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revivalproject2024-06-01 11:27 pm
faceguy) wrote in revivalproject2024-06-01 11:27 pm
[open] I'm too sleepy to have something witty to put here
WHO: Leo and anyone!
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: just post Mermay things + EVENT THINGS
WHEN: the days following the mermaid event
WARNINGS: none
A: Reunion (closed to Donnie)
It's very odd to be so sure you've always been a sea turtle one minute, then wake up and realize you were always a semi-aquatic red-eared slider. That's the feeling Leo is having now, as he wakes up in the workshop where he's been living alone and the world is no longer under water.
As he blinks and adjusts to his memories correcting themselves, he realizes what woke him up: a series of pings from his communication advice. Many pings from his communication device, actually. Rolling over and grabbing it from the side of his bed, he blinks blearily at the flood, then sits up straight and throws himself to the floor.
The messages are all from Donnie.
He scrolls back and sees that they cover weeks, the first a big batch as Donnie asks what happened in Temba and desperately tries to get Leo to answer, the rest becoming more periodic over time. Donnie's been trying to get through to him the whole time he was a semi-fish.
Donnie is still here.
Leo's already out the door by the time he sends a return message.
hey
where are u?
He left the factory so fast he forgot to change masks, his sleep eye mask pushed up on his forehead.
B: Stuck in the Suburbs (open)
So everything's okay now; Donnie's back, and the two of them are reunited. A happy ending for everyone!
Except for the part where they're still stuck on an alien planet lightyears from home, with no clear idea of how to get back.
Those are just details, though. Surely they can figure something out - they just have to find clues.
Thinking Donnie had gone home hadn't exactly made Leo eager to go out the last few weeks, something he's kind of regretting now that he has to walk most places. But now that things are okay again, he's out exploring, looking around all the places he hasn't seen in Temba yet. And this exploration leads him to the subdivision, and all it's semi-intact but still functionless and empty houses.
It's kind of creepy. It reminds Leo of those old movies where they'd build a town in the desert for nuclear testing.
He doesn't really have any clear aim, he's just wandering around. Though he does pause at one point and pick up a rock, then lob it through a window for a satisfying crash.
Perhaps you witness this act of petty vandalism. Do you say something to the Youth?
C: Sk8er Boi (open)
One of the good things that happened at the space port: Leo got a new skateboard! And he hasn't gotten much chance to ride it yet, thanks to spending the last several weeks as a sea turtle, but now he has his land legs back and it's time to test this baby out.
He sticks to the main parts of town where the roads are better, meaning, of course, that he is skateboarding around more populated areas. Well, populated being relative, but maybe you'll see the turtle zipping and zooming around, grinding off of the fountain or doing kickflips by the diner.
Or maybe he'll be looking the wrong way and accidentally run into you. Whoops!
D: Cheese Grater (Event/Open) (CW: violence, death (mostly off screen))
Leo didn’t mean to get caught in the storm, but when Donnie didn’t come back before it started he went back into it. Admittedly not his finest idea, but it’s the only one he had.
The memory that he, and you by extension, has stumbled into is a chaotic one.
He’s in the underground lair, but it’s crumbling, and there’s something attacking, huge and made of metal. It roars and swipes with massive, savage claws, and it’s all Leo can do to grab on to his little brother, popped in his shell. Across the room, his older brother protects Donnie from certain doom.
Whether you take a spot in this memory or just watch it play out, things are clear: this is a losing battle.
E: Something Lighter…? (Event/Open)
The New York skyline moves by fast, seen from the rooftops and not the street. Leo and his family are jumping the gaps together, and they’re moving fast.
Leo is truly in his element here. He’s been doing this for years, and he’s good at it. He knows exactly how much force to put into the jump, exactly how to angle his feet for a smooth landing. If you take his place, you can feel how it is for him: freeing and exhilarating, every jump as exciting as the last. He enjoys this feeling, the swoop of his stomach in midair before he comes down. With his brothers laughing and jumping beside him, and his dad out in front, he’s about as happy as he’s ever been.
If you aren’t taking his place, well, try not to get motion sick as the memory rushes to keep up.
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: just post Mermay things + EVENT THINGS
WHEN: the days following the mermaid event
WARNINGS: none
A: Reunion (closed to Donnie)
It's very odd to be so sure you've always been a sea turtle one minute, then wake up and realize you were always a semi-aquatic red-eared slider. That's the feeling Leo is having now, as he wakes up in the workshop where he's been living alone and the world is no longer under water.
As he blinks and adjusts to his memories correcting themselves, he realizes what woke him up: a series of pings from his communication advice. Many pings from his communication device, actually. Rolling over and grabbing it from the side of his bed, he blinks blearily at the flood, then sits up straight and throws himself to the floor.
The messages are all from Donnie.
He scrolls back and sees that they cover weeks, the first a big batch as Donnie asks what happened in Temba and desperately tries to get Leo to answer, the rest becoming more periodic over time. Donnie's been trying to get through to him the whole time he was a semi-fish.
