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Helix woke up to a face full of yellow and purple.

💜Good morning sleeping beauty.💛

HOLY CARP!!!!

Helix jumped to the other side of the bed, his eyes wide with shock.

H-how the shell did you get in here?

💜Hey, ya even talk like a turtle! Guess that that skin really suits you.💛

Jax looked around the room as Helix grabbed his hoodie.

💜This place is kinda dull. And why do you get so many anime plushies? Don't tell me that you're obsessed over that crud too.💛

Is there someone else in the circus that is?

💜Hey, what's this?💛

Instead of answering Helix's question (again), Jax looked over at the picture on the wall that Helix had drawn the night before.

Um...... that's nohing.

Helix reached to rip it off of the wall, but was just a little too slow as Jax snatched it away with a wide grin.

💜Aw, look at that! It's a whole family of little turtles! And they even have a pet rat! This is so cute!💛

GIVE ME THAT!!!!

💜I will....... NOT!💛

Come on, dude. . My personal stuff is none of your business!!

💜And what's so personal about a little fairy tale picture of a buncha turtles and a rat?💛

BECAUSE!

Helix snatched the picture away and stuck it back up on the wall. He turned around and tried to exit the room.

💜No, I'm genuinely curious. You write stories or something?💛

Jax slammed his arms in front of the door and looked down at Helix. Helix rolled his eyes and looked down at the ground.

..... I didn't want to forget what they looked like.

With that, Helix shoved Jax to the side and walked out of the room, leaving Jax with a half grin ing half confused look on his face. He trotted after Helix.

💜Aw, I get it! They're your family! So, y'all are turtles or are ya just imagining if they were turtles?💛

Just forget it.

💜Cmon dude! Why don't ya wanna talk about it?💛

Like I said, it's personal, and I don't even know you, so I'm not very comfortable with sharing it with you.

💜Well, you're gonna be stuck with me for a very long time, and trust me; you DONT wanna be on my bad side. So, let's say ya tell me a little secret and I won't pick on you as much as I would have if you hadn't told me.💛

Helix groaned and rolled his eyes, tugging his hood over his face and giving Jax a side eye. Without any physical proof, his story was gonna sound insane......

......eh. What the heck?

This whole place was insane

Ok, fine, me and my brothers are anthropomorphic turtles, and our father is an anthropomorphic rat. Happy?

💜Not really cause you're lying.💛

No I'm not. This is how I actually look. Imma mutant. We all are.

💜And how did that happen?💛

Some weird ooze that somehow got in the sewers. Before, me and my brothers were just ordinary turtles, and our Dad was a regular rat. We got that junk all over us, and the next thing we know, we're like this.

💜And how come you're still a mutant turtle in the digital circus?💛

Good question. Mabey it had something to do with Bishop's programming?

💜Who's Bishop?💛

Dude, I thought that I was just telling you about my family.

💜I am if she's a part of this story. You mentioned her, not me!💛

Ugh! Ok, Bishop is an scientist/engineer who works for this government agency called the Earth Protection Force, and she wants all mutants, like me and my brothers, to die.

💜All mutants? There's more of you? 💛

Yeah.

💜How many?💛

How am I supposed to know? Probably not a lot!

💜You said that this sico kidnapped you?💛

Yes.

💜Is it because you are a mutant?💛

That may be part of it, but I think that it was mostly because I was spying on her a bit.

💜Why?💛

Because she was acting suspicious.

💜How?💛

Y'know what? This is pointless. If you're gonna pick on me, do it. It's not like you weren't going to anyway.

Helix walked a bit ahead of Jax and lowered his head. Once more, Jax leaned toward and looked into Helix's face.

💜........ So all of your family is mutants.💛

Yes. I thought that I already clarified that.

💜Then how do you survive? Wouldn't scientists be all over you. 💛

Well, yeah. We live in the sewers of New York.

💜EEEEWWW!!!💛

Yeah. We've stayed hidden down there all of our lives, only going out at night to get supplies, and even then being extremely stealthy.

