#muse;; i look into the waters and see a face i don't understand (tesla)

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@millionsnife​ || Continued from here.

She gave him a confused and puzzled look before looking down. It didn’t make sense. Instead of expressing her confusion with another question, she proceeded to take Knives hand in hers and gave it a squeeze. Although she was technically the older Independent, her current growth would place her mindset as younger. “...I’m sorry...if anything hurt you...”

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Tesla turned her gaze back to Colt as he cleared his throat. He looked at him, nervous about trusting him. Humans were dangerous, but he didn't know what she was. Maybe that was ok?

She looked towards Ghost now, the beast being the most trustworthy thing out of all of this. He wasn't human, but he trusted a human and didn't look abused, so maybe it was ok.

After a long moment of thinking, she finally looked back at Colt and gave a slow nod. It wasn't as though she had any other options.

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’ to say, kiddo. If you’re askin’ if I was in the city like you, then no. I heard some weird shit was goin’ down,” understatement, “An’ came to investigate.”

She let out a small sigh when the other didn’t seem to understand what she was trying to say to him. She supposed it she wanted that kind of answer, she would have to use her words. Something Knives always tried to push from her. Use her voice, speak up. All she found herself wanting to do though was stay quiet. Especially around those she did not know. They couldn’t be trusted.

Tesla looked back at the crater again, almost wanting to go and see if she could find Knives. Though, if he had been alive then he would have likely made it out. She couldn’t feel any sort of Plant life anymore in the crater.

“…” She was at a loss as to what to do with herself now. This world was unfamiliar to her. She didn’t believe anywhere was particularly safe either.

…Dammit, he was getting soft.

The girl looked so lost, he couldn’t just leave her here. Colt coughed under his breath to get her attention without startling her.

“You know… if ya don’t have anywhere else to go, Ghost seats two.” He nodded towards the beast, whom gave a single tail wag, stirring up sand as his tail thumped. “Least ‘til we get to some place safer? Bandits are jus’ as likely as rescue teams to show up soon.”

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@drunkelreporter ;; Continued from here.

She glanced back at the mention of a guardian. Colt was nowhere to be seen in the crowds of people. You could say they got separated, but it was more so on purpose than anything else. She was made to hide while Colt handled something. Her intent was to find a nice alley to curl up in when she had bumped into Roberto.

Looking back up at the man, she said nothing. Staring at him with big, blue eyes of uncertainty. He sounded kind...and Colt did give the impression that not all humans were bad. A contradiction from Knives teachings. It helped that Roberto had gotten down onto her level.

"..." She could hear some yelling in the distance, which meant standing there wasn't safe. So, without a second thought, she took the older man's hand and tugged him along, heading for an alleyway.

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Tesla hopes all of her Vash and Knives brothers have a good birthday.

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;; @wolfsmuses​ || Continued from here.

Tesla looked to the extended hand, weary about her approach. The candy bar was tempting though. She hadn’t eaten anything in months and she could feel herself growing weak.

Stepping forward, she kept watching him just in case. She reached a careful hand forward, still hesitant.

In a matter of seconds though, she snatched the item and had stepped back again to keep some distance between them. Opening the bar, she took a bite of it, and for a moment her eyes seemed to light up before she began to eat it still without uttering a word.

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;; @reusignus​ || Continued from here.

Tesla stared at him, wide-eyed and weary. Knives never said Vash was a bad person. Just that he was sick. The human’s had twisted his mind and made him believe that they should be allowed to let live, to use the Plants as they pleased.

She wasn’t ready to face him, but now she had no choice.

She was quiet as she watched him, noticing how he kept his distance. It was a good thing he had not rushed her, keeping her calm. His emotions were confusing to her though. He looked so...distraught. Knives had mentioned they had met once, they he and Vash were only children. Did Vash remember?

“...” she did not speak, continuing to watch him with caution. Though, the gears were turning and she was processing the situation.

She gave a nod to him then, permission that he could come close and help her if he so wished.

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;; Who wants to be pestered by Tesla? :3 I’m feeling the muse for her at the moment.

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v;; now look what you’ve done(side):

       The time within the containment was torment for her. Fifty years was a long time to wait and process, and grow bitter and hateful. Humanity was a curse, one that she quickly learned to loathe after what they had done to her. Locking her away, frozen in time in the pieces they had made her into. It felt like an eternity before anyone disturbed her containment.

