Tag: Frozen

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Jack was slated to bring about the end of the world if he left Brockton Bay, and now he knew.

Ahh, I see Taylor figured out what it was she said.

Couldn’t meet their eyes, didn’t want to speak, in case I let on that I knew.  I could barely breathe, I was so afraid of letting my emotions show.

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the bug girl you’ve always had to be

My gun was in the compartment at my back.  I’d put it away at the conclusion of our argument, and with the compartment broken in my fall from Atlas’s back, I’d been forced to put it in a place where it wasn’t easy to draw.

Ahh, so that’s the relevance of that getting broken!

I couldn’t be sure I would be able to draw it and fire.  I was still handicapped, unaware of their powers.  I was fighting blind.

I’m not sure a gun would even do much against Bonesaw’s protections.

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Crawler- I could see him prowling the streets, soaking up the flame without a care.  He was headed in the general direction of the parking lot where the heroes were, taking his time, his movements languid.

Clockblocker and Cache (and everyone stored inside Cache’s power) are gonna be in trouble once they unfreeze, if Crawler camps them.

The heroes were still frozen in time, I noted.  It was hard to make them out, as they’d been at the epicenter of the blast.  Ursa was fading away, and Weld-

Weld was fighting.

Oh shit. Mannequin? I mean, if it were one of the others, Taylor would probably notice them before noticing what Weld was doing, but Mannequin stays invisible to her by dodging the bugs.

Cache and Clockblocker stood frozen in time as Weld defended them against a series of attacks.  The boy’s skin was glowing from the ambient heat, the fine wire strands of his hair melted into a single smooth layer.

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He might have been rendered nude as the flames ate at his clothing and costume, but he wore the same fireproof suit as his teammates, the arms and upper body tied around the waist.

…

should I read anything into the fact that Taylor thinks about Weld being rendered nude by the flames

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Through the mess of dozens of dirty and wet panes of glass, he saw her.  Shatterbird.

Hello!

A sand n*****, going by memory and the color of her exposed skin.

…well then. That significantly reduces the chances a) that she’s here to invite Hookwolf or Cricket to the team, and b) that she’s going to succeed if she is. Though the latter does seem to be a pattern already, with Bitch being the only successful nomination we’ve seen so far.

I assume this particular variation on the slur means she’s from, or has ancestors from, northern Sahara or the Arabic Peninsula. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that – I don’t want to search this phrase and expose myself to content written by real people who would use it right now.

The upper half of her head was covered in a helmet of colored glass, and her body was covered with a flowing garment made of tiny glass shards, like scales.

It just occurred to me that I’ve been imagining both the Simurgh and Shatterbird as being bright yellow all along (at least since I learned the nature of the Simurgh), and I don’t really know why. I don’t think either of them have been described like that… I guess it’s just what my mind defaulted to.

Maybe Paige has something to do with it? Also possibly Zapdos.

Anyway, that glass garment sounds really nice. It reminds me of Elsa’s ice dress from Frozen.

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“I miss the old Dennis.  The guy who picked a sorta rude codename and announced himself in front of the news so Piggy and the other people in charge couldn’t really make him change it.  Because it was funny.

Ahahaha!

Because he liked pushing the limits and because he saw this all as something fun.  The new Dennis is so angry.  Now I guess I get why.”

“Aren’t you?  Angry?  At everything that’s going on?  At the unfairness of what happened?”

It doesn’t seem like her primary emotional reaction, but there might be some anger tucked away there too.

She shook her head, which amounted to rubbing her head against his shoulder.  “Yeah.  But you can’t let it consume you.  If you really don’t like Weld, you don’t have to force yourself to get along with him.  But don’t stay like this.  Don’t stay angry.”

tfw the 13-year-old with a crush on one of the dead guys has it all more together than you

Seriously, though, I’m really liking Vista. Good kid.

He nodded.  It wasn’t so easy, though.  Letting things go, relaxing, he couldn’t help but feel like he’d fall apart if he did.

LET IT GOOO, LET IT GOOO, CAN’T HOLD ME BACK ANYMOOO’

He couldn’t get his hopes up about Panacea’s willingness to help his dad – and facing any of that head on, without a buffer of smouldering fury?  It might leave him unable to serve and protect the people who really needed it.  He felt his pulse quicken a step at the thought of it.

People deal with bad stuff and pressure in many different ways. This isn’t the healthiest, but it is one of them.

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Flechette palmed one of her throwing darts, glanced at it.  She’d been with the Wards a year before she had been given the arbalest and the chain reel.

Huh, interesting. I wonder how she fought before.

Her darts had been her weapon of choice for a long time, alongside a rapier she’d eventually retired after too many fights using it had turned out badly.

Oh, I see. Neat.

She hadn’t had the heart to change her codename, even if it didn’t quite apply anymore.  Maybe when she graduated to the Protectorate.

Does the name Flechette mean “dart” or something along those lines, then?

“Hey,” Shadow Stalker called out, disturbing her from her thoughts.  “Here!”

Tired, she thought, mind’s wandering.

Been there, done that, got a bunch of Homestuck shirts a while back that I quite like. One of them has a quote from Once Upon a Time, but I haven’t actually seen more than like ten minutes of that show. I have seen Once Upon a Time… Man, though, and parts of Once Upon a Time… Life. Those are very different shows from Once Upon a Time, unless Once Upon a Time is very different than I think it is. Which reminds me, before I watched it, I thought Frozen was going to be about Elsa and Anna trying to get Olaf somewhere. I guess that’s because Olaf was featured way too prominently in the trailers… honestly, he’s entertaining, but I’m pretty sure he’s only in that movie to appeal to the kids. You could easily cut him without having to change much, and the other characters are entertaining enough by themselves to make up for the absence of his comic relief. Unlike Jar-Jar Binks, who actually does important stuff in Star Wars Episode I. Jar-Jar gets a lot of shit, but I honestly think he was one of the better parts of that movie. Then again, I don’t really like Star Wars as a whole all that much in the first place, so maybe I just have different sensibilities than the average Star Wars fan.

Anyway, what were we talking about?