#backup proto

[prophets-of-the-barrens]

dear proto,

hey!! how are you!! i’ve been reading some books and stuff also i wondered if you were doing okay after the big fish happened!

is your um thing on your head that wiggles a little bit okay? i hope it is!

i don’t know i just got a random feeling i should send a letter to you sometimes it’s just like that! and also i’m doing okay and the weird small fish haven’t shown up so i’d say that’s good

has anything interesting happened yet?

-alula

( @alulablog )

[Dear Alula,

I regret not assisting more back then, but it is good to hear there are no new incidents and you have spent time reading.

As for your question, I sought repairs for my antenna from a... someone in the Barrens, so that isn't a concern anymore.

Your intuition is impressive to me. Some events have occurred in this world, correct.

(The handwriting changes, looking shakier)

Please do not concern yourself with that.

How are you and your brother doing?

Signed,

Prototype.]

[codenamesazanka]

OKAY. Got it. Shigaraki dies, and goes back in time. To the day OFA was transferred to Deku…

rough idea/summary [part 1]

•

Shigaraki wakes up in a bed in the Doc’s lab, head pounding, crazy vertigo, feeling awful. Apparently he had suddenly collapsed. Kurogiri brought him to the Doctor, who didn’t seem to find anything wrong with him. AFO is there to check on his ward. 

As the Doctor runs some more tests, Shigaraki tries to regain his bearings. Try to make sense of himself, his surroundings, all the stuff swirling around in his mind. Shigaraki tells AFO that he had a dream, where he died. There was a war, a big one, between Heroes and Villains. He destroyed a lot of things. He fought until the very end to destroy. 

AFO listens, smiles, saying that it sounds like a good dream. Is that what you want, Tomura? To destroy everything? 

Shigaraki considers, and says, Maybe. He considers some more: everything that happened in his 'dream' - all his suddenly now-recovered memories, his new knowledge and experiences. A whole life he just had, and a death.

He's read about this before... mostly in badly-written online light novels. Someone going back in time and getting a second chance. Re-doing their life, with various cheats, to right everything. Taking a different path, taking missed opportunities, taking revenge; all to become a hero, fulfilling their dreams. Absurd power fantasy stuff.

So what’s his stupid power fantasy? What does he want? Shigaraki thinks, and out of everything that just happened/will apparently happen... there's only the League that comes to mind. 

In those light novels, the main character always has to tread lightly, has to keep everything a secret and pretend nothing is wrong and keep walking along the old familiar path until he has harassed the power to change things... But Shigaraki considers killing AFO (again) right here and now. So he confronts AFO the way he never got a chance to do.

Sensei. In my dream...You told me that you gave me my quirk. And not just that. You told me that everything that happened was because of you.

AFO is caught, smile frozen... but then relaxes to a real smile again; laughs. It's a surprise, to be sure, but it's wonderful. AFO has always looked for a time travel quirk. To think that one does actually exist...

Plus, it looks like AFO really had raised Tomura successfully. AFO thought such a revelation would shatter him, but Tomura braved through it. He's still here. A strong, ironclad willpower - exactly what AFO wanted, after all.

So let's get started.

Shigaraki tries to attack/defend, but AFO is faster, stronger, and has that Rivet Stab quirk, literally pinning Shigaraki down.

Foolish child, biting the hand that fed you. AFO monologues - without him, Tomura wouldn't even exist. AFO made him; he belongs to AFO, always had, always will. All that Tomura is, AFO gave to him. And now Tomura will give it all back. 

With that, AFO tries to take Decay—but for some reason, he can't. 

Because Shigaraki was the one who was able to steal Danger Sense from OFA; the one who was able to reject being given OFA, even. And now, if he doesn't want to let Decay go, then AFO can't take it. Shigaraki is the one with the stronger willpower, and he is so much more than AFO has made him. He's so much more than AFO can ever be.

Taking advantage of AFO being momentarily stunned, Shigaraki is able to free himself. He has to break and slice apart his hand, but still, he's free, so he proceeds to decay AFO. Hand to his head, hand to his chest, hand through to the heart. Decays every last bit of flesh he can grab and clench into nothingness. Super-regeneration can't help here.

(Moments too late, proto-Noumu is unleashed by the Doctor to stop Shigaraki, but Shigaraki decays them too. And part of the lab, for good measure.)

It's a bloodbath. ❤️

Afterwards, Shigaraki confronts a cowering Doctor, his aura of fear literally immobilizing the old man. Knowing AFO and the Doc, they probably have a backup plan or five. A copy of AFO (quirk) somewhere, obviously, but what else? A clone? Some sort of memory transfer to a digital brain? The Doc is unable to answer, but Shigaraki doesn't care too much about it right now. Just don't even try digging those out. Shigaraki will deal with him later - there are things Shigaraki needs to confirm and deal with first.

[fancyfade]

honestly one thing i don't like about zero year is that it seems like they take beats from other stories, but can't let them be un-dramatic, or even just... not the most cinematic, explosive thing ever. Like everything from Batman-in-past has to be amped up to match Batman-in-present. And as a result there's no room for character growth, because everyone has to start at essentially what is their 'final form'.

like I don't really care for most joker backstories, but the zero year joker falls into a vat of chemicals thing is reminiscent of the TKJ origin (intentionally) which itself was calling back/building off to 'tec 168. In both of those, the situation that spawns the chemicals thing is pretty 'small scale'. TKJ has proto-joker helping two people past security in a lab he used to work at, 'tec 168 has proto-joker committing robbery just for money's sake.

while it's obviously up to the reader whether these stories are good, none of them feel epic in scale. It's not trying to be epic. TKJ is analysis of the joker, batman, and gordon, and the question as to whether one bad day can fracture anyone (with the answer 'no')

compare the relatively simple setup for TKJ joker tripping to the complete battlefield and chaos in zero year. Red Hood already has the city in terror, he has like half the police or he's already done his thesis (link) and is already connected to Bruce via the death of Bruce's parents which inspired him. He essentially already is 'joker', jsut with a different name, so there's no real purpose of the origin. And then in terms of the 'needs to be epic' scale - we have a huge dramatic showdown in the ACE chemical factory with bullets flying, philip (bruce's uncle) shoots at joker, gets shot and dies, bruce tranqs jim, grapple with the joker over the chemicals... etc.

similarly, a lot of the reason batman: year one sticks in people's heads is because we see Bruce genuinely failing at things that later are effortless for him. We see Bruce figuring out how to be Batman.

