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thr-333 · 4 years ago

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Mismatch- Part 2

Bio Dad Bruce Wayne Month 2020

Point? Plot? never heard of it! have some fluff instead!

First > Next

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First class was called for boarding, leaving the twins behind to wait for economy boarding. They could afford first class, but didn’t want to make a scene with the rest of the class. They are distracted from the window when Lila joins the first class line. When she reaches the desk the twins can’t hear her talking but can see her crocodile tears as she likely spins a tale of woe. There is a sense of satisfaction between them as after some back and forth Lila is sent away in a huff. She goes back to the class and starts complaining, causing them to miss the call for domestic boarding.

“Let’s go,” Marion shrugs his backpack on and they went to board before the rest of the class. He wasn't about to let Lila somehow steal their seats.

As they board the plane they walk past their friends in first class, some seats around them still having people late to board. With a wave they continue on reaching their seats and storing their backpacks under the seats.

“Marion, make sure your devices are in flight mode,” Marinette commands, as she pulls out her tablet.

“Sure thing,” Marion pulls out his laptop, making sure both that and his phone were on flight mode. Marinette double checking.

“It’s just not fair,” They hear Lila whine as she walks past them to her seat.

“I know girl, I know,” Alya is following, patting her back.

Marinette ignores them and pulls out the safety manual, studying the two pages with the same intensity she does as Ladybug. Marion turned to the built in seat screen and browsed through the movies. Marinette was likely the only one on the plane who paid attention during the safety demonstration. When the plane started moving Marinette grabbed onto Marion's hand. It was fine until the plane started to speed up, the grip getting tighter. When the plane lifted off Marion's hand was almost crushed with no magic ladybugs to save it.

“You know for a bug-”

“Nope, na-ah, not now,” Marinette grits through her teeth. Marion sighs and resigns to his hand being crushed.

Fine they had been in a bubble hundreds of meters above Paris looking straight down, but apparently that was nothing compared to a plane. When the seatbelt sign turned on Marion could swear in less than a minute Chloe magically appeared.

“Come on, there's spare seats near us, the people were a no show,” Chloe said, hands on hips.

“I don’t know Chloe, is that even allowed?” Marion asks, trying to pry his hand free.

“I’ll be fine,” Chloe waves him off, not answering the question. She looks at Marinette. “I’ll start jumping,”

“Let’s go!” She releases Marion’s hand and grabs her backpack. Marion shakes out his hand to get the blood flow back, then inspects the marked skin. He follows after them moving his fingers cautiously.

“Marion, your bag,” Chloe sighed, sending him running back to get it.

When Marion caught up they were already seated. Marinette, Kagami and Chloe were in a row of three by the window, while Adrien sat at the row in front. Marion climbed awkwardly over the person sitting at the aisle to reach the spare seat.

Adrien says a quick hello, not looking away from the window.

“It’s normal to be nervous on your first flight,” Kagami assures Marinette, not knowing wasn't her first flight. “Just breath, where would you prefer to sit?”

“Maybe somewhere out of reach of my hand,” Chloe speaks up, cradling her hand.

“It’s ok Marinette, I don’t really like planes either,” Adrien confesses, giving a weak smile over the seat.

“Well there we go you two should sit together,” Chloe dictates, “Come on Marion, up you get, you too Marinette,”

Chloe herds them out of their seats. Marion sheepishly apologises to the aisle person as they climb over them again. Marion sits at the Aisle now with Chloe at the window and Kagami in the middle. Marion peaks over the seats to see the two blushing messes. Marinette holding Adrien's hand, surely for no other reason than fear. It was effective either way as both seemed completely distracted by each other.

“Nice move,” Marion whispers to Chloe as he sits back down.

“I know, and as such I get to choose the movie,” Looking at the disposable headphones with disdain.

“We have our own screens,” Kagami points out.

“Then we’ll just have to start at the same time,” Chloe huffs, plugging the headphones in.

After a painful twenty minutes Chloe eventually settles on some romantic comedy Kagami and Marion had never seen which was ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unacceptable’.

“On my count, go,” Chloe presses play followed by Marion.

“That's not a count,” Kagami argues, the movie not playing.

“Of course it is,”

“You didn’t count,”

“That’s true,” Marion's screen lagging slightly behind Chloe.

“Fine,” Chloe rewinds back to the start, “One, two-”

“Wait I’m not ready!” Marion exclaims, struggling to rewind his. “Ok, now,”

“One, two, three” Chloe presses play, Kagami having pressed it a second before.

“Why?” Chloe hisses, as the screens play out of sync.

“You didn’t specify on or after three,” Kagami explains.

“After three!”

“How was I supposed to know?”

“Ugh, fine let's do it again, One, two-”

“Maybe we should do, ready, set go,” Marion interrupts, a grin on his face.

“No!” Chloe screeches.

“I think I should count,” Kagami interjects, straight faced. Marion isn't sure if she's serious or helping him mess with Chloe or not.

“No! I’m doing it and I’ll be counting,” Chloe seethes.

“Ok, ok,” Marion rewinds his screen,

“One, two-”

“So on or after three?”

“Ahhhhhh!”

After getting bored(being scared for his life) Marion finally lets them start the movie. That doesn't mean he’s done messing with Chloe, as he decides the comedy isn't comedic enough and has to make jokes throughout. Has to it is not his choice, the black cat beckons.

“Why would she not tell him that in the first place,” Kagami inquires.

“I don’t know, she just didn’t,” Chloe grumbles, keeping her eyes glued to the screen.

“It would have avoided a lot of problems,” Kagami decides.

“Well if you wanted needlessly complicated romance we’ve got front seats to the best one this century,” Marion smiles, adding, “And I’m not talking about the movie,”

At that they all stand to peek over seats at the two love birds leaning against each other asleep. Chloe snaps a photo leaning right over them to get the best angle. They all photobomb the background.

“We need to make a collage of all the times this has happened over the years,” Chloe sighs, showing them the photo.

“The piece of resistance will be them in their wedding outfits, sleeping after the reception,” Marion looks down at his phone to see Chloe had somehow sent him the picture, despite him looking at her phone the whole time, “Witchcraft,”

“They would, wouldn't they?” Chloe shakes her head.

“If they ever start dating,” Kagami mutters, also looking down to see Chloe had sent her the picture as well.

“Kags, the only ones that don’t know their dating is them,” Marion assures.

“Shush, this is the good part,” Chloe waves her hand at them, staring at the screen.

“It has a good part?” Marion asks, having to dodge the purse thrown at him.

They were halfway through the movie when Madame Bustier approached them, followed by Lila.

“Marion, what are you and Marinette doing up here?” She demands.

“The seats were spare so I told them too,” Chloe stops Marion before he can apologise.

“That doesn't mean you’re allowed to take them, you should have offered them to another student like Lila,” Madame Bustier reprimands, gesturing to Lila.

“If they can’t be here then neither can she,” Kagami grabs Lila’s wrist before she can shake Marinette awake.

“B-but my tinnitus!” Liela cries, Marion has to grab Kagami's other hand before she can place it over Lila’s mouth.

“Won’t be affected by where on the plane you sit,” Chloe glares.

