Rodney McKay
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Rodney McKay is a Tau'ri Canadian astrophysicist, born on April 18, 1968 in Quebec, Canada. He is the self-proclaimed smartest guy in two galaxies. He is the Chief Science Officer and Head of the Astrophysics Department in Atlantis. He is one of Weir's senior staff and as such responsible for many duties and the welfare of a lot of people. He tends to argue quite a lot with Zelenka about who is actually the head of the department, as Rodney often spends time offworld with his team or simply doing other things than research.
He is a part of AR-1 with Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Aiden Ford and later Ronon Dex. His cat-shaped Daemon is named Meredith. Meredith is outspoken, sarcastic, and flirty, which is how Rodney really is. He had a crush on Samantha Carter for several years. Once he joins AR-1 he begins to grow ever fonder of John, and they pursue a (to start with) secret relationship (because of DADT). Rodney doesn't actively hide the fact that he is bi, but has worked with the U.S. military long enough to know to be careful. Rodney's mother worked two jobs to make ends meet, and his father worked as a High School teacher. His little sister Jeannie is born when Rodney is four years old. Jeannie and Rodney are close as kids, but fall out as adults when Jeannie marry Kaleb Miller, an English major. They have a daughter, Madison, born on September 2, 2001, but Rodney does not meet his niece for years. Rodney's parents die when he and Jeannie are in their twenties. As a child, Rodney is thirsty for knowledge. His parents don't really what to do when Rodney pulls apart their radio to look at circuit boards at age six. In sixth grade, at eleven years old, Rodney builds an exact replica of an atomic bomb (minus the actual nuclear bits) for his school's science fair, and is interrogated for hours by the FBI. After this he is under their watch, and as an older teen he is partially sponsored by them to got to MIT. As an adult he has been asked to consult for them at least once. He plays the piano for several years, with perfect technique but, according to his teacher, lacking in emotion. This criticism leads to Rodney quitting the piano in his teens. At merely fifteen, Rodney begins his studies at MIT, and he graduates summa cum laude with a Master's degree in astrophysics in 1986. At MIT he meets Malcolm Tunney and Spencer, but he never gets along with either of them. By 1994 he has earned his first doctorate (astrophysics) and his second (engineering) in 1996. He works as a lecturer and consultant while studying. In 1998, Rodney is recruited for Stargate Command by General Hammond as a scientific consultant. Rodney has studied wormhole physics and similar fields, and the Stargate opens up a whole new world. In 1999, he is asked to come to the Mountain and assist when Teal'c is trapped in the Gate's storage system because of an energy overload. This is when he meets Carter and has a hard crush on her. However, he overestimates his knowledge and nearly kills Teal'c and injures Carter, causing a rift between him and SG-1. Rodney spends a few years after that working in Siberia. There he meets and befriends Radek Zelenka. Occasionally he returns to the Mountain to assist, such as when Anubis tries to destroy Earth by overloading the SGC's Gate. At the SGC, Rodney meets Dr Beckett and Dr Weir, and he works with them in 2003 and 2004 to select people for the Atlantis Expedition. Rodney is in Antarctica at the Ancient Outpost to study the Chair there when John Sheppard flies O'Neill there in a helicopter. They meet there for the first time, and Meredith is immediately fascinated by this guy with such a strong, natural ATA-gene. It's also a crush, but Rodney tries to squash it at first, because he doesn't think there's a chance because Sheppard is a guy in the U.S. Air Force.
When the Expedition reaches Atlantis, Sheppard asks McKay to join his team, AR-1, with Teyla and Ford. During the Great Storm, a Genii Strike Force led by Acastus Kolya tries to take the City. They hold Weir and Rodney hostage. When Rodney refuses to tell them about the plan to save the City, Kolya grabs hold of Meredith, Rodney's Dæmon. To touch someone's Dæmon without their consent is an extreme violation and Rodney is so shaken he cannot speak. Unknowing to Rodney and the others, Sheppard sees this happen through the City's eyes, and retaliates by killing almost all of the Genii and shooting Kolya through the head. A few days after the Storm, Rodney, Sheppard and two scientists take a Jumper to a planet in Lantea's system to explore an Ancient defensive satellite there. They find a downed Wraith supply ship on the sandy planet below and decide to investigate. The two scientists are killed by the single live Wraith there, who has managed to survive by feeding on his own crew. When the wraith is about to kill Sheppard, Meredith reacts, leaping onto the Wraith and biting through the major arteries in its throat, killing the Wraith. Rodney is shocked at how disgusting that was and marvels that he and Sheppard are still alive. After finding an old Elizabeth Weir in a stasis chamber in the City, AR-1 go to Proculus in search for a ZPM. When they meet Chaya Sar there, Rodney is extremely jealous, thinking that her attention on Sheppard (and his on her) means something else. He does not know yet that Sheppard doesn't have a Dæmon. Chaya Sar provides them with a ZPM and tells them they cannot ever return to Proculus, disabling the Stargate orbiting the planet after the team leaves. They find another ZPM on a planet, once protected by a circle of monks calling themselves the Brotherhood of Fifteen and hidden long ago. To find the ZPM they must solve a mathematical puzzle. At first they get it wrong, resulting in the death of the local who helped them, Allina. Sheppard decides to take the risk and try again, and Rodney is stunned when Sheppard solves the puzzle and reveals that he remembered it from a MENSA test. Since