If you found yourself unexpectedly becoming a father, would that change your role in International Rescue? ~🌺
… Gladys? Is Gladys sending anon asks now? I mean, that’s a development in plant life if it’s true. If it’s not Gladys, who’s the flower? I can’t keep track of the emoji thing…
I mean, I reckon I’ve got a few years before they’d knock me off the spot for Thunderbird Four, right? At least until kindergarten? 🙂↔️
I have mixed feelings about this…
On the one hand there would be the very strong compulsion to immediately relegate all water-based rescues to WASP or something to avoid you ever doing anything risky from that moment on because nobody is losing a Dad on my watch again…
On the other hand I have a similarly strong compulsion to ask Brains to make a teeny version of Four that teeny blond kindy fishes could pilot because that would be adorable.
On yet another hand there is a part of my brain that already sees an adorable, tiny, yet bizarrely skilful kindergartener piloting a little yellow sub every day… and that makes me want to cheer with pride and scream in terror in equal parts. Cos he’s the coolest cleverest li’l aquanaut there ever was and I’m always putting him in danger and…
That’s already too many hands and I have none left to pick up my coffee.
Ooooooh @brains-ir do you think you could make a tiny training sub that we could use in the pool? And then eventually out on the reef! And a tiny aqua scooter, that’d be easier to do I guess…
Although we should probably start with a Four shaped pool floaty for them to bob about in… 🥹
I think it can be argued pretty strongly the cleverest little aquanaut puts himself in danger. Both at work and otherwise. I don’t think there’s anyone else to take the blame these days 😂
And don’t you dare ask WASP. If you-know-who turns up, there’ll be a bloodbath… 👀
… why don’t we have pool floaties already? This seems a significant gap in our fleet @brains-ir we’d need them to be robust, could you use that same polymer you used for the airbag pods? We need them for all the birds.
Cleverest little aquanaut still has a Commander and in the end… that’s where the responsibly falls.
Heh I wouldn’t dare involve him. Firstly: I wouldn’t inflict that on a rescuee, secondly: you’re my brother and I love you too much to see you jailed for murder, thirdly: I love my own freedom too much to get myself jailed for murder.
… @brains-ir this is very important. Very very important. Maybe we could tempt @starman-john-tracy down and in the pool if he had a Five to float around in. Or maybe it would need to be like a Zorbing ball…
Okay, so Brains, we need us sized floaties first, and then the baby sized ones.
Meh, kinda. But also not kinda. Especially when the little aquanaut does what he wants…
🦈 you are oh so wise, big brother. We’d be wasted in jail 🙂↔️
I'm sure I have the time to make something, especially seeing how this is of the upmost importance.
Could you make a MAX one too? 🥹
That can definitely be arranged.
thunderfloatie three has to be like half the size of the pool to be accurate just saying :D
… we’re gonna need a bigger pool.
@zero-xlent DAD WE NEED A BIGGER POOL.
ON IT MY BOY 🫡
It may take a while, we’ll need to adjust the sliding mechanisms.
The very definition of ‘spoilt, enabled brats’ 🙄
Awww are you still chafing that your buddy never bought you an island and a pool? Far as I can make out you’ve been fighting for his attention since I was born…
Yes, Scott Tracy, it would be about you, wouldn’t it?
Of course. Just what the world needs - the Tracy dynasty continued. More of Jeff Tracy's precious DNA, propagated by his arrogant, spoiled offspring, all convinced they are humanity's greatest gift. The world simply could not survive without another generation of Tracys, after all.
Well it certainly seemed to chafe when it stopped being about you didn’t it? What was it you demanded when you made your big entrance back on to the world stage? Oh yeah, the thunderbirds 🙄 and not content with that you used your moment of command over the world’s airwaves to have a petulant little rant about how nobody should ever rely on International Rescue. 🤭 Your embarrassing obsession was clear from the outset.
Humanity’s greatest gift? Us lot? Oh sure, yep. Absolutely. That’s exactly what we all think - you know us so very well.
It’s must be why your witty replies are so very devastating y’know? The many many truth bombs… I could cry, honestly.
The world will survive plenty well without us when we go (although if someone could arrange things such that we get a straight week off of having to save it at some point between now and then that’d be great).
But at least when we do go we’ll be able to say we spent our lives doing our best to make it a better place for as many people as we could.
Will you?
Last I recall you couldn’t give a damn about the people who live in the world, you merely wanted to own it.
So inspiring 🥹 No wonder you’ve found it so easy to get a quality team around you.
Talk, talk, talk…. another fine lecture from Scott Tracy. Saviour of the world, a fine example to all of morals and goodness.
What about your team, Scott Tracy? A gaggle of younger brothers you forced to toe the party line? That you send into danger? What choice did they have really?
What about your Air Force team? Were you a shining beacon of hope and love when you were following orders there?
Hypocrisy does so suit a Tracy, after all.
How many times are we going to do this, Hood? How many arguments with my family will it take to satisfy you?
It’s pathetic. You’re being pathetic.
Imagine where the world could’ve been if you put this much effort into doing anything genuinely good for humanity. Instead you run around in circles screeching flaws both real and imagined, you know we’re human, right? Of course each of us is flawed is our own ways, and we’ll admit to it because it’s just a fact of life.
But you don’t get to insult the memories of those my son holds dear. You don’t get to insult the memory of anyone.
You can drag us through the mud until hell freezes over, you can call us hypocrites, arrogant, but it won’t change the fact that you’re no different. You’re just a jealous, spiteful man.
So Hood, just piss off.
Ah, and here is Daddy to save the day, as always.
Jealous? Of you, Jeff? Ha!
What is there to be jealous of? Living the rest of your life, tortured by your own failures? Everything you do touched by the shadow of your own guilt at letting her die.
No, I’m not jealous of you, Jeff Tracy. Not anymore.
At least I feel remorse for my failures, and trust me there are plenty of ‘em. And the biggest was letting Lucy die. But you know what?
At least I got the time I had with her. Years of memories I can cherish for the rest of my life, the privilege of seeing a different part of her every time I look at each of the beautiful sons she gave me.
At least I had someone to love, and who loved me, flaws and all. That’s worth more than any amount of money or piece of fancy metal.