“What do you know?” Lila sniffs, trying to shake Kagami's grip.

“Surprisingly, I actually researched it, unlike you,” Chloe spits out.

“How dare-”

“Excuse me,” A flight attendant approaches them, “is everything ok here?”

“No,” Liela turns on her crocodile tears pointing at the twins with her free hand. “These two are meant to be in economy, and I was told there were no spare seats in first class, they must of stolen someones seat!”

“Ridiculous,” Chloe huffs.

“Sir could I please see your ticket?” The flight attendant asks Marion. Marion freezes and stutters to explain, Lila looking smug.

“Right here,” Chloe fishes two boarding passes out of her purse and hands them over. The flight attendant inspects them, Marion giving them his passport before they ask.

“My apologies,” They tell Marion, handing back the passport and boarding pass, turning to Lila. “Miss these are their seats, I have to ask you to return to yours,”

“What!” Lila screeches.

“Miss I have to ask you to please be quiet, there are passengers sleeping,” The flight attendant is sterner now. Madame Bustier guides a complaining Liela away.

“Sorry for the confusion,” The flight attendant tells them.

“It’s fine,” Chloe has a vindictive smile on her face as she watches Lila storm off. When she turns around she sees Marion is smirking. “What?”

“You just happened to have two extra boarding passes, huh?”

“Of course, I wanted to have a row to myself, but you two looked so pouty when I left that I decided to give them to you,”

“Right, and they just happen to have our names on them?” Marion prodded, holding them out as proof.

“Uh, yeah? I couldn’t check in three times, I had to use your name,” Chloe snatches the boarding passes away.

“How did you even get our information to do that?” Marion asks, now genuinely confused.

“Anything is possible with money,”

“Foreboding… but true,” Marion considers, “Hey Chlo?”

“What?”

“Thanks,” Marion gives her the biggest smile possible.

“Whatever, you can thank me by letting me choose the next movie as well,” Chloe turns back to the screen.

“I’m not that grateful,” He has to doge her purse again.

Food comes part way through their second movie, that they let Chloe choose anyway. They gently shake Marinette and Adrien awake. Adrien groans at the thought of more food, but is too polite to turn it away.

“What is this slop?” Chloe asks, poking her fork at it like it might attack her.

“It's worse in economy,” Marion points out, eating his with only a small grimace.

“How is that meant to make me feel better?” Chloe sneeres.

“Because Lila and Sabrina are eating it now,” Marion smirks evilly, Chloe mirroring him.

“I’m still not eating it,” Chloe turns her nose up.

“You can have this,” Kagami hands over a container of assorted sushi. “I brought it, but it’s nothing compared to the sushi in Japan,”

“Thanks,” Chloe actually smiles, but would never admit to the slight blush dusting her cheeks. “Here Mari you can have this,” Chloe passes him the tray.

“Thanks Chlo, but I don’t like it either,” Marion pushes it back. Frustrating Kagami with all the reaching over her.

“At least take the cheese, I know you like that,” Chloe drops it on his tray.

“Wha- oh yeah, thanks,” Marion remembers Plagg, so he can't hand it back(not at all because he’s afraid of what Kagami will do if someone reaches across her again).

“You can have mine as well,” Kagami places the matching cheese neatly on top of Chloe’s.

“Do you want mine too?” Adrien asks reaching over the seat to hand it to him. “I don’t really like cheese,”

“Oh… thank you,” Marion says awkwardly, taking it.

“Here you can have mine as well,” Marinette reaches out, grinning over the seat. Marion glares at her, taking the cheese. She sticks out her tongue and sits back down.

When no one is looking Marion sneaks the cheese into his bag. He tries not to yelp as a few seconds later Plagg bites him. Marion excuses himself to the bathroom, taking his satchel.

“Plagg, what gives?” Marion asks, opening up his bag.

“What gives? you expect me to eat that trash? While Kaalki and Tikki eat a mountain of chocolate, are you so crule?” Plagg sticks his ‘nose’ up.

“It’s cheese,” Marion argues, picking up a piece.

“That is an insult to all of cheese,” Plagg points at the offending block.

“Too bad, it’s because of you everyone thinks I’m obsessed with cheese, so take some responsibility,”

“Never!”

“If you don’t eat it, I’m going to throw it out, so what's worse? Bad cheese, or wasted cheese?” Marion asks.

“Hmmmm…. Uhhhhhhh……. Ahhhhhh,” The Kwami looks like he’s in actual pain having to decide this, “.......... Fine!”

He stuffs the block into his mouth.

“Plagg you have to unwrap it first,” Plagg spends the rest of dinner pouting, as Tikki happily chomps on her Toblerone blocks with Kaalki.

After eating Marinette and Adrien decide to also try watching a movie together. They somehow take even longer to get it set up. Considering they can hardly use a full sentence around each other. Kagami eventually gets frustrated enough that she leans over and presses play for them. Marion, Chloe and Kagami finish watching their movie and decide to sleep the rest of the flight away. Chloe brings out her neck pillow and sleeping mask, seat reclined as far as it can go. Marion takes off the horse miraculous placing it carefully in the glasses case and then in his satchel. When he sits back up Chloe and Kagami are leaning against each other, apparently soundly asleep. Marion pretends he doesn't see both peeking at each other.

“Ah, to be the fifth wheel is a mighty achievement,” Marion whispers to himself, trying to disappear into his neck pillow.

Marion blearily wakes up to Kagami, Chloe and Adrien whispering. Marinette had fallen asleep again and was leaning against a blushing Adrien’s shoulder. He pretends he doesn't see this, reaching into his bag to grab the horse miraculous. He checks the flight path to see they only have two hours to go. Stretching as much as possible he chats with the others until Marinette wakes up over an hour later. They start talking about what they’ll do in Gotham, their excitement rising.

“There's an Akuma attack,” Chloe says looking down at her phone.

“What? how do you know?” Marinette shares a glance with Marion.

“Just got an alert,” Chloe gestures to her phone.

“It’s not in flight mode!” Marinette hisses.

“Of course not I-”

“Chloe put it in flight mode right now,” Marinette reprimands, as she climbs out of her seat with her bag, “I’m going to the bathroom,”

“... I’d better go check on her,” Marion declares, as Chloe turns her phone to flight mode, muttering that nothing happened.

He knocks on the bathroom door Marinette is in and is pulled in by Ladybug.

“Lets go, come on,” She says, bouncing in place.

“Plagg, Kaalki, Combine!” With a flash of light Marion is transformed, and with another they are off to Paris.

They have to be back in their seats for the descent that should be starting any minute now so they transport to the Akuma. Hoping they just run into Monsieur Rat. Instead they find a new Akuma, frustrating now having to find the akumatized object. They seemed to be a plant based, judging by the forest growing out of the sidewalk. Marion drops his transformation with the horse Miraculous, leaving regular Chat Noir. He passes a sugar cube to Kaalki telling the Kwami to stay put.

Ladybug charges in without him, trying to wrap her yo-yo around the Akumas tree like body. The Akuma breaks off the branches to get free, growing them back immediately. It sends out vines like whips, that the two dodge getting forced back. As Marion is forced back he trips over some moving roots getting sent sprawling back.

