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Komand'r, you have achieved a level of spitefulness which surpasses every Tamaranean before you. I assure you: you have more than enough bitchiness to get through this with your character intact."
We were going to castigate you about the meteorite. But this looks far more interesting."
Why were they having this argument o er the love Lantern's planet?
Am I the only one who was expecting "Alright, we'll trade places and make ME the one who's pregnant with our child" as the resolution of this conflict?
We will likely never know... Since we're almost surely going back Renagade's more boring Atlantis storyline now.Why were they having this argument o er the love Lantern's planet?
Thank you, corrected.'and for a second'
'our heads'
Maybe add 'sister were enslaved'
Yes.
I don't write anything about that issue any more.Am I the only one who was expecting "Alright, we'll trade places and make ME the one who's pregnant with our child" as the resolution of this conflict?
Ah, Raul... You don't know just how bad it can get, you know. If you thought human women got a little crazy while pregnant, that's low-balling it concerning pregnant Tamaraneans...24th January 2006
08:15 GMT -5
Komand'r glares at me, though given her current mood swings it's a lot less intimidating than it used to be.
Now, I'd say he's getting ahead of himself, but given how bizarrely human biology interacts with other species in DC... We can't be sure there's not multiple babies coming."Why not?!"
"Komand'r, love of my life, mother of my children-."
We'll see how you feel once it's done, you've shattered his hand from squeezing it and you're holding a squawling, messy little thing and it's sooo cute oh my god...She folds her arms across her chest and looks away.
"Child. You get one. I watched those videos and I'm not going through that more than once."
"Why do you say these horrible things? Oh, sweet X'Hal, I'm dooomed!""We don't know how many you're having this time."
The corners of her mouth turn downwards, and her eyes widen as her head slowly turns back towards me.
Oof. Probably not the best place to be having this out. That might get someone's attention, after all. Or did she just run.. er, fly...at super-luminous speeds and this is where she ended up?"That's wonderful-."
She blinks, grimaces, then flies over to a nearby asteroid, which she viciously headbutts! The asteroid explodes, flying out across the void, a small number of fragments entering Zamaron's atmosphere below us.
Hey, be glad it wasn't you, Raul. To be fair, She probably might do some damage to his environmental shield in this state...That-. That's probably not going to reach the ground.
"Gah! Stupid rock!"
God, this is hilarious, watching her swing from hot-blooded warrior to upset mother and back... And also painful."Komand'r stop trying to injure yourself. High stress levels are bad for the baby."
Her hands go to her abdomen and her for a second her face is a picture of horror. Then she jerks her hands to her side and glares at me again.
...Did she ask him to do that? Because I can honestly see her asking him to do that in all seriousness..."No taking advantage of my baby brain!"
"I'm not going to hit you whenever you start being nice to people."
Besides, that's for the bedroom!"You're being stupid." She rolls her eyes. "I know you're not strong enough to actually hurt me with your fist. You can use that electric rod thing you used in Polokistan."
"I'm not going to-."
...I was joking... And honestly? I think she could probably have benefited from being the Dom..."Why not? You used it on me before."
Our one foray into bondage. It doesn't really work when one party is as tough as she is and the psychology is different when that party used to be an actual slave.
Honey, your edge runs so deep, if someone cut you, you'd bleed black. I'm honestly surprised you don't wear more black and red..."Komand'r, it only lasts a couple of months. Then you'll be back to normal."
"But what if I've lost my edge by then?!"
Such a sweetheart.I float over to her, taking her hands in mind.
"Komand'r, you have achieved a level of spitefulness which surpasses every Tamaranean before you. I assure you: you have more than enough bitchiness to get through this with your character intact."
Whoa, hey! No self-harm! Where do you think you are, the Dark Universe?"You're being so nice about-."
Her face twitches, then she raises her right fist and-.
And it says a lot that he's straining. Her anger makes her even more powerful than she usually is, after all...I wrap a construct manacle around her right forearm and pull it away with construct chains before she can follow through on her initial impulse to punch herself in the head.
"N-."
