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monarisse · 21 days ago

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— The Hex paradox [arthur nightingale x gn!drifter]

Arthur asks, why are you still here.

You can't believe that he thinks you see them as pets.

SFW, second pov, hurt/comfort, misunderstanding, angst with a happy ending | 3.6k

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There is a flex of a hand — meat under the skin is terribly tense, just like their owner. Long unclipped nails, map of the old scars with pigment just a little bit lighter than everything else. Further: burn, raw marks from laser. Further: a contaminated virus from the elder beast of Deimos. Further-

This is just a body that holds your consciousness when there are no more metallic constructs of dead people that should be controlled. It was... actually, not so horrible to unfold the truth behind the creations of Ballas. Or others. There was always something more than you in these turned-to-be-bones metallic wires and engines. Always lurking in shadow; just not enough to be found, but enough to feel the sudden twitch of a cobalt fingers or unknown step of feet. Sometimes, even more: dance with a weapon, full of joy; murmur in an unknown language; search for something behind the back. Unnecessary. Unasked. Unprovoked. But... familiar, almost to the pain in your drifting mind.

It's ironic — that they all called you The Drifter. Not The Operator — not anymore, at least. Even if there was someone, in this time of the universe, who would gladly use this title on you, it would not be the truth. And you will not allow it. Hundreds of years after all of this, there would be a child with angry eyes and a thirst for power, who changed too much and too little to be completely you again. So you give them the future and keep yourself in the past — it seems right. Especially because (it's ill-fitting, it's wrong, and it's foolish, but deep down it's what makes them and you one person), The Operator can't travel here. They ask in rare times together how it was.

And for you, it's never "was." It's still here.

———

After winter, spring and summer together, they became steadier, softer. Smoother. Happier. Amir sleeps better. Angered only by some unnecessary presence before, now Quincy finds serenity, covering your back on missions. Aoi plays on the borrowed piano from the music store, and Eleanor whispers in your mind stories that she read in the past about Great Britain. Sharpened on the edges Lettie, today holds her hand to yours, so her beasts could crawl on the skin of this body with hushed squeaks, smelling with their little noses acid and kerosene, that scaldra pours on you every day. Lettie clicks her tongue in disappointment when she sees a new wound on the meat of shoulder — because in this body you can't heal as fast as they, and it's hypocritical to come out of frame when they're — the Mighty Hex, batch of soldiers of the future, your Friends, in the end — still here. And-

It's so. Fucking. Funny. A snicker falls from your lips before you can stop it.

Lettie furrows her eyebrows. In her eyes — something eats the previous light joke and fills it with thick tension.

"What did he do?" Anita squeaks, runs to her siblings, and you just blink.

"Who?"

Oh, it's not a secret. You... can guess who she talks about. And Lettie knows it.

"¡Pendejo! You know who. Don't play an owl with me."

Sharp teeth of the future crash into each other. Smile on these lips — sugary sweet from lies. This is not something new. How many people "The Great Hero" of the New War has deceived around the years of the Narmer regime?

"Nothing. Why you-"

She smacks your arm.

"Shut up. Don't want to hear your explanations. His brooding takes its toll on you," she painstakingly cleans her fingers from void-touched blood. From all of them, Eleanor is one who can feel lies, but Leticia is... another deal. She doesn't have the need to hear your thoughts. Magic of doctors, you guess.

It's strange that she cares about you. After all, these six are a team. And the seventh angle doesn't belong in the hexagon, even if it forces itself inside.

But, for Lettie, you let it slide. Hold her palm in yours and blink a little bit slower.

"I take care of that. Promise"

———

You know it — even too much of something good can be poisonous. Like trivia: this body was not ready for the delicious food that they have here, so on one night with beer and Hex you threw up in the bathroom on the second floor. But... Compare this and... your genuine worry for Nightingale seems like a wrong play of komi, where no one could win.

Worse: you remember Umbra. His blind eye and this wordless trust between him and The Operator. This wordless care that travels with them everywhere. How could you not feel envy when this child not only found the way from Zariman 10-0, but even saved the frame that could think without Tenno? Well, now you have protoframes. They joke with you in their bones, and they help you when it becomes unbearable — this world, this time, this loop. So why, when you stretch out your hand only how you can, it turns out... It is too much. Or too little.

