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#normally i would have had to duplicate this at least once in order to maintain my layers after merging
firb-tries-to-art · 2 years
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I made new friends. Get over it.
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Going off the the last headcannons you did for anon I love the idea of Donna have a ghost gf or poltergeist partner, would you ever write more about that😳
I would absolutely write more! In fact, I did. Please enjoy some HCs about how things would start out, under a read-more for length. In the future I will probably do a one shot to add to this.
Donna with Ghost GF/Poltergeist Partner
First, let me throw together a quick concept for the reader’s background: Some years ago you worked for Umbrella, developing a bioweapon because that’s literally all Umbrella does (other than unleashing said bioweapons). As things tend to do… the project catastrophically failed. Or, well, it didn’t end the way Umbrella had intended. There was an explosion during one of the tests, which you were caught in the middle of. Your cells were made “unstable” (don’t look at me for real science, I dropped out of highschool cuz of health issues), and intertwined with the bioweapon.
Ever since then, you have been stuck in a semi-tangible state. Making yourself fully present, and able to interact with others, takes energy and cannot be maintained for more than a few hours at a time. Fully letting go allows you to “recharge”, as well as move through solid objects, distort your appearance (becoming almost invisible), and causing intense discomfort to any normal humans nearby. Umbrella wanted to harness your power for their own gain, since the experiments couldn’t be duplicated, but you said “f*ck you” and left the company, instead going on a search for either a cure or some way to live a good life again.
Eventually, after more than a decade of wandering, you end up in Mother Miranda’s Village. At first you enjoy the quaint little town, and even attempt to pretend to be a normal, albeit reclusive, resident. No one questions you, much to your pleasure. At some point you grow close to a couple of the villagers, finally learning more about the area. You also notice what seem to be Umbrella logos throughout the region.
Intrigued, you start investigating, using your powers to “spy” on the four lords. Castle Dimitrescu is interesting, for sure, but the family can tell that something’s off, even when you’re intangible. They search for you relentlessly, until you decide that this isn’t fun anymore, and move on. The reservoir is pretty, kind of, but Moreau doesn’t interest you very much (you do, however, approve of his taste in movies). Then there’s the factory… full of walking corpses and so much noise. Yeah, you didn’t stay there for very long.
Last but certainly not least, you investigate the waterfall house, where “few dare to tread” and “lost spirits” haunt the grounds. Or so you’ve been told. Oddly enough you find something about the place rather comforting. Deciding that maybe this time is different, you enter your fully tangible form before entering.
What happened next is, er, interesting. As soon as you’re inside the main house things start to go a bit hazy, as Donna activates her hallucinogenic powers. Then the world around you shifts, warping, and you feel like you’re inside what appears to be a school. Admittedly it freaks you out a fair bit. But you try to remain calm, content to “explore”.
Soon enough you run into a group of children (who you’ll later find out are actually just dolls). Despite the horror movie intro vibes, you interact with them just fine, as they’re eager to have an adult to join their games. You’re still confused, but you go along with it out of sheer curiosity.
After several hours of drawing, storytelling, and a brief game of tag, the “children” notice how tired you’re getting. They think you’re just sleepy, though in reality you’re losing your ability to stay tangible. You don’t complain when they lead you to a bedroom and tell you to rest. Before you know it they’ve left the room, locking the door behind them. So you do the sensible thing. AKA take a nap. Your energy replenishes while you “sleep”, which in your case means “going ghost”.
Sometime later you awaken to the sound of someone knocking on your door, and manage to turn tangible just a couple seconds before the door opens. The children are back, this time with food for you to eat, although they’re already talking about what they want to do for the day.
A couple weeks will pass like this, with the dolls secretly evaluating you while Donna watches. Once you seem trustworthy enough for Angie to stop threatening to shank you, the real test starts. You awaken not to the sound of a knock, or someone entering your room, but the sound of distant arguing. Concerned, you’ll leave your room to investigate.
Then you’ll walk in on an interesting scene: Unfamiliar children, ones you’ve never seen before, will be bullying a young girl. They’ll call her all sorts of names, and tug on her hair, repeatedly insulting her, focusing on a scar (one you cannot see from where you stand). In order to earn Donna’s trust, you must interfere with the situation. Not just that, but you’ll need to see the young girl’s scar (the same that Donna bears) without reacting negatively.
Considering you, a living ghost, have no room to judge someone else… you pass with flying colors. Then, and only then, do the illusions fade. You’ll find yourself in a sitting room, with both Donna and Angie across from you. Still, only Angie speaks (at least at first). In time you’ll grow quite close to them both.
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five-rivers · 3 years
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Long Night in the Valley chapter 14
“It’s Bakugo.”
“Old Bakugo,” said Todoroki.
“I don’t know,” said Uraraka. “He hasn’t sworn at us yet.”
“Wish fulfillment old Bakugo,” corrected Todoroki.
First contact, said two voices. Aizawa could recognize one as belonging to Two.
“Stop comparing me to the exploding brat,” snapped Two. He returned his attention to Midoriya. “I don’t agree with your philosophy,” he said. “But this isn’t the time or the place.”
Midoriya nodded even as he swayed in place, the edges of his body fuzzy.
“Your idea will work. Eight can take him.”
“What are you talking about?” asked Aizawa.
“Nine here just ran into that fire user.”
“Dabi,” supplied Midoriya, voice thin. “Thank you for letting me use your quirk, sensei.”
“Anytime,” said Aizawa.
“Is there anything we can do?” asked Uraraka.
“Stay back and don’t distract him,” said Two. “I’d send you on ahead to One, but I need to give him my power if he wants his ridiculous escape plan to work.” He crossed his arms. “Focus, Nine.”
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The thing was, Dabi relied on his quirk to the exclusion of everything else. Which was fine. It was a powerful quirk, and his body really wasn’t up to quirkless fighting, seeing as it was literally stapled together.
But there was a reason he had not faced Aizawa himself in the training camp, but instead had delegated that task to one of Twice’s duplicates. No matter how much his quirk hurt him, no matter how much it reminded him of that man and that time, he did not fare well in fights without it.
Toshinori and Izuku had picked up on this, and, thanks to the joys of partial telepathy and haunted quirks, had managed to come up with a plan.
It was, if Izuku was being honest, a sort of terrible plan, but Izuku and Toshinori were both injured and exhausted, and it was the best they could come up with.
Izuku would hang back and cancel Dabi’s quirk, while Toshinori beat him to a pulp.
This division of labor was decided upon through the observation that Toshinori had much greater experience in beating people to pulp and that Izuku probably wouldn’t be able to focus on using Aizawa’s quirk and fighting at the same time. But Izuku worried. Toshinori had been under so much strain today. His body was in just as bad a shape as Dabi’s. If Izuku blinked.
So don’t blink.
What a comforting consensus from the peanut gallery in the back of his head.
Nana chuckled, but she sounded strained. Not much else we can do for you right now, kid.
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Toshinori was prepared to fight dirty.
As a hero and Symbol of Peace, he was often faced with the expectation that his fights be clean, straightforward affairs. Usually, he complied with the expectation. Few people could match his strength. Few enemies stood up again or kept fighting after he knocked them back, once. For those enemies who could match him, relatively clean fights were often still the best option to defeat them.
But there had always been exceptions, All for One being chief among them.
Toshinori could fight dirty. It was a skill he knew better than to let lapse.
He knew how much old injuries could hurt, and he had no scruple against going after them. Any weak point was fair game.
(This wasn’t even beginning to mention the others, still whispering in the back of his mind, who had maintained the thin line between the light of hope and the darkness of despair for so many years.)
His fist impacted the line of Dabi’s medical staples. Toshinori felt them bite into his knuckles, felt Dabi’s skin tear around them.
The man – the boy, really, he couldn’t be more than a handful of years older than Izuku – reeled back, shaking his hands as if he couldn’t quite believe his quirk was gone. Then he looked up, at Izuku, and Toshinori could give him this, at least: He caught on fast.
He snapped an arm out, clotheslining Dabi before he could pass him and attack Izuku. Dabi hit the ground, and Toshinori tried to follow up his advantage with a sharp kick to the head.
But, even with as much experience as Toshinori had, Dabi was younger and sprier. He recovered quickly, retaliating with comparatively clumsy but strong fists.
Toshinori was very aware of the time limit he was on. How long had Izuku kept his eyes open already? Aizawa could only keep his version of the quirk going for a few minutes.
He knew when Izuku started to waver, the concern of the past users going clear and sharp in the back of his head.
Dabi’s hands burst into flame.
“Touya!”shouted Izuku.
The man whipped his head around, apparently forgetting that Toshinori was even there.
“We saw your hair dye, you drama queen!”
Toshinori grabbed the sides of Dabi’s head, and tried to slam it into his knee, but Dabi pulled free. They were both breathing heavily, now, but Izuku had his eyes back open and fixed on Dabi.
Toshinori doubted they’d be so lucky to distract Dabi again. The others slid into place in his mind, their experience neatly complimenting his own. They needed to finish it before Izuku had to blink again.
They raised their fists.
“Visit your mom, you loser!”
They closed in.
“At least tell the police what happened to you, so they can get your siblings out!”
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So, it turned out Izuku did have something else to contribute to the fight.
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“Please repeat what you told me earlier,” ordered the HPSC president.
The hapless liaison with the DNA testing center flinched, then hid the flinch behind a cough. “Well,” he said, “our technicians ran Midoriya’s DNA through a number of databases, and Midoriya is related to the Scourge of Kamino, but, uh, I think it best if I let her explain the rest.” He stepped out of view of the camera, the coward.
The technician waved at the camera. “Hi, uh. So, I guess the first weird thing about the sample you gave me was how contaminated it was. There were, like, almost a dozen different people’s worth of DNA in the sample you gave me, which… usually Hawks is better than that? But then I remembered the nomu DNA, and the Scourge’s DNA, so in retrospect… Anyway, I sort of ran them all through our databases—”
“Which databases?” interrupted Mr. Brave. “The commission ones, the police ones, the public ancestry ones?”
“All of them,” said the technician. “I ran them through the old ones, too, because the Scourge of Kamino is supposed to be over a hundred years old, isn’t he? I’m kind of surprised he wasn’t run through the old databases himself earlier. You could have closed dozens of cases.”
“Get on with it,” hissed the offscreen commission liaison.
“But I ran them through, and, uh, one was All Might.”
A whisper ran through the room. “He stole All Might’s quirk?” asked one hero, traumatized.
“I don’t know,” said the technician, nervously. “I mean, All Might was there, so it could have just been contaminated in the normal way, but… No, I’ll come back to All Might’s DNA in a bit. Then there were three other heroes’ DNA, Skyrunner, Fidelity, and Lariat.”
“We’ll have to assume he has their quirks, too,” said the commission president grimly, for the benefit of the assembled heroes. “Continue.”
“Another matched to the vigilante Forewarning. Then one matched to what was labeled as a 99% surety DNA sequence from Tempest.”
“My god,” said Mr. Brave.
“Then there were some sequences that matched to samples taken from the scenes of various crimes and terrorist actions but are otherwise unknown. That left two DNA samples that could be Midoriya’s assuming he isn’t over a hundred years old. They both matched as relatives to the Scourge of Kamino.”
“What kind of relatives?”
“Uh, one was rather distant, and was actually had the least DNA present out of all the other strands… The closest possible relation would be half-brother, although cousins might be possible… The other was a parent-child relationship, and the most present DNA sequence, so I would assume that one belonged to Midoriya. The thing is…” She trailed off.
“We don’t have all day.”
“The thing is, all of the different people I’ve mentioned also are related to the Scourge of Kamino.”
Silence.
“Excuse me,” said Mt. Lady, raising a hand. “Did you say all of them? Like, including—”
“Including All Might, yes, though he’s probably more like a great-grandson or something along those lines,” said the technician. “Once you get more than a generation or two, it’s hard to tell, because the ratios of what you get from grandparents aren’t even…”
“Do you have anything more to add?”
“Yeah. After running them through the databases… Well, there are dozens of active heroes that are at least loosely related to either them or the Scourge of Kamino, not to mention villains, common criminals, and civilians who had to register their DNA for one reason or another. And the ShiHi cell line? The one that replaced the HeLa line in almost every drug trial after the quirked population got majority status? That’s a perfect match.” She laughed, clearly on the edge of hysteria. “I mean, I don’t know what we expected. He’s over a century old, of course he’s going to have kids and family members. And he’s – And he’s clearly into shady medical research. Wouldn’t put it past him to have donated to sperm banks, the sick—”
The commission president muted the technician. “You see,” he told the heroes, “why we must act to contain and neutralize Midoriya Izuku as a threat as soon as possible. So many heroes being related to an archvillain like the Scourge of Kamino would damage confidence in the hero system, perhaps irreparably.”
“Are any of us-?”
“I don’t think that’s relevant right now, do you?” asked the commission president, smoothly. “What is relevant is ensuring that Midoriya’s DNA family tree never gets into public hands.” He fell quiet, scanning the heroes with dark eyes. “Regardless of whether or not any of you could find yourselves in it, the fact of the matter is that the ensuing investigations would lay bare other things you may not wish to come to light.” He cleared his throat. “Now, Hawks is putting together a team to track down the League of Villains. In light of recent revelations, we believe they have been working closely with Midoriya…”
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“Maybe you can use my quirk,” said Shouto. “If you’re fighting Dabi, ice would be the perfect counter.”
Midoriya shook his head. “You’re not related. Can’t.”
“What?”
Two sighed. “The trick he did with your teacher’s quirk only works on people related to him.”
Shouto blinked, then turned to look at Aizawa. “Sensei—”
“Absolutely not,” said Iida, loudly.
“You don’t know what I was going to say,” protested Shouto.
“You can’t ask people if they have secret love children! It’s improper! Let us simply wait quietly like, ah, I’m not sure we caught your name earlier, sir.”
“No, you didn’t,” said Two.
“In any case, let us wait quietly,” said Iida, not one to be easily put out.
“I’m related to Midoriya?” asked Aizawa in tones approaching despair.
“You are,” said Two. “I think you’re related to one of my younger siblings, like Six is. Possibly to the Shimuras, as well, given the secondary portion of your quirk.”
“So,” said Shouto, the gears in his brain turning, “Midoriya is related to all of you?”
“Some more distantly than others, but, yes.”
“So, he based you off relatives and people he knew in real life.”
Two sighed heavily. “Look. That was obviously a lie. Six only bothered with it because of that government bastard that’s crawling around.”
Midoriya had been right. Shouto’s conspiracy theories could be used as an interrogation technique.
“Then what’s the truth?” asked Shouto. “Or are you just embarrassed, like Midoriya is about how All Might is clearly his father?”
Midoriya made a very distressed sound, and Shouto realized that maybe this wasn’t the time.
“You have no room to talk when the pyromaniac currently trying to roast Eight is your older brother, you peppermint styled weirdo.”
“You really are like Bakugo.”
“Do you have some sort of death wish?”
“C-can you guys not? This is hard…” said Midoriya. Then, he gasped and fell to his knees. “He got him. Oh, gosh.” He took a deep breath. “My eyes.”
“Luckily, you won’t need them for this,” said Two, kneeling in front of Midoriya. “In the movement, I was called Shadow Dragon. One came up with the name. He named my quirk, too. Perception Filter. Wanted to name it Chameleon Circuit for a while, but that made no sense. He was such a nerd. He’s still a nerd.”
“Yeah?” panted Midoriya. “Guess that… isn’t a surprise. He used old manga to support his arguments with—No, it doesn’t make it better that you only used that argument once. I mean, sure, I’d probably have made the same—”
“Focus, Nine,” said Two, snapping his fingers in front of Midoriya’s face.
Shouto stepped forward.
“It’s okay, Todoroki,” said Midoriya. “I’m just… How did it work? The Perception Filter?”
“No idea. We didn’t have fancy tests and doctors on hand to figure out the mechanics. But I can tell you what it did. When it first came in—” Midoriya nodded at this, as if he heard something in the sentence that Shouto was missing, “—I could disappear from the senses of one targeted person, along with anything I was carrying. Sight, hearing, smell – that last will be the important one for you.”
