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oops! we're all kittydogs! (base by me, will post the base later)
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The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts. Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1,250 light-years from Earth. HH 1 is the luminous cloud above the bright star in the upper right of this image, and HH 2 is the cloud in the bottom left. While both Herbig-Haro objects are visible, the young star system responsible for their creation is lurking out of sight, swaddled in the thick clouds of dust at the center of this image. However, an outflow of gas from one of these stars is streaming out from the central dark cloud and is visible as a bright jet. Astronomers once thought the bright star between that jet and the HH 1 cloud was the source of these jets, but it is an unrelated double star that formed nearby.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Reipurth, B. Nisini
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pencil-peach · 9 months
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G Witch Onscreen Text: Episode 1
This is the second part of a project where I try my best to document and discuss all of the (relatively important) text that appears on monitors and screens in G Witch. Cause I can.
<< Click here to see the one I did on the Prologue
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ooOOooohhh beneath the cut lie the HORRORS....
Just to give you an idea of how needlessly hard they went on the monitor text, when Suletta is rescuing Miorine, she mentions that she's almost out of oxygen, and then, when she brings her into Aerial's cockpit, on her helmet, you can faintly see text displaying the amount of oxygen.
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And THEN, when she starts talking to Miorine, the text on her helmet changes AGAIN to display that the comm link has been established
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WHY DID THEY DO THAT????
Well clearly they did it cause they knew my stupid ass would eventually document it. Anyway, let us begin.
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TEXT: I am a HARO. You can ask me anything! (The only text on the icons I can make out are MAP and SCHOOL, unfortunately.)
This is the HARO navigation bot Suletta meets when first coming to Asticassia, and we know that it's Haro Navigation System Ver. 3.0! If that's something that interests you....
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TEXT: MOBILE CRAFT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY SIZE 6.6m 18.8t
Not much of note, it's just a hologram of a mobile craft. Exciting if you like mobile crafts. (I like mobile crafts)
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When the Docks containing the Demi Trainers are locked, the display says LOCKED. When they're in use, the display says IN OPERATION.
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TEXT: (Left) PILOTING DEPARTMENT KP001 GUEL JETURK MO-0032G GUEL'S DILANZA 26 WINS 0 LOSS 0 TIE
(Right) PILOTING DEPARTMENT KP029 PARKER EASTCOTT TKG-328 KAPELL-KUU 2 WINS 1 LOSS 1 TIE
The Battle Display for the first duel we see in the show, and from this we can see that Guel currently stands undefeated with 26 wins! Double digits! No wonder he's the ace pilot at Asticassia...too bad he's a dick.
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This is the graph that's shown during the Benerit Group board meeting, detailing the earnings of the groups members for the current period.
Interestingly, the 3 highest earners are: Peil Technologies - 8000 Grassley Defense Systems - 8100 Jeturk Heavy Machinery - 8300
So, funnily enough, at the beginning of the story, Jeturk Heavy Machinery is actually the most successful company within the group. It explains why Vim Jeturk felt so comfortable in his plot to assassinate Delling, and goes to show how quickly he fell from the top position after Guel lost to Suletta all those times.
Fun Fact by the way, Prospera's first appearance in the show proper is during this meeting.
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She seems kind of annoyed about something.
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TEXT: DUEL COMMENCING FIRST TO BREAK MS BLADE ANTENNA IS THE WINNER
We don't see it very often, but during a duel, a display stating the win condition of the duel is broadcast for the benefit of the spectators.
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When Miorine boards Aerial for the duel, we get a look at its system control menu.
Top to bottom, left to right, the options are: COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER IDENTIFICATION FRIEND FLIGHT DATA RECORDER NAVIGATION DISPLAY WEAPON SELECTION CONDITION MONITOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM GROUND POWER UNIT INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULE SIMULATOR INSTRUMENT APPROACH CHART INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEM APPROACH POINT RAM AIR TURBINE
We also get a brief look at the Weapon Selection Sub-Menu
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TEXT: SELECT YOUR WEAPON BEAM SABER BEAM RIFLE BEAM VULCAN
I think a lot of the main settings are interesting (what the hell is "Identification Friend?") but what's really interesting to me is that Aerial's Gundbits don't seem to be selectable via the Weapon Menu.
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We also get a brief glimpse at the Red Dilanza's control menu.
No idea what I'm looking at, to be totally honest, but yknow. It's nice!
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TEXT: EMERGENCY BUTTON
When Suletta intrudes into the duel and gets back in Aerial, we see that it has an emergency button (seemingly somewhere on its foot) that opens the cockpit.
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TEXT: COMMUNICATION MODE -OUTERCOM-
When Suletta headbutts Miorine and they start arguing about Aerial, Aerial's comms system gets set to OUTERCOM mode, which explains why everyone outside of Aerial can hear the argument.
This could have been done by accident when Suletta headbutted Miorine, but I like to believe that Eri herself did this on purpose.
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Just so it isn't left unsaid, Aerial's Permet ID is XVX-016, and when a combatant in a duel is the Holder, the Holder Symbol is displayed on their Duel Card.
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When Suletta is telling Miorine about her mother's motto, the GUND-Bits appear on the monitor and come online as Aerial 'speaks.' This, combined with the fact that the GUND-Bits aren't accessible via the Weapon Select menu, implied all the way back in episode one that it's Eri who controls them. Although interestingly, it seems that, internally, the GUND-Bits are referred to as GUNBITS.
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I obviously won't transcribe the two pages of this book, but the book El4n is reading here is actually The World as Will and Representation by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. We actually see its title in a later episode, and the main ideas present in this work are extremely important when it comes to understanding El4n's character. But that's a story for another post.
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TEXT:
YOU ARE THE WINNER OF THE DUEL.
thanks!
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TEXT: HOLDER REGISTRATION [SETTINGS]
I always thought it was a little funny how the transferring of the holder title was just like, an option on their phones and not an automatic process.
ADDENDUM:
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Thank you to @the-eeveekins for pointing out that Aerial is currently running SYS Ver E.S (Ericht Samaya) as opposed to 2.0 in the Lfrith!
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I didn't even notice!! That's crazy!!! Thank you so much!
Also I realize I should probably point out that we see that Nika's ID is LM236 in this photo. She never duels so there's never a moment where she says it out loud.
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And that's all for episode 1! Not too much super interesting, but there's still a lot to see and think about if you're paying attention! (Like, why does Aerial have a Cockpit Voice Recorder at all, actually? We know that Suletta often talks with Aerial in the cockpit about personal stuff so...you don't think that....Prospera....?)
Click here to go to Episode 2! >>
Click here to go to the Masterpost!
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MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya
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Minors, do not read! Contains mentions of smutty behavior!
MASTERLIST (up-to-date)
This is Part 2 !!HERE!! is Part 1
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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Alice in Borderland/Imawa no Kuni no Alice characters or original stories, only the plot of this fanfic. Alice in Borderland/Imawa no Kuni no Alice characters and original storyline belong to Haro Aso, who made the Manga the Series is based on.
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Trigger Warning: Explicit Smut, Complicated Consensual/Not-Consensual Behavior Summery: Chishiya x Female Reader
“Do me a favor and say nothing” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya rugged voice told you “Let me do the work” fuck, he desired your body so much right now, the situation he engaged in with you was evident enough.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya pressed his lower body against you, using the strong grip on you, to guide your body the way he thirsted. With his cock rubbing evidently on your folds, dry humping, and grinding. Soon, this would also not be enough anymore, but for now it was and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya smiled in bliss while you gave him one moan after the other. Completely forgotten was the part where he treated you like a sexdoll for him to use.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya manhandled you the way he needed, and you let him, even welcomed it, trading your independence for pleasure.
“How dare she!” your mothers voice screamed upset, but you didn’t care, your hands reached for the tables end, gripping it in a fruitless attempt to ground yourself, while whining deliciously.
“Shit” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya mumbles breathing heavily “Sorry but I need more” his grip on you loosened, hands leaving to untie the cords of his cotton pants with fast movements, pulling the clothing down enough to free his pulsing cock.
“You don’t mind, do you?” asked MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya laughing dryly. Of course, you didn’t. So he doesn’t even wait for an answer. His erection, slapped against his flat abdomen the moment he pulled himself out and your panties down. Only his balls kept the fabric of his pants from snaping back in place, ruining the moment.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya took his flash into his own hand, stroking himself distributing the pre-cum his angry red tip was leaking like crazy. He leaned forward. Pelvis nudging tenderly against your ass, his dick gliding in between your thighs along your folds, using its dripping juice to coat his length and that was the first time you realized, quite shocked, just how big he was.
The feeling of MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya sex against yours indicated his girth but damn, that was only half the truth. That fucking man was awe strikingly big. Both in size and largeness “W-Wait a second” you begged him strongly intimidated “I think…Its not gonna fit.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya scoffs condescending “Relax. I will make it. Besides, wasn’t it you who presented yourself so indecent to me?” another nudge, this time it was undeniably MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas erection “So shut up and take it like the bitch you are” he pushed himself agonizingly slowly, stretching you from the inside and all you could think about at this very moment was that, perhaps, princess wasn’t that bad of a tag.
