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purple-sea-dragon · 4 years

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yet another chapter of Cold For Years because i’m a weak bitch with no self control

yeah you read the post title you know what this is about

so chapter two is here!! man in glass part two inspired me to crank out another three thousand words or so. kabert out here giving the gays everything they want

here’s the ao3 link if you want to read it over there with all the tag warnings

Jet knows, in the grand scheme of things, very little about Juno Steel.

He knows the lady is thirty nine years old, and that before he joined up with Buddy’s family he had never before left Mars, and that he is light enough that Jet can pick him up like a sac of stolen creds. He knows that Juno, for a brief period, worked for Ramses O’Flaherty, and that the politician had given him one of the most expensive and invasive cybernetic prosthetic eyes on the market, and because he ripped that eye out of Juno’s head Jet knows that Juno had a twin brother named Benzaiten that had died when the two of them were just nineteen. Jet knows that Juno is a former cop, that he is an above average detective with the ear of almost every socialite in Hyperion city, and that he does not like tea, but he likes it more than being uninformed or the idea of killing another person. He knows quite a bit about how much Juno detests the idea of killing another human being. Juno wears his feelings on his face and his shoulders and his hands, worn thin through years of exposure.

Juno does not like that he wears his feelings, for all that he cannot help doing so. Jet knows this, too.

This smaller version of Juno wears his own identity like a caricature of the lady Jet has grown to respect. He’s snappish and vicious and somehow also painfully uncertain and withdrawn like a shadow of himself, quiet and nervous in a way Jet didn’t know Juno had the capacity to be, in a way that Jet doesn’t like. Their Juno, the thirty-nine year old one, knows how to take up space with his whole personality, and cry because he’s feeling so strongly for another person, and trade quips like he used to be able to trade blaster fire. He is gruff, but kind, in his way. He likes clever turns of phrase and solving puzzles and helping just because he can, even though he pretends not to. He is demanding and loud and settled in himself in a way that Jet admires, even if it is occasionally inconvenient.

He watches Juno from the counter as the eight-year-old finishes his mug of whiskey and somehow manages to hover slightly in Rita’s shadow, even as he’s sitting down. His eyesight isn’t what it used to be but if he squints hard enough, he can make out the individual bones in Juno’s wrists, and the finger-deep dips in his collarbones where there should be more of him, and the tiny divots of burned, glassy tissue where someone has put out almost an entire pack of cigarettes on his shoulder blades. His sweater is hanging off of one shoulder, Jet realizes. Eight year old Juno is significantly smaller than his usual counterpart. Are children supposed to be that small? Jet has very limited knowledge about children. It has been many decades since he was even close to being one himself. He thinks again about his ability to manhandle an adult Juno like a doll and wonders if it is a characteristic the detective will ever grow out of.

“-is that alright, Juno?” Buddy is talking. Jet gives himself the smallest of shakes, bringing himself back to the present.

“Yeah, I guess,” is the sullen reply, punctuated by another gulp of alcohol and a long, weighted pause. “I don’t think it’s smart, though.” Small Juno has the slightest bit of a lisp. Every ‘s’ sound he makes comes out with a very soft ‘th’.

“Oh?” Buddy quirks her eyebrow. It’s the one hidden by her bangs, so the effect isn’t quite as dramatic as it could have been. “Whatever do you mean, darling?”

Juno shrugs. “Do you know anything about the pyramid other than it’s worth a lot of money and it made me tiny after I touched it?”

“Some,” Buddy admits. “Basic mythology, it’s role in ancient Venusian society. But not as much as I would like, in this current situation.”

Juno nods decisively. “How do you know that if I touch it again it isn’t gonna steal another thirty one years from me and wipe me out of existence completely?”

That’s a valid question, and not one Jet would like to consider at length. The idea of Juno dying is upsetting, to say the least. It appears that the rest of the crew feels the same way, based on the abrupt silence that descends upon all of them. Rita looks a second away from crying, and Ransom doesn’t look far behind her. Vespa looks, for the first time, visibly not upset, which says quite a bit about how upset she actually is.

