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artzychic27 · 11 months ago

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Batraculous East➡️

Austin A (Glam Bat): Austin A sticks to the daytime crimes, but mostly joins his squad in tackling the crimes happening at night. His hairspray is amazing at keeping his hair in place, and it's strong enough to make criminals freeze in place. His Pink Bat suit allows for excellent mobility due to its lightweight, and he has tons of hair-care-inspired weapons in his belt

Austin B (Bat Byte): Austin B prefers to stick behind the scenes when it comes to stopping crime due to some breathing problems, and often sends his avatar to assist his teammates while he takes care of things at the Bat Cave. Bat Byte, controlled by Austin B via tech goggles and wearable sensors, is capable of teleporting, hacking into any database, and sending electric shockwaves

Austin Q (Shark Bat): Austin Q handles aqua crimes, such as bastards dumping oil into the water. His sharp teeth always send people running. His Shark Bat suit allows him to breathe underwater, and it can withstand the pressures of the sea

Austin T (Bake Bat): Austin T also handles daytime crimes, usually domestic disturbances, and he's not entirely gentle when apprehending abusive partners and parents. The scents of fresh-baked pastries he releases from his suit help to calm victims down, and that function comes in handy when someone's having a panic attack

Lotta Jameson (Stunt Bat): Lotta's entire suit comes with shock absorption technology, so she can get hit as many times as she'd like without issue. She'll handle any sort of crime you throw her way, no matter how dangerous

Kendra Anne Gundersun (Upside Down Bat): A nighttime hero who handles stealth missions. She's extremely flexible, and her suit is made to contort with her. It comes with an invisibility function, along with one that allows her to scale walls (Though, she prefers ceilings)

DJ Detwiler (Prank Bat): DJ's suit is made to fit her love of pranks. It comes with an invisibility function, a voice changer in the mask, x-ray goggles, and more. His Prank Bat suit is made to blend into the night, which is when a lot of crime happens and makes for the perfect opportunity to test out a few of his best pranks on criminals

Austin Spinelli (Grace Bat): Spinelli's Grace Bat suit is inspired by male ballet outfits, lightweight and breathable, but it still offers plenty of protection. The ribbons tied around his arms act as grappling hooks or binds for when he's apprehending criminals

Gia Griswald (G.I. Bat): Gia focuses on defense when out in the field, but once she's up against a criminal, she puts her training to use and takes down someone twice her size in under a minute. Her suit with shock-absorption and bullet-proof fabric

Victoria LaSalle (Hoop Bat): Do not underestimate the wheelchair, Victoria as Hoop Bat will still take you down. His bat suit, lovingly created by his boyfriend, Gerard, is capable of creating plasma orbs, which she throws like they're basketballs, and with excellent precision. They can electrocute anyone they hit and momentarily incapacitate them

Gerard Grundler (Genius Bat): As the name implies, he is a genius. Like Austin B, he also works behind the scenes and sends his avatar, Genius Bat, to fight in his place from time to time, but mostly goes out on the field. His suit comes equipped with a badass labcoat

Mindy Blumberg (Harmony Bat): Mindy, like Jean, also has a voice amplifier in their batsuit, but when they don't feel like singing, they occasionally throw a mean punch thanks to their weighted gauntlets

Rochelle Weems (Blackmail Bat): Rochelle's got dirt on everyone. Zir batsuit mask comes equipped with technology that allows them to hear even a pin drop from miles away, and ze can filter out certain sounds to focus on only one. Ze usually handles undercover missions with Mason

Mason Ewing (Info Bat): As Info Bat, Mason can decipher any sort of code created by criminals, and he can figure out passwords in five seconds flat by using his tech goggles, which project all sorts of info before his eyes. Her suit comes equipped with a holographic screen for her to log any information she comes across

Beck King: (Bat King): A veteran of Batraculous East and the best older sibling figure they've had. They've gone solo, but occasionally stop by just to be around their old teammates. Their suit comes with a hover function, almost making it look as if they're gliding through the streets, and allowing them to perform some excellent parkour moves

Batsuits

Austin A's Batsuit: A sleek suit with a pink and black color scheme and a sparkle emblem on his chest. His utility belt comes equipped with numbing spray, lipstick taser, and a comb knife, and his cape comes with a hood to protect his gorgeous hair from the rain

Austin B's Batsuit: A tech-inspired suit with a yellow and black color scheme and a pixelated bat emblem on the chest. Byte Bat's mask connects to Austin B's goggles, allowing him to see what he sees. So far, the only thing in his utility belt is a pair of handcuffs

Austin Q's Batsuit: Very Shark Boy-inspired. A slate blue and grey color scheme with a shark emblem on the chest. His batsuit is similar to a wet suit, and his mask is hooked up to a small but long-lasting oxygen tank built into it. The vision settings adjust the further he goes underwater, it can release pheromones that scare off predatory fish, and he has claws built into his gloves that are just as strong as a shark's teeth

Austin T's Batsuit: So. Much. PASTELS. Pastel green with white, and a pastel green bat on the chest. His batsuit is not all too intimidating, but that only gives criminals a chance to underestimate him and not put up much of a fight so he can deck them. His utility belt comes with a taser, pepper spray, a collapsable staff, and capsules filled with deconstructed baked goods for him to give to kids (Don't worry, he replaces them every day) His cape acts as a blanket for kids because he's sweet like that

Lotta's Batsuit: A sleek, reinforced, and lightweight suit with shock-absorption technology, allowing her to parkour and get into fights with no fear (Not that she ever had any) Lotta's suit is green with hints of brown, and a black bat emblem on her chest. Her utility belt comes equipped with a collapsable staff

Kendra's Batsuit: As bright and pink as Austin A's with a white bat emblem on the chest. Her suit is lightweight and not too bulky so she can perform some of her contortionist stunts. The protective material absorbs any blows and her utility belt comes equipped with several mini spy cameras for her to place where people would least suspect

DJ's Batsuit: A bright green color with hints of orange, and a smiley face emblem on the chest. His suit is almost like a Batsuit version of Miss Joke's hero costume, and there's a smile painted on their mask. Their utility belt comes equipped with laughing gas spray, a small jellybean can that releases a net, itching powder, and ink bombs

Austin S's Batsuit: A lightweight red and black suit reminiscent of a male ballerina's costume with a red bat emblem on the chest. The ribbons around his arms act as Aizawa's capture weapon. No one knows how they work. His cape comes with a hood that shadows his face but only shows two glowing red eyes, making for some haunting performances.

Gia's Batsuit: Gia's suit is reinforced with Kevlar. Her suit is an army camouflage print with a black bat emblem on her chest and comes equipped with weighted gloves that can knock someone out with a single punch. Her utility belt contains non-lethal hand grenades that give off small blasts when activated and incapacitate anyone standing too class. Her cape is bullet-proof for added protection

Victoria's Batsuit: Athleisure-style Batsuit with a green and yellow color scheme and a basketball with bat wings emblem on the chest, and her cropped cape comes with a hood. His utility belt is equipped with a grappling hook and taser, and his gloves are capable of making the plasma orbs. His wheelchair has voice-activation settings, only responding to his voice alone, and the wheels can fly off on their own and strike a criminal. (Imagine Go-Go's wheels)

Gerard's Batsuit: A high-tech suit colored a light blue with hints of white and a beaker emblem on the chest. His utility belt comes with tracking chips, capsules containing gaseous forms of his elixirs made to either heal his teammates or knock out criminals, and a taser. The hologram wristlet displays maps, records, the locations of his teammates, etc.

Mindy's Batsuit: Imagine badass Juliet Capulet. Her suit is a pastel purple with hints of white and has a music note with bat wings emblem on her chest. Poet sleeves. Her belt is equipped with a whip, and, like Jean, a device that's able to throw her voice. Her cape also comes with a hood because... Dramatic.

Rochelle's Batsuit: Rochelle's suit is dark blue with black accents and a black bat emblem on the chest. Zir utility belt comes with a tranquilizer gun and small microphones to leave in certain areas and pick up any conversations. Zir mask covers zir mouth and allows zir to hear anything from miles away. Zir cape also functions as an invisibility cloak

Mason's Batsuit: A lightweight suit colored blue with hints of black. Her mask is equipped with tech goggles that project the entire internet before her eyes (Even the dark web) The bracelet on her wrist can open up a holographic screen for them to take notes on, and their utility belt comes with an audio recorder pen, whip, and ink bombs

Beck's Batsuit: Beck's suit is black with some hints of blue and red. Their leather jacket is covered in graffiti and has a crown emblem on the back with bat wings. Their utility belt comes equipped with a grappling hook, collapsable staff, and throwing stars. Built into their gloves are brass knuckles and right at their fingertips are tasers. Their boots have hidden blades in the heels and allow for them to scale any surface

Base Rooms

The secret basement of the Tomassian estate is used as their home base

-The Main Control Room: The main center of the Batcave, equipped with all sorts of holographic displays built by Gerard and Austin B that track criminal activity and show maps of the city. There's a table-like touchscreen that controls the whole room- lights, furniture, and music. This is where DJ organizes each mission

-Garage: Their garage is filled with their own personal vehicles

-Armory: Gia, Gerard, Austin Q, and Kendra keep the room stocked with many different weapons ranging from hand grenades to DJ's prank supplies

-The Lab: This is Gerard and Austin B's territory. If you see the red light outside the lab is on, it means they're working on something, so do not disturb them. There are five supercomputers, a massive chemistry set, a 3D printer, a testing area behind indestructible glass for the others to test out any functions of their Batsuits, and three robot assistants

-Training Room: The training area comes equipped with state-of-the-art workout equipment, virtual training simulations, practice dummies that track their progress, and a wall of traditional weapons. Gia, Victoria, Kendra, Beck, and Austin Q run that very room with iron fists.