Zero year has some of that - in that he doesn't have his costume yet. But he's pretty much already still batman. he's already got his disguise, he's pretty much perfect at fighting (in a backup story we see him fighting people in a death-match for 28 hours straight as new combatants are added as bruce defeats yet refuses to kill his opponents). Like... I don't think Scott Snyder could do "bruce gets beat up trying to stop thieves on a fire escape while making sure no one ties". it's so... non-epic in scale. And everything Snyder does has to be big and dramatic and involve city-wide threats in his batman run. but it results in a 'year zero' bruce who does not really feel like he's any different from a fully realized batman in any way possible, because he already has to start as the bestest of the best.

which IDK. maybe was fun to read about when it was coming out. but as a work of literature it's just... boring. All style no substance.

[mindutme]

Valya Vednesday #8

Today’s post is a short and simple one because I do not have the energy for any more … but here are all the new glyphs since the last post:

That’s 78 new glyphs, most of them made as a distraction the last couple of days. That brings the total to a nice 333, and it means that I now have glyphs for 240 different syllables, exactly half of the possible syllables in the Valya language!* That means my current projection for the font as a whole is 666 glyphs, though it will almost certainly be a few more than that. It also means I can write any syllable starting with l, hl, r, hr, hm, and about half of all syllables starting with m.

*sort of. There is actually a complication I had not anticipated when I started making the font, where some syllables are technically three proto-syllables squished together instead of two. I have a tentative solution that doesn’t involve making any new glyphs, and a backup solution in case I don’t like that one which would involve only a diacritic of some sort.

[deusvervewrites]

Seiai Au:

What name does trans-fem Shigaraki, I think Hana would be a good name :)

Does anyone at Seiai watch her streams?

How are AFO and Kurogiri feeling about Shigaraki becoming trans-fem and a streamer?

I don't think she'd use Hana--something about that wouldn't sit right with her.

So much like Kumiko, I went to check on what 'Tomura' and 'Tenko' mean for the purpose of choosing a new name, and learned that apparently proto-Shigaraki would've been codenamed Sazanka, meaning 'Sand Calamity', so, like, that's the Twitch Username right there.

I couldn't find a good equivalent for Tenko or Tomura, but I did find the name Saori (沙織), which can be written with 沙 for sand, much like Sazanka, and ties into Decay, so that might be fun.

Ashido, Himiko, Sekigai, Tokage, and Hagakure seem like they'd be into gaming streams. Though I don't know if that means they'd find Sazanka.

I'm not sure if Kurogiri is capable of caring because of the whole Noumu thing. In any case I think he'd be fine with it. AFO would be a little less fine with it. Like, we saw there were girls in his orphanage of backup bodies so clearly he's not against possessing women but I'm not sure he'd necessarily help her transition if you get my drift.

[marcusrobertobaq]

So what about CL conspiracy?

CyberLife conspiracy is the "Connor Were Expected To Deviate And Lead The Revolution As Backup Plan" plot that got some stuff cut, like the Kamski plot for example, leaving some things without context cuz of the lack of this cut content and also the attempt to change stuff.

They complement each other. It's the theory behind Kamski plans for androids and the clash with CyberLife corporation interests back before even AA being officially made and what some people theorize is the period Markus was made (for so called "autonomous androids project"). Autonomous...in which sense and for what? That's the thing. And why Kamski got out? A mystery - but notice the company was already big at that time, the reason although not confirmed can be implied.

In this case we would have a Kamski wanting the uprising to succeed and fuck with CyberLife plans vs CyberLife knowing shit can happen cuz Kamski was dealing with some shit about these androids and making the RK800 to not only cover 'en stuff but also act as puppet in case the androids succeed - and that would explain why the technique they use with the 8° is different from usual and similar idea to the so called "autonomous androids project", he's an RK like Markus after all (even tho I think Markus wasn't an RK originally and this plot comes later) and it's even a major point in Connor's story that had some stuff removed along with the leadership arc and Kamski's content.

It also ties with the theory Kamski gifted Markus to Carl to assure nothing bad happens to him, knowing Carl can be quite stubborn but also a challenging person - something that can help in the android development of their own opinions about things, leading to a proto-autonomy of sorts and also testing the emotional capacity of developing attachment for 'em master in a way the android feel like obeying cuz they want. I ain't sure about that but I can't say it doesn't make any sense based on what I've seen.

In the end CL plot IS CANON but lost context after cut and discontinued contents and it's totally inconsistent at the moment, that's why I call it a "conspiracy" - ties lotta things that ain't confirmed at all related to CyberLife, Kamski, Markus and Connor in the released version. Not to mention the rA9 prophecy thing, it's the same issue. There's enough clues to point to a direction but I gotta take into account that it had some shit removed for a reason.

But doesn't change the CANON FACT these androids were originally made to become people, individuals with autonomy and to replace humans where they're "ignorant and limited, narrow-minded". That's why things went to shit in the first place.

[farolero-posting]

no but, like, Prototype is SO interesting when you think a little harder about him and I just want you to see my vision for a sec because im feeling normal. hiding this under a cut though.

I think the main line i wanna say is that yes we can easily see why Silver or The World Machine see themselves as flawed machines but I don't think that notion is too out of reach for him yknow? Like. He was built to "greet the messiah of the old world", which ended up not happening as it was supposed to. Worst part of it is that considering the lore Cedric provides, Proto was the one to figure out this quest for a savior was pointless. It's like predicting that his very existence is futile, and then just having to live with that?? Somehow?? Not only this, but the implied cultural shift that this event caused had to be considerable. People left their research, they changed their outlook in life, this action ended up changing the trajectory that people had. Hell, maybe some people took their own lives. I mean, that note in the Barrens had to be inspired by something.

Could you Fucking Imagine realizing that your actions had THIS effect? That you effectively have caused harm by sharing this knowledge, but this was either out of your scope, or it was something you were programmed to do from the start? That this is all out of your choice? What the fuck even. "OP it's not that deep" I know but it could be. Hello. I mean listen. if the Author hadn't known everything was going to end in the next few years, do you think he would've tried to create TWM?

