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supercorp-hosie · 3 years ago

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My thoughts for Legacies 316: (here we go again😂)

(I’m combining after thoughts with live thoughts)

1) The soundtracks for this episode are amazing, they fit very well even for Finsie that I heard that a lot of people were complaining on Reddit.

2) I finally get my team Sowanby! I just feel so much from them! They kind of make a great team, but please, do not go on another heist again. You both sucks at that! The holes are, the museum don’t have a fucking alarm for Leonardo DaVinci’s work? Are you kidding me? And Landon beating the shit out of the guard but not putting him out first is so dumb. The worst is Cleo calling Landon’s name so loud, I can’t😂😂😂😂😂😂 you don’t want people to be on your back when you have the Malivore threat going on guys! And ha! You guys are on the headline! That’s why I really feel like these supernaturals are so outdated and solidified from modern technology, even in 2030! Are you going to tell me everything technology will still be the same like now?? Come on, there’ll be cameras watching everywhere. Like they can see Cleo using magic! I need my Trimini (or bridge) coven and Hope starting to integrate the supernatural world with the modern world. About Trimini and Hope future career, click here.

3) the line about “many who shaped it are never acknowledged” I stand! After that, about the key card my random thoughts were about Landon being the one that stole the key card😂 just out of the blue and I’m proven wrong though.

4) Landon bonding with Cleo!!!! They thought the same way, and “I can promise that anyone that have to get to you, they have to get to me” is so strong! But the scene after, is the moment I started really doubting Landon, the look is too alarming. But there are still Sowanby scenes😭😭😭 and the melted heart mud... I mean I genuinely believed that the spell didn’t work because Landon is also mud himself. But in hindsight it is horrific, like the serial killer is just standing next to you but and the signs are right in front of you.

5) Malivore mud being artistically friendly! I can’t haha! Oh and when Holarke walked on Sowanby inspiring moment🤣🤣🤣I can’t, they act like both of them are cheating on one another it’s hilarious. Thank you for acknowledging each other Holarke and Sowanby🤣. By now, I should have known that’s MaliLandon. It’s humiliating because Holarke and Sowanby got me so happy that I didn’t see the clues lmao! Because there’s this line: “Following the footstep of the Renaissance greatest man? ” but this thing, Cleo only did it with Leonardo, with whom she slept with......

6) And damn, after that, I felt like a FOOL, CLOWN, WHATEVER after that! All I have for team Sowanby is fake 🙃🙃🙃🤡🤡🤡 Anyway we still have to admit that the promise still stand true right, cuz it’s literal.🤣🤣🤣 MaliLandon fulfills his promise by eating Cleo. TYPICAL.

7) Holarke! Clarke is still handsome as ever😍. We can see his presence is clearly affecting Josie and making Hope giving him information. Can we talk about how cute is he sleeping soundly here?

8) Lizzie being the only unaffected queen here. AND IT’S FINALLY LIZZIE’S TURN FOR “AD SONNUM” I can totally see her pleasantness in doing that to somebody after being on the receiving end🤣🤣🤣 Josie and Hope had done it before so now we actually see her doing it. I somehow feel completed.

9) The look Hope and Josie shared. Hosie!

10) Josie is going to be the death of me! I like her look. And how the camera moving upward gosh! And I’m totally digressing here, what is a razzleberry? And what is a slush? I have no idea what they are, I just feel like tasting what she tasting now. Lizzie’s line, crashing and splashing😂 Am I colour blind? Cuz I really can’t tell whether Hope is wearing dark blue or dark green 😅 if it’s green, then the traffic lights colour are back again lol. If blue, then Hosie matching clothes! Did Finsie ever have matching colours? I’m just wondering.

11) Hosie scene! They talked about how seeing Clarke traumatised Josie~~ damn and Josie says traumatised is her permanent resting state. I mean even on her birthday she was buried alive lmao. And Hope wants to help Josie stop the traumas by sacrificing herself to defeat Malivore, like by literally dying. Which she didn’t want because she didn’t want to live forever.

12) Holarke scene again! I love all those banters and their dynamics😂😂 how Hope is the only one that trusts Clarke now. The mimic spell! It’s their thing😍😍. Oh it totally surprised me that Clarke isn’t mud man anymore. I’m really happy for him, because he finally break himself out of the abuse! It seems like triad is totally gone?? But I still kind of think that there may be something more? And Clarke’s reaction to Hope opening the artefact! 🤣🤣🤣 and the way that Clarke sensed the familiarity with Cleo! Yea boy, she’s the inspiration to the creation of you.

13) Clarke keeps calling Hope and Landon kids🤣 how’s the feeling of getting kid!Hope kicking your ass and saving you😂😂😂 oh she’s totally your equal. Frenemies at best! YES! I love Holarke bonding. And the fact that Clarke being Hope inspiration to believe in friendship and her family now can help her to defeat Malivore, I Stan! Don’t lose sight of the corner! Josie! Lizzie! Clarke! Yes you have them! I’m glad that Clarke didn’t die, I’ll be so mad because the writer would be bringing him back for nothing. Oh the incendia is painful, affecting me more than the fake looking MaliLandon eating Cleo. The height difference again🤣 with Holarke this time.

14) I love Maleb clothes, not really shipping them just short form for their bromance😂 but I do enjoy if there suggests shipping cuz it’s fun! Love that them being supportive of each other, superheroing, and the hero name🤣🤣they’re clueless too. Poor Kaleb and Cleo. I really need his backstory 😫

15) about hero names, I’m still having playback of “blursome and essential” in my mind. MG is looking at the mask longer than Kaleb, I feel like he’s missing Ethan, like a lot. Another thing is, since we see the effect of someone else being compelled so clearly, but we never seen Ethan’s compelling effects. Or it’s a budget matter? They must be kidding right? So maybe Ethan is really faking it? So that leads us to Lethan....

16) if my suspicion is true, then damn, Ethan is using Lizzie to get into SBS? I’m worried for Lizzie’s wellbeing. Also the look on Josie when Ethan drives near tight after she said like some eligible will fall out of the sky🤣🤣🤣 the timing is impeccable lmao. For real, Lizzie wanting Ethan to be Hope’s rebound after her kiss with him in the trio imagination, is ....so the trio is now sharing guys now? Jandon is still there in the history! It’ll be like a very messing love multi-triangle😌😌😌

17) the way Lizzie talked about how Hope is perfect the whole way and judging by the day when they arrived at SBS? That’s very long! Lmao, Lizzie are you sure you’re not in love with Hope? Hizzie rights! (I don’t even know when I started to ship Hizzie, it’s a mystery🤣) I think I can only talk like that about my love. Why don’t you make you and your sister Hope’s rebound? I’ll be happy with what I get🤣

18) The decision to bring Ethan on a tour, is so bad. What if ethan ended up enrolling SBS and Alaric can’t deny the application? Did she ever think of that?? And Josie and Mg is going to face the consequences in the near future🤣 dreadful! From there I already felt the cliche sweetness that when you’re trying to be a wingwoman and ended up “selling” yourself out🤣🤣 fuck CW for cutting the scenes of Lizzie’s epic facial expression when she was slapped with her own words😂😂😂anyway, it’s no way she can refuse the ask out after 315 where Lizzie still thinks that she can’t be the chosen one when Hope is there, but someone actually chooses her even after all the Hope is perfect speech. As much as I mourn for Methan and Mizzie, I’m happy that she got someone to tell her that. But I think they’re destined to backfire😅

19) so does the Mizzie “will they won’t they?” officially end here? I’m confused. Btw it’s really a way to mention Sebastian’s death being relocated permanently 🤣 oh wait...she knew that that prison world is destroyed forever right????? Someone save me.

20) okay I have to go back before Ethan picked the twins up: while Lizzie is actually worrying about themselves being stranded, Josie is just more concerned about Hope? Hosie! Poor Josie, she never sees that she is Hope soft spot and can totally make Hope happy too. Look at your dumb joke at 103, Hope’s laugh is magnificent too. It’s because of you. And yes I’m with Josie, I just ship Hope with herself and her axe right now, don’t put her with anyone for at least 5 more episode please.

21) The one that doesn’t dissolve into goo! Now is Clarke! And the both of you my dear twins. Btw, the dna thing, where Clarke confirms that dna is still toxic... so it applies to Landon too right? And it’s now just more overwhelmingly apparent that handon sex is without protection. Yea so much for epic love. And this is about the possibility where (hopefully) it’s not MaliLandon when the sex scene happened.

22) Finsie time! I got to say, it’s really improving. Their scene is beautiful, finally. That feeling that they’re nice together is now going on continuous for me. I’m happy for them! They are now stepping up on Hosie, not derogatory, I’m just seeing some parallels from hosie here. The disclose of Ethan broken arm, where Hosie has done, before that there’s Clarke’s traumatising Josie thing with Hosie. Next, the focus on the hand holding, I’m thinking of 207 and others. The “me being here with you”, with hosie 308 “then I’ll be here with you”. The whole thing is very comforting for Josie. The hug is good too. We can see that they finally have some nice scene and the bgm is good for them.

23) I have no idea what is magical agronomy, so I look it up. Again, that shows how Josie love plants, like someone in Reddit said they observed that Josie’s side of room has several plants. And in 307, the herbs, that she remembers. I think it can help a lot if Hope is starting a magical technology company. Josie’s interest in that can come in handy. They’ll make a great team. About TRIMINI INDUSTRIES tap here.

24) we are still missing Jed here. Justice for Jed. We need Jed real first name. Did anyone notice when the super squad faces MaliLandon there’s no werewolf present? They’re really downplaying that huh? But maybe I can be satisfied that they are not making Finch being there but not Jed.

25) We need to address this thing about Handon. It’s like one and a half time that Hope couldn’t recognise that Landon is not Landon right? We still have to give credits to her memories shared with Cleo actually make Cleo kind of recognise the difference? So half a time. I agree with Josie’s words that Landon makes Hope happy. I mean, yes, most of the time they failed in working but there’s still sweet scenes between them. So that’s actually what makes Handon tolerable. They are what makes me only do facepalm rather than skipping them. So yes of course Hope has happy moments with Landon. Just that it doesn’t mean that they’re good together.

26) it’s always Landon’s bros that first find out Landon wasn’t Landon😂 this time is Clarke. It’s Clarke that tell Hope, “Landon will never leave you”. That’s the inconsistency of the writers, not counting MaliLandon’s time, it’s still two times. And there’s time that some will argue that Landon’s feet literally walk away from Hope. So...that’s not true, do not stuff that in our throat anymore. “I always thought you two are destined to be together” is this the writer way of saying they’re not doing Handon anymore or otherwise? Cuz “thought” is past tense and “are” is present tense. I’m tired. It’s normal that Hope still wants Landon to be happy and still love him. But after the breakup, when she still doesn’t know that it’s MaliLandon, the “still dying to get Landon again” is obsession. Girl, it’s derogatory to your self-esteem. “If a mud man like me can beat his fate, maybe you kids can too” yea that’s Handon going on.

27) we shouldn’t need to be told that Handon is epic love multiple times. We should be able to feel them, see them ourselves. Why did I start approving Finsie now, because instead of them being only all talking and no showing, now we see them working well (until now). I have been widely accepting to any other legacies ships and why I never ship Handon? So really these multiple telling us that how good is Landon to Hope, is not working. I’ve never been so frustrated.

28) Let’s appreciate the Handon parallel with 101. It’s interesting that how Landon is inside the cage and Hope is outside the cage again. The meaning of the cage has deep meaning here. Handon first kiss is in the cage, that kind of mean that their love is trapped there. Like how their relationship being so troublesome and bound by these fateful encounters. The lights are quite similar, handon always has this blue lighting for them, which sometimes it’s kind of weird. The first time it is Hope decorating the ceiling with stars for Landon. It’s sweet, but also implying that what Handon has is the false beauty of them and not keeping the cage symbolism in mind. In other way of interpreting it, this is the writer foreshadowing their endgame. Cuz they’re trapped there, no way in no way out.

29) I think I’m not the only one bothered by the mostly lack of real Landon appearance in s3. As we can see how MaliLandon words sits so right about, Landon not belonging to SBS if it weren’t Hope. Then he leaves with Cleo, that’s a thing for Sowanby too, they still don’t have roots with the school, and it’s a great bonding between them, friendship or not. It’s the bond between them that matter. In 314 315, we always see that the students were totally fine without Landon. Like the three trios paralleling? It’s sad that Landon is like bouncing here and there in SBS but never really belong. And now the writers kind of ripped his personal development. So now he has neither his pheonix powers nor fighting skills, great? And even Hope’s growth too. We are seeing her moving to a good direction and the writers have to drag her back in the hell hole. Hope needs to not always looking at Landon for her happiness, it’s not good for the both of them. Like MG said, be your own person.

30) THEORIES regarding Landon: a) It’s MaliLandon all the way? I hope not, it’s reminding me of Lost Girl that one of the characters slept with the father personating the person she loves, and got pregnant. Tell you what was more alarming? When the episode ended, I was recommended to move on to Lost Girl on CW seed. It’s disgusting! Why do you want to help make me hate Handon? I don’t even hate them initially! I’m like struggling to be logical and lean on the positive side here. Why I can’t move on from this possibility: first, I’ve always headcannon that Malivore has partial control over Landon. Like how Landon actually wasn’t lying in 102 103? That’s Malivore. And Handon, as genius as always, doesn’t talk about it. Second, the way that Landon dissolved, he was human back then, but he turns into goo? how does it even work? If he is human, toxic to dna will make him die, not become goo, right? Even if that wasn’t a problem, it can also be MaliLandon trying his luck. Third, Malivore purpose is to make the perfect legacy, he will totally give it a try to make tribrid-Malivore babies. Fourth, during the inspiration from Cleo, MaliLandon has Landon’s memories, enhancing the theories that Malivore has partial control over Landon, so even if it wasn’t MaliLandon, it’s still partial-MaliLandon. Fifth, after the inspiration, MaliLandon said that he doesn’t need Hope to tackle his problem or for his purposes, which means he initially wanted Hope, thinking getting to Hope can help with his purposes. It’s really not a far-fetched.

31) THEORIES regarding Landon: b) it’s real Landon during sex, but Malivore got him in the prison world. While having Landon’s personal growth ripped and Handon still dragging out are not pleasant at all, this is still a more pleasant theory for me. At least Landon did start fighting for himself after sometime, and while the sex is still partial-MaliLandon, at least it’s not MaliLandon. (I’m always using at least for Handon 🙃) maybe we can still have Landon fighting skills? Cuz I was happy for him about this though. But I just don’t think so. The evidence for this theory is, my feeling about Landon in 306 is that it kind of fits Landon personality, but he did start his violence there. Another thing is the letter. There’s care in “to whom it may concern”. However, that can be just me being simp. And there’s also possibilities that the partial control from Malivore is cultivating Landon’s behaviour starting there and slowly taking control. Because making a deal with the devil always has its consequences. It’s either that or Landon was taken after the letter.

32) regarding the picture above, i just want to point out about another interesting point about the structure of the scene, if you scroll back and see sowanby picture with the door and another bonding talk, you can se that there’s always pillar and frames that’s framing or trapping them together. Like Handon. I mean that’s totally MaliLandon, so this pointing out is not mean to be romantic. It’s just a thought about how devastating that Cleo is stuck in something her whole life, especially the picture structure that implies that she’s stuck with MaliLandon again.

33) overall I’m thinking this is a good and disgusting episode. With all the unexpected twist, it’s really good, there’s actually layers in showing us that Landon is not Landon every time. Then those bonding. The soundtrack, the scenes. Disgusting, is about the theory, and how we are all tangled back to Handon again after we finally have some fresh air. Not to mention the always surprisingly convenient that Landon always has an excuse when we see Landon did something bad to Hope. Like he can never be making big mistake while only having little questionable doings that can’t possible tarnish him being the perfect person in the show. The first time he lies, Malivore controlled him. During the pageant competition, he is justified to walk away when he totally chose the wrong timing to ask that question, leaving Hope alone breaking in front of such important event. 207, monsters are coming for him, he’s protecting people by leaving. Musical episode, he needs to cross boundaries because it’s bound to be, without further reasoning it with Hope, when Hope specifically was very respectful of him in 111 about his songs. And now, this. That’s not him, we can’t blame him. He will never be blame for something big because the writers is biased. Very biased in making that Landon is better than anyone else in the show, so he’s the perfect guy for Hope. Like no one can compare with him. He’s almost perfect. Perfect than Hope.

34) Reflect on what Hope did in 308, MG is kind of right, she shouldn’t have touched it without fully prepared. Because it totally let Malivore running out free instead of him being an originally contained problem. It’s for the good view in whole. Heroes make hard decisions. There’s still the hair thing cut from Hope and Golem!Landon.

These pictures is my work, while it’s easy to get it yourself, and not that I’m professional in doing this. But I still did screenshot them one by one and did some editing. So please like or label the sources when you save or use it. ♥️

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fairycosmos · 4 years ago

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this is very random but i was searching on tumblr to find some pictures of ancient artifacts from my countries because they're SO beautiful but all the pictures i found were sourced from european/american museums and auction houses and i just couldn't bring myself to reblog them because like ... they were very clearly stolen from my country lmao i wholeheartedly support you guys in hopefully revolting against the royal family but when you do make sure to empty out your museums <3

(text indicator: this is only partially a joke because i obviously don't expect you personally to overthrow the queen lol)

:(( that’s so fucking sad dude. genuinely from the bottom of my heart, i am so sorry you have to experience that. can’t even imagine the headspace of what it must be like - like the level of frustration. i don’t understand how it is a well known fact that we stole these artefacts and jewels of such colossal value, and yet there hasn’t been a single repercussion. not even the common decency to give all of it back. literally for what?? what exempts them from having to abide by the same rules as the rest of us when the horrors they commit are on a much wider scale than anything any random person has ever done and been punished for?? i know the answer but i’ll never stop asking the question. it’s truly disgusting. when we overthrow the old bitch, the museums are the first to go i promise. then i’ll invite u to take what u like from buckingham palace. from that point it’s just legally yours bc that’s how this works apparently ! lol fr though it’s truly the most awful thing. i know it’s a long shot but i really hope we live 2 see the day they pay for it all somehow

#ppl would say im overreacting but i think everyone collectively undereacts to them n the shit they do/did #anon

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roguish-gallery · 4 years ago

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Did you ever make that joker tier list, I always like seeing what people think of all the different ones. Though if they put Romero last I can no longer respect them.

LMAO I DID! I think I’ve made it kind of obvious in this blog but I... don’t... particularly... care... for... the joker.... unless he’s, y’know, fun to watch. Cause he’s a clown, and clowns are supposed to be entertaining. But since you politely brought it up, and and because I have a deep respect for mutual Romero-lovers, I guess this would be a good time to explain my rankings and just discuss my general thoughts on each clown:

General Thoughts:

For the most part, I don’t really care for the Joker. This is hardly an uncommon opinion here on tumblr, but I definitely fall on the side of the fandom that feels that he gets too much attention from DC. I get WHY they use him so often for films and comics, and I don’t have anything against *most* folks who consider them their favorite Batman villain, but at this point he’s used more for shock value and as a crutch instead of anything interesting. Like, instead of giving attention to the other Rogues, writers (at least for the comics) will try and make up some bullshit story that they can shoehorn the Joker into, ‘cause it sells. It’s tiring, and I feel like the character has lost his meaning; I can only read so many stories about the Joker, I don’t fucking know, wearing a suit made from dead babies and Jason Todd’s flayed corpse before I get sick of it.

I’m at the point where I’ll like any Joker who’s just fun to watch. I genuinely respect those who prefer darker interpretations of the character, but that isn’t me; I vastly prefer the lighthearted takes on him, because... at this point... writers who use the “cleaner” version of him tend to be more creative, since they actually have to write a Joker story that doesn’t rely on gore/torture porn.

TIER ONE:

Joker Baby: Self explanatory. Joker Baby is thematic, thoughtful, and intense. Everytime I watch this video, I shiver with fear and pleasure; something primal in me awakens whenever Joker Baby runs his fingers through his spray-on dyed hair, and ends up smearing green paint on his forehead- it represents the inner turmoil, the chaos, that resides within the disturbed body that is Joker Baby. Nothing can ever hope to top the artistic and cultural impact Joker Baby has had on society.

TIER TWO:

Batman Ninja: I genuinely believe that Batman Ninja is one of the most fun, organic, and creative things to come out from the Batman side of DC comics in like... hmmm... a decade, maybe (I could talk for hours about how much I love this movie but that’s something for a future post). This Joker is easily, and unironically my favorite interpretation of the character, period. I love his energy, his design, everything. This is the most fun I’ve ever had watching a Joker on-screen, and for that I’ve gotta give the film credit where it is due.

Batman ‘66: I looooove Caesar Romero. Batman ‘66 in general is one of my favorite pieces of Batman media, and I absolutely adore this Joker. The show is pure, genuine fun, and it’s nice to turn my brain off and watch a show where the entire cast was allowed to goof around. This Joker is just a cute, goofy little clown-man who likes to commit crimes, go surfing, turn Gotham’s water reserve into gelatin, and have wild orgies with Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler. I massively appreciate the hustle. I love his little mustache and his facial expressions. I’d give him a chaste little kiss on the cheek if I could.