Given the length in time, Tesla was able to start rebuilding herself. Slowly, her body parts inside the containment tubes formed and joined once more, though she was still split into the three different tanks. Unable to fully form herself while locked away. It was a miracle when they stumbled upon her. Body suspended, eyes watching their terror, but Tesla could tell the boys were like her.

Someone came in and rushed the boys away, shielding them from the sight of her. From what they would likely turn them into. Further anger rose within Tesla, and she knew what she had to do. With her containment no longer locked down in stasis, she began to reform herself fully. Parts breaking through the tubes and reconnecting with her body. She was still mangled and broken when she crawled to the computer.

No one came back to her containment area for a few days, which gave her the time to work. She had always been highly intelligent, and hacking into the systems was easy enough. She was going to crash the fleet and save the Plants. Save the other Independents.

During the breakdown of the ship, Tesla had managed to get herself to an escape pod. Unknowingly, she had gotten into the one the scientist was going to put the twin Independents in. She managed to tuck herself back behind one of the seats while the twins were being seated into the pod. They were begging the human to come with them, which Tesla could not understand why. Ultimately though, she stayed behind while the escape pod was launched.

Landing planet side, Tesla was the first to get out of the ship. Much to the twins' confusion as they didn’t quite remember her. She made her way to watch as the fleet tore apart in the atmosphere, eyes wild with delight. Finally they could be free!

She offered the twins safety, though they were not quite receptive. They were fearful of her. (Open to either both twins run from her or Nai stays and Vash runs).

Years pass, and Tesla is disappointed with the fact that more of humanity survived than she would have liked. She unfortunately aligned herself with Conrad, the old doctor who originally was the source of her torment. He has helped her to try and free the Plants, to strive for the Paradise she seeked. She still loves her twin brothers, and only wishes the best for them. Wishes for them to join her and fix this world just for them.

Tesla can be wild and unpredictable. One moment she can be perfectly calm and the next she can act erratic. She is not to be taken lightly.

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Her gaze quickly darted to the mouth of her shelter, eyes wide as she heard someone outside. Her chest ached with a certain amount of fear as she watched the stranger. Tesla pulled her legs up closer to her form, hunkering a little more in on herself in hopes of becoming small enough that she would just disappear into the scenery.

Of course, that was impossible.

She watched this man struggle with chasing parts despite the incoming sandstorm. He hadn’t seemed to notice her at first, which was something she was thankful for. She began to look around for a place she may be able to crawl into while she was still unseen. However, the moment she took her eyes off of Vash was the very moment the other Independent noticed her.

“...!”

Blue hues quickly darted back to Vash as the man shifted closer to her hiding place and spoke to her. She sat there, frozen like a worm caught in the light. She did not utter a single word, though, she did feel something about this man. Something she felt before. Something she felt with Knives....

@adventures-written said: Tesla had made it to an area filled with scrap. It was picked over for the most part, nothing of real use being left there. But the tech of old was not really her interest. She was lost and alone, having never been in the world without Knives. She had been sitting in a small area between two sets of metal, taking shelter from an incoming sandstorm. She was not expecting anyone to be there, expecting to ride out the storm alone...

The winds would eventually pick up hard enough to start knocking things from the scrap heaps out of place-- light pieces of metal or plastic to start, fabric strips that were full of holes and covered in dirt... and something large and darkly-colored that had strips of Lost Tech embedded in it that rolled past the mouth of the metal shelter and fell over, followed by someone who didn't sound very happy to have lost it.

"Nonononono-- ah...! Stay there, please!"

Vash lunged for the hunk of scrap with one hand, the other arm cradling other bits and pieces close to his body, landing hard on his knees. He'd gone into this already knowing he'd be looking through the scrap with a bit of a time limit, but the storm had started earlier than he'd anticipated-- a gale of harsher wind picking up and pelting his back and shoulders with sand. Nngh... he wrenched his head around, squinting to keep the sand out of his eyes. Definitely needed to find a--

... ?

"... a kid?" the blond said, looking straight into the mouth of the metal shelter and seeing a small figure hidden inside. Concern for himself or the things in his arms quickly evaporated, turning to face the shelter from his place on his knees. "H-hey-- are you okay?!"

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USE THIS WEBSITE TO GENERATE YOUR MUSE’S POKEMON TEAM.

