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The Whisper and Tangle whose Sonic was Missing were walking along the park path, sun shining and dragonflies lazily drifting above the reeds of the pond. SiM!Whisper threw a handful of seeds from a bag for the ducks as SiM!Tangle enjoyed the afternoon sun on her face. Suddenly, SiM!Whisper threw out a hand and stopped her girlfriend dead. Staring directly at them were older versions of themselves. They stared at each other in shock. "H'lo?" SiM!Whisper said, uncertain as she raised her hand in greeting.

Jade Whisper just stared at the younger wolf, a tinge of envy at the lack of gray fur making itself known at the back of her mind. She raised her hand in greeting but before she could even get a syllable out, her wife dashed towards their younger selves.

"Ohhhhh! Whisper! You look so young!" the lemur gushed as she stopped just short of hugging the wolf, opting instead to clutch her own cheeks as if she was looking at the most adorable puppy dog in the whole world. For all intent and purposes, SiM! Whisper might as well be from her perspective.

The overexcited lemur then turned to her own doppelganger before letting out a deep sigh as a frown graced her features.

"And I...look exactly the same!"

The SiM! couple exchanged looks before SiM! Whisper cocked her head ever so slightly.

"Older, time travel perhaps?" she asked as she studied the graying muzzle and ears of her doppelganger.

"That and probably a different universe all together." Jade Tangle replied with a shrug. "Been happening a lot recently. Don't worry about it. It'll sort itself out soon."

"Oh, older...more experienced versions of us?" SiM! Tangle said as she rubbed her hands together. "This is the chance of a lifetime! Other me, girlfriend swap? Or, I know, self-"

"What? I-ewwww!" Jade Tangle shuddered as she took a step backwards. Neither of the Whisper's looked comfortable as they both gave the younger Tangle a look that the lemur knew all too well. The 'dial it back, Tangle.' look.

"Okay, okay. Maybe a bit too far on a first meeting but, you're more experienced versions of us! You gotta have some tips to spice things up! Help yourselves out with some ideas?"

"We're....both on the ace spectrum..." Jade Tangle replied while her wife nodded in agreement. "We...rarely do that kind of stuff..."

"Mmm...prefer hugs...cuddles." Jade Whisper added as she stepped up to pull her wife into a sideways hug.

"Cuddles are nice." SiM! Whisper agreed with a nod.

"Sure but...no sexy fun times? I-" Tangle began before shaking her head. "No, if that's your jam, I'm not gonna judge! Happy ya found what works for ya!"

"Yeah, feels nice to find someone who understands me." Jade Tangle admitted as she planted a chaste kiss on Jade Whisper's cheek. "Anyways, what are you two doing out here?"

"Feeding the ducks." SiM! Whisper replied, holding up the bag of bird feed for the older couple to see.

"Ohhhhh! Can we join in?!" Jade Tangle asked as she jumped in place, clearly excited over something so mundane.

"Yeah, sure." SiM! Tangle laughed. "The more the merrier!"

The four islanders spent the next ten minutes in relative silence except from the occasional quipp from either Tangle as they fed the ducks who happily quacked and filled the silence.

Then without a word of warning, the older islanders phased out of existence with a pop, leaving SiM! Whisper and SiM! Tangle alone with the ducks.

"That was...weird but..." Tangle hummed before her muzzle split into a big grin. "Good to know that you'll age like fine wine. I mean wowza!"

"And you looked exactly the same." Whisper noted as she kept feeding the ducks.

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Sang-mi, Favorite and least favorite you've met since reconnecting with surge?

(assuming you meant person)

"I...don't really want to pick favourites and truth be told I can't. Kit and Jewel, they've both been there for Min-ji, looking after her, caring for her. Loving her. I...that means more to me than I can put into words."

The tenrec let out a hum, idly resting her cheek in the palm of her hand as she considered the second part of the question.

"I wouldn't say I have a least favourite person. Everyone has been lovely in their own way but... Tangle did not make a good first impression. I'll say that much."

