#trueseeker

[starstcff-a]

cold breeze meets her as the steps into the training grounds, silk robes swaying softly in the wind;      time on babylon five with its controlled air system has made her unaccostumed to the feeling of fresh air on her skin.    in a way, it is not as welcoming as she remembered, it bites into the soft skin of her cheeks, branding them a deep red not seen in other minbari.  

bringing her hands together in front of her body, delenn allows the sleeves to cover her palms, nodding as rangers part for her, leaving the grounds until a lone solitary finger remains.   the clothes are so different rom the sharp clean lines of the earth uniform, and the closely cropped hair curls around his neck now, but it is unmistakably him.

“    commander,    ”    that was not right, was it?    and yet, that affectionate tone could not yet wrap itself around the new title.     in a moment where everything was changing, delenn allowed herself a slip back in time.

@trueseeking is to blame for this blog, so they get a starter

[wcrlds]

it was winter, and jeffrey sinclair was on her mind.    it was completely unfair, she protested internally, sitting down on his couch, easy manner troubled by curiosity.    he belonged to summer, when memories of their good times came more easily. with babylon 5 now gathering all of the work she usually did all across the sector, it seemed it was her fate to run into him regularly.     “     i’m not sure i like this.    the two of us, talking.     too dangerous.    ”     lifting a cup of tea to her lips, catherine gazed up at him.    “    you promised me a story, though.    so here i am.    ” 

@trueseeking​     •      starter call.

[doctordonovan-a]

 ❝   we all have secrets, don’t we?   ❞

 it's more than a little ironic:    how she has never chosen secrets,    yet how they seem drawn to her like moths to flames.    perhaps it is in her nature    -    of all the things she has read about romulans,    all the rumours she has heard whispered in halls and meetings and around campfires alike,    there is a haunting similarity between monsters meant for shadows and own skill for it.    who is she if not the combination of others' secrets?    never carrying them out of own ambition yet unable to put them down without the very real danger all she cares for may shatter    &&   crumble if it were to come to pass.

 eyes follow @trueseeking​​’s all the same,     studying same ambassador with quiet curiosity.     they all have their secrets    -    but some natures crave the power such secrets may provide over anything and everything else.    ❝   isn't it basic sentient nature?  once we have the ability to understand what secrets are,    the weight of them,    there's always something more than a little tempting about trying to learn them.   ❞     motivations vary,    yet the results are often similarly messy.     attention drags itself to him,    dark eyebrow raising even as voice never quite seems to change.    ❝   unless,  of course,  you're above all that.   ❞

[mangopuddong]

Mirror = That's the kind of bond I'm looking for with a living being.

I think it is the only thing that knows my true self...which till now, I hadn't or couldn't show anybody else.

Wishing that someday I'll achieve that deep desire.

[ltbroccoli]

@trueseeking ( continued )

‘ hurting others is a choice ’

           ❛ It’s unfortunate how many people would disagree. ❜    Yet for all his deceptively light tone, the glimmers of wry humor, someone who knew him better would pick up the sadness that lurked therein, the perpetual exhaustion with the world as it was. As if his very being warred at every moment with the external universe, unreconcilable. He restrained a sigh, shook his head instead. Now is not the time or place for grim mockery or flippancy.

           More seriously, more focus, he added,    ❛ But it’s not a choice I intend to make. We’ll find another way. ❜    Yet he didn’t add the words that followed in his mind: we always do. They seemed too prophetic, too dangerous in the way they must tempt fate and bring worse down upon their heads. Orders were only orders, after all, and now would not be the first, nor the last, time he bent them to his own purposes or shattered them upon the rocky shore of morality. He wondered, sometimes, how many more times he could afford to do so.

Reg couldn’t really get his head around the vastness of all this. Entire civilizations at war with each other, at serious risk of being wiped out forever. Every ship Reg was called to fix in worse shape than the next. Though worst of all was being asked to salvage the ones whose pilots hadn’t survived the trip. Just patch it up and move on, like it wasn’t a death trap now...

“I r-really hope you do, Commander,” he finally replied. “Because... I d-don’t know how much longer we all can keep doing this.”

[ofgoodconscience]

@trueseeking liked the thing

“Commander Sinclair, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m Captain Picard. I hope you received our message anticipating our arrival -- subspace communications are a bit temperamental out here.” He reaches out to shake the man’s hand in greeting nonetheless. “As it were, the Enterprise has been sent by Starfleet to pay a visit, and observe your progress in diplomatic proceedings on the station.”

[fateprotected-a]

@trueseeking gets a smol

“Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won’t go off on your own to investigate.  I want your word.”

