#yes that's an Undercover Blues ref

[shadowmaat]

"Excuse me?" I raised my hand, feeling a bit stupid for doing it, but some things are too deeply ingrained to stop.

"Yes?" The man, wearing a black suit that covered every inch of his skin except for his eyes, pointed at me. "Was it you?"

A ball of fire formed in his other hand.

"No? I mean, I don't think so. I just have some questions, if that's alright?"

The man sighed heavily, rolling his eyes. "Join the club. Fine. What is it?"

I took a deep breath, trying to center myself. My three coworkers clustered behind me, either hoping I'd protect them or hoping my fiery death would give them a chance to escape. Fat chance.

"Can I ask what this is about, please?"

The man, who hadn't introduced himself when he'd abducted me, tilted his head.

"I beg your pardon?"

I clenched my fists, trying to dispel the tremors. No luck.

"I- I mean, what is it one of us is supposed to have done?"

The fireball flickered out as he continued to stare at me. I fidgeted.

"You mean you don't know?"

I shook my head and could hear a quiet murmur of agreement behind me.

"Unbelievable." He pinched the bridge of his nose. "Look, I was hired by your boss because one of you offended him grievously and then refused to apologize."

"Mrs. Beasley?" I clapped a hand over my mouth. Had I gotten the pronouns wrong? Had there been a change and I hadn't been told?

The man looked at me like I was an idiot. Not exactly a new experience in my job.

"No, your boss. Dr. Muerte. Supervillain? About this tall?" He held a hand over his head.

Oh. Oh. That was a name I definitely recognized. Some of the villains in the city weren't all that evil, but Dr. Muerte seemed to have a grudge against the whole world and took it out on everyone around him.

Behind me, Trent whispered, "I knew Mrs. B was evil! I told you!"

I jammed my arm back, elbowing him in the ribs. This was not the time for his conspiracy theories.

"I'm, uh, very sorry, Mister...?" My voice trailed off, partly because I didn't know his name and partly because it was dawning on me just how fucked we truly were. Hells, we were all in our pajamas (or naked, in Ben's case, poor bastard). We'd been snatched from our homes in the middle of the night and dragged to this dirty old warehouse, and it was all a mistake?

"The Eraser," the man replied, dragging my attention back.

Trent started swearing under his breath, explaining to the others that the Eraser was the mystery guy that villains hired to "clean up" problems. Ominous.

"Right, Mister, uh, Eraser." I winced, knowing how stupid that sounded, but I was trying hard not to panic and I was operating off even less sleep than usual.

"Look, uh, I think there's been a mistake? We don't work for Dr. Muerte, we work at Starbucks. The one on the corner of Harris and Fillion? I don't think we've ever seen him in the store?" I glanced back, looking for confirmation from my coworkers, but as unusual as some of our customers could be, I was pretty sure we'd have known if an eight-foot tall guy in a skull mask and old timey mortician's outfit had come in.

My coworkers stared back at me. Nita, however, was frowning.

"Starbucks," the Eraser repeated. "You're telling me you're baristas?"

I heard an oh, shit behind me and a bunch of whispering. but stayed focused on our captor.

"Mostly? Yes. I mean, there's more to it than just making drinks- never mind," I interrupted myself. As fear responses were, turning into a chatterbox was not a good one.

The Eraser covered his face with his hands and started pacing back and forth, swearing up a storm. Small flames licked out across his body, though they didn't seem to burn his suit.

Trent tugged on the back of my No Fox Given t-shirt and whispered in my ear.

The blood drained from my face. I swayed before catching myself. The Eraser was still pacing and swearing. And smoldering.

I cleared my throat, mouth suddenly dry.

"Uh- um? Eraser, sir?" When in doubt (and terror) be polite. "I, uh, I think we maybe figured out what happened?"

The Eraser stopped, dropping his hands as he stalked closer to me. My coworkers immediately vacated the area behind me.

"What is it? What's your name, anyway?"

"Uh, Kendra Willet, sir. Uh, I, uh, um." Pause. Deep breath. "Does- does Dr. Muerte wear, um, something to make him taller?"

I was sweating, and not just because of the flames.

Blue eyes narrowed at me.

"Why do you ask?"

I blinked rapidly, trying to stop the tears from forming. It was too late for that, now.

"Well, uh. We, uh, had a customer in this week. Shorter than, y'know." My hand made a brief flail. "And, uh, well. it was busy at the time and it can be very hard to hear, and..." I swallowed. It was so stupid. And such an obnoxious clichè. But mistakes really did happen sometimes.

"...And I might have misheard his name and written 'Morty' on the cup."

I cringed. This was stupid. It wasn't my fault! I mean, it was, but come on! The guy- Dr. Muerte, apparently, had thrown an absolute tantrum when Nita had called his name. It hadn't quite been a "call the cops" situation, but it had been close. He'd vowed revenge as he left. I assumed he was going to leave a negative review. Or complain to Mrs. B. Or both.

The Eraser was staring at me. It was getting uncomfortable. Well, more uncomfortable.

"Are you telling me," he said, "that Dr. Muerte cashed in his favor because someone mispronounced his name?"

"It's my fault, not Nita's!" I could feel the tears. "I'm the one who wrote it down wrong! I'm so sorry!"

The Eraser clapped a hand on my shoulder. I yelped, jolting as I waited for the flames to engulf me, but there was nothing. Just a warm hand on my shoulder and the sound of- of laughter?

The Eraser was laughing. So hard that he was using me as a prop so he wouldn't fall over.

