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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive Day: Whumptober 2023, Day 25 Prompt: “You’re not delivering a perfect body to the grave” Storm/Buried Alive/ “They’re not breathing”  Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Word Count:   Author: aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl Rating: T  Characters: Donatello, Leonardo Warning: NA Summary:  An encounter with the Purple Dragons has disastrous consequences for Donatello—and he doesn’t just mean the processor that they stole from him.   Notes: I wrote this, spell checked it, and posted it. It’s past 1:30 AM. Let’s hope this is good.   AO3 || ff.net
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Buried Alive
This was not good. This was very much not good. On the scale of not good things, with the highest point being attacked and trapped in a tidal wave of beach balls and the lowest being having to listen to Nardo prattle on about how awesome he was right before Donny turned on the noise cancelling feature on his headphones, this was above the beach balls.
Way above the beach balls.
Maybe, for once, just for this time, Donny should have listened to Leo. But the allure of new components was so strong. Donny had to go see if he could get that Ultraspeed 20WARP Refined Lithium Processor from the Supercomputer that the Nakamura company was dumping. He knew that he wasn’t the only one who was eyeing it, and he needed to get there before anyone else did so that he could get his hands on it.
He should have expected that the Purple Dragons would be there, too.
He had been blinded by his enthusiasm for the new tech, and he hadn’t been paying the attention that he should have—which is how he ended up in this situation.
Donny had managed to get a hold of the processor and was flying away with his prize when, out of nowhere, he had been shot out of the sky. Fortunately, he hadn’t been very high, but landing had not been fun, as junkyards were not know for being soft and squishy. It had obviously been planned, though, as he, as soon as he had landed, then Kendra and her ilk had attacked him. At first, he had been doing fairly well, managing to keep the processor from them, or to get it back from them.
And then? Then one of her lackies had hit him with the scoop of an excavator, knocking him into a pit. Donny had landed painfully on his back, and barely had time to rollover on his side before a scoop of dirt fell on him. It was only seconds later that more dirt had been pushed on him. He’d barely been able to press the emergency button on his belt before a pile of dirt and other debris rained down on him, pinning him down and burying him.
“Ha! Thanks for the processor, Othello! Hope you enjoy being buried alive!” Kendra called. “To bad you’re not going to look perfect for your grave!”
“Oh, screw you, Kendra!” Donny yelled out, and then immediately had to cough as dirt fell in his mouth. His battleshell was still somewhat functional, and he managed to get one of his mechanical arms to move, bringing a facemask with his emergency oxygen supply to his face. He vaguely heard rumbling above him and hoped that it wasn’t the Purple Dragons dumping more on top of him. The debris had created a very small pocket that he could hopefully maneuver around in to work on getting himself out, but if they dumped more on top of him, it might crush him or fill up that space. If it filled up the space that would be very, very bad.
When no pressure came, Donny attempted to wiggle around, seeing if he could move around. His legs seemed pretty solidly trapped, but he had a little room to work his arms around. He explored the area as best he could, but there wasn’t much room for him to move around. There wasn’t much that he could do, and Donny laid his head back, thinking.
Okay, okay. He was trapped under a pile of debris and dirt. His legs were trapped with no wiggle room. There was limited space around his torso, which meant that he could breathe, but he was still limited in his movement. He had an oxygen mask, so he could keep dirt from falling in his mouth and throat. And he had managed to press his emergency button, so his brothers should be here soon.
So, all he had to do was wait.
Just wait.
Yep.
There was another rumble above him, and Donny suddenly realized what it was. It wasn’t a bulldozer waiting to push more stuff on him. No, it was a rumble of thunder. Donny suddenly remembered how cloudy the skies had looked, and the weather reports he had read earlier this week, and his eyes widened in shock.
Donny moved as much as he could, scrambling to try to find a way to start digging himself out of there. There was very little space to move the dirt he would be digging through, but he didn’t see that he had much of a choice. If the rain poured and turned that dirt to mud, and the mud flowed down around him, it would flow into every nook and cranny, taking up all of the space—including the space he had to breathe. It would constrict around his chest, as he exhaled, and leave him no room to inhale.
