#bionice devastator

[tempelbeast]

Haven't done this in a long time. Here are revamps of the Dark hunters Conjurer and Devastator! Any thoughts?

[swanlikely]

Current Brainrot: Brat Enabler Caleb!

Author's Note: The poll ended 50/50, so I made the executive (and very self-indulgent) decision to go with Brat Enabler Caleb! because sometimes I just wanna be spoiled, okay? Please check out the artist! (Artist & Her Ko-fi!)

not proof-read! (sorry if there are any errors - let me know and I'll fix it!)

CW: AFAB! reader, pet names, penetration, overstimulation, praise, light D/S dynamics, slight dacryphilia, and 'usage' of his bionic arm.

Caleb loves you like it’s coded into him. Like it’s in his blood, his bones, his circuitry.

He does it without effort, like breathing. Like the pulse of a machine: constant, precise, unyielding.

And he’d give you anything. Anything. Just one pout, one whimper, one soft little “Caleb, please”—and he’s dropping whatever he’s doing to hand it over. A brat’s dream. He doesn’t care if it’s indulgent or excessive or unnecessary. If you want it? You get it.

He’s always there. Cooking your favorite meals with one hand while the other; his right, sleek and gleaming with matte black plating—rests on the curve of your hip as you sit on the counter and sneak bites. That arm, the one people used to flinch at, has never once made you nervous. It’s part of him. Him, who tucks you in like you’re something breakable, who lifts you like you weigh nothing, who touches you with inhuman control and completely human care.

And right now, he’s using both hands: one warm, flesh and blood; the other cool, mechanical precision; to ruin you in the most delicious ways.

You’re spread out under him, legs trembling, body already gone boneless from orgasm after orgasm. You’ve stopped counting. It doesn’t matter. Caleb never stops at one. Or two. Or three.

His thick cock is buried in you, slow and steady, dragging against the places that make your vision flicker. One hand cradles your jaw; his real one, calloused and gentle. The other, his metal arm; is between your legs, thumb pressed to your clit, writing his name into you in soft, pretty patterns.

C. A. L. E. B.

Over and over again. Cold metal, careful pressure, devastating control.

Your skin is flushed, sticky with sweat. Your hands tremble where they grip at his broad shoulders, desperately trying to ground yourself. One of your legs is hooked over his waist, the other shaking helplessly against the mattress, every muscle twitching with the tension he’s building back up in you.

You're crying now, sobbing openly, your voice gone hoarse from how much you’ve moaned and gasped and begged. But he’s not stopping. He’s adoring. Reverent.

“Fuck Pips,” he groans, voice wrecked with how hard he’s holding back. “You’re everything.”

His thumb strokes another letter and you keen, your hips jerking. “Can’t—Caleb—too much, it’s too—”

“Yes, you can,” he coos, leaning in to kiss your parted lips. His tongue traces yours, measured and possessive, like he has all the time in the world. “You can take it. You are taking it. You always do.”

The flex of his hips deepens; calculated, but heavier now. Like he’s letting himself feel just a little more, just enough to tip you further. You feel him everywhere: inside you, against your clit, in the weight of his chest brushing yours, the tremble in his breath. He smells like sweat and heat and you. “You wanted this, remember? You asked for it. And you know I’d never say no to you.”

You grip at his back, your nails catching on the seam where flesh meets metal. He shudders; groans low in his throat, more sound than word.

“You’re fuckin’ perfect,” he mutters, burying his face in your neck. “So pretty when you cry for me. So sweet, you were made for this. Made for me.”

You weep at the reminder—how easy it is with him. How good he is to you. The worship, the rapture, the indulgence of it all. The fact that you don’t even have to earn it. You just have to be.

His robotic hand doesn’t falter. Ever. Each movement is exactly what you need, no more, no less. Meticulous. Devoted.

You can feel it building again; your body tightening, coiling, heat spilling down your spine like liquid fire. Your walls flutter around him, desperate and close and so overstimulated. He feels it. He always does.

His voice drops into a growl, desperate and reverent all at once.

“Give it to me. C’mon, Pips—give it to me. Let me feel you fall apart.”

And you do.

You come again; shaking, sobbing, gripping him like a lifeline. Your cries fill the room, gasping and broken, and he keeps moving, keeps whispering, like your pleasure is something holy.

He was bullying your poor sloppy cunt, but in the sweetest way a man could: just enough to make it mean something, dragging it out so every pulse of pleasure felt personal. A gift he was determined to give you again and again, until you had no words left but his name.

“That’s it,” he breathes. “That’s my girl. Mine. Always.”

Only when you’ve gone limp beneath him, body completely undone, does he finally let himself go. His hips stutter, cock twitching deep inside you as he moans your name like a prayer. He stays buried, locked to you, his metal hand stroking your thigh now, pleasant and patient.

He kisses your cheek, your jaw, the corner of your swollen mouth.

“Breathe, baby,” he says softly, like he didn’t just wreck you with love and machinery and absolute, overwhelming need. “You did so good. My pretty girl.”

And even though you’re trembling, tears drying on your cheeks, the only thing you can do is nod: because it’s true.

Caleb would do anything for you. Break himself in half. Hold you together. Build you a new world with his bare hands.

And you would let him.

Because no one loves like he does.

No one ever will.

[kuroyurishion]

After sleeping and watching Caleb’s new trailer, I found something interesting.

See if you can spot it~

See it? Zoom in. Enhance.

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s bone. Specifically, the humerus, elbow joint, and the radius and ulna.

Picture for reference. Note the similarities between the shape of the bone on the center and the split on the one on the bottom right.

Is this not a completely prosthetic arm?

So, Caleb’s arm was severely damaged during the explosion in Chapter 4. And with severe damage comes trauma, surgery, etc. But what interests me most is the nerve damage that comes from such an event.