The Batman: EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL TAKE BUT. I think TB!Joker is better than what people will give him credit for. I can only imagine how stressful it must have been to be the first Batman cartoon to follow BTAS and the writers for this show knew they were gonna be fucked no matter what they did with the Joker, so they just decided to try something completely different with him. Personally, I appreciate the new direction- he has a fun, unhinged energy. I’ve placed him higher than BTAS/BTNA!Joker simply because The Batman was the show that got me into the Rogues in the first place, and I’m just a bit closer to this Joker because of it. Also his vampire form was cool as FUCK in Batman Vs. Dracula and the scene where he gets drenched in blood at a blood bank is fucking awesome.

Batman the Animated Series/The New Adventures: Everyone loves BTAS’s Joker, and I’m no exception. Mark Hamill is fucking great, and the writers clearly knew the character well enough to create a version of him that can be fun and threatening. As an aside, I unironically like his redesign in BTNA- I remember Hamill mentioning somewhere that he thought it was neat that this Joker looked more like a shark (I’ll see if I can find a source on that... I think he said it in an interview with Kevin Smith?) and I kinda agree with him. the redesigns in the final season are hit or miss, but I didn’t get why so many people bitched about the Joker’s new look.

Batman Unlimited: Hear me out... Hear me out... Clown... funny... and cute... He wears a little crown and gives Solomon Grundy a little smooch on the cheek and it is as delightful as it sounds. Yes the Batman Unlimited films literally only exist to sell toys but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them on some ironic level.

TIER THREE:

Lego Batman: He’s a gay icon. He has the range. Enough said.

White Knight: This is just a genuinely good, original take on the character, and the art in White Knight is absolutely gorgeous.

Arkham: My friends and I joke that this Joker is basically a more unhinged version of BTAS! Joker and... yeah. I’m glad Hamill and Paul Dini got to fuck around with the character more, but I never really dwelled on the Joker parts of the games like I might have for other characters. I definitely liked him the most in Arkham Asylum, as he was more fun to watch. Arkham City was fiiiiine, but I think I replayed the game so much that I kinda got fatigued with everything about it. Genuinely hated his part in Origins, and I was pissed that he stole the attention from Black Mask and Bane (who’s the best fucking part of Origins IMO). I’ll admit that I... Haven’t... played... Knight yet (I have it on PC but my laptop is too wimpy to run it) but like... He’s dead at that point, so I’d assume he isn’t the main point of that game anyway. I love Mark Hamill and the fact I can personally beat the shit out of this Joker, so he’s ranked up pretty high for those reasons.

TIER FOUR:

Batman ‘89: TBH this Joker should be a rank higher, but I’m too lazy to hop onto PicsArt to change it. NIcholson was an excellent choice, and I apprecaite how this Joker makes use of the playful and unhinged aspects of the character. Also, his outfits are cute, and I love the museum scene.

Brave and the Bold: Technically this Joker SHOULD be ranked higher since he’s literally based on the more lighthearted comics in the 60′s but... ehhh... I haven’t really watched BATB so I don’t have any strong opinions on the show and how it handles the character. he’s ranked this high through beause I appreciate what they were going for.

Golden Age: The quality of comics are always subjective, based on the creative team behind them. Some I’ll like more, others less so, It’s kind of hard to rank the pre-52 comic version of the Joker because of this.

TIER FIVE:

Killing Joke: Read it, didn’t care for it. I acknowledge how massive the impact this comic had on... everything, but just because I recognize how important this graphic novel is, doesn’t mean I have to like it.

The Dark Knight: Ledger did an excellent job with the role, but uhh... I’m kind of sick of the alt-right chuds who are out there sucking this Joker’s dick. The fanbase definitely ruined the character for me.

TIER SIX:

99′: Eh

Endgame: No

Suicide Squad: NO

Death of the Family: Hate him. Despise him. Lame stupid dumb little edgy bitch.

Gotham (Jeremiah): I don’t particulary care for Gotham in general, but the only reason I ranked this Joker over Jerome is beause I thought it was kinda funny to see that they made him a little rat-man, and I liked watching all the fujoshi on here cry and complain that they can’t ship this version of the joker with the pre-pubescent Bruce Wayne in the show bc he’s too ugly.

Gotham (Jerome): stop shippping this freak (who is fucking eighteen years old) with a literal twelve year old child. what the FUCK is wrong with yall.

UNRANKED:

The Joker (2019): I don’t plan on watching this film, nor will I ever. I know this is ironic, coming from someone who runs a Rogue blog, but stuff that focuses primarily on a character’s deteriorating mental health makes me reaaaaallllllyyyyy anxious (it’s kind of a phobia) and considering that I don’t particularly the Joker, I have no reason to watch something I know will only give my dumb ADHD-ass intrusive throughts.

#tier list #this was nice to finally write out- I don't typically write Joker stuff unless someone prompts it #the joker #gonna tag this as discourse just to hopefully keep it out of ppl's feed #bc i know how... defensive... joker fans... can get...#discourse #long post

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cursefound · 4 years ago

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introduce yourself! name & pronouns & a little blurb about yourself.

ayo whaddup im molly i’m 27, i go by she/they & i never learned how to fuckin read (: jk i talk in vines and tiktoks. i’m in pst and always looking forward to making new friends <3

describe yourself as a writing partner are you laid back? incredibly enthusiastic?

ok so i’m both incredibly laid back and enthusiastic. idk how else to describe it like you can take all the time in the world with a reply idc and if i ever forget something (which i definitely might since i’m working again) pls don’t ever hesitate to remind me about a thread we have i will 100% apologize profusely every single time lmfaoooo

i like yelling about my characters, but also am always ALWAYS interested in hearing about yours!!!!! i’m a hoe for plotting and honestly love pre established relationships, but i’m not opposed to just writing starters and going from there too <3

who are your characters? you can use this to quickly introduce your muse(s)

so i have the twins, altaïr ( pronounced al-tai-air ) and elliot trivan, and i have arcadia flamel !

altaïr is a hitman/sugar daddy vampire, elliot’s a fisherman/mage, and arcadia is a thief/treasure hunter/archaeologist/tiefling (:

plot ideas what types of plots would you like to see for your character(s)?

for altaïr, i’d love some sugar babies 👀 and for arcadia she has someone looking for her because she stole from them ( something extremely valuable i imagine ) that she either sold or gave to seattle’s local museum so they can study it or whatever. and maybe said person who was stolen from finds her and just wants That Thing back so they either pay her to get it back or they try to kill her lmAO. also !!!!! for elliot, i’d love if someone would come up to him and be like “what are you doing in the light i thought you were a (whispers) vampire” meanwhile elliot’s just like and i oop 👀

wanted dynamics what type of relationships would you like for your character?

elliot needs fwends, altaïr needs a boss or a target, and arcadia,,,,,,,just wants to not be judged for the way she looks ):

honstly though, i’ll end up writing more about their wanted relationships/dynamics a little later.

present headcanons what is your character(s) doing in the present?

presently, elliot likes his day job as a fisherman. he usually sells what he catches at the pike place fish market in the mornings. he’s a little exhausted, though, because altaïr’s been on a slightly sloppy feeding binge lately and elliot’s been cleaning that shit up for him ( even though altaïr has no idea elliot’s even in seattle ). and then we have arcadia, who just came back from the amazon rainforest and is sorting through her finds. what a fucking nerd.

do you have any inspirations for your muses ( spotify, pinterest & ect )

i have a pinterest for all three right here ! my inspirations for altaïr & elliot are actually my twin star wars ocs that used to be a knight of ren and not really a grey jedi, but he does believe in both the light and the dark and how there’s a middle ground, and he’s def a force user lmaooo. and arcadia’s based off of another oc who is literally a tiefling archaeologist thief (:

#bw.intro

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trans-elrond · 5 years ago

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the sweet sweet tea: aka why archaeologists hate steve green

in response to @chillnaturalistvibes, who asked me to “spill the sweet sweet tea” about Hobby Lobby... I live to serve. here’s my “brief,” salty summary of the mess. (i reread A Biblical Mystery at Oxford by Ariel Sabar for this post and encourage you to read it too, if you want more info and some KILLER investigative reporting!!!)

circa 2009, Steve Green, Hobby Lobby’s CEO, is intent on making his Museum of the Bible ~THE PLACE TO GO~ for evangelicals in Washington DC, a kind of... anti-intellectual Smithsonian if you will

Steve’s problem: he has nothing to display at his museum : (

Steve’s solution: black market antiquities lmao... just go and buy anything that could be useful to point at and say “see??? Bible real & Good”

enter highly respected Oxford academic Dirk Obbink (henceforth referred to as Dirk.)

Steve probably LOVED having Dirk involved because, according to the article, “He was so towering a scholar that the Greens could counter accusations of religious bias simply by citing his involvement”

note on Dirk: his “Philodemus on Piety: Part 1 [1996] vaulted him to the highest echelon of classical scholarship ... Part 2 was due out in 2003. Seventeen years later, it remains unpublished.”

what can you say? writing is hard! stealing from Oxford is... comparatively easy i guess??

you heard me right... Dirk Obbink stole Oxyrhynchus Papyri (owned by the Egypt Exploration Society, housed at Oxford) and sold the papyri to the Museum of the Bible

Dirk “sold the [Green] family more than 150 papyrus fragments—for a total of between $4 million and $8 million“

Dirk also bought a faux medieval castle in Texas (on an academic salary, I THINK NOT) to be close to Baylor, where he thought he’d work after getting kicked out of Oxford... again, lmao

literally there has never been as scandalous a scandal as highly respected professor STEALS papyri FROM OXFORD !! can you imagine the movie this will make someday

Dirk also lied about papyri containing fragments from the Gospels: he claimed to the Greens that he could date them to circa 100 AD, which would be a BREAKTHROUGH in Biblical studies.

they’re actually late second or early third century, which makes them... a normal and not at all groundbreaking discovery.

there is a LARGE and hilarious subplot about the Museum’s acquisitions director Scott Carroll. Carroll saw himself as a “modern Indiana Jones” type and desperately wanted to be someone who Discovered Something Cool

don’t go into ancient studies to be Indiana Jones, kids. just don’t

please enjoy/weep with me over this excerpt from the article about Carroll, on his super duper special technique to discover lost bits of papyri from mummy masks (I should also note that archaeologists used to utilize this technique to find papyrus scraps, but no longer consider it ethical because it actually destroys the mummy mask:)

“He filled a sink in the classics lounge with warm water and Palmolive dish soap, plunged a mummy mask into the suds, and began swishing it around. Then he withdrew a wet fragment and presented it to awestruck students ... The fragment turned out to be a piece of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. “The kids were bamboozled: ‘Wow! Wow!’ ” ... Before his demonstration, Carroll had discreetly set a piece of papyrus beside the sink, and Jeffrey [David Lyle Jeffrey, a medieval-Bible scholar] had glanced at it. When Carroll withdrew the wet Romans fragment ... Jeffrey recognized it as the piece he’d seen beside the sink. Carroll, he realized, had only pretended to pull it from the mask.”

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway time for ME to dump a mummy mask in Palmolive dish soap water and withdraw a FRAGMENT OF ROMANS so that the students will adore me and that i’ll finally feel like a REAL HERO / REAL MAN

anyway all these fraudsters came to light when, in 2015, Scott Carroll, pardon my French, fucked up.

he spoke at a church in North Carolina about his work, and mentioned “a Gospel of Mark from the first century … in the possession of an outstanding, well-known, eminent classicist … Dirk Obbink.”

naturally this was Big News for Biblical studies people, and the Egypt Exploration Society realized that these fragments could only be the ones they owned. they gave Dirk the ultimatum to hurry up and finish publishing his papyrus findings — but publishing the findings would only reveal that Dirk was illegally selling some of them!!!!!

the Egypt Exploration Society realizes this; Dirk got his comeuppance by getting removed from Oxford and his Museum of the Bible position, but still protests that he was “framed” (??) and it wasn’t his fault. the police are still technically investigating him

Steve Green returned a bunch of papyri & antiquities of “questionable provenance” to Egypt & Iraq and apologized profusely/pathetically over how he was the victim/poor wittle baby antiquities dealer who couldn’t have possibly known that he was purchasing not only Dirk’s stolen antiquities but also other black market antiquities

on the note of other black market items, the US government notes on their press release about making Hobby Lobby return stolen goods and fining them $3 million: “an expert on cultural property law warned Hobby Lobby that cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals were particularly likely to have been looted from Iraqi archaeological sites. Hobby Lobby proceeded to purchase a set of 5,548 artifacts in late 2010“ again, all i can say is, lol

anyway, given the chance, i would fist fight steve, dirk, and all involved parties in any given parking lot over the sheer, incomprehensible stupidity, lack of care, etc. that they demonstrated in stealing, lying, and generally mucking everything up for everyone

also white men who go into archaeology wanting money and fame and Great Discoveries................. we invented the guillotine for a reason right ?

to make you truly happy, @chillnaturalistvibes, Steve Green came to Wh*aton in 2019 to give a talk for some club (business club?? idk) about how to be a Good Christian Businessman, and I was Incensed, and the archaeology club did consider protesting it, but we’re only like 7 people so we just stewed in our anger instead :)

tl;dr Steve Green sucks ass, didn’t care at all about black market looting and shady antiquities dealings, paid Dirk Obbink 4-8 mil to steal papyri from Oxford (questionable whether Steve knew they were stolen or not, but either way, he did NOT do his due diligence,) got fined $3 mil and thinks he’s the victim here

thanks for coming to my TED talk !! happy to yell about hobby lobby and steve green whenever you want!

#archaeology #u can reblog if u want #correct me if u find anything wrong in here i'm just spitballing & quoting the atlantic article!!#long post

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hey emily, i wish we could swap climates we’ve got snow! snow! no one wants snow i almost fell just putting stuff in the bin dfnjsk i think any cql/mdzs spinoff would be good. imagine a baby xue yang one, or koi tower from mianmians point of view. (ok i’d watch anything tbh). yeah i’m hoping 2021 will be better! it was nice seeing my friend today but i miss us going to the cinema or out for food. just things that aren’t normal any more. i love your travel vouchers tho, that’s so cool! do you

have any ideas of what to do? my government are fools, so they would never, but i like your optimism. omg videos on facebook haha i think i found it on viki or somewhere, but i don’t remember? it wasn’t easy to find. i would love to see all your facebook friends freaking out at your zombie cultivator film ahh i love that we had the same ideas about sects! i didn’t know it about the jiangs until i looked it up, (idk if it’s in the book i don’t recall it?) but the wens have long been 🙄

i think while wwx was dead, nhs was pretending to be a fool but now he’s been exposed he is absolutely the best by far. i would love to see him helping out lwj in his chief cultivator role, all behind the scenes of course. poor jin ling! you’re right, but also that poor kid haha. i kind of wondered about the lans, much as i love them, who is leading them post cql? is lxc in seclusion? is it lqr still?? omg i forgot i had one before this one was well. but wow you’ve really stuck around!

it’s a hellsite but i love it. where else can i make gifs and scream about current obsessions and contribute to fandom. i just went into archive and i made this in jan 2016. wow. ok last set before the reveal!! (i stole this one from someone else bc i love it) who are you bringing with you on a roadtrip, cql edition? who is riding shotgun? who is driving? who is asleep and/or snacking non-stop? who is in control of the music? who is the navigator? and where are you going? and for non-mdzs tell

me three things that you are happy about or proud of yourself from 2020! let’s get positive before 2021 hits! or if that's hard - i know i didn't do as much as i wanted - any resolutions for 2021? /your cc💜💜

hi classified cultivator!!!!

lmaooo the visual of slipping while taking the bins out 💀😭 OMG a baby xue yang one!! please!

oh yeah! yay i’m glad your catch up went well ❤️ ahh so true - i honestly can’t believe that 2020 made going to the cinema and going out for food with a friend impossible/illegal! like WHAT.

if i could drive i would totally get a travel voucher and organise a road trip and winery tour or something!! ahahah there’s also this place in my state where it’s a “open-air museum” (according to wikipedia lol) made to be set in 1850s australia during the gold rush. i’m pretty sure ALL melbourne primary school aged kids have a school camp there and i would LOVE to go back. so yeah lmao the victorian government can fund me trying to relive my childhood HAHAHA.

LMAOOO maybe they’ll be inspired by australia 🥺💀 (also lowkey i think the two of us jinxed the 60 day no covid community transmissions because i JUST found out that there have been 3 locally acquired covid cases discovered today 😳🧍🏼‍♀️)

HAHAHA omg 💀💀i’m so so so tempted to put it on their feed and then see if anyone asks me about it. and yesss our minds ❤️ omg yes nhs helping lan zhan with the chief cultivator role would be so nice! HAHAH there are so many questions about post cql 💀 this is why fanfic is the best honestly

“it’s a hellsite but i love it” so so true 💀❤️ i recently acquired more brain rot - shipping luke skywalker and the mandalorian 😭😭 i’m actually obsessed. people’s minds are so massive.

ahahah omg perfect question ❤️ so with the travel voucher given to us by the victorian government, myself, nhs, mianmian, wen qing, and wwx would go on a road trip and spend a weekend getting absolutely wrecked at a winery (hopefully a cider brewery too bc i don’t like wine 💔) 💀 wwx would probably ride shotgun bc he’s needy like that but nhs, mianmian and i would have more fun riding in the back so it makes wwx sad LMAO wen wing of course is driving and navigating using the gps bc she doesn’t trust anyone and also is in charge of the music but she has taste so it’s all good. wwx is either snacking non stop or asleep there is no in between.

ooo that is hard!!! i’m totally blanking while trying to think about three things i’m happy/proud of 😳 like i know i must have achieved things but uhhhh mind empty 💔 i might go with the resolutions ahah!

my resolutions are to do driving lessons, get my license, and buy a car. i’ve been saving all year for a car 😁 i just need to actually learn how to drive 😳 all the experience i have is that i’ve sat in the drivers seat and driven like 5 metres LMAOOO.

that road trip question was so good!!! bahaha i stole SO MANY questions from other people and asked them to my partner ahaha. i mean uhhh, i got inspiration 🧍🏼‍♀️

how would you answer the road trip question, and what are you proud of/what are your resolutions for next year? ❤️😁

thank you for the questions!!

(omg ALSO I NEARLY FORGOT TO TELL YOU!!! i read a mianmian/wen wing fanfic the other day and it was really good!!! i’ll link it here!! it’s called for the peace inside my mind. it’s an arranged marriage pining everyone knows they love each other stupid gay people one)

#mdzsnetcc

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purplesurveys · 4 years ago

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Do you have a pair of Beat headphones? I used to have a pair. I mean it’s still around in my closet, but it’s completely broken now with the cable all given out and the cushion for the left ear has been missing for a while. I just don’t have the heart to throw it out because it was my absolute favorite pair of headphones that gave me good memories during a particularly shitty time in high school.

How was your week? A little better. I’ve gotten into the groove at work so I’m no longer shy when it comes to asking questions and giving inputs, and I’ve gained a better grasp of the workplace’s dynamic so it’s also been easier to communicate with people. Heavy life stuff is still around and it won’t be leaving for a while, but they were easier to ignore this week.

Are any of your electronics not working properly at the moment? Not really, but my phone’s charger cable recently stopped working. I have a backup that I’m using at the moment and while it’s able to charge my phone, it’s starting to fray and I’m not feeling too good about the wires that I’m starting to see hahaha. I just don’t know how to take care of my cables, guys. Anyway, this question made me paranoid so I took a few minutes to wrap a shit ton of electrical tape on the frayed area so I think it’s all good for now.

Are you excited to pick out your wedding dress one day? I like thinking about my wedding but I truthfully dread the wedding gown part. I’ve never been able to decide what look and style suits me best and I’ve just never been good at determining things like that. I like to imagine that I’d leave that bit to whoever my maid of honor will be, because I’d definitely prize a second opinion more than my own.

When was the last time you felt relieved? Yesterday, 6 PM when I exited the last Google Meet for the day. It was a Friday night and it meant my work week was over :)) I mean I love what I do, but Friday nights will always hit differently.

Does it bother you when an artist remakes a song that one has previously done? I wouldn’t say it bothers me but covers are definitely a hit or miss for me, with way more misses than hits. Nothing wrong with acts putting their own spin on an already existing song, but I’m personally the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” type when it comes to music.

What brand of chapstick do you use? I don’t use any mainly because I’m bound to lose them within a week. Same goes for other care products.

Do you really think someone could be perfect? No. Everyone has their flaws and that should be okay to acknowledge.

When was the last time you cried? Wednesday, I think. It’s been three days! I’d count that as an achievement. But idk, my sadness comes in waves so I shouldn’t be celebrating too early. I’m sure I’ll feel a pang soon and be crying again over the weekend.

What’s a food that you like every once in awhile but not often? Cake. Too sweet and rich; I wouldn’t enjoy eating it every day. What letter is the song you’re listening to under? Not listening to music, but I have a YouTube video on.

Would you rather visit the 60s or 70s? 60s would be the lesser evil, I guess. I would NOT want to live through Martial Law in the 70s...I originally wasn’t even going to go with 60s because I think the world was a bit chaotic at the time, but I think my country was mostly unaffected by the political/cultural things happening then so it’s whatever.

Are you the type of person that enjoys getting hugs? I don’t actively seek them out but it feels nice when someone likes me enough to extend their arms out to me for a hug. I haven’t been hugged for a while and I feel kinda empty.

Do your socks say anything on them? I think some of my socks have the brand name on them but that’s it.

Name a TV channel that only has three letters in it. AMC.

Have you found out who your true friends are? For now, yes.

Gray or Grey? I use both spellings for no particular context. I simply like changing it up lol.

