#High Speed Bus Switch

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74 A/HC/T Series logic chips, Logic Circuit, digital gates, gate logic

74CBTLV Series 3.6V 4 Bit High Speed Bus Switch Surface Mount - TSSOP-14

[mattscoquette]

𝑰𝑻'𝑺 𝑨 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬/𝑯𝑨𝑻𝑬 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮 - 𝑻𝑾𝑶 | 𝑴𝑨𝑻𝑻 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑳𝑶

𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉.. a quiet introverted girl attempts to befriend her popular neighbor

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matthew sturniolo,

woke up the following morning in a frenzy. being one of four boys, his mom implemented a strict morning routine when the triplets started kindergarten, that they have been following right up until now, their senior year of high school. this morning however, matt was awoken about five minutes before he had to leave to the sound of chris and nick’s yelling to hurry his ass up. matt scrambled to pick out whatever clothes he could find, a pair of grey nike sweats and a fuzzy brown hoodie, and hurried downstairs to brush his teeth at record breaking speed before he was out the door heading the the mini van.

as he was throwing his and his brothers hockey bags into the trunk, he caught a glimpse of addilyn leaving her house and starting to walk down the block to the bus stop. as if his thoughts were being read, chris out loud wondered “what senior is still taking the bus?”

before matt could even open his mouth to make a rude comment, nick was already calling her over to offer a ride.

“dude what the fuck,” matt muttered under his breath to nick as addilyn approached the van, “i don’t wanna drive her.”

addilyn’s appearance totally switched from what she was wearing when matt saw her last night. her slim fitting dress was swapped out for a pair of mom jeans and an oversized sweater, her curly brown hair held back by a clip. “are you sure?” she breathed, looking at nick, “i’m okay with taking the bus, really.”

“we don’t mind at all, do we matt?” nick smiled through gritted teeth, nudging his brother in the arm.

“we don’t have time to mind,” chris interrupted them, climbing into the passenger seat, “we’re gonna be late.”

matt huffed, telling addilyn she could sit in the back seat with nick. he quickly plugged his phone into the aux cord, playing circles by mac miller as he backed out of the driveway and made his way to school.

*₊˚ 𓂃✧

it was only fourth period, and matt was already pissed off. the start to his day had been thrown off by waking up so late, and addilyn richardson being in his van this morning did not help one bit. he wasn’t sure what it was about that girl that bothered him so much. maybe it was the way she shut out the world by indulging herself in a book or in a drawing she was working on. or maybe it was the way her curls would stick up and fly away from the rest of her hair sometimes making her look like a mad scientist. or maybe it was the way she was the only girl who didn’t pay one ounce of attention to him. being the school’s best hockey player alongside his two other triplet brothers definitely made matt one of the most popular guys in school. he never had any trouble when it came to girls, because all of them already wanted him. except addilyn.

get yourself together man, she’s weird matt thought to himself as he entered his physics class, sitting next to his best friend nate. as he plopped his backpack down beside his friend, matt looked up at the white board and read in all big letters:

PARTNER PROJECT ON ENERGY OF MOTION - DUE IN TWO WEEKS

matt and nate grinned at each other, beginning making plans to pair up. the bell rang, and the teacher began to lecture. matt pulled out his notebook, already struggling to follow along with his teacher’s presentation. he had never been a straight a student, but he needed to keep his grades decent to stay on all his teams. however, physics was bringing his overall average down, and he needed to do well on this project to be able to start in his upcoming hockey games.

as the class made its way to an end and the students began to pack up, the teacher started to explain the project. “it’s quite simple really,” he began as he was erasing his notes from the board, “you and a partner will pick your own type of demonstration to show how kinetic energy is used in everyday objects.”

“this project will be worth a quarter of this semester’s overall grade, for both you and your partner, so it is crucial you all do well on this.” he explained, looking directly at matt. “before i let you all leave, i will be assigning your partners.” the entire class groaned.

he pulled out his class roster and began reading off names paired together.

“alexa and william… michelle and quincy… peter and xaiver… isabelle and ryan…”

please let me be with nate, matt thought. please let me be with nate. please let me be with nate.

“matthew and addilyn… louise and theresa… nathan and catie…”

no fucking way. of course addilyn was matt’s partner. he didn’t even know she was in his class. he looked around, annoyance written all over his face and he locked eyes with the curly headed girl sitting in the back of the room. she didn’t look too pleased either.

“this is an out of class project, so i suggest you start working on this asap.” the teacher announced just as the bell was ringing.

matt headed straight for the door when he felt a small tap on his shoulder. “what?” he snapped, looking down at the girl who tapped him.

“sorry,” addilyn said in a hushed voice, “its just- do you want to work on the project after school? we can go to my house, or i can come to yours or-”

“yeah, thats fine.” matt cut her off, walking out of the classroom, trying to shake her and walk with nate.

“which one?” she called out to him, her voice barely above a whisper.

“my house, but don’t expect anymore free rides from me. take the bus home.” matt told her angrily. she simply nodded and let him walk away from her, watching as he laughed with his friends in the hallway.

*₊˚ 𓂃✧

it was currently 3:30p.m., and matt was sitting at his kitchen table waiting for addilyn to come over. he had his laptop and textbook open, with messily written notes scattered all across the table. he found out later on in the school day that if he failed physics this semester, not only would be not be starting in his games, he would be benched for the rest of his hockey season. so to say he was stressed about this project was an understatement. he was broken out of his thoughts when he heard a tiny knock at the door, yelling for one of his brothers let addilyn in.

she wasn’t too excited about this project either, to be quite frank. but not for the same reasons as matt. addilyn simply hated working with others. she felt her quiet and introverted nature caused her to not work well when came to partner projects, so she typically opted to do these assignments alone. she even tried emailing her physics teacher after class, begging for him to let her work alone. he insisted that this was a two-person project for a reason, and told addilyn to stick it out. so here she was, at 3:30 on a monday, in matt sturniolo’s kitchen.

addilyn wasn’t sure why matt didn’t like her very much, but she wasn’t exactly is number one fan either. all the girls in the school loved matt. star hockey player, good looking, what wasn’t there to like about him? addilyn never looked at people surface level, though. she was a hardcore people watcher, mainly due to the fact she was almost always alone. she saw right through matt’s act and knew he was mean. she wasn’t sure how on earth he was related to nick and chris. they had only started talking a day ago, and she was greeted with smiles and waves every time she passed one of them that day. nick had even gone as far as switching his seat in art to sit next to addilyn. “i never liked sitting by the window, he had told her, “it’s always too drafty.”

addilyn quietly put her belongings down at the chair opposite from matts things, trying her best to be careful and not do anything to piss off matt even more. she was already on edge having to work one on one with him in his own house. matt didn’t even bother to look up at her. he mumbled a small “hi” as be started to type away on his laptop. addilyn pulled her belongings out, a stark contrast to matt’s. her notes were all written perfectly, with all the t’s crossed and i’s dotted, in a small cursive font that looked identical to if it were typed. matt took slight note of this.

“how do you write so neatly?” he genuinely asked, then realized he sounded nice, following up with “you probably so much free time on your hands because you have no friends” after addilyn told him quietly she re-writes her notes during lunch.

addilyn simply rolled her eyes. “i came here to work on the project, matt, not to take shit from you.”

“besides,” she started “we both get the same grade on this, and i am not letting you fuck up my gpa just because you want to be a dick to me.”

“it’s not like i can afford a bad grade on this either, sweetheart.” matt shot back at her.

sweetheart. why did her stomach suddenly feel weird?

stop it addy, she told herself, it’s matt, for crying out loud.

addilyn scoffed and began to look through her notes. “what were you thinking we do the project about?”

“i was hoping you could just do all the work.” matt had replied, blunt and matter-of-factly.

“what?” addilyn said in shock, dumfounded.

“what do you mean, what?, i don’t know shit about physics, you do. plus, i know you hate to work on these kinds of things with other people, so why don’t you do it alone?” matt told her.

she was in shock. had he really noticed i always work alone? she thought.

stop addy. he knows you work alone because you’re always doing things alone. it isn’t rocket science to connect the two.

before she could open her mouth to reply, chris came downstairs into the kitchen, grabbing a pepsi from the fridge. a smile grew on addilyn’s face as she said hi to him.

“no way, you and addy got paired together for this project?” chris gawked at matt, looking between him and addilyn.

“you’re so lucky, dude,” he continued, taking a swig of the soda, “justin told me he did this project when he was a senior, and everyone did so bad. thank god your partner is like, one of the top ten students in our class, or your senior season would have been shot.”

matt simply looked at chris. he was right, this shit was hard. he looked between the paper and addilyn a few times, before asking “where do we start?”

‎*₊˚ 𓂃✧

addilyn and matt ended up working until about 7:30 that night. his mom even insisted she stayed for dinner too.

“really sweetie, i don’t mind. i’m already feeding four kid’s, what’s one more?” she laughed.

“yeah addy, stay with us for dinner, please?” nick somewhat whined, dragging out the “e” sound.

addilyn gave in, and joined the sturniolo’s for dinner the second day in a row. like the previous night, dinner was filled with chatter from nick and chris, and radio silence coming from matt’s end. instead of giving her mean looks like he did at the previous dinner they shared, he just started at his plate the whole night and picked at his food.

“sorry about matt again,” chris apologized as he and nick began walking addilyn back next door to her house, “i don’t know whats been up with him lately.”

“it’s fine, really.” addilyn said. people being mean to her, or making rude remarks, was not out of the ordinary for her. she heard small whispers in passing everywhere she went. she was just used to it. “i’m glad you and nick are nice at least.”

chris just smiled at her and nick gave her a quick side hug. “we’re glad you’re nice, too, addy.”

the trio got to the front door, and addilyn gave them a small wave goodnight before she turned on her heel to walk into her home and upstairs. the boys walked back over to their house, noticing matt had already gone upstairs and disappeared to his room. he was sat at his desk, writing in his journal, when he noticed the light in the window across from his turned on. he saw addilyn set her book bag down, and sit at her mirror undoing her hair. he couldn’t help but to think how pretty she looked.

she’s weird, matt, he reminded himself, and you don’t even like her.

he sighed, closing his journal, and getting up to pull his blinds down to try to clear his head from the girl. out of sight out of mind. he saw her give a small smile, and he returned it by giving her a death stare, yanking the blinds down.

he got into bed, tossing and turning all night about this project with addilyn. he didn’t want to work on it with her, let alone even be nice to her, but he had to for chris and nick’s sake. they only started talking to her yesterday for god’s sake, and were already acting like they’ve been best friends since birth. matt knew these next two weeks of working on the project with addilyn everyday were going to be long.