In Caleb’s Debut Trailer, we see him somewhere in Skyhaven in the Zero Gravity Chamber undergoing his 23rd Neural Control Experiment. In the latest trailer [Caleb: Painful Signal], he says this line: “I barely feel any pain. Unless it’s under repair. But… I… can’t feel you anymore.”

There are two ways to think about this. Theory 1 only happens if Caleb has the bionic arm after the explosion. Theory 2 only happens if Caleb has the bionic arm before the explosion.

Theory One: Caleb has severe nerve damage from the explosion, and the Farspace Fleet somehow saved him (maybe using the missing Spatium Core?) and gave him his bionic arm.

But Caleb is devastated because he can’t feel MC with his arm anymore. Because he can’t feel pain, the Fleet decide to help him by putting him through all these control experiments in order to stimulate neural control

Theory Two: The Farspace Fleet has their eye on Caleb. Gravity Manipulation is a very versatile and powerful Evol, after all. So, they want to use him for their own gains. They do some digging, find out about MC (maybe about her Evol, Aether Core, or records of being experimented on?), and they threaten Caleb with her. They’ll hurt her if he doesn’t obey them. We see whenever Caleb is about to tell MC something huge, a car’s headlights pass by. He’s being watched. So, either willingly or unwillingly, Caleb agrees to be their weapon. They experiment on him, giving him the bionic arm.

When the explosion happens, he’s able to get away. Maybe the missing Spatium Core is in his arm? Does his bionic arm work like a Wanderer, being made and built? We know Spatium Cores can distort space, so maybe that’s how he got out?

I’m not sure. What do you guys think? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong about anything!

Either way, I’m excited for him to drop so we can learn more!

Thank you for listening to my ramblings~ ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) Everyone is welcome to talk and theorize with me as well!

[xxsyluslittlecrowxx]

Welcome new and old followers!

hi. i’m elisabeth eve—though around here i go by lil crow, gremlin-in-residence and full-time emotional menace. if you’ve recently followed me, first of all: i see you. i adore you. second of all: i feel it’s only fair to warn you that this blog is less of a curated space and more of a haunted house hosted by a feral writer with a caffeine addiction, a god complex, and an alarming number of fictional crushes.

i write like i’m being hunted by god. or perhaps by a very hot man with a tragic backstory, a bionic arm, and a voice that sounds like sin. i’ll let you decide which. either way, the results are always the same: prose that somehow combines poetic despair with absolutely filthy smut. if that sounds unhinged, it is. but it’s also kind of my brain.

what can you expect here? an unholy cocktail of yearning, angst, metaphysical horniness, emotional gut punches, and men who ruin you in the best possible way. i write slow burns that are so slow they double as spiritual tests. i write dialogue that makes people DM me to ask if i’m okay. (i’m not. but that’s part of the vibe.) i specialize in characters who say things like “i shouldn’t want you” while actively ruining your life with their mouth. it’s literary foreplay. it’s a crisis in every paragraph.

i do fanfiction. mostly Love and Deepspace right now. expect caleb to be emotionally constipated and obsessed. expect sylus to unravel like a poem written by a man on the brink. zayne? don’t talk to me unless you want to hear about his voice kink. and rafayel… sweet baby boy, he’s so pretty when he begs. i love them. i destroy them. the cycle continues.

this is a blog where smut lives in the same house as sacred longing. where emotional devastation is a love language. where i wake up at 2am with a single line of dialogue and then accidentally write 4,000 words about it. i have a tag for unhinged rambling. i have multiple WIPs named things like salted wounds and holy, ruined. if you’re still reading this, congratulations: you’re probably exactly my kind of unwell.

welcome. scream in my inbox. reblog something with feral commentary. send me a trope that makes your soul ache. or just vibe. there’s no pressure. only passion. and pain. and occasionally, praise kink.

🖤 ~ lil crow

[bonnyhoddie]

Elements of Disharmony - Rainbow Dash

Victim number 4!

Rainbow Dash!

You get lore! YOU get lore! Everybody gets LORE!

Rainbow Dash was the fastest filly in her class before the Sonic Rainboom, but was teased for her lack of ability to land safely, whether it be because she never cared to learn, or simply because, no matter how much she tried to, she was never able to.

However, she always noticed that one of her peers, Fluttershy, was often bullied for being a bad flier, who struggled simply to get her hooves off the clouds. And Rainbow Dash, in her anger, challenged the bullies to a race.

However, during the race, Rainbow Dash was the only one to notice that Fluttershy had been knocked out of the sky by one of the bullies by accident, and was struggling to catch herself, so Rainbow Dash dove down after her, flying as fast as her little wings would take her, and fighting back the force that was threatening to launch her back into the sky.

And that's when it happened. The sonic rainboom.

It was a beautiful display of colour, and was large enough that all of Equestria might have been able to see it. And the colours was the last thing Rainbow saw before she blacked out.

The next thing Rainbow awoke to was white, with a large majority of her body covered, and different types of pain in her body. Before anyone could visit her in the hospital, she looked at her body, seeing all the bandages, but also seeing a cutie mark on her flank. a thunderbolt and a star. Without taking a moment to truly look at her cutie mark, she was jumping around, forgetting her pain in her moment of excitement.

But it would be short lived.

In her moment of excitement, there was a problem she hadn't noticed, and, after a few jumps, collapsed onto the floor. And the noises of her falling alerted the nurses and the doctors, to returned her back to her bed after checking her body for injuries and alerted her of her situation.

The sonic rainboom had given her awful burns, and the impact of the force when it happened was what resulted in her getting knocked out. She was then found scarred and burnt in a tree and taken straight in the hospital.

However, while she was unconscious, she had severely damaged her leg and wing, to the point of being irreparable, so they had no choice but to remove them, and told her that she would be able to fly if they built a bionic wing for her, and gave her a prosthetic leg, but she would never be able to fly as fast as she could again.

In that moment, Rainbow's world came crashing down on her, and that was when she looked back down at her cutie mark and noticed, that it was upside down, as if it was falling out of the sky, not flying up.

