#wug/reader

[strawbeepop]

My Y/ns pt.4

ISWM

Name: Astrid Civis Valentine

Age: 25

Sex: Female

Gender Identity: Genderfluid

Relationship Status: Dating someone

Family: Stan the water man(bio father), Captain Magnum(step-father), Esme Dove Iplier(sister), Kitty Jade Hugo(sister), Mark E. Iplier(brother-in-law)

Relationships:

Dark: They have no idea who the fuck he is but all they know is their sisters don’t like him so neither do they, he doesn’t understand them as a person at all

Wilford: They’re pretty sure he confused them for Kitty, he kinda freaks them out a little, and they’re pretty sure he’s the only person that can resist their charm

Yancy: Yeah, he also confused them for Kitty, they don’t really have an opinion on him

Captain Magnum: I mean, they don’t have a bad opinion on him, kinda just meh, they’re just happy that their dad’s happy

Engineer!Mark: They’re special boy :)

Celci: She can be a little strict for their taste but it’s understandable

Gunther: Yeah, they like him as much as Mark does

Burt: They quite enjoy his company

Mack: FUCK NO. JUST. FUCK HIM.

Tyler: *head pats*

Danny: Honestly, they really like him! But not like that

Brian: They have a mutual respect for eachother, in a ‘we’re both way more powerful then everyone here and we’re great cause of it’ way

Bandit: Hell yeah, women

Allu(Lady): They really do like them.. until they try to kill them

Occupation: Space Captain

Song for vibes: Gallowdance, Lebanon Hanover

Ok byyeeee!!!

[whendealingininfinites]

Ask box open!

Ask me for headcanons, short drabbles, or other random ideas for Markiplier egos.

A couple of rules:

1. I’m happy to write or headcanon ship stuff between any characters, including the reader/viewer.

2. Be specific in your ask and I’ll do my best to meet what you ask! I can’t draw but I can and do write.

Here is a probably incomplete list of Egos I’m familiar enough with to write about.

Most familiar with: Darkiplier, Wilford/The Colonel, Damien, Engineer Mark, Actor/Heist/Date Mark, Yancy

Characters I’m most familiar with that aren’t Mark Egos: The Captain, The DA, Abe, Lady, Celine

Not familiar with but willing to take a shot: Illinois, Murdock/Murderiplier, Stan the Water Man, The Host, Google, Bing, Bim Trimmer, Dr. Iplier

Characters I’m less familiar with that aren’t Mark Egos: Bandit, Wug, Benjamin

If there’s an ego or character not listed, then I probably don’t know anything about them. You’re welcome to still ask but I can’t promise I’ll have anything good about them.

[mercymornsimpathizer]

actually I had another thought about where the problem is or might be. there's a sort of famous sentence is linguistics (<-crazy thing to say but it literally has its own wikipedia page): colorless green ideas sleep furiously. any fluent english speaker could tell you what each of those words mean individually, but the sentence as a whole doesn't mean anything -- in fact can't mean anything. it's the exact opposite of the wug idea, or lewis carrol's jabberwocky, where we can morphologically and even semantically process nonsense words because of how they are used. in this case the words make sense, the grammar is correct, and yet it doesn't mean anything -- and there's no way to translate or rephrase it (the way the readers in the paper were asked to) because the action of rephrasing is one that preserves meaning with changed words/syntax; if there is no meaning then there cannot be rephrasing. the readers who struggle the most profoundly are treating every sentence like that -- like it has no meaning. its like every book is flanagans fucking wake. but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

some random thoughts on that literacy study going around, since the op has turned off rbs

one of the things that is hardest for me to wrap my mind around is that literacy and linguistic fluency are different skills. its one of those things that is obvious when you point it out -- i mean, language predates writing! there are languages that have no writing system! --but that a person might not ever consider because we are (implicitly?) taught that written language is the purest or most essential form of language. but there are people who are profoundly illiterate (in the sense that they might not even know the alphabet/writing system of their language) who nonetheless can and do speak fluently, follow conversations, enjoy and understand music/movies/etc.; in fact that is the case for the vast majority of people who are illiterate or have low literacy. it is the written word, not the word itself, that they struggle with, right?

and then you have these students in the study who in a literal sense are literate. it isn't the problem you see with low literacy adults, or with children who are learning to read, where they do not recognize or know how to pronounce a word, maybe they parse a word incorrectly or substitute it with a word they do know. it doesn't seem to me that the literal act of reading is what these students couldn't do; if their task was to produce an audiobook of bleak house they would do a passable job. rather it was making meaning of what they read that they struggled with. its the reverse of what we would expect of a low literacy reader, who has no problem in general with what words mean, who can follow and connect meaning over a discourse, who understands and might even enjoy figurative, poetic, or idiomatic phrases, who may have a large vocabulary, but cannot connect those things to written symbols. presumably (?????) the readers in the study also don't in general struggle with those things, when it comes to spoken language.

