Reyna Cool Mom™

i think about them a lot what else can i say

go home

caught in a dangerous web...

3 am character analysis time: i think it's really important to note that neon feels like the group's baby but adamantly is not the/a baby.

she is the youngest, least experienced in combat and warfare and gunfights and using her powers, and the shortest; so obviously she does need to be guided along to a degree but isn't a completely helpess and aimless baby. yk? I think a lot of her struggle comes from trying to prove herself and her worth and her maturity and right to be seen as an equal professional and adult among the others—but the age differences and lack of control speak for themselves.

she's TRYING to be an adult — because she IS an adult — but she's treated like a baby — because in the sense of age and experience she IS the group's baby. you know? and she's in that transitional age between teenager to young adult where everyday is a fight for maturity and independence while being unsure and clumsy and lost in navigating the world for yourself. she wants to be guided, but not coddled. she doesn't want to be suffocated and silenced because she's the, "baby." she wants to be seen as the adult she is but the truth is that she doesn't know what she's doing on her own.

(and as a college kid in the same age range i feel the same way 😭)

sobbing as i watch everyone reach chapter 9 of the battlepass while i do assignments

now im thinking about an au where kay/o has a horrible terrible no good bad day because for some mysterious plot reason he gets blasted with a ✨become a human✨ ray and he's like.

what.

you turned me into a human.

and whoever was responsible for it is like,,,, ahaha,,, uh,,,,

(they do not mention how his heart and blood glow very faintly)

so he's like 'how am i supposed to use my gear now' and makes a throwing knife motion, and the zero/point knife appears and thunks solidly into the floor and suppresses everyone in the room and he stares at it for a solid 20 seconds, and then he's like

you turned me into a RADIANT

anyway he has a small crisis and at some point considers engaging his destroyed-body backup routine to restore the last saved backup of... himself? kay/o? before... this. happened. and destroying the... biological form. because it's not meant to be like that. it's not right. it's not. he can't be.

he doesn't end up doing it but he does spend a lot of time looking very forlorn and lost

more excitingly, he gets to experience scent and taste for the first time EVER because he didn't have any form of olfactory sensors as a robot. he tries everyone's comfort foods. he learns to cook while he can scent things. he hangs out in the garden for a while. he has fancy tea and coffee and hot chocolate.

he pets the fluffy blankets the other agents swear by just to see what they're all on about. he does some exercise and is rather perplexed yet unsurprised by how his legs burn when he runs his usual distance. he burns his hands a few times because he forgets he isn't immune to temperatures. he spends really long in the shower wondering why it feels especially soothing, when it's just warm water.

there is a short discussion with reyna about whether killing him and, if possible, repeating the humanizing process would create a soul. they do not explore this. he does not want to die.

neon gets to be the bigger friend for once (not literally he is still as tall as ever) and help him acclimatize to the whole human thing while killjoy is making a reversal solution, and probably struggling a bit because 10/10 'become a human' is definitely some whackadoodle borderline magic thing

he has a very awkward talk with sova, who he trusts to tell him awkward things

omen pushes a huge sweater into his hands that he'd been working on for a while but never really had the opportunity to give. this is nice, as he'd been going around in some of brim's bigger wardrobe pieces like flimsy crop tops. he also gives him a plushie. he's very confused by this but appreciates it, and absolutely cannot stop petting it absentmindedly if he's got it nearby.

Spotted this pair in the wild and had a good laugh

[id: KJ named FartSmella and Sova named POOPASS]

watching this white youtuber say "oh my god" every time before he says one of the poc agents names 😐😐😐 please

pov: you are going to university with Yoru

The Riftwalker ✷