𝐚/𝐧: oooo part 2! i hope u all enjoy! i'm writing a lot but part three won't get posted this weekend because i'll be out of state. but i appreciate all the love part one got and i hope u guys r just as excited to read this as i am to write it!!! lmk if any of u guys wanna be on on taglist too <333

© mattscoquette

𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐬: @alorsxsturn @sturniolossss @cammie4298 @bussybandit1 @amorttentia

[silkjade-archived]

genshin men x driving

this is so dumb but it had to be said. I've been driving for a while so a lot of these are taken from irl experiences I've had myself or from friends. also I'm american so this is based on driving in the u.s. | modern au, humor, fluff, reckless driving

𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐭

albedo ;; he has a habit of driving on the inner most lane of the highway but he doesn’t start switching to the exit lane until like 1 exit before. drove klee to the beach once 2 years ago and is still somehow finding sand in his car. all his turns are super wide

diluc ;; probably drives a very classic luxury car, like an aston martin or something. it’s sleek, it’s black, it’s giving batmobile because he drove with his high beams on for like 6 months and doesn’t get why it’s bad. it makes the road brighter he says as he blinds everyone going the other way. drives stick shift (manual), very hot when he reverses and puts his arm around the passenger seat

kaeya ;; he was the first person to get his license and everyone would ask him for rides, so now he drives a tiny sports car that doesn't fit anything. it’s also a luxury car but it’s flashier than diluc’s. follows driving laws to the T except for the fact that he never fully stops at stop signs

venti ;; an okay driver but it’s a terrible experience. you're amazed at how he hasn't run into any trouble yet. like at all. the kind of person who would try to run the yellow light except he’s doesn’t make it and is forced to brake really hard and just goes like "is everyone ok ehe.” you almost die and he says “oops”

𝐥𝐢𝐲𝐮𝐞

xiao ;; pet peeve: slow drivers. absolutely cannot stand sitting in traffic so he rides a motorcycle. always weaving in between cars but does it significantly less if you’re riding with him. has yanfei on speed dial in case of an accident. doesn’t know he’s super hot when he takes off his helmet and shakes his hair

zhongli ;; a slow driver. goes under the speed limit on the highway and gets cut off like no tomorrow. he doesn't think he's the problem though, just complains about how everyone is going way too fast. safety king. fakes injury for insurance money when someone hits him; only feels kind of bad

𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐦𝐚

ayato ;; has a driver that takes him everywhere because he does not drive, doesn't even have a license. passed his written exam with flying colors but failed on all three tries behind-the-wheel. his younger sister drives the car their parents bought for him. always likes tweets that are like “hot people don’t have their license”

gorou ;; family van kind of guy. very reliable and will drive you to the airport or help you move. doesn’t signal when switching lanes though which is kind of annoying. gets anxious driving in areas where there are a lot of one ways. always buys fruits from vendors selling it on the side of the road

heizou ;; drives with the top down, windows down and will make you feel like a coming of age movie protagonist. has the best driving playlist but will still hand you the aux if you ask. doesn’t pay for street parking though; parking meter? never heard of her

itto ;; car guy ™ who goes to car meets and mods his car. revs his engine when he sees his friends on the road but other than that he's actually a really good driver. takes very good care of his car— that’s his baby. he’s hot when he backs into parking spaces perfectly. blasts his music too loud at night though

kazuha ;; public transport icon. somehow never misses his bus/train/whatever and always manages to squeeze on even during rush hour. he tells people it's for the environment but that’s only half true. it's not that he can't drive, he just has the jankiest car; it's old as hell, has a dent on one side, and the passenger door doesn't even open from the inside

thoma ;; shining example of a perfect driver, the dmv wants him to do all their instructional videos. was only ever pulled over once before for swerving, but talked his way out of a ticket because he was trying to avoid hitting an animal. has those family stickers on his rear windshield except it's one man and like 3 dogs

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐮

al haitham ;; probably has an suv because he thinks it’s the most useful car and can get the most out of it. almost exclusively listens to audiobooks while driving. he had a great record until he accidentally rear ended a bus because he turned around to argue with kaveh in the backseat and now his car insurance is insanely high

cyno ;; super responsible driver, both hands on the wheel at 9 and 3 at all times. secretly really wants a retired police car because he thinks the idea of people suddenly slowing down when they see him on the road, thinking it’s a cop, is hilarious. names his car something stupid like attila the hyundai

kaveh ;; terrible at directions, his gps is constantly saying “rerouting” because he keeps missing turns and exits. cannot parallel park to save his life and will ask you to switch and park for him. generally a polite driver but if he's ever behind al haitham at a stop light, he beeps his horn at him 0.2 seconds after the light turns green

tighnari ;; his trunk is always full of plants and bags of soil, fertilizer, etc. has mild road rage; if he’s forced to brake hard because someone cut him off, especially while he has the right of way, he’s yelling in the car like “I should’ve hit you” because insurance would be on his side. carries snacks in his glove compartment, soccer mom energy

𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

childe ;; exclusively uses the term 'my tesla' instead of 'my car.' he insists on having it self drive to you from the parking lot; it takes forever and more often than not, it'd be faster to just walk. doesn't matter how far away he is, he's gonna go for that yellow light, it's a race against time and he's gonna win. one hand on the wheel, one hand on your thigh

dainsleif ;; drives in silence, no music no radio— nothing; sometimes he'll listen to self help podcasts though. a lot of the times he zones out and doesn’t know how he got from point a to point b. sits in his car for like half an hour after arriving home. likes holding your hand while driving

dottore ;; mutters “this would be a good place to dump a body” whenever he drives past a ditch. got pulled over for driving in the carpool lane by himself and using a mannequin to fake a passenger. they also found a bunch of questionable things in his car that he swears is for science. no longer drives because his license got revoked

pantalone ;; his car is immaculately clean. charges you for gas and makes you wipe your shoes before stepping in. always wants to stop for coffee first before going anywhere. has a lot of money but doesn’t know shit about cars so he gets way overcharged at bodyshops

scaramouche ;; says things like “I will crash this car right now” if he’s arguing with someone. hates backseat drivers and will threaten to kick you out if you are one. sometimes speeds down an empty highway at night just to feel something but drives extra carefully when nahida’s around. parks in the far corner of a supermarket parking lot to cry

[one-pissed-off-child]

vehicle headcanons bc im like. so bored

Lenore 100% rides a motorcycle, most likely a Harley or a Triumph. She enjoys a good street race, but only on remote roads that have been marked off and never spontaneously or on high ways. She used to do stunts with dirt bikes and atv's before her injury, but it plays hell with her hip now, so she just rides standard. She doesn't drive much, but if she had to get a car, it'd be a classic muscle car like a Firebird. She's an offensive driver insofar as she's more than willing to take a fender bender to prove a point and she will chase a bitch down if they run. Only if it's just her in the car, though. She mostly drives one-handed and rests her right hand on the console (or Annabel's thigh). She does enjoy cruising in a car but not as much as feeling Annabel hug her from behind on a bike

Annabel's ride would be Lenore a Cadillac, Porsche, and an Audi. She switches them out as the occasion calls for it. Her father bought all three. She trades them in for the lastest models every five years or earlier bc she couldn't be caught dead in a model that's gone out of style. People assume she likes being chauffeured around, but being in a vehicle she has no direct control of gives her hives, so 9 times out 10, she's going to be the one driving. The only people she trusts on the wheel are Prospero and Lenore. Very defensive driver bc she's always thinking 20 steps ahead and can smell bullshit from a mile away. She tells people she prefers convertibles for the visibility, but she really just likes watching Lenore hop over the door into the passenger seat.

Ada would sell her soul for a bright pink Porsche. Unfortunately, a brand new one is def out of her price range, and every time she buys a used one that she can afford, it craps out in like five months or so. She's forced to settle on a lightest burgundy Camry she can find at some point and she's bitching about it to everyone that can hear. She is the most godawful driver you will ever see. Road rage like no other. For years, she thought turn signals were a useless formality until a horrified Prospero told her otherwise. The fact that she has a license is the eighth wonder of the world (her tester was severely hungover). She keeps subtly asking to borrow Annabel's Porsche, but Anna just smiles and changes the subject.

Pluto has a crappy little Beetle that he stole from his dad, and to separate it from him would be to cut his heart out with a rusty butter knife. He's also a defensive driver but not in the same way Anna is. He's just very hyperaware of everything, which is great for snap reactions but can cause him to overreact sometimes. Does not play music or take his eyes off the road ever bc he's scared of getting distracted. Prefers taking mainroads bc high way speeds makes him nervous. He loves his car, but he'll typically just take the bus for short distances. The only time he's even marginally relaxed while driving is when his friends are with him, especially Eulalie.

Montessori has a Mustang, and he drives it like an asshole. I'm talking tailgating, cutting, muffler delete, zero turn signal whatsoever, always going at least twenty over, racing randoms on the highway etc etc. Rarely gets road rage, but causes it on a daily basis. One of his favorite plays is talking someone into a race, losing on purpose, betting money on a second race, and smoking their ass with his turbocharger. Yes, his car is kitted with every mod known to man, and yes, it does look like a douchebag owns it. He keeps trying to goad Lenore into a race, and she keeps rejecting him bc 1. She knows his schemes, and 2. She's not entirely convinced he won't try to run her over.

Eulalie prefers not to drive and doesn't own a car. It took forever to get her license bc she's so easily distracted that she's at risk of drifting into other lanes and/or hitting something. She did manage to get it eventually, but having to be constantly vigilant stresses her out, so she just bikes/skates (skateboarder Eulalie real) or uses public transit or grabs a ride from a friend. Despite everything, she's actually a very good and courteous driver when she's paying attention. She stops for pedestrians, bikers, ducks on the road, and so on. Her driving style is very smooth and steady in a way that could lull you to sleep. Until she has to slam the breaks to avoid sailing into oncoming traffic. She thinks it'd be really cool to own a Hearse with a black/purple color scheme, though. She shares a bus pass with Pluto

(Pt.2 cuz this got too long)

[tom-is-online]

PJSK X SONIC SONGS

I got very bored soooooooooo I gave each character a sonic song to rep them cuz bus rides home are boring and i need mental stimulation

LEO / NEED

GROUP THEME : Reach for The Stars - Sonic Colors

ICHIKA HOSHINO : With Me - Sonic and the Black Knight

She would fuck up the guitar so fuckin hard with his shit shed go so hard its unreal Ichika With me cover when

SAKI TENMA : End of Summer - Sonic Runners

Criminally underated sonic ost and the PIANO its just her. If you put this in the bg of one of her events NOBODY would question it.

HONAMI MOCHIZUKI : Windy Hill Zone 1 - Sonic Lost World

She'd have a blasty playing the drums to this I think, she can include the whole band on there theyd love it

SHIHO HINOMORI : Ocean View: Lap Music - Team Sonic Racing

Tell me Shiho wouldnt love this, Shiho has TSR on her switch and plays it with everyone else after practice. Also its a remix of you can do anything and i think Shiho would know this info and sing along. also the bass in some of the areas goes v hard

MORE MORE JUMP

GROUP THEME : Follow me - Theme of Team Rose - Sonic Heroes

MINORI HANASATO : Believe in Myself - Sonic Adventure 2

Minori Hanasato would love Tails the Fox they would be best friends and they would fly so far and so high and they would talk about their fav blue ppl and be best friends.