Will you be buying concert tickets any time soon? LOL of course not. And I’m very picky when it comes to concerts that I choose to attend anyway, so I doubt I would’ve bought any tickets in the last six months even without Covid unless it was for Paramore or Beyoncé.

Have you seen the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower? Did you like it? Nope, but everyone was hyping that movie up when it came out. It never really looked like my thing < Yeah pretty much. I feel like it’s such a teenage-y movie so I was never drawn to it. I also think it would be too triggering for my depression, so I’ve felt wary about checking both book and movie out.

Is there something you’d fall apart if you didn’t have? One of my biggest fears is to end up alone, so I always have to have some form of a support system to fall back into. I would be very lost if I didn’t have at least one person to rely on.

How many weddings have you been to? I can think of four off the top of my head. I was either a flower girl or a junior bridesmaid for all of those.

When you smile, are you confident? Most times I am; I like to smile. But sometimes I smile just to fake it and avoid any questions.

Have you ever not done something because you were afraid of getting in trouble? Yesss, all the time. I’ve always been all about following the rules and I’ve never seen the appeal in breaking them. That makes me sound boring but at least I’ve never gotten in serious trouble lol.

Was the weather beautiful today? For me it is, but only because I like the rain and cloudy weather. Others might find it bleak and sad, but I feel right at home.

Do you have to have a fan on when you sleep? Yeah, all year long.

Would you rather have an orange, red or gray bedroom? If I had my dream modern/brutalist home, grey would be soooo fucking perfect for the bedroom.

Would you ever dye part of your hair blue? I’m open to it, but I don’t think it’ll be a good match for my black hair as both are darker shades as it is. If I could dye my hair I’d pick lighter colors like green or even go all the way to blonde.

Have you ever gone to a private school? Yeah, from kindergarten all the way to high school. Private schools here typically give a better quality of education and they don’t give off the for-lazy-spoiled-kids vibe that I always hear from private schools in other countries, which makes them the norm for middle and upper-middle class families.

Is Finding Nemo a favorite movie of yours? I have other favorite animated movies, but that doesn’t stop me from loving Finding Nemo. :) I would always tune in for the whole thing if it were on.

Does/Did your school have a uniform? I had to wear one in my first school, but I didn’t need one for college.

Turn on the TV. What channel are you on? No TV where I am. I think my parents are watching a movie on their TV, but it’s on Netflix rather than a channel.

Does your house have security cameras? It does not.

Does a popsicle sound good right now? Eh, I guess it sounds fine but I’d rather have a pint of ice cream. I think that fits better with the weather and the mood that I’m in today.

What’s your favorite exercise workout? My weight training class last year was a lot of fun. I always felt dead after every session haha but I definitely felt healthier. I wish the semester had gone on longer just for that one class.

What’s your favorite thing to do? Lol I love doing many different things < Same lmao this question is so vague??? My favorite thing to do these days is binge-watch Rhett and Link content, but I like doing so many other things too.

What did you do for your 17th birthday? I was with Gabie that day and we went to a local art museum, as well as to a restaurant that she had wanted to take me to.

Does your local Walmart have benches in them to rest? We don’t have Walmarts.

Was your favorite stuffed animal really a teddy bear growing up? I never had stuffed animals. Well I was given a few of them as gifts, but I was never into them and they always ended up being owned by my sister.

If your house was haunted, what would you do? Not even think about it. Just show them that I couldn’t care less, lol.

Are you good at swimming? I can do a few strokes and am pretty good at treading, but I'm prone to panic-kicking when I can tell that the water is too deep.

What’s worse: Slow internet or slow walkers? Slow internet is such a pain in the ass. Shouldn’t even have to be an issue in 2020 anymore.

What is the rudest thing a guy has ever done to you? Cat-called, whistled at, winked at, lunged at. One good thing about this lockdown is that I haven’t had to deal with men as much as I used to. Do you sleep with the sheets tucked in or out? Well I only have one layer of bedsheet and it’s the one that covers up the mattress, so it’s tucked in by default. I have a blanket to cover me up when I’m cold.

What do you do to fall asleep faster? I find a few videos to watch as that tends to make me feel sleepy the quickest.

Do you carry a bottle of water wherever you go? I used to have a tumbler/water bottle in college but I forgot it at the gym one day and when I came back for it, somebody already stole it :( It was such a handy water bottle because it kept my water cold all day, so it sucks that I lost it. I’m planning to buy the same model again soon.

Are you afraid that one day you might get cancer? It doesn’t really run in my family save for one grand-aunt who had cancer, so I’m not too worried. But I’ve accepted the fact that it is at least a possibility.

Are you a fast or slow walker? I like being in the middle. Slow walkers are annoying so I try not to be one, and walking fast just reminds me of my mom and how quickly she walks at malls when she’s supposed to be spending time with her family lol.

Do you usually have to wear a belt with your pants? No. They all fit me just fine.

Does it bother you when people’s underwear hangs out? Eghhh, it really does. I know it shouldn’t but it really does. I just feel like it’s so invasive and it gives me a lot of secondhand embarassment.

Are you usually the person to try new things with your hair? Not really. I like staying safe with my hair. The most daring thing I’ve done with it is get bangs tbh, and I don’t plan on going any further than that.

When’s your birthday? April 21st.

What age do you look forward to reaching? I don’t feel that way about any age. Whenever I reach ultimate satisfaction and security will be a good enough age for me.

Name a state that begins with the letter M. Minnesota.

What’s the first thing you do after a car accident? Think about how to tell my parents. D:

What do you use to get rid of bad breath? Brush my teeth, drink water.

What exercise do you hate the most? Pull-ups.

What do you do at a party? Drink, socialize, tell stories, eat allllllll the food ha.

#survey #surveys

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blookmallow · 5 years ago

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adopted a child (again) and investigated some Crimes

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would really love to know what you did to get a name like that

belethor will let me take this goblet

but NOT this goblet, this one is off limits

sighs...... i cant do it i cant just leave this child sleeping on stone pathways

i dont know how the hell she intends to get all the way to whiterun by herself but im gonna say the whiterun guards escorted her

lucia looks like she was about to Fight that fox i promise she wasnt lmao but look at them.... my girls,

WHAT NO

yi KEs,

damn it now ill never be able to ask her why shes called that

also whoever did this clearly. stripped her, too, so thats. fucked up

im wondering if this was preventable or not, it doesnt seem likely that you’d be able to solve the case before this happens but i wonder if its possible to kill the culprit before this point

nobody would understand why you did it so you’d probably be labeled as a murderer yourself, but. could you potentially save her

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

so there was a suspicious abandoned house and i got permission to search it, found THIS FUCKING SECRET ROOM BEHIND A BOOKSHELF WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FULL OF HUMAN REMAINS

this house is also for sale lmao and i want it SO FUCKING BAD (i dont know if you get all the crime scene gore too or if its gets cleaned up when you purchase it lmao) but it seems like this house isn’t purchasable without getting involved in the stormcloaks vs imperials situation and i dont really want to side with anyone so im just like :/ :/

also found this and it doesnt do anything but i am going to wear it forever now

its of value to me shut up

hell yes

i put this outfit on just to see it im still trying to find armor that is at least sort of functional and looks cool bc like. my vampire armor is great but it covers up any necklaces im wearing... they still work/people still react if you have an amulet of mara on but i cant see it :(

anyway this evidence line led me to believe wuunferth was the butcher and he got arrested

you are SO valid

WHAT DID I DO

I JUST WENT TO RIVERWOOD TO SELL SOME DRAGON BONES WHAT DO YOU WANT

they all attacked me IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOWN and i killed them all, which. didnt seem to affect my reputation in this town/label me as a murderer or anything but to be fair they absolutely attacked me first

searched the corpses to try to figure out what the fuck and

whomst

who the FUCK are you i never get caught stealing shit i dont know you

after the very loud violent fight in the middle of the town everyone just sorta seemed to forget what just happened and sven walks up to this dead mercenary just... the saddest voice “oh... what happened?? :(” and just keeps walking i m LAUGHING

i eventually figured out lortheim is a talos priest in windhelm, who i had no memory of and i usually dont steal anything from temples so i have NO IDEA what this was about

went to confront him on it

bastard just looks me in the eye and goes on talking about talos like he didnt just hire like 5 assassins to try to murder me in broad daylight in the middle of a village

he didnt say shit and i still dont know what the fuck i did to him the only thing i can think of is maybe i stole a book or something or like. accidentally pushed a button too fast and grabbed something but id imagine if he had caught me i wouldve noticed and reloaded to either. unsteal it or try it again,

granted i steal things a Lot but usually not like. from temples or from just random innocent people. whatever fuck this guy but i dont care enough to try to kill him for it

anyway then the girl from the windhelm stables turned up dead in the streets while wuunferth was in jail so it WASNT him actually, staged a stakeout at the abandoned house to find out what the fuck was going on

IT WAS THE MUSEUM GUY :( :( :( :( i liked him god damn it what the fuck

i mean that definitely explains why he was. lowkey “hey you should definitely give that amulet to me. no one else would want it haha im really giving you the best price so you should just. give me that. please” at me

wuunferth doesnt seem to be too angry at me for falsely accusing him and his name’s been cleared now but god damn

#lucy plays skyrim

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mimiplaysgames · 6 years ago

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Strength to Protect the Things That Matter (Ch. 25)

Pairing: Terra/Aqua Rating: T Word Count: 5,631

Summary: Terra has prayed for years for relief from having no one to talk to in the dark, except with the monster of a man who stole his life. One day, when two boys chase a lead, he gets his chance - less than a week - to set things right before he loses everything again.

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A/N: I had a flashback scene of Terra interacting with Ventus that was supposed to appear in Ch. 15, “Confession,” toward the end. It seemed like a footnote after the flashback with Aqua in that chapter, so I removed it. I then moved it to Ch. 17, “Vacation.” Terra was supposed to think about this scene right before he helps Sora stand up, finding out where Ventus has been all along. But it lengthened it too much (in a chapter that was so damn long anyway), that I moved it to the beginning of this chapter. And it stuck out like a sore thumb. So this scene will not appear in this specific fic at all and will have to find a place somewhere else, lmao! I can’t believe I am at this part now. It’s almost done! Also, I will be posting WIP updates on Mondays and Thursdays (with the occasional extra Saturday). I put up a dated schedule that you can access here.

Fall

“You have to admit,” Terra said as Aqua dipped two fingers into a small tin of black paint, “you’re having fun.”

Swirling them into the paint, Aqua attempted to muster some strength to keep herself from grinning. But she failed.

“When the Master said we needed to restore the natural balance by retrieving a living boy from the Land of the Dead,” she said, “I don’t think he ever expected us to be doing this.”

She finished painting his eyes, and moved on to his nose.

The last time they made such a colorful mess together, they finger-painted goblins dancing on flowers, on a corner wall tucked away in the castle by the piano. Eraqus spared them the lecture and actually kept their mural all these years.

The last time they touched this much, they were young, long before Terra had developed blood-pumping feelings at the feel of her skin, or from being so close to her. They used to play-fight and wrestle, before he avoided such activity with her nowadays.

Two months until their Mark of Mastery exam, they were now in the Land of the Dead, where she was tracing his nose cartilage. They were on a mission, but Terra admitted he was grateful it gave him the allowance to enjoy so much contact with her.

It turned out that the Land of the Dead had gorgeous streets full of light and vibrant color. It featured buildings for homes, festivals, art shows, museums, and anything designed for entertaining all types of personalities. It was like a tourist attraction, and it had everything a person looking for fun and adventure would expect. Except rain. It didn’t rain here. The dark belly under a bridge where they were hiding for now harbored no puddles.

The people here, of course, were all skeletons. It didn’t take much effort to find the boy, Miguel, the person of interest in a world he didn’t belong. Which brought another problem – Terra and Aqua, too, had warm skin and pulses.

Aqua was against Miguel’s wish to reconnect with one of his famous singing ancestors, believing it too much of a risk for his own life. (She was very sympathetic to his need to pursue music, for she, too, adored it.) When Miguel’s family members, who were his ticket back home, didn’t approve of his obsession, she believed that they could be reasoned with.

Terra agreed with Miguel, believing that the boy had a right to follow his passion no matter what anyone said. He was aware that Miguel had a very limited time in this realm, which could be fatal, but they had enough time, and this created a similar dynamic to all the times Terra and Ventus tag-teamed against her. Essentially pushed into a corner, Aqua went ahead and agreed to do it their way.

The plan was to blend in. A dead friend of Miguel’s, Héctor, went off to find them some clothes large enough to hide their breathing bodies.

Aqua was painting a calavera on Terra’s face to make him look like a skeleton. She traced one finger to make lines across his lips. The paint felt goopy and thick, but her touch was brisk, graceful, yet determined. It was so like her to move this way, and he had to keep reminding himself to stay calm and not let his mind wander on the touch. There were definitely some things he’d like her to do with his lips, and tracing them was not a typical thing best friends did together, right?

Neither was touching the neck this much, but she had to give the illusion that he didn’t have flesh anymore. She was careful enough not to push onto his laryngeal prominence, at the very least. But no care could be given to ease how he was feeling anyway.

Terra, if anything, felt immensely grateful when Miguel, who already had his calavera finished and was wearing a red hoodie to hide the rest, arrived to check up on her progress. An empty, cool feeling lingered on his collarbone as she finished her work.

Miguel burst into a fit of laughter. “I think you would even scare away la parca… the Grim Reaper.”

“What?” He picked up a cracked and foggy mirror laying on the ground next to him.

Aqua had traced and covered his brows with black paint when she hollowed out his eyes. What looked back at him was a very angry skeleton, where the black color gave the impression that his eyes were even darker.

“What gives? You made me look so scary,” Terra told her.

She covered her mouth with her wrist as she giggled, careful not to mess her bare face up. “I’m sorry, I was trying to trace your face to make it look natural,” she said.

When Terra attempted to swipe the tin can away, she evaded – which was usual. Ten years growing up and sparring together, she became a master at dodging him.

“I’ll fix it, I’ll fix it,” she said, swatting his hand away.

“You can add loops and dots.” Miguel traced his finger in the air as an example. “Or maybe something cute to trick the children,” he said with an impish grin.

She dipped her finger into the tin again and quickly went over some lines on his cheekbones and forehead. The mirror showed that she drew some loops around his imagined eye sockets, and a heart right above the bridge of his nose. His chest skipped a beat, careful not to read too much into why she picked a heart for him. But it didn’t make him look any sweeter.

“Now I look like the Evil Lord of Love,” Terra said.

She snorted and Miguel held his stomach, out of breath from his laughter.

“It’s the best I can do,” she said. It was most likely far from the truth. She was probably way too entertained to fix it for real. “My turn now.” She pushed her hair off her face and handed the tin over to Terra.

Ten years growing up and sparring together didn’t prepare Terra for this, but he became a master at hiding his emotions anyway. Each time he traced a brow or a cheekbone in black, or rubbed white onto her cheeks, he consciously breathed out of his nose. It made him look more relaxed and focused that way.

Which proved to be difficult when he finished painting her eyelids. She opened them, and the darkness gave just enough contrast to make her bright, beautiful eyes pop. They might as well be jewels. He wasn’t even aware he was staring until she asked him if something didn’t look right.

Calm and collected, his voice was smooth enough that there wasn’t an ounce of shake to it. “I was checking to see if everything was even,” he said simply.

He was aware of his posture, careful not to lean into her. Even though he really wanted to, especially when tracing her lips. Soft and supple, he had often wanted to feel them. Once wasn’t enough either. Each time he dipped his finger back into the paint was another chance at learning what her lips were like.

He made sure to give her the same amount of care when tracing her neck too. Looking at her head lean back that way, tracing her chin, and coloring down to her crevice – it was better, as painful as it was, to finish the job than to let it drag.

It hurt enough to make Terra almost consider asking Eraqus to assign them on missions separately. Almost. There was too much enjoyment thrown into the mix as well.

The wave of relief that came when he finally closed the tin can was like being salvaged from hunger. Aqua looked into the mirror and approved of his work. Terra even gave her some doodles of small, simple flowers on her temples. Now she looked like everyone else in this world.

A skeleton soon approached them, wearing a straw hat and clothes that were so worn down they had rips and holes. Illuminated from the decorative lights of the streets, Héctor carried a couple of pieces of garments with hoods that he collected for them.

He handed Terra a bomber jacket, to hide the machismo, and stared at Aqua’s artistry on his face. “You trying to romance a demon?” he asked.

“Don’t ask,” Terra said, quickly putting on the jacket, wanting very much to keep any attention away from himself.

“And for the lady,” Héctor said, “a large cloak to hide all the... well, todo eso. Everything.” He made gestures as if to suggest curvature.

The cloak was such a dark brown that it almost seemed black. It was meant for a very tall person: it hung loosely off her shoulders, and dragged onto the floor with the sleeves draping off her fingers.

“I look ridiculous,” she said.

It was Terra’s instinct to cover her mouth for politeness’ sake, but then he’d have to trace her lips again with paint. Truthfully, she looked adorable - though he’d never say it out loud, or she would slap him with excess sleeve.

“It’s more important we blend in,” Terra said.

“Tiene razón. He has reason,” Héctor said. He glanced back and forth between Terra and Aqua, judging them. “Bueno…” he said in a way to suggest that he had no choice but to work with what he got, “You do both look like Fulano y Fulana de Tal.”

Terra’s head shook ever so slightly as his eyes narrowed. “What?”

Miguel dug his hands into his pockets. “He called you some dudes that came from nowhere.”

“Well, if it works…” Aqua mumbled to herself, following the others as they emerged from under the bridge. Her sleeves flopped back and forth as she walked.

The Land of the Dead kept a record of time. The buildings were so tall they were like skyscrapers, with each ascension more modern than the foundation it leaned on. It was as if they kept building on top of old structures, with the bottom floors a remnant of some ancient past. The music and the fireworks, all prepared to celebrate Día de los Muertos, told Terra that death was just a passage to something more exciting beyond what life could give.

It was comforting to know that whenever it was time for Master Eraqus to go, it wouldn’t be a place of suffering (or even boredom). But the separation still had to leave a scar to those left behind, right?

The people here were enjoying themselves, yes. Probably waiting for their own loved ones to join them and make the experience even better.

Héctor led them to the slums. Huts, boats, and wood houses gathered at the harbor down below the city, where the forgotten spirits dwelled. A neighborhood for those who didn’t have their photos propped up on their families’ ofrenda, a shrine where the living honor and remember their deceased relatives. These spirits therefore found family with each other.

The goal was to get Miguel a guitar. The nearby festival was set up in honor of Miguel’s relative, and he needed a musical instrument to enter the competition - and actually get a chance to meet.

The guitar was kept by Chicharrón, a friend of Héctor’s who lived in a wooden house at the end of the dock. He had to have been a hoarder, considering the stacks of random junk inside. Everything looked discarded, as if he was too exhausted to keep it all organized. As if he was the kind of person to desperately find something to hold onto through objects. Only the moonlight illuminated the entirely of the hut, as if he shunned away the joy and bright lights that paraded outside. It reflected on him as well – the bone on his skull and knuckles look sanded down, as if he wasn’t well-preserved.

Chicharrón, lying in a hammock buried under a pile of even more random trinkets, scowled when he took one look at Terra’s face. “Héctor, who gave you the right to bring el diablo here?”

“Even I don’t have the skill to convince the devil to do anything. He came on his own, acere,” Héctor said, as if addressing a friend.

They both argued over the guitar, and agreed that Miguel could use it under one specific condition: that Héctor would sing a song. His friend wanted to savor some enjoyment left, because the guitar was the last thing that was able to give him just that.

And so Héctor sang. A folk song about a woman everyone knew named Juanita. It sounded like a beautiful love song at first. Miguel sat on his knees, in awe of the talent. Aqua had her hand to her chest, her eyes watering over the sweetness of the composition. Juanita was someone whose teeth stuck out, and a chin that caved inward. She wore her hair like shrubbery, and walked funny.

But the songwriter believed himself so ugly that she wouldn’t have considered him a proper suitor.

Terra had expected the song to end sarcastically, but the revelation of such adoration left a hard lump in his throat. What would it have taken for Aqua to give him a chance like that?

The song ended. Chicharrón, satisfied and making peace with whatever was in his mind, disintegrated into dust, the wind carrying away his remnants. He left behind a mess of all he thought was important, now discarded and unaccounted for, alone on that hammock.

It was the Second Death, a process for all whose living family members have forgotten they existed. He didn’t have anyone left in the Land of the Living who cared for him.

It wasn’t gory or terrifying. If anything, it was a pretty sight, but it was the most gruesome thing Terra ever witnessed.

The only source illuminating the clown and the streets around them is the moonlight. Kefka takes one step forward, and Terra prepares a lunge forward, aiming for the knees.

But there is a swish, and a sphere of a gravitational contortion to push the beast back. The young version of Xehanort jumps from the roof he has been patiently waiting on, throwing all of his magical strength onto Kefka with that glowing, teal Keyblade of his.

Terra takes this opportunity to sprint towards the end of the block, where the hospital meets an alleyway, and places the duffel bag of elixirs into a nook. Away from the battlefield. Safe. Hopefully.

Garnet follows close by, and he expects that it will be this way – he will fight, and she will mend his injuries from behind. They just need to survive ten minutes. Leave too soon and Kefka will follow them back to the others.

Xehanort lands near them, resting his Keyblade on his shoulder as Kefka stands back up. “Of all the people you lug around after our warning,” he says, “you follow the one target that pits you in such danger. It’s reckless.”

