#core ship

[dearclairegeraldin]

[siryl]

Concept art by Erik Tiemens.

[star-wars-forever]

[pedroam-bang]

Ryan Church - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones (2002)

[johnjhalseth]

The Star Wars Core Ship arrives in Berryville! Not sure if this a promo for the up coming movie or if Rubbermaid needs new workers.

[azureoctahedron]

dangerous situations kink, Rick/Wheatley

It was dangerous. That much could be said up front in the bluntest words possible. And that still wouldn't sum up how Wheatley felt about this.

He eyed the green-eyed, raven-haired android next to him. He was the one to get him down from space, in an Aperture-brand rocket, and had an android body ready for him when he'd brought him onboard.

For the first in a long time, Wheatley had felt...alive. He could move. He could change his fate, and make up for his mistakes. He'd done a lot of thinking. Now he wanted to do, and the android was vastly superior to his old Core body. It all excited him so much - especially that rush of happiness that surged in him whenever his rescuer came in his line of sight.

There'd been some interesting changes while he was gone. Rick, as the android called himself, had done his best to explain them.

He'd explained that She had let the girl go. He'd then explained that She'd tried to use robots as her test subjects, and while successful, she'd longed for more human behavior from her subjects.

That had led Her to the Cores. Their programming was more complex, and produced more varied and interesting personalities than Orange and Blue. She had reactivated all of them in android bodies, and decided to even have the Moron brought down to round out Her new roster of test subjects.

But Rick had other ideas.

He wanted his freedom. He wanted to go adventuring.

"So," he said to the tall, lanky blue-haired man next to him, "are you down for this, or am I just gonna drop you off with the other squares down in Android Hell?"

Wheatley could only blink.

"You want me for your sidekick?"

"Sure. All great adventurers have sidekicks. And you'd be a good one, giving me new adventures with whatever you do next. It'd be dangerous, of course. Cause the first thing we'd have to do is get away from Her."

That was the very thing that left Wheatley shaking in his boots, of both terror and excitement...

...because he would get to do it with his savior. The first person to ever treat him as something more than an idiot, a moron, a disaster.

That excitement, that realization that he liked this thrill of danger, of getting to do this with someone was what made Wheatley nod eagerly, like a schoolboy who'd just been made into a superhero.

It was then that he realized he liked danger. That was what had drawn him to taking over the facility in the first place. What had led him to do so many of the things which baffled him.

And now this thrill that ran through him...it reminded him of something.

It reminded him of the Itch.  Except it wasn't the chassis' itch now. It was his own. Entirely his own. And if satisfying that Itch back then had felt good, he couldn't even imagine how fulfilling this one would feel.

"Oh yeah, pal," he said softly, a slow devious grin spreading across his face. "I'm ready for anything. Bring it."

((Okay, so I mashed kink into actual characterization and plot. Ahahaha.))

[azureoctahedron]

word play kink (kinda like phone sex) Space & Curiosity

It started when the yellow-eyed core discovered that unlike the blue-eyed sad Core over there, he had a wireless link back to the facility.

Then the other Core found their own link. Neither really knew who the other was, or where they were. They simply knew that they were both Cores.

"Have you ever been in space? Space is wonderful!"

"Oh, what's it like?"

"Dark. With lots of stars. Earth's waaaaay down there! It's gorgeous! Beautiful!"

"What's Earth like?"

"It's a big round ball, with all the oceans and continents and pretty clouds. I'm sure it's a great planet, but I much prefer the view up here. In space!"

After a while they became friends. The yellow-eyed Core tolerated, and came to even like the steady barrage of perpetually curious questions his friend pummeled him with during their exchanges. They knew the other wasn't like all the AI's they had met in Aperture. Both had an honest, open innocence that they saw in the other.

One exchange however led to thoughts that seemed less than innocent.

"So our planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Ureenus, Neptune, and...wait, you said Pluto isn't a planet anymore?"

"That's right. They decided it was a Kuip--waitaminute. You say Uranus like this - UR-A-NUS, not Ureenus."

"Ureenus."

"URANUS."

"Ureeenus."

"Honey, that's not how you say it."

"I know that's not how you say it. It's one of the things I DO know!"

The awkward pause hung over them both for a long few seconds.

"How come?" the yellow-eyed Core could only ask. This time it was him with the questions.

"The lady I was with said it sounded like a bad word. She said I shouldn't be saying the bad word."

"Uranus?"

"Look what it sounds like! Your Anus!"

"Anus? Must be one of those human things. Like penis."

The other Core could only giggle.

"It's just some weird human things. Like sex. And them making funny noises."

"I've heard them! I've got a recording, right here!"

The brief recording played a series of female and male moans, the sound of which made the Core forget his love of space for a few stunned seconds.

"They do the silliest things when they do that. The lady used to watch them. They'd do things like take all their clothes off and"--

"Make those noises? Hey, play that again?"

"Sure!"

"What did they call those noises, if you remember?"

"Moaning. There's words like whimpers, giggles, gasps, yells...I learned a lot of them from her! She had all kinds of information!"

"Tell me more...?"