“We do not know what will happen if Juno regains contact with the artifact,” Jet speaks for the first time since Vespa returned to the kitchen with Juno in tow and this family meeting commenced. “Therefore, we should conduct further research into this matter to see if we can uncover any hidden knowledge. I also believe we should keep Juno away from the pyramid until we are certain of its function.”

“I agree with Jet,” Vespa rasps. “Better safe than sorry.”

He catches Juno’s eye as the child is glancing between them all, giving him a small nod. Juno shrinks into himself the tiniest bit, turning back towards the table and curling even tighter around his empty mug like a cloud of nervous gas around a black hole.

Jet remembers the tears of the medbay and the fear in Juno’s voice as he spoke about his mother, thinks about the decades-long gaps in his knowledge and reminds himself that, in the grand scheme of things, he knows very little about Juno Steel.

It’s a well worn thought, at this point. The sting at accompanies it is profoundly new.

Juno likes familiarity.

He’s a simple gal, he thinks. He likes knowing what all his options are in every given situation, what the rules and expectations are, and how likely he is to get in trouble for breaking them and to what degree. In Oldtown that’s not a problem; It’s better to ghost your dealer than have an argument about switching suppliers, the bars don’t card you if you look older than about six, if you’re gonna steal food it’s better to hit up a big store than a small one, and if you even look at a cop the wrong way you’ll end up in a ditch if your lucky and your family will if you aren’t. These are rules Juno knows by heart, ones he hasn’t had to think about since Mama moved them all out to Oldtown and Mick and Sasha started looking after them.

Juno has to take a second and focus on anything that isn’t Mama, or Mick, or Benten. The feelings he knows are there are still just kind of nameless and amorphous and hovering on the edge of his thoughts. He knows if he gives them time to take shape they’ll be too big to come out of for a while, and he can’t do that while he’s here, on this spaceship, and he doesn’t know the rules. The Carte Blanche is so different from Oldtown that Juno has no idea if he’s going to be able to keep track of them all, or how often he’s going to mess up and how bad.

Did he have responsibilities on the ship? He must have, right? Nobody gets to just hang out on a spaceship and not contribute, he doesn’t think, not unless they have a whole bunch of money. Does he still have to do his thirty-nine year old jobs even though he’s eight? Are they gonna show him how to do them or does he just have to figure it out? Unless they just want him to stay out of the way, in which case he wouldn’t blame them. He’s probably a lot less useful as an eight year old. Should he leave the room if someone comes in to do something? Which rooms are okay for him to be in? Everything looks so different from all the buildings he’s been in before he doesn’t know what he should and shouldn’t touch. Just the thought of messing up something important because he couldn’t keep his stupid hands to himself is making him tremble a little. His fingers clench around the now-empty mug that Miss Vespa had given him in the infirmary. He doesn’t know how she knew he was craving a drink, but he’s not going to say anything. Talking about it might mean he doesn’t get anymore. Fuck. Alcohol is expensive, why would they give him any in the first place? Do they have different rules about what food is? Miss Vespa gave him juice in the med bay- do space pirates eat food, or do they only have drinks? Can he get food if they do have some? Does he have to get his own food? When is he allowed to eat? Is he allowed to eat? Are they the kind of people that will tell him he’s not allowed to eat but let him get away with if he can sneak it successfully, like Mrs. Mendoza in second grade computer class, or are they the kind of people that will beat his ass to martian dust if they notice something is missing? Mister Bartane who lives next to Sasha is like that, and they have to run away from him a lot when he gets it into his head that one of them has snuck into his yard and taken something. He’s got bony knuckles and he knows how to use them, and they’re well acquainted with Juno’s ribcage.

Juno needs to stop thinking before his mind goes to a bad place and he shuts down again. He already did that once today, two times would be nigh-unbearable. He’s already embarrassed enough about that, he doesn’t want to make anybody any more annoyed than they must already be by the fact that he messed up and made himself tiny.

