In very quick succession:
Seb slips in the kitchen and falls.
I rush over to help him up because he sounds like he might be hurt.
He screams to fuck off and throws a lighter at me.
Okay whatever fuck you too.
He gets up and goes to take a shower.
I get up to mop up whatever he slipped on (old dog pissed in the kitchen again, yay), but find that our mop has been eaten by rats.
I notice the back door is wide open and Boo Boo is in the neighbor's yard again.
I pick up the leash and my purse so I can grab Boo Boo, shove her back in the house, and then drive to walmart to buy a new fucking mop.
I take one (1) step onto my front porch and hear the old man across the street yelling that "grandma had a seizure and fell into the tub and I can't pull her out."
I throw down leash and purse and sprint across the street.
Sure enough, grandma is stuck sideways in the tub with her legs dangling over the rim and her head against the wall.
I gently lift her feet back up into the tub and turn her so she's facing the tap. "Can you get up on your knees?" I ask. Grandma says "WHO ARE YOU." turns out she has dementia.
Their entire bathroom is, I shit you not, like four feet wide and maybe five feet long. There is no room for me to lift grandma from the side of the tub. Okay.
I take off my shoes and get into the tub.
"WHO ARE YOU."
"My name is Jaydee, I'm your neighbor."
"WHAT??"
She is also deaf, grandpa informs me helpfully. And blind.
Cool!
I get behind grandma, put her in a half-nelson, and lift her to her feet.
Another neighbor has appeared.
"WHO ARE YOU."
I've never met him either, sorry.
"DID YOU HIT YOUR HEAD?" I ask.
"ARE YOU HELPING ME WITH SOMETHING?" grandma replies.
(Most of my face is in the back of grandma's hair and I don't see any blood or swelling. She complains that her shoulder hurts and I think that's what hit when she went down and not her skull. There are Other Busybodies on the block who are gonna go check on her.)
Me and Mystery Neighbor get grandma to her feet. She just fucking. Walks off. So does grandpa. I do know grandma and grandpa and know that he and she don't get along. In my house we call him "Crazy Shouting Man." He says he's gonna put her in a nursing home.
I mean. Yeah, if she's blind, deaf, having seizures and doesn't know who anyone is and you can't care for her and you hate her then maybe you should OH SHIT MY DOG IS OUT THERE TRYING TO KILL A CAT AND THERE ARE LIKE FORTY CHILDREN WATCHING.
"I just had surgery too," grandpa says, taking his usual seat on the porch and lighting up a cigarette. "Right here, on my leg. You see I was in the Navy and there was a lot of physical training, and..."
"THE DOG! THE DOG IS CHASING HER!"
"That's so interesting I have to go now," I tell grandpa, and run after Boo Boo, who runs into the house.
My back cramps so hard that I fall down.
Ta-daaaa
(it took much longer to write this than it did for all of these events to take place. I don't... I don't know what's going on anymore. I want to go home.)
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meeting wyll at the grove, as someone who the tieflings trust enough to train their children, says so much about him. it's so sad that he doesn't get explored in acts 2-3 as deeply as the other companions, when his problems are equally intense. the average player probably long rests once before coming across the grove, but even if not, in that time wyll has already proven to the tieflings that they can rely on the Blade of Frontiers.
this is the immediate first thing he chooses to do after being condemned to slow death via ceremorphosis. his priority list in the first conversations with tav is: 1) hunt down a dangerous devil, 2) help zevlor with the goblins, 3) once nothing threatens the tieflings he will gladly search for a tadpole cure. wyll is perpetually his own last priority, and i wonder if it has to do with the lore about souls.
if he believes mind flayers' souls have been destroyed, and fiend warlocks will all have their souls sent to the hells after death, then becoming a mind flayer isn't the worst possible way for him to die. he would never become a mindless monster to save his own soul, but he's not gripped by horror the way that some of the other origin characters are. lae'zel has been made revoltingly impure to her people, astarion is terrified of losing the scrap of bodily autonomy he just regained, gale is guilt-ridden over the orb detonation if he dies, shadowheart has to survive to prove herself to her cult leader, and karlach has also just regained bodily autonomy and is desparate to live.
this is just another quest for the Blade, whose persona guards wyll ravengard against the vice of self-concern when he ought to be concerned for those in need.
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Reasons Clone X is Tech:
-his accent is different from the rest-they are trying to conceal it by layering it with a regular clone voice and the helmet modulation but it's there
-he does a "Tech turn" when he lands his ship
-Cross' attempt to look back at one of the Clone X guys in episode 3 and his mournful look down after he says they come out of reconditioning "different." How would he know this unless he knew one of the clones getting reconditioned and watching them get their personality wiped away? How many clones does Cross know personally to notice such a change?
-while he's strangling Cross, Cross taps his shoulder like you would when you were sparring and want to "tap out." This is a similar gesture that Hunter did when Wrecker's chip activated in Season 1 and he was also being strangled. You would think he would hit him or fight harder instead of "tapping out" if he was fighting for his life. Makes you wonder if he doesn't want to hurt the other person...
-why would they go to such lengths to show us scenes we have seen Tech endure before? Such as getting his leg crushed and limping around through the pain, grunting after moving big rocks around, falling over a waterfall and listening to his little gasps/coughs for air...this would have to be some kind of elaborate misdirect if we weren't supposed to think it was Tech.
-there were definitely strains of the Plan 99 theme as Cross and Clone X went over the falls
-lots of other little things like his leg pouches, the definition of his (very shapely) calves, his helmet being a little different and looking a little "friendlier" around the eyes, his inability to follow orders, the way he can anticipate the Batch's moves
I think Cross acts sketchy about these Clone X types because he knows it's Tech and thinks it's permanent/unfixable so he doesn't want his brothers to be hurt over it. I trust him and his redemption arc, he has proven he has changed and is sorry for his previous choices. I could see how him keeping this from the Batch could cause friction between them down the road and I bet the writers would love to mine the angst from this situation.
It is also possible but less likely that he knows it's Tech and Tech is just in deep cover so he doesn't want to blow it? This theory might just be me hoping Tech is ok.
I have never been more convinced this Clone X is Tech. How much is left of him...not sure.
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