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revivalproject2021-08-09 02:43 pm
doubled_speed) wrote in revivalproject2021-08-09 02:43 pm
Temba's Where The Heart Is
WHO: Tommy Shepherd, OTA (Some closed or limited starters)
WHERE: Temba: Greenhouse, Diner, The Twin Roses
WHAT: Tommy got hurt in Not Temba so now he's staying home for traditional work
WHEN: Early August
WARNINGS: Tommy's attitude is going to be testy due to leg soreness/pain
1. New Plants Need Time | Greenhouse | OTA
Green. Tommy had never thought he'd feel so attached to the color. Yes, it was part of his uniform but this green space, this peace... It was magical in its own way. Somehow he hadn't noticed it in himself back home, the way that when he was stressed he ran to not only natural wonders, but ones that were in some way green. But here, on Agra 10, he had found some measure of peace in the greenhouse right at the start, and in a strange way, the place felt like home.
"I'm back babes," he called out to the plants, dragging along the bubble-olive tree that Obi-Wan had helped him dig up back in the other city. He needed to get it to the place where it would have its final resting and a chance to adjust. "I've brought new friends. Once I've got them in, we're going to do a prone. And it's almost harvest time, so everyone do your best."
There was peace, calmness, happiness to be had in finding the greenhouse still standing after all the stress in life.
"Now if only I had more hands," he mused as he kept going, limping along slowly. Stupid hurt leg. But he'd power through it. He always had.
2. Food Makes Family | The Diner | OTA
Okay, so maybe he hasn't done this in a while, but that doesn't mean Tommy doesn't know what he's doing. Okay, maybe he doesn't know what he's doing very WELL but dammit he's trying. And, with people everywhere and some of the diner help staff working their asses off exploring and Tommy no longer easily able to do that, he had come to do it instead. This afternoon he was falling back on a classic. Anyone who had an issue with soup as a side today was going to get serious glares from him. For now Tommy was working on making fresh noodles from one of the Coruscant grains he had just ground into flour for the purpose.
With the back door to the kitchen open he could hear someone enter the building and he called out from the back as loud as he could to let them know he was working.
"Hold on and there will be a fresh salad or fruit if you want. I'm working on a noodle-soup. Come on back!"
3. Welcome to the Roses | Twin Roses | Closed to Twin Roses Crew
Home. Tommy was one of the lucky ones and he didn't even know it. He had brought some new plant samples to try in the Twin Roses hydroponics system and had no clue that the ships had been juggled. Then again, save for the first assignments, this had really been his ship. It was, in a weird way (especially when considering his claustrophobia) home. He moved easily and confidently through the ship, not expecting that the people on it could be so different. And once in the hold he moved right to his hydroponics unites.
"Hey kiddos," he greated them. he'd heard once that talking to plants helped, and given they had to live in the more artificial environment of the ship, he didn't intend to not do it. "Got you some new friends seeing as the sorta pea-pod vine things weren't working out. Say hi."
And now it was time to get them started.
Later on, after he was done with that task, Tommy busied himself in the laundry area, sitting on top of the washer with a bowl of chocolate protein paste with slices of fruit cut up into it, eating as the machine worked on cleaning his clothes. His injured leg hung to the side, keeping all weight off of it.
We anyone to enter he would look them dead in the eye.
"What, never seen a dude washing laundry before?"
Well, they might have, but given Tommy was literally wearing only a pair of what looked like booty shorts, there might be another reason to be staring. Be glad he wasn't standing, because that shining silver script 'juicy' on the ass might just make some people react less happily. But hey, free shirtless dude. Comment on the faint scars on his skin and there might be trouble though.
4. A Mind Is A Beautiful Thing To Use | Young Avengers home | Closed to Quentin Beck
Learning for himself had never been something Tommy was good at. It was just something that was universally true. He'd been bad at school because even before his powers had come in he'd had some attention issues. After school had been brutal. And then, well, there hadn't been school at all. The Kaplans had stressed the importance of him getting his GED and it had been pure stubborn desire to get a job and his own place that had Tommy getting his degree.