“Gigantomachia,” said Midoriya, nodding again.
“Exactly. Later, I was able to affect more people at a time, and my range grew. The fewer people I was hiding from, the farther I could reach, up to about a mile. Sometimes, I could draw attention towards myself, too, although I could never keep it up for long.”
“Activation?” asked Midoriya.
“Don’t think too hard about being hidden. You’re blending in. Part of the scenery. No ripples on the surface of the pond. A shadow inside a shadow.”
“Okay,” said Midoriya. “I think I’ve got it. Were you… were you ever able to hide other people with you? Otherwise…”
“Sometimes I thought I did. When Three and I worked together, we were always way luckier than we should have been, and there were some incidents with cars… But it never happened in a way I could test. Your best bet is just carrying Eight.”
“R-right. Okay. I’ll try that.”
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“Izuku, you can barely open your eyes. Or stand up. You aren’t going to carry me.”
“But Two said—”
Toshinori frowned deeply and hoped Two got the message. “Just focus on yourself, right now, alright? Gigantomachia will be looking for you, first, not me.”
We’ve always been thankful Gigantomachia isn’t the brightest of All for One’s minions.
Even if he is one of the most annoying.
I don’t know if annoying is the word I’d use…
Toshinori blinked and shook his head. “You’re shaking,” he said.
“I’m okay,” said Izuku, trying to get up. “T’many quirks at once.”
Toshinori put his hands on Izuku’s shoulders, silently telling him to stay down. What a time to forget where he had packed the blankets… Although…
He looked back at where he’d propped Dabi, unconscious, up against a tree.
Dabi seemed to have a cold resistance vestigial mutation… although how Toshinori knew that was a mystery for another day (one probably connected with how One for All manifested in Izuku) and he was a fire quirk user. He didn’t really need that jacket. Besides, Toshinori was a villain now. Sort of. As he and Izuku had discussed earlier, villains were veritable bastions of pettiness.
He stole Dabi’s coat and wrapped it around Izuku’s shoulders.
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Miles away, trying to coordinate heroes over a video call, Hawks lost contact with one of his feathers. Specifically, the one he’d hidden in Dabi’s coat. He did not frown, twitch, stutter, or otherwise falter. He did, however, curse internally, using words he suspected the hero commission would have like him to never have learned.
Dabi must have found the feather and destroyed it. Hawks had thought he’d hidden it better than that.
This was going to be a pain to explain.
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Giagantomachia paused for a second, then, with a howl, redoubled his attacks.
“Can anyone tell what he’s screaming about?” demanded Tomura.
“No idea!” said Toga, her cheerfulness more than a little ragged.
“Hey, boss!” said Twice. “If I made a double of this guy, do you think they’d fight each other, or – Dear god, who in their right mind would want two of these things running around?”
“LITTLE LORD,” wailed Machia, “WHERE DID YOU GO?”
“Say, Shigaraki,” said Mr. Compress, narrowly dodging a boulder, “you don’t – ha – think he’s referring to the little green haired – er, white haired – oh, you know what I mean.”
Yeah, Tomura did, actually, which meant the brat (who might be Sensei’s brat – don’t think about it) was around here somewhere, and they’d missed him.
(Like everything else about this situation, Tomura had mixed feelings about this.)
“So, maybe, if the boy and the giant are acquainted, the mother—”
“Do all of you idiots have a death wish? You don’t fight two bosses at once unless you want to be pancaked.”
“I was thinking she could perhaps calm the giant—”
“Yeah, right before they team up to kill us. What part of this are you not getti-?”
Mr. Compress didn’t quite make the dodge and was catapulted into one of the few nearby trees that were still standing. As he lost consciousness, all of the various marbles in his pockets ballooned and broke, disgorging their contents. This meant that Tomura had to rescue Midoriya Inko from being crushed between an entire bus stop shelter (why, Compress, why?) and several logs, because if there was even a chance that she was Sensei’s wife, Tomura didn’t fancy his chances at staying alive if she was unalived in his general vicinity.
As Tomura was in no way a goody-two-shoes hero student, had never trained himself to safely save people, and had a quirk that literally destroyed everything his touched, this went far from perfectly.
At least Midoriya seemed unharmed.
“Ah,” she said. “My shirt.” She shifted slightly. “And my bra…”
There was a shout of utter rage from Gigantomachia, and Tomura contemplated just letting Machia kill him. Surely, being stomped flat by a man taller than most five story buildings would be less painful than whatever Sensei would come up with.
“Oh, my, Machia, is that you?” asked Midoriya Inko, quite calmly, as if she weren’t standing half naked in the middle of a battlefield in winter. “It’s been forever.”
“MRS. LORD!” shouted Machia, his eyes tearing up. “I AM SO SORRY! I LOST LITTLE LORD!”
“Oh, really? He was here, then?” Her eyes were glittering. “I’m sure he couldn’t have gone too far. If we walk around a bit, I’m sure he’ll hear us calling. In the meantime… perhaps you can explain to me what, exactly, you do for my husband? Your role in his business seems to have been downplayed.”
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“Is that better?” asked Toshinori.
Izuku nodded tiredly. Despite Two’s instructions, he couldn’t keep up Perception Filter and, well, do anything else, really. Toshinori wasn’t much better. Izuku could tell, through One for All, that he was also on his last legs.
“Alright. Let’s keep going the way we were before,” said Toshinori, pulling Izuku up. “Got to get out of Gigantomachia’s range, so you can sleep.”
He did not say that reaching the Wild Wild Pussycats’ camp was now out of the question, with how beaten up they were. They’d be sleeping outside tonight. Hopefully they had enough clothes and blankets…
Izuku shuddered as the pounding sensation in his head increased.
“I’m sure it’ll be fine,” said Toshinori, guiding Izuku with a hand on his back. “Good, you have the briefcase, good.” Toshinori kept muttering encouragement. Izuku really wasn’t paying attention, which made him feel terrible, but he had to keep Perception Filter going. He had to keep going. Just a little bit more… Aizawa-sensei and his friends were almost to One. One would get them out before he broke through.
He just had to hold on until then.
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Midoriya’s form flickered and then faded. Two sighed.
“Is he alright?” asked Aizawa. “Is he safe?”
“As safe as he and Eight can be, wandering through a forest filled with All for One’s minions while the government tries to track him down in the middle of winter,” replied Two. “Which isn’t very safe, speaking from experience. Come on, let’s go.” Two walked out the hole in the wall, not waiting to see if Aizawa or any of the kids followed.
“You’re calling Yagi Eight, now?” asked Aizawa.
“That’s his number, yeah. Hurry up.”
“Yagi, not Yagi’s… impression, his copy in Midoriya’s mind.” Two didn’t answer. “You aren’t impressions or copies at all, are you? You’re real people, somewhere, that Midoriya is connected to. Why pretend otherwise?”
“Some of the others thought Nine could fix things with the government, if they didn’t know what was really going on. Thought it would be ‘worth it.’ So stupid, after everything…” They walked through the compound gate and into a living room.
“It seems awfully contrived, though. Why try to be dead heroes? Why pick people like Skyrunner and Fidelity to impersonate?”
Two snorted. “They weren’t impersonating anyone. They really are Skyrunner and Fidelity. Except for Eight and Nine, we’re all dead, otherwise we would have finished this by now. Eight almost did, all on his own.”
They turned a corner. Two young children played in a bedroom while a teen watched on. One child was obviously a younger version of Two. That hair was distinctive. The other child had a short curtain of white hair. They had action figures they were playing with, although Aizawa didn’t recognize who they were of.
First contact, said a single, young voice.
The face of the teen leaning against the wall was scribbled out, as if with a marker.
“Don’t look too closely at that one,” said Two.
“Who is that?” asked Uraraka.
“All for One. I suppose you’d call him the Scourge of Kamino.”
“He’s your older brother?” asked Todoroki, his eyebrows raised into his hairline.
“Don’t be disgusting. Biologically speaking, he was my cousin.”
Oh, no, thought Aizawa, don’t tell me... “Is he the one you have locked away? The one you don’t count as being ‘among your number?’”
Two sighed again.
“Are you doing that instead of swearing?” asked Todoroki. “The sighing, I mean.”
“I told you to stop comparing me to the explosion brat! I—” Two tsked, then frowned. “Something’s not right.”
“What is it?”
“This isn’t a safe memory, just a quick one. One should have been here to pick you up by now.”
“What do you mean, it isn’t safe?” asked Iida, before Aizawa could. “No matter how immersed we are here, it is only a memory, isn’t it?”
“You did hear the part where he’s breaking in, didn’t you? And the part where we’re all real people? Are those glasses just for show?”
“The real All for One is trying to break into Midoriya’s mind,” said Aizawa.
“W-wait,” said Uraraka, “but… Izuku… That wouldn’t mean that the commission was right…”
“Of course not. Nine would probably cut off all his limbs before betraying his friends. Even if I don’t agree with him, and think he shouldn’t… I can still see that. But where is One?”
“Why are you telling us this?” asked Aizawa. “You’ve told us why the others didn’t. But you have no reason to say anything, yourself, do you?”
Two turned slightly, to gaze at Aizawa out of the corner of his eye.
“As long as we’re waiting, I might as well collect as much information as possible, right?”
“It’s insurance,” said Two, finally. “It’s hard to see how this will turn out. Eight wants to take Nine out of the country, but even if that works, All for One will still be here. Someone else needs at least part of the story.” He turned more fully to face Aizawa, lips pressed tight against his teeth. “You have to understand. I want Nine to… do well. I don’t want this on him. He’s a kid. So are you.” He looked at the students, then back at Aizawa. “You’re all kids. If I can get someone else to take care of this for him, while he and Eight are somewhere safe…”
“All for One is in Tartarus,” said Aizawa.
“You think something like that’s going to stop him? I’m not entirely sure death would stop him. It didn’t stop us, and he’s at least as stubborn.”
Well, wasn’t this an impossibly heavy weight to set on Aizawa’s shoulders.
“I have no sympathy, you lazy caterpillar lookalike. You’re an adult, aren’t you? Get help if you can’t do it yourself. If I find out you pushed it onto children, I’ll kill you.”
“Wow, he’s secretly soft, too, just like Bakugo,” said Todoroki. “Are you sure you’re not related.”
“There is legitimately something wrong with you. Do you—”
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The hinges of the vault snapped, and the door crumpled outward. Another well-placed kick sent the door tumbling outward with a crash.
Shaking his hand, All for One stepped into the mindscape and smiled.
“Well,” he said, dragging his gaze over the assembled One for All users, his sworn enemies and the closest thing he had to family, “isn’t this a lovely little reunion?”
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lizzybeth1986 · 4 years
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I don't think you play TRR/TRH anymore but you should see what they did to Kiara in the newest chapter. It's so dumb and makes me so angry, especially considering the current climate of events. I've already seen people on Reddit be like "but we helped her overcome her trauma" (we didn't lol) and someone called her the c-word, very classy. Honestly PB's been low key racist in the past but all the stuff right now makes it high key...
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(Apologies for the long post and not being able to place this under a cut)
I'm pretty glad I got these anons because truth be told I wasn't sure how many people - besides the few that I already knew were constantly speaking about Kiara's treatment in the books - would care enough to ask any questions about this. Most of the posts I saw expressed a disturbing eagerness to throw her under the bus, without exploring nuance or asking questions, and at this point I'm not very surprised.
I've always maintained that the treatment for Kiara is what happens when both the writers and the fandom are heartless, and these past few weeks have only been proof of that.
There are questions you could raise about this finale re: Kiara - questions almost no one seems to bother asking. I have three:
1. In this Coventus Nobilis...how is it that I see four Heads of House, and only one heir? 
2. If Kiara - who is not head of house - is supposed to represent Castelserraillian instead of her father Hakim (who presides over that estate), why do I not see Madeleine? Why do I not see Penelope? 
3. Why are we suddenly seeing Adeleide  popping up out of practically nowhere to rep Krona/Fydelia, and Landon conveniently rep-ping Portavira?  
Some of the answers to these questions lie in the questions themselves. Why else would Madeleine and Penelope not be present in this meeting - if it weren't to purposely distance them from this awful moment? After all, both of them have inbuilt subplots ready for the next book that would require interactions with the core group. How else do you think the writers could ensure we kept coddling them and pandering to them in Book 3, except by distancing them from this "betrayal"?
Why else would the narrative choose to pit Kiara - the lone woman of colour we'd been shitting on for most of this series - against Olivia - the white woman who has been given innumerable individual PoV scenes and her own mini-book (and whose reputation we had to help rebuild in said mini book whether we cared about her stupid duchy or not). 
Why else would they force Kiara to alert us mere minutes before the meeting begin, if not to distract us with crumbs ("See? At least we wrote her as warning you. Of course we don't hate her!"). 
Why else would you have Olivia and Kiara pitted against each other like this - if not to show these two women side by side, on opposing ends -  and compel us to believe that the white woman we spent 4.5 books propping up and pampering, is the most loyal one.  When in fact we have done absolutely nothing to deserve any fucking loyalty from Kiara or her family to begin with! (Ezekiel and his white bride notwithstanding).
What we finally got as a result, was a narrative that (as @queen-of-effing-everything summed it up when I discussed this with her) in one full sweep "glorifies Olivia, shields Madeleine and Penelope and sets up Kiara". Very few of us even noticed. And even if we did notice, is there any guarantee that we would care??
Remember how I mentioned in my last ask that I wished we expanded the same energy that we did with Aurora, to speak up against the ill-treatment of other black characters? Kiara was undoubtedly one of those.
After this, we as a fandom will speak very easily now of her "betrayal". We will call her the b-word and the c-word. We will boast of how we will "take her down" along with Adeleide and Landon and Bartie Sr. We'll boast about how we "never liked her" to begin with, as if doing so required some...idk exemplary foresight. We will make memes about how Olivia was "the only bitch we ever respected". We will make huge, sweeping claims about how Kiara was our "friend" and how (as you've mentioned, anon) we "helped her overcome her trauma" (!!!!) and claim by that token that  we were entitled to good treatment from her. I'm pretty sure when TRH3 finally comes out, her every word and action will be screenshot, put up on blogs, mocked and torn down just so we can write essays on how awful she is. 
Yet I saw very little of this energy in Book 3, where the MC could first emotionally manipulate her into supporting the Unity Tour, and where we actively suspected her  at a time when she was traumatized. At most there was some lukewarm acknowledgement of how she "deserves better", all while people still continued to write fanfic that positioned her as creepy and obsessed and villainous.  Almost no one had a problem with Savannah not acknowledging Kiara's earlier support of her, and in fact I'd seen posts that clubbed her with the other ladies of the court who likely "treated Savannah badly". Her father Hakim was made to join the tour alongside her by default, without the expectations that Landon/Emmeline and Godfrey/Adeleide were allowed to have, and the fandom was mysteriously silent about Hakim being made to "bow to his knees" in a way the others did not have to. Very few people even bothered to  notice or talk about how often Penelope was allowed to hold the MC's baby, or how Kiara was never really allowed to hold her even once. Which "friend" treats someone like this??
When I finally published this essay on the treatment meted out to Kiara especially in Book 3, what I got was a lot of neat, but ultimately hollow, little platitudes about how Kiara "deserved better" (How and in what way? Who knows, who cares). Out of those many many people who reblogged and responded, only a handful held the MC and Drake in particular (and Maxwell, who thought it appropriate to joke about "one suspect down") accountable for choosing to suspect and interrogate just her, and for showing ZERO remorse in forcing her to reopen those wounds. How is it that we can judge Kiara for this latest "betrayal", yet pretend that the MC and Drake had nothing to do with the pain THEY caused to her? How is it that this fandom was so fired up over her comments, yet would have such a weak, muted, carefully-generalized response to the screenshots where Drake was openly suspecting her and optionally  minimizing her trauma? 
Following that, why should we be entitled to good treatment from Kiara when we never really gave her even half as much?? Why is it so easy to divorce characters from their words and actions in Drake/MC/Maxwell's case, but so hard for a character like Kiara? (One may claim this is because Drake and Maxwell are potential co-protagonists, but the aforementioned essay already proves that you as a main character can get punished for not treating a mere side character with kindness).