Things got a bit hazy after that. I'm pretty sure the Eraser actually apologized to us, and to me specifically, for dragging us out there. He said something about "taking care of it," and the next thing I knew I was back in my apartment with Beans twining between my legs and miauing.

And then... life went on. I worked opening shift the next morning with Ben, who filled me in on a few things I'd missed in the aftermath, but nothing dramatic happened.

There was a story on the news about a fire in the Gold Towers neighborhood. A super posh McMansion burned to the ground. Despite everything the fire crews did, there was nothing left but ash. Strangely, none of the surrounding homes, or even the trees and plants, sustained any damage.

About a week after that I found a blank envelope in my mailbox. A cashier's check for $500K with a note that said "with sincerest apologies."

We all got one. Those of us who'd been there. Or at least I assume Nita got one, too, but she quit the morning after and we never saw her again. Can't say I blame her, and given that the bank verified the check was real, maybe I'd quit, too.

If only all bad customer encounters ended this well.

“Someone’s going to pay for this. I don’t particularly care who — I’m only delivering this punishment as a courtesy to a friend, whom one of you offended. So, I give you a choice; either step up and admit what you did, or all of you die.”

[kristiani13]

Hello, finally a character information, yes, welcome.......... Yay

Main Profile

Name : Макари Лисицын

Nickname(s) : Fox, Foxy, Jester

Age : 22

Gender : Male

Height : 5'7ft (170cm)

Sexuality : Heterosexual

Date and place of birth : 30 October 2001, Russian, Kasimov

Nationality : Russian, Japanese

Eye colour and hair colour : Pale blue, Brown

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Blood-type : O+

Status : Alive, Stable

Rank : Contractor

Native language : Russian, Japanese

Other language(s) : English (Not very fluent)

Relation(s) : Snezhkov Volkov (close friend - incoming ref), Andrei Nolan (close ally), Ivan Alexxeve (close ally) - Deceased

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Family -> Russian mother & Japanese father, little brother and little sister - youngest (REDACTED IDENTITIES) - Status : Alive

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Personality and Trait

MBTI : ESFJ - The Caregiver

- Makari is pretty friendly and bubbly, always active, talking nonstop and helping around tirelessly. He also always being supportive towards the other Konnis and even Makarov himself, which is pretty much made him as a known happy-go soldier amongst the Konni soldiers. He also did a very good job with his work. (Extraversion)

- Makari is extremely observant, a quick observer and he could remember the slightest detail of something, even the unimportant details. His senses of surroundings were quite sensitive (But not to the point where he just started to run away), and he would check if he was right about his senses - if not, he just brush it off. (Sensing)

- Makari likes to make people feel at their best, always supporting and cheering them up, making them at their spirit and happy, he forgave people easily he would got a bit panicked when someone's stressed, but would try to ease them up - slowly, he doesn't want the person to feel overwhelmed with him talk too fast when the person was down. Surprisingly, Makari could get sad pretty easy. (Feeling)

- Makari rarely fail with his job, once he failed he might get sad and can only surrender, prepared to be punished (hoping he doesn't get killed), he's always in time when doing missions or other things, good at making decisions and plans as he always help on mission briefings. Makari is organised with his plans and ideas, also likes to follow instructions and orders despite the pressure. (Judging)

Skill and Ability

Skills : Problem solving, Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, communication.

Abilities : High agility and strength - Makari was able to run fast and jump high up to 2-3 meter, the weight of his combat uniform does not affect his speed but strength to jump, he'll run faster without vest or such. — Short range combat - Makari could get pretty brutal and swift when it comes to close combat, hand-to-hand and meele for example.

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Personal Profile

Hobby : Reading, writing, planting.

Other interest : Listening to music, watching films, animals, drawing, singing, close range combat training, rifles, knifes.

Love interest : None.

Favourites

Books : Yotsuba&!, Geronimo Stilton, Russian Fairy Tales.

Plants : Daisy, lily, aloe vera.

Animals : Silver fox, ravens, blue tongue skink.

Music : Playlist

Films : Chainsaw man, All Quiet on the Western Front, Oppenheimer.

Food : Sata Andagi, dark chocolate, Chicken Kyiv.

Preferred Weapons

Firearms : Kaztov-74u, M4.

Meeles : Dagger, hatchet, folding combat knife.

Explosives : Flash grenades, smoke grenades.

Personal facts

- Makari is secretly a mischievous and cunning person, despite his innocent appearances and behaviours, he would occasionally doing some harmless tricks to other Konni members, he's pretty much good at lying and tricking people - which mostly makes him go to undercover missions (which he got the nickname Fox/Foxy). He can be sarcastic at certain times, but he also likes to make puns, also some sarcastic comments or jokes with the other Konni members, they never got into fight don't worry, they just laugh it off and play along (which he got the nickname Jester).

- Makari doesn't like other chocolates besides dark chocolate.

- Makari could get upset easily over certain things, and he also would get distracted easily by small thing such as when seeing small animals or any plants that he had never seen throughout his mission, or just simply some useless trinkets.

- Makari's never understand English very well, though his English words pronunciations are quite okay, but his grammars and wordings are bad, that's why he only speaks two to four basic words he knew to try to make the english speakers understand him - he tried his best to speak and learn English.

- Makari had wrote 5 short story when he was still in elementary school until middle school, joined literary festival at high school, ranked 10th to 5th in the top 50.

- Makari only learn to speak English since he joined the Konni group.

Background

Born in 30 October 2001, Makari lives a happy life with his parents and two siblings as a regular young civilian in Russia, Kasimov town.

By the age of 18 in 13 November 2019, Makari leaves Russia by himself and move to Japan via visa, he went to Tokyo to get a job which he finally got a job as a delivery man and got a pretty good salary for good work. This went by for 2 years until Makari is 20 years old, 10 December 2021.