so where, exactly, is the problem? it isn't that the language itself is incomprehensible to them, and it isn't that they cannot (in the literal sense) read and write. naively it seems to me like those are the only two points where a person could fail. so what is it??? i guess it might really be the vocabulary that is the issue, in the same way that i could, for example, passably read aloud a piece of german language text without understanding it -- because its written in an alphabet I use, and I know the rules of german pronunciation, even though i don't speak german (i.e. i dont know what german words mean). or the same way that someone could sing in a language they dont understand by memorizing them sound by sound. that seems a little facile to me, especially since the words in bleak house are not really that obscure or unusual.

but like what else could it be. just that they don't read very much, and when they do read they don't "translate" it into their own words line by line? is it an issue of attention, or interest? do they assume (as the op posits) that they don't expect it to make sense to them, so they don't try to make sense of it? or its too embarrassing to admit to the facilitator that they don't get or are having a hard time? really and truly difficult for me to understand

[in-space-with-wug]

Sometimes, while tidying up your small space in Wug's ship, you hum. Whether it's bad or good or soft or loud, you hum to keep a little noise in the otherwise noiseless area - keeping time with the little beeps that the ship makes at times. You'll do it in other areas too, sometimes without realizing it.

Wug does, and at some point he starts doing it to. You don't notice it at first (mostly because you were either asleep or not around him) but when you do, you ask him about it. A simple, "Is that from your people?"

"What do you mean, Captain?" Wug turns away from the controls for a minute, tilting his head slightly.

"You were humming."

Wug nods. "You have been doing that. Wug likes the noise." You felt like he was smiling under his helmet, and you feel your ear-tips heat up slightly. "Was too quiet before." He starts humming in a more over-exaggerated fashion before turning back to the control panel, seemingly preferring to stare out into the vast emptiness before him.

Well, that was sweet. A smile creeps onto your face as you turn to keep doing your thing, eventually finding yourself humming along with Wug.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

can you do wug headcanons 🥺🥺🥺 like what if we took them abroad in the invinsible 2

Anon you don't know how much I love this idea.

Also I’m kinda making my own Wug oc here so ghdhghhf

.........

“Captain, what did you bring aboard the ship?”

“...a coffee.”

“I meant the big alien standing behind you. What does it want?”

“Hey, his name is Wug. And he’s here to help.” You glare at Celci while patting the armored alien’s chestplate.

Unlike the one you and Mark met, this one was apparently a drifter, only having his small cruiser as a home. So he docked with the Invincible II after you sent out a distress signal.

“Wug seen scary things out there,” he grumbles. “You give Wug home, Wug protect Captain.”

“Yep, so he’s gonna be my personal bodyguard from here on out. Now since--”

“Awh man I wanted to be the Captain’s bodyguard!!”

“Me too-!”

“Will you guys zip it?!!” You snapped at the two whiny crew members. “Anyways, since Wug is officially part of our team I expect each and every one of you to treat him with respect. Understood?”

Everyone just nods and welcomes Wug aboard. Mark is the only apprehensive one but doesn’t object.

You give Wug an Invincible II patch to put on his arm. “I’ll show you around and help you get settled in. Our quarters are made for humans but we can accommodate.”

Although you don’t see it because of his helmet, he’s already crying with happiness.

‘Captain is so kind to Wug,’ he thinks. ‘Wug will protect them to the end!’

[umbrellafics]

Humans?!

Summary: Alien!Reader meets Gunther

a/n: Ethan is Gunther’s assistant bc I said so

You were working in your house. A storm recently came through and destroyed part of your home. You were pretty far away from the nearest city so you were on your own when it came to fixing it. While you were measuring how long your walls were you heard a loud whooshing sound. You looked up and saw a large flying object in the distance. You didn’t recognize it as any of the aircrafts you’ve seen before so you went to ask your friend Wug about it.

Wug was decorating cookies when you went to them about it. They didn’t seem too concerned but went to check after they saw how nervous you were. You decided to watch from a window as you saw Wug look towards the sky. The ship landed a few miles away from your house. You saw Wug walk toward the ship and some creatures walk out of the ship. It was too far away to make out anything so you decided to leave your house and get closer to the action.