You bit furiously into your thumb, doing your best not to scream, while your body tried helplessly to back away from the pain provoking figure behind you, but to no avail. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya kept you in place, easing himself deeper into that tight hole of yours, until his balls faintly made contact with your pussy for the first time, bottoming delightfully out, holding this position to enjoy your tenses walls hugging his best part, unwilling to let go. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya sighed, petting your cheek uplifting “See?” he asked, voice strained “You are doing fine.”
You whimpered towards him, sending mental daggers to let him know how wrong he was, but he only chuckled as a response “Your pussy is taking me like a champ, so don’t act all highly. This is what you wanted” he pulled out, almost completely “Be my princess and let me take you” trusting all back in until your cunt has swallowed him whole “You will love it.”
You shake your head, sobbing. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya had by far the biggest equipment you ever had to deal with, and you weren’t as sure as him, that you could actually life it thru, if you let him proceed.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya sensed your hesitation. He leaned forward, making you whine as his tip pressed uncomfortably against your cervix “It’s okay” he cooed right next to your ear, puffing hot air onto your skin “Its gonna feel really good, real fast” one hand reached along your body with his fingers wrapping around your throat. Just not his thumb. He used that digit to turn your face towards him, after he lifted your stiff body flush against his covered chest. His lips take the distance and capture yours, lingering on them for a blissful moment, before turning the oh so chest kiss into a sloppy make out.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya waits for you to open your lips and you did, completely taken aback by his actions, so he used that vulnerable moment to intrude your mouth and fight with your tongue for dominance, which he wins almost immediately. You moan into his mouth, gasping for air when his hips start to move, using your distracted self to circle against your body. And all naturally, you relax, molding under his hands “I was right, hm?” he asks between kisses. Tongues lying flat against eachother, further feeding the carnal animal in MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas chest “You are doing so good” he gave you a few harder trusts to gain your attention before speaking on “I know what that pussy can take and what not and my cock surely is on the list of the beneficial ones, don’t you think?”
You nod absentmindedly, not sure what you even agreed on, but your body feels so good and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya is the cause of all that, so you give into his words and let him have you at his mercy, even breaking you, if he decides its necessary “Just try to keep your voice down, okay princess. Can you do this for me? We don’t want things to end before they get even real nice.”
That made you remember something. A thought pushed so far to the back of your head it was starving for attention. Now MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya fed it “My mom” you stammer slight panic arising in your chest “It’s wrong. Chishiya, this is so wrong, what am I doing?”
The blond man shushes you, silencing your fuss with another one of MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas open mouthed kisses that sucked all air out of your lungs “It’s okay. Its fine. How can something that feels so good, be wrong hm? Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya does know what he is doing. He is seducing you into his own little circle of hell. Dante has nothing on him. He never experienced that throbbing cunt of yours, pulling so relentlessly at his cock’s veins, not wanting to let go of the pleasure he was giving you “Let me have you, okay?” he whispers on your quivering lips, wiping away the tears on your eyelids “I will give you such a good time, you will come back for more. How does this sound?”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya licks along your jaw, to your ear, kissing that sensitive place behind. His other hand grip at your chest fumbling over one of the covered tits, squeezing the plum flesh and flicking that little bud in the middle, making you whine. He swallows that sound. It’s too loud and would attract that one person he wants to last at the moment “More?” you ask stupidly and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya chuckles at your sexbrain being barely useful for anything else then gushing over his dick “Yeah more. As much as you want.”
A few harshly aimed smacks of his balls against your cunt later, demanding your full attention, while scrupulously corrupting your morals and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya can hear your mother slowly ending the call. Soon she will be finished and the picture of the two of you fucking in front of the couch would be a hard to explain scenario.
“Listen princess…mhmm…shit…you feel so good” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas scrupulously moans into your ear. Your slick is running down his guts slapping to the rhythm of your fascinating body “I need you to cum okay?” he needs to bring you to your peak before his girlfriend hangs up, otherwise the frustration of a missing orgasm could make you turn against him.
“Shiya“ you whine and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya smiles into your nape because of how adoring you sound “I know princess I know. I will give you the first round, but you got to do your best and keep as quiet as you can, hm? Can you do this for me?” you want to shake your head. Want to tell him no. There is no way you can stay silent while his cock keeps penetrating you with such force, you would topple over if he wasn’t the one keeping your helpless body up “Be my good girl, will you?” but how can you say no, when he asks you so tempting?
You nod, resistance subsiding and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya laughs into your hairline. It’s a genuine laugh. A good one. Honest. If you keep squeezing him like a fucking toothpaste, he might lose his terrible attitude towards humanity just for you. His new favorite pussy.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya picks up the pace, ramming into you at a maddening speed, only the vocal A stumbles from your mouth, again and again, raising in volume, while he abuses your g-spot with force.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya shuts you up with yet another breathtaking long kiss, keeping you on his mouth, while he feels your walls tightening around him, squeezing him so good, he almost comes with you. You try to push him away. Try to get some air and give his brutal ministrations a voice, but he doesn’t let you. Your mother would definitely hear you. There was no way the Televisions volume could cover your high.
It doesn’t take much longer for you to cum, tho MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya is surprised when he feels how much of your arousal leaks on him, until he realizes you just squirted on him. Him! He just made you squirt with the smallest effort he ever put onto that task. Your body truly is the most sensitive one he ever fucked.
He lets you ride out your orgasm, trusting into your fucked out hole until your body grew limb on him and your high-pitched A’s turn into panting’s “You did so good, princess. So fucking amazing. You came all over my pants. Shit, you might have stained them forever.”
Your mind is processing MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas words slowly, but at least it happens and when they finally sink ink, your already flushed face, turns even redder, if possible.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas hands let you sink back forward on the coffee table, making sure you don’t pain yourself, before he slips his still rock-hard cock out of your stimulated hole, watching your cum, mixed with his pre-cum, leak out. He picks up your lace to hide that fucked out cunt, covers your ass with the way too short skirt he soiled and helps you to sit down on your legs, taking up the small space between the couch and the glass table like you did in the beginning.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya than packs away his erection, thanking himself for his choice of wide legwear this day and sits down on said couch, placing one of the smaller pillows right onto his lap to hide the evident tent every kind of eyes would catch on, even the ones of your dumb mother.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya hears said woman sigh overdramatic, then walk over to him, telling him that one of her friends is having a serious crisis than only she, she, can help with. The crisis contains the hideous dilemma of having to choose between Manolo balance pumps and Dior ones.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya feigns interest in what she has to say, letting her speak that small speech, before her eyes land on your form, trailing off her uninteresting topic “What’s wrong with her?” she asks gesturing towards you and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya turns towards you with as little interest as he can put on his face “Ah. She played some videogames, lost and is now sulking like a baby.”
Your mother scoffs mockingly, disregarding whatever teen problems you are now facing in your life “Let her be” she says and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya nods “Little brat.”
She then tells MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya not to wait for her as she has to leave immediately and doesn’t know when she will be coming home. Your mother leans down to MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya, catching his lips in a peck-like-kiss and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya almost chuckles.
Those lips. His lips had just devoured her daughter with so much passion and want. The excitement he felt right now was directed at you and not his own girlfriend and it pleased him. The thought of this self-centered woman not knowing he just fucked you in her presence without her even realizing it. You, who felt so much better, your pussy way tighter and so fucking good, he almost lost himself in the act, because of the way you sounded and felt. Almost. Just almost.
But, MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya told himself, as he watched the woman double your age leave the house that was legally in your possession, that now that the only intruder for the good time was away, he could let himself go fully and entirely loose on you.
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas waited some minutes. You were still coming down from your toe-curling orgasm that shook your body so deliciously, your ex could in no way compare to MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya.
“You okay?” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya asks casually. The long upset moan you send him, makes him smirk, smugly raising his own foot and tap your ass a few times, earning himself more of those spoilt sounds “I’m not done yet.”
You turn your head slowly to glance behind you and with that at him. Eyes glazed with the still lingering lust of previous events and salt covered cheeks, stained with pleasured tears looked at him confused. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya made a show to take the pillow away from him lap, presenting you the unmistakable tent he was still burdened with.
Your pupils widen at the sight and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya raises a hand, arms stretching towards you, gesturing for you to come over to his sitting figure and join him for some more time. You did. You don’t know what rode you to do it tho. Yes, MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya fucked you good but not stupid enough for you to forget that what the two of you just did and what he asks you to go on with, was forbidden. Wrong. You just backstabbed your own mother, and he invites you for another slice.
You should walk away. Should part immediately, looking for space, no, an ocean between you and this man that screwed you so obvious, only a dumb person like your mother could miss it.
But you didn’t, instead you got up on your wobbly feet and walked as good as you could the few steps towards him, standing in front of the couch as he scans your body until whatever he was looking for had pleased him enough to smile, gaze raising for your eyes “Undress” he said “But take your time. We are alone now, so no need to rush things” and soon you found your nude self bouncing on MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya cock, sitting on his lap with your tits pressed against his chest and your face buried in the crook of his neck, panting, while his long, outstretched fingers raised and lowered your hips with the brute strength he had on your ass.
“That’s right” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya grunts while you milk his balls with all you got “Give me another one, princess. I know you have it in you.” And you did.
Hours later, you don’t know how long, because your activities have made you loos all sense of time, together with every braincell your head contained. You laid over the couch’s back, knees pressing into one of the thankfully good cushioned seats that was now getting all the dripping cum of MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya release on it, due to your clenching cunt.