"Chat Noir," He hears a scared whisper to the side. Looking he sees a hand sticking out from under the roots and an eye peeking out from underneath.

"Don't worry," He gently takes the civilians hand, small enough to be a Childs, "me and Ladybug will save you,"

"Don't you mean Ladybug and I?"

"Never mind you can stay here," Chat teases, sticking his tongue out making the kid giggle.

He feels something wind around his leg. Looking down to see roots start to encircle it.

"Uh, Ladybug!" He tries to pull his legs free. Ladybug drops down next to him, helping him get free. He gives the kids hand one last squeeze before jumping to a roof with Ladybug.

"The civilians are trapped under the roots," Chat Noir reports.

"Inside as well," Marion looks out to see buildings cocooned in roots. "I freed some civilians, the Akuma went after them, you need to find it,"

Chat Noir nodded extending his baton to survey the surrounding area. He spots the Akuma from above, using his enhanced vision to study it.

"Chat!"

He looks down to see roots winding up his baton. He jumps off the top and is caught by Ladybug, as she swings them away. Marion looks back at his Baton to see roots circled around it like a tall tree without branches.

"Won't be using that for awhile," He muses, "Piggy back ride?"

"Yeah right," Ladybug snorts, "Wheres the Akuma?"

"That way," He points, "I noticed a poster hanging from one of the trees branches, it must be the akumatised object,"

"Alright lets go!" Ladybug drops down on a roof where the Akuma can't see them.

“Just stay calm, rushing isn’t going to help us here,” Chat Noir grabs her wrist pulling her back.

“You’re right Chat,” Ladybug takes a breath, “But that doesn't mean we can’t get a helping hand, lucky charm!”

"A ribbon? I think weed killer would have been more useful,"

"Very funny, I need you to tie this around the branch with the poster," Ladybug hands it to him.

"Got it,"

Marion jumps off the roof onto the trees branches. It screeches trying to grab him. Chat Noir summons his cataclysm destroying the branches that reach for him. While the tree is distracted severing the decaying branches Chat drops down to the branch with the poster, tying it around. The tree severs the branch as well, dropping it right into Ladybugs waiting arms. The trees branches wrap around Chat, giving Ladybug time to destroy the poster and purify the Akuma. Chat Noir is freed by the ladybugs, placing him back on the ground and returning his staff.

"Pound it,"

Kaalki comes out of hiding, Marion transforms before the press can delay them. He opens a portal right back into the stall. Detransforming and rushing back to their seats.

“Are you ok?” Kagami asked, as they buckle their seat belts.

“I will be once I get off this plane,” Marinette answers, Adrien offers his hand.

When they land they get to be the first ones off. They wait for the class. Madame Bustier does a headcount before they go through border security as a class, before moving on to pick up their bags. Alix and Kim ram their trolleys together as they wait for their bags to arrive. Madame Busier looked tired she didn't even try to stop them.

Chloe had to have her own trolley for her five bags, the rest managing to carry a single bag. The class headed for security separately. Marinette and Marion were stopped for a bag search because of a ‘concerned anonymous tip’ that they were bringing food in. No one else saw them get taken aside. The twins were thankful they left their vigilante costumes at home to be picked up later.

“And what's this?” The security guard asks, holding the polka dotted Miracle box.

“A jewellery box,” Marinette opens it up showing the miraculous. “Its a birthday present for our aunt who lives here,”

The guard nodded, not finding anything wrong. They sent them on their way, the rest of the class had made it through already. The twins walked outside, trying to spot their classmates or the bus.

‘Where are you?’ He texted Chloe

‘On the bus, you said you had another ride?’

‘No?!’

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overdrivels · 8 years ago

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Capoeira vem, capoeira vai

Satya, on multiple occasions, has warned him—scolded, more like—about the improper use of Vishkar technology. Lúcio always brushes her off, convinced she says that because she has too much pride in Vishkar’s work, and not because she can see what the Sound Amplifier really does to him. Not that he would ever admit it to her or anyone else.

Not even if the image of his fractured arm on the holoscreen stares him in the face.

“C’mon Mercy, s’no big deal,” Lúcio laughs through clenched teeth even though it only intensifies the pain addling his mind. He doesn’t see Mercy frowning, too busy trying to focus on staying upright on his seat.

“No big dea—” Mercy takes a breath, incredulous. “Most blood vessels in your arms has exploded, your shoulder is dislocated, and your arm’s bones are broken.”

“S’not broken. Jus’ fractured.”

“Fractured is broken.”

He nods weakly, eyes squeezed shut because he really can’t get his brain to work out the semantics of medical correctness, and because he really wants to throw up. He holds the edge of his chair, and tries hard not to focus on the fact that the room feels like it’s doing the samba.

“Mercy. ‘m sorry, bu’could you jus’give me a break? I don’feel so hot.”

There is a moment of terse silence and for a moment, Lúcio thought his self-control would run out and he’d be face-first in a pool of his own vomit. Then he swears he hears Mercy sigh before the familiar feeling of warmth fills his entire being, the sickening feeling and pain finally ebbing away. His fingers slacken--"Nein, nein!!"--and he does end up face-first on the floor, too exhausted from the mission and the fight to stay dignified on his chair.

He isn’t quite sure when he passed out—if he passed out. The feeling of being lifted, the sight of dark fur, and hearing lots of garbled noise sticks out—but when he is finally able to string a coherent thought together (‘Yeah, fractured bones are totally broken bones.’), he finds himself alone in a bed with his right arm bandaged from fingers to shoulder in a sling.

'That's overkill,' he thinks hazily to himself.

An experimental flex of his finger yields unspectacular results. The digits can twitch, but not much else. The pain is surprisingly absent, and Lúcio thinks it must be because of Mercy. She never did like seeing people suffering. Alive, but certainly not suffering, if the arguments she has with Ana are any indication.

He takes a lazy inventory of his surroundings. Bare, with simple furnishings, hardly anything excess. A table by his side with his tablet on it. A lamp. No window. A chair with an empty jar, the red lid and peanut logo oddly familiar.

The implications finally click in his mind, his stomach clenches and the nausea returns, and he has to take deep breaths to fight the wild urge to run after the several hundred pound gorilla. No doubt Mercy has already informed Winston in explicit detail on his condition and the effects of the Sound Amplifier while he was unconscious. The tell-tale absence of his glorified megaphone is enough to confirm that.

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It is a dirty secret; the Sound Amplifier is incomplete (not just the blueprints, but too few resources and backyard creativity probably didn’t help). The feedback from using ‘Sound Barrier’ has been slowly tearing his body apart, it was destroying him just a touch more than it heals him. After every mission, his shoulder is left sore and his teeth tingling from the vibrations that gets his nerves more hopped up than his fans after one of his world tours. But, he wears his smile because that's what he has to do.

And no one was supposed to find out.

Lúcio immediately reaches for his tablet and thumbs through it, searching for tunes that could squelch the jitters that found a home in his stomach. There is little use dwelling on it now. If the architect wasn't at the foot of his bed with a list of improvements (or complaints), then he'll count that as a blessing, and stay put in recovery. But however much he trusts Mercy to keep her professionalism about her, the anxiety still drives him to select a hidden playlist that he needs a password for. The songs are all listed as “Untitled”, but he does not need to know the names, having heard them so many times in his moments of despair and loneliness.