-The Library: It's full of massive shelves filled with paperback books and some Kindles (Mostly used by Gerard and Austin B), and the backroom contains records of the city, known criminals, and gangs. Gerard, Spinelli, Rochelle, Mindy, Austin B, and Mason frequent the library the most out of the others

-The Infirmary: Mostly frequented by Lotta. Austin T, Mindy, and Gia oversee the medical bay equipped with all sorts of medical technology and supplies. Gerard created Med-bots designed to safely carry anyone injured into the infirmary

-The Lounge: A comfortable space for the team to relax, watch movies, and grab something from the kitchen where Austin T. and Victoria cook every meal. It's also where the couples like to make out... A lot. If you see Austin A and Spinelli making out on the couch, just don't disturb them, alright? Seriously.

Vehicles

-The Batcycle: A tech motorcycle used by Beck that can move swiftly through any crowd. No one dares to ride it, because Beck will know and give the disappointed look

-The Bat Boards: Kendra, Austin A, Lotta, and Spinelli's hoverboards, used by them for patrols and surveillance through the city. The Bat Boards can travel at high speeds, and someone who's not used to riding one may find themselves a little shaken up

-The Bat-Tank: A reinforcement manned by Gia in the event the team is facing the occasional robot army or villain in an indestructible suit. for even the harshest terrains. The Bat-Tank comes with a cannon that should only be used in dire situations

-Victoria's Bat Chair: ONLY to be used by Victoria. A high-tech wheelchair with voice activation technology. The wheels can be thrown or shot off on their own like disks and can flip over horizontally to make the Bat Chair hover

-The Bat Jet: A high-tech smart jet piloted mainly by Austin B and Gerard. It can hold the entire team, is equipped with cloaking technology, auto-pilot, a long-lasting battery, and a fully stocked fridge for long-distance traveling

-The Bat Pack: Jet Packs used by Austin T, Rochelle, and Mason for surveillance missions. The Bat Packs are light-weight and battery-powered, barely making a sound. They also come with small grappling hooks to easily get from one spot to another

-The Bat Vespa: DJ and Mindy's Bat Vespa is built for two, comes equipped with motion centers so they can detect if someone is following them at night, can dispense smoke bombs, and is even able to hover

-The Bat Convertible: Operated primarily by Austin Q, this is a sleek sports car that blends in with the night. It comes with auto-pilot settings, can be driven from the Bat Cave using a tablet linked to it, and has an underwater function in case Austin Q drives it into the water... Again

Night in Paris

Glam Bat: Glam Bat was getting his hair done at his usual salon when an armed robber burst in and held a beautician at gunpoint, threatening to fire unless everyone handed over their valuables. Not missing a beat, Glam Bat flung his comb knife at the robber's hand, making him drop the gun, and then he sprayed him with his numbing spray

Bat Byte: A string of cyber crimes has been hitting the city for quite some time now. Phones were blaring random alarms for national disasters that never happened, and computers were suddenly short-circuiting and losing all sorts of important date, so Bat Bye put on his tech goggles and did some digging. After looking through the Dark Web, he tracked the offenders down and sent his avatar to apprehend them

Shark Bat: While making his rounds through the water, he was about to resurface when an anvil dropped into the water with a rope tied around it, and the other end was tied around a man's ankle. Shark Bat tore through the rope with his claws, offered the man his mask to breathe, and swam back up the surface where he then proceeded to knock out the bastards who were trying to dispose of the man so he couldn't testify in court tomorrow

Bake Bat: While doing some surveillance in a neighborhood, Bake Bat was keeping tabs on a home that many people have reported regarding child abuse. Just when he was about to leave, he heard something coming from the backyard and found out that the shed was holding three children captive. After handing the children over to the police and giving them some cupcakes, he gave the "parents" a lengthy and graphic threat

Stunt Bat: Stunt Bat was hired as security for an actress who was being stalked by an unknown person. While guarding the hotel room, Stunt Bat heard a scream coming from the actress' room and found her in the middle of being kidnapped by the stalker. Stunt Bat barely stumbled when the stalker threw a barrage of punches at her, and easily knocked him out with one punch

Upside Down Bat: While staking out a mansion linked to several civilian disappearances, Upside Down Bat finds out that the owners are auctioning off human beings to rich buyers. She easily sneaks in undetected, takes out a few people who manage to spot her, and leaves several mini-cameras where the auction is being held. In just a few seconds, the auction was being broadcast all over the city

Prank Bat: Prank Bat often frequents a comedy club in the evenings when he's free. While up on stage and making the audience burst into laughter, he caught a guy hitting on a girl who was clearly underage and uncomfortable. She then proceeded to heckle the guy and turn everyone's attention toward him. To further humiliate him, Prank bat threw a couple of ink bombs the guy's way, covering him in an array of colors

Grace Bat: While giving instructions at a dance studio for children, Grace Bat heard some commotion coming from outside. Two very angry parents were questioning the whereabouts of their son who they forbade from taking "sissy dance lessons." He apprehended them with his ribbons when the two began harassing people, and quickly called the police. According to them, the boy's aunt and uncle took out a restraining order on them a year ago

G.I. Bat: G.I. Bat was doing a few patrol rounds one evening when she saw two guys trying to force a woman into a car. Not wasting a second, she hurried over, easily defeated the two very muscular men, and blocked gunfire from the driver before taking him out. Apparently, the woman escaped from an organ harvesting organization and led G.I. Bat and the police right to their base

Hoop Bat: He occasionally teaches kids and teenagers how to play basketball. While at their usual court, Hoop Bat noticed a well-known street gang occupying it. When they refused to comply, and even whipped out a few bats, Hoop Bat shot a few plasma orbs at them and knocked them out cold

Genius Bat: The avatar was doing some surveillance when he came across a hostage situation at the bank. Genius Bat got his gear on and hurried over. He maneuvered his way through the vents and dropped a few capsules on the criminals, causing their body's to go completely numb and allowing the officers to easily apprehend them

Harmony Bat: Harmony Bat was working undercover, singing in the choir for a cult hidden in plain sight. After collecting all of the evidence they needed, showing the cult leader harvesting the organs of children, they immediately sprung into action and temporarily deafened everyone in the room, leaving the children unharmed since it was only at a frequency adults could hear. The cult and several other sectors were raided and put to an end

Blackmail Bat: Blackmail Bat, like the name implies, blackmailed several government officials who have done... Less than wonderful things. Orphanages are being renovated, there's better health care, and abusers are actually getting arrested. This went on for a few more weeks until Blackmail Bat decided ze was satisfied, and exposed every single crime

Info Bat: A string of kidnappings has been going on all across the city, and the perpetrators always leave a clue behind in the form of a strange note with some sort of code just to taunt officers. Info Bat easily figured out the codes and tracked them down to an old apartment building where the kidnapped people were being held

Bat King: This was their last mission with Batraculous East before going solo. Spotting a group of armed gunman in a massive estate, they stealthily made their way in, easily disarmed the gunman with only their staff, and saved the family that was held hostage

@imsparky2002 @msweebyness

#batraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb au #batman #recess class #mlb ocs

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shallahi-and-snowflake · 10 months ago

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Musharna Malice:

A dream that is not yours, or rather a distant memory long forgotten. The dreamer does not remember, but somehow it has found its way to you.

You are overseeing a group of people in strange outfits watching over something in a large tube of amniotic fluid in a monochromatic, high-tech laboratory facility. A woman then barges in, interrupting the convocation, a look of horror upon her face. A man tries to console her to no avail.

“Isn’t she beautiful? A culmination of both our life’s works come together.”

“What have you done…what have you done to our daughter?!”

She screams. The other scientists in the room try to hold her back from seeing the figure floating in the chamber. It is connected to various wires and machinery but it is still of flesh and blood.

A grotesque combination of man and beast. The child had scales the color of its dark amaranthine hair, a small prehensile tail adorned with, and its hands and feet ended in wicked talons.

“You turned her into a monster…”

“Oh, [DATA LOST], you must remember that we fear the things we don’t understand.”

The figure within the chamber of fluid writhes unconsciously to the sound of the commotion. All eyes are on this thing that lay dormant.

“Please remove her from the facility at once. She is not permitted to be here.” The man spoke coldly. More scientists came in from behind and apprehended her, despite her protests.

“You bastard! You’ll pay for what you’ve done!” She cries out again. She struggles to reach out her hand to the thing she called her “daughter” one last time before automatic doors slam in front of her.

You are still in the room bearing witness to this happening. Your eyes are transfixed on this freak of nature. It did not ask for this. It did not ask for any of this. It was only a child.

It was only a child.

…

Mgh. Ghg. Gt… tgh.

Still in Wonderland.

…Another like Sword?