He had to get out of here.
The thunder rumbled overhead, and Donny dug faster, hoping that somehow, he could, at the least, free up enough room to make himself a pocket that he wouldn’t get crushed in. But as the rain poured down and the dirt started to turn into mud, he wasn’t sure if he was going to have enough time.
~*~
“You sure it’s coming from somewhere over here?” Raph asked.
Leo huffed a little and rolled his eyes. “For the last time, Raph, yes, I am! I know I’m not our beloved genius, but I can read a tracker.”
“But I don’t see him anywhere,” Raph said, frowning.
“What if his tracker got knocked off?” Mikey asked.
“His trackers are under our skin,” Leo muttered, squinting at the screen, trying to see it clearly through the pouring rain.
Mikey gasped dramatically. “What if his skin got knocked off?”
That brought all sorts of lovely images to his brain, and Leo pushed them to the side. “Highly unlikely, mi hermano,” he said as he walked a little further. “More likely that Dontron has lost himself in a pile of junk.”
“Yeah,” Raph said. “Like that time we played a really intense game of hide and seek, and Don saw something he wanted under the cushions and pillows we had stacked up, and they fell on him, and we didn’t find him for, like, three hours.”
Leo frowned as he looked at the screen. He should be right on top of Don. But his brother wasn’t here. Wait—
Leo whirled around. “Under the cushions and pillows—He’s here! He’s under here!” Leo said, looking down at the pile of junk and mud under his feet. “He’s—oh no.”
The mud—that was bad, that was very, very bad.
“Leo?” Raph questioned.
“We’ve got to dig him out—now!” Leo dropped to his knees and began scooping away as much mud as he could.
In seconds, Raph and Mikey jumping in to help.
Raph lit up his ninpo. “I can just scoop everything out! We’ll get him out quicker that way!”
“No!” Leo said. “No, if we move too much, we could shift things and hurt Donny. We need to move quickly, but carefully. Scoop out only the mud! We’ll need to dig out the junk. Mikey, I’m going to need you to be ready to support anything large in here. We don’t need it to slip down. I’m going to move what I can with my portals.”
Mikey and Raph nodded, and the three brothers got to work. They moved quickly, operating under Leo’s direction, careful in moving things, but working with a sense of urgency. Every foot that they dug without finding Donny sent Leo’s worry skyrocketing up again, and every slip of debris fed his growing, if hidden, panic. It wasn’t until they were near the bottom of the pit that Raph stopped suddenly.
“I hit something—and it ain’t mud or metal.”
“Move,” Leo said, and rushed to where Raph was. He dug through the mud, and stopped for half a second when he found a green arm. “It’s him! Mikey, keep holding that stuff up until we pull him out! Raph, help me dig!”
They worked quickly, digging out as much of Donny as they could. Leo kept note of what he could do as they did. Donny’s skin still had warmth to it, which was encouraging. He wasn’t moving, though, which was discouraging. He had clearly been in a little pocket of some sort, which meant that maybe he had been able to breathe. And the oxygen mask was a relief too.
And then Leo realized that Donny wasn’t breathing.
Leo cursed. Donny was still stuck tight in the mud. His legs were trapped under something, and his battle shell felt like it was suctioned in. Leo made a split-second decision.
He reached for the clasps on the battleshell, undoing them. “He’s not breathing! Raph, get his legs free! Mikey, pull on these beams for all your worth!”
Raph got under the beams and Mikey’s chains wrapped around them almost simultaneously. Leo ripped the oxygen mask off of Donny’s face and, as soon as his legs were free, he pulled his twin out of the mud. Almost too fast to see, Leo had a sword out, creating a portal and jumping through it with Donny. They came through next to Mikey, but Leo didn’t spare his little brother a second look.
“Oh, no you don’t!” Leo said as he positioned Don on the ground and felt for a pulse. There wasn’t one. “You’re not allowed to die on me!”
Compressions on a mutant turtle were not the easiest thing to do. Leo and Donny had long ago worked out the best way to theoretically do them, but this was the first practical application of it. Leo pushed, and pushed hard, knowing that he had to push hard to get through the plastron. It was hard, but Leo wasn’t about to give up.
