#ancienthound

Christmas Mistletoe! Reblog and see who leaves you a kiss in your ask box. 

And embarrass him, she did. He knew precisely what the gesture meant.

[ ♦ ] “Holy shit-!”

[ ♦ ] “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE? ‘Cuz you sure as hell don’t look like a reploid-- or even a robot.”

Shaska had been preparing to just sleep the day away and then, Sentinel– but it WASN’T Sentinel.

She stared, looking dead inside and exhausted. This was bad.  First Blues room tore up, robot masters in a panic, Jayden making a mess, everything going to shot– and now Sentinel.

Another ping ; ; ; 

It was hard to track the sender of these messages ; ; ;

[ ♦̶̛͎͇͋͋  ] : “If I gave you an electronic siggy, could you track down the person it belongs to?”

Another Ping ; ; ; 

[ ♦̶̛͎͇͋͋  ] : “You don’t even have to DO any HARD WORK.”

[ ♦̶̛͎͇͋͋  ] : “When you find the owner, just send me C O O R D I N A T E S & N A M E”

Blackout had noticed a building overtaken by a landslide in the outskirts, overcome with foliage and nature as it reclaimed it’s land, and decided to stop inside. Perhaps he could find something useful within?

Many holes in the ceiling made for small beams of light to shine on the dusty, abandoned computers and furniture. It was nice, oddly enough, to see the determination of mother nature. It was the only thing more destructive than Humanity…Blackout admired that.

He’d found a small pool of rainwater within, with a light shining in from a hole in the ceiling. It lit up the vines and moss growing there, reflections of the water dancing across the walls. The world was still, and silent apart from the chirping of birds. It was a rare moment of feeling peaceful, for the maverick. Albeit, a melancholy peace. It reminded him, of times before. Moments of solitude with a friend. The song they would sing, together….

………

Continued from here.

—

Mk sighed and regarded the clipboard with some distaste.

“It’s Shelley’s charts. She’s definitely not at the levels she should be at. She’s gonna have a lot of tank time in the near future.”

Mk didn’t over look how those memory gaps affected Sentinel, but he quietly hoped she couldn’t remember how she got deactivated, his own memory of his initial death still troubled him and he would like to see her spared. Still... It hurt him to see her upset.

He pulled her into a hug despite himself. Not his over joyous bear hugs, but the soft ones he only ever shared with Sen and Shaska in somber moments like these.

2. their smile

With how limited Basalt can express himself facially, he can’t really ‘smile’ in a physical sense. He can open his mouth and he does have some sharp chompers in there, but he doesn’t really use his mouth to ‘smile’ unless he’s ecstatic about something. Then he opens his mouth wide while making excited barks and trills. Apart from that, the best way to know he's 'smiling' at you is to watch his eyes. If his eyes turn into crescent shapes curving upwards (like this emoji 😊) while looking at you, he's smiling at you.

--------------------

No one has seen Umbran genuinely smile since he became Maverick. And very, very few ever got to see him smile since even in his civilian appearance he usually wore his cyberpunk mask. For those who were lucky enough to see his smile, it's a small, calm and happy smile, belying the dark intimidating armor and his unnerving dreadlocks he's mostly seen in. It really showed who Umbran truly was, a calm but sweet soul just trying to do his best for what he was designed for.