#forced performance

“Make it look good” | Quivering lip | caretaker turned whumper | hotel room 

Content warnings: psychological abuse, mild physical abuse, coercion, forced performance, implied captivity, power imbalance, dehumanization, humiliation

“The songbird will now entertain us with a dance!” The warlord grandly declared, wine sloshing over the brim of his cup. “Go on, boy. We're waiting! And make it look good!”

The songbird stepped forward. To any foreign courtier that was attending tonight, the name might seem well chosen, clad in colourful fabrics that he was, like a bird in its full plumage. Rich fabrics in red and green and purple shimmered around him, as he began his performance with a grand bow to the assembled lords and ladies while the warlord sat in his throne behind him. 

The music started and the dance began, graceful and yet strong. When he twirled the fabrics flew around him, letting through glimpses of what was beneath. Reds and greens and purples as well, but no tailor had made this. No, it was a second painful costume the warlord himself ensured he would never be without.

No pain showed on his face as he moved though - no matter how much the steps had to tug on his bruises or how the clothes pressed on his wounds. There was just a quiet sort of dignity in his face - not open defiance (at least not tonight) but a hardness in his eyes that did not seem to fit his clothes. 

The music came to a close and he ended the show with another twirl until he stood there breathing hard from the exercise, his cheeks slightly flushed, staring at the Warlord's face. He did not bow this time.

The man in his throne raised a warning eyebrow. 

The songbird only raised his chin higher. “Did I dance well?” He asked unashamedly, his voice just as pretty as him.

For a moment the warlord stared at him contemplatingly, while the courtiers began to whisper. Slowly he pushed himself up from his golden chair, and walked down to the songbird with measured steps.

“You danced well,” he said with an unsettling calmness, right before savagely backhanding the songbird across his face, sending him tumbling to the ground in a heap of colour. “Only your manners leave something to be desired.” His voice was cold and cruel and only just loud enough for everyone to hear.

The songbird pushed himself up to his elbows, not quite hiding the wince this time. A new red bruise began blooming on his face, so it matched the rest of him now.

“I think you danced enough for tonight,” the warlord went on. “It is time for you to retire.”

And the songbird pulled himself to his feet with as much grace as he could muster and left the throne room, the courtiers whispering around him. Red and purple and green. He and his clothes. The same as he was yesterday, the same as he would be tomorrow. 

Every day he would sing when he was ordered, entertain who he was told and dance when he must.

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Then again when we released the BB CHRA for the EVO 9 platform again the nay sayers were quick to say there was no way anybody would want that. "It's too expensive" yet again here we are with almost a constant back order on those models because of high demand.

Now we're doing it again with our Stainless Steel FP Housing for EVO 9 turbochargers, we're once again blazing the trail that others are sure to follow. They'll hate on us, say it won't work, do everything to discredit it but we've never been about talk, we've been about action, and with this housing it'll be no different. We've already tested this new housing with a BB FP Green w/ a 67MM turbine wheel and the results were spectacular. The two charts above show boost response with the new housing on a FP Green w/ a 67MM turbine wheel. On a previous dyno session using a FP Green in the old MHI housing with a 65MM wheel this car made around 545WHP max and boost was around 32PSI peak and spool came in around 3600RPM. With the new housing the car made 599WHP max boost was 28PSI and spool cam in around 3800RPM. That's a 54WHP increase at 4lbs less boost and only picking up 200RPM of spool using an undivided housing and a larger turbine wheel. Let me repeat that spool only increased 200RPM with an open housing and a larger turbine wheel!!!!

In the coming weeks we will be testing a Red and Black and sharing results and also our upcoming turbochargers the Zephyr and Zero. The first batch of these turbos are shipping to customers and we'll start seeing what this turbine housing is truly capable of very soon.