“Mikey, as soon as Raph safe, get ready to breathe for me!”
Breathing wasn’t necessarily a part of CPR anymore, as getting the heart beating and blood flowing was the most important aspect, but since Leo had someone who could breathe for Don while he was doing compressions, he wasn’t going to turn it down.
Dimly, Leo heard Raph climb out of the pit and hurry up behind him, although he paid the bigger turtle no mind—at least, not until he spoke.
“Leo!” Raph said “Leo, I got his battleshell out I didn’t know if it could help—”
Leo turned around a swiped the battleshell from Raph’s hands. “Breathe, Mikey!” he said, as he searched through the damaged device for the one thing Donny had agreed to put in every battleshell. It didn’t take Leo long to find the shock pads, and he pulled them out without hesitation.
“Back away!” he said, and placed the pads precisely where he wanted them. Pulling back, he pressed the button to deliver the electricity, and watched as his zapped through his brother’s body. He reached to see if he could find a pulse, listen for his heart or breathing, but there was nothing. Leo pressed the button again, watching as his brother’s body stiffened with the shock.
This time when Leo checked, there was a pulse. It was not very strong, but it was there. And, thankfully, Leo could see the rise and fall of Donny’s chest again. He was breathing. Leo fumbled with the oxygen mask, seeing that Donny still had some left in it, and pulled it back over his brother’s face.
“Okay,” he said. “Okay. Raph, pick him up as gently as you can. Mikey, pick up the battleshell and stay with Raph. Donny needs that oxygen. I’m going to cut us a portal home and straight to the medbay.”
His brothers nodded, and within seconds they were home, where Leo bellowed for Splinter, and the family began the work of ensuring that Donatello would stay alive.
~*~
It was a few hours later when Donny groaned. His eyes fluttered open, and he looked around, as if trying to figure out what that annoying beeping noise was.
“Welcome back to the land of the living, Sleeping Beauty,”
“If I died, the Snow White would be the more apropos princess,” he muttered around the oxygen mask. “What the—what is this for.”
Leonardo leaned into his line of sight. “That’s there because you were Snow White and I didn’t know how much support you might need.”
Donny turned his head to look at his twin, a little confused. “What?”
Leo sighed and began checking over Donny’s vitals. “You weren’t breathing, Don. When we finally dug you out of that pit, you weren’t breathing. I don’t think you had enough room to breath with all of the mud around you.”
“Ah,” Donny said, leaning into the pillows a bit more. “Then my plan to create some space for myself failed. Unfortunate.”
“Unfortunate barely covers it, mi hermano,” Leo said as he sat back down next to Donny’s bedside. “Expect a lot of hovering for the next week or so, at least.”
“A week—”
“You died Donny. I had to shock your heart back. Mikey and Raph saw the whole thing. Dad was here for the aftermath, and April rushed over as soon as we called her.” Leo’s expression softened a little. “Let us worry a bit, alright?”
Donny stared at Leo for a moment, and then huffed. “Fine. But if anyone tries to keep me from either repairing my battleshell or building a new one, they will be on my list.”
Leo grinned and shrugged. “Eh. I’ve been on there enough times. They’ll be fine.”
“You’re never off of it,” Donny shot back.
The two brothers settled into silence for a moment, before Leo asked the question that he’d been wondering the entire time.
“Don—what happened?”
Don sighed, then winced at the pain that caused. “Ah. CPR, I see. I’ll have to consult you later on the effectiveness of it.” He looked up at Leo. “It was the Purple Dragons. I got the processor, but then they shot me out of the sky. We fought, until one of them used the scoop of an excavator to push me in that pit and dump dirt on me. Someone else used a bulldozer to push a lot more dirt and debris on me, and I was trapped. I figured I’d be embarrassed but alright until you all came, but then it started raining. I knew the dirt would turn to mud and tried to protect myself but, well…” he looked down at himself. “Obviously I failed. And they stole my processor!”
Leo just shook his head. That was messed up. Then again, he was suspicious that Kendra was a psychopath. Sometimes he wished that the girl would find out about and cross Big Mama just to see her taken down a peg or two.
