#even if it's an artifical color it can still be weird to have the same ahir color (mostly - even if it's in differing shades) for a long tim

[nuclearforest]

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Ty! This ask meme is so cute and it's not quite oversharing hour but I am about to provide far too much information on some really simple stuff lol. These were really fun 😊

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Ok so usually something like lavender or peppermint may be the usual goto but I have a long list of extremely comforting scents that are just a little bizarre. Imma share three. We got cleaning chemicals (specifically artifical lemon smells; there's the reassurance of being clean and a weird edge that drives a bit of joy), gasoline/auto shop smell (because I used to spend time going to classic car shows with my dad, but don't get to so much any more now that I've moved away; if I ever have kids I want to be able to provide the same joys if they like it), and the kinda fruity smell of one particular brand of gummies I can never remember and apparently soap used at the Swiss Chalet that we used to stop at en route driving up to my maternal grandmother's place in the woods (sweet sweet nostalgia).

[Okok ONE more. It's the smell of old labs. And I think it's gotta be argon in the air or something but it smells like science and history lol. It's kinda stale and musty but once you get used to it, it's nice.]

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Mint!

There's something really nice and sweet about like, a super light green almost on the side of blue. I'm a sucker for all sorts of vibrant and super saturated blue and teal colors, but mint is calming and usually used on super cute things because it's a pastel color. So I'm usually smiley when I see it. Would've been fun to have a color I associate with somebody or something, but the best I got there is the silver of my old car and the blue on my current car (lovingly called the Bastard even tho he takes good care of me 🤣). Also it's not exactly a color but I still smile when I see the plaid of my old Catholic school uniform, too. Probably another nostalgia thing.

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It's really hard to pick because I love so many. Like, it's a toss up between Pokemon Yellow, Minecraft, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky. Like, open world sandbox and dungeon crawlers are great and I love them to bits, but Pokemon Yellow holds a special place in my heart as my first game ever.

When I was a super young kid I got my cousin's hand-me-down teal Gameboy Color and Pokemon Yellow. I loved it to bits and even though in the beginning I always got lost in Viridian forest and would restart over and over again thinking it was the end of the game or something, I made it through one day. Like, I remember I used my first master ball on Zapdos, pretty much exclusively used my Nidoking in battle and always suffered uneven levelling as a result, and beat my elite four for the first time many restarts later. I also once restarted because I ran out of money to buy Pokeballs in Saffron city lol.

So like, any time I think about it I feel a bit warmer inside. And I don't really play any more (and the internal battery is probably dead, so goodbye cartridge memory) but thinking about it is fun. I should probably preserve all my old Gameboy Color games lol.

But that said answering this ask made me kinda pause and realize I derive a lot of joy and comfort from my past experiences. Probably why it feeds into how I really strive to make good memories now and take a little diary of notes so I can look back and smile. And I know that a lot of nostalgia is looking on the past with rose colored glasses, but I believe even so it can be a source of strength and motivation. So thanks again for the ask!

#mun rambles

[thenixkat]

Animorphs notes: Megamorphs 2

Megamorphs 2

Marco 1

Saw something on the news and mentioned it to the others leading to everyone in a storm trying to breathe in dolphin morph

Of course its not like sharks need to breath air and might be better in some cases

Marco uses humor to cope

Rainy day

So why are the animorphs getting involved with a sunken nuclear sub?

Marco wants to go out of his way to save people again.

Him and Rachel are like the most likely on the team to become superheros

Or they could put their stuff in a bag and bury it on the beach instead of putting things in the trash?

How exactly do these guys plan on rescuing people?

Cassie 1

Everybody morphs dolphin

They find the sub

Jake 1

Ah yes the plan to kidnap an officer. Totally would have no negative reprocussions

Can’t just act in a weird and obvious manner to direct people to the sub

Sometimes dolphins help people, sometimes dolphins kill people. Its a rulette game as to whichever a dolphin is more interested in at the moment

The writter makes a comment on war and nukes

A nuke goes off and instead of being vaporised by the light the kids get transported through time and space for some reason

Rachel 1

One of these days a kid is gonna get trapped in morph when they’re uncoincious

Cassie’s the only one who had any injuries from the fucking nuke going off

Why is there a volcano over there? There shouldn’t be volcanoes where they are

Rachel watches the Magic Schoolbus

That’s not how plesiosaurs work and you could never mistake them for a whale even with sonar

Ax is smug about those not being whales

Tobias 1

Why the hell are fucking plesiosaurs intered in them in the first place?

