#Plot: Down With The Sickness

[helicrazy]

Babygirl, is everything alright?

No!

Everything sucks right now and I have too many things wrong.

Can I bite you?

[quirinah]

she dun on my geon till i meshi

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Never underestimate the healing power of a good meal!

(For @nibbelraz!)

[swagglessmoth]

My grades are suffering and so are they

[helicrazy]

The coordinates are pinged to First Aid, where they will be sent to a rundown area of Cybertron. This is a perfect spot for someone like Vortex to stay under the radar, and anything he does will be ignored.

:: Energon. :: He replies, refusing to elaborate until First Aid arrives, as it'll be easier to explain once they see him. Plus, he didn't want the first thing he did to them to involve tearing out their fuel pump because he's hungry.

Vortex waits, trying to spit out any energon he can so it doesn't constantly drool out of his mouth, and attempting to keep the twitching under control.

He still looks like a mess, though, and when First Aid arrives, his rotors twitch as he turns to them. "Hi~ There is my favorite little medic."

The quick response fills First Aid with relief. The contents of the message itself, however, has him feeling some other way entirely.

::…I’m coming to help. Send me your coordinates.::

First Aid knows that there are parts of Vortex he hasn’t yet fully seen; things that medical reports and prisoner exchange summaries only hint at. But he’s confident he can still handle the worst parts of Vortex. He has to handle it. He wants to.

And there’s something off in the tone of Vortex’s message. This isn’t the usual teasing admittance that he’s done something dreadful, and now First Aid is going to have to drag him out of some poor mech’s guts and try to piece them back together and clean up the aftermath. This is… more vulnerable than that. First Aid is worried that the problem isn’t something Vortex had done, but that something had been done to Vortex.

::Tell me if there’s anything I need to bring, besides a basic medical kit.::

[deathsmallcaps]

Captain America: Brave New World (CABNW) analysis

This movie is all about themes of rehabilitation, hope, and not allowing your past to define your future.

Sam is redefining the mantle of the shield, and reclaiming his independence. Since reaching adulthood, he has worked as part of the military, or in a major team, and always besides super powered people (not that he was the only regular human in the Avengers, but you know). And now Sam gets to herald a new age of modern values of rehabilitation.

Steve was also a man of hope, but he (as a white man) fought the Other: fascists and aliens. AKA, unredeemables (in the short term) and nonhumans. He was from WWII; while the full truth of the matter is that the USA did not join the war out of altruism and a wish to save oppressed peoples, I personally feel glad that the USA was able to help out in those matters. I feel our part in the war was justified when it came to stopping multiple genocides. Many people also feel this way, and hold WWII up as this bastion of ‘justified’ wars. Many feel it’s okay that Americans went to Germany and Japan and started killing people, because they were doing it first.

Same thing with alien invasion storylines. I love Steve, but the only person he is MCU-canonically pursuing rehabilitation for is Bucky. He has different values as both a survivor of WWII, a witness to the explosive growth of fascism in the early 1900s, and a white man. Sure, Steve grew up disabled and Irish(-American) in the early 1900s, but he was also a blue eyed blond haired American man who shows no trace of an Irish identity on screen. Steve is a hopeful, principled and angry man.

Meanwhile, Sam grew up being othered as a Black child and then man, joined a war that was never justifiable (never confirmed what war he was in but no war the USA has perpetuated in the 2000s, if not even earlier, has been justifiable), and then continually had to be an examplar wherever he went. Except for possibly War Machine (I’m not sure where he fits in), Sam was the ONLY Avenger of Color. Ever. (And the only one from a more rural area)

And yet Sam always chooses hope and kindness. He has it rough - as the only Avenger of Color, he had to always choose others needs over his own. He and Isaiah Bradley (another person restored by Sam’s rehabilitative justice <3) discuss the weight of that. Bradley points out time and time again that Sam doesn’t owe the world his kindness, his willingness to be a hero, his health and well-being. After all, Bradley got fucked over for doing the right thing, a Steve-type thing, in a Black body. But Sam decides to push on anyway.