Featuring Rem and Tesla

Tagged by the lovely @wolfsmuses​

Tagging (only if you want) @nicholas-wolfwood​, @orangetintedglasses​, @acrophobicdouble​, @firsthumandisaster​, @mythoustales​, and anyone else who may wanna poke this vwv

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I know I have drafts to work on. But I’m in the mood to torment people with rebirth!Tesla. Who wants to be poked?? >D

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;; Lowkey thinking of another verse for Tesla...

She caused the crash....

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;; Three Way Verse - Tesla, Vash and Knives

Disclaimer: This verse applies to all three of these muses for me. That’s not to say your Vash/Knives can’t be involved in it or poke Tesla. Your Knives specifically doesn’t have to have the backstory mine does. Something else could have caused the ships to crash or Knives could have crashed the ships for a different reason, but please note Tesla is alive in this verse and was never experimented on. ((This verse descriptor is from Tesla’s perspective, Vash and Knives also have a descriptor in their bios that are linked.))

v;; when our hearts beat slow together(side; with Vash&Knives)

       When Tesla was born she was like nothing Ship 5 had ever seen. Being in space as they had been, this was the first time they encountered an Independent. They were impressed with how quickly she was able to learn and grow, having a highly intelligent mind that absorbed knowledge like a sponge. The human’s on the ship took this as a learning experience. They did perform a few tests on her, but there was no experimentation. Only enough to assess what she was and learn what she could do. She was quite human-like in nature. Needing to eat, drink, and sleep like humans did, though she could also go without if she so chose to.

She spent the first 50 years of her life looking after the human’s on Ship 5. She enjoyed spending time in the cryo chamber, looking over all the sleeping people, and hoping one day that she would be able to meet them all. She was unbothered by being the only one of her kind aboard, but when they found the two young twins, she was absolutely ecstatic about them. Finally there were more like her!

She helped Rem with the twins, taking on the role of what would be considered an older sister. She took care of them and helped them start to figure out what their abilities were. It was thought that Vash would be similar to Tesla in nature given that his features appeared to be more similar to her own. 

Nai was the outlier, which caught the attention of several scientists. At first nothing was thought of it when they said they wanted to run some tests on Nai. They took him one day, saying it may be a few days before they’d see him again. And they did see him, though Nai appeared to be quite out of it whenever they saw him and tried to interact with him. He had grown distant, his hope and desires about humanity seemed to be slipping away. Until one day he never came back.

Tesla tried to comfort Vash, she tried to reassure him that everything would be ok. One night, after putting Vash to bed, Tesla had snuck off to find where Nai was. She was concerned since it had been nearly three weeks since they last saw him and the scientists only seemed to tell them that everything was fine. Tesla did encounter Rem when she was wandering, who immediately realized her concerns as Rem felt the same way.

So with Rem’s help, Tesla got into the lab area and what they discovered was pure horror. Nai was a curled up heap in a containment pod. His body was barely recognizable as it was more blade than flesh. The two managed to get Nai out of the containment, waking him up and soothing him enough that his form slowly began to revert back to what it was before. Unfortunately though, the damage was already done.

It wouldn’t be more than a week after this that something happened. Nai had lashed out at a scientist that came near him, effectively killing him in cold blood. It was hard to tell what actually happened however as the ship began to alert them that they were in free fall. It was a scramble to get them to an escape pod, placing the twins in one. It was hard for Tesla to send the boys off on their own. With borrowed time, she helped Rem to correct as much as they could, though when it became apparent that people would not wake in time from cryo sleep, Rem forced Tesla into an escape pod and forced her to launch, much to Tesla’s dismay.

Landing on the desert-like planet, Tesla’s priority was to try and find the twins. Rem’s last words to her was to take care of them, and she was going to try. Unfortunately, by the time she found them they were split apart. It took some time, but she had found Vash first after connecting with some survivors from Ship Three. They took her to him and she stayed at Ship Three for a while, though she played a bigger role in traveling out and finding other survivors. Her intention was to find Nai and bring him Home, but that would never happen.

She was not there the day that Vash reconnected with Nai, having been on another ship and helping with their Plants at the time. When she came back and found out what happened though, Tesla immediately went out to find Nai herself. Finding that Nai had aligned himself with Conrad, the very man that had fronted the experiments on him, did not sit well with her. She attempted to get through to Nai that not all humans were bad. If they were then Vash and her wouldn’t be where they were now.