Tobias got vored by something big enough to swallow a 10ft at least dolphin whole

This is causing me pain

Rachel got vored by something that can fit 2 ten or so foot dolphins inside its stomach

Looked it up and yeah no, plesiosaurs were def known to not have flexible necks by the time this was written

No that can’t be an ichthyosaur b/c they’re gone by this point in the Cretaceous and the on ly ones that big were likely FILTER FUCKING FEEDERS

Random ass gulper eel dolphin sea monster

Rachel decides that morphing is the best idea in the stomach

Tobias morphs too

Jake 2

Ax doesnt get to have a turn yet what a surprise

Cassie says they should try to rescue Rachel and Tobias, Jake says thats a fucking dumb idea and he’s right

Jake is pissed at people getting themselves eaten and Cassie coming up with dumb fucking idea

There should actually be some seagull like dinosaurs but I think those were discovered much later than these were written

Kids finally put 2 and 2 together and realized that they aint in Kansas anymore

They havent actually put togther the gone back in time bit yet

Jake and the writer seem to be under the impression that dolphins have no natural defenses

They are almost there in realizing what happened

Cassie 2

Still no fucking Ax narration

THESE KIDS ARE REALLY FUCKING DUMB

Sauropods did not leave elephant like foot prints. At all

Nope not figured it out yet

Cassie, you should know that whales can’t swallow whole full gown dolphins

Cassie almost gets eaten by a crocodilian and these kids still haven’t fucking figured it out

Wait a minute. Grass doesn’t exist in this time period

Also Cassie should know better. Herbivores can and will fuck you up with little provication

They finally figured it out

I see we have movie monster Tyrannosaurs

Rachel 2

Wow Ax really doesnt have any rights does he?

...that’s not how anatomy

Bears are not herder to digest than dolphins

This is hurting ,me

Tobias everything you said aside from the hadrosaurs was pure bullshit

Rachel thinks the dinosaur angle is rediculous

Tobias 2

Tobias you have a fucking hork-bajir morph you utter dumbass

Wow Tobias is bad at morphing, he can’t even get rid of his injuries

Tobias gets to be extra useless and cause Rac hel pain by haveing to perch on her

Grass doesnt exist in this time period

There was a gradual decline in the late Cretaceous of nonavien dinosaurs, the asteroid was the last nail in the coffin

T. rex was just another animal not not much more dangerous than say a lion, just bigger

Marco 2

Ax doesnt get to narrate I guess

There is no reason for the tyrannosaur to be chasing them it just made a fucking kill

They aren’t even the right size to be worth the fucking effort either

Marco almost gets eaten and is saved by Ax who papercuts the thing to death

Ax 1

Yeaaaah Ax vs Tyrannosaur should not end in victory for Ax

I flatout don’t belive this rediculousness and my suspension of disbelife died several chapters ago

Ax is fucking shook that worked

Ok good Ax was very very fucking lucky that worked and not gonna try that again

No, Ax, no that is not scientificly possible b/c theres no fucking dna in the fucking fossiles they are bone and other shit shaped rocks

When the fuck did Cassie get any survival skills? Did she decide to brush up after the Karen incident

Well we have ‘I will survive this with or without you’!Cassie today

Yall could actually morph Ax and have your own andalite tails. Or fucking morph hork-bajir

Rachel 3

Grass still doesnt exist yet

At no point did rachel think to escue some modesty and make wraps for her feet

Rachel suggests that Tobias morph human, even perminatly

He is very shit at morphing 

I guess he expects that he’s got days to live as a wounded bird over anything else he could fucking morph

Rachel refuses to fucking make it known that she’s suffering

In what fucking world does that description matach a triceratops

Also deinonychus, not around at the end of the cretaceous

Deinonychus is about almost 3 ft tall at hip and a ft longer than that

Naked ass ones at that

Them going after them at least makes sense

Cassie 3

Camping and eating tyrannosaur meat

Gonna sleep in shifts

People keep forgetting that they have hork-bajir morphs which are amazing and also that they could just aquire Ax

Tobias 3

Nothing about the majority of large dromaeosaurs suggests that they’re fast. The opposite actually. Ambush predators not chasers.

Tobias and Rachel split up

Tobias and the writers forgot about wing assisted incline running and the fact that raptors can fucking climb if the have to

Tobias drops on one and aquires it

Tobias 4?

This is going with the not-dynonicus being diurnal for some reason

Tobias lost control of the morph and will probably attack Rachel

Jake 3

The rock that was the final nail for the dinos is estableshed bvery firmly\

Stampede

And a nother tyrannosaur

Jake trips and falls when it matters most

Rachel 4

Tobias is really serious about not identifying as human

Rachel tries to reach him over smashing the lead raptor

Jake 4

Jake gets vored by the tyrannosaur whole even tho it was already eating bigger more interesting prey

Jake aquires the thing and starts morphing imediately

That tyrannosaur broke its fucking tail

Everyone aquires the injured dinosaur

Marco 3

Marcos not happy and everyone misses Rachel

More travel

Ax says the flash of light that started the stampede was artifical

Did Ax just say he can see ultraviolet and infrared

They find an alien city

Tobias 5

Tobias is bitching about Rachel still being mad that he gutted her

Neither of them are healing their injuries for no good reason

Ew, Tobias gross.

