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[agnominal]

[ There's a perplexed looking young man in view of the screen. Anyone familiar with Locus will probably recognize him, but something's definitely different. That tell-tale x-shaped scar? Gone. His hair is shorter, hanging just below his jaw. Moreover, his eyes don't quite hold that thousand-yard-stare to them just yet.

He looks, well. Teenaged.

He's also holding Luna up to view. She's purring heavily, but he appears bewildered by her presence, if anything. ]

Does anyone know whose cat this is? I just...found her here when I woke up.

voice | you still hate time travel

[ordinarily]

Okay, so.

Am I going crazy, or do I see more kids than usual?

Like, okay, I know I don't pay a lot of attention, and I usually just stay in the Nasty Burger and all. But I know the Legion makes a big deal about having to be fourteen to be an adult or something, so uh.

Anyone wanna help me out here? Or should I just default to blaming time travel?

Because I'm perfectly fine with just blaming time travel.

[ A pause. ]

... Actually, you know what? I'm just gonna blame time travel.

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[kingtyrantranger]

[Oh, hey, seems like someone's finally figured out how to use the camera function on his omnicomm! He's just. Older. A lot older.]

For the record, I blame Gohan and Videl for this. We were just fine until they started jumping and skipping up and down the timeline.

It's pretty obvious what's going on, so let's not have a bunch of people freak out over someone being younger than they should be. Kids, don't do anything stupid. Adults, keep an eye out for the kids. Business as usual. We've been at this for over half a year now, no reason to fuck it up just because the status quo's been shaken a bit.

[ TEXT ] SENDING OUT AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD

[goddamngrenades]

Quick Check in for Members of Project Freelancer, the UNSC, and our mutual associates- or anyone that wants to get word out about themselves having changed or not changed or...whatever. Has questions? This is Agent York and Delta, so far we're unaffected by this time ripple thing. Connie, North, Wash, Grif, Chief, Theta, Cortana, Locus, Azucar, Parker, Pidge, Fareeha, Amélie - and anyone else I'm forgetting, shoot me a text back, alright?

I'll deliver pancakes and blankets or other care package items if needed. If you'd rather come talk in person swing by my habitat, I'll be hanging in the bar. Directions are below. Also, Jason- buddy? Swing by, I feel like I owe you a beer.

[ In neat green lines there's a little holographic map showing how to get to York's dive bar from the recipient's current location, wherever they might be. ]

Specific refreshments are available upon request.

Annoyance up front, party in the back [video]

[googledox]

[When Brainiac appears on the screen, he looks younger. Not by much, since his species' slow aging means that he usually looks very young for someone in his early twenties, but he's even more clearly a teenager now.]

[He's sixteen, and that means four things: 1) he's from his early days of being on the team, when he was only there because of a draft, 2) the white personality inhibitors on his face are gone, 3) he's a raging asshole, and 4) yes, that is a slight mullet he's sporting.]

[He regards them all with boredom bordering on disdain.]

For those of you that are wondering why individuals on board are facing chronal shifts, you needn't be concerned. I've looked over the notes written by my future self, and the damage and repair to the timeline from the team's recent mission to the past is creating temporary ripples in the time stream. They should eventually resolve on their own, returning everyone to their proper age. The effect is limited to Legion World and all those exposed to the chronal wake of the time machine that was used on the mission.

[He sighs.]

Kid Quantum has informed me that I'm still in charge of the Legion's technical needs in the future. [flatly] Joy of joys. Judging from the number of projects and experiments running in the lab that are meant to aid the team, the UP has apparently legalized slave labor, so I'll be here in the labs, wasting 99% of my time ensuring your continued existence.

If any of you needs something from me, stop.

[He disconnects for a moment, then reconnects.]

To clarify, "stop" isn't a shortened way of saying "stop by." It's completely literal. Just stop.

[video][mingle post] Show Me Your Moves: Redux

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif is in one of Legion World's lounges. There's a space future pool table behind him, set up for a game. ]

Hey Legion, how's it going?

[ Wait. No. He holds up a hand. ]

Rhetorical question, don't answer that, it's not what I'm here for. What I'm here to talk to you about today is superpowers.

[ He's found his stride, and taken an almost public-service-announcement tone. ]

Do you have strange new abilities since coming to space? Were you just extra cool before the rest of us and nothing changed? Cause I definitely want to know what you guys got in the Time Trapper lottery and please make it look as awesome as possible.

[ He grins a little. Superpowers are the best. ]

For those of you who are new, which is most of who I'm talking to here? I'm Grif. Doubletime if you want to go all codename on me but... Grif. Really. Sometimes I look like this:

[ He scoops a space-age looking helmet painted bright orange off the floor, presumably, then drops it again with a thunk. It's armor, he's not gonna break it, right? ]

And me? I got this.

[ Grif disappears in an orange blur and suddenly, the pool table clears itself in a flurry of indistinct motion. He comes back down from super speed and casually leans the cue against it. If anyone bothers to slow that down, it was an absolutely disgraceful display and he cheated at least six times. Grif is super smug. ]

So yeah. I kind of got the best power already? Sorry.

[ Oh right, there was something else he wanted. ]

And everybody else? Uh. Anything new that's cool? ...Or just tell me how the last mission went for you. I got to go into the past and wrestle Batman and stuff. He's kind of a dick, honestly.

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but this also an invitation to threadjack. If you want to have a character jump into a thread somewhere with anyone else you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. This is set after Gods Among Us / To Have And To Hold / The Other Mother and before Time Ripples, so it is slightly backdated to give characters a chance to meet the regular versions of each other before the nonsense begins.
If there's anything I can do to improve your dumb Grif-assisted minglepost experience, feel free to ping me at zitasaurusrex.)))