And... what even happens in this thick skull of his, when he abruptly leaves a conversation on KIM, then agrees on Amir's play and, after... drowns you in questions?

Broadsword

So what is it? Pity? Or are you stupid as well as crazy?

Broadsword

Stop dodging! Why. Are. You. Still. Here?!

There is a reminiscence of a dull ache from Duviri. Another swing of an axe above the head. Endless swirl of colors. And buzzing in the skull. This body trembles, unable to comprehend all emotions from a feverish mind, and you pull your hand to clean your face from... something. Anything.

How could he even ask this shit? Like you some bystander that already left them after a week of knowing, just to start a new adventure far far away. Like you didn't search abandoned markets for his favorite beer, didn't bring special ammunition to Quincy, didn't practice with Aoi and Amir on the transmission of intel. Just some guest, not important to add in their ranks.

Nidus quietly shrieks when you transfer back to him. It is something of a habit. You can't even feel the exact moment when his broad frame already exits the backroom, too busy with boiling emotions inside your mind (the biggest question there: what if Kid would be able to help them without this mess of emotions. What if Hex liked the Operator more?).

Höllvania Central Mall never sleeps. Especially now, when there are not seven, but many more breathing shadows waiting for the other day to live, so... It is a little bit of awakening — see disbelief and caution in the eyes of bystanders when the form of Nidus makes his way from the second floor to the first in one jump. But still not enough to stop the heavy steps of the infested frame.

He's in his usual spot, crouched between some ammo for his rifle and computer, and Arthur... seems a little bit surprised. Like it wasn't you who he wrote just seconds ago.

Pity. He called your carefully crafted relationships with the Hex "pity." And you, yourself: crazy and stupid.

"You could just-" There is something more behind his dazed expression, some dark undertone, but it is not about him. Not anymore.

"How could you," Nidus freezes like a mannequin in the doorframe. This body constructs itself right against Nightingale; scarred fingers cling to his shoulder to feel something else beside the usual eerie words of KIM-messages and hushed phrases under the sick sky. His brows rise up even more now, "How could you even think of something like that!"

Arthur's lips twitch.

Prince of fire Lodun, in all his ugly glory, paints your mind with blood and red.

"It's bothering me already enough time to just let it slide," his words twist something in the pit of your stomach, and Lodun's voice screeches somewhere around the frontal lobe. He shouldn't say such words to you. It is blasphemy. Lie. His hand rips your own from himself almost like you hurt him, and the scar around the palm that he left you with starts to pulsate, "You walk around the Mall like everything is okay and we're not just some dead meat to your future."

He is poisonous. Some sort of divine punishment for you, as if you didn't suffer enough for years and years of survival. There are no more light jokes, no more strange, vigorous words with the undertone of something bigger. Only a stern glance on this body.

Prince Lodun fist his finger and crack another hole in your mind walls.

Body of the Drifter winces.

"Are you fucking kidding?" teeth clacks. The jaw's strained to its limit. All of this time together, just drained in the sink, "What do you think? That I stayed here just to forget about you all in the next minute?"

He doesn't need to say it aloud. The answer is written on his face already, and it's making Lodun more loud in your mind.

"How many times have you already done that?"

Lodun roars. This head is pounding.

"What?!"

It's unbelievable. He looks at you with such a sardonic expression, as if he knows that you did something so bad that you even can't stand with him in one room, and... you want to go right in his head to fucking show Arthur how terribly wrong he is.

The worst of all: he keeps going.

"It's convenient, isn't it? To play "friends" with people you can just leave behind," his grip tightens, and Arthur steps forward. A little more and it would become a fight.

You hold back. Just a little bit, but the patience in this body already wears itself.