Makari planning on travel to Russia again to visit his family, after he finally arrived in the Russia airport, he was accidentally met by [REDACTED], he just seems to be interested in making friends with Makari, and so they talked throughout their walk out of the airport, as the conversation went on, [REDACTED] suddenly switched off their conversation to military subject.

Makari actually was pretty interested in military because of the story of his late grandfather being a soldier and had learned much about military stuff, so he wasn't really experienced in military, [REDACTED] won't force Makari into joining military but strangely insisted him to join the military life, telling him to try new things, Makari find it weird but he just brush it off, he seems to be contemplating whenever to join or not, he was unsure if he was fit for it. But then, he decided to agree before he went back to Kasimov to pack up and saying farewells to his family, and leave with [REDACTED].

—— Military life ——

Times went by until 2022 as Makari started to realise that now he's the part of the Russian private military, making him feel drastically anxious, but he just try to adapt himself to his environment and went along with the missions and other works, which gave him slight pressure but eventually finally adapting and get to used to his surroundings, getting close to few other Konni members, especially Ivan, Andrei and Snezhkov - but mostly to Snezhkov. He didn't know who the leader was because every soldier he asked says "Ты увидишь его позже.", which made him confused.

Until 2023 finally arrived, and he's 22, finally seeing Makarov with his own eyes, and seeing Ivan get killed for his mistake, which made Makari getting nervous and scared, trying not to make any same mistakes as Ivan did, but also upset that Ivan died. Though, he got mixed feelings as he also glad that Andrei had become Makarov second-in-command. Eventually, he moved on from his own grief and just continued his life as a soldier works in this private military organisation.

Despite the occasional pressure he felt, he fortunately able to adapt himself to his new life. And [REDACTED] was never seen again since then.

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Trivia

The name Макари means "Blessed" or "Happy", Лисицын has a meaning fox for Russian masculine surname.

Makari doesn't like other chocolates besides dark chocolates.

The Konni Group never knew that Makari was half Japanese, except Snezhkov and Makarov who had his personal information file.

Bonus

- Makari could get extremely hostile towards a foe — when he knew how bad the foe is, but surprisingly he can also just be cautious and alert around the foe — when he knew the foe wasn't so bad, he observed the foe based on their attitude and personality, so yeah, he could be merciful at this point, but orders are orders.

Important Note : This character takes universe in Call of Duty Modern Warfare - Especially in MW II and MW III

[baodurs]

i filled out this super cool button character profile by @extraordinarymage for sabrina! thank you for making this, it was a lot of fun to fill out <3 the bulk of it is under a cut and oh boy is it long !!!

Short, Quick Reference

Name: Sabrina Wiseman

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Love Interest: Kent

Main personality trait: Confidence

Secondary personality trait: Morbidity

Relationship with Nick: Full of love, haunted by unaddressed guilt and frustration. But mostly full of love.

Nickname for Nick: Saint Nick (used sparingly)

Resentful or accepting?: Slightly resentful

Main strategy (interpersonal, insightful, innovative?): Insightful

Ethical or expedient?: Expedient

GENERAL

Name: Sabrina Larkspur Wiseman

Nickname(s): Sab, used by anyone; Sabby, only Nick and Sally; and, of course, Button for Nick.

Birthday: I think I made her an October Libra for the purpose of a template I did months ago, but I’m not sure! No concrete birthday yet, I’m always very slow to nail down details like this.

Age: 20

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Hair color + style: Blonde. A little past shoulder length, sometimes wavy. Usually a middle part. For Aeon, tied back in a bun.

Eye color: Blue, entirely because of the section of Frank O’Hara’s “Meditations in an Emergency” that goes, “My eyes are vague blue, like the sky...”

Height: 5′5

Piercings: Multiple in each ear, but a couple have started to close.

Tattoos: None yet! Sab likes the idea of a tattoo but is worried about finding the perfect design, whether she’d end up hating it, that the pain might be greater than she expects and she’ll look like a baby in front of her tattoo artist. I’d like to think she eventually consults Sally and/or Glitch to come up with an idea that she falls in love with, but I haven’t come up with what that would be!

Clothing style: Mostly solid colors, not a lot of patterns. Nothing super bright, but a fairly varied mix of pastels, neutrals, dark colors, black. Partial to denim skirts and sweater tops. Ankle boots. Likes a good turtleneck. She’s bolder when it comes to formal wear, and especially loves suits. Big fan of silk and satin.

Since she has a pretty accurate face claim, I’ll link some gifsets I’ve rb’d for appearance ref if you are so inclined.

STATS

I’m always adjusting minor things and swapping scenes around, but these are from my most recent Sab run! Most scores hover somewhere around these values.

Personality:

Confidence: 53%

Humor: 5%

Morbidity: 22%

Resentful: 57% | Accepting: 43%

Strategy:

Interpersonal: 12%

Insightful: 50%

Innovative: 10%

Ethical: 43% | Expedient: 57%

KEY DECISIONS:

What is Nick’s nickname and why?: Saint Nick, used very rarely. It’s a joking reference to the time she thought Santa was an evil Ment out to ruin Christmas, and a point about Nick overdoing it with the cheer. “Saint Nick” is usually code for “I know you mean well, but please mind your own business.” Otherwise, she just calls him Nick.

What is their favorite type of cookie (and its name and why?): Salted caramel chocolate chip! No special name.

