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casspurrjoybell-33 · 9 months ago

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Wreckless - Rhys and Quincy

*Warning Adult Content*

Finnegan

Rhys is adorable... he's several inches shorter than me and has cute freckles.

He's wearing a dinosaur t-shirt that's too big and he keeps pulling at the hem.

Quincy doesn't seem so scary now but he sure does when he yells.

I shouldn't have been so loud but I was just so surprised.

And now they want to play golf together?

Well Rhys does.

Maybe Emmett and Quincy don't.

"It's not up to me."

"Very good manners, Finnegan," Quincy says.

"That's what we talked about Rhys, remember?"

"Yes daddy but I get so excited. So can we?" he asks, looking at both the daddies.

Emmy walks right up to my side and puts his arm around my waist.

"Fine with me," he says, then whispers...

"It'll be good for you," in my ear.

"Alright, we'll wait for you to finish up this hole and then we can re-start the next one," Quincy says and that's that... we have friends.

"Emmett?" I ask quietly as soon as we're mostly alone.

"Yeah?"

"It's scary that people know about me."

I'm trying really hard to stay in little space but failing.

This is the worst thing that can happen, someone finding out about me.

"It's like coming out to gay people, darling, it's not scary. I think it's great that you get to meet someone else that's like you. It's just golf."

He kisses my cheek and then sinks his ball in.

"Two. Your turn Finn."

My hands are shaking and I end up with a pitiful four.

Then it's time to round the corner.

"Hi Finnegan," Rhys says as soon as he sees me.

"You can go first."

I wonder if Quincy made him say that but either way, maybe he's not so bad.

"That's nice but you've been waiting and I got to play. Besides, you're the youngest. You can go."

He aims for the secret short-cut through the Dino tail but it bounces back at us.

He pouts but doesn't say anything and I manage to get my ball through the tail but it doesn't go in the hole.

Still, it's closer than it was.

Then Quincy goes and finally it's Emmett's turn but he laughs and holds up his ball.

"We have a slight problem."

It's the same blue as Quincy's.

Emmett and I laugh but Rhys says...

"I fix it," he starts pulling balls out of his pockets or I'm actually not sure where they were... he has six extras.

"Rhys," Quincy scolds... he's mad. "Where did you get those?

"From the shop, daddy."

I didn't know Rhys could be so quiet.

"Did you have permission to take all of those?"

"No."

"So why did you?"

"I just borrow them. I want ALL the colors and we can put them in at the end like a rainbow. I'm going to give them back."

"Yes. Yes you are."

Quincy is shaking his head... he's obviously mad.

"And you'll also get a spanking when we get home."

"No," Rhys argues.

"I'll give them back."

A spanking?

Ouch.

"Doesn't matter... you still can't take things that don't belong to you. Spanking, play time, nap time," he marks off with his fingers. "Now give me the white one."

He takes it from Rhys and replaces his ball, putting that one in his pocket.

"I'm only letting us finish the game because you admitted you had them."

A spanking AND a nap?

Poor Rhys.

"I know. Thank you, daddy and I'm sorry."

"I know, bunny. Now, move out of the way so Emmett can play."

Emmett lines up and with a light swoosh he gets a hole in one.

Rhys and I are both very excited and Emmett looks almost embarrassed.

"I got lucky. You guys finish up now."

It takes Rhys and I a few tries and when we finish, Emmett and Quincy are talking.

Maybe Emmett needs another 'daddy' friend.

I decide to be nice and not complain about sharing him for today.

The next time they are busy I tell Rhys that...

"I'm sorry you have to get a spanking. AND a nap."

He giggles.

"I was bad so I get a spanking so I won't do it no more. I'm little, I need naps. I like them and I get tired after playtime. But after that we are doing slides. Our hotel has big slides and a river and a dragon that shoots water out of its mouth. I saw pictures. But our room isn't ready so we are playing dinosaurs. Daddy?"

"Yes, Rhys?"

"Can Finn and Emmett come to the slides?"

"No. We're building a big sand castle," I tell him. "Emmett promised we'd go back and build it today."

Emmett backs me up.

"I did... I promised him. Sorry Rhys."

Finally Quincy gets a chance to speak.

"Maybe another day."

"I know," Rhys says, all smiles. "After nap we go beach and build sand castles and tomorrow we do slides."

He takes my hand and I don't really mind it.

"I can help. I'm a big helper... the best helper. Isn't that right daddy?"

Emmett says....

"It's up to you Finn, slides tomorrow does sound fun. But we have to leave after lunch so it would have to be the morning."

Right, stupid trip to stupid work.

Quincy gives up.

"Okay, you win this one Rhys. IF you're a good boy and take a nap we can go to the beach afterwards if you really want to wait on the slides."

"I wanna play with Finnegan," he answers.

He's cute and he's growing on me.

"Okay, that's fine with me."

We leave the daddies to sort out the details while we move to the next hole and before I know it... Rhys is rolling eight balls from lightest to darkest into the chomping dinosaur mouth at the end of the course.

