#machine 13

[winged-mammal]

I knew I’d seen this look on root somewhere before

and then I remembered

gotta love those bering sisters

[defineyourterms]

From left to right: Bering the cat, Shaw the cat, and Wells the cat. I've assembled 3/4 of my Team Machine 13...

[winged-mammal]

Ahh, that's what I love about sharing random character thoughts with talented fanfic writers! I can easily visualize Root angrily saying that to Myka. And that epilogue is priceless. HG is kind of totally Shaw's type, and Myka/Root having competitive relationship is everything to me. Thanks for writing such a thorough response.

HG and Myka both are kind of totally Shaw’s type, because Shaw’s type is highly competent badass and they’re both nothing if not that.

ngl, if my default way of squishing POI and Warehouse in the same universe weren’t through the Tracy-is-Root thing, then all four of them would totally end up in some “my god we’re all so hot and so competent and totally secure in our respective relationships and we’re all on a mission together with no movies and no internet and nothing to do while we wait so let’s all fuck” situation.

[winged-mammal]

You know? I had a thought today that in an AU where the Berings adopted Root, the sisters would never be able to relate to each other about their eerily parallel traumas. Root isn't one to open up about feelings. Even if she did, Myka wouldn't remember the alternate timeline. But, like, what if she's happily dating Pete and then one day she finds her bratty, cocksure troll of a younger sister looking so hollow and haunted and fragile that she drops everything to watch her for a day or two? What

if it leads a rare honest to god conversation between them? What if, despite all the initial snarkiness, something compels Root to open up in whatever vague way she can, and it triggers in Myka some kind of... memory of a feeling that she can't explain? And as much as she focuses on Root, it leaves her with this lingering feeling of longing and loss that it all starts her on the path of realizing who she really loves?

well, I don’t think there’s a single universe in the multiverse where Myka would be “happily dating” Pete for more than the amount of time it takes to cancel a show and dismantle the sets

BUT I do see Myka being stupid and noble, keeping away from HG and letting her do her thing, trying to move on from her but knowing that there’s never going to be something as strong as what she felt for HG

and then the stock exchange flash crash happens, and Myka’s kind of surprised that they never got a ping about that because it just screams something weird and artifact-y, and a couple weeks later Root shows up and it’s... disconcerting, to say the least, to see her sister so hollow and haggard and distraught

and I love that idea of hearing about the loss of Shaw, however much Root can reveal about it, calling out to some distant memory in Myka that’s not really a memory, but she doesn’t know what else to call it because something deep and primal in her bones knows that pain of watching the woman she loves die right before her eyes in some noble self-sacrificing gesture

and I think that after a day or two, Root would pull herself together enough to go back out hunting Samaritan and see the picture of HG that Myka keeps around, and there would be such venom in Root’s voice when she tells Myka that she’s a fucking idiot, nothing affectionate in it at all, and Myka really can’t blame her and just stares out the door after her like “yeah I know”

(... a couple years later they all end up on a mission together somehow and HG can’t help but flirt with both Root and Shaw because come on, it’s HG, and Shaw might have a tiny thing for HG’s accent and Myka and Root are extremely put out about all this, and the two couples have adjoining hotel rooms and Myka and Root accidentally end up competing for who can make their partner scream the loudest oops??)

[nilhmai]

Bear the dog wrote in his Twitter once that Root smelled like apples and nail polish.

It occurs to me:

Since Shaw planted a big one on Root right before her sacrifice, apples may have been the last thing she was aware of smelling.

Just in case y’all needed any more POI/WH13 parallels.

[lonely-night]

[ohimjustabard-askblog]

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SEND ME A ★ FOR MY MUSE’S REACTION TO YOURS PICKING THEM UP AND THROWING THEM OVER THEIR SHOULDER

Shay gave a small yelp as her neighbor suddenly grabbed her and hoisted Shay over her shoulder. Shay was still for a moment, so dumbfounded by the turn of events before she started to squirm. “Alice, Alice, stop it, put me down, PUT ME DOWN.”

[webgeekist]

That dog does look like Bear! And maybe Shaw accidentally touched Athena's Helmet or something and got turned into a grumpy little owl and now she and Bear and Root (not pictured) are hanging out at a safehouse out in the country somewhere while they wait for Root's sister and her crazy friends to show up and fix this.

I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK ANON!