Leo put his hand on his twin’s shoulder instead. “Well then, you’d better rest up. Because it sounds like as soon as you’re better, we’ve got a processor to go take back. And you’ll have a whole week to think of revenge plans.”
Donny smirked. “Oh, I already have some ideas.”
“Ohh, do tell!”
Leo settled in to listen to his brother’s plans, until Donny drifted back off to sleep. But that was alright by Leo. After what they had done to Donny, Leo was ready to throw his all into some revenge plans.
For Donny’s honor.
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Had a run where I got a collectible that gave me 5 ASPD per 5 originium ingots, and one that gave me 4 ingots whenever I entered a non-combat node.
The result was entering the last boss with 70 ingots and reaching ULTRASPEED
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I like doin a little jog across the apartment because Toby goes "oh? you run? you run zoomfast ultraspeed? well you are a coward and I am FASTER THAN LIGHT" and then I trip over her.
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TOP SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED.
[A journal entry; unknown date or author.]
Nice weather today! Had to deliver bad news, counter-offensive against Russia planned. Starving for dinner though!
...
>Entering memory banks... >Transferring data... >Loading... done.
...
Ah, ah... The chairs here really are lovely.
The style of comfy chairs used on the MagLev... such comfort... you wanna fall asleep.
But, more important things must be done.
You’re on the fast train to the Citadel, the estate in the capital where the government has set itself up. To think, only a few years ago you’d been there to see Her raise the glorious standard over Kirkuk...
...yet here we are again, in another war.
You’re bringing the news of the beginning of a new war to the Leader Herself. You’ve only seen her in person a few times, but being the person bringing the stack of documents from the suddenly created front... you’ve got chills.
“We are now arriving at the Government Palatial Estate, our final stop; all change.” The tannoy goes, waking you from your thoughts.
You step off, into the beating heart of the new nation.
...This place had really changed since the last time you were here. Mere years ago, it was a decent sized city with a failing oil-based economy, constantly wracked with ethnic violence; now, it was a sprawling metropolis. The plans, time willing, would have similar developments across all of the nation’s urban areas...
...if the Northern Bear didn’t have her way.
You sigh. As you were saying, you hadn’t been here in a while; your governorship of the Condominium had meant you hadn’t had much of a chance to report back to the Central government. Emails and comms would never be a true replacement to face-to-face meetings.
The travelator allowed you some to collect your thoughts - and belongings - as it gave you the scenic route of the front of the grand estate; slowly moving you, and other people, forwards to your grandiose destination.
The Governmental Palatial Estate, still under construction, was already one of the largest structures ever built. A sprawling monument to bureaucracy, a maze of policy and power. A Brutalist, Arabic and Classical structure, with an almost infinite feeling...
Efficient, but too gaudy for your style. Whoever the Architect was, they were obviously a big fan of Gothic styles. And gold. And pillars.
But you don’t judge! You don’t, honest!
You shiver nervously as you finally enter the grandiose main entrance, a towering set of gates, seemingly expanding upwards to heaven. You barely notice the thousands of security measures you’ve already passed by, from simple X-rays to futuristic body scans, and other things you wouldn’t even be able to spell.
The main hall was surprisingly mundane compared to the entrance; plastered with government adverts, propaganda, memorabilia and the like. Plain, simple and effective.
It creeped you the hell out. Like normalising a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It just felt wrong. Not that you’re the type to mention how odd it was.
You walked past the main desk, signing in with your personal comms set automatically, and head towards a map of the colossal facility.
Tch. Figures that the executive department wouldn’t exactly advertise their exact location. You walk back to the main desk, and ring one of the bells for an attendant. You suppose it’s nice to keep a few traditions.
An automated voice responds. “Greetings. Your appointment with a member of staff is due in T Minus 15. Do you require assistance?”
You roll your eyes instinctively. Member of staff, huh... that’s one way to describe her.
“Yes. I need directions to the Executive Department.” You respond robotically.
“One moment... Your comms will direct you shortly. Have a nice day!”
You nod, walking away, your comms already loading with the information. You head to one of the many nondescript lifts, and enter a very specific combination of floor numbers. An audible noise occurs, and you feel a whoosh, as the ultraspeed elevator does it’s work.
