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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.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-07 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"She's the mom of the Byers family. And a really badass lady. Like Ripley from Alien I guess."

Because that's the best example of a badass lady in media she can think of.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-13 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Super cool," Robin agrees with a nod. "She's just... powerful."

She's probably more Sarah Connor than Ripley, but Robin's only got Terminator One so yeah, she's not a fan of Sara Connor.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-17 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah. She was fighting them well before I was there. She went IN to a secret Russian base to destroy their evil machine that enabled the monster to attack. Joyce is pretty bad ass."

If only her mom was more like that and less yoga and kale and karma and all that.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-18 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"A ninja? What? No."

She's just a mom. A mom who cares a whole damn lot.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-21 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I know, right?"

Robin wishes she could be like Joyce. Maybe she can be, if she believes in herself. Which seems unlike any time soon.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-22 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"There's a lot of mysteries about who they did and didn't bright."

And it was definitely a question why half the people they brought couldn't easily go home.

"But I guess we all need to do our best."
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-07-26 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that's... a whole thing," Robin sighs. This place can be a mess.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-08-08 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither is Robin honestly.

"Maybe this place needs to be messed up more before it gets cleaned up."
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-08-10 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe not windows? Like, glass seems hard to get here. But other things, sure."
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-08-12 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Robin snorts in amusement. Yeah. She can live with that for now.

"You know what? Go for it. Who am I to judge?"
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-08-15 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just not at the hotel. I don't need to hear or see what is going on in rooms near mine."

Like Steve and Eddie's room. Please no.
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[personal profile] work_wife 2024-08-16 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they've had plenty of time to get the hotel sorta nice. So it's really the best to leave the hotel alone.

"Thanks. Good luck with your chaos."