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consider this video as part of the ada wong cinematic canon

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ada wong re8 stuck in a glue trap

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okay where are the henchwomen

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Special bonus portrait for the RE6 Campain for @illuzijan and @yngai. Mei Li

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"White Lotus."

She's bringing it up, in Lanshiang's special brand of Waiyip-Canton that doesn't disguise the amount of vitriol she put on the name.

It's a modicum of progress to even say this much- four words giving just an inkling of where her perceptions were, and are. It's never a good indication. As a person, she was so predisposed to violence that even admitting she was watching them was admitting to premeditating murder and disaster.

"I saw they opened a chapter. Near here."

there is no string on this web where the spider won't find you, a simple fact ada has tried to acclimatize herself to ever since setting foot on the yukon. despite how sprawling this sky resort turned private military company can be, carla seems to zero in on whoever tickles her fancy, & as much as she'd prefer to explore & investigate the guild's operations at her own pace, tangling herself in this world is inevitable. she can pretend, of course, that ada wong is retired & straddled with a dependent who shouldn't go ignored, but meimei's a big girl now.

she wouldn't want a doting mother to embarrass her every other school day, & she's old enough to understand who ada is & the work that tends to come her way. a few business trips won't hurt. separation is the better part of valor, as it turns out, & having a parent who dons a crow mask as a kind of secret identity to fight white collar crime would be any child's fantasy. ada cringes at the thought, that she's making the excuse of being a cool mom to go pursue her business interests. her own father never had to justify himself.

crowley lurches over carla, hunched slightly to make up for the height difference. even now, her teeth grit at the idea that simmons would've preferred her more petite. at least staring into a mirror is easier when you're in a halloween costume. “ not a fan, huh? ” her cantonese straddles the line between the malaysian & wuzhou dialects, it would've been bad form for a spy to advertise her place of origin by sticking with the hong kong variation. it's a long worn out muscle, the three years spent in singapore were the final nail, but in the pause between words ada considers the river line between waiyip & tatchi, between kowloon & hong kong city.

does she really have to pretend? “ feeding their glorious leader to the pigs didn't settle the account, no matter how romantic an ending it was. ” the loan words of hong kong cantonese come all too naturally, & for the first time in almost a decade, ada is speaking her mother tongue. “ but you shouldn't bring heat this close to HQ, no matter how justified you'd be. cults like these are all about finance, trickle up economics. if you wanna cripple their operations, you'd need someone who can get into their bank accounts. ” there's a natural self-satisfaction that carries in her tone, noticeable even through the voice modulator. “ you're lucky i've made one or two dents in the rulaizong when i got benched. ”

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fall

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Dead Talents Society (2024), dir. John Hsu

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yngai's re6 ada

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everyone wish ada a very happy 51st birthday

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"Take this."

It's a stick of gum, ginger and mint. It's a nice sharp taste and has a distinct palette and nausea cleansing property. It's definitely hand cut and pressed.

she's suspicious at first, glancing past strands of hair now loosened & wavy with age, weary, suspicious eyes starring back into her own. every day something else seems to fall from her grasp, a grain of sand slipping through her fingers, out of her control. whatever intricate webs she used to weave, carla has taken as her own, & when her doppelgänger walks past ada feels the wound of losing her grip become fresh.

every scab bleeds anew, & though her first instinct is to decline even something as innocuous as gum, there is a contract at play. an unspoken agreement that ada is never to be hurt, not after making carla's daughter her own. she may be pranked, humiliated, but her reputation within the guild is on crowley's tab & she's long since acclimatized to playing someone else's game. she reaches for the packet, unwrapping it expecting a light shock or another addition to the chrysalid family, instead she find things are as advertised. ada raises a single eyebrow, but she doesn't protest, throwing the stick into her mouth & chewing cautiously.

it's a familiar taste, a familiar sensation, a sense of trying & failing repeatedly to break a habit, & it makes her laugh. for how blunt carla is beneath the borrowed flair, perhaps she's stolen ada's sense of humor too.

“ nicotine gum, huh? i promise i've taken all the steps to make sure meimei didn't get second hand smoke, every safe house had a balcony, & i never hurt for a cigarette when she is at home. ”

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“ you have to meet people where they're at, ” an innocuous remark that would better fit a therapist, or an AA councilor, but like everything about ada wong, it's all about setup & payoff. “ & where is miss hunnigan if not always at work? ” ada hums, all of humor & playfulness, she loves a chance to tease.

“ you just have to give her something to chew on. ” smirking as a warning signal that she's about to steer this conversation in a less innocent direction. “ & maybe she'll take a bite out of you next. ”

@yngai : you should lay out foreign intel out like little treats for a cat, it's worked wonders for me

“I love how you think I just have access to that stuff- Or that doing so would actually get her attention. I wanna take her out for coffee, not give her a heart attack.”

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someone could point out to ada that her propensity for drag goes far & above how useful it is to be perceived as male in both the criminal & corporate spheres she often navigates, that she enjoys these roles more than she admits & it might be the result of a complicated relationship with gender that lesbians often face, considering how much womanhood is valued on attractiveness & difference from men, & that her current favorite persona is a faceless, genderless plague doctor that she refers to with gender neutral pronouns, & ada will turn around & tell them that they're just making things up & all of these things can easily be explained by the necessities of espionage & that she's always been & always will be a woman

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ethan: i need to find my daughter, what the hell is your problem? ada/crowley:

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NAME : dead ringers (ada isn't sure carla can die & thus, she settles for a reference to the cronenberg film for obvious reasons & a pun on the fact that if carla is calling her, ada isn't picking up, she thinks the double entendre is so clever) RINGTONE :  intruder - peter gabriel PICTURE :  a color inverted photo of herself from somewhere between 1998 & 2002, she isn't quite sure anymore & she blames carla for not knowing LAST TEXT RECEIVED :  [ how is she? ] LAST TEXT SENT :  a photo of mei li in her room, surrounded by all the toys & paraphernalia they've gathered from moving around the world, doing her schoolwork, quite calmly & quite happily. she's using a pink glitter pen with a unicorn on top & wearing a set of butterfly wings

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☎ from crucialelement

NAME : mexican standoff (another cause of death, but also somewhat of a reference to hank schrader from breaking bad because of emily's prior position as an undercover agent with the DEA, it's too easy to draw a comparison)RINGTONE :  smooth operator - sade (a compliment to emily's talents)PICTURE :  before the events of village it was a photo of emily on a day off that ada snapped while they were having lunch together. afterwards it's a cryptid-esque photo that ada took from afar of tundra in full military gear LAST TEXT RECEIVED :  [ that was you? ] LAST TEXT SENT :  a photo of crowley throwing up the peace sign ✌️

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NAME : spontaneous combustion (she often names people in her contact list by her own metric of funniest/most appropriate cause of death) RINGTONE :  this fire - franz ferdinand PICTURE :  helena's secret service headshot, sourced very legally from the american government's files, just so ada never forgets where little miss harper came from & the irony of her demotion to the DSO LAST TEXT RECEIVED :  [ what the fuck ] LAST TEXT SENT :  [ 47 Z 13IS EX, RPT CMSO, PK 10011, RXY 13:30LW ]

the text sent is an address in new york encoded using the bifid cipher, because she is fully committed to the secret spy bit & doesn't ask people to meet her normally, she sends them a cryptic message as a test to see if they have the base knowledge required to decipher it & if they do, congratulations! you get to see ada wong in person & probably get roped into her latest scheme