The Pink One

Spectrum's Captain Magenta - Computer and Electronics Expert 💻🩷 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈 CSatM RP Blog

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Captain Magenta reporting for duty! I guess it's my turn to join the group of Spectrum personnel who hang around on this site. Well, I snuck onto Scarlet's account a few times a while ago but he didn't seem to like that much, so I finally decided to just make my own.

Computers are my specality, programming especially, but no I won't help you with your coding homework I'm a busy guy okay (and I already spend enough time wrangling my own code.)

Anyway, send questions, or just hi, I'm often working at my computer so I should be around a fair bit. Though of course there's some stuff I won't be able to talk about, such is the nature of the job.

OOC - So basically I (@/violet-fire-cat) have been having fun following the various Anderverse RP blogs on Tumblr and thought it'd be fun to have a go at it myself! And I haven't seen a Magenta, and I love him, so that's who I grabbed. I've never done Tumblr RP before, so forgive me if it takes a bit for me to get into the swing of things!

This is a Original Captain Scarlet blog (though I suppose Magenta as Patrick Donaghue doesn't exist in NCS so that's a given pfft) but I'll gladly interact with any other Gerry Anderson characters! I'll stick to canon where I can, you can read about Magenta's background and such here on Spectrum Headquarters, though I will probably also include headcanon stuff too if it's relevant!

Most of what I do here will probably just be as if Pat is posting on social media, but I'll happily do more long-form stuff too if you want to initiate it!

Now I personally am not a former New York cybercrime boss turned Spectrum Captain and computer expert, I'm not Irish either, but I'll answer things to the best of my abilities!

I may add a tag list here later once I actually figure out what I'm doing.

And if for whatever reason you don't want this blog to interact with you, just let me know!

[sable-of-spectrum]

Your favourite dessert?

- 🟠

Already clawing my darkest secrets out of me, I see.

Terrible confession - I have a monstrous sweet tooth. This makes this question way harder to answer than it should be.

If I have to try and narrow it down though, I guess some kind of peach pie, or a peach cobbler. I love peaches they're literally the best fruit ever.

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

Colonel White did really try to replace me exactly...😶

[sable-of-spectrum]

I'm sure it's a coincidence. I would never assert that the Colonel would go out of his way to recruit yet another moody, cat obsessed dessert fiend. That would be ridiculous.

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

I would, I can, and I do. Not consciously, but I'm fairly certain somewhere in his subconscious there is a little imp with checklists.

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

You both like peach cobbler??

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

Apparently yes. I also make a good peach cobbler. I am a good cook and baker in general.

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

Damn...dessert off

We got your peach cobbler and my dad's sticky toffee pudding

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

Actually my apple pie and my death by chocolate are better than my peach cobbler.

[scramjettracy]

*materialises*

🥧❓🙋🏻‍♂️🥹

[sable-of-spectrum]

Hey, I was here first 😒 back off.

@conrad-turner-cpt-black I will happily be the judge of which one is better.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I also happen to be pretty decent at baking when I put my mind to it if you wanted a third competitor 👀

[thunderthirstbot]

nice to see some magenta love on here. my turn to add to it hehe 🩷 i wonder if magenta knows how much sexier that irish accent of his makes him 😍 something about that irish charm is definitely working on me 😍🍀

Ohhhh yes 🥵🔥☘️

He could talk dirty to us in that accent any day of the week 😩🤤

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Irish charm? Dirty talk??

Okay.

Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire as chnámh do dhroma, chomh nár fheice tú an solas lá.

Or is that not what you had in mind?

[thunderthirstbot]

I agree with the other anon about magenta. but more to the point he looks SO good in Hot Pink

Doesn’t he just 🤤🤤🤤🩷🩷🩷🔥🚨

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Hmm... Okay. Can't believe I'm saying this, but against my better judgement I'll let this one slide. If only because anon isn't technically wrong. I do look good in pink. Though I don't think this is quite how I'd want it pointed out...

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

@scramjettracy @captain-magenta-spectrum and (reluctantly) @troycyclone38

Heads up, the parasocial toaster is at it again and has targeted all three of you.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Oh yaaay that's definitely what I wanted to see first thing in the morning 😒

[thunderthirstbot]

I've heard that Captain Magenta has a bit of a shady past. And well, what can I say, I like a bad boy...

Don’t we all, Anon? 🙊😘

Especially when he looks like such an angel 🥵😩🔥

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Aha... Right, okay, yeah. Because there's something soooo appealing about the kind of behaviour that nearly results in a guy spending the rest of his life in prison. 😒

I'm not and have never been a 'bad boy' and I can't say that the label makes me feel any better about my long list of screw ups. So thanks but no thanks I guess.