Rachel has a raptor morph now

Rachel isn’t a coherent person when hrungy and tired

Why are there coconut trees? They dont exist yet

Rachel eats a not coconut

No. That is not a fucking spinosaurus. Spino is fucking African and didn’t live at the same time as T.rex

Tobias metally calls Rachel stupid

Rachel 5

This is really fucking poorly reserched

And lo an alien:

And that's when I noticed the other creature step smoothly out from the

bushes.

It walked on two legs. It was rough-textured, like it had really chapped

skin. It was reddish in color. It had two big eyes and a small mouth,

all of the same reddish-rust hue. It stood about eight feet tall. It was

carrying a weapon.

The creature gazed curiously at us with what seemed to be eyes, although

they were mere indentations in its face. From its head a pair of

antennae, flexible as whips, grew and began waving toward us.

The alien calls dibs on the dinosaurs and speaks Fucking English

The nesk

The nesk is a pile of antlike creatures

Anmd really Rachel just fucking escalate things to outright violence

Cassie 4

Cassie suggests that they just go see who the aliens are

And that Jake stay behind b/c she doesnt want to loose more people

The alien city:

We flew toward the shining city in the valley. With osprey eyes I could see much more clearly. I saw buildings that rose in steep, smooth sweeps, like they'd grown from the bedrock. Windows were stuck in odd locations, some aiming out, others more like skylights. And there were fields planted with green and arranged in neat circles instead of rows.

The aliens themselves:

As we got closer, I could see creatures of some sort. They looked a little like large - very large - crabs. Only with shells in a wild array of colors, deep blue, spring green, orange. And while on one side there was something very much like a large pincer, on the other side there was a pair of hands.

Crab people

TRhe kids are attacked by naked pterosaurs

Tobias 6

Wow its almost like starting a fight with an unknown party can go wrong

The ship:

The ground beside me exploded, like it had been ripped by an invisible

plow. I jumped. Another plow mark just behind me! I saw movement. And

there, racing toward us across the plain, was a gleaming, silver craft.

Maybe twice the size of a Bug fighter, but shaped like an elongated

pyramid, long end forward.

The nesk herd Rachel and Tobias away from their claimed territory

Ah they’re falling over the cliff of the mercora city

Jake 5

Daring mid air antics and the team is reunited

Also a force field wich is smart\

Ax is tired of having to be the info guy

At least its not a killer forcefield like the kind that yeerks use

The mercora introduce themselves

Ax 2

Ax and his andalite bullshit

More of the mercora:

There were three of the creatures. They moved upon seven legs. Four on

one side, three on the other. To make matters worse, the four

legs were larger than the three. So they scuttled sideways in the

direction of the small legs.

They stood about half the height of a tall human, and seven or eight

feet wide.

On the side with the four big legs, there was a sort of three-way pincer

claw. It looked very powerful. It looked like the sort of thing I would

not want to have to fight against.

On the other side, the weak side, there were two arms similar to my own,

but even stronger than human arms. The arms ended in long, tapered,

delicate fingers.

There were a lot of eyes. They kept opening and shutting, one or two or

three at a time. They were each hidden beneath tiny trap doors in the

Mercora's exoskeleton or shell. Eyes were forever appearing and

disappearing. It was very, very distracting.

Which is a cool design

They talk in thought speak

Just b/c humans in the future don’t know about the mercora doesnt mean they left or were destroy you dumb fucks

Marco 4

The mercora healed Tobias, gave everyone food, a place to stay and even offered to make them soem clothes

The crabs wear clothing or at least make it

And they have force field furniture

Also that’s not how broccli works

Marco makes a vore joke about the mecora

Really Cassie?

The mercora are herbivores

All you have is the mecoras’ word on that and they are in direct conflict with the nesk 

And so what if they’re scavengers?

Very rarely but sometimes Cassie has a valid point

Ax 3

Ax is still kinda specist

Hmm I wonder why the mercora aprove? Its not like they can have an alterior motive here

And the mercora are going to help

Ax is very lonely in genera;

Cassie 5

The writers are fucking awesomebros

And they can’t control the morphs

Cassie gets wounded by a ceratopsian

Jake 6 

What? We were just with Cassie oh forget it

Jake is suicidally confidant that Cassie wouldn’t eat him

Apparently Jake is right

Cassie freaks out

Ax 3

Tobias keeps being wrong.

The nesk have thought speak detectors

Tobias 7

They group steal an explosive and destroy the nesk ships

Rachel 6

The nesk retaliate very effectively

Ax calls for back up 

TRachel throws herself around to draw away fire from the others

The mercora attempt a rescue and loose a ship

Culture:

The Mercora saucer picked us up, us and our little nuke. But they were a

grim, depressed bunch of aliens. It was hard to tell at first. But then

I noticed that each of them was minus one of their smaller legs. There

were just oozing stumps.

"What happened to your legs?" I asked. But even as the words were out of

my mouth, I saw the limbs in the corner. They were laid out on a

brightly colored cloth which was draped over a shelf. There was

something ceremonial about it. Almost religious.