A few quick taps, and the first sound of twanging instruments demands his attention, the beat of a tambourine—pandeiro—replaces his heartbeat.

“Iê!” A woman shouts, demands the attention of his fear. “Eu ja vivo enjoado, de viver aqui na terra..."

The words ghost his lips, his eyes slip closed under the spell of the woman’s song, a story of poetic death and morality. Every word tugs at his heart, the nostalgic voice gives them strength and makes him weak. He wishes that she did not speak of leaving—“Amanha eu vou pra lua, falei com minha mulher”—but knows he could not stop her. Nothing could.

Nothing did.

She left for the moon, and left her community behind to take up the fight. But it was okay, because she gave them weapons to fight with. Weapons to use on themselves, to better themselves, to better their surroundings. The music he has in his hands is proof of that.

Satya could insult him, but she cannot insult his community. Nothing could ever change the fact that, no matter how imperfect, it’s his home. If change must come, it must come from within. Not imposed by some outside force with no understanding of their lives.

“O senhor amigo meu, veja bem o meu cantar. Quem é dono não se ciúma, quem não é quer ciumar," the song insists in a rising crescendo, so self-assured that it must be true: those have not are jealous, and those who have, need not be jealous.

The woman calls ("Camará!") and he responds, “Iê, viva meu Deus camará!”

“—I see you’re doing just fine, kid.”

The tablet nearly flips out of his hands at the gravelly voice. His spine instinctively straightens.

“S-soldier! Hey, nice of you to drop by,” Lúcio says over the singing, trying to mute it with a clumsy hand. “How’s everyone else?”

Soldier: 76 closes the door behind him.

“The Shimadas are being taken care of. Genji needed some repairs to his legs; Hanzo is unconscious—Ana’s Nano-Boost almost killed him; and McCree-” Lúcio could almost swear Solider muttered, ‘Damned punk’ under his breath. “-is mostly fine. Injuries were light because of you. Good work out there.”

“Me? Nah, just…doing what I gotta do, is all.”

"You give yourself too little credit. Not everyone would run back their team after securing the payload."

"...thanks."

The volume buttons barely respond, the woman continues onto a different song, unperturbed by her new audience. Soldier: 76 nods at the tablet in his hands.

“She sings well.”

Lúcio flushes. “Uh, yeah. She’s great."

His fumbling fingers finally manages to cut the music off.

"Someone you knew?"

"How did you--?"

Soldier shrugged. "Ana." The confusion must've shown on his face. "She used to sing to her daughter."

It doesn't answer the question, not completely, but Lúcio thinks he understands and he furrows his brow at the silent tablet. Is that what it sounds like to someone who does not know the words? A song from mother to child? Is that the type of message the music conveys? The words and their meaning are obvious to him, having heard it hundreds of times, have been taught about the origins of the song (a man dying and worries little of his wife’s faithfulness because she loves him). But to someone else who knows nothing of ladainhas and the woman behind the voice, is that the image she conjures?

“You need to talk about it?”

"Talk?" There isn't anything to talk about. With the workaholic vigilante? Nothing except the mission, but...

"The song, the woman singing."

"She's not that--" Interesting? Important? Lúcio falters, and can't give voice to those lies. He takes a shuddering breath, and his vision flickers upward at something unseen. He bites his lower lip. It’s not a story worth listening to, but Soldier tosses the peanut butter jar into the trash can with a dissatisfied grunt, and claims the chair for himself. It seems like he intends to stay regardless if he speaks or not.

“It’s kind of a long story.”

“I have time.” Solder: 76 emphasizes this and stretches his legs in front of him, settling deep into the chair.

Lúcio laughs weakly at the unexpected development, and fiddles with his tablet for a moment. He scoots up his bed, and leans back against the wall. This is an old story that he has never mentioned to the press or to anyone outside his community—they already know. They were there.

“Where do I even start?”

The room falls quiet. Lúcio closes his eyes.

"...she was my mestranda."

#Lúcio Correia dos Santos #Soldier: 76 #The ladainha is my mestre's rendition of 'Eu já vivo enjoado'#I've always wanted an excuse to write about capoeira #my writing

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Translation: “The Minish Cap” in German, Part 19: Into a Formerly-Windy Fortress

We find ourselves in an abandoned Fortress and... We battle a deranged automaton! WHAT. Here is my translation of the German version of "The Minish Cap" to English!

My translation key: DT: „direct translation" (translated word for word) EQ: “English equivalent” (as in, as close to an English-sounding sentence as it’s gonna get) DT/EQ: „"direct translation/English equivalent" (for when the DT is so similar to an EQ that it’s practically English already) OE: “official English (translation as given in the European English version of "The Minish Cap”)“ (NOTE:) "anything I need to point out” (exactly what it says on the tin) BG: „backwards German" for the Minish language in reverse form

My translation work under the cut.

Erna: „Wer hätte gedacht, dass Opa Gasto krank wird. Er war immer so gesund..." DT: „Who (x) thought, that Grandpa Gasto sick becomes. He was always so healthy..." EQ: "Who would have thought that Granpa Gasto would become sick. He was always so healthy..." OE: "I can't believe old Gregal is sick. He was looking so healthy." (NOTE: Gasto is Gregal, and Erna is Flurris. Another possible translation would be "Who would have thought that Grandpa Gasto would get sick.".)

Erna: „Vielleicht ist er von einem bösen Wesen besessen..." DT: „Perhaps is he by an evil being/entity possessed..." EQ: "Perhaps he is possessed by an evil being/entity..." OE: "I guess something just took hold of him..."

Erna: „Wer hätte das gedacht?!" DT: „Who (x) that thought?!" EQ: "Who would have thought that?!" OE: "Well, well, well!"

Erna: „Opa sieht schon viel besser aus! Wie soll ich dir nur danken?!" DT: „Grandpa appears already much better (x)! How should I (to) you only thank?!" EQ: "Grandpa looks much better already! How should I thank you?!" OE: "Look at how the colour has come back to his face! How can I ever thank you?" (NOTE: Alternate translation could be "How am I supposed to thank you?!")

Erna: „Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass er wirklich von einem Geist befallen sein könnte..." DT: „I (x) never thought, that he really by a Ghost affected be could..." EQ: "I never thought that he could really be affected by a Ghost..." OE: "I still have a hard time believing he'd been possessed by a monster, though..."

Gasto: „Was?!? Ich war von einem bösen Geist befallen? Und du hast ihn vertrieben?" DT: „What?!? I was by an evil Ghost affected? And you (x) it expelled/dispelled?" EQ: "What?!? I was affected by an evil Ghost? And you expelled/dispelled it?" OE: "What? An evil spirit had taken hold of me? And you drove it away?"

Gasto: „Aah! Meine Kräfte sind wieder da! Bald kann ich wieder aufstehen!" DT: „Aah! My powers are again here! Soon can I again get up!" EQ: "Aah! My powers are here again! Soon I can get up again!" OE: "You... You might be right!... I can already feel my energy returning! I'll be able to get out of bed soon!" (NOTE: Another way that sentence could go is, "My strength is here again!")

