#figured I'd yeet this one out there while I'm still awake...

[universal-kitty]

⭐️⭐️ for YOUR ship with Rhys 👁👁

send in a “⭐️” and I’ll use a random thing picker to choose one of my f/os, and i’ll reply to the ask with a small infodump about my ship with them!

    Well, we skipped one step...but who am I to complain? LMAO  For both this ask and the first one you sent in, you sent me F/Os I rarely get to talk about! So I count that...as an absolute win. :>

    With that said, let’s gooooo-!

    Unlikely duo in unlikely, but perhaps equally predictable...problematic situations. If you’re anywhere near Pandora, these things should’ve been expected, probably. Anyways, onward to the shipping!

    Rhys and Rena first met when the latter was on an all-nighter bender working on a project Jack had “requested” from R&D. Pure luck had allowed them to survive this long, and they weren’t gonna quit anytime soon. Rhys, honestly about to head back to his own apartment (that Hyperion provides all workers, since everyone is on-site workers), wanted to pick up some coffee from the nearest break room...

    He ended up finding them dissociating and looking exhausted... And pity kicked in. Who was this distressed scientist? Why were they so...like that? Could he do something about it? (He wanted to try.)

    So the Company Man himself eventually started making small “trips” to R&D, casing the place until he found the private lab of Dr. Marlow. (All because he didn’t want to risk asking anyone for help... Yeesh.) He was eventually able to flag her down, and starting a conversation. Which turned into more... Namely hangouts; lots of him finding time in-between work to scurry off and hang out with her a bit again. (In canon, this would also be why he bumped into Handsome Jack in the first place; him trying to run around to see Rena for whatever time he could nab.)

    It evolves further: when Rena makes it to the food court, they eat with him, and he gets to meet two of their friends. Dan (the Man), a near-constantly exhausted pilot for the high class and occasionally, for Handsome Jack himself, and Leah, historical collector...of old music. Dan’s chill as hell and rarely seen w/o a cup of coffee (in increasingly funny mugs people keep gifting him) and Leah is energy personified.

    They end up supporting his endeavors, either helping Rena cheer up, or even picking up food for Rhys ahead of time, so he can have his own meal, plus Rena’s, on delivery. (In the event she hadn’t yet shown up for lunch and they figured she was getting overworked on yet another project.)

    This continues on for a few months, before the events of BLands 2; Rena eventually requests- and gets approved- a study of Pandora, to further research on a personal project. Jack somehow agrees to the whole thing and, despite Rhys’ concerns, Rena heads out with a small team, anyways.

    ...It’s assumed for a long time that Rena died.

    During the events of Tales, however, a contact called Gremlin is established; someone’s who survived the wastes and knows them incredibly well. So when Rhys and co. go to seek this mysterious person out... It’s Rena! Dirty, with frayed hair and Pandora-fitting clothes, but... Hey, they lived, after all!!!!

    There’s a lot of catching up to do, but it’s sorta...hard to do so with Jack in his brain. Which is something he ends up admitting to, at one point; he cares a lot about Rena’s opinion of him, plus... If anyone had an idea of what to do with an AI stuck in your brain, they would, right?

    ...Unfortunately not, since Nakajama is...was a mess of a man. For now, Jack’s plan continues: get to Hyperion. Nab Vault pieces. (Ignore Jack’s needling of Rhys being “a dense motherfucker” and making lewd comments about Rena. Rhys’ limits are at wit’s end. Worse yet when their almost-first-kiss is ruined by Jack in his mind. Asshole.)

    Long story short, Rena is able to help the crew get through Hyperion smoother, but her project- the dragons- take her a fair distance away from the crew. She *barely* survives along with Dan and Leah (who had taken the former’s ship; Rena survived based off of the size and power of the dragons she was slowly raising), and- once again- is separated from everyone.

    Except this time... It’s Rhys who is the one lost.

    Rena does eventually end up finding him again, thanks to news of Atlas rising from the ashes, and needing staff. Having made many friends along their ride in Pandora, Rena and their own crew set out to make money... Only to be shocked when Rhys fuckin’ Strongfork himself is running the place.

    They reunite, Part 2, and everything gets sorted. As far as new hires go, anyways. Rena and Rhys officially have a lot to catch up on...

    It eventually culminates in Rena taking on Head of R&D in Atlas, them becoming a couple, Rhys being dad to a bunch of dragons...that are rapidly growing in size...and eventually- with the help of their hires- reclaiming the old Wildlife Exploitation Preserve. Now also owned by Rena. 

[rppik]

1/2/2020

...aka 1/3/2020, 3 am, guess who slept in until an obscene hour, still managed to take a nap a couple hours later, and only decided to feel Awake in the late evening? This girlll. Check it out, I got progress done on that drawing tho:

So yeah, we had a Tired™️ day today, I'm trying not to get all self-hatey about it lol. I did!! Make a casserole tho!! Without really knowing what I was doing!! And it still turned out pretty damn good in my opinion, runny af but still tasty lol. Little broski didn't eat it, the poor guy's doing better today but is still pretty wiped out. Here's hoping he'll have more energy tomorrow, maybe he can eat the leftovers while me and mom are out of town for a while. He doesn't deserve to spend part of his winter break feeling like crud.

Also I fucking woke up from my maybe depression nap to find out Trump organized an assassination on an important Iranian official? And like,, ????? Starting the decade out with a bang, the motherfucker got impeached so he decides to say "fuck it" and make a move that may or may not cause a war, sick, real cool. I still don't know shit about it because my anxiety gets real bad at night and frankly I figure there will be more info about it tomorrow anyways;;. Figured I'd make note of it here anyways since it could end up being really important. I'm not sure what's gonna come out of this... Like, I'm assuming this guy was a threat, but,, again, not gonna think about it right now.

In other news, I finally found bees in Minecraft lmao. I brought one over to the lil sacred garden I got going on (I want to draw out my area for this journal sometime, I think it's neat, I've got a sacred garden n shit). I named her Lucile.

I also briefly dreamt about an old highschool pal of mine. It was really nice. I won't drop names, but if future me's reading this, it was the guy I sat behind on the bus. Nothing of note happened, I just remember talking to him a bit and waking up feeling ":)". He's a good guy, I hope he's doing well in college. Wonder if he's still writing? He seemed to really enjoy it, I hope he has time for it.

I'm actually getting sleepy again, which is great because I do need to be up in like,,, 8 hours at most. Yeet. Writing all this does seem to help chill me out, maybe it'll be a good bedtime habit in general :0?

Anywho, I'm out~