Terra is about to bark that he will not tolerate any word from Xehanort’s mouth, but there is the clown to mind. Xehanort doesn’t give Terra any chance to say anything, quickly turning his attention on the Heartless.

Xehanort’s powers of teleportation aid him in evading each and every attack, at no cost to his energy. His magic is explosive, and he takes any opportunity to hit at Kefka’s ankles and knees in order to bring it down. Kefka’s body is, of course, sturdy like diamonds.

Terra doesn’t want to ally with him. If anything, Xehanort is just as much as a threat. If he doesn’t stay focused, he might lose his body again. And he can’t afford it. Not tonight. Not ever. Not until Aqua is free can he relax and let go. Not until Garnet is safe.

He swings Ends of the Earth to let out a shockwave of light that sears the cobblestones of the streets. He follows it with a swipe of the old man’s nameless Keyblade, letting out a blow of darkness that doubles the force, ravaging all in its path. It’s certainly an aid to all of Xehanort’s acrobatics. The bastard proves himself a worthy front man to be thrown at risk, so that Terra doesn’t have to put himself or Garnet in the direct line of danger.

But he’s too good to dispose himself.

And yet Terra is not giving out his full effort. Use the darkness, damn it, but not too much. He can’t lose control. The old man will use it to wrest his body back.

Already, there is a headache forming.

He must be stumbling too much, because Garnet seems to keep getting the impression that he is injured. He feels her healing magic envelope around him, and it takes away the hair-pulling headache. So he continues this pattern. Throw light and darkness, dodge, get tired and stumble from the pain, have her heal him. Continue.

Kefka changes its pattern to dance, creating random explosions throughout the area in an attempt to hit Xehanort. Debris crumbles, shaking the ground and tripping Garnet. It’s like an instinct, and Terra forgets he has two enemies near him, shielding her until the explosions stop.

“The bombs won’t ignite!” she says as she looks up at him. “I must have wired them incorrectly.”

She has a remote in her hand. The electric bombs planted in the office building across the street are still. Unless they can get Kefka to ram into them, they will stay silent.

She yelps. The reason why, he sees approaching them. Heartless waggle in patterns as if they can’t tell what they are aiming for. Maybe the potion still has some effect, and the Heartless cannot target them specifically. But it’s still a huge problem.

It takes too much thinking and concentration during such a heated moment to tap into Xemnas’ powers, but he tries anyway. The smaller debris floats up and above the ground, and with a wave of both Keyblades, he sends them flying to smack the various types of monstrosities that are invading the battle space.

“Terra, I need your aid!”

The voice is from behind. Xehanort blocks attacks from Kefka’s six poisonous swords.

Pfft. Let him die. Let him suffer the way Rydia is.

... But then if he’s not there, Kefka would go after them.

Terra focuses his mind on larger masses of plaster, glass, and brick that used to be part of the hospital. They are harder to move, and sweat drops trickle down his forehead. He points his Keyblades at them, as though they are wands to help him take control. They float higher, and with huge swings toward the direction of the clown, he manages to hurl them. Kefka falls back.

But not far enough to hit the office building, where the bombs lay waiting. Terra has managed to hit it in the face. The clown will soon come for him later.

Xehanort flashes him a look of disbelief, disgust emanating from his round eyes. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“Terra, they’re surrounding us!” he hears Garnet yelling from behind. Heartless continue to come in droves.

Fight. Or protect. Dammit, why can’t I have both?

It’s like a stupor that stops him from doing anything as he thinks about his next move. A Heartless lunges at her.

As though his body is responding, a straight wall of bright, electric energy erects in front of the princess. The monster gets shocked by this aggressive barrier, and it all disappears.

It doesn’t hurt. It’s like the fireball he made appear out of nothing. This has to be Xemnas’ powers.

“Stay close to me!” Terra says.

She stands back-to-back with him, and he waves his arms one by one, a Keyblade in each hand, in swift movements that gesture from the ground toward the sky. He visualizes this new kind of barrier forming as fast as a lightning bolt, and it follows. Against any direction where a Heartless is wandering too close.

To be so effective at protecting, while attacking at the same time... It’s like cheating, and it’s great. If only it is more intuitive so that he can do it faster. If only he doesn’t have to think about it, so he wouldn’t get so tired.

Kefka charges toward him. It prepares a force of energy and sends a fistful of it. Terra prays that the barrier will stick around this time. Kefka’s hand meets his wall, electricity sparking to and fro that Terra feels the pain of it in his forearms, as he wills it keep standing.

Something, some kind of energy flickers throughout his skin and reverberates his entire body. Silence.

Everything around him is frozen in time. There is Kefka’s screwed mask for a face, its glowing yellow eyes staring down on him, its smile glued. His barrier is still there, the electricity coming out of it, but it’s stuck in some never-ending moment. The Heartless stuck in postures, as if they are living photographs. Garnet behind him, also immobilized, holding her shortstaff close to her chest, meeting eye-to-eye with some tall shadow that stares back at her.

He has never seen time magic this effective and this far-reaching.

Xehanort pants, adjusting his black cloak. “Why do you insist on holding yourself back when you have all this power at your disposal?” he asks as he approaches.

This can’t be the time when Terra loses, all alone in a timeless space with the one man who will take away everything. He can’t touch Garnet without potentially harming her, the velocity of his movement too fast in relation to the paralyzed state she’s in.

“Unfreeze her,” he commands.

“I was under the impression you wanted to have control over your own body,” Xehanort says, wiping dirt off a sleeve.

“Unfreeze her, now.”

“So the puppet is finally given the chance at controlling the strings that once possessed him, but he hasn’t the courage to take advantage of it?”

“I’d rather cut them.” He stares hard at Xehanort. Perhaps this is foolish, considering that he doesn’t know how long the spell will last. If Kefka unfreezes now, it’s all over anyway. But if he takes his eyes off Xehanort…

Xehanort smirks. “That still assumes you are in control. You won’t be able to have it if my older self is still the puppeteer. You want to rely on powers of nothingness, which you have little understanding of, when darkness will give you all the endless possibilities for power you seek.”

This hits too close to home, darkness tied to all of his limbs. Loss of control and he’s a doll for someone else’s benefit again.

Furthermore, he wishes Xehanort would stop talking to him like he’s stupid. To use darkness too much is the one thing that will make him fall. He grips both Keyblades. Perhaps he has an advantage since he has one more weapon. “It’s just hatred and rage, and I don’t need it.”

Xehanort widens his eyes. “Is that what you think it is? How infantile.” His eyes glass over, and he cocks his head gently, like he’s talking to a child. “It is merely a first step to tap into powers of darkness through negative emotions, with fear being the wildcard because it is the only emotion that is useless as a weapon. But you – and whoever taught you that – are mistaken.

“Fear is only useful in reminding you of threats. It is the one thing that will make you weak. Not darkness. You want your life back? Then take control of it. You may use your anger and your hatred of Kefka to strengthen your power. But to imply that is all there is – do you think it was love that motivated Eraqus to wield light in his attempt to murder Ventus?”

“Don’t talk about them!” Terra barks.

“Light and darkness are all part of the same existence. In the end, they are simple tools. Do not aim to convince yourself that darkness is nothing but horrid impulses. You can love and protect with darkness. You can be driven mad by the blinding power of light.”

Riku comes to mind. Use darkness and turn it into light, he has said. To build the strength to protect what matters. Is this what he means? Is it enough to have good intentions? Or does the old man have too much experience with such things that it’s futile to try to take the strings for himself?

Garnet is the first to unfreeze. “Terra, what in the world-”

“Move!” He holds her bicep and escorts her down the street.

He hears the blast Kefka has prepared for them, crushing a mob of minor Heartless instead.

Garnet screams his name. A Darkside, looming tall over them, contemplates its next move. It digs its hand into the ground and a portal opens up, a swarm of Shadows crawling out of it.

They run away. Worse still is the inky blackness that surrounds them and covers the entire street. He can’t see anything, except for yellow eyes squirming around everywhere. And suddenly he’s alone, the princess no longer by his side.

He hears Kefka’s footsteps, stomping the ground underneath it. It moves slowly, like it doesn’t know what to attack next. So it dances, explosions taking random pot shots in any direction.

One blows up behind him, and Garnet’s protection spell vibrates from the blast as he feels the cold street brace against his face. Hands grip his arm and help him stand up.

“Can you walk?” he hears Xehanort ask.

Terra rips his shoulder away. “Garnet!” he calls out.

Xehanort shushes him in a snake-like snarl. “We have the advantage. And I’m interested in keeping you alive.”

“Not without her.”

Xehanort holds a cold stare, his golden eyes a faint gleam in the shadow. Definitely not the kind of person to roll his eyes.

Garnet’s pillar of light bursts through with such a power that everything trembles. It also dissipates the darkness, giving them the ability to see what has been happening. A mass of Heartless that have surrounded her are thrown back by her power. Of course, she is left exhausted and shaking from such use of magic.

And Kefka notices. It laughs, sending horrific pain throughout Terra’s head, so awful it feels like his eyeballs will burst. Xehanort yells along with Terra, clutching his hand to his chest. Garnet grips her head tightly, slumped on the ground.

Kefka moves to srtike. She is wide-eyed.

This can’t happen. Not another failure.

Terra sprints forward. He needs to get there first. To have more power. To cheat.

A portal of swirling shadows opens up on the ground in front of him. He drops inside.

Here, there is no earth. No solid obstacle to keep him from her. Here he can fly. And up he ascends from another opening, putting him right in between a princess and a clown.

No need for a second Keyblade. Out from his left hand, all the dark impulses materialize into a deep red claw extending from his elbow, hitting Kefka upward at the chin.

This sends it back - but still, not enough. So he throws another claw, oozing flickering shadows through his arm and body, sending the clown flying. It lands on its back, rolling. But it misses the office building.

This was the exact move, long ago, used against his Master. With good intentions, he once swore. Powerful, instinctual, impulsive. Dark. It’s a natural glove that fits, unlike nothingness.

“I’m actually impressed,” he hears Xehanort say.

A compliment from the monster. Not again.

Terra slouches over and coughs out bile.

“Are you alright?” Garnet asks, hovering her hand at the base of his neck. Warmth radiates like waves throughout his body, as though she is healing his nervous system. The headache and the nausea lift up and away.

Kefka stands up, and screeches. It’s time to move again. Behind some bushes. Xehanort follows and covers his mouth and nose with his cloak.

The poisonous gas releases from its joints and neck, and they all wait until it dissipates into the air.

“I grow tired of this,” Xehanort says.

“Let’s trip it.” Terra summons the nameless Keyblade again into his left hand. “Or are you incapable of that?”

Xehanort glares, disappearing into his own portal, only to reappear behind the clown as it stumbles its way back toward them. He hits one ankle with a burst - which seems like it took way too much out of him.

Kefka trips onto one knee.

“Not enough!” Terra yells. He eyes Garnet, who is hesitant at first. He nods, as if to give her his blessing.

She sends healing magic to Xehanort. He takes a deep breath before striking the other ankle with his might. The clown falls to its face.

The prime opportunity. Terra allows darkness to swirl around him, and he growls as he grips both Keyblades in the hardest blow he’s ever given, directly onto the clown’s face, like vehicles crashing.

It screams, like metal grinding.

Two gashes now stain its once indestructible face, showing the black skin underneath.

It attempts to grab Terra in a fury, and Garnet steps in front to summon another pillar of light so that it fails, falling to her knees when she’s finished.

Kefka grabs its own face, as if in pain. As if it was human again.

But Garnet screams.

Two more Darksides approach them, bringing forth more Heartless.

“No…” Terra groans. He doesn’t have to tell her to run away, for she’s already doing so, although she is tumbling. She heads toward the alleyway by the hospital, where he placed the elixir minutes before.

Kefka comes to and makes its way to Terra, who pants harder just to keep himself standing straight. Xehanort growls loudly and twirls his Keyblade, a sphere of time energy rupturing throughout.

It’s quiet and frozen again. Except for Xehanort, who adjusts himself with such a frustration that it’s like watching a spiteful mother clean up a child.

“That impudent, minuscule, subordinate, worthless neophyte of a clown,” he says, throwing around fancy insults at the Heartless that is clearly striking a nerve with him tonight.

The first thing Terra looks for is the princess. In the alleyway, on the ground, looking up at a swarm of Heartless about to pounce. Her shortstaff is to her chest, her eyes exhausted and teary.

He attacks the Heartless, although the Stop magic doesn’t doesn’t give way to their destruction. Not yet, anyway. They barely move from his force. But he hits enough to be sure they’d be gone when time moves forward again.

He checks the clock tower. Less than two minutes left until Kefka is gone for the night.

Terra takes a deep breath, his muscles sore and shaking from weariness. They are almost there.

Footsteps behind him. Xehanort eyes the clock tower as well, looking just as grateful.

“At last,” he says. He forms a grip into the air. Terra is thrown up against the wall telepathically, his wrists cemented to the brick behind him, both Keyblades gone in a crackle.

“I’ve been advised to practice patience, but no longer,” Xehanort says through his teeth, standing in front of Terra with his Keyblade in hand. “You’re too much trouble.”

Terra tries to wrestle with the invisible force, but he can’t. He can’t move anything. He cries out, because this can’t be the end. Xehanort holds his Keyblade in the air, aiming for the chest.

Garnet jumps from behind him and rams her shortstaff right into the back of Xehanort’s knee. He staggers and backhands her, where she collapses. She crawls back against the wall opposite, holding her hand up in fear in a futile attempt to protect herself.

“You insignificant brat,” Xehanort says as he raises his Keyblade against her.

But her hit releases Terra, and he tackles. One arm around the bastard’s chest, another twisting the armed wrist until the Keyblade is let go. Xehanort is a touch shorter than Terra, but he’s much thinner. He has no strength when magic is not involved.

Terra throws him, slamming him onto the ground which makes him bounce and roll away.

With Garnet following, Terra grabs the duffel bag of elixirs on the way and slings them over his shoulder. Kefka begins moving again. They runs across the street until they get situated close enough to the office building.

“Stand your ground,” he tells Garnet.

“What are you going to do?” She holds her place directly by his side.

Kefka follows them with its gaze, and walks forward. The gashes make it uglier, its neck ruffle and shoulder pads burnt.

“Just trust me,” Terra says. He summons both Keyblades and waits.

“Terra?” she says, her voice shaking with nervousness. Xehanort comes to and is running out toward them.

“Stand your ground.”

The clown comes close enough.

Terra thrusts the teeth of both Keyblades into the ground. The earth pops and spews, breaking the mended stones in a trail until it reaches the office building - specifically the corner wall where she planted the bomb on the first floor.

It explodes as Kefka steps right past it. The building starts to crumble, triggering the second bomb to go off by the clown’s face. It screams like before, deafening the quake as the earth opens up the cobblestones underneath him and the princess.

They fall as the ground gives up. Garnet lets out a high-pitched scream, but she’s barely audible in comparison to the ruckus.

Xehanort slides to the edge of the open pit. He wears the face of someone who desperately missed his target, watching them splash into a rush of water below.

This chapter references Pixar’s Coco (2017).

A/N: I have defined the Spanish words and phrases used with context clues, but I wanted to make a note that some of it is Cuban slang (I can’t help it). There were definitely times where I had to be careful of what I was writing. For example, for “calavera” I nearly used “calabaza.” In Spanish, that means “pumpkin,” but Cubans use the names of food to describe lots of things. We use “calabaza” to mean sugar skull, and that’s why many people look at us like we’re crazy. For example, in the movie, Frida Kahlo prepares a papaya that she makes her clone dancers crawl out of. For us, a papaya is the word we use for the woman’s nether-regions. You can imagine what kind of context we understood those scenes to mean, LMAO.

#terraqua #kingdom hearts fanfiction #terqua #kh fanfic #terra #aqua #young xehanort #garnet til alexandros #kefka palazzo #hector #miguel #coco #i know this is coming out far later than planned #i am still trying to catch up to this hell week my god #my fic

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many-gay-magpies · 2 years ago

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HELLO. GOOD MORNING. HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW CONCEPT PHOTOS OH MY GOOOODDDDDDD HEAD FULL. HEAD SO FULL MANY THOUGHTS. SEVERAL BODERLINE UNHOLY THOUGHTS. ANYWAYS ALSO UR HEESEUNG DRAWING!!! IM SO PROUD OF U FOR FINISHING HE LOOKS SO GOOD!!! THE SHADING AND LIGHTING IS REAL NICE !!!!

YESSS THE PAST SHENANIGANS OF TGE VAMPS. jakah would’ve been an Incurable street urchin/pickpocket back in the 1800s HES SO FAST HOW WOULD ANYONE CATCH HIM??? THEY WOULDNT ! and the idea of jino and jakah realizing that the random watch they stole off a guy is now more valuable than they could all imagine bc of how long has passed- they’d double over laughing and not even pawn it bc “hey- it’ll only be worth More the longer we wait !” AND THEM IN A MUSEUM LMAO imagine decelis takes a field trip to a museum for educational purposes and theyre like “how the Fuck did all this end up in riverfield this hideout is from a country over” and jaan literally has to clap his hand over shion’s mouth when he starts speaking. fantastic

YEAH . YEAH LOTS OF IMMORTALITY FEELINGS. i’m getting emotional thinking abt sooha trying to teach the boys how to Live again instead of just existing from place to place- sneaking out, celebrating birthdays (they’ve all stopped counting, but sooha forces them to celebrate hers ofc, and no one mentions how small that number feels to them, and how fast it runs out), watching movies (ofc the boys are mildly wowed by how far film has come since the 30s), and just . little things that she has come to appreciate about Living that they gave up/moved past a long time ago. yeah .

- vrvr anon

YES IVE SEEN THEY LOOK SO GOOD. THEYRE SO BEAUTIFUL. some of the photos are sparkly and its literally feeding my soul; the styling and the vibes are everything, im so ready. BUT YES THE HEESEUNG!! IM DONE!! FINALLY!! after . *checks watch* yeah actually idk how long ive been working on him but MAN it has BEEN A BIT. that hair took me several days spread over multiple weeks im so glad its over HDBFJBFNF im proud of me too!! its the most detailed work ive posted i think, its like this big weight's been lifted off my shoulders-- thank you so much!!!

NO LITERALLY what we were talking about with jakah being fast and tiny and faster BECAUSE hes tiny, and therefore very good at slicing peoples' ankles . that would also apply to pickpocketing ! which in concept is just very fun to me! after the vamps escape the orphanage and start their new lives on-the-run, it's probably a while before they're able to grasp onto any sense of stability, so in those early years (which could mean anywhere from three years to like, thirty) they probably do a lot of pickpocketing and general minor misdemeanors in order to survive. also as far as food goes, even if they can eat SOME human food (like we saw shion eating ice cream that one time), its probably only liquids or liquid-adjacent foods, and they are still fundamentally vampires whose main source of food is blood. they wouldnt want to drink from humans, because something something morals something something still being conflicted about being vampires in the first place, but i DO wonder if the towns they pass through have... lots of complaints of suddenly/mysteriously disappearing or dead pets and livestock.

LMAO YES THE MUSEUM shion would totally be the one to start babbling out loud about all his stuff being behind glass and jaan has to shut him up and remind him "there is a REASON we talk to each other telepathically you brat".

oh the immortality feelings... the sooha feelings.... theyre real. and i actually have a lot of feelings specifically ABOUT the boys and birthdays because if they had their memories wiped as soon as they came to the orphanage, they wouldnt exactly REMEMBER their birthdays, would they? and for a while (because of how the people in the orphanage isolate them) they probably wouldnt even know that birthday celebrations are a THING. after escaping, they'd probably stumble across a few, and there'd be yet another bulletpoint added to the list of experiences they'd missed out on because of the orphanage—maybe they'd celebrate the day they all woke up together at the orphanage, since to them that sort of WAS their birth; or a second birth, anyway (since none of them remember the first). they'd celebrate the beginning of their bond and give new meaning to a day that used to have only negative connotations (the day they were kidnapped, the day they were trapped, the day they began to be altered irreversibly from the people, the CHILDREN they once were). or maybe they'd celebrate the day they escaped, instead—after all, they didn't REALLY start living (ironically enough) until they were free. but after a while, like you said, they'd probably forget; they've lived so long that keeping track of the years via some arbitrary celebration doesn't seem necessary anymore—that's what the new year is for. but then sooha comes along, asking them about birthdays and parties and when they should celebrate, then expresses shock when she hears that they don't celebrate their birthdays at ALL. they of course explain it to her; they dont remember their actual birthdays, plus they've lived so long that celebrating another year feels inconsequential. she insists, well, if you dont celebrate YOUR birthdays we'll just celebrate mine—and when the day comes she drags them all to some diner or ice cream parlor or movie theater in town and they spend the day together. the boys realize—or remember—huh, this isnt actually so bad; and maybe when everything quiets down sooha says to them, "when you get your memories back, we'll celebrate ALL of your birthdays."

so, yeah. feelings <//3

#asks #anon 📝#vrvr anon #dark moon universe #dark moon nonsense #dark moon

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verdigrisprowl · 6 years ago

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Sept 3 Dancitron Movie Night - Gotham 16-18

Prowl has to ask Soundwave to adjust what things he warns him for in the show.

He offered to help Soundwave figure out how to convert different units of payment his club might receive, Whirl accused Prowl of flirting, and Prowl had a minor crisis.

Prowl found out his alternate gave Soundwave Sentinel’s ugly mug. As in a drinking glass, not his face. Soundwave offered to give it to Prowl, and he turned it down—but sent a picture of it to Bonecrusher. As well as of a piece of MLP fanart Megatron painted. Bonecrusher almost died laughing.

