#Quick Look: Desync

[zeke-fanfucs]

Hallo, pleasure to meet you, I tried to look for a rules post, but I couldn't find one so I'm just going with what I can here.

If you do know this character or what game she is from , cool! But it is up to you, if you want to do the request.

Anyways, I always wondered what it would be like if Karmor was turned into a rat thiren like Jane Doe from Zenless Zone Zero, or if he was like Jane Doe in a way, intellectually gifted, a master of disguise, and quite versatile, as well as a phenomenal fighter, since being a rat thiren comes with its perks.

Keep in mind that doing this request is all up to you and I won't be upset if you don't want to do it, I was just curious on what your take on this would be.

(Also, if you need more reference on how she fights, either look up her trailers- but be warned, its quite...animated...or just look up her gameplay)

Thank you!

Hola, so this was super interesting! I haven’t played ZZZ in a while. So it’s fine read about it. Mm, I took a while making something different.

To make simple, Karmor wasn’t founded by Hipswitch. Instead he ran and hid, learning about what the hell is happening. He still is mute? But needing credits to get basic things, he turn to thieving. So he become a little rat boy.

🐀 Karmor as a Rat Thiren (Jane Doe-Inspired)

Name Concept: Still Karmor, but with an alias like “Echo”, “Spindle”, or “Hollowtail” used in certain circles. I like Spindle, just cause he’s a little rat thing

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✨ Core Traits Boosted by Rat Thiren Physiology:

• Master of Disguise

Rat thirens are naturally adaptable—Karmor takes it to the next level.

He can slip into any crowd, alter his scent, heighten his reflexes, even mimic voices or brief body shapes if needed. But not just to spy—he vanishes from history like a rumor.

• Intellectual Prodigy

Jane Doe levels of “You didn’t even notice I hacked your tech and rewrote your neural imprint while smiling.”

Karmor could build weapons from scrap and pick apart an interdimensional lock with a screwdriver and a shoelace. He’s got that “I read your diary and your encryption in five minutes” kind of IQ.

• Combat Specialist

From claws to hand-to-hand to using literal junkyard debris as precision projectiles. He’s quick, twitchy, ghostlike.

Combine his rat-thiren agility with his canon time-glitching powers, and now you’ve got a fighter who moves like he’s desyncing from the universe. It’s horrifying. It’s hot.

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👁‍🗨 Aesthetic Updates:

Design:

• Subtle, angular rat ears; usually covered by a hood or modded helmet.

• Tail: sleek, dexterous, possibly mechanical or wrapped in old time-threading bandages.

• Wears layered clothing designed for movement and disguise—can shift into different silhouettes.

• He’s got a face people remember… wrong. No one can sketch him right.

• Signature Weapon:

Dual knives that shift form, or a segmented staff that twists like a broken second hand on a watch. Possibly integrates his tail in combat, like prehensile weapon moment.

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🧠 Behavior & Personality Vibes:

• Quiet genius. Doesn’t speak unless absolutely necessary—and when he does, it’s in a whisper that sounds like déjà vu.

• Emotionally intelligent but cagey—trusts few, but protects like a rabid feral cat if you’re one of his people.

• Makes a hundred backup plans and then abandons them to follow his gut.

• Will absolutely scam your squad out of their rations with a single card trick then leave you wondering if you ever had rations to begin with.

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🌀 Time-Bending Rat Shenanigans:

• Can pause time for brief bursts when cornered—his tail leaves an afterimage trail.

• Disappears from reality mid-sentence sometimes.

• Can literally “rewind” a mistake in battle but at a physical cost—his body glitches with clawmarks from timelines that don’t exist anymore.

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Bonus Goofy Detail:

• He eats like a GOBLIN in secret. Snacks? He hoards them in weird places. You’ll find a single protein bar inside a gun’s ammo slot, a granola wedge taped under a table, a glowing cube he insists is “edible if you don’t look at it.”

• Hipswitch (when they run into each other) once watched him eat an entire bag of chips in 4 seconds and hasn’t recovered.

[return-to-twisted-wonderland]

Idia: Oof, that was quick. They figured out how the system worked immediately.

Leona and Hari sure are twins and know that they're dreaming. Where's the fun in that?

Jamil's stress levels barely moved too... How did these guys ever overblot? And Vil, for that matter? But what interest me is the woman that appears for Hari, to make her cry and also create thunder as well it like a SSR power!

Technician B: Lachesis System desynchronizing. Down to five percent... Four, three, two... Desync complete.

Ortho: Simulator cooldown complete. Transferring subjects to the recovery room.

Technician A: Testing sequence completed at 2245.

Idia: GG. You can both go once the data's backed up

Technicians A and B: Roger *walk out of the room*

Ortho: All subjects have been moved to the recovery room, they're fast asleep

Idia: Great job Ortho

Ortho: You too, Idia. What do the results look like for Leona Kingscholar, Hari Kingscholar and Jamil Viper?

Idia: They just finished processing. I'll throw them up on the monitor

Ortho: Wow, their numbers are exceptional!

Idia: Well Spoiled or not, Leona's still royalty. Totally makes sense he'd have top-notch magic instruction as a kid but from what we know about Hari is small but she's still royalty so maybe that's why she can casting huge DPS attacks and both of them magic pool is huge too but something is different like they sharing blot...

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As other is asleep, Leona and Hari cuddle each other, in Hari's dream when she and her twin was 4.

Leona: Heya, what's with face?

Hari: That bird won't listen to me AGAIN!

Leona: Suggestions something and got turned down?

Hari: Yeah... Looks at our people from the slums

Leona: I know I know but what I know is you had been secretly sent something to them

Hari: Wait how did you found out?

Leona: We are twin so I know what you planning to do

Hari: *Roll her eyes*

Leona: I know you have been sending some clothes and food to them

Hari: How can I not to do that, we already seen with our own eyes how the slums is, they are still our people I want to help them one way or other...

— 👻 anon

To fix the slums runs through the twins minds.

[helenadurazzo]

The Lord of The Underworld And His Lady of Spring Part 6

Next in the HPHM x Twisted Wonderland AU, it is time for the testing, as both groups of the boys go through it, Idia, along with Helena and Ortho go through the data to look for interesting results

“Test One complete.” Ortho confirmed, “Subjects are cooling down within the simulation.”

“All vital signs for the three subjects are normal.” An employee, Moor Eiriniko, of Helena recalled his name right, reported. “And blot accumulation is within standard range.”

“There are the numbers I expected as well.” Idia observed, “Time to see if they differ with the next test.”

“Simulator has been synced with the Lachesis System.” Another employee, this time, Etern Skotadi, was the one to talk, “We are set for the second test.”

Idia nodded firmly, “Take it away Ortho.”

“Roger!” Ortho obeyed, “Virtual enemy mode standby. Commencing dive!”

~~~

“Test two complete.” Ortho reported, “Subjects are cooling down in the sim.”

“Vital signs remain normal.” Moor typed on a tablet as he talked, “Yet there has been an increase in blot accumulation.”

Etern looked at the system and made modifications, “Lachesis System desynchronizing. Down to five percent… four, three, two… desync complete.”

“Simulator cooldown has finished.” Ortho’s voice sounded, “Subjects are being transported to the recovery room.”

“Excellent.” Idia breathed a sigh of relief, “When you are done with that, prepare Subjects B and D for their testing.”

“Roger.” Ortho’s holographic figure nodded before disappearing.

“Now let’s read the stats for these famed housewardens.” Idia grinned as he went over to a large screen.

“The difference in their blot accumulation rates is fascinating.” Helena observed, walking up to Idia to stand beside him.

“Totally.” Idia smiled at her and then looked at the screen, “Let’s look at Riddle first. He busts out spells like he is in hyperdrive. And his magic pool is way beyond other mages his age. Likely had training in magic at a young age. Like a sports pro who practiced their whole lives since they could walk. It’s the only way he could wield such numbers. If you ask me, his strength is more from hard work than from innate talent.”

Helena hummed, “He also has a tendency to elevate his output and brute force his magic during moments of indecision.”

“Whiles it is inefficient.” Idia admitted,

“he had the power to back him up”

“And his mental state is impacted by external factors rather than internal ones.” Helena pointed out, “If my memory serves him right, he had quite the controlling mother watching over him, a skill mage doctor in the Queendom of Roses.”

“Despite everything though.” Idia starred at the screen, “Its safe to say he has a strong offense but a paper thin defense. Being quite fragile physically and mentally when he isn’t in control of his surroundings.”

“Yet compare that to Azul,” Helena observed, looking at his results. “Despite his slow speed at casting, he is precise and deadly accurate with his spells.”

“He served as a support for Riddle’s brash actions!” Idia declared. “On one hand he is calm and efficient, on the other you could say he is cowardly for hiding behind the magical gifts of others.”

“Or it just means he can be suited as a healer.” Helena shrugged playfully.

“Perhaps he is careful because he has a small magic pool.” Idia theorized, “like he is banking up on his quick thinking to make up for his little reserves or something. It’s not like he can use his signature spell willy nilly.”

“Making him the opposite of Riddle.” Helena observed, “Then there is the case of Vil, who is unique in his own right.”

“Oh boy talk about STABLE.” Idia exclaimed. “All of his numbers are remarkably high and he hardly breaks a sweat. His lack of sharp performance strikes may be one thing, but he is solid in both offense and defense. And I am pretty sure Vil didn’t get any specialized training prior to his enrollment.”

“His physical and mental resilience is rather impressive.” Helena observed.

“He would make a perfect tank!” Idia declared with confidence. “Vil’s signature spell is a long duration debuff curse… and since he’s got a big magic pool, it is a long lasting one, that’s huge. I would hate having to fight these guys, but oh man they’d be a blast to play if they were in an RPG!”

~~~

“That was quick.” Idia exclaimed with wide eyes, “They figured out how the system worked immediately.”

“Well Leona is the type of guy who knows when he is dreaming.” Helena reminded him.

Idia sighed, “Where’s the fun in that? And Jamil’s stress levels barely moved to. How did these guys overblot? Vil as well for that matter.”

“Simulator cooldown complete.” Ortho reported as astern worked on desyncing the system, “Transferring subjects to the recovery room.”

“Testing sequence completed at 2245” Moor took note of.

“Good, good.” Idia muttered then looked at the two employees, “You two are free to go once the data is backed up.”

“Roger.” The two men nodded.

Ortho suddenly entered the room, “All subjects are in the recovery room Idia. They’re fast asleep.”

Helena laughed, “When is Leona not asleep? Not surprising at all.”

“Nice job Ortho.” Idia spoke calmly

“You to Idia!” Ortho cheered happily, “What do the results look like for Leona Kingscholar and Jamil Viper?”

Helena gasped as Idia put the data on the monitor, “Their numbers are exceptional!”

Idia started with looking at Leona’s data, “Spoiled or not, Leona is still royalty. Totally makes sense that he would have top notch magic instruction as a kid. His casting speed is off the charts and his magic pool is huge and he is quite efficient which helps with minimizing blot accumulation.” Idia sighed, “But I already knew Leona was tough and could handle whatever danger is thrown at him. And it’s hard to measure resilience when it comes to inner turmoil.”

“He does seem to commonly exhibit a great mental fortitude.” Ortho agreed. “And a drastic change could lead to an increase in blot accumulation.”

“Stat-wise he would be a great tank like Vil.” Idia continued. “But given his personality, he isn’t best suited for a leader. Now that I mention it, their personalities don’t seem to match with their ideal class.”

“What class do you believe Jamil would be?” Helena pondered.

“He’s tricky.” Idia admitted with a shrug, “He could fit just about anywhere TBH. But he tends to go for efficiency over speed, just like Azul. Looking at his background… he had no training before arriving at Night Raven College. Yet where he differs is how he is really quick and precise with defensive magic. Perhaps it’s his natural state given how he guards Kalim.