Another thing that fascinates and repulses me even further is how the fandom has created myths around this one character, and how PB has constantly leaned into these "characteristics" even though the text itself tells an altogether different story:
1. Kiara is a snob. This is especially hilarious considering that she is established in Book 2 as being the only person who befriended Savannah before her departure and cared about what happened to her when she left. Never once in the books has she looked down on us for class-related issues, or outright mocked people for not knowing the languages she knew. In fact, she was the first person to acknowledge our skills if we showed any before Lythikos in Book 1. On the other hand, Penelope can be uppity and look down on us in Book 1 (there is even a dialogue option in Chapter 10 that leads to her calling us a "commoner wench") if we don't do well, and yet she's a cinnamon roll.  Olivia can engage in snobbish , entitled behaviour without the fandom having a problem just because she's their favourite. Madeleine can look down on us and pretend for 3/4ths of the social season that we're not worth her time yet somehow Kiara is the snob. Okay. Okay. 😐
2. Kiara is "obsessed with" Drake and constantly comes on to him. This is said by the same group of people who saw Olivia fucking Nevrakis plant a WHOLE FUCKING SMACKER on Liam's mouth, and said..nothing. Kiara on the other hand, has admired Drake's abs once, mentioned she'd always liked Drake once, spoken normally to him about his sister once, flirted with him once (Paris tea party), and ordered a wine from him when he was bartending. In the next book she either looks at him wistfully or admires his suit. Yet somehow she's the creepy, annoying, stalkerish. Okay. Ooookay. 😑
(This one was particularly damaging, because post the TRR3 hiatus, all efforts from PB were focused on reversing Kiara's position as an alternative LI. This included "confirming" on livestream that her affections were one-sided, at a time when Olivia was finally allowed to have some romantic moments with a single Liam, pushing forward a buildup scene to Drake's eventual secret wedding that had him acting extremely rude and confrontational to Kiara mere minutes after suspecting her (while she was expressing joy at his upcoming wedding in his playthrough!!!), and involving a subplot where he openly and by default suspected her. Sure, he spends a minute to be nice to her and chat about trauma if the MC chooses. But that's like a drop of sewage water floating in an ocean of shit).
3. Kiara Pretended to Be Our Friend And Then Dropped Us: This is false. Kiara only ever promised to put in a good word for us to the rest of the court, no more, no less. And she fulfilled that promise. Otherwise she never pretended to be friends with us nor made friendly overtures either way. In fact if you're going to accuse anyone of duplicity, you have Penelope and Madeleine. Yet somehow Kiara is the dishonest one. Okay. Okay. 🙃
4. Kiara Was Insensitive To Penelope and Didn't Understand Her. I'm not sure how Kiara is supposed to magically understand something that her friend isn't telling her. Plus this argument deliberately leaves out the fact that she stood up for Penelope when people chose to be mean to her, and even explained to the MC that she employs "tough love" because she can't always be around to protect Penelope. It also leaves out how one-sided this friendship is and how Kiara is made to do most of the heavy work in this friendship. Meanwhile, at Kiara's most difficult time period, in Castelserraillian, Penelope says absolutely nothing as the MC forces Kiara to join the Unity Tour, while making bedroom eyes at Kiara's brother. In fact the only reason Kiara's brother even exists is to give Penelope a love interest. The Kiara-Penelope friendship practically revolves around Penelope. I have never really seen Penelope look out for Kiara or attempt to actually support her in any way, and Kiara was the one who got the knife wounds. Yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that Penelope's the better friend of the two. Suuuuure. 😡
And this steaming pile of crap doesn't just make its way into shitposts and short opinion posts. It creeps into fanfic and fandom opinions. It finds its way in the tags and in other social media. It eventually even finds its way into the books, even though nothing in the earlier narrative ever really supported these extremely stale takes. 
Because PB didn't care for Kiara the way they cared for their white characters, they had no problem framing her narrative the way this fandom so desparately wanted it. Book 3 has the MC claim behind her back that Kiara is stuck-up and acts like knowing ten languages makes her better than everybody else, even though this is not backed up by the text, and in fact you will never see any acknowledgement of how Madeleine forced Kiara to make herself sound "exotic" in Book 2, or of how Madeleine and the MC (optionally) could downplay or question her skills unless they wanted to use her. Also, Penelope is never allowed to be talked about like that no matter what she's done. PB even had a scene (in the Hana playthrough) where they aggressively retconned the events of Madeleine's bachelorette party, where Kiara supposedly shouted at Penelope until the latter cried, and Madeleine was the one "having fun". Kiara was literally being thrown under the bus to make Madeleine look better. Madeleine. Imagine that. Madeleine.
Given how desparate the fandom was to nitpick and overdramatize everything Kiara said and did, is it any wonder that the team got away with the writing they gave her in Book 3? Considering that all the false arguments I stated above have made a resurgence in the past few weeks or days...is it any wonder that the only "support" this fandom is capable of re: Kiara, is lukewarm platitudes, cold takes and rank hypocrisy??
Yes, we can hold PB solely/largely  accountable for the treatment meted out to Kiara now. They made these choices over and over, and continue to do so, while tossing us occasional crumbs of faux-sweet behaviour from the MC. And they did this in insidious ways, which were so hard to catch that even a Kiara stan like me had to observe multiple playthroughs just to unravel even half of what they'd done.
But let's not pretend a huge chunk of the fandom was just as responsible for this - with their unfounded opinions, their disgusting bias, their favouritism of white characters, their refusal to observe anything besides their favourites, and their godawful fanfiction where Kiara is a creep or evil or killing the virtuous main character. Out of the huge body of fanwork that I've seen for TRR that features Kiara - at least 90% of it features her stalking Drake, or harming the MC (particularly the Drake MC), or in cahoots with the villains, or generally being referred to as a creep (why Olivia, who kissed Liam without his consent in Book 1 and was entitled enough to be angry about him not returning her feelings in TRH1, never got this sort of writing - I fail to understand). There is a tremendous gap between the vitriol dumped on her when she does something the MC doesn't like, and the milquetoast response when harm is done to her. There have been times when I've had to comb through pages and pages of hate just to read even one positive post on Kiara in her own goddamn tag.
When the next book arrives, I know you folks will continue to gas up the white women in this book every chance you get, and mask your racist vitriol for characters like Kiara (and Hana, let's not forget the way y'all treat Hana) behind the same self-righteous judgements and the same tired, stale takes. I know that PB - despite what I will still believe is their hollow promises today - will write every single one of those stale takes into existence. All because it will be "justified", because Kiara is a "bad person" or "untrustworthy" or "fake". Whatever. Y'all can stick to Olivia The Black Hole and babysit Madeleine and Penelope, I guess. Kiara always deserved better than these writers and most of this fandom anyway.
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homeimpgyk532 · 3 years
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Top Ways To Make Moving Less Stressful
Moving? Really feeling a little overwhelmed or tension? Yeah, I have existed. Today I am sharing several of my finest ideas for moving without as much stress and anxiety. While I desire these pointers could guarantee no anxiety, sadly, I assume anxiety may just come with the relocating territory.
My family simply relocated. https://rainbow.coop/community/coop-resources/It was quite a quick choice, and we really did not relocate much, however we relocated from our 1300 square foot apartment, to a 2200 square foot home. It was a huge decision for our family members that we needed to make because remote learning in our tiny area did not work out in the springtime.
Relocating is STRESSFUL! It was interesting, but demanding. Did you recognize that most grownups agree relocating from one home to one more is exceptionally stressful? Some individuals even claim it is one of the most stressful things they have actually experienced. If you are preparing to move, you might currently feel stressed out over the job that you will need to put into this process.
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When trying to find methods to get with the relocation effortlessly as well as without shedding your peace of mind, have a look at the stress-free moving ideas below. Luckily, having actually relocated numerous times, and also having talked with buddies that move a great deal I had some wonderful pointers that aided make moving less difficult.
Get a headstart on packaging as quickly as you recognize that you are moving. If you wait until the eleventh hour, you are mosting likely to experience even more stress than you need to due to the fact that you will obtain stuck trying to do everything at the same time. While you may still require particular points till you are all set to officially relocate right into the new location, such as your sofa and tv, there are other areas that you can begin evacuating right into boxes.
Load great deals of products inside clear storage space containers with lids and after that area labels on them. If you make use of clear containers, you can conveniently translucent them, so you will certainly know what you have actually packed without needing to open the lid of package.
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I was super grateful our discomfort medications remained in a clear container and also simple to identify the very first evening in our brand-new home, since I needed them after moving throughout the day. As well as, it is even less complicated to recognize what goes where when you have actually labels connected to each of your containers.
The last point you desire to shed throughout the step is any kind of essential files you might have. These papers would include your birth certification, social safety card, home mortgage info, as well as a lot more. Area each of these products inside a safeguarded folder and after that take it with you when you are lastly all set to move right into your new house.
Do you have a lot of your clothes hanging up in your storage room? You might dread the concept of drawing them off the hangers only to hang them back up in a closet in the brand-new house. The good news is that you do not need to do every one of that.
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Leave the hooks socializing from the top of the trash bag. You may then tie the bag shut. Once you move into your brand-new place, all you'll need to do is simply reduce the trash can off and hang your garments right within the brand-new closet. Not just is this a creative relocating hack to assist save some additional time, but it is likewise one that will certainly assist you keep those clothing clean.
Maintain your kitchen area items together by placing all your favorite seasonings and also little utensils inside your slow-moving cooker. If your slow-moving cooker is huge sufficient, you ought to have no problem suitable lots of things within it. Most notably, you can cover the slow-moving stove with the lid to maintain those spices as well as other points safe during the relocation.
Order moving boxes from a moving company for long moves. So this tip was repeated over as well as over by my pals who have actually made cross nation relocations. I am the individual who discovered free boxes from people for our brief, half mile move, but numerous of my good friends duplicated this, I felt it was essential to place in right here.
can make such a big difference when you are relocating. Or maybe they can assist with amusing your youngsters, assisting you unload, or perhaps cleaning the old or new area up a little bit. Not sure who to ask? Simply ask those that are closest to you, such as your moms and dads, brother or sisters, and also good friends you chat to frequently.
A few of your enjoyed ones might even have products that can make the relocating process a lot more manageable, such as hand vehicles for carrying heavy furnishings and boxes and protective covers for your furnishings. Our friends helped us on relocating day. Their teenage daughter captivated our kids, also taking them to our new community park, while the older youngsters helped us move and also do the heavy lifting.
Although, our buddies' kids declined payment, I rejoiced I at the very least provided. Incentive Idea: Make sure to call and alter over all energies at the very least one week before moving. Make a listing of all the utilities you need to activate as well as those you need to turn off as well as examine them off as you go.
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Moving is stressful for the majority of people. It is not unusual for people to feel aggravated over everything they need to do when it comes to relocating from one place to the following. While relocating takes time, initiative, as well as hrs of effort, there are ways to make it a little bit much less stressful.
Once you resolve into your new area, all the work that entered into moving deserves it.
When it comes to moving homes or houses, many people probably wouldn't have it on their list of leading 10 favored points to do or perhaps on their list of top 100 things to do. Besides being difficult, it's costly as well as taxing, not to discuss several various other not-too-positive adjectives you can most likely think about.
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Then, when something added pops into your mind, compose it down right away. Points to detail out are disconnection days for energies, leaving your cable box, organizing donation center pick-ups, as well as a lot more. As soon as the list is quite complete, include the jobs to your calendar. A number of tasks each day will certainly make it much less overwhelming than if you have 30 things to do a week before you move. Making use of a relocating list is another vital method to reduce anxiety on relocating day.
This assists you keep things organized and saves you whole lots of time later on when you unpack. If you normally have a tendency to hesitate when doing things, when it concerns moving, do not. Beginning earlier, not later on. Packaging to relocate is not as easy as packaging for a vacation it always takes two times as lengthy as you believe it will. Start immediately by sorting as well as loading products that are not required and used on a daily basis.
That task is demanding enough, so do not complicate it with packaging, wrapping, as well as disassembling furnishings. While several of things you're moving will normally be larger than others, when it involves the majority of your things, it's finest to utilize boxes that coincide dimension.
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But if you proceed a much less popular relocating day, it'll save you both cash as well as stress and anxiety. If you have a versatile schedule, experiment with prospective moving days and search for the most inexpensive day to make a consultation. Moving business are busiest on weekends, so if you can skip Saturday as well as arrange your step for a weekday, you'll be checking out a respectable price cut as well as prevent the insaneness. Schedule your movers ASAP, approximately six weeks beforehand.
Obtain help and also do not overstate your own capability. It is much cheaper to hire a number of movers than to spend the day in the emergency space. However suppose you can not afford professional movers? If your spending plan will not enable traditional moving companies, there are more low-priced methods to get assistance.
Stress can be lowered, but can not be prevented one hundred percent. Since of this, you require to have a great deal of energy, which originates from obtaining enough rest and also good-for-you food. Although it's tough to maintain excellent type all the time, it is very important to try to take great treatment of your well-being before the step given that you'll need the advantages of doing so.
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Most of us know that moving can be demanding. There are a great deal of things to do as well as it always seems like you may be neglecting something. Likewise, changing your residence implies a great deal of psychological stress also. So here we will certainly tell you some points you can do to make moving much less difficult.
Relocating is stressful for numerous people. The stress and anxiety of a relocation is so notorious that you can find investigations as well as articles such as divorce? That's not as stressful as moving house. But why is moving so difficult? The psychological anxiety of relocating is well-known because altering house is a complicated experience.
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However, we do not agree with that. Relocating suggests a little bit of tension because it is an important choice. There are likewise several points you have to do as well as make certain you total properly. In addition to that, like virtually whatever, it indicates adjustment and also some unpredictabilities. That is why we are followers of making moving much less difficult.
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Numerous things demand your attention as well as it can overwhelm you sometimes! However, remainder ensured that it is entirely feasible to make the experience less stressful. Approve that tension is a regular part of the relocating process, The very first step to getting over relocating stress and anxiety is approval.
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You will be prepared for it. Assume regarding it like this: anxiety is an all-natural human feedback to a demanding circumstance. However, you have a say in how you respond to that anxiety. You can take it as something adverse and also suffer. Or you can function your way with it and achieve excellent things.
That way, you can actually collaborate with it instead of being controlled by it. One of the most essential point is to acknowledge the tension without letting it prevent you from the jobs available. Remain organized! Something that will certainly aid you a great deal previously, throughout, and also after your step is to be organized every action of the way! For this, a checklist will be an excellent ally.
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Keeping every one of this only in your head might bring about extra stress and anxiety and also to forgetting some details. So to minimize tension as well as minimize forgetfulness, creating whatever down will certainly make a large difference! There are lots of sources on the web that can aid you. You can have a look at packing checklists or moving checklists to obtain some ideas.
Honor the journey, all of it. Moving is also a heavily emotional process. Besides all things you have to do, relocating implies a great deal of modification will certainly involve your life. You leave points behind and you fulfill new people. This can produce both stress and also enjoyment. So, honor that procedure as well as live the trip completely.
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Do not concentrate just on what you are leaving behind and also just how that makes you unfortunate. You can likewise look forward to all the new, trendy things awaiting you! Attempt to keep a favorable mindset. Maintaining a positive frame of mind makes a large difference in every facet of your life, not simply moving! Scientific research has shown that favorable thinking assists with tension monitoring as well as can also enhance your health and wellness.
Embrace it, accept it, endure on your own. And also try to see the silver lining of points. This will most definitely make a distinction for the far better. It is likewise very crucial to search for assistance in buddies as well as family members rather of dealing with every little thing by on your own. Speaking to others will certainly aid you keep your feet grounded and also not obtain brought away by the stress and anxiety.
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Regardless of where you are moving to, you are more than likely to experience a terrific deal of stress and anxiety. Stress is somewhat normal yet some things are better done when you are unwinded. Moving is among those points. It is the only method to make moving much less stressful.
Make the strategies before it is also late. A checklist is a necessity. Get expert assistance. Do not move during the active season. Probably one of the most typical blunder is not beginning promptly.