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A tinny radio plays elevator music in the background. People get on; people get off. You’ve been in this lift for what seems like forever.
...
How far have you travelled? Up? Down? Sideways? You’ve forgotten.
...
You’ve arrived, or so it seems, with the sounds of a small ding, your selected “floor” flashing on the lift’s number pad. You glance bleary eyed at your watch... only a minute or so has passed.
That’s odd.
You step out of the lift...
...and into the mines of Moria.
If you thought the front of the building looked large, this place seemed to dwarf that in comparison. You’re not sure what genius architect made this place, but...
It felt like a cathedral stacked on top of another cathedral, ad infinitum. You walk almost absentmindedly along the gigantic corridor, marvelling in it, until you almost collide right into an innocuous looking front desk. A barely-adult girl, presumably a secretary, stares down at you; somehow, you feel shivers right down your spine.
“Welcome. Your meeting is due shortly. Please make your way there.” The secretary says flatly.
“Where—“ you begin to say,
until you realise you’re staring at another set of pillars.
You shake your head, almost dizzy, and decide to keep walking. Stone towers upon stone towers, seemingly ancient architecture wherever you looked. Floating pillars began to crop up, as if showing that you were coming to your destination.
You find yourself at an almost futuristic looking door, at a stark contrast to the Gothic, Medieval style that had been the endless cathedral you’d seen so far of the Executive Department.
You flash your ID on your wrist, and the door flashes green, unlocking with a soothing woosh. You step through, finding yourself in a glass corridor, mixed with white metallic struts.
It was oddly beautiful, if somewhat blinding. You step through the corridor and enter some sort of waiting room.
It’s large, almost uncomfortably so; decorative staircases line the walls, leading to nowhere. More of those odd floating pillars, and almost alien geometrical objects.
If this was the architect’s - or, more likely, your appointment’s - design choice, you were genuinely beginning to question their sanity.
Or their humanity.
You shake your head once more, and sit down at another oddly comfortable seat. Waiting for some sign, or even an entrance to your appointment.
...
A small bell rings. You look around, and see an almost simple looking wooden door embedded into the void-like white wall. It’s on the latch; seeing this as an invitation, you knock politely, and let yourself in.
It’s an almost normal office. The walls are plain and white, with only a few odd looking decorations. A long coat is hung up; an ancient looking bookcase stands behind an ornate wooden desk, which itself is covered in papers.
A lone figure is busy writing with one hand on a set of documents, and typing rapidly on an ageing laptop. Beneath a ragged looking headband lies long, flowing locks of hair - pure white, except for black ends.
You clear your throat nervously. The figure doesn’t look up. You decide to speak anyway.
“Your excellency. I bring bad tidings; as the Governor for the Northern Condominium, I regret to inform you that the Russians have begun an invasion of our nation. As we speak, we—“ You talk rapidly, until you’re interrupted.
A rather loud sigh, and the light drop of a pen. You squeak, surprised.
“Governor, I am aware of the war. If that was all I needed, then I would have called or sent a missive.”
The cold response has you taken aback. You must have physically responded, because a tut can be heard in front of you.
“Ah - forgive me for being so blunt. I didn’t mean for that to sound so... insulting.”
The figure stands.
The Leader of the People’s Imperium of Syrakhanistan, colloquially known as The First, stares into your very Soul. She paces away from her desk, walking towards you. You struggle to meet her eyes, but you manage to do so.
You feel... calm. Somehow. That dreaded feeling of powerlessness, of genuine danger and... something else... It all washes away with that peaceful look.
“Governor, what I meant was that you mustn’t value yourself so lowly. You are no mere messenger; you are the embodiment of the Will of the nation. A leader, and a beloved comrade.”
C-comrade? Wow...
The First nods, almost as if she could read your thoughts.
“We are all friends, here in our nation. And you, Governor, are a particularly important - and precious - one.”
You nod vigorously. Seemingly satisfied by something, The First returns to her seat. It is at this moment you actually take in her visage.
