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taylor swift’s work wouldn’t be nearly as insufferable if she wasn’t constantly trying to present herself as some sort of tortured underdog. like, okay, she has endured hardships, and a lot of people, especially white men, are shitty towards her for purely misogynistic reasons. that sucks, i agree. but she’s never been an underdog before. she was born to well-off parents who did everything they could to start her music career when she was barely even a teenager, an opportunity that lots of people would kill for. now she’s extremely famous and wealthy, and everything she releases is destined to sell millions of copies and receive glowing reviews in nearly every publication. she is not an underdog, and i have trouble believing she’s particularly “tortured.” she’s not even an alcoholic, despite claiming to be one on the opening track of her new album! people like to defend her lyrics by saying she’s just playing a character, which i don’t believe for a second, but even if she was, i don’t think i want to listen to someone like swift play the character of a tortured underdog, not when there’s so many musicians out there who are actually tortured underdogs. it comes across as hollow. “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me,” sung by one of the wealthiest, most famous, most critically acclaimed musicians in the world, who was born to loving parents who personally helped her start her career, who once said she’d never been to therapy because she “just feels very sane.” if you’re going to play a character, maybe pick one who we’re not supposed to pity.
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nicoolios · 4 days
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Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific
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nicoolios · 5 days
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A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)
1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:
- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)
- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.
- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.
- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?
2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 
3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?
- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?
- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?
- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)
- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?
- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?
Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 
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nicoolios · 6 days
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Somewhere out there is an essay about superhero movies where villains co-opt, misuse, or even just misunderstand the language of the left to push methods and goals that are incompatible with the actual theory of the left, but that sound Right And Good to viewers who aren't thinking it through entirely. And the essay is not just about how they compare to each other, but how they are a litmus test for viewers to know how susceptible they are to propaganda.
Co-opt: Most obvious example and the inspiration for this post is the Riddler in Batman (2020, the one with RPatt). The Riddler recites leftist rhetoric about corruption, wealth hoarding, and redistribution, but his actual actions and goals are unrelated. He's an accelerationist who's more interested in tearing down a system that didn't benefit HIM than in actually rectifying the problems, and who cares if a few kids get traumatized or even killed along the way?
Misuse: Easy mode, this one's Thanos. He talks about ensuring there's enough for everyone to eat, but like. Bro.
Misunderstand: Erik Killmonger, who has the benefit of both some incredibly legitimate grievances and a pretty face, but also kind of fails at the idea of intersectionality, proportionality, or Start With Words Before You Escalate. He's the easiest to sympathize with, because he has some really good points and ultimately does appear to be legitimately pursuing those goals... but he's also a misogynist, jumped to international terrorism before "call up my cousin who doesn't know I exist," and there's something in there about the role played by his time in the US military, which gave him emotional trauma, head trauma, and a sincere belief in the validity of US-style insurgency operations based on hostile takeovers of inconvenient countries. He's charming and pretty and sincere... he's just also, in many ways, wrong. And the parts where he's right makes it easy to try to ignore the bits where he's wrong if you're predisposed to like him and prefer some absolutism.
Anyway, yeah, there are definitely other examples, but the ones that were suggested to me didn't quite vibe with the base idea (Mysterio and Vulture both had disgruntled union moments in the MCU, but they left those roots so quickly that I don't think the concept of using leftist rhetoric as cover/justification for the crimes really applies since, they very quickly shift gears into revenge and greed respectively).
Someone's probably done this better orz.
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nicoolios · 7 days
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one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.
which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)
what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes
and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts
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nicoolios · 8 days
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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but
Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?
Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.
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nicoolios · 13 days
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IMPORTANT REMINDER TO MY EUROPEAN FOLLOWERS AND OTHER TUMBLR DENIZENS FROM AN AMERICAN DESERT-DWELLER:
Climate change is a bitch and summer is coming. If you don’t already have an air conditioner and/or fans, NOW is the time to get them.