They’re all still sitting in the kitchen, long after their “family meeting”, as Miss Buddy calls it, is over. Miss Buddy, he knows, is in charge because she’s the captain. That alone is enough to make Juno wary of her. A title means authority means power means pain. She’s very tall and very pretty and she calls him “Darling”, but she calls everyone darling. Nothing about her makes Juno feel safe. Juno thinks that he shouldn’t touch her, or her stuff, or anything that looks important, because she might get mad at him and shove him out of an airlock. That’s something space pirates do, right? When he can bring himself to look up even a little bit, his eyes catch the way the lights glint off her manicure, a bright carnelian red.

He thinks about clawed, painted fingers and cigarette smoke and decides that today has been too much already, and that he very much would like to get out of here while nobody is trying to stop him.

He sets his mug on the table and shuffles forward until he can hop off the edge of the chair, pushing it in with both hands and then taking the mug to the sink. He can feel eyes on him as he stands on his tip-toes to reach over the counter, and pretends he doesn’t. He keeps his gaze on the floor, trying not to make eye contact with anyone, especially Mister Jet, as he shuffles back to the table.

Mister Jet is another person Juno thinks he’s not going to touch or talk to or look at if he can help it. He’s just- he’s very big. He’s so large that there might not be enough room for Juno in any room that Mister Jet is also in. He’s very tall and he has big, rough hands that look like they could get a real good grip on any part of Juno he pleased. Juno remembers the way Mister Jet had picked him up in that fancy gold room with one hand and then threw them both out of a very high window into a big green car that Mister Peter was driving, and the way he had loomed over him in the med bay, and decides very quickly that he doesn’t want Mister Jet to touch him ever again thank you very much.

He reaches out and catches the end of Miss Rita’s sleeve, giving it a little tug to get her attention. She turns and smiles at him. “What’s up, Little Mistah Steel?”

“‘M tired,” he mumbles, eyes still on the floor. She hums.

“You wanna go to your room?” she asks. He nods. She stands and holds out her hand to him, and after a moment he shakes his head and grabs the end of her sleeve again. Her shirt doesn’t have chip flavor powder all over it, after all. She doesn’t make a big stink about it, which he’s grateful for. If he got yelled at for something that small he doesn’t know if he could handle it right now. They exit the kitchen, and Juno turns over his shoulder to throw a shy wave at Miss Vespa, who smirks back at him.

The bedroom Miss Rita takes him to is about as big as the room he shares with Benten, but it’s filled with a lot less stuff, even though it’s just as messy. The walls are gunmetal gray like the rest of the ship, bare with the exception of a small mirror and a shelf above the bed. He can see a few sets of clothes in the open closet and almost all of his drawers are open in some form or another, but he’s too tired to sift through thirty one years worth of decisions he doesn’t remember making, so he lets Miss Rita lead him to the single bed pushed into the corner. He collapses on the already rumpled sheets, pulling one of the pillows over to cling to. It smells like laundry soap. Miss Rita tugs the covers over him, carding one hand through his hair. Just this once, he thinks that’s fine. He doesn’t want to look at her though, he feels bad enough having to bear the weight of everyone’s disappointment so early on when he knows it’s just gonna be worse later, so he just stares at the only closed door on the wall across from him. It’s probably a bathroom.

“If you need anything, you come get me okay?” she says, taking a step backwards towards the door. “I mean it, Juno. I don’t care what time it is.” He nods and gives her a very small thumbs up. She smiles that big, toothy grin of hers again and turns to head for the door. “Goodnight, Little Mista Steel. Sweet dreams!” She hits the light switch on her way out the door and the mechanism shut with a soft hiss, and then Juno is alone in the dark.

