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OK... SO... BODYSWAP THOUGHTS™... that may or may not be coherent

both of them instantly do not enjoy being in each other's bodies. other than the logistical nightmare of what the hell is happening, Rex and White Knight are very physically different! there's the adjustment period where WK suddenly is much smaller and Rex is suddenly much larger. Rex is more built than most teens but like. WK is a slab of a man. bouts of vertigo are common.

that's on top of being an EVO vs. not being an EVO. I've briefly touched upon it in the fic itself but Rex has been in constant communication with nanites and technology for his entire life (that he remembers) and that's 100% normal to him. he knows "people can't communicate with technology" but he doesn't really understand that, you know. suddenly he's in a human body, everything's quiet, and that specific human is likely the most isolated human in the world.

UH. the rest under a readmore.

(White does send his rubber ball through the magnet into his office which Rex initially thinks is a rude sarcastic gesture but he thinks WK might actually be trying to make his own office more? livable??? but then Rex is like oh! he's in a prison as well. just like my room was. on another note White does keep his exosuits in a room attached to the office but that's behind a lock and he refuses to let Rex use them bc it's a major security breach. + the Consortium would know something is up + WK doesn't want to smuggle him out. honestly it wouldn't be too difficult to but it's not like WK ever had a reason to look into how to escape, other than to wrangle Rex)

Rex is going to get stir-crazy in there. he's got nothing to do. there IS nothing to do in there. ends up reading a bunch of the books White has stashed away in there but tbh there aren't many books. at least they somehow have a similar taste in books. ends up logged back into the system somehow if only to requisition more reading material! and anything else entertaining that can survive the magnet! and another blanket! and like, a chair maybe.

he's lucky that 80% of the time I hc that WK has a room attached to the office and I didn't hit upon the 20% of the time I feel like he doesn't and he sleeps on a mattress right next to the desk when writing this fic

and you know... while he's there in Providence with WK's credentials and looks and boss power... may as well snoop around... maybe even try to make things better...

body language-wise Rex is much more open and cheery (sometimes forcing a smile), but also is more unsure of himself at certain points. he wouldn't be able to nuke a city block basically, even when he had to. when Six sees White's body on the screen, smiling and joking around, suddenly he sees pre-bleaching WK.

and NO. he is too stubborn to do things like "TALK TO PEOPLE". Rex in his body creeps him out anyways. he's all... happy. he is not taking this time to reflect on what that means for Rex's life, much less his own. for now at least.

White is in a sensory nightmare where his panic is also telling his nanites to help him and that freaks him out even more. before bleaching he's always been much more social and tbh way more like Rex but now? he's used to being alone. he's fine with being alone, even, he tells himself. in Rex's body, he flinches from human contact, he's nauseous from nanite communications, he can't make any of his builds bc his mental state is a mess, he's overworking himself, and he's losing control. he can barely cure anything since he can feel the nanites being extracted.

Rex communicates with nanites but WK tries to control them.

he COULD likely build exact copies of Rex's builds if Rex jotted down his mental blueprints, or if WK studies his builds through old footage hard enough to get a grasp on how they work. turns out White has a knack for engineering (his exosuit, his mechsuit, King's Road, etc). HOWEVER this is a lil spoiler for the fic 🤫 but since he made his own mech and he knows it like the back of his hand it's actually easier for him to make parts of his mech as builds instead. I'll probably draw this sometime. Rex with WK's mech arm!!! cool!!!

for his body language he's VERY closed-off. and trying to be intimidating in a body very different than what he's used to combined with his general scowly-ness makes him sort of read like... an extremely moody and rebellious teenager to people not in the know. puts up with some of the soldiers treating him like garbage too.

(Rex expects White to be living it up out there, indulging being able to be outside of the office again...! instead he's still isolating himself. Knight's like there's no point. I'm going to be back in the office. I don't want to get used to it.)

OKAY I ALMOST FORGOT TO PUT IN: White is very aware that Rex's body can get amnesia again and he will forget everything about himself. in that case he doesn't want Rex to be trapped in the office so he's ready to have his amnesiac self swapped anyways.

Rex is very aware of that too and is like, it would be unethical to stick a complete amnesiac into WK's position. he's ready to take the hit!!! they butt heads over this.

White Knight being freaked out all the time is not helping re: his nanites going into overdrive. gotta calm down, WK!!!

I do have a scene in mind for Knight at Noah's house (ordered by Rex)(so WK can go outside) and it is so awkward. Noah going on Reddit to ask what the fuck to do if your ex-boss for a shady job that you got fired from but you still kinda hang out with your ex-coworkers is like. at your house scowling while watching cartoons. (but he's still watching???)(intently???????)

might have more thoughts about this later. this is definitely only scratching the surface!!!