<Can you explain the meaning of this?> Ax asked politely.

<We must make the sacrifice of pain. The legs will regenerate, but those

we honor will not,> the Mercora pilot said. <This is a symbol. It speaks

to our spirit's pain, by echoing it in physical pain.>

"They did this for the Mercora who were in the other ship?" Jake asked.

<For those who were in both ships,> the pilot said. <To be killed is a

sadness. To kill is a sin.>

Jake says the they owe the mercora for saving them

Fuck you Tobias

Tobias 8

Tobias this is premeditated murder

The nesk have decided to leave the earth

The mercora claim that the nesk altered the path of the meteor

They want to use the bomb to save themselves

Cassie 6

Fuck you Tobias

You need to be held accountable for this shit

Its almost like the vast majority of things to ever live never leave any fucking fossils you nit

This bastard is really trying to justify himself like this is anyway defensible

Fuck you Tobias, you get to join Cassie and Jake in the bin of fucking terrible people

Jake 7

Oh what you little bitch babies can’t handle the consequences?

Tobias deserves his unhappines and eventual death

Cassie 7

Cassie at least decides to bear witness to their crime

CVassie saw the time pass

No good reason given why they can’t retain those morphs

Tobias needs to pay for his shit

#nix reads animorphs #animorphs #this was very poorly reserched #and tobias deserves his suffering

[flippinoptimist]

> Vel : Meet a nerdlord

Today at 2:45 AM

deputyheadmistress Alright, someone talking to you on my behalf about a lack of privacy got to me a bit. But I'm not upset with you for how the internet behaves.

flippinoptimist thats lurky, theyre a little closer to omniscient than is average for most beings, and like kind of giving advice, and they mean well i think they meant it mostly to make me stop chargin around in like, manic mode, though, even if stuff relatin to you was the causal start of the chain sorry you got dragged into it miss granger, and that i wasn't doin the tact thing

deputyheadmistress I didn't mean them, I meant the thread about different faux book titles. But a close to omniscient being is, I suppose, something I'll also have to get used to. I'm at least a bit used to manic teens, though it's not the best way to get shocking information.

flippinoptimist i think my earth age would technically start with a two, but thats sorta recent after you spend enough time around here you get used to the like, multiverse

deputyheadmistress Can we, perhaps, stop talking about the multiverse for a few moments? And talk about something a bit more grounding, like your particular brand of magic. I'm very curious.

flippinoptimist sure its sorta a fusion of everything ive run across, since the inherent stuff that my ~destiny~ tried to put on me isnt the same kind of stuff as the place where im learnin the inherent is more of a "woo, heres a big abstract concept, you are an incarnation / channeler of a shard of it, neato"

deputyheadmistress That sounds like a lot to dig into, but alright.

flippinoptimist the school part is about how you can structure thought and energy flow into symbols and runes and things i'm focusin on artificing ..and the inherent part has given me a knack for illusions i cant figure out how to actually cast spells but im good at making things!

deputyheadmistress Oh! I was very good at ancient runes during my time at Hogwarts, and while I haven't managed to do much with it since graduation, other than an enchanted bag, I'd be really curious to see what similarities there might be. I wonder if you can cast spells. Logic seems like it'd point to yes, but if you're from somewhere else...

flippinoptimist id be curious about them!  i know the words to a few spells but ive never seen  them and do naut have a wand of the kind you are thinking of the wands i know about / make each have a specific spell in them, and are locked to create a specific effect that triggers when a gesture or word or w/e happens

deputyheadmistress That's terribly inefficient.

flippinoptimist sure, its Terrible

deputyheadmistress ... Is that referencing those historical people of note who end up being so infamous people associate them with the word 'Terrible' as well?

flippinoptimist naut much different than having a necklace that makes you invisible though yes! it also enables a billion terrible puns

deputyheadmistress I was curious. It's a bit strange to add it yourself, don't you think?

flippinoptimist (ba dum tsh)

deputyheadmistress Oh.

flippinoptimist it is

deputyheadmistress Well, that explains that, doesn't it?

flippinoptimist but my species has this thing, where on adulthood we each replace our kid name with an adult Title

deputyheadmistress Oh, it's a cultural thing.

flippinoptimist yeah, and i chose a human one

deputyheadmistress Alright. I read a little bit on that.

flippinoptimist because humans are neat and i like them

deputyheadmistress Oh! Well, I'm glad you like humans, then.

flippinoptimist and i respect a lot of the cultural things i see in most of the human places i have found

deputyheadmistress Good, I was about to ask that.

flippinoptimist also everything that comes out of japan is amazing

deputyheadmistress I don't know how I could let you use a wand from here, but I want to try.

flippinoptimist id love to try if you can think of a way! i am pretty good at establishing first contact with new universes, and i could get you alien tech and magic to check out if you wanted for various definitions of alien

deputyheadmistress ... Alien tech won't work so well on Hogwart's grounds. I had to heavily modify this computer so it'd function here.