Finally, finally, he lets the feelings come, and shoves his face into the pillow as wave after wave of- god, something heavy settles in his chest, weighing him down like a big boulder, being eroded by screaming sandy wind in the middle of an unforgiving wasteland. Everything is wrong, everything about him and this situation and the world around him. How can anything be okay again? Benzaiten is dead. His baby brother is cold in a grave next to his Mom on a planet he never should have left a billion, billion miles away from where he is. Everything he knows is so far away it might as well not even exist anymore. How many days has it been, since Benten died? Juno thinks his older self probably knows, probably counts every birthday and holiday and every second Saturday and knows exactly how much of his life has been lived alone. That’s not the kind of thing he would forget. Not when the only person in the universe that actually matters is six feet under the rust, older and smarter and kinder and better than Juno will ever get to be, and still gone and never coming back. He lets the pillow absorb his tears, wishing he could smother himself but knowing it would be pointless. If thirty nine year old Juno hadn’t managed to do it, eight year old Juno didn’t have a chance in hell.

Without Benten’s comforting warmth at his back, it takes him a long, long time to fall asleep.

Rita wanders aimlessly towards the rec room, steps heavy and tired and feeling her age as this absolute mess of a day comes to a close. She collapses on the couch, reaching for the remote and flipping it between her fingers, not bothering to turn on the monitor. For once she doesn’t feel like watching a stream, at least not alone, and she doesn’t think anyone else is in the right headspace to watch “Comet Island Adventure 4: The Leviathan Has a Bomb Now and Demands to be Taken Seriously”.

Little Mistah Steel is completely different at eight years old than he was at twenty three, and it’s a different that makes Rita sick to her stomach. At least when Juno was an adult he had some coping mechanisms, even if they weren’t in the same star system as healthy or safe. But baby Juno is just- small. Not just physically, either. Small in a way he hasn’t been for years, like he’s afraid to take up space and make decisions and ask for anything. Small like he doesn’t think he deserves anything. Small like he was after Diamond, but worse now because he’s a child, he’s a baby, and she’s the one that did this to him. She’s the one that sat down and stared him down in both of his eyes and told him that his brother is dead and his mother is responsible and that his dreams of being a police officer don’t work out and that his life is nothing like he ever wanted it to be.

She doesn’t realize she’s shaking until Jet is there on the couch next to her, taking the remote from her trembling hands and turning on a random stream. He settles in next to her, close enough that she can feel his warmth but far enough away that she could lean away and it wouldn’t be a big deal. She feels a thread of warmth for her large friend, letting herself fall sideways until she collides gently with his arm.

“Are you alright, Rita?”

She sighs. “Yeah. No. Yeah.” He moves his arms out from under her head, moving it instead to wrap around the back of the couch. She rests her head on his ribcage instead.

“Those are conflicting answers.” His voice rumbles through the entire side of her head.

“This has been a pretty conflict filled day, Mistah Jet,” she shrugs, letting her eyes watch the stream but not putting any real effort into paying attention to it. “I had to tell Little Mistah Steel about a lot of real terrible stuff that happened to him today, and I know it hurt him pretty bad to hear. I don’t think he’s okay, and if he’s not okay I can’t be okay, y’know?”

Jet nods. “I understand. Do you want to talk about it?”

“Nah,” she mumbles. “Not tonight. I just want everything to go back to normal and I want Juno to be better again.” She lets out a little huff of air that could be a laugh but probably isn’t. “None of you except maybe Mistah Ransom know how bad Mistah Steel was, before he lost his eye for the first time. The amount of progress he made in the last year is- gosh, Mistah Jet, it makes me wanna cry just thinkin’ about it. He’s a completely different person. He apologizes for thing now, when he’s made a mistake. He stopped drinking in the office, after that debacle in Newtown. He even talked once about thinkin’ about goin’ to a professional for his issues, which is more than he ever did in all the years I’ve known him.” She sniffs, wipes away a tear and disguises it by tucking a lock of hair behind her ear. “And now all of that is gone, and he might not ever get it back, and things were just starting to turn around for him. It ain’t fair!”

“Juno will be fine,” Jet says, patting her shoulder. “All of us are determined to return him to his correct state. We will resolve this issue eventually, and in the meantime we will make sure that Juno is safe and as happy as we can make him. Everything is going to be fine.”

“I sure hope so, Mistah Jet,” Rita says, finally settling completely into the couch and focusing on the stream, letting it carry her thoughts away from the terrible, terrible day they’ve all had.

