I can imagine the first cycle after moving. Probably Leo because Donnie likely has internal scarring, so leo goes through the process of laying his eggs, panics, his brother can't help, and finally, *finally* they ask for help. It's not willingly. It's not for fun. It's purely necessity. It's purely because there's *literally noone else* and the idea of telling anyone at all is so scary that the way they do so is in a note. Splinter sits them down and basically walks them through "You're safe, you're fine. We can handle this however you feel most comfortable, including getting you both on blockers if you prefer" and they just.... sigh. For the first time, there's *someone else* in their circle, and it's willing and it's warm, and it's *safe*. There will be tears.
Yes, except I'm not convinced that either of them could stand to tell anyone. Even if it was literally life or death (which it has been before,) I'm not sure if either of them could bear to give up that information. Donnie is finally, finally away from the people who hurt him when he got found out last time, and even though logically, he knows that it's different here, he's absolutely petrified of the thought that the same thing will happen again and it won't be over anymore. He's still horrified by the idea of anyone else knowing about Leo when he's gone to such lengths for so long to protect him, and Leo is likewise terrified in the same way. They've spent years with this being their more closely guarded secret, and that's going to be really difficult to give up.
But it's really not a secret they'll be able to keep for long.
They're in a completely different environment, with far less space and privacy. They're both stressed as hell and Donnie WAS on birth control and taking all sorts of vitamins and supplements to make sure he didn't eggbind again and now he's suddenly not and it's not only messing with his body, it's fucking scary. It literally keeps them both up at night. Neither of them know how to wash blood out of clothes or sheets. There's no private en suite bathroom they can sequester themselves away in. They're both literally making themselves sick with anxiety trying to deal with this, and they're used to handling this on their own, this is routine for them, but they're not used to all of this.
They'd probably metaphorically limp through a few cycles before their family puts it together and gently confronts them.
Venus probably figures it out first. She's pretty smart, and incredibly observant, and after all-- she quite literally experiences the exact same thing. April may not lay eggs, but I think she'd be able to get the idea after a bit as well. And while I think Splinter would realize something was wrong pretty quickly, Draxum would probably realize what was wrong first. Splinter has April, so he has a little bit of experience in this realm, but Draxum has Venus and so he has far more experience.
And so when they do sit them down and talk with them, it's going to be really scary at first. And then they get to, "you're safe, you're fine, we can handle this however you feel the most comfortable. It will be okay. No one will hurt you."
And then there's finally other people in the know, in the circle, people who will actually help them. And yes-- there will definitely be tears.
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mental heath stuff (not bad just candid)
dunno if i'll regret sharing this just yet, maybe i should have sat on it a little more until i knew exactly if i should share and how much, but parts of me really insist, and so i guess we're going for it
and i word that way because
months of exhausting processing has led me to conclude that I’m a system, so I’m still in the undertaking of cataloging an awful lot of shit into one rolodex. the kicker is i probably have been one for at least 20 years, but everyone got along so well and so cooperatively, like the most well harmonized combining mecha, that is oblivious to the fact it even is one. nobody even needed nametags in here.
…mostly. warning signs were there, it's just some of the issues that come from this sort of thing that did leak through, were hiding under other conditions that already cause similar complications. if you're familiar with the messier mental illnesses and all the ways they start to functionally melt at the edges and trade symptoms in odd places and our understanding of it all is still so half-formed,
you'll probably get what i mean.
hopefully people following me understand none of this crap works like it tends to get depicted in media
i'm schizophrenic and my mind is a fucking enigma anyway
anyway
then one "new" alter woke up last november in response to an acute straw breaking camel's back moment of abuse at home after enduring way too much for way too long, but the alter is not actually new, is technically one of the oldest, but she's been 'asleep' for like a decade and her point of origin is even older than that
obviously this one was SO different and possessed SUCH a different headspace and set of tastes and desired behaviors, and subsequently threw equilibrium off so badly, all the components of the mecha suddenly realized they were components bc now the situation kind of required acknowledging that fact to proceed to even get starting fixing shit.
its like
"who is this weird one who broke everything"
"no clue, you guys got any ideas?"
"why would we have any ideas you don't, we're all us"
"yeah like what do you even mean by You Guys?"
"i think they're joking, like, because we're all copies of the same person, like the spongebob bit with the fine dining, they're asking themself rhetorically because it's funny……..
…….we are all the same person right. this is a metaphor. like the spongebob bit…… right….."