Today NoodlesAtNight 7:27 pm *There's nothing much different than the usual, today - which is to say, Dancitron is back in full repair at last. And Soundwave's dancing a little until others arrive.* NoodlesAtNight 7:35 pm *All right, now he's risking cutting it too close. He'll make his way back toward the couch, abruptly stop, and drop into his seat with the usual grace.* MedicalMurdersaurus 7:38 pm *drops in with no grace, what even is grace, we just don't know* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:39 pm *here comes the dragon! she's out of the bells and mask, and she's got a cartful of her typical goodies today. looks like the scaring holiday is over.* Hello, Soundwave! Kelpy 7:39 pm [sidles in] Oh wow. Tis place is nice when it's not, you know. SCProwl 7:39 pm *arrives, takes usual seat* NoodlesAtNight 7:39 pm [[Greetings, Swoop, Dragon, Swerve. When it's not hanging half out of its own walls, you mean?]] NoodlesAtNight 7:40 pm [[Ah. You do not have your costume, dragon. On to the next festival, then?]] Kelpy 7:40 pm I did, yeah. Ha. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:40 pm When it comes, yes. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:41 pm But not for a while yet. Hatching is a busy time. I think we all need time to recover. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:41 pm Bird? :V NoodlesAtNight 7:42 pm [[Ahh. The tired moments when all you want to do is dive into a small hole and ignore all of existence. He understands.]] [[...It never occurred to him to ask how your bar survived - or didn't - the sparkeater cure. Is it...?]] //Ain't no Bird right now. She got a package to pick up.// Kelpy 7:43 pm OH! Yeah it uh. Got a bit trashed, but overall it was fine. Just had to replace some bottles of engex and one barrel exploded. NoodlesAtNight 7:44 pm *Somewhat alarmed. He blips and everything, sitting up.* [[Exploded? In fire, or apart?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:44 pm BOMB package?? :V SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:44 pm *the dragon gives him an alarmed look too- she's had accidents with energon, but never a whole barrel!* Kelpy 7:44 pm Apart! Just expoded apart. NoodlesAtNight 7:45 pm *Soundwave rests back against his seat. Thank Primus. A whole barrelful would've been - well!* [[Have you been able to replace it?]] Kelpy 7:46 pm Yeah, Rodimus and Drift wrote it off as an Unavoidable Consequence Of Sparkeaters and compensated me the cost so we replaced it. Today NoodlesAtNight 7:47 pm [[Ah, good.]] *He's been mildly concerned about the damage done to the ship since then.* [[ And no, not a bomb package. A food package.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:47 pm *is endlessly disappointed by the lack of Bird but has a good time imagining her picking up a package that is BLATANTLY a wrapped up bomb* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:48 pm ...Why does she have a snack on a leash? NoodlesAtNight 7:48 pm ((starting in 10-15)) chronosmith 7:48 pm *trots on in, FIRST STOP? THE BAR. Once again, for the first time in a long time, Whirl comes bearing a gift: it's some kind of tin, with a hinged lid and four stubby legs. Very fancy. Almost certainly stolen* MedicalMurdersaurus 7:48 pm *throws himself across the nearest sofa, laying on whoever is unfortunate enough to be there* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:48 pm WHIRL! Hello! *fuzzy epaulette time* NoodlesAtNight 7:48 pm [[...The singer? He sees no leash.]] chronosmith 7:48 pm *the tin is placed, with much grandiosity, on the bar. And then he has an epaulette, EVEN MORE FANCY* chronosmith 7:49 pm Hey there, dragon. And, oh mister bartender, I bring you more exotic delicacies from beyond the stars. NoodlesAtNight 7:49 pm [[Other than the temptations he claims she serves.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:49 pm The singer had some sort of naked mammal thing on a leash at the beginning? NoodlesAtNight 7:50 pm [[Ah. He missed it. Greetings, Whirl.]] chronosmith 7:50 pm *bobs his head at Soundwave* Hey, mech. NoodlesAtNight 7:50 pm *Ravage peeps over the edge of the bar. He was trying to stay hidden tonight, but... well, he's interested.* Kelpy 7:50 pm She has a lot of belts. SCProwl 7:50 pm Maybe it was a pet. NoodlesAtNight 7:51 pm //Maybe she's really, REALLY scared of the short pants fallin' off.// Kelpy 7:51 pm Maybe. chronosmith 7:51 pm *inside the tin is a variety of mechafish caviar, which only further confirms that Whirl stole this from some kind of ritzy gathering* Been a while since I paid towards my tab. Kelpy 7:51 pm [there's a reflexive check that Ravage is whole when he sees him before he can actually catch himself] Kelpy 7:52 pm I feel like most of these humans don't dress the way everyone else does. NoodlesAtNight 7:52 pm *Ravage uses the claws at the tip of his feeler tail to open the tin and oh-so-gently sniffs at the contents. His optics widen almost immediately.* =Where...?= chronosmith 7:52 pm ((ohh i heard this song on the radio once, it's good)) MedicalMurdersaurus 7:52 pm ((I love the choreography and pastels of the video)) NoodlesAtNight 7:53 pm *Ravage certainly LOOKS whole. It's a tallish bar, and he's able to see over it.* chronosmith 7:53 pm I did a little bit of station-hopping for some parts, and there was this thing--preeetty sure it was a museum ribbon-cutting ceremony? or something? Well. As you know, I love museums, so very, very much. *Whirl is actually canonically banned from museums basically everywhere* NoodlesAtNight 7:53 pm ((same re: choreo/pastels)) chronosmith 7:53 pm And I ducked in, thought this smelled nice and weird, and thought 'hey, why not?' MedicalMurdersaurus 7:53 pm *was metaphorically conceived in a museum* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:54 pm *grins from atop Whirl's shoulder* Did you liberate it for the good of Ravage, Whirl? MedicalMurdersaurus 7:54 pm *sprawls across the back of a couch* chronosmith 7:54 pm Of course. I bring Ravage stuff all the time. Least I can do for my favorite bartender. ...no offense, Swerve. MedicalMurdersaurus 7:54 pm Us do FIGHT movie this time??? Kelpy 7:55 pm [amused. He finally remembers this is not his Ravage though. No need to worry about injuries] NoodlesAtNight 7:55 pm *Ravage considers the tin, looks at the bar, and pulls himself up more to glance at Soundwave, tail flicking. Can he? And Soundwave nods.* =Serve yourself. Four weeks.= *Ravage flicks the tin closed again, picks it up in his mouth SO GENTLY - odd, for such ferocious fangs - and hustles off to run it upstairs.* [[There is a little fighting, Swoop, but it is not a movie.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm No movie... Us watch WRESTLING! : > Today chronosmith 7:56 pm Nice. *by now he knows how to mix a Gaugebuster, and he will industrially get to work. Sorry, dragon, this stuff's fumes alone are probably like shoving a ghost pepper up one's nose* ((i'm that guy)) NoodlesAtNight 7:56 pm [[Primus, no. No wrestling.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 7:56 pm Boxing NoodlesAtNight 7:57 pm *Rumble sits up at the sight of the skateboard and points.* //WHAT WAS THAT 'N WHERE DO I GET ONE.// chronosmith 7:57 pm ((shame on all the radio edits that cut this part out)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:57 pm *the dragon churrs for a moment* Nasal rebreather. I can smell, but it won't be as bad. *the perks of having a dolphin-like respiratory system- she can eat AND have an internal rebreather* Kelpy 7:57 pm //i think i've heard it like. twice lmao NoodlesAtNight 7:58 pm ((but it's so good 😧 )) chronosmith 7:58 pm ((IT IS)) NoodlesAtNight 7:58 pm //Puh. You don't smell bad. Least, no worse'n most organics.// NoodlesAtNight 7:58 pm //...Swear that's supposed t'be a compliment.// chronosmith 7:59 pm *pauses to rotate his head around and huff some air over the dragon. Enjoy the impromptu breeze* NoodlesAtNight 7:59 pm ((FIVE MINUTES GRAB YER SNACKS AND YER HATS)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 7:59 pm ... *the dragon cackles* Compliment accepted, then! *!!! breeze! gets real poofy to get that nice windswept look.* chronosmith 8:00 pm *plucks up his drink, and gestures with his free claw* I've conducted extensive research, and I gotta concur with my beau over there. You don't smell too bad. *and now, it's couch time* NoodlesAtNight 8:00 pm *Soundwave grumbles internally. He likes this song. He likes the video. But that one human made him always connect the sound of it to the thought of Jazz. Why.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:00 pm *scrambles over to be with Whirl* chronosmith 8:01 pm *do you want to be arranged upside-down again?* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:01 pm *always* chronosmith 8:01 pm *Once Whirl is settled, he will do so* Kelpy 8:01 pm I feel like that is absolutely not how jails work. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:02 pm *SQUEALS* NoodlesAtNight 8:02 pm [[Not ones run by Prowl, at least.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:02 pm I am a very clean organic, if I do say so myself. *this catlike tongue ain't for show!* Kelpy 8:02 pm [cackles] NoodlesAtNight 8:02 pm *Rumble sort of flattens in a weird position to avoid gangly pterolimbs* *He'll sit back up in a sec* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:03 pm *has a lot of very wiggly limbs, but isn't flailing with that much force so anyone who gets clonked in the face is probably fine, Rumble* NoodlesAtNight 8:03 pm ((last song)) Kelpy 8:03 pm //is that snoop dog NoodlesAtNight 8:04 pm ((yep)) Kelpy 8:04 pm //tegrbdfg i'm lasughing god i forgot what chat it was in but one of my chats suggested an au where swerve was voiced by snoop NoodlesAtNight 8:04 pm ((oh my god)) chronosmith 8:04 pm *there's a lot more Whirl taking up the couch, he will probably by the clonked* ((skdl BEAUTIFUL)) MedicalMurdersaurus 8:05 pm You Whirl tell Me Swoop a FIGHTING story! NoodlesAtNight 8:05 pm //He got the best ones.// MedicalMurdersaurus 8:06 pm Awesome : > //WAIT NO IT WASN'T SWERVE it was tarn. tarn voiced by snoop dog gfhbthgn Kelpy 8:06 pm //nicki minaj was for swerve chronosmith 8:06 pm *preens* Of course I do. Also-- *turns and bobs his helm. Official greeting for you at last, Rumble* Hmm... let me think of a good one. NoodlesAtNight 8:07 pm [[He must ask, dragon: why do organics consider themselves clean after they have licked themselves, but think other things are filthy when licked by someone or something?]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:07 pm Me Swoop like fight story : > verdigrisprowl 8:07 pm *appears; sits* chronosmith 8:07 pm Yeah, I just got a lot of battles to choose from... hmm. Well, I'm not going to tell the story over the show, so I'll check back in with you afterwards. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:08 pm : < NoodlesAtNight 8:08 pm *Prowl has appeared right on the line. Soundwave bobs his helm in greeting and offers an affection ping hello.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:08 pm That's actually an interesting question. For my species, our tongues are designed to clean our fur, and the slight touch of formic acid doesn't hurt. But our tongues aren't as sanitary as, ah, an autoclave. There's still germs, and such. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:09 pm Also, to be fair, if I were to wash my fur with water, I would run the risk of mildew. verdigrisprowl 8:09 pm *affection ping* NoodlesAtNight 8:09 pm [[The rotting substance?]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:09 pm It's mold, yes. NoodlesAtNight 8:10 pm *One moment. His attention is thoroughly on the-- ooh.* verdigrisprowl 8:10 pm ((she's very chill about discovering two scruffy children in her apartment)) Kelpy 8:10 pm OH. I never did catch up on what I missed while I was away the last two weeks, woops. NoodlesAtNight 8:10 pm ((i think she's lost all fucks to give)) verdigrisprowl 8:10 pm *oh--pings visuals to his alternate* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm *perks RIGHT up* Kelpy 8:10 pm //she really is MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm Me Swoop like acrobat Them fun : > Kind of flying NoodlesAtNight 8:10 pm [[....FASCINATING. He did not know humans could do that.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:10 pm trick stuff! verdigrisprowl 8:10 pm *... and briefly pings visuals to soundwave, too, so he can watch Prowl's HUD analysis of the acrobats.* SCProwl 8:11 pm *accepts with a thank you ping* NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm *OOOOOOH. He'll just - there's a series of tiny clicks while his fans keep trying to start and getting killed off.* SCProwl 8:11 pm *just in time for the fight oh yeah* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:11 pm ... *blinks* I hope he didn't ruin his date. NoodlesAtNight 8:11 pm [[You will gather much of it from watching, Swerve, but if you have questions that need answering, he will assist you.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:12 pm //Uh-oh.// chronosmith 8:12 pm *snickers* NoodlesAtNight 8:12 pm //...Well, THAT ain't gonna be good for business.// SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:12 pm *snickers* Aw, hatchling loyalty. chronosmith 8:12 pm You know, he gave that big spiel weeks ago, about finding what drives people, right? What they live for? He should be careful about making HIS so obvious. Kelpy 8:12 pm Thanks! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:12 pm I know, right. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:13 pm It's like shining a spotlight on a gaping, infected wound. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:13 pm *looks at Whirl upside down* What spIEL? chronosmith 8:13 pm You asking what a spiel IS, or what the spiel was? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:13 pm Yah NoodlesAtNight 8:13 pm [[There's a snake human?]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:13 pm I want to see the snake human. verdigrisprowl 8:14 pm ((i'm not sure what a "snake dancer" is but as long as it isn't a snake charmer it sounds Amazing)) chronosmith 8:14 pm ((balroom dancing with a reticulated python in a bowtie)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:14 pm ((dances with snakes, if the Renfest is anything to go by)) Kelpy 8:14 pm //omg MedicalMurdersaurus 8:14 pm ((adorable)) NoodlesAtNight 8:14 pm ((basically dancing in skimpy clothes with a python all up on you)) verdigrisprowl 8:14 pm ((omfg)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:14 pm ((the local renfest has a gal with a pair of ball pythons)) verdigrisprowl 8:14 pm ((... why are the snakes in a cage with bars wider than the snakes)) NoodlesAtNight 8:15 pm [[Hm. Her son looks fully human.]] chronosmith 8:15 pm ((i have one (1) python, and he is a dear, but I can't dance.)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:15 pm ((sunny's an albino and shane is a normal)) Is Sheba an aunt? NoodlesAtNight 8:15 pm *...."Sure as eggs." He has to remember that phrase.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:15 pm *snickers* chronosmith 8:15 pm big beb)) NoodlesAtNight 8:15 pm [[...She's going to get away.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:15 pm *the dragon coos in delighted fascination* Look at that! verdigrisprowl 8:15 pm ... What kind of party would involve placing... "knickers"? in handbags? Kelpy 8:16 pm "let her out" he says when there's probably nothing keeping her in. They know snakes are escape artists right>? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:16 pm A great big wriggler. chronosmith 8:16 pm ((also I got the type of snake correct yaaay)) verdigrisprowl 8:16 pm Knickers are underwear, right? NoodlesAtNight 8:16 pm [[Perhaps it is a party fav-- oh.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:16 pm Oh no. verdigrisprowl 8:16 pm Unusual party favor. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:16 pm KAHA! Dead! SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:16 pm Hm, she has scales. NoodlesAtNight 8:16 pm [[It could be an interface par-- well, there she is.]] verdigrisprowl 8:16 pm The ringleader knew about it. Kelpy 8:16 pm That's the fakest crying I've ever seen NoodlesAtNight 8:17 pm *Soundwave glances at him.* [[How did you know he knew?]] chronosmith 8:17 pm ((god i love u mooney)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:17 pm No surprise. Organic bodies reek. SCProwl 8:17 pm ((she's the best <3 verdigrisprowl 8:17 pm Because he was so obstructive to the investigation. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:17 pm He should have been shocked by the odor. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:17 pm Her, uhhh.... Her Lady is King? Queen. NoodlesAtNight 8:17 pm *Slow nod. Makes sense. ... Also:* [[This is - familiar.]] //The Fish lady? She ain't Queen. Wanted to be.// NoodlesAtNight 8:18 pm //Now she's just Queen of th' room.// MedicalMurdersaurus 8:18 pm Them listen So chronosmith 8:18 pm She sure knows how to take charge. *toasts the screen, and takes abig draught* Kelpy 8:18 pm Standing on people. chronosmith 8:18 pm I just like her more and more. NoodlesAtNight 8:18 pm [[Yes. Yes, she does.]] [[Though Swerve makes a point.]] chronosmith 8:18 pm Yeah--that just makes her even MORE badass. Kelpy 8:19 pm ...Aren't they graysons where he gets Robin? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:19 pm *is bored by all this not-Bird talking and looks over at Whirl* verdigrisprowl 8:19 pm ... They could have taken their costumes off first. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:19 pm They could have, but this is funny. NoodlesAtNight 8:20 pm //Yeah! The Graysons are, uh... well, I guess they ain't got him yet.// Kelpy 8:20 pm Huh. Yeah I guess not. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:20 pm Also, child, I doubt hatchling loyalty is a very great way to assist an investigation. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:20 pm *tries to stick a finger in the rotor on Whirl's arm* Kelpy 8:21 pm Wait so they hate each other, but run a circus together. chronosmith 8:21 pm *without looking, Whirl just raises his arm out of reach slowly, deliberately* Sonar, mech. You'll have to do better than that. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:22 pm *snickers and keeps reaching until his arm is stretched all the way out* NoodlesAtNight 8:22 pm *Soundwave folds his hands and rests his chin on them.* verdigrisprowl 8:22 pm They're employed together, at least. chronosmith 8:22 pm *watching closely* Kelpy 8:22 pm So, I take it that the Don caught Mooney in her plans in the two weeks I was gone? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:23 pm ((sorry, catto pressed the power button)) NoodlesAtNight 8:23 pm [[Oh, yes. Yes, he did. He found out about her mole, killed the mole, and chased her out.]] Kelpy 8:23 pm Oh man. Shame. NoodlesAtNight 8:23 pm [[She was captured and kidnapped on her boat away from the city.]] Kelpy 8:23 pm Heck. chronosmith 8:24 pm I can appreciate that. Getting yourself killed so someone else can't use you. Kelpy 8:24 pm Oh. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:24 pm *grabs for Whirl's side in a flash, giggling all the way* NoodlesAtNight 8:24 pm //Brave human. Probably better'n what was waitin'.// chronosmith 8:24 pm Yeah. chronosmith 8:25 pm And it's better t--*lifts his arm, swiveling to look down at Swoop* Hey, Quit it. No touching. NoodlesAtNight 8:25 pm [[Coward.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:25 pm *grins from audio to audio* NoodlesAtNight 8:25 pm [[But that's to be expected.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:25 pm Of course. He knows they'd kill him. chronosmith 8:25 pm And yeah. better for your last act to be a big frag-you to the people that got em captured. NoodlesAtNight 8:25 pm [[And he would deserve it.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:25 pm He would. verdigrisprowl 8:26 pm They wouldn't kill him unless she was killed. And he knows full well she'd be killed. Kelpy 8:26 pm Rip that guy. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:26 pm *reaches to touch the nearest bit of Whirl with the very tippy tip of a claw* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:26 pm Riddling human! verdigrisprowl 8:26 pm Probable crime of passion. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:26 pm Aw, poor riddling human. He got interrupted. NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[...The killing of the cell keep - oh, no. These two. Yes, he imagines so.]] chronosmith 8:27 pm *sighs. Offers the gaugebuster to Rumble* Would you mind holding this? NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm [[It is a common thread in human media.]] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:27 pm : > NoodlesAtNight 8:27 pm //Sure, mech.// *Takes hold of it.* Kelpy 8:27 pm I'm assuming new girlfriend. verdigrisprowl 8:27 pm Good policy—not guessing. chronosmith 8:27 pm *now that he has both claws free, he turns, clamps one aroung Swoop's middle claw-machine-style, lifts him bodily, stands, and begins to carry him across the room* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:28 pm *SHRIEKS with laughter and looks at the room upside down* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:28 pm This man is a clown. NoodlesAtNight 8:28 pm @P: [[He hopes you have never hoped that he would mix you a dinner. He is... not accomplished at that type of thing.]] *Pause.* [[But if at some point you wish to go somewhere to have one, he would be open to that. You are, of course, not obligated to agree.]] verdigrisprowl 8:29 pm "Iron sisters." Probably a statue. SCProwl 8:29 pm Buildings perhaps? chronosmith 8:29 pm *with great aplomb, places Swoop atop a table. Pauses, and the adjusts him so his head is dangling off and he can keep watching upside-down* *and then turns to trot back to the couch* NoodlesAtNight 8:29 pm *Soundwave isn't going to interrupt Whirl and Swoop unless someone starts screaming in pain. In the meantime, if he rolls his eyes any harder behind his mask they'll dislodge and get stuck.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:29 pm *kicks his legs with lots of enthusiasm but no real aim* NoodlesAtNight 8:30 pm *What a fraud that psychic is. As bad as the one in the 99 Brooklyns records.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:30 pm *is all grins* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:30 pm I hope that he finds his way back to the clowns alright. NoodlesAtNight 8:30 pm *Soundwave huffs.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:30 pm *throws his arms over his head and pushes off the table with his wings just enough to get him tipping off the edge into a handstand and then flipping back upright* NoodlesAtNight 8:30 pm [[If he can't, perhaps he can use the snake.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:30 pm *the dragon loses it laughing* verdigrisprowl 8:30 pm @S «I won't ask you to mix me dinner if you don't ask me to mix you one. ... I think we'd make a poor dinner date, anyway. You with your mask on and me without a fuel tank.» chronosmith 8:31 pm Heart and Soul, eh? What a CHALLENGING piece. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:31 pm *sorry Whirl, don't mind the dragon claws. that was a really funny joke* Kelpy 8:31 pm ... Didn't she ditch him to get laid with her other ex? Is she trying to win him back NoodlesAtNight 8:31 pm @P: [[There are always fuel line injectors. Or transport containers. But he sees your point.]] chronosmith 8:31 pm *he will barely be able to feel it, you and your claws are fine* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:32 pm *cartwheels back over to the sofa* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:32 pm *the dragon finally stops laughing. at least, cackling loudly.* chronosmith 8:32 pm *peers owlishly at Swoop* Knock it off. verdigrisprowl 8:33 pm @S «... Do you /want/ to go on a date? In public?» MedicalMurdersaurus 8:33 pm *grins* What NoodlesAtNight 8:33 pm //She ditched him on account of she couldn't take bein' scared of his work. Other lady ditched her cause she went all drugs-filled again. Misses him now.// chronosmith 8:33 pm Thanks, Rumble. *he will take that drink back--and tilts his head, optic slitting slyly* Sure you don't want a sip? SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:33 pm ...she actually convinced him to do this. Kelpy 8:33 pm But he's already moved on from the looks of it. NoodlesAtNight 8:33 pm @P: [[Not unless and/or until you are eventually comfortable with the idea. Simply covering his alternative bases.]] NoodlesAtNight 8:34 pm //Wha, me?// Kelpy 8:34 pm There's gonna b e a clue NoodlesAtNight 8:34 pm [[Yes, he's very much moved on.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:34 pm Oh. Oh, my. chronosmith 8:35 pm Yep. ...I know you know what this tastes like. Kelpy 8:35 pm Oof. verdigrisprowl 8:35 pm @S «Hm. Noted.» chronosmith 8:35 pm You're the one who showed me the brew, after all. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:35 pm *climbs up to perch on the back of the couch* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:35 pm *groans* Get to solving the murder- huh? She? Huh? NoodlesAtNight 8:35 pm *It's an idea he's curious about, not much more. It can wait, or be a thing that never happens.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:36 pm *was that almost an apology? are they discussing their feelings in a mature way?* NoodlesAtNight 8:36 pm //Oh, nah. Don't wanna get fendered tonight. Thanks, though.// chronosmith 8:36 pm ((she's so cute im dying)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:36 pm ((she issssssss)) NoodlesAtNight 8:36 pm *Why on Cybertron would Whirl think he'd want a sip of THAT?* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:36 pm ((Lee 4 ever)) chronosmith 8:37 pm *salutes* I'll get fendered enough for the both of us. SCProwl 8:37 pm ((Lee's so great MedicalMurdersaurus 8:37 pm *is playing gargoyle on the back of the sofa* NoodlesAtNight 8:37 pm //Heh. Gonna take a lot. I ain't a lightweight.// Kelpy 8:37 pm We should test that sometime. NoodlesAtNight 8:37 pm [[...He expects there are not many relics like the Star Saber in the human world.]] chronosmith 8:37 pm *tilts head* You know, I don't think we've ever just gone drinking. We should. Kelpy 8:37 pm Which of us can get drunk last verdigrisprowl 8:37 pm ... It's not "hypocritical" to want someone in your life who accepts the dangerous things you, do but doesn't forcibly shove themself into your job and try to get involved in the danger. NoodlesAtNight 8:38 pm [[Especially after what happened with his last mate in that vein.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:38 pm Oooh, that was a facial twitch. NoodlesAtNight 8:38 pm //I dunno I'd take the bet, but I'd enjoy joinin' it.// SCProwl 8:38 pm Ah. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:38 pm Like he bit into an unfermented seaskitter. chronosmith 8:38 pm And Swerve--HELL yeah. Kelpy 8:38 pm Would be real fun Kelpy 8:39 pm Oh. Ohhhh. SCProwl 8:39 pm *sits forward to see how this plays out* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:40 pm So, then. Why- oh. Oh, one of these. NoodlesAtNight 8:40 pm [[...His voice changed.]] Kelpy 8:40 pm He's crazy. chronosmith 8:40 pm Yeah. Props to the actor, honestly. verdigrisprowl 8:40 pm ((i was meaning to ask earlier but now i'm more certain)) verdigrisprowl 8:41 pm ((was this originally supposed to be the joker's origin story)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:41 pm Humans have their myths, dragons have ours, but why do some always go the same way? ((yes)) NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm ((yes/no)) verdigrisprowl 8:41 pm ((because he does a good joker face)) Kelpy 8:41 pm //is he the joker thbyfhgn NoodlesAtNight 8:41 pm ((this is not the end of jerome's story. jerome is a piece of the joker. jerome is not the joker.)) verdigrisprowl 8:41 pm ((he's kind of jack nicholson)) chronosmith 8:41 pm ((he does. and i'm with whirl I'm honestly impressed)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:41 pm ((he's a pale redhead with a thing about jokes)) ((I'm convinced, tbh)) Kelpy 8:42 pm //oh my god chronosmith 8:42 pm Okay so. Sometime, me, Swerve, and you--*nods to Rumble* Drink-a-thon? MedicalMurdersaurus 8:42 pm *doesn't know what we're laughing at but laughs anyway* Kelpy 8:42 pm YEah. verdigrisprowl 8:42 pm She shouldn't have been in that room. No matter how curious or excited she was. It's inappropriate. chronosmith 8:42 pm ((PFFT. THAT WAS A GOOD ASS LINE)) NoodlesAtNight 8:43 pm //Pit yeah. Long's I got time to work without a hangover, heh.// verdigrisprowl 8:43 pm ((IT WAS)) chronosmith 8:43 pm ((thank you gotham)) NoodlesAtNight 8:43 pm [[Is she not considered part of the police? She works with them.]] //Oh. Oh, frag. That's gotta hurt.// verdigrisprowl 8:43 pm She's a civilian employee. She's not an officer. Kelpy 8:43 pm Woop chronosmith 8:43 pm Eh. No sympathy. verdigrisprowl 8:43 pm Not everyone who works inside a police department is police. Kelpy 8:43 pm Did she... really expect him to sit around waiting for her to come back? chronosmith 8:43 pm SHE left HIm. And it wans't like she was broken up or anything. SCProwl 8:44 pm He's not wrong. verdigrisprowl 8:44 pm *... is this the scene he was warned ab-- yes it is.* NoodlesAtNight 8:44 pm [[Of course he doesn't. The music alone - it's the wrong environment for that.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:44 pm ...What's with him? Oh. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:45 pm That's what's wrong with him. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:45 pm ((penguin freckles <3 )) NoodlesAtNight 8:45 pm ((THE FRECKLESSS)) chronosmith 8:45 pm ((i never noticed how freckly--PFFT)) ((YEAH. I never noticed how freckley he was)) verdigrisprowl 8:45 pm ((he's incredibly freckly)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:45 pm ... Urk. Kelpy 8:45 pm //i feel like he didn't have that many before but vhbthb my memory's terrible lmao verdigrisprowl 8:45 pm *that was hard.* verdigrisprowl 8:46 pm *to watch.* SCProwl 8:46 pm ((apparently the freckles are a side effect of the makeup involved to blend the fake nose with the rest of his face verdigrisprowl 8:46 pm ((omg the doodles)) NoodlesAtNight 8:46 pm *Soundwave will casually readjust to sit with one arm in grabbing range near Prowl's leg, and one arm resting on his lap. Something Prowl can take if he wants it, or ignore if he doesn't.* chronosmith 8:46 pm Pfft. I like this kid's chutzpah. NoodlesAtNight 8:47 pm ((on his own lap. he didn't put his arm on prowl's lap)) chronosmith 8:47 pm ((an exotic new pet--Soundwave's Arm!)) MedicalMurdersaurus 8:47 pm hood-spa verdigrisprowl 8:47 pm ((all those business people in the room like "oh wow this six-year-old is calling us out")) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm A happy ending? SCProwl 8:47 pm ((noooo, you have to name your son Dick, it's still honoring Jim SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:47 pm ((does harvey think that women don't have razors)) NoodlesAtNight 8:47 pm [[The Bruce youngling is already very good at using his age to surprise his enemies. How promising.]] verdigrisprowl 8:47 pm *... sllllllowly snakes hand around soundwave's arm* chronosmith 8:48 pm Yeah! Letting them underestimate him. Kelpy 8:48 pm Don't be fooled. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:48 pm ((I love his little composition notebook)) ((like he goin to class) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:48 pm He might have learned from the cat human. NoodlesAtNight 8:48 pm //Oooh. A threat.// Kelpy 8:49 pm I assume his parents raised him to inherit the business, so these people shouldn't be surprised he knows how stuff works. NoodlesAtNight 8:49 pm *Soundwave oh so slowly squeezes against the hand once it's settled. He hopes Prowl is all right, beyond the need for that touch.* verdigrisprowl 8:49 pm Hm. Has the manager decided he's willing to sacrifice his agent? SCProwl 8:49 pm ((it's such a subtle nod to the fact that he's still a child in many respects SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:50 pm It seems so. NoodlesAtNight 8:50 pm [[She's very unlike the last 'boss'. It pays to know a potential enemy.]] chronosmith 8:50 pm ((I LOVE HEERRRR)) Heheh. Kelpy 8:50 pm Some wild hair. NoodlesAtNight 8:50 pm [[If he loses an agent, so be it. He could lose a business if not.]] [[...That is what he imagines the reasoning is, at least. It is what he has seen many, many times.]] Kelpy 8:51 pm .... I'd like some hair SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:51 pm Is this a robbery or a clown show. Is the circus still in town? NoodlesAtNight 8:51 pm [[And that,]] *pointing with his free hand* [[is a mistake. Easier tracking. Higher memorability.]] Kelpy 8:51 pm Idiot. He's grandstading, they're gonna get caught. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:52 pm KAHAHAHA chronosmith 8:52 pm What a LOUSY shot. MedicalMurdersaurus 8:52 pm Him miss verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm It's very possible that the prisoners are worth more than their guards to the boss. NoodlesAtNight 8:52 pm //I ain't seen a shot that bad since them movies about wars in the stars.// SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:52 pm What does he- oh. Kelpy 8:52 pm ...I'm that bad a shot. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:52 pm That. That would do it. NoodlesAtNight 8:52 pm [[...That's clever, though.]] chronosmith 8:52 pm Pfft. You're not wrong, Rumble. verdigrisprowl 8:52 pm Heh verdigrisprowl 8:53 pm Clever. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:53 pm Like giving isopods to the hatchlings. NoodlesAtNight 8:53 pm *This episode just reminds him of that post about bank robbers and DJs. He huffs softly.* MedicalMurdersaurus 8:53 pm *sliiiiiiiiiides onto the sofa* verdigrisprowl 8:53 pm ... But if I ever see that trick pulled in Iacon, all of you are on the suspect list. chronosmith 8:53 pm *nods to Prowl* And yeah. That's the thing with folks like that--once they get around to thinking people as, y'know, things? Possessions? Lots of times the next step is thinking of people as interchangeable. SCProwl 8:53 pm All of us? NoodlesAtNight 8:53 pm //On my honor, I ain't dumb enough to - uh, I mean. I won't. Promise.// SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:54 pm *blinks* *blinks again* chronosmith 8:54 pm Which, of course, they're not--a trained guard is plenty useful. But looks like Mooney understands that. NoodlesAtNight 8:54 pm [[Even you. It'd be only fair. You could use this as inspiration to hide your first foray into the world of crime.]] *Only half serious.* SCProwl 8:54 pm First? Kelpy 8:54 pm I'm not a criminal at all. Promise. NoodlesAtNight 8:55 pm [[Seven hundredth and third.]] chronosmith 8:55 pm No worries, Prowl, I make a point to spend the least amount of time in Starscream's Clown Town as possible. SCProwl 8:55 pm *huffs* NoodlesAtNight 8:55 pm *Rumble CACKLES at the name for Iacon* verdigrisprowl 8:55 pm I said all of you. NoodlesAtNight 8:55 pm [[...And what about YOU?]] *Turns head to peer around shoulder at V Prowl.* chronosmith 8:56 pm Yeah. *joins in the Prowl Peering* You've got the perfect cover. And the perfect poker face. ...well. ALMOST perfect. Second place. Kelpy 8:56 pm Who has the first? verdigrisprowl 8:56 pm *peers back at Soundwave. trying to decide whether he wants to be offended.* ... Well. That would be my /second/ foray into crime, wouldn't it? chronosmith 8:56 pm Me, of course. ...MAYBE Soundwave. But he doesn't have a face, so it doesn't count. Kelpy 8:56 pm Don't you--never mind. NoodlesAtNight 8:56 pm *Soundwave's still huffing. He doesn't really think Prowl would do that. Either of them.* chronosmith 8:57 pm If you're about to ask 'don't you NOT have a face' then, obviously, duh. I do. Idiot. *gestures grandly to his helm* Kelpy 8:57 pm [snorts[] MedicalMurdersaurus 8:57 pm *sloooooooooooowwwllly rolls around the sofa* Kelpy 8:58 pm She wasn't kidding about spare parts. NoodlesAtNight 8:58 pm @VP: [[Second? What, pray tell, was the first?]] *SNAPS TO ATTENTION* chronosmith 8:58 pm Not a bit. verdigrisprowl 8:58 pm @S «... I spent a year in jail for blowing up a space bridge, remember?» MedicalMurdersaurus 8:59 pm *tries to slooooooooowwwwllly touch the tip of his claw to the tip of Whirl's ped* Kelpy 8:59 pm ...I thought that said Megs SpecsTheSpectralDragon 8:59 pm Oh, a baby with a shotgun. Terrible idea. NoodlesAtNight 9:00 pm @VP: [[Ah! That. He was thinking along the lines of what is currently on the show.]] *A small shrug.* [[Bank robbing doesn't suit you, anyway. Much better keeping clean.]] *Pause.* [[Though he /does/ like red.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:00 pm No more shotgun baby. NoodlesAtNight 9:01 pm *Soundwave's plating ripples oh so slightly. Again.* chronosmith 9:01 pm *VERY SUDDENLY twists around to thrust his face into Swoop's face, unleashing a sharp hiss through his vents* What. Did. I tell you. ((THERE HE IIISSSS)) NoodlesAtNight 9:01 pm [[SWOOP. Desist at once or be thrown out.]] SCProwl 9:01 pm ((IT'S YOUR BOY, RATCHET! chronosmith 9:01 pm ((HERBERT WEST HIMSELF)) verdigrisprowl 9:01 pm @S «... I don't need to rob banks to wear red.» verdigrisprowl 9:02 pm *is this the other part he was warned about?* NoodlesAtNight 9:02 pm *No, not yet. That's not for a bit.* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:02 pm *puffs out his armor and sneers as a pure reflex reaction to someone getting up in his face* NoodlesAtNight 9:02 pm *This isn't the doctor. Only the manager.* Kelpy 9:02 pm I get the feeling that her idea of terms is to be allowed to live in luxury while he kills everyone else in the basement. NoodlesAtNight 9:02 pm @VP: [[He counts himself lucky on that point. You wear red quite well.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:02 pm She might do that. She might not. chronosmith 9:02 pm *turns away, taking a draught of his drink irritably* SCProwl 9:02 pm *starting to tense up* Kelpy 9:03 pm //is there anything i should be warned about with the doctor lmao SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:03 pm It might serve her needs better to have an army rather than a luxury. chronosmith 9:03 pm I would guess her terms are getting revenge. NoodlesAtNight 9:03 pm ((i'll side im you on here)) verdigrisprowl 9:03 pm *squeezes Soundwave's arm* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:03 pm *staaaares at Whirl while he moves his feet underneath him, gearing up to spring* NoodlesAtNight 9:04 pm *Squeezes it back.* chronosmith 9:05 pm *he's not looking at you, but he's watching you. ...sorta. You know how* PFFT. He's got priorities. MedicalMurdersaurus 9:05 pm *LAUNCHES himself at Whirl* NoodlesAtNight 9:06 pm *Rumble throws himself at Swoop.* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:06 pm !!! Kelpy 9:06 pm [yelps and ducks off the couch] chronosmith 9:06 pm *twists and joins in, grabbing swoop* You're damn lucky I can't bridge unless I'm flyin'. NoodlesAtNight 9:06 pm *And Soundwave's up off the couch.* chronosmith 9:06 pm *YOU GOT THE CLAMPS, SWOOP. CLAMPED* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:06 pm ((speaking japanese)) verdigrisprowl 9:07 pm *whoop there goes the arm he was holding* NoodlesAtNight 9:07 pm *Not by much. His arm is very long.* [[HE can bridge without flying.]] @W: [[Count to three and drop Swoop. There will be one beneath him.]] NoodlesAtNight 9:08 pm *Rumble hops off.* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:08 pm *misses all this conversation while trying to wrestle Rumble and be upside down and convince Whirl to wrestle* *it's a hard knock life* Kelpy 9:08 pm That guy's creepy. [wriggles away from the couch for whatever's about to happen] chronosmith 9:09 pm *counts, lifts Swoop a little, and then drops, on three* NoodlesAtNight 9:09 pm *FWOOSH and Swoop is out of here* MedicalMurdersaurus 9:09 pm *squeals all the way down back to the Ark* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:09 pm *the dragon pats Whirl, very gently, on the shoulder* verdigrisprowl 9:09 pm This is a terrible way to train. chronosmith 9:09 pm ((i just imagined the scene from the lion king but with swoop)) MedicalMurdersaurus 9:09 pm ((excellent)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:10 pm I see broken bones in the future. chronosmith 9:10 pm Not necessarily. NoodlesAtNight 9:10 pm *Soundwave settles back in his seat and rearranges himself into nearly the exact position he was a moment ago. Back to arm proper instead of wrist holding.