And then, I guess. the simulation is created and as problems arise, the Author's children are tasked with a backup plan that could help them be tamed. There is no guarantee that whoever ends up with the simulation will attempt it, but they need to believe it's possible. And they all wait, and make sacrifices. Prototype not only hides in a corner that's harder to access but we find him without part of his memories, in such a way that he can't even introduce himself properly. The data is close to him, and yet body and mind and identity are kind of divisible. And there's no guarantee that his wait will amount to anything. Maybe he wouldn't even realize that, in that state though, I don't fucking know. Is it better to not know? Either way this sounds like quite the sacrifice to make, and I want that to sink in.

And sure, then the savior does show up, except the circumstances are different. This world is possible to save, this world is simpler, it's also just a simulation, and all of this is stuff he knows and has accepted. He doesn't even fulfill his purpose as he should because there's another robot taking that spot. And what he ends up doing, can be once again summarized as delivering information about things that he NEEDED to share for a greater good, and that causing a negative reaction of a magnitude that accelerates the corruption of the world, and his one chance to actually guide the savior ends up leaving them more confused, upset and doubtful that they can do anything. He tries to predict what could happen next, or at least, states he does and he is always too late. Too late to tell them of the corruption, too late to tell them that the mines will collapse, too late to react to make sure Silver and himself make it out alive. And yeah this event does make Solstice a far riskier route than intended. Did the Author and co. consider this possibility? Likely, did they THINK it would actually go that way? Probably fucking not.

It's fine, in the end. Robots can be repaired, and things did turn out okay, but the cost was still big, and no replacement can really make the consequences disappear. But time goes on, anyways. What else could you expect? What else can you do? Can you say you failed if it was out of your control? If it was never meant to be anyways? What did you make of the chance you did get?

And, in other topics, from where DO you draw your worth? What defines you? Where is "you"?

idk.

[nano-core-weaponry]

PG-192 Self Propelled Artillery Vehicle

Commission work Following the wake of the first Echerion-Starsect war, the Starsect Republic recognized a dire need in a commonpool armored combat vehicle, as both the strain to logistics of having to supply hundreds of different models of tanks, as well has having to train their crews should one of them fall, was enough to give pause to any military force. The plan was for a single family of vehicles that could be adapted to any changing combat situation and need, from the ubiquitous main battle tank, to armor recovery vehicles, that placed a very strong emphasis on crew protection at all costs. The tank that would lay claim to its fame had its predecessor on Riria tested brutally during the Echerion Syndicates twelve year long siege of the planet. Taking lessons learned during the siege and the various battles that other comparable AFVs were involved with, the company that would ultimately win the contract for the Advanced Armored Combat System program, presented what would later be dubbed the T-190 Therus, a vehicle that showed astonishing promise, with extreme ease of modularization, modification, and strong emphasis on ease of manufacture and maintenance, without compromising the republic's crew survivability requirement, the proto-Therus won in every category with flying colors. While expensive initially, and in spite of many naysayers within the complicated web of the republic's bureaucracy, the new Therus proved to be well worth the investment on a multitude of worlds, especially ones that nearly had their armor cores wiped out by the fanatical forces of the syndicate and were in dire need of an upgrade. It however would not be until the second Echerion-Starsect war where the tank was able to truly test its metal against the syndicate armor and infantry forces. While not uncommon for various Therus tanks to be taken out of action by other tanks or mainly infantry forces with ATGMs, it served its main purpose well in keeping its crew safe, and of course proving its extreme reliability in tandem with its adaptability, the tank served its crews well, and earned its respect in the eyes of many within the Ranger Corps and newly forged Predator Legions, and earning itself an equally fearsome reputation with the forces of the syndicate. The Therus since has served the republic well for the better part of nearly 20 thousand standard years, and the design has seen very little in terms of any major changes, apart from hull armor material composites, electronic equipment upgrades, redundancy backups, and even engines, it still holds itself to the original operational promise of crew survivability and protection, as well as extreme mission flexibility, a reputation that is unrivaled by any comparable military hardware, even in the present day. While a jack of all trades is a master of none, the Therus proved that it's far better than a master of one. Do not use this design without permission.

[miscmonstro]

The Uno Reverse Adoption Saga 5

First: Chapter 1

Previous: Chapter 4

Next: Chapter 6

Halfa!Trio Au crossover with Batman

Current Characters: Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, Danny Fenton, Jason Todd (brief), Scarecrow

Summary: Forced to attend a gala by her parents as she is every year, Sam Manson was resigned to suffer through the stifling three-night gala until something pulled at her core. The something turned out to be a someone. Just who is Jason Todd and can the trio gain enough of his trust to help him before his struggling proto-core collapses?

👻 {Chapter 5 Below!)

Danny crept forward, thermos in hand. Sam flung out a mental arm and he stopped as though there were something physically holding him back.

“He can’t just disappear off the roof, we need a plan to distract everyone first,” Sam said. 

Sheepishly, Danny clipped the thermos to the waist of his suit. “I didn’t even think about that.”

It made everything much, much more complicated. 

“Is the hostage ok?” Danny asked instead, eyeing the incoming heroes. There were two of them and as they slowed their approach it seemed they were talking to the two who had already been at the wall of vapor. That made a tally of four. 

Sam corrected, “Hostages, plural. And there were at least seven crashers.”

“There are four back there,” Tucker observed, noting a flat section surrounded by the telltale yellow tinged haze, “and one hostage.”

Danny, however, peered closer at the heroes. They were still a good distance away and if it weren’t for their night vision, he wouldn’t have been able to discern them. One of the heroes was the Batman himself, looking quite disgruntled. The shorter figure by his side couldn’t be anyone besides the boy wonder, Robin. On Batman’s other side was, surprisingly, Nightwing. The fourth person, Tucker informed them, was Orphan.

“It looks like they have masks. Why not go through the gas?” he wondered, staring at the heroes. 

Tucker turned it over for a moment and Sam scoffed. “It’s obviously the hostages. They can’t get any further or the goons will gas them.”

“Wait,” Tucker said abruptly. “The manor didn’t have anyone in it. Anyone that wasn’t already gassed- no paramedics and whatnot. You don’t think…”

There were specific situations in which paramedics wouldn’t wade into a mess to help people, and considering everyone had masks and that the inside was free of any other danger… 

“They’ve taken the entire manor and everyone in it hostage,” Danny realized with horror. The paramedics wouldn’t go in because they couldn’t without warranting retaliation from the crashers.

