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We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.
Midnight au fic again! More reboot stuff, more obviously reboot stuff this time.
The matters preceding this universe's Argit and Kevin finally meeting, from Argit's pov.
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Thereās enough going on when his maās most notable stooge shows back up that Argitās welcome for the distraction. Half the litter before his have just recently run off, the others are very clearly on the brink, itās nice to have an excuse not to think about what will happen when theyāre gone. Alongside a good half his siblings he slips into their maās office, immediately darting into a little sheltered alcove just big enough to fit himself and a younger sibling under his arm. The rest of his litter have already outgrown it, but heās small yet and so retains the safety of a spot she canāt quill him in from her seat.
It's been a reasonably long time since Vilgax was last around, announcing his intent to go recover this āOmnitrixā thing only Argit and Kekri had bothered to go look up, aiming to be wished luck by their little collective. Promising their ma great things once heād succeeded. Argit initially assumes he has, having gone from the unimpressive thing heād been then to something that screams āpotential threatā, but no. No, heās there to whine and make excuses for why he failed. Why he apparently ended up back in the Null Void, twice. Their ma is clearly unimpressed, but she lets him rant about some āTennysonā kitten that had gotten his hands on the device.
Of course he doesnāt just talk about the other child. He upsells his own trickery and displays of power while he was gone, his escapes from the Null Void, a confrontation with the Fulmini and his own glorious battle against them. Itās all at least forty percent lies. Possibly more, but that much he can be confident in. Most of his raving, however, is about Tennyson. A dimwitted thing that any one of his siblings could outsmart three of, but that somehow had defeated him repeatedly. That through what was, of course, sheer luck had always managed to foil his plans, to escape his clutches before he could get the Omnitrix, or even the power core he needed to build a copy.
The idea hardly even registers in Argitās head aside from the interest his ma shows, not at first. He knows his way around tech, but only as much as he needs to to ensure his ma and her henchmen donāt decide heās dead weight, topics as complex as Vilgax starts talking go mostly over his head, and several measures above the heads of some of his siblings. Device is complex, device needs very specific parts to work, parts he canāt get his hands on, thatās all he needs to know. Everything else goes right through, isnāt even catalogued for potential future use, until Vilgax mentions a second one.
Thatās a whole miniature rant within a rant. About some other human child, this one not even graced with a name, who somehow got his hands on the blueprints Vilgax had been working on. (Argit catalogues that little tidbit, especially given how amused and knowing his ma seems when Vilgax says it. Thereās information there that may be useful.) A child who built a functioning device, on what heād already described on a low-tech mudball. When heād already said he couldnāt find the parts he needed to make it work. His ma makes note of this as well, he can tell from the way her ear twitches, but Vilgax seems oblivious, or possibly just obsessed with Tennyson. When pushed he describes the child as no older than Argitās litter, bullheaded enough to need a firm beating to get the device off him, a fool with no sense of self-preservation and a childish degree of overconfidence. But then itās all right back to Tennyson, how close he'd come to success only for the ābratā to get the best of him. To get him tossed in the Null Void again.
Argitās tuned out by that point. The other child, the unnamed one, is rolling around in his head. Smart enough to build what Vilgax couldnāt. Stubborn, or maybe bold would be a better term from how heās described. Either brave or stupid, to stand up to the Chimera Sui Generis, and for some reason Argitās mind keeps looping back to brave. Who apparently tried to face off against him twice, and yet is brushed aside in favor of raging about this āTennysonā.
As his ma starts showing the first signs of running out of patience with Vilgaxās rambling, and Argit ushers Rea-n out ahead of himself, he canāt help but want to meet this other child.
~~
It takes a few years and being traded away to Vilgax, but the opportunity does eventually arise.
For as long as Argit can remember he's been Vilgaxās favorite of his siblings, for the same reason he's his maās- there is seemingly nothing he can do to not remind people of her- so he's forced to admit it isnāt quite so surprising that, when offered him up in exchange for some information she wants, he agrees with minimal haggling. Personally Argit would have preferred to at least be worth more, or, even better, to not be treated like property to give away in the first place, but he hadnāt really been given a choice in the matter. The only option is to bide his time learning what he can, putting up with the lamenting about how he probably wonāt live long enough to take up the fuckerās mantle when he died but will at least be a fine deputy, then rob him blind and vanish off into the darkness of space.
Until, Vilgax announces that heās finished his preparations to finally kill the Tennyson child, ātake back what is rightfully hisā, and everything turns on its head.
Argit had started keeping track of names and information after that first impromptu storytime. To his maās bemusement heās kept on top of news, taking note every time the Omnitrix, its creator, or its wielder is mentioned. Ben 10 defeated Vilgax. Ben 10 saved the Incursean Flagship. Azmuth is brilliant. Ben 10 is a hero. The Omnitrix is amazing. No other child is ever mentioned, and with every passing update itās raised Argitās hackles more. He still wants to meet him, as certain his maās assessment that the lack of news means heās not as impressive as first thought is wrong as he is burning for ways to spite her. This, this is his chance.
He plays nice a while longer.
~~
Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, he finds Tennyson first, fresh from scuppering Vilgaxās ship and high tailing himself onto the planetās surface. Thereās another kitten there with him, a crimson thing whose name Argit literally cannot pronounce, but itās obvious within minutes that sheās not who heās looking for. No Omnitrix, for one, and none of the impudence Vilgax had mentioned for another. Still, learning more about the infamous Tennyson canāt possibly hurt, and finding him is a good third step.