“So perhaps a Melee to defend a tank or a healer?” Ortho proposed.

“Something like that.” Idia nodded. “Just imagine it, Night Raven Quest, the RPG, now that’s a game I’d play even more given these additional stats.”

“You should totally make it Idia!” Ortho energetically requested, “It would be a blast! And it could be open world!”

“Development costs would be too much for open world for such a ridiculous concept.” Idia pointed out. “Besides development for a joke concept like this would be a pain and waste of my time.”

“Say Idia.” A lightbulb seemed to light up for Ortho, “Why don’t you invite the Housewardens to play with you and Muscle Red?”

“What!? No!” Idia was simply horrified, “Where did you get that idea!? None of these guys are interested in gaming! They are complete normies! And besides, we are going to send them to the River Lethe before they return to Night Raven College. They will forget everything, and possibly us as well.”Glancing briefly over at Helena and her Pomegranate lenses that his parents insisted on if their detail instructions before their departure, before finally turning his gaze to Ortho, “There is no use with making friends with them…”

[tri-poke]

It takes a bit of wrangling and roping but with the twins' help he manages to not just get the herd all back to one piece but also all lined up right by size so there is a downright syncopation to their steps, a steady drumbeat rolling down the valley.

It's a darn impressive accomplishment if Zach had to say it his own self.

And the Professor seems pleased as well, as it isn't but a few minutes after Zach has it down to a walking stomp you could dance to its so steady that Professor Jagidishor starts up his mad genius forge hammer sounding machine in his mad shop on wheels.

It's like an odd echo, the rhythm of the hammer and the rhythm of the trihorns moving in and out of sync as the Professor tries to adjust the speed of his machine by ear.

And then it matches. One single bang. Lift. Bang. Lift. Bang.

It's so strong that Zach feels almost like his own heart is trying to shift to match that intensity of rhythm.

Lift. Bang. Lift. Bang.

Demon-Tooth is sure affected by it. She starts hopping in her lope along with the herd so she is coming down with the Bang herself, springing forward with the Lift so she strikes back down with the bang as well.

It's almost a repeat of last time but it's like the ground is rolling with them, hardening under the pressure of all those feet when they Bang down and then rolling up after them in a wave, tossing everyone into a springing Lift before it all rolls over again down to that synchronous Bang.

The air above them scatters to blue every bit of dust exploding away in a rising wind centered on the Professor's shop. Spreading out and out... and then the rain comes again clear out of the clear blue sky, hot and quick and the whole sky is shimmering now like a mirage, like somehow the southern sea has poured up over them.

The red flare of warning up at the herd's head almost seems hesitant, like it isn't sure if there is a problem or if everything is going exactly according to plan as it spins and sputters and its smoke trail whisps away in moments, back to clear sky and an arc of hot rain whipping back on the herd.

Up ahead, from whereabouts they spotted the Professor, is a new little column of dust, new riders maybe about a dozen Rex's if Zach was to guess from the look of the column's size - revealed waveringly clear in the falling rain.

And that's about when Zach notices that the Bang is not so much desyncing as trying to sync even more - the ground or whatever might be under it trying to join along when it ain't got no space to lift into and no place to bend with the bang so it has to make do with a rising rumble.

The wheels on the professor's wagon start to wibble under the massive weight as they roll alternately across the bang but can't lift, and it's like they're trying to plow through deep mud, ripping up the earth in an oozy sludge.

Another red phosphor bolt flares into the sky where Cookie's wagon must be going through the same thing. The flare sputtering like the sky has had quite enough filth flung at it and has had enough, the light guttering and dying only a quarter as high as it should fly before it is whipped down along with the increasingly hot shower of rain.

The rumble of everything grows as the herd and the Rexes are bounced from Lift to Bang before being thrown up again, getting louder than the rhythm of it.

Another pair of phosphor shots off to the right, green to signal itself accurately as drivestep and red for warning and if Zach weren't fairly close to the signaler, which he has to guess is Revolver, he doesn't think he would have seen either as the sky strikes them down not more than twice the height of the herd.

But that's enough for Zach to not only see the signal but what the signal is warning of. As what at first looks like more rain sleets down the canyon walls. But even in that first moment, tiny geysers spit from the rock wall, breaking it apart, so the rain turns to wet pebbles, and then wet stones, more water erupting from the wall and atomizing into the rain, the entire canyon quaking as the Professor's machine draws the water out of the dirt and stone like a gianr compass picking up every metal filing no matter the barrier.

[nirahsa]

After playing around with the Evoker Augmentation spec on the PTR it seems to basically operate in two different stages that it rotates back and forth between in quick succession.

Buff Mode, where you use Ebon Might to buff 4 allies. Where upon you then expend Flame Breath, Upheaval Empowers to extend the time before chain casting Eruption to spend Essence and prolong the buff more. Before you hit the point where the buff is going to run out.

Then you go into Build Up Mode, waiting for Ebon Might to cooldown and letting your Essence pool as much as possible before it does. Basically just casting Living Flame and utilizing any other utility moves you have talented like Prescience to put a crit buff on different group members while trying to trigger essence burst to help give you more resources.

When Ebon Might Cools down you go back into Buff Mode.

This is a bit of an oversimplification since there are ways you can potentially extend Ebon Might more(Though they can end up desyncing ability cooldowns and making the buff uptime more erratic long term), but currently without a lot more Haste and Mastery you can’t get 100% uptime on Ebon Might and Blizzard’s recent changes make it apparent that they don’t want it to be trivial to actually accomplish that.

Important thing with Ebon Might is as it is on the PTR at current you CANNOT use it to extend the buff. As it doesn’t add its time onto the remaining duration it just refreshes it to the duration on the tooltip. Though it does operate on Pandemic Rules so if you do extend the buff long enough that ebon might cools down you can roll over the last couple of seconds.

To note on that, Ebon Might has a base cooldown of 30 seconds, with a base duration of 10 seconds that is increased by your mastery. At 3682 mastery its duration is increased by 14.7% giving it a duration of 11.5 seconds. So it takes a lot of mastery to really increase that duration at the moment. Though your mastery increases the duration of all your helpful buffs. Currently, Flame Breath and Upheaval increase the duration of an active Ebon Might buff by 2 seconds each. Eruption Increases it by 1 Sec, and Breath of the Eons increases it by 5 seconds(It’ll also apply it for 5 seconds if it isn’t up.). With Breath has a base 2 minute cooldown so it only shows up every now and then for extending the buff.

Overall I do find the design idea of Augmentation to be interesting and I am looking forward to seeing how it actually performs in dungeons and raids. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of difference its buffs make to groups. Its current damage is a good deal lower than Devastations so it definitely won’t be brought along for its amazing personal DPS.

Though this is all PTR stuff and the patch probably isn’t coming out for at least a month if not a bit more so the numbers might change multiple times between now and then.

[bihet-dragonize]

Doom anon here, I don't actually know all the ins and outs of the Doom engine, but it looks to me like the Morbius in Doom screenshots and gifs I've seen are a custom level running in a source port

I know even less about source ports than the basic engine, to be honest, so I don't know exactly what is happening well enough to say for certain, but I can make an educated guess

the original vanilla Doom on DOS used a sound synthesizer to generate its music, but it's also possible (at least in source ports as well as in some official ports, idk about the vanilla DOS version) to use recorded audio like ogg or mp3 files (the Unity shell version uses ogg files for the base games, in fact, one of my few major criticisms remaining for what is otherwise a pretty solid port imo, especially at its cheap price point)

Doom also has animated textures you can apply to walls and ceilings, usually lasting a few seconds before looping (I can't say if there's a limit in vanilla or not)

my guess would be someone compressed the film's video and made it into an animated texture to apply to the wall, while using the music track for the level (or maybe environmental audio so you only hear it in the theater?) to play the film's audio

Doom's internal logic I believe runs at 35 tics per second, which is why some ports use interpolation to do a higher framerate than 35fps. anyway that could possibly explain why the audio and video desync as the op watches the movie? idk

tbh I haven't looked any of this up because I've been up almost 24 hours and I'm chronically sleep-deprived, so my facts could be wrong about the tics and framerate, at least number-wise. but I would guess that the film plays at the wrong framerate since most movies are 24fps, meaning that if they simply converted each Morbius frame to a single frame for an animated wall texture, if that wall wasn't being displayed at 24fps, if it was playing at 30 or 35 or 60, the video would run fast and out of sync with audio (assuming the audio plays at the correct rate -- it might not, idk)

all of that assumes it is a wall texture though. I don't think in-level video playback is a feature in any source ports, but I can't say for certain. hope this helps. also if I'm wrong, someone please correct me! I wanna learn about that too!

My girlfriend guessed something similar (like a compressed gif of morbius on tumblr) so this makes sense. We didn't know about the mp3 files tho 😮

Thank you for the quick reply and I hope you can get some good sleep!!

[enembydev]

My Tag Game: Part 1

See, it all started when I saw this multiplayer game template. I’d seen them before, but I’ve long been a little scared of making online multiplayer, ever since I tried to make a shooter tactics game with Photon, a cloud based multiplayer tool.

It was going to be called Grid, and it was a team based game, where each team is trying to control more of the map. The map was a section of squares, with a terminal in the center you could activate to control that room. So each team would attempt to activate as many rooms as possible which would earn you points until the time runs out.

But there was a problem with my plan.

See, I was pretty new to Unity, and since writing Unityscript (a programming language), was faster than C#, I made my games exclusively in it. The problem was that Photon was written in C#, and I didn’t know it then, but C# and Unityscripts can’t interact directly, and my less educated self spent over a month trying to figure it out.

So I gave up.

Ever since then, I’ve wanted to make an online game, but I still find it pretty intimidating, so I looked for premade projects I could reference to make something unique(Which is a great way to learn, by the way.) So I found that template.

And it was pretty neat, not gonna lie. All it was was essentially you’d walk around on this giant grass plane, and if another person connected, they could walk too, and it’d sync the movement on both of your computers. Pretty boring, right?

I agreed. My first thought was to try and spawn in a cube, just to be sure this template actually worked. And it did! I was able to spawn a cube, locally, which is when I started actually learning about networking. Let me explain it a little.

I’d compare it to yelling in a loud room. You can, of course, understand yourself, and easily communicate without anyone else hearing you. You usually have someone close by you can interact with, and communicating to them is very easy and fast. But to talk to everyone, you’d need to yell, and there’s always the chance someone would misunderstand or be slow on the uptake, so you repeat yourself, or someone closer to them clarifies for you, till everyone understands.

So you could, for example, yell “I’m jumping!”, and eventually everyone would see that you, in fact, jumped. Not always directly, or necessarily at the exact moment you yelled, but they’d eventually get it. Especially when the ambulance arrived.

That’s how fuzzy sending information for multiplayer games can be. You have to account for slight timing differences, get anyone up to speed that wasn’t there earlier, and ensure the way your computer (your client), understands the situation is actually what happened for everyone else. It can get complicated, very fast, so what most people do, is they designate a ‘host’.

This host is typically the most active and quick responding ‘client’ in the game. They have the clearest ‘signal’ of events, and keep an eye on the state of the room, so each client can then ask the host what’s going on, whenever they don’t know.

This is… not what I did.

Another, riskier method, is peer-to-peer networking. I’m not talking about networking itself, just the way communication works in my game. How peer-to-peer works, is each individual client, reports on itself to everyone else. Any changing events for this player have to be sent by this player itself, which essentially means that only this player knows their own full state. The pitfall of this method is 1, it’s extremely easy to hack, and 2, Players can be unstable.

So if a player falls off the map, or dies, what happens if that player, for whatever reason, doesn’t acknowledge the event? Desync. The world that player lives in becomes different than everyone elses slightly, which can eventually break the simulation and ruin the game for everyone else, even if it’s unintentional.

