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zendaycoolman · 4 years ago

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romantic getaway ( zoah )

sumary: after asking her to be her girlfriend, zendaya and noah ( @ncahcentinechq ) take a weekend out in a mountain / beach setting. this is a collectiong of small paras from that trip. triggers: fluffy, smuttish, angst, cursing, relationship starting at its best dudes when: somewhat a month ago.

DAY 01, the bathtub scene

ZENDAYA: "i'm sorry that i slept the most of the way here", zendaya said, after the both of them settled down the things they brought - suitcases, food, utensils and other supplies. she was hopping that he would erase from his mind the image of her snoring lightly clinging to the script for the second episode of euphoria. "i promise i won't keep you awake at night", with that powernap she knew she wouldn't be sleeping that much at night and was aware that noah loved his sleep. outside, it was close to nightfall, but they were both a bit sweaty from the heat and the effort they put on putting the rented cabin-house in order. reaching for a towel to clean her face, z offered another one to her boyfriend. "how about we break out the tub?", she asked, pointing the hotub outside of the glass walls. in the end she didn't wait long for an answer and took off her shirt, revealing her lacy brown bra as she walked towards the door.

NOAH: "You have the cutest little snor I've ever hear" Noah replied with a smile as they both got to settle everything they bought for their long weekend away from reality. It was a much anticipated weekend for Noah, and something he was really in need of, to have her just to himself. "Now that's a promise I want to see being broken" he was an early riser when it comes to the day to day life, and that wouldn't apply to their getaway, the last thing he is worried is with keeping up a schedule. They would eat when they are hungry, and sleep when tired. Uncomplicated. Everything was perfect about the place she choose for them. He was in love with every little details, and his mind was already running wild on how much they could do. At her offer, his brow was quick to raise, as he watched her taking off her shirt. "That plan sounds and looks amazing" Noah declared, taking off his own shirt and going after the brunette, biting down on his lower lip taking a good look at his girlfriend before catching up to her and grabbing her by the waist, pulling her back against his naked torso, planting a kiss on her naked shoulder.

ZENDAYA: kicking off her shorts as she walked, z wasn't surprised when noah pulled her close. she was hopping for it, that this would be how everything is this weekend worked: just them, connected, not thinking about work or anything else but them. zendaya wasn't the most romantic person she knew, but she did had a few things planned. "can i tell you a secret?", she asked, supporting her weight on him when putting her foot inside the warm watter. "i almost didn't booked this place over this tub. whenever i see it i just remember of peter and lara jean making out - then i realized", she was fully inside the water now so she pulled him close too. "that i have noah. which is way better", she wasn't sure about sharing that detail with him, but figured it was a way to show him that she was thinking about him. "but we can't do the make out part tho. we are enemies now, i'm sorry", she shrugged, pulling away from him, splashing some water in his direction.

NOAH: "You can tell me anything" Noah declaree wholeheartedly, feeling a peace of mind that he haven't been able to experience in a long time, now that he thinks about it. He aided her getting into the tub and didnt took long to join her "Oh god no" Noah complained, looking up and a sign of defeat. "I am way better then Kavinsky, and Lara Jean got nothing on you" he then declared, wanting to hold her close, as she pulled away from him, and instant pout formed in his features. "Whyyyyy?" he complained in this baby voice he knows he had a tendency to pull for some reason in the most random occasions. "Let me love you woman" Noah added playfully in tone, but meaning every word, as he splashed her back.

ZENDAYA: "you're noey, way better than peter", nodding in agreement, she got close enough to touch his chest. "DC", she then touched herself on the chest "Marvel", that was probably enough of an explanation for him. "congrats on the role babe", getting closer to him, she put both of her hands on his neck, feeling her body getting used to temperature completly. "actually congrats on everything you have been doing. working, getting new roles, but also for everything happening with favored nations, for being caring, for being patient and most importantly - for rooting for the warriors", and with that, she kissed him for a few seconds. "i guess i'm saying that i'm falling for you noah. i just wanted you to know that", her fingers pressed his skin, trying to show him one more time that she was there.

NOAH: "Thank you, I mean, he's a good guy and all, but I needed to hear that " he grinned at her. "Oh wow" Noah exclaimed, only now getting the enemies reference, as he welcomed her into his arms. "Please, that's literally nothing compared, my girlfriend is a freaking Emmy nominee and I couldn't be more proud." when he first saw the news he started shouting and clapping in the middle of the meeting, getting everyone looking at him as if he went mental, but he couldn't care less. She deserved all the hype she was getting, and he couldn't be more happy for her. At this point it was so damn easy to get lost in the taste of her lips, and how perfectly they were fitting together. "I've fallen for you a long time ago, actually, I'm pretty sure I've fallen for you back in that basketball court, and I can't believe I got this lucky" he declared back, gazing deep into her dark eyes, his fingers brushing small locks of her hair away from her face.

ZENDAYA: "can you believe it noah? I FUCKING DID IT!", the last part was a bit shouted and right now she was happy they were both in the middle of the woods, so no one but noah would actually hear it. zendaya nodded at him, agreeing. "if you think about it, it's kinda weird that from all places, that's where i take you? that basketball court is my sanctuary. i guess i was just waiting for you to come along", all these thoughts were running in her head for a while now and she was glad that there was space where she could say it without being silly. "just don't go anywhere any soon ok?", and after that she leaned for a kiss, a proper one, sucking his lips into hers, trying to make more obvious that she wanted to have him close.

NOAH: "I can believe it because you are that damn talented. You fucking did it!" Noah exclaimed, sharing the same excitement for her achievement, he was really proud of her. "It was meant to be." the brightest smile was now plastered in his face "I will be forever grateful that you allowed me into that court" he added, planting another kiss into the girls month. "I won't, you don't go anywhere either" he pleaded back, before getting lost into her kiss, eager for her taste under his tongue, officially entering paradise.

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DAY 01, serial dater, serial worrier

ZEN: "hey babe?", zendaya asked after almost thirty minutes of silence. they were in the backyard, laying down in front of a fire, surrounded by pillows and duvets. it was the end of the day one, after a big dinner and if they kept quiet they would probably sleep there. it was clear that zendaya had something else in mind, tho. "i have a necessary question", she started, reaching for his right hand. the girl was laying on his chest and was kind of glad that she wasn't seeing his face right now. "alex ren. you broke up with her in april right?", the question was sharp, but her voice was soft, having the sound of the campfire in front of them rattling in the background.6 de agosto de 2020

NOAH: "Hum?" Noah hummed as a reply, as he would find himself thinking in anything in particular, enjoying the peaceful evening the both were sharing by the fire. His hands were easily distracted by her hair, he didnt seemed to have enough of it. "A necessary question, alright" Noah gave a little nod. The question caught him off guard, at least at this particular time being. He was ready to have to discuss his past relationship, it was only normal if they were both starting one themselves. "The news of the break up can out late March, we have been drifting apart since the beginning of the year though. We came to terms with it by February." as he was speaking he was putting the timeline together in his mind. Gazing down at Zendaya he brushed her hair behind her ear for the trillion time that day. "What else do you wanna know?" he asked, willing to tell her whatever she might wanted to know.

ZEN: part of her wasn't expecting a honest answer or actually a answer at all. noah wasn't a ordinary boy, drowned in the dynamics that are expected of a male in society, but she was still surprised. raising her hand, she covered the moonlight on her face, trying to figured out what's the next question would be. "that's a few months before we met", she started. "which makes me wonder - am i the rebound? someone to help you get over her? that's okay if it's the case, i just wanna know", zendaya shrugged a little, still facing the sky while laying on his chest. none of them were capable to see each other faces right now and maybe it was for the best. "i'm not mad really, i just wanna know".

NOAH: As Noah realized where she was going with the conversation, despite being a valid doubt, it still hurted him a little. Love is a weird thing, and Noah as this way of living where he jumps right in at every circunstance that life presents him with. His past relations with Alex Ren is one of those circunstances, but as time goes by, there wasn't a real connection, not as lovers nor as companions. It took then a while to figure out that they are better off as friends other then pushing into something that wasn't meant to be. Zendaya on the other hand, he has noticed, is more of the type to think things through, and mesure her steps carefully, so he knew she had to ask him this things. "I see... the shortest way to reply you is that I was over her even before you and I met for that basketball game. So you are by no means a rebound. By the end of 2019 we both started to realize that the whole thing was a mistake. So the break-up was sort of a natural thing and drama free between the both of us until we made it official since we made it public and all." Noah did his best to explain, since he really wanted to make her understand his true intentions and where he is coming from. Specially when he has this gut feeling that... she's the one. Adjusting a little bit his body so he would he more into a seating position rather then laying, he then reached down to place an upside down kiss on her forehead since she ended up still laying on his lap. "There's no one quite like you, and dont you ever think that this that we have going on is anything less valued just because we recently got out of other relationship, something's we cant explain, you just feel." he whispered, gazing at her eyes even with their faces being in different directions and he planted a kiss on her nose. At this point Noah was pretty sure to be in Love with the girl. But the last thing he wanted was to drop the Love bomb right when they are discussing an ex relationship.

ZEN there wasn't many people zendaya talked about feelings. dylan knew what was happening but she tried to downplay as much as possible, so he wouldn't know how lost she was into the questions she had in storage for noah. and lin did told her that she should just straigh up ask anything she wanted to clear, so for him it was more about the relationship itself and not the feelings behind. "right", stopping touching his hand, she scratched the space between her eyes, as if she was processing his words. she was taken by surprise again, now with the forehead kiss. "still, she wasn't the only one. according to the internet and your instagram actually, that's something that has hapenned before. dating someone for a year, then a few months single, then another year dating...", she wasn't ashamed to put out there that she was researching about his past relationships before even asking to him. in her mind she was about to step into a really big commitment, so she needed to know more about it. "i'm not judging. you do you and it's refreshing to know that you go for it. and on my book, it's kinda good - the idea of having an expiration date", in her head, zendaya was being understanding, trying to bind her idea of a relationship to fit noah's ways. and that, to her, was the ultimate proof that she was into him. "there's a lot of people like me", she smiled to show that this was a joke, but his next words made her fell into deep silence, looking at his face after the kiss. she had to take a breath to focus again. her heart wanted to let this conversation go and get back into comfortable silence by the fire, but her brain was too organized to do that. he made her want to be more confident on them and less of a brainer, but what if this was a mistake? "not that feeling anything will actually do us any good", she finally said out loud, her words sounded a bit bitter.7 de agosto de 2020

NOAH: Putting things like that Zendaya didn't really knew how that was something that actually bothered Noah, in all his moments of introspection he wonders what is wrong with him for not being able to keep a long term relationship, and connect at all levels he is so eager to reach, till this day he is still to find out. He stopped the small touches for a moment, picking the right way to reply to her. "The history is there, and I can't run away from the fact that it does look like a patern. Is not something that I'm particularly proud of. I actually wonder-" he stopped himself for a moment, trying to find the right way to put it. "I dont know... maybe I'm the issue you know?" he ended up adding with a sigh. At her next words his heart sank, and a frown took him. "Expiration date?! What the-" he refrained from cursing, but that one caught him out of guard and it made him upset that she found the idea of having an expiration date was a good thing. He slightly shook his head, "That's not how I look into things. And it hurts me when you put it like that... why would an expiration date be a good thing?" as their conversation went on, an unsettling feeling started taking over Noah. He was already way too deep into feelings for her to be saying stuff like that. "What does that even mean?! I'm not following. For you what is even the point of all this then?" as he question he gestured a circle around the two of them as he said 'all of this'.

