#subject delta kin

[deltadiver]

"Your body, my choice"

Alright. Your guts, my drill.

[fictionkinfessions]

In response to [ https://www.tumblr.com/fictionkinfessions/735377842963202048/kinfirmed-jack-wynand-bioshock-recently-which-is ]

A fellow BioShock kin?

I've got i think, two? three?

Primarily Subject Delta though, from BioShock 2. However I do associate with Atlas and Frank on some level. Though they're much more under the layers of dust than Delta is. ( Quite a bit canon divergent, as well. )

All that aside though, it's lovely to see another BioShock protag.

I hope you're doing well, Wynand. Despite the madness that our "home" devolved into.

I will admit, I miss the whales and the fish. And the deep sea view . . .

— Subject Delta /

( please tag as #🌌🧠 )

(( thank you, mpc !! <3 ))

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[nikproxima]

WIP Horizon Post 3

Pan Solar System Alliance - Special Projects Service

Lyria Division Project Notes

Facility Delta - Noctis Labyrinth, Mars

May 2260-Present

Neural Interface and Piloting Facility 

Operator: Mary Magdalene 

Experiment #122: Began with successful link of pilot-interface systems to subject 11b3c, no anesthetic required. Subject reported no issues during initial linking attempts. Drive boot successful, pilot interface online. Remained in stable configuration for 20 minutes prior to experiment start.  Ran for approximately 38 seconds, not long enough for successful jump. Neural interface break occurred at T+00.38.27. Side effects: neural coherence compromised, subject cannot stop screaming, permanently delinked.

NOTE: Bleeding from nose reduced in experiment, subject 11b3c loaded onto transport Rodchenko for transport back to next of kin. 

Deep Space Range 19B

Test Status: Failed 

Operator: Ephriam

Experiment #221: Test Ship [REDACTED] powered up successfully and undocked from transport ship Freya, coasted apart for 3 hours until sufficient clearance was met to engage prototype Rapid Tactical Deployment Drive. Drive spinup began at 16:26:47 Martian Standard Time, and conditions ideal for flight were met approximately 10 minutes later. Some variance in thermal systems was observed onboard the drive systems, but both pilots reported stable configuration. Forcep maneuver began at 16:49:30, and conditions enabling jump followed soon after. Contact was lost with test article after passage of the ship through the launch ring, and spotters in expected arrival location indicated a cloud of plasma was the only remaining component observed, data transmitted from inside folded-space indicated spikes in temperature before structural failure.

NOTE: No organic material recovered in cloud, further tests on property of folded-space.  

[enbysorcerer]

For the OC kin ask game:

1. I'm not a picky eater. I only don't like when things are badly cooked but I'll eat anything if it's prepared decently.

2. I grew up in the country and I hate going to cities.

3. Math was the hardest subject in school for me.

1. Definitely Minori. Being an assassin, she often finds herself in situations where food is limited and he has to resort to... unorthodox foods to survive. He only asks that it's prepared well enough to be edible.

2. The closest one is probably Delta. She was raised in a small seaside town and loves being on the ocean. To her, going to big cities often means being away from her beloved water. Even big port cities make her slightly uncomfortable as not being able to see/hear the water makes her feel off.

3. Xanaphia. She was never good with numbers, which is why magic tends to be beyond her. She likes learning about it from her friends/party, but she'll never fully understand the mathematics involved in it.

[12nb34]

Part of Guangzhou, the capital of southern China’s Guangdong province, made headlines around the world in mid-November when violent clashes erupted between angry migrant workers and police in hazmat suits.

Rare scenes of civil unrest in mainland China were repeated later that month when more protests against prolonged epidemic-control lockdowns broke out in cities including Urumqi, Beijing, Shanghai and Zhengzhou.

Edmund Huang, a property agent in Lujiang, in Guangzhou’s Haizhu district, said most people in the area had been infected with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 even though it had been locked down for two months from around October 20, with all residents subjected to swab tests every one or two days.

“Over 90 per cent of the residents were infected,” he said. “People were infected even though they were locked in their homes. Everyone I know was infected.”

Over the past three years, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 – Sars-CoV-2 – has become more transmissible. According to an article in China CDC Weekly, which is published by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the basic reproductive number (R0) of the Delta variant that caused an outbreak in Guangzhou in May and June 2021 was 3.2, meaning an infected person could infect around three others if there was no intervention.

But the transmissibility of Omicron was several times higher, with one published paper putting the R0 of the strain seen in Tianjin in January last year at 8.2. The R0 of the strain now circulating in China is between 10 and 18, according to state media.

Hong Kong, which successfully fended off four waves of infection for two years through social distancing, border controls and compulsory tests for selected buildings, could not hold off a fifth caused by an Omicron subvariant. A tsunami of infection hit the city from January to March last year, killing over 9,000 people, with scientists estimating at least half its population had been infected.

Kwok Kin-On, an assistant professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s school of public health, estimated that even with intervention measures, an infected person in that outbreak could infect 6 to 10 others.

Shanghai had long been praised for taking a flexible approach to epidemic control. Instead of locking down whole districts, like many other cities, Shanghai locked down streets or subdistricts for compulsory PCR tests once infections were found. Infected residents and close contacts were quarantined, but large-scale social and economic disruptions were avoided.