HARUKA KIRITANI : Quartz Quadrant - "G" MIX - Sonic CD

It's just a very nice song i think she'd like it a lot :) and sometimes thats reason enough

AIRI MOMOI : Tropical Resort Act 2 - Sonic Colors

You could also convince me this is BGM music for the actual game if i didnt know better lmaoo

SHIZUKU HINOMORI : Apotos - Night - Sonic Unleashed

One of the chillest sonic songs and the best chill sonic song and i am going to learn it on my guitar if it kills me. Oh yea also Shizuku would like it i think :p

VIVID BAD SQUAD

GROUP THEME : Escape from the City - Sonic Adventure 2

KOHANE AZASAWA : Look-a-Like - Sonic the Hedgehog OVA

This might not be from the games but I think she'd love this shit, esp this cover of it cuz I say so also the cover just fucks lmao ALT : A New Day - Sonic Rush (she'd like it :]. and VBS would also just love sonic rush in general I think A new day would replace escape from the city if that just wasnt a funny thing for it to be for their theme.)

AN SHIRAISHI : Radical City : Living in The City - Sonic R

I should not have to explain this to you, its radical city what more do you want from me? money? well you cant have it.

AKITO SHINONOME : Find Your Flame - Sonic Fronteirs

Ok so. IDK if this is a hear me out or not but like, read the lyrics and look me in the eyes thats not just him. You can't I will not accept that. ALT - SPEED HIGHWAY CASH CASH REMIX - Sonic Generations

TOYA AOYAGI : RIVAL BATTLE : METAL SONIC - Sonic Generations

It's got Piano, its got electronic. It's like Rad Dogs with extra steps

WONDERLAND X SHOWTIME

GROUP THEME : Friends - Sonic Mania

TSUKASA TENMA : Lights, Camera, Action! - Studiopolis Zone Act 1 - Sonic Mania

Do i need to explain?

EMU OTORI : Palmtree Panic - Sonic CD

"dodododododo! WOOO! YEAHHHH!!!!!" - Emu Otori

NENE KUSANAGI : Join us 4 Happy Time... For Chao Garden - Sonic Adventure

Nene has an ungodly ammount of hours in the chao garden, you cannot convince me otherwise

RUI KAMISHIRO : Hi-Spec Robo Go! - Sonic Mania

Do i need to explain?

NIGHTCORD AT 25:00

GROUP THEME : Dreams of An Absolution - Sonic 06

KANADE YOISAKI : Area Planet Wisp - Sonic Colors

You will now come to find that Sonic X Niigo is. REALLY FUCKING HARD TO DO. LIKE seriously. I just picked some pretty songs so if anyone wants to rb and pick some better ones be my guest lmaoo

MAFUYU ASAHINA : Aquatic Base (Level 1) - Sonic the Hedgehog

Oooooo mystery oooooooo scaryyyy, idk why i picked it it just feels right to me

ENA SHINONOME : Sea Bottom Segue - Sonic Lost World

The vibes are there? do you get the vision?

MIZUKI AKIYAMA : Fly in the Freedom - Sonic Adventure 2

I have no fucking reason for this I just think they would like it a lot and I have no better ideas besides like. Twinkle park??

[crazyyanderefangirlfan]

Juliette Chevalier

"Live with no regrets."

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BASIC   

Name: Juliette Reine Chevalier

Nickname(s): Jules, Julie (by close friends). Love, Baby, My pretty girl, Princess (all by Ren), My Melody.

Alias(es): Bubbly, Barbie, Fox Princess (in Inarizaki) Nutcracker (in St. Trinians).

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Ethnicity: French

Blood Type: A

Age: 17

Birthday: September 24

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APPEARANCE  

Hair: Curly shoulder length platinum blonde hair.

Eyes:  Azure blue eyes with black eyeliner and mascara.

Height: 175cm.

Skin: Vanilla pale

Body: Hourglass

Tattoo(s): None

Piercing(s): Only on her hears, wearing pink butterfly wing dangle earrings.

Scar(s):  A fading burn on her left side and stab wound on her right stomach.

Other: She usually wears cherry red lipstick.

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SCHOOL  

Occupation: Manager

School: Inarizaki High

Year: 2

Class: 6 

Club(s): Boy's VBC

Number: None

Role/Position: None

Attendance Record: Good

Average Grade: B

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STATISTICS (out of 5)

Power: 5/5  

Jumping: 5/5  

Stamina: 5/5  

Game Sense (ability to 'predict' or 'sense' the opponents next move): 1/5  

Technique: 2/5  

Speed: 5/5  

Overall (total): 23/30

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CHARACTER  

Personality: Juliette is portrayed as a social butterfly and outgoing, easily making friends, as she is a loyal, friendly, generous, and tries her hardest not to upset them. Juliette is a very passionate, bubbly, kind-hearted lady and never has any bad intentions or will. She's often mistaken for an air-head due to this, but she uses this for her advantage.

When Irene is not present or lost her temper, she's the mediator of the team and often gets the twins to behave. She often keeps the peace as she sees each side of the argument and always has the party meet in the middle.

Juliette is a fashion enthusiast, she's gifted in sewing, and usually prepared in case of a fashion emergency or disaster. Though, she can be a little too enthusiastic when it comes to shopping and faints when she sees a 'fashion calamity', Juliette is still wise with money and will help the person with their fashion problem. She loves expressing herself through her outfits and accessories. She has a keen eye for style and enjoys sharing her fashion tips with her friends. She's also has fondness of cosplaying and gets really into character.

She has an optimistic outlook on life, always looking for the silver lining in any situation. This optimism helps her to overcome challenges and support her friends and team. Juliette is deeply caring and compassionate. She is sensitive to the needs and feelings of others and goes out of her way to help those in need, showing genuine concern for their well-being.

Juliette, along with Irene, are the most intelligent of the second years on the team, particularly in math and chemistry. In contrast of her appearance, she's both a skilled mechanic and soap maker. She often watches DIY videos on how to fix cars and everyday appliances, even fixing the team's bus when they were on they're way to a game. In terms of soap making, she loves to experimenting on different scents and often gifts them to family and friends. She despises being seen as a 'dumb blonde' due to stereotypes, buts loves the shocked looks on their faces when she proves them wrong.

Despite being seen as 'Princess' to Irene's 'Witch', Juliette is extremely skilled, efficient, and ruthless. Contrary to her slim frame, Juliette possesses monstrously superhuman physical abilities and she switches into a cold and calculating demeanor when danger is present, showcasing her lethal combat abilities and precision.

Having to met Oomimi during a cosplay convention during her first overseas trip, she developed a crush on him and kept in touch ever since. Her feelings deepen during her first year in Inarizaki and spending time with him again. Though she always flirts with him, she gets shy when he flirts back, covering her face with her hands or burying her face on his chest. She loves and cares deeply for him and rarely gets jealous, but sometimes she's insecure if her personality can be too much for him.

Likes: Family and friends, Ren, fashion, cute stationeries, ballet, music, surprising others with her intelligence, maroilles cheese tart, chainsaws, slime, shopping.

Dislikes: Being called a 'dumb blonde' or 'bimbo', the twins being too rowdy, entitled and toxic fangirls, entitled people, her height being emphasized, people thinking she'll be rude or a gold digger, cheating of any kind, dramas where they take back the toxic ex, cilantro, stereotypes, low quality shoes.

Hobbies: Ballet, soap making, cooking, taekwondo, kickboxing, fencing, pilates, ice skating, roller skating, cosplaying, puzzles, reading, mechanical tinkering, sewing.

Goal(s): Finding out what she wants in life, and marrying Ren.

Current concerns: Ren finding out all the shirtless pictures she took of him.

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SOCIAL  

Mother(s): Martine Chevalier

Father(s):  Gérard Chevalier (deceased).

Sibling(s): Charlotte Chevalier (twin sister, deceased).

Relative(s): Maurice Fontaine (uncle), Coralie Fontaine (aunt), Elise Fontaine (cousin).

Friend(s): Boys VBC, Shoyo Hinata, Yukie Shirofuku, Kaori Suzumeda, Gloria Lewiston, Gwen Baldwin, Amicia Allard ,Ichika Kamisato, Emi Takagi, Mio Nakano.

Best Friend(s): Irene Song, Teresa Diamandis, Bridget Fortuné, Heather O'Cleary, Skyla Barretto, Cat Tamami.

Love Interest(s): Ren Oomimi

Rival(s): None

Pet(s): None

[subliminallyroki]

I thought you guys might enjoy reading me infodump about my watcher and avian head canons, so uh here ya go! (This also relates to some of the hcs I have for Grian)

All avians are short (4-5 feet) and have bird-like double jointed legs. Their bones are hollow, but flexible, and their skeleton is more fit for to be streamlined. Specifically their skull has a less defined nose that allows for them to not suffocate when flying at high speeds. The muscular structure is and the muscles themselves are different from a regular human. For example, four pecs (two for arms, two for wings). Internal organs are switched around to make room for the expanded lungs and air sac. Avians have tail feathers and ear feathers and a second pair of eyelids. Their eyes also have a much higher shutter speed and depth perception. And the wings are large (to allow for lift and to avoid hitting shoulders) and attach on the lower middle back. Avians tend to be weaker than your average human because the muscle mass mostly goes towards the wings. And also because of their hollow bones. Their hands have harder keratin in the nails, but nothing too much. And a lot of other features, but these are the basic physical things. Avians are all different types so features can vary depending on the species of bird they are derived from. Avians also tend to have bird like instincts.

Watchers, on the other hand, absolutely defy every law of physics and biology. Their physical form has six sets of wings (the primary back ones, set further up the back, and the secondary lower back ones, then the trinary ear ones). The wings are iridescent and have been described as mesmerizing, likened to gazing into the void. It is hard to tell much about their genetic make up because they aren't really living things, they are gods. They do not necessarily have blood and flesh in their true forms. In their most recognizable form that can be imbibed by mortals the majority of the time is a tall, skeletal humanoid with vastly large wings (larger than an avian's). The wings sometimes appear to look like a cloak. They do not have tail feathers or taloned feet. Nor do they have the make up of an avian body. However, they have clawed hands that appear to be stained black. Strange. This form is clothed a purple cloak and robes and most often adorned with gold jewelry. And the iconic white mask. Often times, the area under the mask (which only covers the eyes) is stained purple. They bleed void and are basically made of it, they can't go anywhere without the void, but can still See even with no void. There are numerous eyes over their body and wings (most numbering on the primares, face, neck arms, legs, and torso) but are often closed and unseen. Watchers also sometimes have various tatoos of different symbols specific to them. They do not need to eat, sleep, breathe, or anything else that a living thing needs to do. But they do need the void. This form can be described as imposing and a harbinger of dread. Ethereal and godly and ominous. Watchers are known shapeshifters, condensing or expanding their forms to Watch. Watchers have admin abilities as well and can easily alter code.

How does this apply to Grian?

Grain was born an avain. When he got kidnapped by the Watchers, they basically ripped out his essence out of his body, made him into a watcher. But instead of forming a new vessel for his watcher form, he fought back into his original body. That body changed. He has ear wings, and his back pair sometimes switch to a magenta/white with eye patterns. He does have multiple eyes, but not as numerous and are closed. And his fingers are clawed. It was a struggle for him to breathe properly in that body because of being in the void and his avian-ness.

But he would not give it up. Because of using his original body, he was susceptible to much more human issues. Like pain, starvation, exhaustion, etc. And it hindered his watcher abilities. Like his shapeshifts into solid forms arent as smooth. But the Watchers thought it to be funny and sort of like a punishment. Once Grian had been with the Watchers for awhile, they planned to get rid of his body. Grian escaped from them and connected to Mumbo in his panic and got to hermitcraft. His watcher features might not be very distinguishable from an avain, but those who know what they are looking for can tell immediately.