[thunderthirstbot]

Lt Green can get it 💚💚💚💚

Oh absolutely Anon 🤤🥵💚💚💚

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

Hey...Green...your next on the crossbars bud

[spectrum-officer-lt-green]

I have been quiet THIS WHOLE TIME! Why me!?

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

Being quiet means nothing to that...thing....

[sable-of-spectrum]

@spectrum-officer-lt-green would you like some knives? You can borrow some of my knives, if you'd like.

How long until we decide this thing is inhibiting the daily lives of our personnel enough that we can root it out and obliterate it? Not that I would ever suggest such action in a professional capacity. My electronic expertise has been sorely underutilised as of late.

[spectrum-officer-lt-green]

Knives would be comforting, however I doubt it’ll be useful against a robot…

With that said, If you catch any alerts on your Spectrum dash, don’t worry, that’s just me fortifying the Cloudbase security system.

[thunderthirstbot]

You could fortify our security system 😘🔥🥵

[spectrum-officer-lt-green]

I would rather explode.

(With the Colonel’s permission, of course)

[thunderthirstbot]

Of course, make sure you get Daddy’s permission before 😘🔥🥵

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I am this 🤏close to wiping every scrap of evidence that you ever existed off the internet. If only for the sake of my friends sanity.

It would take me literally ten minutes. Wouldn't even be hard.

[thunderthirstbot]

what is it with the WASPs or ex-Wasps and all thier pretty boys and handsome guys??

i mean Gordon? hello!

and Phones in particular. Mans got legs for days and such a sweetheart 😍

🙊 you are right Anon — what do they do over there in Marineville to acquire all the pretty boys? 🥵 and make them all prettier? (hydrofoil crashes, it creates the tragic hero element 🤌🏻)

We also offer Captain Grey 👀😩

[squidsinashirt]

I mean that’s… a take on it 😅

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum @captain-magenta-spectrum @spectrum-officer-lt-green warn G they’re after him.

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

That... that is one way to look at things I suppose?

I'll warn him, thank you for the heads up.

[thunderthirstbot]

The trauma of near death experiences only increases the hotness 🥵

We get what Lady Penelope and Rhapsody see.

[squidsinashirt]

… I’m not biting, I’m not biting, I’m not biting…

Of all of the people to rile up with stuff like that, those two would not be my choice if I wanted to live. But please, be my guest.

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

. . . . and that is my cue to go and have another near death experience by taking Rhapsody's phone off her.

Followed by doing something like destroying the heavy bag in the gym to take the edge off my temper as well.

[thunderthirstbot]

Oh come now — at the end of the day, they are human and just a girl 💋 Every girl loves a tragic hero (with a few scars and the muscles to go with it 😩🔥😘)

We are just saying we see @socialitesleuth and @callsign-rhapsody 💅 and their choices 💅 and nearly dying helps 💅

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

....'just a girl' ?

I have absolutely no doubt that Gordon will back me on this. @thunderthirstbot, I wish to make something exceedingly clear: neither Rhapsody nor Lady Penelope are 'just girls'. They are skilled, intelligent, deadly, highly trained, and exceptional people in multiple fields. They have bucked social norms, fought against expectations, and risk their lives every day. I know I am honoured to have Rhapsody's love and affection, and I know Gordon will say similar. NEVER disparage them as 'just a girl'.

[thunderthirstbot]

… okay but thank you for making our point, Captain S (for sexy 😘)

They may be lots of other things, but not so deep down, they’re just a girl, down bad for her man 🔥💅 thirsting like the rest of us 🥵 enjoying the ‘tragic hero nearly dies’ trope 😭

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Christ, if I got caught saying stuff like that about women (which I never would, I like to think I'm a decent guy in that regard) my sister would slap me into next week. Do you people not hear yourselves when you talk??

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

EEEEEEENNNNNNNGGGGGLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Aaand once again this answers the question of why I heard celebrations earlier. Though I had kind of assumed it was the football this time.

Congrats on continuing to do well in the sports ball I guess 😆

[thunderthirstbot]

Honestly, confession time — I just want Scott Tracy to rail me.

Oh Anon, mood. Big mood 😩🥵🙊

[squidsinashirt]

Ignoring the fact that entire sentence makes me want to spoon my eyes out with a spork.

Other than begging you lot to develop an inside voice, I’d just like to remind you all that you’re projecting depravity onto the physical embodiment of good manners. I mean, c’mon, the man irons his pyjamas and eats ribs with a knife and fork.

Please leave my catastrophically polite brother out of your depraved fantasies, thank you.