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Sang-mi leaves a box of homemade Holangi food on Jewel's desk with a note that says 'For all your hard work.'

"And you're sure it's not poisoned?" Lanolin asked.

"For the last time Lanolin, yes, we're sure it's not poisoned." Jewel said, irritation creeping into her voice.

Lanolin leaned in, and picked up the note attached to it. Again, there was the strange tall green Tenrec. She looked a lot like Surge, although when she'd confronted her about who the tall woman Surge had been with was, she'd denied everything.

"Well, if it's not poisoned," Jewel said, pushing aside the medical technician poking at the food with a probe, "then I'm going to eat it. It's about time someone recognized my hard work."

Jewel picked up the chopsticks, and spent a minute or so fiddling with them, cursing under her breath as she tried to work out how to use them.

Eventually, she gave up with a sigh, "Lanolin, could you please get me a fork?"

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Sisters across dimensions meet!

Sang-mi suddenly atop a foreign staircase in a barely lit house. If the thin streams of light filtering through the windows were any indication, it was either very early in the morning or late at night wherever she found herself.

Her eyes were drawn towards the myriad of photographs that covered the walls next to her only to let out a small gasp at what or rather who she saw on more than one picture.

"Min-ji? Is that you?" she mumbled as she gingerly touched a framed photograph of a green tenrec wearing a red flannel shirt and jeans. "No, not quiet. Another you?"

Her thoughts were interrupted as the lights were suddenly turned on and and a tired voice called out from the top of the stairs.

"And just who are you and why do you look like Saffron?" a dark green tenrec asked as she glared at the taller tenrec.

"I…" Sang-mi faltered as she looked at the teenager. She looked like a cousin she'd never met, unmistakably sharing features she'd seen on her own family and yet utterly alien at the same time.

"Seriously, is this like some time travel thing?" Juniper asked, squinting at Sang-mi like she might spill the answers if she just looked hard enough.

Shaking her head, Sang-mi smiled apologetically. "Not exactly. I'm from another world, with my own Min- I mean, Surge."

"Parallel universe then, okay…" Juniper nodded as she mulled something over. Was this commonplace for her, Sang-mi wondered? Maybe she'd seen visitors from wormholes before herself. "Let me guess, you're related somehow?"

Sang-mi nodded fondly. "Yes, she's my big sister. We just got reunited after she'd been missing for so long. And I'm guessing you're-"

"Yeah." Juniper cut in, her posture relaxing a bit. "Saffron's my older sister."

"Saffron…" Sang-mi sounded the name out slowly, a curious look on her face. "That's a lovely name. She was Min-ji to me."

Juniper crossed her arms. "Min-ji… is that Holangian?"

"Yes, we're both from the island. Are you… not?" Sang-mi tilted her head in confusion.

"Pfft." Juniper scoffed. "I wish. Come on downstairs, I'll show you."

Turning around on the stairs, Sang-mi descended down into a dining room with a large table with nine chairs, one of them clearly not of the same set. As she looked around curiously, Juniper walked past and waved for her to follow, and soon she was in a huge living room with several couches, a few colorful beanbags, an ancient looking CRT television, but most important of all to her were the pair of wide windows.

"By the winds…" Outside of the home were a wide array of trees in their waning fall colors, bright oranges, pale yellows, and fiery reds, all cast in an amber glow as the sun rose on the horizon. "It's so beautiful here."

Juniper merely shrugged. "I guess. People from out of town are always sooo into the leaves changing. But Holangi has to be way way better, right?"

"Holangi is a beautiful place, with it's own beautiful trees." Sang-mi confirmed as she stared out at the scenery. "Being away this long, I miss it, the temple especially." She closed her eyes for a moment, in quiet reverence. "But you have a lovely home, even if you can't appreciate it right now…" She paused, something suddenly coming to her. "I don't think I got your name? I'm Sang-mi."