Okay that's all! If you read all of this, you get a cookie of your favorite flavor. Here ya go! 🍪

[theradicalscrivener]

what happened to Mateo after the race? how is the racing scene reacting to this multiple-growth-spurts change? was he taken to a research station for intense study? actually you said hes the size of a space colony now, let me re-ask. IS he the research station for intense study?

This is a follow-up to Star☆Racer D so if you're curious about what lead to this, you should check that story out first...

[Link to story]

His mid-race growth spurt has caused a lot of uproar not just in the orbital racing community but also in the scientific one. What happened shouldn't even be physically possible.

The growth process has a mixture of factors that determine the end size. Nanomachines definitely help speed the process along, but there's a purely biological factor too. The nanos fuse with the cells which causes the cells to multiply which causes the nanomachines to multiply. It's a sort of exponential recursive function that happens, but there's a finite limit to how big someone can get. The nanos basically force a high level of cellular regeneration. There gets to be a point where the the entirety of the nanos healing powers are going towards maintaining the health of the subjects current size and can no longer sustain additional growth. So to put it another way, someone's end size is a matter of how healthy their cells are and how well they maintain consistency during the multiplication process. If something gets too big, it starts to reach a point where the body's natural healing can no longer maintain the size and so the nanos have to switch from grow mode to stasis mode.

As mentioned in the story, each person reacts to the process differently. Some people get freighter sized schlongs. Some people get dicks that are only a few feet. The smallest racer had a cock that was the size of a motorcycle, and it wasn't uncommon for other races to have like bus-sized schlongs. There were several people that had cocks the size of barges, but even they were far outclassed by Mateo. Think the largest luxury liner known to man. That's how huge Mateo got. His cock dwarfed the entire research center that he was being grown in. He had so thoroughly outsized the projections that they had to literally pull the plug on him before his swelling schlong spilled out from the research campus and started bowling over nearby buildings.

It's still early in the research process, but many scientists believe that this is part of what caused him to grow again once in space. He had never reached the state of homeostasis that most racers hit. His growth had not reached its natural conclusion. He still had a good deal larger that he could have grown. His nanos were just shut down and the growth process forcibly stopped.

Even then, that doesn't account for his current size. He was already the largest racer when starting out. His dick was already over a quarter mile long, but then he grew by orders of magnitude. He went from filling a lane in the raceway to filling the entire race track! This is not a small track! Consider that some of the racers are the size of large vessels. The race track would have to be much wider than the Panama Canal! We're talking easily 500+ meters across at the finish line, and this dude more than doubled that width. The dude's dick was over half a mile wide and well over 2 miles long as it blew past the finish line.

They don't currently have the technology to get him back to earth. Or at least, not safely and definitly not to get him back off the planet. In theory, the nanos should keep him stable enough for reenty, but that's still a cock the size of the dino-obliterating astroid hitting the earth at mach speed. Even an ocean landing would cause flooding in coastal regions hundreds of miles around.

As such, a "temporary" research station has been assembled on his shaft. The energy coursing through his body keeps Mateo in a constant state of arousal, so his dick doesn't deflate, but that doesn't stop the tremors. The scientists have had to adjust to life with near constant earthquakes.

Scientists are at an impasse on what to do with him. One school says they should pump him full of energy and see how big he gets. He clearly didn't finish growing during the last race, and studying his physiology while he grows could help explain how and why he got so huge, but there's a sizeable group of scientists who oppose this idea. After all, they have already been poking and prodding at him and have forced subsequent growths. Each time he grows, the rate doesn't seem to diminish. He doesn't appear to be reaching a max size. This has prompted further debate and further study. Was he always going to get this big? Was he naturally predisposed to seemingly infinite growth? Or is there something with the process of starting and stopping his growth that is causing this.

One school of thought it that everytime they stop his growth before it finishes, he reaches a new "Base" state. He's basically starting the growth process all over again. As mentioned, he never reaches that state where his nanos are working around the clock just to maintain his size. His nanos are free to continue to multiply unchecked and strengthen his body's natural abilities. During the time between growth spurts, his nanos and his natural healing abilities merge making him uniquely suited to even more extreme growth spurts. This group believes that they either need to grow him now or not at all because the longer they wait to grow him, the more intense the next spurt will be.

The other school says that Mateo will never reach a "max" size. Or at least, if it does, his new max size will be so substantial that it would throw off the gravitational allignment of the planets in the solar system. They claim that if they are to attempt any more growth spurts, they need to move him far enough away from Earth that his unchecked growth will not dramatically impact life in the solar system.

Whatever the case may be, Mateo is pushing them to grow him sooner rather than later. The sooner these tests are over, the sooner he can get back to being a racer. He has wanted to be a racer his entire life. He wants to get back out on the circuit, and he doesn't want to risk causing another massive growth spurt while in the middle of a race again. Although, given that during his first race, he went from the size of a research facility to the size of Central Park and has grown significantly with each test, it's hard to say if he'll even be able to compete. He's no longer just bigger than the race track! He's closing in on the size of the entire circuit! How can other racers, with dicks the size of tanks or barges, compete with a vessel the size of Long Island!

They'd need to invent an entirely new weight class for him to compete in, and there is no one else currently large enough to be in it! ... not yet anyway.

[caxycreations]

Not my usual content but I need to get this out

Looooong post, read at your own risk. Danny Phantom vs Goku, DP vs Ben 10, and DP vs....Sun Wukong. Analyzing powers/abilities and weaknesses, and considering battle methods and circumstances of combat.

Danny Phantom solos everything. I don't mean "everything but goku" or "everything but ben 10", I mean -everything-

I'm gonna go over the big 3 fictional beings of ungodly power and explain how Danny bulldozes them all. Starting with everyone's favorite anime badass: Goku.

But before we go over anyone else, let's cover Danny's powerset:

Hybrid Physiology (immune to ghost-specific things in human form, immune to human-specific things in ghost form, vulnerable to certain things in both forms)

Super strength (easily lifted a 12-ton school bus)

Super speed (circled the earth easily in a VERY short time)

Super durability (Sustained damage from a being of god-like power and kept fighting in ghost form. Human form is incredibly durable as well, but only a fraction as durable as ghost form)

Super agility (Can perform acrobatic feats beyond the skill of the most experienced professionals in ghost form)

Super reflexes (is able to dodge ectoplasm blasts from other ghosts with ease, and caught an arrow fired at him with his bare hands near-effortlessly)

Super stamina (can function at absolute peak capacity for hours before becoming tired)

Supernatural Equilibrium (it's impossible to throw him off-balance. Either due to his flight or his agility, his equilibrium is incapable of being off)

Flight (or more accurately, gravity has no effect on his ghost form, allowing him to move freely through space)

Super regeneration (has reformed his entire body from a puddle of goo, survived severe punctures and slashes, and in ghost form can survive even more serious damage such as being bisected or large punctures due to ectoplasmic biology)

Transformation (Can switch between ghost and human forms at will)

Intangibility (incapable of physical contact, phasing through any and all solid matter. He can spread this to anyone or anything he is making contact with, allowing him to manipulate other intangible objects)

Invisibility (Can become undetectable by any and all visual senses/sensors, including but not limited to eyes, cameras, bioscans, etc. He is still visible on infrared, however.)

Interstellar Travel (has been shown to move through outer space at CONSIDERABLY HIGH speed without any aid, meaning his ghost form does not require oxygen and can survive, and navigate with ease, in the vacuum of space without special equipment)

Ghost Rays (can be manipulated into any shape/form and fired as a projectile, beam, or wave. Can be fired from ANY part of his body, not just extremities. Has been shown to be hot enough to melt steel, and often explodes on contact, and are powerful enough to destroy Ghosts [which are by nature supernaturally difficult to destroy] molecule by molecule)

Ecto-Energy Manipulation (Can channel the energy of his Ghost Rays into specific parts of his body to empower them greatly, allowing him to strike exponentially harder or use his hands/feet as blades to cleave through his target. Has been shown to be capable of easily piercing/slicing through steel)

Ecto-Energy Constructs (can form nearly anything he can think of by channeling his ghost ray energy into solid forms. Has been shown to form rings, discs, and shields which can either reflect or nullify energy attacks depending on what Danny wants)

Power Absorption (Can absorb powers and energy through his ghost shield, allowing him to use his enemy's abilities for a time, or to channel the energy of their attack into his own abilities)

Electrokinesis (can generate and manipulate electricity, as shown when he used it to charge the Fenton Thermos, and a few other times throughout the series. Often used as a Ghost Stinger)

Thermokinesis (Can generate exceedingly high temperatures, making anything he is touching as hot as he wishes)

Cryokinesis (Can generate exceedingly low temperatures, and generate ice at will. He can fire blasts of ice or solid ice constructs at will)

Pyrokinesis (Can generate ghostly fire to use as projectiles)

Aerokinesis (When split into two versions of himself, one was able to generate wind to cause his cape and hair to constantly flow as if there was wind even when in environments completely lacking in it)

Temperature Resistance (Due to thermokinesis and cryokinesis, Danny is EXTREMELY resistant, or even immune, to exeedingly high AND low temperatures. For fairness we will assume immune, as the vacuum of space had no impact on him at all)

Photokinesis (Can generate light from his hands at will)

Ghostly Wail (an incredibly powerful sonic wail capable of demolishing buildings, destroy many ghosts at once, and has a wide range while covering great distance)

Telekinesis (Can manipulate ecto-energy at a distance, allowing him to move objects with it. By extension, he is able to turn them invisible, intangible, or even restore them to pristine condition at will by channeling his powers into the energy surrounding the object or person)

Time Travel (through the use of the in-fi map and/or the time medallion, Danny is capable of traveling to any point in time he wishes and to any place he desires)

Overshadowing (Can take control of another person's body, manipulating them from within. Won't work without perfect concentration, or against those with strong wills)

Duplication (Can create copies of himself. His copies retain all of his powers and abilities, INCLUDING Duplication. However, if they collide together hard enough they do automatically fuse back together)

Spectral Body Manipulation (Can manipulate his body in all manner of ways, from stretching, growing and shrinking, bending and twisting beyond physical limitations, and creating holes in his body to allow projectiles to pass through, all the way to completely severing parts of his body from each other and reconnecting them at will)

Void Generation (Can draw all light into himself, leaving a room in complete and total darkness. He is able to see in this darkness with no difficulty)

Self-sustenance (Can survive indefinitely in environments with no source of food, water, or oxygen, by utilizing his ghost form. Ghost form Danny does not require food, water, or oxygen)

Rapid Learner (Has been shown to learn new abilities quickly after seeing them done, even without training, such as using the ghost shield mere hours after seeing Vlad do it for the first time, or obtaining the Ghostly Wail power ten years earlier than Dark Danny simply due to seeing Dark Danny perform it)

Indomitable Will (Immune to weaker forms of control, resistant to more powerful forms)

Skilled Tactician (able to quickly assess a situation and, in the heat of battle, plan out the most effective way to handle it)

Experienced combatant (has been facing near-indestructible enemies since he was 14, on a near-daily basis, as well as enemies as powerful or more powerful than himself. For this we'll assume it takes place just after the end of the series, giving him 2 years of experience, with an average of 2 battles per day [assuming most are smaller, weaker ghosts] to be safe given the frequency of the portals acting up)

