[ If anything, Peter's excitement only ignites a spark of excitement in Heimerdinger as well. ]
Oh-ho, lad, you didn't mention you were a man of science!
[ He laughs heartily, then plucks a long blond hair from his head, and leaps off of the chair to go rummage around in the drawers of the nearby desk before emerging with a small glass vial, which he drops the hair into and then stoppers with a cork. ]
I've never thought to run any tests on my own genetics... I'd be curious myself to see what you can find. Why don't I hold onto this for you, and you can come back for it once you are in an outfit with pockets?
Ugh why did he have to chuckle like that, and why were they all so cheerful and upbeat all the time. This was the reason why she didn't talk to other Yordle other than when she absolutely had to, and well when it was her uncle, or her parents.
"Yeah, places like this. What's it called anyway?"
Learning back a little Vex let the shadow catch her and lift her as she sat her feet just off of the ground. She was tired of standing.
"Because it's magic, but everyone wants it all to be flashy and colorful so they don't think about the really cool things like this. It was all because of that black mist. And usually he does whatever I ask."
[That's what he's trying!! It's just easier said than done. Maybe because of all the huffing and grunting he's doing, Scott nearly falls on his ass once more, only managing to catch himself by grabbing Venti's hand. Oh great, now he owes him one!! Maybe he should've just fallen, but it was instinctual to grab onto him.]
Does it just come naturally to you? [Scott asks, mood still sour, but approximately 10% less bitchy because he's holding onto Venti and using him as a balance board.] Because you're making it sound like that.
[It's an insufficient and vague answer for A2. And possibly Pod, but they aren't saying anything.
The concept of love was not foreign to androids, though to A2 it felt as ephemeral as air and difficult to conceptualize. Emotions were prohibited. However-
She had loved her teammates, and she had loved the Resistance members who died in her stead. And 9S too, in the strange and muddy way that 2B's memories and her own resolve to save him had brought on. She had loved the world, despite the agonies it had enacted on her. But the love this girl speaks of is of a different sort.]
Not quite? What does that mean?
[She is oddly curious to be so intimidating and quiet.]
[ There is not much good to be said to come out of Viktor's disability, indeed. But if nothing else, it makes it easier for Heimerdinger to keep pace with him. ]
Jinx, yes... The girl has a bright mind. If only things could have been different. It would have been nice to bend her passions towards progress instead of destruction.
[ Working closely with Ekko and Powder towards recreating the anomaly in the alternate Zaun only served to highlight for Heimerdinger just how much potential was squandered in their proper timeline. And Viktor has a point. Perhaps it isn't too late to have some influence over this version of the girl. Especially if Ekko is able to be a part of instilling some change in her. ]
We shall have to see what we can do to join our efforts. Either upon your return to Runeterra, or perhaps more importantly, here and now in this simulation.
Heimerdinger did try to look on the bright side of life, most of the time, it's true. However when Vex brings up magic, he can't help but throw a sideways glance towards the shadow, seeming a bit more wary of both her and it. He's not going to say anything about it, though. Not unless it tries anything.
"I don't quite know the place's name just yet. I only just escaped a coffin of my own a short while ago."
Well, yeah, I'm... I'm there, for sure I'm there. I was going to go to MTI and everything-- wait, you probably don't know what MIT is, well, think of this big university known for science. It's pretty cool. So, here, we have a club for STEM, and some of us know how to deal with DNA better--, really?
(he is just giving him the hair!!! amazing. peter just spoke, spoke, spoke, he's rambling and glad to be here, until he laughs a little, patting his suit.)
Ah, yes! I used to be the dean of a similarly science-focused university in Piltover! Once I am more settled in town, perhaps I could lend a hand with this club of yours.
[ Maybe it's the boy's youth, or maybe it's his enthusiasm, but the sight of him patting his suit for nonexistent pockets is just so charming that Heimerdinger can't help but chuckle. ]
Don't you worry about it. I will keep it here, with your name on it. And, if the sample gets to be too old to be viable, well... [ He runs a hand through his fluffy hair. ] ...There's plenty more where that came from!
gee, i dont know. how about u tell miss kirahamm to not use it to pollute and poison *my* people's air JUST to lure me out? i might have targeted topside, but my eyes were at the enforcers and ONLY the enforcers and ur political party.
name ONE innocent piltie bystander i've harmed. go on, ill wait.
That would be cool, I think you would like everyone.
(he says, with no proof, no evidence, nothing, just a feeling and a dream. there's a chuckle that escapes him too, considering the fact that true, it's not like it's a hard task to find a hair on this fluffy creature.)
Right, thanks! Ah, right, you wanted to know what's out there, right? Well, I'm patrolling, so just a few snowmen zombie-type things, aside from the... Zombiepart and the biting, because they don't really have any teeth? Still haven't ran into anyone who out, but I can hear around here, so it's fine.