When we're back in the car, daddy asks me if I had fun.

"I did. It was weird at first but Rhys is nice."

"Yeah, they both seem nice. Glad you two are getting along."

"He makes me sort of jealous though."

Maybe I shouldn't admit that.

"Why?"

"He's so cute. He's little. A little little. I feel huge and ugly next to him."

And he has freckles. I mostly get them on my shoulders.

Emmett grabs my knee.

"Enough of that. You are the perfect size. I wouldn't want to give up a single inch."

He realizes what he said because he laughs.

"You're just right, Finnegan. Don't worry."

"But he's cute."

"Sure but so are you and you're my favorite boy. Plus you have great ink. He was looking at it all day. I think he's jealous of you."

That's nice of him to say.

"Maybe."

"Hey, did the spanking conversation bother you?"

I didn't wanna bring it up... I'm glad Emmett did.

"I was kinda worried for him at first but he said it's okay and I guess I don't want to do that but if it works for them it's okay."

"I agree completely. Good. Our relationship doesn't have to look like theirs, Finnegan. It can be whatever we want it to be, whatever we need."

Quincy's countdown goes through my head.

"Do you think he meant playtime like toys or?"

"Pretty sure he means sexy playtime, grasshopper."

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valhahazred · 4 years ago

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Cryptid Mythos - Strange Saurians

Living fossils and dinosaur-like monsters are a popular subject of cryptozoology. What sothic truths might an Investigator uncover when looking into such beasts?

6th in a series comparing the monsters of modern folklore to the creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The Telepathic Thing

Two boys from Villa San Rafael in Calama, Chile had a very strange encounter with a seemingly unique creature while searching for a missing pet snake in 2002. While they first thought it to be a stray dog and armed themselves with rocks to drive it away, it proved to be a bizarre monster with an array of seemingly psychic powers! First the boys began to feel sick, as though they had been struck in the stomach by an electric bolt. While one boy immediately started to retreat, the other claimed he felt unnaturally compelled to approach the creature. When he came within six feet it lit up with a luminous aura and he felt a telepathic voice demand, “don’t stare, just run away”. He felt an immediate and inexplicable bone-chilling cold and both boys decided it was time to run.

While it is not explicitly described as a dinosaur I am interpreting it here as a highly evolved theropod, with a covering of grey fur-like feathers and a bony crest it uses to focus its psychic power.

Stoa

This dinosaur-like animal was one of the many south american cryptids reported by english explorer Percy Fawcett before he went missing on an expedition to the Lost City of Z. The legend goes that he even described his encounters with it to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inspiring him to write The Lost World. The other main source of information on the Stoa comes from a Scottish gold prospector who goes by the pseudonym 'Reginald Riggs' and relayed it to Czech cryptozoologist Jaroslav Mareš. The Stoa is said to look something like a bipedal caiman, with nearly non-existent forelimbs and a head like a horned frog. It lives exclusively on the plateaus around Mt Kurupira, where it hunts Tapir, Capybara and the local Waiká people.

4 Corners River Dinos

Investigator Nick Sucik has compiled a surprisingly large number of sightings of small, fast bipedal reptiles in the area of the San Juan River Basin. They are described as looking like a “living dinosaur toy” or like “a Jurassic Park flashback”. Their environment seems to be wet environments and riverbanks in particular, hence “River Dinos”.

The sceptical view is fairly simple, that people are seeing ordinary lizards running on their hind legs.

Van Meter Visitor

In 1903 Van Meter was visited by what was called at the time, an “antediluvian devil”. The being was first witnessed roosting on an electrical pole, where it was mistaken for a spotlight on account of its brightly glowing head. Although it’s usually depicted as a pterosaur, some of the witnesses implied that it had four limbs in addition to its wings. If that is accurate it may have actually had a more gargoyle-like body, ruling out any form of terrestrial life. This poor creature was met with extreme hostility at every turn, as the inhabitants of Van Meter opened fire at nearly every sighting and its only recourse was flashing lights and an overwhelming stink. Thankfully it seemed to be unbothered by the gunfire. An armed posse even tracked the Visitor to the local coal mine and confronted a pair of the beings, showering them in lead to no effect as they slowly retreated back into the mine. They were never seen again. Were they surviving dinosaurs that simply moved into the caves to die? Or had the coal miners dug too deep and unleashed paranormal entities from an ultraterrestrial hollow earth realm? There was an alleged plaster cast made of the Visitor’s three toed prints but it does not appear to have survived to be documented.

The Mokele Mbembe

Not only is the Mokele Mbembe the best known of the “living fossil” type of cryptid, it’s one of the most famous cryptids of all. Modern witnesses describe a pygmy semi-aquatic sauropod straight out of a slightly outdated paleoart reconstruction but it was once a slightly stranger beast. The first western account claimed that it had a horn and some other descriptions have thick overlapping scales, dragon-like frills or the whattles of a chicken. While it is a herbivore, it is also supposed to be violently territorial and kills any hippos, elephants or humans that cross its path. Its flesh is very poisonous and anyone who tries the flesh of the Mokele Mbembe dies. While it is widely accepted to be a relic saurian there are various theories otherwise, such as the Mokele Mbembe being a large snake, a long necked relative of the hippo or even a large species of pangolin.