As you got closer to the ship you saw Wug talking to the creates in a language you didn’t understand. How does Wug know this language already? One of the creatures with no hair and a small stick in their mouth noticed you approaching and pulled a gun out on you. The creature yelled something before Wug stood in between the two of you and talked to the creature. The creature lowered their weapon and allowed Wug an opportunity to give you a translator.

With a translator intact you can now understand the creatures. You greeted them, nervousness evident in your voice. You bowed, a species neutral greeting according to the USA, and patted the bald creature's head. The bald creature laughed and introduced themself as Gunther, a weapons expert. Gunther introduced you to his research team, a couple of scientists, and his assistant Ethan. You patted their heads (a common greeting in your area) and apologized for scaring Gunther. He laughed and assured you that nothing could possibly scare him.

Once Wug and you felt safe enough you invited the humans into your home. You gifted them some plants and food so they can research it. In return, Gunther and Ethan helped you to finish your house repair.

While working Ethan asked you several questions about your species’ customs and lifestyles. You gladly answered and asked a couple of your own. Afterward, Gunther and his team prepared to leave. Before they went back to their ship Ethan promised to come back soon with more of his people.

You bid them goodbye and watched them leave in their ship and disappear into the night sky. You readied yourself for bed and wondered when Gunther and his team would return. You’re excited to meet more humans and learn more about this new species.

a/n: Thanks for reading if you have a request feel free to send one through my inbox

[dragon-discourse]

Vermin, Serpents, and the Wug Radical: A look at the intersection between dragons, snakes, and invertebrates.

I have spoken before on this blog about how dragons as we know them ultimately descend from snakes, with the earliest dragons being serpentine gods, monsters, and demons, and their modern depictions being the result of millennia of symbolic and cultural evolution.

I have also touched on before that when it comes to looking at, studying, and classifying dragons, I personally tend to branch out slightly from only looking at snakes, which is why I often describe dragons as fantastical serpents rather than fantastical snakes. Ancient peoples did not have a modern sense of taxonomy, and while they would often group animals together, the way they would group them together is different than how we understand modern clades.

Learning that dragons are snakes would cause many modern readers to branch out to the animals we know today to be related to snakes (reptiles, and perhaps through them then dinosaurs and birds), but it's important to keep in mind what animals the early inventors of dragons would have seen as "related" to snakes, and that takes us in a different direction. The direction of reptiles, yes, but also to amphibians and invertebrates.

I intend to go through three different categories of creatures to show how this connection has existed historically.

The first categories I would like to look at are worms and vermin. First, if we look at the words, we can connect worm to wurm and wyrm, two words which have been used historically as regional terms for dragons. Vermin traces itself back to the Latin vermis, which itself shares an etymological origin with worm. Both ultimately trace back to a PIE term, derived from the verb "to turn" that refers to creatures which crawl upon the earth, a category which includes snakes and lizards, invertebrates, and amphibians such as frogs, toads, and newts.

When people began to classify animals, worm and vermes were used most often to describe invertebrates, with Isidore of Seville giving the following categories of worms:

Worms of the Earth, including scorpions, snails, millipedes, and beetles.

Worms of the Air, which included spiders.

Worms of the Water, such as the leech.

Worms of Flesh, which accounts for the numerous bodily parasites.

Worms of Clothing, accounting for moths.Worms of Wood and Leaves, with termites filling in the former role while caterpillars and silkworms.

Additionally, bestiaries such as these would often classify worms, and all these creatures included therein, within the serpent category, a category that included creatures not necessarily because they were limbless or scaled, but because they were seen as crawling and venomous. Alternatively, worm was classed within reptiles, which was used for an assortment of egg laying creatures, including true reptiles but also frogs and newts.

As we continue with classification, we run into the Vermes class as defined by Carl Linnaeus. Here we lose the arthropods, which are all lumped into Insecta, and are left with a system used to define many soft bodied creatures, ranging from earth worms to snails to corals.

Worm and Vermin, which started out as general terms to describe crawling creatures, over time became more specific, until it mostly only included soft bodied invertebrates.

The next category I would like to look at is the Serpent, which can be traced back to the PIE verb for "to creep, crawl." Like with Worm, we're immediately drawn to an association with crawling upon the earth. This word would also become the Greek herpeton, from which we get Herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians. Herpeton itself meant "reptile" or, more specifically, "crawling creature."

Serpent was often used to describe snakes both real and imagined, with the dragon being categorized as the greatest of all serpents. But snakes aren’t the only thing this grouping included.

Already, as we saw with worm, we are seeing a term that originates as a designation for crawling things. While it would seem that Vermis and Worm became specific for invertebrates and Serpent was specific for vertebrates, we must keep in mind what I mentioned earlier, about how worms themselves were classified into the serpent category, as were venomous things in general.

