and you get over two hundred results.
• No Ordinary Family: The cliffhanger ending of the series can inspire a lot of fan fiction, given how the eponymous family is recruited by the government to pursue a plane load of convicts who just got permanent superpowers. George apparently getting powers, Joshua and Katie giving birth to a super-powered baby, and the Powell family being in a position to expose Burton to the government adds to the fan fiction potential.
• NUMB3RS:
  • There are many fan fics set in Don and Charlie's childhood, which explores what it was like for them both to grow up with Charlie being a math genius.
  • Similarly, what Don was doing during his time in fugitive recovery.
  • There are some fan fics inspired by certain episodes like, "Uncertainty Principle", "Janus List", among others.
  • What life is like for the characters after the series ended.
• Once Upon a Time: The series finale reveals that after Henry's graduation, Emma and Regina took him on a family road trip, with it being heavily implied that it was just the three of them. This has led to many fanfics exploring this time, especially from those who ship Emma and Regina.
• Person of Interest:
  • The final season of revealed that the Machine had started recruiting more operatives so that it could help the Irrelevants in places other than New York. This leaves things wide open for crossover stories where characters from other stories are recruited to be the Finch and/or Reese of their neighborhood.
  • The penultimate episode has another one. The Machine presents Finch with an alternative universe in which it was never created. It involves both Root and Shaw serving Samaritan instead of The Machine, leaving room for them to become a couple again.
• Power Rangers:
  • There's the golden question of what former Rangers do once their show ends — do they just retire peacefully or do they fight other enemies elsewhere in the world? The Boom Studios comic did an entire mini-series using this premise, showing Kimberly, Zack, and Trini fighting Goldar and a new enemy in the background of events during Season 3. Additionally, the page quote comes from an interview where Johnny Yong Bosch says he subscribes to a similar theory for his character Adam, disregarding the throwaway line about him running a dojo in the Milestone Celebration episode "Once a Ranger".
  • What kind of adventures did Experienced Protagonist Taylor and her gradually growing group of companions have (outside of the flashback episodes) in the year before Cole joined the Power Rangers Wild Force team?
  • In Power Rangers Mystic Force, the previous war against The Master and his forces is only featured in a few short flashbacks but can invite a lot of speculation about what Udonna, her sister, Leanbow and his fellow Mystic Wizards, Jenji, Daggeron, and their friends were up to.
  • It's never stated, from what this troper could find, from what the trained ninjas of Power Rangers Ninja Storm actually do once they're trained as ninjas. While some, like most of the Ninja Storm team save Cam and Blake, teach, Blake seems to have a civilian 'job' in his motocross racing and Cam has presumably returned to being the tech for the Wind Ninja Academy, whatever that entails. While it's reasonable to assume that most ninjas have civilian jobs if they're not teaching, it's not been gone into too much detail on the show or during the teamup with the Dino Thunder team the next year. All we really get is Kapri and Marah telling Lothor that they're fully trained ninjas without going into much detail past that.
  • A common formula for Power Rangers fanfiction is to find an un-adapted Super Sentai series, and create its hypothetical Power Rangers equivalent, for example Power Rangers Take Flight from Choujin Sentai Jetman.
• Smallville:
  • The summers between the high school years in the early seasons. The dominant one is the (in)famous "red K summer" between season two and three, which involves Clark on red kryptonite, which stripped his inhibitions and turned him into an amoral party animal, while Chloe visited him and tried to get him home. You could probably guess how half of those fics ended...
  • Then of course, being the origin story of Superman, there are loads and loads of fics that tell the tale of the Man of Tomorrow (literally) in the Smallville universe.
  • And then, there is the pre-series times, which has quite a few Noodle Incidents mentioned in the show. The first meeting of Chloe and Clark is also frequently used, although their First Kiss was shown in Season 8.
  • And in Season 9, after Chloe and Oliver are Strangled by the Red String, abandon shippers from other factions filled the empty space where the build-up belong.