ZEN: blinking her eyes pretty fast, she took a minute to appreaciate the fact that noah was being honest and putting himself as a possible part of the problem. people often dodged their responsabilities, specially men towards relationships. she could work with someone that was capable to admit mistakes. before z could articulate any further, the mood picked up and now noah was voicing that his feelings were hurt. scrathing her eyebrow, zendaya sat down, knowing that he should able to properly see her eyes for this part. "it wasn't my intention to hurt you, but you have to understand that i have to prepare myself for this", taking a breath, zendaya felt corned now, having to explain how her mind works. it was a constant feeling towards any significant others, having to adjust herself to them. "unlike you noah, i don't put my heart on the line when i feel there's a possibility. you're my second actual relationship, and i had a hiatus of seven years between. i don't do stuff that there's a possibility to end, i'm always in for the win, for the long run, if it's up to me i am not going anywhere", it was clear she was growing unhappy about this situation. this was why she didn't date, cause no one had to understand how she sees the world. "so when i see that you broke up all these relationships it scares the hell of me. make me feel not important, makes me feel like just another one on the list. or worst - that this is not real", taking a breath and looking down, she noticed that she was sitting in lotus position by his side this whole time. "and at the same time i like you way to much to walk away so yes, i have to find having a expiration date a good thing"., suddenly this felt like a weird pivot moment. make it or break it momentum. "it means that not even love can garantee that this will work. ren gave a interview saying that you were the love of her life. two months later you guys ended it.", she shrugged, sure that this was the worst outcome ever.9 de agosto de 2020

NOAH: "Prepare for what exactly Zendaya?" Noah asked, gesturing with is hands. This was important, he knew it was, speaking about the fears that come with giving yourself into someone else, someone new, but it was still hard and complicated to voice his mind and trying not to be too harsh, they had very different ways to see life, and that he knew. " I'm sorry Z, but relationships don't come with instructions, and not one is like the other, ever. You can't bring my past experiences or your past experiences into our relationship, we need to build our own, learn from our past obviously, but not let it define our future." he added, before growing silent again to listen to what she had to say. He was starting to get so confused by her words, but still trying to do his best to understand where she was coming from. He didn't knew she was that long before letting herself into a relationship. So he noticed some big scars there. " I don't know any other way to do this then to put my heart on the line." he declared, in between her speaking. " Who said I broke up all this relationships? And if all this broke ups mean anything is that neither of them were the right one for me, then maybe you are. Fucking god, how I wish that you are! How you can you be afraid that this might not be real? Have I ever didn't seemed present and open to give myself to you? Because that's all I've been trying to do." Noah was trying to make sense in his words, but wasn't too sure if he was being sucessful. " Z, how many times did you expressed your true feelings in a interview? Are you really bringing something my ex said in a interview?" at his point Noah couldn't help a stern expression on his face. " Listen, I can't promisse you that we will forever be together, no matter I wanted to be able to hold such promise. We never know what life throws our way. I do know is that my feelings for you are real, and can't imagine my life with you anymore"

ZEN: tilting her head to hear him out, zendaya was dangling between amazed and concerned by his replies. they were so different, that was clear from the start and she was hopping it meant that they would complete each other, not colide. she also knew that this was on her too, so if she wanted it to work, she had some work on herself to do too. z felt like noah had understood her and now it was her turn to do so."ok. you're right. no expiration date, no promisses, no fears. just us being us.", zendaya finally said, nodding her head. this felt like the second part of the agreement that they did last week when he asked her to be her girlfriend. now this was a real relationship. "if it matters, i want you to be the right one too", getting closer, she slowly crumbled into his chest, asking to be hugged. "just don't let me go".

NOAH: Noah let out a breath he didn't really knew he was holding as she agreed to give them a fair shot really. "It matters a whole lot" Noah whispered, welcoming her back into his embrace, wanting nothing more then to keep her close to him forever. Thankfull to have long arms that were able to properly hug her into him, and still wishing to have some more so he could hold her even more tight. "I won't" he stated, placing a long kiss on the top of her head. "But babe?"

ZEN: "yeah?", she asked, her voice low, as is she was too scared to keep talking and by that make another mistake, or take a turn that would drag into that discussion again. she just wanted to be there, quiet and loved.

NOAH: "Forgive me but I really need to pee..." he finally said, chuckling, kissing her once in the month before standing up. "Start thinking on what you want me to make for dinner, I'm gona be right back" he added, slowly getting up to go to the bathroom.

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DAY 02, the first time

ZEN: "so, i was doing some reading", the woman was standing next to top the stairs that led to the only bedroom at the house. noah had just left the shower after they spent the afternoon sunbathing outside. "...on how to garantee that the first time with someone new is perfect", taking a step on his direction he could see now that she had a satin robe on. "they say: lingerie, protection, don't worry about appearance...", as she spoke, she undid the robe, showing her lacy black underwear. "...and don't put pressure on orgasming", she stopped midway on his direction, smiling. "so i have it all covered. IF you wanna do somethinng", she was nervous, it showed, but also there was a hint of possessiveness that he knew by now.

NOAH: With only a towel losely around his waist and casually brushing his hair off with another, Noah raised an eyebrow at the sight that was Zenday before him in her silky robe. He didnt interrupted her line of thought, just dropping the towel he had on his hand, having a feeling he would prefer to have them both free. "What else?" he questioned, even knowing that she would keep going. He did his best not to let his jaw hit the floor when she undid her robe showing off to him her perfect figure in a black lingerie, bitting down on his lower lip, Noah kept closing the distance between the two eager to reach her. "That sounds easy enough... IF YOU wanna do something" two could play this game, and for sure Noah would want to have fun with it, as he stopped right in front of her, brushing her shoulder ever so slightly with the back of two fingers, licking his lips, as he gazed into her eyes, their noses brushing together from their closeness.

ZEN: it was clear that she had thought about this several times. from the conversations where she looked at his lips instead of focusing on the content, or the making out sessions that stopped repeatedly, this moment was highly anticipated. "i came prepared. i ALSO have a poem", raising an eyebrow at him, she was challenging him with his very own weapons. he asked her to be his girlfriend with a poem. she would ask him for this with that too. zendaya then threw the robe on the floor, taking his hands into hers. "let me live or live in me. let me go home or make me your home ...", she whispered at first, giving his small kisses through the process. "get inside me, more than you get in clubs", she placed both of his hands on her ass, teasing him with a smirk after. "break my bed, not my heart ... make me wet, not wip", slowly, she pulls his towel away, dropping it on the floor. "because paradise it's reached when we're on our knees ... but not on a prayer", finally, she pushed him to bed and now she was the one licking her lips, watching the image of her completly naked boyfriend on the light of dusk. "fuck, you're so fucking beutiful", she broke character touching his knees with hers before slowly joining him on bed, climbing on top of his body as her lips went for the most desperate kiss they ever had.

NOAH: "I can see that you did" Noah smiled at her, but was surprised when she said she had a poem, using his own moves against him, he was noticing. He let himself being led by his girlfriend, and as she start on the poem, Noah was done, completely surrending himself to her, every word sending small shivers down his spine, every kiss lightning something inside of him, with his hands placed over her ass Noah didn't think twice before feeling her in his hands, holding her close to him, and even before she pulled his towel from his body he was already naked before her, his lust clear in his eyes, mixed with so much admiration for how she started this moment for the both of them. Letting himself fall in the bed, Noah let out a small chuckle, amazed how she took charge of everything, and was pretty much doing everything he wished he did. But then it wouldn't have been this perfect. "Come here already, and let me make you wet, and never, ever, wip" he reached for her hand and pulled her in, their lips smashing together eager for each other, like never before.

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DAY 03, the basics

ZEN: the past few days they feel qucikly into a routine. waking up, eating brunch, then either going to the beach or he convinced her to walk around the woods. at the afternoon they would eat together, watch something, play some game, just enjoying each other until at some point they ended having sex wherever they were at the house. this was the last day and they would be leaving after lunch, so she decided to let noah in bed and make him breakfast. once zendaya managed to get the tray while going upstairs, she smiled at him. "hey noey, morning", she said, putting the breakfast next to him in bed, before giving him a small kiss. "you can eat while i start organinzing shit. you probably tired from last night. sorry not sorry", she shrugged, remembering that they went two rounds more than normal in the past day.

NOAH: Noah was an early riser, but not today apparently. Probably because he knew it was their last day in heaven, and he really wasn't that hyper about getting back to reality. "Morning babe" he mumbled, brushing his eyes with his hands trying to keep them open, before yanning whilst opening his arms wide open. "Not so fast!" Noah held her back as she was getting ready to go on with her plan on packing. "what if you are what I really want for breakfast?" he teased, just wanting to hold her there a little bit longer next to her. "have you eaten already?" he wondered still hugging her down into the bed, he was really just trapping her there, with his arms holding her upper body and one leg over her own legs, as he made her lay there. "I don't wanna go" he declared, and you could listen the pout he was wearing in his voice.

ZEN: to hear him talking like that, hoarse voice in the morning, calling for her, all of that was something the zendaya was starting to wish it was all her mornings from now on. but of course, noah wasn't just going to say, he was going to demonstrate, and all she managed to do before he took her was to get the glass of juice out of bed, so it wouldn't spill. "is that a promise?" she teased back. "not really, focused on doing something for you and forgot" she answered honestly, blowing some of her hair out of her face as she adjusted herself in position. "i don't wanna go either...", that was the kind of thing she would never allow herself to say before, to stimulate a fantasy that would never come true. but this trip proved to her that she could live in a made up world as long noah was holding her. "baaaaabe", now able to see the neck up close, her voice cracked. releasing one hand from the boy's embrace, she touched his skin, now with purple and red tones. "im so so so sorry", she bit her lower lip, already thinking about the shade of foundation she would use to cover it. "i'll get something to cover that for the trip, don't worry", she assured him, tilting her head to check the extent of the hickey on his neck.

NOAH: it was painful the mere thought of having to actually let her go and get on with the day, so greedy Noah decided to just kept holding her for just a little longer, as his mind started to really wake up. a chuckle vibrated through him at her teasing reply. "It can be" he whispered against her ear. "let's have breakfast together then, and be lazy for just a couple more hours, and then we both will get everything packed and ready to go" he sugested, wanting to take everything he could out of these amazing days with her away from reality. "What?" he wondered confused, not sure what she was talking about, as she touched his neck he understood, and memories from last night rushed back into his mind, putting a silly grin to his face. "Why would I want to cover it?" he raised an eyebrow at her, before closing the distance between the two into a kiss, so she would stop over analize the love bite she left on his skin.

