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Matthew Rizzard (march_hare_) wrote in beyond_evo,
@ 2009-06-15 00:53:00

The next best thing to Shark Week. [Rin]
[ooc:backdated a few weeks]

Matt usually kept quiet about his geeky little projects and since the initial organization, he hadn’t really mentioned project: Mini Bruce all that much. Like some of his other really fun endeavors, the idea was Mythbusters inspired and a take on the lifelike replica of the shark from Jaws they made one year during Shark Week. His version was nowhere near as complicated or as big and measured up about the size and weight of a medium large dog. As excited as he had been about the idea, Matt had also known good and well that complete replication wasn’t going to be possible, so he was going for a reasonable facsimile. Since metalworks were their specialty, Luce and King had helped him with making the metal shark frame needed. The process had halted once or twice to deal with craziness at the school, and then more craziness, but at least the frame had been finished before everything with the cure had gone down recently. He’d been working on all the internal mechanisms from the beginning and had just recently finished putting it all together in the past day or so. So it was time for a brief test run. If this went well he’d give it a proper paint job and do a few bits of outer aesthetics work, then tell King and Luce so they could get together for a proper inaugural run before he had to haul it in to NYU to turn in for a class project. Seeing these geeky ideas come to fruiting always made Matt ridiculously happy. Stuff like this was one of the things he was extremely good at and filled him with enough nerdy glee to last him for- well, a good while.

Hauling mini Bruce down to the dock at the end of the boathouse, he rigged the faux shark up onto the makeshift winches he’d set up down there and lowered it into the water until the point it was half submerged. There, that was perfect. Getting down on his knees at the edge of the dock, Matt reached out and flipped the switch to get it started. Almost immediately mini Bruce began to thrash a little as its jaws opened and closed, kicking up a bit of water. Pulling himself up to settle his weight on the back of his still folded legs, Matt triumphantly clapped his hands and grinned from ear to ear. The thrashing and chomping was all mini Bruce was capable of. But really, that all by itself was impressive for a second year engineering major. And he was certain his professors at NYU were going to agree. Oh my God, this was So. Cool. Right now Matt’s kind of wishing he’d brought something down here so he could play the theme song to Jaws and made a mental not to do so next time, but for now the music in his head would have to do. Duuuh, duh nuh nuh! Duh nuh nuh!

[Rin!]

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aquatically
2009-06-15 03:07 pm UTC (link)

Sometimes Rin just likes to get away. Away from the drama of the students, the hard walls, the pressure of being surrounded by so many being she could feel constantly. The problem wasn't necessarily that she could feel them, it was the fact that they constantly changed. Students were running and jumping, stomping on the grass, drinking, eating, digesting. Every person that came within her range, she could feel every ounce of water move through their system. She was able to handle it on a day to day basis but sometimes you just had to escape it.

Rin made her way down to the lake in the early morning. She had always been an early riser and it hadn't changed. Slipping on her swim suit and grabbing a few towels, she left the residential halls in silence. It was easier to deal with people when they were sleeping. Their bodies were at such a state of rest that it didn't bother her so much. It also helped with Morgan still being asleep. She had been practicing with Xavier and Morgan about controlling this new found power but it still wasn't easy. She didn't want to wake him with her thoughts.

The lake was a welcoming sight. She could still feel it with her powers, a massive spot ahead but it was calm. It wasn't as complicated as humans and other life forms were. It was a release from all that. Hardly anyone came out here it seemed. The pool was much preferred by a lot of them. Slipping in, her body changed. Blue and yellow scales danced across her skin, gills grew, her hands and feet changed into webbed flippers. Her second eyelids formed to allow her to see underneath the water. Smiling at the feel of the water, she dived deeper to the bottom of the lake and reveled in the quiet strength she had. She could spend hours blissfully in the lake. Sometimes she even played with the fish if she was in a particularly good mood. If she was in a bad mood....well, the school found themselves some fresh fish for dinner that night.