flippinoptimist i am curious about how

flippinoptimist alllsooo....  ill have to find a copy of the magic version of getting around from place to place

deputyheadmistress Oh! I wrote a whole thesis on how to make magic more compatable with muggle text over the summer, let me...

flippinoptimist but i know where to find it!  couple of steps and itll work out okay

deputyheadmistress I'll send it to you later. It's a bit lengthy, and I have to type it up here. Alright, I'll hold.

flippinoptimist okay i hate to say this because i am definitely interested in exchangin data and showin things, but it feels rude not to remind you before we get much further that a step of getting this to work is probably going to involve me (random internet stranger) havin to figure out what your coordinates are, so i can write them in the format needed for the circley part i can get you the circle rune pattern either way, but if you want a way to actually use it, id need to basically track your IP but, like, fancy and involving you running a thing on a computer let me know if you want to do that part, but heres the circle diagram

flippinoptimist -- flippinoptimist began sending file : transportationcircle.pdf --

deputyheadmistress I have been warned about random internet strangers.... I may have to work on protection wards for a moment, for the sake of safety.

flippinoptimist sure thing i highly advise not using that w/o fillin in coordinates the way it says, and also not without knowin your home coordinates if you step through that thing, the only way back is to know how to write your home address, you know?

deputyheadmistress Alright

flippinoptimist to find home coordinates, install one a these chat programs, and send me a private message, i can use a couple a tools to trace the connection from there and get your code

deputyheadmistress This is certainly the sort of decision I want to be making at five in the morning. Alright, I've got everything set up. What is life without adventure, and the chance to make the headmistress mad at me.

flippinoptimist lol the decision will still be here at not five in the morning, but you wont be able to blame it on the time then shit i should give you the programs shouldnt i -- Discord, Trollian! --

deputyheadmistress Thank you.

flippinoptimist i have a set of coords i can give you that are explicitely for being a neutral place to meet people, but the sky isnt done yet so its janky lookin but!  the building is finished

deputyheadmistress I've chosen a fairly neutral place for the moment, don't worry.

flippinoptimist ok!

deputyheadmistress > Message him on Discord. This will be absolutely fine. Totally.

flippinoptimist > He messages her back!  About two minutes later, he gives her the number version of her coordinates, which she can use to get back home from anywhere.  He also gives her the coordinates to the convenience store, which he mentions is "a pocket dimension under construction"

deputyheadmistress > She'll... Write that down and probably not do anything with it for a while. > If he tries to look at her coordinates directly, it will really really not work, as if his machine were glitching, but he can probably go a few miles out for a nice view of a scottish country side.

flippinoptimist > Neat!  He ..does poke that far, but then sets his machine to go back to looking somewhere else.  The coordinates are saved, but he promises to himself to not use them. if somebody gives you coordinates, you can go places, or people w/ yours can send you stuff or come visit

deputyheadmistress Alright. This is going to take a bit of getting used to, but if you want to come over you can.

flippinoptimist > ..man, he was supposed to be in time out, but lately he'd been doing so well ..until today.. and he'd been leaning into choosing the Chaotic choices more and more often... > What good was putting yourself in time out if you didn't stick to it?

flippinoptimist crazy o clock in the mornin probably aint the best time for first impressions, though its temptin as hell.  i could send across some small magic gunk and weird alien snacks as a proof of concept, and meet you like, tomorrow or another day soon?

deputyheadmistress That sounds good! I'll send you some magic things too, then.

flippinoptimist sweet!  we can compare notes

deputyheadmistress > Time to gather some of George's jokes and some magical candy.

flippinoptimist > He would send an invisibility ring, a few novelty disguises, a small opal that made anyone within line of sight experience a slightly sweet taste (in a well-shielded bag), and a variety of alternian mass-produced snackfoods labled in a clearly alien language.  Ones he thought might not creep out humans too bad.

deputyheadmistress > Bertie botts every flavor beans are a necessity, though she does make sure to include a carefully penned note about what flavors he may come across that are less pleasant. Chocolate frogs are included as well, of course. Things that turn skin different interesting colors, fireworks that make flame animals bound through the air.

flippinoptimist > He is going to admire the hell out of and carefully store these for later perusal.

deputyheadmistress > He also gets a somewhat large coinpurse that he can shove his whole arm in and still seem to not run out of room.

flippinoptimist okay this is a pretty neat bag stupid question and no i am not going ot try, what happens when you turn it inside out

deputyheadmistress You could turn it out for a really long time. I think it'd be annoying to stuff it back in though

flippinoptimist okay, what if i went for a swim in the ocean with it is there a limit?

deputyheadmistress Of course there's a limit. But it can hold a tent or two, several thin blankets, changes of clothing, general everyday use things, and of course money. Thin things work better, obviously. You could probably fit thick blankets, but it'd be way more annoying both to put them in and pull them out.

flippinoptimist that makes a lotta sense and is pretty interestin i have a tech way of carrying lots of stuff, but you mentioned tech was sad

deputyheadmistress Oh! I have a print version of the paper I was going to type up.