I’m not saying Sam isn’t angry. He deserves to feel angry, he has as much right to the emotion as any other human being. But every single goddamn time he can, he chooses to be kind. He chooses to believe that people can find worth again. And that takes a strength of will that is frankly insane. PLUS he does it without a consistently optimized body.

And he chooses to be kind to Ross, of all people. Ross, who is clearly trying to be a changed man in the events of the film - but still a man who imprisons innocents and whose first instinct is to pick fights with nations who own nuclear weapons.

But Sam still reaches out to him. Still helps Ross meet Betty while Ross is in prison. Is the better man, every goddamn time.

Hell, they even represent what changes Sam could herald for the fate of the United States, and even the world, visually. In Ross’s panic as the Red Hulk, he destroys the White House*, a symbol built by slave labor. And under Sam’s tenure as Captain America, it will be rebuilt - along with what a hopefully better United States of America.

I love Sam Wilson, and I am SO excited to see his future as Captain America.

*and possibly also the Washington Memorial? I know he goes by but the detail slipped my mind. It also was built with slave labor. Some might quibble and try to claim that the obelisk was built by skilled stonemasons, but many many many enslaved people were extremely skilled laborers. So there is a huge chance that the stonemasons were enslaved. And even if they used completely white/free Black stonemasons, the quarried stone was mined by enslaved people. So yes, it was built by slave labor.

(Also I think it’s cool that Sam’s getting his own villains like Serpent and Leila Taylor made an appearance? She was basically his only canon love interest EVER**, and she hasn’t appeared since the 1970s. I think it’s still possible that he might be given a male LI or they just never pursue that angle of the character, but at least she and Sam have a relationship built on at least some respect and personal chemistry. Unlike Steven and Sharon.

Personally I’m more of a fan of Samsteve or even SamJoaquin than SamBucky, but that’s just mostly because while he’s grown on me in the last few years, I’m not really a Bucky fan. Samsteve probably won’t happen because of the stupid time travel thing (though who’s to say they didn’t at least have a fling? Plz?) but SamJoaquin could happen! I wasn’t sold on Joaquin right away - his sunny personality was tripping my betrayal alarms in my movie expectations brain - but I am glad to be wrong. I’m excited to see him as Falcon again once he heals up!

**There was a werewolf princess lady? But she literally never came back. Which disappoints me because I thought she was funny (I read her issue) and really unique. She was human but had a device to specifically control werewolves? And they do exist in the MCU, thanks to Werewolf by Night…

I LOVED the dogfight scene. Great body work on Anthony Mackie’s part, interesting background, awesome moves (cutting through a plane with a wing? Punching and pulling a pilot out of their plane and letting the rest of it just fall?? Sam and Joaquin together???) and fucking BOMBSURFING

[fox-from-malta]

Sometimes I just have a random idea I need to doodle...

I give you, a mlb Chloe!AU where she steals 4 miraculous (Dog, Tiger, Fox and Rabbit), dons the name of Thylacine and travels back in time (S5-6) to act as an anti-hero to save herself from her future [she wants to go extinct by fixing her future - thats dark but yeah].

Why? idk. but Look at the somewhat cool design xD

Pose reference: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/30751209950865539/

[helicrazy]

@frostbittenfemme

Getting into his normal entrance on the hospital roof appeared more difficult than usual, but he managed to sneak in and lock the door behind him. Whether to keep himself in here or everyone else, he couldn't decide.

He honestly can't decide on anything properly.

Vortex steps into the wards and barely notices the commotion, the blaring alarms, and the panicked staff and patients. To him, it feels like another crazy packed day at the hospital, reminding him why he hated coming to these places, but he needed...

He needed... help.

To mangle someone.

So he finds and corners an unfortunate nurse in the corner of a hall, his claws digging into their chassis to grab hold of them. He leans toward them as energon drools from his grinning mouth, his frame twitching uncontrollably while growling.