THINGS YOU SHOULD BE SHOPPING FOR NOW:
—clothes made of cotton or linen
—air conditioner
—fans
—frozen meals that can be cooked in the microwave
—potable bottled water; you want five days’ worth per person and pet in your household
—bottled fruit juices; it does not matter if these are sugar-added because you’ll want the electrolytes
—electrolyte drinks
—electrolyte pills (you can get these online, I get mine from Amazon)
—popsicle molds to use with fruit and juice
—ice cube trays
—nonperishable salty snacks like peanuts
—one charger brick per adult in case of rolling blackouts or power outages; charge these at the beginning of May, and drain them via use once a month if they’re not needed
YOUR TO-DO LIST:
—check your home’s HVAC system if you didn’t do it at the beginning of winter. Make sure all the filters are clean and replace them if needed
—check the seals on your sinks and bathtub in case you have to run water to handle shortages
—make and freeze meals you can cook in the microwave or simply defrost. Remember to select light summer fare, not hearty winter soups and gravies
—purchase and freeze lunch meats and cheeses you can defrost and use this summer for sandwiches when it’s hot
—assemble your check-in list: elderly, pregnant, disabled, and immunocompromised friends and relatives who may struggle to get things they need when the heat wave hits. Have this list posted and ready to go through daily once the heat gets high. DON’T JUST ASSUME YOU WILL REMEMBER. WRITE IT ALL DOWN.
—create a list of emergency contacts in case of fire, heat stroke, and other heat-related emergencies. This should include your local version of 911 (I think in most of Europe it’s 112, but don’t rely on me as an American, LOOK IT UP NOW before you need it), your doctor’s phone number, and two emergency contacts. Keep it in a place where it can be easily found if someone needs to make these calls on your behalf.
—ask your doctor for an additional prescription for any medications you take, and fill it now. Extreme heat can cause disruptions in the supply chain. Make sure you cycle these meds; that’s to say, always use your oldest bottle first so you don’t end up with expired meds in an emergency.
—stock your first-aid kit. If you don’t have one, now is a good time to make one.
—if you own a car, get your yearly maintenance done now. You don’t want to be dealing with an inoperable vehicle if you need to evacuate.
Staying safe this summer starts now. Get your prep done.
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nicoolios · 14 days
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People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I’d pass it on.
I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?
These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!
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nicoolios · 15 days
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Now that you've done DSO lore, do you think you could do the BSAA too? I've always found their deal a bit confusing.
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As requested, here’s the “sequel” to my DSO lore post, this time for those curious about the BSAA. Strap in ‘cause this is going to be a long one… I might’ve gone a little overboard on the details:
History/How it was Formed:
BSAA stands for Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance
It was founded in 2003 following the collapse of Umbrella and the “War on Terror” (WoT is a real thing that happened after 9/11, and 9/11 canonically happened in RE)
When the BSAA was first started, it was civilian-led and there were only eleven members. They are called the Original Eleven after the Original Seven from  Project Mercury. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine were all part of the Original Eleven. They had no real power at first and were only meant to be essentially supervisors for armies and police units around the world but that wasn’t working. 
Originally the BSAA was a paramilitary group with private funding from the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium (GPC) as part of a PR stunt since the GPC was involved with Umbrella and therefore the Raccoon City Incident. After Umbrella was found guilty in court, a lot of their BOW and research was leaked onto the black market, which kickstarted the bioterrorism movement.
Before becoming part of the UN, the BSAA was led by Clive R. O'Brian, and by 2004, they had more than eleven members, but the actual number is unknown. 
Both the BSAA and the GPC were caught up in a number of conspiracies, including the Terragrigia Panic, an event that led to the creation of the FBC in the US (go see the DSO post for more info on them).  **There’s a whole lot of info from this era of the BSAA. If you want more details on everything that happened with the Terragrigia Panic and all of that, check out the Revelations game. 
When the FBC collapsed, the BSAA took a lot of assets from there including weapons. 
In 2009, the UN (United Nations) believed in the BSAA’s movement and decided to create a new charter of the BSAA under the UN’s control was created. The UN did this in secret and covered it up since only 70% of the UN’s Member States agreed (80% of the Member States must agree with the notion before it’s passed under being the “general consensus"). 
In 2009, the GPC was still privately funding the BSAA, and this was apparently public knowledge and the BSAA being funded by the GPC wasn’t really a well-liked fact. While the BSAA’s dealings were confidential, they seemed to have a lot more connection to the public than things like the DSO due to the fact that 1. They’re not involved with the US and 2. They work internationally.
The whole private funding thing came to light in a UK hearing after the names of the BSAA investors were submitted to the public hearing. 
