#oc: operator kohlrabi

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This one gets its own post, I just think it's cute

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your turn. pride. your guys. what do they do.

habits, customs, little details. i want to know All

Okay after half a fuckin month of forgetting about this, here we go

In general my approach to Queer Shit in my worldbuilding here is that the "norm" of cis/het/etc still Exists, but there is a bit less overt discrimination against queer ppl as there is in our world, things like platonic marriage and polyamory are a bit less "niche," etc, and a violent approach to queer ppl is generally considered to be fuckin stupid

Different communities celebrate pride at different times of their local year, and what exactly they're celebrating differs with it. The core ofc is Queer Identity, but the focus besides varies: community, acceptance, love, perseverence, history. The pride celebrated by Tenno and their allied factions takes place during early summer by Earth timekeeping (the timekeeping all Tenno relays use and various allied colonies at the v least keep track of besides their own local time) and has an emphasis on community and diversity, whereas for example the Ostron observe the Tenno pride as a smaller event and have their own bigger one during March.

As for other factions:

The Corpus celebrate pride at the same time as the tenno for Relevance but it's almost entirely a corporate thing. A lot of Corpus defectors are shocked to learn that outside of their birth faction, pride isn't in fact about how much your superiors pretend to care about your feelings, or putting rainbow flags on the orb mothers patrolling the Vallis.

The Grineer just…don't. At all. As a society they don't really have a concept of queer identity in general, and pride is just a foreign culture thing even to those who defect. Some end up picking it up once allied with the Tenno, others remain indifferent.

Some of the Orokin had the same rainbow capitalism approach that the Corpus have since perfected, while others looked upon the pride celebrations with disdain, but seldom did any of them participate. What did non-Orokin have to be proud of? What identity was there for them to celebrate? Please, it's ridiculous.

You know the big banners hung up on Tenno relays? Some of those get swapped for pride flags for the celebration. Marches are still a thing, space and peace permitting, but not the end all, be all: the core event differs from culture to culture and location to location. Marches yes, but also picnics, feasts, dances, faires, whatever you could think of. The throughline is the pride flags, the celebration of queerness, and community

It takes ppl a bit of getting used to, to see warframes out and about during pride celebrations. What are the war machines doing participating in pride? But as more of them wake, as they become more of a common sight, as the truth about the Tenno eventually spreads among their allies, ppl get more used to them. Not just at pride, but any festival in general

Also I'm canonising my pride syandanas. Warframes wearing decorative armour and cloth in the colours of pride flags. Body paint is also popular among them. By nature most of them refuse to settle for small accessories, at the v least outside of combat

The first pride the group experience post-Awakening comes before TNW still so it's only Kohlrabi, Alden, Keiko, Lanius, and ofc Ordis at the time. The kids are all for it, especially Kohlrabi, and Lanius is really excited to take them down to Strata Relay about it to meet up with Hako and see the festivities kick off for the month, while Alden is more subdued about it (he's too busy repressing happy memories from his old life to really get excited)

The second one is post-TNW and once everyone is already around :)

Okay this is where i devolve into more disconnected points

North…forgot, that pride is a thing, during their time in Duviri, and is eventually reminded of it. They've always viewed themself as genderless, but haven't thought about their identity beyond that since before the Zariman, having had no care for it as a kid and then no spare brainspace as a prisoner in their own world. It's only after getting out and having the peace to Think that they settle into "aroace" and it makes their first pride in their remembered life exciting for them

Alden and Kodiak celebrated pride with their rebel group back in the day, about a halfway split between queer stuff and community. Once they both start reconciling with their past properly, they have traditions and stories they can bring along into the present. Alden's second pride as a conscious warframe is a lot better than his first

The homebase of Darius and his family (technically a clan dojo but it is never referred to as such for Reasons) is decked out in flags for pride and every year there's a few they forget to take down. Darius is gay as hell and loves pride and is very very excited about it while Tekla's identity is largely "do not perceive me" but they like pride nonetheless bc of the emphasis on being comfortable with who you are, where you are. Mae is the no1 project leader for decorating

Okay this is where i ran out of steam, I hope this is sufficient for now D:

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@riftwalker-limbro said something about how most warframes have never seen their operators before The Second Dream and that never occured to me and now i'm going insane about it a lil bit