“And I’m going to bet, from the match that ghost is waving around, that the gas is flammable,” Sam added dryly. “Great.” 

Tucker warily shared the ratios of power running through the Wayne property; if the building caught fire, even without the gas, it’d burn down quicker than a building of its size ought to. And with the gas? He wouldn’t be surprised if the manor went sky high.  

Sam decided she was going to steal that idea for later, a faded overlay of Vlad’s mansion eclipsing Wayne Manor for a moment. 

“Could we revisit plan a? Think I could overshadow that ghost?” Danny wondered, eyeing the being in question, though silently he did agree with Sam’s mental picture. He studied their opponent. The ghost was, visibly, reminiscent of a living scarecrow. Danny was sure they could take him.

“We have to be very careful here,” Tucker thought. “I think we should find the three missing goons first.” 

He thought about TV shows and how the villain always had a backup plan. If the ghost was working with the humans, who didn’t seem to be under any ghostly influences, then they couldn’t assume that taking out the ghost would resolve everything.

Even after years of knowing him, Sam found Tucker’s ability to connect anything to electronics and pop culture oddly engrossing, but she pushed that thought aside to focus on the problem at hand. She had seen two of the goons earlier, during her scan of the mansion, however both were alone and had been stationary. With no hostages and no reason to confront them she’d flown past, still searching for the ghost.

“I can go back and knock them out,” she offered, perhaps a tad too eager, after sharing the information.

With simultaneous agreement from the boys she dove through the roof, and a moment later Danny followed, intending to find the missing crasher. Tucker proceeded toward the four crashers on the roof, eyebrows furrowed as he took in the details of the scene. He poked at the other two.

“Uh. Guys? Another problem.”

“Ancients, what now?” Danny groaned as he phased through a wall.

“The hostage up here is Tim Wayne.”

Sam sighed, instantly picking up on the newfound issue. “And that means Jason is on the roof or nearby and unaccounted for. Great.”

Danny nonverbally requested Tucker to keep an eye out for the young ghost and he agreed before gently nudging back, reminding Danny to focus. He then looked back to the goons and their unfortunate victim.

Ghosts were, by nature, beings of emotion. As such, they were in tune to it. The mansion reeked of fear, and now that none of them were stuck experiencing it, it wasn’t bad at all. Still, fear was a reasonable human reaction to the situation at hand, and so when Tucker pushed his celebrity awe aside and realized that Tim Wayne did not feel any fear in his current predicament, he was puzzled. 

At most, the young CEO felt slightly nervous, not fearful.

Tucker’s eyes narrowed. It was something he’d have to revisit later. Right now he needed to find out if there was some way that the crashers were communicating with one another and if he could use that to locate the last one. At first glance the crashers didn’t have much, just their spraying devices, the attached tanks, and a gun each, but upon further inspection they had comms as well. They rested on the insides of their masks and disappeared into their shirts.

“Bingo,” Tucker grinned. He reached out, spectral fingers brushing the edge of a wire poking out from the bottom of the crasher’s mask, and followed the frequency it was attuned to.

“And… gottem’,” he said smugly, sharing the general locations of the other comms, and in all likelihood, the other crashers. It was best described as knowing where your hand was in utter pitch black; you knew it was there, even if you couldn’t see it. Sam tapped at the two that she recognized and Danny changed course to head towards the remaining crasher, who was tucked into a dusty attic just below the roof. The last crasher had a visible weapon holster, a tank strapped to her back, and a device of some kind in hand. Unlike the other two, she wasn’t alone. Petrified, just like the majority of the victims within the mansion, were four more hostages. Although they weren’t bound in any way it was clear they would be unable to escape in their current state. 

And then Danny felt it. 

A tug at his core.

“Oh,” he thought breathlessly. It was one thing to feel the pull secondhand and another to feel it for yourself. 

If Tucker sharing the general locations of the comms was akin to knowing your body, then feeling who could only be Jason was like walking into a dark room illuminated solely by a spotlight shining on the man in question- it was impossible to not know where he was.  

And he was there, in that attic somewhere. 

Danny launched himself at the crasher and with one solid swing, sent the woman sprawling to the ground. With her out of the way he was free to follow the slight pull that was growing in strength. He intended to do so but didn’t need to as the moment the woman hit the floor a figure stepped out from behind one of the stacks of old boxes.

“Jason, I presume,” Danny said, switching to the human spectrum. 

“Who the fuck are you?” Jason asked, cocking a gun. 

“I’m Phantom. Manes mentioned you, so I thought I’d lend a hand,” Danny introduced while motioning to the unconscious goon.

“I had it handled.”  With a scowl Jason slowly lowered the gun and glared at Danny, eyes full of scrutinizing mistrust.

Despite that Danny felt himself grinning, almost against his will. Jason was here, safe and in front of him, and while his little core was struggling Danny knew he generated enough ectoplasm to easily patch up the cracks he could sense even from six feet away. 

“Danny,” Sam said sharply at Tucker’s recoil, “no. I can feel your bad decision from here.” 

“Please don’t kidnap a child without consent. Don’t be like Vlad,” Tucker helpfully supplied.

He blinked owlishly. Then the implications of what he wanted to do, of giving Jason’s proto-core his ectoplasm washed over him and Danny backpedaled, physically and mentally. 

“I’m not kidnapping you,” he blurted. 

Sam snorted. “Kidnapping, by definition, lacks consent.”

“What?” Jason questioned, taken aback.

“I mean,” fumbled Danny, “it’s not like I’m a billionaire with a adoption problem?” 

Jason opened and closed his mouth once, then twice, then shut his jaw with an audible click.

Tucker, the traitor, just laughed at him. 

“He probably thinks you were talking about his dad!” he wheezed.

Even Sam chuckled. “Brucie Wayne has an adoption problem. Danny. Jason was adopted.”

“Oh Ancients, you’re adopted?” Danny asked, mortified. “I was talking about someone else, I swear.” 

“You might fit the bill, maybe-billionaire Mr. King,” Tucker said gleefully, sending the impression of a wink. They didn’t know exactly how much of Pariah Dark’s horde had become Danny’s when he’d bested the tyrant, but it was more than enough to fill several rooms of the old king’s lair. 