Gasto: „Dein Name is Link, ja? Du hast mich gerettet!" DT: „Your name is Link, yes? You (x) me rescued!" EQ: "Your name is Link, yes? You rescued me!" OE: "What's your name? ...Link? Thank you, my boy. You saved me."

ITEM GET: „100 Mysteriöse Muscheln erhalten!" DT: „100 Mysterious Shells received!" EQ: "Received 100 Mysterious Shells!" OE: "You've got 100 Mysterious Shells!"

Ezelo: „Hmm... Die Ruine war offenbar in diesem Steilhang verborgen..." DT: „Hmm... The Ruins were apparently in this mountain-side hidden..." EQ: "Hmm... The Ruins were apparently hidden in this mountain-side..." OE: "Hm. To think the ruins were hidden within this cliff the whole time!"

Ezelo: „Link! Gib Acht auf die Fallen, die hier aufgestellt sind!" DT: „Link! Give attention to the drops/pitfalls, that here placed are!" EQ: "Link! Watch out for the drops/pitfalls that are placed here!" OE: "Watch your step, Link. There may be traps in here." (NOTE: Idiomatic.)

Ezelo: „Nanu? Ist da nicht gerade etwas heruntergefallen? Oder irre ich mich?" DT: „Well? Is there not just something dropped? Or wrong I me?" EQ: "Well? Did something just drop there? Or am I wrong?" OE: "Hmn?! Did something just fall down, or was it just my imagination?"

Ezelo: „Puh!!! Das war knapp! Ich hatte Angst, dass wir da nicht heil durchkommen." DT: „Phew!!! That was close! I have fear, that we there not unscathed get through." EQ: "Phew!!! That was close! I was afraid that we would not get through there unscathed." OE: "Phew...! We barely made it! I was certain we'd run out of time!"

ITEM GET: „Maulwurfshandschuhe erhalten! Damit kannst du graben wie ein Maulwurf!" DT: „Mole-gloves received! Therewith can you dig how a mole!" EQ: "Received the Mole-gloves! With them, you can like a mole!" OE: "You got the Mole Mitts! Dig, dig, dig to your heart's content!" (NOTE: "Mole-gloves" is pretty much identical to "Mole Mitts", surprisingly enough.)

ENDGEGNER: QUARTOXUMA (BOSS: QUARTOXUMA) BOSS: MAZAAL

TABLET THING: „Wir sind das Volk des Windes." DT/EQ: „We are the People of the Wind." OE: "We are the Tribe of The Winds."

TABLET THING: „Seit langem leben wir mit dem Wind. Nun haben wir dies vollbracht." DT: „Since/for long live we with the Wind. Now have we this done." EQ: "For a long time, we lived with the Wind. Now we have done this." OE: "Long have we lived with the winds. We have mastered them. Now, we join them."

TABLET THING: „Es ist ein Gegenstand mit dem du von hier zum Himmel fliegen kannst." DT: „It is an object with the you from here to the sky fly can." EQ: "It is an object with which you can fly from here to the sky." OE: "Together, with the great winds at our backs, we head for the skies."

TABLET THING: „Willst du später unsere Kraft nutzen, spiele das Instrument," DT: „Want you later our power use, play the Instrument," EQ: "If you want to later use our power, play the Instrument," OE: "Those who come seeking our power must play the notes Zeffa teaches."

TABLET THING: „das der Vogel dir überbringen wird. Dann öffnet sich ein Weg." DT: „then the Bird to you deliver will. Then opens itself a way." EQ: "then the Bird will deliver it to you. Then a way will open." OE: "May they lead you onward to the power that you seek."

ITEM GET: „Okarina des Windes erhalten! Flugs von A nach B!" DT: „Ocarina of the Wind received! Fly from A to B!" EQ: "Received the Ocarina of the Wind! Fly from A to B!" OE: "You got the Ocarina of Wind! North, south, east, and west are all just a breath away!" (NOTE: And the Ocarina of Wind kept its name, too.)

Ezelo: „Was ist denn das?! Hier ist ja gar kein Element!" DT: „What is then this?! Here is indeed at all no Element!" EQ: "What is this, then?! There is indeed no Element here at all!" OE: "I do believe this is where the Tribe of the Winds once lived."

Ezelo: „Es sieht so aus, als hätte hier früher das Volk des Windes gelebt." DT: „It appears so (x), as if have here previously the People of the Wind lived." EQ: "It appears as if the People of the Wind have lived here previously." OE: "Hm... So they've left for the heavens, and taken their element with them."

Ezelo: „Offenbar flogen sie mit dem Element hoch zum Himmel." DT: „Obviously flew they with the Element high to the sky." EQ: "Obviously, they flew high to the sky with the Element." OE: "It looks like the Wind Element is beyond our reach for the time being."

Ezelo: „Da kann man wohl nichts machen... Lass uns hier weggehen!" DT: „There can one probably nothing do... Let us here away-go!" EQ: "There is probably nothing we can do... Let's get away from here!" OE: "We have no choice but to press on. Let's get out of here."

Ezelo: „Wir fanden zwar kein Element, aber wenigstens einen Hinweis." DT: „We found though no Element, but at least a hint." EQ: "We found no Element, though, but at least a hint." OE: "The element was not here, but at least we now have a clue to its whereabouts."

Ezelo: „Mit Hilfe der Okarina des Windes werden sich neue Wege öffnen." DT: „With help (of) the Ocarina of the Wind will themselves new ways open." EQ: "With help of the Ocarina of Wind, new ways will open." OE: "You must use the Ocarina of Wind to open a new path."

Ezelo: „Suchen wir nun das nächste Element!" DT: „Seek we now the next Element!" EQ: "Now we seek the next Element!" OE: "Well, there's no point in standing around! Go get that last element!"

Ezelo: „Aha!!! Diese rätselhaften Male überall..." DT/EQ: „"Aha!!! These enigmatic Marks everywhere..." OE: "Aha!! So that mysterious mark we've been seeing is a Wind Crest."

Ezelo: „Das sind Wegweiser für die Vögel, die den Besitzer der Okarina tragen." DT: „These are signposts for the birds, that the owner of the Ocarina carry." EQ: „These are signposts for the birds that carry the owner of the Ocarina." OE: "If you play the Ocarina of Wind, Zeffa comes to pick you up and fly you away."

Ezelo: „Das heißt, der Vogel trägt uns zu den Windmalen, die wir kennen." DT: „This means, the bird carries us to the Wind-marks, that we know." EQ: "This means that the bird can carry us to the Wind-marks that we know." OE: "That means we can have Zeffa carry us to any other Wind Crest we've seen."

Ezelo: „Hast du das verstanden, Link?" DT: „Have you this understood, Link?" EQ: "Do you understand this, Link?" OE: "Are you following me, Link? Don't hurt your brain thinking about it."

Ezelo: „Na, wenn du es ausprobierst, wirst du schon sehen, wie es funktioniert." DT: „Well, if you it try out, will you already see, how it functions." EQ: "Well, if you try it out, you will already see how it functions." OE: "Just give it a try, and you'll see what I'm talking about."