Rainbow's dreams were crushed, all because of Fluttershy, who could have simply just helped herself if she wasn't such a pathetic flier.

And, to make matters worse, Fluttershy never visited her in the hospital, not even to say thank you for TRYING to save her.

However, during her stay at the hospital, she developed a love for the Daring Do novels. And she decided that a metal wing wasn't going to stop her from anything, as Daring Do managed to steal an ancient treasure without flying.

So, she decided to at least try to become a Wonderbolt, and, once she was old enough, applied to the Academy. However, after a month, Spitfire had to break the bad news to her.

Her wing, no matter how much she trained and calibrated it, just could not keep up with her biological wing, meaning that she couldn't keep up. And, if she tried to, she'd potentially injure herself or others, as she'd lose balance, start spinning and crash, and she'd be too disoriented to properly land, which her leg tended to make difficult due to it only bending at the hoof. Her being in the academy risked the safety of herself and all of her fellow peers.

Rainbow was devastated, and returned home feeling defeated. In a sudden fit of rage soon after returning home, she also dumped out her Daring Do series, throwing them all the way out of Cloudsdale, before returning back to a depressed state, not leaving the house for months after the event, despite not being able to handle the constant doting from her parents.

But, one day, while collecting daily letters, she saw a flier from a group called the Washouts, a group of ponies that were kicked from the Wonderbolts for various reasons, and now perform stunts. She also recognised one Pony, who seemed to be leading the whole operation, Lightning Dust. She was a really fast flier, and actually could have rivaled Rainbow. Well, if she still had her wing.

Interested, Rainbow flew her way to the address listed on the flier, a few days before the event, and hung around until she saw Lightning, before asking to join. Lightning instantly recognised her as Rainbow Crash, which ruffled some feathers, but other than that, Lightning was really happy to have another fellow dropout from the Academy, and let her stay and perform in the event in the next few days.

Rainbow was so excited about this, and, following the event, performed brilliantly, which is what earned her the status of a permanent member, travelling across Equestria to perform. That was, until one performance in Manehattan, where, just moments before Rainbow's performance, her wing froze up, which meant that she couldn't go on stage when her name was called out. After the show, the other Washouts were furious and humiliated, screaming and yelling and insulting her for standing them up, and not letting her explain that her wing was locked up.

Lightning, though, after allowing the others to express their anger, and expressing her own annoyance, calmed the others, and advised everyone to sleep on it and to not have negative feelings tomorrow, and suggested that Rainbow go fix her wing in her tent.

And, when morning came, and Rainbow's wing was fixed, she stepped out of her tent to find... Nothing? The camp was empty, and only her tent was set up. The fire was cold and the hoof prints that covered the fields stopped instantly, hinting that they took flight. Just so Rainbow wouldn't follow them. She had been abandoned. Again.

She was furious, as they had abandoned her in Manehattan for one bad performance. Not only that, but they had even changed their next location on the Washout tour, JUST to avoid her.

Dash took the next train trip home, seething from being fired from the Washouts, and thinking back to how many times she was disappointed by everypony and everything in her life. And, she decided in that trip that she'd never trust again.

So, from that day on, she became the Element of Disloyalty, for not only abandoning ponies and groups she found to no longer benefit or even entertain her, but for also sowing distrust in groups before she abandoned them.

[davenportdavenportdavenport]

I've been rewatching lab rats with my wife (who's never seen it) and the whole arc with Adam and Chase in the third season has been living in my mind rent free.

Because Adam is a dick, right, there's no way around it. He went from hapless and mean-but-well-meaning to outright cruel, beyond the point of normal sibling animosity. Their typical push and shove took a turn and I've seen a lot of analysis that it was mischaracterization, but I can honestly see the turning point.

In the first episode of season three, "Sink or Swim," we see the three siblings rescue an underwater submarine at great personal risk, particularly for Adam. Adam was sent into the ocean, with no gear, to redirect the sub. When he took a long time to surface, Bree and Chase initially thought he was dead, until Adam appeared and brought up his bionic ability to breathe underwater- something Chase didn't know. I think Adam put it best: "You didn't know I could breathe, and you sent me down there without oxygen?" It was the most genuinely hurt and angry Adam appeared in the entirety of the show, and his relationship with Chase really took a turn after that episode. His brother had sent him on a mission that, in Chase's mind, stood a very good chance of killing Adam. And that realization was devastating.

In addition to several other factors (Adam imitating the way others treated Chase at school, Donald refused to meaningfully intervene in their conflict, Adam never faced repercussions for bullying his brother, it was possibly the only avenue Adam felt he could exert control in his life), this likely played a major role in the shift in Adam's demeanor in the third season.

The show built this up, too; the fights between Adam and Chase continued to escalate, with Douglas giving both boys additional abilities, until episode sixteen "Spike Fright." Previously, the show established that Spike takes the place of Chase's fight-or-flight response. We see Spike triggered by social situations--when Chase feels anxious--and some bodily threats at the school. It's interesting that this episode specifically demonstrates Spike being triggered by Adam's actions. To me, that's the most damning evidence that there was an intentionally written shift in their dynamic: Chase's chip/brain registered Adam as a threat to life and limb. The playful sibling teasing had crossed the line.

And honestly, like most conflicts, the show never entirely resolves it. Adam "learns his lesson" and backs down with the severity of his taunts, but Chase is still expected to deal with some level of physical and emotional warfare in his own home, and there's no meaningful resolution in proportion to the situation's severity.

[flipfliqyaoi]

Do you think Flippy/Fliqpy might have a high pain tolerance?

In general — ittt depends on their situation but they have at least moderate pain tolerance! due to the injuries that he endured throughout his time in the military (I still wonder how they got both their forearms successfully sewed back on. Honestly I'd love to draw a variation of him where he didn't manage to recover his forearms and had to get bionic arms instead! I don't see that design idea at all and I wanna see how it would look like tbh!!) (or maybe he only managed to reattach one of his arms, and required the other to just stay that way or get prosthetics, he could be matching with Azulin from Unicorn Wars LOL.)