ZEN: taking a note to hold that promise against him later, she nodded her head in agreement, trying to move. "babes, in order to eat breakfast you have to let me go", she smiled, giving him another kiss on his chin. "so people won't give you a hard time about it", she said simply, looking at him. suddenly, another grin took over her features. "you know what's my favorite part of your body?", her fingers touched his cheeks. "your scar. i love it. even tho it's covered right now", zendaya caressed his unshaved face, finding him more attractive in this look. "speaking of it, we should cover our basics", at this point, she gave up trying to move and just settled under him, kissing his jaw on the process. "favorite movie, type of music, book, color, food, color, tv show.... tell me yours i tell you mine".

NOAH: "Forgot about that small detail" Noah jokingly pouted, before eventually letting her go for eating purposes, smiling as she kissed his chin, quickly closing the distance between them again smashing his lips on hers. "Yeah, I've grown found of it myself" He said, unvoluntarly reaching with his hand to his chin at the same time she carressed him. "Is the unshaved look girlfriend approved or not?" He wondered raising a brow at her. Grabbing the glass of juice to take a good sip at it, Noah nodded at the idea. "We really should. Feels like we skipped a couple of steps there" he chuckled, at the same time he was already thinking about the questions she already throw in there. "Let's see... Favorite movie is too hard, my favorite rom com is Failure to Launch tho, just music, the type of music depends a lot on your mood, I've been listening a lot to Kina, if you don't know of him you should definitely check that out, book, again, there's a lot, like a lot a lot, but I'm gonna say Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. All the food. I can't pick. I don't have a favorite color, TV show, Friends." As he replied he was counting it with his fingers, grinning at the end. "You're up now"

ZEN: "i like it cause it's something that should let you traumatized but it didn't", she smiled, reaching for the chopped fruit, having some watermelon inside her mouth as she was kissed. "girlfriend aproved. makes me tickle. don't let it too big tho, i like your face", as she spoke some of the watermelon juice dripped from her lips, quickly cleaning it with the back of her hand. "babe, everyone knows you love kina. you hum it everytime", she laughed, zendaya herself had listen to it in her alone times because of him. "ok - movie is harry potter, i'm into oldie stuff like ray charles. aside of that anything R&B, book... i read a lot about business and biographies. i loved nelson's one. burritos, pizza and ice cream. i know imma die because of it. favorite color is pink, tv show would be handsmade tale", she tried to speak all of that in one breath as if it was a contest, laughing. "ok, next round - give me all the family names", she rose her hand too. "also, one thing that makes you happy, one thing that makes you mad, one thing that makes you sad and one thing that makes you horny", wiggling her eyebrows, she smiled and offered to feed him some grapes.

NOAH: "Oh poor dog got more traumatized then I did" he commented, stuffing some fruit into his month after tasting the watermellon from her month. "I'll see so it won't get too big" he said in tone of promise. "Oh, well it's really good" he chuckled. "Okay, I'm taking notes here. Harry Potter and Ice Cream in emergency situations. Got it. Mandela you mean?" he questioned to be sure concerning the book. "I'm the son of Kellee and Gregory, divorced by the way. And the younger brother of Taylor" he quickly replied. "You have quite the big family, which I find it so excited, but I'm afraid if you start naming them all I will forget a bunch. I just ask you to forgive me for it in advance" he pleaded with a small chuckle. "Meditation, is one thing that makes me happy. Mad? Fake people. Sad, well I get sad over the silliest things, like a song. Not having my girlfriend in arms reach for over a month! stuff like that. There's this black woman recently in my life, she pretty much holds that power, it's not really a thing that will get me going, if you know what I mean" as he said his last words he raised and lowered his eyebrows a couple of times. "What does makes you happy Zendaya Coleman. And everything else."

ZEN: "yeah, but we can't watch it together. dylan would kill me", she pointed that out with a face, nodding to the sides. "but if you show up with ice cream at my door i'll do pretty much anything you ask. and yes, mandela! his life is so inspiring", as he spoke she made a effort not to reach for a notebook to note it down, figuring that it would kill the moment. when he mentioned being sad for not seeing her for a month, she pulled his face and gave him a lil peck. she was specially proud that he acknowledged that she was a black woman in his answer. "my parents, also divorced are claire stoermer and kazembe coleman. kazaa for friends. don't worry, no one can actually remember all my siblings names, but it's katianna, annabella, austin, kaylee and julien", starting to smash a piece of bread, she nodded at him. "ice cream makes me happy, mad would be not being able to succeed in something that i invested time... i get sad over christmas songs for some reason and neck kisses gets me going. if you want to tone me down, touching my earlobe makes me sleepy", shrugging, she smiled. they were nearly done with breakfast, so she looked up at him. "ok, final question: what is your goal in life?", her voice was calm, looking at his eyes as she made the question.

NOAH: "Dylan would kill you? Why am I feeling jealous over harry potter right now?" noah frowned slightly, chuckling. "Ice cream, the key to your heart. Noted. I haven't read it yet, maybe you could lend me the book someday. But for what I know he had an incredible life experience." Noah commented, reaching for a couple of more fruit pieces, and orange juice. As she started to go on and reply to her own questions, Noah just listen, and rejoiced on the fact that she was sharing all this litle things with him, it might seem small, but it holds a great meaning when you are starting to get to know someone. With a small chuckling as she shared the earlobe fact, noah grinned at her. "That's something I will keep in mind" he smiled. "Oh, that's a loaded one." he had to take a moment to think about it. "I think the answer would be... just to be, really. You know? To be present in every thing you do. To be a good friend, to be a good son, a good brother. A good partner. At every step of the way, I just want to give my all in what I do, and have faith that will bring me happiness, and fullfillment. I don't have this specific thing. Of course I want to be sucessful profissionaly, but it's really not everything for me." This was the mess that was Noah's head right there, raw and without making much sense, but it was him, and he was willing to show her just that: him. "What's yours?"

ZEN: "don't even start babe, that's one you won't win", she replied with a mockery smile. as noah spoke back, zendaya quickly picked up the tray and it's belonging so clear the bed. she then sat on her legs, watching her boyfriend talk about his goal. at end, she had a huge smile on her face. "to be happy. i mean, i have loads of professional goals and shit, but i just want to brave enoug to be happy. give up when needed, walk away from people, all the hard decisions you have to make in order to make me and my loved ones happy", shrugging a bit, she was glad that they did this, sharing small things made her feel closer to him. "thanks for sharing noey. it's important to me", zendaya smiled at him again, but soon, snapped out of her silly face "okay, now, i do have a short term goal", benting her body to his direcion and gave him a long peck on the lips, then dragged her lips on his jaw line. "making my boyfriend cum", sharing a smirk, z pushed the sheets out of the bed with her feet to have more acess to him. the energy shifted, and he could see she was in a mission herself.

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#( noah c. )#( otp: if i could i'd get you the moon : noah centineo )#( paras. )#( para: romantic getaway. )#THIS TOOK US 16 DAYS TO WRITE lol

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Zero One 02: Shot through the heart, and Vulcan’s to blame

He gives wolves a bad name.

…I’m not sorry.

I’m bouncing between the three non-TV-Nihon sub groups right now – OverTime, Rider Time, and Genm Corp. Since all three had their subs available quickly, this’ll make it easier to compare differences. Also, Genm Corp was the only one of the three who bothered subbing the OP when it appeared as an insert in episode 01, so I’ve only seen the one style for it yet.

Zero One 02: START

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We open with Izu and Aruto stepping out in front of Hiden Intelligence, where she formally introduces herself as his personal assistant.

He’s still in very justifiable disbelief that he’s been named President. He’s a comedian, for crying out loud! Izu points out that not only was he personally selected by the founder, the point of the HumaGear is to make people smile. That lines up with his own goal of making people smile, so he is well suited for the job.

Aruto: I mean?! TECHNICALLY?!

As they walk further into the building from the lobby, Jun and one of the other members of the board peek out from behind a vase of flowers and a table. He swears that he’ll pull the chair out from under their new chairman.

Shesta stands there, unimpressed.

The security system is pretty cool! At first glance, it appears to be the standard ‘bioscanner and glass pane’ set up that you see in all sorts of media – and then you realize that once a person has been let in? The ‘glass’ door is just a hologram. It’s a holographic door that says STOP on it, and it disappears when it’s ‘open’. Which raises the question of ‘do we have solid-light holograms’ here. I wouldn’t put it past this season.

Unfortunately for Aruto, he. Uh. Hasn’t been added to the security system just yet. Instead of the circle saying that it’s okay to pass, he just gets a big old X and a buzzer noise.

After several attempts of smacking the scanner, a security HumaGear briskly steps up. He scans Aruto, and greets him as ‘President Hiden Aruto,’ bowing formally. Aruto returns the bow and greeting…

And still can’t get through the gate.

–

Daybreak Town.

Horobi watches a delivery HumaGear on a screen.

…oh. Oh dear.

After my last liveblog, I had a thought that I worked out with some others, that the selection of which HumaGear get hijacked probably isn’t random. That Taro’s smile was geniune when he thought back to the audience, and that he’d reached sentience – he’d hit the evolutionary singularity.

I thought that Horobi and Jin might be specifically using HumaGear who had hit singularity to turn into monsters. They’re not trying to bring on the singularity, they’re weaponizing it.

And Horobi just said that the one he’s watching is approaching it. That satisfied little nod to himself as he hoists up a package… yeah. That sure seems more like Taro than the other HumaGear we’ve seen.

Handing a Progrize Key to Jin, Horobi tells him to go collect the data.

…After Berotha was defeated, they plugged the broken key back into the holder that he’d pulled it from during his expository monologue.

So, maybe… trying to weaponize the mechanical rise, and bring it about en masse? Or something?

–

Back at Hiden, Aruto is ‘exploring’ his new office.

Looks like I was right on the money with my ‘dumb puppy’ comparison, he’s all over the place.

The 3D printing studio is just part of a big mechanical work bench section of the office, down a level from the office section of the office.

It’s also clearly up really high, because one of those tv-drones can be seen at the same level outside.

The workstation can be neatly hidden away, as well, when a wall builds itself back into existence, blocking the whole thing from view and leaving the room more like a normal office.

That’s the point when Izu decides it’s time to go over his schedule. He’s got a morning meeting with some government representatives… right now.

(Aruto has a brief, quiet panic about not being dressed for this – he’s wearing his day-glo sneakers, a formal pair of pants, and a formal suit jacket… and the jacket is on over his hoodie. It barely fits over his hoodie.)

We’re finally formally introduced to our two main members of AIMS; Techinical Advisor Yaiba Yua and Agent Fuwa Isamu.

Apparently, they’re going to be questioning all of Hiden’s personnel. Yua is much more reserved about this, and Isamu-

Okay, wow, if I didn’t hate him just from last episode, I’d hate him already. He slams a hand down on the desk, leaning way into Aruto’s space, ‘warning’ him to be thorough, because his answers could land him in jail.

Come on! He just got here! Aruto has had this job for less than a day, he doesn’t know jack!

–

…Oh, come ON!

STILL NO OPENING?!

–

Delivery HumaGear is doing his job, when a playful voice calls out from on top of the truck. How’d Jin get up there? Who knows! But he’s already calling the deliveryman his friend, as he forcefully places the false driver onto him, saying that he can start by destroying this company.

