When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Braxiatel.

[lizbee]

"The Crystal of Cantus", or, The One Where Brax Is Actually Quite Evil, Thanks For Asking.  It was this story that got me (selectively) listening to the Benny audios, or at least, it was elyssadc's reaction.  Over the course of one story and a whole lot of flashbacks, Brax:
- engineers a trap for Jason
- kills a passing pawn
- commands an army of Cybermen
- kills Ronan
- does a nice riff on Pandora's "past, present and future" thing
- messes with some more memories

So his goal is to ensure the survival of the Braxiatel Collection, and his homeworld.  Bless his black little hearts, but I am inclined to believe that Pandora is pulling at least some of the strings here.  Look at Ronan's dying words: "The thing in your head ... it's still there".

If I might be permitted to fanwank -- as if anyone could stop me -- I shall suggest that it was the Fifth Axis torture that reawakened the pieces of Pandora lying dormant in Braxiatel's head.  He cites the occupation as the event that triggered this survival instinct, and while he was shady before, he had never been outright evil.  Even his younger self, contemporary with the Gallifrey series, is a bit freaked out by current!Brax. 

I have therefore decided that, since the Occupation, Braxiatel has had a head!Pandora.  Like Baltar's head!Six, only looking more like Mary Tamm, and hopefully less given to wearing red lycra. 

Comments

[melengro.livejournal.com]

There is no 'ctrl' key on Braxiatel's laptop. Braxiatel is always in control.

If you have five dollars and Braxiatel has five dollars, Braxiatel has more money than you do.

Braxiatel can believe it's not butter.

...Wow, these really work, don't they?

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I was tossing up whether or not to use that first one as my subject line.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

Well, you didn't, which gave me the opportunity to use it, so thank you.

There is no upper lip underneath Braxiatel's moustache. Just another...uh...big lump of semi-evil badassness.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

Also, YES to the head!Pandora.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

OMG head!Pandora. Excuse me as I go drool a bit.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

It sort of requires fic, y/y?

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

YES.

[rimwalker.livejournal.com]

"Like Baltar's head!Six, only looking more like Mary Tamm, and hopefully more given to wearing red lycra."

Fixed it for you.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

argh argh NOT READING!! i have it but haven't listened to it yet!! but i will be back, oh yes, as soon as i have. instead i was listening to the end of "bang-bang-a-boom", otherwise known as THE BEST AUDIO EVER MADE. i am so serious.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

Isn't it!? It's just brilliant. I had to pause it a few times from laughing so hard, and then it got properly scary at times, and I was just as awful as Mel was at figuring out who did it. :D

[kerravonsen]

Hmmmm.

Braxiatel doesn't actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.
Braxiatel can divide by zero.
Braxiatel always knows the EXACT location of Carmen SanDiego.
It takes Braxiatel 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
Braxiatel has a deep and abiding respect for human life... unless it gets in his way.
Braxiatel doesn't really kill people. He wipes out their entire existence from the space-time continuum.

[elbales]

Subject line of win, just so you know.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

First of all, I am too thrilled for words that you are listening to these and enjoying them. I knew you would! NO one can resist the brilliance of evil Brax.

I shall suggest that it was the Fifth Axis torture that reawakened the pieces of Pandora lying dormant in Braxiatel's head.

I love this theory so much it's absurd. I think you might be completely and utterly right. The Fifth Axis occupation really fucked him up big time. And it comes back SO often with respect to Bev and Adrian and Doggles and the kind of things they are willing to do later on. Your theory excites me.

I have therefore decided that, since the Occupation, Braxiatel has had a head!Pandora.

Totally. It makes perfect sense. And I agree about the red lycra. Something tells me that Brax would be more into elaborate costuming. A head!Pandora dressed in a fetishized version of ceremonial robes seems VERY him.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

NO one can resist the brilliance of evil Brax.

The scene? Where the student comes to ask him about Cantus, and he's like, "Now, close the blinds. What do you see?" OMG I HAD TO LISTEN TO IT TWICE BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME I WAS FLAILING TOO HARD, ALSO ASSMEBLING IKEA FURNITURE BUT STILL.

I love this theory so much it's absurd. I think you might be completely and utterly right. The Fifth Axis occupation really fucked him up big time.

Time Lords are always better when they're decidedly fucked up. I''m just sorry the torture took place in a book I can't get ahold of since I'm writing fic and all.

Totally. It makes perfect sense. And I agree about the red lycra. Something tells me that Brax would be more into elaborate costuming. A head!Pandora dressed in a fetishized version of ceremonial robes seems VERY him.

I bet she switches between Romana-incarnations just to mess with his head.

[kitttherug.livejournal.com]

*burst out laughing at the subject line* *keeps laughing as she reads the comments re:Braxiatel *