Hey!! Hey!!!! What happened to Chasing Wind!? Did she get her memories reset?!? Is she gone forever?? Is that why people don’t like Grey Wind?!? Do we think that’s a fair way to treat them?? What would you do if your friend called you and told you they died and lost all their memories but your name in their phone’s contacts list was “bestie”?! Would you be able to overcome your grief while supporting someone new, or would you struggle over every reminder of the friend you lost, isolating both them and yourself while making a new relationship impossible to develop!? Is this why Grey Wind’s closest friend is the newest iterator Unparalleled Innocence?? Does that mean Chasing Wind got memory-wiped before the final ascentions!? Was this a fucking deliberate act by the ancients?!?
…What the fuck is a slugcat?
WELL!! A few years later, but this ask managed to pull out this old bad boy from my wips folder.
This is part3 technically to [part1] and [part2]
Anon who are you?? How did you guess the entirety of what me a few years ago was planning to reveal?? How did you end up doing it now. It's incredible. It's putting a massive smile on my face really. The comic is quite rough especially in my eyes now since it's soooo old, but I'm so happy I managed to pull it out anyway.
And gosh.. this will be long, but here is flatly stated what happened with Grey Wind! Pieces or hints of which I remember putting in various places.
Note: This is for my OWN canon of things I planned for the characters in my comics ofc. Not a theory on base rw. And also this is what I remember! Been a bit ^^ It's all sillies and good fun.
Anyway:
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Grey Wind was once an iterator called Chasing Wind. She was built around the same time as NSH, who she was probably emotionally closest to. She was an incredibly advanced iterator for time at least with being capable of running an incredible amount of tasks at simultaneously, so her colony was quite proud of her.
This pride would turn a bit sour when...
...somewhere during the making of FP she'd start approaching the problem in a different way the colony didn't agree with. They were very concerned with their iterator and many disagreements would arise on how this problem could be handled. Eventually it'd be decided (not by everyone) they'd mess with her memories and important details of her being during a maintenance to try and set her back into place. This goes terribly wrong.
Wind gets altered in a way that changes fully how she perceives herself and her own memories. As if you were an entirely different person with someone elses memories, data and name. And woke up scared and betrayed.
Wind would try to reconnect with her friends and local group. But would ultimately find herself unable to be or pretend to be the person everyone expected. Comforts that'd she'd recover seemed to ease her less and less, as she began to feel like her own separate person. Self-repairs did nothing to help this.
Eventually Wind would rename herself to Grey Wind and demand be addressed as a different person. Which others did. They hardly had any similarities with Chasing at that point.
Especially with what was about to occur. Grey Wind is incapable of harming any benefactors (all iterators are). But she'd be an iterator who'd actually research how to get past this limitation (unsuccessfully) and in the mean time would do anything possible to ruin the lives of those who lived on her back in the ways she could.
This back and fourth of cruelty was scary to witness from the side and it'd be a very controversial topic between iterators and their parents for a while. Of who did who more wrong. Of how limited should iterators be in what they could do and access?
Regardless Grey would lose most friends. Except for Moons stiff efforts to talk to her. Most others found the grief of speaking to someone who was your dear friend, but not quite too large to bear. Or couldn't respect her actions.
So new relationships, aside rare one-off conversations in anonymous groups, would become impossible to her.
Until UI!
You're very on the money! While everyone else knew of Chasing Wind in the local group, UI didn't. So after the situation with Pebbles, Wind would seek out Unparalleled Innocence to understand her wrongdoings to their neighbor. Knowing how it feels to be misunderstood she wanted to know why UI would do such a thing. And she learns why. And begins to sympathize and get along with this new iterator very well.
On top of this... It was someone who didn't expect her to be anyone but herself. Grey Wind. Chasing Wind was just. Erm someone. Everyone else mourns. Not UI. UI had never even met Chasing Wind. It was a very freeing experience.
So realizing her newfound friend has very little time to stay around hurt. A lot. But despite this we learn that perhaps at least for now it's more important to be there for our best friend than to be angry in their name.
I hope to whoever ends up reading this that it was fun! Yay!
BONUS BONUS:
Grey was kind of inspired by GLaDOS, which I think is very funny.
P.S. Innie was then to become an echo that Saint would find! She'd be unable to move on until she feels like the rest of the local group have also found peace as she believes she doesn't deserve it more than they do. That's what I remember at least!
omg I had a saint comic with her actually. it was very sweet. well if someone asks for it I might give it the same treatment as this one!
ok i got an ask about grey wind and innie and youll get the comic line art and what was supposed to happen because i cant believe i never dropped that!! omg
thank u for whoever asked 2-3 years later. i cant believe i never dropped that
I didn't manage to find the VV1 AU page that answers this one question:
How did VV1 happen and how did they restrain themselves from styling on anything that moves?
OH!
Well first:
If you are asking why VV1 happened you can look at this post-> [x]
Unless you are asking for a more in-depth explanation of the actual fusing that happened- which was basically one very long surgery that took a lot of focus, gentleness and trust!
And second:
I mean they do style on stuff in hell!
Kind of.... V2's brain in there does not actually have a style meter. But they are killing! They are killing lots and testing the abilities and limits of their new shared body. And of course falling more and more in love with it ^^
whats with tumblr suddenly blasting those ads that force you to interact with them on mobile.
like they are as big as my entire fucking screen and i cant peacefully scroll past because if my finger touches them it interacts with the ad itself instead of scrolling
