#theta my beloved

[kronosveritas]

I’ve always loved Agent North Dakota, but my fondness for him is only becoming stronger the more I think about him.

(Quick break from my regularly scheduled Tuckington bullshit but I just have to get this out there. I apologize in advance if any is wrong, this is just a collection of my thoughts on North. More art coming soon)

Because, hear me out. North was assigned Theta as his ai due to his kind and nurturing nature as a person. When theta can’t sleep instead of “pulling him” (taking him offline) North stays up late with him, sometimes walking the halls of the Mother of Invention while talking to him to help him fall asleep. If that doesn’t work, you know he stays up with him all night. ALL NIGHT.

This already seems incredibly selfless and kindhearted, but it’s actually even more selfless than you’d think, because the agents are shown to almost all be quite scared of the Director, including North. The Director is also shown on multiple occasions to not care about the AIs feelings (which isn’t surprising, considering how he treats the Alpha). North stays up with Theta because he wants to be there for him, and make him feel better, but this is actually incredibly risky because it means that any training he has to do the next day he will be doing without having rested at all, and FILSS (the project freelancer onboard computer system) has been proven to be able to track even the slightest difference in reaction time and other factors during training (think of that scene when Carolina was training martial arts with the holo targets over and over again) that would inevitably be impacted by not sleeping at all, so this means North probably has to push himself ridiculously hard just so he doesn’t fall behind in stats, regardless of how crazy exhausted he probably is.

Even so, if he’s missed enough sleep I bet there have been times that his stats for that day’s training dipped slightly and the Director probably yelled at him and criticized/berated him for who knows how long. And North wouldn’t have been able to offer any sort of explanation in his own defense because he knows that if the Director found out what was going on he would most likely order him to pull theta on the nights where he can’t sleep, which North had previously told York makes theta even more scared.

In addition to this, he may actually be one of the smartest of all the freelancers, or at least the most perceptive/best judge of character. Why? Because he started to figured out what was going on with Project Freelancer before almost ANY of the other agents did. Correct me if I’m wrong, I haven’t watched these seasons in a while unfortunately, but he/York were the first ones out of all of them to figure out that the Director was lying to them about the “insurrectionists”, the first to suspect that the Alpha was being tortured, and the first one to question whether Project Freelancer were actually the good guys.

I bet that’s part of the reason that North was trained to be a sniper. I mean, yes. He was probably chosen for the sniper specialist position in Freelancer due to his incredible natural/pre established skill at the ability from his regular military duty too, but most likely a lot of his sniper training was DONE at Project Freelancer. I bet this is because the Director wanted him to be an agent due to his incredible combat sense and sharpshooting ability, as well as the fact that he had a twin who was also being recruited (and the Director is a sick son of a bitch, so he wanted to do his experiment about driving one of them crazy, which as we know ended with north being killed), but he still feared North’s natural intuition and compassion, as well as his moral compass, which were much more in tact than that of some of the other freelancers (Maine or Carolina for example), and he wasn’t really holding something over him to bait/keep him there like he sort of did with Wash (based on the guidebook). Initially, yes, North fell for the Director’s bullshit and thought that the Freelancers were the good guys, but even though he probably had fewer direct interactions with any of their enemies than ANY of the other top agents since he was a sniper and a stealth operative, he STILL was one of the first to figure out what was going on. Because he’s likely smarter than many of the others, and he’s a good person- and that’s what the Director forgot to take into account when trying to completely brainwash his agents (and almost succeeding).

ALSO, I mean, come on. The guy can DUEL WIELD SNIPER RIFLES WITH PINPOINT ACCURACY. In season 10 episode 19 (I think?) when he, Tex, and York are breaking into the Mother of Invention and trying to free the Alpha, he shoots SEVEN rockets out of the air that were fired by a LAU-65D/SGM-151 missile pod, meaning that upon being fired all the missiles fly into the air in crazy, unpredictable curving directions before converging on their target with heat seeking accuracy (so, aka- they aren’t just traveling in straight lines, their movement is random at speeds in we can safely assume are at LEAST excess of 100mph, because according to most statistics I can find on the internet, average rocket launchers shoot projectiles at around 294 meters per second (657.659 miles per hour), though we can assume these ones are slower than that based on eyesight, but still probably above the 100mph mark. And he shoots all the missiles in the span of only a couple of seconds before they can hit Tex, their mark.

