#human crew

[pepsinutellaandlaptops]

Imagine getting gaslight gatekeep girlbossed by a sentient rock

[allthingsfayz]

                                  Bleak stills from Hunger: 

 Sam, Drake, and Brianna’s fight; the Ellisons hiding from the Human Crew

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[thewildwaffle]

Cliff-Jumping

Mentik looked dubiously over the cliff. This had been a mistake. He really should have figured it would be. Tagging along with humans while on surface leave usually was.

Two humans, Jay and Carrie were already in the water below while Kellan and Shen stood behind him, still up on the rocks. Mentik had been surprised when he learned that humans could swim. They certainly didn’t look like they would be semi-aquatic -  long arms and legs with no fins or webbed feet, no tail, no gills, nothing that seemed to say, “hey I can survive in water.” So when he overheard the humans on his crew talking about their plans to come down to this small mountain lake, his curiosity got the best of him.

Maybe he should have listened to that human saying about curiosity…

“You gonna go?” Jay called up from the water. Both humans down in the lake were smiling and sweeping their arms around to keep afloat. Mentik watched mesmerized as Carrie stopped “churning” the water with her arms and legs and leaned back, spreading her entire body out on the surface of the water. They could float?

Well, that did explain some things.

He looked back to the two humans still waiting up on the rocks behind him. “Are you sure this is safe? Shouldn’t you enter the water from a lower location?” Like the beach, he thought to himself.

“Well there is a lower spot over there,” Shen pointed to a ledge to their left. When he had followed the humans up here, he had passed that spot thinking it would be the highest they dared climb. But, these were humans he was dealing with. He should have known better. Shen pointed from the ledge to down at the water below it, “The problem is that the rocks are shallow down there. It’s not safe if you don’t jump out far enough. Plus,” he stepped back to get a running start, “It’s more fun from up here!”

Mentik watched in frozen horror as Shen leaped off the ledge and started rotating backward. He was going to hit the water head first! He was going to watch his crewmate die a gruesome death! His mind raced - how were they going to get his body out of there? What would they say to the captain? Why were humans like this?!

But Shen continued to rotate as he fell. By the time he was at the surface, his feet were once again underneath him and he disappeared in a splash of water and bubbles. The other three humans yelled out and laughed as Shen’s head surfaced a few feet away, congratulating him and then beckoning Kellan and Mentik to join them.

Kellan crouched down next to Mentik, putting an arm on his shoulder as humans do as a comforting gesture. “It’s okay if you don’t want to jump, don’t feel pressured to do it if you don’t want to. We’re all here to have fun. We won’t judge you if you’d rather go in at the beach.”

Mentik took a deep breath as he looked down - it seemed like they were so far above the lake. That didn’t stop Human Kellan, who stood back up and with two short steps, lept off the rocky cliff with a loud yell.

How do they just… jump off it like that? It was madness, probably. With everything else he knew about humans and how weird they could be, it might as well be madness. Mentik shook his head disbelievingly as he carefully climbed back down the path he and the humans had climbed up earlier. Well, he supposed that even if he didn’t jump in, he could still enjoy “beach day” while he could.

He’d seen images of Earth beaches before, large sandy expanses between the ocean and the rest of the land. This wasn’t the ocean. The land was made of steep rocky mountains. The “beach” was a patch of small gravel in between the native brush and boulders. Still, it was a much safer point of entry into the lake. Not wanting to be left out of the fun that the swimming humans seemed to be having, he hurried into the waters. It was steep. In only a few steps, he was up to his midriff in water. Cold water. COLD WATER! Oh by all things bright and shining in the galaxy, it was COLD!!!

In less time it takes a starved Krincharge to devour a piplum berry, Mentik was out of there and back on shore. Way on shore. Way away from the FREEZING DEATH TRAP!

“Mentik, you okay bud?” “Hey, you alright?”

“Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it!”

Get used to it? Mentik guffawed. Get used to it? In the time it took to acclimate, the extreme temperature change could kill! What the frewan were they thinking?! “How can you swim in that? It’s so cold!”

“Just give it a bit, you’ll start feeling warmer after you’re in for a bit.” Based off the way that Shen was still gasping, he hadn’t warmed up yet.

“I’m already used to it,” Jay smugly circled around in the water. “Feels great to me!”

Maybe I should have stuck with Winden and the others for surface-leave today, Mentik thought to himself. He sat down on a rock and watched the humans splash and play in the water. Well, they seemed to be okay. They even got out a few times and climbed up to the cliff and jumped off again. 

After a while, Mentik did venture to the water’s edge again. There were little fish swimming around in the shallows. He stuck his arm in a few times, but he could never keep still enough to not scare the fish. He kept pulling his arm back out so it could warm up in the sun. The sun, at least felt nice. And between the small fish and the humans, there was plenty of entertainment. He relaxed a bit and felt himself get a bit drowsy. Maybe this wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Humans are weird, he thought, and their ideas of ‘fun’ are weird, but at least they know how to have a nice beach day.

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[pepsinutellaandlaptops]

Zil Sperry

Age: 12

Level: 1

Power: None

Position: Hater

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          Lies: The Human Crew and Coates Kids Escape

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[allthingsfayz]

who's your least favorite character in gone and why?

Drake Merwin. send tweet. 

No, but I think I need to redefine my own perception of “least favorite”. In my opinion, Drake was the most villainous because he was human and evil, closely followed by with Gaia/the Gaiaphage, most if not all of the Human Crew, and Caine. Drake just feels like a blending point of all of them–he’s evil and bigoted and violent, yes, but he also typically has some slim semblance of motivation for his actions that we as people can recognize even if we don’t agree with it.