#shallahiposting #rotomblr #pkmn irl #answered asks #rotomblr in wonderland

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ask-mortarion-the-death-lord · 2 years ago

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finally got a look at dawn of fire: iron kingdom. why would i look into this one when i havent otherwise bothered with dawn of fire? iron kingdom has marines malevolents in it and im a sucker for even the scraps [make that marines malevolent book series kymes, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO KYMES!!] as kymes seems to be the only one interested in touchin on the baby bastards.

AND! ... its nothing we haven't seen before from kymes unfortunately. renyard is basically lorkar if lorkar had gotten that promotion, all cynical outlook on the world and everyone in it but a sort of grim hollow enjoyment out of the bloody work he does to cover up his thoroughly misanthropic beliefs on humanity and his own nature. aka the other end of the spectrum of marines malevolent behavior compared to vinyard who got a kick out of liquidizing the innocent.

other then that though, a very minor part of the wider whole. he kills some stuff in a callous manner, proves hes a competent commander in taking out an imperial knight and its amrigers and generally succeeding in his mission of 'fuck shit up', and then gets ganked in a duel with a storm reaper who got offended enough by his behavior to challenge him, though with his own lil konrad moment of 'i told you so' even as hes coughing up blood.

continues the trend on how kymes uses the MM though, in that well they get a lot of 'kicking the puppy' moments to contrast any of their insightful commentary on the reality of the imperium and what it does. the ugly mirror of truth as it were, further compounded by how much of renyards internal dialogue is on how ridiculous he finds his contemporaries obsessions with pomp, ceremony and honour when war is inherently brutal and honourless in his view. his commentary on the storm reapers hesitance to attack a civilian target not in pulling rank or authority in that instance or anything but in simply humorously noting 'oh you'll do it when ya get into combat, thats what your designed to do'. as an inevitability of their design effectively. and how kymes positions the marines malevolents as part of the fleet admirals plan sanctioned in their brutality by a macro scale imperial machine, accompanied by renyard musing about how desperate the situation must be right now if bastards like him and the MM are getting actual support and primaris tech and its like well concluding that 'shit be fucked you'.

cements in my mind that the MM are night lord descendant if they are of traitor stock [personally i prefer to HC them as just more ultramarine descent myself] atleast as far as kymes is concerned. their tactics in iron kingdom are 'terror guerilla fighters', as mentioned reynard gets his own lil konrad moment of 'i told ya so' in the end, and their general attitude rings very night lordy to me in general.

#warhammer 40k #warhammer40k #marines malevolent #night lords #dawn of fire: iron kingdom

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voluminous-violet · 2 years ago

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V, The People (so probably just me) gotta know: what are your Fallout faction takes. Just Generally I mean

Oh really? This is a fun question I really wasn't expecting but I'll take it!

So we're gonna start with my most controversial take probably and then work randomly from there lmao

Brotherhood of Steel: Ok I'm gonna be honest I REALLY like the BoS a lot, in almost all of their depictions, minus like fallout 4. I think it makes a lot of sense that some former military types would go nuts with trying to prevent the over use and reliance on old war tech and take it way too far while also being over the top sanctimonious about it. I also like that there's small pockets of Brotherhood who seem to realize that they're in a much better position to help people and actually try makes them a more dynamic faction. I'm ok with them being a more lawful neutral faction of not really giving fuck, rather than the big bad monsters like Fallout 4.

NCR: Boy howdy is this faction a cluster fuck of "Guys hear me out we have REALLY GOOD IDEAS TRUST ME" and then fucking up everything nonstop. Probably one of the most realistic factions in terms of wanting to do good but being so far up their own in bureaucracy and self importance that you get basically all of their problems in New Vegas. They WANT to be lawful good but end up being neutral good mostly.

Followers of the Apocalypse: Probably the only faction that has an idea of what they want to do and ACTUALLY gets it done even if it's on a smaller scale than they would want. One of the few factions you can openly say you're part of and not get shot on site by someone lmao.

Caesar's Legion: Oh noooo the bastard clan is bastards??? Yeah I'm not a fan, though I do like the touch in the writing where you hear reports from places the Legion has conquered talking about how like "Life sorta sucks but there's a sense of normalcy at least?" Like no one says they're GOOD but some at least appreciate the safety it brings. It's a nice touch in my opinion to give the player that absolutely TINY moment where they think "MAYBE I could hear them out" before seeing all the crucifixes and immediately ignoring anything they say.

The Enclave: Ok so I'm glad they're basically done with, but I wouldn't mind hearing that there's like tiny squads scattered across the wastes trying to keep the factions ideals alive. Honestly, I wish they weren't in Fallout 3 because I think they would've made a GREAT foil in Fallout 4 for the next faction...

The Institute: Ok so this was actually the final faction I sided with in my playthrough to get the platinum trophy in Fallout 4. I usually LOVE the super high tech factions and the neat futurism they bring, I mean ffs I'm a BoS simp, but god is there just... almost nothing redeemable about The Institute? They literally just do things because they can and think the rest of the world should just go with it because everyone is lesser than them? And don't get me started the synth debated because that's something that really shouldn't have even been a thing but HERE WE ARE I GUESS.

The Minutemen: Honestly just... why are they here? I know they're supposed to be the Yes Man for Fallout 4 in case you fuck up literally everything else, but they're just SO BLAND. Preston is annoying, Mama Murphy is just there to make the game easier for new players, and the rest of them have like no character beyond angry, depressed, or mechanic.

I know I'm leaving a bunch off but this is getting long winded so if you agree, disagree, or want a specific faction mentioned, just send another ask!

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from-ultra-space · 10 months ago

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Musharna Malice:

A dream that is not yours, or rather a distant memory long forgotten. The dreamer does not remember, but somehow it has found its way to you.

“Isn’t she beautiful? A culmination of our life’s works come together.”

“What have you done…what have you done to my daughter?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR CHILD?!”

She screams. The other scientists in the room try to hold her back from seeing the figure floating in the chamber. It is connected to various wires and machinery but it is still of flesh and blood.

A grotesque combination of man and beast. The child had scales the color of its dark amaranthine hair, a small prehensile tail adorned with, and its hands and feet ended in wicked talons.

“You turned her into a monster…”

“Oh, [DATA LOST], you must remember that we fear the things we don’t understand.”

The figure within the chamber of fluid writhes unconsciously to the sound of the commotion. All eyes are on this thing that lay dormant.

“Please remove her from the facility at once. She is not permitted to be here.” The man spoke coldly. More scientists came in from behind and apprehended her, despite her protests.

You are still in the room bearing witness to this happening. Your eyes are transfixed on this freak of nature. It did not ask for this. It did not ask for any of this. It was only a child.

It was only a child.

[It’s another audio recording, one of Nori’s Dream Logs presumably. Although this one starts straight away with the sound of Nori’s voice.

“I do not think the recorder picked up my mumbling throughout that dream but it was not a very pleasant one. Apologies I seem to be disoriented, this is Nori Phoris once again. This dream was… unsettling. In it I think I was some form of a lab assistant although I do not think I was me, as in I had taken the place of someone else. The experiment was…was… a person? A child? At least she used to be. That’s right! It was someone’s daughter, although the mother had to be forcibly removed and restrained after seeing the ‘test subject’.” Nori stays quiet for a while although the rhythmic tapping of his finger can be heard. “It was horrific. All of it. I hope the dream doesn’t come back. End log.” ]

#nori’s asks #pkmn irl #Nori’s Dream Log

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aggressively-crying · 1 year ago

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Tfa Optimus prime propaganda before soundwave overtakes him:

This man is so burned out you can see smoke rising from his engine at any given time.

This particular incarnation isn't the leader of the Autobots. He's a maintenance bot that dropped out of the elite guard academy and got stationed in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. He was built long after the war ended, so he'd never even seen real action against a decepticon...

Until he ended up with the most powerful artifact in cybertronian history, the very thing that gave their species life, and was immediately hunted by the battle hardened leader of the Decepticon army for it.

Animated Optimus is literally Just Some Guy that got caught right at the resurgence of the most brutal war his kind had ever known, and was immediately forced to keep it from breaking out full-scale all over again. It's like if a college dropout working at a dinky tech repair shop had to stop world war three.

On top of preventing a fucking war, since he crashed on earth he's taken it up on himself to play first responder, too. He gets zero chance to rest ever between taking emergency calls and rebuilding any damages to the city from the fights with the decepticons. Thaaaat's right, he's working two fucking jobs on top of the autobot gig.

That alone would be bad enough, but it only goes downhill from here.

The crew Optimus has to work with, the guardians of both Earth's and Cybertron's futures, the only people between the entire Decepticon armada and the strongest source of power, are the most dysfunctional losers in existence. Half of which nearly cause more problems than they solve (cough cough, bumblebee). He wants to be a good, chill boss sooooo badly, he wants them to be able to just TALK to him but nobody on this damn team knows how to communicate or even think before they act, EXCEPT Optimus, who is consistently stuck getting the raw end of the deal whenever this inevitably goes horribly wrong. Definitely doesn't help that they don't actually follow orders either.

And unlike Soundwave, Optimus can't just conveniently carry these nerds around in cassette form in his chest, tucked away where they can't cause endless chaos, he has to live with them 24/7. Also, ya know, Soundwave's kids actually follow his orders without question. Team Prime? Fuck no.

Let's not forget the other bastard Optimus is tormented by, either.