The Ropen

The Ropen is described as a massive flying creature similar to a chimerical pterosaur, with tight reptilian skin, boney wings and a long tail ending in a diamond shaped fin. It’s most recognizable feature is glowing spots on its belly and wings. Supposedly they use the lights to attract fish as they skim overhead. Fish isn’t their only food source as they are also frequent scavengers and even dig up cemeteries for human corpses. Ropen are not the only pterosaur like creatures claimed to live in the area. There are also the Kor, cave dwellers that use their long tails as maces and the Solomon Islands Dragon Snakes, that reportedly spit searing lights! There is even some confusion on the Ropen’s exact identity, with the massive 20 foot wingspan and bony crest possibly belonging to a creature called the Duah, while the Ropen itself would be a much more modest 3 foot Rhamphyrincus like animal. It’s worth mentioning that most Ropen sightings are of unusual lights in the sky and not of any visible creature. Even the original sighting by entomologist Evelyn Cheesman in the 1930s only described the lights and lasted for a short 4 or 5 seconds. It was not until much later that the lights were connected to any sort of pterosaur.

In the Mythos

Thanks to Yith stasis vaults and domesticated populations sheltered by ancient species, pre-KPG-extinction megafauna survived much closer to the modern day than they would have otherwise. To the Empires of Valusia they were the Xinli, serving as mounts and hunting companions. Dinosaurs were also known to the ancient people of Mhu Thulan until the Greenland Ice sheet wiped them from the surface of the Earth. But beneath, in the depths of Voormithadreth the Root Archtypes still mimic Saurian forms. Our best bet for living dinosaurs are the dragons of Thuria and they may have even survived into the days where it was called Africa. But that would be too easy for our poor cryptozoologist Investigators.

Hagarg Ryonis

The Great Ones of the Dreamlands generally appear as beautiful humans but there are those known for stranger shapes. Hagarg Ryonis is one such Great One. She has few cults of her own and is usually depicted as a horrifying predatory reptilian monster called “The Lier-In-Wait”. Amongst the Great Ones she serves as the goddess of murder, hunting those who would show offence to the gods of the Dreamlands. The Great Ones rarely have any interest in the waking lands, where their powers wane. However, should a Dreamer earn their enmity the small gods might follow them to a world where their own powers of creation and dream-logic are likewise stunted. Investigators might be contacted by an old friend, sounding exhausted and desperate. They’re a Dreamer of course but lately Dreaming has become too dangerous after the Great Ones began to hound them. They’d been trying to stay awake to avoid them but obviously that can’t go on forever. Even worse, something seems to have followed them to the waking world. They’ve seen glimpses of something huge and scaley in the woods near their home. When they fled into the city it began to appear there too, lurking in alleys and perched on rooftops. Can the Investigators help their friend find a way to make recompense before the inevitable happens and they pass out and are forced to face the Great Ones? Or will a far grislier fate come to pass, as the Lier’s patience comes to an end?

Y’nathogguan Necrotech

The Y’nathogg were never the biggest players in Earth’s history. Always crowded by the Progenitors and pushed back by the paranoid Yith’s exclusion zones. While their necrobiology was robust and adaptable it could not stand up to the sheer power of the Shoggoth and the Star Spawn. They felt like their own planet had no place for them. Then came Quyagen. It wielded the Eye of Zyslm and promised them an opportunity to fight, to take what was rightfully theirs. The Eye brought ruin to their enemies, a mighty weapon and an amplifier for the abattoir foundries of necrotech. Cakatomia was theirs for the taking. But Quyagen underestimated the Yith and the future secrets they bore. The great Cyclopean was sealed away, just as the Polypous Ones were millenia ago. Without the Eye the war that followed was short and brutal. The remaining Y’nathogg retreated to the borehole prison of Quyagen. They cultivated the frozen god’s tissues and made themselves cocoons with which to wait out the aeons, until a time when they would be free to rule without competition. Now Quyagen stirs. The Y’nathogg awaken. The abattoirs pulse with unlife. The time of Quy has come at last!

Byakhee

It’s an interesting coincidence that many of the so-called living pterosaurs are said to produce light in various ways. The Ropen and its cousins glow with bioluminescence, the Van Meter Visitor shines its horn and the Thunderbird (if it is a giant pterosaur) might be able to flash like lightning. The humble Byakhee, with its boney body, leathery skin and bat-like wings, all shining with the light of Carcosa fits the description to a tittle!