“Mhmmm” you hummed with half lidded eyes, watching MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya walking on bare feet to the open kitchen your mother has painted her nails hours ago and filling a glass with some tap water. He wore his black boxers that deliciously hugged his form perfect and if you didn’t already knew how he looked under it, your sinful gaze would have him stripping, drooling with anticipation.
But you did. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya has made sure of it. Many times, today. He turned his body towards you, gazing in your direction and smiling when his eyes meet your spend state on the furniture.
“If I knew sooner how good you would feel, how…” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya licks his lips, titling his head while his orbs travel over your features “…perfect you can handle that pussy of yours, I definitely wouldn’t have taken my time withstanding your affections.”
You didn’t knew what to answer him. His accusations, that this is what you wanted to happen. What you planned all along. For him to fuck you. Him. Your Mothers young adult boyfriend. Chishiya Shuntaro.
Instead, you pressed your eyes shut, trying to drown the picture of MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya in front of you. Under you. Over you. Fucking you. Your mind was hitting you with remorse towards your actions.
“My mom…” you started and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya sighs, filling his glass again, walking towards you.
“Your mother is an old nasty hag, with sagging tits no matter how much silicon she pumps in and a cunt so loose you could throw a whole salami in there and still can fit a cock inside, even mine.”
You open your eyes to look into MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas smirking face with a facial expression that pretty much said ‘Bitch please, really? Now its not the time to brag’ but MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya did it anyway by drawing his thumb over the outline of his cock, giving you another view of just how big he really is.
“The last thing you should be worrying about is that dinosaur.”
“But” you begin again, interrupting yourself and starting anew “What we did…it was wrong…we can’t…” you said pleading, however you didn’t knew what you were pleading for. For him to stop his behavior or to make you stop overthinking.
“Stop fucking worrying. Seriously” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya said annoyed and unnecessary loud, tho he calmed himself down fast after noticing your slight wince at both his tone and choice of words, choosing a softer one while proceeding to seduce you into his deceitful web of thinking “You think I enjoyed fucking that relict of a woman your selfish mother is? I used her just as she uses me. There are no feelings that could get hurt. No love breaking apart in the process or something like that. She knows it just as much as I do, so…all in all, there is no need for a guilty conscience when we have done nothing wrong.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya gave you his glass of water and you took it, tho you look at it with lingering thoughts, still not convinced by his words and reflecting on everything that happened. Everything he has done. Everything you have done. Cconsidering the good feeling you had while he pounded you like a mad man and how every word he said, had made sense to you, like science. Everything he gave you. Even something as simple, as insignificant as a glass of water.
“But the two of you are dating” you brought up the most obvious truth and it was true, the two of them were in a committed relationship, no matter the age gap or how MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya viewed the situation personally “You are girlfriend and boyfriend.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya sighs again, taking the last step that parted him from you and raising the glass to your lips, gesturing for you to less talk and drink more “Those are just tags” he says softly “If your mother wasn’t so fixed on showing me off like a price she won on some stupid contest, this whole thing wouldn’t even exist. But it does and yeah, I fuck her occasionally” his hand reaches for your cheek, thumb caressing the salty plum fat “But I can stop if you want me to screw you daily instead.”
You gasped, the water almost slipping out of your hand, but MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya catched the glass before it hit the floor, bringing it back to your lips with a small warning in his eyes to first, not let go of it again and second finally drink, which you did, gulping on the fresh liquid and it was good. Your throat was dry and your voice rough after moaning and whining for so long. Surprise washed over your face for a second, realizing how much you had needed, emptying the containing liquid and then flashing MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya a shy thankful smile, as he reached for the glass.
“Another one?” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya asked and you nodded “Coming.”
You looked at MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya. Really looked at him and you think you have never before seen him so clearly. So openly like at this exact moment. Until now you only viewed him as your mothers annoying boyfriend, that took all the attentions that was meant for you and therefor as an intruder and a bug to get rid of, but now you saw him. Him.
The man behind. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya had a personality. He was a human being. Something you had renounced him off. He had his reasons to be with the kind of person your mother was and tho you didn’t agree with them, they were his. How much did you really know about him. How good could you say did you know him, to judge his cause of actions?
“Will you break up with her?” you asked when MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya returned the filled-up glass again, flashing him another thankful smile, taking it from him and gulping it down. You use this chance to study his facial expressions, hoping to see his process of thoughts and hopefully be able to read his intentions, however you were only met by his brown expressionless eyes and that stupid smug grin of his.
“Quit her?” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya retoured, studying you instead “To get with you I suppose?” you didn’t answer “To fuck you instead of her? Is that what you want? To make it official?”
Again, you said nothing. You don’t know if that’s what you want. Don’t know if you wish for MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya to date you instead, because he said it after all, he isn’t romantically interested in your mother and there is, emotionally, nothing stopping him from ending things at this exact moment with something as asshole-ish as a break-up-call or even less, a message. Instead, you lowered your gaze, taking another sip “Would you?”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya raised his chin, humming a long “Hmm” giving the impression that he was thinking hard about that question, when in reality, he had thought about it, from the moment he decided to rub his knee on your soaking folds and nudge his dick against your bum, wasn’t enough for him.
“I don’t think so” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya shrugged his shoulders “At least not right now.”
You were baffled. The glass stopped midair millimeters from your lips, his answer freezing you in time, while you looked at him, trying to find out if what you just heard was really what he said. The sinking feeling that you did hope for a different outcome smacked you, making you gulp as MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya hand reached for you, this time combing thru your hair as he went on “You are young. Maybe when you are 21 and old enough to leave this behind” he gestures towards your home “Leave her behind” you didn’t need to ask to know who he meant “Until then, you have nothing of your own and burning all bridges when you have no where to turn to and no place to stay as well as no money to support yourself, would be foolish. Downright stupid.”
This answer somehow pleased you more. It indicated that there was some kind of hope for the two of you ending up together, but did you even want this? Did you want him? Your mother’s boyfriend?
And did he want you?
“I guess I could take you in if you decide to leave right now, cutting off all ties with your family and stay with me. You would however have to contribute to the rent, and you have no money after all, nonetheless, I am sure we could come to some way of agreement, where you offer yourself and your body for sex, letting me use you however I please and damn I could please you in so many ways. I am sure that retarded quite literally motherfucking boyfriend, did and never could even get you off like me and that, until you wouldn’t be able to walk without dripping my cum around the whole apartment. Or rather the whole world, because I wouldn’t keep our activities to the bedroom, or like in this case…” he again gestures around “To the Livingroom. I would fuck you wherever I please and as long as I want” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya took the empty glass out of your tight grip and put it on the kitchens counter, adding “With your consent, of course.”
Your mouth felt dry, tho you just drunk enough water for it to feel as wet as your thighs “But?” you ask MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya, knowing, no feeling there was one. There had to be one. A big fat but. Life isn’t that easy. You have learned this fact with the kind of parents you grew up with. It wouldn’t suddenly be, just because the thought of not just dating but also the topic of moving in with your mother’s boyfriend came up.
“But” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya repeated you and it sounded so finally, you had to gulp hard and force yourself to look at him, somehow afraid of his next words “Things would get incredibly complicated. Your life. The choice to throw everything away and all that to be with someone who is knowingly in a relationship with a relative of yours. It would cast you out of your social circle. People would stop talking, even looking your way. Tho truth wouldn’t matter. Whatever circumstances led to it, people would only few you as the bratty spoiled daughter that seduced her poor mother’s boyfriend.”
“But that’s not how it was” you almost yelled, getting up on your elbows “I didn’t mean to…I wasn’t…I swear, that’s not what I intended.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya smiled honestly amused at your openly offended impression “I know that” he said “And you know that. We both know how things are and breaking things off with your mother wouldn’t hurt anyone, as this is all just fake anyway. But people would still react that way. The truth doesn’t matter. Society would still frame you as a thirsty Lolita and me as the poor fool that fell for that slutty bitch, picturing me as an idiot who only thinks with his cock and not his brain and while I would also get some blame, the effect would sieve after some time and guys would only applaud me for fucking both you and your mom, while females would understandably agree with my choice to date someone rather my age for future populating reasons. All in all, no matter who indicated what, you would still be the one carrying all the accusations, while I come out with clean hands. Is this what you want? Being reduced as nothing else then a homewrecker?”
“I am not!” you said appalled. Somehow tears ended up in your eyes, while MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya held his little truthful speech and they were ready to spill with how frustrated but also hurt you felt “I…I am…I don’t know” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya crouched down to get on your eyelevel, raising your chin with his thumb and starring into your eyes so heavily it shut you up immediately.
“Again. I know you are not. You did nothing wrong. If, at all, I am the one to blame, because I am older than you. You could say I took advantage of your youth and used you, if you like.”
You sniff. Eyes turning soft, moving your head from left to right so carefully as to not rip MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas touch from your face “No, you didn’t” you sobbed, whispering so quiet, he almost didn’t hear you “You didn’t force…” another sob escaped your pressed lips “You didn’t.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya leans forward and pressed his mouth against yours in a chaste kiss, so delicate it made you mewl “I know princess, I know.”
The oh so modest kiss, turned into a steamy make out session, with your tongue nudging his as he enters your mouth, not fighting but dancing along.