For the uninitiated, this is Sentinel Prime. He exists to be just the fucking worst. He's arrogant, he's classist, he's xenophobic, and he's a huge smug piece of slag. Nobody likes him in-universe, few like him in the fandom.

He used to be OP's best friend. Now he calls him a grease monkey and a lowly maintenance bot every time they're forced to interact. Everyone who has to put up with him wants to punch him in his bitch face, Optimus especially. Every time he shows up to earth he fucks up the whole operation and blames anyone who isn't him for what went wrong, then takes credit if something goes right. Keeps dragging old friendship drama into work too.

Whiiiiich brings me to:

Optimus's Unresolved Trauma

As if this poor bastard didn't have enough going on, he's also being tormented by his past: specifically, the incident where he thought his (possibly?) girlfriend died to a bunch of giant fucking spiders and an explosion on an unsanctioned mission sentinel led, which he still entirely blames himself for. Except turns out said girlfriend lived, ended up a mutant that hates herself, and now blames Optimus for abandoning her, which is just cranking up the guilt to 11.

Oh and on top of all of this he's raising a kid. It's not even like a g1/prime/seemingly every tf anime situation where said kid just shows up sometimes to hang out because they're friends. No, her fucking dad went missing and she had nowhere else to go but with the robots, so he's a proper fuckin dad now too.

Tl;dr: Soundwave may be carrying the decepticons, but Optimus is carrying two worlds, three jobs, a kid, four autobots with horrible communication skills, a metric fuckton of total disrespect from some of the worst people alive, the most powerful artifact in existence, and enough guilt to drown a man. I'm astounded his spine is still intact. In conclusion, vote Optimus prime for overworked transformer blorbo.

Preliminary Poll 35: Transformers

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flooficandii · 4 years ago

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It's all fun and games til your ex-fiancee decides to thermobomb all your powerboxes :]

heehee im glad i finally got to do a full art piece, honestly i got really motivated to do this one- i started yesterday and finished today, which is kinda,,,,, cool i guess

for one im glad i finally got to do a serious full body of tech, and two im v i b r a t i n g after drawing @starstainedtea's bomber. just,,,look at this fine piecea meat

bomber and tech are canonically on the same team,,,but venting your frustrations via crossfaction counterparts? hm :]]]

#tf2 tech #tf2 bomber #tf2 tenth class #tf2 10th class #tf2 oc #tf2 ocs #bomber #tech #god i love them #theyre both bastards in their own right #tech has more of the bastard scale #aha #whats the term for rivals #rivaltonic #my art #floofis brain worms

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago

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The FTC takes aim at commercial surveillance

The biggest fallacy in the online privacy is that there is a difference between “state surveillance” and “commercial surveillance.” Bizarrely, it’s a fallacy that is widely held by both government snoops and Big Tech snoops.

Many’s the time I’ve spoken to a DC audience about privacy, only to have an audience member say, “I��m OK with Uncle Sam spying on me — after all, I’ve already given up every sensitive scrap of information about my personal life to the Office of Personnel Management when I applied for security clearance. But I don’t want my money going to Google — those bastards would sell their mothers out for a nickle.”

Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, I hear, “I don’t care if Google has my data — they just want to show me better ads. But the US government? Hell no! Those govies and their profiteering private contractor pals are all too stupid to get jobs at real tech companies and who knows what they’re going to do with my data?”

Both groups are gripped by the delusion that state surveillance can be disentangled from commercial surveillance. In a just world, companies would be barred from undertaking mass-scale surveillance for their private gain. After all, this is a practice that imposes vast risks on the public — humiliation, identity theft, extortion, and more — and is only profitable because the companies that create this risk can privatize the benefits of spying and socialize the costs of leaks:

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

How is it that the government hasn’t stepped in to force companies to end the practice of spying? Worse, how is it that the government abets spying — for example, by reinforcing the risible fiction that clicking “I agree” on a meandering, multi-thousand word garbage legalese novella constitutes “consent”?

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/10/be-reasonable/#i-would-prefer-not-to

It’s because the project of mass state surveillance depends on mass commercial surveillance. Remember the Snowden revelations? Remember how they started with #Prism, a program whereby Big Tech had secretly colluded with the NSA to conduct illegal, mass surveillance?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

The companies denied it at first, but they changed their tunes — and squealed like stuck pigs — when another NSA program called “Upstream” was revealed. “Upstream” was the NSA’s practice of wiretapping the fiber lines between Big Tech’s data-centers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html

Prism turned out to be a way to trick the tech giants into thinking that they were in control of the NSA’s harvesting of their users’ data. But what was really going on was that the NSA was capturing everything, picking out the stuff they wanted, and requesting it via Prism (this is called “parallel construction” and it’s used when an agency does not want to reveal its methods to its partners or adversaries).

The NSA depended on Big Tech collecting and retaining everything, and it depended on the companies recklessly transmitting data between their data-centers without encrypting it. The NSA is also the agency charged with defending Americans from foreign surveillance, the risk of which also increased thanks to Big Tech’s overcollection and sloppy storage. If the NSA took its defensive mission seriously, it would have been screaming its head off, demanding an end to commercial surveillance and hardening of internal communications. Instead, it exploited both.

The public-private surveillance partnership is very old, and it’s key to monopolists’ strategy. It took 69 years to break up AT&T, because every time trustbusters came close, America’s cops and spies and military would spring into action, insisting that the Bell System was America’s “national champion,” needed to defend it from foreign enemies. The Pentagon rescued Ma Bell from breakup in the 50s by claiming that the Korean War couldn’t be won without AT&T’s help:

https://onezero.medium.com/jam-to-day-46b74d5b1da4

But it’s not just powerful federal agencies that rely on commercial surveillance — and who aggressively cape for the tech surveillance industry. Local cops rely on Amazon’s Ring doorbells to conduct off-the-books, mass scale street surveillance. Despite Amazon’s repeated false claims, police can do this without Ring owners’ knowledge or consent:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/13/amazon-gave-ring-videos-to-police-without-owners-permission-00045513

Hard to overstate how sleazy this is, even leaving aside the creepy public surveillance part. Amazon sells you networked surveillance cameras, encourages you to put them inside and outside of your house, promises that you will have control over the footage they capture, then secretly hands it out to cops. In a just world, Amazon would face stiff penalties for lying to its customers about a matter this sensitive. In our world, nothing happens — because local cops across America go to bat for Amazon every time the issue comes up.

Google deceptively captures your location data. It is effectively impossible to opt out of Google location collection. You have to uncheck a dozen or so boxes in different places. Even the senior Googlers who ran Google Maps couldn’t figure it out — they thought they’d opted out, but hadn’t.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/01/you-are-here/#goog

In a just world, Google would face stiff penalties for deceiving billions of people who thought they had explicitly told the company not to track their location — but in our world, Google is left alone to do so. I mean, of course — why not? Without Google’s mass harvesting and indefinite storage of surveillance data, cops wouldn’t be able to use “reverse warrants” to go after Black Lives Matter protesters:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google

(If you think that reverse warrants are good because they were used to prosecute the 1/6 insurrectionists, please consider that the vast majority of reverse warrants are used against progressive protesters).

Facebook deceptively captures your personal communications. You may think your private messages are private, but actually Facebook collects this data and retains it forever. In a just world, Facebook would be punished for this. In our world, Facebook turns over teens’ private chats about procuring a medication abortion to cops seeking to charge an underaged girl as an adult with multiple felonies:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion

Republicans talk a big game about tech companies being too powerful — but they mean that tech companies shouldn’t be able to do content moderation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship

They don’t mean that tech companies should stop collaborating with latter-day Witchfinders General in their hunt for formerly pregnant children to imprison on behalf of the forced birth movement.

A federal privacy bill has been working its way through Congress all year, but it keeps getting watered down to the point of uselessness — or worse, because the bill will preempt good state privacy laws and replace them with a weak federal rule. But that might be moot, because I hear there’s no chance of the bill passing.

This isn’t regulatory capture — it’s legislative capture. Congress and the Senate are thoroughly dependent on the big tech companies, as well as other surveillance giants like the credit reporting bureaux and the military contractors who build and maintain government surveillance systems.

https://doctorow.medium.com/regulatory-capture-59b2013e2526

All that might piss you off. It should. But here’s the good news. The great news. When it comes to digital surveillance, America no longer has a regulatory capture problem. That’s because personnel are policy, and the brilliant, fearless Lina Khan is running the FTC.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/rest-in-piss-robert-bork/#harmful-dominance

Khan rose to prominence just five years ago, when, as a law student, she published the earth-shaking law review article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” which demolished 40 years of right-wing orthodoxy that insisted that monopolies were efficient and beneficial and should be encouraged by governments:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

Today, she is chair of the FTC, and she’s taking no prisoners. Instead, she’s instituting new stringent merger guidelines, aggressively pursuing monopolies, and proposing sweeping new regulation that would allow the FTC to step in on privacy where Congress has failed us.

The FTC’s just given notice of a future rulemaking on digital privacy, called the “Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking”:

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/commercial-surveillance-data-security-rulemaking

They want to hear from you on a series of hard-hitting questions, including

Are there some harms that consumers may not easily discern or identify? Which are they?

How should the Commission identify and evaluate these commercial surveillance harms or potential harms? On which evidence or measures should the Commission rely to substantiate its claims of harm or risk of harm?

Which areas or kinds of harm, if any, has the Commission failed to address through its enforcement actions?