What was their initial reaction to Sally hugging them, as kids?: She just froze. That could just be me projecting adult Sabrina onto her childhood self; I don’t imagine that she was as uncomfortable around strangers or quite as cautious back then. But that’s what I’ll stick with.

How did they ace the ASE test?: The in-game option she takes is “My entire life has revolved around strategic avoidance,” but the one about being just plain smart also sounds like her. If Sab has the chance to thoroughly (over)prepare for something, she will do it. Her mind blindness also has her constantly (over)analyzing situations. So, hard work and relentless anxiety!

Did they manage to win their first assignment? How?: Yes, by having Sally block the door. I’ve headcanoned some slight differences in how it plays out, which I wrote about in-depth here. To summarize, Sab thinks of blocking the door as a desperate last resort, not a clever loophole, and she pushes back against Rosy’s praise because she wishes she could have done it the “real” way. Rosy goes from being impressed to being annoyed that she’s willfully missing the point.

What was the primary emotion Button felt during the Aeon bombing (love, gratitude, etc?): Guilt. She feels very guilty about how much Nick has given up for her in general, but I think that in the moment, it’s on a smaller scale. The fact that Nick was on the phone with her when it happened, coming to her rescue like always, becomes emblematic of their whole relationship for her, and she really fixates on that.

Who drove them home from the hospital from and why?: Glitch. Sab responds to her initial text with “Are you sure?”, and is relieved when Glitch takes that as “Yes, please.” She doesn’t relish the idea of being around someone more connected to her family or Nick at that point.

How do they feel about Nick riding around in their mind?: Worried, at first. Just because it’s so unknown and absolutely insane. After seeing Doctor Amari, she’s excited! Sab is thrilled to be a Pollard Five and intends to take full advantage of it. I am not looking forward to seeing how she reacts when that’s taken away from her.

Why did Button agree to do the undercover mission?: To prove she still deserves to be an MIV. Sabrina feels stupid and reckless for putting herself, Nick, and Aeon in this position, but she knows she’s smart, and she hasn’t worked this hard for nothing. She wants to prove what she could do with a normal Pollard Score and make herself too valuable to give up even when she’s back to Zero.

Told Glitch about your mind blindness?: Depends on the playthrough. I’m constantly going back and forth on whether Sab meets Glitch for coffee or wanders the city with Nick in her second chapter 5 slot (after trying to track down Kent). If she does meet Glitch, though, she absolutely tells her; with how touchy Sab is about privacy, she couldn’t stomach not warning Glitch that Nick could hear everything they said.

Figured out K’s secret?: Nope. She finds enough of the clues to be given the “I knew it!” option in-game, but she didn’t actually put it together. Sab is too angry and embarrassed by learning that Kent is an AMO to find any reason to interrogate it. “The random guy I met before school just happens to be a jerk” is a perfectly sound explanation to her.

Found Noh’s clues?: Not at the metro station. Sometimes she sees the Vengeance brooms in chapter 5 (again, depending on the playthrough), but that’s it.

ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP:

Love Interest: Kent

Why them?: Sab feels an immediate kinship with Kent after learning about the NPO program. It’s kind of funny how quickly he moves from the least sympathetic position in her eyes (Ment who got past me and read my mind without my knowledge) to the most sympathetic (non-powered child of a prominent family aiming a league above where he “belongs”). A lot of new respect for his competence. Her fate is sealed when she realizes that his kindness at the hospital wasn’t him trying to make up for some wrongdoing, but just him being very sweet. (She had scoffed over “You needed help.” But now she’s like, “Oh. He meant that?! Fuck.”)

As they spend more time together, Sab realizes how weirdly similar they are in other ways, too. And she starts to feel safe/secure around him in a way that she’s extremely not used to. Growing up surrounded by Ments, Sab has a lot of issues about being too much, too difficult, needing to “be worthy” of love. So someone like Kent who is not a Ment, who has no “obligation” to care about her, and whose judgement she trusts implicitly? Being around him and being loved by him mean a lot, and I think will go a long way towards helping her reflect on her other relationships!

What are their first impressions of each other?: Okay, there are like 3 first impressions with Kent. First: he’s tall and handsome and secretly adorable, and they have similar career goals, so she’s drafting a five-month plan to woo him and get his number. Second: he’s a lying, self-obsessed loser who owes her many explanations. Third: oh no, the first impression was true! And he’s been continually, selflessly kind to her in spite of her overt hostility. Scratch the five-month plan, because the crush was only fun when it was entirely superficial; now she really, really likes him and that just sucks.

We know that Button makes a good impression on K by stopping for their dogs, but apart from that... I mean, the “we confused each other” from chapter 7 is very apt. Sab has lots of shifting personas, and Kent sees pretty much every one within 24 hours. The prevailing impression before everything gets cleared up is probably just that she cares a lot? About everything? Her stopping for the dogs, how seriously she takes the first assignment, the way she seems so deeply affected by something he said or did that morning. It’s a rare side of her to meet first because she usually pretends to be above everything.

What feature does your Button find most attractive in their RO (ex. appearance, personality, etc.)?: Probably his composure. And his... steadfastness? The way he seems unruffled by anything, his soothing presence. She really admires that about him and finds the calm contagious.

What do they do to spend time together?: Going on drives together! Kent driving while Sab plays songs she thinks he’ll like, talking or not talking. Cuddling on the couch while reading their own separate books. Museum dates. Walking the dogs together.

Do they argue? How do they handle arguments and disagreements? How do they make up?: I imagine that the first month or so of their relationship would be difficult, just because they’re both bad at expressing themselves and not used to relying on other people. Kent kind of negates a lot of Sab’s impulses to get defensive or hostile, so instead of arguments, I think there are more likely to be awkward periods where she’s just stewing in something without addressing it. Most of their fights would be, like, one of them becoming really distant for a concerning number of days until the other tries to awkwardly check in on them.