This might seem really dumb, but for a tiny game like mine, it’s perfectly fine. The solution to all of these problems is just to play with people you trust and enjoy playing with. It saves me from needing to create ‘host’ logic, which is completely unnecessary for such a small game.

But enough of this learning crap, let’s talk about the game. Stay tuned next week for Part 2!

[criticswatch]

Giant Bomb: Quick Look: Desync

[lacklusterswirl]

Ash x Ceil fic? I suggested it earlier in a different context :P

“Am I taking requests?” Kinda… if you send it in I’ll write it eventually… but I do prefer angst most of the time soooo :p

For those that don’t know, Ciel is an OC who’s technically from an original story of mine, but sometimes shows up in R6 stuff I write just cause he’s also JTF 2.

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This time, it was Ciel who asked for help, and Rainbow answered. Ash hadn’t seen him since Buck and Frost were first recruited, and when they… well, just leave it the fact that they know each other. But for a budding romance that was already so slow to start, she doesn’t know if he would ever be interested in someone like her for more than just a one night stand. She was intense, stuck-up, and just had to be in control, and he was trying to keep himself from falling back into a similar pattern. And for good reason. Uncertainty tends to kill romance, and she thinks she sees that here too.

Warnings: Mentions of injuring, gunfights, cannon typical violence. (~2.4k words)

“You again?”

Ciel looked away from the blueprints of the building they were preparing to infiltrate. There were strings and pins around the map like he had spent hours on it, but they weren’t the focus of his attention anymore. “You’re part of a Canadian op. Who else were you expecting?”

“Excuse me, ma’am,” another man bumped into her as he went to stand by Ciel. No doubt, despite the impressive stripes on the newer man’s shoulder, Ciel was still higher rank. He always had to be on top, that bastard. He wasn’t even in his fucking uniform, the slob.

As if he read her mind, he looked up and smirked. “Do you plan on joining us anytime soon?”

Ash rolled her eyes and stepped in to take a closer look at the pins. “Sledge and Blitz will be here soon. They had to stop by and get some kind of special badge to walk around.”

“And you made it here first?” The stranger chimed in. His name tag said Millier though, so that must’ve been his last name.

Ciel smirked and looked back up at his own pins. “Ne sois pas méchant. She’s a guest.” Ash just rolled her eyes.

During the briefing, Ciel was calm and didn’t seem to make a big deal out of the op. It was simple. Go in, clear, and get out. No secondary objectives or anything. However, a simple op like that wasn’t why you called in an international org like Rainbow. All these thoughts were over ridden the entire time though because Ash swore that he was making fun of her for something. His eyes seemed to stay on her for a moment longer than the others, and it made her wonder if he was trying to tell her something more subtle. So, afterwards, she stayed behind.

“Something wrong, Ash?”

“I was going to ask you the same thing.”

“Well, I’ve never been better, thanks for asking.” He took a seat on the table so one leg was off the other ground, but the other was still touching the floor. Even now, he seemed in control. As he always was. From the moment she met him to now, this was always how he was.

“There’s nothing else?” She didn’t misread him. For how guarded he was, his patterns were quite simple. “I know you, you know?”

“I was wondering if you’d like to come out around town with me and Millier tomorrow. Bring your team if you’d like. I know Millier wants to hear about your work.”

“So, this has nothing to do with Buck?”

Ciel gave that coy smile to show that she was right. “I figured that if you didn’t want to tell me, that it wouldn’t be an answer I wanted to hear. You do make the teams after all, eh?”

“Buck… well, he’s moved on.”

“And Frost?”

“She’s doing well, if that’s what you want to know. Knows her way around a mission, and is always a comfort to have on your side. She’s fine as well. They aren’t concerns of Rainbow.”

He made some vague agreeing sound. “And you?” Those green eyes settled on her, and she almost felt uncomfortable.

“I’m well. Nothing new has happened, though I was surprised to hear that you called in help this time. Pulling favours? Must be important. You didn’t sound so stressed when you were talking.”

“I can’t disclose much. But know that your organization’s presence here is very welcomed.”

And by the tone of his voice, he meant it.

You don’t send in two higher ranking officers, one of whom was a legend, and three Rainbow ops for just any mission. And so, this was about what Ash expected. They were engaged in heavy fire from the moment they were deployed. Ash looked over at where Sledge was taking shots through the side door and giving a short report every time one went down.

Blitz was with the Canadian ops while they were going straight through the front door, and from the sound of things, they already made their entry. This wasn’t good. They were meant to enter at the same time, but Ash and Sledge were still posted at their door, unable to set foot in the house.

“Lobby clear, but footsteps are approaching from upstairs— CONTACT!” Ciel’s breathy voice broke her away for a quick moment until bullets flew at her again. She nodded at Sledge, they couldn’t fall any further behind. Together, she and Sledge broke into the kitchen and started clearing enemies who were fleeing from Ciel’s team down the stairs and into their waiting crosshairs.

An explosion sounded from above them, and Ash had to take cover from the bullets raining from above. She glanced over at Sledge but saw him testing his left hand.

“Sledge?”

“Grazed my arm when I was breaking down the door. Starting to feel it now.”

“Shit… Stay safe, we’re almost done. Let me know if it gets too bad.”

He nodded and they turned around the corner to take out the last few terrorists in the room.

“This is Ash, we’re going downstairs.”

“Copy.” That was Millier. Why was he the one responding?

“Ash, what are you waiting for? Count me down,” Sledge hissed. Ash nodded and counted them down. The moment they landed, they immediately went back to back as they cleared out the room. Out the room and taking a corner put them in a good position to take out a few without direct engagement.

“This is Mil reporting, top floor is cleared, but Ciel got thrown in the blast from earlier.”

Ash’s heart stopped.

“He’ll be ok, just a little shaken.”

She sighed, relieved, though she couldn’t pinpoint exactly why it mattered so much. It wasn’t like she could do anything about it now either. She and Sledge had to continue their assault.

When it was all done, and Ciel was safely extracted, there was a tense silence on the plane. Ciel had his eyes closed, trying to block out all sound, while Millier was preparing dressings and ice packs. As for Rainbow, Blitz and Sledge were staring at Ash, expecting an outburst. That was her reputation after all. She was intense, focused, too stuck-up, and hot-headed. However, she waited until debrief before demanding the whole story while Ciel was in the infirmary.

They were clearing out the master bedroom, and Ciel was about to push in when Blitz motioned that he would take point with the shield. As he moved forward though, Ciel must’ve caught something on his sensor because he lunged at the German operator while Millier covered them. It was unneeded though. The C4 killed the only terrorist in the room and Ciel had gotten thrown into a wall. Blitz was a little shocked, but fine otherwise.

“I don’t understand. I have a shield for a reason,” he complained the moment Ciel stepped into the briefing room.

“Your back was facing it, what else was I gonna do?” Ciel responded, taking a seat with a slight grimace. “It was calculated though. I knew the layout of the room, the number of enemies, and my own strength.”

“That… I—”

While Blitz stuttered a little trying to come up with a response, Ciel just smiled at Ash and Millier. “How was the rest of debrief?”

“Elle est trop—”

“Elle peut nous comprendre, Millier. Dis-le à moi plus tard.” Ciel gave Ash a small smile and nodded at the rest. “You are all dismissed. Thank you, Rainbow, for coming in. Things would’ve been a little hairier had that been just a two-man op.”

Blitz and Sledge both stood to leave the room, and after a moment – and a few seconds of unsure eye contact – Millier followed them. Ciel waited until the door was closed until he spoke to Ash.

“Millier interrupted earlier, but what did you think of the mission?”

“Why do you care? It’s over,” she helped him pack up the files, reaching for things that would otherwise hurt him to stretch and grasp for. “It’s a success. Congrats.”

“Oh, come on. I can tell you’re mad at me. And a little bit mad at yourself too?”

Well, since he asked for it. “You shouldn’t have gone upstairs. You shouldn’t have entered before I did.”

“The plan was set in motion. Millier and I are best suited to more enclosed spaces, and Blitz had a shield. It was the right team. And entering didn’t lead to any mistakes.”

“It desynced us.”

“It didn’t matter if we were in sync or not. That C4 was ready for us, and it would’ve been thrown whether or not we were synced.”

“The mission wasn’t perfect.” Ash slammed a stack of papers down on the desk in a perfect pile.

“No mission is.” Ciel grabbed them and packed them away haphazardly.

Ash glared at him. “Our reputation—”

“Will not be affected.” Ciel was counting photos, only looking up once to take in her expression.

She could feel the heat creeping up her neck, as she said the next line. “You almost died.”

There. That made him stop. “I didn’t… You know what? Stay here, I’ll be back.”

It took perhaps ten minutes and Ciel was back with a bottle of golden liquid and two glasses. “It’s to help you destress,” he said, offering the glass he just poured. “Drink it slowly though, I would like you to help me finish up here.”

“You aren’t in charge of me anymore,” she smiled around the glass, but complied anyways. God, she hated whiskey, but the soothing burn was a comfort.

Ciel paused as he was placing the next batch of papers in a box. “You know,” he placed his hands on the table and looked Ash directly in the eye. “Millier loves you. Not like… a romantic love, but he is obsessed with your skill and how you command your unit. He admires you. As do all the soldiers you work with, even the ones who don’t really show it. Cut yourself some slack.”

“Can’t get complacent. Not everyone can take ten years off from this work to raise a child then come back basically the same.”

“It’s not complacency, it’s called forgiveness. And everyone made sure to let me know that… gah, that I had… changed.” He made a motion to his general body, and Ash got the general idea. “Yet I had to forgive myself then too.”

She stopped moving her hands as she noticed he hadn’t done anything in the past few minutes. “Get your ass moving or else we’ll be stuck in here for hours.”

He chuckled, but went back to work. Another moment of silence passed before he spoke up again. “I know you still don’t like Buck because of me.”

Her eyes flew up to meet his. “I don’t hold anything against Buck.”

“Except the fact that I was engaged to him about fifteen years ago, and yet I still request regular check-ins with him and Frost, while I haven’t talked to you since… that night.” The way he looked at her while still organizing told her that he knew exactly what he was doing, and the reaction she wanted to give was what he was expecting.

“Is this how you work?” she asked him. There, he wasn’t expecting that.

He tilted his head slightly to the side and looked back down as he started scribbling on a new set of forms.

“Is my handwriting not neat enough?”

With Ciel, as she had learned the first time, it payed to be direct. He wasn’t one to be easily offended, especially if there was no intention. “Are you trying to get me to be one of those girls and boys for you?”

“… One of those girls and boys? You make me sound like I’m constantly hooking up with people.”

“…Aren’t you?” She gave him an even look. For how responsible he was in every endeavor he took, relationships were not one of them.

“Not constantly. No one can do it that often. I certainly can’t. I am getting older,” he smirked, finally standing up and placing the last pile in the box. “You know me. If you want something, it’s best just to ask.”

“I don’t want to be just another one-night stand for you again.”

“You don’t have to be, I mean, you’re already moving onto a two-night status, aren’t you?” He picked up the box with a quiet huff and started to turn away before freezing in place to face her once more.

“I think I get what’s wrong,” he murmured. “You think that I think that you’re easy. And that I don’t respect you.”

Ash stared back, refusing to give anything away, which, in itself, was a giveaway.

“Eliza…” Him saying her real name was… it was bringing back memories she’d rather leave alone. “I won’t judge you for who you sleep and don’t sleep with, and I know you like to stress over the things you don’t know, but… don’t think of me as someone you need to stress over. That’s the last thing I want to be to you.”

“Then how about tonight, Skye? I know you have to check with Iris first, but after… well, I haven’t been in Toronto before.”

He flashed her a smile that practically glowed. “It would be my pleasure. Just don’t make fun of me too much when I get stiff. Age is unpredictable. So are nitro’s.”

“Does this mean you’ll stop ignoring my requests to put operators in your missions?”