The deliveryman, wracked with pain and red sparks, mind you, says that HumaGear are supposed to make people smile!

We see from his perspective as Jin crouches in front of him, a progress bar filling as Jin tells him he’s wrong. It’s to make people extinct.

Connection established.

–

Back at Hiden, we see that Aruto has exactly zero idea what’s going on, and that Isamu gives zero shits about acting professional during an interrogation.

Basically, AIMS suspects Hiden Intelligence of covering incidents up. Currently, the specific incident in question is the one at the amusement park yesterday. They’ve clearly gotten the remains of most of the rogue HumaGear, but there wasn’t a trace of the one in charge.

Because he was very thoroughly destroyed, not that anyone but Aruto and Izu know that.

Izu, connecting to the server, states that there are no records of anything matching that description… as phrased by Genmcorp. Going by Ridertime, she says that they can not validate those records. Overtime has her saying that there’s no data to corroborate Yua’s claims.

In any case… something is going on. Hiden is very definitely covering this up, and using Aruto to do it. He’s just following Izu’s ‘lead,’ because he has zero idea what’s going on.

Isamu implies that this isn’t new, that Hiden has covered things up before.

Yua tells Aruto that AIMS has the authority to prosecute HumaGear-based violations.

Not that Aruto actually knows what that sort of thing would be, so he asks Izu, who recites off the good ol’ First Law of Robotics: A HumaGear may not allow a human to come to harm, for any reason.

Isamu – area speciesist – basically threatens Aruto, telling him not to think he can keep this quiet, these HumaGears are killing machines.

Yua, who is a few bullet-shaped microaggressions away from punching her ‘partner’, tells him to cut it out, they’re not here to commit slander.

Being the dumb puppy that he is, Aruto thinks he can break the tension with one of his old stand up routines.

This doesn’t work.

In fact, it looks like it does the opposite of work, and I’m pretty sure that Isamu’s about ready to kill a man with his bare hands.

It’s a little ironic that the giant ‘emergency’ warnings flashing around the room are what probably just saved Aruto’s life. Mind you, they also confuse the heck out of all three humans in the room. Izu, who often looks about two steps away from saying ‘screw the first law’, lets Aruto know that he has a trespasser.

–

Said trespasser is a very-much hijacked deliveryman, tossing people around – human and humagear alike. His transformation into the Kuehne Magear is no less terrifying than the one into Berotha last episode, although it is thankfully over much faster.

Kuehne is based on the Kuehneosuchus, a late Triassic gliding reptile. This is most easily seen in how he has a pair of wing-shaped boomerangs.

A security humagear manages to block said murder-rangs from killing Jun and the other board member, but that wound up redirecting them to the balcony where Aruto and the others were, dividing the party as everyone dodges.

And these blades are dangerous, too. They can cleave right through the display stands, which appear to be made of poured concrete.

As Isamu and Yua fire, I can’t help but notice her saying he’s disobeying orders again – he is not supposed to have the transformation gun right now.

Oh, goody! As an arboreal gliding lizard, Kuehne is able to crawl along walls! Right up until he takes a hit from Isamu’s Shot Riser, which makes enough of an impact that it knocks him back to the ground.

Isamu, pulling out a Progrise Key, says that he’ll transform and scrap it.

Or, he would, if the key would open. He’s a bit distracted by his non-functional transformation trinket as Kuehne launches his boomerangs again, so Yua literally kicks him to the ground to dodge the return path.

I love her.

I love her even more now that I know that she’s the weapons administrator, and that key isn’t going to open without her authorization.

Yua, I love you, please don’t die.

The security humagear are evacuating the remaining civilians, as Izu all but hurls Aruto out of view. “President Aruto, it would be wise of you to do something before anyone dies.” Emphasis mine, but I strongly suspect she would be placing the same if she were allowed to have emotions yet.

“However… please conceal your identity from AIMS.”

Aruto seems really reluctant at first… and then he hears the screaming again, and turns around, his expression level. “Henshin.”

There’s a brief scuffle between Zero One and Kuehne, which moves the fight outside, and Aruto does okay… until his sweep kick is dodged very handily via Kuehne landing on the wall. That sort of jumping ability does tend to put a damper on knocking someone off their feet.

As Aruto’s hit by a few shots from Kuehne, he gets knocked down, and as he gets to his feet, here come Isamu and Yua, guns drawn and aimed at him. Oh, uh, not just aimed at. Isamu’s shooting at him. Aruto’s protests of ‘you’ve got the wrong guy’ are useless, as Kuehne’s disappeared. Zero One proceeds to take off, as well, dodging gunfire and leaping off of walls to get distance.

Aruto has just barely dropped his transformation when the AIMS agents make it to where he wound up. Isamu grabs him by the lapel, shoving him into a wall and ‘asking’ where he’s hiding ‘the yellow one.’

“I’m not hiding him! He went that way!” Aruto points at the fucking sky, and this somehow works, so as the agents move away from him – only a few yards, mind you – Aruto nopes the heck out of there.

Isamu, the Key dangling from his fingers, demands that Yua unlock it.

“Why would I do that for someone as stupidly reckless as you?!” (The only part of that sentence that’s subtext is ‘stupidly,’ everything else is just straight up text.)

Isamu, getting in her face, all but yells that he’s the captain here.

She gives as good as she gets, retorting right back that she’s in charge of the entire arsenal. If she doesn’t think you should be using the super gun, you’re not getting to use the super gun. They split up, to go look for the rogue HumaGear.

–

In the Hiden lobby, Shesta and that same security guard we’ve been seeing assure the small crowd that it was just a security drill, nothing more.

As the relieved crowd disperses, Aruto jogs up, thanking the guard for protecting everyone.

“President Aruto, it is my task to protect the people of this company.”

Izu smiles a little bit, looking slightly away from her dumb puppy of a boss. Most people don’t treat HumaGear on the same level as humans – not quite. But Aruto talks to her like a regular person, and he greeted one of his coworkers at the park by name – Yui, one of the greeters.

Aruto notices the damage to the guards arm, and flashes back to his father – humagear legs revealed, synthetic skin torn away. He pauses, just for a moment, his smile dropping a little, before he turns back to the guard.

“Then, tell me your name! I won’t forget it.”

Implying that people don’t usually bother to remember HumaGear’s names.

“Mamoru. President Korenosuke named me.” The guard – Mamoru – looks a little less stiff at that, a little less pre-programmed.

“I see. We’re basically family then, right?” Aruto pulls out a handkerchief, tying it around Mamoru’s damaged arm. (Oh, for the love of – it’s got those comedy paper fans on it. Aruto, please.) He pats Mamoru on the shoulder. “Get yourself patched up.” He grins as he heads back into the office.

Mamoru looks down at the inexplicable impromptu bandage… and smiles. A real, authentic, smile, not the programmed one.

A distance away, Jin spins a key in his hand, and smiles as well.

–

Isamu interrupts a ‘talk’ between Jun and Aruto, the second of whom has zero idea what’s going on.

He brings Aruto to the roof to talk, because that’s totally a good idea… but it’s nice and private, at least.

He starts going on about how the company hasn’t changed, that it’s still building itself on a foundation of victims. Aruto protests that HumaGears are supposed to make peoples lives better, that they’re what people dreamed of!

“So you’ll just let the nightmare repeat itself?!” Isamu pauses after yelling, and then resumes talking, more calmly this time. “An entire city was destroyed in an accident.”

Ah. There’s why we came up here. It’s to give us a visual. The roof has a wonderful angle of Daybreak Town.

Aruto grows somber at the mention of Daybreak, thinking back to an explosion of blue fire engulfing a school building, and his younger self crying over his fathers broken body.

“But that catastrophe was no accident. The truth was that HumaGears went on a murderous rampage. I was there, that day…”

Holy shit. Isamu was… late middle school, maybe a first year in high school at most, waking up in a blasted, ruined classroom… and it sure looks like the other students in there are dead. Red-eyed humagear – an earlier model, going by the less detailed faces – are crawling at the windows, hurling themselves after him as he runs.

“And Hiden Intelligence covered it all up. They claimed it was an accident!”

Aruto stands, shocked, his eyes wide, before growing serious as Isamu storms up to him, glaring. “I will expose your company, and their sins.”

While Isamu walks off… I’m pretty sure that Aruto’s vowing to do the same.

–

Kuehne reappears, where the press is hounding for answers in front of Hiden, tossing people aside.

Mamoru charges him, trying to tackle him away, before being similarly tossed aside. As he gets up…

No.

No, no, no.

As Mamoru gets up, Jin places a buckle at his waist.

–

AND THEN I HAD TO SPEND 15 MINUTES WAITING FOR MY COMPUTER TO UPDATE.

–

As Mamoru gets up, Jin places a buckle at his waist, saying that he can be one of his friends, too.

Mamoru, on one knee, in pain, tries so, so hard to reject this. “To protect this company…” he clutches at the arm that Aruto had wrapped for him. “That is my task!” He’s not saying this in the scared manner that Taro or the deliveryman, named Okureru, according to KRWiki, did. He’s defiant, and angry, and glaring right up at Jin, even as he gets grabbed by the chin and forced to look directly at him, as the download completes.

–

Yua and a team of AIMS troops ‘corner’ Kuehne, firing on him.

–

As people evacuate, Aruto runs up to Izu.

Slowly, Jin comes up the stairs toward them. When Aruto asks who he is, he says “Me? Hmm… the pioneer of a new world… I guess.”

A security door opens behind him, Mamoru stepping through, his face vacant… and a little bit haunted. None of the fear or loss of control from the other two. He looks like he’s been erased far more than they had.

“Mamoru!? Why did you let him in?”

“It is what I was commanded…” He pulls out a key, and inserts it into his murder belt.

Aruto already recognizes those belts, too.

Mamoru’s transformation into Ekal is terrifying, yes, but he doesn’t scream through it, like the previous two magear did. He’s silent, and since we don’t see as much of it, that is where the terror comes from.

The tragedy comes from how it happens. His uniform burned away… but near the end of the transformation, we see that the handkerchief didn’t disintegrate. It fluttered to the ground. On fire, yes, and definitely not the same size it used to be. But it wasn’t completely destroyed.

Ekal takes his theming from Ekaltadeta, a type of carnivorous marsupial. They can tell it was a carnivore, or an omnivore with a preference for meat, by the “large buzz-saw-shaped cheek-tooth” found in the species fossils. That description of the tooth is a direct quote from Wikipedia.

Aruto grabs Ekal around the waist, calling for Mamoru, to try and wake him up. This isn’t him, so please, snap out of it!

He gets thrown against a pillar for his trouble.

Izu chooses now to speak up. “Once HumaGear code has been modified, it cannot be reverted.” There’s no other option. Aruto has to eliminate him.

“no…”

Ekal, in a robotic monotone, advances. “Humans must be…”

–

“-Eliminated!” Kuehne, growling, finishes the sentence in the loading area where he’s cornered Yua. She backs away to reload her gun, but Kuehne is on top of the shipping container already. She aims her weapon-

And a shot passes right past her ear.

