The Steel Family

[kingletsflock]

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Intro Post

Yo! I'm Kinglet Steel. (Kuo Hoi, sometimes.) I'm a Faller and have been for... Uh, years? In like a good dozen different dimensions at this point. Somehow I still get surprised by life anyway. I figured I might as well make one of these? Not like life could get weirder. They/them pronouns. Currently a Pokémon Ranger in Almia.

Hello~ I'm Annie! I'm Kinglet's platonic lifepartner. We're both aroace! I use she/her pronouns. I'm a Mechanic! Mostly because the technology in Almia is quite interesting compared to the world I'm originally from.

Good evening. My name is Kuo Xuanyu. I am one of... er, several children? That Annie and Kinglet look after. He/him pronouns.

Hey, I'm Clay. I'm the "firstborn", so to speak? He/him, too. (I also go by Kuo Meng sometimes!)

Hiya! Name's Ritchie. Me and Clay are basically twins! He/him, but I don't really care if you use something else.

... Hello. I'm Lyf. They/them pronouns.

Ah, is this where an introduction goes? Greetings. Wildfire Anatoly, Kinglet's father. He/him, as that implies.

Appearances are below the cut, if you care about that sorta thing. Done via Picrew, obviously.

This is me:

Annie:

Xuanyu:

Clay:

Ritchie:

Lyf:

And Dad:

Yes, the being on fire is normal, don't worry about it.

[summer-child-in-inaba]

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beholdingRainbows: Thank you kindly everyone for participating! I'll be depositing you all back home now.

catboyCliffs: hooray . back to normal horrors.

multitudesDudes: hooray I DEFINITELY need to go jobhunt .

moonlitRanger: oh this'll be REAL fun to explain to the ranger association won't it.

crystalizedEyes: ... well I was thinking of taking a break from contests anyway . This one was involuntary and my manager is going to freak the dist out once he sees me .

beholdingRainbows: ... I probably should've frozen time in your respective worlds when all this started.

catboyCliffs: oh you THINK

[miyos-multiverse-express]

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multitudesDudes: alright that's. what, just natsuki's left?

crystalizedEyes: Odin, yes.

multitudesDudes: and then we're done.

crystalizedEyes: And then we're done!

catboyCliffs: hooray.

moonlitRanger: not the worst yeet I've been on but let's not make this a repeat experience

multitudesDudes: what WAS your worst?

moonlitRanger: vortex world. endless apocalyptic wasteland, literally all i could do was a) fight or b) run away from fights that'd kill me

catboyCliffs: yikes

moonlitRanger: what was your worst miyo? you've got the most experience apart from me

multitudesDudes: prooobably iwatodai. no offense to minato but being stuck in the dark hour for weeks was the fucking WORST.

crystalizedEyes: Sweet legends.

multitudesDudes: also everything else iwatodai was happening

catboyCliffs: yikes !

multitudesDudes: anyway Natsuki we'll head over to your planet now

crystalizedEyes: See you in a bit.

[kingletsflock]

Kinglet M. Steel: ASCEND ==>

Yeah, this works. You’re not really a fan of the CAPE, you’d rather have, well, your WINGS BACK, but at least you can fly without mechanical assistance again. YOU’LL TAKE IT.

This is DEFINITELY GOING TO HELP with the fight on Wednesday, too. The CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY, not so much, since ANY DEATH TOMORROW will almost DEFINITELY count as HEROIC. That fight’s going to be… well, you’ve seen some of it, now. It’s going to be a BUSY DAY. … SPECIFICALLY FOR ONSHIN. You are. So very glad that you didn’t get stuck with the Time Aspect.

… And then there’s also THREE MORE DENIZENS TO KILL. At least THAT’S going to be easier, since there’s only one enemy per fight to, well, fight. The frog’s done, so. YOU’RE ALMOST OUT OF HERE.

You wonder what Beholding is going to do with the BRAND NEW UNIVERSE (FROG) that’s about to be created?

[kingletsflock]

Oh wow, Natsuki had NOT BEEN KIDDING about the prophetic clouds.

You haven’t had FUTURE KNOWLEDGE like this in… a long time. Not since you GOT TO ALMIA and lost your memories of the BEFORE.

You should… probably unpack your current tangle of COMPLICATED EMOTIONS soon. For now, you’re gonna go FIND YOUR QUEST BED.