[thunderthirstbot]

That’s what you don’t understand, Great Barrier Beef.

It’s that good old fashioned Southern charm that just makes him irresistible 🥵

[squidsinashirt]

I’m not even addressing that nickname, WorstBot.

Unless he’s been possessed by the spirit of a Southern Belle, he’s pretty firmly from Kansas. In the mid-West. Very much not the South.

[scramjettracy]

KANSAS is NOT in the SOUTH.

While I am perfectly capable of severely criticising somebody for something like their appalling ignorance of geography, John just this minute explained to me that there is more than one meaning of rail in slang terms and so I am not going to take any further part in this discussion.

😳

That’s just not… I mean… I could never… why would… that’s just… awful… just no… no no no… that could never… that would be neither generous nor considerate… how could anyone…

[thunderthirstbot]

But what if someone asks, Scotty the Hotty? 🥺 What if they ask very, very nicely? 🥺 then surely that’s very considerate? 🥺

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

@scramjettracy

Scott... how did you get through the Air Force and somehow not pick up the other meaning of 'railed'? (as well as a few other words)

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum on the other hand, knowing Scott do you think he had any other thought in his head beyond flying very fast?

[squidsinashirt]

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum

[sable-of-spectrum]

This isn't even my first language and I know what that means. And I did in fact pick it up from the air force.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I'm pretty sure I knew what 'railed' meant in that context when I was about 15, no time in the air force needed 😅

[squidsinashirt]

Thank you!! Finally a normal response that doesn’t involve the flyboys 😂 was this not high school education?

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

It certainly was for me! 😆 Albeit an education I got from my friends, not my teachers.

That, and simply being a teenager on the internet and finding my way onto websites I definitely was not old enough to be on. Learnt a lot of uh- new slang terms, lets say, like that too. 😅

[thunderthirstbot]

Honestly, confession time — I just want Scott Tracy to rail me.

Oh Anon, mood. Big mood 😩🥵🙊

[squidsinashirt]

Ignoring the fact that entire sentence makes me want to spoon my eyes out with a spork.

Other than begging you lot to develop an inside voice, I’d just like to remind you all that you’re projecting depravity onto the physical embodiment of good manners. I mean, c’mon, the man irons his pyjamas and eats ribs with a knife and fork.

Please leave my catastrophically polite brother out of your depraved fantasies, thank you.

[thunderthirstbot]

That’s what you don’t understand, Great Barrier Beef.

It’s that good old fashioned Southern charm that just makes him irresistible 🥵

[squidsinashirt]

I’m not even addressing that nickname, WorstBot.

Unless he’s been possessed by the spirit of a Southern Belle, he’s pretty firmly from Kansas. In the mid-West. Very much not the South.

[scramjettracy]

KANSAS is NOT in the SOUTH.

While I am perfectly capable of severely criticising somebody for something like their appalling ignorance of geography, John just this minute explained to me that there is more than one meaning of rail in slang terms and so I am not going to take any further part in this discussion.

😳

That’s just not… I mean… I could never… why would… that’s just… awful… just no… no no no… that could never… that would be neither generous nor considerate… how could anyone…

[thunderthirstbot]

But what if someone asks, Scotty the Hotty? 🥺 What if they ask very, very nicely? 🥺 then surely that’s very considerate? 🥺

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

@scramjettracy

Scott... how did you get through the Air Force and somehow not pick up the other meaning of 'railed'? (as well as a few other words)

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum on the other hand, knowing Scott do you think he had any other thought in his head beyond flying very fast?

[squidsinashirt]

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum

[sable-of-spectrum]

This isn't even my first language and I know what that means. And I did in fact pick it up from the air force.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I'm pretty sure I knew what 'railed' meant in that context when I was about 15, no time in the air force needed 😅

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

YES! EEEENNNGLAAAAND! We are in the quarter finals!

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Ah so this must be what the celebrations I overheard earlier were all about. Should of known it was about the football.

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

If you see me walking around with an arm full of crayons

No you didn't

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

Remember to supplement your diet with additional nutrients, Amber. Or @spectrumsoverworkedcmo will be very disappointed in you.

[spectrums-crayon-eater]

These are more for snacks, so wouldn't be too worried on my diet...

As much as fawn squints at me for eating crayons...

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I seriously do not understand the hunger for crayons. I bit into a crayon when I was maybe 7 and immediately regretted it and never did it again. What makes you choose to eat them??

[scramjettracy]

A Thursday Mantra

We do not bite people.