But that approach did not work last March. According to a paper published by a group of Shanghai and Beijing scientists in the Lancet in September, the number of infections doubled every 3.2 days and even after a citywide lockdown was imposed on April 1, it took 13 days for the effective reproductive number (Rt) – the number of people a positive case could infect after interventions – to fall below one.

The Shanghai outbreak was contained after two months of citywide lockdowns. But it was a pyrrhic victory at best, with shortages of daily necessities, mental health problems and deaths caused by the denial of access to healthcare facilities beginning to sow public distrust in the zero-Covid policy.

In the following months, Beijing tried to avoid repetitions of the humanitarian crisis caused by strict lockdown in Shanghai by shifting to a more sophisticated approach called dynamic zero-Covid, which was similar to the flexible approach Shanghai had tried at first. Local governments were ordered to act fast to outpace increasingly transmissible Omicron subvariants that were emerging.

“PCR testing sites have been regarded as the main places where the virus spread,” said Xi Chen, an associate professor of health policy and economics at Yale’s school of public health. “There were long queues, and people tested positive may bring viruses to others, followed by more infected people after a certain incubation period.”

In Yili prefecture in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, some residents said almost everyone they knew had been infected, from healthcare workers to the grass-roots officials who imposed the lockdowns. However, the official tally showed only dozens of new cases a day.

In September, Yili residents took to the internet to air their grievances at acute food shortages during three months of lockdown.

Then, on December 7, the nation was shocked by the central government’s sudden abandonment of most of the restrictions that had been in place for almost three years.

“If you are talking about the timing, why is it so abrupt? I can think of nothing else but the social protest,” said Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank based in New York.

Shan Wei, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s East Asian Institute, said many local governments were on the verge of collapse because of the zero-Covid policy.

“Some local governments may have run out of financial resources and could not bear to continue with mass tests, lockdowns and economic downturns and reduction in tax revenues,” he said. “For places that could no longer pay the price, they reacted to the central government signal of relaxation quickly because they could not bear it any more and they were on the verge of collapse.”

Michael Osterholm, director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said it had been unrealistic to assume that Omicron could be contained.

“In their belief that they could control Omicron, they did very well with both Alpha and Delta variants, because they were not nearly as infectious,” he said. “It’d be like trying to put out a severe forest fire – it is difficult, but that could be done.

“Along comes Omicron, and it’s more like trying to stop the wind. You can’t – you can deflect it, but you can’t stop it. And they didn’t understand that. They thought that they could continue to use the lockdown zero-Covid policy approach and end the Omicron challenge, which just was not going to happen,” Osterholm said.

“Anybody could have seen this coming if they knew anything about this virus.”

📆 11 Jan 2023 📰 How Omicron variant of coronavirus led to bursting of China’s zero-Covid dykes ✍️ Josephine Ma 🗞️ South China Morning Post

[kincalling]

Hey there! I'm Subject Delta from Bioshock 2, and I'd like to find pretty much anyone else from this source! I was closest with Eleanor, Sinclair, and Subject Sigma so I would especially love to see them again, I miss our patchwork little family very much. Please be 18+ as I'm an adult, thank you!

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[fictionkinfessional]

All of my Plasmids are gone. So are my weapons. So is my metal skin. I'm just a human now. A human with no idea where his daughter is. I've felt the extra need to find her lately. Something's wrong in her life and her father needs to be there to support her.

-Subject Delta, Bioshock 2

[uravitys-kinhelp]

Subject Delta Moodboard

[Requested by Anonymous]

[callieskinhelp]

★★ 300x300 Subject Delta icons ★★

[requested by anonymous]

- ★ mod callie 🌸

[orionsoddity]

Hi uhhhh Subject Delta kinnie here to say Eleanor sweetie I'm super proud of you and I love you very much

[at-will-aesthetics]

{ Subject Delta - Bioshock 2 }

For @mothsinthemoon ! I’ve done a Delta aesthetic before but it is absolutely ancient so I thought what the heck, I’ll take a stab at updating it. I think it turned out pretty good! The butterfly is supposed to be a reference to Eleanor and the radio a reference to Sinclair, I hope that made sense.

Hope you like, friend! As a Sinclair kin, it’s nice to see more Bioshock kinnies around, especially from Bioshock 2.

[deltadiver]

Happy Halloween!

Down here we have a bit of a different thing going on; But there is candy!

[dear-fictionkin]

Dear Subject Delta, I hope you're doing well, dad. I miss you so much, and I'm sorry that you didn't make it out of Rapture. You're the best father I've ever had, and you tried so hard to help me. I love you, and please take care of yourself. Stay safe, -Eleanor Lamb (Bioshock 2)

[canon-calls]

Hey, we've got a fictive of Johnny Topside/Subject Delta from Bioshock 2, looking for pretty much anyone who remembers what Rapture was like (even if they never met/interacted), but especially Eleanor, Sinclair, or Tenenbaum. Being from the same canon isn't particularly necessary, though nice, and doubles are fine!

!!!

[batsies-little-monster]

[kincalling]

Hi! I'm Subject Delta from Bioshock 2 and I wanna find my Eleanor, Sinclair, and Tenenbaum. I'll message you. I'm a minor, so PLEASE, no adults. (Eleanor, dear, if you're seeing this, I love you very much.)

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