• Stargate SG-1:
  • The Season 1 episode "Tin Man" is probably this. After all, the episode ended with android versions of Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter (plus the others...) roaming around. And the boys didn't realise that they weren't fully human until Doc Fraiser tried to take a blood sample... So everything must be there. I shudder to think of how many fanfics out there have them realising that the military regulations that keep the real Jack and Sam apart no longer apply to the android versions...
  • Then there's the episode where a rogue Asgard made a teenaged clone of Jack. The clone survived the episode and went off to live his own life. There's all kinds of trouble a kid with the memories and skills of a special-forces veteran can get into.
• Star Trek, with its vast, expansive universe of characters, time traveling, alternate realities and Crossover potential, never seems to run out of material.
  • Before the release of Star Trek: Generations, countless fanfics had abounded centering on the meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard.
    • And, of course, the various stories of Kirk's resurrection by enraged fans after they Dropped a Bridge on Him in Generations. Notably, Shatner himself got involved in that.
  • Similarly, Tasha Yar being Killed Off for Real so early has inspired a number of alternate-universe fics exploring a reality where she didn't die in the first year of the Enterprise's mission.
  • The early life and reign of Khan Noonien Singh during the Eugenics Wars.
    • Also stories of the time during which he and his followers were marooned on Ceti Alpha V.
  • Events prior to, during, and after World War III.
  • What the Earth probe Voyager 6 went through to achieve consciousness and become V'ger.
  • The histories and beginnings of several enigmatic Trek species such as the Talosians, the Borg, the Xindi and, especially, the Q Continuum.
    • What pre-logic Vulcan life was like and what exactly led to the Romulans and Vulcans splitting during the Age of Surak.
    • The origin of the Guardian of Forever.
  • The century-length gaps between the shows such as that between the founding of the United Federation of Planets seen in Star Trek: Enterprise and the events of Star Trek: The Original Series.
  • What any of the post-TOS characters (i.e.; Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks, and Picard) are like in the Kelvin Timeline.
  • The formative years of core characters from each of the shows.
  • Notably, we've only seen brief glimpses of the full adventures of the crews of the USS Enterprise-B and the USS Enterprise-C (in Star Trek: Generations and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", respectively), fueling some speculation about how they carried on Kirk's legacy.
    • Even the Enterprise herself, specifically her design, inspiration and construction has gotten backstories.
  • Let's also not forget the Mirror Universe.
    Jim Wright: I'm sure this opening shot alone sparked a dozen fanfics. Many of which included the words "Yes, Mistress."
• Supernatural:
  • The show gives fans Dean and Sam's entire childhood to deal, Sam's "Stanford Era" is popular, though it doesn't necessarily focus on Sam. The rest of their childhood leaves plenty of questions. Just how much Parental Neglect did the boys actually suffer? How many schools did they go to? What caused the rift between Bobby and John? The list goes on.
  • There are also the multiple alternate realities established/suggested: "What Is and What Should Never Be" (2x20), "It's A Terrible Life" (4x17), "The End" (5x04), and "My Heart Will Go On" (6x17).
  • Also, the four months Dean was in hell (or the whole forty years, depending on the brother the fic focuses on).
  • Dean, Castiel, and Benny's time in Purgatory features in a lot of fics since they were there for at least a year but only moments were featured onscreen.
  • The season finales have a tendency to leave a few questions unanswered, which has authors try to explain what will happen before the next season premieres. There are also frequent time skips between seasons, which work for this.
  • The highly polarizing series finale leaves several avenues open, especially the tacked on post-Destiel-is canon-and-then-Bury Your Gays line that states that Castiel has been freed from The Empty and is helping Jack rebuild Heaven, plus the fact that Dean is also in Heaven. Additionally, because we never see who Sam marries, many fic writers have decided he married Eileen, one of the few female love interests that the fans didn't automatically hate.
• In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, mainly the relationship between John and Cameron. Many fans have waited for The Big Damn Kiss between Cameron and John. Unfortunately, it never happened.