“Not a chance!” He spun and leaned against the door with his back. “Knowing you, you’ll outdo too many of my newer soldiers, and they’ll never gain any leadership experience working with you. Ask again when I’m in charge, then I’ll consider it.” Ash was shaking her head at him. “What? You’re too good for some of them!”

“What a jealous old man,” she shook her head.

“Oh, come off it now, I can’t be that much older than you, right?”

“Aren’t you like fifty?”

“F-” his eyebrows furrowed. “Fifty? What did Buck tell you? I’m the same age as him!” She chuckled, and he let the mock frown change into a more satisfied smile. “Come knock on my office when you’re ready.”

“See you then.”

The door closed behind him, and she turned to back her gadget. The bastard always tried to get her to fucking relax, and it worked every time. As long as she didn’t see her operators with this blush, she was sure she could save face. Or not. What were they going to say to her anyways?

[verdigrisprowl]

June 10 Dancitron Movie Night - Halloween (2018)

Soundwave is in trouble with the Iacon police. Not for accidentally owning a deployer in stasis for seven years. For illegally planting a seed in the crystal gardens. His punishment is community service.

Prowl is slightly disappointed in Soundwave, but mostly thinks the ankle tracker is overkill.

Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:19 PM After attacking the video wall with a repair kit for the better part of an hour, Soundwave finally gets a passable signal to come through. He hopes this is an entertaining film, because otherwise he's going to fill out a whole lot of reports with a lot more iciness than is strictly necessary or pleasant to read. For now, he'll just park himself on the couch and wait. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:22 PM ((when you accept a friend invite from someone you were playing overwatch with, only to find out their like 12 and beg you turn rejoin the game after 9)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:22 PM And Prowl will park himself right next to Soundwave. He is pleased to see that Soundwave isn't under arrest. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:23 PM ((aww))

Soundwave is not under arrest, no. He's not a particularly happy camper, but he is, at least, not in jail. That ups his mood by about 5000% from where it could've been. He is going to lean on Prowl straight away and lift his leg. Look. Look at this leg, Prowl. Do you see. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:26 PM ... He sees a leg. His mun, however, is not certain what Prowl should be observing about it. Besides its beauty. He's DEFINITELY observing its beauty though. Soundwave is welcome to demonstrate his leg to Prowl any time he wants. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:27 PM Jazz is wandering in and also curious about the raised leg Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:29 PM There is a THING on that leg. A thing that does not belong there, and has never been there in the whole time either of those mechs has known him. It is ugly, and clunky, and anyone who's had anything to do with the law for more than half an hour should know what it is.

He's gotten in trouble. There is a tracker on him. It's horrible. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:30 PM ((I'll try and keep up with chat, but don't know if I'll watch the movie. Got an ocular migraine starting)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:30 PM There'sa predacon carefully poking her head in and ppering around. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:30 PM ((no problem. if you can't stay with chat don't force yourself to do that either; don't screw around with migraines)) He lowers his leg to nod to the Predacon queen. It's been a while. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:30 PM Prowl is stunned, crestfallen, and devastated, in roughly that sequence. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:31 PM ((hello, rabbit still isn't working for me, hope its okay to peek in)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:31 PM ((five minutes til start, we're goin quick tonight on account of lateness - and ye it's fine)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:31 PM [Rabbit is forever a butt] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:31 PM ((am i the only one here who's gonna see the movie)) Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 8:31 PM ((possibly)) KwehToday at 8:31 PM ((I am! jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:31 PM ((I get them often enough that it's more annoyance than anything. What sort of moovie is this?)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:31 PM ((halloween (2018) )) ((with all that implies)) KwehToday at 8:32 PM ((will decide on a character once I'm done crying about Lea Salonga's beautiful voice Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:32 PM ((IT'S ME AND KWEH, THE LONE AUDIENCE)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:32 PM ((I'm hopfully getting much better internet in a few weeks or month)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:32 PM [Blaster has rabbit open beside me, but I've got Fringe on while sewing. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:32 PM Jazz snickers a bit. "What ya do to get in trouble, wave?" Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:32 PM ((better internet! good luck!)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:33 PM [I'm always here for the company. :blue_heart: Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:33 PM Soundwave doesn't need to look at Prowl to know that's the sequence of emotions he just experienced. He knows what a stickler for the law Prowl is. He knows how he's disappointed the mech. There is shame. Shame! ... But not too much shame. Just a little. A scrap.

[[He decided to tell an officer of the law about something reprehensible but unintentional and came away with this.]] jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:33 PM ((I know nothing about this movie. Is it more like Halloween town or horror?)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:33 PM ((horror. lots of horror.)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:34 PM Ice Quuen carefully settles herself and looks...happyp tired, keeps her wings closed for now, not sure to 'realease the non scary beasties.' Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:34 PM Is this Prowl's fault. Did they arrest him because he didn't know a Minicon was on his shelf. This is an abhorrent miscarriage of justice but what can he do about it?? He can't possibly get involved without implicitly abusing his authority. This is a travesty. A tragedy. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 8:34 PM ((so much horror Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:34 PM [Horr-or jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:34 PM ((Ah. Nope, nope. Not even leaving it open to listen along.)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:35 PM [[Fortunately, bail was low and he can spend some time cleaning up the Praxus gardens as penance. Still. He doesn't like anyone knowing where he is.]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:35 PM ((horror? eep)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:35 PM He sends Soundwave a couple of apology pings and takes his hand. He's so sorry. This is his fault. How could they be so cruel to Soundwave. Well, he knows how. But WHY. It's unforgivable. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:36 PM Soundwave tilts his head and looks at the hand, slightly confused. What's Prowl apologizing for? But a hand is a hand. He'll snatch it up and lace their fingers together. It's them against the world of horrible, horrible other cops. ProwlToday at 8:36 PM It's fine, the abhorrent miscarrier of justice finally decided it was time to visit Dancitron again. Getting over awkward offenses is easy once you've slapped a tracker on them! Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:37 PM Fiend! Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:37 PM Is there still a peeking Predacon at the door? She might get picked up on the way in. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 8:37 PM Oh for the love of....well. No, don't do things like that. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:38 PM "... Is community service and a tracker the only punishment you came away with?" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:38 PM [Also, hiiii Icy!] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:38 PM The predacon was just entering with a hatching or two under her wings trying to peek out. ((hiii!!)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:40 PM No pick up then unless the smalls want uppies. [Nice to see ya around. :3 Still chatting with Fatala/Jeanne?] Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:40 PM [[Yes. They couldn't find any reason to give him a harsher punishment for planting a seed in a garden without permission.]] Hmph. Looking at his own world's Prowl. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:40 PM Prowl blinked. "... What?" Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:40 PM ((off and on, she seems to be really busy)) ProwlToday at 8:40 PM Prowl does not address Soundwave or the Captain for the time being and takes a seat at one of the empty tables. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:42 PM If he can pick up Icy, there will be several intresting sounds no one has heard from her since she was a hatchling. and the tinies would be THRIILLED. Icy? confused as hell but won't bite. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:42 PM [The work stuff of insurance and con prep for next month is prolly keeping her very busy.] Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:42 PM Soundwave waves his unoccupied hand. [[Someone noticed the Harmonex tower seed growing in the Praxus gardens. He couldn't deny it. What if they'd decided to tear it out?]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:42 PM ((yeah, she was going to commistion me bor a themed catcher set but had to stop it)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:42 PM "Oh! Then—the punishment isn't for the deployer?" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:43 PM Primus can pick up anyone. All a matter if she'd want to be raised up like a trophy for the sake of fun. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:43 PM ((also i am sorry ahead of time for what stuttering/desyncing there is; i'm having to stream this from browser instead of through theirs because rabbit and vudu don't get along)) Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:43 PM Swoop drags his very banged up self through the front door, chirping and looking around. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:43 PM [[What? No. No, she was quite sensible about that.]] jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:43 PM Jazz is considering offering to help spoof the tracker so that Soundwave can make it look like he's wherever he should be, but given the number of Prowls present he'd probably get in trouble for offering. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:43 PM [Aw. Your dreamcatchers are very pretty.] Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:43 PM That's what private comms are for, Jazz. ... Also, you assume he didn't already consider that. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:43 PM ((also please do pick Icy up, she still has no idea who Primus really is, primus. just that mech that played with her hatchlings)) Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:44 PM Swoop hops, skips, limps, and skitters about. "Bird?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:44 PM [[Greetings, those who have entered lately.]] At Swoop and Primus and others. [[No, no Bird tonight. Next week, perhaps.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:44 PM Swoop deflated, going so far as to stick is sad lil lower lip out at Soundwave. ((I love this theme song. It just gets me pumped every time.)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:45 PM ((hell yeah)) [[Did you think it was about the deployer? Is that - is that why you apologized?]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:46 PM VICTORY FOR VEGET- Wrong character. Icy is going to go UP. "Hi." Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:46 PM "Oh. Good, that's—that's good." He paused. "They put a TRACKER on you for unauthorized gardening??" jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:47 PM "For a seedlin'? Is it considered an invasive species there, or somethin'?" Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 8:47 PM Quick nod to his alternate. Then going to prod at Primus. "Seriously?!" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:47 PM [[It's from one city and he placed it in another. So, yes.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:47 PM In the absence of a bird-friend, Swoop stands in place, completely unsure of what to do with himself. He didn't plan this far. There isn't a next step. He lives in this exact spot now apparently. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 8:48 PM Jazz snorts at the youngling and pats the open spot next to him. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:48 PM [[That, and something to do with his constantly traveling to another planet. Afraid he'll stay there, he imagines.]] [[Swoop, do sit.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:49 PM That'll do. Swoop takes a few long steps and plop himself next to Jazz. This is where he lives now apparently. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:49 PM He gives the tracker a distasteful look. "I'd consider it... excessive." That was the politest word he'd give it. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:50 PM ((I love the quiet badass energy she's got POURING off her already.)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:51 PM ((she looks like she'd like to slap both of them into next week already)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:51 PM There is something like a half mew of a cat and a startled owl sound that came out of the big predacon as she;s  hefted up. Wings snapped out in reflex, one would like smack the lord of light and the other bonking the ceiling. It freed her tag alongs to scramble and one jump ship to keep from falling off.Ice Queen had no shame in giveing yipping chirps like if she had been the hatchling instead, one leg kicking in the air. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:51 PM [[Is five a large number for humans?]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:51 PM ((She's tryign to decide if $3k is enough or if she could beat them up for more)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:51 PM [[It seems a lot for such a short-lived species to accomplish, but he doesn't know.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:52 PM "For murders? It's five more than most humans." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:52 PM Soft huff. That's fair. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:52 PM "... Five more than most Cybertronians, before we all became soldiers." Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:52 PM Swoop pulls his legs up underneath himself. He rocks a little in place, cause holding still is for nerds. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:53 PM [[Why don't you mind your own business, human.]]

[[Ah. Yes. War does tend to color one's perception of murder.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:53 PM "Me Swoop can murder people." He's contributing to the conversation now. You're welcome. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:53 PM [[Five in one night?]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:54 PM "Five NOTHING! Keheh. That one combiner. No big deal." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:54 PM [[It is a big deal if they are all together at the time.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:54 PM That was an unexpected sound that was rather amusing. No harm was done to the building, though he did 'ow' being smacked in the face. Looks up at the Predacon held in victory with a bemused chuckle. "Been a long while, hm?" Puts Icy back down so she could gather the little runaways before they got into anything. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:55 PM "Us Dinobots fight Devastator a LOTS of time." : > Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:55 PM Grimaces at this talk of combiner murder. "Devastator's six, not five." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:55 PM Oh, hm. That was somewhat insensitive of him, wasn't it. Apology ping. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 8:56 PM "Five, six, same whatever kehehheh." ProwlToday at 8:56 PM Prowl finally speaks. "The Crystal Gardens are protected and the introduction of a possible invasive species has the potential to destroy what little regrowth had occurred since the planet's revival."