[trueseeking-a]

❝  𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝. 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚑.  ❞

TRUESEEKING  ::  commander jeffrey sinclair of babylon 5, as loved by katya.  @

❝  𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔. 𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎.  ❞             ❝               𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔.  ❞

[everyb0dyelse]

@trueseeking 

“Commander, we have a problem and I mean, a serious problem.” Michael Garibaldi looked tired, really tired. Half of his staff was out sick, which meant security was squiffy at best, and that the other half were dead on their feet trying to cover for the rest. “My people can’t keep going like this. Fights are breaking out in the Zocalo, equipment’s starting to break down. I mean, I know you can’t magically cure diseases, but something’s gotta give.”

[notarthurfrellingdent]

@trueseeking | Babylon 5 AU

“Canaveral!”

No one was answering. Though John could barely hear anything over the rush of blood in his ears, the blare of every warning alarm in the module sounding at once, and of course, his own screaming. Everything was blue, an odd waving sort of blue light, like no anomaly he’d ever seen before. What was this? Had anything like this been encountered before?

Then he was out. The shaking stopped. Whatever anomaly he’d been dragged into had spat him back out again. Gasping in relief, checking his readings, John tried again. “Canaveral, I am okay. Repeat, I am okay. Any idea what that was?”

No response. “Canaveral? Canaveral, this is John. Can you read me?” Hmm. What was going on? His radio unit read operational... “Canaver--”

He cut himself off mid-word as he finally noticed what was right in front of him. No Earth. No moon. No sun. Just... a giant spinning metal tube. Like something out of science-fiction.

“...oh shit.”

[cameoutofabottle-blog]

@trueseeking liked for an also a we. starter

Steve slipped away from his team, assuring them he wasn’t going far- and quietly crept toward the edge of the cliff on which they were camped out for the night. It was quiet out here, peaceful, if one could consider a mountainside riddled with terrorist hideouts and traps peaceful. But for the moment, it was. He sank down on the edge of the cliff, legs dangling over the side, and took a deep breath. The sun was setting, casting a beautiful glow across the landscape spread out before him. The soft sounds of his men’s chatter were still audible, a sign that he wasn’t too far if anything went down.

He smiled when he felt the presence of one of his cluster. Never truly alone- and that was a comforting thought when he was dodging bullets every other day. “View like this, a guy could almost forget he’s in the middle of a war,” he mused.

[starstcff-a]

                  ೄྀ࿐ˊˎ-      @trueseeking​​ asked: ‘why do you keep repeating everything i say and turning it into a question?’ ( but early on!! Jeff vc:  can I have just one straight answer instead of another question please I'm begging )

“     because it would be a waste of my time, and yours, if i were to answer questions that you already know the answers,      ”      this is only half an answer, and soon it won’t be able to shield her from his questions anymore.    they were becoming more incisive, as the commander neared the truth.      

deftly side-stepping has been her course for the past years, her own government and the vorlons sharing the belief that the truth should only be revealed at the most opportune time.    sometimes she tried to nudge him along, after all   —   if he discovered the truth all on his own, the grey council would not be able to continue dragging their feet.    there were arrangements to be made, and the shadows waited for no one, not even the darkness they consumed.     

meme     •        accepting

[wcrlds]

c&c hums in the background, a steady beat of feet and endless incoming transmissions which never allow it to fully go to sleep, much like the officers in charge of the station.    laurel stops at the door, leaning against the frame as she watches the commander with tired eyes.    “    hell of a day, sir.   ”    a smile cracks at the corner of her mouth, long from a bloom — though when has her mouth ever behaved in such a matter? — but the exhaustion of the day softens professional edges, makes her glad that she is going to get to go to bed, sip coffee the next morning and greet another day.    “    can’t figure out who you did it, though.    i thought we were all toast.   ”

@trueseeking​     •      starter call.

[varietatis]

     “ WAIT, so you’re real-real? ” Nia asked, her skepticism kicking in. “ But, you’re in South Africa and I’m in Canada -- that’s not possible. ”               @trueseeking 

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

Truth

“…is where you seek it.” -Lomar

Type: Rocket Launcher

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Prototype Trueseeker - This weapon’s rockets have tracking. Lock onto targets when aiming down sights.

Trait: Grenades and Horseshoes - Projectiles will detonate when they are within close proximity of their targets.

Ornaments: Stolen Goods, Objective Reality

Origin & Description: Imported from Destiny 1, Truth is a rocket launcher that knows where you live. It knows your social security number. It knows the name of your favorite elementary school teacher and it's logging into your bank account right now. All of which is to say the homing on Truth's rockets is accurate to the point of slapstick and it has the Youtube compilations to prove it. Once locked on a shot from Truth will not stop until one or both of you explodes, and the Grenades & Horseshoes trait means it's smart enough to just go bang when close enough to kill you with the splash damage. It is possible to dodge - I have the Gambit invader kills to prove it - but it's not easy.