Has the Commission adequately addressed indirect pecuniary harms, including potential physical harms, psychological harms, reputational injuries, and unwanted intrusions?

Which kinds of data should be subject to a potential trade regulation rule?

Which, if any, commercial incentives and business models lead to lax data security measures or harmful commercial surveillance practices? Are some commercial incentives and business models more likely to protect consumers than others?

How, if at all, should potential new trade regulation rules address harms to different consumers across different sectors? Which commercial surveillance practices, if any, are unlawful such that new trade regulation rules should set out clear limitations or prohibitions on them? To what extent, if any, is a comprehensive regulatory approach better than a sectoral one for any given harm?

As Thomas Claburn writes for The RegisterI “the agency’s decision to use the word ‘surveillance’ rather than a euphemism like ‘data gathering’ or ‘personalization’ suggests the FTC is already inclined to change the status quo.”

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/11/ftc_personal_data_rules/

You might have heard about the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v EPA, where Trump’s illegitimate judges used their stolen seats to twist procedure and overturn decades of precedent to say that the EPA was not allowed to take action on climate change unless Congress specifically wrote them a mandate instructing them to do so:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-climate-change

Commentators have focused — rightly — on the environmental consequences of this decision. As Justice Kagan wrote in her dissent: “The subject matter of the regulation here makes the Court’s intervention all the more troubling. Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. And let’s say the obvious: The stakes here are high. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself — instead of Congress or the expert agency — the decision-maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening. Respectfully, I dissent.”

But the impact of this decision goes much farther. Expect the commercial surveillance industry to go after Khan and the FTC here, arguing that since the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 didn’t mention the possibility of mass internet surveillance, the FTC can’t do anything about it. By that reasoning, of course, the FTC should limit itself to policing the business practices of 1914 and previous. Look forward to a future Republican FTC chair opening an investigation into the build-quality of the Packard Six Phaeton.

The fusion of commercial and state surveillance is baked into the companies’ business models, which rely on the state’s dependence on commercial surveillance data, which, in turn, makes the state unwilling to regulate commercial surveillance.

As my EFF colleague Corynne McSherry said, “The best way to protect your users is to minimize the data you collect, delete what you do collect whenever possible, and encrypt private messages end-to-end as a default. Don’t build it, don’t keep it, and the cops won’t come for it.”

The corollary: if you build it, if you keep it, the cops will defend your right to do so. Chairperson Khan needs all our support. We need to flood that docket — and our reps’ ears — with rejections of commercial surveillance. Because there is no mass state surveillance without mass commercial surveillance — and vice-versa.

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Ngl its kinda funny how in a lot of fan content Susie is still a villain deapite her being a star ally

You try to be a magic space overlord and backstab poor tiny kirby? Eh its ok everyone deserve a second chance

You are a capitalist? KILL KILL BITE BITE

I think not even Kirby himself trusts her too much, expecially since she hurted Meta Knight

The thing is, Mags failed his initial conquest, and (says he) turned around. For the most part, it does appear that hes changed. Hes probably still a manipulative little bastard in canon (going off of the novels here) but conquering the world? If he is to be believed in Kirby Clash, hes given up on that. He just wants money and attention now (if not friends). Its a second chance that hes…mostly doing good on. On a universal scale, anyway. (My personal interp has him legitimately grow into a better person. Any mistrust towards him does have valid grounds…he was still a jerk in the past. But its not really wise to do that now after everything hes done to prove his change.)

Susie? Fam shes still conquering planets. Still mechanizing (cough colonizing cough) parts of the galaxy. For money. Shes still a threat and honestly I have NO IDEA why shes a part of the allyship. Is it so that she wont conquer Popstar? A formal alliance…I can see the Allies needing her help with her advanced tech, but on a personal level. I dont think they trust her. (Similar situation with Marx and Mags assuming were following a more canon-leaning interp. Where the two arent trusted bc of their manipulative/mischievous ways/are probably just jerks in general, Susie isnt trusted bc shes a FUCKING THREAT)

Why did she ask for an Allyship? Maybe bc she knows that Kirby would woop her ass, despite all the advanced tech. Its an agreement to not kill each other. Idk how canon that is; it is NOW A PART OF MY INTERP

#opal owl hoots #magolor #susie haltmann #kirby #legacy arc #susie neg #i guess. im just stating stuff from canon here lmao

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kinsey3furry300 · 3 years ago

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So how the heck do the Avengers pay for stuff, and how rich are they?

So, in the wake of “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” There’s a lot of debate about why Sam didn’t seem to get paid well for his work in the Avengers (at least in the MCU continuity), and this has got me thinking: we’ve got no evidence that the Avengers are, financially, anything but a hot mess. So lets break it down, Avenger by Avenger, using real-world pay scales for the ones who have jobs.

Tony: a billionaire, so clearly he’s a financial genius, right? Well….. his actions say otherwise. He’s shown to be wildly irresponsible with his money. He inherited a lot of wealth form his parents which was managed by the first Jarvis, Obadiah, and Pepper for him, he buys and then gives away not just woks of art, but entire collections by major 20th century artists on a whim, destroyed his own cars and home without concern, he tanks the value of his own company in the first Iron Man with a bad press interview, gets kicked of his own bord of directors, and ultimately, in Iron Man 2, gives control of his company to Pepper. He’s insanely rich, and insanely smart, but man, he’s not smart with his money. So all the cool stuff, his suits, the Avengers tower, the facility up-state: that’s all paid for by him, but Pepper is holding the purse-stings. So, does he pay the others? We have no evidence for most of them… but we do with Spidey. Peter Parker is in the Stark Internship Program a euphemism to hide the fact he’s training and mentoring him as a super-hero, but I find the wording interesting: he refers to Spidey, his surrogate son and chosen heir, as an intern. I.E., Unpaid. I’m guessing this is Howard’s influence over him, some sort of ‘make you own way in the world, son’ attitude, but if he’s not paying Spidey, is he paying anyone else? He certainly pays for stuff super heroes suits and things, equipment, fuel, the base, but does he pay anyone a wage? No one ever mentions it. You think it would come up.

So, if he’s not paying them a wage, where do Avengers (and thier allies) get their day-to-day money from, and are they rich? Using google and https://www.federalpay.org, lets find out.

Cap: Well, before Civil war, he’s a shield operative, and he presumably still holds his military rank: he’s a US Army captain, with (well) over 40 years service, so USD$88,142.40 per year, with $237.71 drill pay (pay per drill you have to do on weekends, on leave or outside of normal service) and $175.00 per month hazard pay (which I bet is interesting) on top of that. As a WW2 veteran, he’d be eligible for a war pension if he:

Was not discharged for dishonorable reasons; and,

Served 90 days of active military duty; and,

Served at least one day during wartime ("wartime" as determined by the VA); and,

Had countable family income below a certain yearly limit; and,

Is age 65 years or older; or

Regardless of age is permanently disabled, not due to wilful misconduct.

As he’s still receiving 90k per year, he’s ineligible for a pension as his countable yearly income is above the limit. So if shield pays him in accordance with his rank and years of service, about $90, 600 per year incuding hazard pay.

After civil war, he’s a fugitive on the run, so presumably flat broke. I’d asume he gets his pension returened to him after the snap.

He’s also just gone from the 40’s to the present day, so 70 years of inflation probably makes buying things very confusing for him: everything would seem insanely expensive at first. He’d also not know what the correct prices are for anything invented after 45. You might get used to how much more expensive food and coffee is, but how much is a smart-phone worth? $200? $2000 $20000? Who knows? I bet the others have to facepalm a lot when he either refuses to pay for what he sees as clear price-gouging, and at the same time regularly pays insane amounts of money for goods and services because he doesn’t know better. He also has no known assets other than his pay: he rents an apartment making him one of the few American males in his age-group who isn’t a home-owner

Thor: Does Asgard even have currency? It’s depicted like a “Crystal spires and toga” type utopia with no poverty: even working class Asgardian’s like Scourge seem to be pretty well-off and want for nothing, so he’s from a post-scarcity society where actual magic is a thing. His “Another” coffee cup smashing and the fact he doesn’t have a computer of phone in Ragnarök might indicate that, no, he just doesn’t have, need or understand money. Splitting a bar tab with him must be a nightmare. His breakdown post snap indicates he’s got some cash, but not a huge amount, and is probably skiving of Valkyrie and the other Asgardians.

Banner: Okay, so a PhD could make you a lot of money from patents… in pharmacology or engineering. Theoretical physics? Not so good. And if Banner did have any patents, they’ve probably been seized under eminent domain by the US military. At the start of The Hulk film, he’s working a entry-level factory job at a botteling plant in Brazil. The minimum wage in Brazil is 1069.62 Real per month, that’s 12,835.44 Real per year, or around $2437.79 US per year, before everything goes wrong for him! He then runs off to India, works for Tony for a bit and then gets shot into space. Spidey may actually make more in allowance than Banner does, and Banner is a gown ass man with bills to pay: I’d imagine he loses a lot in ripped clothing.

Natasha and Barton: Pre Civil-war, both are government spooks, so how well does that pay? The salaries of CIA Intelligence Analysts based in the US range from $25,838 to $685,701 , with a median salary of $125,340, so let’s assume that Shield pays in a similar range: $685,701 per year for Director Fury, around 125,000 for Natasha and Cliff, which explains Cliff’s nice, middle-class mid-western home. Post civil war, presumably not great: we know that Natasha spends a lot of her savings running and hiding all across the world, and Cliff takes a deal and presumably lives of his savings, pension and his wife’s income.