"So that's what's stuck in your head?" You snarl, "Not bad enough, don't you think?" One step to him, and you feel — one more, and you can crash in his metallic chest. Eyes squint, "Make me a villain more, why not? Maybe I should take control of one of you and dispose of everyone else, huh?" Luscinia weeps in the corner of your mind with these harsh words, but you are unable to hear her — spiral of Loduns anger in its all-power captured you. There is something of a hurt in Arthur's face. But you only use his own method on him. It's almost like he didn't think of this — that you could use his friends against him or even make him a bystander in the nonexistent massacre.

"You can," his voice drops lower. Grip tightens even more — soon bones in this body would be broken by his fingers. "So I advise you to stop pretending like we're important to you," Nightingale bends his head, and you can see the hues of his blind eye for the first time, "and put us all out of this misery."

You're tugging this hand away — alas, it's not working, and a wave of dull pain passes through the body. He never thought that it was as hard for you as for them.

Luscinia crying. The Sorrowful Soprano of Duviri weeping like a mother who lost something too precious for her, and with Loduns anger, it's too much to feel in one moment. Your mind makes itself the battleground of the old Tales.

You want to say: maybe you're right.

You want to say: maybe I should just leave things like they are.

But... the Hex already made themselves important for you. So much that you gladly would stay here forever, with this ancient technology and people of the past. The Operator has their people. Why shouldn't you have yours?

You take a deep breath. Close tired eyes.

"If you think that I should go, I'll do it." There is something too heavy in these words, so you can't raise this head anymore, with your gaze a little bit blurry. Not from tears, "You all became too important for me, so if it would be better for Hex, I'll be gone to my time."

You know: without you, they will all be dead in the New Year of 1999. The reactor will blow up, and Arthur will bleed on the floor of the radiated room, near the bodies of Aoi and Amir.

And you can just feel the power of Spiral, to send it all back in January, to start again.

"Don't make yourself a martyr. You can leave when you want."

That's it.

You snap.

"My fucking Sol," you twitch this head, "you are as dense as Razorback," Nightingale becomes a little bit puzzled by the unknown comparison, but you continue, "What should I say? "Sorry, Arthur, I stayed here because I know that without me you all will die." Your voice becomes louder and louder; it breaks in some words, and you feel: the dam was broken, "And I developed feelings for you, and all of this embarrassing flirting was so bad because I had never done it before? You know, because I was trapped all of my youth in an endless loop of my own death, and I didn't even think that I could feel something like that"," his grip finally becomes loose, and you break the palm from him, only to point the finger at Arthur, "Everyone knows about it. I thought that you-"

Wait. You thought that he already knew about your feelings for him — it was so obvious that Eleanor even asked you not to think about her brother on united missions. But... You shut this mouth and looked at Arthur. He's... flagger-basted. No more anger in his eyes, only genuine surprise, and — worst of all — he continues to keep silent.

"Great," you roll this eyes. Fuck it. Maybe he knew, just feelings weren't mutual, and Nightingale didn't acknowledge it, to leave things as they were. But now you spelled it all aloud, and there is only one way to turn it back. Maybe... no. You don't want it.

Sol, you should just go to the backroom and decay in some corner.

You take a deep breath.

"I'll be going to throw up somewhere on the second floor from embarrassment," you transfer back to Nidus, "don't message me," and head towards the escalator.

Worst: he didn't even stop you.

———

Quincy screams in your comm and it's almost unbearable how he just throws a stash of Scaldra supply on the garage floor, just to head back to civilians in the old supermarket without another word to you.

Blew up the tank without care of flying too far away to not be hurt; melted one of the other stashes; almost got Kalymos dead. You've gone more hectic. But it's still better than lying on a couch with nausea and a sorrowful expression (it's still better than nothing — you remind yourself — you still feel something, and it's better than apathy).

Funny: if the Kid could see you, they would be furious. Throwing some tantrum about how such a mindless thing would wreck you, The Drifter, to some pathetic ordinary human. They were always like this: more hard than you, more prideful. They could chew Arthur's words and twist them so much that the man would not be sure what he even wants anymore. But the Operator is too far away. And you are too arrogant to travel back to them. Lotus would calm you down, embrace you in a motherly hold; however... you don't want it right now. One thing that surely helps: killing. Scaldra or Techrot — doesn't matter.