Dragons of Yoth

The serpent diaspora started in Yoth. Deep beneath the earth they found Tsathoggua, the lord of N’kai and some of the serpents decided to follow his sorcerous tutelage instead of their maker’s. Yig grew jealous and with the cooperation of his faithful the followers of the bat-toad god were cursed to degeneration. They became worms of the earth, pitiable things that would never slither in the light of the sun again. However, before Tsathoggua left for Voormithadreth to visit revenge on Yig he offered a choice. The worms could continue as they were or they could bathe in the pools of Formless Spawn and be reborn in a greater form. Snake Handling has never been the most accepted religious practice but when six people, including the pastor, at the High-Way Gospel Church die of unusually potent snake venom during a ritual it tends to raise suspicion. When Old Woodrow claimed it was revenge for one of the deceased shooting at a “dinosaur” out in the desert it was laughed off. But now, three sightings and another horribly necrotized corpse later, maybe it isn’t so funny.

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I have to admit that I think “Living Fossils” are among the least believable of all cryptids. They have all the usual problems while also being chimerical and inaccurate versions of things that we know existed. The african ones in particular have the stink of the Great White Hunter all over them, tall tales to sell books of derring-do in Darkest Africa. The Telepathic Thing is better known as the Telepathic Football but that name is dumb and I’m changing it

#call of cthulhu campaign ideas #cryptozoology #cryptid mythos #my art #the telepathic football #stoa #four corners river dinos #Van meter visitor #mokele mbembe #ropen #hagarg ryonis #y'nathogguan #serpent men #yoth #cthulhu mythos #eldritch

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous – A Parents’ Guide

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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.

The Jurassic World franchise is known for its PG-13 level of violence and thrill-factor, but Camp Cretaceous seems aimed for a younger audience, as evidenced by the PG rating and the current McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys. But is it right for your kids? From one parent to another, here are the things I noticed that might be triggers for your kids, as well as my experience watching the season with both of mine.

What Will Appeal to Kids

Let’s start with the good. This show is full of dinosaurs, and the animators clearly enjoyed luxuriating on the sheer awesomeness that these prehistoric titans embody. The campers get to ride among them in gyrospheres—the see-through, ball-like vehicles that are possibly the coolest conceit of the franchise—and zipline past the necks of the tallest sauropods. While in an underground kayaking river, they see bioluminescent parasaurolophuses. Several of the campers are present when a baby ankylosaurus hatches from an egg (which is a little heart melting, even for the most cynical viewer).

The cast of campers is largely likeable, and while viewers might not identify with all of them, there’s likely to be at least one member of the cast who they empathize with. Dino Nerd Darius, the first camper viewers meet, is an excellent viewpoint character for watchers who are entering this world, especially those who are as excited about dinosaurs as he is. In a familiar trope, the campers overcome their differences to work together as a team—and become friends. The trope is familiar because it works; we’re rooting for these scrappy underdogs to make it off the island and get back home.

The Cliffhangers

But it’s important to know that season one does not end with a conclusion to the story. Spoiler: The kids do not make it off the island. They’ve been abandoned by the adults and left to fend for themselves, because despite their best efforts, they miss the last ferry.

Despite this uncertain fate, the season finale does feel like it wraps up the larger arc of the season. It closes with assurances that the campers believe they’re going to make it, that adults are determined to come back for them, and that a missing camper survived (more on that below). The season certainly feels finished, even if the story is left completely open-ended.

But while the season finale isn’t a true cliffhanger, a large chunk of the episodes are. This is not a one-a-night before-bed TV show. This is a show that’s designed for binge watching. Episodes 2 and 4 end at relatively safe places, where the action isn’t imminent, but those are about the only two that offer a decent pause. If you’re planning to watch this as a family, leave more time than you think you need. (Parents like me will be just as eager as their kids to see what happens next!)

The Jump Scare

In the tradition of Jurassic Park movies starting with the very first one, Camp Cretaceous relies heavily on the adrenaline pumping of the jump scare. The opening scene of the first episode places viewers in a first-person video game perspective as Darius plays the official Jurassic World game—something not revealed to the viewer until a T-Rex’s jaws come closing down to black out the screen, just before a “Game Over” symbol.

There are plenty of moments throughout the series where the main characters think they’re safe, and danger appears out of nowhere, threatening everything. Sometimes the viewers share the sudden revelation of danger—that surprising shock of teeth and claws right at the forefront of the screen. Some kids thrive on this type of action; mine (five and ten) ended up attached to one arm on each side as we binge watched the last four episodes. Compared to superhero action, where the impact always affects someone else, Camp Cretaceous’s intensity comes from putting the viewer right at the center of the action.

Death

It should be no surprise to anyone familiar with the franchise that people get eaten by dinosaurs in Camp Cretaceous. The animation is handled very delicately. Viewers never see any of the details of the fates of these usually unnamed park employees. The one named adult who is eaten, Eddie, has just stolen a vehicle from the campers, which is likely to make viewers feel substantially less sorry for him. His scene is fairly dramatic: viewers watch him try to escape from the Indominus rex, who ultimately prevails in getting a human meal, and his screams, though quiet and faraway, are certainly audible.