He doesnāt really have experience with other children outside of his siblings and the occasional job or errand his ma had tossed his way, but he knows enough about the line of work he was born into to offer information about Vilgax and his plans in exchange for any about his mystery guy. Ben rolls his eyes, expresses disbelief that he came all the way from space to talk about āKevinā (and suddenly he has a name, after all this time) of all the things on the planet. Red, meanwhile, laughs and accepts the deal.
Argit doesnāt give the whole story about how he knows what he knows, only explaining that Vilgax is a regular guest of his maās who often speaks about whatās been going on in his life since he last saw her. He tells them about the rantings against Ben, which donāt surprise them, about his brief mentionings of Kevin, which gets more eye-rolling and a nod in turn, and his intentions at that moment, which are obviously worrying. There he gives them most of what he knows- heās not fool enough to give everything- from a few key points of Vilgaxās plan to where he was maintaining orbit when he saw him last. Ben wants to run off and handle the situation immediately, but Red is keen enough to notice the way Argitās quills quiver at the idea that they may try to screw him over, and drags him back into his seat so they can fill their end of the bargain.
It starts off with Ben giving a long list of times Kevinās antagonized him, occasions Argit canāt really take as seriously as he seems like he would prefer. His own siblings have done worse, and most of his litter would never get the same sigh, rolled eyes, and annoyed admittance that he wasnāt all bad. Team-ups for everything from games to fights eventually get acknowledged, a vague reference to Kevin āhaving it roughā and āneeding more friendsā (Argitās never had a friend-), and that maybe, just maybe, he was sometimes a good guy. Which is where Red comes in, adding in bits her cousin left out or hadnāt seen. Of him turning on his own team rather than crossing the moral horizon, sacrificing himself to stop a take-over of the planet. Friendly encounters in the years since it all, where heād been as much vitriolic friend as menace.
Redās the one that gives him, finally, a proper description of what went down between him and Vilgax. Talks about him standing unwavering against him, holding his own far longer than anyone expected and refusing to back down as much as refusing help. The massive beating it had taken for Vilgax to get his device from him. Sacrificing himself again, this time with no means to defend himself, to buy the rest of them time. About power-ups, a full overview of the fight, Kevin getting beat down again, running back into the fray again. Just as heād thought from the start- smart, stubborn, brave, and Red laughingly confirms him as ābold as brass tacksā.
Forget wanting, Argit needs to meet him.
It must show, despite his best efforts, because Ben rolls his eyes again and pulls some sort of old-as-stone type of communicator out of his pocket. Argit has to fight his ears to a calm position as he calls up the myth the legend himself. Tells him that Vilgax is back, he should come out and help, thereās an alien that wants to meet him. Thereās a bit of back and forth between them, mostly about whether or not Ben actually needs the help or is just trying to make the fight easier, before he ends the call. He then smiles at Argit, and announces that he can now help them prepare to deal with Vilgax while they wait for Kevin to get there.
He's going to have to watch out for these two, theyāre smarter than they look.
As far as distractions from the nerves of finally getting to meet someone heās been curious about since his elder siblings grew up go, itās not his first choice. Waiting for the cousinsā grandfather to rush back from the store, explaining things to him, helping Red get supplies together while they wait on some friend of his thatās been mentioned before but Argit wasnāt paying attention. Explaining things again. Itās tiring all on its own. Works though, and itās very hard to focus on his āIām going to finally meet himā nerves when theyāre being drowned out with āIām getting dragged into this fightā nerves. Itās not like heās scared of or even impressed with Vilgax, heās just another of the nine and half again losers that come by to moon over his ma as she plays them for fools, but heās never been one for direct fights if he could help it. The spirits gave his species quills for a reason, and now he's having to worry about whether he has enough venom in them to end this before anybody gets hurt.
Hopefully.
Argitās the one that first notices Kevin arrive. Him and Red a few seconds later, as he walks up near silently behind Ben and the adults. None of them say anything, though Red raises a brow, Argit tilts his head, and Kevin gives him an appraising look in the moments before he drops his weight over Benās shoulders. The āheroā jumps about a mile, and Argit laughs harder than he has in ages, falling immediately into sync with Kevinās own snorting laughter, with Redās snickers as a counterpoint. Ben's quick with glowers all around, and the adults are quick with reprimands, this is a serious situation, but Argit doesnāt pay them any mind. Heās too busy inspecting Kevin inspecting him to care about new adults giving him trouble.
āAnybody going to explain the rat,ā Kevin asks the table, and Argit knows his first order of business is going to be learning what that word means even as he snaps his ears straight and holds himself tall and strong as an underfed runt can. He has to make a good impression.
āIām called Argit,ā he says. āIām your biggest fan.ā
The multiverse works in Mysterious ways. But in the Omniverse, having a reflected version of yourself is unheard of. The rarity of that is 1 in 1,000,000 x 1,000,000.
Constants
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anyway in other news i literally never ever thought iād be saying this but, uh,, just over 48 hours ago, i completed my first Official Music Release. and honestly? not to be overly sentimental on main, but i'm kind of losing my mind over here. if youād asked me 12 months ago, iād have described myself as many things, butĀ āsongwriterā would not have been one of them, so itās kind of mind-boggling to think that these tiny little tunes that i wrote purely for fun have turned into, well, this.
enough of the mushy stuff, though -- the point is, iāve heard all your requests, and i have delivered!!Ā constants (virgilās song)Ā and tale of the mountain (romanās song) are now available for streaming or download on all major music platforms, including (but not limited to) itunes, spotify, and even tiktok!! for a full list of all the stores youāll be able to find them in, check the screenshot above, or click read more for a text transcript (+ tags)!!
also tagging @today-only-happens-onceā because of courseĀ absolutely none of this would have ever happened if it werenāt for her piano composition that inspired the lyrics for constants, and, by extension, everything thatās come after that!! thank you, grae <333