#dizzy speaks

You are better off.

Like he spent a whole night on the pirate ship. Mal and Evie must've spent the night together at their hideout. Jay and Carlos fall asleep while waiting for the wand to 3D print

But then they leave presumably before sunrise, and Doug is just out and about fully dressed looking for Evie? And Lonnie has been waiting around for hours so she could leave with them?

Also Uma says to meet on her ship at noon, so what are they doing for approximately six hours between meeting up again and going to see her?? Who knows.

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I have. So many questions. Possibly more than I started with.

Does Max ever actually remove the helmet or does it just look like he does? Actually no nvm we see him eat things—

Are the tactile warping algorithms just meant to change the texture of Max’s “clothes” for other people or does it affect the way they feel to him? If someone touches what looks like bare skin does Max feel a difference in tactile input? Is it actually bare skin??

If it’s not in camo mode does Max have the same sense of touch as if it is? Or is it different? I keep staring at the blue palms of his suit’s gloves and wondering if that’s highlighted for aesthetic purposes or functional ones.

(I also have logistics questions that kinda don’t matter if I just choose to ignore them. Which I will be doing because I don’t think it really matters how showering works with this. I have more important questions.)

Like, can Steel dye Max’s hair??? I’d need to look into how temporary hair dye works (and regular dyes, for that matter) but they’re working with light refraction here so I don’t think pigments would come into play at all. Failing that, wig??

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God the mental image of Distress!Max and his Steel arguing in a one-person gas station bathroom about what hairstyle he should have.

Steel wants to go with something sooo edgy because they’re rebels, Max! Nobody understands them or their mission! It’s them against the world! They gotta go black and red stripes!! Spiky! No wait, bangs so long they—

Max, who is on his second gas station coffee this hour, grips the sink and says that if Steel makes him look as ridiculous as he did last week he’s going to cause a blackout so massive that NTek will be able to look in this general direction and know they’re here.

Steel just kinda floats there for a second. Then pitches, “platinum with black tips?”

“…that would look cool.”

A young Pope who finds his way out of his insane childhood and ends up enlisting. He quickly moves up the ranks— he’s got that kind of determination, you know?— and somewhere a long the way he ends up getting injured, probably pretty early on and gets one of his legs blown off. He’s so in awe of the medics— they seem so in control, how could he not be— and he decides then and there that’s his purpose. Cut to fifteen years later and he finds himself in Pittsburgh, with a new name, and working in the Pitt. A lot of people can’t handle it but he can. It’s nothing compared to everything else he’s survived.

My name’s Dizzy, I’m a buddy of Smile’s and a new admin on this blog!