#ocean's echo

tennal correctly identifies that nobody involved in his therapies gives a single shit about him. given how stigmatized reading is, i wouldn't be surprised if most or all of his therapists viewed him as a danger or a problem to manage rather than a person who needed help, especially because we know he's resistant enough to have burned through all options available to civilians and has strong opinions on military therapists too. tennal is blase about therapy, enough so that he brushes off surit's compulsion concerns with an off-hand comment about how it's just another thing to shock a therapist with.

i do think a post-canon tennal could benefit from a space to talk about what he's gone through and from a more robust support system, but i do not think he would ever be less resistant to therapy, for basically the same reasons that surit resigns from the military. it's kind of difficult to enjoy the taste of the apple once you've seen the rot at the core.

Fandom: Ocean's Echo - Everina Maxwell Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tennalhin Halkana/Surit Yeni Characters: Tennalhin Halkana Additional Tags: Character Study, Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, now look. tagging this as erotic mind control would be false advertising. but the mind control is not NOT eroticized Summary:

/ˈʌndɚˌkɚrənt/ (noun)

1. a flow of water that moves below the surface of the ocean or a river

2. a hidden feeling or tendency that is usually different from the one that is easy to see or understand

🌙 spaceborndrifter Follow its so funny when people are like "you can read me, i'm not lying" and you read them and they are lying. baby why did you ask me to do that then

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🟪 remenemenants just got my application results sent to my wristband and im too scared to look lol

#if i don't get this scholarship im gonna jettison myself out of the airlock #i have to get out of this sector @ the Resolution PLEASE please please please #i prommy my thesis will be so good

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🦋 sanurasun does anybody think any synced architect-reader pair got a little freaky with it

🛰 orshans-might Follow This is honestly disgusting and I can't believe so many of you actually think this is acceptable to joke about. Genuinely so disrespectful to the people who put their lives on the line to protect Orshan's planets and citizens. You should be ashamed.

🦋 sanurasun sorry just to clarify your problem with me sexualizing a permanent mind meld that allows one person to directly puppeteer someone else's body is that it's disrespectful to the orshan military???

#you are not a serious person. guidance lights. #and since when has anybody in the orshan miliary done anything for me lol #ohhhhh thank u so much for the 57th almost civil war of the year. i feel so protected

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Anonymous asked: we have an attempted coup like every ten minutes so stopping one is not that special. and you were only in a position to stop the coup because you are the legislator's nephew so L + ratio + nepotism baby

🎇 tennalhalkana answered: "every ten minutes" is such an exaggeration. there's at least thirty minutes between them

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🐊 fanguard-blue new episode of empire's court was so ass they are really running out of ideas

#hate to say it but this show has gone to shit ever since iskat became a federation #i mean it was always obvious they were ripping ideas from actual events #but damnnnn you really have NOTHING without the newslogs? #ec critical

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🪺 keepitglassy Follow it is so fucking annoying that basically any post that mentions reading abilities attracts some chud who gets all faux concerned about consent. notice how nobody ever does that to architects despite writing without consent also being illegal.

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❇️ arch-her-link-station Follow me whenever i have to do anything difficult: ugh can someone just write me to do it

🌌 orshan2cool Follow #i wonder if architects can write themselves? <- prev sadly no. if this were possible life would be a lot easier but self-discipline cannot be genetically enhanced

🌠 meetmeinchaoticspace Follow what you need is another architect and then you both just write each other to do it #lifehack

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🚀 author-in-orbit Follow I mean, I obviously think everyone should write (in the non-neuromod sense) whatever they want. But I think if you are going to wade into politically fraught issues, especially military syncs, you should at least know a little bit about the current state of affairs and the issues reader's rights groups are discussing around it. Syncing isn't a metaphorical plot device, it's something that happens to real people, and I often feel like people are forgetting that and being somewhat thoughtless in how they approach writing about it.

🧬 here-comes-the-cavalry Follow I see where you're coming from but I just feel it's a little ridiculous to hold fiction writers on a microblogging log to higher standards than actual studios. Like Love in the Reader War is far more problematic in its presentation of military syncs and reader's rights than basically any shit you'd find on here.

🚀 author-in-orbit Follow No offense, but what does that have to do with anything? Love in the Reader War came out almost a decade ago, in a very different political landscape. Of course LitRW is "problematic"; should I not ever have criticisms of contemporary works because something else was worse before?

🟧 exxxana Follow lights everyone is always making a big deal out of nothing. who fucking cares if you write a romance where the mcs are synced. fiction is not real and you will not set back reader rights via smut. its actually literally fine do not listen to people like op

🚀 author-in-orbit Follow Okay I really feel like you're putting words in my mouth. I never said anything about sync romances as a concept, I don't think it's inherently bad to write one, and I certainly wouldn't make claims about setting rights back. The literal only thing I am saying is that I wish people took a little more care in approaching the subject and did a little research.

🎇 tennalhalkana as someone who was conscripted and forced into a military sync, i just want to say that if any of you need any writing advice or insight into what being written or synced is like, you can DM me for hourly consulting services at very reasonable rates

🧲 readit-andweep Follow me reading this post: oh haha funny bit— LEGISLATOR'S NEPHEW SEN TENNALHIN HALKANA???

🎇 tennalhalkana what can i do to get you to not list my relation to my aunt before mentioning that i stopped a coup. does anyone remember the coup that i helped stop??

in one sense, or another | 1k | M | Ocean's Echo

Pairing: Tennalhin Halkana/Surit Yeni

Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Established Relationship, But also, Getting Together

Thank you for the tag (two weeks ago) @heysaykitkat !

The Ocean's Echo posting will continue until further notice :D We are leaning into the IN LOVE portion of idiots in love

“You didn’t have to come,” he says suddenly. “I mean — I know this isn’t your favorite way to spend an evening.” Surit raises his eyebrows as they draw near the musicians’ platform. “You asked,” he says, as if it’s as simple as that, and Tennal feels warmth bloom in his chest. “You don’t have to say yes to everything I ask you for,” Tennal says, disentangling himself reluctantly and sinking into a chair at an empty table. “I ask for ridiculous things.” Surit doesn’t dispute this, just sits opposite Tennal and taps his fingers along with the music for a moment. It’s the kind of idle gesture he wouldn’t have made six months ago. Tennal loves him for it. The inevitability of that is still incredible, even now. Tennal can remember a time when he didn’t love Surit Yeni, and he can remember the moment that he realized he did. What he can’t remember is what tipped him over the edge, or if there was ever any edge to begin with. It feels like a quiet, immense awareness filling every fiber of his body, something very much like Surit himself. Tennal feels almost too small to contain it; but then he looks at Surit and finds Surit looking back with that little smile that says he is, incredibly, amused instead of annoyed by Tennal, and the feeling shifts and settles into something as easy as breathing.