"I'm worried about you," tells Aoi when the sharp talons of Garuda give her a package full of CDs, "I heard your argument with Arthur." She seems a little bit sheepish, but... you know, that you actually can trust her. Of all Hex, Aoi is the most understandable. You can tell her all your worries, and she wouldn't laugh or write off your feelings. "It's hard with him sometimes, but Arthur cares about us all," of course he is, "you included."

You hum. The sound comes a little bit muffled.

"I'm sure." No, you're not, but there is no need to talk about it right now. Aoi squints her eyes in disbelief. "Sorry, Aoi. It's between me and him and i-"

"Drifter," his voice is too loud in Aoi's lair, but you don't turn to Nightingale. Maybe he will disappear if you don't acknowledge his presence. "We need to talk," Morohoshi shows some kind of gesture that you don't recognize, with her big finger pointed out, and she shakes her head, smiling.

If there were only two of you, you'd find a reason to just vanish in the air.

Damn. Why is it harder than killing an archon with a bow?

"Alright," you sign. Garuda turns around to Excalibur and he is already heading somewhere in an unknown destination.

What does he want to say? That he made a decision to stay with you on friendly terms so that you could save Hex's lives? That he'll save them by himself? Good luck with that. You'll still be here, even if he wants to banish you from others, just not in his line of sight. And when clocks turn 23:56 without catastrophe, you'll let them go and transfer yourself back to Loid, to solve problems of Deimos.

It's some sort of warehouse — you've never been here before, and it's strange how music from the hall becomes only disoriented muffles when Arthur closes the door. You stand a little bit farther from him than usual — not to make yourself comfortable here.

Arthur leans on some kind of cabinet.

Heavy silence falls on you two.

And when you think that this was a bad idea — to come here with him — Arthur starts talking.

"You know that all my life I was a military man," he spins that damn sword — Arthur's voice... not so loud. He speaks almost carefully, like his words already were chosen before this talk, and... you don't know what to think about. Emotion without name, without personification in Tales of Duviri, born in a pit of stomach, "and... I think I was ready to leave some things behind," he's not looking at you; his gaze stops on scratches on the floor, "because there was not enough time, or... I didn't try to understand others more."

You gulp. Garuda's scales tremble.

"And I tend to search for enemies where there aren't any." Finally, Arthur looks at you. There is more than tiredness from endless nights; quiet longing, a hint of uncertainty, something... tender.

He sighs.

"And," Arthur chuckles, and you grit your own teeth, thrashing about to step from Garuda or stay in her bones, "I'm not even entirely human. I mean, look at me," he gestures at the metal skin of his body, "not a usual choice of the mass."

Still, it's better to talk face to face. Especially on topics like that, you make a decision in one moment, to reappear beside him in another.

"Arthur," your own voice strained with hoarse hesitation, "you're a good person. You shouldn't talk about yourself like that." There is a hint of a smile in the corner of his lips, and Arthur blinks a little bit slower.

"You're always saying such things that give me hope." Spinning of his blade comes to an end, and the warehouse becomes more... steady. Peaceful.

Nightingale clears his throat.

"Did you mean it?" comes almost in a whisper, "that you have... feelings. For me."

You tear your gaze from him and put it down, not able to look in his eyes. Yes. It is definitely harder than killing an archon.

Fingers dip in the elbows.

"Yes."

Nothing more. Just a short, clear answer to put any misunderstanding behind.

Remarkably, the stomach stops swirling. All of this body became... calm, like all the worries just disappeared with this one word. Even if Arthur doesn't feel the same, you are glad that you two talked about it. Finally, you can open a new page in-

"It's mutual."

What?

You snap this head to him, and, for the first time in an eternity, you see Arthur smiling. Without some undertone in it, without pressure. Just a clear, happy smile on his scarred face, and you even see some little dimples on his cheeks.

And, maybe it's too early and you should wait some time to do such things, but these hands — your hands — reach out to him, to bury your fingers in his hair and press an uncertain but full-of-burning-emotions kiss to his lips.