What does their future look like?: Uhh some random lore: I think eventually they do get married, despite neither of them caring that much about it. Sabrina would be excited to have something to plan, and she knows it would make the people around her happy. They have a long engagement; there’s never really an “official” proposal, just an acknowledgement that yeah, they’ll get married one day, and then eventually they get rings. The engagement is almost Sab’s favorite part, honestly. She likes planning and showing off her ring and calling Kent her fiancé, a lot of fanfare on her part for a wedding that ends up being very modest and chill.

OTHER RELATIONSHIPS (Feel free to go in depth!)

Relationship with Nick: When I first started developing Sab, I thought that with as difficult/prickly as she can be, her relationship with Nick would be worse than it is. Never bad, but certainly strained, with more jealousy/resentment on her side. However, she rejected this. She is resentful, but never towards Nick—she internalizes the negative parts of their relationship so they manifest as guilt instead. And that’s the problem, not resentment. Sab thinks he’s overprotective, but that doesn’t make her angry; it just makes her sad. She wishes things were different and he didn’t feel so responsible for her, but she also doesn’t know how she could manage without him taking on so many of her burdens. So, guilt! So much love, but always looming guilt.

Having Nick in her head has helped. It’s added a new kind of guilt (“I’m a horrible person for being so giddy that people can’t hear my thoughts even though that requires my brother to be in a coma”), but getting inside Nick’s head for once and really feeling his love for her changes things. Makes her feel way more secure, I guess? It’s easier to see her brother as human person, a friend who loves her, rather than a perfect selfless paragon who sacrificed everything to raise her, which is an important shift.

There are also Things happening with self-presentation in the fact that they’re both models, and flirts, and pretend to be shallow. And the ways that they’ve responded to vastly different expectations. And selflessness versus selfishness. But I have no idea how to talk about that yet.

Relationship with Father: Strained and distant. Sabrina doesn’t necessarily blame him for leaving, but she hates how he’s handled it. She’s incredibly frustrated that John insists on keeping them in this miserable limbo of uncomfortable visits, even though moving away was (to her) a tacit acknowledgement that she and her parents are better off without each other. He’s trying to force a relationship that Sab thinks is ultimately harmful for everyone involved. For Nick’s sake, she’s willing to grin and bear the visits, but it never works because John can obviously tell it’s an act. He pushes her, she gets defensive, and so on to infinity.

Relationship with Mother: Like with John, Sab doesn’t resent Hope for the incident itself, or for leaving afterward. It was terrifying, and the idea of being around Hope makes her panic—but she thinks of that as just another irrational anxiety symptom, and she’s trying to work through it. What she does resent Hope for is letting it get to that point at all. Sab is incredibly bitter that Hope will suffer silently to the point of almost killing her (during the incident) and potentially herself (with the BRS), while Sab has no choice but to be completely open. Especially because they’re so similar in that way—she’s almost jealous. “Oh, so your silence is allowed to almost kill me and it’s ‘nobody’s fault’ but I can’t pretend to enjoy a single lunch with Dad without him calling me out for lying?”

And even though she doesn’t hold the incident itself against her, Sab is very hung up on “Why are you never quiet? Why are you always there?” She knows, on some level, that this was not a Personal Judgement against her. But because Hope keeps so much quiet, this is the only honest expression of her mother’s feelings that she can remember! It would take a lot for Sab to believe that Hope was really, genuinely interested in reconnecting with her, rather than just pretending to love her "enough” this time because to do otherwise would reflect poorly on Hope as a mother.

Relationship with Sally: Besties <3 Sally is the only member of the Wiseman inner circle that Sab doesn’t have complicated feelings about. They both have hidden morbid streaks that they bring out in each other, and can laugh about. They both have competitive streaks that work well together because they’re always on the same team. And their wants/needs from the relationship complement each other well, I think. Sally has always felt valued because she’s useful and not because she’s loved, while Sab has always felt smothered by love/care without feeling like she genuinely adds value to other people’s lives. So it means a lot to both of them that they’re able to help each other practically, while also genuinely loving and supporting each other outside of that.

Relationship with Gray: Full of trust and genuine care, but predicated on distance. Sab loves him a lot for being so careful not to cross any boundaries, physical or emotional, with her. She’s grateful that he’s there for Nick in a way that she doesn’t feel she can be. But "I like Gray because he doesn’t push me and is good to Nick” means that any hand he extend makes her defensive, because she’ll either view him as an emissary of Nick or start to panic because their normal routine is being disrupted (she doesn’t tell him about Hope in ch 3, for example).

They get along very well in a friend-of-a-friend sort of way, and bond over being cautious counterparts to Nick. Also, Sab never had a crush on Gray, but she is not immune to tall superhero and thinks it’s fun to fake flirt with him. (You know Isabela’s “You have pretty eyes” routine from DA2? Sab does that to Gray when conversations steer towards things she’d rather not talk about.)

Relationship with Glitch: I’m really excited about these two! They click from the start, and Sabrina feels immediately comfortable around Glitch, which makes her feel distinctly uncomfortable whenever she catches herself. Externally, they have pretty different personalities, but they’re both perceptive and... socially manipulative? aware of their self-presentation?... in ways that they both pick up on right away. So it’s a lot of conversational maneuvering and trying to figure out what the other’s game is, while also genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

Relationship with Kent/Kenna: I could go truly insane here. See the romance section above instead.

