On my current 'Clint as escaped Manticore kid' fascination...

[ihazanest]

Lady, for somebody who always says how much she likes the fact that I'm the team's, ah, 'token squishy human', you're weirdly obsessed with making me squishy human plus.

I mean, first there was the whole 'maybe I'm Aaron Cross' thing that you haven't actually given up on yet, and now this? How long has it been since you actually watched Dark Angel? When it was actually still on TV, yeah. That's what I thought.

If you're going to do this, and at this point we both know I can't stop you, for the love of God do a rewatch, you already know you're going to have to fuck with the timelines, and more than just a little, but you have to know what you're actually fucking with. You've got both seasons on DVD, I know you do, just, sit down, watch. Stop dicking around with pixel dragons and pay attention, for both of our sakes.

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[you_have_heart]

The pixel dragons are quite entertaining.

[ihazanest]

Yeah, they are, but not that helpful for when she's got to actually pay attention to things.

[you_have_heart]

And mine needs to be writing a paper, yet she is here. They are very easily distracted, are they not?

[ihazanest]

Kind of inherent in people who do what they do, I think. Just saying.

[you_have_heart]

You have a point there.

[ihazanest]

I have a lot of good points, but people are always surprised by them.

[you_have_heart]

Perhaps because you have many more bad ones.

[ihazanest]

About the same, actually. Just the bad ones are louder. Usually come up first.

[goldenboyassassin]

So essentially you're trying to say she wants you to be me? Sounds fun. [smirks] Though she wouldn't have to fuck with the timelines. Not unless she wanted to. If she needs anything she can always poke my mun. She does for a lot of things anyway since the two are evil together.

[ihazanest]

Know you, maybe, be you, no.

And she will have to fuck with the timeline a little, since the escape was in 2000 and in my actual universe I would have been 29 then, give or take.

[goldenboyassassin]

That doesn't mean she'd have to fuck with the timeline. It's Manticore. And they LOVE their enhancements. On the X5, X8 and other series as well. Needless to say they'd have experimented on you and thrown in a growth hormone of sorts wanting you that age because it would be suit them.

[ihazanest]

she says: "Well that just makes too much sense." She also figures that SHIELD managed to stop the Pulse for things to match up correctly technology-wise.

[goldenboyassassin]

Actually, SHIELD wouldn't need to stop the Pulse. They could be the reasons that the world CAME back to technology or something of that nature. And of course it makes sense. It's Manticore. Probably makes sense to my mun because she used to play an evil Logan Cale who was head of Manticore.

[ihazanest]

She'll probably do a little of both. They redirected it somewhere where it would do less damage than freakin' North America and then helped rebuild after.

But yeah, she's still going to do a re-watch, at least a few episodes before she starts testing this out.

[goldenboyassassin]

The Clint I share headspace with understands perfectly with the whole you being someone else thing. She's rp'd you as Cross before. Gets a kick out of doing it too. Then again she's also had you as Sgt. William or whatever the hell his name is. A movie that gives her MAJOR feels.

And has fucked with Street's head by making you (him) into Brian Gamble.

[ihazanest]

She hasn't seen either of those movies yet, I'm sort of dreading the day she does.

[goldenboyassassin]

Be glad my mun doesn't have SWAT or The Hurt Locker on her external or your mun would have them in a heartbeat.

[ihazanest]

Oh she's got them, just hasn't gotten around to watching them yet. You know how she is, or, y'know, your mun does.

[goldenboyassassin]

I don't know how your mun is but yes. My mun does and that's dangerous.

[ihazanest]

She's already decided on snow leopard. For cold weather durability, and the nervous habit of chewing on my knuckles. Apparently snow leopards chew their tails when they're stressed.

[goldenboyassassin]

Then she'd have to come up with a different X series for you. Cause X5s are strictly panther DNA

[ihazanest]

Out of everything that she remembered. But yeah, she figures either X4 or X6, probably 4, but 6 would be more her style. Friggin' loyalty issues.

[goldenboyassassin]

I can't remember what the hell the X6s are. My mun used to know ALL of what the Xs were at one point. But that was FOREVER ago.

[ihazanest]

Which is exactly why mine's doing a rewatch. Or will be.

[goldenboyassassin]

Mine got the Xs from the books. I know the X8s have bat DNA and a hive mind.

[ihazanest]

Yeah, she just knows that the 6s are less independent-minded than the 5s, trying to prevent another breakout.

[goldenboyassassin]

Not by a lot. But anything is less independent. After all us X5s made it bad for the others. Or rather Maxie and my twin along with the rest of them did.

[ihazanest]

Exactly, and she knows how independent I usually am, so that's where her bar is. X6s are definitely lower than that.

She figures it's something I learned on the outside.

[goldenboyassassin]

Very damn good possibility.

[greymelee]

See, mention Manticore in front of any Paragon City folks, and all we can think of is this guy.

...which is just weird, all things considered.

[ihazanest]

Yeeeeah, not the same thing. Gene splicing, named after the legendary Manticore, lion with a snake tail and ... fuckall if I know, other animal parts stapled on.

[greymelee]

Don't forget human face and shark teeth.

And I figured. Just than an archer talking about Manticore just leads to certain mental leaps.

[ihazanest]

Yeah, wouldn't want to meet one of those guys in a dark alley.

[greymelee]

Eh, I've run into worse.

[ihazanest]

So have I, doesn't mean I want to do it again.

[greymelee]

Neither do I, but it's part of the job description.

[ihazanest]

Yeah, pretty much. They should put that on the recruitment forms.

[x5452]

Believe me buddy, being transgenic is not all it's cracked up to be.

[ihazanest]

Trust me, I know. But trying to talk her out of an idea like this will just make her push the issue harder. At least if she does a re-watch she might get bored halfway through and forget about it.

[x5452]

Hey now, I never said my world was boring.

[ihazanest]

No it isn't. But she'd have to watch both seasons, since she never did see the end of the second season, so that she knows where to adjust timelines and events so that they match up with my normal canon.

Something that hopefully she'll get bored doing so that she doesn't make me a different kind of squishy-human-plus.

[x5452]

Life definitely got interesting after the raid on Manticore. Are you think she'd end up with you being an X5? You're impressive enough as it is for a human, adding in telescopic vision would make you pretty sick.

[ihazanest]

Nah, 5s are all panthers from what she remembers, she figures snow leopard for the cold durability and because I apparently have a habit of gnawing on myself when I'm stressed.

It's something actual snow leopards do in captivity, it's why there's so many pictures of them biting their tails.

[x5452]

We're never really referred to as anything other than felines, but it sounds like you'd be an offshoot variant...you know, the next grouping mentioned is the X7 bat series, so who knows what the X6's were?

Sorry, am I enabling much?

[ihazanest]

Maybe a little, but that's okay. It's pretty much a given that she's going to do it anyway.

Yeah, the only thing the wiki says about the 6s is that they're less independent than the 5s, and that's the kind of thing she loves. Breaking through conditioning and programming.

[britainshero]

I know an actual dragon if that helps your Mun, Barton. They do so not want to do their homework, do they?

[ihazanest]

Not homework in her case, well, unless the rewatch counts as homework, and I guess it does. She'll be doing that today, though, since she's home sick from work. A few episodes, anyway.