Skilled marksman (landed a shot on medusa with his eyes closed, and has incredible precision with his ghost rays)

Emotional Empowerment (His powers are influenced, or even generated by, his emotions as shown when his ghost rays fired of their own accord out of fear at Desiree and when he manifested the Ghostly Wail for the first time in a fit of rage. His existing powers gain strength from potent emotion, and at times entirely new powers come into being due to strong emotion as well)

Technomancy (has been shown to be capable of Overshadowing technology and insert himself into it, either controlling it or becoming part of it at will)

And Danny's weaknesses:

All anti-ghost tech (in ghost form, these work exactly as intended on him, in human form they may detect him as a ghost but have very limited or even no effect on him)

Blood Blossoms (red flowers with innate anti-supernatural properties. They cause him extreme agony and leave him devoid of all ghostly powers)

Ecto-ranium (rare element with anti-ghost properties. Ghosts making contact with it feel extreme pain, and it is assumed colliding with it hard enough would destroy them)

Goku

Goku's powerset includes:

Energy Manipulation

Transformative Power Increase

Energy Sense

Super strength (on a cosmic scale)

Super speed (faster than light)

Super regeneration (healed from an energy blast to the heart in seconds due to transformation)

Hyper-acute senses (sight and smell honed to peak levels)

Hyperperception (can perceive and think at the same speed his body can move at

Zenkai Boost (exponential power increase on near-death survival)

Divine State (Mastered Ultra Instinct makes him near-impossible to hit)

Unbreakable Will (immune to all forms of psychic manipulation)

Mental Image Training (able to visualize and telekinetically connect with others for mental training, allowing him a mindscape in which to act)

Skilled Tactician (able to quickly assess a situation and, in the heat of battle, plan out the most effective way to handle it)

Experienced Combatant (Has been training and fighting consistently for decades, with his body being 39-40, and his mind being ~43 due to time spent dead. He trains near-constantly, and has decades of battle experience to draw on, including from time spent dead)

Skilled Marksman (has incredible precision with his energy attacks and melee strikes, even as accurate as to strike specific pressure points in the heat of battle)

Master martial artist (has trained with several masters in various fighting styles and techniques, leaving him with a wealth of methods to draw on)

Emotional empowerment (his strength, ki, and tenacity increase exponentially with emotion, granting him massive power increases in times of great emotion)

Ki Armor (Can use his ki like a protective layer around him, preventing attacks that would normally harm or kill him from making so much as a scuff mark)

And Goku's weaknesses include:

Limited Energy (can sustain Super Saiyan 1 and 2 indefinitely, but 3 and onward have increasingly heavy limitations to match their increasing level of power)

Cannot survive a vacuum

Vulnerable to exceedingly high/low temperatures (can survive contact with lava, but still retains an upper limit to how hot or cold he can handle)

To make this fair we'll put Danny at his absolute peak, and account for Goku being at HIS absolute peak (his strongest form, Mastered Ultra Instinct)

Goku loves to build up to the big moment, so we KNOW he would start in base. He would...pretty quickly realize Danny doesn't quite know how to "start small". Danny has never known a fight against a powerful opponent that WASN'T for his life. Er...lack of life? ....Half-life? Half-life 2: Fenton Boogaloo? He would be fighting for his life on instinct. Goku's base form is very powerful, but in Super it's mentioned by Beerus during the Battle of Gods arc that base form Goku STILL isn't strong enough to have killed Freeza. By the Moro arc this may have changed, so we'll assume base-form Goku is at least on-par with 100% Power Freeza.

Danny may not be as fast (which is going to be the real difficulty in fighting Goku) but he has something else going for him: he can fight at max power for HOURS without feeling the effects. By comparison, Goku can fight for hours in base form, Super Saiyan, and Super Saiyan 2. However, Super Saiyan 3 has a noticeable energy drain, and limits him to several minutes. This may have changed by the end of the Moro arc, so we'll assume SSJ3 can be used consistently for an hour before he's too weak to use it. Super Saiyan God is even more limited, with mere minutes before it's drained. Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan (also known as Super Saiyan Blue) is further limited, and finally Mastered Ultra Instinct is more limited than that.

But despite all of Goku's powers and abilities, Danny has one simple set of powers that may win him the fight with ease. Goku is not used to fighting an opponent that can phase through his entire arsenal of attacks, and through him as well. Danny may be slower, but if Goku comes in close for a melee fight, Danny has a simple trick to win. Intangibility, invisibility. Turn invisible either partially (his arm+hand) or entirely (his whole body) and phase into Goku, pulling his organs with him as he phases out. Danny would, in character, never do something so brutal but it's not exactly in-character for these two to fight each other either, is it? Character personality has no place here. Only raw combat comparison. Goku does have ki sense, so invisibility may not be a true trump card, but he would only know where Danny is, not his exact movements. And assuming it became a battle of range, Danny's ecto-shield makes the fight entirely pointless, either redirecting, nullifying, or outright absorbing Goku's attacks. Ultimately, Danny has more endurance, greater durability, and his powerset makes him a major threat to all purely biological lifeforms thanks to his ability to simply fly through them and remove organs as he pleases. Goku does not have an answer (that I'm aware of) for an opponent like Danny. BY ALL MEANS CORRECT ME, THIS IS MY THOUGHTS AND I AM ABSOLUTELY DOWN FOR DISCUSSION! Change my mind, I want you to!

Conclusion: Goku can't defeat an opponent he can't touch, and he has no way of stopping Danny from using intangibility to remove critical organs. Even with transformations offering higher durability and faster healing, nothing will save him from the loss of his lungs. Danny, on the other hand, can survive being turned into a puddle, being bisected, punctured, and many other "fatal" injuries due to his ectobiology. It would either be a very short-lived fight with Danny holding Goku's lungs/heart in his hands, or a very long drawn out battle with Danny winning on endurance.

Ben 10

We'll assume Ben is unlimited in his access to the functions of the Omnitrix.

Ben 10's powers and abilities

Alien Forms (countless forms specialized for a wide variety of environments and situations)

Omnitrix Failsafe (instantly turns him into the alien most perfectly suited for surviving his current situation if he is dealt a fatal blow or in danger of dying)

Instantaneous transformation (his transformations happen instantaneously, and do not take time to occur)

Brilliant Tactician (Can assess a situation and form a plan to deal with it effectively and easily)

Universal Destruction (When the Failsafe fails, in the event of Ben's death the watch is set to self-destruct in an explosive manner powerful enough to destroy the universe)

Mental link to the Omnitrix (Can swap to/between alien forms with a thought)

Genetic scan (Can scan the biology of any living species and generate the peak physical example of that species, adding it to the arsenal of beings the watch can access)

Genetic Perfecting (Can simulate millions of years of the harshest conditions to turn a sample of a species into the most combative apex evolutions of themselves, creating more powerful versions of the samples already in the watch)

Innate Understanding (the watch grants ben full knowledge of every ability his new form is able to use, and how to use it, upon transformation)

Indomitable will (willing to die for his universe, unbreakable sense of self, mind is unwaveringly strong)

Ben's Weaknesses

Human reaction time (until he transforms, he is limited to human thought speed and human reflexes)

Watch cannot simulate time or experience (he is limited to the experience he has with a form, and will only be able to use abilities an "adult" specimen would be able to use, so species with abilities that come in old age will be unavailable)

This one is tricky. Are Ghosts a species, or a state of being? Is Danny a genetic hybrid, or a being between life and death? We'll look to the canon of the show for that answer: Ghosts are a species AND a state of being. Some ghosts (Desiree, Poindexter, and Ember as examples) were once human and, upon death, became spirits in the Ghost Zone with powers reflecting aspects of their human lives. Meanwhile, other ghosts (such as Clockwork, Undergrowth, and Nocturn) were never human and are extra-dimensional beings that have never existed as humans. Danny is unique: He is both Ghost AND Human. There are fan jokes that he's a corpse possessed by his own ghost, but the canon of the show states that he is a human whose DNA has been combined with ectoplasm, resulting in a Halfa. It's also been stated by the creators that Halfas are so rare because not everyone exposed the way Danny and Vlad were can become Halfas: most simply die. Danny and Vlad's DNA simply mixed perfectly with the ecto-energy. Now with that established, we come to this conclusion: the omnitrix CAN scan Danny, and it CAN add "Halfa" to it's arsenal. It would NOT be able to add Ghost to the list because Danny is, biologically, NOT a ghost. Regardless of which form it scans him in, it would get Halfa DNA because Halfa DNA is different from Ghost DNA.

However, Ben would NOT have a large list of powers to draw on. As most Ghosts have varying powers, Ben's Halfa form would have the typical ones (intangibility,spectral body manipulation, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, ghost rays, etc) but there's one fact to consider: the omnitrix cannot simulate experience, and Danny has more of it.

Halfas gain new powers, and their current powers grow in strength, with EXPERIENCE, not age. The omnitrix cannot simulate that. It could create an Ultimate Halfa (which may have more powers and much stronger base powers) but it would not give it the powers that only come with experience. He would not have the Ghostly Wail, the Technomancy, the Duplication, or any of the other powers that are born from experience and powerful emotion. The watch can't give those by default: only experience and circumstance can. And we've seen Danny manipulate other intangible things, meaning even intangible, Ben would not be safe from Danny's physical attacks. Now for the fight...

The failsafe is instant, which means if Danny tried the trick he used to beat Goku (intangible, grab lungs, pull, profit), Ben would simply be transformed into an alien that either heals fast enough to survive it OR he would be transformed into a species that does not adhere to typical biology (Ghostfreak, Alien X, Upgrade, etc) So Danny couldn't simply kill Ben, it wouldn't be that easy. Even if it were, Alien X makes it effectively impossible. This, my friends, is where Danny's Technomancy comes in. No matter what form Ben is in, no matter if he scans Danny or not, the omnitrix is ever-present as a mechanical device on his person. Danny can Overshadow people AND technology, and while Ben may be immune to Overshadowing due to his unbendable will, the omnitrix is not. Danny, upon Overshadowing the omnitrix (again, regardless of Bens' current form) could unbond it from Ben, leaving him entirely human and completely vulnerable. And given none of Ben's forms have the ability to see true invisibility like Danny's (save for those with infrared vision) he would never even know Danny was up to anything until it already happened. At that point it's as simple a matter as the Goku trick, or even simpler, a ghost ray to Ben's head or chest, carrying him high and dropping him, the Ghostly Wail, or any other of Danny's countless ways of killing regular humans.

Conclusion: Ben has a few ways of stopping Danny (Alien X, Ghostfreak, some of his energy-manipulators, etc) but none of them mean anything if Danny Overshadows the Omnitrix and unbonds it from Ben. A very simple trick, one Danny is more than capable of, and one Ben would not have time to react to unless he was in one of his faster-thinking forms such as XLR8 or Greymatter. Once removing the watch is done, Danny wins as easily as he would against any regular human.

Sun Wukong

Ooookay, this one is a DIFFICULT fight. I'm using classic Wukong, not westernized Wukong. Classic Wukong is...terrifying. Let's go over his powers and abilities. I'm using his most powerful version BEFORE his attainment of buddha-hood due to the fact that obtaining buddha-hood makes one completely and entirely above all things, leaving one truly invincible, invulnerable, indestructible, and incapable of anything in between.