But complex issues? Tommy had always thought himself too stupid to learn really useful and valuable things. He hadn't thought about how one putting together thousands upon thousands of electronics, even according to instructions, was teaching him things. Between that and watching Tony, helping Tony, having Tony put up with him, Tommy had started to think he could learn it. Except he'd run into a road block. How was he supposed to learn the basics?
Less mobile as he was after getting hurt in Not-Temba, his mind turned back to the thing he wanted to learn. So he did the only thing he could do. He borrowed some supplies from Tony's forgehe would apologize when Tony got back and sat down in his home, trying to puzzle out different resistors Tony had put together into the systems.
"This is so fucking stupidly complicated," he hissed in anger. How could he have been so fucking smart in that damn fake-city!?
WHERE: Temba: Greenhouse, Diner, The Twin Roses
WHAT: Tommy got hurt in Not Temba so now he's staying home for traditional work
WHEN: Early August
WARNINGS: Tommy's attitude is going to be testy due to leg soreness/pain
1. New Plants Need Time | Greenhouse | OTA
Green. Tommy had never thought he'd feel so attached to the color. Yes, it was part of his uniform but this green space, this peace... It was magical in its own way. Somehow he hadn't noticed it in himself back home, the way that when he was stressed he ran to not only natural wonders, but ones that were in some way green. But here, on Agra 10, he had found some measure of peace in the greenhouse right at the start, and in a strange way, the place felt like home.
"I'm back babes," he called out to the plants, dragging along the bubble-olive tree that Obi-Wan had helped him dig up back in the other city. He needed to get it to the place where it would have its final resting and a chance to adjust. "I've brought new friends. Once I've got them in, we're going to do a prone. And it's almost harvest time, so everyone do your best."
There was peace, calmness, happiness to be had in finding the greenhouse still standing after all the stress in life.
"Now if only I had more hands," he mused as he kept going, limping along slowly. Stupid hurt leg. But he'd power through it. He always had.
2. Food Makes Family | The Diner | OTA
Okay, so maybe he hasn't done this in a while, but that doesn't mean Tommy doesn't know what he's doing. Okay, maybe he doesn't know what he's doing very WELL but dammit he's trying. And, with people everywhere and some of the diner help staff working their asses off exploring and Tommy no longer easily able to do that, he had come to do it instead. This afternoon he was falling back on a classic. Anyone who had an issue with soup as a side today was going to get serious glares from him. For now Tommy was working on making fresh noodles from one of the Coruscant grains he had just ground into flour for the purpose.
With the back door to the kitchen open he could hear someone enter the building and he called out from the back as loud as he could to let them know he was working.
"Hold on and there will be a fresh salad or fruit if you want. I'm working on a noodle-soup. Come on back!"
3. Welcome to the Roses | Twin Roses | Closed to Twin Roses Crew
Home. Tommy was one of the lucky ones and he didn't even know it. He had brought some new plant samples to try in the Twin Roses hydroponics system and had no clue that the ships had been juggled. Then again, save for the first assignments, this had really been his ship. It was, in a weird way (especially when considering his claustrophobia) home. He moved easily and confidently through the ship, not expecting that the people on it could be so different. And once in the hold he moved right to his hydroponics unites.
"Hey kiddos," he greated them. he'd heard once that talking to plants helped, and given they had to live in the more artificial environment of the ship, he didn't intend to not do it. "Got you some new friends seeing as the sorta pea-pod vine things weren't working out. Say hi."
And now it was time to get them started.
Later on, after he was done with that task, Tommy busied himself in the laundry area, sitting on top of the washer with a bowl of chocolate protein paste with slices of fruit cut up into it, eating as the machine worked on cleaning his clothes. His injured leg hung to the side, keeping all weight off of it.
We anyone to enter he would look them dead in the eye.