Rhodes: Full USAF colonel with over 10 years service? $105,562.80 per year, plus $293.23 drill pay per drill and $175 per month hazard pay, and because he’s team Stark and not Team Cap in Civil War, he’d not lose any of that. He presumably also gets an injury pay-out after his accident. After T’challa and Stark, he might be the best paid avenger.

Dr Strange: spends all his money he made as a surgeon on trying to cure his hands: spends literally his last dollars heading to Nepal to train. Wong even jokes with him about their lack of worldly money when asking for a tuna-melt. But, can use illusion to make people think he has money, and his home and clothes etc. come with the job, so in the same boat as Thor in that he has no money, but needs none AKA, he’s a bastard to try and split a restaurant bill with.

Wanda and Vision: No know source of income, just sort of live in Tony’s hose and eat his food, and on top of that Wanda goes on the run after civil war… yet they can stay in fancy hotels in Edinburgh, a relatively expensive city, and Vison apparently bought them a house to retire in, so one of them has some source of money. Maybe Tony gave Vision years of back-pay form when he was still Jarvis, or maybe the vison has a day job, which is, frankly, hilarious. Could you imagine him as a barista? I can, and it makes me very happy.

Scott Lang: I’d assumed he’d be super, super broke, but apparently the average pay for a private security consultant in the Bay area is $85,430 per year. Not bad. Pity he gets sucked into the quantum realm just as his business is taking off, so presumably, flat broke again.

Bucky: no known income, and I doubt Hydra paid him for being the Winter Soldier so he probably has no savings, but he should, technically, qualify for a military pension. As a single veteran, he’d be eligible for federal tax-free pension of up to $1732 per month, or $20,784 tax free per year. Not much for someone who lives in NYC. He may also be eligible for medical benefits over the loss of his arm. Whether or not he got to see any of that money given how confused his life has been over the past 10 years is unclear, but on paper he’s eligible.

T’challa: He is, quite possibly, richer than Stark, and as an absolute monarch pays no tax and has access to his Nation’s vast wealth in vibanium. It’s good to be the king!

Captain Marvel: USAF captain, and a test pilot; the test pilot school only accepts applicants with a service length of less than 9 years 6 months (10 years six moths of helicopters) as they don’t want older applicants. With 8 years service, $79,538.40, plus drill pay and hazard. However, no know (human) pay since 1990. Flat broke.

Guardians of the Galaxy: no data, but I’m assuming “Cowboy Bebop” levels of perpetual never-ending poverty given the way they choose to live. I’d also assume Rocket has taken all their cash into some sort of Ponzi scheme of his own creation, because just look at him, of course he has.

Spidey: he’s got about $10 of his aunts’ money at any given time, so he can buy lunch… which may in fact be more than Banner or Lang, and we know it’s more that Strange or Thor.

So, here the big one: how rich or how broke is Sam?

Sam Wilson: annoyingly, we’re not directly told what rank Sam held in any MCU film. USAF pararescue “Maroon berets” are generally NCO’s (but there’ are officer-ranked pararescue) , and he’s seen working on his wings at one point, where as officers don’t generally work on or maintain airframes. He’s shown wearing a Nation Air guard grey while jogging at one point to confuse the matter further. The general consensus on redit is he’s a former USAF tech sergeant (E-6). But how long was he in the air force? With six years service (the minimum sensible time he could have served to work in pararescue based on his age), that would be $41,464.80 per year, plus drill pay and hazard. As Anthony Mackie, the actor that plays him, was 36 as of Civil War, and assuming the character is the same age, and assuming he retired from the air force that year, and he joined the USAF at 17, the youngest you can join, he’d have served 19 years, giving him a pay of $51,566.40, the maximum pay you can get at this rank before promotion to Master Sergent, but meaning he left just before he’d qualify for the 50% final salary pension you’d qualify for after 20 years. Which seems weird. So let’s assume the character is one year older than the actor that plays him and served 20 years (ages 17-37), that means Sam has a military pension of $25,783.20 per year (20,784 of it tax-free), plus any injury benefits. He councils other veterans, but doesn’t get paid for that. He also chooses Team Cap in Civil War, so would become a wanted criminal, and so lose his income between 2016 and 2018, and then gets snapped and has no income for 5 years, which would destroy his credit rating. Like the rest of Team Cap, he presumably gets his post snap pardon, and goes to work for the US government at his former pay and rank. However, given how Captain John Walker treats him as an equal, it’s possible he’s been promoted to a captain when the hired back, giving him a pay of between $54,176.40 to $88,142.40 (with 20 years experience, depending on if they take into account his prior service or not, and how much prior service he has), but either way, he’s just starting this as a new job after being legally dead for 5 years: no savings, and no credit.

Commercial fishing vessels cost about 10% of their total value per year in maintenance alone. I can’t identify what sort of boat the Wilson’s have, but some quick googling indicates that the cheapest 15m long wooden in-shore shrimp trawler costs around $140,000, so that’s $14,000 per year in maintenance costs alone, minimum. And that’s a lower estimate, assuming the rest of the business is sound, which we know it isn’t.

So, in concussion, yes, Sam is in some serious financial trouble until he can re-build his savings and credit, but the scary bit is he’s not alone in that: he’s probably better off than Lang, Banner, Danvers, Strange, Thor, Bucky, Wanda and Parker. Only Clint (if he gets a full pardon and gets his full pension), Rhodes, Stark and T’challa aren’t in some sort of potential financial problems. That asshole bank teller was right: despite the fact it seems to pay well on paper, with a few exceptions, the Avengers financials are probibaly a mess. EDIT: Rocket is running the Ponzi scheme, if that’s not clear from context. The others know they have money somewhere, but not where it’s gone. And It’s been pointed out to me that as he’s technically a POW while he’s the Winter Soldier, Bucky is owed over 70 years back-pay, equal to over 3 million dollars, details in the notes.

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fencecollapsed · 2 years ago

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Out of curiosity, if you had to rank the Nightmare Time stories on a scale of 1-12 (because that's how many there are), how would you rank them?

mmm okay I did do this before, right after Yellow Jacket first premiered in November, buuuuut I am a fickle pickle and my opinions very much change with time SO. this'll be my new one! I'll give some commentary too cuz why not (the commentary got long woops)

Honey Queen. GOD this story is great. Something about it not getting supernatural until the very end but still being wild and intense throughout, it carries itself through the character conflict really well. The sacrifice reveal is foreshadowed excellently. I like the depth added to Linda and I fuckin love. That this is another one of those "gleefully fucked up" type stories there's just something really great to me about watching these two terrible people - who are terrible for different reasons but they are Both Awful - fuck each other up for an hour and they both die terribly. Fantastic, I love it. The class commentary is great. The pageant commentary is great. The ending is my second favorite ending in all of Hatchetfield, behind TGWDLM, it has that effective dread and inevitability that hooked me into the series in the first place. It's really good. Honey Queen is really fucking good.

Watcher World. Bill Woodward my BELOVED this story is excellent. I know people say Yellow Jacket would make a great movie and I agree but god, Watcher World with the right budget? I'd kill to see it. The setting has a really great atmosphere I would LOVE to see visually depicted, it would add so much to the tone. I love the deeper look into Bill and Alice's relationship. I love how nuanced it really is, how - again - character driven this story is and how that's what carries the fucked up horror aspect. I love every moment you can feel Bill really trying, and his frustration not being able to reach Alice, and Alice's stress and bitterness and frustration at not being understood. Not feeling in control of her life because she had to be wrapped up in their divorce. I think they could've given her a better moment of showing that she really does love her dad, just so it didn't feel quite as one sided, but it still works. Alice is an angry teenager and her feelings are complex and misdirected. The way they butt heads feels realistic, it feels like a real, difficult father/daughter relationship. I love that the story doesn’t paint either as “in the wrong” because they’re both just. Flawed individuals stuck in a tough situation. They don’t know how to navigate it. They picked the Worst Possible Place to try and navigate it in. The way the building tension between Bill and Alice coincides with the building feeling of danger in the setting as the story goes on is just. Excellent. I Iove it.

Forever and Always. I'm accounting for my biases here, when I really think about it I do have mixed feelings on this story writing-wise but I'll admit I'm a weak man, my love for Paul Matthews in any capacity overpowers me. I genuinely like the clone/android concept - I've said before that I think Paul and Emma are the only characters you could do that with, it Makes Sense to me. I like the bits of Real Emma we get (she’s great) and I like how they show that Emdroid and Emma aren't the same person but they definitely think alike. I like the way it connects to Time Bastard, I like the murder couple. Buuuuut I get that the addition of clones and androids kinda muddies the overall lore - s1 ep2 in general is a lot more tech/sci-fi vibes than anything else in the Hatchetfield canon I think. It's a complicated concept we're not likely to see again, and if we did it'd take away from chances to explore the real Paul and Emma, and nobody wants that. Also the clone Pauls REALLY feel tacked on last minute. It's not built up to at all there's no foreshadowing for a reveal like that, it feels like they added it so the ending would make a little more sense. They really could've executed that part better. I still think it's fun though! I know my biases.