Unseen in the doorway, Peter Ransom turns and pads silently down hall back towards his room.

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liliavalley · 4 years

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waiting for buddy’s pov episode like

#tpp #junoverse #buddy aurinko i love you so much i would like to see your thoughts #so much is gonna happen if its the final heist though #unless they switch it to juno pov for that #which is FINE i guess but i love buddy 😔😔#i wanna see how things play out in her pov #especially since its her and vespa’s last heist!!#i wanna see what she thinks of the others #how close she is with jet #if she trusts peter not to jump ship and betray them #how much she loves vespa because dont we all #what she thinks of juno #how she’ll worry once the heist hits a speedbump #how she keeps her head in stressful situations when so much is on the line #also getting a full round of pov’s before getting back to juno #really sells the fact that he’s learned not to be so self-centered #the whole ‘its not about you all the time’ has been a flaw that he’s had to deal with since the day that wouldnt die #and he didnt! not until he got the theia eye out! and s3 shows that!!#everyone getting their turn to think to the audience is such a good way to show character growth #and i just really want to hear buddy before we get back to juno DJFJDJFJD

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prydon · 3 years

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Buddy Aurinko/Vespa Ilkay, Peter Nureyev/Juno Steel, But this fic is primarily crew-focused Characters: Buddy Aurinko, Vespa Ilkay, Juno Steel, Peter Nureyev, Jet Sikuliaq, Rita (Penumbra Podcast), Ruby 7 (Penumbra Podcast), Every one of these characters gets a POV scene, Yes even Ruby Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Misunderstandings, Kidnapping, Captivity, Conflict Resolution, Team as Family, Set during an ambiguous point in s3 Summary:

After a perfectly normal day spent on board the Carte Blanche, each member of the Aurinko crime family suddenly finds themselves waking up alone in an empty room, belted to a metal chair.

With no information about where they are or who has captured to them, they're forced to sit and listen to audio recordings of other members of their crew—recordings that teach them a little more about how their fellow family members see them.

new fic! it’s a 16k one shot bc i have no self control. if you like my usual style of jupeter angst and wanted to read a fic about the entire crew having to deal with it, here you go.....

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #buddy aurinko #jupeter #vesbud #my writing

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theasslessthief · 4 years

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you fools think buddy aurinko,galaxy's most competent lesbian and criminal, doesn't know peter's real name? we'll get her pov and it'll start something like "peter nureyev,or ransom,as he calls himself at the moment" and we'll all be :O

#SHE DOES #i love her so much #i am in love with buddy aurinko #i love her #wife #criminal wife #tpp #buddy aurinko #peter nureyev #junoverse

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northisnotup · 4 years

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so for funsies and bc wow buddy is not as put together as any of us thought, i decided it would be interesting to go back through the episodes where she monologues and find all the bits where it’s now like, super clear that she is projecting. because another great thing about buddy that we learned in Heart of it All is that she doesn’t really interalize her feelings. she doesn’t really introspect. she projects.

(vespa does this too, which make the parallels between the vesbud storyline and the jupeter storyline just fascinating tbh. a pair who prefer to project their emotions vs a pair who internalize their emotions)

okay! starting with the start, her line to juno in Time Gone By. in juno’s pov, and from an audience perspective at the time, it was shocking how well she knew exactly how to take juno apart here, but coming backward from Heart of it All it’s increasingly clear she’s talking about herself, her career, her connection to the lighthouse and to vespa.

this is a woman that, until very recently, has been throwing her life away on the idea of maybe, someday, somehow.

she’s has made the decision to stop doing that and instead has chosen the route of ‘do the job, and don’t get involved.’ & Buddy has to remind herself that this isn’t personal, it’s just business.

God I love her - telling juno she doesn’t have time for his moral waffling because she cannot afford to give herself any more time to think on this.

