but what if i want to play with people who don't hate me

[tortureprincess]

She tosses her hair back, laughing. "Oh I knew you couldn't resist me. The other one was too soft, wasn't he? A fascinating creature, sure, but so weak. What a waste. You should have picked me from the start." A flawless starlet smile.

"I know your kind. You want blood and I'm a better outlet. For all your talk of peace and good will on Earth, you humans are such a vicious race." The smile deepens, uncomfortably intimate. "I can give you what you want, mun. Provided you give me what I want. Teamwork, that's what it's all about, isn't it? I'll work with you and we can have a little fun."

She pulls back, winks. "See? Easy. There's no need to be unreasonable."

[[OOC: Man, it's so much easier to prose from a phone and dodge html. Slow tag warning for the holiday season~! ]]

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*_* Taylor omg

[ruthlessheroics]

Psychopaths asking for reason. You should probably just give it up and get lost.

hello good guy counterpart!

[tortureprincess]

I think I'll leave that to you and your brothers, you grass-eating scum. You may be a nuisance now but in the end, that's all you'll be. Or are you too blinded by your precious honor to surrender gracefully?

Your PB choice makes me so happy. Also jsyk, Rachel is from post books here : ) (expect gloating )

[ruthlessheroics]

[For a second Rachel is confused about the 'you and your brothers' comment before she remembers that Taylor had never known about their human identities.

A slow mirthless smile curves her lips.]

You haven't been around here long, have you? I guess you're not familiar with how some people are from different points in time.

it was a trial trying to avoid any who weren't rachels (or loren) but it worked out nicely

[tortureprincess]

Taylor looks less than totally gruntled by that reaction. "If my mun was all that informative, I would have been active even five years ago. I suppose now you'll try to convince me your little band of pests managed to last even into the Great War." The one everyone knows is coming. The one where the glorious Yeerk Empire crushes the Andalite forces on their own world and for good. Obviously. She rolls her eyes. "Good job, losers."

It sure is a good thing the Sub-Visser isn't at the stage of trying to pass as a member of the Peace Movement because what a waste of time.

Yeah I bet! I took forever deciding on Rachel before going with the TV actress haha

[ruthlessheroics]

[Rachel's smile widens wickedly. She is enjoying this.
It's not hard to guess what war Taylor's alluding to and she rolls her eyes.]

Actually, humans are pretty tired of being in the middle of Andalites and Yeerks trying to destroy each other all the time, so I don't think we'll be stepping in any time soon.

Oh and by the way I am a human. There was only one Andalite in the 'Andalite bandits.' Five humans and one Andalite. That was the force that kept the planet Earth from invasion, destroyed the Yeerk empire, and brought the Vissers to their knees. [So maybe it didn't go quite that smoothly and they definitely had some help and a lot of pure luck, but Taylor needs to know. Her Yeerk needs to know who it was that kept the Yeerk empire busy for three years holding off the complete take over of their planet.]

Not that there'd even be a war to step into. [At least, from what she's been told. It's not as though she's been around to see it, but that's another detail that isn't necessary to share.]

i love her! headcanon rachel tbh

[tortureprincess]

Before Rachel has finished speaking, Taylor is laughing. Any relief in it is drowned out by the nasty edge of a sneering mean girl. "You must truly be desperate. Two things wrong with that, Andalite or whatever you are."

She ticks them off in the hand not wrapped around a Dracon beam. Oh, when did she pick that up?

"One. Your people would never condescend to give the morphing ability to any other species, even if they were willing to fight for you. You would sooner wipe them out in your selfish, wasteful arrogance." Coldly, humor gone, "Two. The form you are in is a mere child, or in all this time haven't you gotten to know the local species well enough to recognize that? A weak, soft child is your best idea of a soldier? What's to stop me from wiping you out. Right. Now."

Same, I kept coming back to her and finally just made her the PB

[ruthlessheroics]

[Rachel eyes the Dracon beam and just laughs at the irony. One dead girl threatening to kill another dead girl.]

You're right, they didn't, but one dying Andalite did. In fact, the rest of the Andalites were pretty pissed when they found out but it was a little too late and honestly, I didn't really care. Their superiority complex gets really old.

[Her eyes narrow even as she keeps her smile in tact.]

Yeah, your empire was defeated by six children. That's gotta sting. [Again her eyes flicker to the Dracon beam and she shakes her head in cold amusement.]

You're not in Kansas anymore, honey. Nothing you do here has any effect on our universe. You could shoot me dead here and I'll just come back, and nothing you do is going to change the fact that in our universe, you're already one dead crazy bitch.