“Fuck” MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya grunts “Mhmm. You make me hard again” his choice of words were accusing, but his voice was rather needing exactly what he blamed you with “Shit, my balls should be all empty, but you still get me all excited. God, what should I do with you?”
This question, while coming off as sultry and sinful somehow felt more important to you. You had the creeping feeling, MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya wasn’t asking what he should do with you right now, tho the preceding words seemed to tell you exactly that, instead you had the approaching feeling that his words were rather laced with the heavy question of how to move on with all of this. After all that happened. The situation so unknown, so difficult and complicated.
You knew what MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya was true. All the things he said, could very much happen. Would very likely happen, if you chose him and he chooses you, no matter how things would go in the future. Your good reputation would be soiled forever and thanks to the world wide web, be open to witness for everyone. Your life would take a significantly different route from what it was running right now, and you didn’t knew if that was what you wanted. What you were ready to take and endure, sealing your fate with a man that could very much leave you dry and high just days later. With a broken life and no funds to support yourself. So how exactly should you, a 19-year-old, who’s hardest decision was, what University to attend, make such a difficult one.
“Say princess, you think that wet pussy of yours can take me for another round? I may have no filling to give but I am sure I can somehow still cum” you shook your head knowing damn well, while you would gladly take him in another time, no matter how weak your body was from all the previous orgasms, tomorrow you would very much regret this decision.
“Sore” you whine and MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya nods slightly, understanding your reason “I see. Well it can’t be helped then.”
MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya stood up, a visible bulge growing in his underwear “Maybe…you could help me out in another way” he said, smiling knowingly down at you “Those pretty lips of yours” his thumb pressed down on the small part of your bottom lip, opening your mouth and you let him, realizing what his intentions were “You think they can take me for a ride?” his head titled “Do you believe your throat can handle me?” you didn’t know the answer for that “My size?” instead you gulped down hard, wetting your lips with your muscle and whispering with a husky voice “We will only find it out if I try, am I right?”
With those words, you opened your mouth as far as you could, tongue rolling out, flattening itself at the thought of what awaited you, much to MothersBoyfriend!Chishiyas satisfaction. His thumbs hooked on the waistband of his boxers, pulling them down enough for the rest to slide down his legs thanks to gravity. He then stepped out of the pooling fabric around his ankles, grabbing the hardening meat with his hand and wrapping his pleasing fingers around, giving himself a few breathtaking strokes before tapping the leaking red mushroom head against your tongue “What honest words, I hope they turn out as right” you closed your lips around him with a smile, hoping the same.
Hours later, your phone rang, but you couldn’t care less for it. Your body was laying next to a man that didn’t belong to you, in a bed that did belong to you and in a locked room, hiding away from possible sudden intruders that could witness you in a very precarious situation if the door would open, revealing you and your mothers boyfriend naked self’s, only covered by one blanket, with his arm wrapped around your sideways lying figure.
You didn’t want to pick it up. It was so annoying tho. Never have you ever hated your choice of a ringtone so much, like at this moment. MothersBoyfriend!Chishiya stirred in his sleep, slowly moving by burring his head deeper into your hair mumbling “Make it stop, will you?”
You did. Your hand reached out for the electronic device, swiping the green button to the side but then loosing the grip on the phones case that fell out of your hand and onto the white blanket of yours, activating the loudspeaker. A mans voice sounded thru the room, apologizing for the intrusion and before you were even able to pick the phone up and tell him to call later again, he gives you his message, making you wild awake from one moment to the other.
»I am so sorry to inform you, that your mother passed away in a car accident«
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flag id: three flags with 6 stripes. the left flag's stripes are grey, bright orange, light blue, red-orange, light brown, and dark warm grey. the middle flag's stripes are dark faded indigo, bright sky blue, bright cyan, bright red, dark faded red, and black. the right flag's stripes are blue-black, medium dark sky blue, light red0pink, off-white, tan, and near-black. end id.
banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.
oxpeckherbig | neumerdinal | secrettariusic
oxpeckherbig: a gender related to oxpeckers and herbig-haro objects
neumerdinal: a gender related to cardinals and neutron star mergers
secrettariusic: a gender related to secretary birds and sagittarius c
[pt: oxpeckherbig: a gender related to oxpeckers and herbig-haro objects
neumerdinal: a gender related to cardinals and neutron star mergers
secrettariusic: a gender related to secretary birds and sagittarius c. end pt]
more terms in the avialestial system for anon! both flags' top three stripes represent the celestial thing they're related to and bottom three stripes represent the bird they're related to.
the terms are 'oxpeck' from 'oxpecker' + 'herbig'; 'neu' from 'neutron', 'mer' from 'merger', + 'rdinal' from 'cardinal'; and 'secret' from 'secretary', 'ttarius' from 'sagittarius', + 'ic' for inclusion of the 'c'!
tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai, @freezingnarc | dni link
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New Icon! I made it Tumblr sized so no big picture. I seem to change my icon every 3-5 years and figured I should update. And yes, it's still sky/space based, it would not be my blog if I did not make it so.
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Background image is from James Webb, which I love seeing the new pictures as well as the comparisons to the Hubble, it's almost like night and day to me and it's so beauitful. It's of Herbig-Haro 46/47 (it's the red/pink in the bottom right-hand corner). And Lum because she's another favorite character of mine.
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(I still love HanaNene I promise! I will still be posting and gushing about TBHK until the series is officially over)
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drumming up to the opening of the chara pop store on november 3, the original goods have just been revealed by the official site! there's about 14 kinds of merch total but here's what the guel ones look like!
sold on the store and through premium bandai
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top to bottom, left to right: acrylic stand set, square badge, long strap (looks like a phone charm), mini tapestry, clear file, iPhone case, motif wrist band, pen
physical buyers who come away with 3000 yen worth of goods will also get to take home a randomly-assigned student ID illustration sheet! this one is guel's:
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lottery goods
there'll be a mini-game in the store where the players will have to interact with a haro bot who will then determine their winning kemomimi prize! from A to D, guel's designs are:
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top to bottom, left to right: acrylic board standee, acrylic standee, can badge, illustration sheet
gashapon
finally, to be released on December are three new gashapon prizes to be sold on all official bandai gashapon shops and gashapon department stores!
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left to right: a guel standee, a darilbalde standee, and a kemomimi guel charm
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Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the “antics” of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass. The disk is not visible, but its shadow can be seen in the two dark, conical regions surrounding the central stars.
The most striking details are the two-sided lobes that fan out from the actively forming central stars, represented in fiery orange. Much of this material was shot out from those stars as they repeatedly ingest and eject the gas and dust that immediately surround them over thousands of years.
When material from more recent ejections runs into older material, it changes the shape of these lobes. This activity is like a large fountain being turned on and off in rapid, but random succession, leading to billowing patterns in the pool below it. Some jets send out more material and others launch at faster speeds. Why? It’s likely related to how much material fell onto the stars at a particular point in time.
­The stars’ more recent ejections appear in a thread-like blue. They run just below the red horizontal diffraction spike at 2 o’clock. Along the right side, these ejections make clearer wavy patterns. They are disconnected at points, and end in a remarkable uneven light purple circle in the thickest orange area. Lighter blue, curly lines also emerge on the left, near the central stars, but are sometimes overshadowed by the bright red diffraction spike.
All of these jets are crucial to star formation itself. Ejections regulate how much mass the stars ultimately gather. (The disk of gas and dust feeding the stars is small. Imagine a band tightly tied around the stars.)
Now, turn your eye to the second most prominent feature: the effervescent blue cloud. This is a region of dense dust and gas, known both as a nebula and more formally as a Bok globule. When viewed mainly in visible light, it appears almost completely black – only a few background stars peek through. In Webb’s crisp near-infrared image, we can see into and through the gauzy layers of this cloud, bringing a lot more of Herbig-Haro 46/47 into focus, while also revealing a deep range of stars and galaxies that lie well beyond it. The nebula’s edges appear in a soft orange outline, like a backward L along the right and bottom.
This nebula is significant – its presence influences the shapes of the jets shot out by the central stars. As ejected material rams into the nebula on the lower left, there is more opportunity for the jets to interact with molecules within the nebula, causing them both to light up.
There are two other areas to look at to compare the asymmetry of the two lobes. Glance toward the upper right to pick out a blobby, almost sponge-shaped ejecta that appears separate from the larger lobe. Only a few threads of semi-transparent wisps of material point toward the larger lobe. Almost transparent, tentacle-like shapes also appear to be drifting behind it, like streamers in a cosmic wind. In contrast, at lower left, look beyond the hefty lobe to find an arc. Both are made up of material that was pushed the farthest and possibly by earlier ejections. The arcs appear to be pointed in different directions, and may have originated from different outflows.
Take another long look at this image. Although it appears Webb has snapped Herbig-Haro 46/47 edge-on, one side is angled slightly closer to Earth. Counterintuitively, it’s the smaller right half. Though the left side is larger and brighter, it is pointing away from us.
Over millions of years, the stars in Herbig-Haro 46/47 will fully form – clearing the scene of these fantastic, multihued ejections, allowing the binary stars to take center stage against a galaxy-filled background.
Webb can reveal so much detail in Herbig-Haro 46/47 for two reasons. The object is relatively close to Earth, and Webb’s image is made up of several exposures, which adds to its depth.
Herbig-Haro 46/47 lies only 1,470 light-years away in the Vela Constellation.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.