"Juniper." She said as she turned to look out at the forest, wondering if she might be able to see it the way Sang-mi does if she tried hard enough. "Dunno how long you're gonna be here, but Surge should probably be back from her run soon if you want to meet her."

"I'd love to!" Sang-mi said, but then space seemed to start to ripple and contort around her. "Oh, but maybe next time. I think this is goodbye for now. It was nice meeting y-" And with a pop, she was gone.

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*Puts the thought of "Lanolin wearing a pink bunny costume" in Sang-mi's head.*

"STOP BREAKING MY SISTER!" Surge growled as she gestured to the poor tenrec in question who had once again curled up atop the sofa. "Seriously Sis, this gay panic nonsense is getting old!"

"Not...gay..." the spiky doughnut replied.

"Bi, pan, whatever. Stop being a whimp and fess up already!"

"Meep!"

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Kit, does your Hydrokinesis become less effective if the water is different(like does it only work on freshwater, or can it work on any water like saltwater or flavored water?

"Fresh water and salt water works just fine...for flavoured water it depends." Kit explained as he helped lift a ship out of the harbour with a flick of his wrist. "It all depends on how pure the water is. Don't really know my limit and before you ask, no, I can't control blood. It would be handy tho."

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okay

Table

"Saying the word table ain't doing shit mate. Ah well, you got your one shot." Surge drawled as she cracked her neck. "Time for my one shot."

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surge

I'm gonna turn you into a table

"How the actual fuck?! Ya know what? Good luck, you get one shot!" Surge grumbled as she stared defiantly.

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Sang-mi, do you share your sister's culinary choices?

Or, to put it in another way, do you eat worms like she does?

"I'm vegan...so no?" Sang-mi replied, visibly disgusted, not only by the question but by her sister standing next to her with a bag of worms in her hand and munching happily.

"Your loss, sis!" Surge gloated as she dangled a worm in Sang-mi's face and laughing as the taller tenrec’s eyes went wide with horror before slapping her hand away.

"MIN-JI! STOP IT!"

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Waltzing through the forest around Spiral Hill, Sang-Mi and Surge were enjoying the day, Surge pointing out the various things that she had discovered around the village. Suddenly a portal opened, and a thin Lanolin fell through the portal and landed in a mud puddle with a splat.

Groaning in pain, the small Lanolin's side was covered in bandages - she raised her head from the mud and stared at Sang-Mi.

"You!" she yelled pointing a finger at the Tall Tenrec, "You were there at the Restoration! How did you bring me here!? What are you planning!?"

"Tumblr wormhole, Lano." Surge replied as she rested the back of her head against the palm of her hands as she leaned backwards. "It's random nonsense, my sister had nothing to do with it."

"Your sister?! Another cy-" Lanolin began only to find Surge's gloved hand covering her mouth in a flash.

"No." was all she said but the jolts of electricity flashing from her eyes spoke more than a thousand words ever could. Promises of pain and suffering if she let the tenrec’s secret slip.

"Not entirely random." Sang-mi addmited with a sheepish look on her face. "Guleum has helped me travel back and forth in an attempt to cheer you up. All the Lanolin out there seem so miserable... I just wanted to make you smile."

Hearing it's name, Guleum manifested next to the tall tenrec, a shimmering void of stars tearing itself into the fabric of reality.

"He's a good little wormhole." Sang-mi explained as she somehow...petted the spacial anamoly. "He didn't bring you here but he could bring you home, I'm sure."

Surge and Lanolin both stared at the smiling tenrec with shock written on their faces, both trying to get words out but failing spectacularly.

"Oh my, what happened to you since I last saw you, Lanolin?" Sang-mi asked as she laid eyes on the sheep's bandages. "Are you-"

Sang-mi didn't get the chance to finish her sentence before another wormhole opened up beneath Lanolin and sent her back to her own world with a terrified scream.

Surge just looked at the hole as it closed up before looking up at Guleum and her sister with a frown.

"Since when did you-?" Surge tried only for her sister to run into her pet wormhole in a hurry, not particularly eager to explain her non-canonical nonsense powers.

