oh yeah fish time

...what? did you think he'd be armorless?

haha

gabe has a resting bitch face and a tendency to stare, having been born more powerful than most he doesn't really care if he gets into a fight or not because he'd be able to get out of it

mark wasnt born with gabe's powers and such is inclined to keep the peace and NOT get into any fights, which includes bailing gabe out of fights before they happen because thats his best friend

yes, this means that rather than being medschool friends they're childhood friends in this one

the pose is meant to be a dip in the dance and i tried to mimic the wrist grab so instead of holding her hand, he’s grabbing her wrist. he's also grabbing her coat instead of her waist.

edega is controlling her body using the flow, so ada’s not in control during this. she’s still very much conscious though. she knows what’s happening, and it terrifies her. he's controlling her body, her flow, her life force.

he’s correcting her posture and her dance, making her 'perfect'

The bird, dazed and confused, sits in the hands of a young Stanley, a native of Sun Horizon. 

Having been one of the people who regularly surveyed the jungle, he had extensive knowledge of wildlife, and he had never seen a bird like this before, never seen one made of metal.

As he inspects it, the bird jolts back to life and immediately starts pecking Stanley because WHO ARE YOU YOU AREN’T MOTHER STRANGER DANGER ATTACKKKK.

That’s when Stacy finally notices. She runs over and whistles, calling off her bird, who immediately flies back to her along with the rest of her flock.

Stanley and Stacy meet eyes and... well, Stanley falls in love at first sight.

Shaking off the shock, he smiles and asks if they’re hers, to which she replies yes, she made them herself. He compliments her, telling her he specializes in wildlife and hasn’t quite seen birds like hers before.

She asks him to tell her more, and he invites her to walk around the jungle with him.

Stacy hesitates for a moment. Having lived in Eternyx her whole life, she’d grown up expecting danger at every turn, but the way Stanley talked and the promise of seeing real birds was too tempting.

She accepts his offer, and the rest is history.

So he moved away to Melosia. He was hired by a nymph who let him manage her library of knowledge; she taught him how to harness the flow himself and how to work with it. He found peace, but there was always something missing. Something had changed with his flow ever since Edega became distant.

One day he pushes himself too far harnessing flow and falls ill. The nymph advises him to go back to that hospital in Dancity, and who is he to question her? 

During his stay his flow falters, then dies out. He goes still; with no flow, his body goes into a comatose state.

Then suddenly he’s back and flow is in his body. All he sees is Edega forcing flow into his body, forcing his drum to beat so he lives, forcing him to move damnit. By gods, his heart is pounding from it. He’s weak, and with each beat his physical body falters, but Gabe isn’t about to let him die, not when he’s this close to making that miracle happen.

anyway yeah then 7-X happens blah blah blah cole harnesses the flow correctly blah blah blah we leave the politician in space blah blah blah connectifia abortus is defeated

By the end of it, Edega gives Mark some of his flow, leaving him weakened with Mark feeling better than he has in a long while. They dance together as the intern works their magic, taking things one step at a time. At the final move, their flow is restored to the rhythm it should be.

Mark’s physical body is healed, but Edega’s, in straining himself, collapses.