I think the pain tolerance is the same when it comes to the two, I also believe that when Flippy feels pain (ESPECIALLY unexpected spikes of it/very sudden sharp pain, and not something like idk a stomachache or whatnot.), it is a huge trigger for Fliq to rush in and see what the hell is hurting the host. Fliqs immediate fight response as usual would kind of combat that pain due to the adrenaline he starts to get, and like yeah I can see how that would seem like his pain tolerance is unbelievably high (as shown in KaPow how he did acknowledge his forearms being ripped off, looking visibly shook and devastated for a split second even — before resuming back to fighting like it was nothing. Because he knows that the MOMENT that adrenaline dies out he's going to be in a world of unimaginable pain. So, he's trying to finish the job asap + apparently deliver that pizza too 🗣️🗣️ He doesn't have a superhuman pain tolerance, his adrenaline is just carrying him really heavily 10/10 times haha)

I also think Flippy would just. Be the same as Fliq BECAUSE of what was shown in Double Whammy, genuinely the only time where we see Flippy being injured that doesn't result in immediate death. where he hurts and throws himself around whilst in his delusional state from trying to OD. He gets allegedly electrocuted, squashed by a piano, beaten up, and he WALKS IT OFF IN THE END like it was nothing if um we ignore that he gets run over at the last second. (good god I still need to make a separate post about that entire episode it's so so interesting to me. BTW i say alleged on the part where Fliq electrocutes Flippy because it's unclear if he was the Fliq or the Flip in that scene, um confusing stuff I got explanations for!)

But yeah his brain or anyone's brain for that matter cannot just register all that pain in like one moment until way later so it explains why he's lowkey so nonchalant about the absolute tragedy he went through/just witnessed. But yk in a more realistic way — the moment it really kicks in, he's gonna be bawling his eyes out lowk. yeah though again, he's got some good tolerance imo !!! 👍

[steelbluehome]

Screen Rant

10 Superpowers Bucky Barnes Still Hasn't Used After 13 Years In The MCU

By Alexander Valentino

September 28, 2024

Bucky Barnes is one of the most gripping and capable heroes in operation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe today, but has still only scratched the surface of his potential from the comics. First introduced in Captain America: The First Avenger, Bucky is one of the few Phase 1 characters still active in the MCU. With the powers of military and assassination expertise, a lesser version of Steve Rogers' super soldier serum, and an advanced cybernetic arm.

In the comics, Bucky didn't originally have any inherent powers other than those granted by his arm, being a peak human with an impressive array of gadgets and weaponry. While his comic arsenal presents some interesting options Bucky never gets in the movies, his eventual ingestion of The Infinity Formula turns him into a super soldier similar to Steve Rogers, granting a suite of enhancements more potent than those shown in the MCU. Between his upgraded serum enhancements and his more expansive gadgetry, comics Bucky is far more intimidating.

10.

EMP Blasts

Bucky's arm does more than just punch and grab

Bucky's most defining characteristic as The Winter Soldier is his trademark cybernetic arm. Emblazoned with the red star of the Soviet Union, Bucky was outfitted with this prosethetic during his deployment as The Winter Soldier in both the comics and the films. Where the two differ, however, is in the arm's capabilities, which are much more expansive in the comics.

One of the most recurring abilities Bucky channels through this arm is the use of powerful directed electromagnetic pulses capable of temporarily disabling electronics. Bucky can use this effect in either wide areas or directed at short-range, instantly bricking technology even as fanciful as Iron Man's armor. The perfect tool for clandestine assassination missions, Bucky's EMP blasts might finally see use in The Winter Soldier's appearance in Thunderbolts*, with the majority of the film's action likely taking place under the radar of public perception.

9.

Extended Reach

The arm is so much more than a simple prosthesis

Potent EMP blasts aren't the only trick The Winter Soldier literally has up his sleeve in the comics. In some instances, Bucky's arm is also able to extend and stretch itself similar to Mister Fantastic, more than doubling his reach and threat radius. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #2 lists Bucky's arm as having an extended reach of up to at least several yards.

Here, Bucky's bionic arm is able to unfold into many strips of prehensile cabling, allowing him to hook enemies in or devastate them with a powerful strike of writhing tendrils. Perhaps Bucky's new vibranium arm in the MCU can be revealed to have some hidden properties such as this, beyond remote deactivation at the hands of the Dora Milaje in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

8.

Electric Touch

The arm's lightning-charged powers go further than EMPs

Considering Bucky's arm is capable of generating a powerful EMP, it stands to reason that his arm would have to be capable of producing dramatic bursts of electric power. Sure enough, that power can also be channeled in a much more straightforward way via a disarming electric touch. Bucky gets a lot of mileage out of this functionality in the comics, instantly taking down the likes of super-spy villain The Man With No Face.

Cybernetic tendrils aren't the only obscure functionality of The Winter Soldier's arm to be utilized in Bucky's kit in Marvel Rivals. His electric shocks have also found their way into the game, with Bucky able to fire charged balls of dazzling lightning at his foes. Meanwhile, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, electricity is actually a weakness of Bucky's, able to travel through his arm and electrocute him badly as shown in his fight with John Walker in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

7.

Remote Arm Operation

Bucky's comics arm can operate on its own

As if telescoping to increase in length didn't make the range of Bucky's terrifying arm expansive enough, in the comics, the device is capable of functioning even when removed from his shoulder. In one instance, upon being stolen and experimented on by a group of scientists, Bucky's confiscated arm is able to take out a whole room of people literally single-handed. It's also shown to be able to activate its electric functionality while detached from Bucky, zapping one of its helpless foes into submission with a touch.

It's later explained that Bucky controls his arm through a "cyber-link", an implant allowing him to control its movements with thought alone. It turns out that this link isn't necessarily severed when the arm is popped off of Bucky's torso, allowing him to stay in the fight over impressive distances. In practice, this gives Bucky similar powers to DC's bizarre character Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, rebranded as Nathan Fillion's "TDK" in The Suicide Squad by James Gunn.