#the bard of light rants #minish cap #the minish cap #the legend of zelda #the bard of light translates #the bard of light schedules #German #translation

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smoothshift · 6 years ago

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Bought a new (to me) car 3 weeks ago and I love it! via /r/cars

Bought a new (to me) car 3 weeks ago and I love it!

After searching for about a year now, many test drives and much contemplation (or as some would call it, obsessing) I finally pulled the trigger and bought a 2016 Mercedes Benz C450 (///AMG?)

https://imgur.com/a/9Yj0lHT

I searched for quite a while to find this car and was glad to find one a couple states over that had a low price and only 33k miles on for that sweet sweet warranty. It felt like quite a risk to pretty much buy a car sight unseen, especially a Mercedes from a small town Chevy dealership in rural Indiana, but my dad and I loaded up and made the 10 hour round trip. The drive back was a blast because the car is great and nothing seemed blatantly wrong, which came as a huge relief.

The car is everything I have wanted, I personally love the styling of the exterior and interior. The red stitching and alcantara is a great interior combo along with the sleek black exterior. Most of all, the car is very fun to drive. I test drove quite a few cars before buying this one (I'll talk about those as well) and to me, this was just the most fun, by far. I look forward to driving to and from work every day.

The car did have 4 recalls to catch up on, an oil change, the passenger doors did not close properly on the right side (a latch issue apparently) and the panoramic roof was very rattly, but this was all fixed under warranty and the maintenance was not as expensive as I was expecting from a German car.

In the week that all of the updates, repairs and maintenance was being done on my car after getting it back home to St. Louis, I had a GLC300 loaner, I was quite excited about this because I have never had an SUV before. At first I enjoyed the visibility and smooth ride, but by the end of the week in it I was itching to get back in my car. Turns out luxury SUV's are BORING, definitely not the choice for me right now.

Here is a list of top contenders, as well as other cars I test drove that I felt just did not measure up. First, there were 3 other cars that were finalists in my consideration:

Alfa Romeo Giulia

This car was great. Its gorgeous and stand out styling really drew me in initially, especially because they are an incredibly rare sight here in St. Louis. Upon test driving the car, the handling was amazing and the car was fun to drive. This is the sedan that I drove that had the best steering. On the down side, the car did lack some power, the brakes took a bit of getting used to and the interior was decent, but visibility was not excellent (the b pillar was in the way for me where I found a comfortable seating position). Overall though, this is really nit-picking and I was actually all in on leasing one until I had to deal with the people at the local Maserati/Alfa dealership. They were totally disorganized and felt like skeezy car salesmen, definitely not a luxury car buying experience and by far the worst interaction I had at any dealership. After sitting for about an hour in a salesman's office with no negotiating, the sales manager finally came in. The specific car I wanted had a 52k msrp with a 7k dealership mark down to 45k because, like I said, no one in stl buys Alfas. Turns out the other reason they do not buy them is because when we tried to negotiate from there, the manager immediately got offended saying we were just making demands on the price and not negotiating (asked for 39k... maybe a tad low but not a completely obscene first number). After being treated horribly, I decided I did not want to give them my business or have to deal with them ever again and walked out. Big bummer, the car was great.

Dodge Challenger (Scat Pack)

I actually was about to sign a lease on this vehicle, but 2 days before I did, I found my C450 online and made up my mind then. The car was LOUD, and fun to drive. The interior was much nicer than I expected from a dodge and I personally love the styling of the front with the headlights. Not a huge fan of the Kylo Ren taillights though. The car rode rough and the handling was a bit terrifying with so much horsepower under the hood, but the NA V8 was intoxicating. In retrospect, I'm glad to not have gotten this though due to the prospect of such a high horsepower car with RWD in bad weather as my DD, plus the terrible mpgs.

Porsche Boxster (2014)

So I actually turo'd this car (a 2016) for a day back in March while I was living in San Diego. It was red with black interior and had the beautiful hum of a 6 cylinder, not that 4 cylinder abomination they have now (I half kid). The mid engine RWD was unique and nice. I was actually a bit underwhelmed though. The seats were not that comfortable and the ride was a bit rough for a DD. The steering feel did not feel any better than the Giulia's or my C450's, although I did not push this car hard. It also felt a bit pokey on the throttle. I make the car sound bad, but there is just something about a Porsche that made it impossible to get the car out of my mind. I just wanted to get behind the wheel again so badly after driving it. If I lived in SD instead of STL I would probably have gone with this car. Back in reality land though, a sports car convertible with no back seat and no obvious advantages over the Giulia or C450 made this car take a back seat (pun intended).

Quick synopsis of other cars I drove:

-Jaguar F-type- So I drove the 4-cylinder one that was new for 2018. Gorgeous car and nice interior, but it just feels wayyyy too heavy, has bad visibility and its seriously slow. Do not buy this car with the 4-cylinder, it just does not match the car and feels terrible in combination with it.

-BMW M240i- It was fast. It was gorgeous in blue. It also was disappointingly boring. I'm sure it's a great handling car, but it just was not exciting and did not do it for me. The interior was terrible too, some call it spartan, I call it lazy. Plus I am not huge into the 24 year old with a BMW image.

-Audi S5 (2015)- I actually prefer the older ones without the glued on tablet in the middle. This car was faster than I expected and a real looker, nice interior. The steering was loose and I just did not like it as much as the C450.

-Mazda CX-5- Drove just as well as the GLC300. The ones with the interior upgrades were actually quite nice inside and I love the styling. In my opinion, this is the best buy in the SUV market, but that is not the market I was in. I would rate it like 1 point on a 10 point scale below the GLC300 and for 15k less, it's a no-brainer.

-Miata- FUUUNNNN, but I don't wanna die.

-Volkswagen GTI- Actually really fun and peppy. Nice interior, way above its class. Could use more power, the Golf R is probably great, but I never drove it. IMO really ugly cars though.

-Jetta (2019 remodeled ones)- My dad actually bought this a week before I bought my car. These things are seriously nice. He bought an R-Line and it looks really good. The interiors are really nice and the car is surprisingly quick until it runs out of power at about 45 mph. If you just want a good mpg DD that can get to the next stoplight fast with a good interior, I would highly recommend this.

-Lexus IS300 F-Sport (2016)- These are some good looking cars. The interiors are seriously nice, very underrated and offers a very smooth ride. Horrible mpgs though and just a bit boring for my taste.

-Mercedes Benz C300- This car may look like a C450, but if you just drove both without looking at them and all the other stuff, it would blow your mind that it is sorta the same car. Totally different rides.

I really wish I had gotten to test drive a Corvette because that seems like it would have been doable, but it was not in the cards. Also, the Genesis G70, too bad it did not come to America sooner.