"What, never seen a dude washing laundry before?"
Well, they might have, but given Tommy was literally wearing only a pair of what looked like booty shorts, there might be another reason to be staring. Be glad he wasn't standing, because that shining silver script 'juicy' on the ass might just make some people react less happily. But hey, free shirtless dude. Comment on the faint scars on his skin and there might be trouble though.
4. A Mind Is A Beautiful Thing To Use | Young Avengers home | Closed to Quentin Beck
Learning for himself had never been something Tommy was good at. It was just something that was universally true. He'd been bad at school because even before his powers had come in he'd had some attention issues. After school had been brutal. And then, well, there hadn't been school at all. The Kaplans had stressed the importance of him getting his GED and it had been pure stubborn desire to get a job and his own place that had Tommy getting his degree.
But complex issues? Tommy had always thought himself too stupid to learn really useful and valuable things. He hadn't thought about how one putting together thousands upon thousands of electronics, even according to instructions, was teaching him things. Between that and watching Tony, helping Tony, having Tony put up with him, Tommy had started to think he could learn it. Except he'd run into a road block. How was he supposed to learn the basics?
Less mobile as he was after getting hurt in Not-Temba, his mind turned back to the thing he wanted to learn. So he did the only thing he could do. He borrowed some supplies from Tony's forge
"This is so fucking stupidly complicated," he hissed in anger. How could he have been so fucking smart in that damn fake-city!?
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"If humans here gave me issues for being different, I'd kick their asses. Simple as that. We ain't got time for stupid racism. And I think people would probably have to go through Billy's big-blue-dog Lauri-Ell to give anyone grief for being different."
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"It's not nice to judge others because they're different. Lauri-Ell is great! So big and so strong. Maybe she could help you move the tree more easily."
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"I'm not working with her," Tommy insists to Alberto. "But thanks for your help."
Sure, the kid isn't strong, but he still cares to point it out.
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"All right, if you are sure." He won't insist any more then and gives a small at that last bit. "But do you still want a Pathistery petal? I'm not hungry, you should have it."
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"Man, don't do that. Don't tell me you don't want to eat the thing you got yourself to eat. Don't take food out of your mouth for me."
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"You need it more than me." Albert is trying to sound reasonable, and he gestures to Tommy and the tree. "You're injured, and you're doing all the work. How are you going to get better if you don't eat?"
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"Time. Give me a few days, maybe a week, and I'll be fine, promise. Perks of my mutation."
Of course he needs more fuel.
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Fish is really tasty and very good for the health. Tommy might say he doesn't need it, but since Alberto is already fishing on the regular, it's not difficult for him to get some extra for the other boy.
"So your...mutation..." The word is still new to him, but he's trying to remember it. "...it's moving and healing faster than others? How fast can you go? Faster than a Vespa? "
Before Alberto leaves the Greenhouse he's going to place the left somewhere Tommy can see it, regardless.
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"That's AMAZING!" Someone faster than a vespa??? Incredible. He had no idea how someone could also be faster than sound and didn't quite understand how that worked, but he was pleasantly surprised regardless. "And your feet don't hurt?"
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"Not really. My feet are really durable. It's part of my mutation."
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"You must be one of the most powerful mutants out there then."
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One of the most powerful mutants out there.
"Dude, I'm pretty sure I'm not even Alpha level."
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"Alpha...what? There are levels? Who's at the top?"
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"Omega levels are the most powerful. They can basically change the world in a lot of ways. The top of even them is probably the people that can host the Phoenix or the Reality Warpers because they basically shape the world how they see fit."
SO basically, his brother.
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He can't even begin to imagine what must be like to have that much power. It's both terrifying and incredible. So he gives a very eloquent;
"Woooah...that's...a lot. I don't know what's a Phoenix but changing reality sounds really complicated. They must be really smart." Or really crazy, not like he's about to judge.
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"Not always smart. But usually hey don't destroy stuff."