Man, really good thing you have Enlightenment... That burst of Love would have been awkward if your ring shut off... Though I suspect someone below just took note of it...And then I grab her left forearm with another manacle.
"No. Komand'r, stop."
I'm not surprised. She really doesn't seem like she's ready for parenthood yet. Still stuck in that teenage 'rage at the universe' phase, albeit for legitimate reasons.She tries pulling against them for a moment, but while she can make progress she can't make her arms move anything like fast enough to hit herself. After a moment she realises that too and sags in her bonds.
I float closer so that her heads are level. She's looking down, avoiding my eyes. I reach out with my right hand and gently tilt her head back up, meeting my concerned gaze with an expression of tiredness. She looks wrung out, actually. It's a surprisingly moment of honesty; she usually hates showing weakness like this.
You should be, this is a big change...
That's called Love, honey. It's amazing how it can worm its way into a heart hardened by rage and pain..."Okay. What about?"
"You make me feel… Things. And that's… Okay. I didn't… I didn't like it to start with, but it's-. It's fine. But now my own body's doing it without you even being there. I've liked people before so liking you more isn't that big a deal but this is-. I don't like everyone. It's like there's this alien thing in me that's changing who I am. It's like the-."
Oof. That's a painful association...
Unfortunately, that healing is sometimes just papering over the cracks and assuming it'll hold firm... Eventually, it breaks...Ahh…
Komand'r… Hasn't wanted to talk about exactly what happened while she and her sister. And since we burned their civilisation to the ground I didn't think it was worth pressing her over; violence is a great healer.
Still the issue of whether it would affect the child...It seems I was mistaken. That… Or we didn't kill quite enough, I suppose.
"There might be a way to stop it. Some sort of hormone regulating impl-."
Yes, a half-human, half-tamaranean child whose mother was soaked in blood-magic and Red Light... That'll either result in a buddha of kindness or the universe's worst monster ever."There isn't. And if there ever was it was one of the things that we lost when Tamaran got burned."
A red ring… Might work. She'd certainly end up getting all of her anger back. But I'm not sure what the ritual would do to the foetus. The other alternative…
Even without her own convictions, I have to wonder what Tamaraneans think of that line of thought..."Do you not want to have this child?"
She rolls her eyes. "It's a bit late-." She blinks as I raise my eyebrows. "Oh. No, no, I don't-. That's not-. No."
Well, now. That's honest of her."Okay. I want to have children with you. Do-."
"And I want to have children with you!"
To be fair... You're floating over the home of the Star Sapphires. One of the most Love-saturated worlds in the universe... If you don't get such honesty as a matter of course, where would you?She blinks, her hands coming up to cover her mouth and her eyes giving the impression that she hadn't intended to say that.
"Was that you or the hormones?"
And deep inside, some part of him is grinning like a little boy in pride.
Raul, what did you just say about high stress levels?"Look, you know this isn't like what the Gordanians did, because unsettling though it is it's something that every Tamaranean mother has gone through at least once. I'm sure that you'll rise to this challenge as you have every other. Or are you going to keep whining about it like a little bitch who doesn't know what she wants?"
Her eyes glow.
...No. No, I am not going to say it. It's too low-hanging..."I'll show you who's a bitch."
Glowing red horns appear on my forehead.
...Ah. Looks like they have company...
"Please, continue, it should be quite educational for our younger students...We both turn, and see the small crowd of Zamarons gathered to watch us.
"We were going to castigate you about the meteorite. But this looks far more interesting."
Ah, Raul... You don't know just how bad it can get, you know. If you thought human women got a little crazy while pregnant, that's low-balling it concerning pregnant Tamaraneans...
Oof. Probably not the best place to be having this out. That might get someone's attention, after all
...I was joking... And honestly? I think she could probably have benefited from being the Dom
I'm not surprised. She really doesn't seem like she's ready for parenthood yet. Still stuck in that teenage 'rage at the universe' phase, albeit for legitimate reasons.
Yes, a half-human, half-tamaranean child whose mother was soaked in blood-magic and Red Light... That'll either result in a buddha of kindness or the universe's worst monster ever.