It's raw — skin to skin, first too gentle to feel something more than the texture of others, but with every passing moment, all of this bottling adoration for him seeps through the motion. And Arthur answers you, laying his metallic palm in the crook of your neck, to deepen the kiss — he opens his mouth, presses you to himself more, to finally give you something that you wanted too long to confess.

In reality, it's still better than in imagination.

When there is not enough air in your lungs, when your shuddered inhale mixes with his own and both of you break away for a moment, you press your forehead to Arthur's, holding onto his shoulder.

"You know," he starts after a moment of silence, with a voice a little bit rough on the edges. You open your eyes and move your head a little bit to look at him once more. Cold fingers start to play with the strands of your hair. "If someone had told me that I would want to kiss someone from the future who trespassed my mind, I think I would kill them," Arthur breathlessly laughing and-

"Sol, you're unbelievable." You smack his shoulder and move to get out from his grip, but Nightingale presses you even more into himself, and you feel how his laughter starts to seep through your bones.

"You're stuck with me now. No refunds, sweets." Arthur pressed a chaste kiss on the crown of your head, and... you hug him, closing your eyes back.

The Harbinger of Joy, Mathilda, smiles for the first time in what feels like eternity.

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beaut-ful-d-saster-1986 · 20 days ago

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So, you know how the "protein bricks" kind of look like spam? Well, I headcanon they taste like spam too, which means.... Drifter Dion likes to make them into protein brick musubi. He fries them up on both sides charring them nicely after marinating them in a sweet and salty sauce. They get all caramelized and taste heavenly. He pairs these with some rice from Cetus. He uses some sort of Cetus equivalent of Nori. Forms everything into the musubi. Makes sure they look nice.

Then he serves a couple of them to Arthur, and Arthur makes a sound straight out of an x-rated movie because of the foodgasm he just had. Then he insists that Dion needs to share the treats with the others. They're such a nice change from pizza and pasta all the time.

Serves more of them to the other hex members, and gets mixed reactions. Amir being hyper and excited as usual. Aoi being teary-eyed that Dion thought of her. Quincy being skeptical but losing the attitude quickly after taking a bite. Lettie appreciating a change from pizza. Eleanor telling him to make sure her brother gets some too, and smiling when Dion reassures her that Arthur was first.

Then later, after everyone has eaten, they agree to meet up at least once a month to let Dion cook. He shakes up their menu for them.

#arthur nightingale #my headcanons #oc: dion diangelo #the hex #the drifter #warframe #warframe 1999

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sojournerstales · 6 days ago

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WF1999: Summer Heat ch.2

fem!drifter x eleanor

howdy. here is where I get really into describing how Mesa's regulator pistols feel. Eleanor enjoys the show.

02. Cut Through

I let Eleanor lead the way through Höllvania's streets. She knows the routes better. She rides better than me too. And I'll admit something loud enough in my head that she might hear it: The view isn't half bad.

Eleanor is poised, tucked tight on the back of her atomicycle. Snug against its frame, her hair caught in the wind. I take it in. Engine between her legs, the curve of her back, how low to the ground she swoops when we take the wide corners.

It's enough to glaze over Mesa's threat detection.

"Shit." Then comes a thought that isn't mine, clear as day in my own head. Forewarning to an oncoming crash. Eleanor makes it past the approaching junction unscathed, but I get hit hard by the plough-end of a Scaldra TI-92.

Hard impact into weightlessness into all of Mesa's weight all at once. I learn how it feels to bounce off asphalt and to crumple metal beneath my back. Mesa lands halfway into an abandoned car at the side of the road. Our atomicycle upends, flips, and flies into a nearby store window.

"Drifter!" Eleanor's voice, urgent, "Talk to me!" She has already abandoned her bike, (I think I heard it careen and tip and tumble) Vesper 77 at the ready, firing off rounds in the direction of the Scaldra forces.

"Still alive," I wheeze. It wasn't my back that took the actual force, but I still feel winded from it. I peel Mesa off from the vehicle we had wrecked into and already I feel a familiar itch at the end of her arms.