She is slightly taller than average for a young teenage girl from Japan - which is all the more confusing, given that the leader of the nation must be at least 30 or even 40, given reports of their longevity and history. Nor was she from any of the typical ethnicities that made up the various regions of the nation.
Now that you think about it, you never really had got close enough to see her properly in previous meetings.
Her eyes were... Warm, yet cold. Piercing, yet embracing. Her face wore only a few of the telltale marks of the stresses of leadership. Wearing an odd uniform that was neither a typical job’s suit or dress, nor a typical Japanese outfit of any kind, as well as an ornate looking cloak, she seemed to be a genuine oddity.
You shake your head, getting caught up to your thoughts. “Ah, t-thanks, your excellency. I’ve brought a whole load of documents and items that were also requested. I’ll just leave them here, yes?”
The First nodded once more, seemingly already back to her work.
You suddenly feel as though your job here is done. You instinctively move to go, but you fight your oddly persuasive common sense and turn back to ask one more question.
“My liege, if I may... With all due respect, if you didn’t need me to deliver a message of the war, nor were you actually surprised by such things... Why did you send for me, then?” You manage to speak, the words slowly forming.
The pen drops once more from the leader’s hand. A small smile flickers on her face, vanishing as soon as it appeared.
“Hm. A good point, friend. I suppose I'd forgotten; you know how these things are.”
She stands once more, pushing her chair out, and tapping something on her desk, out of your sight.
“I m-mean, I just...” You begin, but she cuts you off with a flick of her hand.
“With the coming war, you’ve been promoted - or, ahem, had a job transition - into the role of Commander. You’ll be deployed to your former Governorship region, with a more military focused station. If anything, I imagine you’ll feel right at home, if my reports on your work during Unification are anything to go by.”
She nods, seemingly pleased with herself for some unknown reason.
You breath in a little. “Ah, many thanks! It... it’s an honour. But...”
“Why was I not surprised by the proclamation of war?”
The question spouted not from your voice, but hers. You nod politely.
“Heh.” An almost gruff laugh, completely at odds to her general appearance or demeanour. She taps whatever she had on her desk before, and the walls of the office change dramatically.
A bird’s eye view of a sprawling vista. A vista marred by smoke and flames, of littered corpses and of debris. Missiles, bullets and other such ordinance streak through the air, almost in slow motion. It’s clearly a live feed of the front to the north, but you can’t help but feel an odd empowerment from such a sight.
“Why am I not surprised by this turn of events? Well, because I pretty much expected it to occur sooner rather than later. Nay... perhaps I even planned it this way.”
“Expected? Planned...? My liege, that’s not...”
Another tut, and a shake of the head. She turns towards you.
Passion, as if like fire, burns in the leader’s eyes. A burning fuse, a tree struck by lightening.
The camera feed on the wall-wide screens zooms out, showing a near-space view of the whole Caucasus region. Even from space, plumes of smoke are already visible.
“Commander, it is said among those in the know that violence is like a tree. It’s roots lay in the darkness of human nature, whilst it’s leaves wave for all to see. You can prune these heretical tendencies, even burn the form of the human mind to it’s very core, but it will merely grow and adapt, ever stronger. Such is the cruel nature of humanity, and why it is so difficult to tame.”
You gulp as she speaks, that feeling of complete and utter powerlessness from earlier creeping back; like a rabbit in the headlights, a prey facing down it’s predator.
“Throughout history, there have been those who question the actions of mortal men and leaders such as myself; who are we to burn a city, to annihilate an army, to sacrifice millions for so-called peace? But those who truly understand realise that I have no right to let them live, to let their nature grow untamed, and to allow corrupt, tainted powers to go unchecked...”
She isn’t even looking at you anymore, but through you. She raises her arms in an almost gleeful manner.
“Commander... you must understand. There is no power too great, no corruption too unworthy, and no sacrifice too unnecessary. For that is the true leader’s response to the heresy that is human nature.”
She looks at you once more. You continue to look her dead in the eyes, despite every single nerve in your body screaming for you to run.
“Hee.”
Hee?
“Pfft. Heeheehee... Kya, hahaha!”
The leader of your nation is giggling like a little girl. She grabs hold of your shoulder gently, almost quivering.