Linnaeus initially classified reptiles and amphibians together within Amphibia, but it is noteworthy that within this clade he had Reptiles (turtles, lizards [which itself included salamanders and crocodiles], and frogs), Serpentes (including snakes as well as caecilians and worm lizards), and Nantes, which was a clade including lampreys, sharks and skates, sturgeons, and anglerfish. In fact, the Nantes category brings to mind the post I made [found here] about the various cultures which have connected sharks to their dragon mythology.

Finally, I am going to talk about Radical 142, or as I've seen it designated, the Wug Radical (wug being a portmanteau of Worm and Bug). The radical is depicted as 虫, and is derived from a pictogram depicting a venomous snake. The pictograms are as follows:

While the name would suggest a purely invertebrate use, the wug radical is used to generate a wide range of words relating to crawling animals, including insects, reptiles, amphibians, and shellfish.

蛇, for example, translates to "snake."

So here we have a symbol which started out as a depiction of a snake being adapted for use in crawling animals as a whole.

In Chinese, there are classifications of dragons which use this character either in place of, or in addition to, more conventional draconic characters. Dragons in Chinese are often said to be connected to scaled or armored creatures, either with dragons ruling over them, or them being considered the same "sort" of creature as the dragon.

I started this post with the intention of exploring what earlier modes of classification meant for how we see dragons today, and why it colors what animals I view as draconic. If the Dragon is the greatest of the Worms, Serpents, and Wugs, what does that mean for the crawling creatures which are not snakes?

[sixth-light]

Hey, Regarding your tags on another post, would you care to elaborate on the Abigail-took-Beverly's-place-in-the-story theory? At a first glance I don't know how to feel about that.

Sure! It’s a lot less definitive than maybe I made it sound. 

Essentially, BA has said at various times that both Abigail and Beverley were characters who weren’t in the original story plan, and it’s fairly obvious that Beverley is intended to be a ‘girl of the book’ in Rivers of London itself - it’s only as of Broken Homes/Foxglove Summer that she comes back into Peter’s life, and she’s now settled firmly into the role of his romantic partner. 

There’s a noticeable difference between how she acts in RoL and FS, too. In RoL it’s emphasised a few times that she’s a teenager, that she’s getting entertainment out of playing detective with Peter, she refers/defers to her mother regularly, and Peter explains her presence away at one point as her being on a school placement. (How that makes their romance play out at this point I leave as an exercise for the reader.) When she reappears properly in FS, she’s only a year older chronologically but the way she interacts with Peter and behaves is different - she’s willing to help him but she much more clearly has her own goals and interests, and she’s confident and competent outside of her own sphere of London. From a Watsonian perspective you could say she’s done a lot of growing up during her time with the upstream Thames family; from a Doylistic one, she’s filling a different role in the story, so she has to have ‘grown up’. 

Abigail comes into the story briefly in MoS, but then more and more as of WUG/BH, and gets a whole adventure with Peter in The Furthest Station (and will have another in her own novella, which is currently being written.) Abigail is emphatically not Beverley in terms of Beverley’s romantic/sexual connection with Peter, but I think a lot of that teenage detective vibe Beverley has in the first book, she has in later books - and that gives some of her *investigative* interactions with Peter a similar feeling. So it’s less that Abigail took Beverley’s place and more that when Beverley’s role in the story changed, Abigail as a character started to call back to some of the other elements of Beverley’s original outing - because as Peter’s teenage cousin, she’s much better suited to keep that going long-term. Of course, like Beverley she has her own goals and talents, and I’m sure we’ll see her exploring a lot of other things aside from working alongside Peter - especially since she’s getting her own novella. 

And that circles back to something that I actually miss about early-series-Bev - the more she becomes Peter’s long-term partner/mother of his children, the less she seems to get to do in the books as an active participant, v.s. Peter’s sounding board/emotional support. I miss RoL and FS!Bev who got to help solve the mystery. I like that she’s really involved in the current comics run! I’d love it more if she got to do that in a book again. 

[allthingslinguistic]

Because Internet was reviewed in Science Magazine, Real Simple, Booklist, and Library Journal, in addition to last month’s reviews. Here’s what Science Magazine says about it:

A compelling narrative rich with examples from her own online activities, a healthy dose of humor, and plenty of cat memes… the breadth of topics covered—from conversation analysis to meme culture to the development of texting as we now know it—makes this book useful, engaging, and enjoyable.

I did book-related threads about expanding the linguistics bookshelf and the public lending right and how you can order a book you’re excited about from your local public or academic library.