Relationship with Kim: Sab wants him to like her sooooo bad. He’s one of the only people to ever really get through to her, re: my headcanon conversation after the first assignment. Authority figures tend to treat her as special, whether that’s negatively because of her mind blindness or positively because she’s such an overachiever. She had no idea how to respond to that not being the case (and didn’t handle it well at first), but chapter 6 solidifies her respect for him.

It also turns Rosy’s opinion of Sab around; he was impressed by her in class but left his office thinking she was self-absorbed and naive. But the bombing is a reality check, and her response is very measured and practical in a way that surprises him.

Relationship with Lev: She doesn’t mind the comparisons to Nick or the “maybe one day they’ll fix you” comments as much as you might think. They aren’t her favorite, but she prefers that sort of thing to the inspirational platitudes belied by coddling that she got from her family growing up. Sab has fond memories of Lev and is grateful that he’s always been kind to her, but doesn’t have any particular feelings apart from that.

Relationship with Clarence: Holds a grudge against him for causing a scene, making her late, and generally being a jerk. But she can’t fault him for being right, after what happened! Mostly she just wants to avoid him, but she’ll be thrilled to lord her success over him if/when she proves herself.

Relationship with Dean Branham: Like Rosy, another authority figure that Sab desperately wants to impress. But without the personal investment she has in Rosy’s validation, more “Oh, this person is in charge, so I should make her like me!” Despite Nick’s and Rosy’s reservations, Sabrina doesn’t really have a problem with being “strongarmed” or manipulated into cooperating; for now, she figures Branham was just doing her job and respects her tactics.

Relationship/attitude towards Ments in general: Mostly just uncomfortable and wary around them. Sab doesn’t want her mind read, and she figures that no Ment wants to be forced to read it either. So she has a pretty strict “no Ments” rule for close personal relationships (excluding Nick, Sally, and Gray, of course. But only Nick really counts because he’s the only one who can hear her thoughts whenever she’s nearby). Not out of hatred or resentment, just because she knows it will be easier for everyone in the long run.

Do they have any other important relationships, past or present? (Relatives, friends, etc.?): Not many, but yes! Sab dated around a lot in the 2 years before Aeon (more like year and a half, because she completely shut it down once she was more focused on preparing for the MIV program), but there are 2 relationships that were formative/important for her. A high school sweetheart, and someone Sab met through modeling. She doesn’t keep up with her high school ex, but the model is her best friend outside of Sally and Nick, and they still keep in touch! I’m still developing them/the relationships, and I’ll probably post more about them someday. They’re fun!

PERSONAL BIO

Describe their personality: Confusing and contradictory. She has two main modes that confuse people who meet both (e.g., Kent). She’s either cold, stuck-up, and sometimes hostile, OR she’s charming, frivolous, and sometimes flirty. Mode 1 is tense but stoic and inexpressive; mode 2 is seemingly relaxed but very posed and insincere. Mode 1 is for when she feels uncertain or has no agenda apart from “get to point B”; mode 2 is for when she’s more comfortable or trying to manipulate someone. Her actual personality is a bit closer to the second, but she doesn’t pretend not take things seriously or hide when she’s annoyed.

Strengths: Analytical, methodical, detail-oriented. Very driven and hardworking. May not always act like it, but does have social skills/charisma; a great liar, if you can’t read her mind. Unfailingly loyal and loving to her favorite people, so so so warm and affectionate and supportive if she really loves you. Very perceptive.

Weaknesses: Way too proud. Can be petty and vindictive. Self-absorbed (she doesn’t mean anything by it, but it’s hard for her to see past herself sometimes). Stubborn, hates being wrong. And... emotional isn’t the word, but strong negative emotions can really cloud her judgement. It ties into her being proud, petty, and stubborn; if she’s really upset about something, she can cling to that emotion instead of re-evaluating it or moving forward.

Phobias: From this ask about the phobias that are planned to show up in-game, there are a few that I could see fitting Sab, but I want to wait to see how they’re implemented before I fully commit. Which is very metagame-y, I know (and I am very metagame-y about IF), but “fear of X” is so broad that it really does depend on when/how it manifests in the text.

That being said, agoraphobia is almost a lock; crowds do make Sab very anxious if she can’t keep track of everyone within a certain distance, and if she can’t leave when she starts feeling antsy. Claustrophobia is a maybe. The choice that triggers it (in chapter 4, about hating MRI machines) suits Sab, but I’m not sure if she hates MRI machines because she hates tight spaces, or if it’s more related to her general anxiety about hospitals, medical tests, etc. Which she definitely has!

What activities/club did they do in school?: She avoided anything group-oriented as far as possible. She took piano (maybe violin?) lessons and did recitals, but wasn’t in orchestra. The one exception was maybe National Honor Society or some equivalent, which she would have joined for her resume’s sake. And I think she would have tutored!

Where do they escape to when they need space?: A little used library corner, where she can people watch without being seen/heard.

How do they feel about/cope with their mind blindness?: Sab hates it but tries not to dwell on it. She knows that it’s no one’s fault, and she mainly just tries to... minimize it? Drown out her thoughts, limit her contact with Ments. And, least healthily, very rigidly managing herself. Because there’s so much of her that exists outside of herself, without her control, she tries to either filter or completely suppress everything else. Part of why she got into modeling, she can perform and be perfect and have total control over the final product of her body in the photographs for whatever campaign. Some Day This Will Be Better. But definitely not where she is in current canon.

How has your Button changed since the Incident with Hope?: Developed many new anxieties and disorders and syndromes :) She also became way more self-conscious, as in literally conscious of and way more tightly monitoring herself, what she’s thinking, what she’s expressing, how she’s sitting, etc. Less emotive face, more rigid posture.