Isamu, stop doing that. I swear, if we lose her to friendly fire of all things…

He stalks up, the belt for his Shot Riser in his off hand, swearing that he will crush all HumaGears.

Yua yells at him to stop, even as he latches the Shot Riser in place, he doesn’t have clearance yet!

“I said I’m going to do it! And I make my own rules!”

Someone needs to knock this asshole down a few pegs.

He pulls out the Progrise key, and as he strains to get it to open, there are momentary flashes of the red-eyed HumaGear attacking, and him running. “The HumaGears are going to pay…”

–

Aruto is flung against a column, again. “HumaGears are the reason I’m here today…”

We flash to when he was a child, with the blue explosion… and see that his father shielded him from it, pushing him to the ground and covering him with his own body.

“A HumaGear protected me.” In the present, he drags himself to his feet. “HumaGears aren’t killing machines!” Izu watches in the background as he puts on the driver and furiously glares. “They’re humanity’s dream!

–

Isamu pulls at his Progrise Key. “HumaGears are a threat, they’re humanities enemy!” He keeps forcing at it. “And I’m going to obliterate every last one of them!”

The Shooting Wolf Progrise Key opens.

Bullet! Authorize!

The belt plays a sound clip of “Kamen Rider” over and over, looping, the background music effect audibly looping with it. And then Shooty McAsshole gets a STUPIDLY COOL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE.

“Henshin!”

SHOTRISE

He fires the gun, and the bullet looks like it’s a seeker round, by the way it zooms around Kuehne, and then back toward Isamu…

It starts to ‘split apart’ as it returns, and then he pUNCHES THE BULLET IN MIDAIR. It breaks apart and the suit forms. The armored portions are the first to appear, latching onto him, as red circuit lines trace down his body, which presumably turn into his undersuit.

But the best part, especially for me, a Double fan, is seeing his helmet form. The individual pieces start as little disks, before spinning out into the shapes on the helmet. Those same red circuit lights that made the base for his suit also trail up his face, before the helmet segments close in and form the helmet proper.

For those who haven’t seen Double – and you should – that helmet formation is almost the exact same way it happens for Double, Accel, Skull, and Eternal. Literally the only difference is that the helmets in Fuuto form out of… like, fragments? They aren’t distinguishable until they’re actively part of the helmet, basically. And the lines are darker in a Gaia Memory based transformation, instead of glowing, but still.

Kamen Rider Valkyrie had better get an even better transformation than Vulcan is. I refuse to let her be shown up by this asshole.

The elevation increases as the bullet is fired

–

Jump! Authorize!

Aruto, I am begging you to get your mechanical grasshopper under control, because once again, he’s causing even more damage to the surroundings. Also, he is very definitely being teleported down from the satellite – the 3D printing doesn’t seem to go through things, and that grasshopper just crashed in through a skylight.

…Aw, man. We’re not going to get a cool robot wolf or cheetah, are we?

Just one more way that Aruto’s transformation is different from the others. He has the undersuit form first, they have the armor. Zero One has a giant robot, Vulcan has a literal bullet. He has a belt, they have a gun.

Hm.

Zero One charges to battle-

–

-and the shot transitions smoothly to Vulcan doing the same. He and Kuehne are swapping blows in the enclosed spaces between shipping containers, while Yua films it with her RisePhone.

“Fuwa Isamu has become Kamen Rider Vulcan. It’s finally begun…”

…Honey, what do you mean by that?

–

Zero One and Ekal have made it to a parking garage – and. Uh. Okay, so. He knocked Ekal down, and said magear landed near a row of motorcycles.

Remember how Berotha used those cables to reprogram the other HumaGear in the last episode?

Ekal just used that to jumpstart a motorcycle to get away.

And then it gets WEIRDER!

Izu shows up, telling Aruto that his phone can summon his company motorcycle.

And by ‘summon,’ we’re being quite literal here. I think we all assumed that the phone was going to be like the Machin Builder. It’s not. The phone has a bike app, that he has to scan on his belt, same as the Progrise Key.

This is where the ‘Changing to Super Bike, Motorcycle Mode’ voice clip comes from.

Then. We see the satellite – which Genm Corp and Over Time agree is called ‘Zea’, as opposed to ‘Z-A’ like Rider Time had chosen. A section on it rotates, and it is definitely straight up sending the grasshopper down for the transformations. How can I tell that?

Because a panel on the satellite opens up, dropping a giant Risephone to earth.

Regular phone, in a polite female voice: “Please watch your head.”

Aruto, confused: “Eh?”

Ceiling: destroyed

The giant risephone is floating over the rubble – yes, it’s definitely floating in mid-air, I can see it bobbing up and down. Aruto presses the giant bike app icon, and there’s the ‘phone becomes a bike’ aspect.

Aruto just sort of goes with this. His life has already become weird enough in the past day and a half, why not just get on the floating phone-bike-comet?!

Zero One and the Rise Hopper nyoom down the street in hot pursuit.

–

Ekal, meanwhile… seems to be following traffic laws much more closely on his stolen Honda than Aruto is on his company vehicle. Case in point, Zero One just used a car as a ramp to get some air. He got too much air, and drove on the side of a building, shattering the windows, several stories up, before finally going back down to the actual ground.

This show is wild, and I think that insert theme is kicking back in.

Oh, no, maybe it’s just normal fight music. Everything looks like it’s going at a weird speed, because they’re allegedly fighting each other by punching and kicking while driving motorcycles next to each other. And it looks really slow! I. You know what, it gets us some NICE stuff, so whatever. Such as Ekal having extendable fangs that nearly knock Zero One off of his bike, but him hanging on by literally one hand and foot, and pulling himself back upright in time to avoid getting hit directly by an oncoming truck.

Then he does some truly absurd kicks to Ekal’s face… while standing on the bike seat.

Our protagonist, ladies and gentlemen!

The second kick is the one that knocks Ekal completely off of his respective bike, so Zero One skids to a stop, and goes back to fight, pulling out his Attache Calibur, going after Ekal.

–

The shot of Zero One rushing off screen with his sword transitions directly into Kuehne’s perspective of attacking Vulcan with his own swords. Vulcan blocking a strike and pushing it away transitions directly into Vulcan’s perspective as he shoots.

The cinematography of this show so far is just. Mwa. Beautiful.

There’s some time with Vulcan dodging the boomerang blades, before Kuehne must catch them and leaps down to attack-

–

-transitioning right into Zero One parkouring up and off of a shipping container to kick Ekal.

Wait. A shipping container? There’s. Uh. Your new location has a lot of those. And Vulcan’s already surrounded by them.

And AIMS thinks Zero One is another rogue HumaGear.

Uh-oh.

…Oh.

Oh, my heart. We’re not even getting that conflict yet.

We’re getting the end of the Zero One versus Ekal fight.

Breathing heavily, Aruto pulls his Progrise Key out of his driver. “There’s only one thing that can stop you…” His voice is shaking, he does not want to have to do this. We see a shot of him tying the kercheif around Mamoru’s arm. He looks at the key, and then back at Ekal. “And that’s me!” His voice is breaking, and so is my heart, and I’m pretty sure he’s trying not to cry under that helmet.

The music is dark, dismal.

There’s nothing heroic about this sunset victory.

–

Yikes.

So. Uh. Vulcan’s initial finisher.

He, naturally, activates the progrise key and shoots. That’s as expected. Four over-sized energy bullets come out. That’s as expected, it’s a superhero finisher.

What’s significantly less expected is for said energy shots to then turn into energy wolves, which track down the fleeing Kuehne. And bit onto his limbs. Okay, yes, fine. When the first two have him by the arms.

They pin him against one of the shipping containers as the other two go for his legs, and when I say ‘pin him against’ I am being incredibly literal.

The wolves turn into spikes and literally pin him in place.

This shipping container isn’t even anywhere Vulcan can see. He fires again.

The energy sphere literally burns straight through three consecutive containers before it reaches where Kuehne is pinned and then presumably melted.

I say presumably, because we don’t see any remains. We do see that the fourth container has had a hole melted through, same as the others. Zero One sees this, as well, since he’s right on the other side, and just barely didn’t get hit by the massive ball of energy that was still going.

Vulcan looks at him, gun still raised and shaking slightly with his rage.

A cloud of smoke billows past Zero One, obscuring his escape.

Vulcan stands alone, a full moon hanging low in the sky.

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The next day, Jun is heading a press conference – or, trying to. Nobody seems to believe that he doesn’t have any comment with regards to any potential HumaGear having gone berserk. Yua and Isamu watch the chaos unfold as they stand along a back wall. Also, Isamu must have screwed up his shooting arm in that fight, because it’s in a sling.

“It’s the truth!”

And just like in the board room, all it takes is a short, sharp phrase from Aruto to silence the room, even as the theme song intensifies in the background.

Hiden Aruto strides forward, in a well-fitted suit, Izu following a step and a half behind him as he takes the stage. She starts a video as he speaks.

It’s Mamoru, and Jin, right before Mamoru was turned into Ekal. From the direction of the camera… this is taken from a feed from Izu herself.

Aruto, at the podium, in front of reporters and government officials, tells them that the true people behind this are the terrorist group Metsuboujinrai.net, that they hack HumaGears and corrupt their programming.

Going by Yua and Isamu’s reactions, they had no idea that anything of the sort was happening. They also know full well that the third person in the video is Aruto – they recognize that hoodie from the same afternoon.

If he was trying to cover this up, why would he film himself being attacked? Why would he film it with one of his own security guards doing the attacking?

He swears that he will prove that the HumaGear are not at fault.

(He doesn’t say this, but… he’s not doing this as a CEO, but as a person. It’s not a corporate desire driving him to prove his companies innocence, it’s because it’s what’s right, and humans and HumaGear alike deserve better than this.)

One of the human reporters asks who he even is.

“Chief Executive Officer and President of Hiden Intelligence, Hiden Aruto.”

Jun looks like he wants to do a murder.

Aruto has come off cool and collected, serious throughout this entire section… and then a HumaGear reporter brings up that it seems unlikely a comedian like him could be a company president.

This was a mistake.

He steps out from behind the podium, looking like he’s going to make a grandiose statement, and… no. No, it’s one of his terrible, nigh-untranslatable jokes. Something about bright futures and shining and whatever. Izu is now his accomplice, helping him out by shining a light from her tablet.

The room is left silent for a completely different reason.

…Oh no. It’s not going to be heroic resolve that wins Isamu over to Aruto’s side. It’s going to be Aruto’s terrible, awful, no-good sense of humor.

Because Isamu wasn’t fighting the urge to punch him in the office.

He was trying not to break out laughing.

This aspect will not end well.

Isamu and Yua leave, him trying to regain his stoicism, as Aruto desperately begs Izu to stop explaining his jokes.

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Zero one zero one zero one zero one zero one I DON’T HAVE A GOOD END COMMENT

UH.

Okay, so. The special effects in this show. The cinematography. They’re SO GOOD.

I acknowledge that Yua’s going to have a very hard time getting a better transformation into Valkyrie than Isamu has into Vulcan, but by gaim, I need her to beat him out.

The cuts between shots tying into each other during the fights was just. Ugh. Yes. It’s beautiful.

