faceguy: (breakin out of your small town)
Leonardo Hamato-Lou-Splinterson ([personal profile] faceguy) wrote in [community profile] 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.
thepurpleone: (but...)

[personal profile] thepurpleone 2024-06-06 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
'I don't know' is never a sufficient answer and this fresh cause for anxiety pulls all too easily across Donnie's face as he wrings his hands. It's times like these that he wishes the hangar weren't clear across the city, or rather that the warehouse wasn't so far from everything.

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.
thepurpleone: (aw maan)

[personal profile] thepurpleone 2024-06-06 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Donnie looks half-ready to protest before he swallows it down with a grimace and a reluctant sigh. If they're waterlogged then there's not much to be done for them, and if they're okay, then there's nothing to worry about. Leo had confirmed that the power was still running, one less thing to worry about. "...yeah. Yeah, I guess so," he mutters, making to push away from Leo and hesitating to fully do so.

"...can't you just portal us back?" he asks.
thepurpleone: (so that happened)

[personal profile] thepurpleone 2024-06-06 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
He is so glad they don't have to walk across half a city.

Donnie at least manages to go through without another stumble, that weird clicking of metal backtracking towards them as the robot ambles after.

It's not home but it's still as familiar a territory as any place these days, and it puts Donnie at ease. He rubs at his eyes, pausing to slide a look at Leo with that offer made.

"Now I know I'm delirious." There's no stifling the yawn that slips, and Donnie doesn't even bother with the recharge dock as he unlatches his battle shell and lets it fall to the floor behind him. "But delirious or not I'm still taking the offer, please, yes and thank you," he murmurs between another yawn as he trudges towards his bed. Well, the mattress that makes up his bed. Maybe one day he'll get around to actually making them some actual beds.
thepurpleone: (for you anything)

[personal profile] thepurpleone 2024-06-06 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry Leo. If Donnie were thinking about it he'd tell it to go sit in a corner or something for now, but as it is, the robot just starts mapping out this new space it's found itself in.

Sleepy or not, Donnie still manages a grin over his shoulder. "Uh-huh. Just make sure the dirt isn't too wet that it's mud. If it looks that way, just hit the yellow button on the side panel, that should delay the auto-timer on the watering protocols," he says before promptly flopping onto his mattress.
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[personal profile] thepurpleone 2024-06-06 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mff!" By the time Donnie's shoved himself up to throw a glare back at Leo, all he sees is the flare of blue light. He lets himself flop back onto his bed, muttering about revenge before passing out not long after.

He might not have to come up with anything given the robot decides to eventually make itself at home by parking itself on Leo's mattress.