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But it’s not just seeing people get eaten, or knowing that the kids are finding what’s left of those who were attacked, that makes death loom large over the series. Much of Darius’s motivation comes from losing his father to an illness. The pair had promised to visit Jurassic World together, until Darius’s father’s sickness got the better of him. In one of the most touching episodes in the season, viewers see Darius’s father in his hospital bed, fighting for his life—but losing. Viewers don’t see his death, but Darius’s loss feels palpable. We needed a box of tissues to deal with those scenes, but for kids who fear losing parents to illness—particularly in the midst of a worldwide pandemic—it’s important parents are ready for those scenes going in.

There’s also the tease of the death of one of the campers. In the last episode, camper Ben plummets from a monorail into the jungle below, his fate unknown to the other campers. By this point in the series, the campers have survived a number of long falls before this—zip lines are supposed to be one of the fun features of the camp, but when the campers are using one to escape the Indominus rex, the fun gives way to fear. In one episode, Camper Yaz jury rigs a zip line to evade a leaping Mosasaurus in a horror version of a Sea World aquarium. So it’s not a certain thing that Ben died in the fall—and the fact that the campers choose to continue their escape without looking for him is one of the big, ethical moments in the series, where the kids choose the chance that the five of them will survive over the likelihood that, if they search for Ben, all six of them could die.

Ultimately, Ben survives; his fingers twitching as his companion dinosaur discovers him are the last things viewers see in season one. But that moral question has no easy answer, and sometimes it’s those bigger questions that challenge younger viewers, even more than the scary parts.

Romance

There’s no explicit romance in season one, which is more focused on friendship than other teen drama. Kenji, the oldest and richest of the campers, makes several comments about impressing girls, and once claims to describe himself as a “tall hot drink,” a comment met with groans and one, “Gross.” (Brooklynn, a social media star who has a deep love for her espresso machine, tells Kenji, “You could never be coffee.”)

One close friendship does develop between two girls, and while fans of other Dreamworks shows like She-Ra and the Princesses of Power may start shipping them, budding romance at this point is only wishful thinking.

My Family’s Takeaway

All kids are different. My ten year old found the intensity and the jump scares much more upsetting than my five year old, who was all about the cool dinosaurs. Both relied on me to assure them that things were going to be all right at the end, which was a bit of a leap of faith on my part, since I was also watching the series for the first time. Thankfully, Dreamworks did not let me down: all the kids made it out alive, and if all of us dropped our jaws that the kids actually failed to get off the island, it just whet our appetites for a second season.

Some kids, especially those who have watched other parts of this franchise, will handle the show’s intensity like champs. There’s almost no gore (the kids get dirty, but I can’t recall seeing any blood in the entire first season), which makes it slightly tamer than the cinematic parts of the franchise. The trailer is a good indication of the tone of the show, giving examples of how the music heightens the tension, and how danger lurks around every corner. If you’re still not sure, the first episode makes good use of all of those elements, and while the stakes are absolutely higher as the season goes on, if you think your kids can handle the first episode, they’ll probably be fine for the whole season.

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That said, I’m really glad my kids didn’t watch the show on their own. We’ve had no nightmares, but I think that’s in part because they watched it with a parent, who could help them feel safe in spite of the intensity. As it turned out, watching it with them really enhanced my experience as well. My vote? Make this a family night watch and share in the awe and wonder of dinosaurs together.

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ciaossu-imagines · 8 years ago

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Next up for the memes is Reborn! The meme used is here and I hope you’ll enjoy the headcanons!

What’s their go-to fifteen minute meal?

Reborn hates microwave dinners or any other quick meals, excluding pre-mades like croissants or pastries. He loves instant ramen though, especially if the instant ramen in question belongs to someone else and especially so if it belongs to Tsuna.

How would they describe their perfect vacation?

Exciting. Action-packed. Thrilling. Reborn doesn’t like relaxing. He finds it stifling, all that peace and quiet. It doesn’t feel right to him. He’d rather do something thrilling, like go undercover for the Family or take up the most extreme of extreme sports during a vacation than he would just sitting around by the beach, getting sunburned and feeling forced to take it easy.

What’s the most read book on their bookshelf?

It’s definitely Shooter’s Bible Guide to Firearms Assembly, Disassembly, and Cleaning by Robert A. Sadowski. Fun fact - Reborn can take apart any of his guns, clean it, and then reassemble it, while blindfolded and hanging upside down, in just under thirty seconds.

If they had to describe themselves as a type of shoe, which type would they choose? Why?

Reborn would probably describe himself as a longwing - something classic, that never goes out of style, that goes with almost anything, that grabs attention without being flashy.

What song would they choose as their theme song?

Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers. Just for the laughs and because honestly, it sounds cool.

What’s the oldest item in their refrigerator?

Reborn doesn’t stock his own fridge. Everything that is in the fridge is there because Nana or Tsuna or Bianchi or someone else put it there. If it was up to Reborn, the fridge would be mostly empty or just have a few bottles of different condiments in there, as he’d almost constantly eat out.

