GLACIAL PACE

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Here’s a helpful guide on Pahladation language too:

How yall feeling after that last chapter?

While Micha’s species thrives in cold weather, there are many got springs where he’s from that his kind uses for medical/recreational/bonding purposes.

Much like the Japanese macaques!

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As the author, I personally find it hilarious if they’d get one of those small breeds.

(Because ngl a big dog would probably obliterate Chase.)

Chase was all over Beef and his adorable small rotundness so it’s my personal HC that he likes small dogs.

So probably a dachshund, Pomeranian or a papillon.

They’re small and probably more manageable than a larger breed like a Labrador or husky, which would fit their lifestyle better.

Who knows, maybe if they ever find a cure for Chase, they can get a dog?

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Cuddling

I’m bad at anatomy and backgrounds lol

Ref under cut

I’ll probably name these chapters when it’s all over.

Looks like episode 3/4 is gonna be after this cuz this is getting LONG

But it’s actually a sweet chapter this time

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They are still friends, but they don’t really see each other in person that often anymore.

Gerald is the stay at home dad of three kids (and married to a lawyer), and while he still does live in LA, there’s not much time to hang out anymore due to their schedules.

Ryan is a well known chef at a restaurant in the city called The Fireplace, still single and no kids. Very much living the bachelor lifestyle. Before Chase started aging, Micha and Chase would visit every month to eat and talk.

Zach is a literature arts professor at UCLA, and is married with a kid.

But despite all this, they still do communicate with each other through email and phone calls. After Chase started aging, things did get tense because no one knew what to say or how to act, but things have cooled off since then and it’s mostly back to normal.

They’re still very much Chase’s closest friends, even if they can’t be in person that much.

Micha is a very active person, at least he was when he was younger (mostly before arriving on Earth). White he was fascinated by Earth sports, mostly the American ones (since that’s where he lived during the student program) like baseball.

But what really got him excited was that rock-climbing and ice sports were a thing on Earth. But they are just a bit different back home.

For one, there’s not really any indoor rock-climbing places like there is on Earth outside of the schools, and those are meant to help the kids learn how to climb properly and safely (children climbing the mountains is just a bad idea all around). Teens and adults free climb on the nearby mountains or buildings, and it’s not uncommon to have races to see who can get to the checkpoints faster.

There’s other hobbies like ice fishing and ice sports, ice skating, skiing, and a game sort of similar to hockey but way more physical (imagine if you were allowed to just straight up hit and tackle your opponents with no consequences, as long as it’s above the belt and below the neck. But using equipment to harm opponents is prohibited with expel-ment from the game.). Stuff like that.

Compared to them, humans are far more fragile and sports injuries in Pahladatia only really occur if things go on for too long (you’re more likely to get exhausted than physically injured), which is why Micha doesn’t do anything too sporty on Earth (he doesn’t want to risk hurting someone by accident by forgetting he’s more…durable.).

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In the early stages of their relationship, they’d tease each other about everything.

Like how Micha pronounces certain words that he’s only read, but never heard or getting words mixed up. Like glucose.

He called it gluteus only one time and Chase never let him live it down (Micha gets flustered about it but he really doesn’t mind).

And Micha teases Chase about how soft he is when he tries to act all tough and brash (he’s really sentimental and Micha finds it just adorable).

Micha and Chase graduated in 2002, at which point Chase was a probationary hero. Which in my terms means, he got approved only for a few select missions, due to still being in high school. Kind of like a training period and shadowing the others members. Chase was recruited as a teenager (think 15/16) but only allowed into the field after two to three years of training.

Chase only became an official member after graduation, mainly as a liability reason. If someone found out who he was, and if he was still in school it could mean people tracking him down (danger for everyone involved), and burnout. Being in HS, juggling your social life, work and all your other responsibilities can run you ragged and won’t make for the best mindset for heroism.

In Micha’s case, he had three years of probationary training as well before becoming a hero in 2005, and then only having about three years of heroism before quitting to join SDN (this will be important later and you’ll know what happens if you’ve seen the estimated timeline of the events of Dispatch), and becoming a materials scientist engineer (which is fancy speak for studying the atomic structure of a material to develop, process and test new ones).

Todays burning question:

What was Micha’s mentor in the Brave Brigade?

Chapter 32

Hero Suit

Masked & Unmasked