If they weren’t an Aeon student, what would they be doing?: Sab would have beaten herself up forever if she “proved everyone right” by avoiding Unity/Ments entirely, so she’d want to stay in the family business somehow. She probably would have ended up doing scientific research on mental agility. Maybe even working for Mirrortech or some other biotech company, which I imagine would have been an interesting conversation to have with the family.

RANDOM FACTS:

Zodiac sign: Like I said, I assigned her Libra months ago for the sake of a template. But I don’t know enough about astrology to commit. Libra or Leo, probably.

Hobbies: Music, reading poetry, “cooking” (i.e., sitting on the counter and not helping while Nick makes dinner)

Likes: Watching other people (Nick) play video games, dressing up, taking long showers/baths, dark chocolate with caramel, back hugs

Dislikes: Being patronized, hot weather, going to the doctor, driving, doing anything she is not good at

Type of bedsheets: Bamboo.

Drink of choice: Cucumber mint lemonade! For hot drinks, some kind of caramel coffee. For alcohol, she refuses to get drunk because she’s terrified of having even less control of her mental broadcast, but at home/around people she trusts she’ll have a glass or two of wine. Doesn’t know enough to be picky, but doesn’t like it too sweet.

Favorite food: Probably some pasta dish Nick makes with asparagus and tomatoes and a lot of garlic.

Favorite color: Like a light turquoise!

Favorite music: Music to her was another mind-shielding tactic before anything else, so she tends to like upbeat-ish electronic/pop stuff. Catchy and repetitive, and/or with lots of personality to drown out her own thoughts. On the other end of the spectrum, she does have a soft spot for crackly, lo-fi, old or old-sounding slow songs—something about fuzzy recordings simulating a weak telepathic signal.

Favorite season: Hmm, spring and autumn are both good. She likes either side of winter.

Anything else you’d like to share: My heart and a long, fulfilling marriage, with anyone who reads all this 💍

[johnchiarello]

Saturday

SATURDAY 9-30-17

Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Facebook attempted hack? https://youtu.be/205r-qqKcdU

.Yes- we are on your trail now!

.If you destroy the device- we might not catch you

.Cyber crime punishment is real- if caught- possible prison time awaits you

Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

Isaiah 60:5

Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

 News- Facebook- Russia connection? https://youtu.be/qISnutfuepI

http://ccoutreach87.com/9-30-17-news-facebook-russia-connection/

https://ccoutreach87.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/9-30-17-news-facebook-russia-connection.zip

.Review of next Sunday sermon

.The Mexican mole at the park in Flour Bluff?

.The Blue store connection [George- my undercover informant]

.Celis case dropped

.Will Russian dressing play a role?

.Media

.Caller times and the wall

.The logic of security

.Forces of the gentiles

.Port A will now have her rest

.Entrapment

.Casanova ‘ít’s a war zone now’

.Senator Menendez case- New Jersey

.Clinton corruption- FBI- Comey- Mueller-

.The big game

Isaiah 18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Isaiah 17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

The park- https://youtu.be/lHorXbAVV94

http://ccoutreach87.com/9-30-17-the-park/

.Big Charlie

.Homeless friends are not ‘displaced’

.Albert’s Fema claim?

.Indiana- Jammer- Angel

.Fatboy- Paisley

.Standing in the gap

Acts 7:38

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

 NEWS- [new stuff- past posts- verses below]

http://www.kristv.com/story/31971421/man-believes-he-was-wrongfully-arrested-for-picking-up-bait-left-by-police

https://sharylattkisson.com/2017/09/24/obama-era-surveillance-timeline/

https://www.amazon.com/Smear-Shady-Political-Operatives-Control/dp/0062468162/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/130-8673331-1988432?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=06H5BQJFZ5MYBTP0W5VM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/02/18/no-one-mentions-that-the-russian-trail-leads-to-democratic-lobbyists/#3a203c373991

http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/check-it-out-the-new-york-times-just-exposed-the-hillary-clinton-russia-nexus/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?mcubz=0

http://www.kristv.com/story/33077569/two-criminal-cases-against-local-businessman-dismissed-three-pending

http://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2017/09/28/former-law-firm-operator-mauricio-celis-last-case-dismisse-impersonating-pubic-servant-case-dismisse/712660001/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/escort-says-menendez-prostitution-claims-were-made-up/2013/03/04/31299fe2-8514-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html?utm_term=.83b0a03b9590

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/prostitute-accused-menendez-paid-article-1.1279322

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/02/18/no-one-mentions-that-the-russian-trail-leads-to-democratic-lobbyists/#3a203c373991

http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/check-it-out-the-new-york-times-just-exposed-the-hillary-clinton-russia-nexus/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?mcubz=0

 NEW-

I cover some of the local news- and do some teaching on the videos-

The Caller Times has been running page after page after page- in trying to show the damage that a Trump border wall will do.

 I am actually not for the wall- but my critique of this issue is to simply show the disdain that the media has for the public.

Basically- their argument is what bad effects any security wall- [or system]- would have.

 For instance- criminal drug traffickers [Hmm?- sounds familiar] will simply find other ways to get thru.

Aliens coming into the country will have to use other means-

Yes- all security systems- even border patrol itself- causes others to use different ways to get in.

 The same argument can be made of Police- or border patrol agents themselves.

Yes- it’s a fact- that smugglers avoid areas where there are border agents- they then come thru private ranch lands- and also dig tunnels in areas where agents might not find them.

 So- should we eliminate all border patrol?

What about locking your doors?