6.

Teleportation

The cybernetic arm isn't Bucky's only tech asset

For a long time, Bucky was a normal human without any superpowers outside of his bionic arm, albeit a highly-trained one operating at the fictional cutting edge of training as depicted in the comics. This somewhat pigeonholed him into a role as a more gadget-based hero in most stories, leading to him accruing an impressive suite of advanced technology over the years. One of his most cutting-edge pieces of gear is his teleportation device.

Bucky gets this piece of technology, alongside a litany of other powerful pieces of equipment, during his tenure as "The Man on the Wall", a superhero identity used by Nick Fury in Marvel Comics. With this piece of equipment, Bucky is able to summon crackling portals of lightning a la the time travel devices in the Terminator series that he can step into, teleporting vast distances in an instant. Considering the MCU has yet to give even Deadpool his iconic teleportation belt, it's unlikely Sebastian Stan's Bucky will ever get this piece of gear during his film run.

5.

Undersea Suit

Comic Bucky is ready for combat in all environments

For the most part, in the Marvel Comics, The Winter Soldier is somewhat limited to being a street-level hero, even if he is near the top of the food chain. That being said, when push comes to shove, he's able to operate in unfamiliar and straight-up hazardous environments, thanks to the help of advanced technology from S.H.I.E.L.D. One such piece of gear is an impressive undersea operations suit that allows him to resist even the hostile forces of the sea itself.

Bucky wears this suit during a joint operation with Namor in the comics, teaming up in order to take down a group of drug smugglers trying to move their goods through the cover of the ocean. Amazingly, the suit withstands the immense pressure of the Marianas Trench, the single deepest-known undersea location on the planet. Not only that, but Bucky is quite deft with his movements while in the suit, able to effortlessly evade gunfire while moving through the water.

4.

Planet-Busting Guns

The Man on the Wall is quite threatening

Bucky has worn quite the number of different superhero personas in the comics, from being Steve Rogers' sidekick to the deadly Winter Soldier to even taking his own tenure as Captain America himself. However, his most dangerous persona is easily The Man on the Wall, an identity he assumes from Nick Fury. The title was originally given to Fury by Uatu the Watcher, commissioning him to silently protect Earth from countless alien threats in space through morally questionable means.

Part of being The Man on the Wall includes access to an absurd armory of world-killing guns, used to take out powerful beings or even entire populated planets at once. Some of these weapons include a Gatling Gun capable of taking down Ego the Living Planet, Gamma Bullets that are able to deal damage to the likes of Thor, and the prized Kazurr rifle, a sniper that uses vibranium bullets and can accurately pick off targets on Earth from the Moon. Paired with Bucky's natural gift for marksmanship, these weapons make him a deadly Man on the Wall.

3.

Enhanced Longevity

The Infinity Formula has done wonders for Bucky's age

In both Bucky's Marvel Cinematic Universe journey and his original comic appearances, cryogenic stasis during his time as The Winter Soldier kept him from aging normally, keeping him physically only a little older than Steve Rogers by the time of his operations in the modern day. In the MCU, it seems as though Bucky is aging normally, even if he does lose five years of age compared to half the population as a victim of Thanos' Snap. In the comics, he eventually gains powers that prevent this from being the case.

Bucky finally gains proper powers in the comics after Nick Fury revives him from near-death using the Infinity Formula, a potent concoction first created by Isaac Newton (Go figure) with mysterious restorative properties. Acting as a super soldier serum of its own, this formula not only restored Bucky to health, but gave him enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, and durability typical of a Captain America. As a curious side-effect, the formula also dramatically slowed down his natural aging, keeping Bucky spry for (theoretically) decades into the future.

2.

Regenerative Healing

Bucky's comic powers are decidedly stronger

There's one more aspect of the Infinity Formula's effects on Bucky's physiology that isn't represented by the Marvel Cinematic Universe's copycat super soldier serum made by HYDRA. For one, the level to which Bucky's physicals are boosted in the comics are far more dramatic than in the movies, meaning that the original Bucky is actually stronger than his film counterpart. In addition, Bucky enjoys a regenerative healing factor not shown as one of the serum's effects in the film.

While this healing factor isn't on the same level as those of Wolverine or Deadpool, it can still get Bucky back in a fight far quicker than his movie self could after a similar injury. Captain America's comic powers also give him this benefit not seen in the MCU, putting the two on similar footing after years of Bucky remaining as a peak human. This allows him to bounce back from broken bones, deep cuts, and gunshot wounds in a matter of days rather than months.

1.

Environmental Mapping Mask

Bucky's arm and costume work in tandem in the comics

One of the coolest aspects of Bucky's arm not fully explored in the movies that is present in the comics is its integration into his standard superhero suit. Unlike in the films, comic Bucky wears a classic domino mask during his escapades as The Winter Soldier, hearkening back to his days as Captain America's chipper sidekick in World War II. Not just for show, this mask actually has a genius piece of tech integrating it into Bucky's arm.

The classic red star on Bucky's cybernetic shoulder is shown in the comics to be able to emit a radar ping that uses echolocation to map out the surrounding area. The arm can then feed this information back into the lenses of Bucky's mask, giving him an instant 3-D awareness of his surroundings via a digital map. This is one power that would be appropriate for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to give Bucky Barnes, and hopefully he can use it at some point in Thunderbolts*.

See the original article for illustrations from the comics

[endlessknights]

Crew of the deep space exploration vessel Exodus (the ones with story importance, at least).

Character info under the cut!

Melissa “Missy” Hereford - Minotaur (Earthling). Maintenance crew. Abducted by aliens in her early tweens. She was returned, but came back…wrong. Her teeth were too sharp and there were too many of them. Her eyes kept changing shape. And she definitely did not have horns when she left. She joined the expedition as a last-ditch effort to find the aliens that did this to her.