💜Whoa. Did anyone ever see you?💛

No. But now, after we saved the city from a giant mutant fly monster, me and my family have been accepted by society. We can actually live like normal people now.

💜Giant mutant fly monster?💛

Long story short, he was mutated by the same stuff that me and my family were, exept he's a bad guy.

💜Oh.....💛

So.... do you guys have anything to eat around here?

💜Why? You hungry?💛

Kinda.

💜That's probably just a mind beast used to routine. We all have had the same problem. Ya see, we can't actually eat in here, so we try to make the routine hunger go away by tricking it.💛

..... Tricking it?

💜Yeah. Feeding you computer stuff that looks like food, feels like food and tastes like food.💛

I mean..... I don't see why we couldn't try it. It wouldn't hurt.

💜Great! Let's go!💛

With that, Jax finally shut up and started walking down the halls, leaving Helix to look around at all of the different doors. He saw the faces of all of the people that he'd seen the day before imprinted onto separate doors, while there were some doors with faces that he hadn't seen with red X's on them.

Hey, Jax! What's with this door?

Helix walked up to one with a little frog on it that had her face crossed out. Jax slammed himself in front of the door and have Helix a very angry look.

💜Thats..... nothing. Cmon. Let's go to the group.💛

Jax walked off ahead of Helix again, this time his face a faint shadow of red. Helix followed, puzzles by the rash action that had just taken course. When they made it to the main sector of the tent, there was already a very big, very long table spread out, with multiple pastries, meats, bevararages, cereals, and dairy/farm products littered across it.

💜Wow. Caine went all out for you.💛

👄Where have you guys been? I fell like that was more than the 5 minutes that you said that would take.👄

Zooble murmured through a donut (though, even she was unaware of how she got that thing into her system)

💜Oh, just taking a stroll.💛

Jax plopped himself between Ragatha and Pomni.

💜Seriously dude?💜

❤️Morning Jax.💙

💜GOOD MORNING LADIES! Whadjya dream about last night? Spiders and centipedes?💛

💜Ew! No! Do you mind? I was talking to Pomni!💜

💜Of course I mind! I wanted to sit here!💛

Pomni looked around Ragatha and Jax to see Helix standing off to the side, staring at the food with wide eyes.

❤️Hey! Helix! Cmon, sit down! We can't eat all of this food by ourselves!💙

💜We could if we tried 💛

👄Dude, just shut up. You're not funny.👄

💜Oh, yes I am!💛

Helix slowly walked over to the spare seat in between Pomni and Kinger and sat down. Kinger waved a danish around in front of Helix's face.

👑Ya want one?👑

U-uh.....s-sure?

Kinger proceeded to shove the danish into Helix's mouth, making Helix squeak in the process.

Mmh! Thank you!

👑You're welcome!👑

As Helix happily munched onto the danish, Pomni grabbed a plate and put it in front of him.

❤️So.... you know a little about us. What are you into? What are your hobbies? How old are you?💙

Helix grabbed a donut and a couple of hash browns and gave Pomni a little smile.

Well, I really like sci-fi stuff, horror stuff, and anime. I also really like music (especially kpop) and video games

🎀Wait....ANIME?🎀

💜OH NO! YA SHOULDA KEPT QUIET!!!!💛

You like it?

🎀Oh, I absolutely LOVE anime! What ones do you like?🎀

Stuff like Akira and Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia and Death Note and Pokemon Indigo Leauge and the original Japanese Sonic X and the original Super Book.....

🎀I personally enjoy the slice of life ones like Blue Box and Sailor Moon.🎀

💜STOP TALKING CRYBABY!!!💛

👄She doesn't have to be quiet just because you say so! She can talk about common interests if she wants to.👄

❤️Um...... w-what else? What do you like to do?💙

Err....... I play a LOT of video games, watch a lot of sci-fi/horror/ anime stuff, listen to a lot of music, I make some and post it online sometimes, I read a lot of comics, I sometimes program stuff.... oh, and I build stuff!