Do they have an emergency treat (ice cream, cookies, candy, etc.) hidden somewhere in their kitchen for bad days? What is it?

No. Reborn’s moods change so much when it comes to food that he knows that what he’s currently craving at that moment will not be what he wants when the ‘emergency’ happens. It’s best if he just eats what he wants when he wants it. He doesn’t mind the extra effort of going down and hunting down the food he wants.

What’s their weirdest bedtime ritual?

If he’s actually going to bed and not simply napping, Reborn has to be wearing his sleep cap and his hair has to be away from his face and ears. He cannot sleep with any hair in his face whatsoever. The sensation really annoys him.

Who/what is the one thing that can make them smile no matter how terrible their day has been?

Leon is definitely the closest that Reborn has to a best friend and is the only thing guaranteed to make Reborn smile, even if it’s just the barest upturn in the corners of his mouth. He’s not a real, live person but Reborn doesn’t mind. He actually prefers it that way, honestly. It’s easier for him to deal with Leon and the lizard doesn’t bother him to talk when he’s down or nag at him to go here or there. Leon simply is and lets Reborn be as well, all while staying by his side faithfully, doing whatever’s needed of him.

Where do they go when they need some time alone?

Reborn will have a few coffee shops in any area that he likes to frequent. He doesn’t go continuously to the same one - there’s too much risk to the staff if he frequents one cafe and one cafe only since he does have many enemies. He’ll have at least two, or if not three or four, that he goes to and which one he picks will depend on how bad his mood is and what he’s craving. He likes coffee shops - they’re great for being able to just sit at a table, behind a laptop or a newspaper, drinking coffee and idly people-watching while you think.

What’s one conspiracy theory that they secretly agree with?

Reborn knows enough of the secret’s hidden in the background of society to find things like Freemasons and Illuminati secretly pulling the strings of the world to be completely plausible.

Who’s the person they most want to tell when they hear a funny joke?

Honestly, in a sad turn, it’s always Luce. She had such a dry sense of humor for someone so sweet and she never failed to make him laugh. She had sass and he’d love nothing more than to hear her toss back something witty and fun to one of his brush-offs, would love to hear her make a joke out of some silly thing he was doing. Alas, some things are never to be.

What’s the first section of the newspaper (or online news source) that they check each day?

Reborn secretly loves celebrity gossip and always checks entertainment first, even though he denies this vehemently.

Who would they call to bail them out of jail? Bonus points if you describe why they were arrested!

Reborn would never end up in jail. He’s entirely confident that he could always allude arrest. However, in the 0.003% chance that he did get arrested for any of the numerous crimes he commits on a daily basis, he’d definitely expect one of his two students, either Tsuna or Dino, to come right over and bail him out, especially without expecting him to repay the bail money or explain why he was in there in the first place. He probably wouldn’t even think to thank them, though he would be thankful. He just doesn’t want them to know that.

What’s the one scent that most reminds them of home?

Cigarette smoke, talc powder, and grapes. His mother was a smoker who used this scented talc powder. It’s all he thinks about whenever he smells either of these things and the smell is good, nostalgic, though always a bit painful. His childhood home was right next to a vineyard too and on the hot days, all you could smell in the air was grapes.

What do they consider their greatest achievement?

Honestly, though he’d not admit it, Reborn considers his students his greatest achievement. Seeing them grow and progress until he finally sees them become men - strong, confident men, leaders of their Families - it's the best feeling. The sense of pride he has in them, the love he holds for them is something he hides well but definitely feels strongly.

How much time do they spend on the Internet each day?

Reborn spends a fairly small amount of time on the internet, either through his cell phone or a computer, during the day, maybe about 30 minutes or so. He has a few newsites he automatically checks in the morning, along with checking emails through the day. He also likes to use the dictionary.com app for the Word of the Day and might be an occasional fan of internet poker.

What’s their go-to procrastination activity?

Reborn tortures his student when he’s bored or putting off doing something he has to do but doesn’t want to do. It’s so much more fun, after all, making Tsuna do silly things and put up with insane circumstances - and educational as well - than it is, say, replying back to a letter or trimming his sideburns.

If someone where to make a movie of their life, who would they want to play them?

Honestly, this is something Reborn has never considered. He’d really consider it too, if he ever had to, picking someone who not only resembled him (if just a bit more handsome) but was also a good actor. He’d probably choose someone like Aidan Turner.

Is there a number in their phone that they should definitely delete but just can’t seem to erase?

No, there actually isn’t. He uses disposable cell phones and never keeps one for longer than a week. It’s a habit he slipped into while working on more dangerous jobs than tutoring Tsuna and it’s something he can’t seem to stop doing. However, he still has an old address book, hidden deep in his things where he doubts anyone would ever look, filled with all kinds of numbers of people he can’t see, doesn’t talk to anymore, or deceased people...the one number that bothers him though is his mother’s. He was always a bit of a mother’s boy while growing up and once he became an Arcobaleno, he had to disappear, had to die. He couldn’t ever see his Mamma again and it tore his heart out because she died less than a year after he did, some say from a broken heart, and he couldn’t even attend her funeral.