She had been zooming around unknown under the murky depths of the lake for awhile when something came into the water. Sending her senses upward, she frowned. She couldn't feel it. There was water around it but she couldn't sense it. It was like a void in her senses. It bothered her. Making her way up, she came upon it too fast and she was startled to find this thing writhing about. And then it chomped in her direction. Startled, Rin backed up quickly, the entire lake lurching with her presence to get away. Swimming under the dock, she made her way to the otherside and peaked at it from underneath. That's when she realized her favorite bunny boy was standing on the dock as well. Raising her blue scaled face from the water, she peaked up at him. "Be careful. There's something strange in here." Her voice sounded a little shaken, even.

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march_hare_
2009-06-15 07:51 pm UTC (link)

Matt could definitely understand the wanting to get away a bit. It was probably an impulse all the metamorphs shared to some degree. As used to and as happy as he was to his day to routine of classes and rehearsals and studying and the like, there were times that he just wanted to get out and about and yes, away from it all. No matter how quiet the mansion might be, outside it was always more peaceful- as long as the predators weren’t out and about too. Then it was not so fun.

He’d been so excited at the success of his little invention and so caught up in his own inner monologue of theme song that he didn’t even notice Rin’s arrival. His inner geek was in full force and he was just a little bit too caught up in imagining mini Bruce wreaking havoc on tiny would be beach goers that were not at all in the water. Maybe he should do that next time. Most pet shops had the little buoyant one that went in fish tanks. That would make for an awesome presentation. After all, what was a Jaws without victims? Swim, you tiny little people, swim! Mwahahahahaaahh!! Oh yes, back to reality.

“There’s wha-?” Swiveling his head around towards the voice he heard, Matt did a little jump back catching sight of the face in the water. Oh, that was- Rin, right? Yeah, it was Rin. . A wide grin spread across his face and he nodded excitedly and pointed towards the contraption, clearly as excited as a kid who had just figured out Christmas. “Oh yeah! That’s Mini Bruce!” Hmm, maybe he should rethink the name. ‘Mini Bruce’ didn’t seem quite impactful enough. Filing that away from later, then. “It’s great, right?” OMG RIN LOOK WHAT HE BUILT ISN’T IT THE COOLEST?!

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Short, sorry. OMG.

aquatically
2009-06-18 01:35 pm UTC (link)

Rin caught that, you know. Despite her first terror of the contraption in her territory, she can catch unintended geek time with Matt anyday. Never thought to think on the whole predator and prey scale that Rin just might be the predator, did you Matt? Still staying on the otherside of the dock, she concentrated her powers and began lifting Mini Bruce with water upwards. She wasn't doing any harm to it, just holding it higher. "You know, I could destroy this right now." She frowned looking up at the contraption from the water. Before Matt could intervene, she continued. "But I won't. Does it do anything else besides bite?" She settled it back into the water and swam around it, making sure not to get too close to it.

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march_hare_
2009-06-18 02:45 pm UTC (link)

Generally speaking, Matt is starting to get a tendency to assume that everyone is on the opposite end of the predator/prey scale from him. It’s not an assumption he’s made but it also wouldn’t be a surprise to find it out. He kind of knows his place in the world as a whole and has come to firm terms with it.

When the flow of water started moving his creation Matt’s eyes went wide and he literally flailed, almost falling backwards on the dock in his panic. Oh my God, is this some sort of malfunction or something he overlooked? That couldn’t be it, the mechanics were sound, he knew that for a fact, and the frame was just about perfect. Well, at least as perfect as three relative amateurs could do making it which was still pretty good. The flailing only increased when he processed what Rin said. “What? No! You can’t do that! I have to turn this in! I have a grade depending on it!” As well as other things. With his grades so far it wasn’t as if Matt would be failing if he didn’t turn the project in, but he had kind of let a few people in on what he’d been planning. Not so much bragging as delving into geeky appreciation with his classmates. Still stuck on the possibility of having his shark destroyed, it took Matt a few seconds to process her question. “Does it- huh? No, it just bites and thrashes. Getting it to do that was complicated enough.” Omg what does she want? For it to actually eat the fish? Give him a break here.

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