[dollopheadedmerlin]

Maybe the real plot was the characters we developed along the way

[invinciblerodent]

an entirely expected side effect of me whipping out my old external HDD is that now I AM going to rewatch basically the entirety of my canon game of Inquisition that I had mostly recorded back in like '15-'16, and get my heart torn right out again by this damn guy making this damn face

he deadass goes "😢" doesn't he

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Ever since getting into bsd I literally can’t read anything without imagining the author as a character with an ability based off that book.

Imagine Charles Dickens with the ability to make people relive their worst memories and/or slightly alter their memories to be worse/better, loosely based off the book A Christmas Carol

[spawnofbhaal]

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[pixelatedraindrops]

RainCode Possible Planned SickFic MasterList:

It is unknown when I will start writing these nor if I will write them all, but I will try to get some of them done at some point this year! The order also doesn’t matter. This is just a planned list! Nothing here is final aside of the last fic on the list!

(SOME DO CONTAIN HEAVY SPOILERS SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ⛔️ !)

Shattered Resolve (A Home Is Where The Heart Is Alternate Ending)-

What if Yuma got worse instead of better? And it shakes Yakou’s resolve to go through with the sacrifice/murder plan that he had in mind?

type: oneshot

Kanai Ward’s Not So Comforting Food-

Yuma gets food poisoning after eating a meat bun. Though his mind forgot, his body KNOWS something is VERY wrong with the food.

type: oneshot

A Sick Day for the NDA-

Sequel fic to Under the Weather; where everyone else in the agency catches Yuma’s cold. And a now healthier Yuma has to care for them all by himself.

type: unknown

I Can Always Rely On You (KokoWendy)-

During an investigation between the Detective and Informant, Yuma gets sick and Kurumi returns him to safety to care for him. But after Yuma gets better, Kurumi catches what Yuma had, and it’s worse. Yuma repays the favor by caring for her. And he finds out he cares a lot more for her than he thought.

type: two-parter/chapter

The Chilled Trainee-

Yuma gets put into an icy fridge for a while by peacekeepers until the NDA comes to his rescue. But by the time they return to base, he starts to suffer from hypothermia. The agency does what they can to keep him warm.

type: unknown

Truth Behind the Mask Under an Unfortunate Circumstance-

AU where Yuma finds out the truth to Makoto’s identity (and everything about Kanai Ward) sooner due to the masked individual collapsing on him from exhaustion, and his mask comes off.

type: oneshot

A Heartwarming Reunion (MakoYuma)- DONE

Postgame Fic where Makoto becomes almost dangerously ill due to overworking with no rest while already being sick. And a more serious Ex.Number One Yuma struggles to try and take care of him. He uses his memories of when the NDA cared for him before to help guide him. Finale Fic to the Sickfics of the Heart Saga.

type: multi-chapter

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Note: For the fics I have that include ship names, it will be very platonic/tame as I’m not really into romance as a genre. But it will likely still be sweet enough for shippers to enjoy c:

But yeah this is a list for me to possibly attempt whenever!

Figured I’d at least have these written down.

Lmk which ones interest you or have your attention if you want to c:

(and who knows I may get even more ideas later in the year… xD)

[helicrazy]

@shiningsilverarmor

Vortex isn't sure how he got here or where here is exactly; all he knows is that he's been wandering around aimlessly looking for something.

Help, surely, considering he still continues to cough up energon like it's gone bad in his fuel tank, and the twitching is uncontrollable.

He's so disoriented that he doesn't notice the black blob in front of him until he bumps into it.

Or them, cause he sure recognizes that growl.

Vortex peers up as energon leaks from his mouth, and playfully growls back.

[dreams-and-honor]

YEAH, SPECIAL TO ME

[shyshyaaaaaa]

hahhhhhahahahha i love sequencing guys its so fun!! the best part about writing!!! definitely!!!!!