I foresee Raul getting quite vexed over some absolutely bizarre cravings
Forgot what forum we're in, did you?Edit: Oh, do go on, the Zamorons won't mind if you engage in hot kinky sex in front of them, though the mods might.
Are these possibly from the whole Trigon thing or the red Enlightenment?
Are these possibly from the whole Trigon thing or the red Enlightenment?
I forget if it was a Red Lantern thing.
By definition, outer chuuni.
This word is suspicious. Is he trying to not get punched or actually engaging in handholding debauchery? But red guy is not the one with psychic powers.
Thank you, corrected.This word is suspicious. Is he trying to not get punched or actually engaging in handholding debauchery? But red guy is not the one with psychic powers.
Was it when he found out Fatherbox had been secretly reporting everything back to Darkseid?
Considering their usual eating habits, bizarre would be a bowl of plain oatmeal.God, this is hilarious, I foresee Raul getting quite vexed over some absolutely bizarre cravings...
Am I the only one who was expecting "Alright, we'll trade places and make ME the one who's pregnant with our child" as the resolution of this conflict?
This is the first Paul we see to have a bio child, right? I wonder how that will turn out, with his original soulles status and technically extra-dimensional genes
Why would you do that?They have, but only for chocolate clearly marked as 'American'. It's made in a separate factory so that it doesn't infect their other products.
If you are doing a worldwide system, might as well put forward an international gauge standard.For trans-continental shipping you'll still have to build a few miles of each gauge track in each port, parallel to your existing loading track, but at least all the cranes are already in place.
This is wrong. Because humans are human sized, and things made for humans are made for things human sized.So trains, are actually a waste of time and effort entirely, if the dolman gate has no depth or travel time your real goal is maximize the speed at which you can pass things through it rather than moving the largest possible container through at any given time.
How does that work? This is the state church, yes? Which being part of the state apparatus could be considered a quasi government building. Having local inhabitants responsible for the upkeeps sounds like it would be assessed as some tax levy equivalent. But an assessment divided among all residents normally isn't much per individual, at least when compared to insurance payments and insurance deductibles.Because the law was created in a most violent era, when war between city-states was common. It was written with that in mind, and as Atlantis became increasingly peaceful it was left on the books because it didn't matter.
There's a law in England was dates back... Hundreds of years, which says that parishes are financially responsible for the upkeep of their local church. At the time it wasn't an issue because virtually everyone it applied to would have worshipped there. It's still active today. I have chancellery insurance, just in case I'm liable. If a church loses its roof, local Jews, Muslims, Hindus and everyone else can be required to pay for repairs.
I think you can only post smut on the NSFW side.
And seeing as this isn't the NSFW side, they might mind.
Venom Buster, actually -- a cocktail of Kobra Venom and Blockbuster Serum. And then patched up the worst of the side effects using the ring.
Missing comma after "Komand'r"
Gordanians
Specifically, you want it to big enough to fit a standard shipping container through, because all the rest of the infrastructure is made to handle those, and most large products are designed to be able to fit into a standard shipping container.This is wrong. Because humans are human sized, and things made for humans are made for things human sized.
If you say 'size doesn't matter, just flowthrough' and think a fast line through a box sized portal is better than a lorry sized portal, you haven't spent much time as a human with stuff humans use.
The smaller the size of the opening, the less categories of shippable product you become able to transit. Which is why OL mentioned lorry sized. Aka, hopefully big enough for humans and most of their stuff. Being able to ship a major appliance through matters. being able to ship a transport through matters. being able to ship a group people through as a group matters. Not having to to break down items down into small parcel sized matters.
Actually, I would go a bit larger than just a shipping container. Enough to fit a modular house (trailer) through. Because one of the benefits of transportation is the ability to construct at one place, and ship to another. Which would also cover a shipping container plus the thing moving it.Specifically, you want it to big enough to fit a standard shipping container through, because all the rest of the infrastructure is made to handle those, and most large products are designed to be able to fit into a standard shipping container.