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Tobias (Animorphs) (ex_birdboy908) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2009-01-19 15:43:00

Entry tags:

mia jesbar, rachel berenson, timey wimey plot, tobias

[Rachel] Hey. Are you alright? Haven't seen you around.

So. Anyone else I should be checking in with? Mia, Harkness cult? You guys alright?

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	ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	I've been around this particular insanity for... ten years, now, so. Ten years? And I'm very good at the art of vague, so we shouldn't have a problem with that. Mostly it's just the rift hoppers, although we do piss a race or two off, eventually. Almost made the place feel homey. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2009-01-19 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. Didn't know anyone... well, I guess some people from the future tell us we'll be around that long. Good. But I mean, in 10 years you know me so I'm still around and don't disappear again, right? Yeah, it's almost sad what this place's 'homey' feeling is like. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Of course you are. Think this place would let you off that easy. And... I think you had your times, but for the most part, you stuck around. Some things we can't control. Well considering my idea of 'homey' is 'run for your life, threat of death, holy crap aliens'? Yeah. Sad, and kind of scary. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2009-01-19 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Considering who I have here, I don't want it to let either of us off easy. Hey now, aliens aren't all that bad. Unless they are. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Fair enough. And yeah, that's sort of what the 'threat of death' thing was there for. But we work it out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2009-01-19 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	So how'd you get started working for X-Factor? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	I went in right after landing in this place. I was in a bad way, no home, too... proud to ask my friends for help. Saw an ad, went in to talk to you. There was a case that I had a leg up on, if you will. I helped you track him down, Jamie liked what I could do, and I offered to help out. Better than trying to be normal, at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2009-01-19 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that's what we do, is take in the wayward freaks. Freaks is said lovingly, of course. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, 'freak' is fair. Teenage kid stops alien invasion while mostly trapped in the body of a raptor. Not exactly homecoming kings and queens, but we... we won. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miaj 2009-01-19 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	So what's your ability, exactly? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Mia ex_birdboy908 2009-01-19 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	I've been told the real ability is my cockaroach like refusal to die. Stay dead. But on top of that, I can take the shape of anyone, or any animal, I touch. I only private this for the simple fact that we're in the past, and my still-teenage friends are... understandably paranoid about who knows. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Tobias miaj 2009-01-19 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, anyone? As well as animals? Really? So you're sorta like Raven, plus animal shapeshifting too? Do they have abilities too? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-19 09:53 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, only to the best of my knowledge, she can just pick people from sight? I have to touch them. And, mostly, we only do animals. People feels like an invasion of privacy, because we also absorb some of the genetic memory. We have a general rule to only take the DNA of people who agree. Especially, here, with all of the mutants and supers. Because we would have their powers, too.

Yeah. Marco, Jake, and Rachel. Gift from an alien who fated us to save the planet, at the ripe old age of thirteen. There's a book series about it here, that we've mutually agreed never to read.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-19 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, all she has to do is look at them. But animals too, wow. Puberty's when a lot of metahumans seem to come into their powers. Gotta love it. How old were you when you came to X-Factor? Still 13? And I don't read the books about my galaxy either. Unless it's in the past for me, since that was all in history lessons anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-19 10:30 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, it's... interesting, to say the least. Thankfully, most of the animals I morph now, I can control completely. Otherwise it can be a little... shocking, to have the brain of, say, a fly.

I was twenty, when I landed here. The war was three years long, then three years... off. We were on our last mission when we landed here- Jake, Marco and I.

No. From what they say, they're narrated by us. Like, our thoughts while we were in the middle of fights and things like that. It's not... I don't want to relive it.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-19 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	...Ow. That sounds like it would hurt. Do you like vortex world better than your home? I don't blame you. If something came out with my thoughts in it? Ew. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-19 10:47 pm UTC (link)

It's not... pain. It doesn't feel great, but it doesn't hurt. Adrenaline probably had a lot to do with that, and now I'm just used to it.

Considering I'm 99% sure I was a second away from death, at home? Yeah. I was... there wasn't anything for me, at home. My girlfriend was dead, I had no family, no education. I was living as a hawk in Yellowstone, for the three years after the war. The only the I had left was some... friends. Alien friends. Long story.

Especially considering we weren't the most... yeah, Ew is succinct.

I have to say, since you probably don't remember, you being a Jedi sort of made my life. For the record.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-19 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	So when you're a fly... never mind. At least you really get to be that fly on the wall, huh? Long stories usually are. I don't remember, yet, but I get that a lot. Glad I make people's days. Lives. Whatever. As long as you're not one of those creepy fans who dresses up like a Wookiee. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-19 11:12 pm UTC (link)

Early on, yeah, we had hive mentalities as insects. They seem to fade, the longer we have the morphs. Also? You ever see like a fly? It's not as ideal as people let on.

You hear it, later on in life. If you really want to hear it again, I'll bore you later.

Creepy fan I'm not. I have plenty of other ways to be freakishly large and hairy, I don't need hot, impossible costumes.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-19 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	But you still know you're you when you're whatever. Hm. Sounds good. Smart answer. I like you already. So, do you remember this happening as what got you into X-Factor? Is this one of those weird time thingies? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-20 12:01 am UTC (link)

Yep, two minds, one body. (Also? The only reason I could understand that, was because I have many, many friends with such profound logic. :P)

Actually... no, I don't particularly remember this being it. I remember going to see my wife- girlfriend, at the time, Rachel, in NYC. I wanted to stay by her, but I wasn't what you would call 'financially gifted', and didn't feel like sleeping in Central Park. Bird or not, it is cold this time of year. So I went in to talk to you guys, and crashed there.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-20 12:54 am UTC (link)
	What can I say? That kind of logic is a gift. And "whatever" and "thingies" are the technical terms. Crashing is very acceptable. So this changes the timeline thingy, then? Or it could still happen that way. Or, you might not remember this. Or, this is making my head hurt and I should stop thinking about time things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Mia

ex_birdboy908
2009-01-20 12:58 am UTC (link)

Of course they are. That's what we call the Hernandez School of Engineering. 'If it's broke, beat it into submission.'

Especially considering I didn't so much need a room, as one of the artsy lamps around. I still sleep as a bird, most of the time. Years of familiarity. Also, I choose not to think about the timestream. That's Torchwood territory, and I'm just a blissfully naive Yank with a freakish talent.

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	Tobias miaj 2009-01-20 01:09 am UTC (link)
	That's my thoughts exactly. Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of rooms, especially since I'm sharing with Jamie. Leaves one open. Unless you wanna sleep somewhere else, with Isabel or something. I'm sure she'd love another dog around sometimes. ;) You're very smart to leave time stuff to whoever else wants it. Knew there was a reason Jamie hired you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Mia ex_birdboy908 2009-01-20 01:13 am UTC (link)
	You and Marco get along well. Better than Jamie really approves of. ;) Isabel doesn't really know what to think of me. I think I smell like a bird even when I'm in morph, now. It confuses a lot of animals. One of the five smartest idiot humans, back home. And I'm still convinced Jamie hired me out of pity. But that's alright. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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