“My liege...?”
“Gah, haha... it’s alright! Gods, you look like you’ve seen a ghost! You should see the look on your face! Ha!” She cries, wiping her eyes before standing up straight.
“Sorry. I do get carried away sometimes. You mustn’t take these things too seriously! We are leaders, and comrades; let history do the judging, but let us do the acting. We must all play our parts; so just relax!”
She pats your shoulders, before walking briskly back to her seat.
“Heh. I must invite you around more often. You’re pretty good, you know that? Anyways - we’ve got work to do, so I shall let you head home post-haste.”
You bow lowly. “Of course, my liege. It’s an honour.”
She waves casually as you exit. “Take care now!”
...
The Warmaster, colloquially known as the First, narrows her eyes as her guest leaves.
“All the world’s a stage, huh...”
She swings around to the screens and puts her arms out, stretching, before clenching her fists. An automated voice comes from a nearby speaker.
“Welcome, Commander. Clearance is recognised. Battle control: online.”
The First smiles.
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le-panda-chocovore · 8 months
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I'm starting the theory that my sibling is a Fey, here's the signs :
They can teleport. Like, they get in a room, and when you go after them a few second later they aren't there. They're behind you. You don't know how. I saw them entering in the bathroom twice despite the fact that they never got out after the first time. It happened several times.
It may go with the first point but they might have ultraspeed. Like they walk on the street, you blink and then they're 10meters farther. Sometimes I walked with them and they're always ahead me because they're a speedwalker (even more than me) and they were only 10m ahead before turning in the corner so they got out of my sight, but when I got there too I saw that they're suddenly 35m away from me. What happened in the span of a few seconds ??? Did they sprint ??? Unlikely, they don't like running !
They hear EVERYTHING. I can talk from the opposite of the house, when I go to their room they'll answer whatever I asked my parents. It's frightening. Today I wondered when they'll come home and TEN ENTIRE MINUTES LATER they appeared in front of me and said "Well I'm here now, 5:30pm." DUDE WHERE WERE YOU AND HOW DID YOU HEAR THAT ????
They appear from nowhere. I can never know when they're home and when they aren't. They won't say anything untill you acknoloedge them. They can stand in a room without saying a word for severals minutes, but once you lock eye contact they'll say "Hi !" with an abnormal natural.
They need precise explantation to do anything. They cannot work with innuedos and vague instruction, they'll mess up. Also they need an invitation to get in a room.
They have no idea how human interaction works. Talking with them is a nightmare because they're make absolutely no sense. It's as if they live in another plane of existence. They don't answer directly to questions, they often speak by enignmas, they take everything too seriosuly. I can't tell when they're joking and when they aren't. I don't like that.
They cannot refuse something that was directly asked from him. They have to offer the gifts people say they require.
They always leave food in a visible place so people come and please themselves.
I might complete this list later, but I'm starting to really believe it. Yet it is very possible that I am only influenced by the 4 Fantasy AU! fanfiction I read this week so I'm really into fae/changeling/creature things right now. Also it is very possible that they're simply Autistic like half of my family (including myself).
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paincorpsrarefinds · 1 year
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kunoichi-sasori · 3 years
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lorenzonuti · 1 month
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dewa-chan · 5 years
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i was feeling weird about my cruiser ship mechas but then i watched an entire episode from the subway mecha anime with hatsune miku in it and suddently i don't find my costa concordia mecha weird anymore 
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fcknboomer · 6 years
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cantseemtohide · 2 years
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Feel like Travis isn't really cut out for the life of an intergalactic smuggler. He won't have much luck fixing his spaceship's ultraspeed neutron engine if he can't even get the coffee machine working.
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gossamer-scraps · 3 years
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aside: I get that arenanet doesn’t provide ways to shorten the story on replay (or on... play) because it provides more content that way, but like, I do think there’s some extent to which that works in reverse. because I would totally ultraspeed through a solid amount of the hot/pof/living world content to remind myself what happened, which would be providing more content for me, but only if none of it was waiting for npcs to walk places or doing open world tasks. so then I just skim the wiki summary instead, which is making much less out of the content.
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