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If you lack time, whatever will be in a rush and also there is no area for you to catch a breath. That indicates that you will be worried and that is something that you want to avoid. When you have enough time, everything becomes possible. You can inspect numerous moving companies, examine several storage options, and so on. Of training course, you can constantly ensure modifications however the core need to continue to be the exact same. Obtain professional assistance. If you have expert long-distance moving companies on your side, you are going to be more kicked back. Relocating on your very own is certainly a lot more stressful than when having expert assistance.
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How the Mirror World works
DISCLAIMER: What I’m about to do here relies entirely on the idea that the Mirror World is, in fact, its own actual thing with its own past, and NOT just a construct of the Infinity Train, made purely to help Tulip progress on her own personal journey before it spiraled into making Lake her own person. This is purely for fun, and obviously the whole existence of the Mirror World and its independence is intentionally ambiguous. Still, I couldn’t help but wonder- In a scenario where it WAS real, how would the rules work? Which then leads into this post...
I think I’ve figured out how the Mirror World from Infinity Train works (if we view it as its own separate force and not purely the creation of the train), or at the very least pegged down the general gist. So, to start...
Firstly, we have the Mirror World and the people who live in it; We’ll call them Reflections for now. Reflections, well, reflect a ‘Prime’, a person from the Prime World, AKA our world. When a Prime dies, their Reflection either reincarnates to reflect another Prime, or they keep their memories but also become a Flec. Either way, they remain in the Mirror World.
We see not only the Flecs, but also two medics. It seems that without their ‘suits’, they’re just... liquid metal. Which, that matches with what we see in Book 2 and how Mace and Sieve die. Those four had Primes who died, and now they’re faceless liquid metal that don’t resemble their Primes whatsoever (at least, I don’t THINK they do...). If they were to get a new Prime, presumably, these four would change physical appearance to match them, which they likely can do due to their fluid liquid nature. Lake, as established, is made of metal- Solid, physical metal.
Mace refers to a ‘barrier’ between our worlds, presumably any reflective surface that connects the Prime World to its Mirror counterpart. Lake needs to be in constant contact with it at all times, she CAN’T leave the barrier behind, so she needs a tiny, mobile piece of it with her. When Sieve loses a glove in the Chrome Car, a trail of his slime-hand is seen connecting back to the Barrier and the Mirror World by extension. And we know with the Flecs and anyone else without a Prime, they die when in the Prime World, without a protective ‘suit’ of sorts.
With all of this information noted, let me get onto my hypothesis;
The Mirror World is a dimensional plane of liquid metal, and within it are sapient, liquid metal entities. This liquid metal is fluid, and normally it can’t hold together a solid shape. However, by mimicking something else, this liquid metal can maintain a solid form.
Our dimensional plane of liquid metal chose to copy our world, the Prime World, to have physical form. Thus, it began to mirror our world, becoming the Mirror World in the process. To have a physical, solid form, other beings in this Mirror World, the Reflections, chose Primes to mimic and reflect, crafting their shapes through the light bouncing off of their Primes and onto reflective surfaces, AKA the Barrier. There is nothing in the Mirror World, but by reflecting the Prime World and the lives of others, the Reflections can mimic others’ lives and sort of live through them, and find some meaning. Reflections’ fluid nature also means that they can duplicate themselves, to become multiple or distorted reflections of the same person.
As I mentioned earlier; The Mirror World is normally fluid and impermanent, and only gets its form by mimicking others. Without mimicking, it is just fluid. To have anything in the Mirror World and enjoy it, things MUST be reflected. Reflections can’t just go into the Prime World to have an actual life, because as we’ve established, they die outside the Mirror World. It seems that their bodies can’t be sustained without constant physical access to the Barrier, which connects them back to the Mirror World. A Reflection would normally just fall apart and die if they left the Mirror World, which is why their bodies are always connected and trail back to a Barrier.
But with a Prime... Things are different. By reflecting a Prime, a Reflection can maintain a physical form beyond the Mirror World, and safely travel into the Prime World without fear of death. The Infinity Train’s Chrome Car is possibly the only way a Reflection can cross the barrier, although it is worth noting that the Flecs can pass it while outside the Chrome Car. More on that later.
A Reflection can access the Prime World and not die, by not only maintaining a constant connection to the Mirror World through the Barrier to sustain themselves, but also by having a Prime to reflect and keep a physical form. Without a Prime, a Reflection is just liquid metal.
But, what if a Reflection’s Prime died, while they were both out in the Prime World? I believe that the Reflection would cease to reflect, and their physical form would fall apart. Thus, they either die, OR they remain as inert liquid metal, just sort of stuck to whatever Barrier they have, until they return to the Mirror World where they can sustain themselves.
There IS a bit of an exception with the Flecs and their equipment. It seems that their exo-suits and plastic masks and gloves can keep their bodies together outside of the Mirror World. Perhaps there are reflective surfaces in these suits. But without the suits to keep a Reflection together, they fall apart and die. I wonder if the Flecs’ suits are fragile, in order to discourage any Flecs from going rogue and attempting to stay in the Prime World without heading back to HQ to get repairs?
Now, you may be thinking- If a Prime dies, their Reflection gets a new role and is longer assigned to them. And yet, a reflection of their dead body would still exist, right? This seems incongruous, until you remember- The Mirror World as a whole reflects the Prime World itself. When a person dies, they cease to be, and their body is just that- A body, another fixture of the Prime World, an object, and thus something the Mirror World itself can reflect.
So, why the rule of only getting to reflect a Prime, or being a Flec? I think it’s because Mirror Society doesn’t want people to die.
Because, again- The only way to die is to be out of the Mirror World, so why go out? Make laws mandating that everyone stay in the Mirror World. If they want to live a life, then reflect someone else’s! If they don’t want to do that and lose their memories in the process, then become a Flec and ensure that anyone who DOES try to leave and risk their lives, stays within the Mirror World!
The ‘law’ is there for the protection of the Reflections. Only... It means they have no life of their own, right? Because either you exist within a desolate, Mirror World with nothing in it but liquid and solid metal... Or you mimic someone else’s life by reflecting them. If a Reflection wanted to live their own life and actually experience sights and smells, they’d need to visit the Prime World.
But being in the Prime World runs the risk of death, specifically from a Prime dying, or a suit being damaged. So, why risk it?
Because a finite existence where one gets to live and enjoy themselves as their own person... Is still better than an eternal existence, where one does none of these things.
However, someone/people near the top of Mirror Society decided to make decisions for everyone else, for their own good. And they decided that risking death, a meaningful life, wasn’t worth it. They sought to preserve the existence of everyone as a whole, whether they liked it or not; Because if everyone was out in the Prime World and having a meaningful existence, then all Reflections would follow, then possibly die, and so on and so forth. The ones who made the Mirror Laws didn’t want Reflections dying and wanted to preserve the beings’ existence as a whole.
This, of course, means enforcing laws that ensure a Reflection remains in the Mirror World, but also even killing Slivers -those who escape into the Prime World- to discourage the rest of society from following and possibly getting themselves killed as a result.
Thus, the Flecs as an organization come into existence, to ensure that everyone stays safely within the Mirror World and finds ‘happiness’ by mimicking another person’s life while lacking autonomy in the process. Because Reflections get their physical form from Primes, either you need to kill the Prime, or just grind down the Reflection the hard way with the Sander.
If a Reflection is out in the world and their Prime dies, again- Nobody else to reflect, so they dissolve and revert back to liquid metal form, and die, more or less cut off from the Mirror World and unable to survive in the nonliquid-metal conditions of the Prime World.
However- A Reflection does not need to constantly reflect everything that a Prime does. Because it seems that the Chrome Car gives them the freedom to move and interact with their Prime... Or at the very least, the threat of being punished for breaking the law has Reflections continue to any and all actions of a Prime.
Regardless, either through the Chrome Car or just by actively defying the law’s attempts to keep them happy with their Prime’s life and JUST that, a Reflection can live their own life, WHILE mimicking a Prime. When doing this, a Reflection will still mimic the general gist of their Prime’s physical appearance, but they can also change extraneous parts of themselves, like their hair or clothing, and perform actions that their Prime isn’t doing.
Presumably... this all means that once Tulip dies, then Lake herself will die- Or, she might return to the Mirror World before that to survive, or make her own suit the way the Flecs did. However, Lake may choose to die like a human and a person, content with her fulfilled life, especially since she may want to join Jesse as well. A slightly morbid thought, but not entirely meaningless... Given how Infinity Train’s narrative explores the idea of change being a natural part of life, and enjoying things while they lasted, I suppose this makes sense.
This DOES beg the question- How does the Infinity Train play into this, assuming the Mirror World and its sapience is not entirely the product of its power, for the purpose of helping further Tulip’s character growth? Flecs can naturally travel between the Barrier, so I assume the Chrome Car isn’t special in that regard. Does it grant the ability to act contrarily to one’s Prime while still maintaining a connection to it?
Is the Chrome Car basically an outside force, one that communicates to a Reflection passing through what they need to do, in order to allow a Prime to progress onto the next car? Mace seems self-aware regarding the Infinity Train and how it makes people to help others, so is the Chrome Car’s requirements a one-time exception to the Mirror Law? One where a Reflection CAN access the Prime World and talk to their Reflection, but only for the one-time purpose of helping their Prime through the Infinity Train? Mace refers to a ‘balance’ that the Reflections help provide, is this just generic stuff that Mirror Society is taught? Or by providing reflections for Primes, the Mirror Society helps them, and thus exists solely to help the Prime World, just as the Infinity Train and its denizens exists to help passengers?
So many questions, and I can’t say for sure if Owen Dennis intentionally had it structured this way, or if I’m just making up stuff out of thin air... But as always, it’s fun to speculate!
(On another note, Flecs can presumably tell where a Sliver is through their reflections, because Slivers create their own reflection from themselves to appear in whatever mirror they see. Thus, a part of them is briefly in the Mirror World, so the Flecs can then detect that part of the Sliver and figure out their location from there. They don’t track Jesse through his reflection, because his ‘reflection’ is actually a separate Mirror Entity. Of course, why THEY don’t track down Mirror Jesse to find Lake, I don’t know, maybe it has something to do with Lake predominantly being in the Prime World or something. Reflections can’t travel through each other’s mirror-surfaces, because a Reflection technically isn’t a part of the Barrier, and it seems that Reflections can only travel between the Prime and Mirror Worlds through the Barrier. Mace and Sieve can’t use Lake’s mini-mirror because its surface and reflection is blocked off by Lake’s own body.)
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What A Nice Surprise CH.4
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(I’m not getting any options for linebreaks - did Tumblr seriously delete them? Luckily there are none in this chapter but oof.)
Danny rang the doorbell to his own house. It was slowly becoming normal for him – just like calling his parents Maddie and Jack had become normal over time. Hell, now that he was spending extended amounts of time around his parents as Phantom, he had to start reminding himself not to call them that when he turned back. How weird would that be, if he called them by their names as Fenton?
Everything about this situation was just so weird. Jazz would have a field day with this if she knew. That, and she would be very very worried.
Which is why he wasn’t planning on telling anyone just yet. His parents’ support for Phantom was good enough for now. Besides, he had made it through the past two years without trouble – why would he tell anyone?
Anyway, he was visiting as Phantom once again. It hadn’t been very long since his last visit – only about a week or so. But it was Saturday, and he figured he might as well. Besides, Johnny and Kitty were in town – which made this a good moment to introduce his parents to some non-malevolent ghosts without having to travel to the Ghost Zone.
The door swung open, his dad’s massive frame filling the space. The man glanced around, then stepped aside. Clearly he, too, had gotten used to the invisible visits from Phantom.
“Hey Phantom,” Jack greeted him when Danny became visible again. “What can we do for you today?”
Smiling, Danny shrugged. “Nothing. Just dropping by, if that’s okay?”
His dad’s face brightened even further. “Of course that’s okay! Mads is down in the lab, do you want me to call her up or…?”
“We can go down.” Danny glanced away, then turned back with a sheepish expression. “I, uh. I actually had an idea for something we could do. To work on your research, I mean.”
“Really?” Jack had started leading the way, so Danny couldn’t see his expression, but he sure sounded enthusiastic. “What do you have in mind?”
“If you can wait for a moment, I’ll tell you when we get down.” Danny smirked at his dad, even though the man didn’t look. “I don’t want to have to repeat myself for Maddie.”
Jack huffed in that way he always did when he was pouting. Danny’s smirk simply widened as they entered the lab.
“Jack? Phantom?” His mom looked up from the invention she was working on. “What’s going on?”
“Phantom wouldn’t let me tell his idea,” Jack complained, still pouting. Maddie shot Danny an incredulous look, which he answered with a shrug.
“I didn’t want to have to repeat myself to tell you as well.” He floated over to a nearby chair, perching on its back. “I had an idea for your research, but you’ll have to leave the house.”
“Oh?” His mom pulled her hood off, revealing a quirked eyebrow. “Why’s that?”
Folding his arms over the chair, Danny tried to look casual. “I figured I could introduce you two to some other ghosts. Kinda slim pickings on this side of the Zone, but I’ve got an ally over at Casper High, and Johnny and Kitty are in town and usually okay.”
Then he shifted, getting a little fidgety. “That is, um. If you are okay with that?”
“That’s…” Maddie paused, glanced over at her husband. “Actually, that’s a pretty good idea. We already knew that you were pretty strange for a ghost, Phantom. Having more proof of ghosts behaving non-malevolently would be useful.”
Danny grimaced at the casual reminder that somehow people had figured out that he wasn’t a regular ghost. “Right, um. I figured as much. We can start with Sidney, since I actually know where to find him.”
“Actually, Phantom,” his dad crept closer, looking rather thoughtful, “I – we – would like you meet someone, first.”
Frowning, Danny shifted to look at both of his parents. “Oh? Who?”
“Our son, Danny!” A massive hand came down on Danny’s shoulder, which thankfully covered his wince. Right. His parents thought that Danny Fenton was home – it was a regular Saturday, after all. Now how was he gonna cover for this…
“Really?” He made sure to look interested – or as interested as he had been when he met Jazz, at least. “Well, I mean. If he’s interested in meeting me, I’m not opposed either.”
“Of course he’ll be interested!” His dad scoffed at the thought of Danny not being interested in meeting Phantom. “Danny-boy has always been interested in ghosts, you see. But he doesn’t speak about it much, I think it embarrasses him.”
Or maybe he didn’t speak about it much because he didn’t want to attract attention to himself. Being interested or knowledgeable about ghosts wasn’t much to be ashamed of anymore, now that ghosts were actually known to be real. And, in the case of Phantom, widely beloved.
“Well, in that case.” Danny shrugged. “I suppose it would be a little silly to meet one of your kids and not the other, right?” Or, they would think it was weird. He had no reason to not want to meet Danny Fenton – none besides the fact that he was Danny Fenton, of course.
He just… he had to find a way to get out of this. If he could get a duplicate going, it would be fairly easy to blow off Phantom as Danny Fenton. But to do that, he had to sneak out a copy. And while he had gotten fairly good at making duplicates – and maintaining them – creating them unseen was still a little tricky.
Trailing behind his parents as they went of the stairs, Danny made sure to go just a little slower than usual. When no one was looking, he tugged on his core and prayed that the duplicate would come out invisible like he wanted. The line snapped, and Danny could sense the copy but not see him. Good.
Like all duplicates, the copy knew exactly what Danny wanted from him. It wasn’t a direct link, not usually – that cost more energy than it was worth. Instead he simply imparted the duplicate with his orders, and the copy would, for better or worse, follow those instructions to the best of his abilities. But they were just enough like him to put their own twist on them – to act just right enough.
“Danny-boy?” his dad called once they arrived at the base of the stairs to the next floor. “Can you come down for a minute?”
A moment of silence. Danny tensed reflexively – surely his duplicate had…?
“Coming!” his own voice answered from upstairs. Footsteps, and then Danny Fenton appeared around the corner. “What’s up, dad?”
His dad gestured at Danny – real Danny, who was Phantom right now – and smiled. “Hey son. Why don’t you come and meet our new ally, Phantom?”