“I’m not Vlad,” Danny muttered crossly, swatting Tucker’s presence. Besides, what was ghost wealth in the living world?

Jason cleared his throat. “So, what are you planning to do?” he questioned haltingly. He spared an obvious glance at the prone crasher. 

Danny flipped back into hero mode so quickly it would’ve given most people whiplash. “Status?” he thought, followed by a memory list of important items they’d been keeping track of since the mission started: the gas, the hostages, the ghost, the other heroes.

“The stragglers are out,” Sam reported, feeling quite pleased with herself.

“I can’t take out the four here and free the Wayne without the ghost noticing,” Tucker observed. “So we either need to get rid of the gas or take out the ghost, but Batman and co have eyes on him…”

“We’re going to save the hostage on the roof,” Danny said, both to the other halfas and to Jason. “I can distract the scarecrow and Manes can grab the dude.” 

“The gas is flammable,” Jason said harshly, confirming their suspicion. “There are dozens of people who are going to be burned alive if you fuck up-”

“We took out the three inside and the last four are on the roof. We know what we’re doing,” Danny defended. The skeptic criticism of the abilities of team Phantom was constant and yet he still felt oddly ruffled by Jason’s doubt. 

“And the remote charges?” Jason demanded.

“The what now?” Sam demanded, followed by a mental meme full of question marks from Tucker. 

“Uhhhh. Um, no,” Danny admitted sheepishly. “But we can get right on that!” 

Thunder rumbled, rattling the lone circular window nearby, and Jason’s scowl deepened. “Leave it to the bats. They know what they’re doing,” he said, though it seemed to be with a good deal of reluctance.

The thunder gave Sam pause.

“You mean the bats that have been standing and staring at the wall of gas for the past six minutes?” Danny snarked. “Real productive.”

Jason scoffed. “They’re trained for this kid, and the Scarecrow is a menace. Don’t throw your ass into the line of fire when you don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of making it out alive.”

“Firstly, rude, I can totally handle myself,” Danny said, raising a finger for emphasis. Sam shared a memory from a few days ago of him tripping up the stairs to his room. Danny, like the mature teen he was, nonphysically jabbed her side. “Secondly,” he raised a second finger, “I’m a ghost. As in, not alive. They can’t exactly kill me a second time.” 

“Not to mention hell has a good amount of snow…” Tucker snorted.

Jason didn’t seem to know how to react to that. Something sobering seemed to settle over him, something bitter and resigned and agitated. “Being a hero isn’t fun,” he warned. “It’s not a game.”

Oh. He thought the Phantoms were newbies. With an over exaggerated eye roll Danny replied, “I’m well aware, believe me. This isn’t my first rodeo. But if it bothers you that much we’ll just clear a path for Batman and his team and leave the rest to them.”

The rest being the cleanup, which they wouldn’t have been able to handle without compromising themselves anyway given the sheer amount of people around.

Jason, still brimming with misgivings, questioned pointedly, “What can two kids do that the bats can’t?” 

Danny’s answering grin was sharp.

👻 {Boo!)

They were nerds.

It wasn’t easy for the other students of Casper High to see- since their freshmen year the trio’s grades had taken a nosedive following the accident. But before that they had been excellent students, and not due to any particular intent. They were smart, granted in different ways, and it showed in times like this where all the little bits of seemingly pointless information came together and culminated in something truly irreplicable.   

“Tuck sends a heat blast upwards, Danny sends a cold wave downwards, and bam. Instant rain. It should wash away the gas,” Sam explained. “It’s already pretty close to storming so we shouldn’t have to do much.”

“Huh?” the boys chorused intelligently. 

Sam slammed a diagram depicting the water cycle into their heads. It didn’t really help.

“Ow,” Tucker complained. 

Consolingly, Danny gave Tucker a mental pat.

“Ok,” Danny said to Sam, “that works for Tuck but wouldn’t I just, like, freeze the clouds? I mean, dropping frozen clouds doesn’t seem like a bad idea but clouds are big and there are a lot of bystanders.”

“Storm clouds can also be several miles tall,” Sam informed him dryly, “but somehow I doubt that would be a problem for you.”

“Wait Danny, do you still have the Spectorly Splatterer Ectoplasmic Energy Disperser?” Tucker asked.

“Er, this?” Danny responded, pulling up the Fenton device he’d strapped to his side before they’d left for the Zone. “What could I-“

Tucker supplied a memory of the elder Fentons talking about turning ghosts into an ectoplasm spray so fine they’d be unable to reform and the corresponding invention. Not that it worked- ghosts could reform so long as their core was unaffected, and while the Spectorly Splatterer was adept at obliterating a ghost’s form it was unable to harm a core.

“Shoot ice at the Spectorly Splatterer and it should be able to disperse the blast, right?”

“Ah,” Danny hummed in understanding.

Sam made an unhappy noise. “We are not calling it that.”

“SSEED sounds cool,” Danny offered as he fiddled with the output on the device.

“That’s just hiding the repulsive name behind an acronym,” she grumbled, though she accepted it a moment later. 

“Yeah,” Tucker agreed. “Spectorly Splatterer is way cooler than seeds.”

“It’s SSEED you-“

“Annnnd done,” Danny announced. “I’ve turned the output range up as high as it can go. Are we ready?” 

“Do you need me to come with you?” Sam enquired. It would probably be difficult to hold the SSEED and shoot at it at the same time, not to mention Danny was really, really bad at telekinesis.

“Nah, you get to the roof and find an opening to nab the ghost,” Danny said. Lurking beneath his statement was the confidence that he could make a copy last long enough to do the job.

The three split up from where they’d remerged on the roof. Sam got as close to the ghost as she dared while Tucker and Danny flew into the sky, but where Tucker stopped and hovered just below the clouds Danny shot into them, heading high up into the atmosphere. 

“Ready?“ Danny asked when he got above the stormy clouds. He made a copy of himself and handed it the SSEED. With a nod the copy flew upwards and held the device down at an angle. Danny charged up an ice beam and Tucker started heating up the air around himself.

“Of course,” he said. 

While the boys started manufacturing the weather they needed the bats had finally started to move. Orphan and Robin retreated and Batman and Nightwing stepped up, closer to the dangerous fumes. 