flippinoptimist ive got an amulet thats basically like a mr potato head that disguises you all the runework lines up so you can unclip parts and clip in different parts

deputyheadmistress > Send that along, also. There's moving pictures involved, with her pictured. Oh wow.

flippinoptimist modular!

deputyheadmistress I don't think describing it as 'Mr Potato Head' is reassuring, for a disguise, but a modular disguise is interesting.

flippinoptimist it only works when everything is seated in firmly and shut, but its also sort of like legos > He .. sends a modular disguise amulet over too, with a couple of bits and pieces it only does disguises for my species, but hey, maybe thatll be handy

deputyheadmistress Maybe.

flippinoptimist pro tip if you are ever going to go to a place with my species, ask them which color of person is best for you to be can of worms subject really

deputyheadmistress That sounds racist as hell.

flippinoptimist oh yeah

deputyheadmistress Joy.

flippinoptimist p much sometides people call the usual empress "fish hitler" most of the dudes i know are huge rebels

deputyheadmistress The magical world just recently got done with a war similar to Hitler's.

flippinoptimist but!  there are placeswhere things are fine its just good to check if a place is one of them first

deputyheadmistress So I'm a little sick of that.

flippinoptimist i hang out in like three different places where she got deposed differentamounts of time ago yeah thats aight

deputyheadmistress At least there's that.

flippinoptimist speaking of humans, its great how often its naut like that like, sometimes, but anyway people can be pretty cool when teyre given teh chance

deputyheadmistress I do like to believe in the inherent goodness of people, despite how much bad has happened.

flippinoptimist i think people can choose how theyre gonna be theresa lotta nice reasons to choose not to be a dick

deputyheadmistress I should hope you wouldn't need reasons, but yes there are reasons to be nice.

flippinoptimist sometimes bein mean is tempting, otherwise people wouldnt do it you get all wrapped up in somethin, dont see all of it, then suddenly you get a reality check an gotta go "hey is this where i wanna be" and then people ignore the question because they dont wanna think about it and then its sealed, theyre dicks and theyll stay that way

flippinoptimist till they look around again

deputyheadmistress I suppose.

flippinoptimist i spend a lotta time thinkin about it i was a jerk when i was younger, and i decided to be nice instead so i spend a lot of time talkin to dudes who are or were also jerks and we all get better! cause i can help them find the reasons they need to start

flippinoptimist also jerks are sometimes kinda hilarious, and theyre often pretty good at shit.  otherwise theyd have learned better when they ran into a problem they couldnt solve w/o help.

deputyheadmistress It's getting a bit late. I think I should probably turn in for the night, before all of the teenagers wake up and need scowling at.

flippinoptimist that is probably a thing i hope you have a good night miss granger it was nice meetin you

deputyheadmistress It was really interesting talking to you, Vel.

flippinoptimist i try for interestin

deputyheadmistress Do you really need to try?

flippinoptimist not really

deputyheadmistress Have a good night. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

flippinoptimist bye!

#ooc eyes only #deputyheadmistress

[crwdby]

Chapter 1 - First Encounters

From what Yang could see, this was not a good situation to be in. At one end of the room was a group of colorful soldiers holding a variety of weapons. At the other side, was a partially blocked off door being cut by some tool that wasn’t seen. This looked like the setting for one of those photos with a cheesy inspirational quotes like, “Sometimes all you have is faith to go on.” But something was off. No one was moving, suddenly a small blue soldier of a similar style of armor appeared and began to run calculations on how to get his team out of this.

The stress of trying to find a way to escape was too taxing on the little guy, and he started to glitch out. He knew what would happen next and knew he wouldn’t be able to be there for his friends, so he did the next best thing. He recorded a message.

“Start a recording for me D.” The blue man said. Another green soldier said “Recording.” And disappeared, leaving the blue guy to his message.

“Hey guys… if you’re hearing this then it means you did it. You won. You kicked the shit out of Hargrove’s forces. I knew you could… But this is my last stop. See, when I came into this world, I was really just a collection of somebody else’s memories.”

As he speaks, the Yang looks around at all of the soldiers there, it seemed to Yang that there were two sub-teams a Red group, and a Blue group.

“But with your help, these memories… they-they took form! They became my voice, my personality. And, after a while, I… I began to make brand new memories of my own. All of these things are what make me who I am… but they’re also holding me back.”

The soldier turns and looks toward the person in the center, with a different armor style.

“I can’t run this suit as Epsilon, but if I erase my memories, if I… deconstruct myself, the fragments I’ll leave behind will have the strength to get you through this. I believe that.”

Suddenly, Yang was in another place, some kind of airship with another group of soldiers. All while this soldier, who has a super weird name “Epsilon” continues to speak from no where and every where.

“I wish that there was another way. But I’m leaving this message, as well as others, in the hopes that you’ll understand why I have to go this time… *small chuckle*It was actually… Doyle, who made me realize something that I’ve never thought of before. There are so many stories where some brave hero decides to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors all cheer, and everybody lives happily ever after.”