Unfortunately he would not see reason. Over the years, Tesla attempts to be a bridge between the brothers. She still believes there is good in Nai, but she cannot blame him for feeling the way he does. After what they did to him, it was a natural reaction. She is looking for a chance to fix this. A chance to teach Nai that he’s not a monster, he doesn’t have to do this, and to convince Vash that he does not need to be the martyr for the cause. She feels herself twisted in both directions, not really picking a side. She is attempting to be a neutral party, though Nai has tried to force her hand on a few occasions…

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;; Headcanon ; Tesla

Tesla can eat, drink, and sleep just like a human. She doesn’t always need to and can go long periods without doing so, but she will inevitably have to do these functions at some point. She does have a sweet tooth however and is quite fond of donuts.

In her main verse, the fact that she needs to perform these functions has been suppressed based on Knives idea that they shouldn’t need them. That Independents should be self-sustaining. In the aftermath of July though, she may be convinced to eat, drink, and sleep.

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;; New muse alert!

Tesla is here! Please read her main verse below. She also has a side verse that would be fun to play with ;)

Tesla

v;; reborn anew(main)

       The scientists tore her apart, wanting to see what made an Independent tick. She didn’t understand what they were doing, and by the time she did, it was too late. Still alive, she was placed into containment. Carefully preserved for the sins of humanity, a weight they would carry for over 200 years.

From the Great Fall, her containment survived. It was one of the first things Conrad retrieved from the crash sight, ensuring it was secure and still in functioning order. He did not touch the containment after that though, leaving Tesla in her broken stasis until Knives came to Conrad sometime after the crash.

Through the desires of one Independent, Tesla was given new life. Knives worked with Conrad, allowing him to perform experiments and fueling his desires to create the perfect human with the intention of restoring Tesla. At first the task seemed all but impossible. Rebuilding an Independent was not a feat that Conrad had ever heard of, though he did not shy away from the task at hand. It would take many years before he was finally able to make any headway and actually attempt reconstruction. It was through the research on hybrids that was the breakthrough they needed. The creation of Elendira was especially helpful.

Tesla was reformed, body pieced back together, but her mind was still relatively broken. Her body was small, child-like in appearance, which matched the child-like personality she seemed to have. With her broken mind also meant any abilities she possessed were also broken. She could not access her gate, much to Knives disappointment. But he was gentle with her and cared for her like a sister. He taught her about humanity and how rotten they were. Although Tesla’s memories of her past were fragmented, they only solidified the fear that Knives wove into her heart. She was terrified of Conrad and she avoided going anywhere near humans as much as possible.

She tried to stay nearest to Knives as much as possible, finding comfort in the other Independent. She felt safe around him.

The July incident was the last time she saw Knives. He had told her to stay out of sight until he was done with his brother, Vash, another Independent. Someone that Knives had mixed feelings about. She had tucked herself away in the labs, though her discomfort rose when she saw the root-like tendrils that spread throughout the lab. Admittedly, it frightened her, and it gave her flashbacks to a time of sheer discomfort and terror. The time she was broken. With that fear in mind, Tesla was driven to try and leave the labs.

She had been out on occasion, with Knives mostly, so she knew her way out of the labs. No one seemed to be around or guarding the way out, so she easily slipped into the elevators. Getting through the streets was another story. There were too many people, all of which were in a panic as the roots began to grow and expand over the city. She hid in an alleyway, listening as people screamed and ran. It was only when things started to quiet that she moved out of the alleyway to continue out of the city. She was not sure where she was going, but she was confident that Knives would find her after all of this.

She made it out of the city in time to see the largely formed figure made of roots and flowers. It was so big and beautiful, in the most terrifying way. Just as quickly as it had formed however, it was quickly disappearing and she could see something else. Fighting between two figures. One that was quite familiar was Knives’ flying through the air, chasing after someone else.

Tesla could only watch with child-like worry as the two danced in the sky, ultimately ending in what appeared to be Knives death. Without much thought, she had tried to run back into the city. Some part of her hoping to find Knives and help him. He is all she knows, after all. But she never made it to the city, being thrown back by the sheer force of the explosion alone. Tesla was knocked unconscious from it, and when she awoke, she found herself alone, laying just outside the expansive crater that had once been July.

It was over and she wasn’t sure what to do. Where did she go now?

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