Like

Lanius has always been conscious and remembers their original time with Keiko. When they wake up from cryosleep having disconnected from her, they freak the fuck out. But they have never seen her! In all that time! And then Kohlrabi and Alden take them to Lua and Lanius locates what pod Keiko is sleeping in all on their own bc they just Know It innately, and they get to be reunited with her and reconnect their somatic link, and it's already an emotional moment but. I never realised before. That that's when Lanius actually sees their daughter for the first time

And one of Alden's biggest regrets is that he was barely conscious at all during The Second Dream and has only the vaguest, fuzziest memories about it. He doesn't remember seeing Kohlrabi for the first time. Even if it takes him way longer to admit that he sees Kohlrabi as his kid, way way before he does, he's already mourning having lost that moment

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Hmmm thinking about. weapons. Bc i realised half my frames don't even have signature ones

Alden i've already established as the Xoris User. Otherwise he prefers to use his own electricity. For guns I might just end up assigning him the Basmu bc it's not something i bring to high level stuff but it's Fun and i also don't bring Alden to high level stuff. I know the Fulmin would be more fitting for being electric and nice looking and all but i don't Like the Fulmin

Lanius is also very melee-heavy. Warfan enjoyer, so Quassus. They also like dual swords tho. If gun then Felarx: cool and pointy and hits like a truck

Higgins on the other hand does Not like melee (in contrast to the fact that most of the times i've died as Lavos have been bc i went rabid on an acolyte and forgot that i am not, in fact, immortal). If he has to, he likes hefty things like the Gram Prime. Hell, he prefers hefty weapons in general. Shotgun user. Cedo, Kuva Hek

Kodiak Would Like To Not Fight, Please. If he has to wield a weapon, he prefers slightly insane shit like gunblades or the gaze kitgun (laser beam go bzzzz), or snipers to keep everything away from himself, tho his aim is shaky. If push comes to shove he can always smack someone with his cane, but he Likes his cane, so he'd prefer to avoid breaking it

Kohlrabi and Keiko both have their amps and don't typically fight melee but jic, North has taught them both how to wield a knife. They eventually brought the two of them down to Cetus and let each of them pick out a knife of their own, which they both now carry. I'm sure they will come in handy someday

North has their weapons they had during TNW - Sirocco, Rumblejack, Nataruk. They technically share the Nataruk with Higgins bc he's also okay with using it. The Sirocco runs on void energy now tho and Higgins makes fun of the Rumblejack for being a buttering knife, so those are exclusive to North. (Despite finding them impractical due to size, they also have some interest in staves/polearms, bc they Look Cool To Use. They mentioned this to Hako randomly Once, to which Hako said that he does actually fight with a Bo! And then North was too intimidated to bring it up again for a Month bc they didn't know if Hako was excited to share or if he wanted to be The One Stick Guy in the group)

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Scars and old injuries of warframes react to void disturbances similarly to how in humans they react to changes in weather

Out of the team, this is by far the worst for Kodiak

His bad leg is an old injury from when he was young, and the infestation did absolutely nothing about it when transforming him. Howadays he's just not around weather a whole lot in general, so there's no extra aches from that (tho when he is around bad weather it does still affect him), but instead there's all the Void Stuff

Void Fissures aren't as bad - firstly bc they're a lot easier to avoid. A Void Fissure is a combat zone, and Kodiak is not often in one of those planetside. So he just doesn't encounter them much. And either way they're the tamer variety, with more "reality" immediately close by to temper the void eruptions

Void storms are another deal entirely

Where Kodiak doesn't go on missions planetside a lot, he loves working on the Peregrinus, providing cover and support while out of the immediate line of fire, and always having new gadgets to deploy. But what would be a Void Fissure near a planet's surface is a Void Storm in the emptiness of space

The first time they encounter a Void Storm with Kodiak aboard, it's bad

He can feel it coming, but it just feels like a bad pain day or rain on the horizon. He can wave off much, much worse than that. It's not like he needs to walk around all that much on the Peregrinus to do his job, and he can always just lean on his cane a lil harder. So he keeps quiet and keeps working

And then the Storm hits, sudden and violent like space is itself tearing itself apart around the sturdy lil railjack, crackling against the hull, and Kodiak collapses in a flare of white hot pain, bad leg giving out. His first thought is that he just got shot, that there's boarders or that one of his turrets he'd set up specifically in the case of boarders misfired and hit him

