NOTIFICATION/REPORT #2 || BACKDATED TO 10-10 AFTERNOON

[verinumeri]

Attention: Hadriel Residents
Subject: Dragxkdksoe

[ Abruptly, the text is posted, with a video immediately following, the screen initially shaking, jostling, as one voice protests in the background ]

Newton, give it back--!!

--we’re talking about dragons, Hermann! There’s no way you’re doing this in a stuffy text post!

[ The video stabilizes a bit, currently held just out of reach of one (1) Hermann Gottlieb. The arm holding said phone out of reach belongs to one (1) Newt Geiszler. It’s debatable how long he’ll be able to keep it out of Hermann’s grasp, but he sure is going to try.]

[ For a petulant, tortured moment Hermann sincerely looks as though he is about to lunge for the phone, a matter of aggrieved principle and standard outrage. Yet, 1.53 seconds and he thinks better of it. They are recording. He would be seen looking foolish.

Hermann grits his teeth and straightens, standing up, all stiff professionalism as he leans on his cane. He has rarely used video. He hates this. Newton will hear about it later, once the video is off. ]

Fine. As you may know, I am Dr. Gottlieb, that is my colleague--

(Boyfriend!)

[ They are recording. A muscle works in his jaw, but Hermann swallows his protest, resists the urge to throw something at or strangle Newton, and continues-- ]

--Dr. Geiszler. In our world, we worked in Kaiju Science, which to put it succinctly, means we studied the behemoth -- larger than these dragons, I assure you -- alien creatures invading our world, and aided the development and design of offensive and defensive weaponry.

We are requesting data--

[and that’s about the time Newt’s managed to prop the camera up somewhere, and pops fully into view.]

--basically I want any info anyone has about the dragons! Flight patterns, movements, where they’re hanging out, their favorite color--seriously, anything and everything. You notice it, I wanna know it! Aaaaand if you can get scales or something, that’d be super helpful. Or any other bits. The more there is to analyze, the more likely it is that we’ll be able to throw something together.

[and tbh that’s about as much of serious professional as Newt is going to be able to get before really yeah okay he has to fold and his face splits into a wide grin] Also real, live dragons, you guys. Dragons! This is seriously some King Arthur level shit! How cool is this?!

[ observe the look of deep, deep, depthless chagrin as it settles into the lines of Dr. Gottlieb's face, lines carved by almost seven years of this.

LOUDLY: ]

Videos if they may be safely obtained, observations, specifics, as specific as possible. Note the effectiveness of your standard weaponry, or whatever it is you can do and use. The scales would, indeed, be particularly helpful.

Be safe, but be quick and be thorough.

Yeah, don’t die while doing it. That’d be dumb.

...Right. The sooner, the sooner we may be able to put something together.

So, like….chop chop and stuff. Thanks! K-Sci, out!

[aaand yep gonna turn off that video now, though because he’s Newt, he’s continuing to talk as he’s reaching to do so--]

Though maybe it should be D-Sci since it’s dragons and not kaiju--

Please, perhaps once you've studied them for a decade, and you can't--

[--click!]

[ooc: i'm so sorry (nikki isn't) but plz help!! -- they'd have mentioned DRAGON PIES WTF but backdated) ]

Comments

[liketeenspirit]

[Ichigo looks out of breath, like he was running but has just skidded to a halt. The background of the feed is definitely dragon-damaged, and there's the sound of crackling flames somewhere out of sight.]

Wait -- you guys are boyfriends?

[Is Newt kidding? Ichigo's gonna feel real gullible if he is.]

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[ U G H. Hermann stares at the video, noting the background, the labored breath, staring that Mr. Kurosaki would bother to stop and ask that question.

His eyes dart off screen, narrowed and vicious. Newton. ]

Please focus, Mr. Kurosaki. Is that really what you took from that broadcast? If so, please don't waste either your time or mine.

video

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[Newt, however, has zero trouble with that question. In fact, he's going to hook an arm around Hermann's shoulders from behind, grinning widely]

Yep! We've been dating for at least a year!

[and this is probably the part where he gets shoved off tbh]

video

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[ SHOVED.

With a disgusted roll of his eyes.

Yet.

He does not deny it.

...actually, damn his need for precision --

MUTTERED: ]

502 days. Technically. Together more than dating.