She pauses, weighing her next sentence.

"Ultra Magnus felt he was a flight risk against my recommendation in an effort to appease the governors." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 8:56 PM Mumbled thought. [[This one has all the tact Frenzy can bring to bear.]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:57 PM "A looong time...." Ice Queen said, her head pulled back and staring with a wide optic at thenew mech. Racer was clinging to his head and.... um, where did the other one go? Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 8:58 PM Well, he hopes the other little one is not getting into trouble. But, he's still giving Primus a look. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:58 PM "A flight risk over one seed." Tsk. Somehow Prowl didn't quite buy that excuse. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:58 PM "Good to feel young again." Pets Racer to calm him down. Have you tried his legs or back? Plenty of spaces to hide a small mech. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:58 PM The new one is just sitting on a chair mewing confused. little feline one. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 8:58 PM "... Is the garden alright?" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 8:59 PM Oh, there they are. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 8:59 PM RAcer is offically draft horse size now so, hope that's okay. He's a little dragonic predacon like icy. just 'small,' and clings to new perch. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:00 PM [[Hmph. Big words from a youngling who knows nothing of being hunted.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:00 PM Oh! This movie was pretty boring. Suddenly, Swoop is VERY into this. "Her pretty good shoot!" ProwlToday at 9:00 PM "Our botanist is still determining that." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:01 PM Little cheetah cat-insulted  look if that was aimed at him. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:01 PM Doesn't have any issues in the slightest. He is Primus. And is listening to the conversation near Soundwave[Slendy] while feeling very berrated by the closer Soundwave[CC]. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:01 PM "Who 'it'?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:02 PM [[She ought to be a good shot if she spent forty years practicing. And they are referring to the human who tried to kill her four decades ago.]] ProwlToday at 9:02 PM "Michael." Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:02 PM "Me Swoop almost forty!" Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:03 PM Smokescreen is coming in, not bothering with a cloak to hide his missing doorwings tonight, looks at the screen, and is just about ready to leave. "Soundwave? This- uh, is this the movie?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:03 PM [[Yes. You're a bit late. Do you require catching up?]] Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 9:03 PM And he should. Five steps in. Five. Steps. And Primus is already spooking others. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:04 PM Ice Queen is refloding her wings, hope she has not smacked anyone. Looks up to check if she did a dent. Looks up at Primus and her hatchling, puzzled  chirps comes out. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:04 PM "Forty years is over half a human lifespan. But, in return, it looks like she hasn't been... living during those years.  It's correct that she's prepared for the worst; but in preparing, she has little of a life worth living. Both she and her... offspring's offspring have valid perspectives." Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:04 PM "Uh. Maybe. I, uh, saw the earlier movies the other day." Granted, it wasn't a fun experience, and it led to his doorwings coming off in the first place, but he still saw them! Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:05 PM Swoop gives Prowl a weird look. He's very unclear on this whole topic. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:05 PM [[Hm. Perhaps. Still, they seem uninclined to help.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:06 PM Giving Racer scritches as if this was perfectly normal behavior. "Yes?" Looking at Icy. Mentally nudges Smokescreen. You okay...? Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:07 PM Smokescreen finally realizes he's been standing at the door for a few moments now, and heads on inside, nodding at Primus, maybe sticking close to Primus. Very close. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:08 PM Eeeeeeeeeeeeever so slowly, Swoop sliiiides down off the couch like he's melting onto the floor. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:08 PM [[Well, if you decide you need to know, tell him. Find a seat somewhere comfortable.]] Judging by what led to Smokey's doors coming off the last few times, he's going to assume the mech's back hurts. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 9:08 PM Smokescreen had better be on the other side then. Because he's attempting to keep the deity out of trouble. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:08 PM [[Stay in the vehicle, child.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:09 PM Wraps one of his wings around Smokescreen of he's that close. Would nuzzle, but his helm is a host to a big/small Predacon child. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:09 PM New subject to absorb. Jazz has zeroed in on the new Prowl. "So.. with the gardens. The seedlings need to be kept sort of regional for climate reasons, right? They don't always grow well in other places. Is there a garden renewal program with the place the seedling is from? Or a way to move it to a climate controlled area for it?" Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:10 PM The queen.. isn't sure but remembers to get her bulk out of the way, Racer is leaning into the touch happily and is not stressed, so no over protective predacon. Ice queen checks on the other hatchling...who has taken over the chair. That's his spot now tank you. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:10 PM He is now a puddle. He is a liquid pteroborb. Just all over the floor. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:10 PM Jazz is giving Swoop a perplexed look. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:10 PM Limbs everywhere. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:11 PM "The child has terrible gun safety." jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:11 PM "You okay, bitlet?" Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:11 PM Smokescreen's at the other side, looking at Primus, and then Soundwave, leaning back against Primus' wing. "I'm pretty comfy here, Soundwave! But thank you!" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:11 PM [[The place the seedling is from is a pile of rubble created from a bigger pile of rubble. As with a few other places on Cybertron, no one has settled there yet. He has a few other seeds, but they are in stasis.]] Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:12 PM Swoop continues splaying out on the floor, oblivious to the fact he's apparently a bitlet. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:12 PM [[And he doesn't think the child needs to worry about gun safety anymore. Unfortunately.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:12 PM "The guy he shot could have benefitted from the child's gun safety." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:13 PM [[That is true.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:13 PM Changes which servo was giving scritches to Racer so Smokescreen could have some too. Good boys. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:14 PM Smokescreen is shutting his audials off for a moment, but leans in as he's scritched. He's good? He's really good? Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:15 PM Ice Queen will just sit and then loaf on Primus' other side, still not sure who he is. but ��her hatchling likes him. Racer will perch happily and hang onto the head with his tail too....it may or may not cling to his face or over the otics as RAcer shifts to look around from Epic Pertch. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:15 PM [[Yes. Yes, that is what you should do.]] jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:15 PM Jazz is just gonna scoop up Swoop and put him in his lap. He's not paying enough attention to the movie to know what caused the apparent melting, but he's going to give the wings soothing pets. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:16 PM From the floor comes a chirped, "Halloween!" ProwlToday at 9:16 PM "There is, though I'm not involved aside from volunteering, so I couldn't tell you the exact details of the renewal program and what steps will be taken." Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:16 PM And by floor we of course mean sofa. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:16 PM Prowl starts fiddling with Soundwave's fingers. He's not doing anything specific, just checking them out. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:17 PM ((if y'all have teeth-related fears look away when he sticks his hand over the stall for about 15-20 sec)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:17 PM Smokescreen is a very good boy. Really needs to stop getting himself into such trouble, but he was a very good boy. Can't exactly see much due to Racer, so he can't observe much anymore. Does know that Soundwave[CC] may have been dislodged from his spot by Icy. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:18 PM The predacon can just be Loafing near! Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:18 PM ((oh man... tooth stuff.)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:18 PM Soundwave doesn't quite know what to make of this. Prowl's never really - this is different than usual. He doesn't mind; it's kind of nice to be examined. He places a small blue question mark on his visor and leans forward, curious. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:19 PM He answers the question mark with an affection ping. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:20 PM Smokescreen turns his audials back on, realizing it's much, much more effective to look away from the screen. "Oh yeah- sorry, Soundwave, I didn't bring cookies or anything this week. But I can still treat myself to drinks and stuff like normal, right?" Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:20 PM ((WHOA was there a frame of Michael's face in there????)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:20 PM ((when??)) Oh! Is this just admiration? Did he start Prowl off on that with the leg thing earlier? That's nice; he'll happily indulge Prowl on that. Maybe offer up the other hand and bob his head. There are a few small wear differences between them. He uses one more often for typing and one more often for repair work. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:20 PM ((He like turned really fast to pull the dude around and I swear there was like one solid frame with a face.)) Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 9:21 PM He is going to huff, and keep watch. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:21 PM Hm. Comparison time. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:21 PM ((quite possible; there is in the original too i think - and they do a lot of mirroring since he's basically trying to restart the night over)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:21 PM ((sorry if I missed something)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:21 PM [[Yes, of course you may. ... Get a few extra if you need.]] At Smokescreen. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:22 PM Swoop yaaaaaaaaaawns. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:23 PM ((fuck's sake. give us a second y'all)) jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:23 PM ((sup?)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:23 PM ((rabbit crapped out)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:23 PM ((oh my)) Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:23 PM "Really? Thanks, Soundwave! Any special occasion, or do you just need to get rid of some snacks?" Smokescreen is slowly moving from under Primus' wing towards the snacks, using any nearby furniture to support himself. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:23 PM Slowly, Swoop turns to look around at the whole room. Who is here? Not Bird, that's who. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:24 PM ((vudu is the one that went pbblbbt, gimme a sec)) [[Just plenty of snacks to share.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:24 PM ((the one time it WASN'T rabbit)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:25 PM RAcer is carefuly hopping down to a shoulder, still trying to hold onto Primus with his head as he flods his wings up.  feels safer there, and total shoulder predacon now. Swoop (medicalmurdersaurus)Today at 9:25 PM ((Ahh. This movie is a lot of fun but I'm fading fast. Let's just have Swoop zonk out too. Feel free to get up to all sorts of hilarious shenanigans with the past out dino lol)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:25 PM Smokescreen, would you like temporary doorwings to help with balance? They'd be there but not. And hello, Racer. You're his parrot now? Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:26 PM ((aaaaaah goodnight ;; )) ((finish it some time if you never have seen it! it's good)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:26 PM ((rest well!)) racer is a parrot on primus's shoulder. he can jump down though! he's a LOT bigger now though ProwlToday at 9:27 PM Prowl perks with interest at the reveal there. How clever. jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:27 PM Jazz now has a dinobot sleeping on him. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:27 PM Actually, that would be nice! Smokescreen would probably be overjoyed if Primus did that. Absolutely overjoyed. For now, though, he's just made it to the snack table, and is grabbing as much as his hands can hold. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:28 PM If Prowl is interested, the hand with the sharper claws is the one he uses for repairs. Comes in handy when you don't have a wire stripper around, y'know? Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:29 PM "Before getting kicked out, she could have at least bothered to inform them WHOSE bus crashed. They could have at least known to lock the doors in case." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:29 PM [[Yes, she does fail to make that clear. Then again, he doesn't know there's anyone else she would be paranoid about.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:30 PM Racer can jump down to his momma if he wants. Primus looked over to Smokescreen with a soft hum. Moves one of his servos for guidance to 'return' Smokescreen's doorwings for the night. Unless he'd want them to be permanent? He's bee very out of touch and doesn't want to make Smokescreen unhappy with this. He's already got Soundwave[Slendy] unhappy for reasons he's unaware of. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:30 PM Prowl's noticed one hand is sharper than the other—that's the fun hand—but he's never really carefully compared them like this. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:30 PM (("the fun hand" ahaha)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:31 PM "... How long are you being tracked?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:31 PM [[Two days. Then it's decided what he'll have to do.]] An irritable vent. [[It's horrible.]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:32 PM RAcer falls off, thumps on ground and rolls before popping up. He meant to do that. Really. Racer grooms hismself while his younger sibling laughs at him. He dos get a lick from his carrier. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:32 PM "I thought they already decided? Or are you at risk of more punishment than community service?" jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:32 PM "Ah. Two days is short, though." Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:33 PM While he'd love to have them back now, he's actually getting some new ones soon! So it's fine, really, probably. Still, the moment he has them back for the moment, he's spinning around the main area, taking a few jumps, and maybe a fall, just to enjoy them again. "Frag yeah! Frag yeah! Did, uh- how'd you do this, Primus, sir? Are these, uh, the same ones that I lost?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:34 PM [[He's already doing his work by connection so they can't find out what he's doing and where he's going over there. A good thing Ravage signed on as a proper employee; he can handle tracking by himself for a while.]]

