I Need Them Back :/

i hope they make earthspark prowl incredibly mean and awful and they talk about him being a cop and he's a big hater of the kids and the emphasis they have on emotional bonds. i also hope he gets a lot of screentime and eventually gets forced into their extended family

Things that are better than sex:

1. when a masked character does the head tilt thingy

most normal shenanigans on the lost light

originally, i wanted to reverse the roles and put chief in her hands but settled on the chip

The legend of the Freischütz is a German folk tale that centers on a marksman who makes a pact with the devil to ensure his bullets never miss. He receives seven of them, with six hitting any desired target and the seventh controlled by the devil himself.

I KNOW WHO I AM // WHEN I'M WITH YOU

FRACTURE: ALPHABET SOUP, 2570

64-06-40303 "CATO" & 64-06-40411 "SAGE"

Cato and Sage are a pair of "mid-generation" corporate Spartans; they were orphaned by the Human-Covenant War, "adopted" by Lethbridge Industrial, and funneled into their illegal Spartan program when they were 9 years old.

Cato and Sage represent a somewhat special case among corporate Spartans, due to the fact that they've been friends since before they even started training. Their corporate foster families lived basically right next to each other, so they had a few years to grow up together before they began training.

It's not uncommon for pairs, even trios of trainees in these programs to gel with one another and stick together until "graduation", but Cato and Sage were already friends when they started, and were joined at the hip all the way through. They were/are mirror images of one another, alike or complimenting each other in almost every way.

By all metrics, Cato and Sage are a bonded, effectively symbiotic pair whose personalities, strengths, and weaknesses developed around one another. They're uncommonly good friends who are able to read each other perfectly, which is a very, very valuable thing to have in a pair of Spartan trainees; Spartans are fantastically lethal on their own, but a pair (or a group) of them that know each other intimately well and flow together as a team are worth far more than the sum of their parts.

In late 2565, after about a year of working together, a clerical error during the reshuffling of Lethbridge's permanent Spartan roster saw Cato and Sage contracted out to different teams. Lethbridge realized the mistake far too late, their most profitable supersoldiers poached by separate PMCs.

Cato and Sage have bounced from team to team since, proving promising but difficult to work with individually to a variety of other private Spartan teams. As of 2570, neither have been kept on any single team for more than a fiscal year. They manage to communicate occasionally, and only very rarely get to actually see each other. Despite the distance, they remain the mirror images of one another they always were, even as they grow and change separately from one another.

Currently, Cato is working with Wellgulf Limited's "Team Fulcrum", and Sage has been folded into Nyotatu-Lanhu Conglomerate's newly formed "Alphabet Team".

Being truly reunited remains unlikely.

The gesture indicates a Loyolan/Jesuit spirituality that calls for the sinner to place their hands on their chest with the middle and ring fingers joined to show moral pain and remorse for their actions. on twitter

Its gotten to a point were I'm genuinely thinking about writing this but I don't have the skill or motivation

SoC AU again, long ramble about how i imagine Vasily's character in this

Vasily being the groups Fjerdan would mean that something needs to push him to defect. Just like with Matthias at the beginning who is willing to give up secrets in exchange for killing Nina, that's basically why he joins. He just sees this as an opportunity to get payback and kill Ogata at some point. He would probably enter the story already having been shot, which could be interesting in him drawing the Ice Court himself instead of verbally explaining. But he also would be somewhat duty bound to not letting parem be weaponized. I don't know how snipers work with the Fjerdans or if they are just marksman in general, but I imagine they aren't seen as the most respectable of warriors since they don't get up close to kill grisha. This and the fact that his sniper pride was greater than his patriotism (during their first duel Ogata remarks on how a sniper is motivated by just the cold ability to kill not the hatred to dive headfirst into battle, which is kinda your average Fjerdan fighting style against grisha specifically) is what lead him to defect in the original so i think that would be enough for him to leave. I also think he would have never gotten a wolf, he wasn't 'chosen' by one and he didn't really want one either which really didn't help people's opinions of him. It actually might be interesting if he never passed the bridge to become a full Drüskelle, since Matthias said your told by a superior if they liked you how to pass, and he might have not been told. But I'm not sure if that would work, and maybe he was seen as not honorable but necessary so they just let him through.

He can bond over this with Ogata when he starts complaining about how if there were more sniper groups in the war there would be less causalities.

Overtime I feel he would become closer to the crew. Friends even. He might find a reason to live that isn't killing Ogata in actually making friends and having a ride or die group. Before all he had was the Fjerdan military, but now he has actual friends. Very flawed and kinda awful friends but still. The Vasily-Ogata dynamic is like Matthias and Kaz but instead of a duo with Nina or Inej they just have eachother. And they don't make each other better, only worse. That might change eventually but definitely not at the start. Vasily might slowly put killing Ogata behind in priority while Ogata has kinda the opposite development as he distances himself more and more from the crew. I always thought it was funny how they were written so passionate when they really wanted to kill each other. So Vasily would eventually 'let go' of (killing) Ogata. Also it would be funny if he became the go to marksman of the group just because you don't have to do mind games to get him to do something and isn't an asshole about everything. Ogata will totally not take this personally.

Endgame for him would be mostly the same in that he becomes a famous painter somewhere because this Fjerdan is actually surviving.

And I also think whatever prejudice is left against grisha would be destroyed by Inkarmat by explaining the fear they hold for eachother, she also wasn't ever in the Second Army. I think they could become friends. I love found family.

loose ends.

Yearning

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