I didn't realise it myself until I thought about how big those dolls are and how big Una isn't.
Dazzlestar is a very cute character. She's a dancer and an acrobat. That may be why he picked her and not the Prince of the Mountains, who I dressed up as for Halloween.
She's heavier than she looks. She outweighs Sigrid, actually, and she's not as tall, but I'm pretty sure it's muscle from all the climbing things she does. One of these days, that little girl is going to pack quite a punch.
Is there any way to get access to old episodes of this show? I'd want to watch first to make sure the children would understand, but they might enjoy it. Most of the media they consume is from Midgard, and that's not a bad thing, per se, but I'd like to expose them to other cultures.
I missed Hallowe'en. I'd just gotten back and did not have the energy for anything festive.
What, did you seriously think that I don't have the entire series on hand?
CybercatsOfDarkmount_COMPLETE.zip
Megatron's not fond of it because he says that it absolutely doesn't challenge functionism (which it couldn't have or they wouldn't have aired it back then) but, uh...it actually was a series about people with beast-modes, which hadn't even happened before.
So. On Hallowe'en we all got turned into our costumes. I was wearing a holo-avatar that was a humanised version of the Rosethorn Knight. It might have been all right for me if I hadn't humanised the avatar because what we usually do with avatars is use them to spy on humans.
Soundwave was just a human version of himself.
It was extremely traumatic and I'm basically not ever going to use a holo-avatar in the Nexus again because it fragged. me. up.
The first thing that came up. Or rather didn't. Or at least didn't stay. Soundwave--he is completely SQUICKED by organic sex. He might have been able to get past it if he hadn't been turned into an actual human, meaning his telepathy was squelched. He could barely feel that I was me in my mind, and I was drunk too, so when we found our way into an empty room, thinking that it would be fun, once we got halfway out of our clothes, he was freaked out by all the messiness and also by the fact that we were missing half our arrays and we were both missing the same half, and so he was barely able to see to me and wouldn't let me do much to him.
Then afterward I ran into someone outside who said I'd trespassed into his realm and I gave him some of my roses, but then he said it wasn't enough and he was going to do whatever he wanted with me. I got away, but.
When I got back inside Ben and Furiosa had to talk me down.
Because Soundwave had run off with Misfire, who got turned into a car and was also traumatised, because flight-frames are like that, they hate being 'grounded'. And they were driving around the Nexus trying to figure out how far they had to go to get out of the effect range and be able to transform back into themselves. Although he was incredibly sorry when he got back and found out what had happened to me. And if he ever figures out who that was it will not be pretty.
I was very much hoping you had it. Thank you! I'll be sure to talk it over with the children. Can they ask you if they have questions?
I can see how all of that would be traumatic. I suppose I don't think much about alterations of form since I'm a shapeshifter with a wide variety of alternate shapes...it's different to have it done to you without permission, though. I'm sorry that happened to you. But I'm glad Ben was there.
Absolutely! Also we've been showing it to Lotor, and he likes it quite a bit.
Ben has been a very good friend to me, and also to Soundwave.
Does that kind of thing happen in the Nexus a lot? Should I be concerned about using a holo-avatar? I know Soundwave is sometimes annoyed that I won't, mostly because he knows that mass displacement isn't always easy for me when this frame is rather new to me as well.
The thing that was really traumatic about it was being threatened when I felt so vulnerable. I didn't know how to defend myself in a strange body with a different centre of gravity, no fangs, no claws, no barbed tailtip...
Disruption in general is standard in the Nexus. Sometimes it comes in the shape of a minor inconvenience and sometimes it's an actual crises. Sometimes it's something in-between, a quirk that seems like it ought to be harmless but is in fact terribly traumatic to those who run afoul of it.
I've found myself stuck in clothes I didn't ask for, and I've found myself in the midst of a blizzard that lasted months. I know there were darker things that happened before I ever arrived here, as well, though I'm unclear on all the details.
I've given the children protective runes to carry with them in the Nexus. I could make you one, as well, if you'd like. It wouldn't be much, little more than a luck charm with a shielding spell you can activate for a short time, but if it would give you an added sense of security...?
That...that would be very kind of you. To have a being of apparent power tell me that I was his to do as he pleased with, in a body that was not my own, which I could not transform...
I never want that to happen again.
Intellectually, I know that we do have an anti-violence field.