The only problem I have right now, that I’m willing to get into, anyway… where are our opening credits?! Are we going to have to wait until episode four for them?! Because episode three is where we’re finally getting Valkyrie, so they might just be waiting until we have our three main riders. Might.

As for the problem that I’m not willing to get into just yet… I know that I didn’t mention, during the press conference, that there’s a shot of… a new Mamoru. I don’t want to get into the topic of “can you ‘recreate’ an AI” at the moment. I’m not good at dealing with things like the Ship of Theseus Paradox in the first place, and since it looks like we’re going to be getting more into the ‘do HumaGear have hearts’ next episode, I’d like to at minimum wait until then.

Until next week!

Zero one zero one zero one zero one- PLEASE JUST GIVE US OUR PROPER OPENING SEQUENCE ALREADY I BEG YOU.

(Takahashi-san, please. Please don’t start off doing the thing from Ex-Aid, where Excite wound up being an ending theme for a good third of the season. Please.)

#kamen rider zero one #sailorcressy says #OPENING WHEN?!

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11/01/2018 Ottawa Recap

I ended up getting to the venue way earlier than I wanted to. The venue was also a community center, and I was too cautious to go in and ask about the situation (a few braver souls got to wait inside). Eventually, I saw a pair who were evidently heading for the show, and chased after them, figuring they knew what they were doing. It turned out to be Ana and @shred-flanders, who I had met in Milwaukee and Chicago in March! They had no idea where we were supposed to be either, and we huddled outside until the people waiting inside were kicked out of the warm lobby to become the start of the line. I then met Mel, who was attending every Canadian show on the tour. We all stood around making small talk and trying not to be hit by the cars, as we had been directed to form a line in an active driveway. Regardless of the venue’s planning skills, they did manage to get us into the venue fairly efficiently, and I ended up to the left of the keyboard, far enough over to see the drums. The stage was on the smaller side, curved, and not too tall.

As we waited, we watched Fresh setting up. At one point he chucked a roll of duct tape from the drum riser all the way across the stage towards the mat for the Quiet Storm section. Later, when he went to retrieve the tape and use it to secure the mat, Mel asked about his socks for the day. He showed them off, and then commented on our conversation, which he apparently had overheard, about the new pre show mix. He told us all that Flans had just redone the whole thing.

They came onstage not to Gypsy but to Nude Clown, which was the first time I’d heard it used as intro music. They had Marty start things off my going crazy on the drums, as is usual for the tour. What was unusual was Dan adding in a bit of a guitar riff. He got surprised looks from Danny and Marty but continued on, much to Danny’s amusement.

They started off with Damn Good Times, which was unsurprising. Flans had expanded his taking advantage of the song’s interlude since New York, telling us all “There is an indeterminate amount of time between the first chorus and the second verse of this song, so we will now being the question and answer portion of out show. People will becoming around with microphones. Saul, turn the house lights up.” The house lights did go up, briefly, before being turned down again while Flans announced they would be playing two sets and they continued with the song.

From there, they played I Left My Body, and then Your Racist Friend. Towards the start of the song, Dan aimed his guitar offstage and, staring along the neck with the body up near his face, ‘shot’ someone (I think it must have been Curt) offstage, laughing as he did so. Despite being hit with Dan’s imaginary bullet, Curt’s grand entrance as fantastic as ever. He took his place on his riser as the song ended and they went straight into Particle Man. I believe it was during this song where Danny recognized me with a smile. Linnell played Here You Come Again for the interlude, playing a whole verse on accordion alone before adding in the lyrics. Flans gave Jade his pick after the song was over. I knew what was coming, but I’m not sure if she realized as they started into Famous Polka. Flans and Linnell executed a wonderfully in-synch kick, then Flans headed back over to Jade and she got her chance to play his guitar.

I’m not sure when it began, but Dan ended up playing his acoustic guitar for the majority of this set. John Burnette had taken his electric offstage to fix some issue with it, and evidently Dan had opted to stick with the acoustic rather than have his backup brought out to him.

Flans stopped to tell us all that the next two songs were new. He warned us that they had already locked the doors, but asked us to “pretend you are at another show and it’s about to be the best part of that show.” After cajoling us into cheering for the new songs, Flans introduced the contra alto clarinet. He explained that it was called the paper clip model but “we’d love to see the paper it clips.” They decided that the paper must be 8 foot by 11 foot before starting into All Time What.

After they finished, Flans introduced Dan on the keyboard while Linnell went to get his accordion. We cheered for Dan, who played a single chord before declaring “That’s it.”

By that time, Linnell was passing by Dan’s right shoulder and Flans commented that it would be funny if Linnell told Dan to “Get out.”

“That would make my ‘World’s Best Boss’ mug ironic.”

Everyone onstage was suddenly fascinated by the mug. Dan picked it up to look at it, asking Linnell off-mic “Who got you that?” As he set it down, Danny leaned over to take a look, and Flans walked all the way around from his mic stand so he could see.

“It’s pretty much what it says on the mug,” Linnell muttered, a bit embarrassed, and they started into Let’s Get This Over With.

After the song was over, Flans brought up the mug again. I think he may have genuinely been feeling a little jealous about it. Linnell admitted that he had just found it backstage, then claimed he was drinking coffee that was already in it.

Someone in the audience shouted something about needing the mug back, and Linnell thanked them for letting him use it. He then claimed that there were ‘World’s Best Audience’ mugs hidden under all our seats “We weren’t going to tell you unless you were the world’s best audience.”

Flans claimed there was an exception; one of the mugs said ‘World’s Grumpiest Grandpa’ and that whoever got that mug would automatically become a grumpy grandpa. They went back and forth on this idea for a bit before Flans, in his best grumpy grandpa voice, said “Fox News all night long? Yes please.” There were a few “ohhh��s from the crowd, which Flans addressed directly “Oh no, I made it political. We were all enjoying being boiling frogs together.” He ranted about it for a while, ending with “I’m done,” which got a big cheer as they started into Doctor Worm.

While Linnell put down his accordion, Flans told us all that he had redone the playlist that day, and while he was doing it he had come across a song called Funky Worm, and thought maybe they could learn how to play it and have a whole worm-themed portion of the show. Linnell, returning to the keyboard mic, brought up Michael Jackson’s song Centipede, and asked if that counted as a worm enough to be included.

“Whatever, you’re the world’s best boss,” Flans told him.

They played Birdhouse in Your Soul, then went straight into The Guitar. During the Future of Sound, Linnell looked over at Curt, obviously waiting for him to start, but Curt refused and indicated that Linnell should begin instead. Linnell used a lot of different settings on his keyboard this time around, relying on those interesting sounds more than on the Kaoss pad.

After the song ended, Flans told us that they were in the middle of the first set and “fast approaching the end.”

The crowd cheered a bit, but quickly lapsed into a relaxed silence that neither John seemed particularly anxious to fill. After a few moments, Linnell commented that this was “the most mellow dead air we’ve ever had.” Flans didn’t have a reply ready, instead, a guy in the back shouted “New song!”

The next song apparently was new, as the Johns both leaped at the exit, telling us that the next song was new and thanking the guy for saving them. As Linnell put it “We were unsure of what to do and then, out of the darkness, a voice demanding a new song.”

Danny had been upstage the whole time, obviously going over his part, so I wasn’t sure what song it was going to be. But it turned out it was Mrs. Bluebeard! I’d missed this song a lot when it had dropped from the set, and was happy to hear it again. I think they’ve changed Dan’s part since the spring, which he seems more than a little frustrated by. During the second verse, he gestured to Danny that he’d messed up a little bit. The effect they have on his guitar for this song is a bit overpowering, so it makes even the littlest mistakes stand out.

As they finished, Linnell turned to say something to Danny, who relayed it to Dan, and they started into Museum of Idiots. On the setlist, “Metal” is crossed out here and “Museum” written in next to it. Maybe they were trying to bring Metal Detector into the set? It seems unlikely since they haven’t really played it in recent years, but whatever it was, it clearly didn’t work out.

They finished out the set with Spy. Linnell switched from his sample to simply shouting “Now the night is gone” over the band. Flans started with the band all playing single notes one at a time, then switched to moving them higher and lower pitched while the crowd cheered for extended periods. After a few rounds of non stop cheering, I was out of breath by the time they finished the song and with it the set.

During the Last Wave video, Marty, Linnell, and finally Flans, all snuck onstage in total darkness. It was several seconds before the crowd at large realized they were there. They started the Quiet Storm portion of the show with Older. Linnell held a note on his clarinet during the pause. When his breath ran out and he stopped playing, Flans took a breath and acted like he was going to continue the song. Instead they remained frozen as Linnell took a breath and restarted the note, playing it for several seconds more before the song reumed.

Flans introduced Curt as he came onstage, asked “what better way” they could have an unplugged section than with the electronic drums, and introduced the next song as the title track off their new album. This led into I Like Fun, of course.

Afterwards, Curt started to leave the stage, walking towards the edge of his riser, then realized he played on the next song, pausing and turning around mid-step. It may have been here that Flans tried the ‘tmbg show not going so well’ bit. I saw a few pictures taken around me, but didn’t go for one myself, ducking my head until Flans moved on. When he announced that the next song was from their Dial-A-Song service, which got a huge cheer from the crowd as they started into Applause Applause Applause.

Flans then attempted to introduce How Can I Sing Like A Girl as from John Henry. He was immediately corrected by someone in the front row shouting “Factory Showroom!”

Linnell had already begun the song, but Flans squeezed in a quick “That’s what I meant!” before he started singing. Afterwards, he promised us that he did know the song was on Factory Showroom. He apparently has something hanging up at his apartment that list the Facotry Showroom tracks, although he didn’t elaborate on what exactly it was.

Flans then reintroduced Curt on trumpet and valve trombones and welcomed the Dans back to the stage. Istanbul had only one fake ending this time around, and the song was more mellow than a typical performance. This was contrasted by the ending, which was very Dan-heavy seemed more wild in contrast to the rest of the song.

As Curt was leaving the stage after his killer outro, Flans announced him as just out of “a 20 year residency at the virtuoso hotel.”

Returning his mic to it’s stand, Flans told us that he had been trying to supress a coughing fit during that last song. It reminded him “of those Indian singers, you know, that cough as a part of the performance.” Linnell and Flans both demonstrated a bit by coughing deliberately into their mics. Eventually Flans decided that they were going to start doing that for their songs “Playing what we want to play. It’s less about music than an endurance test!”

Linnell reminded Flans that, if he wanted, he could cough at the beginning of the next song, since it “starts with four drum beats and then we all play ridiculous noises.”

Flans and Linnell both demonstrated what noises they were going to play, Flans’ involving holding his strings up against the mic stand and Linnell lifting his hands up as high as they could go and bringing them down forcefully on the high end of his keyboard.

Flans then asked Dan what noise he was going to do, reporting to us in his mic what Dan said in response.

“I haven’t decided yet,” Dan told him.

“He hasn’t decided. You should do some of that repeating stuff.”

Dan chuckled and told Flans “I’m saving it.”