The Scaldra captain shouts commands. They are all piling off from the armoured transport, half using it for cover against Eleanor, the others moving in a spread out formation to try and surround us.

One of them halts halfway across the road and starts clutching his head, helmet filling with feral screams. Eleanor has him. Her face distorted into a grim sneer. I get a danger sense, Mesa already highlighting the raised sickles of a fast approaching Flayer.

Time to scratch the itch.

Mesa's Regulator barrels click down her wrists and flick up into position.

Finger guns. Bang bang.

Mesa moves faster than the eye can make sense of. Upper body a blur of twitch movement, instantaneous target acquisition and execution. Six Scaldra find themselves downed or disarmed before any can make contact with or fire on Eleanor.

The final shot isn't mine, however. It's Eleanor putting one in the head of the Scaldra she had enthralled. The sound is a sharp zip from her pistol at point blank range.

"That is more mercy than you deserved." Her voice hisses in the back of my mind, even if the barb isn't meant for me. Whatever she had seen in his head must have been bad.

There isn't enough time to pick at it. Aoi comes through over the comm-link, "Their lead squad just went dark, but you have more on the way. Do you want to keep kicking the hornets nest, o-o-or do you want to get back safe?"

I send her a ping to let her know the message is acknowledged, but neither Eleanor or I really needed the warning. She can sense them coming and Mesa can hear and smell them. Gasoline and chemicals detected by the pores in the Warframe's infested flesh.

"They're trying to head us off," Eleanor tells me. Her head angled towards the buildings that flank us, tracking something she can feel but can't see along the roads behind them.

"Detour or cut through?" I ask while bringing Mesa to the wreck of our atomicycle. Aoi won't be happy about it, which means I'll likely get a lecture from Arthur. Retrieval will have to come later.

"I only scratched the paintwork on mine," Eleanor says, picking her tomi back up. She straddles the seat, shuffles forward, then twists to face me. The invite is clear. "But I'll tell them yours wasn't your fault." And she winks.

I insist on the question as I climb aboard, Mesa coming up close behind Eleanor, hands on her hips. "Detour or cut through?"

"Heads up, Scaldra have set up a roadblock." Aoi's warning comes in only a couple of seconds before we see it. The road ahead - our path home - swarms with Scaldra forces. Two heavily armoured transports block most of the road, then ground forces numbering in the double digits have taken cover in a variety of positions. Most are on the side of the road behind cars or ducked into side alleys, or crouched behind the blown out windows of abandoned store fronts.

"Something must have really riled them up today. That's an awful lot of heat," Eleanor's voice murmurs in my mind.

"Makes us a hot commodity, right?" I feel the itch again. It grows more pronounced with each new target caught in Mesa's sights. "You push through, I'll lay down covering fire."

"And leave you behind? No thanks. Not a chance. This is an enemy I can fight."

We're close enough for the Scaldra to start firing on us. Machine gun fire from twin mounted turrets ricochets off the road ahead of us. Small arms fire pings off from the chassis of our tomi. I feel the dull nudge of shots reflected from Mesa's shielding.

I place Mesa's hand on Eleanor's shoulder. "Not saying you leave me behind." I push her down, keeping her head low. I get a mild growl from the techrot within as a response. "I'm saying I got this one."

Mesa's body tenses. I tuck her up on the back of the tomi. Muscles ready to uncoil and propel her skywards. We're almost there. Gunfire concentrates on our position. The turret barrage is narrowly avoided.

Eleanor's mind focuses, I feel it. There is a space in the roadblock only just wide enough for the tomi to fly through. She hones in on it, bike pushed hard, but I'm not there to know how close she comes to clipping the TI-92's on either side.

I'm airborne. Twisting up and over the blockade, a bullet-jump from the bike. I turn mid-air to take aim at the Scaldra forces now beneath me. Mesa's Regulators click into position again and thrum with energy. Scaldra's cover means nothing when death comes from above.

The turret operators are taken down within the first .2 seconds, then the Jaeger units in the next .3. Scaldra Flayers that had rushed forward to catch the bike are caught out in the open, one making the attempt to vault the transport vehicle. She is riddled before either of us hit the ground.