Because Internet is out on July 23rd! That’s just over a week away! Preorders all count towards a book’s first week sales, and the first week is the best chance that a book has of getting on any kind of bestseller list, so if you’re planning on getting it, I’d greatly appreciate if you got it now!

I’m also having a book launch party in Montreal on July 31 — if you’re in the Montreal area, I hope to see you there! You can get free tickets here via Eventbrite.

My latest article for Wired was about the Archive of Our Own and how fans are better than tech at organizing information online. (Plus: a delightful coda.) Excerpt:

On AO3, users can put in whatever tags they want. (Autocomplete is there to help, but they don’t have to use it.) Then behind the scenes, human volunteers look up any new tags that no one else has used before and match them with any applicable existing tags, a process known as tag wrangling.

Wrangling means that you don’t need to know whether the most popular tag for your new fanfic featuring Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is Johnlock or Sherwatson or John/Sherlock or Sherlock/John or Holmes/Watson or anything else. And you definitely don’t need to tag your fic with all of them just in case. Instead, you pick whichever one you like, the tag wranglers do their work behind the scenes, and readers looking for any of these synonyms will still be able to find you.

This month’s main episode of Lingthusiasm was about why spelling is hard — but also hard to change (with a great tweet about the French circonflexe accent and English) and the bonus episode was North, left, or towards the sea — direction words with Alice Gaby (plus a thread about direction words).

I read the first two Murderbot Diaries novellas and livetweeted my linguistic thoughts about them. I also read This Is How You Lose The Time War, which I was not able to livetweet yet since it was still an advance copy, but it was excellent and I strongly recommend it.

I’m featured in Lauren Gawne’s Linguistics Jobs series at Superlinguo, talking about how I became an internet linguist.

Selected tweets:

Nicknames that I have for my pet wugs (there are two of them)

A collaborative linguistics rewrite of Bohemian Rhapsody

Internet laughter in Korean

Bullet comments

I managed to find a linguistic angle to a major Canadian sporting event

It’s only a…sparkling meme: linguistics, memes, wugs

Straw poll on voice memos in texting apps

Alternative uses of the № symbol?

A 138-page pdf about language museums around the world

Selected blog posts:

An analysis of the meaning behind different kinds of screenshots

Bohemian Rhapsody but linguistics

Things that should happen in a sci fi story with a universal translator

Lox: the English word that hasn’t changed in sound or meaning in 8000 years

Bridging the internet’s digital language divide

A step-by-step guide to drawing syntax trees, with gifs

Early reviews for Because Internet

Are your teens secretly texting about languages using ISO-639-3 codes?

This month’s featured image is the first finished copy of Because Internet, which was sent to me in the mail! It looks like a real book! (Just hanging out on one of our Lingthusiasm esoteric symbols scarves, which matches it perfectly.) Front and back photos, because I can’t resist.

My newsletter for June 2019: First finished copy of #BecauseInternet, plus fandom tags on Wired Because Internet was reviewed in Science Magazine, Real Simple, Booklist, and Library Journal…

[specgram]

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent features, including a philological call to (re-)introduce the unwashed and unphilological masses to the ancient Syrian Goddess of wh-movement, a nativist call for rhexit and the nativist return of native linguistic terms, a moral and ethical call to treat the majestic wug more morally, ethically, and majestically—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks, folk etymologies, linguistic puzzles, advertisements, and more...

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[in-space-with-wug]

Sometime during your travels, you had noticed Wug wearing more things than usual. It was usually small accessories at first, like magnets (a popular Wug fashion choice), but at some point it shifted to Wug wearing a hat and a scarf. It looked silly, but it definitely fit Wug's character.

You never asked Wug about it, despite the way that Wug would ask if you liked it; you would say that you did, of course - "I like the scarf a lot, especially - it looks really soft."

And suddenly, a few days(?) later, you found yourself with a matching scarf - you had no clue if it was smaller or not, since you could likely use it as a wrap-around shirt/dress, but it was definitely the same color. It clicked when Wug happily called it your favorite color - even if it wasn't quite your favorite, at this point you didn't have the heart to tell Wug.

After having wrapped the scarf around yourself, you gave Wug a smile and told him that yeah, it was your favorite. Wug seemed very proud of himself, and Wug's accessories were definitely more endearing now knowing the meaning behind them.

Sure, maybe it wasn't really your favorite color...but it did hold a special place in your heart now.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

first ever request so I'm not sure if I'm being specific enough but

could I request something with the main iswm crew and maybe Mack finding out that the planet the colonists are being transported to is actually alien!readers home planet? (with reader's kind welcoming the colonists and crew with open arms) ((if that's too many characters, you can just pick which ones you want to do))

Slerapy anon

Mark

At first he’s stunned that you were an alien this whole time. You did a very good job masquerading as a human.