❤️Like?💙

Robots, machines, little things here and there that may help the world one day.

👄Don't you have to be, like, crazy smart to do that?👄

Well, I'm not a rocket scientist, but I do read more than just comics..... ok, alot more than just comics.

❤️Interesting! So, um, what kind of robots have you built?💙

Mostly little stuff, although there is this one that I reprogrammed that I call Metal Head. Me and my friend are working on him to make him perfect and able to do just about anything.

❤️Thats cool! Ya certainly won't find me doing that!💙

💜Or me. That takes too much brain power.💜

💜Existing takes too much brain power for you.💛

👑Everything takes too much brain power for me!👑

💜We know. We got that a while ago.💛

❤️So.... how old are you? 💙

Fifteen

👄Fif-WHAT!?!?👄

💜You mean that lady kidnapped a fifteen year old kid!?!?!?!?!!💜

💜That sucks. You're only 8 years younger than me.💛

What's wrong with fifteen?

💜Nothing.... just ... You're so young!💜

As Helix opened his mouth to reply to the strange remark, Caine popped up out of nowhere and and started shouting.

🦷ALRIGHT MY DELECTABLE DANDELIONS!!!! GATHER AROUND!!!🦷

Everyone got up out of there seats and made their way to the stage, where Caine was happily waiting to send them on an adventure.

❤️Caine sends us on adventures to keep us from going crazy and abstracting.💙

Oh. Ok.

🦷So, todays adventure will be Kitty Kat Krazy Heist!!!🦷

*silence from everyone*

🦷Your job is to break into this secret base, whee they are keeping a buncha helpless kittens hostage, get the kittens, and take them to safety!!! The kittens are in a high security area, so you've gotta be stealthy, otherwise the security guys will blow your head off!!!🦷

W-WHAT!?!?!?! SO WE COULD DIE!?!?!

🦷No! You'll only be sent to a tight room where you'll be stuck listening to Taylor Swift at a loud volume until the kittens are safe or everyone's dead!🦷

That's ......

🦷NOW! AWAY WE GOOOOOO!!!!!🦷

With those final words, Caine opened up a portal in the sky that started sucking up the players. Helix grabbed onto Caine's arm as he floated past

IS THIS SAFE!?!?!?!?

🦷Of course it is! Would I ever send you on anything that isn't? Trust me! You'll LOVE it!!! Bye bye now!🦷

Caine got Helix to let go, and before he knew it, Helix had been sucked into what felt like an entirely different dimension.

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That was a bit!!!

I hopes that you enjoyed!!!!

Also, sorry this is a day later than it should be I forgot to take pictures ..

The LORD bless you!!!!

Hebrews 13:5-62

✝️😘🩷🫠

Well not the whole time. Just right when Louis realized that Anderson and Fenwick had screwed him over. Maybe even longer if he knew it was a trick ("ridiculous of you to mix human and vampire business it always ends poorly"). Notice how he's upset with louis when he kills the guy who's microaggressive with him, cus lestat wasn't there (even if he was there I have my doubts Lestat would understand microaggressions, but he would have definitely killed him for touching Louis.) But tells Louis he's proud of him for killing Alderman. I think this has to be because he witnessed the disrespect first hand. He didn't give a fuck about the money, what he DID care about was that those two disrespected not only him, but Louis.

Even with Lestats little understanding of race relations of the time in America, he did understand hierarchys. He's from 1700s France for God's sake. It's no coincidence wanted to be king of mardi gras. Lestat came to New Orleans and saw himself as the king, even if no one knew it. And he wanted Louis to be his queen. Honestly I could make an entire other post about how Lestat almost literally saw himself as if he was a King and Louis his beloved Queen, which is why he thought it was okay for him to sleep with other women (mistresses and playthings of the king should mean nothing compared to the queen in lestats eyes) but that's getting off topic. I only bring that up because I'm trying to paint a picture of how I think Lestat sees disrespect done to Louis. To him that goes beyond disrespect or rudeness, it's irreverence.