“He’s saving it.” Flans announced, and just like Linnell had said, the next song started with four drum beats and some ridiculous noises. It was Ana Ng, which I had been missing in the live set and was wonderful to hear. Unfortunately though, this song prompted a very drunk woman to push her way up to the front row next to me, where there really wasn’t enough room, and shout at the people onstage. I think she wanted them to look at her shirt, which was related to the song. She made the next few minutes a bit uncomfortable for me, but moved back into the crowd partway through the next song, which was Twisting.

After that, they played the always-entertaining Fingertips. Flans did his heartthrob bit during Heart Attack, singling out a tall guy in the third row. During Dan’s whispered bit, the crowd cheered after the first “Fingertips!” but not the second, leading to a moment of dead air, as those onstage had evidently expected more cheering. During Dan’s amazing guitar solo at the end, Flans walked offstage, not coming back on until it was over.

This made a segue into the next song, as was stated on the setlist, impossible, and Linnell stalled by telling us that it was a long time since they had been to Ottawa, and that after seeing Sparks Street and Queen Street he was “happy to see Ottawa honoring glitter rock.”

Flans, now back onstage, suggested that there were more streets in the city along the same vein, trying out “Franz-Ferdinand Avenue.”

With Flans’ usual line about it being their single, they started into Why Does the Sun Shine. Linnell kept on with his slow, plodding voice. Before announcing how far away the sun was, he waited for the crowd to quiet, then leaned closer to the mic and deliberately coughed before moving on. He did, at one point, beg forgiveness for something he had forgotten from last night, although I can’t remember anything specific to this time around. The real gem was when he got to the nuclear reaction bit, the heat and light were “caused by the nuclear reaction between Queen!” A cymbal crash from Marty, “Sparks!” Another crash, then a long pause. Eventually, half-losing his slow voice, Linnell admitted “There’s a third, but I can’t think of what it’s called.” Counting this as a part of the list, Marty added cymbals to the end of the pronouncement. This went on with Linnell refusing to give up, telling us if he did he would just remember it later and appealing to the room at large for help “you know, the guy had a super high voice?”

Marty embellished each statement as if each was part of the reaction. By the time Linnell remembered “Pavlov’s Dog!” my sides hurt from laughing. After the song, the Johns took the chance to discuss Pavlov’s Dog, who apparently “Took glitter rock to the extreme.”

Flans then called them “One of those bands that never sold any records but bought a lot of ads in Billboard Magazine.”

Linnell, now with his accordion, was a bit kinder saying that they had gone super-high which never caught on. “We went the opposite way. That never caught on either.”

This made the perfect transition into the low-pitch singing of Whistling in the Dark. Afterwards, while Linnell put his accordion away, Flans told us that he couldn’t get an Uber that day. “I caught a cab, and I got a cab driver who really hates Uber.”

Linnell wanted to discuss Uber a bit more, asking about a point last year where “Uber became really uncool.”

“Of course it’s uncool. It’s named Uber.” Flans retorted.

Linnell tried to bring him back to the originally question, recalling that Uber had done some politically shady things, but Flans had more to say about the name. He ranted for a bit, asking why anyone would name their company Uber, and how terrible it sounded.

“I’m no master of marketing,” he finally declared. “I’m in a band called They Might Be Giants. It doesn’t even fit on a marquee, so we’re in no position to criticize.”

Linnell broke in, declaring “But that’s all we can do!”

Flans was looking for an Uber, evidently, because he had done three interviews that day. He praised the first one, which was at the CBC, for being the best organized he had ever seen. Apparently the person interviewing him had seemed to have everything under control “Even the sound effects they did!”

The second interview, which he did by phone, was less impressive. The first question was apparently “You’ve been in a band for thirty years. How does that feel?” and that set the tone tone for the entire interview.

Linnell thought that he should “turn it around on him. ‘How didn’t it feel?’” and be a “hostile witness.”

“That’s the premise of how I answer all interview questions,” Flans responded and then introduced the next song, Let Me Tell You About My Operation.

Dan got up next to Curt on his riser part way through the song. As they finished, something fell off the riser from right in front of Dan. His eyes got huge, turning to Curt he said “That was NOT my fault.”

Afterwards, Flans made his regular round of stage announcements, reusing the 1800-GOT-JUNK joke, and reminding us all of the IFC signups and the free download of the next song.

Linnell then brought up that they had played Ottawa once before, 30 years ago. He asked Flans if he remembered.

“I can’t remember last night!” Flans told him, and they finished the set with The Communists Have The Music.

They left the stage, but they were back on soon, without Dan or Curt, to play Don’t Let’s Start. The drunk woman from earlier, who was now second row to my right, had been holding up her phone with ‘Don’t Let’s Start’ displayed on it, and was ecstatic when that was what they played. She used her phone to make another request, but after they finished the song, Dan and Curt returned to the stage and the Johns left it, with Flans doing band introductions from the wings.

After being introduced, Curt played with his ability to produce echoes, playing a bit, then letting the echoes fade and die away before continuing. Dan, having saved his repeat pedal the whole evening, showed off by tracking a few layers over top of each other, then leaving stage with the sound still going. After a few moments he returned, hands raised over his head, making a huge show of turning it off. During his introduction, Danny jokingly imitated Dans performance, walking over as if to change his settings with a grin. Marty, always willing to outdo himself, played at an incredibly fast speed for an extended period until the crowd burst into cheers then got even faster before ending with a flourish.

With that, the Johns returned to the stage. Flans told us that “A few years ago, we toured with the band Cub.” Dan and Danny thought the “few years ago” was hilarious, sharing a laugh over it. “They were kind enough to let us record this song,” Flans finished. They finished the encore with New York City and left the stage.

They returned, with Flans thanking us since he knew “you have your choice of They Might Be Giant-like bands.”

Linnell introduced the next song as about “A near-eastern rock band, or something.” He paused, then added “All these songs are made up.”

They played the Mesopotamians, then finished the evening with Hey Mr. DJ.

Afterwards, as Flans, Marty, and Danny returned to the stage with stickers for us, I got caught in a big crush as people who had been in their seats stood up and pushed towards the front. I got a setlist, and said a brief goodbye to those I would be seeing at the next show before leaving the venue.

#tmbg #11/01/2018 #recap

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Animal Sentai Zyuohger - Episode 01

That’s right, lords and ladies. It’s time. We have journeyed far and wide, we have seen many things…But at last, it is TIME, TO, DO A TOKUSATSU SERIES AGAIN! And we’re picking up right where we left off with 2016’s Super Sentai series, Zyuohger! It’s Animal Sentai Zyuohger, episode 01! Here we GO!

-40TH ANNIVERSARY

-Some educational stuff about how there are estimated to be as many as 8 million animal species on Earth, but only 1.2-ish have been discovered…Then into the woods, where one Kazakiri Yamato is leading a group of children and families in watching some animals…I mean, until his colleague Mario is sneaking around in a deer costume. And we get to see Yamato put an egg back into a nest way up in a tree to show he is a Good Guy.

-Oh no, his good luck charm fell out of his bag! And sends him flying down the side of the hill to try and retrieve it…Only for the odd cube to start to glow. And then there’s a massive one floating over the water, with an opening for his cube in turn! IN a flash, this giant thing spins, tumbles, and cracks open, sucking him in…!

-And spilling him out in front of a bunch of animal-headed people.

-…So the background animal folks are wearing those internet horse masks.

-I’m just gonna…I’m just gonna put that out there. So these four color coded noteworthy people are…Leo the lion, Sela the shark, Tusk the elephant, and Amu the tigress. Talking animal people! And that’s when Yamato realizes that all their structures are very cuboid. Is he in Minecraft?!

-Opening! ANIMAL SENTAI, ZYUOHGER!

-Man, I missed translated lyrics so much.

-Episode 01: Thrills in Animal Land!

-Cut to…A giant space station…That’s a bow and arrow.

-DAMN, these villains don’t fuck around. So we’ve got Genis, the man in charge, and then each of his generals…And they’re looking to Earth as their 100th conquest…Damn it’s just celebratory numbers all around.

-Meanwhile, Yamato is getting to see Zealand, the land of zyumans. And also that giant box gets the name the Link Cube. These four protect it. But without the Champion’s Symbol, they cannot open it…Ever since that symbol was stolen…And that’s when Yamato remembers. When he got his lucky charm…A figure put it into his hands when he was but a child…

-Which Tusk promptly pulls out, having plucked out of his things, to ask where the hell Yamato got it. But back on Earth, hey, it’s one of the villains! Who summons up mooks, called Moebas, and starts kicking up fire! Ohhh dear.

-Back in Zyuland, Leo is furious…When the Link Cube starts to react viciously! This is bad. This has to be bad. But Yamato, with no other options on the board, grabs his cube back and shoves it into the slot just as he did to end up here…

-Which sends him, and the four guardians, through the portal, where they find the forest being attacked and lit aflame…And the guardians feel the fury, the hate, deep in their bones. It locks them up, puts terror deep into them…While Yamato sees one of the kids from his tour group go down, and get cornered. His legs are moving before he can think, and he snatches the boy right out of the line of fire…

-And the monster introduces himself. They are the Deathgaliens, and this planet is the site of his people’s new Blood Game…He fires wildly, viciously, and one of his shots hits the Link Cube, damaging it! The guardians, faced with no choice, take up their remaining Champion’s Symbols…

-And they react to their will, ancient shells shattering to reveal incredibly toyetic transformation devices! Which even snap open to reveal phone screens! INSTINCTS AWAKENED! With a turn, they bring them to life, and are forged in armor!

-Champion of the surging waves, ZYUOH SHARK! Champion of the savannah, ZYUOH LION! Champion of the forest, ZYUOH ELEPHANT! Champion of the snowy drifts, ZYUOH TIGER! Animal Sentai, ZYUOHGER! Out go the mooks…

-And with roars, the four leap in, unleashing their wrath upon those who would threaten innocent life! Wrath sufficient to quickly kick something on…Namely, BEASTS UNLEASHED! A weapon born of their inherent power as zyumans. For Shark, a fin to cut through the air like water. For Lion and Tiger, claws as sharp as any blade. And for Elephant, mighty boots that can shatter the ground underfoot!

-Of course, we also have the Zyuoh Buster, the nifty combination sword/gun with toyetic gimmicks. You’re gonna hear that a lot here if you’ve never seen a Super Sentai series. And Yamato grabs up his own Champion’s Symbol, deciding he can’t let them fight alone…While a sixth is recovered by a hooded figure…

-Some of the Moebas have gotten up into the air on jetpacks, and they manage to throw enough chaos into the fray that the villain can blast all four Zyuohgers right in the chest…Until Yamato races in, grabbing his cannon and forcing it off-mark! He of course gets beaten for his trouble…But dammit, innocent people, innocent lives, are in danger. Humans, animals, there are lives at stake…And he doesn’t dare stand idly by while that’s happening!

-Please…Please, let him fight. Let this damn thing WORK! What’s the difference between a human and a zyuman?! Humans are but animals, evolved apes…

And that’s all they need to be. Yamato’s will reaches into the core of the Symbol, and it too breaks its shell, forming into his own transformation device…! With a turn, it activates, and grants him the power of the EAGLE! Just as the figure who granted it to him….INSTINCTS AWAKENED! Champion of the soaring sky, ZYUOH EAGLE!