It takes a moment for his perception to clear and it does so to Higgins crouched next to him and Alden over the comms begging anyone to tell him and Kohlrabi what the fuck just happened, and only later will Kodiak realise that this is all bc the pain had hit him hard enough to make him send out a distress signal other warframes could pick up on (which is another topic I'll need to type up stuff about another day). And the pain is still bad, even if no longer blinding. It's a struggle to stand up even with Higgins' and Maxi's help, and it doesn't help that Die is yelling, which means Ched is also yelling, which also means Cy is telling them both to shut the fuck up, and Higgins, Alden, and Kohlrabi are all radiating anxiety over the comms channel, and Alden and Kohlrabi are rushing back to the Peregrinus even tho this isn't anything urgent and-

Overall the only remotely positive thing in the moment is Shanty the kavat constantly bonking her head into Kodiak's good leg and purring. He reaches down with his free arm to pet her (the other is still wrapped tight around Higgins' shoulders and he is Not letting go bc he doesn't wanna fall over again and everything still fuckin Hurts)

With what capacity he has to do so, Kodiak is trying to convince everyone that he's Fine, he just needs a moment, pls just proceed with the mission, but also that's not a whole lot bc it gets so fuckin hard to think when you're in so much pain. But he refuses to let them abort a mission just bc his body decided to be stupid. He's not even needed. He just sits back on the Peregrinus and does whatever. He's not vital

He tries to shift his weight a lil bit and almost falls again, and that somehow…snaps something

Not in Kodiak

In Higgins

Bc he just shuts down all the arguing and starts giving out what might as well be orders, in a voice that Kodiak will later wonder if he learned from Alden or came into on his own. He tells Alden and Kohlrabi to get back on the ship and stay and the crew at large to get ready to abort mission and chart a course back home. Immediately. And it's not met with resistance from anyone but Kodiak bc it's the conclusion they would've arrived at sooner or later anyway, but his reasoning is that Kodiak's pain coincides too well with the Void Storm intensifying. It's bad enough that it's hurting him, reason enough to leave, but it could also pose a danger to the other two warframes on the crew, not to mention Kohlrabi or the Peregrinus' mechanisms bc it's not like there's knowing what exactly it could do

Kodiak pokes Higgins over a private channel, bc none of that had felt like a lie. "What do you mean, it could affect you and Alden?"

"Ever since the storm got worse, it hurts to breathe. It's not safe for us to be here."

And Kodiak can't quite manage a laugh, but there is a sort of mental jab at least. "Let me guess, you wouldn't be so mature about it if I wasn't here."

"Shut up. Shut up. You don't know that."

(Except they both know that Kodiak is right.)

(I'm not sure if Kodiak even knows here yet about Higgins' scarred lungs from his run-in with that one Void Angel, but he's not one to pry or doubt something like this. If Higgins says something hurts then it does and the details are his business alone)

They find Kodiak somewhere to sit that isn't just On The Floor, and the moment Alden and Kohlrabi are back on board, they're both immediately by his side. Alden immediately attaches himself to him and starts purring even if it keeps catching bc he's Worried. He keeps asking if he can do anything to help, keeps apologising like this is somehow his fault in any capacity, even as Kodiak keeps telling him that he's gonna be fine, they're leaving the storm anyway and no one could have Known in advance. Kohlrabi is walking in circles bc they can't sit on Kodiak's other side jic it'd hurt him but they're Also worried. Eventually Higgins manages to coax them into coming to help him update the foundry logs, which is something he could do half-asleep at this point but it's more novel for the kid and they need a distraction really bad

Also Shanty keeps having to be prevented from climbing onto Kodiak's lap and eventually settles on Alden's

It still takes a bit after they get home for the pain to fully recede to normal levels (Higgins doesn't have it nearly as bad, he's back to normal by the time they arrive), and needless to say, the crew makes a habit out of dodging the fuck out of Void Storms from then on

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An early note about Higgins that i found tho that I'm absolutely retconning now is that he's intimidated by Alden and Lanius

Bc like

He Would Be

If he just got brought aboard one day fully conscious

But he wasn't! He grew into being a person again slowly, via North's transference!