The GPC basically functioned as the PR firm for the BSAA as well.
In 2017, the BSAA partnered with Blue Umbrella (a private military company formed with the remains of the American branch of Umbrella) and gained access to all kinds of special anti-BOW gear. An important note for the RE franchise is that there were no weapons developed to be able to fight BOWs. While things like zombies can be killed with headshots, other enemies require a hell of a lot more firepower than a simple firearm can deliver. As such, anti-BOW weapons and gear development were very important. 
The BSAA had its fair share of PR incidences and kept a lot of their gear and weapons secret from the public, but in order to bolster “better reviews” so to speak, some of their anti-BOW weapons/gear were featured in a survival magazine to show the public that they did in fact have specially designed equipment. 
Side note: the GPC and the FPC are the same thing, some of the files call it the FPC, and others, like the stuff from RE5, call it the GPC but they're meant to be the same thing.
Organization: 
The BSAA HQ is stationed in England, the exact location is classified, but it’s said to be near an air force base or aircraft hub since the BSAA soldiers can be deployed globally within 12 hours. 
When the UN took over, to better cover global threats, the BSAA was broken into eight different divisions that would each be in charge of different parts of the globe: Middle East (covered the Middle East and part of Africa), North America, South America, West Africa, East Africa, Far East  (Eastern Russia and countries east of India), and Oceania (Australia and Antarctica). The England HQ is responsible for Europe and the western parts of Russia. 
Usually, soldiers are only deployed where there’s an incident within the jurisdiction of their branch, but soldiers with high security clearance are often pulled into cross-branch deployment. Chris is one of these soldiers since he is a Captain. 
The BSAA has a lot of members, most of which were recruited from the military and special forces. 
There are various divisions within the BSAA that provide things such as ground support (like the FOS for the DSO), tech support, medical teams, physicians, and mental health professionals. 
There are two divisions for BSAA deployment teams: Special Operation Unit (SOU) and Special Operations Agents (SOA) **I’ll be calling the agents agents for simplicities sake. 
The SOU squads usually contain 12 people, the 12 people are then broken up into 3, 4-man cells and are usually led by a Captain (This is where the NATO naming system comes in, the 4 cells are usually called Alpha Team, Bravo Team, Charlie Team, and Delta Team). Teams will combine with other teams depending on how many people are needed for an operation. It specifically mentions that for one special operation, there was 70 people working it.
In 2009, Dan DeChant was the leader of the Alpha Team during the Kijuju mission, he was killed in action. 
The agents (SOAs) usually work solo operations or in teams of two. They mainly deal with espionage and investigations and are deployed in situations where the tactical teams can’t safely get to. (This is what Leon would be doing if he worked at the BSAA, the SOA’s are basically the UN’s DSO). They also often work outside the BSAA’s jurisdiction so they can “get the job done,” which often involves doing things out of uniform/undercover. 
A lot of BSAA soldiers died in 2013 due to attacks in China, so the BSAA established a new elite squad called Silver Dagger that would investigate suspects of bioterrorism using an extra-legal intel-gathering software. Extra-legal basically means that while it wasn’t outright illegal, it definitely falls into the sort of “gray area” of legality and would probably be frowned upon.  D.C was the Captain of this squad, Chris, Damian, and Nadia were the other members. 
The Original Eleven have special authorization and security clearances. 
The BSAA has security clearance levels of 1-10, all SOUs are automatically a level 4 or higher. Chris has level 10, but I’m not sure about the rest. Chris’s is the only one that’s specifically mentioned but I would assume Jill is also a level 10 since she's one of the Original Eleven too.
Both Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers serve as advisors to the BSAA. Rebecca is also an advisor to the DSO. 
Notably, the DSO and the BSAA do not like each other. This is because the US gov has basically forbidden the BSAA from operating on US soil. This is why Leon and Chris meeting for the “first” time at the 2010 TerraSave event was such a big deal in the RE6 files because Chris and Leon being friends is seen as unprecedented due to them working for “competing” organizations. 
If you just wanted information on the structure of the BSAA you can stop reading here. Those who want details about equipment and standard weapons, continue reading:
Standard Gear:
Pre-2017 the SOUs wore light gray combat fatigues, gloves, combat boots, and a green bulletproof vest. The shoulders of their shirts had their designated BSAA patch for which branch they were assigned to. Their helmets were gray ballistic helmets with their blood types marked on them with patches. They also wore ballistic goggles, black balaclavas, gas masks. Black beanies were also worn in cold enviroments. SOAs didn’t have a standard uniform. 