“Are you going to see reason Batman?” the ghost called with a grin that revealed his distorted teeth. “Fear is what drives you, fear is what controls you, controls all of us!”

“Enough Scarecrow,” Batman growled, actually growled. Sam was not expecting him to sound so gravely, though perhaps it was due to a throat injury. 

“We’re here to negotiate your demands,” Nightwing stepped in. He was nervous, though nothing physically betrayed that. 

“There will be no negotiation!” seethed the scarecrow ghost, holding up the lighter. “I-“

“Got it!” Danny grinned in their mind as thunder roared above them. A mere moment later rain began to fall in torrents. 

“No!” the ghost screamed. “But I still have a backup!” The four crashers trained their weapons on Tim Wayne. 

“Timmy here doesn’t really need his brain, does he?” Scarecrow taunted, though frustration bled into his words. “I also have four unlucky captives hidden inside the manor. One word from me and they’re lost, slaughtered like hopeless, frightened little animals.”

He then dug around his burlap getup and pulled out a rectangular device. “The rain certainly puts a damper on things!  But I am more than prepared. How much of the mansion do you think will burn before the rain puts it out?”

Sam knew it was risky but she couldn’t let him do that. She circled him and launched herself at him, telekinetically shoving at the remote and knocking it out of his grasp as she kicked out his legs, making him squawk and flail on the slick tiles. 

Suddenly, two of the crashers attacked the other two and seeing this as an opening, Batman and Nightwing rushed forward to secure the Scarecrow and help the hostage, who had scuttled away as his captors had begun fighting amongst themselves. They didn’t know it, but yellow and green were not the natural eye colors of the two goon traitors. Even if they had, the masks obscured the goon’s faces quite well.

Sam silently thanked the other two phantoms and uncapped the thermos as Batman swung at the ghost and was more than surprised when the blow landed. The two began to struggle, though it was clear Batman had the upper hand.

Unneeded as Nightwing was more than capable of finishing off the two disoriented crashers, Danny and Tucker floated over to her, eying the fight warily. 

“How are we supposed to separate them?” Danny wondered and winced as Batman delivered a particularly severe blow to the scarecrow’s skull. 

“I don’t think he’s a ghost,” Tucker piped up randomly.

Sam and Danny shared in their confusion.

“He’s ghost-like at least,” Tucker conceded, “maybe liminal, but he can’t be a ghost. Otherwise this,” he motioned to everything around them with a broad gesture, “wouldn’t be happening.”

Sam, to be contrary, leveled the thermos at the grappling duo and pushed the button.

Nothing happened.

Slowly, she lowered the thermos in quiet disbelief, thinking everything over. Tucker smacked his head.

“It was Jason,” he realized. “He set off your ghost sense before, right Sam?”

“… that makes sense…” she grudgingly admitted.

“But he looks so ghostly,” Danny whined. “It was an honest mistake.” 

“That means we could’ve just overshadowed him from the beginning!” Tucker huffed. 

They watched for another minute as the crashers and the not-a-ghost scarecrow were apprehended by the heroes.

“Well, I think we’re done here,” Danny groused, making a show of dusting his hands. 

“All in a night’s work,” grinned Tucker.

Sam rolled her eyes and despite the dark clouds blotting out the light above them, everything seemed to be brighter. 

👻 {Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it.)

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Chapter in a nutshell: Assumptions were made!

I wasn't planning on updating so soon. I wanted to post Sunday but I realized that I'll be at work Sunday and if I know myself I'm going to go straight to bed when I get home lol

Next: Chapter 6

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

The Best of 50s Jukebox Rock 1989 Rock & Roll / Doo Wop / R&B

This 14-song slate of 50s Jukebox Rock classics really makes for quite the introduction to this whole The Best of [decade] series from Priority Records that was launched sometime in the mid-80s. A lot of times when you listen to enough oldies comps, they can get to feeling pretty stale and repetitive, but this one's an outstanding breath of fresh air in comparison as it delivers a good mixture of stone-cold 50s staples and a bunch of quality songs that people are more likely to have forgotten, all while managing to capture just how brilliant and effervescent this extremely important decade really was too.

And although this release is largely dominated by a mix of rock & roll and doo wop, I feel like I have to start off by discussing one of its terrific R&B selections instead: Jackie Wilson's first top-ten Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Lonely Teardrops." Not only is this a phenomenal tune in and of itself, in which Wilson showcases his captivatingly passionate voice against a prickly musical backdrop that feels pretty unique for 1958, but it's also a vital song in a couple of other ways too. For instance, it's entirely possible that Motown would have *never* existed had this song not achieved the success that it did, because Berry Gordy took the money that he made from co-writing-and-producing "Lonely Teardrops" and then launched his own Motown label with it, which would then go on to become probably the single-most important record label in the history of American popular music, period.  So imagine a world without the likes of Diana Ross & The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, The Jackson Five, and so many others, and all of it might be because this very song flew too under the radar in order for Gordy to end up making a move that would prove to be so tectonic 😲.

And another thing that we would *definitely* be without had it not been for Jackie Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops" is the Isley Brothers' much more popular "Shout." Listen to both songs and you'll hear them using some of the same lyrics, namely the repeated "say you will" line. The Isleys used to perform their own cover of "Lonely Teardrops" themselves, and eventually that morphed into a recording of "Shout," which is now one of the most iconic pieces of rock and roll and R&B that's ever been made.

And I know I said that we might not have had the Jackson Five had it not been for "Lonely Teardrops," but the group that *really* walked so that the Jacksons themselves could run was Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers. That whole trend of naturally high-voiced prepubescent boys fronting singing groups was spurred on by Lymon himself, and while most oldies comps that feature a Lymon & Teenagers tune use the great "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," this one chooses "Goody Goody" instead, a lively late 50s doo wop-pop tune that's outfitted with a big band jazz orchestra. This song was originally credited to Lymon & The Teenagers, but The Teenagers actually had nothing to do with it; it was a Lymon solo joint with backup singers. "Goody Goody" was the last single of the group's to chart nationally on Billboard though, at #20, before Lymon officially went solo.