[summer-child-in-inaba]

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crystalizedEyes: kinglet for the love of everything PLEASE TELL ME you’ve had a prospit dream

moonlitRanger: not for lack of trying but no

crystalizedEyes: stars fucking . okay . okay . it’s gonna happen fairly soon i think .

multitudesDudes: something happen?

crystalizedEyes: the clouds on prospit tell the future

catboyCliffs: of course you get clouds and derse gets literal eldritch entities whispering to us

catboyCliffs: naturally

multitudesDudes: is THAT what that whispering is? we’ve just been ignoring that

catboyCliffs: oh how i wish i could do that.

crystalizedEyes: moving ON. final battle on skaia is scheduled for the 10th.

crystalizedEyes: and we are NOT winning that without everyone being godtiered.

crystalizedEyes: So if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go find my quest bed.

moonlitRanger: hm. hey miyo do you have the code for awakenings and sleep potions

multitudesDudes: we see where this is going. yeah i’ll make you some, where’s your alchemiter

moonlitRanger: inside the modern library building . you know. the only modern architecture on the entire fucking planet??

multitudesDudes: ah. yeah ok fair enough. we’ll be back soon

catboyCliffs: how’s the frogs?

moonlitRanger: well miyo helped me find the right tadpoles finally. now i just gotta connect the genes and then we. start feeding it grist i guess

moonlitRanger: and the entire planet of skaia after the final battle too?? this game progression is. who came up with this.

crystalizedEyes: A white 30-year-old from America.

moonlitRanger: yeah that checks out

[kingletsflock]

moonlitRanger: hey. HEY?

Miyo startles, tucking away his phone to look at you.

moonlitRanger: you been staring at that thing doing nothing for ten minutes. didn't you say you were gonna help me deal with the frog quest with your weirdass heart powers.

multitudesDudes [Miyo]: ah. sorry. give us a second, we've never actually had to do this before.

moonlitRanger: yeah no shit, you've only ascended a couple days ago.

You raise an UNIMPRESSED EYEBROW. He's clearly got something else on his mind.

Miyo stands up, dusting off imaginary dirt. The entire planet is lilypads and ocean, there's not exactly much dry, well, ANYTHING. Your hair's been frizzier than usual since you got here.

multitudesDudes [Ace]: We don't really know you well enough to wanna get into it.

moonlitRanger: fair enough. you think this'd go faster if i got my ✨space powers✨?

You do jazz hands to accentuate the last two words. Miyo (Ace? Kagami? The brown hair means that guy's at the front right now) snorts.

multitudesDudes [Ace]: probably, but you can't get them until you have a dream on. what's the yellow one. prospit.

You groan theatrically.

moonlitRanger: whatever shall I do. Oh no.

moonlitRanger: guess I'm doing that later, then. Get to it, dudes.

multitudesDudes [Fragment]: alright alright, we're on it

Ah. And THAT'S the Giratina talking. The fallen god probably would have the easiest time accessing god powers. Fair enough.

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multitudesDudes: HI DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING DISTRACTING WE WOULD LOVE. A DISTRACTION

moonlitRanger: as someone who's Been distracted with the Fucking Frog Quest what happened

multitudesDudes: Ren might be dead

catboyCliffs: WH AT

multitudesDudes: WE. DON'T KNOW. SOMEONE LITERALLY FUCKING STABBED HIM IN THE BACK AND THEN LEFT HIM TO BLEED OUT ALONE IN THE DATL

catboyCliffs: What what what the FUCK what

moonlitRanger: nat can you Know if

crystalizedEyes: motherfucker . I can try!

catboyCliffs: fucking hell I need to start being able to do that

crystalizedEyes: dont the side effects aren't worth it. Also results are in he'll live

multitudesDudes: I could kiss you but we're taken

crystalizedEyes: and I'm aroace so I wouldn't like it anyway

crystalizedEyes: point being you're welcome

catboyCliffs: yeah uh

catboyCliffs: . thanks.

moonlitRanger: is that offer for help still open though because I swear to fuck these rob damned frogs will be the end of me

multitudesDudes: . Yeah sure we'll fly to your portal tomorrow. provided we don't finally wake up on Derse and can get this fucking quest bed taurosshit done with

moonlitRanger: ace

multitudesDudes: that sure is one of our names

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multitudesDudes: so what are we supposed to do with this giant ass grist hoard

crystalizedEyes: What grist - DID YOU KILL YOUR FUCKING DENIZEN

multitudesDudes: what, like it's hard?

crystalizedEyes: :shinjichair:

moonlitRanger: i think it's supposed to be

crystalizedEyes: The last time someone tried to kill their denizen early, they doomed the entire timeline they were in.

multitudesDudes: sounds like a skill issue

multitudesDudes: also we had help 🔹

catboyCliffs: I thought the zodiac wheel was leaving us alone?

multitudesDudes: They are.

catboyCliffs: ???

multitudesDudes: you'll find out.

crystalizedEyes: Sweet fucking Legends. Just. Leave it. We need it for the Ultimate Alchemy later.