#generator rex #bodyswap #rex salazar #white knight generator rex #white knight #edit: OH MY GOD FORGOT TWO THINGS they r there now #most important one is rex's memory loss

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off we go!

#ben 10 #bamboo draws #wips #professor paradox

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quote from black knight "he's dead for real. i prommy"

#YES I WAS HOPING YOU'D POST THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #generator rex #white knight

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tagged by @ghostpyre !!

post 5 songs you’re loving right now:

SHIFT+DEL - Riikira

Watch out for Golem. - Golemm

GIRL HELL 1999 - Femtanyl

EARDRUM - six impala

You Wouldn't Download - Kaizo Slumber

UHHH I never know who to tag with these. and I'm bad at being tagged myself (but I figured it out this time at least)!! sooo I'm gonna tag @catato @uhohproblems @insane-mane @cloversion @blastoffresearch @avpdyama if you wanna do them!!!

and you know what. bonus track

6. Moon - Wolfgun

#cutting this down to 5 was difficult!!! i was like 1 per artist at least #lune i almost tagged you as well but i saw ghost already did!! #but this does leave out Sonar Eclipse by Riikira and Another Dimension Beyond Comprehension and its remix by Spott which is a jam #so many songs are rattling in my head real loud at any given moment. #and augh leaving off Pale Dichotomy by Diyu after I started listening to it a ton again. and Ripped At The Edges by Nitrophonics. ough #i guess cutting down to 6. i lost it

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Happy fourteenth anniversary to Generator Rex!

#generator rex

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save the world - happy 14th anniversary to generator rex!!!

#generator rex #not as elaborate as previous years but also: whoops got sick!! #still looks nice though. i like the colours i chose for rex #rex salazar #bamboo draws #cartoon network #added eye circuits after a sec

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April 23 14th Generator Rex has been released and this cartoon has inspired me to love drawing from the first time I saw it until now🥺❤️

#generator rex

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Make way to start the revolution! ⚙️✊

#generator rex

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quick and dirty celebration doodle because the date snuck up on me! happy birthday to the boy

#generator rex

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generator rex // sad machine [ youtube ] [ instagram ]

#generator rex

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Make the hypothetical Generator Rex merch you wish to see in the world

#me so close to making and unveiling and absolutely insane wk collection #one day the mini wk bodypillow will be real #generator rex #i would buy this

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rex and wk bodyswap posture changes

#im still vacationing around!! #that fic. one day i'll update it #generator rex #bamboo draws #rex salazar #white knight #white knight generator rex #ive got Thoughts about this rattling about in my brain idk if i could articulate them properly or if anyone's chomping at the bit for em

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wk's always saying shit like fuck my stupid baka life

#genrex #lots 2 think about #white knight generator rex

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did I ever post this

#ben 10

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Sometimes I remember that line in S3 meant to show how BK keeps up appearances of running Providence more humanely than WK where Rex says WK was so cheap that he didn't even buy individual stalls for the bathroom and then I remember that Rex got his own basketball court and locker room and Providence was constantly canonically paying for repairs for damages caused by Rex fighting EVOs and fighting EVOs rather than just immediately collaring them and paying for food and cages and such for incurables and EVOs waiting for Rex to cure them and paying to keep Paradise/Purgatory base afloat and then I think maybe. Maybe there is another reason WK was cheap.

#YEAH YEAH and also @ those tags those are so true. #noah is sweating bullets but by the end of it theyre picking out movies for rex to watch #mainly so wk can veto anything not appropriate for him or that wk feels the vibes are bad. noah is keeping 'huh youve watched that???' #or 'huh you havent watched that????' to himself. turns out he's watched all the transformers movies. #honestly i'd pay to see rex get a 401k and wk is so blunt and stiff about giving it to him he thinks it's a weird presentation at first #until he figures out wk is trying to bond with him or??? something?????? #gets a swimming pool with the promise that rex will never speak of this. but also maybe say to six that wk is gifting him stuff. #im rambling. don't US military washrooms not even have stalls most of the time in the first place. competitive shitting. #at least the providence ones are clean #HUH doesnt this make him a disneyland dad. deeply divorced energy

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omniverse eon while I'm on the road

#ben 10 #eon ben #bamboo draws #vacationing until the 22nd!!! woooo!!!

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everyone stop ok and look at lil czolroach. roachzol

#everyone must see roachczol. #czolroach. #friend art #czol #plolf #gw2 #too cute!!!