She just made the decision to let her past go - to compromise her integrity and move on from waiting for love that will never return - and then she does! RIP Buddy Aurinko honestly, she's got to confront a lot of the choices she made and reasons for them and then PUSH ALL THAT AWAY so she can try to think of how to save Vespa.

buddy has spent a very long time, NOT being Buddy Aurinko. Before Heart of it All i was tempted to read this line as buddy implying that she knew more about Nureyev then she was letting on, that she could follow his pattern and track him through the last year of his life (a heartbroken, awful year) but now i am much more tempted to read this as buddy poorly attempting to empathize. lets not forget that this isn’t her first heist back, but it is her first time leading a group in a very long time, if ever. her first big heist with people who are not jet. she’s trying very hard and we should all applaud her

“like having a heart embarrasses you,” - look, this one i’ll admit to being on the fence about, but in MY heart, it fits

the timeline is a little murky to me, tbh - this is, i have to assume, at the tail end of those two years she spent slowly killing herself with radiation. Come before jet saved her by taking her to hanataba, but only just. so i’ll file this one under: buddy ignoring her own advice

again, the timeline is murky, so we don’t know exactly WHEN she said this to jet, but we can assume it was during or after the hanataba clinic. and if i’m assuming that she is projecting here too, i can also assume that she has been planning the CMP heist for a very, very long time.

Which gives more weight to my ‘projecting on Peter Nureyev’ theory two quotes up. But, these are tenuous and i’m not AS sure about them as i am, Time Gone By

and finally, last but CERTAINLY not least, the line that started it all! this whole thread of, does buddy aurinko is projection: her being so uncomfortable keeping something this large, this awful, this potentially ruinous from vespa that she projects on nureyev! who, yeah, we THE AUDIENCE know is hiding something, but until jet called her out on keeping her health hidden, buddy had no problems with. not to mention, the mirror of measuring everyone else’s growth in the last year, but not at all mentioning her growth as a leader or her juggling the hats of captain and lover, or anything to do with herself. did she take her own measure ‘before’? did she like what she saw? clearly not. where does buddy aurinko stand now?

anyway, after so long assuming that buddy is the cool-headed, logical mastermind, its SO satisfying to have that be proven false bY BUDDY HERSELF. buddy is not an all knowing savant, all buddy know is practice witty-one-liners, projection, love vespa and drink

#i didn't set out to tear buddy aurinko to shreds but it happened anyway #love her #listen all i'm saying is #maybe it's time to put buddy's motivations and actions under a magnifying glass #tpp #the penumbra podcast #junoverse #buddy aurinko #juno steel and the heart of it all #juno steel and the time gone by #juno steel and the tools of rust #juno steel and the man in glass #let me know if i missed any!#always open for discussion

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ernmark · 4 years

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The Heart of it All (pt 1) Reaction

Spoilers under the cut

The episode begins with a sound like a mechanical heartbeat, like an EKG. I like that.

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A year. A year timeskip since the last episode. Holy crap.

First of all, that’s a hell of a long engagement-- far longer than necessary, I think, and I think Vespa observed as much, too. Buddy’s putting off the big mission (and in turn, the wedding) because she’s scared of what comes next. I feel like she needs to have a conversation with Juno about that-- about running away from the things you want most because you’re scared, except she does it with more style.

I love the soft, gentle way Vespa talks to Buddy-- and the way she starts to babble when she gets excited-- and then when Buddy puts her off a little bit of that raw roughness creeps back in. I’d want to hug her if I didn’t think it would kill me.

Also, I love the montage of moments in between-- there’s plenty of room for fanfic in this year, no doubt about it. “Bad Cops 4: Guns Are Illegal, So They Use Swords Now”. Juno being pissy that they skipped his favorite in the series, the fact that Jet thinks car crashes are too violent but people getting murdered to death is totally hilarious. Rita calling Buddy “Mom”.

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The moment in privacy with her and Jet was really telling-- and not just the evidence of just how much of her is robotic. This is a side of her we just don’t see elsewhere. She’s fronting, she’s evasive, she laughs nervously and without that controlled glamour she always has. She’s never this vulnerable around anyone else, even Vespa. (And you can bet Vespa can sense that there’s something Buddy’s hiding from her, and a secret layer of rawness that she isn’t allowed to touch, and you can hear how much that hurts her). And for all this closeness, Jet still catches her off guard-- and he’s been picking up perceptiveness from Juno, which I love.