[ Technically, because given respective disappearances in Haven, the count would be different for each -- but the total time, as experienced by one or the other, cumulatively... and they've never exactly gone on a date, have they? Words may be inadequate as a rule, but here, they could be more accurate. ]

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[the turn of phrase makes Newt pause, frowning at first, before he comes to the realization of:]

...holy shit, I don't think we've ever gone on a date. [HE HADN'T REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE but now it looks like he totally is o o p s]

1/?? here we go

[liketeenspirit]

[what.

they

they are?

as in

the old guy and the super excitable scarred-up nerd are.....]

2/god even knows

[liketeenspirit]

[what.

how.

this whole time?? for like a year?! HE HAD NO IDEA]

3/and going strong

[liketeenspirit]

[what is that even like]

4/wheeeeeee

[liketeenspirit]

[nvm he doesn't want to know]

5/6 I think, but I make no promises

[liketeenspirit]

[....wait, Dr. Gottlieb hasn't even taken Newt on a date? Wow, what a shitty boyfriend]

6/6 there we go

[liketeenspirit]

...I thought you guys hated each other.

[The pieces of his mind, still very shuffled up, have put themselves back together enough for him to express his confusion with his words.]

[face_kick]

[Is she like twenty feet away from you and instead replying on the network where everyone can see? Of course she is.]

Way to focus on the important thing there.

[verinumeri]

Thank you.

[off network]

[repelling]

[ meanwhile lbr uryuu is probably standing there like, what the hell are you guys doing on your phones there is a dragon ]

[off network]

[liketeenspirit]

[just a second ok this is important he needs answers]

[off network] 1/2

[repelling]

I am going to let you burn, Kurosaki!

[ Except that in practice, he apparently won't. The sound of cracking flame gets a lot louder, and Uryuu, until that instant distracted by Kurosaki standing around gaping at his phone, doesn't have time to do anything but run at him and physically tackle him out of the way.

The wall explodes into flames and rubble. ]

[off network]

[repelling]

[ There's rolling, an arm hover his head with bow webbed out to deflect, the makeshift shield it sometimes can be, any remnant pieces of rock and wall. His knee's on Kurosaki's chest, and he sure takes that moment to take out his own phone, skimming what the hell Kurosaki was doing.

At which he point smacks him upside the head with said phone. Unless Kurosaki blocks it. ]

Seriously?!

1/2

[liketeenspirit]

Oh...that was a pretty close one, wasn't it.

2/2, both off-network, I apologize for him

[liketeenspirit]

You can get off me n--hey!

[Nope. No block. Rule of funny means he gets hit, and yelps.]

Ow! What was that for?

[liketeenspirit]

[Talking to her off network, but it's broadcasting anyway.]

Look, we can get them dragon guts. That's no big deal. I had no idea they were -- you know --

[He gestures helplessly. Dating? Together? A thing? What's he even supposed to call it?]

video

[fortunefavored]

Dude, A.) I can totally hear you. And B.) you do know that sexualities other than "straight" are a thing, right?

[c'mon, man.]

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[liketeenspirit]

Aw, crap, I left it on.

[to Newt:]

Uh, yeah, of course I have, it's just -- you? And him? This whole time?

[One, they didn't seem the type, because unfortunately, while Ichigo Kurosaki has heard of other sexualities, his experience with them is about as limited as the average Japanese seventeen-year-old, and two, they didn't seem the type to be into each other. But....well, they're both enormous nerds, so maybe it works....?

he'd had no idea, romance is weird]

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[ Rolls his eyes so hard that it actually hurts, at the insinuation that this asinine revelation is a, or the, big deal. ]

[face_kick]

Well. Living people date. It's a thing. That they do. [She knows from manga.]

And are you really sure you of all people ought to be giving dating advice? [this conversation may be happening in real time, but she is awesome enough at multi-tasking to 1) dodge flames, 2) banter with Ichigo and 3) follow a thread of conversation enough to comment on things happening upthread, as it were. She's a lieutenant, she has certain skills.]

I'd focus more on the dragon guts.

[liketeenspirit]

[how did she get so good at the internet, wtf

anyway, he's been told to butt out, and by and large, he's gonna do that, so that means he's gonna cool it on the why is Gottlieb such a shit boyfriend topic.]

Shut up.