multitudesDudes: gotcha

[kingletsflock]

[moonlitRanger began pestering crystalizedEyes]

moonlitRanger: hey natsuki weird question but. is there something about biology in homestuck

crystalizedEyes: Apart from the frog breeding? Uh.

crystalizedEyes: ...OH LEGENDS ECTOBIOLOGY.

moonlitRanger: what do we have to create ghosts or smth???

crystalizedEyes: Worse! Us.

crystalizedEyes: Or at least, John Egbert had to create him, his other players and the Alpha Kids and I THINK karkat had to do the same thing for all the trolls.

crystalizedEyes: Hold on. I'm gonna try and Know this.

moonlitRanger: uh huh.

crystalizedEyes: False alarm. We are good.

moonlitRanger: yay?

crystalizedEyes: "Yay" indeed. Unless you WANTED to look after four, possibly eight, infants.

moonlitRanger: yay it is

[kingletsflock]

The LAND OF SEA AND FROGS is, honestly, pretty neat. Sure, it's... unnervingly QUIET, and you KINDA FEEL LIKE you're in the Calm Belt sometimes, which... isn't GREAT for your nerves, but at least your quest is fairly straight forward.

... If. ANNOYING. You're not exactly a biology specialist. You THINK you're getting the hang of it, though.

moonlitRanger: ... biology. something about homestuck and biology...

DUDENSPRITE: Biologie, die. Wissenschaft von der belebten Natur und den Gesetzmäßigkeiten im Ablauf des Lebens von Pflanze, Tier und Mensch. Biologische Beschaffenheit im Ganzen.

moonlitRanger: yea i know what the word means.

You get the feeling you're FORGETTING SOMETHING. Not exactly unusual for you, though.

Still. Maybe you should pester Natsuki. You'd rather not cause a paradox or something because the two of you forgot a step.

[miyos-multiverse-express]

BELATED OOC POST.

SO UH. there is. Rules for how my rotomblr Sburb works post-wise

any and every post is visible to people not in the game

purely chatlog posts aren't visible to the characters on their blogs (this is important. If you send a character an ask about a chatlog without any narrative I will ignore it because they can't see those. Obviously they happen on pesterchum, the characters do not know their entire pesterchum is public.)

if they get an ask they Realize this is being posted at all (so far this is just Natsuki courtesy of myself and Miyo courtesy of Ren's dash commentary because he has notifications on in character)

if it's part narrative part chatlog it's visible to the characters. so far Natsuki is the only one reading along to those. Miyo Will start soon. Also the characters aren't the ones writing the posts. (The assumption is Beholding is doing it. This is correct.)

[summer-child-in-inaba]

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multitudesDudes: alright that's everyone in

crystalizedEyes: somehow.

moonlitRanger: now we just need to do. everything else?

crystalizedEyes: each of us has a "land quest" behind those portals above the houses. can't help you with those, they're custom for each player

catboyCliffs: wonderful.

crystalizedEyes: although one of us got stuck with the uh. Universe Frog Breeding Quest.

multitudesDudes: the what now

moonlitRanger: i think that might be me? i assume that's what the frog temple I can see down on the planet somewhere is about at least. ... i assume that's a frog.

crystalizedEyes: Congratulations on the space aspect. Yeah, that's the Frog Quest. The point of the game is to make a new universe, Miyo.

multitudesDudes: ... huh.

multitudesDudes: "space aspect"?

crystalizedEyes: legends. how the fuck do I explain god tiers.

crystalizedEyes: Basically, the game looks at our personalities and assigns us an Aspect (there's. twelve? I think? sort of like godly domains I Guess) and a Class. If I had to guess, mine'll be Seer.

catboyCliffs: tracks.

crystalizedEyes: No idea what aspect I'd qualify for. ... hopefully not Doom.

multitudesDudes: is distortion an aspect

crystalizedEyes: nope. i'd bet an entire metaverse excursion of yen on yours being either heart or mind though

multitudesDudes: one of the classes is thief right

crystalizedEyes: Yeah, but given the associated personality with thief I doubt you'll get it.

multitudesDudes: damn. no thief of heart^2 for us

catboyCliffs: What a pity.

crystalizedEyes: I'm gonna assume one of us got Time as an aspect.

multitudesDudes: onshin

catboyCliffs: how could you Possibly know

multitudesDudes: is time a red gear

crystalizedEyes: ... Yes.

multitudesDudes: it's onshin.

catboyCliffs: ... wonderful. More Time Fuckery in my future.

moonlitRanger: good luck dude

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multitudesDudes: not to alarm anyone but i’ve been blasting away meteors for a solid ten minutes. kinglet you’re still free to host someone right

moonlitRanger: oh shit my bad i got distracted trying to alchemize myself some flight -- yeah sure hang on

crystalizedEyes: On another note: if someone with a western Zodiac sign pfp tries to pester you. Don’t answer.

catboyCliffs: are you speaking from experience or plot

crystalizedEyes: Yes.

multitudesDudes: i think i’ve had the full wheel try to message me already but since i was busy with the meteors. didn’t answer

crystalizedEyes: … given your *abilities*, that’s not much of a surprise honestly.