IMAGE.......NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. Look for them at the center of the red diffraction spikes, appearing as an orange-white splotch. Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object to study because it is relatively young – only a few thousand years old. Star systems take millions of years to fully form. Targets like this give researchers insight into how much mass stars gather over time, potentially allowing them to model how our own Sun, which is a low-mass star, formed – along with its planetary system. Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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This Week in Gundam Wing July 17 - 6 August 2022
Here’s the last three week’s roundup! July 17th - August 6th!
Remember to give your content creators some love! Be sure to join in on the events at the bottom! And remember to send in any new works you see or make next week!
~Mod Hel
Fanfiction/Ideas/Snippets:
@doctormegalomania
Dirty Computer (Ch. 24) https://archiveofourown.org/works/28577022/chapters/101628840
Multi, Duo Maxwell/Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei/Original Female Character(s), Trowa Barton/Quatre Raberba Winner
Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags Contain Spoilers, Minor Violence, Espionage, Unreliable Narrator, Post-War, Reference To Past Injury, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Original Character(s), Disassociation, Intrigue
Years after the war, nothing is what anyone hoped for. Peace reigns supreme.
@lemontrash
Gonzo Valentine (Ch. 6-7) https://archiveofourown.org/works/17798489/chapters/101864439
M/M, Chang Wufei & Duo Maxwell, Chang Wufei/Duo Maxwell
Mature, No Archive Warnings Apply, Drink Spiking, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Rescue Missions, Drag Queens, ludicrous situations , Crossdressing, Gangsters, No beta reading we go down with our typos yelling, Coming Out, Explosions, Mild Hurt/Comfort, OCs by the handful, bodycount is high, but no canon characters, Off-screen death, off-screen violence, Canon-Typical Violence, Bad people using bad words, bad people doing bad things
The one where Wufei is No Fun At Parties, temporarily becomes the new Messiah and eventually has a great time when shit goes boom. A.K.A the one where Duo is very definitely NOT going to have to report back to HQ that they accidentally got his partner high and then lost his ass somewhere in the city on the back of a getaway car. Nope, no sir, he can fix this himself. Even in these shoes.
In fact, between ghosts, gangsters, drag queens and nuns, it's just a typical Valentine's Day on L2- right?
Arts/Crafts/Photo Manips:
@bettertasting
https://bettertasting.tumblr.com/post/690266290521243648/posting-this-as-proof-of-lifeits-been-a-minute
Trowa/Duo/Heero, fanart
@chrissysky
https://chrissysky.tumblr.com/post/690551895525408768/the-more-gundam-i-watch-the-more-i-think-wing
Quatre Raberba Winner, Haro, fanart
@feyronsk
https://feyronsk.tumblr.com/post/691545992111276032/gunpla-pics-with-supernova-gundam-heavyarms
Heavyarms, gunpla
@ghost-proof
https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/690624676248109056/my-favorite-duo-fanfic-tropes-violet-eyes
Duo Maxwell, fanart
https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/690361254126206976/some-transparent-sanc-kingdom-boyfriends
Heero/Duo, fanart
https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/690767089444782080/messy-heero-monday
Heero Yuy, fanart
@gladyscontrerasart
https://gladyscontrerasart.tumblr.com/post/690166362179584000/its-been-aeons-since-i-last-doodles-this-lovely
Duo Maxwell, fanart
@idrawprettyboys
https://idrawprettyboys.tumblr.com/post/691251544668209153
Relena Darlian, fanart
@keiko1183
https://keiko1183.tumblr.com/post/690284354215297024/summer-relena-finally-done
Relena Darlian, fanart
@kyorokyoro34
https://kyorokyoro34.tumblr.com/post/691503529827942400/i-think-master-cuttle-in-oz-clothes-is-very-nice
Quatre Raberba Winner, fanart
@mama-birb-raevehn
https://mama-birb-raevehn.tumblr.com/post/691132376665997317/more-doodles-for-your-entertainment-hopefully
Duo, Heero, fanart
https://mama-birb-raevehn.tumblr.com/post/690953585208573952/so-i-started-attempting-to-draw-again-got
Various GW sketches, fanart
@the-reanimated-bhg
https://the-reanimated-bhg.tumblr.com/post/690799269386551296/plot-twist-trowa-was-the-one-who-put-them-up-to
Quatre Raberba Winner, Maganacs, photomanipulation
Cosplay:
@giogiogundam
https://giogiogundam.tumblr.com/post/690956028001615872/hey-its-your-local-god-of-death
Duo Maxwell, cosplay
Photosets/Gifsets/Screenshots/Manga Pages:
@fallenwingzero
https://fallenwingzero.tumblr.com/post/690075372795183104/some-cute-hilde-schbeiker-concept-art-notes-from
Hilde, Duo, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Encyclopedia, concept art, scan/screenshot
@ghost-proof
https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/691166769372610560
Duo, Heero, anime, screenshot
https://ghost-proof.tumblr.com/post/691531079551713280
Heero, anime, screenshot
@janaverse
https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/690623785220587520/one-sad-puppy-he-isnt-going-to-ask-he-wants
Duo Maxwell, Sims, screenshot
https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/691765467772239872/scrutiny-i-do-not-think-duo-is-there-in-any
Heero/Duo, Sims, screenshot
https://janaverse.tumblr.com/post/691760814358724608/tea-and-happiness-and-a-blushing-trowa
Quatre/Trowa, Sims, screenshot
Head Canons/Meta:
@the-reanimated-bhg
https://the-reanimated-bhg.tumblr.com/post/690593122701459456/how-i-imagine-duo-trying-to-explain-to-heero-the
Duo explaining to Heero
Playlists/Videos/podcasts:
@posthumanwanderings
https://posthumanwanderings.tumblr.com/post/691176484238491648
Armored Core, For Answer, VGM, remix
Fandom Discourse:
@fostersffff
https://fostersffff.tumblr.com/post/690343889296605184
Duo’s scream
@hacknslashprettyboys
https://hacknslashprettyboys.tumblr.com/post/690359499707514880/looks-up-pictures-of-zechs-merquise-for-the-first
Zechs Merquise <3
@miyurinq
https://miyurinq.tumblr.com/post/690840088893145088/found-this-beautiful-card-online-and-i-am-so-in
Card Game?
@speedette
https://speedette.tumblr.com/post/690602884699684864/i-love-the-mobile-suit-gundam-wing-fandom-im-as
GW Love, we’re here for it in all its weirdness. <3
Quotes:
@incorrectgundamwingquotes
https://incorrectgundamwingquotes.tumblr.com/post/691150129727717376/duo-oh-my-god-is-this-little-feis-macaroni
Duo & WuFei
Calendar Events:
@gwcocktailfriday
Cocktail Fridays!
Post responses on Friday, during Happy Hour between 3 & 5 pm in your own timezone.
Here’s the prompt for Friday, August 12th! https://gwcocktailfriday.tumblr.com/post/691825760658472960/cocktail-friday-post-responses-on-friday-august
In need of prompts!
@thisweekingundamevents
Events Calendar https://thisweekingundamevents.tumblr.com/post/644080386309275648/events-calendar-update
If you are hosting an event currently, or are planning on one, hit us up with links and dates! We’ll add them to the Calendar and reblog your notices to get the word out!
Summer Speaker Series - Ongoing currently on discord!
Discord can be found here: https://lifeaftermeteor.tumblr.com/post/688500263548551168/sign-up-for-the-summer-speaker-series
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Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the “antics” of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass. The disk is not visible, but its shadow can be seen in the two dark, conical regions surrounding the central stars. The most striking details are the two-sided lobes that fan out from the actively forming central stars, represented in fiery orange. Much of this material was shot out from those stars as they repeatedly ingest and eject the gas and dust that immediately surround them over thousands of years. When material from more recent ejections runs into older material, it changes the shape of these lobes. This activity is like a large fountain being turned on and off in rapid, but random succession, leading to billowing patterns in the pool below it. Some jets send out more material and others launch at faster speeds. Why? It’s likely related to how much material fell onto the stars at a particular point in time. All of these jets are crucial to star formation itself. Ejections regulate how much mass the stars ultimately gather. (The disk of gas and dust feeding the stars is small. Imagine a band tightly tied around the stars.) Now, turn your eye to the second most prominent feature: the effervescent blue cloud. This is a region of dense dust and gas, known both as a nebula and more formally as a Bok globule. When viewed mainly in visible light, it appears almost completely black — only a few background stars peek through. In Webb’s crisp near-infrared image, we can see into and through the gauzy layers of this cloud, bringing a lot more of Herbig-Haro 46/47 into focus, while also revealing a deep range of stars and galaxies that lie well beyond it. The nebula’s edges appear in a soft orange outline, like a backward L along the right and bottom. advertisement This nebula is significant — its presence influences the shapes of the jets shot out by the central stars. As ejected material rams into the nebula on the lower left, there is more opportunity for the jets to interact with molecules within the nebula, causing them both to light up. There are two other areas to look at to compare the asymmetry of the two lobes. Glance toward the upper right to pick out a blobby, almost sponge-shaped ejecta that appears separate from the larger lobe. Only a few threads of semi-transparent wisps of material point toward the larger lobe. Almost transparent, tentacle-like shapes also appear to be drifting behind it, like streamers in a cosmic wind. In contrast, at lower left, look beyond the hefty lobe to find an arc. Both are made up of material that was pushed the farthest and possibly by earlier ejections. The arcs appear to be pointed in different directions, and may have originated from different outflows. Take another long look at this image. Although it appears Webb has snapped Herbig-Haro 46/47 edge-on, one side is angled slightly closer to Earth. Counterintuitively, it’s the smaller right half. Though the left side is larger and brighter, it is pointing away from us. Over millions of years, the stars in Herbig-Haro 46/47 will fully form — clearing the scene of these fantastic, multihued ejections, allowing the binary stars to take center stage against a galaxy-filled background. Webb can reveal so much detail in Herbig-Haro 46/47 for two reasons. The object is relatively close to Earth, and Webb’s image is made up of several exposures, which adds to its depth. Herbig-Haro 46/47 lies only 1,470 light-years away in the Vela Constellation.