[[The current decision is for interfering with the gardens without permission. What to do about the invasive species bit is another matter.]] He'll probably bribe the gardens and try to get the seed back. They can't complain then, right? [[It's only short if you have nothing to hide from other mechs.]] jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:36 PM "It's short if you've had a much longer parole before." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:36 PM [[Long sentences and breakouts. No paroles.]] Soundwave looks to Prowl. [[You didn't hear the second part of that first sentence.]] jazz(unkillablejazz)Today at 9:37 PM "Did those too." Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:38 PM That's very good news! "In a manner of speaking, yes. It isn't too difficult to track down your signature. I'm very familiar with it after all." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:38 PM Tiny sneer. [[Abandon the fool.]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:38 PM Racer starts sniffing about, may he visit a few mechs? Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:39 PM [[Good.]] What were they saying? [[And what were you given long sentences for?]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:39 PM "I'll let it slide." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:39 PM A huff. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:41 PM "What's a breakout or two when I already knew that you're a dangerous rogue gardener." He tapped Soundwave's tracker with his foot. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:44 PM Soundwave's mouth opens and shuts once before he determines that this is a joke. He bops Prowl's foot back with the tracked leg.

[[A terrible criminal, him. A threat to pristine grounds all across Cybertron.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:45 PM Huff. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:45 PM And then a mild frown. [[He supposes this puts an end to his idea of planting one in Iacon.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:46 PM "Not necessarily. You just have to get permission and ensure that it won't take over the local flora, correct?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:47 PM He has no idea. He didn't even think about invasive species being a dangerous thing the first time, let alone look things up. He glances to the other Prowl. Help? ((putting the jack o lantern in an aquarium to douse it, how petty)) Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:47 PM Turns out looking away still means hearing the sound, and Smokescreen really isn't for that during the more intense scenes, and is going to pretty much cling to Primus during all of the scary-sounding scenes. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:50 PM Smokescreen will get back rubs between the doorwings. "Not my sort of movie either." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:51 PM Racer puts a paw on Smokescreen's leg, not so tiny predacon sniffs at him. remembers him! ProwlToday at 9:52 PM "The Captain is correct. Local flora in Iacon is scarce to begin with as it is and there are fewer citizens to interfere with your seedling's growth." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:53 PM "What is it that you're trying to plant?" Ice Queen asks from her spot. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:54 PM "I mean, I enjoyed the first movie when I watched it, it's just- it kinda reminded me of slag." He's resting himself against Primus, probably not about to let go for the rest of the night. Still! Racer gets a pat on the helm! Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:54 PM "And if it's a nearly extinct plant, it would probably merit protection." ProwlToday at 9:54 PM "It would." Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:55 PM "Slag? The Dinobot or the metal trash?" Nuzzles Smokescreen's helm. Strokes the back of it soothingly. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 9:56 PM "Are there no semi isolated or isolated villages or places on you cybertron that can handle this plant?" Ice queen askes, "Or an inside tank or guarden room?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:56 PM Oh, that's... that's actually sort of exciting, in a quiet way. Little satisfaction glyph on screen and everything.

[[A Harmonex tower seed.]] To Icy. [[Difficult. They have to be well tuned and shaped as they grow.]]

But if they can be protected... [[Perhaps he could hire someone to tend to it. We earn more than enough in excess for that...]] Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 9:57 PM "What? No, no- a phrase. It reminded me of stuff that, uh, happened when I saw the original movie." The petting helps, but his optics are not coming back on until the music stops. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 9:58 PM "Oh." All good, Smokescreen. Primus isn't judging you for the 'nopenope' at the movie. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 9:59 PM ((god damn it. hold on it did the spinning thing again)) Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 9:59 PM ((*taps rabbit)) ((oh there it go)) ProwlToday at 9:59 PM ((punts vudu)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:00 PM Racer walks carefully over to sit near, but not too close, he does want to say hello to soundwave and prowl, show off so to say. But only if its okay. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:00 PM Soundwave hasn't seen Racer in forever. He pats a knee. Would Racer like to come up for a moment? Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:01 PM Prowl glances over. "Pbbt." And returns his attention to one of Soundwave's hands. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:03 PM Something that's almost an actual chuckle. He missed hearing Prowl make that noise. [[What are you looking for, if he might ask?]] Usually when someone gives them this much an inspection, they want to know one thing. [[The mid-finger seams are where they open and fold to rearrange the joints when the deployers dock...]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:03 PM RAcer would love to! He trots over and shows that he is...tanker then before. The brown predacon hatchling is more youngling, about the size of a draft horse instead of pony! he puts his head up on soundwave's leg first. Not everyone wants a big dragonet on them now. ProwlToday at 10:03 PM "This won't end well." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:03 PM "Pbbbt!" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:05 PM Soundwave is much stronger than he looks, and he's used to being piled on by smaller bots. There's plenty of room next to him on the couch for Racer to hop up. Pat pat the space. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:06 PM The youngling hops up neatly, wiggles around to loaf, his wings are under control now and shamelessly plots head on soundwave's leg again. "Hi." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:07 PM Exclamation point. He speaks? [[Hello. Doing well, youngling?]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:08 PM "Ye! Yes! New clutch! new friends!" Racer chirps, he can talk much better, but not all the time. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:09 PM "Nothing in particular." But at the suggestion, he traces the seam. "Can you do it when a deployer isn't docking?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:09 PM ((puff you're gonna wanna look away)) ((ok it shhhhhould be ok. there might be another brief flash of it next time they show the cops, i don't remember)) [[Ah! That is very good. You must be a proud older sibling.]]

And then, glancing at his hands. [[He tends not to, if only to conserve energy and protect the mechanisms. But, in the interest of medical demonstration--]] He stares, flexes the fingers... and there they go, splitting and rearranging the sections to show the very delicate insides and a hidden joint. [[These spaces here are where the relevant portions of Rumble and Frenzy's armor lock in.]] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:14 PM Racer holds very, very still just in case. But he does radiate young pride, and glances where the new hatchling is still catting on a chair under Icy's watch. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:15 PM Prowl pulls his hands back, to avoid potentially damaging the sensitive parts that weren't meant to be exposed. He just looks, studying. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:19 PM [[There used to be more under here.]] Nodding to the revealed components. [[But we streamline where we must to balance the strain. It is so elsewhere as well.]]