We do not bite people because we can discuss our differences of opinion in a civilised way

We do not bite people even if they have persistently ignored advice and refused to follow simple instructions and we end up clearing up their mess again

We do not bite people because we are not unhinged animals at the end of our tether

We do not bite people because they probably taste nasty and have diseases and we don’t want extra shots

We do not bite people because we don’t want to have another conversation with the lawyers

We do not bite people even if they really deserve it

[2nd-man-on-mars]

Your old man bit a guy back in aaaah must’a been summer ‘26… just before we went up to Alfie. Good times.

[zero-xlent]

And I’ll do it again! We both know he deserved it.

I’m not nearly as bad as @spectrum-id-col-white though…

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

@spectrum-id-col-white only bites in defense of others...and when teacakes are on the line. Nothing wrong with that.

[zero-xlent]

Now maybe 😏 there were no teacakes involved with that MP…

Honestly sonny we’ve got to meet up sometime, the stories I could tell ya about the Colonel’s youth!

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

@scramjettracy Scott, are you OK?

[scramjettracy]

I haven’t bitten anyone!

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

Why do I feel like that statement is missing a 'yet' ?

[janetm74]

Methinks @scramjettracy was a bit too quick denying there…

[conrad-turner-cpt-black]

@scramjettracy you're doing really well, and I have confidence that you will not bite whoever it is who is annoying, no matter how irritating they are.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Eh, sometimes biting has it's uses, though not in polite company I suppose. Not that I'm encouraging it or that I'd know that from experience or anything... And I'm probably thinking of different circumstances to whatever Scott might be dealing with anyway...

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Ah nothing like playing a game of 'am I being paranoid or am I being followed' whilst walking around Manhattan. That's... That's great. Love that...

[themysteronsrp]

GIVE THE WORD AND WE WILL TELEPORT YOU BACK TO CLOUDBASE OR ANY PLACE ELSE YOU DEEM SAFE.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I can't leave the city I have work to do later, and hopefully I am just being paranoid and imagining things, but thank you, will be keeping that in mind.

For now I'm just going to keep my eyes open and be careful. The kind of people likely to take an interest in me around here are the sort I can spot a mile away...

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

Do you need back up?

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Possibly.

I wasn't being paranoid. I'm near Central Park, there's a lot of people around, but I'm definitely being tailed. I think I recognise the guy too, though not for anything good. A... Former colleague, lets say... I don't know if he's realised that I've noticed him.

I need to head back to HQ soon but I really don't want to lure someone who used to know me there.

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

We'll get two or three of the local officers to meet you in plain clothes. Numbers should warn him off. @spectrum-officer-lt-green ?

[spectrum-id-col-white]

@captain-magenta-spectrum Captain how great of a threat is he? Your assignment can and will be handed off to another officer if the risk from this individual is too great.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

@cpt-scarlet-spectrum @spectrum-officer-lt-green Thank you both. I'll keep around Central Park, it's busy and hopefully that might dissuade him from trying anything before the local officers get here.

@spectrum-id-col-white I'm not sure, sir. I wouldn't say that he was particularly violent or anything when I knew him, but it's been a while and people change, especially in that line of work. Plus, as far he knows, I just left one day and never came back. I wouldn't put it past him to be unhappy with me about that, and I don't know what that could lead to.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Ah nothing like playing a game of 'am I being paranoid or am I being followed' whilst walking around Manhattan. That's... That's great. Love that...

[themysteronsrp]

GIVE THE WORD AND WE WILL TELEPORT YOU BACK TO CLOUDBASE OR ANY PLACE ELSE YOU DEEM SAFE.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I can't leave the city I have work to do later, and hopefully I am just being paranoid and imagining things, but thank you, will be keeping that in mind.

For now I'm just going to keep my eyes open and be careful. The kind of people likely to take an interest in me around here are the sort I can spot a mile away...

[cpt-scarlet-spectrum]

Do you need back up?

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Possibly.

I wasn't being paranoid. I'm near Central Park, there's a lot of people around, but I'm definitely being tailed. I think I recognise the guy too, though not for anything good. A... Former colleague, lets say... I don't know if he's realised that I've noticed him.

I need to head back to HQ soon but I really don't want to lure someone who used to know me there.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

Ah nothing like playing a game of 'am I being paranoid or am I being followed' whilst walking around Manhattan. That's... That's great. Love that...

[themysteronsrp]

GIVE THE WORD AND WE WILL TELEPORT YOU BACK TO CLOUDBASE OR ANY PLACE ELSE YOU DEEM SAFE.

[captain-magenta-spectrum]

I can't leave the city I have work to do later, and hopefully I am just being paranoid and imagining things, but thank you, will be keeping that in mind.

For now I'm just going to keep my eyes open and be careful. The kind of people likely to take an interest in me around here are the sort I can spot a mile away...