He crawled to consciousness day by day surrounded by the fact that Lanius looks scary but is actually really sweet and polite and makes North feel at ease. That Alden is sometimes terrifyingly extroverted but also falls over himself trying to accomodate others. And the others too, how Kohlrabi shines when they ramble at ppl. How Keiko loves ppl through actions rather than words. How Ordis occupies this strange yet simple place in everyone's lives where he is somehow both "friend" and "home"

Higgins knows these before he even knows himself. He has no reason to feel intimidated

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Taking a break from writing to join in on the Child Sharing but also I'm not crawling back on the game for this so the best screenshot I have is from Steam Achievements Doing A Whoopsie the other day

Anyway this is Kohlrabi and I have bestowed upon them every bit of clumsiness and enthusiasm i wield when playing this goofy ass game. If they had a superpower it'd be making friends with everyone except they have no idea how they keep achieving this. They collect found family like lint

They're the hyperactive kid to their volt prime Alden's jock dad status, but they also have fuckall spatial awareness so they're constantly covered in bruises

They used to have an interest in ecology before Shit Went To Hell and now they're rediscovering that interest via open world conservation. Also by wading around barefoot in lakes on the Plains

They're mostly a softie and still just trying to Be A Kid which also means it can be terrifying when Shit Gets Real and they're Very willing to kick ass about it. But also they've looked at this wounded, horrible world and decided it's worth saving bc the ppl they love are in it

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No I have no idea what either of my tenno OCs have done to earn the honour of having prime warframes. No I don't know what their family backgrounds were like before the jump. No I don't know what the hell the non-player-character one was doing during TNW

Yes I know a million irrelevant tiny details and moments about them

I exist

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With all the bits I've been talking about lately, I do wanna point out: Alden can be absolutely fuckin Terrifying

I mean, a warframe with the power to control electricity? In the age of hyper advanced technology? Around squishy humans? This power wielded by someone who learned how to fight, how to strike a weak point and get the fuck out before consequences could happen, way before he got a durable flesh-steel body to learn it with?

He can shock humans and proxies alike to death by touch. He can press his hand to a wall and channel so much electricity that he fries every circuit and overloads every cable in half your goddamn spaceship if you piss him off well enough

There's also a specific scene about this living in my head. Where the railjack gets boarded during a mission. And that's already bad enough, so Kohlrabi and Alden are rushing back to help, bc their friends are on that ship and also it wouldn't be good to have holes in it

But Kodiak specifically is on there, and Alden is itching to rip anyone in half if they go near him

Kohlrabi ends up transferring out the moment they're on board both bc they need all individual fighters they can get and bc they know from experience that they're not much help when Alden fights from anger instead of duty

(Alden does end up ripping some grineer soldier off Kodiak, throwing them against a wall by the throat, and shocking them to death. That's the part that's just stuck in my head. Because it's Cool)

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Thinking about nicknames

About how North will sometimes call Higgins "Higgs." About how Lanius sometimes gets shortened to "Lan" by Keiko and Alden and North, and rarely to "Lannie" by Kohlrabi, but also about how sometimes during missions they get called "Butcherbird" over the comms bc it makes everyone involved feel So Cool. About how once the Solaris learn the Tenno's true nature, they keep "Sparky" for Alden but figure out something more fitting for Kohlrabi

But I'm also thinking about the opposite of nicknames, so to say

The names the Orokin had given to their warframes were names in the sense that a car's model is a name, even if warframes were mostly unique. Names always prefaced by an article (a/the) to make clear that this is a weapon, not a person

Alden doesn't listen if you call him "Volt Prime." He doesn't have a lot of feelings attached to the name, bc he spent barely any time conscious while he had still worn it. There's a chance he won't even realise you're addressing him, but even if he does, He Will Not Listen To It

Similarly, Lanius does not listen to being called "Nidus (Prime)" but with them it's a lot more on purpose. Bc they Were conscious while it still applied to them. There is still the leftover of the instinct to answer to it. And they very consciously do not

Call Higgins "Lavos" and you might just get stabbed for it

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Waaaay before The Second Dream when Kohlrabi and Alden were kinda just one single confused entity, sometimes they'd seemingly forget which hand to hold specific weapons in and would need to pick them up and hold and aim them with one hand and then the other until they could decide which feels more right

Because Kohlrabi is left-handed and Alden is right-handed

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Fic about Higgins Getting Into Bad Shit Again is up!