This is while he is DUEL WIELDING sniper rifles! So not only is his accuracy INSANE, his reaction time is arguably even BETTER.

And the missiles he hit were not only traveling incredibly fast, but aren’t even large targets, or moving in straight paths, and he manages to destroy them all before they find their mark. BECAUSE he’s using two sniper rifles as well, I feel the need to point out that he also can’t use the scope on either one of them, so his accuracy to hit SEVEN targets traveling in RANDOM patterns, THAT FAST, is all just with his eyes, not any sort of scope or ironsight. Of course, it’s assumed that Theta is helping him to some extent somehow, but like, Theta doesn’t control his movements/aim or anything, and doesn’t increase his reaction time. Also, we at least know he verbally didn’t have time to ask Theta to do too much to help him before those missiles were fired since it happened so ridiculously fast.

CONCLUSION/TLDR: god DAMN he’s good.

[everyone-with-a-para]

i hope everyone with a para who's a doctor has an amazing day!!

^^^^^

[madamemachikonew]

Came here just to say how much I miss Theta.

It's the first time I mourn the death of the fanfic' OC like HELL WHY YOU DID HIM SO FINE THE PERFECT HUSBAND MATERIAL

I honestly had no idea how popular he would end up being among the reader base. I initially just wanted a 'safe' manifestation of Dottore for Reader to interact with and then...well, Theta happened.

Although he bears no similarities of character, for some reason I kept thinking of Ariel from The Tempest when I wrote him. I wanted to convey that slightly ethereal and sprite-like quality to him, almost like he's translucent and intangible. Ariel is imprisoned in a tree by a witch but is then rescued by the magician Prospero, who then takes him as his familiar. Ariel eventually wins his freedom.

And true to form, Theta broke everybody's heart, including mine. Always just slipping out of our grasp.

[madamemachikonew]

THIS IS A GREAT FIC AND THETA IS IN IT!!

We're finally back! A thank you to @madamemachikonew for letting me borrow her silly little segement Theta!

[blangg]

Drawing I did for my first thoschei animatic but ultimately ended up not using it since I just don't like it that much 🤧🤧🤧

[currentlyonstandbi]

forever going to be bitter about the fact we didn't get more of anakin displaying absolutely insane levels of Force power in canon material

like i'm talking 'jean grey in x-men 2 holding back the floods after the dam burst' style displays of power

[skateboard-theta]

"I'm afraid to say, it made everything go... PENIS"

[madamemachikonew]

[FERAL SCREECHING AND CRYING]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU

THETA MY BELOVED

[curls up in a ball on the floor and sobs but also sends you platonic kisses and headpats]

An illustration to the fanfic "The Serpent".

(https://archiveofourown.org/works/43875679/chapters/123956299)

(go check it out ABSOLUTELY GOOD I WOULD DIE FOR IT)

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince." he whispered, his ears ringing with shock at the surreal scene. The dead weight of Theta’s head still resting on his lap, Pantalone sat on the floor for another hour or two in deep contemplation, until the setting sun had plunged the room into darkness.

@ "The Serpent."

(my apologies to the Author, I have no idea what characters wear, so I gave them clothes I imagine them in.)

[namibozsu]

All he has going for him is a high powered railgun and strong jet boosters. He has no onboard ai at all. He overheats faster then a computer opening adobe photoshop. He objectively fucking sucks in the grand scheme of things. He has a lovely paintjob. Hes the most beautiful piece of absolute dogshit ive ever seen.

I didnt say his name but he popped into your head, didnt he?

[anticanonhearts]

argh i'm behind on posting my art here again. there's like 18 works as of tonight 👍 i'll start plunking them in the queueues.

[theta-rx2]

Oh yeah I finished Endless Dungeon tonight, fucking amazing game

[thxta]

[everyone-with-a-para]

I hope everyone with a para that is the last of their kind has a great day

[madamemachikonew]

If you would like to know what Theta segment looks like, this art of Astarion (lol) is actually a very good unintentional approximation of how I always imagined him. Probably the closest to how I would paint him if I could.

[balteus]

math analysis as a whole sucks. except for spatial analysis im a huge fan of describing density and mass in a 3d space mathematically

[werewolfstonertboy]

Lil guy

theta skateboarding here instead of listening will always be the cutest thing ever