But does it change his opinion of you as a captain and friend who never gave up on him? Absolutely not.

He’s so excited to meet the rest of your species! And eager for the colonists to rest on the shores of your home planet.

Prior to disembarking you sent a simple request to your people: Never, under any circumstances, are they allowed to call the human named “Mark Iplier” ugly. That word was banned.

You've heard that one too many times from other rude aliens, and your species isn't gonna make the same mistake. No sir.

When Mark finds out about the extra step you took to make him feel more welcomed, he smiles.

And he beams with such pride as one of your planet’s leaders gives him a medal..and then you a medal..and then him a medal..and then you a medal..and that one female crew member a medal.

There’s no one he adored more than you, his alien captain.

Mack (Head Engineer)

On the other hand..

"I KNEW it!! You were an alien all along!!”

Of course, why wouldn’t you know how to reroute power or other troubleshooting measures on your own ship? ‘Only an alien disguised as a human captain wouldn’t!’ He thinks. That’s why he insisted on taking over and treated you so harshly when you refused. He was paranoid.

Now that the truth’s fully out, he plots a revolt against you for “espionage”. 

Yet...nobody takes his side. They don’t really care and are just happy to reach their destination in one piece.

You lowkey get offended when Mack assumes you wanna enslave the colonists, so you explain that your people were hosting a festival to celebrate their arrival--and that the two species have been communicating long before this trip. It’s why you orchestrated this trip at all.

When he finally meets them, he remains hostile but soon sees how genuinely kind they are and realizes how wrong he was.

Then he stumbles into your cabin in tears, begging for forgiveness.

Celci

Ngl she was a bit surprised.

She thought the planet you chose was uninhabited and simply had all the suitable conditions for human life.

But the scouting crew discovered an alien civilization and that’s when you reveal your true form to her, smiling as you explain it’s your home and all of them are welcomed.

“We’re a kind species, CC. We’ve been in contact with humanity for a while about establishing a society together. I just..didn’t wanna scare you guys so I stayed quiet.”

Although a bit miffed you kept this hidden she forgives you, still proud to call you her Captain.

“You kept them all safe, and that’s what matters. I’m eager to meet your friends and family, Cap.”

Gunther

“Aliens??? Hm.....do they have high-tech explosive weaponry we can trade?”

Barely bats an eye at the big reveal that his captain’s an alien.

You find it suspicious, especially when you remember the timeline he betrayed you for that exact reason.

When you catch him alone you ask him what he genuinely thinks of you.

“I was shocked, yeah but..shit, you led us well, Captain. Probably better than any other human could’ve. As long as your kind doesn’t try to uh..probe us, it’s all good.”

Burt

You’re a bit nervous about what he’ll think, but he just smiles lightly and reiterates his little poem (from the end of part 2).

“Alien or human or..anywhere in between, you are still a child of the universe. So beautiful to behold. I look forward to the exchanging of our cultures with your species.”

And he just walks away and resumes his duties.

What a guy.

Wug (bc I love him he deserves a spot here)

"You??? Alien???? Alien like Wug????? :DD" 

He's so happy when you’re comfortable enough to reveal your true form to him.

But at the same time feels bad for assuming you were human when you first met him.

You let him come onto your transport as you arrive on the planet's surface, showing him around.

"WOAH!!!! Wug find planet pretty..but not as pretty/handsome as [y/n]!”

He’ll use his translator to talk with your species, and after seeing how benevolent they are he might coordinate a meeting with other Wugs.

[in-space-with-wug]

a/n: long internal monologue sorry ;w; i like monologuing hh -- just platonic wug fic ft card games ! i like wug a lot and think that wug would make a great friend :3 no title bc idk what to call it lol

It had been a while since you left your colonists in the hands of your trusted crew - well, your trusted Celci, at least. You always felt she would be better in charge of a large group of people, or at the very least she would have a good eye for someone who would be able to run them well.

You? All you had were your handsome and/or beautiful looks, so people tended to trust you naturally. That might be why one of the many aliens you met on your journey was so excited for you to call them in to ask if you could join them while traveling. Wug was a good friend, always happy to help - and you were a curious space explorer, much happier to be out on a ship rather than leading a large group of people.

Wug was certainly an odd fellow, as were the other members of his race - most, if not all of them, were named Wug. It was confusing, not being able to understand the language of the Wugs, but it wasn't like any of them were trying to propose to you because of your outstanding looks or something. Or maybe they were - you couldn't understand them, after all.

