Just me doing noodle things. Feel free to call me Ruth. Apologies for the Code Vein spams. I have been hyperfixating on this for.... ok I've accepted that its just part of my life now ig. Art tag is chief's big bara tiddies btw
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Sad Knight Palmer speed-prompt inspired by the latest Halo short story, Halo: The Machine Breaks and bellygunnr and I's Promethean Knight Palmer Au
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The Knight's connection to its battlenet conductor is gone. It is without the combat-wisdom of the Strategos command pattern states. It is alone.
There is silence in its thoughts save for the occasional ping it sends out. Query. Nothing. Not even an echo. It switches frequencies and tries again.
Something alien and not pings back.
There is warmth and icy fear churning in her core, both foreign to this frame of metal and hardlight. The signal is friendly but not battlenet. She knows him, because he announces himself with every message, with every data packet and brush against her mind.
Who is he? Who is this being in the data? There are so few stewards left floating in the Domain, so how does it live? Why are there no orders? Why is she alone?
It is a war machine. It needs orders. Knights follow orders, give orders to their schemas of crawlers and watchers. It is a battlewagon, it must have soldiers. She is a commander, where are her S-
Query. Nothing.
There is a human looking at her. Not even wearing any of their primitive human armor around its soft flesh. He looks worried. Pinched brow, lips in a tight line, and spine straightening out of remembered reflex when he knows she's seen him worrying again.
Query.
Who is he?
His face flashes through her mind. The Knight searches its databanks. This human's face is familiar and not.
Clarification needed.
Network isolation wreaks havoc on the Knight's functioning. It has its unit frame and nothing else. No rifle. No allies.
Query.
The being in the network that is not her Strategos wraps around her firewalls. He feels sad.
Query.
Why does this Ancilla[! He is an Ancilla!] act this way? Why does he not have orders?
Conjecture: It is wrong somehow. This unit has been abandoned.
Observation: This unit does not feel abandoned.
The Knight has been in this room with the wall between it and her watchers for multiple solar cycles. Many of the humans visit it, there are tests. Most even talk to her.
This Unit remembers something other than being this Unit.
This Unit has only ever had this frame. This Spartan misses her armor.
Tom won't stop visiting her even after she sent him away.
Roland answers her pings as best he can.
The fog dissipates for a moment and the memories surface.
There is the blunt hurt of recognition in the face of unceasing loss and then she is gone again.
Durance Membrane.
Failure at the time of Composition.
Davis deserved better.
Will they remember her?
Will someone come shut her off?
The Knight's connection to its battlenet conductor is gone.
i've decided i'm going to learn more about yellow-headed blackbirds than anyone else. this is a strange and almost juvenile-sounding goal but no one seems particularly interested in studying them. if you try to search for information on them or certain behaviors you get the generic field mark and blurb guides, a few paywalled academic articles, and... posts by me, funnily enough. i just made a separate blog for my bird photography, but expect another at some point specifically focused on my documenting the colony of these birds that i now visit weekly.
i'm not a spiritual person, nor do i believe in the prophetic power of dreams, but i do think they serve as important windows into our fears and motivations and i think it says something that the only time i have actively photographed a bird in my dreams it was indeed a yellow-headed blackbird.
the more i read about these birds the more insane i feel. i think the isolation of this tiny marsh might actually be doing some galapagos shit to the blackbirds there because everything from their vocalizations to their nesting habits completely eschews known data.
did you know that they are capable of imitation? don't worry! apparently no one else does either, but i have personally overheard them doing terrible approximations of not only red-winged blackbird songs, but also rooster crowing, ring-necked pheasant squawking, and what i now believe to be an eastern meadowlark song (which i have captured on video, something about which no one gave a fuck!!)
they are supposed to be drawn to marshes with deep water, over which multiple females will weave nests in single male controlled territories of typically 1k to 6ksqft. the waters of this marsh are wading depth, and the males control micro-territories of what cannot be more than 500sqft each-- territories that they share neutrally with marsh wrens.
this marsh is the last surviving 50 acre oasis of wetland in what used to be hundreds of miles of it, now turned into farmland. yellow headed blackbirds have been migrating across this continent for over 100,000 years according to fossil records. how does one compromise with their instincts telling them to travel a specific, ancestral route that looks and feels nothing like what their genetic memory tells them? they adapt, or they disappear, and a bird like this could never accept silence. i don't think.
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