Emotionally, this is a situation I have been in before, and one in which resistance would have cost me my life at the time. One of the Senators treated me as a personal toy until Soundwave did...someting I don't quite understand to his mind, and made it impossible for him to tolerate even the sight of me. He still managed to hurt us after that, but he couldn't do it that way, and then Soundwave's brother got involved, and that is how Soundwave ended up in debt, but with legal title to me and to two of my sibs.
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Dazzlestar is a very cute character. She's a dancer and an acrobat. That may be why he picked her and not the Prince of the Mountains, who I dressed up as for Halloween.
(And wish I hadn't.)
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Is there any way to get access to old episodes of this show? I'd want to watch first to make sure the children would understand, but they might enjoy it. Most of the media they consume is from Midgard, and that's not a bad thing, per se, but I'd like to expose them to other cultures.
I missed Hallowe'en. I'd just gotten back and did not have the energy for anything festive.
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CybercatsOfDarkmount_COMPLETE.zip
Megatron's not fond of it because he says that it absolutely doesn't challenge functionism (which it couldn't have or they wouldn't have aired it back then) but, uh...it actually was a series about people with beast-modes, which hadn't even happened before.
So. On Hallowe'en we all got turned into our costumes. I was wearing a holo-avatar that was a humanised version of the Rosethorn Knight. It might have been all right for me if I hadn't humanised the avatar because what we usually do with avatars is use them to spy on humans.
Soundwave was just a human version of himself.
It was extremely traumatic and I'm basically not ever going to use a holo-avatar in the Nexus again because it fragged. me. up.
The first thing that came up. Or rather didn't. Or at least didn't stay. Soundwave--he is completely SQUICKED by organic sex. He might have been able to get past it if he hadn't been turned into an actual human, meaning his telepathy was squelched. He could barely feel that I was me in my mind, and I was drunk too, so when we found our way into an empty room, thinking that it would be fun, once we got halfway out of our clothes, he was freaked out by all the messiness and also by the fact that we were missing half our arrays and we were both missing the same half, and so he was barely able to see to me and wouldn't let me do much to him.
Then afterward I ran into someone outside who said I'd trespassed into his realm and I gave him some of my roses, but then he said it wasn't enough and he was going to do whatever he wanted with me. I got away, but.
When I got back inside Ben and Furiosa had to talk me down.
Because Soundwave had run off with Misfire, who got turned into a car and was also traumatised, because flight-frames are like that, they hate being 'grounded'. And they were driving around the Nexus trying to figure out how far they had to go to get out of the effect range and be able to transform back into themselves. Although he was incredibly sorry when he got back and found out what had happened to me. And if he ever figures out who that was it will not be pretty.
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I can see how all of that would be traumatic. I suppose I don't think much about alterations of form since I'm a shapeshifter with a wide variety of alternate shapes...it's different to have it done to you without permission, though. I'm sorry that happened to you. But I'm glad Ben was there.
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Ben has been a very good friend to me, and also to Soundwave.
Does that kind of thing happen in the Nexus a lot? Should I be concerned about using a holo-avatar? I know Soundwave is sometimes annoyed that I won't, mostly because he knows that mass displacement isn't always easy for me when this frame is rather new to me as well.
The thing that was really traumatic about it was being threatened when I felt so vulnerable. I didn't know how to defend myself in a strange body with a different centre of gravity, no fangs, no claws, no barbed tailtip...
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I've found myself stuck in clothes I didn't ask for, and I've found myself in the midst of a blizzard that lasted months. I know there were darker things that happened before I ever arrived here, as well, though I'm unclear on all the details.
I've given the children protective runes to carry with them in the Nexus. I could make you one, as well, if you'd like. It wouldn't be much, little more than a luck charm with a shielding spell you can activate for a short time, but if it would give you an added sense of security...?
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I never want that to happen again.
Intellectually, I know that we do have an anti-violence field.
Emotionally, this is a situation I have been in before, and one in which resistance would have cost me my life at the time. One of the Senators treated me as a personal toy until Soundwave did...someting I don't quite understand to his mind, and made it impossible for him to tolerate even the sight of me. He still managed to hurt us after that, but he couldn't do it that way, and then Soundwave's brother got involved, and that is how Soundwave ended up in debt, but with legal title to me and to two of my sibs.