It is a known fact that thieves will break thru a window- if a door is locked.

 The same with banks- and security there.

My critique is meant to simply show how the media treat the public like idiots.

I’m pro immigrant- and not for the wall.

 But it’s the ignorance of the media that upsets me.

The basic question is- do physical barriers ever actually deter crime?

If so- then the whole question is moot.

 If physical barriers do not deter crime- then why do people lock doors?- or buy security cameras?

 And the most basic question is- are border patrol agents also a ‘physical barrier’ used to prevent crime?

Yes- in Its most basic form- cops- soldiers- people themselves are indeed physical barriers to crime.

[Physical - they have bodies- get it?]

 And the arguments against a physical wall- can be applied to agents themselves.

Criminals try and avoid border patrol agents-

In their efforts- they look for other- more dangerous places- to enter the country.

 Humans in real need- yes- immigrants also take huge risks- when they try and avoid border agents.

At times we [yes- we!] have found them dead on various ranches in the south Texas area [Fire department days].

And all of this is sad indeed.

They often die- because they are avoiding the checkpoints in our area-

Why has the Caller Times not done an extensive report on the bad affects of these check points?

 Why have they not done coverage on the bad effects of border patrol agents on the border?

Why have they not done the same report on physical security barriers in Corpus Christ Texas?

 Because the whole question boils down to the logic of physical security barriers- whether they be walls or any other physical thing.

Their efforts are well meaning- just nonsensical.

 Simply advocate for a better- more legal way for immigrants to make it in.

Don’t waste so much time- and paper- on all the bad effects of an actual physical barrier-

Because as you can see- it really is a waste of time- and paper.

 NOTE- By the way- I mentioned on video- that I leave my back door- open [not just unlocked] all night long- yes- wide open. Even my street friends know this. So I ACTUALLY practice a NO WALL policy in my own life. Do the Caller Times reporters do this? Do they at least leave their doors unlocked? If not- we- the ignorant masses please ask of you to never mention the subject again. Because if you lock your doors at night- you are obviously contributing to the crime rate in our city- by having thieves and robbers try and get in- some other way - John 10:1

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

  MORE NEW-

On the last video [The park] Charlie talked about a principle-

Isaiah 58:12

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

 He did not know I already used Isaiah as a theme earlier in the day- and what we talked about even before the video started rolling was how God will put us in situations where we too vicariously take upon us the suffering of others-

Colossians 1:24

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

 This teaching deserves an entire ‘teaching post’ but I just wanted to hit on it briefly because of the way it came up.

After I shut the video off I spent about 3 hours with my friends at the park- and brother Dave served a great meal [I looked- but didn’t eat].

 These homeless friends were here when hurricane Harvey passed thru- and yet they do not see themselves as displaced- or losing their homes.

Obviously they have lived ‘without homes’ for many years.

 It’s really an example for those of us- who find security in stuff.

To them- the storm has passed- and they are right where they started.

To others in the area- they are realizing that life will never be the same-

 To those who lived in Port Aransas- they see that many are leaving that town- for good.

There is a sense of desperation I see when the local leaders are interviewed on the news-

They seem to be saying ‘Don’t you see how important it is for us to quickly re-build- so we don’t lose our economy [tourism] and the kids to other schools’?

 Yes- people do see- we all see-

Some of you have now learned what it means to be homeless-

And sad to say- yes- many in society don’t really care.

 To those who have homes- life just goes on.

So for the victims of the storm- you can now vicariously identify with many of the friends you have seen on my videos-

 The ones that I was with at the park- who were approached at around 3 pm by some people who rented the pavilion for later in the day.

They walked up to us- and said ‘we have rented it for a special occasion- it’s time for your type to leave’.

 Yes- I jumped on my motorcycle and took off- and my displaced friends did too.

The people who notified us to leave- well- you could just hear it in their voice-

They don’t really care.

 And sad to say- many who see the pleas from the Port Aransas community- many who have watched your story on the news-

Yes- many in the public don’t really care either-

That's life.

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https://ccoutreach87.com/hurricane-harvey/

https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/09/26/corruption-crises-in-corpus-christi-texas/

https://ccoutreach87.com/overview-of-philosophy/

https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/09/26/9-25-17-history-of-corruption-in-nueces-county/

https://ccoutreach87.com/2017/09/26/9-25-17-nueces-county-corpus-christi-godfather-connection-corruption/

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  VERSES-

Isaiah 58:12

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

 Isaiah 60:11

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations

 Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Isaiah 16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

Isaiah 16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isaiah 16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Isaiah 16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

Isaiah 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

Isaiah 16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

Isaiah 16:13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Isaiah 16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

 Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

Isaiah 17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

Isaiah 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Isaiah 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

Isaiah 17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

 Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Isaiah 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Isaiah 18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Isaiah 18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isaiah 18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

 Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

Isaiah 19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Isaiah 19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Isaiah 19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Isaiah 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

Isaiah 19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Isaiah 19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

Isaiah 19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Isaiah 19:12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Isaiah 19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

Isaiah 19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Isaiah 19:15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

Isaiah 19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

Isaiah 19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

Isaiah 19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

Isaiah 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

Isaiah 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isaiah 19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

Isaiah 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

Isaiah 19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

Isaiah 19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

Isaiah 19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

 Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

Isaiah 20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Isaiah 20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

Isaiah 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

 Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isaiah 21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Isaiah 21:6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

Isaiah 21:7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

Isaiah 21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

Isaiah 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Isaiah 21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Isaiah 21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Isaiah 21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Isaiah 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

Isaiah 21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

Isaiah 21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Isaiah 21:16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

Isaiah 21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

 Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

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