The duplicate glanced between Jack and Danny – Phantom. Then he shrugged, not looking particularly enthused. “I mean, I guess. But I’m kinda busy right now, and it’s not like I’ve never seen Phantom before.”
Mom narrowed her eyes, shifting her gaze from Danny to Phantom. “Really now?”
“I’m at the school all the time,” Danny said, taking his eyes off of the duplicate to look at her. “You wouldn’t believe how many ghost attacks there are at Casper High. The kids there have seen me a lot.”
“Yeah, exactly.” The duplicate nodded his agreement. “Plus, like I said. Busy. And I’m sure you three have other things to do, too.”
The fake Danny Fenton gave a short wave, then turned around and walked back into his room. Moments later Danny felt the duplicate dissipate – he had done exactly as required.
“I guess he wasn’t as enthusiastic as I expected.” His dad frowned, looking at Danny a little apologetically. “Sorry Phantom.”
“It’s fine.” He flapped a hand, dismissive. “You never know with teenagers. Trust me, I know.”
His mom clicked her tongue. “That’s because you’re one yourself, Phantom.”
“Doesn’t that make me an expert?” He grinned, in that way that he knew was just a tad too cocky. “As a teen myself?”
Then he floated past his parents, moving towards the front door. “Either way, I hope you’re not tired of teens yet. The ghost we’re meeting first, Sidney Poindexter, is a teenage ghost as well.”
They nodded, and his dad pulled out the notebook again. “Ah, yes. Haunts Casper High and is on neutral grounds with you, right? Occasionally fights bullies?”
He ran through the list, mentally. Yes, that sounded about right. Sidney was actually an ally of his, but he hadn’t told his parents as much. After all, Sidney was mostly an ally for Fenton, not Phantom.
“Yeah, that’s correct. We’ll be meeting him by Casper High.”
“We’ll take the GAV,” his mom said, pulling the key from a pocket in her jumpsuit. “Will you ride with us or will you fly?”
Shrugging, he halted by the front door. “Might as well ride with you, if that’s okay.”
She scoffed, unlocking the front door and walking towards the garage. “Of course it’s okay. Why would I ask if it wasn’t?”
“People can be stupid like that, sometimes.” He grinned at her raised eyebrow. “Ghosts, especially, like to offer things and then not follow through. Especially if they think that it’ll get me off of their tails.”
“What’s the most alluring offer one has made you?” his dad asked, looking bright-eyed and curious.
Danny hummed, thinking it over for a moment. Or, more accurately, thinking if he should reveal the truth of not. And if yes, how to twist it in a way that wouldn’t give anything away.
“I suppose… The one time a ghost offered to teach me, when I was new and struggling to control my powers.” He looked away, one hand moving to rub his neck automatically. “He offered to help me. And he was so genuine about it too – he really did intend to follow through on it.”
“But?” His mom unlocked the GAV, the sound of which almost hid the question. She had clearly caught on to his unsaid words.
“But the prize was too high. He really did want to train me. But only in return for something I couldn’t give him, couldn’t let him do.” And what a shame that had been. Vlad had been the first human to find out, and still was the only human that knew. He knew what it was like, to be a halfa. To have no one in the know.
But instead of supporting Danny, he threatened his family. And that wasn’t something Danny could overlook.
“I’m sorry to hear that, kid.” A massive hand landed on his shoulder, and Danny looked up to see his dad’s sad expression. “Sometimes people are jerks. Ghosts, unfortunately, are no exception to this.”
“I know.” Danny sighed, shoulders slumping down. “But he was one of the first I met, and… I guess I really could’ve used that support, back then. It’s better now – I have my ghostly allies, and,” he looked up, “And I’ve got you two, as well. But I didn’t have any of that back then.”
His dad released him to clamber into the vehicle, and Danny followed by phasing through its walls. Once he was inside, his mom looked over her shoulder at him, with a far more fierce expression. “Is this a ghost we know? Because I would love to tell him off, next time he comes around.”
Danny snorted at the thought. Oh, if only. “Uh, yeah. He calls himself Plasmius, but you guys tend to call him the Wisconsin Ghost. I think I’ve mentioned him before.”
“He’s the one that tricked me into catching you, right?” Jack frowned, deep in thought. “The one I beat up in the lab when he tried to steal the Portal?”
“That’s the one,” Danny confirmed, lying down on his stomach mid-air, right behind and between his parents. “He’s a real jerk. My arch-nemesis, if I had to pick one.”
“Really?” The car roared to life, and Maddie started carefully turning it onto the road. “I would’ve expected a ghost we encounter more often. Plasmius we barely see.”
Another snort. “The keyword there is ‘see’. Plasmius comes here all the time to mess with me, but he knows how to stay hidden.” It wasn’t even come, really. Vlad was in Amity Park constantly. Hell, he was even the mayor! “He’s sneaky, so no one but me knows how much he’s here, really.”
“Wow, that’s… unfortunate.” A creak as Jack shifted, uncomfortable. “Maybe we should look into making some kind of city-wide ghost radar. So ghosts like him can’t escape our supervision.”
He would really rather they didn’t do that. Because most of their radars picked up on Danny, and if they had them everywhere… Well, it would only be a matter of time before they caught him shifting from Fenton to Phantom.
“No, no, it’s fine,” he said hurriedly, holding up his hands. “I’ve got it handled. Besides, Plasmius can hide from ghost hunting equipment, just like I can.” Well, from all equipment but the Fentons’, but that wasn’t something they needed to know about.
“You sure?” His mom didn’t look away from the road, so he couldn’t see her face, but she sounded concerned enough. “We want to help, Phantom. You know that, right?”
He sighed. Somehow his parents always found a way to play on his emotions. This was why he hadn’t told his friends – because they would’ve wanted to help, no matter the danger. “I know, I know. But I’ve got it handled. Let me deal with the ghosts, and you two can focus on your research, yeah?”
A sigh. “Alright. But if you ever need–”
“If I ever need help I’ll come, I promise.” He cut her off before she could finish the sentence. “Isn’t that what I’ve been doing?”
“We’re just worried about you, kid.” The car came to a stop, but his dad kept talking. “You already admitted that no one helps you, and that most ghosts you’re allied with stay in the Ghost Zone. And you’ve made it through the last two years, sure, but…” he trailed off, falling into silence.
Danny sighed, rubbing his hands over his face. “I get it. I know, you’re worried. But I’ll be fine, okay? And I promise to come for help if I ever need it.” God, and this was without his parents knowing that this was their actual son. If they ever found out the truth…
Well, he was pretty sure that he would never leave the house again if they found out. Forget worries about them studying him, they were gonna be too busy parenting him.
“We’re here, by the way.” His mom undid her seat belt, and Danny jolted back to awareness. Indeed, they were in the Casper High parking lot. “Does your friend know we’re coming?”
“Uh.” Danny phased through the side of the car, waiting for a moment until his parents had left the vehicle as well. “Sort of? I asked him if I could introduce you guys to each other, but I didn’t set a specific time or day or something like that.”
“Go find him, then.” His mom leaned back against the side of the car, loosely crossing her arms. “We’re not breaking into a school during the weekend to look for a ghost if he’s perfectly capable of coming outside.”
“Yes ma’am.” Danny jokingly saluted her, then dove into the building. It wasn’t hard to find Sidney – the boy tended to stay close to their shared locker.
As they flew back towards the car – and Danny’s parents – Sidney shot him a glance and asked, carefully, “Your parents, right? But they don’t know?”
“Yeah.” He phased through a wall, taking the more direct route outside. “And they think we’re just on neutral grounds, not allies. We have a deal, so you’re allowed to stay at Casper High and I keep an eye on you to make sure you don’t go too far while picking on bullies.”
Sidney nodded, and they emerged from the building. “Gotcha, buddy. Don’t worry about me!”
“I’m never worried about you.” Danny rolled his eyes, but smiled fondly. “You’ve been fine without me for 50 years, I’m sure you can handle yourself.”
“Don’t be so sure,” Sidney said as they finally came close enough to the Fentons for them to be able to hear the conversation. “I might surprise you!”
“Surprise him how?” Jack asked, curious and excited. “Is this a ghost thing?”
“No.” Danny rolled his eyes somewhat fondly. His dad and ghosts, really. “It’s not important.”
“Just some friendly ribbing,” Sidney agreed with a nod. “As us teenagers do.”
His mom shook her head disapprovingly, but didn’t object. The expression on her face said more than enough – teenagers, right?
Then she put a smile on her face and offered her hand. “Sidney, yes? Nice to meet you, I’m Maddie Fenton, and this is my husband Jack.”
“Pleasure to meet you as well.” He smiled back, accepting the offered hand and giving it a firm shake. “I don’t meet a lot of adults anymore, these days.”
“What about the teachers?” Jack asked as he stepped forward to shake hands as well. “Or do they not count because you’ve met already?”
Sidney grimaced, releasing Jack’s hand with a pinched look. “I usually avoid the teachers. They’re not very fond of ghosts. And most seem uncomfortable with an old student haunting the halls, even if I predate most of their careers.”
Maddie nodded with an understanding expression on her face. “That… makes sense. It’s unfortunate, but certainly understandable.”
“Indeed. Besides, more and more kids who get bullied a lot have been warming up to me.” He glanced over to Danny, then added, “And Phantom and I have been getting closer, too.”
“You’re a hard guy to hate,” Danny said with a shrug.
“So… What do you do, usually?” Jack clicked a pen, having grabbed a notebook. “You spend a lot of time in Casper High, and you scare off bullies, but surely you don’t do that all the time?”
“During the day, I attend a lot of classes.” Seeing the concerned expressions, Sidney raised his hands placatingly. “Always invisibly, of course! But it’s interesting to stay on top of the current material, to see the differences between my time and now. During the night I usually retreat to the Zone.”
“How?” Maddie frowned, looking between Sidney and Danny. “You can’t possibly be using our Portal, not that often.”
“He has his own Portal in the school.” Danny rubbed the back of his neck, smiling sheepishly. “It’s an enchanted mirror, kinda. Sid is the only one who can use it, though, so you don’t have to worry about anyone else coming through it and endangering the school.”
Sidney nodded energetically. “Yes, what he said. And it’s hidden in a place where n– where the students won’t find it, so you don’t have to worry about anyone getting hurt.” Danny heard the barely swallowed ‘normal’ Sidney had been about to say, and hoped his parents hadn’t. Because it was an understandable mistake – it was hidden in Danny’s locker, where no one else would find it. But Danny was a student, just not a normal one.
“That’s good,” Maddie said approvingly. “I’m glad to hear that the two of you put so much thought into it.”
“It’s what I do.” Danny shrugged, but couldn’t stomp down the smile that crept on his face. Hearing his parents compliment Phantom never got old. “Keep people safe, that is.”
“Both humans and ghosts, huh?” But Jack also smiled, clearly pleased. “You’re a good kid, Phantom. And you as well, Sidney, from what I hear.”
Sidney smiled in response, his aura brightening slightly. “Thank you, sir. I do what I can.”
Danny opened his mouth to answer as well, but he felt his phone buzz in his belt pocket. Frowning, he pulled it out. It was his normal phone, but it was generic enough that he didn’t expect his parents to recognize it.
That, and he had replaced it himself several times since they had last bought him a phone, so. If they hadn’t noticed that Danny’s phone had been replaced, they definitely wouldn’t notice that Phantom had the same one as their son.
“If you still want to meet Johnny and Kitty we’ll need to leave soon,” he said, looking up from the screen and at his parents. “They just texted me to let me know that they plan on returning to the Zone.”
Sidney rolled his eyes. “Oh, those troublemakers.”
“At least they’re not bullies.” Danny grinned, and Sidney sighed but didn’t protest. Then he turned back to his parents. “It’s up to you two. If you want to meet them I’ll text them to ask if we can chat first.”
“It would be interesting,” his mom said carefully, her tone measured. She was clearly trying to find a way to agree without accidentally offending Sidney. “But…”
“It’s fine.” The full ghost smiled at her. “I completely understand. I’ll be around if you want to pick up the conversation again another time.”
“Well, thank you.” She offered her hand again, and they shook. “It was a pleasure meeting you, Sidney.”
“You as well, madam.” Still smiling, he shook Jack’s hand as well. “And you too, sir.”
Danny, meanwhile, shot a quick text to Johnny. Looking back, he was glad that he had talked the couple into accepting a phone. Even if it wouldn’t work in the Zone, it was handy for them to be able to text him to let him know if they were in the human world or not. Before, they just… dropped by. Which usually was at extremely inconvenient moments, because that’s just how Danny’s life was.
Johnny agreed to wait in the park, and promised they wouldn’t mention Phantom’s human side or anything related to it.
“Alright, we can meet Johnny and Kitty in the park,” he told his parents. Then he turned to Sidney, “And Sid, see ya later this week, alright?”
The ghost nodded, then waved. “Of course. Stay out of trouble, Phantom.”
He gasped dramatically, clutching his chest. “Me, getting in trouble? I would never.”
Sidney didn’t bother responding as he left, but Danny’s dad snorted.
“Let’s get going,” his mom offered in lieu of a response. “Wouldn’t want to keep those two waiting, right?”
“Right.” Danny followed her back to the car, phasing through the wall again. “Although technically there are three of them. Johnny has a sentient shadow which follows his commands, and it’s always near him.”
He sat between his parents, floating cross-legged. “He calls it Shadow, which might be the least creative name I’ve ever heard.”
“Pot calling the kettle black?” His dad quirked a brow. “Phantom isn’t a very creative name for a ghost either, you know.”
“But it’s a pun,” slipped out before he could really think about it, and Danny clamped his jaw shut. But it was too late – both his parents had clearly heard him. “It’s, um. It’s a pun based on my actual name.”
“Oh,” his dad said, far more quietly now.
“Don’t worry about it.” Danny scrambled to lift the mood again. “It’s okay. I don’t mention it to keep my old identity safe, you know? So I’m used to people commenting on it.”
Jack nodded, but didn’t answer. His mom offered no response either, focusing on the road instead. Danny tried to think of a way to break the silence again, but it lasted until they arrived in the park.
Then his parents spotted Johnny and Kitty, and promptly jumped out of the barely-stopped car.
“You!” his dad shouted, as Danny scrambled out after them. “You’re the creep that dated Jazz!”
Johnny flinched back, half-stumbling over the bike he was leaning against. “I, uh.”
“Stop!” Danny yelled, diving between the two groups and holding out his hands. The ghosts flinched back another step, clearly expecting an ecto-blast to follow.
Seeing this, Danny lowered his hands again. He floated backwards a little, so he could see everyone simultaneously.
“Look,” he said, carefully. “Yes, Johnny and Kitty have both secretly dated humans before. And yes, Johnny dated your daughter Jazz before. But that’s been resolved, and they won’t do it again.” The last part of the statement was underlined with a heated glare, which both ghosts answered with sheepish smiles.
“Exactly as he said, uh, sir.” Johnny held up his hands, attempting to be placating. “I didn’t mean her any harm, and Phantom has certainly made sure it won’t happen again.”
Danny barely repressed his snort. Didn’t mean her any harm his ass – Johnny had wanted Jazz as a permanent host to Kitty. But Johnny had begged for another chance, and so had Kitty over the whole ‘overshadowing Paulina’ debacle.
And sue him for giving them another shot. Less ghosts to fight was always good, right?
“If it helps, I keep a close eye on him now,” Kitty tried, putting on her most trust-inspiring expression. Which wasn’t terribly trustworthy, between her abstract coloration and her ragged clothes. “Johnny is done dating other girls, so it won’t happen again, I promise.”
The Fentons shared a few glances – a short but entirely silent conversation – before nodding. “Alright,” Jack finally said, gruffly. “But if I see you close to my daughter ever again…”
“I hear you loud and clear.” Johnny finally lowered his hands a little, shooting a mildly panicked glance at Danny. “But, uh. I think Kitty and I should be going. I just remembered that we promised Ember to drop by, and her lair is quite a ways away.”
“Smooth,” Danny hissed under his breath with a roll of his eyes. Then, at a volume everyone could hear, he added, “Yeah, alright. Get going then. Let me know if you come back, yeah?”