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pencil-peach · 9 months
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G Witch Onscreen Text: Episode 2
This is part 3 in an ongoing series where I try and document and discuss all of the text that appears on screens and monitors throughout the show! Just because I can!
<<Click here to go back to Episode 1!
(Once I have a masterpost set up I will link it here!) Let us Begin! Below the Cut!
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TEXT: (Lefthand side) Registered Name: AERIAL PMET CODE: 5011-0083 MANUFACTUR(ER): SHIN-SEI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION STATUS: IN SERVICE REGISTERED PILOT: SULETTA MERCURY
At the beginning of the episode, Rouji has Haro run a program that compares Aerial's permet code and registered statistics against other registered Mobile Suits to try and find a match, and measures the probability of the two being the same type of MS. There is no direct match to any other MS by Permet Code, but the system states there's an 85% probability that it's a match for a Mobile Suit with permet code 0025-0082.
We never see the specific name of this MS, but considering that Shaddiq names "Ochs Earth" as the company that made it and proceeds to call Aerial, "...the Witch's Mobile Suit," I think it's reasonable to assume that 0025-0082 was the Permet Code for Lfrith-03.
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TEXT: ALERT ACCESS CONTROL [???] [----OF ENTRY A---]
Unfortunately due to the small text of the Alert message, the fact that it scrolls, and it's brief time onscreen, its hard to make out specifically what it says. My best assumption from what we have is that it's a warning currently barring anyone from entry into the 13th Tactical Testing Sector.
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TEXT: (Suletta's Asticassia ID) PILOTING DEPARTMENT ID No: LP-041 SULETTA MERCURY BIRTHPLACE: MERCURY HOUSE: NO DATA PC-CRIMINAL RECORD: NO DATA PC-BIOMETRIC SYSTEM: REGISTERED
(Below) WE ARE RESPONSIBLE UNDER COMPANY REGULATIONS FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
UNDER THESE REGULATIONS, WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA HANDLING SUCH AS TRANSMISSION TO RECIPIENTS AND THIRD PARTIES.
PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS FOR DETAILS.
As Suletta is being questioned, we get a brief glimpse at the investigation report the interrogator was looking at before the screen cuts to black when it hits the table. Nothing super interesting here, but Suletta doesn't have a registered criminal record! Yippeeee!
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TEXT: CAM: 05 MONITORING CAMERA FACILITY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Not much to say here, this camera lets us know where Suletta is currently being held. (The Facility Management Company)
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TEXT: (Lefthand Side) AERIAL XVX - 016 SIZE: 18.0m 48.9t
No point discussing the info on the right, we've already seen it, but this gives us a look at Aerial's height and weight.
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TEXT: (Top Right) COM DELLING REMBRAN BENERIT GROUP
I only included this to point out that wow the display system devs made some poor choices with the UI here. Dark Blue text on Dark Backgrounds? You'd think the text would automatically lighten but I guess we'll have to wait for Ver 6.0 for that update.
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TEXT (Top half) MOBILE CRAFT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCED MOBILE CRAFT TECHNOLOGY WITH PERMET MEASUREMENT EXPERTISE NEW POWER SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CRAFT AND HYBRID CONSTRUCTION MACHINE INSTALLATION HIGH ACCURACY DRIVE SYSTEM AND CONTROL SYSTEM IN MICROGRAVITY LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND EASE OF MAINTENNANCE
No need to discuss the bottom half, its just the height and weight of the MC which we already know. I think it's funny how many classes this school seems to have on the new and improved Mobile Craft from Future Technology. I should probably buy one too. I love you Mobile Craft.
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TEXT: (Left Image) The Shin Sei Development Corporation was established in A.S. 89. Our business began with the development of integrated operating systems for mobile suits and medical devices. We have been involved in MS development and have supported welfare engineering throughout our company history.
(Right Image) Ranking: D Sales Ranking (within group companies): 151th (out of) Total 157 companies [Mobile Suit Development] Number of clients: Over 300 companies Yearly patents: Over 200
We get a lot of information about Shin Sei in this scene where Martin looks at the Company History tab on their official website. The most interesting thing being that they were founded in A.S. 89. The Vanadis Incident occured in A.S. 101, and the show proper takes place in A.S. 122, so at some point between 101 and 122, Prospera worked her way up through Shin Sei, eventually becoming its CEO.
Given that Suletta had to have been born around A.S. 105, and that in Cradle Planet, we learn that Prospera had been working within Shin Sei when Suletta was around 6, that places A.S. 111 as the earliest she was involved.
We also learn in Cradle Planet, that when Suletta is around 11, Prospera has recently been promoted within the company, and now has many people working under her. That would be around A.S. 116. When Suletta is 16, that's when Prospera tells her that she's going to school, which would be around A.S. 121, and I think it's safe to assume that she had already become president by then.
SO!! TL;DR!! It's most likely that Prospera became the president of Shin Sei at SOME point between A.S 116 and A.S 121. I'd put it somewhere in the middle, around A.S 119. (Can't wait to find out that they probably just outright state this somewhere and I did all this for nothing....)
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GOD DAMNIT. I WATCHED ALL OF CRADLE PLANET TO MATH THAT SHIT OUT. WHATEVER. I CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION SO I WIN.
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The text is too small to make out, but we DO get a small glimpse at the letter Delling sent to Miorine about unenrolling her from the school. It probably just literally says what the body guard reads out.
I think it says something that Delling doesn't even like, text his daughter. He sends an email through the official Benerit Group email account to her bodyguard who reads it for her. What a cowardly man.
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TEXT: (Left) FLUSH (Right) EMERGENCY CALL UNLOCK LOCK
YES the toilet text is important to document stop fucking looking at me like that.
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TEXT: NEXT STAGE TOUCH SCREEN TO CONTINUE
I'll leave the explanation of the symbolism of this scene as an exercise for the reader. [Sultry Wink]
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TEXT (Above) THIS ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE IS PROOF THAT IT WAS SIGNED BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BENERIT GROUP.
No way to tell what Delling is signing here, but we do get a brief look at his handwriting. It turns out his cursive is really bad, actually!
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At the Shin Sei inquiry, Shaddiq shares this graph titled "PMET RETENTION THRESHOLD VALUE", stating that during the duel, Aerial's Permet Influx Values exceeded the standards set by Cathedra.
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This graph can be tough to parse, so let me explain it as best I can. The blue line represents Aerial's Permet Retention during the duel. The solid dark line represents the permet retention limit imposed by cathedra on mobile suits. (At around 500) As we can see, while Aerial began the duel underneath that limit, it exceeded it for a moment (presumably when Suletta took over for Miorine and the GUND bits were activated.)
The red line above that is labelled DATA STORM INCIDENT, which is representative of the minimum Permet Retention a Gundam expresses when it is interfacing with a Data Storm. The text on the bottom reads, THIS DATA IS VERY SIMILAR TO GUND FORMAT INCIDENT DATA.
But the key thing to take note of here is that Aerial's chart just BARELY doesn't exceed the DATA STORM INCIDENT graph, meaning that, despite it exceeding Cathedra's standards, it CANNOT be directly proven that Aerial was interfacing with a Data Storm. This is actually what Prospera brings up as her main counterpoint to the accusation.
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So the graph is entirely consistent with Prospera's main argument. While she can't prove that Aerial isn't a gundam, nobody else can prove that it is.
Huaaaahh!! Alright!! This one was very DENSE. If you made it all the way through, thank you very much!! As a reward, have some little gay people
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[I sprinkle these stills on the ground like bird seed.]
There was definitely a lot of really interesting info in this episode, and while not a lot of it was particularly new, I think it's really a testament to the dedication of keeping things wholly consistent in this world, even for the smallest of things that no normal person watching would even bother noticing.
Also, on the Shin Sei Website, did you notice that they accidentally put 151th instead of 151st?
You can't win em all!
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Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
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Young stars are rambunctious. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "antics" of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light.
To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass. The disk is not visible, but its shadow can be seen in the two dark, conical regions surrounding the central stars.
The most striking details are the two-sided lobes that fan out from the actively forming central stars, represented in fiery orange. Much of this material was shot out from those stars as they repeatedly ingest and eject the gas and dust that immediately surround them over thousands of years.
When material from more recent ejections runs into older material, it changes the shape of these lobes. This activity is like a large fountain being turned on and off in rapid, but random succession, leading to billowing patterns in the pool below it. Some jets send out more material and others launch at faster speeds. Why? It's likely related to how much material fell onto the stars at a particular point in time.