Bonus notes and general responses to things happening coming after I've had lunch

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Apparently it's father's day somewhere in the world

Anyway when Kodiak first casually refers to Kohlrabi as Alden's kid, Alden needs a moment and has a whole lot of emotions about it, bc it's one thing to recognise this himself, and a different one to have Kohlrabi recognise it, and another different one to have random strangers recognise it

But it's also a wholly different one to have his best friend from Back When, who had known him for over half their human lives, who knew so well how much Alden loved kids and wished he could have kids of his own, who watched him spend time with and take care of the kids they did have in the group, and- it's a wholy different thing, to have Kodiak look at Kohlrabi and go: I see you finally found what you were wishing for, for all those years before anyone else here ever knew you

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They're impossible to take pictures of but I Tried

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Okay!! Big ramble copied straight from notepad here we go

Spoilers for TNW and random things before it + Entrati rank 5

I am slowly (bc i am v v sleepy for no reason) rotating in my brain about Giving North A Frame

Bc like

They suck at void magic by default and it takes a lot of learning for them to be able to reliably do the most basic stuff like void mode/void sling during an actual mission, and they highly prefer sticking to the sirocco/rumblejack/nataruk instead of trying to use an amp

So ofc they don't excel at transference either

It's actually so much worse than the other void magic powers too bc transference is Collaborative and you can't just be bad at it In Private and possibly practice until you're No Longer That Bad At It. Also it is a wholeass Ordeal

And their first attempts at transference were Not a fun experience

With Umbra, even Kohlrabi doesn't use transference all that much, the two of them prefer to work side by side rather than as one, so while he allowed North to try so that they could learn, it's overall v clear that Umbra Would Prefer Not To. He also immediately got hit with all of North's doubts/anxiety/etc about not being innately good at void magic bc North doesn't know how to put a filter over the connection when using transference (doesn't even know that's a thing you can and should do at first) so it was overall v unpleasant for Umbra while also putting his Dad Instincts on high alert, and North was just having a bad time in general, so y'know. No One Liked That

With Alden it went worse

And by worse i mean the moment North transferred into Alden they were violently thrown right back out

It was not on purpose and Alden did and still does feel so fuckin bad about it. It was all instinct, like blinking when someone waves near your face even if you Know they aren't going to poke you in the eye. A consciousness other than Kohlrabi's connecting to Alden just felt so viscerally wrong to him and it got That reaction. While he allows North to try again and the two of them Can work together via transference if needed, the whole thing is forever marked by that first failure and is overall generally stilted. Alden and North get along swimmingly otherwise, just. not when transference is involved bc it puts a damper on their teamwork when they both know that between Alden and Kohlrabi it's always seamless

With Lanius they never even try for a million different reasons, which is actually part of the reason North gets along most comfortably with Lanius out of the three frames that are around when they arrive. There is no awkwardness from knowing how wrong it goes if they try to share a body, and they just. vibe. Not a single day in Duviri did North guess they'd someday be spending afternoons entranced by the most infested warframe in the world telling them about convergent evolution, but they're not complaining

But the issue remains: North doesn't have a warframe

And that's fine to them, honestly, they prefer it that way, and for a while i was gonna leave it as that too. But both for ease of working with canon quests and bc some stuff grabbed ahold of my brain and refuses to let go, I think instead it goes something like this:

North gets hurt

This is not unusual seeing as they continue to fight the way they did during TNW, with just their squishy human body and stubbornness and their new void powers they're slowly growing into actually using in tense situations. There's always various levels of disapproval from the ppl around them when they get hurt, but so what? All part of the job. It's not like they Died. They can just get patched up, don't bother waiting to heal up all the way, and get back out there. It's fine

(Gestures vaguely at what we understand of Duviri so far. It is, in fact, Not Fine)

Anyway

North gets hurt

And this time it's…notably worse than usual. No clue what happens exactly, but they're a fair distance away from Kohlrabi and Alden wreaking havoc in some other corner of whatever base they're running a mission in, and it's something North knows a frame would just shake themself off and move on about, but North isn't a frame, and they don't use void mode or transference on instinct to protect from harm, and they don't have a frame that might yank them back into transference at the last moment like Alden had learned to do for Kohlrabi, all they have is flesh and bad ideas and pain

For a moment there's the urge to not radio to Kohlrabi, the thought that "if you got hurt, they could too, and that's not a price that's worth it to pay"

In the end they do call in and they get rescued and they make it, but the worry from around them grows, bc it was Too Close this time. For a while they're just Not Allowed to go on higher intensity missions and they know that if Kohlrabi doesn't drop it soon and doesn't stop siccing Ordis on them, they'll need to start sneaking out to Get Shit Done alone this time

There is stuff to do while they recover ofc. They spend time helping out on Cetus, Hako (bc by this point they're friends) takes them on a few void runs, but most importantly to this story: they wander around on the Cambion Drift with Lanius and Keiko sometimes. Keiko doesn't much care about digging around for bio samples and a million different fucked up Entrati basements all that much, but Lanius never stopped being an infested scientist even after getting warframe-ified, so sometimes they go down to deimos and help out and Lanius gets to be really excited about things. And bc the void grants immunity from the infestation, they start bringing North along while they recover, to give them something to do, and also bc Lanius likes them (Keiko also likes them but she isn't the kinda person to admit it and also she finds it hilarious that North is oddly intimidated by her rude 14-year-old ass)

