#traficblur

[sanddune57]

The first ability Grian really gets a handle on is Gems. It’s not one of the abilities that They want him to master. In fact They give him very little time with her power, but They aren’t around all the time and Gem’s cell happens to be just across from his own. As one of the few powers he can’t use escape, she’s one of the few he’s allowed to see on a regular basis.

Forcing his soul out of his body is a strange and unpleasant experience the first few times, but Gem walks him through it. Moving around without a body, sight and sound but no touch, is also strange. Not to mention phasing through objects. But it lets him talk to Skiz again, lets him talk to Mumbo again. (He ignores how obvious it is his friends have changed since they died).

Grian and Gem bond over what can dubiously be called their ‘freedom’. In their phantom forms, they leave the facility together. They can not sit with nonexistent legs, but they can see the sunlight filter through the trees. They do not feel the wind on their faces, but they can almost imagine how it would play with their nonexistent hair. Grian cannot go far. He doesn’t have the time. But Skizz and Mumbo join them when they aren’t by Cleo’s side. It’s the closest thing to nice anyone has anymore. (It’s so so far off)

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Tango is selfishly glad they’ve turned off his power. It brings his chances of escape nearly to zero, but it’s not like that was going to happen anyway. The collar subdues the hunger that’s been clawing holes in his stomach ever since he gained his super speed. Sure, it means he’s the least proficient with his power out of everyone, but that had always been the case. Not a lot of ways to get used to super speed in a cramped cell. At least he’s not accidentally punching himself in the face trying to push away a piece of hair.

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The Lifers work out a communication network of sorts. Cleo is held far away from Gem and Grian, but that only works to the Lifer’s benefit as Mumbo and Skizzes ghosts plus Gems astral protection makes convenient (if not ideal) bridge of information from one level of the compound to the next.

Martin is on the other side of the hall from Cleo, but he can hear them perfectly well regardless. He can not speak to them without being overheard, but by waving his arms in a coded yes and no, he can at least vaguely contribute to conversations.

Etho uses his mace and wind to chip a hole in the wall between his and Scott’s cell. It’s not much, small enough that their thin mattresses can completely cover it, but it’s enough they can talk to eachother. Etho helps Scott calm down when he can’t change back properly.

A mouse enters Scott’s cell, and he uses the small hole to escape through Ethos cell and out into the hall. They find his cell empty and put the whole place on lockdown. Scott is monitored 24/7 after that, and Etho is moved to an underground secure unit. Both are inadvertently cut off from the communication system of the others.

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Mumbo doesn’t have the heart to tell Cleo the reanimation will never work. He is mentally there just enough to know it never will, to know he is little more then a collective memory made flesh. But he feels distant as a ghost and muddled as a zombie. Everything else is hard to place.

He also knows that living and dieing in this place, spending what remains of his existence intangible or rotting, has changed him and Skizz even without the complications of unlife. But what if he admits his fate, that he will never be whole, and Cleo decides it is kinder to let him rest. He is terrified of fading away. And so he suffers in silence. (She never would. She would keep trying unless he begged her to stop, but he doesn’t know that)

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So this kinda grabbed my brain in a chokehold so i wrote some. Not sure if i’ll expand on it ever but i might (if op is good with that). Hope you enjoyed!

I JUST HAD A REALLY COOL IDEA FOR AN AU BASED ON THE NEW WILD LIFE EPISODE. HEAVY(?) ANGST UP AHEAD AND ALSO SPOILERS TO SESSION 7 SO BE WARNED!

LIFE SERIES MEMBERS BUT THEY GOT THEIR POWERS FROM LAB EXPERIMENTATION!!!!!

Okay I'm switching to lowercase so I'm not just screaming at you guys haha

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Imagine Martyn curled up in the corner of his cell, covering his ears bc he doesn't know how to block things out and everything is so loud.

Imagine Scott transforming from an aquatic creature back to his regular form, but he still has gills, and he panics when he can't breathe.

Imagine Jimmy turning in invisible for the first time and not knowing how to turn back, and he thinks he's stuck that way forever.

Imagine Ren transforming the first few times, but there's always something off about him. He looks eerie, like something from uncanny valley.

Imagine Scar not knowing his own strength and jokingly punching Mumbo, only to send him flying into the wall and causing his death.

