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[txngledbxnds]

☠️ ( sender finds that receiver has been poisoned via drink spiking, coated weapon, etc )

-@thelighthousesbeacon (heads up I'd be using James (the older brother) for this since Fulcrum would not know what to do here)

There had been a fight, some radicals against mutants or something stupid like that. There had been weapons, thankfully Duchess had kept up her training, though it had stopped her from getting seriously hurt, it hadn't stopped one of the people involved from getting a lucky hit in. A knife had sliced her arm.

Usually she would be able to feel it healing it not too long after, but this time it felt different. She felt woozy, and sick. She swayed where she stood and frowned slightly in worry and anger, because of course it would happen to her. she slouched against the wall, holding her head as the world spun much too fast for her liking.

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[starsmuserainbow]

[[ @thelighthousesbeacon | New post from here bc Editor]]

Fulcrum couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed at the mention of police.  Normally he’d leave as soon as they got involved, but these days he was mostly catching small time crooks and thieves.  This one was a bit different.  He didn’t really have the option to just leave now. He listened to Lightning’s offer quietly, and then shook his head. “No, thanks.”  Time was of the essence, but potentially getting sick from the speed was not something he was willing to risk just yet.  The additional minute or whatever it would take him to get there might help him think more strategy anyways. “Lightning, do you think you could disarm the cops out there?  I am not bullet proof.”

His choice was okay - it might be better if they weren't going to do the 'how do you feel after being dragged along with super speed' experiment right now. Both of them - three of them with the voice in their ears - were needed for this, after all.

"Good idea." Lightning nodded, and zoomed off a moment later. It wasn't really much effort to run to each policemen and grab their guns and carry it to a heap a little away, the problematic part was more once they realized they didn't have their weapons anymore, and some of them spotted Lightning 'guarding' the heap of weapons instantly. "You'd only hurt yourself if you'd shoot that thing!" Lightning tried to explain, but it seemed that the police would rather find that out for themselves. Some of them moving in, Lightning took all the weapons and brought them onto the rooftop of one of the nearby buildings before standing somewhere close-ish to the police again. Now at least she didn't have to guard weapons anymore - and it shouldn't take much longer for Fulcrum to join her, either. "The plan with the magnets still stands, right?" Just to be sure, Lightning figured she could ask another time - she could have just brought it to action already, but it kinda felt wrong to consider doing the plan without Fulcrum when she would never have come up with anything like it herself.

[starsmusedeposit]

[[ @thelighthousesbeacon | Continued from here.]]

Fulcrum narrowed his eyes at her as she teased him about ‘clotheslines being his weakness’.  “Oh, hush,” he grumbled at her.

He did his best to stay still as Lightning climbed along the wall and, realizing it might take a minute for her to get to where she needed to be, heaved a sigh.  Maybe it would have been better for him to accidentally get tangled in some clotheslines that were closer to the ground.  He’d have to keep that in mind for next time.

Fulcrum felt a small bit of pressure on his shoe, and looked up to find a pigeon had landed on him.  Great.

He looked over at Lightning again as she asked about cutting the rope. “I mean- unless you happen to have a friend who has ‘untangling powers’...”

Lightning grinned to that idea. "Untangling powers... sounds kinda lame as power, if you ask me. At least for all situations outside of this one." Though, on second thought, it might also help when being tied up with rope since that would also be a form of tangle? Hm. Perhaps an escape artist could make use of these powers.

All thoughts about this aside, Lightning nodded once more, before reaching for one of the clotheslines. "Okay, cutting the first." She checked where it was attached to, but that was too well-done to open easily, so instead, she vibrated her hand and moved it through the line, cutting it after the second attempt of doing so. Once it snapped off, she looked over to Fulcrum to see if that would already be enough in freeing him. She'd need to climb a little higher still for the nearest next one, otherwise.

[familiaanteomnia]

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Following where the newfound powers said to go; running through the streets to where it was leading him. As things kept picking up, things were going to shift and he hated that fact. Especially when it sunk in he was about to deal with armed criminals. Yet he didn't hesitate and entered the place being robbed. So focused on fist fighting the one- he didn't even notice when somebody else entered the whirlwind fight going on. Too busy realizing he should probably consider maybe an secret identity? Not being in his usual attire. Oh well, he'd think it over later. Dodging an knife swipe at his torso. Kicking at the criminal and only narrowly avoiding what was- wasn't one of the thieves apparently.

[txngledbxnds]

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[starsmuserainbow]

@thelighthousesbeacon replied to your post “Headcanon Time - Language As usual, find the...”:

tangent from the beginning maybe, but I'm curious about your thoughts on this: does the lip touch thing teach them non verbal languages too? (like sign language and written language for example)

​I appreciate the question, thank you! Will likely later add this to the original post too in some form so that it's actually in there from now on, but I wanted to make this an actual post for answering the question too!

So, like, for the written language that "comes with" a spoken one? That is definitely included, since it's basically a written form of the spoken one that's learned.

If there's a language that is only written though, it would fall more into the same "category" as where I would place sign language, which is that no, it's not learn-able through lip-contact.

The tamaranean might be able to get a few gestures from the lip-contact nonetheless that might help with basic communication (say, hands up for showing you mean no harm, shaking head for no or sth, these things, if they exist for this species/language), but nonverbal languages are not learn-able through lip-contact.

One thing this leads to that I like to imagine, is that Starfire actually has to slowly manually learn sign language to communicate with the people of Earth that use it (most prominently the fellow hero Jericho), and that those languages are quite a challenge for most tamaraneans, considering that most of their life, all they need to do is one lip-contact to be able to just fluently use a language.

(I'm not sure just how much sense this makes, since I'm p sure it must be possible to dream+think in those non-verbal languages too and shouldn't it then still be possible for a tamaranean to get the information through lip-contact, but like, I'm not that deep into science behind my ideas so like, just take it that for me, lip-contact works for the verbal languages, and gestures to a degree, but not things like sign language or written-only languages.)

[familiaanteomnia]

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Parker was just minding his usual business; when felt something amiss and begrudgingly made his way in the direction his newfound sixth sense was guiding him. But it kept fading in, out- continuing to head there but pulling his phone out to respond to an few texts. Knocking into somebody, fumbling his phone but before could catch it it had already landed in the strangers hand. They caught it? “Thanks for saving my phone, sorry I probably should have been more aware of my surrounding area.”

[txngledbxnds]

"Hey, Duchess." (Fox, downhearted) "...Do you ever just get stuck on shitty things people've done in the past? Like, someone you've known for years so they're kind of important to you so you try to help them when they mess up, and they just respond in the absolute worst way and it turns out they never really liked you as a person at all, and they were just tolerating you to save face or whatever.

"What do you do when you get stuck on that?"

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Duchess looked up at the familiar voice, though it the tone was different to how it usually was. She tilted her head a little as she listened. "Are you sure that's the reason?" She asked. "Are you sure they aren't trying to protect you from something?"

She sighed a little. "I don't really have much of that experience, the bond feels off, if they're faking it. And if they are trying to push me away for whatever reason, I usually feel that through the bond too."

"All I can say, is that if they really have been using you, then maybe you're better off without someone like that in your life. They don't sound very nice. What happened?"