D2 Truth is slightly less relentless in its pursuit than D1 (data privacy laws, I guess) but still one of the most vicious lock-ons in the game. Or so I'm told, because I still don't have it, because, uh...we totally stole this rocket launcher. And it's not like the game tries to hide it - the ornament's called "Stolen Goods" for Traveler's sake - and while I have this quest completed on two separate characters I still haven't claimed Truth itself because I feel too guilty about it. You pick up the Truth questline by stumbling on a piece of paper meant for not you; as you decode the text it becomes apparent someone left a puzzlehunt for someone else with Truth as the reward. It also becomes apparent that both someones are eliksni. Combined with the lore tab on Truth itself it's likely the someone who left the rocket launcher is an eliksni captain named Misraaks the Forsaken, with whom we have a history, and the someone he left it for is his adopted daughter. I know they're eliksni but...come on my dudes. Misraaks helps us out and we steal his kid's birthday present? That's just mean.

Misraaks himself is an eliksni Captain. We first meet him when he's still a Vandal, having just been captured by Sjur Eido, Mara Sov's consort and the first Queen's Wrath. We don't yet know exactly why Sjur chose to capture rather than kill Misraaks, or why she then took the time to make peace with him eliksni-fashion. Either way, Misraaks appears to have traveled with Sjur for a while, long enough for him and other allied eliksni to nickname her "Variisis" - "unyielding." During the aftermath of a skirmish with combined Wolf and Devil forces, Misraaks finds an eliksni hatchling that he takes in and cares for - presu,ably the intended recipient of Truth.

Later on - probably sometime after Sjur's death - Misraaks goes his own way in the world. He eventually joins a Guardian fireteam and begins to spread a new philosophy among his people: that humanity earned the respect of the Great Machine (the Traveler) and it's up to the eliksni to earn that same respect back rather than trying to seize the Traveler by force. Personally I think Misraaks is beating himself up a bit more than necessary - the Traveler didn't leave the eliksni because of some societal flaw, it left because it thought doing so might spare them the Darkness it knew followed in its wake - but I'm all for an eliksni-human alliance and Misraaks' House of Light is founded on the idea.

Players first met Misraaks during an adventure on Titan in the base game called "Enemy of My Enemy," throughout which we have to contend with both Misraaks and a Hive Knight as we try to salvage a ruined reactor. At the end of the mission Misraaks and the Knight will fight and you have the option to kill one of them; kill the Knight and Misraaks will salute you and depart, leaving the reactor to you. As of the Forsaken expansion we learn sparing him is the canon option as he reappears with a plan: he wants our help to infiltrate a dangerous heist by the House of Devils to retrieve SIVA. He's even learned from his new fireteam and brought us a shiny new gun as a reward. Misraaks is a smart cookie, is all I'm saying.

Misraaks' House of Light hasn't gotten a huge amount of traction yet, but the eliksni have always been the most sympathetic of the four main antagonists and most players I know would be thrilled to bring them over as a friendly faction. I am HERE for the option to play as an eliksni and most lore nerds are betting on Misraaks to be the first eliksni Guardian. But as a Vanguard intelligence report notes, in-universe sentiment is a lot more complicated since the eliksni are also the faction that's caused the most direct harm to humanity. While the Vex and Hive mostly run around ruined human colonies on their own errands and up until the Red War the Cabal spent more time fighting the other three factions than they did humans, the eliksni targeted Earth from the outset and have easily claimed the most human lives. Before Ghaul's assault the Last City had only ever been threatened by eliksni attack and non-Guardian humans were far and away more likely to be threatened by eliksni than any other alien hostiles. Brokering a cessation of hostilities, let alone lasting peace, let alone genuine cooperation between the two species is a hell of a mountain to climb. But if anyone's going to do it, it's probably Misraaks. You can do it, buddy. We believe in you.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

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[iputaspxllonyou]

pay no attention to the chelle behind the curtain but i’m gonna gush

gosh let me tell you about how much i love katyabae cause she’s so great and she’s so brave and she’ll tell you she isn’t but she’s wrong don’t listen to her. she does brave things everyday and doesn’t even realize it. and then she thinks she can’t do a thing and then she does do the thing brilliantly and bravely and no one is surprised because katyabae is p great, like that was the first lesson here. and yeah, she has a habit of losing your sparkle balls if you play with her, but also she’ll move the couch to retrieve them so you don’t have that much to worry about. and sometimes she’s busy and can’t talk but boy will she talk to you if you forget to eat or  get sick or something because katyabae has hybrid fangs at all times, they aren’t always showing but they’re there. and they’re just another thing that helps make katyabae p great, like as great as a pile of kittens in a basket (bc what’s better than a basket of kittens i ask you?) i just want everyone to know how much i love katyabae that is all.