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JB!Tangle was walking around the Restoration’s premises when a wormhole opened up. And peeking through it was FOF!Tangle, wearing a birthday hat and blowing a party horn.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OTHER ME!!”

Jade Tangle let out a loud gasp before tackle hugging FOF! Tangle, sending them both careening through the wormhole to parts unknown.

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Jade Lanolin appears in the ATNiverse by mistake without even noticing that she's entered another universe. .

Walking through the Restoration HQ she notices Mighty among the crowd. She walks up and slaps him on the back with a laugh.

"Damn Mighty! Your workouts are paying off! Your muscles are almost as big as mine now! Good job!"

“Oh, great. ‘The fuck do you want lamb- hoLY SHIT!!” Mighty gawked as he turned around.

“What?” Jade!Lanolin asked.

“What do you mean ‘what’?!” Mighty shouted, “How the fuck did you get so jacked?!”

The sheep raised a brow, “Uh…a couple of years of diet and exercise. You know that.”

“ ‘A couple of years’ she says,” Mighty shook his head, “I saw your bitchass yesterday, and you were barely less skinny than Espio! Now all of a sudden you’re built like a goddamn Viking?!”

That got Jade!Lanolin to clock what he was talking about. She groaned quietly and pinched her nose.

“No, hang on,” she sighed, “I get it now. I’m sorry, there’s been a mistake-“

Mighty scoffed and crossed his arms, “You’re a mistake.”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me. Or is all that cotten taped to your face clogging up your ears?”

Jade!Lanolin was taken aback and stared at the armadillo. Then she shook her head lightly and rolled her eyes.

“What is with all my counterparts having such vitriolic drama?” she thought.

“Whatever, man,” she said, waving him off and walking away, “Sorry to bug you.”

Mighty watched her leave, a scowl firmly planted on his face. Just as the muscular sheep was out of sight.

“Mighty!” ATN!Lanolin shouted, walking up to him with a clipboard, “We need that shipment of Wispon parts, and Bark says you were the one handling it.”

Mighty gawked at her. He turned to where Jade!Lanolin had just went, then back at the much smaller Lanolin.

“Oh now I know you’re fucking with me,” he growled.

Lanolin scoffed and rolled her eyes, “Listen, man, I don’t wanna talk to your for longer than I have to either. Just tell me where the crate is and I’ll get out of your hair.”

“Fuck you! How the hell did you do that?!”

Lanolin just looked down at her clipboard, “That shell of yours finally cracked?”

Mighty snatched the clipboard out of her hands, “Answer the damn question!!!”

Lanolin grit her teeth, “I DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING THAT COMES FROM A NUTFUCK LIKE YOU!!!”

From around the corner, Jade!Lanolin leaned against the wall and shook her head, disappointed at the argument she was hearing. She turned and walked away, off to find another wormhole portal.

Barry walked out of a supply closet just as she passed. She didn’t notice them, but Barry sure noticed her. They froze up, staring at her enormous biceps.

Jade!Lanolin kept waking until she was out of sight. Once she was, Barry stiffly fell over backwards.

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Hey sang-mi

A bit random but have you thought about what Lanolin might look like in a yellow slip dress in the afternoon just when the sky is at that in-between of pink orange and a deep purple yet despite the breath taking scenery her eyes are squarely on you and the light seems to peak from behind her

Ya know, just tossing around ideas so I thought I'd ask you :3

"Yellow isn't her colour..." Sang-mi huffed as she was working on a design for Lanolin's dress. "She's more...earthly, like browns or a burnt orange..."

As the mental image of Lanolin in a tight fitting orange dress slipped into her minds eye, Sang-mi once more curled up on the sofa with a meep, much to her sister's frustration.

"Ya'll really need to stop breaking my sister!"

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Surge, could you spend five minutes without saying FUCK, SHIT or any other variant of those words?

"Cunt." she muttered as she fumed like an angry toddler with her arms crossed.