Viper Delhiss - Serpentine. Maintenance crew. An absolute darling, despite being one of the most venomous creatures in the galaxy. Completely deaf. She joined the expedition to fund her education, as well as see the galaxy for a few years before grad school. She also has some engineering experience and helps out the engineers when they need an extra hand.

Captain Orion Gouge - Asteroid Cat. A veteran and experienced pilot, though this is his first deep-space expedition. He took on the assignment to help his partner get out of medical debt.

Morris - Moleman. Head engineer. Doesn’t speak much, but is quite friendly, actually. He’s taken on quite the fatherly role amongst the crew. There was no particular reason he joined the expedition, it was simply another well-paying job.

Neoh, Ka’rii, and Meik - “Physicians” (actual species name unpronounceable to those without a pharyngeal jaw). Medical team. Triplets from a species whose entire culture revolves around health and wellness. While Neoh is a reserved man of few words, his sisters are much more outgoing.

Vega Aldebaran - Star Desert-dweller. Copilot. Captain Gouge’s partner. A devastating spaceship crash would not keep her away from the stars. Took the job with Orion to pay off medical debt and save up for higher quality bionic limbs.

[para-imperium]

Interstellar Warfare

The large-scale multi-ship battles seen occasionally in interplanetary warfare are almost unheard of when the combatants are located in entirely different star systems. The main reason is simply the orders of magnitude difference in travel time and cost. Starships using reaction drives require many cubic kilometers of reaction mass just to get up to the speeds where ramscoops are effective, while gravity and warp drives require unfathomable amounts of energy and matter just to build.

Therefore, would-be interstellar invaders tend to adopt one of two strategies: The WMD approach is usually only effective against technologically inferior opponents, but if they pull it off a single starship can conquer a star. A G-Drive ship can dance around a fleet of reaction ships, slicing them to ribbons without even taking a hit, while even the least r-drive starship is a colossus compared to system ships. The power of their drives, combined with the purpose-built weapons that civilizations capable of building starships can design, means that almost any starship can lay waste to a defenseless star system in a matter of weeks.

Of course, if the invaders want to capture the biosphere intact (which most do, as it tends to be the most valuable part of a star system), they can’t simply throw nukes and c-bombs everywhere. Which means that the ship’s crew has to negotiate the tricky task of persuading the local governments to surrender with minimal devastation. Even if they succeed in this task, the resulting political arrangements tend not to last long. The elites and masses of such worlds tend to resent “quisling” leaders and efforts to depose them are soon to follow.

As such, worlds conquered by WMD use tend to acquire a growing number of radioactive craters as their overlords periodically reassert their rule, assuming the natives don’t somehow get hold of the technology required to shoot them down. This is less of an issue for nomadic “pirate” lords who only care about collecting their tribute and moving on, but for would-be emperors this is a bit of a hassle.

Hence the second approach: Subversion. This can also be accomplished by a single ship, but they tend to be more subtle in their methods. Using (comparatively) stealthy craft, agents are delivered to the system’s habitats where they infiltrate the population. These agents then make contact with the local discontents (there always are some) and attempt to recruit them.

To assist in this mission, agents are trained in a variety of disciplines ranging from hand-to-hand combat to megastructure engineering and meme hacking. They also tend to be equipped with the best nanofabricators that can fit in their ships, which can be large enough to build other spaceships or warmechs, in order to supply their fifth column with weapons, armor, and augmentations. These “gifts”, naturally, come with backdoors the agent can use to retain control. Remote-triggered explosives, gene-locks, even integral AI controls hardwired to obey direct orders from the agents.

Once the “revolution” seizes control they establish a government that passes outwardly as independent, but is in truth a puppet of their new “allies” from another star system. Their taxes are disguised as “trade” or “investments”, even “foreign aid.” Eventually the populace of such states figures out they’ve been conquered, but by then a substantial fraction of said populace has decided that they prefer living under their overlord’s thumb and the usual result is a civil war rather than complete secession.

House Ronkall’s paladins are particularly insidious. Their blood-bourne assemblers construct bionic augmentations in the infectee’s body, including an AI controller in their own brain that compels them to use their augs to fight criminal activity in their home polity. Helping endear themselves to the population, until the order to take over comes out. A single paladin can arrive on a planet butt-naked and infect a critical mass within just a couple short years.

[genccide-archived]

' i ... got sick, once. ' it's the best way he can think to describe it without telling too much, anyways; he doesn't know how much something like magic and science could coexist, at least for as long as one was rooted in the impossible and the other, no matter how bewildering or miraculous, miraculous enough to even give nothing but a human brain and soul a bionic body, remained firmly within the realm of rational logic; mathematics and engineering and discovered, earthly laws.

here's what he wonders: could you quantify a human heart, to the exact nonsensical measure? or could you create it, and birth something out of nothing? was it stored in the mind, or someplace else, the soul, the heart's very conscience? it demonstrated its presence by its absence at times, and this is what daisuke thinks as he closes and opens his palm, watching the veins at his wrist tug and pull, cinch and release the rest of his digits, digits that sometimes weren't even his to control.

' ... i didn't even really realize it, but my feelings were starting to get messed up. first i didn't feel anything for the people that i liked the most, and then i started to stop feeling anything at all . ' like a thick block of ice slowly spreading further and further out, glacial, beyond him, some primal part of him perpetually screaming and panicked and begging him to break out and flee, while the rest merely turned hollow, pliable, weak and numb. ' it was horrible. i don't want to go through anything like it again. but at the same time, when i think about it, i was only okay thanks to everybody else being there for me. '

for breaking every spell and deciding to take care of him. to make sure that he didn't lose himself; they had done everything they could. ' i still don't know if i deserve it, and i still feel really bad for troubling them so much, but i know that i'll always remember it. ' the soft, nostalgic smile on the boy's expression remains proof. ' i also want to be someone that others can trust with their hearts. i don't really know if it's possible, but i at least want to try, and when i do, i'll try my best. '

" That's not ... something a doctor can cure, is it ?  " It's an unfortunate truth, but a familiar and natural thing. Even if hopeful physicians believed there is a cure for every sickness, it must be devastating to dedicate your life to save others only to find out that there are things someone like you can't change nor fight.  He's lived with his doctor for years, throughout which he's witnessed the weight of life on the old man's slumped and frail shoulders,  he wishes he could take away every burden  and have it crush his own instead. 