In 2017 the uniforms were revamped and basically an all-black version of the previous uniforms with upgraded gear and other things such as more pouches and adjustments to the helmets so they would have the nightvision system designed by Bley Umbrella. 
Sometime between then and 2021 the uniforms were upgraded again, still all black but they got blue patches now. 
Weapons:
Unlike the DSO, the BSAA has standard-issue equipment for all it’s soldiers.
Pre-2005 the BSAA had a special scanner called the Genesis that would 
In 2005 the standard weapons were the M92F, G8, Handgun Government, G36, and the M3. 
In 2009 the standards were the SIG 556 and the Beretta 92FS
In 2012 the AR was the standard but a lot of the soldiers also used their own guns that they used such as Chris’s Nine-Oh-Nine and Piers’ MP-AF. 
In 2017, SOUs were given special weapons from Blue Umbrella, this included the Samurai Edge Ambert 01 and 02 models. 
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nicoolios · 16 days
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DSO Lore
Tags: @firebird963​, @no-name-district​, @v1v1dst4rs​
TW: mentions of weapons and guns
With a lot of new people in the fandom and RE’s tendency to bury details in the lesser-known materials, I’m going to cover the inner workings and functions of the DSO as requested. Feel free to use this as a reference for fanfics and such. 
There is a surprising number of bureaucratic things taking place in Resident Evil such as the arguments between the DSO and BSAA over US jurisdiction and the policies enacted after the government decided to bomb Raccoon City, but I’ll mainly be focusing on things that are relevant to the DSO/Leon. I’m going to format this as bullet points for readability and also ‘cause I’ve rewritten this post like 3 times now because I hated the formatting. 
Most of this information comes from online documents created by Tokyo Marui which created several replica products of the RE weapons for Capcom. The “backstories” were supplemental materials were created to go alongside the release for RE6. The FBC info comes from Revelations. Buckle up, this is going to be a long one. 
Keep reading
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nicoolios · 17 days
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Project 2025
If this sounds bad to you, please remember to vote Democrat up and down your ballot from President to the most local elected official
and Mobilize and volunteer this year, any amount of work helps
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nicoolios · 18 days
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Total Eclipse 2024
My house was in the path of totality, so I paused work for a few hours and joined my neighbors and family in our front yard. We made rumchatas and Enchiladas Suizas and passed around extra eclipse glasses to our neighbors while my ex-husband blasted Total Eclipse of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler on repeat for an hour.
Y'all. It got DARK dark! I saw stars. And Mars and Jupiter! I CRIED REAL TEARS as an audible chorus of cheers erupted for miles around. The bats and owls started flying, and when the sun came into view again all the morning birds started calling again as if it were sunrise!
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Perhaps most notable was that our sky was overcast all morning with showers predicted for the afternoon. The sun was visible for 4 seconds at a time every few minutes. We were despondent, thinking we'd never get another chance at seeing a total eclipse. (The next total eclipse passing anywhere near me will be in 2077. I'd have to be over 100 years old to see it.) Just 10 minutes before totality, and the sun was still behind clouds:
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Then the clouds parted and stayed that way for the entire totality, only closing back in on the sun about 10 minutes after totality had passed. It felt like God had smiled on us.
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nicoolios · 20 days
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“My enemy is a notion, not a nation.” ―Connor Kenway
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nicoolios · 22 days
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Abel Soren
Part two of my theories on this au where Sam was given up instead of Caine. Like I said, it was really long so I cut it in two. Since I’m not going to give him Caine’s name and I want to be consistent with the slight symbolism of the biblical names, I renamed him Abel Soren. I suppose in this au, since Sam doesn’t really seem the type who’s an intentional troublemaker, he might have not ended up at Coates academy at all… then again, there are also some kids who didn’t really do anything but ended up there anyway. Either that, or his DNA connection to the gaiaphage would draw him to Perdido Beach.
His adoptive parents are rich but neglectful, showing little if any affection or love, and they send him off to boarding school at the first excuse.