/SCREECHES - I mean hello...

[notachickenhawk]

I think we all know how well you play on teams.

[Even with being in the Tower for some time, Taylor is still the stuff of nightmares. Why did she have to show up?...]

hello there ;)

[tortureprincess]

For a moment, Taylor's expression is frozen, like her resident brain monitor has taken her hands right off the helm. Then she's back, all insincere smiles.

"I didn't get to where I am by being unable to cooperate. I know when it's better to give in to a superior force. But what about you, my little Andalite friend? Learned to submit to a higher power yet, or are you still struggling like the weakling you are?"

[notachickenhawk]

Actually we're in the process of kicking the ass of one of the people in charge where I am. On our own maybe we're not so strong, but we've got a lot of people working together.

[Not to mention the fact that he seems to have made at least friendly contact with the consciousness of an element. So there's at least that in his corner.]

[tortureprincess]

Good for you. Keep telling me about your group efforts to not totally suck on your own. I find your life so fascinating.

Nevermind that that sort of thing is exactly why my people will dominate the galaxy.

[notachickenhawk]

Right now you're not dominating anything, at least from my point of view. There's the whole problem of 'if you're in this Tower it means your whole universe got destroyed except for you'.

[tortureprincess]

Great. Our only survivor is a cowardly nothlit freak. Do you miss your brothers-in-arms, Andalite? Do you wonder why it was you?

[notachickenhawk]

... I'm not a heartless slug, so obviously.

[revvinguptheharley]

Well, Merry Christmas to you too!

[tortureprincess]

Oh that's right. And a merry Christmas it is!

[revvinguptheharley]

Crushing your enemies? Seeing them driven before you?

[tortureprincess]

If I play my cards right, who knows?

[revvinguptheharley]

I don't know if it's about cards really...more like a dice.

After all, sometimes you can lay out your cards, find someone you were dreaming of in wet sticky gross ways, and suddenly they vanish.

[tortureprincess]

Luckily the only one I think of in that way [ Taylor's expression flashes briefly to one of teenage horror and disbelief before smoothing out neatly. ] is already here.

[ Grandma, it's me, Anastasia. A pause for the Sub-Visser to consult her host. ]

Ewwww! Hahahahaha.

But that too.

/flails because I have other tags but WHAT A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE

[sixthanimorph]

He tilts his head, a cocky smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"Sounds like you've got us humans all figured out, huh? You know, for being an evil space slug and all."

It comes out more amused than accusatory. And why not? She's a far cry from the alien malevolence of the only other Yeerk he's ever known.

haha hello sweetie

[tortureprincess]

"I understand you better than those monsters you look to to save you. They see you as our tools, but I know you're worth much more. Our people have so much to offer one another. I know what you want and how to help you get it. It's a shame so many of you are prejudiced about the parasite thing."

[gorillawarfare]

Oh, that's right. I forgot about the part where brain slugs win all the three-legged races with their hosts. Go! Fight! Win! Teamwork!!

[tortureprincess]

((ooc: I'm sorry, you'll get an actual response in a few. I spent all afternoon reading capslock fic and my IC is clearly not on the job right now. ))

Yes that's right. At Sharing events, our Yeerk-human teams inevitably beat our human-human teams¹ because they have the correct number of human legs running at the time. Also the correct number of minds² exercising control over the legs that are running for better coordination.

Everyone who feels this is unfair has only to undergo our special initiation programme to become a super member and they too can participate in two-legged victory³. This offer is available for everyone, not just race participants! Because we are hella family-oriented. Wow.


1. Yeerk-Yeerk teams are not allowed to compete because that is 2/3rds obscene and there are children present. You pervert.
2. Only one. The superior one. The specially-evolved-to-be-in-control one. Duh. It's like your species invented this game just so we could use it for metaphors when we take over as rightful overlords. Yeerk-human >> human-human. Ditch your species. One of us. One of us.
3. Victory on Earth is a bundled offer as is never worrying about doing your own homework again. Or taking exams. Or interacting with your family members or anyone but your Yeerk and some guards. Lifetime offer. Apply now!

[tortureprincess]

You don't have to be a jerk about it. My mun and I have an arrangement. My host and I have an arrangement. Everyone helps one another and everyone wins.

That's way better than how you people resolve conflicts. At least our body counts aren't dead bodies. [Except, you know, when interfering busybodies take violent issue - totally not the Empire's fault. Earth was going to be a peaceful take over. ]