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The Diamond Cutters (+ Sang-mi) were laughing and conversing when suddenly, a wormhole opened up. Through it came FOF!Tangle in her uncaged form, laughing like a little kid.

“Haha, that bald doofus never learns!” she chortled, wiping a tear from her eyes. She opened them up and saw everyone staring at her, jaws on the floor.

“…ah, great. Where am I now?”

Sang-mi just stared perplexed at the strange lemur who seemed to bounce and contourt with every breath she took, like a overly animated cartoon character who's animator didn't understand the concept of less is more.

"Hey, you gals never seen a chaos powered lemur before?" FOF! Tangle chuckled as the Jade Cutters stared at her.

"Are you FUCKING kidding me?! First me and now Stripes with the gimmick crutch bullshit?!" Jade Surge fumed "This tumblrverse nonsense is fucking BULLSHIT!"

"Surge, calm down." Lanolin sighed and as so often was the case, the tenrec obeyed and silently fumed rather than start an actual fight with the lemur.

Speaking of lemur, Jade Tangle bounced in place before shooting towards the other Tangle with a big grin on her lips.

"Oh my god you're me and I'm you but you're like a super powered me which I'm not but I'm you so I should have super chaos powers too, right!?"

"Right!" FOF! Tangle agreed before suddenly slamming herself into the other Tangle, causing an eruption of strawberries to cover them both.

"Tangle!" Whisper screamed dramatically, trying to wade through the tidal wave of strawberries, only to be held back by Lanolin.

"Hold on girl! It's Tangle! She'd never hurt someone!" the sheep hollered.

And sure enough, as the tide of strawberries ebbed, the rest of the Cutters (and Sang-mi) was greeted by not one but two chaos empowered lemurs.

"Oh wow! Look at me!" Jade Tangle cheered as she detached her own head and used it as a basketball. "How'd you do that?!"

"Oh, I can do anything in this form as long as its funny!" FOF! Tangle replied with a laugh. "And what's more fun than one Uncaged Tangle?"

"Two Uncaged Tangle!" her doppelganger laughed.

"Oh Gaia preserve us..." Lanolin muttered as she let the wolf go. The scout had stopped struggling and was instead wiping drool off her mouth as she stared at the two Uncaged lemurs.

"Oh! I know!" Jade Tangle giggled as she picked up a stray strawberry and threw it at Lanolin, transforming her combat gear into a swimsuit on contact.

"Tangle what the actual fuck?!" the sheep bellowed while Sang-mi fainted with a quiet "meep".

And thus began the day of the Tangle. A day of chaos, laughter, strawberries and an angry cyborg tenrec who wasn't allowed to fight the super powered lemurs.

"This is fucking bullshit!" she muttered as sheep flew through the air.

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Hi, not a question, really, just wanted to say Lanolin is my favorite of the bunch!

Signed: Definitely not Sang-mi

"Sis, you're about as subtle as a brick to the face." Surge sighed after reading the letter.

Sang-mi meanwhile just sat on the sofa with an innocent smile on her lips.

"What? It clearly said it wasn't me."

Surge just sighed as she slumped her shoulders.

"I swear...just tell her already..."

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Sang-mi is exhausted after patting so many Lanolins on the head, what will her own Lanolin do to make her rest and feel comfy?

"M-my own L-Lanolin?" Sang-mi stammered while her muzzle turned red at the implication. "I-I-I...with a woman?? I don't..."

That was Lanolin's cue to walk into the room and the sight of a bright red, swooning and stammering tenrec had her worried.

"Sang-mi? Are you alright?" she asked, grabbing her hand and leading her to a nearby sofa." Have a seat. I'll go get you some co-no, wait. You prefer tea, don't you? Just give me a second!"

And with that, the sheep hurried out of the room the moment Sang-mi sat down and the tenrec couldn't help but smile as she looked down on the gloved hand that Lanolin had held just seconds earlier.

"My own Lanolin...."