Scaldra Flayer lands face first. Mesa lands on her feet. A tremor carrying up through her legs, black marks made in the road as she skids backwards three feet.

Remaining Scaldra try to scramble for better cover, but they are taken out by Regulator fire. Mesa is untouchable and unpredictable like this. Flickering between optimized stances, shifting left and right and back to avoid the return fire. The wide band of range narrows as the enemy forces thin, focusing finally on the harder targets.

Just one active TI-92 remains. The enemy captain controlling its mounted weaponry. He isn't what I have Mesa focus in on. Instead her target systems pinpoint the fuel injector of the vehicle hidden behind layers of reinforced metal.

It's a damage race. Metal is turned molten by concentrated fire, Mesa's stance straightening as her shots ramp up in speed. The distinct pop-pop-pops distorting into a singular beam of noise.

Mesa's shielding is pierced first. TI-92 turret fire tearing through the energy barrier until one shot sinks into Mesa's helminth infested flesh.

Just one.

Then the armoured vehicle explodes. Its fuel injector pierced resulting in an instantaneous cascade of mechanical failure. Extreme, violent combustion.

Mesa doesn't flinch at the following shockwave or wall of heat. She doesn't sweat either, though I do feel the stifling heat of the mid-day summer sun and the flames of the burnt out TI-92 husk. Instead of sweat, Mesa's hip-mounted heat sinks glow white-hot and open their ventilation. The sound is a hiss.

I hold position until I am sure no targets remain and Mesa's energy starts to wane. Then I flick the Regulator barrels back into resting and finally allow myself to feel the sting in Mesa's shoulder. The gash is already knitting back together. In ten seconds it will be like she was never shot at all.

"Well, they did choose violence." Eleanor's voice comes through all charming and playful. It's a tone that betrays the intention I feel underneath it. She's checking in on me. Acting as a come down. She is about thirty meters away past the roadblock, the engine of her tomi idling. "You took a nasty hit, are you okay?"

"I'm good," I say. I've learned that's better than saying, 'I've taken worse.' I turn Mesa to face Eleanor and the whole frame pauses for a half-second while I take the woman in. Eleanor leaning forward on the tomi. Her chin on the back of her hand, her elbow between the handlebars.

Eleanor looks right through Mesa, like she's seeing me and only me completely exposed in this moment. She smirks and pumps her eyebrows, "Yeah, you are." She sounds amused in my head. Eleanor stretches, cat-like, hands on the bike and back arched, "Come along then. Before more of those clown cars show up to meet their dooms."

One smooth movement closes the distance between Mesa and Eleanor. A low crouch into a quick twenty-five meter leap.

Eleanor angles her head towards me, "Not that I mind having an avatar of death and destruction acting as my guardian angel."

I have Mesa climb aboard the tomi. Mesa's hand on Eleanor's hip, my mind brushing up against Eleanor in close proximity. She exhales sharp through her nose.

"Oh. She does run hot, doesn't she?"

part 2 of ??

#warframe 1999 #fanfic #eleanor nightingale #fem drifter

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hippie-koldun · 8 months ago

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What if... Cyberpunk 2077 x Warframe 1999? It seems to me that Arthur would fit perfectly into this universe like someone like V. And I also thought that Aoi would really look good with Mantis Blades

And since I love Arthur/Drifter very much, it would be great to write Drifter as a character like Johnny, so that he is a construct

Although I'm still thinking not to rely on the story of Johnny and V and not to adopt the concept completely, but to just fit into the AU, where Arthur would be solo and Drifter would be a netrunner? Voodoo boy? Scavenger?

#warframe #cyberpunk 2077 #crossover #sketch #my stupid thoughts in the middle of night #arthur warframe #aoi warframe

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alteredsilicone · 8 days ago

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Some Aoi x Drifter shots post-hotfix :>

I think f!Drifters got less shafted and her face doesn't look much different but the visage ink is definitely an improvement. x)

#wf tag #screenshot #warframe spoilers #warframe 1999 spoilers #hex kiss #wf virgo

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scribbled-dream · 2 months ago

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Aoi pinning Drifter to the wall, metal bending around their wrists and ankles as she slowly strides over, brushing their cheek with a soft hand. Of course, Aoi isn’t alone—Eleanor is there, too, long tongue snaking out of her fanged mouth, twitching and wetly snaking around Drifter’s neck.