The stars' more recent ejections appear in a thread-like blue. They run just below the red horizontal diffraction spike at 2 o'clock. Along the right side, these ejections make clearer wavy patterns. They are disconnected at points, and end in a remarkable uneven light purple circle in the thickest orange area. Lighter blue, curly lines also emerge on the left, near the central stars, but are sometimes overshadowed by the bright red diffraction spike.
All of these jets are crucial to star formation itself. Ejections regulate how much mass the stars ultimately gather. (The disk of gas and dust feeding the stars is small. Imagine a band tightly tied around the stars.)
Now, turn your eye to the second most prominent feature: the effervescent blue cloud. This is a region of dense dust and gas, known both as a nebula and more formally as a Bok globule. When viewed mainly in visible light, it appears almost completely black—only a few background stars peek through.
In Webb's crisp near-infrared image, we can see into and through the gauzy layers of this cloud, bringing a lot more of Herbig-Haro 46/47 into focus, while also revealing a deep range of stars and galaxies that lie well beyond it. The nebula's edges appear in a soft orange outline, like a backward L along the right and bottom.
This nebula is significant—its presence influences the shapes of the jets shot out by the central stars. As ejected material rams into the nebula on the lower left, there is more opportunity for the jets to interact with molecules within the nebula, causing them both to light up.
There are two other areas to look at to compare the asymmetry of the two lobes. Glance toward the upper right to pick out a blobby, almost sponge-shaped ejecta that appears separate from the larger lobe. Only a few threads of semi-transparent wisps of material point toward the larger lobe. Almost transparent, tentacle-like shapes also appear to be drifting behind it, like streamers in a cosmic wind.
In contrast, at lower left, look beyond the hefty lobe to find an arc. Both are made up of material that was pushed the farthest and possibly by earlier ejections. The arcs appear to be pointed in different directions, and may have originated from different outflows.
Take another long look at this image. Although it appears Webb has snapped Herbig-Haro 46/47 edge-on, one side is angled slightly closer to Earth. Counterintuitively, it's the smaller right half. Though the left side is larger and brighter, it is pointing away from us.
Over millions of years, the stars in Herbig-Haro 46/47 will fully form—clearing the scene of these fantastic, multihued ejections, allowing the binary stars to take center stage against a galaxy-filled background.
Webb can reveal so much detail in Herbig-Haro 46/47 for two reasons. The object is relatively close to Earth, and Webb's image is made up of several exposures, which adds to its depth.
Herbig-Haro 46/47 lies only 1,470 light-years away in the Vela Constellation.
Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 
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Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis : Cosmic dust clouds cross a rich field of stars in this telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Less than 500 light-years away the dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way. Top to bottom the frame spans about 2 degrees or over 15 light-years at the clouds' estimated distance. At top right is a group of lovely reflection nebulae cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and IC 4812. A characteristic blue color is produced as light from hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. The dust also obscures from view stars in the region still in the process of formation. Just above the bluish reflection nebulae a smaller NGC 6729 surrounds young variable star R Coronae Australis. To its right are telltale reddish arcs and loops identified as Herbig Haro objects associated with energetic newborn stars. Magnificent globular star cluster NGC 6723 is at bottom left in the frame. Though NGC 6723 appears to be part of the group, its ancient stars actually lie nearly 30,000 light-years away, far beyond the young stars of the Corona Australis dust clouds. via NASA
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2021 August 6
Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander
Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds cross a rich field of stars in this telescopic vista near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Less than 500 light-years away the dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way. Top to bottom the frame spans about 2 degrees or over 15 light-years at the clouds' estimated distance. At top right is a group of lovely reflection nebulae cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, and IC 4812. A characteristic blue color is produced as light from hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. The dust also obscures from view stars in the region still in the process of formation. Just above the bluish reflection nebulae a smaller NGC 6729 surrounds young variable star R Coronae Australis. To its right are telltale reddish arcs and loops identified as Herbig Haro objects associated with energetic newborn stars. Magnificent globular star cluster NGC 6723 is at bottom left in the frame. Though NGC 6723 appears to be part of the group, its ancient stars actually lie nearly 30,000 light-years away, far beyond the young stars of the Corona Australis dust clouds.
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Webb captures a prominent protostar in Perseus
This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
HH 797, which dominates the lower half of this image, is located close to the young open star cluster IC 348, which is located near the eastern edge of the Perseus dark cloud complex. The bright infrared objects in the upper portion of the image are thought to host two further protostars.
This image was captured with Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). Infrared imaging is powerful in studying newborn stars and their outflows, because the youngest stars are invariably still embedded within the gas and dust from which they are formed. The infrared emission of the star's outflows penetrates the obscuring gas and dust, making Herbig-Haro objects ideal for observation with Webb's sensitive infrared instruments.
Molecules excited by the turbulent conditions, including molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide, emit infrared light that Webb can collect to visualize the structure of the outflows. NIRCam is particularly good at observing the hot (thousands of degrees Celsius) molecules that are excited as a result of shocks.
Using ground-based observations, researchers have previously found that for the cold molecular gas associated with HH 797, most of the red-shifted gas (moving away from us) is found to the south (bottom right), while the blue-shifted gas (moving towards us) is to the north (bottom left). A gradient was also found across the outflow, such that at a given distance from the young central star, the velocity of the gas near the eastern edge of the jet is more red-shifted than that of the gas on the western edge.
Astronomers in the past thought this was due to the outflow's rotation. In this higher-resolution Webb image, however, we can see that what was thought to be one outflow is in fact made up of two almost parallel outflows with their own separate series of shocks (which explains the velocity asymmetries). The source, located in the small dark region (bottom right of center), and already known from previous observations, is therefore not a single but a double star. Each star is producing its own dramatic outflow. Other outflows are also seen in this image, including one from the protostar in the top right of center along with its illuminated cavity walls.
HH 797 resides directly north of HH 211 (separated by approximately 30 arcseconds), which was the feature of a Webb image release in September 2023.
IMAGE....In the lower half of the image is a narrow, horizontal nebula that stretches from edge to edge. It is brightly colored with more variety on its right side. In the upper half there is a glowing point with multi-colored light radiating from it in all directions. A bright star with long diffraction spikes lies along the right edge, and a few smaller stars are spread around. The background is covered in a thin haze. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
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The wishing well
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This has been on my drafts for so long ahh sorry;;;
CW// Pet whump, mentioned past torture and noncon body modifications, grief and death mention, identity crisis, trauma recovery, trauma survivors navigating relationships, mute whumpee, whumpee caretaker and emotional whump, but honestly this is mostly fluff.
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It was a quiet, particularly warm night when Albus woke up alone. His eyes were unfocused while his hand searched for the now familiar warmth of the other boy, only to find his spot growing colder. Half asleep, Albus lifted his eyes to the door leading to the garden. A cold breeze leaked through the open door.
It wasn’t unusual for Sann to wake up in the middle of the night and finding impossible to go back to sleep. Shifting on the bed aimlessly until he woke up and he could tuck himself under his chin for a few minutes, finding the albino’s gentle hand, as he listened to a lullaby. The soothing humming was the only thing that got him to finally sleep, before Albus kissed him goodbye and went to work.
It wasn’t the first time Sann had walked outside to lay at the edge of the pool with his legs on the water to stargaze, either.
As far away as they were, the city lights couldn´t taint the sky a dirty gray. The vast black was filled with small strokes of white glowing as they ran down in quick succession. One after the other. Some spots vibrating in bright red and greens, as they disappeared into the shadows. 
Laying down with his arms to the side the boy that told him this specific shower was called the Quadrantids, looked at the sky with empty eyes. Albus didn´t have to look up to know where his eyes were.
Just as back then, when looking through searched images of the night sky, the Sirius star always quieted his excited signing that usually took less than a few minutes to trail off about the wonders of the universe and how humans had barely even scrapped its secrets thanks to science. More often than not, Albus could barely and would have to resort to the notebook to understand what he was trying to say, earning him a little annoyed pout when the albino handed him the pen. Curiously enough, as his knowledge began to come back, Sann was also starting up to use signs Zarai had told him sounded more like an Spanish word.
Albus was so happy to see him remember something from his past that filled him with happiness, but every time, every single time his eyes fell on the Sirius star, the glow in his eyes would dim, casting a quiet, but vicious, tempest inside his mind that forced him to stillness.
Albus could see that same storm in his eyes that night, but he had his fair share of rain to not share his umbrella.
“It’s a bit cold today” he said as he laid down next to the other boy, covering both of them with the blanket before looking up, exhaling a small awe at the show above. He kept staring for a while until a thought rolled out of his tongue “It’s like a wishing well with infinite gold”
“What?” Sann tweaked his lips up and then down with a slight frown.
“Y-You know those! Toss a coin down the well and your wish will come true, deal” he turned to find Sann staring at him blinking owlishly “ok, look. All this stars?” He waved his hand across the sky “your coins. All of them. How many wishes are there? You can wish for whatever you want!” He said thankful the dark of the night didn’t let Sann see his cheeks going red.
Sann took a deep breath before looking at the night sky again. His eyes gaining that shine again “Anything?”
Albus hummed as reply “Anything” quickly his eyes followed an especially bright star on the sky “It´s red! Look! Quick! Make a wish!”
“There’s literally a thousand falling!” Sann signed with an ironic smile in his face as Albus pressed his eyes closed, barely holding down a giggle.
Sann sighed shaking his head lightly. After a second, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes. For a hot second he racked his brain in search of something to wish for, but everything was so different than the year before. He had more than he had ever dreamed of with his Master.