#reddit #autonews #auto #cars

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kriterium3-blog · 7 years ago

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Anker is best known for its portable batteries and charging products, some of which we’ve highlighted before, but it’s hung around this budget speaker market for the past few years. The £30 SoundCore is one of its newest models, and while we can’t say it sounds great, it does enough right to be worth considering if you just want a straightforward, not-annoying personal speaker that’ll add volume around the house without breaking the bank. The SoundCore itself is a mostly no-frills affair. It’s not water-resistant in any way, it’s not particularly flashy, and its on-device controls are largely limited to the basics. That said, its bar-shaped build is tightly put together, and its soft plastic feels smooth to the touch, even if it does attract a little finger grease. The whole thing pairs quickly and reliably over Bluetooth 4.0, and automatically connects to the last device you used. It works fine as a simple speakerphone when needed. And while we don’t think Anker has enough clout to get away with plastering its logo across the SoundCore’s front, it’s not ugly either.

As noted above, it’s hard to find much fullness or fidelity among affordable speakers. The SoundCore doesn’t change that — it lacks some edge, it struggles to separate more complex tracks, and its bass, while at least present, is often anemic and imprecise. Compared to our favorite sub-£35 speaker right now, the JBL Clip+, it’s neither as loud nor as well-defined. But that’s about par for the course with these things. For what it is, and for the money, the SoundCore is a largely smooth and pleasant listen. It very clearly emphasizes the midrange, but it doesn’t feel outright unbalanced or overly thin. Vocals often come through cleanly, especially with less intense music. It also gets a good amount of volume without becoming explicitly harsh. It’s a warmer profile, so if you often listen to podcasts or more laid-back, acoustic stuff, it’ll serve you well. Just try to avoid hip-hop or more chaotic rock.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the SoundCore’s saving grace is battery life. Anker rates the speaker as lasting 24 hours with average use, and based on our testing, it’s not far off. We tested the device at moderate to high volumes for about a week before needing to find an outlet, coming close to 20 hours in total. For £30, that’s fantastic. If cash is tight and you care at all about sound quality, we’d still recommend the aforementioned Clip+, or doing what you can to save up for something like the Logitech X300 or JBL Flip 3. If you’re in the market for a £30 Bluetooth speaker, though, there’s a good chance you’re not the most critical listener. In that case, the SoundCore is an easy-to-use, long-lasting way to boost the noise coming from your smartphone or laptop.Lenovo has a new, giant, 27-inch all-in-one touchscreen desktop PC that doubles as a huge tablet — and Lenovo wants you and your family to gather around it for game night.The Lenovo Home 500, with a price tag of $1549, is your pretty standard PC, at first blush.

But plug in a mouse and keyboard, or connect Bluetooth versions of the same, and it's a fully-functional Windows 10 PC. It was officially announced at a special event in San Francisco.All of the computing guts are contained in that massive screen, right next to a battery with a promised 3 hours of computing life.But if you take it off the kickstand, it becomes an endtable-sized tablet.Lenovo says that it's perfect for getting the whole family around for game time, collaborative research, or whatever else. Lenovo has its own app store, called "Aura," that it says is full of apps that are made for two people to use the tablet together. It also comes with a custom menu interface system on top of Windows 10 to make it easier to launch those Aura apps. But in my brief tests, the touchscreen wasn't quick or responsive enough to keep up with an impromptu game of air hockey on the Lenovo Home 500.And it's a neat novelty, but how many really compelling games are going to come out for a huge device with such limited appeal? Probably not many.lenovo home 500 The Lenovo Home 500 with the kickstand up, showing off the Windows 10 Groove Music app.Matt WeinbergerThis is actually the second time Lenovo has tried the concept: 2013's Lenovo Horizon had a similar concept, but failed to set the world on fire. Apparently, it did well enough that it felt justified in releasing the Horizon 2.

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This particular model is too small to reliably charge four big tablets like the iPad Air, but if you’re like most people and have a mix of large and small gadgets, it’ll refill them with superb speed and power. If you aren’t using all four ports simultaneously, it can also charge at 2.4A, meaning it’ll put out the most power possible to a given device.Beyond that, it uses Anker’s “PowerIQ” tech, which automatically recognizes which devices are plugged in and smartly delivers only as much juice as each one needs. It also comes with a built-in surge protector and temperature control tech to keep the whole thing from overheating.At $27, the PowerPort 4 isn’t the cheapest of its kind, but it’s hardly expensive, it comes from a trusted name, and it’s both faster and more compact than most of its competition. If you want something a little more heavy duty, though, try the 60-watt, 10-port PowerPort 10. Either way, grabbing a gadget like this should make your day-to-day charging needs a little less of a hassle.Whether for work or pleasure, traveling shouldn’t be stressful. But if you’re the type who can’t stop using things with screens — i.e., if you’re a human in 2015 — you may have no choice but to lug along an overflow of gadgets. That might not only include your basic smartphone, tablet, or laptop, but also a handful of accessories needed to keep them up and running.

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If that sounds like a problem you’ve had before, the HooToo TripMate Elite should help you pack a little lighter. Priced at $38, it’s an all-in-one device that simultaneously serves as a portable battery, USB wall charger, travel WiFi router, and a network-attached storage (or NAS). It packs all this into something the size of a glossy black MacBook charger.Considering how many mini routers, NAS devices, and chargers there are that can’t do their one job right, it’s easy to be skeptical of something that claims to replicate all of them at once. The TripMate, however, actually does work. It isn’t the best at any one of its functions, but it’s serviceable enough at each to come in handy on the go.As a battery and wall charger, it works fine. It has a foldable AC plug and two USB ports built-in — one at 1A, the other at 1/2.1A — and carries a 6,000mAh capacity. That’s enough to charge most smartphones about twice, and most tablets around halfway. When you need to charge the TripMate itself, you just plug it into an outlet.

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eliteweddingcoordination · 7 years ago

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‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Recap 04×15: What a Wonderful World

Mallory Jansen as Aida. Eric McCandless/ABC

Oh boy what an episode. The LMD storyline has been a slow burn up until now and finally “Self Control,” the final episode of the arc is where it becomes every thing I could have asked for.

Let’s just get right into it. The reason this episode works so well is because it highlights the fear of LMDs. When May is replaced by Robo May, there is a certain fear that should exist but we never truly feel it because the audience already knows what she is. “Self Control” finally leaves the audience in the dark and makes you second-guess and over analyze who is and isn’t human. It reminds me of The Thing in a way; you can’t trust anyone, not even yourself.

The episode starts with some of the agents hooked up to the Framework and the Moody Blues’“Have You Heard” playing as Aida stands over a beat up Anton. He’s not in the best possible condition since Daisy dropped a ceiling on him but Aida is taking it upon herself to “fix” him with a little help from a power saw. The real meat of the episode is with Fitz and Simmons who realize there are four LMDs in the base and they have impersonated Coulson, Mack, Mace, and Daisy. They are terrified but realize they have the advantage in that the LMDs don’t know that they know (Friends anyone?). The Robo agents address Fitz and Simmons as if there is nothing wrong and Robo Coulson puts in the order to bring all Inhumans to the S.H.I.E.L.D base for their protection. Robo Mace tries to convince Jemma to join him alone in his office to talk logistics (turn her into a robot) but Fitz has some quick thinking to keep Jemma with him until they can decipher any of the tech they picked up from the Russian base last episode. Privately, we see Robo Mace and Robo Coulson saying that they have to replace the last two agents as soon as possible and we get a very beautiful long shot (Executive Producer Jed Whedon’s directorial debut) that follows each LMD agent as they begin to plan the rest of their mission. Robo Mack puts in a call to Yo-Yo to convince her to come in and Robo Coulson activates Robo May again. This doesn’t go as well as he’d hope. Robo Coulson tries to explain that just because they don’t have the bodies of the original agents, doesn’t mean they aren’t real. That their thoughts are all that they need and the Framework now makes a world without pain or regret and where May and Coulson can finally be together.

Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May. Eric McCandless/ABC

As Fitz and Jemma try and figure out what to do next, the episode takes a terrific turn and an LMD detection unit goes off and reveals that either Jemma or Fitz are a possible LMD. I literally screamed, “YES” after this. This revelation forces Jemma to hold Fitz at gunpoint and both plead their case that they are human. It’s tearful, it’s emotional, and it’s powerful. To see the two people we want together so badly finally pushed apart is great writing. Jemma asks Fitz to cut his wrists to prove there is no circuitry and he does accordingly. There is a lot of blood. But just as Jemma lets her guard down, Fitz does a sweet knife reversal and stabs her in the leg and knocks her unconscious with a paint can. Damn.

Aida wakes up Radcliffe from the Framework and again we get a scene I’ve been waiting for since the beginning of the arc. Aida has a paradox that she can’t get past. Her primary directive is to protect the Framework but it’s also to protect Radcliffe. The conflict is she believes Radcliffe’s lack of self-control jeopardizes the future of the Framework and that one day he could regret what he made and shut it and Aida down. Radcliffe defends himself by saying he’s helping everyone with the Framework and that even though people’s physical bodies may waste away while plugged in, their minds can live forever in the perfect world. This clears up Aida’s dilemma and SHE SLITS RADCLIFFE’S WRISTS AND PUSHES HIS BODY INTO A FRAMEWORK UPLINK! HOLY F#$%! Basically since Radcliffe said the bodies don’t matter, Aida can get rid of Radcliffe’s body, upload his consciousness to preserve him and the Framework forever and not have to worry about him physically shutting her down anymore. We also learn that the four LMDs at S.H.I.E.L.D are actually Coulson, Mace, Mack and Fitz, which means Daisy was human all along(!) and Jemma is in trouble.

John Hannah as Holden Radcliffe. Eric McCandless/ABC

Jemma wakes up and Robo Fitz is trying to upload her into the Framework. He talks about how in the Framework, the two of them can finally get married and grow old together. It’s sweet albeit creepy. She’s weak but she does crawl away and manages to drop like a car engine on him or something? AND THEN SHE STARTS STABBING HIM! LIKE A LOT! Props to Iain De Caestecker’s acting who goes from screaming to stoic so quickly as he tries to reason with Jemma who slices his neck and shuts him down. Now that we know Daisy is human, we find out Robo Mack is looking for her. She’s down in the containment area double-checking that everything is good for the oncoming Inhumans and finds a room filled with LMD versions of her (15 to be exact, I counted just for you gusy). It was like Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse or what I imagined it to be like if anyone had actually watched it. Robo Mack walks in to the room and realizes Daisy has taken off her clothes to blend in with the other LMDs. Mack picks the wrong one and the real daisy blasts Robo Mack and runs away. She’s hiding in a storage room and uses a tablet to check the security feeds and is shocked to see Fitz dead with Robo Coulson and Robo Mace investigating. They say Simmons has been compromised and is an LMD but some of the other agents see the wires sticking out of Fitz’s neck and realize he’s a robot. Robo Coulson and Robo Mace quickly take them out.

Daisy is left scared and alone and finds a trail of blood next to her that leads to Jemma who straight up looks like she is from a horror movie. She doesn’t trust Daisy and Daisy doesn’t trust her. Simmons even says, “that you don’t know you’re a robot until they kill you,” which is a hell of a line. Daisy realizes that an LMD can’t have her powers so if Simmons will let Daisy quake her, she can prove she is who she says she is and the quake can tell if she has normal bones instead of metal. It’s surprisingly logical. They prove to each other that they both are human and now we get a badass women team up.

The base is on lockdown and Robo Coulson is telling the rest of the agents that Daisy and Jemma are LMDs. With everyone against them, Jemma and Daisy don’t have much hope. They believe their friends must still be alive but still don’t know where to look. They realize that if they can get off this base and hack into the Framework, it could be possible to find everyone but that means staying alive first. Everyone is looking for them and Jemma and Daisy gas the base knocking the human agents out cold, leaving just the LMDs walking around. Robo Mace and Daisy have a super cool fight in the dark and even quakes herself into the air to do a drop punch. It’s just really cool and I had to mention it. Just as she takes down Robo Mace, Robo Coulson and Robo Mack shoot her and as they move in she charges up a quake that’s so powerful it shreds Robo Mack apart. The agents no one really cares about wake up and realize that Jemma and Daisy are telling the truth and they go to escape on the zephyr jet. On their way back, Jemma and Daisy are confronted by Robo May who is sitting on a bunch of explosives. Uh oh.

Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson. Eric McCandless/ABC

The final moments of the episode have Robo Coulson find out that Robo May let Jemma and Daisy board the jet despite her orders. She reveals that her programming is different than Robo Coulson and that she was made to help the real Coulson and that’s what she did. She says the pain and regret Robo Coulson can’t feel is what made Coulson into the man she loves and then she blows them up. The zephyr jet manages to escape in time and on board we have the agents no one cares about, Yo-Yo who we care a lot about and just happens to show up in time, and Jemma and Daisy who are uploaded into the Framework for one final gambit. I’ll get into what the Framework is like in a second, but first I’ll mention that Aida has finished building Anton’s body and we find out he is all machine now but being controlled remotely by his severed head. It’s gross and weird and cool. Aida even gives Anton the Darkhold to read but we finally find out what it is she wants and it’s what they’ve been building to all season: Aida just wants to feel emotion. She just wants to be human.

Okay and now for the good stuff: The Framework. What’s going on in there? Well first, Daisy wakes up in a tub and gets a text telling her to wake up her boyfriend who she believes to be Lincoln in this perfect world but we get to see who it actually is from a photo on their dresser and it’s none other than GRANT WARD. HOLY $#!%. Yes Ward will be back next season, ladies and gentlemen. And what about everyone else in the Framework? Well Coulson is a teacher teaching students why to fear Inhumans. Strange. Mack has a daughter again. That’s nice! Fitz is successful and rich (or at least that’s the vibe I’m getting from the suit and limo) and it looks like he’s married to Jemm-wait. Nope. JEMMA IS DEAD. Yup, we see her grave so no idea what is going to happen there now that she is uploaded as well. And lastly, May is in the Triskelion (The S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters that was damaged in Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and it almost seems as if she’s the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D-wait. Nope. IT’S HYDRA. This just gets better and better! I don’t know about all of you, but I’m excited. These are most likely the final 7 episodes of the series and there is no better way to wrap it up than the final arc, which will fittingly be called Agents of Hydra. But we do have to wait until April 4. So until next time, True Believers!

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http://observer.com/2017/02/marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-recap-04x15-what-a-wonderful-world/

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uprising-trolls · 10 years ago

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finally got Steam on my computer, and got Skyrim

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arshad0218 · 2 years ago

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