“Of course, Phantom.” Johnny waved his phone demonstratively. “Actually, I believe some of the ghosts are looking into these phones, trying to find a way to make them work in the Zone as well. So maybe next time I could drop you a message beforehand.”
“Really? That would be really useful, yeah.” If they got it working, Danny would have to get phones to some of his other friends and allies. It would be nice to stay in more constant touch with his allies – not to speak of his friends, like Wulf. “If Technus is helping I might have to drop by and see if I can do anything to help. At the very least this project will keep him busy in the Zone instead of terrorizing the human world.”
“Until he decides he needs some material from here and steals it,” Johnny said with a shrug. “But I’ll leave that to you, Phantom. See ya later!”
Kitty waved them goodbye too, and then the bike zipped off – a trail of green smoke following them.
“Well, um.” Danny rubbed the back of his neck as he turned to face his parents fully. “That didn’t quite go as I had planned.”
“Did you know that that ghost has dated our daughter in the past?” It was his dad who asked, but Maddie behind him had a terribly scrutinizing expression on her face as well.
“I, uh. I knew that he had dated someone without them knowing about him being a ghost,” Danny admitted, carefully. “But I didn’t know it was your daughter specifically, no.”
“And you made sure they won’t do it again?” His mom, now. Her expression had softened slightly, but not much.
“Absolutely.” He nodded firmly. “I wouldn’t let them hang out in the town without supervision if I wasn’t absolutely sure. They were messing about for a while, penned up frustration and relationship struggles and all that stuff. But I made sure they sorted it out, and not being stuck in the Zone helps as well.”
The two parents shared a look, then relaxed entirely.
“Sorry, it’s just…” Jack shrugged, looking uncomfortable. “We’re just used to seeing ghosts as invariably evil, you know? So knowing that one messed with our daughter…”
“No, no, I understand.” And he did. Because Johnny had messed with his sister. And this, this structure, trusting Johnny and Kitty… It had been hard. “But I promise you that I’m keeping an eye on them. And, just like humans, ghosts can change their ways too. I don’t want to force them to deal with the consequences of a single mistake for the rest of their existence, you know?”
Maddie sighed, but it was more fond than exasperated. “You’re a good kid, Phantom. And you’re right. It’s just… It’s just us being parents. Don’t worry about it.”
He nodded. “Will you make it back to the house alright? It’s time for me to go on patrol, but if you want I can come with…?”
“Oh, no, we’ll be fine.” She flapped a hand, but smiled. “Thank you, though. It’s appreciated. Stay safe, Phantom.”
“And let us know if you run into problems!” Jack added, as he got back in the car as well.
“I will!” He waved them goodbye, a smile plastered on his face. The day might not have gone entirely according to plan, but it went alright. Better than he could’ve hoped, really.
And wow, cellphones in the Zone? Wouldn’t that be useful, if Technus could get it to work?
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realmonstersrp · 6 years
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INTRODUCING MITSURU HARUKAWA, OUR NEWEST STUDENT WITH THE POWER OF REPLICATION
WELCOME TO GUMI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE POWERED.
WHO ARE THEY?
PERSONALITY
(+)  Creative, loyal, non-judgemental (–)  Hedonistic, evasive, unpredictable
BACKGROUND
mitsuru was the second born child of the harukawa family out of two. one was around four years younger while the oldest was living in korea going into his last year of gumi, the same ranks as alpha. her parents, more so her father wanted to create a legacy filled with little monsters after receiving his first born son while her mother only agreed to the man’s ideals only because she was afraid of what he might say otherwise.
her mother was her father’s second wife, however. her father had decided to remarry once upon a time since his last wife had failed to bare him a considerable child.
her father managed a massive financial conglomerate in japan’s largest city so most of the time, it was only just her brother and her mother alone. mitsuru was more than comfortable without being in the presence of him, which meant her mother had a better chance of nurturing her and looking after her normally.
due to owning an ability that did not quite impress him, mitsuru was the odd one out of the three while being subjected to her father’s verbally abusive nature. her younger brother was the only one who wanted to comfort her but mitsuru had to go ahead and push him away due to her anger and disappointment in making her father act the way he does.
she was a bright child, rebellious. whatever thoughts that came into mind, she would say them without worrying about the consequences. mitsuru was lively, just a little irresponsible which did not look good to her father, knowing she was never going to take anything seriously and she was more so into learning by observing, hands on experiences and reading.
in school, learning many subjects proved to be a struggle but she earned the most average grades in order not to be considered a failure, at least. mitsuru was at least normal there. she was great at however, learning languages and literature was a proud subject for her. though never really had a plan or a path that she wanted to take, being rather unenthusiastic in those areas.
while she thought that there wasn’t much in the world that could interest her, she slowly found enjoyment in literature as well as anything related to science due to her imagination and eccentric behavior. she was good at thinking of ideas for all sorts of things, always curious of the unknown.
the first real use of her abilities was just that. mitsuru was only able to create two clones at a time and at first it was strangely enjoyable due to how much fun she had. she felt like a queen with two other clones by her side whom looked exactly like her, acted like her and everything in between. but her clones fight, making it difficult to even keep them around or tell them apart. sometimes she’d even use them to help her mother clean.
using her abilities it was also a risk, because even clones could develop a personality of their own, different from hers. once that happened, mitsuru had a bit of an identity crisis due to the whole ordeal. making even more of her clones served as a means to fill a void.
her mother knew the behavior was rather strange when mitsuru tried picking a fight with her younger brother, then acting all apologetic about it afterwards. after that, the cycle just sort of started going on for awhile. mitsuru did not think anything was wrong with her to begin with, keeping everything down and under wraps for her own sanity’s sake.
her father did not hesitate to warn her about how she were to move to a different household when the nearest weekend came. mitsuru relocated to kyoto, japan in order to meet her grandparents who stayed there afterwards, accepting her with open arms.
she entered gumi due to the members of her family tried carving the path for her right after they entered gumi and joining the ranks, not long after her oldest brother managed to graduate then was considered as a alumni. it wasn’t her first time traveling alone however. mitsuru went solo throughout her first year before being accepted into hellion around her second year.  
WHAT CAN THEY DO?
DEFINITION
replication: the ability to replicate herself or another living being numerous times, all while being able to recombine the clones.
i. while creating clones, whether it’s one or two, mitsuru’s clones share a collective consciousness between multiple bodies called a hive mind. she can have a max of two clones at the moment, unable to make anymore than that.
ii. mitsuru’s clones have the ability to learn different things while they are apart from one another. like collecting information in duration of the time frame that her ability gives her. after absorbing her duplicate, her original body is able to absorb the information collected along with it.
iii. she cannot replicate others on a higher level however. replicating others can prove as a defensive tactic in order to create diversions but that seems to be it. they are more so called decoys than clones, able to distract others.
iv. the clones are able to withstand more injury than the original body when attacked or assaulted, even though her clones do not gain extra strength when they are formed.
WEAKNESSES
i. while mitsuru is able to replicate herself and others, she cannot replicate objects or living animals.
ii. she is limited to two clones when replicating herself but no more than two. and as opposed to replicating herself a total of two times, she is limited to one when recreating a decoy of another living being.
iii. the characteristics and condition of mitsuru’s clones start out the same as the original. when mitsuru is injured, her clones will also become weak. while the clones start off with the same characteristics, they may gain more in time depending how long they have been out for. this makes her clones difficult to control herself.
iv. her clones do not gain extra strength or knowledge but maintains those of the original body.
v. others can possibly easily tell which is a clone due to her replica’s state. when part of their body is injured or once they are threatened, the clones will automatically melt if mitsuru does not take them away herself. decoys however tend to pixelate.
vi. clones may gain extra thoughts and personalities if they are away from the original for too long. if that happens, they may go cross-purpose to the original which would explain more personality changes from mitsuru.
vii. mitsuru’s clones and decoys are able to split 50 ft apart from each other, starting from the original body and will not be able to go any further or else it’ll weakness mitsuru considerably which would make it difficult to maintain them. a considerable amount of concentration is needed.
viii. for now, mitsuru can only have her clones out for a maximum of ten minutes and will be unable to replicate again for another hour after reaching that said limit.
DID YOU KNOW?
mitsuru suffers from slight contradictory personality, acting one way before acting a different way the next due to her ability to make clones of herself.
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queernuck · 6 years
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I’m thinking about it and talking to my girlfriend about it and like, I’m still pretty fucking frustrated about the way in which so many things relating to her not being able to see me back in April went down over the course of a few months.
Starting back in January, my parents find Probable Cause kinda shit in my desk. A desk that had been in my room for probably about a decade that I literally cannot remember them ever snooping in, even when snooping in other places. It’s the sort of thing where it’s on me, and I don’t even want to divest from that as a responsibility: I fucked up. But that it had the opportunity to be on me was in part because of them and a way of looking at me that just thought of me as disposable, frankly. It thought of me as ancillary. And it still influences them! 
We had been hoping that, after holiday rush bullshit was over, that we’d have a chance for her to come out here and see me for a bit, that my dedication during the holiday season would pay off and be recognized as exceptional even with a lot of exceptional work being done by my coworkers and i, but for one reason or another it got pushed back again and again, first because of worries about them and then entirely because of work. 
I remember when my dad threatened me with violence after I lost my cool and called him an asshole for trying to pull some “well, what if he genuinely feels bad?” shit about Mark Wahlberg looking to get his felony vacated so he could open up a goddamn burger joint in California and then dropping it when he eventually realized that it wasn’t going to work because it was so transparent
I remember finding out that my mom looked at me with disgust and had shared that with my younger brother after the Super Bowl
I remember weeks after weeks of waiting, of wondering when I would be able to see her. Soon enough it came time for inventory, and that took up an entire month where I had no way of asking for time off. So finally, when that was all done, and I could ask again, I still had to fucking wait because of shit with how far out the schedule for work had already been made. 
And when I finally WAS asking about it, talking about it? Negotiating it was a continual process of sacrifice. It was cutting down seven days where I wouldn’t be working to four, despite specifically choosing seven days that were split between two work weeks, so that they could schedule me some days in both and I would at least have some kinda paychecks coming in from both, if not ones from what I normally make in a week of working. It was continually doing “enough” to show to my dad that I was doing just that, enough. So many fraught discussions with me on the defensive, every single effort of mine demeaned and laid out neatly for him to pick apart. Why do I need to ask for that much time off? Why am I not already full time? Why do I need to have this many days off, if I’m part time then? What have we planned? What can I show him that is tangible, concrete, that he can find fault with and reject?
All the while I continually mention here and there things about her visiting: wanting to get things taken care of, wanting to pick up extra shifts so I can have goodwill for days off, looking to make plans of one sort or another, or talking about things we may do. I try to talk to my parents as little about it as possible, to give them less to seize upon. I discuss, more than once, with my dad about how to broach it, how to try and spend one night with her, and he says he will do what he can to help me do such in a way that is “respectful” to my mother. 
Finally, it gets to the last few days before I’m supposed to see her. I ask him about how I’m gonna get to the airport to meet her, he’s tentatively okay with me going from the LIRR to the AirTrain if she goes into LaGuardia. I check what time that would be at, ask if I could get the train with him part of the way or something. That night, when faced with it all, with a situation they hate, I am forced to effectively stand and acquit them for what they proceed to do.
My mom says that she had in fact said no to my dad when he asked, and that the discussion had ended there. I remember no mention of such a discussion.
My dad says that he assumed that I had the talked to my mother after the discussion, mended things with her, and then proceeded to discuss it with him. I cannot remember if she admits that she never mentioned this discussion to me. I remember, though, that in fact his response required that I maintain that I had deceived him by not disclosing the lack of continuation to that conversation which I had not been informed of at any point. 
A back and forth proceeds over the next hour or two where I am thrashed between the two, updating my girlfriend over the phone in tears, before she finally talks to my dad over the phone and hears his honeyed words, the dripping duplicity of them, the way in which he says everything while claiming nothing at all, a hauntology of his own self developing before my eyes. this is not a man I know, nor is it one that she has ever heard about. I know the appearance of this man, but I know not who he is. he is certainly not my father. he suggests condescendingly that she instead visit during the summer.
Summer comes and goes. As it ends, we finally move out, after a two year ordeal caps off two decades in the same house. I start to settle in, my siblings go off to school, the ranch house becomes quiet and still. My birthday comes and goes unremarkably, save for the way in which my mother pitches a fit over a cake she bought without any prompting. By the time I finally start to think of how to ask about her visiting, the break room corkboard has a note, saying to see a certain manager with any requests to change availability or request time off, as November and December are already considered too close to discuss except on a case-by-case basis, on a barely-there standard of rigor. That manager has been promoted to a bigger role at another store as of Saturday, I now do not know who to see if I want to request time off. 
Today, a coworker approaches me and passes along that I am being asked to pick up a shift, albeit a relatively short one, in the middle of a stretch of days off that I had been looking forward to. I accept. In the car ride home, I let my frustration slip and say to my dad that I accept the shift not because of myself but because of how he has conditioned me to view this job. This is not true without context: it also is part of that same strategy, taking shifts in order to gain favor at work so that I can schedule days off in a way that works well. He says not to think of it as that, as taking shifts “for him” when I am openly saying that I would not be taking it except for him, that I think of it as that already. As for other reasons to be doing it, he offers none.
There is no further discussion. He makes a passing reactionary remark when the radio mentions a news story about two cops in Brooklyn, one quickly undone by even a cursory look at the story at hand. I weigh myself, shower, and go downstairs to bed.
Goodnight.
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newwheel · 7 years
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Stromer ST1X Customer Ride Report by Paul Yonemura
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About Paul
Age: 66 Occupation: Retired Music Teacher/Independent Jazz Recording Artist Home Town: Berkeley, CA Bike Usage: Errands/Pleasure Rides Average Weekly Mileage: 20 miles/Errands Pleasure Riding Mileage: 10-30 miles per trip
Bike: Stromer ST1X 17″ in Orange w/ Stromer Front Suspension & BodyFloat Seatpost
How I Wound Up On An Electric Bike Like a lot of people, I rode a great deal when I was a child.  I’d ride all over Berkeley on everything from a balloon-tired cruiser to a ten-speed.  Then the driver’s license came at age sixteen and that ended my biking for a long time.  I got back on a bike at age 38, riding an early mountain bike, which was great for Berkeley’s not-so-perfect streets, but I wasn’t consistent with it.  Being a band director meant having to haul instruments in for repair in a car, so the bike got very sporadic use.
I was very out of shape, going into retirement, so I signed up at a local gym and also signed up for a personal trainer.  My trainer is about my age, super-fit, and sets a good example.  She rode to the gym every day on everything from an urban “beater” bike to her fancy carbon-fiber road bike.  
One day, I arrived at the gym and saw an electric bike parked where she normally parked.  Like a lot of people, I thought electric bikes were for people who didn’t want to exercise.  I felt sure that someone had taken her parking spot.  I had to admit, looking at her bike (which was a Specialized Turbo) made me realize that electric bikes had come a long way.  Yes, it was her bike.  She said it was a present from her partner and when I asked how she liked it, she said, “I love it!  You should try one!”
I did try one, liked it, but was unable to get a duplicate of her bike (Specialized had discontinued production).  A recommendation to try The New Wheel Electric Bike Shop came my way.  I had also done some research on bikes and the one that came up in comparisons with the Specialized was the Stromer line.  I went to The New Wheel in Larkspur, took a ride on a Stromer ST1 Platinum and a week later I had one of my own.  Over the next six months, even with the heavy winter rains, I put over 1200 miles on the bike, all very enjoyable.
Why The Switch To The ST1 X? One day, while my bike was being serviced at The New Wheel, I saw a Stromer on display that was a very eye-catching orange metallic.  Brett Thurber told me this was the new ST1 X, which would be coming out the next year (this was in 2016 when I saw the display model).  