Outside of your stops at intergalactic fast food restaurants and the occasional visit to check out an unknown planet, it was just you and Wug. The time was passed mostly with card games or route making, or with Wug telling you about what he did before you started to tag alone with him. It was hard to understand everything he said, what with Wug's little grasp of the English language, but you understood that he was sort of a wanderer, looking for uninhabited planets for his species. Well, it used to be any planet until you convinced Wug that there are definitely other planets that are good for his ever-expanding species that are uninhabited.

There were times where Wug would buy you random things, because "Wug saw this and thought of you, Captain!" You've told him before to call you by your first name, but Wug got embarrassed about the thought of it for some reason. Something about Wug customs or something like that.

You really didn't understand this odd fellow at times, but he was cute. Like a puppy. Man, you really did miss Chica. She was a great pup, easily the best of your crew. If you could have put her in charge of the colony you would have, but you settled for putting her as the vice-president - not that Celci agreed with it, but since she was the President, she could do whatever.

Anyway, back to the present - existing with Wug in Wug's spaceship. Rather, you and Wug were playing an intense card game that Wug grew up with. You hardly understood how to explain it, but if you had to guess it was kind of like Uno, except the goal was to make the other person lose all of their while only having less than five cards in your hand? It was difficult since you couldn't understand some of the wordier cards, but you matched patterns together once you were able to notice the similarities between certain cards.

"Uh, so..." Your brows furrow as you stare intently between your hand and the pile of cards in front of you. "This one." You slap down a card from your hand and look up, giving Wug a toothy grin.

"You are doing very good, Captain!" For some reason, it feels like Wug is trying not to hurt your feelings. Wug draws a card before placing one down. "It says to remove two of your cards."

So Wug does notice your trouble with trying to understand the cards. Wug has likely been laughing at you this entire time beneath his helmet, though you couldn't truly blame him - you would do the same if you played this game with your old crew.

"'Kay." You put two of your cards to the side - you and Wug had 3 cards left each, even with you drawing and placing down another card. "Go fish," you joke.

Wug gives off a confused aura - or, at least, you assume he does, so you explain the reference as he discards one card before drawing + placing another. 2 cards for him, 3 for you.

"Go... fish?" the alien responds, eyes flipping back and forth before landing on you.

You crack another toothy grin before looking intently at the card on the pile and the ones in your hand. This one looked... "This is the one you played before, right?" you ask, placing one that looked like the card from before down.

"Oh! That is a retrieve two! You have saved Wug from losing! Haha!" Wug seems very happy about this development, and though it seems that you will lose again (Wug - 10, You - 0), you don't really mind. His enthusiasm is cute. It makes you want to pet his helmet and give him snacks.

"Oh dang, guess I played the wrong card." The smile on your face doesn't waver as the two of you continue playing. Though you still have no grasp of what Wug's language actually is or how to read it whatsoever, you do start to recognize the difference between "retrieve" and "discard" even though the words for them are uncomfortably similar.

The round, of course, ended with Wug winning. He collects the cards to shuffle them and put them away, before looking at you seemingly expectantly.

"Yes, Wug?" you question, resting your chin in the palm of your hand.

"You said you would teach Wug 'go fish.'" Wug tilts his head ever-so-slightly, and you feel your chest fill with warmth. You get up to find your bag of miscellaneous items before pulling out a pack of cards that you were very familiar with, down to knowing which cards were what due to the slight rips and folds on some of them.

"Okay, bud," you say as you sit back down. You give a rough explanation of the game as you hand out the cards, before telling your space companion that he can show you the card he's asking for and you, in return, will tell him what the number/letter on it means.

This does, eventually, lead to him referring to certain individual letters by their card name for a while, though you do manage to correct Wug on it. You, being amazing, didn't mind it all too much. Wug was a friend and learning about him was an adventure all of its own, and you were happy to be able to learn what you could.

[in-space-with-wug]

The first time Wug ever asked you to play a non-card game, you were confused. You had no clue if Wug knew anything like charades, and there was certainly no way the robotic giant could play Twister - their movement was much too clunky for that.

When the alien reached up to the left-back side of their helmet, and their face screen changed, you were floored. And very, very worried, until a minute or two later, a few shapes popped on their screen -

Two smallish rectangles near each side, a thin line separating said sides, and a ball sitting in the middle.

Motherlovin' Pong. An absolute classic. Who would've guessed?

After a quick explanation from Wug of how to join as Player 2 ("Grab Wug's hand, hold thumb, push."), you two were into the game, with the small white ball bouncing between both sides of the screen. It was fun, though definitely a little awkward on your end - the most you had touched the alien before this was patting them on the back whenever they seemed down.