Donnie is still here.
Leo's already out the door by the time he sends a return message.
hey
where are u?
He left the factory so fast he forgot to change masks, his sleep eye mask pushed up on his forehead.
B: Stuck in the Suburbs (open)
So everything's okay now; Donnie's back, and the two of them are reunited. A happy ending for everyone!
Except for the part where they're still stuck on an alien planet lightyears from home, with no clear idea of how to get back.
Those are just details, though. Surely they can figure something out - they just have to find clues.
Thinking Donnie had gone home hadn't exactly made Leo eager to go out the last few weeks, something he's kind of regretting now that he has to walk most places. But now that things are okay again, he's out exploring, looking around all the places he hasn't seen in Temba yet. And this exploration leads him to the subdivision, and all it's semi-intact but still functionless and empty houses.
It's kind of creepy. It reminds Leo of those old movies where they'd build a town in the desert for nuclear testing.
He doesn't really have any clear aim, he's just wandering around. Though he does pause at one point and pick up a rock, then lob it through a window for a satisfying crash.
Perhaps you witness this act of petty vandalism. Do you say something to the Youth?
C: Sk8er Boi (open)
One of the good things that happened at the space port: Leo got a new skateboard! And he hasn't gotten much chance to ride it yet, thanks to spending the last several weeks as a sea turtle, but now he has his land legs back and it's time to test this baby out.
He sticks to the main parts of town where the roads are better, meaning, of course, that he is skateboarding around more populated areas. Well, populated being relative, but maybe you'll see the turtle zipping and zooming around, grinding off of the fountain or doing kickflips by the diner.
Or maybe he'll be looking the wrong way and accidentally run into you. Whoops!
D: Cheese Grater (Event/Open) (CW: violence, death (mostly off screen))
Leo didn’t mean to get caught in the storm, but when Donnie didn’t come back before it started he went back into it. Admittedly not his finest idea, but it’s the only one he had.
The memory that he, and you by extension, has stumbled into is a chaotic one.
He’s in the underground lair, but it’s crumbling, and there’s something attacking, huge and made of metal. It roars and swipes with massive, savage claws, and it’s all Leo can do to grab on to his little brother, popped in his shell. Across the room, his older brother protects Donnie from certain doom.
Whether you take a spot in this memory or just watch it play out, things are clear: this is a losing battle.
E: Something Lighter…? (Event/Open)
The New York skyline moves by fast, seen from the rooftops and not the street. Leo and his family are jumping the gaps together, and they’re moving fast.
Leo is truly in his element here. He’s been doing this for years, and he’s good at it. He knows exactly how much force to put into the jump, exactly how to angle his feet for a smooth landing. If you take his place, you can feel how it is for him: freeing and exhilarating, every jump as exciting as the last. He enjoys this feeling, the swoop of his stomach in midair before he comes down. With his brothers laughing and jumping beside him, and his dad out in front, he’s about as happy as he’s ever been.
If you aren’t taking his place, well, try not to get motion sick as the memory rushes to keep up.
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Leo is guessing that if Donnie was able to be friends with Sonic but also help this Robotnik guy that they were more friend-nemeses. Or something. Not that it really matters if neither of them are here.
“Sooo, you want to build robots that look like those little frond guys?”
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"-what? No. There's a few creatures in Sh'Ka that might be more ideal though. I don't think it'd hurt to keep up the camera network he'd had there. I mean, Stark has his own network here in Temba."
Donnie holds a hand out for his bag unless Leo plans on keeping a hold of it, although maybe that might not be such a bad idea given he's trying to be subtle about leaning against the robot.
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Eyes glazing over… Networks, robots… oh!
“That reminds me,” says Leo, trying to direct them out of the terminal again. “Stark made me a Gameboy.”
Not that he has it in his possession, though. It’s the thought that counts?
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Donnie blinks. He reluctantly recalls the last conversation we had with the man, brow furrowing. If...he'd gone to the trouble of making Leo something then maybe he wasn't really mad at Donnie. That had been a problem he hadn't wanted to touch since Tony stormed out of the Forge, and at the time Donnie couldn't work out what it was he'd said wrong.
He forces his fingers to loosen from the fist they'd curled into, a whole different source of anxiety but he hadn't missed the feeling the first time around and certainly not when he'd been carrying it for weeks stuck in a city with no way of knowing if his brother and his friends were okay. Just focus on walking. Maybe...maybe after almost a month of being a fish Tony wouldn't be mad anymore...
"That's...cool? He does make things. He gave me parts and a blueprint for a particle accelerator. What'd he say to you?"
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“He didn’t say anything, because he didn’t actually give it to me?” Leo shrugs. “Steve Rogers told me he made it for me to cheer me up? Not that I actually needed that.” Another shrug. “But then he never actually came to give it to me. It’s super weird, if you ask me.”
A third shrug. This situation is so shrug worthy!