* @VP: [[His apologies.]] chronosmith 9:10 pm *likewise plops back down, and settles. Nudges Rumble in silent thank-you* NoodlesAtNight 9:10 pm //He ain't wrong about what's effective. Jus' sayin'.// chronosmith 9:10 pm ...*and then decides, well. He deserves a REAL one* Thanks, Rumble. NoodlesAtNight 9:10 pm [[What is terrible about it? This style of training?]] Kelpy 9:10 pm [settles back into his seat] I mean... Bad way to train, but not a bad lesson. verdigrisprowl 9:11 pm *he's wasn't going to stretch out to grab a wrist anyway.* @S «It's fine. Business called.» SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:11 pm It's ruthless. This docent doesn't seem to like ruthless. NoodlesAtNight 9:12 pm *Rumble glances up at Whirl, surprised. He sort of looks down at the ground, and then up again, one hand behind his head.* //...Yeah, sure. I mean - 'course. Said I got your back.// *Oh, that was awkward. But he tried.* verdigrisprowl 9:13 pm *... he obeys every order he's given but he looks so natural and effortless doing it. it's—so hard to watch.* Kelpy 9:13 pm She really is weirdly comfortable with two street kids. NoodlesAtNight 9:13 pm //Maybe. Ain't like she got no one else, I guess.// NoodlesAtNight 9:14 pm //Desperate company.// chronosmith 9:14 pm *Completely. But it's still appreciated. Neither of them can claim to be Lotharios* That you did. And you deliver. SCProwl 9:14 pm ((this scene always made me laugh because it's so obvious Selina's actress is wearing makeup SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:14 pm She's a poofy hatchling. All fluffed up. ...Should you teach that to hatchlings? chronosmith 9:15 pm Pfft. No, not THAT powerful, lady. Kelpy 9:15 pm ... chronosmith 9:15 pm Looks are nothing next to a good GUN. Kelpy 9:15 pm Ouch NoodlesAtNight 9:15 pm *Soundwave is surprised that Prowl hasn't blipped out, honestly. He's... glad the warnings seem to be helping. And that he better understands how to offer them.* NoodlesAtNight 9:16 pm [[Either he is not as able to identify humans as he thinks he is or those are NOT as alike as the Harvey human insists.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:16 pm They might be similar in the activities they got up to. Not in appearance. verdigrisprowl 9:16 pm *he IS squeezing tighter.* NoodlesAtNight 9:16 pm ((if you have a problem with eye horror this is a time you will want to listen only)) Kelpy 9:16 pm [covers his face quietly] SCProwl 9:17 pm *abruptly ends the visual feed* verdigrisprowl 9:18 pm ((DANG fish)) chronosmith 9:18 pm *LAUGHS* Holy SHIT Kelpy 9:18 pm [peeks quietly] NoodlesAtNight 9:18 pm *Perhaps, but he hasn't gone screaming out of the room, so to speak. Soundwave will squeeze back every time he gets his arm squished. Every time.* SCProwl 9:18 pm *shudders* chronosmith 9:18 pm THAT is how you DO it. Damn. What a power move. Gotta love how determined she is to deny her enemies EVERYTHING. Gotta. It's great. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:19 pm If you can't win them, break them. NoodlesAtNight 9:19 pm *If a thought could be breathless:* [[Such defiance.]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:19 pm *pff* verdigrisprowl 9:19 pm @S «On future nights, could I get a schedule for whenever that human is going to show up.» chronosmith 9:19 pm ((look at bruce's two new dads)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:19 pm ((a family can be two gay dads and batman)) chronosmith 9:20 pm *nods* Yeah. That's the level of frag-you we should all aspire to, honestly. Kelpy 9:21 pm Is this friendshiping going to sour NoodlesAtNight 9:21 pm @P: [[The Butch human?]] *Oh. Oh no. Was he not as thorough as he thought?* [[Yes, of course. Are you - of course you - that is a stupid question. Let him try again: Do you require anything else of him for your personal wellbeing at this moment, or later?]] SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:21 pm Being a docent is difficult. That's why you need training for it. verdigrisprowl 9:21 pm @S «Your arm will suffice for now.» verdigrisprowl 9:22 pm @S «... Thank you for... Thank you.» NoodlesAtNight 9:22 pm @P: [[You are welcome.]] verdigrisprowl 9:23 pm *tiny arm squeeze. this one's affectionate.* NoodlesAtNight 9:25 pm [[Yes. He has not been one himself, but he saw the work required to maintain the protoforms, recently. It is - he understands why they wanted him to know more before he helped more directly.]] Kelpy 9:25 pm This is a really unethical way of sourcing drinks. verdigrisprowl 9:25 pm *and THIS arm squeeze is because The Butch is back.* NoodlesAtNight 9:25 pm *Soundwave rapidly starts questioning Ravage so he can pass along relevant information. He needs to know when Butch is - oh, damn it, already.* Kelpy 9:27 pm Ouch NoodlesAtNight 9:27 pm [[TRAITOR.]] Kelpy 9:27 pm Oh, SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:28 pm Revert-skin. NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm *He knows exactly what this is.* chronosmith 9:28 pm Damn. Rough on the kid. Gotta see that happen twice, eh? NoodlesAtNight 9:28 pm ((okay, i can't remember exactly, but there are - two? - two, i think, club scenes at penguin's place next ep. i don't remember butch having anything to do in them but do consider prowl now notified of them just in case?)) verdigrisprowl 9:29 pm ((i will consider him notified)) NoodlesAtNight 9:29 pm ((o7)) //Butler guy's good people. Hope he don't kick off.// NoodlesAtNight 9:29 pm [[What kind of damned idiot--]] chronosmith 9:30 pm He shouldn't, since he's supposed to be around when the kid's grown, but--*shrugs* NoodlesAtNight 9:30 pm //Hey, Swerve - if ya think THAT'S an unethical way of sourcin' drinks, don't let nobody tell ya 'bout the purple badge Blurrs.// NoodlesAtNight 9:31 pm *Rumble snickers.* Kelpy 9:31 pm [holds face in hands] I *know*. I've heard things. About Purple badges in general. NoodlesAtNight 9:31 pm *HE KNEW IT.* *He was suspicious from the moment the human showed up - the timing - but that stabbing---* Kelpy 9:31 pm Oh my god. Reggie. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:31 pm REVERSE SKIN. NoodlesAtNight 9:32 pm //Hey. Hey, ain't that the - uh. Wellsigh lady?// Kelpy 9:33 pm Um verdigrisprowl 9:33 pm Why the hell did they leave the mask there? That's important evidence. NoodlesAtNight 9:33 pm //She said she was middle managin'. This corruptin' stuff is real deep, ain't it?// NoodlesAtNight 9:33 pm //Ain't nothin' like the senate, but...// NoodlesAtNight 9:33 pm [[Incompetence.]] verdigrisprowl 9:33 pm *huff. "slight puncture. leaked a bit."* Kelpy 9:33 pm Really Alfred chronosmith 9:33 pm *snickers* Kelpy 9:34 pm You're going to protect that traitor? chronosmith 9:34 pm The only reason I can see him sparing the guy is if he wants to kill him himself. Kelpy 9:34 pm Not a real good one verdigrisprowl 9:34 pm Loyalty above justice or common sense. ((ALFRED NO)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:34 pm DON'T DO THAT. They're in there for a reason! NoodlesAtNight 9:35 pm ((thank u, bruce)) Kelpy 9:35 pm I'm surprised no nurses came running did that once in Ratchet's medbay and had six nurses in three seconds. verdigrisprowl 9:35 pm ((how the hell have her fake nails stayed so immaculate)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:35 pm ((satanism)) verdigrisprowl 9:36 pm *is this the part Prowl was warned about* NoodlesAtNight 9:36 pm *No, no. Not yet.* *Soundwave's spines flick in and out. Something keeps... a word. A sound.* chronosmith 9:37 pm I don't buy it. She's playing the long game. verdigrisprowl 9:37 pm ((GDI YOU TOO FISH?)) SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:37 pm DON'T. DO. THAT. chronosmith 9:37 pm Someone THAT full of rage isn't just going to be satisfied with being someone's right hand. verdigrisprowl 9:37 pm ((LEAVE THOSE WIRES WHERE THEY BELONG)) NoodlesAtNight 9:38 pm //'Course they ain't.// NoodlesAtNight 9:38 pm [[...President of the what?]] SCProwl 9:38 pm Union. NoodlesAtNight 9:39 pm [[He thought presidents were a government office. A - the highest politicians.]] verdigrisprowl 9:39 pm Anything can have a president. Kelpy 9:39 pm Arrogant. verdigrisprowl 9:39 pm It's just the highest politician within that group. A country is just one group. Unions are groups too. Kelpy 9:40 pm Maybe he'd have better luck cleaning the system if he started at the time. chronosmith 9:40 pm "Know when you're beaten." Pfft. Not likely. verdigrisprowl 9:40 pm ... Bollocks, no. NoodlesAtNight 9:40 pm [[Then he is not just placing this corrupt human back in the department, but raising him to the highest of the - an organization that is not equal to his own position.]] *Shakes his head.* [[He does this specifically to spite the Gordon hu--]] Kelpy 9:40 pm Was his evidence fake? SCProwl 9:40 pm No. NoodlesAtNight 9:40 pm *How could the Harvey human--?* NoodlesAtNight 9:41 pm *...Shifts a little.* verdigrisprowl 9:42 pm *shifts with to maintain arm grip.* SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:42 pm ...Riddling human. No. Kelpy 9:42 pm I gotta wonder, is this a problem country wide? Could he not inform people higher in the government of what's going on??? NoodlesAtNight 9:43 pm *He was glad to vacate the position before, but - now he is more... Mm. Now he is glad that he did. Before he could - before it ever entered his head to try to fix the department Loeb's way.* Kelpy 9:43 pm Also Riddler no please. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:43 pm He's going to be high on that like a hatchling after an overripe seaskitter. chronosmith 9:43 pm That's presupposing anyone in a position of power gives a damn about anyone but themselves. verdigrisprowl 9:43 pm He SHOULD be able to inform higher people, yes. The FBI often investigates cases like this. chronosmith 9:44 pm And my vast experience had led me to believe otherwise. NoodlesAtNight 9:44 pm [[Do they not do a good job of investigating? Surely someone as clever as this human would know they could?]] verdigrisprowl 9:44 pm Your vast experience is Cybertronian. I'm referring to Earth. chronosmith 9:44 pm I can tell you right now, you know what you do? If someone puts a gun to your head, then gives you one, to shoot someone for blackmail material? What you do is, try and shoot the guy with the gun to your head. Kelpy 9:45 pm I guess those internal affairs are that bad. chronosmith 9:45 pm Sure, you'll probably die, but MAYBE you'll get to shoot the guy in the face, which has gotta be satisfying. Mostly Cybertronian, some alien. *waves a dismissive claw* Got no reason to believe humans are much different. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:46 pm ((sorry, I'm tired, gotta turn in early)) Kelpy 9:46 pm Their assumption that Leob only keeps one copy of his blackmail. NoodlesAtNight 9:46 pm ((aaaa goodnight)) verdigrisprowl 9:46 pm The thing about the FBI is that it's divorced from normal law enforcement and isn't tied to one location. SpecsTheSpectralDragon 9:46 pm ((thanks lots!)) ((my brain is just shutting down slowly)) chronosmith 9:46 pm rest well!)) Kelpy 9:46 pm //nini you NoodlesAtNight 9:47 pm *This will be the scene he warned about.* *Not right away. But very soon.* verdigrisprowl 9:47 pm If they sent in a half dozen people that live two states over from Gotham, they're not caught up in local politics and have no reason to join in the... NoodlesAtNight 9:47 pm *And now it approaches.* Kelpy 9:47 pm If I had blackmail, I'd keep six or seven copies of everything. Why do they assume the human only has one? verdigrisprowl 9:47 pm *oh. oh, he sees where this speech is going* *pre-emptively squeezes arm* NoodlesAtNight 9:48 pm *Squeeze.* chronosmith 9:48 pm ((COOOOMBS)) ((farewell)) ((OR NOT)) That looks... incredibly goofy. Kelpy 9:48 pm //did they give her his eye i looked away again lamo NoodlesAtNight 9:49 pm *...You know what. Tiny squeeze of his own.* SCProwl 9:49 pm ((tv special effects not the best NoodlesAtNight 9:49 pm ((noooope. he stitched the office manager's head onto a body made up of spare parts from multiple people.)) chronosmith 9:49 pm ((oh yes. I understand. Whirl is gonna poke it. ...and this is also mildly horrifying so defense mechanism)) Kelpy 9:49 pm //rip verdigrisprowl 9:49 pm *long, silent sigh* NoodlesAtNight 9:50 pm *A sigh? Then Prowl is still here? ...He hopes staying for that was wise. He has no idea.* Kelpy 9:50 pm That kid. Tells way too many people his secrets. verdigrisprowl 9:50 pm *he's not sure yet either.* verdigrisprowl 9:51 pm *something in the back of his mind is rumbling* *oh, it's a bunch of people sitting around doing accounting. that looks fun.* NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[...He's laughing. Leave.]] chronosmith 9:52 pm Pfft. Assassin accountants. I like it. NoodlesAtNight 9:52 pm [[The money must be protected.]] verdigrisprowl 9:52 pm We saw a movie like that. chronosmith 9:52 pm Oh yeah? What was it called? Kelpy 9:53 pm Did they really think this would work verdigrisprowl 9:53 pm "The Accountant." NoodlesAtNight 9:53 pm [[Ah, yes! We did. Quite thrilling.]] chronosmith 9:53 pm ...makes sense. NoodlesAtNight 9:53 pm [[...There must be more to accounting than he knew of.]] *Rumble points and laughs.* chronosmith 9:54 pm *snickers* Kelpy 9:54 pm Oh. verdigrisprowl 9:54 pm For what it's worth, less than half of the accountants I know are stone cold killers. Kelpy 9:54 pm *why* do any of them assume there's one????? NoodlesAtNight 9:54 pm *Soundwave turns to stare.* [[.........Less than /half./]] Kelpy 9:54 pm Like. Only one. chronosmith 9:54 pm Really? I'd have expected more. verdigrisprowl 9:55 pm Less than half, yes. NoodlesAtNight 9:55 pm [[...He was expecting something closer to - to--]] *Stitches a clip very quickly.* [][][]Only a few.[][][] chronosmith 9:56 pm Well, we're still pretty fresh out of the war, mech. verdigrisprowl 9:56 pm "Few" is relative. NoodlesAtNight 9:56 pm [[Yes. And he would not have expected most accountants he ever met to survive it.]] [[It is - impressive. If alarming.]] *He does so like Penguin's style on this kind of thing.* verdigrisprowl 9:56 pm How many accountants did you meet? chronosmith 9:56 pm Though with all the NAILs infesting Cybertron right now, I mean... yeah I can see how almost half of the accountants would be non-combatants. NoodlesAtNight 9:57 pm [[Megatron took control of the pits after a while. He met quite a few.]] Kelpy 9:57 pm She's a l;iar chronosmith 9:57 pm I still say she's biding her time. NoodlesAtNight 9:57 pm *And Swerve is not far wrong about the single blackmail copy. Soundwave certainly doesn't keep information in only one place.* chronosmith 9:57 pm Gotta wait for the perfect moment to take the guy out. There's still a lot she doesn't know. Kelpy 9:58 pm Man, I keep my supplier files in like, six different places with more than one copy, and that's certainly not as valuable. NoodlesAtNight 9:58 pm [[Wise of you.]] [[And he notes that her promise may remain the same, but she is not staying with them.]] *LOUD. HUFFING.* Kelpy 9:58 pm Yes. chronosmith 9:58 pm ((THERE IT IS)) SCProwl 9:58 pm *laughs* chronosmith 9:58 pm *SNORTS* chronosmith 9:59 pm You should get Buzzsaw to make a sign saying that and put it on your desk, Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 9:59 pm *He tries not to move too much so he doesn't take his arm away from Prowl, but he's leaning. It's making him sort of twist into one side while he shakes.* Kelpy 9:59 pm Is he laughing or making angry motions? verdigrisprowl 10:00 pm *missed whatever joke everyone is laughing at, but enjoys Soundwave's shaking.* chronosmith 10:00 pm I say this as a satisfied customer. Buzzsaw does good work. NoodlesAtNight 10:00 pm [[Y - yes, he - should do it. That. The saying.]] chronosmith 10:01 pm *salutes Soundwave wryly* ...OH. I remembered. *nudges Rumble* Skateboard. Kelpy 10:01 pm [snickers] NoodlesAtNight 10:01 pm *Reverently:* //Skateboard...// *And now Soundwave is just a mess. KEYS.* chronosmith 10:01 pm That's the thing that person was cruising on earlier. I KNEW I'd seen it. Kelpy 10:01 pm They weren't fooled at all were they verdigrisprowl 10:02 pm *supporting soundwave. there there. you'll live.* chronosmith 10:02 pm Y'know, f you want one, you could ask Hiro. The human kid, used to pal around on the Lost Light? He can build just about anything. Kelpy 10:02 pm You know, I don't think his super secret blackmail hoard is files at all. chronosmith 10:02 pm Probably put rockets on it. NoodlesAtNight 10:02 pm *He's got to try to straighten up and focus. He wants to know what the secret - KEYS - what the secret is.* NoodlesAtNight 10:03 pm [[Oh. Does she - is she the guard? Another one?]] Kelpy 10:03 pm Oh boy. [flinches for Ed] verdigrisprowl 10:03 pm *continues supporting. definitely isn't hugging him.* chronosmith 10:04 pm Well, that's what you get for being a weird CREEP. NoodlesAtNight 10:04 pm *No, definitely not. Of course. And he appreciates the support. He's coming back to himself now. This was more serious.* chronosmith 10:04 pm I mean even I'M better at flirting than this guy. NoodlesAtNight 10:04 pm *....He thought -- ah, no. Of course not.* chronosmith 10:04 pm ((omfg tHIS. I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HER)) (9SHE WAS ON THE NANNY)) chronosmith 10:05 pm ((SHE WAS THE OLDER DAUGHTER)) Kelpy 10:05 pm IS she just not allowed out of the room NoodlesAtNight 10:06 pm //Regular Buzzsaw, ain't she.// chronosmith 10:06 pm *snickers* SCProwl 10:06 pm Loeb didn't kill his wife. verdigrisprowl 10:06 pm ... All those years she's been locked up... Kelpy 10:06 pm Oh. Kelpy 10:07 pm So, she did it and he keeps her there to protecther. NoodlesAtNight 10:07 pm *Can't quite identify what Prowl's sentence was going to be. Wonders.* SCProwl 10:07 pm To protect himself. NoodlesAtNight 10:07 pm //Primus.// chronosmith 10:08 pm Harvey, again, with his priorities straight. Kelpy 10:08 pm [snorts] chronosmith 10:08 pm *also snorts* verdigrisprowl 10:08 pm Well. When the only asylum in town is trash... chronosmith 10:09 pm Yeah, honestly, she's better off in the attic. verdigrisprowl 10:09 pm Although it's 9% adequate compared to 5% adequate. NoodlesAtNight 10:09 pm [[At least there someone cared about her, he supposes.]] chronosmith 10:10 pm I dunno. I mean, I figure those nice old people give her home-cooked meals, she can entertain herself, she's in a familiar place... *shrugs* Kelpy 10:10 pm He's trying so hard to clean the system that he's becoming the system. NoodlesAtNight 10:10 pm *Though he doesn't see why Loeb couldn't have just run away as soon as they were cleared. Take her somewhere else. A quiet place.* chronosmith 10:10 pm People are caring for her instead of, you know, looking for excuses to do horrible things to her. verdigrisprowl 10:11 pm "Fight fire with fire." chronosmith 10:11 pm *snickers* Yep. chronosmith 10:12 pm *tilts his head* NoodlesAtNight 10:12 pm [[...That's no reason not to do good things.]] verdigrisprowl 10:12 pm I don't think he's making the right decision. But I've no doubt that, from where he's standing, it's probably the best one he can see. No, it's not a reason not to do good things. It's a reason to not do the bad things. NoodlesAtNight 10:13 pm [[...And he is not experienced enough to know how to manage a Penguin. Gordon isn't.]] //Pfuh. Til death do 'em part.// chronosmith 10:14 pm HAHAHA verdigrisprowl 10:14 pm *LAUGHS* Kelpy 10:14 pm Oh my god verdigrisprowl 10:14 pm *covers his mouth* chronosmith 10:14 pm That's the coolest thing he's done in the show yet. NoodlesAtNight 10:14 pm *Rumble HOWLS.* verdigrisprowl 10:14 pm *doubles over* NoodlesAtNight 10:14 pm *Ah! Now it is Soundwave's turn to be support.* Kelpy 10:15 pm Island? NoodlesAtNight 10:15 pm [[COLD island.]] chronosmith 10:15 pm I... can't wait to see how she takes him out. Kelpy 10:15 pm Heck. chronosmith 10:15 pm Cos I still have faith that she's gonna. Kelpy 10:15 pm Yes. NoodlesAtNight 10:15 pm *Gently nudges Prowl's knee. You'll live too. Heh.* verdigrisprowl 10:16 pm *okay. he's recovering. he's gonna live.* NoodlesAtNight 10:16 pm ((QUICK NOTE: the next two movie nights will only have 2 episodes apiece because a) four is too long for one night and b) the next four are not easy to handle for many people)) ((and then we will be done with gotham and return to movies for a long while)) SCProwl 10:16 pm Hopefully she does it sooner rather than later. *presses palm to visor* chronosmith 10:17 pm ((o7 )) NoodlesAtNight 10:17 pm ((time mark: 10:35)) Kelpy 10:17 pm //O7 chronosmith 10:17 pm ((gotham has been enjoyable!)) verdigrisprowl 10:17 pm ((it has)) NoodlesAtNight 10:17 pm ((i do encourage anyone who decides they like it by the end of s1 to keep watching. it gets much, much better.)) chronosmith 10:17 pm ((jada up here stealing the show)) NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm ((i apologize for doing this song twice but it's been trapped in my head since this morning)) Kelpy 10:18 pm //lmao verdigrisprowl 10:18 pm ((it's thematically appropriate, it's in a police station)) NoodlesAtNight 10:18 pm ((also fair)) chronosmith 10:18 pm *streetches* SCProwl 10:18 pm ((Fish is the best chronosmith 10:19 pm ((she really is)) SCProwl 10:19 pm ((She's the only Gotham pop I own NoodlesAtNight 10:19 pm *Soundwave stretches.* [[He wants to know if the Loeb fleshling will strike back. Mechs with that kind of stranglehold on others do not like to be caught off guard like that. He should know.]] ((i would own penguin but he's so hard to find/expensive!)) Kelpy 10:20 pm //rip SCProwl 10:20 pm ((One day I'll get Bruce too because I need my precious bat son verdigrisprowl 10:20 pm *finally lets go of Soundwave's arm.* I'm sure he will if he finds an opportunity. chronosmith 10:23 pm With all this music, Soundwave., someone might think you're trying to coax all of us to dance. verdigrisprowl 10:23 pm Here? In a dance club? Preposterous. NoodlesAtNight 10:23 pm [[Such danger. He cannot wait to find out how it flows...]] *Soundwave glances at Whirl.* [[Someone would not be wrong.]] *Huffs at Prowl.* chronosmith 10:23 pm I know, Prowl. That's why it's so shocking. *drapes a claw dramatically over his cockpit* verdigrisprowl 10:24 pm Fortunately, I'm immune. NoodlesAtNight 10:24 pm [[Not /too/ hard, of course. He prefers most mechs pay for the right to do so.]] chronosmith 10:25 pm Tragically, I'm incapable of dancing. But even if I was, hypothetically speaking, I'd be immune to this sort of music. NoodlesAtNight 10:25 pm *Soundwave is not immune. There are music visualizations going bananas on his visor.* [[Then he'll have to test you next week with a different sort, won't he.]] verdigrisprowl 10:25 pm ... How DO you accept payment? Just whatever currency the visitors happen to have? Is there a set exchange rate between goods and currencies, or do you decide on a case by case basis? chronosmith 10:26 pm ((O BOI)) NoodlesAtNight 10:27 pm [[Case by case, mostly. Buzzsaw has an optic for such things, and we keep a list of what is in demand across the settlements.]] Kelpy 10:27 pm //oh. now i understand the ref in that one all time low musicv video gfhbh NoodlesAtNight 10:27 pm [[We prefer items, but he has started to make minor use of currency in other timelines.]] verdigrisprowl 10:27 pm ... Would you LIKE a set exchange rate? NoodlesAtNight 10:28 pm [[He would /like/ one, but he has yet to determine how to make that possible - all the timelines...]] chronosmith 10:28 pm Well, you can buy drinks with exotic dishes, so that's something. verdigrisprowl 10:28 pm *pointed look* chronosmith 10:28 pm Yeah... with the multiverse being a whole thing, y'know, barter makes the most sense. verdigrisprowl 10:28 pm You'd need the help of someone who's very good at math, I'd expect. NoodlesAtNight 10:29 pm =Is very good!= *Ravage shouts from upstairs. He took a tiny clawful earlier.* chronosmith 10:29 pm PFFT. @R: Yeah? I'll keep an eye for more. Crash another swanky event. NoodlesAtNight 10:30 pm [[He would, but none of the accountants he still has contact with have successfully w...orked...]] [[........./Ah./]] Kelpy 10:30 pm [amused snuffle] NoodlesAtNight 10:30 pm *And the music visualizations stutter briefly before settling back down just as the lights brighten a tad.* verdigrisprowl 10:31 pm *did you get it, Soundwave? Prowl was starting to worry he was being too subtle.* SCProwl 10:31 pm *that was subtle?* NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm @W: =...Let me know, eh? We take twice as much.= verdigrisprowl 10:31 pm *he didn't THINK so, but...* chronosmith 10:31 pm *it really wasn't. Nerd love, it's a hell of a think, ain't it?* NoodlesAtNight 10:31 pm *Oh, he got it.* chronosmith 10:31 pm @R: AbsoLUTEly, mech. It'll only be more fun with you there, true story. Kelpy 10:32 pm MAth's getting involved so I think that's my cue to head off before things get awkward. Night everyone. chronosmith 10:32 pm *SNORTS* verdigrisprowl 10:32 pm ... What's awkward about math? NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm *Rumble claps a hand over his mouth and tries not to laugh at Swerve's comment.* verdigrisprowl 10:32 pm Your bar is taking multiversal visitors, you could use a set exchange rate too. NoodlesAtNight 10:32 pm //See ya later. Got that drinkin' contest, 'n all.// *Muffled through his fingers.* chronosmith 10:32 pm I think Swerve's referring to you flirting with Soundwave, Prowl. SCProwl 10:32 pm I suppose if you're not good at it, things might be awkward if a conversation about it is started. Kelpy 10:33 pm That's true and Whirl is also correct. I'll yell at Whirl and Rumble about drinking contests later. Night! [waves and snickers] chronosmith 10:33 pm *waves* Don't forget, mech! verdigrisprowl 10:33 pm *opens mouth* ... *shuts mouth.* ... *opens mouth* I wasn't— NoodlesAtNight 10:33 pm [[He sees nothing awkward about anything. It is a valid offer, and one he happens to appreciate.]] Kelpy 10:33 pm [laughs all the way to the door] NoodlesAtNight 10:34 pm *And appreciates that the other Prowl also did not decide to make light of it. One tiny point in her favor.* chronosmith 10:34 pm If that's the case, then congrats, Prowl, you've mastered the art of unintentional flirting. verdigrisprowl 10:34 pm ... How do I turn it off? chronosmith 10:35 pm *gravely* I'm afraid you can't. You're probably irresistible to nerds everywhere. Your gift... your curse. verdigrisprowl 10:35 pm That's... not work appropriate. SCProwl 10:35 pm Sometimes math is just math. chronosmith 10:35 pm When I do math, it's just math. When THESE two get talking--*gestures to Prowl and Soundwave* It's not just math. verdigrisprowl 10:35 pm *is he flirting with people without noticing. that's awful. that's terrible. how does he stop.* chronosmith 10:36 pm ...*tilts his head, and looks to them with an honest, round optic* Not that I'm knocking you guys. *Soundwave and even Prowl have actually... been pretty damn decent. There's a tiny shred of decency in there, somewhere deep deep down* NoodlesAtNight 10:36 pm [[He should hope not. It is very unwise to irritate one's host. Or their seat company.]] verdigrisprowl 10:37 pm That's not the issue here. I was making a platonic offer. chronosmith 10:37 pm Course not. verdigrisprowl 10:37 pm *he's unintentionally flirting with people.........* chronosmith 10:37 pm *that was to Soundwave, not to Prowl* verdigrisprowl 10:37 pm *how often does it happen. how many people has he made uncomfortable. what's he doing wrong.* NoodlesAtNight 10:37 pm [[He perceived it as intended as a platonic offer. His own interest is his business.]] chronosmith 10:38 pm *Whirl has unintentionally undermined prowl in the worst possible way* *and he can't even enjoy it anymore* verdigrisprowl 10:38 pm *is staring somewhere vaguely at the floor. he is dumbstruck. the horror.* chronosmith 10:38 pm *tips his head back, draining his drink* @R: For the record? You can talk nerd to me anytime you like, mech. Won't poke fun. Promise. NoodlesAtNight 10:39 pm ((....is that ravage r or rumble r)) chronosmith 10:39 pm ((WHOP. That's a Rumble r)) verdigrisprowl 10:39 pm *no no, whirl undermined prowl in the worst way possible last year* chronosmith 10:39 pm *true. ...undermining Prowl is apparently his specialty* NoodlesAtNight 10:39 pm @W: //Better not. Happen to know yer just as nerdy as them two 'n me.// *Smirk for no apparent reason.* verdigrisprowl 10:40 pm *he's developed a knack for it* NoodlesAtNight 10:40 pm *Soundwave turns his hand over. If Prowl needs it while he deals with Whirl's commentary? He's not sure what's going on here.* chronosmith 10:40 pm *scoffs slightly, into his drink* @R: Me? NERDY? Excuse you, I'm an ARTIST, thank you very much. *will spare him an amused, sidelong look, also for no apparent reason* NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm @W: //That makes ya like Buzzsaw. Double nerdin'.// verdigrisprowl 10:41 pm ... how often do I flirt without noticing it. NoodlesAtNight 10:41 pm *Rumble tries to sort of wink his visor. It looks like he got pinched in the side instead.* chronosmith 10:42 pm @R: Oh, shit. ...you might be right. Well. I guess I surrender to my fate. *it probably does look objectively goofy as hell but Whirl honestly loves it. Look at that. Rumble, you're smooth as hell. ...Whirl "winks" back and it looks even goofier. Because he has only one eye* NoodlesAtNight 10:42 pm [[...He doesn't recall seeing you doing so.]] NoodlesAtNight 10:43 pm [[That is your alternate's job, not yours.]] chronosmith 10:43 pm Honestly, mech? No idea. You might be specialized to unintentionally flirt specifically with your main squeeze, there. SCProwl 10:43 pm *sputters* Th-that was a joke. chronosmith 10:43 pm But I'm the opposite of an expert on that kind of thing, so... don't. Listen to me, I guess. verdigrisprowl 10:43 pm ... As long as the problem remains localized... chronosmith 10:44 pm *sidelong glance at the other Prowl. Uh oh. We must be vigilant, lest we fall under the spell* SCProwl 10:44 pm I thought I made that clear when we spoke about it, Soundwave. chronosmith 10:44 pm *dryly* I think Soundwave's willing to contain the damage, personally. I mean, he's got a lot of hands, so who better to contain... anything, really. NoodlesAtNight 10:45 pm @W: //If we wanna survive the night, probably we wanna run before the Boss gets crankier. I'm jus' sayin'.// verdigrisprowl 10:45 pm ((I don't care what the lyrics are. this is a lesbian song.)) chronosmith 10:45 pm (shakira it should be eminently easy to forget him, rihanna's RIGHT THERE)) SCProwl 10:45 pm ((yup NoodlesAtNight 10:46 pm [[And you did make it clear. That is why he referenced it.]] chronosmith 10:46 pm ((i'm gllad we all had the same thought)) verdigrisprowl 10:46 pm ((they are singing about trying to forget each other. they're failing at it because they're clearly still sleeping together.)) SCProwl 10:46 pm *huffs* chronosmith 10:47 pm *seems genuinely a bit surprised; he hadn't realized he genuinely irritated Soundwave. Oh, well. It's bound to happen*@R: Right. I was just gonna head home. You got any ideas? ...and, y'knwo. You can always come over, if you want. verdigrisprowl 10:47 pm Wait—made what clear? *he wasn't paying attention to the conversation, he was having an internal crisis* NoodlesAtNight 10:48 pm *Rumble isn't sure whether the Boss is genuinely irritated, but he knows what the Boss is talking about, and nobody wants to be around for that. That way is trouble.* @W: //Lemme help ya fix the joint up? Ain't nothin' I don't do all the time here.// chronosmith 10:50 pm @R: Sure! I could use a construction expert, honestly. *stands up* All right, losers. Time for me to bounce. See y'all next week. verdigrisprowl 10:50 pm Evening, Whirl. NoodlesAtNight 10:50 pm [[Good. He's had enough speculation on what he does with his many limbs for one night.]] chronosmith 10:50 pm Oh god, I didn't mean it LIKE THAT, jeez. chronosmith 10:51 pm *grabs his helm* Nope. Nope. Not talking about this anymore. Must save... myself. From the mental images. SCProwl 10:51 pm The <3 symbol I sent you and Soundwave. *waves a servo through the air* verdigrisprowl 10:51 pm What about it? ((did she say <3 out loud)) SCProwl 10:52 pm ((yes verdigrisprowl 10:52 pm ((amazing)) NoodlesAtNight 10:52 pm *Good. Suffer, Whirl. Suffer for confusing Prowl.* [[His side of it was a joke at his expense, apparently. He did not ask about yours, though.]] chronosmith 10:52 pm *in all fairness he didn't mean any harm, he's just inherently harmful sometimes; Whirl shifts into alt-mode and pings a quick request for permission to bridge he and Rumble out of here* NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm *Chimera intercepts that request and gives them a bridge. Flee to safety!* chronosmith 10:53 pm *safety awaits! The chopper will bob cordially to Rumble; after you sir* NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm ((soundwave is mostly irritated because it seems to have upset prowl, tbh; he puts up with worse from WJ all the time)) verdigrisprowl 10:53 pm ((prowl will make a full recovery)) NoodlesAtNight 10:53 pm *Rumble hop-runs through as quick as he can. Construction awaits!* SCProwl 10:54 pm I hadn't intended it be taken as flirting. It was an attempt at friendly teasing. chronosmith 10:54 pm ((oh no, soundwave's irritation is totally understandable! Whirl screwing things up without meaning to is just How It Be sometimes.)) *zoop. And Whirl, too, is gone* verdigrisprowl 10:54 pm ((Prowl's Social Insecurities Strike Again)) verdigrisprowl 10:55 pm ... Oh. So it wasn't a... ah. chronosmith 10:55 pm ((and as we have seen, Prowl's Insecurities + Whirl's Abrasiveness often has bad results. Interesting? yep. Bad? also yep) NoodlesAtNight 10:55 pm *Soundwave shakes his helm at the spot where the bridge was once it disappears.* [[Terrible.]] *Vent.* [[And yet, a splendid match for Rumble.]] *Looks to the Commissioner. So, teasing, then?* SCProwl 10:56 pm Not intentionally and most definitely not at Soundwave. NoodlesAtNight 10:56 pm *He's almost disappointed. The Captain seemed kind of interested, actually.* verdigrisprowl 10:56 pm Noted. NoodlesAtNight 10:56 pm [[...Not intentionally?]] [[One moment. That is not a not entirely.]] SCProwl 10:57 pm It's not. verdigrisprowl 10:57 pm I understand a "not intentionally" as "entirely not." I entirely didn't mean to intentionally flirt earlier. And yet here we are. SCProwl 10:57 pm Precisely. NoodlesAtNight 10:58 pm *Soundwave folds his arms. There is dodging happening here.* SCProwl 10:58 pm *sitting perfectly still actually* NoodlesAtNight 10:59 pm *But he won't push the matter. Right now.* [[...He supposes so. He apologizes for having accidentally given them material to latch on to.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:00 pm [[That is, he supposes your alternate did not mean to. He knows you did not.]] *Because Prowl said he didn't, and Soundwave has faith in him telling the truth.* verdigrisprowl 11:00 pm Well. I'm glad that was cleared up. NoodlesAtNight 11:01 pm [[.......Still. An ex-Decepticon being given an ancient glass that belonged to Sentinel Prime could wonder.]] verdigrisprowl 11:02 pm ... Who gave you what? SCProwl 11:02 pm *huffs* I was wondering how long it would take you. verdigrisprowl 11:02 pm *?? ? ???* NoodlesAtNight 11:02 pm *Soundwave stretches a feeler out and points at the weird ugly thing in a special position atop the cabinet of glasses.* [[That.]] verdigrisprowl 11:03 pm *looks at* ... And you haven't broken it yet? NoodlesAtNight 11:03 pm [[Oh, no. Mechs pay a great deal to drink out of it. They enjoy knowing that he would have a spark attack seeing low-caste mechs and manual laborers enjoying a drink from it.]] verdigrisprowl 11:03 pm Oh. Makes sense. NoodlesAtNight 11:04 pm [[He did think about it, though.]] SCProwl 11:04 pm I wouldn't have blamed you. NoodlesAtNight 11:07 pm *.........Has an odd idea. Maybe shouldn't do that. One of them might get angry with him for misleading his customers if he did.* verdigrisprowl 11:08 pm *well, he could ask* NoodlesAtNight 11:08 pm *....But it's tempting.* NoodlesAtNight 11:10 pm @P: [[...You speak often of your time with that Prime. He can give it to you if you would like to own it. Buzzsaw is capable of constructing a replica for continued use in the club...]] *He's risking the coply lecture.* verdigrisprowl 11:11 pm @S «And then, instead of enjoying knowing you're helping your low-caste customers stick it to an oppressive regime, you can enjoy knowing that you're defrauding low-caste customers by selling them false dreams of sticking it to an oppressive regime.» NoodlesAtNight 11:12 pm *Soundwave straightens up in horror. He hadn't thought that far into it.* verdigrisprowl 11:12 pm *Prowl thought he might not have.* SCProwl 11:13 pm *quietly enjoys the song while this conversation happens without her knowledge* verdigrisprowl 11:13 pm ((this is another lesbian song)) NoodlesAtNight 11:14 pm @P: [[You are right. He withdraws his offer. ... But if you would ever like to use it, he will not ask you to pay for the privilege. Consider it a thank you for preventing him from taking an action he would have loathed himself for later.]] *Pause.* [[...And for understanding him well enough to alert him to that.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:15 pm *And he knows that this is an avatar. He damn well meant sending it to Prowl's apartment to be used there.* *They're only open one and a half days a week, after all.* verdigrisprowl 11:15 pm @S «I don't think I'll want to use it. Sentinel would have had a spark attack. But I appreciate the gesture.» NoodlesAtNight 11:16 pm *Soft huff.* @P: [[As ever, your devotion and respect is admirable, even if he disagrees with the choice of target.]] *Small nod.* [[...It really is hideous,]] *He notes out loud at last.* [[Money cannot buy taste, it seems.]] verdigrisprowl 11:17 pm @S «He's dead. I can afford to respect him; it will never do any harm.» verdigrisprowl 11:18 pm *looks at it again.* ... I'm not qualified to judge. I don't understand art. *mutters* But /I/ don't like it. NoodlesAtNight 11:19 pm [[All you need to know is that Buzzsaw pretended to faint in horror on sight.]] *A light tremble.* [[But that is certainly a point against it.]] verdigrisprowl 11:19 pm Hm. *... takes a picture and sends it to Bonecrusher.* SCProwl 11:21 pm *hums* I had to bite my tongue to keep from telling him how much I disliked it, but he-- it was a gift and he wanted me to keep it and use it however I wanted. I think being here is a much better use than being packed away until something finally breaks it. NoodlesAtNight 11:22 pm ((i do not have an actual picture but tbh i figure if you could turn this mug into a transparent drinking glass that would be about the horribleness of it: http://incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ugly-mugs-2-558x595.jpg )) verdigrisprowl 11:22 pm ((thanks i hate it)) SCProwl 11:22 pm ((augh, no omg verdigrisprowl 11:23 pm ((imagine putting your mouth on that)) NoodlesAtNight 11:23 pm *Soundwave points at his timeline's Prowl.* [[............/You foisted it off on him./ It wasn't a gift at all. You were trying to torture him.]] SCProwl 11:23 pm ((it's just gaudy and extravagant and clearly a show of Sentinel's very extreme wealth and stature, among other things verdigrisprowl 11:24 pm ((so that mug, but encrusted in natural rubies)) NoodlesAtNight 11:24 pm ((oh my GOD)) ((soundwave gets it back missing a ruby one night and he's like "all right. nobody leaves the club until the ruby comes back. if you want one that badly i'll get you one.")) verdigrisprowl 11:25 pm *Bonecrusher sends back a five-minute rant about how much he hates that goddamn monstrosity, complete with references to... either art critics or art eras, Prowl's never heard of any of them so he doesn't know.* SCProwl 11:25 pm I can think of better ways to torture you than a single glass. verdigrisprowl 11:26 pm *forwards Bonecrusher's critical appraisal to Soundwave* NoodlesAtNight 11:26 pm [[Don't you dare give him a second one.]] SCProwl 11:26 pm I only had the one. NoodlesAtNight 11:26 pm *Soundwave doubles over again at the Bonecrusher rant. Oh, he's forwarding this. He's forwarding this RIGHT NOW, straight to the resident artist.* NoodlesAtNight 11:28 pm *He heard half of these things in a slightly different order straight out of Buzzsaw's mouth a few weeks ago.* NoodlesAtNight 11:31 pm [[Well. We have had enough to say about that glass, he thinks.]] SCProwl 11:32 pm One more thing. I never have to look at it again. verdigrisprowl 11:32 pm I think so, yes. *dryly* I'll try not to turn in its direction while I'm giving you a video feed. SCProwl 11:34 pm Thank you. You're very considerate. NoodlesAtNight 11:34 pm *...Oh. Has this discussion - he knows Prowl knows he dislikes the mech; he never thought - hmm.*

