🌿🌊 fae's shifting journey 🌊🌿

The Stars Will Scream

Falling too fast to prepare for thisTripping in the world could be dangerousEverybody circling is vulturousNegative, nepotist 

Fliers aren’t scientists. Fliers aren’t warriors. Fliers aren’t leaders, Seekers will never have meaning, learn your place.

But they forget, oh they forget. You are named after the sound of a star burning so brilliant that nothing else is visible, the sound of matter destroying itself into something infinitely more perfect.

And so you have, Air Commander. 

You armed the rebellion with light befitting your name, a cannon that leaves nothing in the wake of a single blast. You made a rebel into a Warlord, fit the final piece into his image.

And then, you clawed your way to the top of the food chain. With wings high and fangs sharp you rocketed through the gas giants hoarding your sunlight- you will not die cold in an outer orbit. You will not ice over to please the ideas of others and you will NOT be treated any less than what you are named after.

You are Starscream, you are a scientist and a soldier, you are the Air Commander and you will demand and recieve the respect you are due.

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Conceal your deepest worries Confine your thoughts inside The walls you built of damaged pride

venlia or something

What do you mean the fit is not hard/ref

Drew what I'm wearing for bed 😭

the file for this is literally just called CT girl kisser (individuals under cut)

AARON DRIVING THE MAS??!!

Kevin bringing Andrew to California

Matt Boyd rushing the goal with Aaron to stop the Ravens from killing Andrew

Neil with two broken ribs is better than Neil dead

Andrew clocked Jeremy IMMEDIATELY lmaoo

Agent Browning: "I hate this sport. Explain to me why they’re all like this."

Kevin kneeling by Neil the whole time he’s in pain on the Court

Aaron kicking Kevin’s thigh as reassurance and/or an order to follow

Kevin telling Jean how Abby helped him !!

Neil being utterly insufferable to the freshmen, by all accounts

Neil answering Jean’s call with ‘Neil.’ Letting Jeremy’s go to voicemail.

Abby getting a second opinion on whether Andrew needs surgery…

Dan getting red-carded for decking the Ravens

Renee laughing at Andrew’s joke that the cameras couldn’t hear

The whole team being depressed when Aaron’s on trial

Wymack calling Jean to check on him after the fire

Kevin clocking Renee’s cross necklace

Kevin telling Neil on camera that he’s the least honest person he knows

Aaron chauffeuring hurt Andrew and Neil to go see Wymack

Twinyards & Neil interrupting Kevin and Thea’s interview by screeching up in the Mas

Katelyn respectfully not coming to the trial on the day Andrew testified

Nicky getting into a violent screaming match with his parents outside the courthouse

Andrew stepping in to protect Kevin but letting him stand up for himself when he said he could

Renee subtly telling the reporters to fuck off and talk to the right Ravens

Kevin and Neil joint press conference. Andrew and Renee together.

Kevin in actual anguish when Neil was hurt during the game

Andrew needing to know if Grayson had hurt Neil

Andrew asking if Neil killed Grayson

Kevin and Andrew both getting mad at Neil for going to see Jean alone

Dan running to defend Neil (after checking on Matt in the goal)

Andrew going outside with Jean during the interview

Kevin playing stylist for Jean’s first interview

Aaron trusting Andrew enough to deny a jury at his trial

Kevin mentioning Wymack canceled practice after Aaron won his trial

Jean casually referencing Andreil and Jeremy having no clue

Wymack calling the Foxes his kids

Betsy being there for Andrew at the trial when he testified

The upperclassmen having a bet whether Neil or Jack would fight the other first

The Foxes not having to deal with the Ravens at the banquet

MAKE A MOVE

Today’s topic on the wheel of tragedy; Agent Maine, because holy shit for a character with like maybe 2 spoken lines there’s a LOT to unpack with this guy.

(Speaking of the wheel, maybe I should actually make one if I keep this up, or do requests or something)

From the bat, Maine’s physical size by comparison to the other freelancers already sets him apart as a bad motherfucker, which both sets up his later threat as the Meta, but also gives potentially some insight as to his origins.

Going off the concept that RvB is an alt universe connected to the original Halo timeline, I think Maine’s size and his voice hint at him being a Spartan-II, and one of the “rejects” at that due to damage to his vocal cords. Even before his injuries in the program, his voice is inherently growly and hard to understand, hinting at something going wrong during the experimental process? And we know from later lore that Project Freelancer was often a “last-chance” position, accepting those who did not fit in with the rest of the UNSC.

So already, we can see Maine as being an outsider, but this doesn’t make him dangerous. If anything, Maine is an excellent team player with communication issues, if a slightly looser grasp on morality, the primary examples being his willingness to use his terrifying presence as a distraction tactic during the Skyscraper heist, but also his live-fire attack on Tex during the training mission. Unlike Wyoming, who is inherently a bastard and/or tricky, I think Maine was following orders, and his time as a Spartan-II already made him primed for dangerous training methods.

As for the team player part, we do see he has good camaraderie with Wash, and even banters with Carolina a bit about his dislike of heights. We also see him taking multiple bullets to protect her and his other teammates during that same heist.

It’s only after his ability to speak is taken from him that he starts to truly give in to Sigma and the Meta, becoming less “himself” and more of a puppet for the AI, who feeds on his bitterness and potential isolation in the wake of his injury to get what he wants. While it’s easy to conflate the two, I think “Meta” Maine is practically an entirely new character, no longer who he once was despite similar behaviors.

From a certain point of view, Maine is very much like Carolina and Tex as being the closest thing Project Freelancer had to a success; a perfect merge of AI and Agent, a super soldier with the best equipment and the unstoppability of a Spartan. However, in typical Freelancer fashion, they yet again failed to acknowledge the humanity of their agent, in this case Sigma moreso than Maine, leading to losing control over them.