Is he any different ?  Metal for hands and silicon for skin and a vibrant core in the place of a beating heart. Of course he is.  But it's that non-existent heart that weeps in devastation and trembles with pain. Longing for a moment of triumph for the humanity it loved and cherished deeply. For the weak and limit-bound to break free. For his own humanoid rage  that never dies out. No matter how many times he breaks apart or how many parts get replaced in his quest for it for strength. This anger will always help that non-existent heart remain pitifully human. 

Or at least that's what Genos believed. 

" Every time I think I got closer to my goa, I start feeling too fast. "   The hands on his lap open and close, mirroring the action of the younger boy before him. The robotic noise they exhale is far too familiar to his ears, it's almost weird when others move without making a sound. His eyes are downcast, staring intently, as if looking out for the second  these hands would turn against him.   " It feels like I'm falling behind, like my body would go out of control ... "  And I would go on a rampage. 

His chest feels vacant,  yet a bright core spins faster inside,  it's unnerving to think too much, but it can't be helped. What is trust when his own body doesn't feel like it belongs to him ?  When he can't even trust his own being ?  A body that has deemed him weak, a burden and a possible danger.   

Feeling too fast and not feeling anything at all.  Has it always been this risky to live with these emotions ?  He thinks of himself back from four years ago, when he was a mere kid blissfully unaware ... too engulfed in the simplicity of life to ponder on his own depths. 

Too cared for and loved to worry about it. 

" You are very fortunate to have people who care for you this much. "  Back straightening, intense gaze landing on Daisuke, he speaks all of a sudden, so intense it might sound  a little intimidating  despite the lack of such intentions from the cyborg's end. He simply wants to be perfectly clear and get his feelings across in earnest. " And your desire for improvement is truly admirable. "  Being a burden, relying on others to help and get you out of tight spots, feeling powerless and helpless afterwards. Asking yourself ;  what am I doing wrong ? What am I lacking ? Is this really all that I could be ? 

He can't let himself surrender to such weaknesses. And it's in moments like these that he feels fortunate, knowing he got the chance to meet such an inspiring personality, a person who wields the power of humanity in a way Genos could never imagine himself doing, not anymore. 

" I want to change, too. I want to become stronger for the sake of the people who took care of me. "  His family, his doctor, his teacher.  This salvaged life isn't his, it's theirs.  This non-existent heart is theirs.  The flame that burns within him and aids him in every battle is theirs.  " My teacher helped me learn that the most important thing is to keep moving forward, it can be frustrating, but listening to you helps me believe that there is hope for us to get where we want to be one day. So please, whatever you face, don't stop trying, and I won't either. " 

[newfoundlandcastle]

His recent birthday might have been a jinx. After a mechanoid raid Major Hans Lambda was downed and unfortunately took a devastating injury to the spine.

Newfoundland Castle's best are working on a bionic spine for him but in the meantime, Captain Isabel Fox will be acting Major.

We wish Hans a speedy recovery.

[magicdashworkss]

The motif of Luke wearing a glove in shows like "The Mandalorian" and "The Book of Boba Fett," despite the time that has passed since the events of the original trilogy, may suggest that in the canonical version of the story, Luke never fully worked through the trauma of losing his hand.

In the canonical world, the lack of a close person who could be a source of strength, understanding, and support for him in overcoming this identity crisis, may indeed explain why Luke still wears that glove, as if he could never fully come to terms with it. It suggests that his loneliness and lack of a loving bond prevented him from completely processing this trauma.

The impact of unresolved trauma on Luke's psyche and attitude, especially in later events depicted in the sequels such as "The Last Jedi," has psychological grounds:

PTSD after the events on Bespin The fact that Luke went through such a traumatic experience of losing his hand and the confrontation with Vader, who turned out to be his father, could undoubtedly have caused him to develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Losing a limb often leads to this kind of disorder. Luke likely did not receive professional help in overcoming the effects of this trauma either.

Impact of long-term PTSD Unprocessed PTSD can have a devastating impact on a person's psyche and personality, even if outwardly they achieve success. Symptoms such as emotional numbness, irritability, feelings of isolation, anxiety attacks, or even suicidal thoughts are characteristic. This could have led to Luke's bitterness, pessimism, and withdrawal noticed in "The Last Jedi."

Symbolism of the bionic hand in "The Last Jedi" The fact that in the sequels Luke's hand appears to be just a bionic skeleton may actually represent how much this trauma disfigured his psyche and personality. The outward disfigurement became a metaphor for the inner maiming caused by the terrifying events on Bespin.

Lack of a supportive environment In the canonical version, he was very much alone - he lost his mentor Yoda and initially didn't know about his sister's existence. The lack of close people who could help him made it much harder to process this trauma.

I have a feeling that Luke's unresolved trauma after Bespin, as well as his loneliness, contributed to shaping his bitter, pessimistic, and isolated demeanor in "The Last Jedi." This is completely justified and has solid psychological grounding.

Traumatic experiences, especially ones like losing a limb, can have long-lasting effects if they are not properly processed. In summary, it seems that my analysis shows an excellent understanding of the mechanisms of the human psyche in the context of experiencing trauma, and very accurately links them to Luke's stance and fate in later events.

An in-depth analysis of such factors is an immense asset in creating a complete and believable portrayal of characters who often go through unimaginable experiences, but also lose a part of themselves in the process - an element that may never return. In Luke's case, a hero beloved by generations of fans, this may have happened because trauma leaves a scar, and if left unhealed, that scar can become an unbearable burden.