Jane's A Car. Tomothy Carfucker Houston I'm not sorry for making fun of you actually cuz it's still funny* BUT this story is genuinely Really Good. Like. It's a really solid character study, it explores Tom and his grief and his relationships really really well. I liked getting a glimpse at Jane, I'm really curious about her and how she was when she Wasn't stuck in a car for a year, because that absolutely affected her psyche. Becky and Tim's interactions are really sweet, I like their budding little family and I'd love to see it grow more. The sweet, soft moments in this story really really work. I like the running theme of happiness and how Tom is almost afraid of it, but right on the verge of allowing himself to be happy. It makes the uncontrollable downward spiral once Jane comes back really work. My only real critique is I think this story would've benefited from Emma's presence. At least a scene or two. It would have to be longer to fit her in but I think adding her would've given the story more compelling (and kinda necessary imo) layers. Still, I like it! JAC is great. (**I'm allowed to make fun of the car sex okay I played Tom in a liveread of JAC once I've Performed the car sex I have the right-)

Abstinence Camp. God this story is fucking ridiculous, it's so fun. The Jerries are an unhinged riot, Jon and Kim as a repressed horny duo is a gift we did not deserve and I like their characters in this more than I should. They're so wild. Steph and Pete are pretty cute. I'm a big fan of the subversion of views on sex in slashers, it's fun and it's clever. I have a Few qualms with the Axe-Man himself, I think if his portrayal was just a little different it'd be better, but that might just be me.

Yellow Jacket. Good story! Very cinematic! I love more of a look at the California Trio's dynamic. Hannah and Ethan are great, loved seeing more of them. I completely understand why Lex was separated for most of the story, there's a good reason for that definitely but. God. I wish we could get more of her. Every bit of her is so good every glimpse at her relationships is So Good and there's never enough. It's almost a detriment, that every story with Lex in it never feels like it has enough of her and just leaves me a little disappointed. I want more of her. I want more of her and Hannah actually together. The lore is interesting, Otho's a little bitch he's so creepy it's great, and I am so interested in Webby and why she operates the way she does. Good story.

Killer Track. I love this concept and I love the execution, this story really sold me on Holloway and Duke, they're both great characters, I love their relationship, I cannot wait to see more of them. They could’ve done a little more with Rose, she’s a bit flat and I wish she wasn’t, I love her vibes. Bryce sells it regardless, she’s great. Otherwise I don’t have much else to say on this one, I enjoyed it, it’s good.

The Witch In the Web. A solid lore story! Great expansion of Hannah's powers and what she knows and sees, but I wish it explored her as a person a little more. The introduction of Miss Holloway is great, she was so compelling right off the bat and she's only gotten moreso. This one would make a great movie, too. It works super well in expanding the world building and town backstory and setting up what more is on the way. I do have... slightly complex feelings on how complicated the lore of Hatchetfield has gotten, and they started here. Not negative feelings, exactly. Just complicated. Also on first watch I was disappointed that Lex was written out, and as much as I understand why she was, that never really went away djskfnd that's another bias thing, I miss her.

Time Bastard. Another good "gleefully fucked up" story <3 I like Ted as a punching bag I like when he suffers djskjfd sorry to the Ted fans out there, yall are valid and I love ya but. I think it's funny. The ending is the strongest part of it to me, though, and sitting through the whole thing as a singular story is less appealing imo. I can't put it into words really, it's just not one I'm really interested in. Again, I like how it ties together with F&A, they do that very well, those two are most fun to watch as a unit.

The Hatchetfield Ape-Man. It being this low might give the impression I don't like this story but I DO it's definitely the funniest of them. Hidgens is a fucking riot, I was personally much more entertained by him in this than in TGWDLM. His and Ted's dynamic is fucking hysterical. Conceptually it's just. Ridiculous. They just did Tarzan but made it more murdery it's so funny. It's strongest comedy wise for sure, it's just another I don't think about much.

Daddy. Honestly I don't dislike this story, again, conceptually it's ridiculous, but it the execution worked fairly well and I like how it genuinely expanded Frank as a character, he's way more compelling than he was in BF and I Liked him in BF. He's good here, I like him, I'm invested. I simply. Do Not like Sherman. At all. He's fucking annoying and he makes me uncomfortable and he sure is a big presence in this story. My biases are negative too.

Perky's Buds. I wrote an essay on this one yall know how I feel.

#hatchetfield #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #nightmare time spoilers #into the mailbox #anonymous

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whoaffle · 3 years ago

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Today a person of my family was complimenting and admiring Bozos' stupid-ass fucking penis-shaped rocket...

They kept talking about how it's "amazing" and "genius" and whatever... They were really impressed by the whole "show" and by the technology used and I GET that on one hand, because it IS something different and new and it is impressive (which doesn't mean it is good, I'll develop later), and this person is much older than me and they kept insisting on how, for them, in the past, this would have sounded impossible and how it's amazing that it's happening! That one person would manage to fund that by himself and not a whole country! (which again, impressive, NOT good. The fact that ONE person has the same amount of money as a large country, while others are poorer and poorer every day... The slow erasure of a middle class as social inequality becomes more and more severe every day... The fact that all this money was conquered by exploiting several poorly paid workers in shitty jobs with bad conditions... All those are symptoms of a DEATHLY ill economic system that not only has gone WRONG already but still insists on pretending to be functional while dragging down everyone along with it to the absolute limit before it collapses entirely on itself, leaving a painful scar on the people it took advantage of AND on the planet it has exploited for so long).

Going back to the point, I get it that "space travel" is a magical sci-fi dream for many people, both young and old, and that older people who think differently from most of us young adult Tumblr users would be super impressed by it, BUT... This is still so... So bad! Most of it - if not everything about it - is such an absurd scenario!

Well, knowing by previous experience that criticizing Bezos' amount of money and how he acquired it would be useless and that he'd end up defended anyways, I tried criticizing the ecological aspect of the whole thing first! But the answer I got was "Hah! A lot of stuff pollutes the world much more and no one talks about it", which, like... 1- Your point being?? That's no excuse to ignore absolutely useless shit like this polluting the earth even more just so billionaires can feel special because they can go to space while millions of people starve, die and suffer. Besides the fact that insisting on investing in this kind of technology instead of trying to prioritize Eco-friendly technologies and research is PRECISELY why a lot of other things pollute so much more - because every time someone comes up with something new they insist on not giving a fuck about the environmental aspect of their tech... So both the issues are correlated, this is not a "different thing that is less important" this is ONE of the symptoms. And 2 - Yes we DO talk about it, very often, all the time, and we hate it, and criticize it, and wish it would change. How many younger people are legit extremely worried about the environment and about the several ways governments, industries and other large-scale processes like that damage the environment? Damn, we DO complain about those!

But OK. Didn't wanna argue, so I started just using my phone instead... Then another person joins the conversation. The two of them are now like "This technology may not be put to good use now, the Space Tourism is a bad idea and it's stupid... BUT they could use the same device for other kinds of travel! Something from the technology used here could be used later for useful projects! Imagine, we could use the same rocket type tech to make commercial international flights, for example!" and I was silently thinking "Yeah right and emit even MORE useless pollution just because people wanna get to other places EVEN faster! And just because some idiots who have the money would pay THAT MUCH to be able to go faster to Paris or whatever!"

That is NOT NECESSARY and it is not SUSTAINABLE, it is not viable in long-term! Why would we use this kind of shit that is MORE expensive and MORE pollution-emitting?? Because it's faster?? Well let me tell you something then! Being faster is not only unnecessary but in this context we are living right now, it's A BAD IDEA, because our society is ALREADY deeply sick about the need to speed up literally everything and everyone has anxiety and is unable to wait a single second for anything, and so they expect faster and faster results every time, and companies - who LOVE not giving a shit about workers' mental health and well-being - expect more and more and more in less time! And this adds up pressure and stress on people's lives - which, by the way, is one of the things THIS very person from my family always complains about 'modern days'... The fact is that if traveling between continents FASTER became an actual accessible thing, that would probably just become another stupid insane standard for our already impossible-to-keep-up-with lives! Because if you travel abroad so quickly, then you are expected to get back to work on the same day and fuck jet-lag... Or anything similar! I don't know!

Anyway, I did go on a tangent here because I'm so angry and I started ranting over my rant. Let me go back to the POINT.

I was silent all the time as they kept talking about it, because honestly, no matter what I replied, they'd be like "You're too radical!", "don't exaggerate", "there are much worse things" and SPECIALLY "but the scientific advancement!"

And my WHOLE POINT HERE is that this is NOT "advancement"! It is scientific creation, development even if you will, but not "advancement"! Because it emits ridiculous amounts of carbon and other kinds of pollution in a planet that is already suffering so much environmentally and literally CANNOT HANDLE that anymore!

It is not advancement if its so expensive that only the 1% people (who hold most the money in the world) can pay for it, while billions of others just watch and starve and die in floods and fires CAUSED by that sort of shit!

That’s not "advancement"! That is fucking technological masturbation coming from egocentric morons who only want to get more money and show off!