He was about to give up, until Sirius crossed his mind.
The person in the photos, the owner of the collar he wore for two years and the man that had left a scar on his Master’s heart that wouldn´t ever heal.
Sann took a deep breath. 
“I wish you knew how hard I tried to be you” he said in the most private corner of his mind.
As soon as he opened his eyes again, Al was pointing at another star and encouraging him to make yet another wish. Over and over again.
“I wish you had not let that man whip me”
“I wish Claude had taken me out earlier”
“I wish I hadn’t signed the contract”
“I wish he could tell me what he’s saving so much money for” he thought, remembering the stash of bills hidden next to his shoes in a plastic bag, the playful smile he had as he put the shoebox back in the closet.
“I wish he had never signed the contract either”
“I wish… I could take off his collar at night and I didn’t have to buckle it back up ever again”
“I wish…this wasn’t the life we had to live”
Sann opened his eyes before quickly wiping the tears off his face with his other hand. The other boy gently took his hand and soothed it with his thumb.
“Did you let it out?” He asked cautiously, his feet moving in the water with soft waves “Do you…wanna talk about it, Sann?”
The young man stared deep into the albino’s red eyes and intertwined his fingers with his for a moment.
“Was that your wish?”
Albus gave him a cheeky smile “Will it be granted?”
The other boy giggled, a smile dimpling his cheeks that quickly got washed with overwhelming melancholy.
“How do you always see right through me?”
“I wonder why… For some reason I can’t take my eyes off you. I made an effort but nope” he explained “When you´re focused on something you can stay hours in the same position, however uncomfortable it looks, because you will leave “the zone” if you do, you get annoyed. You´ve got the habit to go curl in small cold places when you need to think and when you need a hug but don´t wanna ask, you will bring Momo with you” Albus said with a little smile on his face as he heard Sann´s chuckled giggles “Also you sway on your heels when we wait in line at the market and you chew on my pens when you´re feeling petty” Sann couldn’t help to pout at it, making the albino give him one of his wide smiles “You´re easy to read. You’re an open book of expressions! An encyclopedia maybe! You wear your feelings like a crown…shamelessly.” he pressed himself closer to him “It makes one want to be honest too”
Sann breathed out and stared above for a long moment before his hands moved again and Albus lifted himself on his elbows.
“You don´t have to tell me if you don´t want to, but just making sure you know you can” Albus asked, gently rubbing his thumb on his hand. It took a moment of reflective silence before Sann pulled his hands up.
“I was a replacement. His name was Sirius Langbroek” Sann signed his name slowly, remembering how many times he had whispered those words. How useless that was “Claude´s brother and Ma-” His hands cringed frozen before he continued “His partner. You saw the photos right? We´ve got the exact same face. So I was supposed to…I just…I was just…a fake to fill the space he left…but I-” His hands stuttered but he pulled himself together, tighter “I could never be him. He made sure I never forgot that” he finished touching his throat, fingers tracing the elongated scars.
The albino swallowed “Did you ever…wanted to be him?”
Sann fixed his eyes above, on all the tiny smeared whites passing over the star. The meteors didn´t cease to fall.
“Yes” he signed. “Many times”
He felt a tug on his chest when Albus sighed slowly after a moment.
“Nobody can replace the people we love. Not even if they look exactly the same” he said as Sann´s eyes widened bewildered at the albino, not believing what he heard.
“Yeah, I got that clear now, thanks.” Sann signed with a wrinkled nose, straightening up and pulling his feet out of the water. Albus pulled himself up as well, his hands suddenly slippery with sweat.
“Shit, I´m sorry, I didn´t explain myself correctly. C-Can I try again? Please?” Sann turned after a minute, his eyebrows pulled into a tight knot “I´m sorry, that´s not what I meant…”
“Then what?”
Albus gulped down his nervousness and looked down at their feet on the pool, the stars reflected on them like a mirror when he stayed still. It took him a moment to speak but he hoped this time he could get his intentions across. 
“I meant that when people are gone, no matter how much we wish for them to come back, or how we try to twist our reality to find them again, even if you somehow find a way to live in that mirrored reflection…” he cut himself leaning forward on the edge of the pool. Sann noticed what a beautiful mirror it was of the sky above, right before he saw the albino tap the surface and break the image with the waves “just the smallest discrepancy breaks that lie”
Sann clenched his jaw as Albus looked back at him shaking off the water. 
“Lies are unsustainable” Sann signed with a heaviness on his chest.
“Yeah, and… You can never be someone you´re not” Sann stared at the mirrored sky, the image forming back after the waves vanished. Albus nervously soothed the back of his neck “You would end up betraying yourself and…and insulting the people that remember them” he said before his hands travelled down to pull knots on his fingers at Sann´s stillness “T-There´re no stars that are the same, right? Do you know that one´s name?” 
Sann looked on the direction Albus finger pointed to: a barely visible dot next to Betelgeuse. “Aldebaran” 
Albus nodded and moved his finger slightly to the Northeast. “And that one?” 
Sann looked at it for a second and then shaped his fingers one by one to say “Mira”. 
“Ah, wait isn´t that one Rigel?” 
Sann shook his head and took his hand to point where the star was, exactly on the foot of Orion. 
“That is Rigel. You can tell because it is close to Betelgeuse” Sann let go to sign, shorting up the name by shaping only the B and G before noticing the pleased look on the other´s face. 
“I bet Sirius wasn´t as knowledgeable on stars as you are”
Sann blinked at the sudden response before lowering his eyes “I don´t know. I was told he was a biologist and that he…” his hands curled into fists before he slowly soothed his wrists. Albus wrapped his hand around his wrist and soothed it with his thumbs.
“I bet he didn´t play the guitar as well as you did, either”
Sann took back his hands to sign “Claude told you?”
A nod.
“I shouldn´t have touched it. But I thought… but I just wanted to...” Sann couldn´t help the tears slipping down his cheeks. “I just wanted to make him happy”
Sann´s chest heaved in the strain to keep the lump on his throat from turning into a full scream. Not that he could, but he could try. Before that could happen, however, Albus cupped the boy´s face.
“It´s not your responsibility to make him happy anymore. You don´t have to be anyone else for any of us. For me. I love you just as you are, Sann. Because it´s you” Albus told him as the tears kept rolling down Sann´s cheeks.
“…Sann isn´t even my real name” he signed with an awkward smile.
“Then choose one!”
“That´s not how it works, Al”
“I know” the albino said, smile faltering before pulling him slightly closer “But if you could choose a name for yourself, what would it be?” he asked, rubbing the tear tracks with his thumb “You don´t have to answer now. I don´t have one yet either, but when we come up with them, I will call you by it” Sann sniffed back a sob as Albus nuzzled his face “We´re allowed to wish of better times, Sann. Even we pets have that freedom”
Sann stared at him. His eyes never ceased to move. From side to side, endlessly. But they were always so clear, so sure, Sann could believe he was talking the truth.
��Al, w-would you…try to run away?” Sann asked, worried.
It took the other a moment to answer, barely above a whisper.
“…Only if you came with me”
Conflict broke loose inside Sann´s head, twisting his stomach and hardening his face slightly.
“If you were free…if you weren´t a pet anymore, could I be yours?” Sann asked lifting his eyes to find a widened eyed Albus, whose cheeks flared up immediately, but then unexpectedly, he smiled wide before pulling him into a hug Sann melted into.
“Would you be mine if I was yours?” he whispered into his ear.
As his ears and cheeks burnt, Sann incorporated to see his boyfriend´s face equally red and joyful.
“Be mine” Albus signed before pulling him back to lay under the stars.
Sann stayed still staring at the albino for a second before smiling with a light frown. He would´ve done anything to hear that coming from someone else´s mouth before, but now, they had a different feeling that what he expected. 
It made him feel light.
“You know there´s stars for sale? You can name them and all” Sann said before leaning on his shoulder. His always comforting warmth doubled by the blanket pulled over them by the other. Sure to cover them both perfectly.
“Really? Well, we have infinite gold tonight, choose your pick” Albus said vaguely waving his hand across the sky. 
“Do you see that one?” Sann signed before pointing at a tiny shining spot close to Rigel. Too small and far away to have a proper name, Sann thought to himself, not caring if it was the truth or not.
“Marvelous choice. Any names for the little twinkle star?” Albus giggled when Sann rolled his eyes.
Sann stared at it for a moment before putting his hand up.
“A-L-B-A-N-N?” Albus asked a tiny hesitation at the end exposing his embarrassment before he sighed it out. “I like it”
Sann chuckled, “The first ever star owned by pets”
“I like it more than Sirius” Albus said suddenly. Sann´s attention got back to the star, but he stopped himself from looking at it.
Now, there was a part of him, of each other, he could look at before his eyes fell on Sirius. Only then he would realize his plan was that all along and couldn´t help but laugh again.
Albus joined him a second later, wrapping him in his arms until dawn.
After watching the meteors fall, they sneaked back into their room. Then Albus curled behind him, his small body making the best to cover him fully and snuggle him close.
But before they lifted themselves up and warmed up their cold legs, joking about why Sann didn´t use longer pants, Sann looked up to the sky above. To Sirius and then saw one last shooting star.
“I wish you hadn’t taken my voice” he thought to himself as Albus gripped tight on his hand in his sleep “I wish I still had it, so I could tell this guy holding my hand, how much I love him”.
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