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“Damn. She’s a quick one, that Buddy Aurinko. Ever a thorn in my side.” It’s telling just how many times we’ve dealt with our POV characters speaking of past and future selves as different people. It’s very much A Thing, and I want to see it manifested physically by the finale, because I’m obvious like that.

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One of the things that makes me really frustrated with Buddy is that by trying to protect Vespa, she’s making her more nervous. Vespa’s not an idiot, she knows something’s wrong-- but without Buddy to help her understand it, Vespa’s stuck trying to guess randomly, and her mental illness is going to supply all sorts of worst case scenarios that Buddy wouldn’t dream of.

And Vespa? Vespa fell from a hundreds-story building and lived. Do you really think she managed that without some really intensive self-surgery? It’s not impossible that she has some bionics of her own. And even if she doesn’t, do you really think she’s never worked with machines and bionic parts before? And if she hasn’t, don’t you think she of all people-- the assassin, the thief, the master medic-- would be able to figure something out? Or find someone who could?

Buddy’s fear and pride are sabotaging her happiness. And that makes sense, because her pride is the first thing we knew about her. It’s one of her best features. Of course it would be her greatest flaw.

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I love that Buddy has to write out her speeches ahead of time, and critiques herself for repeating lines even when nobody else can hear them both.

(And immediately I wonder what she’d have to say about how much I repeat myself, and immediately I can think of her reply: “Nonsense, dear. If there’s no room to improve then you’re doomed to get worse or go stale. Make your mistakes so you can learn from them and then go make some new ones.”)

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I find it so interesting that Buddy is impeccably organized and Peter is just a big ol’ mess-- to the point where you literally can’t tell whether his room is booby trapped or just that sloppy (And even if he is Just That Sloppy, who the fuck keeps an unsheathed knife just lying there, in the open? Really, Peter.)

(Also, I think it is official that all their “poetry readings”, “therapy sessions” and “whatever” happen in Juno’s room, at least after the first couple of weeks. What the fuck.)

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“Jet’s danger is nothing compared to what lies ahead”.

In typical tiered dungeon story style, we’ve eliminated Rita (at the door) and Jet (upon being shot).

That leaves theoretically three tasks for Vespa, Juno, and Peter.

These three characters specifically are each love interests in a major established, endgame couple, which would ordinarily be a quick way to suss out who’s in which role.

Also, there’s a weird triangle of protagonist/antagonist going on here. Because Juno’s thwarted Vespa to protect Peter, but Vespa’s major gripe is with Peter, not Juno. And Juno believes and trusts Vespa, despite their bickering. And as much as he loves and trusts Peter, he has on multiple times arrested, thwarted, and called him out.

It’s like this whole situation is designed to thwart trope-readers like me.

My guess is that Vespa is going to have the be left behind/turn back at the end of this episode, when Buddy tells her the truth about her heart. That’ll leave Juno and Peter alone in the next chamber, when Juno finally confronts Peter about what he’s figured out thusfar (as the POV character, of course).

Or Vespa runs back early to rescue Buddy from heart failure with Jet, gets furious with Buddy for keeping this Very Big Thing from her, and then goes back to Juno and Peter to finish the job in a seething (and possibly murderous) rage.

#the penumbra podcast #100

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fanficireadandrecommend · 3 years

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Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Peter Nureyev/Juno Steel, Buddy Aurinko/Vespa Ilkay Characters: Juno Steel, Peter Nureyev, Buddy Aurinko, Vespa Ilkay, Rita (Penumbra Podcast), Jet Sikuliaq, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Kidnapping, Canon-Typical Violence, Anxiety Attacks, Rescue Missions, plans may not go as planned, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Plot Twists, Rita appreciation hours, Peter Nureyev Needs a Hug, References to Illness, canon divergence - mid Heart of it all, Episode: s03e17-18 Juno Steel and the Heart of it All, spoilers up to Heart of it All, Peter Nureyev's Backstory, Nureyev's debts, POV Alternating, POV First Person Summary:

After the Cure Mother heist goes as well as it could've gone, the man that's been following Peter Nureyev for years is finally coming to collect.