[[...If you would like one of Megatron's horrid paintings of colorful Earth equines to perch on a shelf and mock, he can arrange that.]] [[Your version may have been a writer, but ours stopped at oratory abilities.]] verdigrisprowl 11:34 pm ... Your version did WHAT. NoodlesAtNight 11:37 pm [[Hand to Primus. It was one of the first forms of Earth media we could acquire when attempting to learn about the world we were trapped on and how to use it. Megatron thought the creatures were deeply amusing. He has never understood why. But he did catch sight of the attempts to reproduce them, once.]] SCProwl 11:37 pm That's true? verdigrisprowl 11:38 pm ... I—absolutely, do not want one of those paintings. Ever. I would, however, like a picture of one to send to Bonecrusher. NoodlesAtNight 11:39 pm [[It is absolutely true. Laserbeak thought it was an attempt to mock them, but he was never fully convinced, himself. One moment; she should still have that in her databanks.]] SCProwl 11:41 pm Unbelievable. NoodlesAtNight 11:41 pm *Soundwave motions with a hand, causing the current images on the video screens to change and shrink themselves. He preps a space for it to appear, and -- ah. There it is. A glimpse of half a painting between Megatron's arm and his side, exactly as horrid and bizarre as Soundwave claimed.* SCProwl 11:41 pm The one time Smokescreen isn't lying. NoodlesAtNight 11:42 pm [[That mech found corners of the Nemesis we forgot existed. There are some things he tells the truth about.]] verdigrisprowl 11:42 pm *... forwards the atrocious view to his alternate.* *and then to Bonecrusher.* SCProwl 11:43 pm Yes, but most rumors about Megatron's habits and hobbies were... incorrect. I hope. NoodlesAtNight 11:43 pm [[And now, neither of you may ever tell him he does not know how to give a fine gift.]]