While I was happy with my ST1 Platinum, I had to admit there were some range anxiety issues on longer rides.  I never ran out of battery, but it was something to think about when I was riding in unfamiliar territory.  The ST1 X with the biggest battery pack (910 KWH) effectively solved that, at least on paper.  I wasn’t sure about the Omni system, whether I really needed all the tech features, but I had to admit it cleaned up the handle bar area by putting the bike’s brain in the top tube.  The look of the bike is what really caught my eye though.  The frame looks the same as the ST1 Elite or Platinum, until you take a closer look.  It’s a more refined, precision piece of work and the wiring is, for the most part, tucked away out of sight, which makes the bike look cleaner.  I finally put in an order in early April 2017 and took delivery in mid-April.  Mine is in orange metallic, which is very eye-catching.
The ST1 X Riding Experience I had a floating seat post and a Stromer shock fork on my old bike to help deal with the much-less-than-perfect streets around my Berkeley neighborhood.  I learned early on that the Stromer goes fast enough to magnify even small bumps.  I upgraded the ST1 X with both of these features, along with an aftermarket seat that was more to my liking.  I’m also running the biggest battery option available, with is the 910 KWH battery.  With conservative settings on the torque sensors, I could potentially get over 100 miles on a charge, depending on riding conditions.  My Platinum did about 35 miles with 20% battery left, so that was quite a bump in range!
Berkeley, like most Bay Area cities, is not totally flat.  There are grades and hills of varying steepness.  This is what greeted the ST1 X when I got it home.  A test ride is one thing, but riding the way I was accustomed to riding my ST1 Platinum brought initial disappointment.  The Platinum has four different power settings and even the City mode on that bike felt more powerful than the #2 mode on the ST1 X.  It seemed like the new bike was more of a chore to ride, very sluggish.  The settings on the phone app torque sensors were right in the middle of the screen “sliders” and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep the bike.
Brett Thurber assured me that there were things I could do to cure the lack of go on the bike.  The ST1 X rides very much like an ST2, so it meant that I had to play around with the torque sensors.  There’s one on the on-board computer, and three sensors on the app, one for agility, one for torque, and one for speed, all used to tune the #2 mode on the controls on the handlebar.  (The controls, for modes 1, 2, and 3, plus lights are right at the fingertip, very easy to use, an improvement over the old bolt-on control panel on my old bike.)
I definitely am not tuning this bike for maximum battery range.  The bike torque sensor, plus the app agility and torque sensors are all set for maximum power.  I left the speed adjustment a little higher than the factory middle setting.  It’s taken a few weeks to “dial it in,” but my somewhat troublesome knees are now telling me that I’m getting it right.  My knees haven’t felt this good in a year.  More important, I’m now getting that power boost that I’m accustomed to.  Here is the breakdown on how the ST1 X does in my riding around Berkeley.
Power This bike isn’t any faster than my Platinum was, since both bikes are rated with 28 m.p.h. top speeds, but I have to say that the ST1 X surprises me by being easier to exploit that top speed.  I think the torque curve of the motor is different and puts out a good amount at higher speeds.  On San Pablo Avenue, I actually pushed the bike past 28 mph, hit 29 mph. the other day.  If I had a little more street between signals, I may very well have touched 30 mph.
Great, you say, but how does it do on hills?  On my gym commutes, I hit grades and moderate hills that would slow my speed down to between 5-7 mph on a conventional bike.  I did a little test on the ST1 X with no assist on and this was the result.  On the same hill, putting it on the #3 mode, I pulled as high as 17 mph, dropping to 15 mph at the crest of the hill, all still seated.  If I came out of the seat, 17 mph would have been the speed at the crest.  
There are four bad hills in this area, which are the top part of Marin Avenue in Berkeley, Moeser Lane in El Cerrito, Potrero Avenue in El Cerrito, and Cutting Blvd. in Richmond.  Using upper Marin Avenue as an extreme hill test, I lasted for one block in maximum assist and the lowest gear on the rear cluster.  It was work, but I made it to the next intersection.  If your commute or riding includes hills like these, I’d recommend something else, maybe a mid-drive with double the torque.
Since I don’t use these hills for anything, the ST1 X is perfect.  It flattens everything else even resembling a hill that I normally encounter.  The power delivery is smooth and quiet too.  I’ve already mentioned the speed, but it’s worth bringing up that it’s easy to exploit what power this bike has in every situation.  It’s also easy to just putter along at a moderate pace.  
Shifting The ST1 X has plenty of gears for how I ride.  The shifts are very clean and crisp.  I think this is due to an upgraded shifter over my old bike, plus no multiple chain-rings up front, which makes tuning the rear deraillier easier.  
Range Even with my power-mad tuning of the motor, I’ve charged the bike twice in six weeks.  The first charge still had 28% battery life showing at 77 miles.  The second charge had 20% battery life left at about 85 miles.  If I wasn’t conservative about holding something in reserve, I could probably break 100 miles.  I find that once I hit my ideal spin speed in a given situation, the assist drops off to almost nothing, so I think that has more to do with saving the battery.  It seems to be a “have your cake and eat it too” sort of situation.  At any rate, having the monster battery on board was a good investment.  
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Braking On my test ride, I noticed that the ST1 X has a much more pronounced regenerative braking action.  It’s also adjustable.  I boosted mine up to double what it was in the factory settings.  I’ve talked about climbing hills and what goes up has to come down.  This feature makes maintaining control on a long downhill stretch easy and it helps with keeping me off the brake pads until I need to come to a complete stop.  On flat ground, if I time my application of the regen feature properly, I can almost come to a complete stop without getting into the brake pads, saving them until the last several feet.  
So far, there is none of the ST1 brake squeal that I had on my old bike.  This bike only has 205 miles on it so far, but the brakes are impressively quiet and smooth in action.  The only thing I’d like to see on this bike is the addition of a regen mode in the Omni controller for those long downhill runs.  That being said, it’s easy to partially pull on the brake handles to kick the regen mode on.  Nice job, Stromer!
Other Features Remember how I thought I wouldn’t use the other tech features?  Well, I’ve started using the remote locking hub feature on the Stromer phone app when I park the bike (I also have a good lock).  I mentioned the control buttons, but I have to say that’s the first thing I really liked over my old bike.  The GPS tracking feature is a nice thing to have too.  The only nit here is that it sometimes takes a few minutes for the bike and the app to sync up.  I’m sure there will be improvements from Stromer as more of these bikes hit the road.
The standard headlight puts out plenty of light at night and I like the big tail-light as well.  
Stromer supplies a rack with this bike, along with fenders (same as my old bike, the “City Kit”).  I’ve seen some reviewers bash the rack as useless, but I just hang my saddle-bags on the rack and do grocery runs with it.  I don’t think Stromer recommends putting a child seat on the rack, but for running errands and hauling moderate loads, I think the rack makes this bike very useful.  I don’t have the need for a cargo bike yet, so the ST1 X makes for a fun around-town errand runner.  
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Final Thoughts My initial disappointment with the performance of the ST1 X went away when I was able to find the settings that I liked.  That’s one of the beauties of this new bike.  If you have a flat commute and want to extend your battery range, you can either run it in mode #1, or set the sensors in the middle for mode #2 (which is where the factory puts them).  It’s very adjustable for the individual rider’s tastes.  This bike is a blast to ride and makes dealing with Berkeley’s traffic congestion and most of the hills I encounter a breeze!  It’s also very useful as an errand runner and has already taken me to Point Richmond and back, along with a Bay Bridge ride.  The miles are adding up quickly.  Most important, the ST1 X is now part of my fitness routine, while taking care of my around-town commuting needs.  My car now stays in the garage, unless I have to hit the freeway, or haul out my drums to a gig.  The savings in fuel and parking costs, as well as wear and tear on the nerves, is worth it.  For those of you who think that I can’t ride a normal bike anymore, I still can.  I’ve also found out my pedal cadence is much steadier than before, so I am getting a workout on an E-bike, which I didn’t think was possible.  It really is an around-town replacement for my car and I feel a lot better after a ride, no matter how short or long.
Would I recommend this bike for anyone else?  Yes.  While it’s not a cheap ride, it has a lot of the features of the ST2 for two thousand dollars less.  That’s a pretty nice deal.  It’s a bike for a person who likes a sportier, faster ride.  I’m enthused enough to recommend the ST1 X to my son, who does a round-trip 12 mile daily commute to Oakland.  It would cut his commute time in half, and time is a precious commodity these days.  
If you like high performance in what you ride, give the Stromer ST1 X a test ride. As for me, I’ve got some new roads to conquer.  If you see an orange ST1 X out on the road in the East Bay, it’s probably me…
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jeromebrooke1991 · 4 years
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IV fluid policy
Written by:
Dr Jonny Wilkinson– Consultant in ITU and Anaesthesia and NICE IV Fluid Lead
Dr Lisa Yates – Clinical Fellow in ITU
Additions from Dr Ashley Miller (@icmteaching).
  Legal pre-amble!
I would like to point out to everyone before we go any further on here, that the IV fluid guideline discussed below has NOT YET BEEN APPROVED BY NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL. I am happy for you all to download a copy to use within your trusts, provided appropriate approval is sought. Also, again, these are not the views of Northampton General Hospital. There we are…..done!
Click below to download a copy:
NGH IV Fluid policy (Currently in review)
Background
Summary
This post aims to guide clinicians through the assessment and management of patients requiring IV fluids. It aims to aid in the management of electrolyte replacement and minimise the potential harm to patients from fluid mis-management.
It incorporates much of this publication:
  Introduction
Intravenous (IV) fluids are some of the most commonly prescribed day-to-day drugs. They have their indications, benefits, risks, side-effects and complications. Often, the task is delegated to the junior most members of the team. Evidence suggests that such prescriptions are rarely ever done correctly despite the presence of clear guidelines. This is thought to be due to lack of knowledge and experience, which often breeds confusion. Consequently, this puts patients at increased risk of serious harm and may incur unnecessary costs to hospitals.
It is therefore imperative to carefully assess the individual, their requirements and the clinical picture in order to tailor IV fluid plans safely.
Ideally, fluids should be prescribed on the ward-round by the team who knows the patient and their history. Non-parent team prescriptions, particularly out-of-hours, require extra care and in particular should not be done as a duplication of the last prescription in order to save time.
Clearly, there are emergent situations whereby fluids need to be prescribed outside of this policy.
Figure 1. IV Fluids are drugs Infographic (Wilkinson J N, Lyness D 2018)
  The problem
Previous retrospective reviews of prescriptions within our Trust have identified poor control of the process. There were considerable variations in IV fluid prescriptions; none of which adhered to NICE guidelines. At times, some prescriptions were placing patients at increased risk of associated complications. The knowledge base amongst medical staff regarding IV fluids was extremely variable, sometimes poor.
Fluid Volumes
16% had the correct volumes prescribed for maintenance fluids.
Electrolytes & Glucose
Patients received excessive amounts of sodium within their IV fluid prescriptions, yet minimal potassium.
Only 25% contained the correct amount of glucose.
Production of a new IV fluid bundle (Click below to download), led to significant improvements in the measured outcomes and balancing measures.
      IV fluid bundle for ward based use – click to download a copy
After the bundle introduction:
All patients had a documented review of both fluid status and balance
The incidence of deranged U&E’s decreased from 48% to 35%
The incidence of AKI decreased 14% to 10%.
The average number of days between the latest U&E’s and a fluid prescription decreased from 2.2 days to 1.0 day.
  Clinical guidelines
Target Group
The guidance was designed to grab the attention of key users in our trust:
All patients considered for maintenance IV fluids:
Those with existing or developing deficits that cannot be compensated by oral intake.
When fluids are lost via drains or stomata, fistulas, fever, open wounds (including evaporation during surgery), polyuria (salt wasting nephropathy or diabetes insipidus).
With the overall aim – to match the amount of fluid and electrolytes as closely as possible to the fluid that is being or has been lost.
  Exclusions
Patients under the age of 16 – consult your trust’s paediatric team
Diabetes/DKA – use your trust’s current diabetes guidance or diabetic emergency guidance
Burns – use your trust’s existing burns calculations
Obstetrics – discuss with senior obstetric team for more complex patients
Head injury – avoid fluids containing glucose and liaise with a neurotrauma centre if you are not already one
Renal/Liver patients – discuss with senior gastro./renal team
ITU patients – managed by the ITU team
Elective and emergency theatre cases – managed by the anaesthetist caring for the patient in theatre. Relevance to this policy comes in post-operative ward management.
  Background Clinical Physiology
We often give too much IV fluid and in particular, too much non-physiological salt. Once within the body, such non-physiological excesses are very difficult to remove and can result in many adverse situations for our patients.
There are extremes – increased fluid load can cause major electrolyte swings, whereas dehydration, left unchecked, can lead to poor organ perfusion.
Sick patients (particularly those with systemic inflammatory response syndrome or ‘SIRS’ and those with sepsis), have ‘leaky capillaries.  In this situation, even careful IV fluid administration can lead to fluid overload and resultant complications associated with it, (ileus, poor mobility following peripheral oedema, pressure sores, pulmonary oedema, poor wound healing and anastomotic breakdown). This is because the administered fluid escapes from the intravascular compartment (the patient does not ‘hold onto it as expected’), flooding the extracellular compartment where it offers no physiological benefit to the patient.
Organ perfusion (blood flow), is dependent on the pressure gradient from the arterial to the venous side of the organ. Arterial flow is constant over a wide range of blood pressures due to auto-regulation. Therefore organ blood flow is dependent on venous pressures. Hypervolaemia increases venous pressures and reduces organ blood flow, as it increases downstream pressure, effectively clogging up the system! It has been well demonstrated that AKI is often a direct result of fluid overload!
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These patients are too often labelled as hypovolaemic, but technically they are not. We have a situation whereby fluid has escaped into another body compartment away from its beneficial site within the circulating volume. What these patients require, after sensible fluid challenges and identification of ‘non-response’, is early consideration of vasopressor therapy (i.e. noradrenaline). This is why in sepsis and states of critical illness, poor IV fluid prescribing practice can ultimately lead to morbidity (See figure 2), and even worse, mortality.
Figure 2. Adverse consequences of fluid overload (Malbrain M.L.N.G)
Check out many of Manu Malbrain’s slides on the issues of fluid overload below!
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We often look at urine output as a marker of fluid requirement, however patients who are unwell, have suffered trauma, or have undergone surgery often have a reduced urine output due to increased sodium retention (and thus water), by the kidneys.  This is a Neanderthal stress response and is geared to holding on to intravascular volume in order to maintain vital organ perfusion during such stress states. Stress induced (‘inappropriate’) anti-diuretic hormone secretion, as well as intrinsic vasopressor hormone secretion, lead to a state of sodium retention and potassium loss in the urine. The patient becomes oedematous, hypokalaemic and hypernatraemic over time, if left unchecked.  If normal saline has been given as a resuscitation fluid or maintenance fluid, the potential situation of hyperchloraemic acidosis can ensue, on top of these other electrolyte imbalances.
No patient should suffer the effects of cellular dysfunction and ultimately multi-organ dysfunction, as a result of excessive IV fluid provision. Armed with an understanding of fluid physiology, one can see why oliguria is a poor marker of fluid requirement. Physiological oral fluids should always be first line, unless circumstances absolutely disallow it.
“Then best fluid may be the one that has not been given…(unnecessarily)”
Considerations prior to all IV fluid prescriptions
Patient’s fluid status(hypo/eu/hypervolaemia) — Assess as you are there!
Clinical judgement, vital signs and fluid balance including urine output.
Patient’s weight — Within last 4 days, if none, get a weight!
Patient’s Urea and Electrolytes — Within last 24 hours. If none, draw blood now! 
Patient’s fluid balance charts (Input and output) — Over the last 24 hours
Prescription safety can be summarised by the ‘4 D’s’ principle (Malbrain L.N.G):
Drug– which fluid
Dose– calculate how much to go via a pump
Duration– duration of the IV fluid therapy
De-escalation– stop it as soon as possible. 
“Give the Right fluid to the Right patient at the Right time”
1. Fluid status
Basic history and examination of the patient will give pointers as to what their volaemic status is (See Table 1).
The best fluid to give is physiological fluid i.e. oral fluid. Always consider this first.