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Nfl Spherical-Up; July 23, 2008

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Our Four Seasons 2016 Fiat 500X Gets Freaky and Laps Road America

BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin — Bobb Rayner gets to the crux of what makes Fiat freaks Fiat freaks well into his presentation at the national club’s awards ceremony Saturday night. And he does so by repeating a quote by Automobile founder David E. Davis Jr. every year at the Fiat Freakout, held this time around in metropolitan Milwaukee.

“The Germans invented the automobile. The Americans made it a dispensable product. The Italians taught it how to dance and sing.”

Can our Four Seasons 2016 Fiat 500X Trekking Plus live up to that standard? What if it dances like Elaine Benes on “Seinfeld”?

Flashback to two days earlier: I pull our orange 500X into the Sheraton Hotel Brookfield parking lot to a section cordoned off for club members’ Fiats, Alfa Romeos, and Lancias. There are more Bertone-designed Fiat X1/9s here, running the full original-to-modified spectrum, than you might have thought survived. There are nearly as many 124 Spiders, mostly the 1966 to Malcolm Bricklin mid-’80s imports, a couple of new Fiat 124 Spider Abarths, and a Barchetta brought in from Canada. Some random Lancias and Alfa Romeos. A couple of 600s, a boxy sedan or two from the ’70s, and a 1971 Zastava AR-55, a preternatural Fiat Chrysler based off the Jeep-like Fiat 1101. Probably half the lot is filled by the new generation of Fiats, especially 500s and 500 Abarths, plus two other 500Xs, one 500L, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

Tim Beeble, in the lab coat, left his ’74 Fiat 124 Spider at home and instead drove his green 500X from Connecticut. But he will not be our long-termer’s toughest competitor.

With no organized events this Thursday evening, just a few club members hang around. One asks, “How do you like your 500X?” The question comes up again Friday for the drive to Elkhart Lake and Road America and on Saturday morning at the Concorso. I reply with something close to, “I like the way it handles. Not crazy about the powertrain.”

Drizzle the next day forces some of the 124 Spider drivers to raise their soft tops before we reach Elkhart Lake in the afternoon so we can retrace most of the original public- road race circuit. Then it’s on to Road America for three laps before sundown.

“We’re only going to go 40, 50 mph,” our Road America pace-car driver, Bill, tells us at the drivers’ meeting. “Enjoy the scenery.”

We enter the circuit somewhere in the middle of the pack, persistent drizzle keeping the road slick. I slow down and speed up for Jessica Walker in the passenger seat. She is taking photos of other Fiats on the track. My nephew and budding car guy Jeffery Dziadulewicz is having the time of his 17 years in back, even with the enforced slow, offline pace. On this hilly, wooded 4-mile racetrack, “America’s Nürburgring,” we might not see either of the two Corvette pace cars assigned to us after the first corner. Even with 78 Fiats, Lancias, and Alfas on the track, there’s room to spread out between the two 500s behind us and the 500 and X1/9 ahead of us.

“Too slow!” Paul Perger exclaims after we finish our laps. He brought his 500 Sport, modified for autocrossing, up from Lewis Center, Ohio.

Eric Fredricks of Davenport, Iowa, went “off on the grass” with his often autocrossed 500 Abarth, “and I just got back on. There were cheers from the infield.”

On Saturday morning we arrive for the Fiat Freakout Concorso at Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Conservatory, known colloquially as The Domes, thanks to three half-spherical glass greenhouses. Although I’m a new Fiat Club of America member, I haven’t spent much time meeting the organization’s muckety-mucks, which speaks to its casual attitude. Somewhere along the way, I shake hands with the club’s president, John Montgomery, who’s about to step down after 17 years.

Although some of the autocrossers in the Fiat Club of America wanted to go much faster, a speed limit of 50 mph or so on the spectacular 4-mile Road America circuit was plenty for most cars.

Club secretary and board member Tim Beeble is one of my two competitors in the 500X class, having driven his Verde Bosco Perla 2016 500X from Connecticut instead of his ’74 124 Spider (with 154,000 miles on the odo). On this sunny summer Saturday morning in the beer capital of the world, he’s wearing a white engineer’s lab coat and helping to usher cars into The Domes’ northeast lot. I have to pull our 500X out of formation to let in more traditional Fiats showing up later.

Pep Stojanovic’s 1971 Zastava 101 was restored in Serbia. The interior needed just a minor refurbishment. “It smells like Yugoslavia in there,” he says.

Will it hurt our chances for first place if we’re parked out of formation? What about the trim cap covering our car’s rear window wiper arm bolt that has been missing since before I drove it east from El Segundo, California?

I give my nephew a nickel tour of the Italian cars gathered, and the budding car guy quickly becomes a budding Fiat guy. He gravitates to the X1/9s, though he peeks under raised hoods and asks about every model.