With the lives of the love of his life, his captain, and possibly his entire family on the line, and a deadline quickly approaching, his only choice may be doing something he has never allowed himself to try before: ask for help.

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zizz-asdf-re-r-o-u · 3 years

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The Penumbra Podcast Junoverse S4 predictions

Spoilers ahead! What are your thoughts?

Crack ideas: -(NOT MY IDEA- from discord) Ruby7 sent the distress signal -it would be too predictable for Peter to send the distress signal- he knew the wedding was gonna happen and unless he hated buddy/vespa why would he deliberately sabotage the wedding? -TPP has never had a crossover before, have they? I just want a crossover between Mission Rejected and TPP and it'll either be a noncanon filler ep or... -i want julia morizawa to show up at some point, i love her voice -it probably wont happen, but what if there is a second citadel/junoverse crossover one day? -so i'm a big fan of Blood Crow Stories and on their discord, we joked about Rita and S1 Darla being in a conversation together.... maybe crossover even tho its very unlikely??? -Ruby7 POV episode??? An episode filled with just recordings from Ruby7. -Sasha POV opening in the Dark matters ship.

Peter -Peter packed up, but got kidnapped instead of running away by either dark matters or his debtor -Peter’s debt is a medical issue either of himself or a relative/found relative (thyroid pills in man of glass?) -peter’s debt is to whoever he got back the ruby7 from, someone on Valencia/engstrom’s (former) team, another old client’s team, a friend of mags, a former thieving victim who blackmailed him -we won't see peter until the finale or we will split POV between peter & juno (less likely tbh) or it will be peter only (even less likely). if they decide to go with a new person's POV, like olala in second citadel, it will be super risky cuz i think fans will be pissed if they try that with junoverse. -NOT MY IDEA (from discord)- he stole the teleportation tech during that time peter was in dark matters -Peter was hiding inside the Ruby7 and thats why it transformed/stayed hidden until Juno was the only one left to escape

Juno: -we gonna get police brutality exploration cuz HCPD is gonna be a thing -(NOT MY IDEA- from discord) Juno is going to Io for either Fuco, Diamond, Mick, Alessandra/her wife, Kahn/Lt Loo, Cassandra kanagawa... -(very unlikely bc fans will get piiiissed) we get a temporary love interest and then sophie/kevin will figure out a way to break expectations with that trope -he'll try to take down Dark Matters

Aurinko family breaking out: -Rita is gonna double agent at some point inside dark matters in an attempt to break them out. If she doesn’t break them out, then Juno will rescue her first. -Buddy's mechanical heart is gonna die and come back (Vespa sent out buddy's blood tests so several doctors know about it) -when alessandra escaped the desert, she ditched left the PI business, somehow became contacts with buddy/jet, told them about juno, and was also the 3rd person that was supposed to be in the cerberus trade deal. she's gonna come back at some point to rescue them. -sasha will betray dark matters and release them -someone will die breaking out (and then all the fans will be PIIIISSED) -the breakout will either be like Boiling Rock from ALTA or the Beifongs in LOK

Curemother prime: -There will be multiple versions: Vespa kept some on herself while she was studying it, Peter stole some of it while he was packing to run away, Juno might have some in his blood, or Dark Matters will attempt to put back the broken bits -Other class X items: Rita's AI from either her kid days (FROM DISCORD NOT MY IDEA) or the virus she broke the THEIA with or whatever she put into the 3 drones. -If there are martian artifacts... why wouldn't other planets have their artifacts?

Random thoughts: I'm unsatisfied that even though we've had angel of brahma and an entire episode narrated by Peter, yet we still know very little about him. In contrast, we baaarely know anything about Rita and yet it seems like the fandom is kind of ok with it. Somehow Kevin managed to handle both situations and there's something that can be said about this. Also, I so so so wish vespa/buddy got to enjoy the rest of their wedding >:(

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