And my final observation here is that if you zoom out far enough, you can hear how much someone like Bo Diddley really had a proto-Velvet Underground-type of flair to their sound, with his eccentric approach to guitar playing, along with his own signature rhythm that was called the Bo Diddley beat, and the raw, stripped-down sound that his whole package had too. Diddley's self-titled track, which appears towards the end of this album, really drives the point home, I think.

So, evidently a great way for me to jump head-first into this series here. I've heard plenty of oldies 50s comps ever since I started to collect these things, and this is definitely one of the best ones that I've ever heard. Hoping to plow my way through this series now and that the rest of it is as good as this release is 🙏. Every well-rounded music fan needs what famed music critic Robert Christgau calls a 'basic record library,' and a good way of building that is by digging through albums like these that are chock full of old and quality hits.

Highlights:

Bill Haley & His Comets - "Shake Rattle & Roll" Little Richard - "Rip It Up" Chuck Berry - "School Days" Jackie Wilson - "Lonely Teardrops" Jerry Lee Lewis - "Breathless" Five Satins - "In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember)" Little Anthony & The Imperials - "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - "Goody Goody" Bobby Day - "Rockin' Robin" Fats Domino - "My Blue Heaven" Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley" Larry Williams - "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

[prophets-of-the-barrens]

Well hello there proto!

[Start ID: Kat, a cat girl similar to Niko, smiling. End ID.]

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[Hello.]

[What brings you here?]

[rhapsodynew]

#On this day

17 years ago, Queen's incredibly successful 1975 music video "Bohemian Rhapsody"

was named, according to a survey, the UK's best music video. The clip was shot in 3 hours and for less than £3.5 thousand

Today I would like to tell you 10 interesting facts about the creation and later life of the video "Bohemian Rhapsody".

1. In the mid-70s, pop artists didn't have many ways to visualize their works in any way. For example, in Britain of those years, it was possible to find out what musicians looked like and in what style a particular performer existed using the ultra-popular music program "Top of the Pops". Costumes, interesting camera angles, the "Pan's People" backup dancing group and, in fact, the music itself - and this was quite enough for many. But Queen needed more. By the time work on the album "A Night at the Opera" was completed and with his signature number, "Bohemian Rhapsody", the band was sure that they had recorded something very significant. And the visualization had to be appropriate...

Of course, the girls from "Pan's People" cannot be denied incredible charm. Just look at how cute it is!..

2. There was another reason why the band decided to make a full-fledged video. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was too complicated, and with all the tricks it could not be performed in the studio of "Top of the Pops" - even if it was on a soundtrack: everything was too cumbersome. Initially, they also thought about video projection during the performance of the song, but this idea was soon abandoned.

The "Top of the Pops" logo

The starting point for creating the video was the envelope of one of the Queen albums. The album of the band "Queen II" is notable for its cover art - simple and pretentious at the same time. She was created by an honorary rock and roll photographer Mick Rock in the image and likeness of a promo photo of a movie star of the 30s Marlene Dietrich for the film "Shanghai Express". Mick Rock recalled:

"This is one of those brilliant photos that come out on a magical whim. Very clear, powerful, glamorous and mysterious, with the stamp of classical style..."

When creating a video on "Rhapsody", the director Bruce Gowers started from the mood and style of the cover, as if he enlivened it.

Mick Rock, the cover artist for "Queen II". At various times, he collaborated with various musicians, among them David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, as well as "The Ramones", "The Sex Pistols", "T. Rex", "Blondie" and many others

4. A first-class team gathered on the set of the video. At that time, however, no one really thought that she was first-class. They were employees of the Jo Roseman Production studio - TV director Bruce Gowers, cameraman Barry Dodd and assistant director Jim McCutcheon. Before that, Gowers shot "Queen" twice - he shot the "proto-clips" "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Liar". In the future, he will work on music videos for such big names as "The Rolling Stones" and Michael Jackson. Gowers also worked on the show "American Idol", in which, by the way, the future soloist of the Queen+ project participated and won at the time..."Adam Lambert.

5. The video was shot on November 10, 1975 and took four and a half hours. That's how sometimes masterpieces for all time are created in a matter of hours.

Filming took place at Elstree Studios and cost only 4,500 pounds. DJ Tommy Vance recalled later:

He (Gowers - author's note) was very inventive, remember, neither computers nor sophisticated electrical engineering existed then. For the filming of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Gowers used many tricks, including prisms and light filters. Where did he get his ideas from? He was inspired by the songs he was working on.

6. And speaking of tricks. It's hard to believe, but most of the effects were actually done right during filming. For example, the moment when Mercury's face seems to disintegrate (in the moments when he sings "Magnifico") was created using the so-called feedback: the camera moved closer to the monitor, thereby creating glare. At the moment when we see the band as if through a honeycomb (say, when the band sings "Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me"), a special lens was put on the camera.

7. There is one very remarkable fact associated with the visual series of the clip. At one point in the video, the band sings:

"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!"

Not only is there a play on words based on the English expression "call in Beelzebub to cast out Satan" (dosl. "call Beelzebub to drive Satan away", an analogue of our "wedge is kicked out with a wedge"), so you can also see an interesting visual symbolism here. Beelzebub is the head of the demons from the New Testament, one of the seven Princes of Hell, otherwise called the Lord of the Flies or Baal of the Flies. At the moment when the band sings the above line, we look at the musicians again as if through a honeycomb... flies and some other insects look at the world in the same way through their faceted eyes.

8. The premiere of the video clip took place in the studio "Top of the Pops". The video had the effect of exploding bombs. It instantly spread across all music programs.

Michael Appleton, a TV presenter, recalled:

"The concept of the video was truly revolutionary <...> Suddenly, Queen, who had just competed with everyone on equal terms, found themselves at an unattainable height. They honestly deserved their success..."

The video was really liked - and not only by professionals. Literally everyone was delighted with the work done. According to a survey organized by the O2 phone company, the British consider "Bohemian Rhapsody" the best music video of all time.

DJ Tommy Vance, who was already mentioned in today's article, explained the innovation of the video in this way:

"What Queen pioneered was the combination of picture and sound. For example, every time an echo effect was used in a song, the picture was split in full accordance with the sound. The boundary between them suddenly ceased to exist!"

9. Later, another version of the clip was created. It is less common than the main one, but it is no less interesting. In particular, a flame was added to it with the help of special effects (at the very beginning), and several alternative frames were used.