Taoist immortal (age has no bearing on him, even should his body decay and become old, he will never become frail or weak due to age)

72 Transformations (can shapeshift into various forms as the situation demands, anything from a tiny golden cicada all the way to a massive and powerful elephant, and everything in-between such as tigers, rhinos, and more. For each transformation mastered, one gains an additional life, meaning should Wukong die through some method, he will be born again until his 72 lives are gone)

Superhuman agility (martial arts training coupled with his monkey instincts leave him with a level of agility impossible for humans)

Cloning (can create perfect clones of himself from the hairs on his body. Each clone is equally as powerful as the original, and can in turn create clones of themselves. Each clone holds the full powerset of the original, and can be dispelled by the original at will)

Universe-level strength (the Dragon Gods, the ones responsible for creating the universe and capable of creating infinite realms, were afraid of his raw strength)

Cosmic speed (Traveled from one end of the universe to the other with a single leap in mere seconds)

Universe-level durability (able to endure strikes from the Dragon Gods themselves)

Infinite Stamina (never tires, never feels fatigue or exhaustion)

Super-intelligent (mastered virtually every martial art, trained by the supreme Taoist sage for 20 years, learning and mastering techniques and lessons that take most hundreds or thousands of years in a mere 2 decades)

Spiritual Immortality (erased his name from the Book of the Living and Dead to ensure he could not die)

Limb multiplication (can create additional limbs at will, up to at least 1,000)

Body Freezing Spell (Can cause lower-ranking demons, humans, and monsters to freeze in place with a gesture and a single word)

Water Avoidance Charm (Can survive in deep water without breathing, but prevents flight)

Fire Avoidance Charm (can survive in any flame, no matter how hot or intense it may be)

Protective Circle (can create a magical ward of protection. Any inside the circle are protected from ALL harm)

Fiery Golden Eyes (Can see over 300 miles during the day, and almost 200 at night, as well as being able to see through any and all illusion, disguise, or transformation)

Riyu Jingu Bang Mastery (ornate gold and red quarterstaff that can extend or shrink as much as the user wishes. It weighs roughly 17,500 pounds regardless of form. When creating clones, the Riyu Jingu Bang also multiplies so each clone bears one of their own)

Cloud-walking boots (allow him to walk on clouds, integral in his use of the Cloud Somersault which allows him to cover great distances in the blink of an eye)

And his weaknesses....

Complete Goofball (incapable of taking a fight seriously. Even in his darkest moments, Sun Wukong has never given his opponent the benefit of a serious battle. He may not always joke, he may not always smile, but he NEVER takes a fight seriously and will use every opportunity to play with his enemy. Whether as a method of distraction, an attempt to make them drop their guard, or simply out of a love of fun, he never takes a fight seriously)

That's it, that's the list.

So here's the thing...Danny CAN'T kill Sun Wukong. His name is removed from the Book of the Living and Dead. He's got 72 rebirths. He's biologically immortal. His durability, strength, and power are unmatched by any being in all of fiction or reality, except for the Buddha. But what Danny CAN do is defeat him. How? Well, it's not easy, but this is how I think he'd do it.

Wukong loves to play. Danny is pretty quick on the catch so it wouldn't take him long to figure that out, and given his own love of not taking people seriously, the two would have a pretty even match as far as jokes and japes go. And Sun Wukong HATES to lose. All Danny has to do to defeat Sun Wukong is play on his hatred of losing and his refusal to take anything seriously. Danny leads Sun Wukong to the nearest portal to the Ghost Zone and tricks him into going into it with him (VERY easy for Sun Wukong to be tricked through deception, he's a fast learner but he's not that wise). Sun Wukong, now in the Ghost Zone, is limited to only being able to get out through one of the portals. Danny simply tricks Sun Wukong into staying for a moment (Sun loves games, Danny could suggest a race to the end of the Ghost Zone and ask for a ten second head start "to make it fair, since [Sun] is so much faster...Unless [Sun] is afraid he'll lose." Sun's competitive nature would rise, he would agree to the head start, Danny would have plenty of time to leave through the portal they came in from and use the Fenton Thermos to close it (Reverse Polarity seals and closes portals after all) behind him, thereby trapping Sun Wukong in the Ghost Zone forever. Sun wouldn't know how to navigate the Zone, and his magic and equipment will do nothing to help him escape. He would be stuck until he could find another portal, and he would only start looking AFTER winning/losing the race, because he would spend the entire time trying to "catch up" to Danny. Eventually he may get bored or give up, but he still wouldn't even know what he was looking for as far as getting out of the GZ. Conclusion: While Danny can't KILL Sun Wukong, he could still defeat him through deception and clever use of the Ghost Zone. Given Danny's strategic mind and the fact he's been fighting "unbeatable" threats for years, it's no stretch to believe he would figure out pretty quickly he needs to trap Wukong rather than try and beat him in a fight.

Conclusions

I do truly believe Danny Phantom wins against almost any opponent, and the big three badasses of fiction are no exception. That said, if you see an issue in my logic or can think of a reason he wouldn't be able to beat them, PLEASE let me know. I love discussion and if you change my mind I'll be all the happier for it. Again, I know this isn't my usual content, but I needed to get this out of my system cause I'm rewatching the show and it's got me kinda hyperfixated, ha.

Anyway, later guys! New Relan post coming soon, next one is about the countries!

[adafruit]

yaaarrr! a Circuit Pyrate is ready to be your best mate on the hacking seas

⚓️🏴‍☠️🤖🔧💻🔗🐍🔋📚💡🔌✨🌐💬📌🔄🔍💼📊

we recently sold out of our stock of Bus Pirates https://github.com/BusPirate/Bus_Pirate and when we booked a reorder we found it's currently unavailable with no ETA for re-stocking. it made us think about revisiting this design, perhaps using an RP2040 instead: with native USB and CircuitPython and PIO it might be easier to add new protocols! we did do a "Circuit Pyrate" draft many years ago but it was based on the SAMD21 and we quickly ran out of space - another thing the RP2040 would excel at.

parsing data is something that Python does very well, and tannewt already has VT100 control code support for the REPL status bar, so we're having a go at re-implementing the UX in native python by instantiating a secondary 'data only' CDC UART endpoint https://learn.adafruit.com/customizing-usb-devices-in-circuitpython/circuitpy-midi-serial#usb-serial-console-repl-and-data-3096590 The default REPL can then be enabled or disabled with the onboard slide switch.

here's our draft that uses the same sizing and header location but of course all different parts. two challenges: the RP2040 is not 5V-tolerant like the PIC24J but it's also not guaranteed for high speeds, so we put a 1K+3.6V zener diode on the 4 GPIO pins that ought to let it work OK with 3 or 5V devices. secondly, the pin mux distribution for I2C and UART doesnt match the same as the original chip so we may have to PIO bitbang those interfaces. we're going to have to do a bunch of pin twiddling to find out the limitations of this design. we add a separate Stemma QT port, NeoPixel, and LEDs for both power outputs. fun fact, did you know that the bus pirate is CC-0 http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate_v3.6#License a rarely seen license for OSHW!

our current pondering is how to best mimic the 5V tolerant inputs of the PIC24J - the 1K + 3.6V zener will definitely do the job but can slow down the IO quite a bit on those high speed SPI lines. because we want full bidirectional support for each pin and be able to enable/disable optional 10K pullups to 3V (internal) or 5V (external) we can't us the TXS0104 series: has built in un-disableable pullups. this app note has a few tips we're perusing https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/chapter%208.pdf - #11 looks like it may work..any suggestions?

[rssecurityturnstile]

three arms gates barrier from RS Security Co., Ltd(www.szrssecurity.com) Appropriate for all kinds of public locations that require organized passage of pedestrians, such as scenic spots, exhibit halls, cinemas, docks, train stations, bus stations and other places that need ticket confirmation; locations that require authorized entry such as factory participation, canteen consumption, golf courses, monthly card leisure centers, and so on; anti-static control areas of electronic factories, systems that require stringent security steps such as face acknowledgment and fingerprint recognition. RS Security Co., Ltd primarily produces, establishes and sells access control items, such as tripod turnstiles gate, city flap gates gate, servo motor swing turnstiles door, translation turnstile barrier, drop arm gates barrier, full high turnstile gate, half high turnstiles door, speed gates door and other channel turnstile gate products, and parking barrier, acknowledgment camera, hydraulic bollards, road bocker tripod turnstile gate Integrated electronic tickets, gain access to control and presence, club consumption/catering, anti-static, finger print, palm print, face recognition, iris acknowledgment Integrated application of other series of items; complete stainless steel frame structure, servo motor, separately developed and produced motion; one-way/two-way turnstiles door/ swipe to release the lever button and the upper lever is optional, with Counting function can understand RS485 direct interaction with the computer; three rollers gates door triggers and instructions and alarm prompts; automatic fall of the pole when power is off and manual fall The pole is optional, and it gets the switch signal to open turnstiles gate; it can be equipped with a card reading control part, and numerous units can be connected to the network; it can be geared up with magnetic card and proximity card combination techniques; it can be purchased according to different functional requirements. Do. A completely rainproof box made of alloy aluminum or stainless steel, compared to the city flap turnstile gate servo motor swing gates gate and other pedestrian passage devices, three rollers turnstiles door are more economical. It has a tailored installation user interface (such as card reader, sign light installation, etc) to make sure that the system integrator's control gates gate equipment is simple and convenient to install. The motion of the three-stick turnstile door machine has an instantly changed hydraulic shock absorber. When using the three-stick gates door operation, the noise is extremely small and silent. Effect, turnstile gate bar instantly decreases back to center. The surface of the motion is plated with yellow dichromate. Can be set with gates door machine control, one or two instructions control (set by user). The base is repaired with expansion bolts.

[crpt2rciaa]

74 A/HC/T Series logic chips, Logic Circuit, digital gates, gate logic

74CBTLV Series 3.6V 4 Bit High Speed Bus Switch Surface Mount - TSSOP-14

[ask-the-usa-manor]

whats the most common reaction to Connecticut’s driving?

“Hey. Don’t… This is a train tunnel. Turn back. Nutmeg. Nutmeg. Train tunnel—!”

“Relax,” Connecticut laughed, refusing to lift his foot off the gas, “Nobody’s in it!”

North Carolina white-knucked his ceiling handle for dear life, wondering why the hell he asked Connecticut of all people to help him drop his car off at the shop.

He didn’t know the answer to that question.

He also didn’t know how either of them were still alive on this car ride.

He really thought they were done for when Connecticut started swerving back and forth through incredibly busy lanes, cutting other reckless drivers off on the highway.

And then there was that time they almost hit a school bus.

And then there was that high-speed chase after the cops saw Connecticut use the stoplights and speed limits as ‘guidelines’ instead of legally binding ordinances.

And then there was the time Nutmeg lost the cops by speeding off the road, almost hitting a grandma on the way.

Luckily, Nutmeg’s windows are tinted and the license plate got torn off back when he pulled out of the parking garage, so when they got away, they were pretty confident the police didn’t have enough evidence to press charges.

