lesbiansterlingarcher:

Y’all know i headcanon krieger as jewish due to his dreamland plot (and the fact that he cant be a clone of…that guy since he looks NOTHING like him) and like…

Ok so Malory orchestrated the killing of his father when he was 15 in Brazil, then took custody of him. I think she brought him to NY with her, back to whatever agency she was working at, where he met Archer. So Krieger and Archer have been friends/colleagues since their teens.

But Krieger was in NY that whole time, and we know where his salary goes (his work, no luxuries or pleasure because work IS his pleasure). But then the gang moves to California. Where they’re not very successful. And there’s no real lab to speak of.

So what if Krieger starts doing research that he’d been putting off for years, and has been too scared to actually do, especially after meeting his clone brothers and thus confirming that he’s a clone of some kind?

They get busy with the Longwater thing, and Veronica Dean, but after Archer gets shot everything changes. Malory’s never around, Cyril allocates what meager cases they get to Lana and Ray and himself, and Archer was the only one really demanding he pump out gun mods and cool gear and shit, so krieger has a lot of time on his hands. And theyre in cali now so proximity is closer so….maybe Krieger takes a trip to Brazil. And, if you dont think he took his brothers home with him from San Marcos back in s5 (even tho he totally did and i genuinely think that that’s canon, which is why lucky yates and adam reed wont give a str8 answer on the subject, and why Krieger bounces between being himself and posessing all the appropriate knowledge and not knowing anyone’s names), feel free to imagine he stops there on this trip and retrieves them.

So Krieger goes there and finds out everything. I’ve theorized that he’s a clone of a Jewish scientist who wouldnt sell out to the govt (though not during Nazi Germany) and that he and his clone brothers were bred to imitate his genius brain, but be blindly loyal to the government. A rogue scientist took Krieger away, unable to save all the brothers, that’s his “father.” But that’s just my theory.

So Krieger finds out he’s Jewish after decades of being told the exact opposite. He comes back to California and his mind is just totally racing. Who does he confide in? Archer.

But ofc hes in a coma, so this story manifests itself as a dream to Archer.

Archer wakes up, as we know, and has weird vague memories of his dreams. Not memories of incidents but like, an old movie comes on the tv in his hospital room and hes like why is this so familiar…he passes a french restaurant and Ray comes to mind for some reason.

So when archer and krieger reunite, and Krieger – who’s decided to fully embrace his culture, since it’s the only sense of family he’ll ever had – is wearing a star of david necklace (or maybe even some other traditional garb) it feels very Right to Archer, but so alien too, so he can’t help but ask.

“Have you been Jewish this whole time?”

“What whole time?”

“Like, ever?”

“I mean…I have been, but I didn’t find out until a couple of years ago. I told you about it.”

“I feel like I remember that.”

“Probably not.”

“Yeah, probably.”