"why are we not all immediately agreeing"
"because before we could all reflexively say yes we realized we all had different definitions of The Same Person we are"
this is a gross oversimplification of course
this was a lot to process for pretty much all parts of me save one (incidentally, not the new one, the new one isn't shocked, but is a crybaby, so they didn't take Existing (Again) (2. Electric Boogaloo) very well. they do not take the prospect of 'going back to sleep' veryy either, though. so we're having to slightly redesign the mecha)
mostly through the worst of it, but among other problems we're still working to repair, this sleeper code alter caused a catastrophic system failure in the ventilation and even though everyone is mostly calmed down now, they can still smell everyone else's scented candles in their personal quarters, which is annoying when some of them have VERY different tastes in scents)
annoying, but not ruinous.
fixing the AC is low priority compared to other things
like the pneumonic tube that used to let everyone hot potato information and memories from any time they were the one obliviously in the cockpit, we had a pretty damn good one, it was working so well we didn't know why we were even using it, and assumed its regular but manageable failings were just, natural, or because of some other factor affecting the tubes themselves or potato availability, and not considering most people do not have these potato tubes at all
yes i will probably make some kind of comic to conceptualize and visually externalize this i struggle to feel understood without doodles
also, while typing this post, specifically, tumblr did a fucky wucky, and when i realized i'd made an entire other post in the tags, i went to try to copy/paste them into the post but the nature of the fucky wucky prevented this. i'm really not in the mood to retype all that so it's just a screenshot now
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hermann “touching” the scifi holoputer. hands phasing through a projection of light. the intangible world. not weighed down to the ground but hermann exists there in the Air And Space all around. in numbers he scrawls on a flat cold surface perched high on a ladder far above the earth and everyone on it. and hes there in the mind. the abstract the intangible. newt thinks its insubstantial.
never making physical contact. his job is predicting the future. a prophet. a seer. hands off standing back and observing. needing to keep himself at a distance in order to see the whole picture. reaching out grabbing concepts just out reach. he sees the scope. farsighted vision with reading glasses on a chain by his heart is needed to see the details. an extra step needed to understand the up close and personal where newts mind exists and thrives.
hermann prides himself on his accurate predictions but theyre reliant on time and waiting around and his patience before they come into play. so constantly waiting for the future that even his clothes are stuck in time. logical mind is what he understands and how he understands. but newt doesnt have his foresight so they clash. hermann sees desperation as impatience why do something dangerous and reckless when i know clearly obviously in my vision exactly what will happen and when and how and why cant you see it too?
newt:
newt physically touching everything always. grabbing things and touching physically. he is ruled by touch. hes their other half. his work is literal its here. something he can see and grasp Down On Earth. the tangible world. the biological. hes grabbing out and feeling and digging and experiencing the blood and flesh and metal and grease and dirt and mud on the ground. hermann thinks its crass.
newts intelligence comes from up close personal experience. dissecting organs dissecting information. visceral viscera. assembling machinery with his bare hands. experimenting on himself. he calls it the only path to victory. his eyes only see the details in front of him. he sees clearly in the area where hermann is blind and nearsighted newt needs his glasses to see anything further ahead.
his mind lives in the present. this is why he wants to see a kaiju up close this is why he self sacrifices. physical action. impatience from desperation. something must be done now now now and i Know something Now that Will work and Help why wont they let me. his frantic desperation IS the earths frantic desperation. where pilots put on a serious face he cant keep his cool because average humanity cant keep its cool. panicked running around boots on the ground as in taking action. scuffed little black laced boots on the earth. no time to wait no time to waste sitting still not Physically doing something when things are so bad
both:
where hermann is the future newt is the present. where hermann sees the scope newt sees detail. where hermann is planning newt is action. where hermann is strategy newt is impulse. where hermann is the theoretical newt is the concrete. where hermann is aerospace newt is the earth. spelled out further through their child selves: baby hermann inside with his space champion helmet and little toy plane. baby newt outside in nature covered in mud and going fishing with his dad. the earth and skies above. written to be born under earth and air signs too. they match in their differences they are similar from them their opposite traits are complementary two pieces made to click into place
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I know there’s been surveys or other posts asking about the inspiration for blog titles…
but does anyone else have a title that has deep meaning to them?
my main’s isn’t that deeply meaningful but I did decide on it for a few reasons:
1. シンゴペーション or Shingopation is the name of one of Shingo’s songs…which should be enough said cuz cute but…
2. Shingopation was the first SMAP (…SMAP-adjacent…) song that earned a spot on “What’s Alex overplaying?”
3. For some reason, syncopation is probably one of my most favorite words becsuse of how satisfying it is to say… “sin-co-pay-shun”
I don’t know it’s always made my brain happy since I heard Selena Gomez use “syncopate” in Good for You which is still kind of a bop?!
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my sideblog’s though…
朝が来る or Asa ga Kuru (“morning will come”) is from one of Takuya’s songs and it had such a profound effect when I first heard it…and honestly continues to have one
long story short, there’s a reason why Karei naru Ichizoku is probably always going to be one of the greatest pieces of media I’ve ever watched (and why I really, really recommend watching it)
even if you feel like it’s impossible to get back up…morning will come again…
…morning will wait for you…
(by the way, as far as I’m aware the song doesn’t [intentionally] have this meaning but the lyrics really spin it that direction unless you take them literally)
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