• Similar to iCarly, there's the parents of characters from sister show Victorious. Only Tori and Trina's parents are seen regularly, Jade's dad was mentioned on one occasion, and both Beck's parent's appeared off screen in on episode. Often fics that mention the parents will have Andre's parents dead, Jade's parents either abusive (especially if it's an angsty fic) or just neglectful and uncaring, the latter being more supported by canon. Cat's parents are generally pretty neglectful as well, though just how neglectful they are depends on the fic. Robbie, being the Chew Toy and The Woobie will almost never, ever, have a happy home life, and as of "Locked Up'' that view is pretty supported by canon. Beck's usually the only one who will have anything close to good parents, although there will usually be a few issues considering that he lives in an RV just so he can get away from them.
• The Whedon Verse have seen a lot of these:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Wish!Verse: Remember that Alternate Universe from "The Wish" where Buffy never came to Sunnydale? How did Xander get turned? How did Willow? What happened with Darla? How did Angel became a wreck?
    • Insert!Dawn-Fic: Everyone in the Cast was given false memories of Buffy's little sister Dawn in the Fifth season. How would any given episode in the first four seasons play out with Dawn there? In universe certain sources Retcon Dawn into the storyline, the Animated Adaptation intended to do this and one of the season eight comics has Buffy dream of season one with Dawn.
    • Normal!Verse: "Normal Again" told us that the entire show was a hallucination being created by Buffy in an insane asylum. Describe that world. Maybe the Big Bads are all just manifestations of her doctors.
    • Yet Another Halloween Fic: Also called YAHF for short, these deal with "Halloween" where people wearing cursed Halloween costumes started turning into the things they dressed as. Halloween World is probably the most famous among the fandom.
    • Hell, Halloween Fics have sprouted a tiny subgenre: Xander gets all the abilities and hardware (including a certain blue A.I.) of Spartan-117.
    • "Earshot" has spawned several fics regarding Willow's comment about...ahem, her idea of the aspect of the demon.
    • The episode "Helpless" dealt with Buffy losing her slayer powers due to a ritual. What if she never got her powers back? Would she still fight monsters or use this chance to live a normal life?
    • Buffy is only the latest in a long, long line of women who slay monsters. In one short story, describe one of these previous — or future — Slayers.
    • What were the Evil Trio up to during "Once More, with Feeling" and what was their song like?
  • Angel:
    • Connor!Be-Gone-Fic: Angel Deal with the Devil-ed his son into a happy family and removed all memories of his son from his crew. How did this affect their recollection of seasons three and four? How did Wesley get that scar? Also obvious fodder for Connor/Dawn angst-fics.
  • Firefly: Anything, really.
    • How Wash and Zoe fell in love. Wash’s tribute comic doesn’t even really show a lot aside from the honeymoon.
    • Simon's time studying as a doctor.
    • What Book did before he was a shepherd. This was finally given canon information in The Shepherd’s Tale comic.
    • Heck, let's just say everyone's backstory. We get the Book comic, a little on Wash, a bit on Jayne in comics and books, and a snippet on something with Inara in the comics but that’s about it.
    • What was the first time Patience shot Mal?
    • The War of Independence
    • And probably the biggest one post-Serenity: Where does the ship go next after Miranda? This was eventually addressed somewhat in the comics though not without more fuel being added in the process (see the comic book entry)
• The X-Files:
  • By its nature of not showing much of Mulder and Scully's personal lives on screen, the show generates quite a bit of fuel. There are many, many fics about just how Mulder and Scully got from the end scene of "all things" to the opening shot of the same episode; it's heavily implied they slept together, but doesn't show anything else.
  • Just what Mulder and Scully did between the end of the series and the second movie (The X-Files: I Want to Believe) is also explored quite a bit in fanfiction.
  • The fate of Scully's son William whom she put up for adoption. Many, many fans disliked it and thought his adoptive parents could not protect him from the conspiracy. The fics are about Mulder and Scully searching for him or describing his life.