that point, Rodney tries to pester Sheppard every now and again to join the City's MENSA club. (Sheppard doesn't.) They have now installed two ZPMs in the City, which is enough to defend it against a Wraith attack, even fly it away to a safer place. The Wraith are coming; it's only a matter of time. In the eleventh hour, Earth dials them, sending reinforcements led by Colonel Everett. The SGC tells them the Daedalus is on its way, with a ZPM found in Egypt. Weir go to Earth to negotiate for more drones from the Ancient Outpost. Rodney and Sheppard hatch a plan to fly Atlantis away from Lantea, to a new world. The Uprising happens in hyperspace flight to New Lantea, after Sheppard's Dæmon has been revealed when he nearly dies in the Chair. Everett has Weir's command rescinded and Sheppard arrested and taken to the Brig, suspecting him of being a Goa'uld. Rodney coordinates things from the Control Room until Sheppard is broken out by Ford, Teyla and two marines. In the fight that ensues, Everett's wolf Dæmon hurts Sheppard's Dæmon. Rodney, Teyla and Ford help getting him in the Chair just in time to exit hyperspace and land. Once they land, Rodney can't hold himself back any longer and kisses him, out of pure relief out being alive. He and Sheppard tentatively begin a romantic relationship, while still working out the chaos of the Uprising and all that's happened. They end up having quick, half-dressed sex in Rodney's lab. They begin to slowly realize that they may share a Bond, an awareness of each other. All senior staff are recalled to Earth. Due to his Bond with the City, Sheppard can't go, and Rodney argues with Weir and the SGC to ensure Sheppard's safety. Sheppard stays in Atlantis, in command until Weir gets back, but the rest, including Rodney, must go. Rodney, stuck on Earth, communicates via email with John, working out their relationship. They send encrypted video messages to each other.
When John tells him about meeting Ronon Dex, a former Wraith Runner, and bringing him to the City, Rodney worries that Dex might be "I don't know, a serial killer". It turns out, of course, that isn't the case, and in time Rodney's suspicion of Dex fades. The Aurora is discovered November, 2005, and Rodney is ecstatic. Once again stuck on Earth, after the whole debacle with Snow's disappearance, Rodney has to share lab space with Dr Lee at the SGC. He drives Lee out of his own lab twice in one week. Having enough, Rodney needs to get out of the Mountain. He attends a scientific conference in Sacramento, California, listening to presentations by Dr Volker and Dr Rush among others. There he runs into his old rivals Dr Spencer and Malcolm Tunney.
Rodney is happy once he and Meredith get to return to Atlantis. They have a ZPM to make the journey with the Daedalus swift. In Atlantis he is reunited with his team. In April, he and his team go to New Athos to deliver supplies. At nightfall, they find an isolated spot where John and Rodney exchange wedding vows, with Teyla, Ronon and Ford as witnesses. In August 2006, Recon Four (MacGrimmon, Gladys, DeSalle, Kemp) crash onto P57-081. AR-1 are sent to help them out. They find the marines alive but Jumper Four buried in a sand dune, no systems working. Rodney is very annoyed about the broken Jumper.
obsessional Work in progress(Set directly after the end of seeking antebellum.)
Rodney and the team stay the night on Athos after the wedding, but are called back early to Atlantis. Weir orders them to go to planet Tholus and negotiate a trade agreement, a mission that quickly goes south. AR-1 and AR-8 (who made First Contact with the Tholusians) are rescued by the Daedalus. A short time later, AR-1 go to assist with repairs of the Aurora, which was damaged during the Battle of M22-535. Wraith intruders are discovered aboard and disaster narrowly avoided. Rodney starts working on the programming for an Intergalactic Stargate Bridge macro after the idea is prompted by Colonel Carter. AR-1 go on several missions, including to P3Y-79D (Doranda) where a failed Ancient experiment is found, Project Arcturus. In attempt to finish what the Ancients started, Rodney and Meredith briefly are unable to see beyond their hubris and end up accidentally destroying 5/6 of the Dorandan solar system, causing a near-enough falling out with John. Things are mended after the mission to and aftermath of P10-38X, and the consequent missions after that Alternate Timelineswe are the raven and the ghost chapter 9
In an alternate timeline, Rodney is part of the SGC and Atlantis Expedition in 2004; he meets Major Sheppard in Antarctica. They arrive in a dying Atlantis, with power running out and City about to flood. Rodney and Dr Grodin try to the last minute to divert power so that people can evacuate in Gateships (Puddlejumpers). He dies when the Control Room floods.
the law of gravity "once upon a time" arc
In the First Timeline (which diverges on January 29, 2007) AR-1's mission to P70-800 ends in disaster [spoiler: A malfunctioning Ancient device traps Colonel Sheppard and Rodney and severs their Dæmon Bonds, turning them to dust], and a long series of events play out with seemingly their origin in what happened that day. The events are righted by future actions of AR-4 (MacGrimmon's team), thanks to time travel which resets the timeline at the point of divergence.
In the Second Timeline, some events play out similarly to the First Timeline, but most things are better and lives are saved. Because of Ascension [spoiler: Recon Four from the First Timeline, stranded in the past, are saved by two Ascended beings and they pass on knowledge to save AR-4 and AR-1 from being ton apart on M18-098 and P70-800 respectively] the two timelines converge, and the story eventually returns to a point in time before the point of divergence. In effect this creates a new timeline influenced by the two others. This makes the current storyline – everything after the law of gravity, plus chapter 10 of the law of gravity –actually take place in this new, unwritten, third timeline. |