-BEAST UNLEASHED! With crimson wings he soars, going after the airborne Moebas and carving them out of his skies! The power is overwhelming, like nothing he’s ever felt before…A freedom like none other.

-By the time he’s grounded, Eagle’s got his Eagle Riser, a classic Red-style extendomatic sword with some slick whip action. In seconds, he’s bound the villain, the monster of the week, unleashing a RISER SPINNING SLASH to cut him apart! He shatters into nothing but colorful squares and explosions, and Eagle has made his claim clear. The Earth, is under his protection.

-Back up in the ship, Genis has suddenly found himself intrigued. He cracks a Continue, and passes it to the one lady of the team, Naria. Go deliver this to him. See what he does with it.

-And indeed she arrives, popping the token in the slot…Aaand he gets big! In the first episode?! Jeez, we’re not fucking around. The Symbols react, and when given the go-ahead by the Zyuohgers, begin to glow, summoning massive cubes! ZYUOH CUBE! Cubes that unfurl into Minecraft-looking giant animals, with the Zyuohgers piloting them! CUBE EAGLE, CUBE SHARK, CUBE LION, CUBE ELEPHANT, CUBE TIGER!

-More and more arrowhead-ships come pouring out of the Big Bow, firing upon the Cube Animals…This whole fight is a new scale, as they have everything from disaster rescue to raw combat to worry about…Until three flaming portals appear, more strength from the Link Cube’s power. In go Eagle, Shark and Lion, hyper-charging their Cube Animals…For a three-way Animal Combination!

-EAGLE, SHARK, LION! The cubeslink…THREE, TWO, ONE! And a post is driven through their cores, as they unreal into a very minecraft-looking ZYUOH KING! Fuck yeah giant robots. Zyuoh King strides forth, no-selling everything this Monster of the Week-ass fucker can throw at them, until it’s blade versus cannon…And the cannon just doesn’t have enough to match up to a sword ablaze with three wills! They charge, and unleash the ZYUOH SLASH! One solid strike through the core, and this MotW falls!

-And when it’s over…Well, they still can’t go back to Zyuland. Because now a different Symbol is missing. So, Leo’s not happy. Like, at all. Yamato volunteers to try and help them figure out a plan…And Leo finally comes around to the guy.

-Oh, and they also have one more useful trick from their Symbols…A disguise. Human forms. Well, mostly human. Ignore the tails. …And then Tusk dramatically refuses Yamato’s help, not wanting to be in this human’s debt?! …Well shit, guess we got out first plot arc.

-Credits! Gather around, animals! Here on Mother Earth!

Ohhh man I missed this shit. Just big ol’ goofy melodrama and fun. Of course, any toku series is a big commitment, often around 50 episodes…So strap in for a long ride, my friends. We’re gonna be here a while. But first, we’ve got to make Tusk quit being such a prick, next time in episode TWO of Animal Sentai Zyuohger! Wait for it!

#where I watch #recap #tokusatsu #super sentai #animal sentai zyuohger

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jedivoodoochile · 5 years ago

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Released 45 years ago today!

Metamorphosis is a compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released on June 6, 1975. It reached #8 on the Billboard 200 Top LP's & Tape charts during its 13-week stay; it reached #45 on the UK Albums chart. It came out the same day as the band's authorized hits collection Made in the Shade and was also seen to be cashing in on The Rolling Stones' summer Tour of the Americas.

After the release of Hot Rocks 1964–1971 in 1971, an album entitled Necrophilia was compiled for release as the follow-up, with the aid of Andrew Loog Oldham, featuring many previously unreleased (or, more accurately, discarded) outtakes from the Rolling Stones' Decca/London period. While that project failed to materialize—with More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) being released in its place—most of the unreleased songs were held over for a future project. In 1974, in order to give it an air of authority, Bill Wyman involved himself in compiling an album he entitled Black Box. However, Allen Klein wanted more Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songs in the project for monetary reasons, and Wyman's version remained unreleased. Metamorphosis was issued in its place. Culled from the Rolling Stones' massive archive, Metamorphosis is the band's sole rarities compilation featuring material from the Stones' fertile '60s and '70s era. Klein cherry-picked the tracks, resulting in a bitter lawsuit.

Some of the demos only feature Mick on vocals and have session musicians, including Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan on guitars. On the original UK release there were sixteen tracks, whereas the US version omitted “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind” and “We’re Wastin’ Time”, two of the demos. It kicks off with a lush, orchestrated version of "Out Of Time," one of a handful of outtakes (along with "Heart Of Stone") featuring a studio full of session musicians including John McLaughlin, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones. Other highlights include a killer cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Don't Know Why" (originally recorded for Let it Bleed) and "Memo From Turner," a Jagger/Richards number cut with Al Kooper and penned for the soundtrack to the Jagger vehicle Performance.

TRACKS:

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Side one

"Out of Time" – 3:22

"Don't Lie to Me" (Hudson Whittaker) – 2:00

"Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" – 2:25

"Each and Everyday of the Year" – 2:48

"Heart of Stone" – 3:47

"I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" (Oldham/Richards) – 2:11

"(Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City" – 2:51

"We're Wastin' Time" – 2:42

"Try a Little Harder" – 2:17

Side two

"I Don't Know Why" (S.Wonder/Riser/Hunter/Hardaway) – 3:01

"If You Let Me" – 3:17

"Jiving Sister Fanny" – 2:45

"Downtown Suzie" (Bill Wyman) – 3:52

"Memo from Turner" – 2:45

"I'm Going Down" – 2:52

"Family" – 4:05

#the rolling stones

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kansascityhappenings · 6 years ago

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FOX4 Problem Solvers help get furnace up and running for Kansas City couple

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s pretty chilly outside and it’s expected to get bitterly single-digit cold this weekend. So imagine enduring that kind of weather with no heat. That’s been one homeowner’s dilemma for more than a week.

Matt Rozzel’s home has been in his family for three generations. It’s more than 100 years old. But in the middle of a massive remodel, he and his fiancee have been freezing without a running furnace. And thanks to the FOX4 Problem Solvers, things should be heating up soon.

“We had this new furnace put in, new water heater. They had to put in the 200-amp box to be able to run all this stuff,” said Rozzel.

Inspectors told Matt Rozzel he’d need to run wiring from the new box to the opposite side of house from the old electric box. So that’s what his electrician did, and then added a new riser outside, which should hook into the power lines, to fire up the brand new furnace.

Everything was done and ready to go last Thursday.

“Some people from the city came out and inspected it and made sure everything looked good. Then my electrician, Ralph, reported it that day to KCP&L and said it was an emergency. And they were saying they should be able to get out within 24 hours,” said Rozzel.

But then a massive snow storm hit, knocking out power to 170,000 KCP&L customers.

Matt’s job got put on hold, and he understood. At least his house had electricity going.

“We had a space heater and stuff so it wasn’t the best thing ever. But I was like, I get it. Those people don’t have any way to heat themselves. We have this small way to,” Rozzel said.

But once power crews were wrapping up work on restoring electricity around the metro this week, he called KCP&L for an update and says he couldn’t get a straight answer. So his electrician called the utility back again and was told crews couldn’t connect the power to his furnace until the January 31st, almost two weeks away, and with a forecast of subzero temps and wind chills on tap this weekend.

“It’s probably about 40 degrees in there. It’s not freezing yet but pretty close,” Rozzel said.

Frigid and frustrated, Rozzel reached out to the FOX4 Problem Solvers.

We contacted KCP&L and they confirmed his story and insisted they were working to get a crew in contact with the family and make things right.

Friday afternoon, crews were at his house, finally connecting the lines. So now Matt and his fiancee can kick on the furnace and start warming things up.

It’s just a big wave of relief honestly just seeing it’s finally getting taken care of. SO I’m very thankful to you guys for helping me out with it,” said Rozzel.

KCP&L says it is working to catch up on other requests for service like this one that were delayed by efforts to restore power after the last storm.

And they have crews on standby, ready to go, should we see more outages after this weekend’s snow.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/01/18/fox4-problem-solvers-help-get-furnace-up-and-running-for-kansas-city-couple/

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juliandmouton30 · 7 years ago

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Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2017

Kicking off our review of 2017, editorial assistant Natasha Levy picks the best staircase designs from the past year, including a huge spiral stair lined with copper and set of steps made from 2,000 pieces of plywood.

Experimentarium, Denmark, by CEBRA

The form of a DNA strand provided the cues for this helical staircase, created by Danish studio CEBRA for the Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen. The structure was constructed from 160 tonnes of steel, before being clad in reflective copper.

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Marie's Wardrobe, UK, by Tsuruta Architects

Tsuruta Architects found an ingenious way of allowing light to filter through the four-storey staircase of this London home. Made from nearly 2,000 cuts of plywood, it has narrow slits in the treads, risers and the balustrades.

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Sturlasgade, Denmark, by Jac Studios

A design of two parts, this staircase within a Copenhagen apartment is formed of both terrazzo slabs and a zigzag of smoked-oak. The terrazzo steps become incrementally smaller as they get ascend, eventually meeting the oak volume beside a window.

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House 13, UK, Studio Octopi

This blocky concrete staircase connects the ground floor of London home with a basement extension. To make the installation as simple as possible, architecture studio Studio Octopi chose to pre-cast the stairs offsite. A crane was then used to get them into position.

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Wine Ayutthaya, Thailand, by Bangkok Project Studio

Five spiral staircases sit behind the gridded plywood walls of this wine bar in rural Thailand. The stairs, which coil around steel columns, lead to four raised platforms – each set at a different height, to offer visitors diverse views of the nearby Chao Phraya River.

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The Panzerhalle, Austria, by Smartvoll

Smoothly-cast concrete forms a sculptural staircase inside this loft apartment designed by Vienna studio Smartvoll. Flanked by minimal white balustrades, the stairs fan out at either side and appear to support the home's upper floor.

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Etch House, UK, by Fraher Architects

Fraher Architects took out the original staircase of this London property, and replaced it with one that ascends diagonally. As a playful nod to the home's original layout, the outline of the old stairs is printed on an adjacent wall.

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Kaleidoscope House, Canada, by Paul Raff Studio

A staircase wrapped in mirrored panels is the focal point of this home in Toronto, overhauled by Paul Raff Studio. As the various mirrors are positioned at different angles, they bounce light and reflections off one another to create a kaleidoscopic effect – hence the project name.

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Forte Greene Townhouse, USA, by GRT Architects

Illuminated by a skylight, the central staircase of this skinny Brooklyn townhouse was redesigned by GRT Architects to feature fluted glass sides. Viewed through the glass, residents take on a fuzzy appearance as they move between floors.

Find out more about Forte Greene Townhouse ›

Annandale House, Australia, by Welsh + Major

A block of green marble forms the first step of this concrete staircase, which was slotted into the lightwell of a family residence in Sydney. Architecture studio Welsh + Major decided to plant a tree alongside it, giving an outdoor feel to the lower level.

Find out more about Annandale House ›

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bluesky8394-blog · 8 years ago

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