Table 1. Assessment of Volaemic status
***Advanced users may utilise non-invasive cardiac output monitoring, or point-of-care ultrasound to extend the assessment of patients. This is without the scope of this guideline and many of these are still under intense debate.
See our POCUS sections on this site to dig into this a little more.
2. Weight
It is important to record patient weight at least once per week.
Weight gain should not be due to excessive IV fluid loading (provided there is no other obvious reason for weight gain).
Fluid overload
Dividing the cumulative fluid balance in litres, by the patient’s baseline body weight x 100%, defines the percentage of fluid accumulation.
Fluid overload is defined by a cut-off value of 10% of fluid accumulation, as this is associated with worse outcomes.
 3. U&E levels in the last 24 hours
Patients who are being considered for IV fluid therapy should have documented U&E results within the last 24 hours. If not, levels should be taken as soon as possible.
This is to gauge both the effects the exogenous fluid will have over time on the patient’s electrolyte levels and to ensure inappropriate fluid is not administered to them (Potassium containing fluid if hyperkalaemic/sodium containing fluid if hypernatraemic etc).
4. Fluid balance in the last 24 hours
Fluid balance is key. All patients should have accurate input/output charting. Clearly, it is more difficult to do this precisely in those who are not catheterised.
Review recent history –
Losses:
Fasting, operations, sepsis, excessive sweating in febrile states, diarrhoea and vomiting
Upper G.I losses in excess i.e. vomiting, tend to lead to states of alkalosis, potential electrolyte disturbance and ‘true’ dehydration.
Lower G.I losses in excess i.e. diarrhoea, tend to lead to states of acidosis, potential electrolyte disturbance including hypokalaemia and true dehydration.
Gains:
Fluid overload states (oedema and excessive positive balance)
Normal intake
Is the patient eating and drinking adequately? The best fluid is physiological fluid…i.e. oral intake.
If patients are not nil by mouth and are not suffering with excessive losses, requests to prescribe IV fluids should be challenged.
Fluids are drugs and they should be held in equal esteem.
Recorded losses
Is the patient is losing, has lost fluid, or isn’t drinking appropriately? Classic examples are recorded excessive stoma output, vomiting, diarrhoea, excessive sweating etc.
Consider adding excessive losses to your calculated maintenance fluid. Amount lost in 24 hours divided by 24 to give the amount to add to maintenance per hour.
    Fluid prescription – work out what you need!
Which IV fluid?
Knowledge of IV fluid constituents:
Be wary of what each bag of fluid contains. Many IV fluids contain a lot of sodium! (See table 5)
Table 5 – IV fluid constituents
Fluid of choice
0.18% saline with 4% dextrose with/without potassium
At the correct rate, this should give a balanced solution.
Be mindful of the fact there is no potassium in this solution and it must be added if the patient is hypokalaemic.
Excessive amounts can cause hyponatraemia/hypokalaemia.
Hartmann’s solution/Ringer’s lactate/Compound sodium lactate
Again, a balanced safe solution.
If the patient already has a sodium of less than 132 mmol/l, the use of Hartmann’s for maintenance may be the preferred option.
Contains potassium.
Do not use this if the patient has hyperkalaemia
**Potassium supplementation**
Can be added to 0.18% saline with 4% dextrose and normal saline
Can be added to 5% dextrose (though we strongly discourage this fluid’s usage in maintenance/resuscitation).
Do not add to Hartmann’s!
If the serum potassium is already greater than 5mmol/l, do not add in extra potassium to any IV fluid
All potassium containing fluids should be administered via an appropriate volumetric pump.
Re-feeding syndrome
Consider Pabrinex if the patient is at risk of refeeding syndrome, (take this volume into account when calculating their maintenance)
DO NOT USE 5% DEXTROSE AS A MAINTENANCE FLUID!
DO NOT USE COLLOIDS AS A MAINTENANCE FLUID!
DO NOT USE 0.9% (Ab)NORMAL SALINE FOR ANY PROLONGED PERIOD.
1. Maintenance fluid
  Table 2 – maintenance fluid requirements 
Table 3 – body weights and worked examples
Important points
Enteral and parenteral feed
The patient may not the entire calculated maintenance dose per hour if receiving enteral feed and in particular, TPN.
Time fasting or NBM
Consideration should be given to maintenance fluid in any patient fasted for over 8 hours.
Drugs add in fluid!
Many IV drugs are administered with large amounts of fluid. These can add large amounts to a calculated maintenance rates if forgotten about.
If patients are hypervolaemic
They may require fluid restriction or diuresis.
Other excessive losses
Some may be more occult, like febrile states leading to excessive evaporative losses in sweat. Consideradding these to your hourly maintenance rate.
Replacing urinary losses
Urine does not need to be replaced unless excessive in volume (i.e. in the with diabetes insipidus or the diuretic phase of resolving renal failure).
Surgical stress response
In a post op patient, polyuria may be multi-factorial. It may be due to excessive intra-operative fluid provision, or secondary to the surgical stress response itself. Here, increased anti-diuretic hormone release from leads to retention of sodium and water but diuresis of potassium containing urine.
Prescription inaccuracy
Try and avoid prescribing fluid bags over x number of hours; instead prescribe in ml/hr. All patients receiving IV fluids for over 6 hours, or those receiving potassium replacement, should all have fluid delivered via a volumetric pump.
Do not crank up maintenance fluid rates!
Maintenance fluid should not be given at a rate greater than 100ml/hr. Try to avoid ‘speeding up’ infusions if patients are deemed to be ‘non-responders’. This is where IV fluid challenges come in.
NEVER ADJUST IV MAINTENANCE RATES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A FLUID CHALLENGE!
These are often left running at the challenge rate, resulting in severe fluid overload. Use a prescribed fluid challenge separately.
  2. Resuscitation Fluid
Table 4 – resuscitation fluid guidance
For urgent resuscitation
We recommend the use of crystalloid.
Hartmann’s solution (Compound Sodium Lactate/Ringer’s lactate) is a good choice as it is well balanced.
18% NaCl/4% glucose is a good alternative; however, care is needed as this does not contain potassium. This may need to be added if the U&E profile suggests it.
We do not recommend
The use of 0.9% sodium chloride. This is a poor choice of IV fluid in shock states with acidosis, as it will potentially worsen the situation (causes hyperchloraemic acidosis). It has a supra-physiological sodium content and is NOT ISOTONIC.
DO NOT USE 5% DEXTROSE AS A RESUSCITATION FLUID!
Colloids
Colloids can be dangerous! (High sodium load, incidence of allergic reactions etc).
Crystalloids are fine to use. 
DO NOT USE COLLOIDS FOR RESUSCITATION
Bleeding
The priority is to locate and stop the bleeding.
The best replacement for this is blood and any accompanying blood products.
Consider initiating the massive haemorrhage protocol through your switchboard.
Sepsis and septic shock
Evidence is mounting against excessive fluid resuscitation in this group.
What many of these patients require is earlier vasopressor support in a critical care environment, or certainly early advice from a senior member of the team/critical care failing this.
If in excess of 2000ml IV fluid challenge has been provided, escalate to more senior medical personnel, rather than continuing to pour in fluid. The more fluid a septic patient receives, the higher the morbidity and mortality is likely. It may be prudent to liaise with critical care if the situation is deemed complex.
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We recommend caution over the usage of 30ml/kg resuscitation fluid dosage (as recommended by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign), for ALL patients.
This has been debated worldwide now, and the predominant expert opinion is that this may be excessive.
It may be applicable to those who are profoundly shocked with sepsis/SIRS, but should always be paralleled with appropriate escalation and advice from more senior clinicians.
We recommend starting with 4ml/kg over 5 minutes and assess the response.
 Facts:
Less than 50% of haemodynamically unstable patients are ‘fluid responders’
It is unproven in humans that fluid boluses in septic shock improves cardiac output or organ perfusion.
85% of an infused bolus of crystalloid goes to interstitial space after 4 hrs in health.
This increases to 95% in sepsis and in under 90 minutes!
Difficult situations and tips
Use a natural fluid bolus to assess volume tolerance
Consider response to 45˚ passive leg raise (See Figure 3)
This is a very simple way of creating an auto-transfusion to your patient.
The legs contain a venous reserve of around 5-600ml.
After the manoeuvre (wait 30-50 seconds), did the patients BP rise and pulse rate drop?  When reverted back to seated, does the BP and pulse rate revert to pre-manoeuvre state.
If ‘yes’ – volume tolerant
If ‘no’ – look for other reasons for the observations, they are not hypovolaemic!
Figure 3 – Trolley assisted passive leg raise (Wilkinson JN)
Consider a urinary catheter in all sick patients.
Signs of hypovolaemia may be unreliable in:
Elderly patients
Often on concomitant drugs slowing heart rate e.g. Beta blockers. This may attenuate any pulse rate responses.
Normal blood pressures in the elderly may be low for them if they are normally hypertensive.
Cardiac pathologies and dysautonomic states can cloud responses to fluid challenges and hypovolaemic states.
Young fit patients
Have a high physiological reserve capacity.
They have a rapid adrenergic compensatory pressure response to intravascular volume loss. Therefore, much delayed vital sign deterioration.
This is also why looking at CVP one-off values is useless most of the time.
The initial response to a volume loss in prior fit individuals is  secretion of endogenous catecholamines. This causes a PRESSURE increase in the vascular beds. Thus CVP will go up initially.
Excessive losses
Calculate the losses over the previous 24 hours.
Consider replacement using an appropriate crystalloid.
If upper GI loss, use 0.9% NaCl +/- KCl, or 0.18% saline with 4% dextrose +/- KCL.
See table 6 for electrolyte emergencies
Hyponatraemia: The causes of this are varied and complex. A sodium less than 125mmol/l can be dangerous and senior input should be sought.
Potassium: Just because the potassium level is normal, does not necessarily mean that there isn’t a deficit, therefore consider adding it to replacement fluid.
Table 6 – common electrolyte emergencies
            Escalation of the non-responder and Critical Care
Consider discussion with critical care if:
GCS </=8 or falling from a higher level
Suggestive either of severe shock or another cause for decreased conscious level.
O2sats lower than 90% on 60% oxygen or higher
Suggestive of either cardiorespiratory pathology or fluid overload state!
PaCO2>7kPa unresponsive to NIV/CPAP
As above
Persistent hypotension and/or oliguria unresponsive to 2l fluid and/or concern of cardiac function.
May be prudent to consider offloading excess fluid with more advanced monitoring / equipment and experienced personnel available.
Metabolic acidosis: base deficit -8 or worse, bicarbonate <18mmol/l, lactate >3mmol/l and not improving in 2 hours with treatment.
Suggestive of severe shock state
Complex pathologies/disease states requiring closer monitoring than a ward-based level 0 setting can offer.
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Figure 4 – overall fluid management infographic (Wilkinson JN, Lyness D)
  Roles and responsibilities
  Table 7 – IV fluid stewardship – roles and definitions
Closing comments:
Please use all of these resources to help you out. They are all here in order to aid in the  prevention of any adversity for patients receiving IV fluids. Comments on any of this; please let us know. [email protected]
Happy Safe Prescribing!!
  To come:
IV fluid algorithm infographic
More infographics relating to fluid overload states
Updates on the IV fluid guidelines
  More resources:
1. A great discussion of like minded clinicians on the subject!
2. Another I triggered with the thinking cap on!
3. Previous post on audit and investigation into IV fluid misuse situations!
4. Case based discussion on advanced techniques to assess your patients!
5. Fluid types, deresuscitation and more
If you click on the ‘Fluid’ tab within the tag cloud below, you can dig about into other posts from us on trials, cases and more on IV fluids.
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Donato seemed a lock to succeed after his 12-game stint at the end of last season, but struggled this year with Boston and was dealt to Minnesota for Charlie Coyle. Perhaps it’s too early to deem him a total success in Minnesota, but he does have 6 points in 4 games while centering the third line and playing on the second unit of the power play. With the Wild trading Mikael Granlund, Donato is on a path to be the first- or second-line center on Minnesota. Now he just needs to prove he can do it.
Nick Schmaltz (49% owned in Fantrax leagues)
With the success of Dylan Strome in Chicago and the year-ending injury to Schmaltz, it has been kind of forgotten that Schmaltz did have 14 points in the 17 games with Arizona. Already with a 50-point season under his belt, Schmaltz should be able to compete for the first-line center position in Arizona by next season if he improves his ability in the face-off circle. Worst case, he moves to the wing in the top six, but he should still be 50 points plus moving forward, even on an offensively starved Coyote team.
Jesse Puljujarvi (37% owned in Fantrax leagues)
While there is concern that Puljujarvi will be a complete bust with his recent hip surgery and struggles to adapt to the NHL, he did have 28 points in Liiga as a 17-year-old and 17 points in 7 games at the World Juniors that same year. He was drafted 4th overall in 2016 and his value is at a point now where he is worth the risk to acquire. At just 20 years of age, surely he will still become at least a 20-25 goal guy, but there is always the hope that he will put it all together and become the 75-85 point player he was drafted as.
Dylan Strome (71% owned in Fantrax leagues)
Strome is quickly becoming a must-own in most fantasy leagues, but there are still some owners either unaware of his emergence or still bullish on his having turned the corner. With 38 points in the 40 games since he was traded to Chicago, there is little doubt that Strome has arrived to stay. Will he be an 80-point player from here on? Perhaps not, but he should at least be the 65-75 point player that Arizona spent a third overall pick in 2015 on.
Possible players that you can sell high on:
Mark Giordano
This is the epitome of selling a player high. He is a 35-year-old defenseman on pace to score 79 points with a prior career high of 56 points. What more can be said?
Ryan O’Reilly
O’Reilly is on pace for a career year of 82 points. He has been a career 60-point player, so it might be the combination of his role on a new team and his PDO of 103.1 contributing to his success this year. Most of his underlying stats are a just a little higher than normal, so there is a good chance he has peaked this season at the age of 28.
Jonathan Toews
Much like O’Reilly, Toews is on pace for 85 points, which would eclipse his career high of 76 points back in 2010-2011. He has averaged 69 points per year in his career so I doubt he has changed his game that much at the age of 30 in order to make the jump to the next point tier. Chicago will need to tighten up defensively next season to improve as a team, and their offense is likely to decline as a result. Toews is such a good player that he could still produce 60-70 points for the next five to ten years.
Andreas Johnsson
Johnsson is having a stellar rookie season and is on pace for 52 points, which no one expected. The problem is that it will be very difficult for him to either duplicate or sustain this success. He has a 19.6 shooting percentage with a PDO of 107.4 (2nd highest in the league for 30 games played or higher).  Playing with Auston Matthews over 30% of the time has to be a huge factor in his success. For a seventh-round NHL draft pick, you will never get better value for him.
Casey Cizikas
If you can trade Cizikas, now is the time to do so. Probably owned only in deeper leagues, he is on pace for 41 points and over 25 goals. Prior to this year, his career high was nine goals and 29 points. His shooting percentage is 20.9% after hovering around 10% for over 400 career games. His PDO is 105.9 so a reversion is bound to happen sooner than later. Trade him while you can.
Tom Wilson
Wilson has built upon his success from last season and his 33-point in 45 games would be on pace for a 25-goal, 60-point season if not for injury and suspension. The risk for a future lengthy suspension with Wilson is high, and he will be hard pressed to maintain this point output for more than a few seasons given a very high shooting percentage of 18.6% combined with a PDO of 103.8. It is tempting to hold on to him as he plays so well with Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Kuznetsov and is finally seeing some power-play time this season, so this might be more of a soft sell if there is great value in return.
Erik Karlsson
Before his latest string of injuries, Karlsson had partially regained his old form and put to rest some of the doubt about his declining play after his ankle surgery in the summer of 2017. A career 15- to 20-goal scorer with a shooting percentage always around 7%, he has regressed to 1.8% this season and 4.6% last season. Some of that can be attributed to bad luck as his PDO is just around 97.0 for both years. While he is on the ice, his team is still producing high-quality chances as often as in prior years, but he is not individually getting them. He is getting a high danger chance every 5.2 games instead of his career average of once every 4.1 games. It will be difficult for Karlsson to get back to 15-20 goals regardless of his health.
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