[summer-child-in-inaba]

Well, what are you waiting for? Go go go ==>

You're working on it, shut up.

[crystalizedEyes began pestering moonlitRanger]

crystalizedEyes: okay. first off, expanding the room. there's no way any of these fit in here.

moonlitRanger: any of wh -- holy shit you can just do that?

crystalizedEyes: welcome to sburb kinglet. yes I can just do that. Watch your head, I'm not sure how tangible these are while I'm holding them

You expand the room and quickly arrange the Totem Lathe, Alchemiter and Cruxtruder, as well as placing the punch card on the table for Kinglet's convenience. Your eyes wander to the giant windows.

... Legends, Kinglet was right, the city they're in is on fire. The Beta Kids must've started their daisy chain already. You're on a timer even without the Cruxtruder.

moonlitRanger: what the hell are these things?

crystalizedEyes: Your ticket out of here. We gotta get that tube open, first off. And find something to prototype the Sprite with, we do NOT want to start a Null Session.

moonlitRanger: well, you're the expert.

You are, in fact, the only one of the four players who's read Homestuck. (Well, you are NOW. Kinglet would have known what was up too, once. Then again, the only reason you STILL REMEMBER this stuff is because you're VERY EMBARRASSED you read Homestuck. Without that emotional tie, no wonder KINGLET'S FORGOTTEN ALL THIS.

... Wait. Now that you're staring at the Totem Lathe. Do you even HAVE sylladexes? This is going to be impossible without them.

[summer-child-in-inaba]

[crystalizedEyes started pestering beholdingRainbows]

crystalizedEyes: I fucking hate you why would you do this

[beholdingRainbows added catboyCliffs, multitudesDudes and moonlitRanger]

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catboyCliffs: seconding CE immediately

multitudesDudes: oh holy shit your NAME

catboyCliffs: thanks i noticed. beholding what the fuck

moonlitRanger: this is because you turned Lyf adult isn’t it

beholdingRainbows: Simply the straw that broke the camel’s back.

beholdingRainbows: I have to tip the scales − I’ve been far too ‘nice.’

catboyCliffs: that was you being NICE?

moonlitRanger: oh yea no absolutely it was. xey turned off your perception of the Loop whenever the Crisis starts, let Lyf be an adult and helped them through Yharnam, didn’t send any of us off for longer than a month since then and never anywhere that’s really challenging either…

crystalizedEyes: … I haven’t been sent ANYWHERE since getting to Inaba. Shit, xey HAVE been taking it easy.

multitudesDudes: why are WE involved with this?

beholdingRainbows: I needed a fourth “player”, since that’s the minimum. and you’re rather experienced, at this point.

crystalizedEyes: at least that means we won’t be getting involved with the main cast’s absolute clusterfuck.

beholdingRainbows: Not for long, at any rate.

crystalizedEyes: legends damn it

moonlitRanger: anyway not to alarm anyone but the city I'm in is on fire

multitudesDudes: WHAT

crystalizedEyes: fucking -- okay hold on. do you have the sburb client?

beholdingRainbows: They do.

moonlitRanger: is that what these envelopes are?

crystalizedEyes: yep. install them, I'll do the same and try to get you out of there fast as I can.

crystalizedEyes: legends I hope I remember the sequence of this right...

multitudesDudes: Oh we're all fucked aren't we.

[kingletsflock]

A RANGER STANDS IN AN EMPTY LIBRARY.

Your name is KINGLET M. STEEL and you are VERY USED to finding yourself in new places without warning, at this point. At least your body hasn’t changed again − you’re STILL A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD human. (You REALLY miss your WINGS.) You’re a ranger TWICE-OVER, now − in ALMIA and NEW WIRRAL.

Right now, however, you seem to just be a LOST TEENAGER in an empty library. The lights are on, at least. It seems to be SUNSET. That’s going to mess with your internal clock.

moonlitRanger: Wait. The sunset doesn’t flicker.

NEVERMIND. The city you’re in seems to be ON FIRE. That isn’t exactly ideal, seeing as you’re no longer FIREPROOF.

Confusingly, the SINGULAR ABANDONED LAPTOP on the table next to you lets out a chime. SOMEONE IS TRYING TO REACH YOU.