Wug seemed happy when they got the first goal, and pouted a bit when you got the second. It went on like that for a while, the both of you swapping goals - until you got lucky enough to get two goals in a row, putting the score at 11-10. Wug's screen flashed the win screen showing that you were the winner, before it went back to the screen that first appeared.

It wasn't exactly like Pong from home, since it didn't have the start screen, but...it was still nice to have something other than card games.

Wug reached their hand to the same spot from earlier, their screen going black again before their eyes popped up. They asked if you had fun, and you confirmed that you did - it had been a while since you had even thought of the game, let alone played a version of it. And then they asked if you wanted to play again.

The two of you played Pong for a long while after that.

[in-space-with-wug]

may i request something fluffy along the lines of a captain with severe sleep deprivation and a sheer stubborn will to keep on trudging on after everything, with our good ol’ engineer mark finally getting them to relax? thankyou!

A soft knocking at the door pulls you back to New Earth. You wipe the crust from the corners of your eyes and call out a gravelly "Come in."

The door doesn't creak as it opens, both from good building and good caretaking. The fluffy head of your semi-trusted head engineer pokes in before his body follows. He has a mug in his hands as he strides toward your desk.

"Hey, Captain." Mark gives you a sad smile as he sits the mug in front of you. "Brought you some tea today. You need to try and sleep."

You shake your head and frown, eyes narrowing at the cup as Mark starts to worry over you. His voice fades into the background as you pick up the mug and sip at it, eyes drifting off toward a far wall.

A hand waves in front of your eyes, and you blink yourself back enough to look at your second-in-command once more. His brows were knit together, his lip between his teeth as he tried to think of something to say.

What was there to say? It was his fault.

"Cap," Mark murmurs softly, moving around the desk in order to put his hands on your shoulders, "you need to relax. We made it out, the core is destroyed - there's no way we're going back."

That's right - Mark wasn't there the first time you lived through a good ending...he had died because of that window.

But maybe it would be different, this time...? After all, he was with you. He was there when you resolved the paradox.

But what if?

Your eyes close as you slump forward slightly, relaxing into the other's touch and taking a long sip of tea. "I don't want to sleep," you mumbled after a long silence, throat soothed by the warm drink. It still hurt to talk, only a little.

"I know, Captain," was the quiet response. "I... I don't like sleeping either." His hands stilled for a moment, grip tightening as the seconds passed, before relaxing again and continuing his attempt at massaging your shoulders. He had gotten better since the first time he tried.

After another few moments, after your mug was empty, Mark stopped his massage and turned your chair around. You give him a tired look of confusion as he pulls you up to your feet. You stumble into his chest, leaning heavily on him for support, as he starts to lead you away from your desk and out of the room.

"What are you doing?" you grumble as you try to pull away, to return to your desk - the sun had risen fully by this point. "I need to work."

"You need to work on sleeping." Mark's voice made you huff and try to pull away again. He let you go and you almost immediately fell to the floor, had he not grabbed you again before you could topple over. "Captain, you can't even walk by yourself - as much as I hate to say it, let Celci take over for the day. And tomorrow. She won't mind."

Your eyes widen slightly as you look up toward Mark, who had made a specific rude role on the ship just for Celci. You bite your lip and turn your head toward the floor as Mark continues leading you to your room.

Despite not being in there for a week, outside of showering as best you could and getting clothes, the room was clean. No dust to be found. It smelled different than you remember, but it was comforting. Warm.

"There you go, Captain," Mark says as he helps you sit on the foot of the bed. He moves to the head in order to pull the blankets back and you do your best to stand, leaning heavily on the edge of the bed in order to make it over. A smile forms on his face as he sees you trying. "Good job."

His voice had been a whisper when he said it, though you had heard it over all of your fears of trying to sleep - of seeing all of those universes, those timelines...

Mark gently leads you onto the sheets, making sure you were comfortable before pulling up the blankets and checking you over once more. He sits in the chair beside your bed - had you ever noticed it was there? - before picking up a worn book on the bedside table.

You eye the book warily, though a rough yawn forces you to close your eyes. The yawn causes your eyes to water and you quickly wipe at them before focusing on Mark once more.

He just smiles at you and reaches over to pat your head. "Try and rest, Captain. I'll be right here." The brunet leans back in his chair, opens the book, and starts reading. His narrating voice is a soft rumble that slowly lulls your mind into a state of calm, until you don't focus on anything else except for it.

It doesn't take you long to fall asleep, though you wouldn't remember falling asleep once you woke up. You couldn't quite remember any of the dreams, either, which let your soul rest a little easier.