10. The success of the biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" gave rise to a new wave of popularity for the band, and, of course, the song of the same name. Parodies, homages and re-songs began to pour out on YouTube like a cornucopia. Of course, the views of the clip itself have increased significantly. By the summer of 2019, the number of video views on YouTube reached one billion, and it was decided to re-release the clip in HD quality. Actually, it is the HD version that now lies on the official channel of the group and that is what you can see under fact No. 8.

Who would argue that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a great song, and its film adaptation is one of the greatest music videos of the last century? Of course, there are many who want to argue. This is our wonderful past, and after forty-five years, the clip looks a little outdated. But at the same time, he does not lose his charm, his magic and, of course, his enormous importance for the whole world of music.

P.s. You've probably forgotten why my blog is @rhapsodynew

Yes.., I don't get tired of listening to "Rhapsody", and inexplicably, I always hear something new in it, and the clip is wonderful...,

That's why I'm not saying goodbye!..

[catchyhuh]

Thoughts on Pops' sidekicks? Yata, Mariya, Melon, that glorified babysitter from island of assassins, etc etc [places ask before the beasts' cave and slowly backs away]

[the beast sniffs the air, catching a faint whiff of tokyo crisis and bolts out of the cave like its prey drive has been activated] i may or may not have a particular favorite one off girl that i have been studying like bacteria in a petri dish for years, and this ask may or may not have looked like this to me

BUT YES!! I HAVE MUCH TO SAY

i think the secret to a good backup lupin character is to emphasize how mundane and comparatively normal they are IN A GOOD WAY OF COURSE! your supporting character needs to SUPPORT and the easiest, funniest way to do that, is to have them be just some guy. they can be weird, but they can’t be weirder than our main features. they can be cool, but they can’t be cooler than our main guys. you get it? 

and since it’s so fucking easy to make ANYBODY seem normal standing next to zenigata, you’d have to work pretty damn hard to beat the first point, so the most important thing HERE is to have them resigned to their fate. you will not stop him. it is impossible to stop him. he will not even acknowledge that you DID, in fact, try to stop him. really, the most you can do is catch the back of his coat before he accidentally steps into traffic when he's on autopilot

melon is probably the funniest in terms of this resignation because if anything he delights in having a front row seat. he’s not stopping shit! and you got like the old men that were just grinning and not even TRYING to keep him alive in episode 0 and twilight gemini, which i guess makes them beat out melon in terms of “it is what it is.” and then in the middle mariya is like, “ok, not letting him die but also he’s just not fucking listening to me and honestly when else am i gonna get a chance to partake in a car chase!! let’s go.” and then yata is slowly approaching the mariya level of stress because he’s clearly begun to realize if he has a panic attack every single time zenigata almost gets himself killed he’ll die of a heart attack before hes even 30. and. oh god i watched island of assassins and i remember proto-yata but i can’t even think of his name now. something very american. jimmy? BUT HE NEVER ACCEPTED THE FACT HE COULDN’T STOP ZENIGATA hence his Weakness in comparison. i also am vaguely aware that one special has this cop lady working with him but she ends up secretly being evil but i haven’t seen that one yet and also she’s. evil. so i imagine she wouldn’t count anyway so WHATEVER THERE’S OUR RANKING OF THE PEACE THEY’VE MADE WITH THE SITUATION

you can ALWAYS give pops a weird tagalong. it is ALWAYS correct! there’s four thieves and only one of him, which means you gotta give him SOMEBODY to work off of! i will always be pro-sidekick just because it makes him funnier or even adds a tiny bit of unexpected depth (him telling yata he understands if he quits the case, really everything he does in response to learning about mariya’s father/childhood, etc), and as a bonus, you might even get a really good character in their own right! all because they thought “damn. this is a little unfair isn’t it. have this guy follow him around for an hour” 

i have the science of this down pat. IN FACT THIS WHOLE THING IS PROBABLY WHY I’M SO #PROYATA I LOVE GOOD DYNAMICS! THE BEAST THANKS YOU FOR LISTENING

[kikidewynter]

with jules having kind of a proto lieutenant role, i think he would be able to call in a backup squad. there’d be phone booths all over the map but their regularity would depend on the wealth of the district. also he should get a wheelwoman for old times sake

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Memory backup machine?

It was a device that Yuri Kagarin was able to create, it was how myself along with Teruya and the survivors of Class 78-A had survive that didn't resort to shooting one-self in the head.

But Mr. Kagarin did start working on it after our killing game and we did inform Future Foundation about Junko Enoshima's connection to the proto-killing game...

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...

...

Date: July 30th, 2013

*steps back as checking clipboard* So you really can't remember anything, correct?

Sadly not, it seems my memories had been wipe of our time at Hope's Peak...

Look, are we done already? I already told you that I can't remember much so can you stop asking the obvious question.

I know, I know - I just had to check...

As you see Mr. Kagarin it looks like Rei or Teruya can't remember much; should we start working on it?

Da... I suppose we should get to work on it, Miss Sugimoto.

Work on what?

Well it's a machine that I've consider on making after hearing your situation which can be able to return back your memories or even restore your memories!

Chudesnyy proryv! This will surely help you and Teruya Otori to return to normal, hopefully you start to have all your memories back!

*gets up* Well if you are able to finish it then it could help our foundation as well since we do want to get to work...

Verno...I did remember you along with the other 2 of Class 79 are forming your own foundation, yes?

Well if you need help, you can call Future Foundation for assistance...

But regardless, I did hear about Akane Taira... she really did protect you, correct?

Akane? Well yes she did I believe, do you both... know each other?

Well yes, I did - in fact she use to be a maid at my family home when I was starting high school and I even heard she was apart of your class so I'm happy she made friends.

But still, the fact she helped set up a killing game... I'm still confused on why she did...

Well all I know is that Akane helped Utsuro and some women named Junko Enoshima; that's it, that's all I can give.

Ye-Yes of course, Mr. Kagarin sir? I think we should let Rei Mekaru leave now, your starting to bother her with your tendencies...

O-Oh goodness me, I suppose we should! Prostite menya but we must be off!

Thank you... (I better speak with Tsurugi about this machine they are working on...)

*Rei leaves the room as she heads off*

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

I have to believe he’s alive. It’s the only way to not cry for 2 years.