As for least favorite as in least important/impactful,,,I’m really not sure! . So yeah, Drake’s my least favorite, despite the depths/interest I have in analyzing his villainy. TYSM for the ask!

[thewildwaffle]

Salted

Somewhat based off of true events that happened to my grandad and my mom when she was a little girl, trying to bake alone for the first time.

Garchi took another look at the instructions, or the recipe, as he had heard the humans on the crew refer to the collection of thick, white, handwritten cards they kept in the food preparation bay. The instructions seemed to be rather easy to put together, the ingredients easy to find, etc.

Garchi had heard the humans on the crew talking about cake. From what he’d heard, it had to be the pinnacle of human cuisine. One human in particular, Vera, seemed to love it. It was for this reason that Garchi decided to try his hand at this “baking” It was perfect - sweet, fluffy, and chocolatey. It was because of that last aspect that he hadn’t tried any. He shook his head as he finished up frosting his creation. Chocolate. Humans and their love of poisonous foods, really!

“Hey Garchi, what’s smelling so good in here?” Vera walked into the food preparation bay with a huge smile spreading across her face. “Wow! Chocolate cake, huh? I thought you couldn’t eat chocolate.”

Garchi’s heart was beating faster, he tried to not let it show that his hands were shaking as he placed the frosting spatula in the sink with the mixing bowl. “Uh, no, I can’t, but I know humans seem to love it, and I’d heard it was a favorite of yours, so I thought I’d try making it for you.”

Garchi didn’t think Vera’s smile could get any bigger, but he was wrong. It spread and broke into a beautifully musical laugh. “For me? Garchi- Wow! I don’t know what to say!” She pulled out a fork and knife from a drawer and pointed to the cake with it, “May I?”

“Yes, of course, let me get you a plate.”

Vera cut herself a large piece of cake and put it on the plate and took a bite. Her face froze. After a moment, a shaky smile returned, and she took another bite.

“Do you like it?” Garchi asked nervously.

“Hmmm,” she nodded, and took another bite, finishing off the cake piece quickly. She put the plate and silverware in the sink, got a drink of water and left.

Well, that was not the response he’d been expecting. He had little time to process what had just happened when more humans entered the room.

“Garchi, is that chocolate cake I smell? What’s the occasion?” Humans Chris and Terri eyed the cake with hopeful smiles.

“Uh, yes. Yes, I made it for you humans. I’m pretty sure your kind are the only ones here who can eat the stuff. I thought you enjoyed it, but Vera just came in and ate a slice. I’m not sure if she liked it though. Would you mind trying some and letting me know what you think?”

Not needing any further invitation, Chris and Terri cut some cake and took a bite. Like Vera, their faces froze, but unlike Vera, they did not take another bite. In fact, they spit the cake out and ran for the sink.

“Garchi? What the heck? How much salt did you put in there?!”

“What? I don’t understand, I followed the instructions exactly. Let me see,” he lifted up the card with the recipe. “Ah, here, salt. It says three plus four tablespoons of salt.”

“Three plus-? Let me see… No, it says three fourths tablespoons of salt. You added seven tablespoons of salt?”

Garchi looked again at the recipe and then handed it to the humans, pointing at the particular instruction in question. “Does this symbol not mean ‘plus’ to you?”

Terri, after having downed another cup of water, looked and started laughing. “No, that’s division. It means it’s a fraction. Three divided by four, not plus!”

Chris looked over Terri’s shoulder at the recipe card and Garchi’s face, which was starting to look like a combination of confusion and horror. “Wait? You said Vera ate a slice already?” Garchi nodded. “That whole slice?”

Realization dawned on Garchi’s face. “Oh flarg, she ate the whole thing!” Garchi dropped everything, grabbed the two humans by the arms and started for the door, “We need to find her and get her to the medical bay before she dies of sodium overload! This is all my fault! I… I just wanted to impress her with my culinary skills! It was supposed to be a happy gift, I swear, and now… and now… ohhhhhhhh…..”

He had managed to pull the humans a few steps, but once they started laughing, Garchi could no longer get them to move another vloog further. “Why are you laughing?! PLEASE - we need to save her!”

“Garchi, she’ll be fine. Humans can eat a LOT of salt before anything bad happens,” Terri finally managed to say as her laughter died down. “But she really ate that whole piece of salt cake?”

Garchi’s mind struggled to process everything. Vera was going to be okay? Yes, he guessed that made sense. Humans were crazy, but surely she wouldn’t have willingly eaten the whole thing if it would have harmed her? -Or at least harmed her and not have even tasted good? “Yes,” His voice cracked a little. “Yes, she ate the whole thing, got a drink and left.”

The two humans stared at him a bit, then at the cake with three missing slices, each other, and then back at him before they broke into twin smiles.

“I don’t even think my dog would try to eat this if you gave him some,” Chris chuckled. “I mean, good thing though, chocolate is poisonous to dogs, so…”

Of course it is, thought Garchi glumly.

“...Vera must really like you if she ate that whole thing.”

Garchi’s heart lurched. What?

The two humans laughed again and walked past Garchi towards the door. “Well, good luck with the rest of the cake, bud!” “It was a sweet gesture anyway!”

Garchi couldn’t move. After a moment, he looked at his salty cake. Seven ‘tablespoons’ of salt and the only reaction was to drink a bit of water? Oh, humans are weird. But, he smiled, she ate it anyway. She… likes me? Maybe I’ll try another recipe.