At some point they end up cracking open yet another isolation vault. They end up with a whole lot of the usual - bio samples, data for maps that need to be updated, some resources to bring home. Lanius and North use scintillant as target practice

They also find

A cryopod

Weirdly old-school even in orokin terms, gilded and decked out with the same gold-coin-plated look as a lot of other Entrati related things, and damaged. The infestation doesn't exactly rust things but it does chip away even at what's inorganic, and this cryopod is running on borrowed time

They open it up, and inside

They find a warframe

Gilded and only as tall as maybe North themself, and completely inanimate. Logically North knows that that's what warframes are meant to be, but between all three frames they know being autonomous and the knowledge that Lanius had come out of their own cryopod swinging when found anew, it feels uncanny

It's also generally uncanny to just. find a warframe somewhere

Keiko's general opinion is "we'll go tell Gomaitru or Vilcor about it and they'll probably send those grineer boys down here to haul it up if they want it bc Lan and I sure as hell aren't carrying that thing all the way up and you straight up Can't"

Which is entirely untrue bc Keiko may be a rude lil shit but she's also a kid and feeling about as unnerved by the random frame as North and Lanius are, and it feels wrong to just walk away and let someone else deal with this. But long, long before she could actually break about it and decide to drive the strange frame topside via transference, North speaks, not taking their eyes off the frame:

"I could try to, you know. walk them up. Just this small distance, so we don't have to carry them."

And, well

They do

Bc they know how to use transference even if they hardly ever do, and it works shockingly easily this time despite how fast their heart is beating, and

It sucks

It fuckin sucks

If seeing an inanimate frame was uncanny, this is downright horrifying, to jump into a body without anyone there to greet you. Even getting thrown right back out of Alden was better than this bc at least there was Someone There

This?

This is empty

North manages to walk the frame up and all the way back to the Necralisk, feeling five inches beside their own body the whole time. It feels like standing alone in a room meant for a crowd. They bring the frame to Vilcor and when North transfers back out of them, they're hit with the smallest spike of anxiety that isn't all theirs, but they don't realise that until much, much later. Once they're gone, unlike how it happens in the game, the frame just…collapses

(Being back in their own body hardly makes them feel better. It's the knowledge getting driven home, that most frames don't walk around, that they don't get to be people anymore. That Umbra and Alden and Lanius having identity and personhood and autonomy instead of being empty shells is something rare and special)

Vilcor is pleasantly surprised at seeing the frame

He tells them it was never actually used by Tenno, never had its somatic link accessed before North transferred into it, never got bonded to anyone. It was a project that succeeded enough to not be considered a failure but which was never a resounding success enough to be worth to put into use. Something about coming too late into the collection of groundbreaking frames and not part of the growing ranks of primes, and not garnering interest from the right officials

So off to an isolation vault it went for a later date, and that later date didn't come until centuries later

Its name was Lavos, Vilcor tells them, entirely unlike introducing a person. Something about a mastery of elements and revolutionising the energy consumption of frames and heralding a new level of power and destruction one shotgun blast at a time. It mostly just sounds like he's reminiscing about a business pitch

They end up bringing the lavos back to the Orbiter in the Camp just bc it doesn't Feel Right to do anything else. All three of them are shaken in the aftermath. Lanius and Keiko stay the night instead of taking off in the Bandit to go back to doing their own thing. North eventually ends up pouring their heart out to Kohlrabi about the whole situation and in return Kohlrabi tells them about what it had felt like to pilot Alden before he started becoming more of a person again

I'm not sure how exactly things go after this and it's getting late and i've run out of steam but: lavos ends up as North's frame partly as homage to the fact that i played TNW with my lavos, and North gets to build a relationship via transference instead of it just being a v anxiety-inducing skill to them, and they end up with more of a friendship of being on the same level instead of the parent-child relationships the other frames in the group have going on with their tenno. Idk anything about lavos in detail yet besides that he has Big Anxiety. I need a name and a canon look for him and everything

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At some point a While back i said that Kohlrabi makes tiny floofs for fun sometimes and never specified exactly how and I've now decided that it's crochet. Little crochet floofs