[ Oh, he is steaming, hopping mad, now. Not just at Jinx, but at Officer Kiramman, too, apparently! And just in general about how far into madness things seem to have descended without him there to guide the hand of the council!!
He is pacing in his inn room, trying to calm his fury enough to type back a reply. ]
If Officer Kiramman is also guilty of weaponizing toxic gas against the undercity, that is something I also do not approve of, and I will be having words with her about it when next I see her. But an eye for an eye is no way to solve a conflict!
That's the problem, I'm afraid. We don't have the finer details to share, and I have no solid answer for that question. The entity maintaining this world went silent after limited communication, and the only other contact with something that seems to know anything worthwhile has been for the purposes of accusing us of crimes and assigning punishment.
(he should probably explain, but the professor saw him literally crawl the side of the building, so he thinks it's totally cool to just move past that detail.)
[ Yeah, okay, maybe, but there very easily could have been a technological explanation for the wall-crawling, too. Heimerdinger assumes most people don't go around wearing head-to-toe spandex because they think it's fashionable. ]
Fascinating. You mean to say that you have a natural ability for long range sensory perception?!
[ He's heard of some Vastaya with similar abilities, but from all appearances, Peter looks like a perfectly normal human teenager. ]
Vex didn't seem to react to wariness, most Yordles didn't really get her and seemed to think that she was something of an anomaly; which she was but it was because she understood how pointless everything was.
"You don't know either huh? Maybe it doesn't have one."
Guess everyone got here in a coffin, if it weren't for the festive decorations this would be her kind of place.
"Not that it really matters, I'm sure someone will show up and go on and on about it. Or have some big speech about why we're here."
I mean, it's not super long, and it isn't really natural, humans aren't born like that, but, pretty much, yeah, my senses are better than most, so yeah.
(he could be wearing the nanites, which would make heimer even more justified, but no, he's just in a normal spider-man suit this time around, he left his other suit charging. hopefully it doesn't suck all the power in aldrip.
since the mask isn't the super technological one either, he can let heimer take a look at how dark the lenses are.)
Should probably have opened with that, uh, so, hi, I'm one of the people in Aldrip who got bit by a radioactive spider in our respective worlds and now can do pretty much the same stuff. Usually, we don't come out with our faces or anything, but since some people know us and there aren't many Chosen to blend and stuff, so we get identified super quick, so yeah.
Most people would likely react with something a little stronger than just 'huh' upon seeing a closed coffin with a voice yelling from the inside like that.. But all Ange feels is that little internal 'huh', and she blinks very calmly as she approaches the coffin all the sound is coming from. ]
That depends.
[ The voice coming from outside the coffin sounds like a teenage girl, but there's something odd about it. Her voice is.. weirdly flat. It's hard to detect any particular emotion in it at all, other than perhaps something along the lines of boredom. ]
... I mean, there are also a bunch of different superheroes from a bunch of different worlds, though, we got that going on too-- oh, man, you must be freezing, my bad.
(dummy. he's quick to remove his coat, it's warm from all the use, and drape around her shoulders to keep her from losing more heat. it's fine, he's totally fine. he goes into the new york snow in spandex, so he'll definitely live through this, too.)
Right, so, a few shops here and there, I'll get you a change of clothes.
HAHA!!! [ At least she is laughing excitedly and mirthfully; the face he makes when he enters into a surprise attack made this entire moment worth it - though there is an itch in the back of her mind that maybe she as just a little bit of a bad girl there. ] Hehehehe!!!
[ She at least stands there, kneeling over, holding her hands to her stomach because she truly thought it was so funny. There is nothing antagonistic about her laughter, she is just genuinely happy and had fun. ]
Oh No!!!! Mister, you had the funniest face!! Did I surprise you good and well?
[ no, certainly not; and it is very much present here, still, just as is his failing health. viktor, of course, pays either of those things just as much notice as ever, which is to say, none at all. ]
... Yes. We have failed the Undercity in many ways.
[ he takes this particular failure incredibly hard — had back home, and does so here, too, perhaps even more so since being quite thoroughly berated about it all by an angry and bitter silco.
still; he is about to nod, mind busily thinking of how they might convince jinx to allow for some sort of formal (or informal) lessons, when something in the professor's words make him stumble, his tight grip on his crutch the only thing that stops him from falling over entirely. ]
What? [ he blinks not unlike an owl, head swiveling to look at heimerdinger. ] My... return? But sir, [ he starts, and realises immediately that he is about to argue about his own death which makes the situation somewhat surreal. even so, he keeps going, voice slightly strained, ]
Miss Kiramman told me of the bomb. Surely I did not make it. If I return, it is only to die in the Council chambers, is it not?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
expiationmods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
expiationlogs2024-12-09 08:17 am
Page 50 of 146