I find the Concorso’s single rear-engine 500, a 1960 model. But it has oddly bulging, nonoriginal headlamps. “I’ve had lots of Italian cars,” says Frank Nezrick, a physicist from St. Charles, Illinois, while standing next to his other Concorso entry, a 1960 Fiat Abarth 750 Zagato “Double Bubble.” The bulge-headlamp 500 has a better story.

“Franklin Roosevelt’s son brought it in for his race team,” Nezrick says. The feds told him its factory headlamps were too low for U.S. specifications, so the little car would either have to go back to Italy or face the crusher. “I don’t care if your father is president,” a bureaucrat had added sarcastically.

Alfa Romeos and Lancias are also invited to join the Fiat Club, including Dale Gordon’s award-winning, 25,000-mile 1977 Lancia Scorpion.

Dale Gordon, an anesthesiologist from Libertyville, Illinois, lobbies for my People’s Choice vote as I approach his 1977 Lancia Scorpion.

“One of 387 of the 1977 models sold in the U.S., 1,755-cc engine,” he says. “First flush windshield, only 1,801 made in 1976 and ’77. It’s got 25,000 miles. I’ve never opened the [targa-style] roof. I’m afraid to.”

A couple of boxy malaise-era Fiats actually are Soviet-era models built under license that belong to Pep Stojanovic, who runs commiecars.com. His 1971 Zastava 101, essentially a Fiat 128 hatchback, was restored in Serbia. The interior needed just a minor refurbishment.

“It smells like Yugoslavia in there,” he says.

Michael Louviere drives his ’52 Topolino around town and on dirt roads in Anamosa, Iowa. He proves a keen observer of the Fiat community, so I ask him whether X1/9 and 124 Spider owners ever switch sides.

“It’s not unheard of, but it’s typical for people to be in one of the two categories,” Louviere says. “Spider guys sometimes dabble in X1/9s. X1/9 people typically don’t go to Spiders.”

Spider fan Laura Ives has never switched. She bought her 1972 Fiat 124 ragtop in 1973.

“It was between an MG, because my family is British, and a Fiat,” she says, sitting between her husband, Richard, and me at the Fiat Freakout Awards Banquet Saturday at the Sheraton Brookfield. “The Fiat gearbox was easier than the MG’s. I loved it.”

From left, winners of second, first, and third place in the 500X class line up. Below, Fiat Club co-founder Bobb Rayner says, “Buy a car, get an award.” And we do.

The Ives couple, from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, joined the Fiat Club of America in 2001 in order to attend their first Freakout in Grand Island, New York. Metro Milwaukee marks their fourth such event. Ives rejects the Italian brand’s reputation for poor reliability.

“As the car gets older, it’s good to meet other people trying to source parts,” she says. “I guess I’m lucky. The hardest parts to find are 13-inch tires.”

The Fiat Club of America is Eastern U.S.-centric, with most members living on that side of the Mississippi River or in Ontario or Quebec. Bobb Rayner, the awards ceremony emcee, co-founded the club with Dwight Varnes in Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1982, reacting to Fiat and Alfa Romeo’s impending withdrawal from the U.S. market.

Rayner, a presenter on home shopping channel QVC, gets to the heart of an enthusiast brand that’s within reach of virtually any driver.

“We don’t care how shiny and fast and expensive your car is.”

This warms my cold auto journo heart. It might be a cliché or even a stereotype, but it’s clear even from commodity products such as Fiat that Italy’s efficient, modern auto industry thrives with a workforce that knows how to take a good lunch break. Likewise, the Fiat Club of America draws sociable people who know how to throw a party more than they care about how to perfectly restore a car.

With that, the Fiat Club awards seven individuals and 53 of the 124 cars entered in the 2017 Concorso.

Ives’ ’72 takes second place among the 1966-’74 124 Spiders, Louviere’s patinated Topolino gets the Most Challenged award, Stojanovic’s Zastava 101 wins the Fiat Del Mondo class, and Gordon’s Scorpion takes first in the Fiat/Lancia Sport class. The Car I’d Most Like to Drive Home is Mark Rowan’s 1967 Fiat Dino coupe, and the People’s Choice for Best of Show goes to Nezrick’s Zagato “Double Bubble.”

In the Fiat 500X category—“Buy a car, get an award,” Rayner quips—Bryan Reiners of Hartford, Wisconsin, takes first with his tastefully decaled white XUV, Beeble’s emerald green car gets second, and Automobile’s Arancio Four Seasons car is awarded third. Ours proved shiny, though neither fast nor expensive. I should have replaced that wiper arm cap.

Our 2016 Fiat 500X Trekking

MILES TO DATE 21,748 PRICE $26,230/$27,730 (base/as tested) ENGINE 2.4L SOHC 16-valve I-4/180 hp @ 6,400 rpm, 175 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 5-passenger, front-engine, AWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 21/30 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H: 168.2 x 75.5 x 63.7 in WHEELBASE 101.2 in WEIGHT 3,292 lb 0-60 MPH 9.8 sec TOP SPEED N/A

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