Advancement would be coming up with actual, real solutions that help people in their daily lives! Advancement would be coming up with technologies and solutions that would work BETTER for everyone and not just to fill billionaire's asses with MORE money! It would be to find new ways to do what we do today without destroying the environment, or finding new cheaper ways to produce products and services so that more people can have access to them! And this is the absolute OPPOSITE of that! It is insisting on a way of doing things that is outdated, unsustainable and destructive, and that doesn't FIT our reality anymore and should be left BEHIND while we still have time to change!

BESIDES scientific advancement has been happening ALL OVER the world for CENTURIES and all we need is that the RIGHT technologies get attention and investment. Eco-friendly technology EXISTS we could clean the seas, we could generate free electricity for all, we could invest on lab grown meat, we could do SO much that would be actually useful and nice and helpful, but instead those sons of BITCHES only want to play in space and maybe some day run away when the planet is too sick to be fixed, leaving us - the poor ones - behind to die.

The fact is that we don't need cocky, bastard, exploitative billionaires to have scientific advancement! It would exist anyway, perhaps in better ways! And people should STOP considering technologies that are more harmful to the world than helpful as "advancements"! Because they are not, they are a problem, they are like if a man invented a flamethrower inside a house that is literally on fire and everyone found it amazing because "now we can set fire on stuff more easily and faster" yeah like, AWESOME but can we solve the PROBLEMS caused by that instead??

And honestly, I hate the excuse that "space represents hope for many people in a world that is bound to destruction" like, there would be NO need to go to space to begin with if we focused on fixing what's wrong instead of that ridiculous bullshit disguised as research or whatever when it's obviously just two things: showing off their horrible amounts of money and making MARKETING of an unnecessary service that will only benefit those who already have the easiest lives of all of us while causing issues to all others! JUST so that these billionaires can make MORE money. It's DISGUSTING.

There is NOTHING wrong about space travel as a concept, nothing wrong with researching and developing technologies that may allow us to explore space! Space exploration would be AWESOME! BUT if we're gonna work on something like that, we have to develop it in a way that doesn't harm the world EVEN MORE. We have to have priorities! We have to focus on NOT destroying this planet, for FUCK'S sake! And if the only way we have to explore space right now is by damaging our already fucked up environment even more, then NEWSFLASH, BABY - this is not the TIME to do space travel yet! AND SPECIALLY NOT FOR BILLIONAIRE SPACE TOURISM.

#RANT #long post #angry as fuck #my opinion #honest-fucking-ly #tired

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skylarmoon71 · 3 years ago

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Raphael x Parker Reader - Chapter- 10 (TMNT 2014/2016)

It’s unclear how long you’re waiting. It could have been merely minutes, but it feels like hours. All you can concentrate on is the man pacing in the hall with the gun in his hands. You still have yet to see his partners. You also evaluate that he’s the only one on the floor.

The tingling at the back of your head makes you turn with haste, and your eyes light up the minute you make out the four brothers. Leo lands a few feet in front of you, and soon they're all lined up. Donatello doesn’t waste a second. He’s messing with some piece of tech on his back. The device connected to his shoulder lights up, and he extends in the direction of the bank. He's running a scan maybe.

“Five bodies detected Leo. What do we do.” His hands lower, and you’re listening attentively. You’d follow just about any plan.

“Lieutenant Vincent is part of the squad working to get them out. In five minutes she’s going to distract the officers on the South side, that’s the way we’re gonna get in.” Leo briefed. You weren’t sure what was more shocking, the fact that they apparently had ties with the police department, or the fact that Leo sounded like a Unit Chief giving instructions to his squad.

“Donatello has already pinpointed where the other members are, we’ll get the top floors. Once we have the leader secured, I’ll give you the okay to take out the guy keeping the hostages. We only have a small window (Y/N). “

“Here take this.” Donatello hands you a small com, and you take it, placing the device in your ear.

“After we take care of the others we'll let you know. Unfortunately we won’t be able to stick around. There’s a select few who actually know about us, and we’d like to keep it that way. “ Leo states.

“Ready to kick some butt.” Raph grins cracking his knuckles.

You wish you could emit the same confidence they all have right now. They don’t even look worried. Maybe it’s because they're together, and until now you’ve been trying to do this all solo.

“Guys..” your soft tone has drawn their attention. It's then Raph really looks at you. Your eyes are puffy and red. Mask in your hand as you grip it with shaky hands.

“P-Please promise me that..that no one will get hurt.” Leo doesn’t get why you’d make such a request. Obviously they’re going to ensure everyone is safe. There must be something else behind your state.

“Ya got someone in there don’t you.” Raph states. It is not so much a question, but an observation. Leo is a bit awed that Raph is the one that puts it together. He isn’t usually the one that picks up on those emotional cues.

“S-She’s all I have left. The last of my family.” You shouldn’t be unloading all of this, especially at the start of such a risky mission. Emotions could prove to be dangerous right now. “I can’t...I can’t lose her..” you lament. They all exchange a look. A lot more is on the line now. Leo knows if it were anyone in his family, he’d be just as distraught.

“We ain't gonna let anything happen to her.” Raph says. There isn’t a hint of uncertainty, but you see a glimmer in his eyes. It makes you believe every word he says. Now you need to be just as ready as they are. You pull on your mask. Whatever conflicts you're facing now, you need to put them aside. Lives are at stake.

A beep goes off on Donatello's cellphone.

“That’s our signal.” you nod at Leonardo, and he returns it. Like clockwork you all fall in, checking to ensure the coast is clear. Leo takes the lead, scaling down the building, and you all stick close behind. You glide down easily, shooting a web to get you on the other side. As you all get to the small window, Donatello ducks behind the alley, his brothers doing the same.

“The cameras and alarms are all off, this is the only entrance we can use. We have ten minutes to secure all of them. (Y/N), if anything goes wrong we won’t be able to help you. “ You get it. He needs you to understand that nothing can go wrong. Exposure of their existence on a grand scale would endanger them.

“I know. Just make sure and beat the crap out of those scumbags. “ Raph likes the sound of that.

“You know we will. “ There's a window a few feet up, and he breaks it. The cracking of glass is expected. A path is clear, and each one of you duck in, creeping as quietly as you can. You’re in an office.

“We’re going up, you head down. We’ll be in touch.” Leo salutes, and there filing out, looking for a staircase. You head straight for the door ahead of you. Opening it slowly, you peep out. Almost as quickly you pull back. The blond male has the gun strapped across his chest. He’s marching back and forth. Your breath staggers when you see May. she doesn’t look hurt, just rattled. “Breathe.” No slip ups.

This time when you exit the room, it’s deadly silent. Your best bet might be from above. You look up, smiling. He’ll be expecting cops from the front doors, or even the back, but not in the least will he see someone coming from over his head. You start your venture up the wall, crawling easily. You move from around the corner, into the main hall. No one has taken notice of your entrance. Your eyes scan the people present. There’s about thirty of them. A mix of men, women and children.

“Bastards.”

Now isn’t the time to get angry. You need to stay there. Once again you’re left waiting. It’s tedious, soul crushing even. You hated being so close yet unable to do a thing. You’re praying that the boys have had better luck than you. A thud from above catches your attention. You’re not the only one it seems.

“(Y/N) we got them go now!” Donatello’s voice offers relief.

“What the-” all heads have raised in your direction, including your assailant. He raises his rifle to shoot. Three bullets go off the same time you fire a string of your web. It hits him square in the face, and unfortunately one of the bullets has nicked your arm. It makes you lose balance, and you fall to the floor. Civilians are screaming and scrambling away from the area. He’s blinded, and it makes him feel for the trigger of the gun.

If he gets to it he could end up killing people with just a few shots. You grit your teeth when you land and rush right at him with all you have. Gripping him by the waist, you force him backwards, and the both of you go rolling out the glass windows of the entrance. It breaks on impact, and your body hits the concrete harshly, and you can hear an onslaught of yells and screams.

“Hands on the floor now!!

“Get down!”

“Don’t move!!”

It appears to be coming from every direction, and you can see an older blond woman instructing her men to raid the bank. They all go in quickly, and the ones who remain have kept their pistols aimed your way. The man you once had in your hold is on the ground face first. He doesn’t make the mistake of moving. He keeps his head down, too afraid to get shot by the many officers now trained on him. You’re not that far from him. But you know you can’t stay there. You inch to stand, but a shout stops you.

“Stay down!” The male officer screams. You raise your hands to indicate you aren’t a threat.

“I’m one of the good guys officers, you don’t want to do this. “ You have to get out of there now. Leo and the others have probably already disappeared. Your plan was to do the same, but obviously nothing ever goes as planned.

“I said get down!”

You know panicking in this type of situation will be problematic. But your options are becoming limited. If you get caught, there’s no telling what’s gonna happen. You’ll just have to take a chance. The civilians are already safe, and they have the criminals, so there’s a good chance you could get out of this without any holes. Your eyes direct to the building above. Worth a shot. With a quick flick of your wrist, the web sticks to the glass surface. A string of gasps follow when you pull yourself up into the sky.

The speed that you fly up really makes it difficult for any of them to react. Their figures are getting smaller, and you breathe a sigh at the fact that no one actually took a shot.

That could have gone bad in so many ways. You land maybe about twenty stories up, hands flattening on the glass. A few of the workers on the other side just gawk in astonishment, and you send a little wave before swinging to another building. You need to get a safe distance away, gather your clothes and then head over to check on Aunt May. It’s all that’s been driving you since you went sprinting out of school. She’ll definitely scold you for that later, and you can’t wait.

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