You begin to notice if you watch scenes with them together. Because while I wouldn't say lestat is good at controlling his anger, he's definitely great at concealing it until it erupts (props to Sam Reid have to be given here) lestat is always on the verge of fury when talking to Tom. It starts as a distaste then as he begins to fall more in love with Louis and become more protective of him, his anger builds. Claudia was wrong about one thing, it was no petty slight that was the reason Lestat killed Tom first, it was a loooonng time coming.

I could list every detail I think supports this but I'm sure you get the gist by now. My main point is really the layer of complexity this adds to not only the story, the characters, but also lestat and louis' relationship. Consider it for a second, Lestat saw all his violence as justified, everything he did one can see it through the lense of him punishing the disrespectful (take a shot every time I say disrespect in this post jesus christ). "I bring death to those deserving" indeed. Lestat has a god complex out the wazoo, and every attack, torture, and death he caused was righteous to him and thus enjoyable. Louis on the other hand didn't see himself so highly. He may seem confident but if you look through the cracks it's apparent Louis's self worth in near nonexistent and he's horribly insecure. I think lestat thought when Louis was made a vampire he would see himself as Lestat saw himself, and as Lestat saw Louis. But again, another post for another time.

Despite Louis' insecurities (or perhaps because of them) louis revels in the violence lestat commits for his sake. That's probably why louis is so quick to forgive lestat about the priests. For a brief moment Lestat truly said the truth to Louis and Louis could forgive him because of it. As lestat says, he doesn't kill the priests to intimidate Louis, nor does he do it just because he enjoys it. He does it because he sees them as humiliating Louis, charlatans that don't deserve Louis' sorrow. Louis didn't want the priest's to die, but he could understand why lestat killed them, simply because for once in his goddamn life lestat told the truth, and louis loved that truth. That truth being that lestat killed and mutilated and committed such horrors not just because he liked it, but because he did it out of a fucked up sense of protection. Him killing the priests was essentially a knight killing a dragon to earn the princess' hand in marriage.

The worst part is that Lestat doesn't even realize it. Not fully anyway. Let's be honest with ourselves, lestat doesn't understand Louis. Obviously there's the race, background, culture differences that lestat doesn't understand nor seems inclined to try, but there are better posts about that made by smarter people than moi. I'm mostly talking about lestat doesn't understand louis' mind itself (louis' mind in a vacuum I suppose you could say) he understands Louis' desire for violence sure, but he doesn't understand the core of that want. Honestly I'm on the fence of if he ever understood that Louis loved it when lestat was protective in the first place. I guess it can be dumbed down to Louis wants Lestat to kill to protect Louis and to protect the family (and anyone who deeply disrepects them), lestat perhaps understood a little at one point, but since he sees everyone as a threat and everything is a slight to him, he has no trouble and qualms with delighting in the torture of people Louis views as innocent. Louis' heart is a bit dark, but ultimately human, so he's disgusted by lestats violence towards the undeserving. Lestat can no longer read Louis' mind and even if he could, Louis doesn't quite understand the difference himself (that's why he tries to hunt for criminals briefly) so the cracks of miscommunication starts to form, and neither of them even realize there is miscommunication.

Therein lies the importance of Tom Anderson for season 1. Not much of a character, more of a plot device in human skin. Claudia can see that Lestat hates him, but doesn't understand why, nor does she care to get to the depths of that. (*Mr house voice* understandable) I think it's notable that Louis rarely brought him up, he didn't understand the depths of lestats love. Nor did he know about Lestats 3 decade long grudge, all because Tom disrespected Louis.

Now I'm not excusing Lestat's actions, I just think it's interesting how this one throwaway character reveals a whole level of complexity to the relationship between him and Louis, and better sheds light on not only Lestats personal philosophy but louis' as well. Even Claudia to a degree.