His parents’ coldness impacted him badly as it did Caine, but in a different way, leading to Abel being withdrawn and quiet, not knowing how to show what he was never shown. He essentially just wants to be left alone, and rarely, if ever, smiles, speaking only when spoken to first.
I don’t think he’d necessarily be a villain in this au since having low-empathy doesn’t necessarily mean that person is bad, but he would butt heads against his brother, especially when he finds out their relation.
At Coates, he kept his head down and was content to be unknown until a similar incident to the “School Bus Sam” happened, except considering it’s Coates, it was probably either a fire or danger caused by another student. After that, he became famous in a way, considering how quick and efficent he stepped up and handled the situation where if he’d hesitated could have mean the death of many, but then how he eased back into the invisible and quiet life he was accustomed to immediately after.
This is what essentially drew Diana to him. Before she knew of her power, she just knew when she touched his hand that he was powerful for some reason, and was only proven right by his sudden act of bravery. She figured he could be use, using her looks and cunning to get his attention. A lot of her attempts were rebutted coldly until she eventually started to chip through his walls.
She respects his space, he respects hers.
This sparked a sort of odd relationship between them that couldn’t exactly be called friendship but at the same time, something more as she became one of the few people Abel talks to on his own. It’s similar to the unspoken relationship between Caine and Diana but healthier in a way. This was strengthened when she first witnessed his powers and lied about it to the teachers and police when they asked her what happened, as it cemented Abel’s belief that he could trust her.
He first realized he had his power when he caught Drake attacking someone (I haven’t decided exactly; could be Diana, could be one of the Coates mutants, could just be a random person) and impulsively tried to stop him when a beam of light shot out of his hands.
It burned off most of his arm, and the doctors were forced to amputate what remained, so most of what is done in the series is him with a prosethetic until he grows his “whip hand”.
When inquired about the situation, it was Drake’s word against Diana’s, and considering he had a more incriminating record, Abel kept a low profile, and he wasn’t exactly being innocent beforehand, no one believed him, and when it became obvious he would either be medicated or institutionalized if he kept ranting on about the quiet boy in class shooting green light from his hands, he let the issue drop. But never forgot.
This incident did, however, draw Connie Temple’s attention, and it only took a bit of digging and one look at him to realize he was her other son, that she had the same connection to something dark within him as David. She kept a close eye on him afterwards and made notes of her observations.
Drake isn’t considered an ally, but Abel is someone able to keep him under control since Drake had seen firsthand what he can do and what he can do again if he pushes him, and Abel takes full advantage of this so Drake won’t hurt Diana or anyone else.
Though he is reluctant to use his power again after seeing what it did to Drake, Diana encourages him to practice at it until he has a somewhat better grip on it.
When she realizes her power and makes up the bar system, she doesn’t hesitate to tell Abel there are others like him. He, however, doesn’t know what to do with this information, and just tries to go about like everything’s normal. Until normal crashes and burns.
After the Poof happens and the FAYZ, some of the Coates can’t help but expect Abel to do something since he has gained a reputation for being silent until the time calls for someone to step up.
With Abel not sure what exactly to do, when Diana suggests a travel to Perdido Beach to make a deal for food, he jumps at the opportunity for something to do, something to distract him from his thoughts.
Unlike Caine does in canon, he actually listens to her, and fully intends to come only for more food since they are bound to run out sooner or later, and if anyone wants to stay in town, that’s their decision, and he certainly wouldn’t blame them. Except he becomes curious when he goes there and meets David Temple, son of Nurse Connie Temple.
Abel’s actually quite impressed with how he’s handling the situation, but Diana senses something off, and shakes David’s hand to check, later telling Abel her findings as she whispers in his ear.
Shocked to find out there’s people with the power not just at Coates Academy but at Perdido Beach, and that this guy is apparently the only one Diana’s met with power at his strength, Abel decides to stay to find out more. See what else they have in common and if in solving this increasingly complicated puzzle, they might come a step closer to everything going back to normal.
He and David Temple form an uneasy alliance, since David doesn’t like the idea of sharing his position as leader.
After the twins disappear, he and Diana pitch the idea that it might be best to get everyone’s birth certificates in order to figure out what exactly they’re going to do and who is going to “poof” next. This is how the boys find out they’re twins.
It does not go well. At all.
The girls are in the background shaking their heads at them.
“Yours is an idiot, too?”
“Yep.“
“What do you know, something else they have in common.”
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