#program: olympus

I think it'd be neat if the twins' scleras are the others' eye color.

> Tartarus: Mooooooooooom

Alyssa doesn't notice the pop-ups on her screen. She's too busy trying not to cry.

> Olympus: Mom?? Are you there?

> Tartarus: Dingus the communication link is open, ofc she's there

> Olympus: Then why isn't she responding?

Alyssa exhales, running a hand through her hair. Breath, Alyssa, breath. It's a coincidence. It's just a coincidence.

Her mind slowly begins to drift back to the video she stumbled on. She had just been scrolling, and a little 'promotional video' regarding Cosmos had come across her feed. She knew she shouldn't have, but she had always been wondering where Jayin would take Cosmos's character..

She shouldn't have done it, she shouldn't have clicked.

> Tartarus: Mommmmmmmmther?????

> Tartarus: OK should we use a sound alert or something?

> Olympus: I don't know..

> Olympus: What if she's working on something?

Fucking.. she knew Jayin was a piece of shit. She knew it full well. But God, Alyssa never expected Jayin to dig at her appearance. Her weight, no less. She knew it could be played off as that Lydia being a spider-person, but Alyssa could tell.

What made her more upset was Jayin using Tartarus's and Olympus's old concepts. She essentially bastardized them!

> Tartarus: OK now I'm concerned

> Tartarus: Which sound alert do we do?

Spirit was a goddamn wannabe Casanova, who flirted with anything that moved, even those that she was killing! Radiant was a damn blood knight, and it was unsettling to hell and back.

That wasn't what the two were! They were perpetrators of genocide or villains, they were-!

"MOM!"

She jolts and quickly turns to face her computer screen.

> Alyssa: Boys?

> Olympus: Sorry! We just wanted to ask if you could run a quick check on our codes

> Tartarus: We got bit by bugs that Timmy accidentally wished in :(

She snorts softly and gently rubs her eyes.

> Alyssa: I'm sure it's nothing major, but sure. I'll run a quick check.

As Alyssa pulls up the menus, gently clicking through..

> Tartarus: Hey mom, are you doing OK?

> Alyssa: Of course I am. Why are you asking?

> Olympus: Well you were taking a bit to respond. We got worried :(

Alyssa can't help a soft laugh, and for a moment, her darker thoughts are pushed back.

> Alyssa: Just tired, that's all

> Tartarus: If you're sure

> Alyssa: I am, don't worry

Also I had the idea of Tartarus and Olympus having their own little space to relax whenever they aren't doing patrols or there's some sort of update.)

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"Hey, Tartarus?" Olympus asks as he walks into their shared space, the door sliding shut behind him.

"Hm?" His brother tilts his head from where he was laying on the couch, writing something.

"Have you seen my copy of the greatest movie of all time?" Olympus asks as he walks past the couch, heading to the closet.

"17 Again?" Tartarus raises an eyebrow, chewing on the end of the pen he held.

"Yeah."

"Probably somewhere is this pile."

"What pile-" Furrowing his eyebrows, Olympus walks over to the couch only to stare in shock to see a large pile of papers right in front of it. "OH MY GOD?"

"What is this?!" He asks, looking at his brother with shock.

"A pile of papers." Tartarus blinks.

"Yeah, I can see that." He sighs, dragging a hand down his face. "What is it doing there?"

"Well, I wanted to write some poems.." His twin spins his pen before shrugging. "..and I got carried away."

"Are you going to do anything about it?" Olympus tilts his head.

"Well, I tried to put some of them in the closet.." Tartarus trails off, and he turns his head to the closet, where the door was noticeably bent. "Kinda put too many in there."

Olympus pauses to think before looking back down at Tartarus. "How many have you made?"

His twin doesn't look at him.

"Tartarus?" He leans in. "How Many. Have you made."

"Just about 30.."

"Okay, that's not too bad."

"Thousand."

Tartarus: Okay, but consider this; breaking down those walls so she knows she doesn't have to be so uptight and take her job so seriously and she can be vulnerable, and also, have you seen her?

Tis all good!

Its a super slim chance that anything can get past either physical wall. A Virus would be incinerated on the spot, while a Program would be given a nasty warning burn. (Aside from some certain invulnerable ones we know.)

The only way I can realistically see something getting past the walls is if they're momentarily all down due to the Celestial Twins being out of commission or updated, of if one of them forgot to close a passageway to one of the universes. But they're so serious about their jobs that that's virtually impossible.

And while we're on this topic, imma derail and talk about how the Celestial Twins would know if something got past.

If something managed to get past the walls, no matter whatever they're doing or wherever they are, they stop and their primary objective is to get anything out. Doesn't matter if someone breached the wall or it's a portal, they'll know. Since the walls have been up, either one will know if someone got in, regardless of the method.

If the breach was accidental, and a relatively weak being, the Celestial Twins would let them off with a stern warning and then find a way to send them back wherever they went. If it's a Virus, it's killed.

If it was intentional, and the being is malevolent, then there's no questions about letting them live as light-hearted as the Celestial Twins are, they're still firewalls. Made and designed to protect anyone with the walls.