Yang is suddenly returned to the original room, with the colorful soldiers. Epsilon looking sadder than when he first appeared.

“But the hero… never gets to see that ending. They’ll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference.

Epsilon begins to change color and look like several different people.

“They’ll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith.”

The sound of glass shattering is heard and Yang’s vision goes black. Yang assumes that that is Epsilon ‘dying’ or ‘fragmenting’ or whatever he wanted to call it.

Yang jolted up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, to her surprise there was a small man in full armor floating in front of her, “Calm down it was just a nightmare,” The cobalt ghost said. “Who are you?” The blonde asked in fear. “I could ask you the same question.” The soldier retorted, confused about how he got here, talking to this girl.

“Yang… go back to bed…” The red leader said dreamily, unaware of Yang’s new friend. The blue apparition quickly disappeared as to not be discovered ‘I must be dreaming’ Yang thought as she laid her head back down to go back to sleep, “You aren’t, trust me.” the blue ghost said just before Yang drifted into unconsciousness.

Yang was woken up the next morning by Weiss yelling, “Yang if you don’t wake up I’ll shave your head!” The blonde teen quickly woke up in fear that she’d lose the one thing she loved the most. “I’m up! Stop yelling. I had the weirdest dream last night. I saw a group of soldiers, and then one… a tiny blue one started to spout a depressing speech about how he couldn’t be there with his friends, and had to 'deconstruct himself’” Weiss was curious about this. A tiny blue person, having to deconstruct itself? “Was this tiny man an AI by chance?” Yang, being Yang wasn’t much of a tech nerd so she said in a fashion all to familiar, “AI…  What’s the A stand for?” Weiss irritated with her teammate’s ignorance for artificial intelligence, said quickly “Artifical” Yang was still in the dark, “And what’s the I-” she was cut off when Weiss anticipated this follow up question, “Intelligence” Ruby than caused Yang to question her previous statement, “Are you sure it was a dream, I remember waking up last night to you talking to someone.” Yang didn’t know what to think, “We’ll talk about this later, I’ve got to get ready for class!” Unknown to Yang, Church, who thought he was the Alpha, because all he can remember is his name, but is really just a confused Epsilon, was trying to figure out where he was and how he got implanted into a high school teen, only he didn’t know what today was in store for him.

Throughout the whole morning Yang tried to contact this mysterious AI, she had forgotten what the A stood for again so she planned to ask Weiss what is meant again soon, finding conveniently loud times in the hallways to say things like, “Hey blue guy, are you there?” And trying to think him into talking to her, nothing worked, so she could only assume that it was a dream, and by lunch had almost forgotten about the mysterious cobalt man.

It wasn’t until lunch that the soldier spoke up, after researching what he’d landed himself into by covertly transferring himself to Yang’s Scroll and learning everything he could. What he said made Yang jump a little bit in her seat, in the middle of biting into her sandwich. “God, Remnant is fucking weird,” The before mentioned jump didn’t go unnoticed by her teammates, “Yang? What’s up?” The brawler’s sister asked. “It’s nothing, I thought I heard a fly go by by ear.” Her team went along with the lie and thought nothing of it, while Yang tried to understand the the person she met last night was real. 'Oh my god, you’re real!’ Yang thought, very surprised about the sudden appearance of the soldier. “Of course I’m real! I’m not some figment of your imagination, or your search history. You better clear that shit before someone sees that. Your Faunus friend wouldn’t like it if she saw that.” Yang was confused by his last statement. 'Who? Velvet?’ “Is Velvet the girl in front of you, with the bow?” Church asked not knowing anyone’s name, despite having been in Yang’s Scroll. 'Uh no, that’s Blake, and I’m pretty sure she’s not a Faunus, the bow is just for fashion.’ “I bet if you ask what’s under that bow she’ll tell you it’s cat ears.” The ghost stated, confident that Blake was a Faunus. 'Ok, when I get a chance, I’ll ask, to prove you wrong!’ Yang thought loudly, also very confident that Blake wasn’t a Faunus.

Team RWBY got up from their table to go to they’re next class, history. When the team got there and sat down, Professor Oobleck greeted them, “Good afternoon ladies, are you ready for another exciting day of history?” The professor spoke so fast the the team could only agree and hope it was the right response. At the same time Church was dumbfounded. “Holy fuck is that Caboose?” Church thought in Yang’s mind, as Church thought about Caboose, memories flooded Yang. Everything from the blue idiot calling Church’s girlfriend a slut, all the way to Epsilon-Church fragmenting himself to save the Blood Gulch Crew and Chorus, although, most of it was a bit skewed, because all Church knew was what Caboose had told him, and that never goes over well.