They do not resist.

#Warframe #t4t #nb4w #nb nsft #protoframe #the hex #aoi morohoshi #eleanor nightingale #eleanor nightingale x drifter #aoi x drifter #drifter warframe #nonbinary oc #nonbinary #transgender #hornyposting

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dcsuetude-blog · 6 years ago

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Asakura Yoh (Shaman King)

Asakura Hana (Shaman King)

Mechanical Boy Vice (Karakuridouji Ultimo)

Nasu Suketaka Yoichi (Drifters)

Butch Cassidy (Drifters)

Crona (Soul Eater)

Black☆Star (Soul Eater)

Sanzo (Saiyuki)

Judar (Magi)

Sinbad (Magi)

Tokoyami Fumikage (My Hero Academia)

Godai Yamato (Nanbaka)

Staz Charlie Blood (Blood Lad)

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter x Hunter)

Aoi “Santa” Kurashiki (Zero Escape)

Junpei Tenmyouji (Zero Escape)

Akane “June” Kurashiki (Zero Escape)

Phi (Zero Escape)

Sigma Klim (Zero Escape)

Luna (Zero Escape)

Diana Klim (Zero Escape)

Garrett Hawke (Dragon Age)

Anders (Dragon Age)

Fenris (Dragon Age)

Feynnarel Lavellan (Dragon Age | OC)

Lee Ping (Detentionaire)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Sonic Comics Pre-SGW)

Scourge the Hedgehog (Archie Sonic Comics Pre-SGW)

#▊❅ ▊ 『 FROST | OOC 』#ignore me it's a mobile must list

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wickedweeklywonders · 7 years ago

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Anime to watch (series, shorts, film)

Princess Utena

-CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO -future diary

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-magic kyun renaissance -drifters -kuuchuu buranko -jinrui wa suitai shimashita -sidonia no kishi -hanasaku iroha -hyouga mono -gungrave -eikoku koi monogatari emma -saraiya goyou -giant killing -aoi bungaku -phantom -black lagoon -jormungand -lupin iii -mononoke -one outs -planetes -kingdom -kiseijuu -uchuu kyoudai -ping pong -baccano -hellsing ultimate -gyakkyou burai kaiji -rainbow -monster -mushishi -mahou romantic -kampfer -digi charat -magical play -patlabor -gourmet girl -royal space force -ellcia -ef a tale of melodies -corpse party live action movie -love stage -love chyunbyou and other delusions -natsuyuki rondevou -gachaman crowds -kokoro connect -demon of the fleeting blossom -psychic squad -quazy in a foreign labrynth -world god only knows -glass mask -hanamonogatori -shirobaka -d frag -date a live -mekaku city actors -strike the blood -ao haru ride -tokyo ravens -trinity seven -aldnoah zero -mahouka koukou no rettousei -nagi no asukara -black bullet -pyscho pass -amagi brilliant park -golden time -shingeki no bahamut -akatshuki no yona -kuroko no basket -magi -sinbad -shigatsu wa kimi no uso -nanatsu no taizai -black jack -is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon -blue spring ride -kamigami asobi -shuffle -kiss him not me -amanchu -battery -handa kun -fukigen na mononokean -cheer danshi -sweetness and lightning -relife -this art club has a problem -honobono log -sakamoto desu ga -gochuumon wa usagi desu ka -tears to tiara -utawerererumono itsuwari no kamen -jormangand -hatraku maou sama -katanagatari -oshiri tantei -infinite ryvius -mezz dsa -blazeblue -comic party - tenchi muyo gxp - UCHOUTEN Kazoku - Seikaisuru Kado - ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu - Honobono Log -baccano - Amaama to Inazuma - Akagame no Shirayuki-hime - Koutetsujou No Kabaner - Oshiete! 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