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

[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?

all off network all of the time

[repelling]

[ Kurosaki, just be glad he hasn't got Seele Schneider. He'd be sorely tempted to leave you pinned halfway up a very distant wall.

Instead, he gets up, reflexively offering his hand to pull Kurosaki to his feet. ]

If you're going to stand around gossiping, do it on your own time, not the dragon's!

action action action

[liketeenspirit]

[He rolls his eyes for a second at the offered hand up, trying to decide if he's too petty proud to take it, but decides now's not the time to refuse it. Besides, Ishida was the one who knocked him over in the first place, so they're even, right?]

Do you see anything better for me to do? That thing melted my sword, and I can't exactly punch it, you know? And this area's empty already, so I can't go around patching people up with Kate's marble, either.

...so yeah, I checked my phone.

[#millennial #useless]

[repelling]

[ He saved you from hellfire you ungrateful moron. ]

If there's nothing for you to do, record a video like they asked, or go away!

[ It's different from concerns as to ability in battle or the right to be there. It isn't about those doubts.

It's about standing around like neon, blinding target while a dragon's in the vicinity. It's about being an ungrateful moron. ]

[liketeenspirit]

[Nah, he gets that it's not about powers. Ishida would be acting differently if it were. This isn't uncomfortable enough to be anything like that; nothing's being sidestepped, nothing's being left carefully unsaid.]

Seriously? You want me to stand here and videotape it like some kind of tourist?

[He yelled at a guy for doing exactly that like two hours ago.]

[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.]

video

[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]

video 1/3

[fortunefavored]

Yeah, man. This whole time. [Newt looks amused] What, did you just think we were colleagues that hated each other but still spent pretty much every waking hour together?

video

[fortunefavored]

[a beat. Newt blinks, twice, then---]

video 3/3

[fortunefavored]

Well, I mean, okay, we kinda spent a good five years kind of like that but--[Newt waves a hand]--that was then, this is now. And even then it wasn't hate? Not entirely? I mean--??? [how do you describe those years in the Shatterdome? They weren't friends. Were they? They might've been. They were colleagues, technically, but that sounds too...impersonal for how closely they lived during those five years (and the two-ish years since.)

Now he's thinking about it, lol]

[liketeenspirit]

....you mean that's weird?

[let him tell you the tale of the time a woman platonically cohabitated with him. He is still platonically cohabitating, actually.]

I just figured you guys had been through a lot together. It's not exactly hard to tell. I thought you kinda drove each other nuts, but were close because of that anyway.

And besides, it's really annoying when people just assume things like that.

[fortunefavored]

[Newt considers this]

I mean, I guess that makes sense. [shrug] I just didn't think it was that big of a shock that it also lead to dating.

[liketeenspirit]

Hate to break it to you, but you are kind of an odd couple. I wouldn't have called it.

[obviously, Ichigo, you're clueless and your only experience with gay people before today was Chizuru

no one's first gay person should be Chizuru

but honestly what serves to normalize it most is...]

...has he seriously not taken you on a single date in a year and a half?

[verinumeri]

[ 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.

[face_kick]

[Look, you were busy being dead and once the zombies were gone there wasn't a lot to distract her from the whole 'dead' thing so you know what this is all technically Ichigo's fault.]

[And she just laughs at being told to shut up.]

You're gonna get set on fire if you don't shut up yourself.