Imagine Cleo trying so hard to get Mumbo and Skizz to act the way that they used to when she summons them, but it's never truly them. Something is always wrong.

Imagine BigB being terrified when he summons the creaking for the first time, not realizing they're on his side and thinking they'll attack him.

Imagine Gem astral projecting as an escapism, talking to Mumbo and Skizz and "leaving" the facility, but she can't truly leave.

Imagine Impulse and Tango nearly getting to escape with their powers, their friends cheering them on from inside their cells, and just when they're in the clear, Impulse gets tranquilized and falls unconscious. Tango can't bare to leave his buddy behind. They both get collars that block their abilities and heavy monitoring after that stunt.

Lizzie feels bad about her power. She's tried to escape as well, but when she realized the blindness affected her friends, it freaked her out so much that security was able to catch up to her and take her back to her cell.

Imagine Bdubs sleeping diligently through every night and dealing with nightmares of the hell they've all been put through so his friends don't.

Imagine Pearl wishing she could fly out in the open air, desperate for that kind of freedom that she knows she will never have.

Imagine Etho trying to bring down his mace to pretend to hit Bdubs, and when he move to the side to dodge, it actually puts him in the way of Etho's strike. The absolute terror that fills Etho is so bad that he never jokes like that again, even if it barely hurt him.

Imagine Joel looking around and analyzing the rooms, thinking of how he could scale the walls with his ability to escape through an air vent, but he can never bring himself to do it because he refuses to leave Lizzie.

Imagine Grian being physically and emotionally strained trying to learn everyone's powers and how to properly use them, wishing he just had one of his own instead.

Imagine Skizz and Mumbo both dying (Skizz due to the intense tests and Mumbo due to the effects the testing had on Scar) before they had a chance to gain powers of their own. Don't imagine those powers being just what the group needs to escape.

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I think I might write each of these as a one shot. That would certainly be a LOT of fun :) lmk what you guys think please!

[bones-partys]

I woke my partner up from sleep to watch the new life series episodes and half way through watching them made us stop so i can watch the dan and phil crafts video. (They do not watch dnp)

This is a good april 1st

[adepressedgiftedchild]

Me when someone with 2 posts (both tagged ‘sex’ and ‘traficblur’ follows me (they clearly did NOT look at my acc)

[bones-partys]

If grian and scar won it would it would become a story of perseverance. Everyone wants them dead, one has cheated on the other and has activly caused people to attempt to kill / actually kill the pair. But they continued till the end despite eachother.

If impulse and bdubs won it would be a story about redemption, one that surpasses just this season but goes back to the betrayal of the first season and the sacrifice that was made by bdubs for etho last season. They worked together and were the least toxic pairing (to eachother), impulse constantly trying to get bdubs geared up and bdubs making a house for them both. A story about love (i know not real love but just bear with me) and collaboration to make it through everything.

If etho and joel won. I think it would just be fun. Theyd burn everything. I dont have some story for them i just love chaos.

If one of the divorcees won it would be bitter sweet. Pearl would be left with a man who left her even after she apologized, someone who didnt want her, who kicked her out multiple times and called her crazy MULTIPLE times (bat shit insane is what he said). And scot would be alone, who he picked to be his soulmate would be dead, maybe by his own sword depending on how the next session or 2 go. Hed be with someone who has tried to kill him multiple times and succeed in getting him killed before.

Martyn and cleo while they patched things up some what it would still be bitter sweet. Cleo would be alone with a man who will not do the one thing she has ever asked, apologies, martyn killed her when she flat out told him what to apologies for. It would be a victory she won but at the loss of a best friend. Martyn as with pearl would be with someone who didnt want him, who went off with someone else when he was trying to gather materials to help them both (even if he couldnt use any of it). While martyn and cleo werent as terrible to one another as pearl and scot, their victory would still feel like a loss.

[bones-partys]

Its been 1 week since the life series ended. The sky is blue and theres not a cloud in the sky. They say we are entering a drought. My crops lasted the last time im sure they will last this time. I fear its going to be a long one though.

[bones-partys]

im going to be so annoying to everyone i know now that last life is back. its all im going to talk about

bakugo and shinsou are taking a back seat i got impulse bdubs and etho on the mind