one of the best tropes is when you have a protagonist who wants something SO FUCKING BAD theyd give anything for it, and then the secondary protagonist who is so doggedly and almost pathetically loyal to the protagonist that theyd give anything for them
Something for ranfox from my weekly streams!
Looks like someone's pullstring got tangled around the claw machine claw. And every time it pulls them back up they say another line! Ran loves it, just look at that face.
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i had a dream i was on rupaul's drag race having an autism meltdown and rupaul and that asshole santino rice tried to talk to me but i was so overwhelmed and overstimulated that i just started hitting them and it got me kicked out of the competition but i became a fan favorite and the ratings were incredible
When CT-9904, the clone that would one day become "Crosshair", was first pulled from his birthing tank, he did not cry.
This was by design.
Engineered to become a “stealth soldier”, 04's vocal cords were shaped so that he could not raise his voice above a frustrated rasp. It was often muted by his incubator.
CT-9902, who would one day adopt the moniker "Tech", was also silent, but this was always a cause for concern. When 02 was quiet, he was most likely attempting his next escape. He had kicked the latch off his first incubator. He had poked the hinges off his second. By the third, Nala Se had nowhere to put the baby escape artist.
Putting 02 in 04's incubator was supposed to be a temporary solution.
A week later, when the new, reinforced incubator arrived, she picked up 02, and found his hand locked with 04's with an iron grip.
CT-9902 cried.
CT-9904 hissed.
And so, the ever patient Nala Se left 02 where he was there. There were no more escape attempts after that.
One day, CT-9902 began to cry.
Nala Se was in the middle of calming 05 who was trying to wreck the changing table with tiny, but mighty fists.
"Omega, see to 02, please, he needs to be changed."
Omega slid off her stool and without looking up from her datapad she said. "It's 04 who needs changing."
"How do you know?" Nala Se asked.
"02 cries louder when 04 needs help."
- Excerpt from Cross and Crow (Read series on AO3)