A glance to Racer. [[It doesn't scare you, does it, young one?]] Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:19 PM Don't mind him. He's just...going to try and stay awake. He's paying the movie no attention, and Primus is staying out of trouble. For the most part. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:20 PM "....no." The young predacon has been groomed by insecticon madables and acarriar with fangs bigger them him at one point, he's not scared, but confused, "Different?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:20 PM [[Only to some. No stranger than most partial transformations, in his opinion.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:22 PM "You can close it. Thank you." Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:22 PM Well Soundwave[Slendy] is busy with Prowl, and now Racer, so he's not had the chance to talk. He has a feeling that'd bring up a conversation best left until nearly all but three were there. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:22 PM ....that wasn't a challenge. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:23 PM A nod. They seal up and return to the usual two segments. He wiggles them to make sure everything went back in the right place before offering them up again. If there was anything else Prowl wanted to see, that is. He doesn't know. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:23 PM Trouble happens. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:23 PM Do not Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:23 PM He's seen enough for now. He takes Soundwave's hand. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:24 PM Soundwave hums a quiet note or three, soothed. Now to see what happens in this final hunt of the masked one's... Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:24 PM Ice Queen can help with trouble later on if wanted! shedoes have a ship full of pirates. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:25 PM As if he wants to cause trouble! Something happened and he just wants to know what it was that made him feel alienated. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:25 PM and hatchlings Racer is debating on being daring, but he STILL remembers that kick. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:25 PM "... The youngest one should get a gun too. In case." ProwlToday at 10:26 PM Laughs shortly at the daughter's trick. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:27 PM Primus, you're going to be the death of him at this rate. ProwlToday at 10:27 PM "Clever." Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:28 PM Says the one who doesn't have to keep track of him. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 10:28 PM "Do they still have guns? I feel like they should shoot him a couple times through the bars. Just to be sure. He's remarkably durable." ProwlToday at 10:29 PM "I think they left them in the basement." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:29 PM [[Quite.]] To the first Prowl. [[And he would fire several rounds, himself. Yes.]] To the other. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:29 PM Doesn't. But is trying to. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Today at 10:30 PM Racer noddles his neck and head over the could to peer at peeds, and then blinks at the mentioned thing before..... is that a chew toy? Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 10:30 PM [[Rather satisfying. Closure for three generations. How fortunate they are to have found it together.]] Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:31 PM You know he can just teleport you back to your proper universe, yeah? Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:31 PM Don't Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:32 PM Hmm... Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Today at 10:32 PM It's rude so do not do it Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 10:33 PM Smokescreen finally looks at the screen again, "Wait, wait, it's done?" ProwlToday at 10:33 PM "Yes." Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Today at 10:33 PM "Frag, that was, uh, good!" He had to look away for the whole movie, whoops. "That was, er, fun, Soundwave! Thank you!" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Today at 10:33 PM Soundwave[CC] is moved a foot to the side. Such rude he is. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 10:34 PM A puzzled sound coms from Ice Queen, how did that happne? ProwlYesterday at 10:35 PM "They should have shot him." Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 10:35 PM Well, now he's mildly disoriented. "Can you not do things like that?" Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:35 PM "A few more times, yes. And used a method of elimination that didn't necessitate leaving the building without confirming his death." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 10:35 PM [[You're welcome, Smokescreen.]] He'll offer a polite fiction. He knows Smokey couldn't pay attention to most of it. ProwlYesterday at 10:35 PM And on that lovely note, she's going to disengage from the video and stand up to leave. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 10:36 PM [[They really ought have stuck around to check the ashes.]] He'll give Prowl a nod farewell. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:36 PM "I could." You tempted him to be a spiteful child. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:36 PM "Evening, alternate." ProwlYesterday at 10:36 PM Pings Soundwave, alternate, and Smokescreen goodbye before leaving. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 10:37 PM He pings Prowl back! Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 10:37 PM Very tempted to give him a mental jab for that. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:38 PM Myeeeh. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 10:40 PM Behave, damnit. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:41 PM Huff. Pets Smokescreen. Just has to talk with your alternate, that's all. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 10:42 PM Wonderful Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 10:45 PM Soundwave shakes his head. Bit of mental static coming off Primus there for a second. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 10:45 PM Smokescreen leans into the petting, still clinging to Primus Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:48 PM Helm pets. "You going to head back home, Smokescreen?" Glances towards the couch. It has quieted down post-movie, but it still is a bit too crowded to speak up about whatever happened two weeks ago. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:48 PM He's feeling Watched. He squeezes Soundwave's hand. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 10:49 PM Squeeze back. He can feel the glance too. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 10:49 PM Racer chirps at prowl. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 10:50 PM ((public stream end in about 5 minutes y'all, i forgot to mark time but that's roughly it)) Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 10:50 PM "I guess- I guess I will. Eventually. To the medbay. Do you wanna come with me, Primus, sir?" Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:50 PM He nods at Racer. Ah, yes, hello—Prowl was distracted by Soundwave's hands, wasn't he? "Are you heading home now?" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:52 PM "I've got something to do first, but I can join you afterwards." Smiles at Smokescreen. Kisses his forehelm. "Do you want to pick out a movie we can watch together? I'll stay with you until you get your new doorwings then, if you want." [Smokescreen is best snuggle buddy for Primus.] Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 10:53 PM Racer thinks so, but slowly noodles his head over to head bump at prowl's hand. "Pbbt." Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:53 PM He pulls his hand back, not sure what Racer wants with it; but then uncertainly sets it down on Racer's head. "Pbbbt." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 10:56 PM Very pleased little predacon, gives the hand a blep and, "hi! I'm big!" Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 10:58 PM Oh, he's being licked. He's taking his hand back now. "Yes. You are." Comparatively speaking. But from Racer's perspective it was probably the biggest he'd ever been, so. "Were you upgraded?" Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 10:58 PM "That would be awesome, Primus. I don't know what movie I'd like to go for, but- maybe we can watch a musical? Have you heard of Starlight Express?" Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 10:59 PM "I have not. That sounds like a very enjoyable musical though." Smiles. "You've seen it before now?" Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:00 PM "I grow!" The blep is still there, he didnt mean to lick. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:00 PM Prowl very slowly nods. "I see." He's heard of that happening in some universes. This is the first time he's SEEN it, though. Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 11:02 PM "It is! It's got trains! I've been meaning to watch it with Astro, but I can see it with you again." Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:04 PM "Ha, does it now?" Rubs Smokescreen's helm with a chuckle. "Head back and set it up. You better be seated by the time I arrive or I'm not going to tell you an embarrassing story about Alpha Trion after the movie~." Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:05 PM "He's goi g to get at least twice his size before stopping for a while." Ice Queen offered, watching racer for a moment. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:07 PM "How does he get the mass to increase his size?" Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:10 PM "We eat metals, ore, minerals and things likenthat." Ice Queen chuckled, tilting her head at them, get him to open his jaws, his denta are heading up. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:12 PM "Oh? Seems... difficult." Wouldn't it be easier to forge bigger parts and armor than to construct them internally? Combining the processes for keeping a body functioning AND the processes to make it grow in one frame seemed crowded. Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:15 PM "Its mostly all we've known. I make sure the young get the easiest things. Dusted and sanded metals mixed with energon. " the predacon was being honest, it would be easier, but they just didn't have access to any parts or medics. Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:18 PM Light mental nudge to Soundwave[SW], then pings. {You're more quiet than usual. I still want to talk, but I feel tonight is not polite, yes?} Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:19 PM ((if we're gonna get into a Discussion, if we don't get into it soon, i'm gonna have to ask that it be put off for another night. i'm going to bed in 40 minutes)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:21 PM ((We can do it another time, or prowl can come to dreaded wings. I'm going to bed soon too)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:21 PM [Puff must sleep.] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:21 PM ((i meant with primus and soundwave actually lmao you're good)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:21 PM ((i'm honestly super dazed rn and am in favor of postponing fancy discussions until next week and then absolutely tackling them at that time)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:22 PM [gentle pets noodle Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:22 PM ((....I'm sorry. I'm going to go take my sick self away now. Good night)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:22 PM [Icy nuuuu [You feel better though. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:23 PM ((SORRY i'm not trying to run you out, we've been delaying a chat for a couple of weeks and i just wanted to get us coordinated)) ((i didn't want us to try to start it five minutes before i went to bed, is the thing)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:23 PM ((icy you didn't do anything, don't worry,)) ((but if you are sick please rest soonish)) Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:24 PM ((I've been miss reading things all night though, plus dyslexia and being sick is just, I know I might have been annoying)) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:24 PM ((nah nah)) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:24 PM [Never annoying friend Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 11:24 PM ((you're good, don't worry Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:25 PM [Lot happens at once on movie night Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:25 PM ((tired waves I'm going to pass out after cold meds. Just have icy take the kiddos. )) Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:25 PM [Rest and recover <3 Icy (Omicrontheicequeen)Yesterday at 11:26 PM ((Do I just leave the server? Was that in the rules?) Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:27 PM Soundwave glances toward Primus at the nudge and ping. He's... still not quite in the mood to talk. He got interrupted from his original thinking by all this mess with Slugfest and the outcome. [[Perhaps next week.]] Maybe he'll have worked out which gifts are safe and which ones aren't by then. Unless something ELSE is secretly a bot and he doesn't know it. He hopes not. ((it'll prevent you getting pinged with all sorts of unnecessary bleeps but honestly nobody remembers so i stopped chasing about it)) Smokescreen (ask-smokescreen)Yesterday at 11:28 PM ((shoot i got distracted by art asdzxcnc Primus [the-lord-of-light]Yesterday at 11:29 PM Nods in understanding. Shall scoop Smokescreen up then and take him back to where he belongs. Soundwave (corruptedcomms)Yesterday at 11:32 PM Well. With Primus gone, he's going to leave as well. Goodnight. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:33 PM Goodnight, alternate. One day he'll get to talk to you without Primus making trouble in the background. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:41 PM "... Are you sure you'll be ready next week?" Could they prepare for worst case scenarios by then? Was it possible to prepare for a worst case scenario with a spurned god? Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:42 PM [[...Well, he can at least try to listen. He would like to know what is so important that his alternate has to babysit a deity. Whether he responds or not is another matter.]] Maybe he can work the outcome of his listening into his overall determination about the situation? He's hoping, anyway. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:44 PM "Do you think he plans to talk? Or to demand answers?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:45 PM [[He doesn't know. If he demands answers, then... that says something, he supposes.]] [[And if he is angry, then he imagines we'll have a chance to find out whether that grimoire of ours works on a god.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:46 PM "Yyyes, it does say something. It says that we could immediately be in a hell of a lot of trouble if we don't provide the answers he wants on his terms." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:47 PM [[True. Very true. But he does not know if it is wise to keep a potentially angry god waiting. Damned if we do, and damned if we don't.]] Well, he can buy them 24 hours, if nothing else. He does know that much. ... Though he'd rather not do that. Might lose the spark shard if he does that. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:49 PM "Which is why we should be prepared before then. As much as we CAN be prepared, at least." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:49 PM [[He doesn't suppose you could calculate and create a bridge large and safe enough to move Luna Three over in an emergency.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:50 PM "... I don't think aiming Luna three at your own planet is... a viable plan. But yes. I could." Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:51 PM [[So we bridge him into space first.]] That sounds like it should be a joke of sorts, but there's no humor in his mental voice there. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:52 PM "Can we? That's just his avatar, right? Like mine. Would hitting his avatar do anything?" Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:53 PM [[Disrupt him for a short period of time. Serve as a warning. Even a few minutes would help, at that point.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:54 PM Prowl's gonna reach over and take Soundwave's other hand. He hoped it wouldn't come to that. He felt like he didn't need to say that. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Yesterday at 11:57 PM He didn't need to say that, no. Soundwave understood. He will take the hand, and tug Prowl into his arms if allowed. A reverse of the first night this mess started. He'll make sure at least one of them will be okay, whatever happens. And the deployers. They're staying in Iacon while that talk happens. Just in case. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Yesterday at 11:58 PM It's absolutely allowed. Prowl slides into his embrace, and holds him tight. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 12:00 AM Good. This is safety. They can rest like this, as much as rest is possible at this stage. They already took down Unicron. What's another god, if it really does come down to that?

A nuzzle and an affection ping. Just to beat back at the tide of nervousness. Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 12:01 AM Ping, ping, ping. Soundwave (Slenderwave)Today at 12:04 AM Hmm, good. Important to know that's true even now. It wouldn't be, with a lot of other people.

He'll keep watch for now with the occasional pet. Maybe bring Ravage down to help stand guard.

[[Goodnight.]] Prowl (verdigrisprowl)Today at 12:04 AM A nuzzle, and a light kiss. "Good night."

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I’ll admit the animation was longer but I cut parts out which might’ve desynced it a bit, but I will try keep that in mind for my next animation, since that one will have more for lip-synching!

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All the Time in the World Chapter 11

“Why are you coming to me about this?” Like, he gets it, a sparring club was a good idea, but shouldn’t Kirishima go to one of his teachers that gives them practical classes? Admittedly, Majima should be helping Yagi and Aizawa, but Nezu hasn’t bitched at him to do it yet, so he wasn’t going to start.

“Because I went to All Might, but he said that he was too busy to be our sponsor, and Aizawa told me that you aren’t in charge of a club yet, which means that you can’t say no.” Aizawa, you prick! He was really hoping that everyone had forgotten that little detail of his contract, but damnit, why’d he have to be such a good teacher.

“Fine, you have other members for this shit show?”

“Yes sir! Myself, Bakugo, Midoriya, Uraraka, and Asui are the ones who signed up for it.”

“That’s it? Huh, you’d figure there’d be more than that.”

“I just asked enough people to have the minimum of five.”

“Makes sense. Why are you trying to start this up, anyway? Where’d the idea come from?”

“Well, the final exams are in a few weeks, and we still don’t know what we’re going up against for the practical part of it. There’s a chance that we might have to solve a problem without our quirks, or be forced to fight without them.”

“Well, at least you’ve thought this through a little bit.” He sighed loudly, standing up from his seat at his desk. “I would like to let you know, Kirishima, that not only is this a stupid idea, but it is an idea so stupid that you have my support 100%.” Majima smirked when Kirishima started to cheer, not knowing what the time stopper’s next move was. “But!” He leaned in close to the redhead, his smirk growing into a wicked smile, “I want in.”

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Five of his students stood in front of him, decked out in their gym uniforms. It was early on a saturday, so Majima was still kind of drunk. Let’s hope Asui wouldn’t judge him for that, her bluntness cuts deep sometimes. He cleared his throat before he started, “Alright, bitches, here's the deal. I’m hungover, and I frankly, don’t care for… Roughly 60% of you, 40% on a good day. So, let’s just go over a few things.”

“First things first, no quirks. Uraraka, since you don’t really control when your quirk activates, I got some gloves for you from the nurse’s office. Kirishima, no hardening, Midoriya, no bone-breaking, and if you blow something up, Bakugo, I’ll kick your ass.”

“I’d like to see you try, asshole!” This little shit just doesn’t know when to quit, does he? Fine, Majima has an idea to deal with this shit.

“Alright then, you’re with me shit-stain. The rest of you, choose a partner.”

They both got into position while Majima took his shirt off, trying to ignore the looks his tattoos got him. Man, sometimes he regrets getting this thing. Seriously, the kids knew he was a villain, that’s fine, but he had kind of wanted to keep the yakuza thing a secret. Whatever. “You ready, bo-” Bakugo punched him in the face before he could finish. This bitch.

Majima reeled back, but managed to grab the blonde’s arm, using this leverage to go in for his own punch, nailing Bakugo in the stomach. He took a step back, shaking his head to try and regain his focus. But what do you know, Bakugo doesn’t know the meaning of the words “Wait a sec”, and immediately charged back in, throwing a right hook at his head. He blocked with his arm, and again grabbed the boys arm, pulling him in to knee his groin. The blonde dropped like a rock, a look of hate at his teacher while Majima laughed his fucking ass off. All of this happened in a span of 2 minutes, meaning that the other four students had watched the whole thing.

They looked at him with wide eyes as Bakugo charged at him with his hands crackling. Oh, he’s pissed, this should be fun. He should use his old bag of tricks for this, shouldn’t he? Alright, yeah, let’s use the desync trick. Majima didn’t snap his fingers, but his body was cloaked in a blinding white light. “Time Desync: Factor of 5!” The others couldn’t figure out what happened, but Bakugo was suddenly flying back and landing on the ground, knocked out cold.

He turned to look at his other students, “So, what have we learned about fighting today, class?”

“We’re not supposed to use our quirks, Majima-sensei! That’s cheating, and it’s super unmanly!” Kirishima, seemed to be… Much more upset about this than Majima thought he’d be. Guess he should explain himself.

“Remember Kirishima, scumbag tactics are the only way to win. If you are not willing to become a huge cheater, just to win a fight, then you don’t deserve to win that fight.” Every. SIngle. Student. They were all looking at him like he was crazy. “What?”

“Majima-sensei, that really doesn’t sound very heroic.” Asui said, finger on her chin as she thought it over.

“Heroic? Who the hell said anything about heroics? Last I checked, I’m still a villain!” To send his point home, he punched Kirishima in the face when he knew the boy wasn’t ready, knocking him to the ground. “Hell, I’m the best kind of villain! Evil, not out of conviction, not for survival, not for gain or revenge. I am evil, as a choice! Evil for evil’s sake!”

“What the hell’s the difference between that kind of evil and the others? You said that there were only the 3 kinds, but now you’re changin’ it?” Oh man, Kirishima sounded a bit worked up. He probably should have punched Midoriya instead of him.

