#w359 Maxwell

[michaelmylove]

I love my silly lil blorbos. the guys. the sillies.

[ohgodwhatwasthat]

Jacobi and Maxwell totally did some kind of robot fighting competition like battlebots together on their off time. I’m sure they’d have creative differences at first; Jacobi, “just stick some dynamite to it, simple” and Maxwell, “that’s not the point of the competition!”, but would eventually figure things out.

They would be ruthless, their competitors would HATE them, they’d either get banned for winning too much or for poor sportsmanship (being VERY bad losers). They’d get disqualified constantly. They would be feared, loathed, and possibly admired?

[trashburgersblair]

Our favorite doctor on SI-5, Alana Maxwell!

She's pretty cool so I drew how I imagined her, also pretty cool, enjoy!

[eva-birdman]

I don't know why I bite

[captainsalmonid]

happy pride

[potato-lord-but-not]

W359 DOODLES YAYYY

[sernhuh]

SI-5 AND HEPHAESTUS LINE UP!!!

I've been working on and off on this for like a week? Felt like a month.

[theartingace]

Enjoy a GIANT Wolf 359 sketchdump!

The gang's all here!

[commsroom]

circumstances surrounding the “leaked” documents about eiffel’s sentencing in need to know, as i understand them:

one of the very first things kepler does is offer eiffel, minkowski, and lovelace a drink. in true “at any given moment, kepler has about eighteen ulterior motives” spirit, it is, among other things, “hospitality”, sure, a test for eiffel, definitely, but… i think the main reaction he was checking for was minkowski’s. will she look at eiffel, or react to his reaction? how much does she know? how much does he trust her?

in don’t poke the bear, jacobi and maxwell stop lovelace from breaking into kepler’s server by pretending to be in on it with her: “she’s very good. it might turn into a problem.” / “i’ll run it by kepler.” two episodes later, files from kepler’s very secure server are “leaked.”

(the words "need to know" are spoken offhandedly by eiffel in the episode itself, but it also calls back to the excuse maxwell gives lovelace: "colonel kepler practically lives by the words 'need to know.' and, apparently, nothing i can say will ever convince him that i 'need to know' everything that's in our databanks.")

need to know opens with minkowski finishing an eleven hour shift, and then finding out kepler moved that shift to, well. now. she’s already frustrated and sleep deprived.

minkowski complains to kepler. jacobi and maxwell, on cue, barge in and complain to kepler. kepler assigns minkowski, jacobi, maxwell, and lovelace to punishment detail, taking eiffel out of the group because “you’re the only one who hasn’t wasted my time with pointless whining.” lovelace says: “um, i don’t think that i did any complaining either, so…” but that doesn’t matter. it’s just an excuse to remove eiffel from the group; he could just as easily have been singled out for special punishment. either way, it was going to happen.

hilbert isn’t there. not the most significant factor, since he’s already been effectively sidelined by kepler, but remember he already knows about eiffel’s sentencing, doesn’t care (about eiffel’s history OR about anyone else’s personal drama), and will later respond to minkowski asking by telling her to grow up and get back to work. it simplifies things to not factor him in.

consider the files themselves: we know from happy holidays that maxwell not talking to her family is common knowledge, but jacobi reacts like it’s news. we know from hera’s performance review flashback in memoria that kepler and jacobi were aware of “multiple attempted crew member homicides” in her record. the file about hera’s bentham directory was on kepler’s server. if there’s one person who would’ve been briefed on everything there was to know about hera, it would’ve been maxwell; her shock is entirely feigned. in fact, almost every reaction from jacobi and maxwell here is feigned. they’re black ops specialists who arrived prepared with divide-and-conquer tactics. there’s no reason they wouldn’t know these things. also note that none of the “leaks” reveal anything about the mission they didn’t already know, and that nothing about the si-5 is incriminating - if anything, it’s mostly silly and even humanizing. and, yes, all of that contextualizes maxwell’s reaction to “skiing?!”

eiffel’s file comes through last, once they’re already worn out. kepler sends eiffel to check on them at the same time so that he’ll walk in. jacobi shows minkowski the file. he lurks around waiting to see how her not-confrontation with eiffel goes, and then cements the thought in her head: what about you? are you going to care?

it’s true that there are aspects of the mission only kepler knows, but as far as information on the hephaestus crew goes (barring one very particular detail about lovelace)? that’s part of the job they were chosen for. when they kill the plant monster, kepler says: “you think we didn’t know about that thing? please. we listened to every log that you beamed down to canaveral.” kepler’s entire foundation is shaken when jacobi turns on him because this is how they operate: “have one person take the blame, say the mean things. meanwhile, the poor, betrayed little guy gets a bit more leeway - just enough to sneak up and hit you from behind.” the show is not subtle about any of this. you can pick apart any early-s3 interaction between two hephaestus crew members and an si-5 agent and see the same divide-and-conquer tactics at play. jacobi and maxwell are always - in morals, loyalty, job description - closer to kepler than they are to the hephaestus crew, and to even sort of believe otherwise is falling for that facade. it’s worth remembering that the hephaestus crew are prisoners. some of them were aware of it from the start, and some of them were lied to, but none of them were meant to leave. the si-5, on the other hand, went up there with a unified goal, and the knowing intention they would be, among other things, prison guards.

[stopitlight]

this photo is Herawell oh my GOD. it's so them

[vulturevalentines]

the magician card represents influence, intellect, and the joining of the physical and spiritual words.

"I can absolutely rewrite a memory."

part 1/? of a wolf 359 tarot series.

[skeletonlesbian]

her wpm is craaaazy

[cranescurses]

hapy pride month

[st-peculiar]

I love how nearly nothing goes right for the wolf 359 characters. There was a sentient plant in the walls (then later blown up). One of them is an unwilling and deeply unethical science experiment. Their doctor is not only a malpracticioner but also has a body count of at least five and very likely more. Things blow up all the time. The star turned from red to blue one day and the same guy who was being experimented on previously is sent into the void of space, strategically and intermittently putting himself into cryosleep to survive. He then loses his hair, fingernails, and over half his body weight before being picked up by people who are arguably worse than Mr Medical Malpractice, but infinitely more entertaining. Their captain is always in a state of “I’m about to pull my hair out and rip you all apart”. And that’s prior to the woman who was stowed away on the vessel in which she was the previous captain of for two fucking years before being woken up from her cryosleep chamber on accident. And all of her previous crew were killed by hate crimes md over here. Doctor/scientist is also likely bald.

[eva-birdman]

Happy Anniversary Wolf359, my favourite podcast ever!!!

[captainsalmonid]

i miss si5 so bad man