“Steve said I should just ask him for it, but that feels a little gauche, right? Like, hey, fork over the gift you made me!” This time, Leo shakes his head. “But I don’t know why he can’t just come talk to me. Am I not super charming?”
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"No, yeah- I see what you mean. I really can't figure that guy out. But...if he made something for you then he's trying... I guess? I don't know. ...I made him mad the last time I talked to him, I think."
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Leo looks surprised at that. “You made him mad?”
Not that he can’t imagine Donnie making anyone mad (Donnie makes people mad plenty, both inadvertently and on purpose), but if anyone should have been mad between those two it should be Donnie mad at Stark for shut off the power to his pod while he was still in it.
“What does he have to be mad at you about?”
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"I-I don't know! I'm not sure what happened, I was..." His face scrunches up as he thinks. "It was like he was trying to avoid me. I went to the forge to see him and he started getting his things together to leave me to it. And then he made it sound like you needed to keep track of me or something and...I don't know, maybe I shouldn't have gone in the first place, I wasn't at one hundred percent."
He must have said something wrong. That has to be it, but he doesn't want to say that because he's not sure and can't remember all of what he did say, not for sure, but the impressions still left a mark, enough that he feels the same as he did when he'd come back from the forge that day, except they weren't at the warehouse yet so he couldn't conveniently bury himself under blankets.
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Though on that note…
“He probably just feels bad because he couldn’t help you while you were stuck in the pod. I mean, apparently he thinks I’m mad at him.” Leo huffs, annoyed more on Donnie’s behalf than his own. “That’s probably why he chickened out of giving me the thing. And why he ran away from you. Man, isn’t this guy, like, fifty?”
Get it together, seriously.
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"He probably does. Did...you talk to him any since then?" he asks, even though he figures the answer's probably obvious. Leo's stab at the man's age successfully pries a snort of a laugh from him. "Oh, he'd hate that," he cackles. "But...you think so? It's hard enough trying to figure out people sometimes but with S...with Tony it's like an extra convoluted effort."
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And who would ever act like that, huh? Sounds pretty lousy!
(Leo may be projecting. A smidge.)
“But no, I haven’t talked to him. I guess I was kinda mad at him. Especially because-“ He glances at Donnie, then lets that sentence drop. “Well, just because!”
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"...." Leo says he's only talked to Tony twice and yet it sounds like he does have the man down pretty solidly. Shaw had said as much, but Donnie himself hadn't really pieced it together until she'd made her point.
"Oh..." he says quietly, belatedly. He fails to come up with a follow-up, the turn of conversation already leaving a sour taste in his mouth and a worse feeling in his empty stomach.
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Though right now it’s not really helping him with Donnie, who looks more upset than ever. Man, he bungled this one. He wonders what he can do to fix this…
Not anything right now, though. Leo is quiet a moment, but never one to sit in silence, he abruptly changes the topic.
“Do sea turtles have to breathe air or are they one of those turtles that breathe through their butts?”
This is a serious scientific query.
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"Wha? Well, they need to breathe air but they can hold their breath underwater for a long time, even longer if they're asleep because they can slow down their heart rate." He pauses, arching a brow at Leo before he smiiiirks.
"...why, were you breathing through your butt when you were a merturtle?"
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“Uh, no, I’m a dignified turtle and I would never breathe through my butt!”
Rescind your accusation, sir!
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"Well why else would you be asking? Was there a surface at all for you to come up to breathe?" Actually, Donnie has little idea of how any of that worked, so now seems like the best time to seize the opportunity. It's going to be a long way back anyway, may as well get some answers.
"All I saw from the feed I was getting from the train was the barrier around the city. I think it was the one used for the volcano, but Te Mi said it wasn't the Agrii's doing."
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And he does not normally breathe through his butt!
“It was weird. Everything was under water and we were all swimming, but furniture and stuff didn’t really act like it was under water.”
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"Where'd it all go? Water can't just...appear and then vanish. But then I guess that's a stupid question if people can just be suddenly turned into fish, that's like, a whole different level of molecular restructuring."
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(Making Donnie laugh was, of course, his aim from the beginning.)
“What do you mean? Isn’t that literally what evaporation is?”
The water disappears in the sun. He knows the water cycle!
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And honestly, he doesn’t remember the answer to that question. It hadn’t really felt like anything.
“…Saaalt?”
Maybe?
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"I guess I shouldn't be entirely surprised considering that you're not even really sure how you were breathing underwater that entire time. Did you eat? Was the power still running? -Are my plants still alive?!"
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“Yes, yes, and I don’t know? The plants seemed pretty okay when I was walking over here.”
Hopefully they are fine so Donnie doesn’t go into full meltdown mode.
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He's half-tempted to bust out the flight mode on his battle shell. He's definitely running through possible options, at least until he trips again and nearly falls into Leo.
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Leo catches him, but he’s giving him a look that is trying very hard not to be openly worried.
“You need to sleep. The plants will be there later.”
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