“The difference is that there is an equal chance that I’ll kill someone out of boredom as there is the chance of the stealing a pack of gum. I commit evil not because I want to commit evil, but because there is evil to commit.” Oh wait, shit, there’s a lesson to be taught here, wasn’t there? “Besides, you need to get this notion of ‘manly fighting’ out of your head, kid, before someone pays the price.”

“What do you mean, sir?”

“Midoriya, Asui, start with some sparring. Uraraka, take Bakugo to the nurse. I’m a bit rusty with desync, and I can’t remember how much damage he was suppose to take. Better safe than sorry, yeah?” He then grabbed Kirishima by the shoulder and led him a bit away for some privacy.

“Let me ask ya something, kid. There’s a villain standing between you and a group of hostages, what do you do?”

“I defeat the vi-”

“Wrong.” Judging the confused look on the redhead’s face, he can guess that this lesson is tad bit overdue, “You prioritize the safety and rescue of the hostages, work to isolate the villain in an empty environment. You’ve been assigned to work with a team of six, fighting a group of three, how do you decide which opponent to fight?”

“I fight the strongest o-”

“Wrong. Kid, you call yourself the Red Riot. You want to honour the legacy of the Crimson Riot, then put aside the chivalrous shit for when the job is done.”

“But what about fairness? Honour in fighting your opponents? That’s everything that Crimson Riot stood for!”

“And what if someone gets killed, because you wanted to fight fair? Huh? How are you going to explain that to a father that he lost his daughter to a villain attack, because you didn’t do everything in your power to get the job done. Huh?! What will you do, Kirishima?!” Majima is getting a bit worked up, old memories he didn’t want to be reminded of, but this kid needs to learn this lesson. Like Midoriya and that giant robot all those months ago.

“I’ll fight harder! I’ll get stronger! I- I’ll-”

“Look, kid,” Majima put his hands on Kirishima’s shoulders, looking him in the eyes. He saw a lot of self doubt, and a whole slew of confusion, but he’s just trying to help. “Some people say that not everything can be solved with your fists, but you’d be surprised how many people will give up after a quick kick to the dick. Or grabbing a fistfull of hair, or a thumb in the eye, or a sneak attack, ambush, all matter of dirty tricks. So long as you can end your opponent, you do it. By any means necessary. You got it?”

“…”

“Hey! I said, you got it? Or am I going to have to demonstrate to you just how effective these tricks are?”

That got him, now he was starting to look a bit scared. “Yes, sensei!”

“Alright, now back to work with the others.” Majima watched Kirishima run over to the others, putting a hand on his lower back. Damn, desync really did a number on his back. He’ll have to start up his own training again, he?

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Parts of this chapter seemed rushed, I know. I was having a ton of trouble with this one, and I needed to get something out. Next chapter is where we start affecting the canon a bit, and I have a lot of really good stuff planned. As an aside, we finally have fan art. Go check it out on my tumblr, @zendozebra, or just click the link in my profile. I also give updates on why I’m not uploading, so while you’re there, give me a follow, better to gauge how many of you ungrateful fucks there really are.

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2017 Mini Reviews (Part 1) -

Hey all! I’ve decided to do a set of mini-reviews of everything I’ve played this year, so far. These are quick overviews of each of these titles, and I plan to post two games at a time. Enjoy! :)

Nioh:

Team Ninja’s take on the Soulsborne sub-genre is particularly refined and probably the only “Dark Souls-like” game that I would argue surpasses the original series and Bloodborne in a myriad of ways while keeping its own unique DNA. Gone are the clunky combat animations of the Soulsborne titles, replaced with fluid, fast, brutal combat clearly rooted in Team Ninja’s action and fighting genre prowess. Replaced is the turtling, defensive methodology of Dark Souls, with a system of complex weapons and stances, as well as an excellent sense of rhythm that rewards Ninja Gaiden-styled reflexes by the player, solidified by the game’s “Ki Pulse” system that allows would-be samurai to regain Ki (or stamina, more or less) by playing well and fast with excellent timing. Nioh is difficult, as all Soulsborne games and clones strive to be, but unlike Soulsbornes and its clones where the danger is in how much damage an enemy does rather than there being an inventive patter for the enemy A.I., Nioh seldom feels cheap. It comes together in its own package, with Ninja Gaiden-styled combat system, a highly addictive Diablo 3-styled loot systems, excellent RPG elements for upgrading/crafting weapons and armor, fantastic boss battles, a more cooperative multiplayer that rewards working together, beautiful level design (if a lot more linear and less exploratory than the DS games and BB), and is truly, honestly, one of the best things released this year this side of Breath of the Wild. Phenomenal from start to finish. Verdict: Highly recommended. If it wasn’t because Breath of the Wild released in a close timeframe, it would easily be my game of the year, and it’s still not too far behind Zelda, in all honesty.

For Honor:

Ubisoft is a publisher that I have a very constant back-and-forth with on whether I like them or not. Their games generally have grand ideas and they tend to take more risks than the the other big publishers like EA. When they work to their full potential, they release some amazing stuff (Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Beyond Good & Evil, Rayman Legends, etc.), but when they fail, they fail pretty badly (Far Cry Primal, Assassin’s Creed Unity, the original Watch Dogs, etc). So where does For Honor, Ubisoft’s weapon-based fighting hybrid that pits knights, Vikings, and samurai against each other in online combat, stand? Somewhere in the middle, in all honesty. The good parts of it are excellent: For Honor’s combat system is involved and like nothing else in gaming, if I’m being entirely honest; one-versus-one fights can be incredibly tense and adrenaline inducing; the game also looks gorgeous and runs with a very stable frame rate on all platforms, the latter which is crucial for any time of online fighter; each class feels different and fun to play. For Honor is unique and, generally, when all the moving parts are their best, an absolute blast to play. But where the game falters, the faults are many; it still astounds me that for a major release like this, Ubisoft didn’t think to implement dedicated servers from the start. Matches tend to be spotty, with people dropping in and out, bots never getting backfilled into matches by real players, the flow of combat being interrupted by desyncs, etc. because the peer-to-peer system can’t handle the intensity. Ubisoft has promised dedicated servers in the future, but that For Honor didn’t launch with them is mind boggling. The game also lacks for balance; unlike developers with experience, like Blizzard with Overwatch, Ubisoft neither listens to its community nor understands balance in For Honor; indeed, many of the characters, particularly the DLC ones, are downright broken. Truly, a game full of excellent potential that is simply not taken advantage of enough. Verdict: Recommended, but only if you can find it on sale. While the game has a myriad of problems, when it’s working, it’s truly fantastic and like nothing else you’ll play in 2017. But, realistically, I can’t recommend For Honor at full price in its current state.

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Link to Video:  Maya Ghosting Test

During a recent lecture, we learned about Ghosting in Maya, essentially onion-skinning for a 3-D program. This can be applied to a selected model and, with the menu switched from Modelling to Animation, can be selected from the Visualise menu. We were also given an example of how auto-spline can ruin key-frames when miss used. A piece of good advice we received for 2-D design work, mainly that solid line drawing isn’t often the best way to tackle designing characters, with many people drawing quick rough lines when drawing a character, before cleaning up the design with the final line work. The process of roughing and cleaning up designs creates better looking, more defined finished looking characters. We also watched a documentary about Buster Keaton, and his methods for visual storytelling, which was vital to him as a silent movie star. Conveying emotions and character without dialogue was important, and the characters he depicted were as a result very exaggerated and animated. Something else that was carefully considered during the making of his films was framing, with camera placement and what we see playing a role in how we connect with the characters depicted. When working on my climbing animation I found that, when adding inbetweens to my blocked poses, this tool helped a lot. I imagine the character in this animation looking similar to the Keith rig, although I didn’t want to animate with that rig.

Link to Vimeo: Climbing Animation Run Blocking

My first step towards making the final version of this animation was to block through the running segment of the animation. I focused on making the key-frames for the run first, before I began moving on to the next segment. I experimented with different timings for the foot movements, moving from about 12/13 frames per step to 7 as suggested in the Animator’s Survival Kit, but I quickly found that this was too fast for what I wanted. I was hoping to make the character move more slowly than a full run, more of a light build-up jog than anything, so I stuck to the pacing I chose when blocking.

Link to Vimeo: Climbing Animation 1st Attempt

It was at this point I added a polygon plane for the floor and stretched out a cube in order to create a rectangular wall with some depth to it. From here I began blocking through my climbing animation, before then adding in a few in-betweens too. I had to make the wall thicker part way through, in order to allow the character my room to scramble onto the wall. I then had the character pull up his legs, and sit on the other end of the wall, sighing from exhaustion at the top. I then made the character jump down to pick up the ball, I spent some time trying to work out the timing for this leap and where they would land, not creating the ball and placing it until I knew where I wanted the character to land. I then had the character look over their shoulder and then throw the ball over the fence from behind. I initially had the character look back then immediately look forward again but decided to shift the frames so that I could have a half second hold in the middle, giving the character some thinking time. I then went back and added in the in-betweens, mainly for the run which had none. I think the run would look better if I could somehow create a shadow for the character, which I think I could do by adding some lighting effects. 

The way the character throws their legs over the wall is too quick and snappy in my opinion, and the sigh I tried to add afterwards doesn’t fit with the character I depicted here. Since I recorded reference footage using an out-of-shape person and a person who’s in decent health, I had a conflict of fitness capabilities in my reference work. While ultimately, I change the wall climbing to be more in-line with the run, so a person who’s in decent shape, I tried to make the character sigh from exhaustion at the top of the wall, which I don’t think works very well (Not to mention it looks more like a yawn anyway). I think if I were to move the shoulders more, it would like a sigh, I think it’d be better to just make the character blink instead, as I think having the character pause for a second before continuing to move is still a good idea. I should also move the shoulders more when the character looks back, then forward.

Link to Vimeo: Climbing Animation 2nd Attempt

The improvements I made for this version of this animation mainly revolve around the second half of the animation, as I felt that changing the Lighting from all to a specific type of light, one that tries to cover the entire model, made the running portion at the start look much better, mainly because I was able to add shadows that made it easier to tell when the feet were contacting the ground, and therefore making the run appear to have more weight to it than before. I made the character’s eyes look up just over the wall as they approached the wall, before then looking down where his hands are as he clambers onto the wall. I thought the way the character threw his legs over the wall when he goes to sit on it was a bit too snappy, so I extended the amount of time it took him to do so, while also making sure his foot didn’t clip through the wall as it did before. Delaying this foot movement has also desynced it from his right foot, which originally fell down at the same time as his left. The next significant change, probably the most significant, was removing the character’s sigh, instead having them blink, and then look down at the ball on the ground, opening his mouth as he realises it’s right there. Although his mouth movements are hard to see during this part given the angle he’s being shot from, as well as the lighting I applied. I made his feet point down more has he falls, in order to try and emphasise the way he drops down. I added an extra detail in which the character’s eyes move as he turns his head to look behind himself. While I’m quite happy with how this expression turned out, I find that given the camera angle this can be rather difficult to spot, though if I had extended the time in which he looks back, which I think is still a bit too quick, then it would probably be more noticeable even if you can’t see his expression. I also made the character close his eyes as he throws the ball, which I changed the colour of. By applying a gradient to the ball, I was able to add colour to it, making it more basketball coloured than it original was.

I recently received feedback on this animation, pointing out a number of different aspects I could change or improve. To begin with, the movements of the legs and arms are symmetrical, creating a problem with twinning. The camera angle used could be changed when reaching the over side of the wall, as it comes too close to crossing the line, and the camera would show more action if it were placed at 1/3rds. When the character clambers over the wall, the knee breaks. Another problem I face, this time with the ball, is trying to keep the ball’s velocity consistent, as it may move too slow compared to when it was being lifted up, not to mention the consistency of the ball’s weight. A ball bounce could also be included.