Little did Yang know, her emotions took over and she started to cry, in the middle of class. “Yang, what’s up? Why are you crying?” Weiss asked, almost like she was concerned about her teammate. Yang was unaware of this and wiped her cheek to see that she was indeed crying. Trying to think of a quick response, she went to the first thing she could think of. “Oh, I was thinking about how my little sister was able to skip years of training to be able to go to the same school as us!” This made Ruby blush and Blake to begin to question Yang’s behavior today. The secret Faunus made a note to ask about it when she got a chance.

“Smooth” was all the cobalt ghost said after the blonde’s quick thinking. 'I’m a charismatic, what can I say?’ She thought as the team left the classroom to spend the rest of the day training. As Yang got Ember Celica from her locker, she quickly thought 'Oh I never introduced myself, I’m Yang Xiao Long. Nice to meet you.’ Church appeared inside of her locker so only she could see him. “I’m Leonard Church, but that’s the guy who made an AI after himself, who was given the name Alpha.” Yang was bombarded by Church’s memories of Project Freelancer and how the Director tortured the Alpha in order to make AIs for his agents. “Oh, uh… Sorry about that. Even I have difficulty remembering that without wanting to breaking something.” During that memory episode Yang didn’t know whether to cry again, or to use that to help her train and get it out of her system. “But most people call me Church” the AI sarcastically added before Yang left the locker room to meet her team.

After a well needed training session to get her, and Church’s emotions out, Church took note of Yang’s weapons, “Sarge would love to get his hands on those wrist shotguns, I don’t know how Grif would like them, though.” That made Yang laugh a bit, which the team found odd because no one had said anything. “Yang what’s so funny?” The ice princess asked. “I just thought of a joke,” the punny blonde said. “What do you get when you combine something cool, with Weiss?” “What?” The team asked in unison, preparing themselves for an abysmal pun. “The bees Schnees!” The punster yelled, Ruby doubled over in laughter and Blake gave a chuckle to satisfy the blonde, but Weiss on the other hand, was not amused. The heiress put her rapier in her locker, and stormed off to the teams’ dorm while the sisters couldn’t stop laughing. Church cracked a smile, but no one saw it, because he has a helmet on, and he wasn’t projecting himself.

The team had gone to their dorm to clean up before dinner, and it was Yang’s turn to use the restroom. Church took this opportunity to talk to Yang while they had privacy. “So I see you haven’t told anyone about me.” The small AI said as Yang closed the door. “Well I want to know that you’re not gonna hurt my team or be some sort of spy.” The blond responded while getting ready for her shower, comfortable enough with the AI to trust him to be decent enough not to look. “Hey just be glad you have me, and not Tucker.” Church said laughing a bit, not looking, confirming Yang’s theory of decency… for today. Yang laughed too, at the memories Church gave her of Tucker. “Yeah I’m very glad”

When Yang was done cleaning herself up, she exited the shower, ready for dinner, but her team had something else in mind. “Yang, we know something’s up with you. Don’t lie, and we won’t touch the hair!” Ruby declared, trying to be threatening. “What are you guys talking about, I’ve been me this whole time!” Yang began, thinking of a way to explain this weird day.

“We know you’re good at puns, but lately, you’ve been too good. Almost like you’ve had help.” The red leader started, but Yang interrupted before Ruby could continue. “Is this what’s happening? An intervention about my puns? Nothing more serious like, *imitating Ruby* 'huh you’ve haven’t been yourself lately Yang, have you been stressed out lately?’ or, 'hey why have you been different lately? Is it because you’ve been taking too much time thinking about our first mission as a team this year?’” Ruby was taken aback by this outburst, “Yang it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously, gosh way to be a Debby downer.” Ruby sighed as RWB left the room to go to dinner, leaving Yang and Church to think on what just happened “They have no idea I exist, huh” Church said after a minute. “No, I guess they don’t.” Yang said sadly, because she probably ruined her little sister’s joke, thinking they knew about her new friend. “I’m gonna go catch up with them and apologize.” The blonde said as she ran out the door to meet up with her team.

“Guys I’m sorry I took your little intervention too seriously. I really have been taking this whole mission thing too seriously I guess.” Yang apologized to her team as they entered the big mess hall. “Yang it’s ok, we just didn’t expect you to get so serious with it, we just thought your jokes were more… intellectual than in the past.” The heiress said flatly. Yang pulled out a comically large book with the title 'Big Book O’ Puns’ in large letters on the front and said, “Well I have been studying Punology recently, I was wondering if you guys’d noticed.” 'Christ, Yang where do you keep that book?’ Church thought inside of Yang worriedly, the brawler quickly responded, “You’d be surprised how much I can fit in here” mentally referring to her cleavage. 'Yeah I don’t want to know anymore’ Church replied quickly and went into Yang’s scroll to do calculations with Delta, just to get out of that conversation. “We knew you had some sort of help. We thought it was a person, but a book works too.” Ruby said, glad that everything was normal. “Lets eat dinner and then we get to pick our very first mission as a team tomorrow!”

#rvb #rwby #fanfic #crossover #you can also find this on my AO3 rS78thUniverse #monthly updates