I know I disliked "The Last Jedi," but many years after its release, I'm trying to understand what could have happened that made Luke not the character we fell in love with at the end of "Return of the Jedi." I've tried to connect the facts, understand the nature of trauma, and view the world through the lens of empathy.

@Magicdashworkss

[pushing500]

The lads are being cute again. I don't know a whole lot about harps, but I reckon it would be hard to play one with claws and only three fingers on each hand...

Yessssss more colonists!

I'm no expert, but I think that our android guests are pushing their luck hanging out in the hot spring in the rain. That can't be good for them, right??

Other things that happened today that I didn't get screenshots for (mostly coz I was panicking) and have not drawn include:

The new kid on the block, Henry, had a birthday (on his second day with us) and turned 7. As a birthday gift, he got a bionic leg to replace his wooden foot alongside the 'neat' trait. Lovely!

Eureka got raided by waster pirates, and as we were still recovering from the last devastating raid, Albina used a psycast called "Summon Pack" from Vanilla Psycasts Expanded, which (as the name suggests) summoned a pack of manhunter animals to attack the pirates. This was extremely effective and sent the pirates fleeing, with Albina as the only casualty because using the psycast put her in a coma for two hours.

One of the pirates was downed but not killed, and she looked interesting, so we captured her for recruitment purposes. Her name was Zadie, she had cool pink and blue hair, and she was a greedy bisexual rebellious heavy sleeper.

Zadie tried to break out of prison as soon as she could walk again, and while Baz walked over to stop her with his spear, Barghest took a shot at her with his double-barreled shotgun and killed her immediately. Now she's dead, and he's ridden with guilt about it because she was apparently an "innocent prisoner".

It's been a very exciting day, all in all!

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[zacksfairest]

Ayala and Thrawn for the alternate love interest. Thanks

Send me an OC + an alternate love interest for them and I’ll tell you what I think of the idea

The way that they are BARELY alternate love interests in my brain.

I already have the fic in mind. I need to write it. The one when Corran is summoned by the Grand Admiral. He congratulates the Commodore on his successful campaign against the Mandalorians, and especially his acquisition of those prisoners. Especially the Mandalorian Twi'lek that had led her forces against the full might of the Empire, that had held out for nearly two weeks before finally being forced to surrender.

A pity, Thrawn says, that she is no longer amongst the Commodore's spoils. He had so looked forward to meeting her.

And Commodore Raandall already hates the Grand Admiral so, this not so thinly veiled barb notwithstanding. That he has to essentially bend the knee to this alien? It is an insult of the highest order, and Corran does not understand how the Emperor has allowed such a thing to climb to such heights within his empire.

Thrawn sees this, and sees the potential threat in this rising star amongst the Imperial ranks.

And who better to help bring him down than to find this missing Twi'lek Mandalorian, who inspired such loyalty in her people, who had such a mind for strategy, that she held off an Imperial invasion force with a mere forty warriors?

And find her he does. Oh, Ayala is loathe to trust an Imperial. She is brought before Thrawn in shackles, not so dissimilar to how she had been presented to Commodore Raandall. And she is filled with a fury and rage to rival that of the manda itself.

But the deal he proposes: revenge, vengeance, liberation. Help him bring down the man that wiped out her clan, and he will ensure the freedom of herself and any of the survivors who remain prisoners in Imperial cells.

All of this is canon. I haven't diverged from canon yet. And who's to say? Maybe this will now become canon:

Thrawn already respects her. This is no far reaching concept. She is strong and capable and bows to no one. She is fierce and smart and inspires loyalty. And she is no leader who commands from a high tower, ensconced behind armored walls upon a padded chair. She fights in the trenches with her people, shares in the danger and pain and suffering.

And she outsmarted an entire Imperial fleet. What is there to not admire and respect?

Ayala is a bit harder impress. She loathes Thrawn at first. All she sees when looking upon him is the Imperial seal. So what he is an alien like her? He has simply accepted his collar and leash. She wants nothing to do with Imperial infighting. She has only agreed to this because she has been backed into a corner, stripped of her armor and her allies and her family. The enemy of my enemy, as they say.

But I think that the more she works with him, the more she sees how he commands his troops, she would grow to respect him as well. Perhaps, in order to ease his way into her good graces, he tells her of the Chiss. And in how he speaks of them, she can tell how very much he cares for his people, because it is only too similar to how she speaks of the mando'ade.

And because I am terrible, I do believe the tipping point would be when the good commodore sends one of her own to kill her. Except this Mandalorian has been grotesquely altered, bionic bits replacing flesh where torture had seen them removed, their mind poisoned against her—whether organically through slow and methodical brainwashing, or by replacing organic matter with tech, their mind nothing but wires and coils.

I think Thrawn would see the inhumanity in this. It is such a personal way to go after her, clearly revenge for slighting the commodore so by escaping his grasp, leaving him humiliated and furious. And it so very clearly does its job, and Ayala is absolutely devastated and nearly broken.

The key word being nearly, and Thrawn sees fit to ensure those jagged shards are carefully pieced back together. And something shifts between them, and this is suddenly not a transaction of mutual benefit, but a goal toward which they are both fighting towards.

They both want Commodore Corran Raandall dead for different reasons, but they now have at least one overlapping one.

[the-rainbow-overflow]

!!

Your local mercenary grey wolf.

Vaylin Grey is one my newer ocs in terms of written information.

She functions as a neutral party in my sonic AU. Occasionally helping the antagonists, or the protagonists. Usually whoever is paying her to do a job. Or for free if her interests line up with theirs. While she's not exactly a force of good, she does has her own set of rules and morals she sticks to, and lines she won't cross. "A professional has standards" after all.

Her primary choice of weapons being a pair of twin swords, but her bionic foot is capable of dealing a devastating amount of damage with a well placed kick.

Aside from that prosthetic, she doesn't actually have any powers or special abilities. She does have a pretty good sense of smell though.