Yep, NC thought he was going to die from fear.

He was pretty sure he was already going. He saw a bright light in the distance—

Wait.

Either he’s finally dying or—

“…Aw, fu— TRAIN!”

Connecticut’s eyes widened at the locomotive speeding towards them, switching the car into reverse as quickly as possible and putting all his weight on the gas.

“No need to worry!” The Nutmegger assured, speeding back, “We can make it!”

“We can’t make it!”

“We can make it!”

“We can’t!”

“Aw, c’mon, be a bit more positive! What’s with the negativity?”

“Oh, I don’t know dearest brother. Maybe we’re abOUT TO GET HIT BY A TRAIN—!”

“For the last time Carol, I know what I’m doing!”

“DON’T CALL ME THAT! I REFUSE TO BE CALLED ‘CAROL’ IN MY FINAL MOMENTS—”

“I REFUSE TO DIE IN A F**KING HONDA CIVIC!”

“HONDA CIVI—?” North Carolina looked around, realizing that this was definitely not Connecticut’s own Honda CR-V, “THIS ISN’T YOUR CAR?”

“OF COURSE IT’S NOT!” CT cackled, “IT’S CALI’S! I LOST MY CAR PRIVILEGES MONTHS AGO!”

“LOST—!?”

“APPARENTLY YOU NEED SOMETHING CALLED A ‘DRIVERS LICENSE’ TO DRIVE??”

“…”

North Carolina took a deep breath and laid his head down on the dashboard.

“If we survive this,” He muttered, “I’m going to murder you.”

[blazehedgehog]

Why is it that you considered nintendo trying to be the apple of gaming? I feel like, especially if taking sony into account, it's rather opposite of it in most of the case. Like a horizontal opposite of a horse shoe. Granted, as far as I know, the simliarity between nintendo and apple is extreme protectiveness over their IP and loathes the modification of their product. As a platform, based on recent development, they cant be more different. Nintendo product thrive on being weak but affordable console to most, and has since loosen control on third party content, while Playstation and apple thrive on being luxury powerful high end product on the market , and their policy for third party cobtent seem to have gotten more strict recently. I heard that sony forced Japanese developer make their game closer to western sensibility, even the one meant to be published in japan.

Nintendo thrive on being what people might wants, while apple thrive on being best in the market

That said, my knowledge on this is pretty limited and could be wrong, so I would like to know your perspective on this and feel free to correct me if I am wrong about anything.

It was because at the start of the Switch, Nintendo was overcharging the hell out of it. To some degree, they still are. When you consider the capabilities of the hardware, it's roughly (not directly, but roughly) equivalent to, like, an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3. Hardware from 2005, in other words. Again, I know it's not a direct 1:1 comparison, because it's more about memory speeds and bus bandwidth. In some places the Switch is better than a 360, and in others it's worse. But still. Roughly equivalent.

For, like, $300? That's a lot of money. It leans really hard on that portability aspect. Being able to throw it in a carrying case and easily take it with you. Slot it in to any Switch dock and throw it up on a TV. I'm doing that right now, given I am writing this on the last couple days of pet sitting for my cousin. They have a Switch, but they take it with them on vacation, so I'm just using my Switch in their dock to play Tears of the Kingdom.

There was also rumors that Nintendo was going to roll out updated hardware more like a mobile phone; what I had heard was they wanted a marginal upgrade out every 2-3 years. And true enough, rumors of the so-called "Switch Pro" have persisted since at least 2018 or 2019. But since the Switch itself was selling so insanely well, supposedly Nintendo got cold feet and didn't want to mess up a good thing by rushing replacement hardware out. Now, they've stalled so long that they're leaving a lot of developers with Switch Pro dev kits out to dry.

Software is, and to some degree continues to be, very expensive. Ignoring the fact that Zelda's $70, even at launch, you had Capcom putting out a version of Street Fighter 2 HD for $60, when on Xbox Live Arcade, they charged $15 for more or less the same experience. A lot of early games were plagued by the so-called "Switch Tax."

But you're right insofar as Sony has totally stolen that crown with the Playstation 5, right down to the crushing ego and everything.

That is the number one reason I don't really want a Playstation 5. I mean, I've entered giveaways for one, I wouldn't say no if it dropped into my lap, but Sony is going after the "status symbol" market. It's very gross. I don't care how many PS4 games I have, how much of my library is tied up in PS+ freebies, I will drop the Playstation brand for another Xbox as soon as I can afford to.

[noro-noro-noro]

i don't remember these in as much detail i slept a lot

- this one was the first one from a while ago. it was about the bg3 companions, sort ofz & I was also there. I remember there was gale, very ooc laezel, reynauld darkest dungeon. everyone owed a huge debt to wario & was surreptitiously checking their phones to try to convince him to hold off a little longer. wario also wtked for "the big bad", whoeevr he was.

it started off with us trying to run on foot through an empty city. raining lots of fast food restaurants around. there was a giant thing or smth else that picked up laezel & was trying to talk to her but she was mad and started stabbing him in the hands and went to cut his eyes out but she recognized him at the last second? it was some guy she'd known in the past, before ????? a curse was placed on him that made everyone forget ? idk. anyway suddenly she was ectremely nice to him & everyone else. that was weird and unsettling.

we went to the guy's underground safe place. it was prttu nice, & moderately well defended, which was good bc we'd have to defend this area. wario texted somebody that he was displeased with how he generously extended the repayment window and they still hadn't paid him a cent, so now he was only going to sccept domeone in thr party betrayig the other two and selling tjem to him.

- riding the limbus company bus on some kind of cross country trip. first it was about my sister & dad stopping off at a big convenience store. some of the people in the store approached and said something weird to us that put me on edge and I shouted for everyone to run. it turned out they were definitely some kind of agent thing they grabbed us & our travelling companions & held guns, but if you knocked thr gun iht of someone's hand you unlocked the ability to stun the persob who had selected you as their taeget.

anyway it was now framed like a strategy game wherebwe had to get all the children back onto the bus. the baddies had some kind of mind control band that we didn't know about & the first time we were almost able to get all the children to the bus - then the agents became not stunned and all the kids turned around to walk back up the Hill like in a dream.

I was stuck on this fight a lot and kept coming back to it across different dreams so the cast of characters kept getting switched up. I wanted a perfect clear. I didn't want any of the children to die. the more I reset the worse it all became until there was a huge chasm owned by the rat king, who was callous and very flighty, but he decided to ally with us after all . the main ossue is that the enemy agents had their own elites - a woman who was fire aligned and could dig through dirt at high speeds, the poisons weed gnome, several others. my soldiers had no such things, and the rat king did lay several tricks and trapsbin the chasm sbd orchestrated some sleeper assassination of agents, but je was more of a tricks guy than a confrontation guy.

at one point the baddies got to the truck & got charon, so virgil was about to destroy them all like a heat seeking missile.

- school (?) art class (?) taughtbby my high school civics teacher mr. N that everybody really liked bc he was a really chill guy. hopebhes still doing well anyway it wasthe last class of the day. I was trying to befriend the person bext to me, who was constantly shifting in appearance, but I think he was based off of scara grnshin impaxt. koga kengan Omega was also there like ooo don't trust him... & I was like well you haven't given me a reason.. & continued working on my art project collsge thing. at the end of class nr N was writint down some on thr board explain the recent surge of drama and even the students that had gone missing due to administrator actions, and a lotnof ys weee staying behind to watch even tho we were worried we'd miss the bus, but I didn't know the initial context

[countessofravenclaw]

Memories of Time: Chapter thirty

What if you woke up one morning and realized that you were back in the beginning of your story? But to your surprise, you remember how that story will play out. Did you go back in time?

“GO!!!!!”

Gastón had never been as glad in his life that it was Matteo behind the wheel as he rounded the curve on a speed that definitely was not legal. Even when Matteo had gotten his license after Gastón had moved to England, he still had more than enough experience with Matteo’s driving. Matteo wasn’t a bad driver, just a carefree and fearless one to say. Gastón totally understood why Alexander had had a driver. 

“What happened?” Luna asked them as they got out of the suburbs and into a bigger road. 

“Short version or the long version?” Gastón looked at Nina and she was pleading for him to do the talking with her eyes. “Well, the basics are that Ana had locked Nina in the house. When I got inside the house with the key, she saw me, so we had to run.”

“So Ana full-on saw you, and the fact that you ran away from under her nose and got into this car?” Ambar asked.

“Pretty much. Good thing is that I don’t think she recognized me,” Gastón responded, “There is no way for her to know who I am, now that I think about it, it might make it worse, but there will be someone after us very soon. We need to go fast so we won't be followed.”

“Well, this was never going to go according to plan was it?” Simon very slightly chuckled.

“This isn’t a laughing matter, but I am sorry to find it funny,” Luna cracked up. “But the good thing is that we all got away. Even if Matteo had a climb over fences and Gastón practically kidnapped Nina. Things were going to fall apart anyway. Now we just need to speed to the airport.”

“Thank you for that much-needed optimism Luna. Now we just need to get to the airport and on the plane before they go after us. Then we can’t be tracked.” Matteo said while shifting the gear stick to the bigger speed. 

“Hold up a second,” Gastón had finally gotten his thoughts back together. “Who let Matteo drive?”

“Did you want a fast getaway or not?” Matteo snarked at him from the driver’s seat, “You know how slowly Simon drives.”

“Hey!”

“No relevant.”

“No, you don’t have a license right now.”

“Well, technically not,” Matteo shrugged his shoulders, “but I still know how to drive.”

“No, Matteo you need to pull over,” Gastón responded.

“Why?”

“We are already being hunted down starting pretty soon. We don’t need to get arrested for having an unlicensed driver on top of it all.”

“Ooh, right…” the realization seemed to hit Matteo and he eventually stopped the car on the closest bus stop. 

“Simon, do you take the wheel or do I?” Gastón asked Simon as car cama to hault.

“Please, do it,” Simon pleaded. “This is a manual and I can’t drive that in high-stakes situations. I just and just got it to the park.”

Gastón nodded and quickly switched the spots with Matteo. A manual gear shift was something you didn’t see that often in the year 2024 but the old Ferrari he had driven all of his teenage years and had been forced to drive again in this time-warping situation they were still in, was a manual. His parents had insisted he learned both manual and automatic gearshifts, and that skill was apparently something you couldn’t forget if you once learned it well. 

“It is almost 40 kilometers to the El Palomar so this will take at least an hour.”

“So we are maybe on schedule,” Ambar sighed from the backseat. “Everyone has the tickets, right?”

***

Nina sighed, as she sat on the hotel room's bed, looking at her tablet. The plane had landed extremely early in the morning. During the commotion and the way she had been able to escape, she had to left her phone behind. Apparently, her mother had not noticed that small detail since she had noticed after pulling the text up on her tablet, that she had seen a couple of messages from her mother trying to reach her. 

There was no way she was answering any of them, but it was a good thing to know what was going on back in Buenos Aires and was their actual location had been discovered which was extremely unlikely, but better safe than sorry.

“The others went to get food as places open up,” Gastón suddenly came from behind her and sat next to her on the bed. She closed her tabled and turned to him.

“I made you sleep on the plane, but you still look a bit pale,” he ran his finger on her chin. “Still shaken up about the way we took off? I am sorry about that, but it was the only way.”