[[Yes. You do hope.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:44 pm [[But he tires of visual horrors now. There are better things he would like to spend time on - actual exchange rates, for example.]] verdigrisprowl 11:44 pm You have a strange definition of "fine gift." NoodlesAtNight 11:45 pm [[He gave you an unprecedented opportunity to think poorly of his former leader. He thinks that is fine indeed.]] SCProwl 11:45 pm Ha. verdigrisprowl 11:45 pm Rest assured, I already thought poorly of him. SCProwl 11:45 pm It doesn't take much. NoodlesAtNight 11:46 pm [[Well. Either way.]] *Soundwave swipes the screen clear and rises.* SCProwl 11:47 pm I should be getting back to Praxus. verdigrisprowl 11:48 pm Evening, alternate. NoodlesAtNight 11:51 pm [[Goodnight, Prowl.]] verdigrisprowl 11:53 pm *... leans on* NoodlesAtNight 11:53 pm *Leans against.* verdigrisprowl 11:54 pm *... ah. a TEN minute rant from Bonecrusher. A disproportionate amount of it is either hysterical laughter or incoherent shouting.* *forwards.* NoodlesAtNight 11:55 pm *Feels somewhat better about having offered it. If nothing else, he has brought joy to the life of someone else around Prowl. ... Of course he probably also brought them awful, awful rage, but when didn't a Constructicon have that.* verdigrisprowl 11:55 pm *Bonecrusher enjoys awful, awful rage.* NoodlesAtNight 11:57 pm [[He corrects himself. No one can say that /you/ do not give fine gifts. Or other good and enjoyable things, such as your company. Which he would like to have upstairs in the lounge at your convenience, if you are available.]] verdigrisprowl 11:58 pm My evening is free. NoodlesAtNight 11:58 pm [[Then come with him. He has mostly accurate ledgers you may be interested in seeing.]] NoodlesAtNight 11:59 pm *Stretches a feeler back for Prowl to take hold of and starts on toward the stairs. Currency him up.* verdigrisprowl 11:59 pm *with genuine horror* "Mostly"?? NoodlesAtNight 11:59 pm [[The twins do have turns at writing things in there, you know.]] Today verdigrisprowl 12:00 am ... That sounds like a terrible mistake. *Takes the feeler. He'll come see this travesty for himself.* NoodlesAtNight 12:00 am [[It is. It is.]] *And they're off.*

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