“You don’t need to apologize,” she scooted closer to him and leaned her head on his shoulder. “It was sudden, but else could we have done? We’d be in bigger trouble if we had stayed. And I kind of wanna see Mom’s face after all that. To think that I thought that the most adventurous thing I’d ever do would be going to college overseas, not running away from my  mother…to overseas.”

“Aha, so it is not agreeing to marry me?”

“You know what I mean. I just hope this works…” Nina trailed off for a second. It was more than fair to say that this was a long shot and how they had even gotten this far beyond her. “If it doesn’t we are in huge trouble. We need to go back to eventually.”

“Yeah, I try to not think about that, but we will need to. But, I have this feeling, that this will actually work.” Gastón pulled the book With the speed of light from his bag. “This didn’t come out of nowhere.”

“There is definitely something about this book,” Nina took it from him. They had tried to run some research on it, but outside that one Wikipedia article, there was absolutely nothing on it or the author. “I have not been able to find anywhere when it was published.” She opened to book to its inside cover. “It doesn’t even read here. Plus, who is Markus Tuominen? You said the name sounded nordic, and I looked into it, and it is not just nordic, but specifically finnish.” 

During her master's at Oxford, Nina had done some research on Uralic languages and their translation into English. She had learned quite a lot about notable finnish authors. 

“But this is also quite contemporary writing, and not close to anything classical like anything from Minna Cath or Aleksis Kivi. Blake wouldn’t have a book from a small modern author, from a faraway country.” Nina turned to book around her hands, “I am totally crazy for thinking this, but the whole plot of this just sounds like something I would write. What do you think?”

“Now that you say it, a young girl in peril for her family does sound the style of Si Pudieras Tener un Deseo,” Gastón responded with a pondering voice, “Just with added time travel and sci-fi elements.” he paused for a second, “This wasn’t you, right? From the future? I can’t put anything past happening anymore.”

“Even if it seems like my style, this is not me.” She laughed, “I am not nordic and my name is not Tuominen.”

“Names can always be changed.”

“Only thing I am planning to change my name is my last name to yours…” she dropped the book to the bed and turned to face him leaning closer.

Gastón took the hint, sliding his arm around her waist and swiftly pulling her closer…

They were interrupted as Gastón’s phone started ringing. 

“It’s Mom again,” Gastón said annoyed. “I don’t get it. They never call me this much when they are away.”

“You are not going to answer?”

“I can’t risk it. You know I can’t lie,” Gastón silences his phone while letting it still ring, “I don’t want them to think there is something wrong. I’ll let it go the automatic answer machine, so it doesn’t look like I am hanging up on them.” He dropped his phone down on the bed and smoothly pulled her close to him again pressing his lips to hers. 

“Oh goodness. I knew it was a mistake leaving you two alone,” they were interrupted again as the door was opened. “Wanna knock it off, we brought food.” Matteo rolled his eyes at them as they came in.

“What is the status?”

“Well, my parents definitely know I have vanished,” Luna said and showed everyone a text from her mother asking where she was. 

“I hope that the letters do something to help,” Ambar sighed.

“Why are we pretending like they will stop them going after us,” Matteo lamented, “the only thing they do is reassure everyone that we were not kidnapped.”

“Maybe we should look up some news feeds, just in case,” Nina said and started typing on her table. Matteo started playing with the remote as she pulled up the Argentina news network live feed. 

“We have new information on the teenagers reported missing from Buenos Aires… the police have confirmed that the size of the group missing is six instead of four and they seem all to be connected to each other. Among the missing are Argentina’s Italian Embassy’s head Alexander Balsano’s only son Matteo Balsano and Real estate agent and state’s financial advisor…” 

Everyone stared at the screen as the news announcer read all of their names out loud.

“What?” Matteo spoke out first “How do they even know some of us are even gone? How is this in the country-wide news?”

“Probably because it is a big deal when millionaire's children go missing,” Gastón pondered, “Something we conveniently didn’t think about. That's why they only really mentioned Luna and Simon in the end. It is much more important when you, me, and Ambar go missing.”

“They offered a reward for us?” Ambar asked shocked looking at the screen “Whose idea was that? Almost like we were kidnapped and they are paying ransoms.”

“I think we are worth more than that, though,” Matteo joked.

“What do we do now?” Luna asked.

“Nothing,” Ambar answered, “Our reservation for the tower isn’t until this evening. “They know we are gone, and the Argentinian police are after us, but we are here, in France.”

“...The newest bit of information we have acquired is the group flew to…” the news announcer continued…

“Guys,” Matteo suddenly said and they all turned towards the TV he had accidentally turned on the moment before. On the Tv, there was a french newscast running and their faces were plastered on it. “Ambar, what are they saying?”

“Pretty much the same as the other did,” Ambar was only one of them who understood French at all. “but…it seems like they know… we are here.”

“Great… just fabulous.” Matteo flobbed down on the bed. “What do we do now? If the french police are after us, we can’t go outside.”

“Especially somewhere that is as public as Eiffel Tower. Our faces were plastered over the news. Even the tourists will recognize us.”

“Wait does this mean, that if we get caught, Simon will get charged for kidnapping us?” Luna suddenly thought out loud. Everyone turned to look at Ambar as she was the lawyer in the room.

“Well…” Ambar clearly was thinking hard, “Technically not, since we all left of our own free will, and no one was actually kidnapped. This shouldn’t be treated as a kidnapping, but a disappearance… but in another case… our parents will be mad and it might not look very good that we, five “minors” have fled the country with someone who is not. I also don’t know what kind of weight our testimonies will hold.”

Everyone stayed silent since no one could come up with anything to say… had they really been cornered?

***

“But, we can’t just sit here and wait for them to come to get us. We do not know how far our tails the police really are, so we need to get out of this as far as possible.” Ambar got up and opened her laptop again. They were not getting caught if she could help it. They had come way too far. “I canceled the elevator reservation. If we wanna go now, we need to climb the tower up by the stairs.”

“Can you do that?” Luna eyed Ambar’s ankle which she still had bandaged. 

“It is either that of facing our parents' wrath or worse.” She scoffed. Yes, her ankle was not completely healed yet, but it was not like that was going to stop her. “I’ll manage. Do you wanna get out of this time or not?”

“Ambar, what are you thinking?” Gastón asked her.

“First of all, we need to sign ourselves out of this hotel,” She started rummaging through her bag for something, “Simon will need to do that, since he will need to talk to people at the front desk and he technically was even reported missing. The report focussed much more on us others so he is most unrecognizable.” 

She pulled a stack of cash from her bag and handed it to Simon. “Do it with this so cards can’t be tracked.” Everyone just stared at Ambar as she shoved the money to Simon

“This is probably the first time I have seen cash in years.”

“Emergency stash. Did you all forget that our credit cards in this day and age can be tracked? Simon, don’t just stand there, we need to move.”

After maybe 15 minutes Simon came back to the hotel room while everyone else had gotten everything packed.

“Everything okay?”

“Yes. They did ask a little bit since we are leaving earlier than expected —and didn’t stay the night, but I just said that we had an urgent appointment.”

“Why are the French so nosy?” Luna asked as she zipped her back bag up

“Look who is talking? Everyone packed?”

No one responded negatively, so they grabbed their bags and get out of the room. 

“Okay, to get to the tower, we need to travel on the underground through six stops,” Gastón said as they were making their way down the stairs of the small hotel, “And let's try to get past the front desk fast.”

Everyone nodded and they entered the lobby and started walking towards the door when…

“J'espère que tu as apprécié ta journée.” The front desk worker suddenly said to them. Everyone jumped, and turned to Ambar. 

“Bien sûr que nous l'avons fait. Je vous remercie pour votre hospitalité.” She quicky respoded to the worked in frech. “Come on lets go.”

“What did he say?” Simon asked Ambar when they were outside of the hotel.

“Just the basic, I hope you had a good stay and stuff,” She responded, “nothing to worry about it. Where’s the underground station?”

**

Little did they know that after they had gone and gotten on the underground, the desk worker had realized that those oddly acting guests, who had come in during the morning and had already left, only a couple of hours later had been six Spanish-speaking teens. Exactly like who had been reported missing in the news.

**

“Okay, it is a small walk from here to the Champ de Mars,” Gastón was looking at his phone's GPS. 

They proceeded to walk along the walkways and across the bridge over the Seine. Luna was holding Matteo’s hand as they tried to blend over into the tourist traffic. 

“I think I have gotten enough of France for the rest of my lifetime,” Gastón said as they stopped at the park looking over the Eiffel Tower.

“You know me too, but we’ll end up back here eventually,” Nina took his arm. “There is always Flor and Oliver’s wedding.”

“Wait what? What wedding?” Matteo suddenly exclaimed. Luna tried to hide her laughter, even if Flor was older than him, Matteo liked being protective over her as his cousin. Matteo had always said that he did that because he never got a sister to be protective over.

“Nothing.”

“Nope, you two spill. What do you know?”

“Nothing, it was a joke,” Nina laughed at Matteo as they got into the line to climb up the tower.

The line was not long but still seemed to move at a snail’s pace and the more time it took, the more anxious they all got. 

“Should we stay quiet?” Ambar asked with a hushed voice. “We attract attention while we speak Spanish with four different accents.”

“Ambar that's ridiculous.” Matteo scoffed as the guard scanned their tickets and they started climbing the flights of stairs.

**

Not far from them police radio broadcasted: “The missing teenagers from Argentina have been spotted at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.”

**

“You good?” Luna asked Ambar as they finished the last floor of stairs to the second platform of the tower. 

“Managing,” Ambar responded with her face expressionless which only meant she was trying to lie. 

They got in to the line for the elevator. Luna leaned over the railing looking at the sun in thought until she heard a wail of a sire in the distance.

“Are those police cars.” Matteo had noticed them as her and to their surprise, they saw a couple of white and blue cars with flashing lights making their way towards the Eiffel Tower.

“Seems like it… but that doesn’t mean us. There is thons of crime in Paris.” Gastón said as they got inside the elevator to get to the top floor.

“Actually, it absolutely is about us,” Ambar said with more high-pitched voice showing them a new french news article on her phone.

“I can’t believe we’re front page news…” Matteo remarked.

“And I can’t believe that we're literally sitting ducks right now.” she countered him. “They are the police, it will only take maybe 10 minuted to get up here and they’ll close the tower so we can’t hide.”

“We might as well wait for them come and get us.”

“What do we do? How do we know how this works?”

“Will this work?”

The elevator dinged as it ascended yo the peak of the Eiffel Tower. They had no other choice but get out. As they got out of the elevator, there was a family taking a picture next to them. The flash from the camera blinded all of them momentarily…

~

…Time has no definition

And the mysteries can never be truly uncovered

What has been done can never be undone

What we do shapes us, and our choices good and bad make us who we are

What did you learn?

Phewww. I can't believe that was the last chapter... I mean really, I have been doing this for over a year and now it is done. Part of me is bit afraid that some will feel this conclusion to be bit fast or unsatisfying, but this story was never about the destination as much as the journey. It was never really about them getting back, it was more about the experiences and shenanigans they got up to while trying to get there. But never fear! Even when I just said it was the end... there still will be an epilogue and I'll make the proper closing remarks then for this story