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[legionnpcs]

[Oh, hey, it's Babbage. And he's waving.]

I'm back! And bearing gifts! Not for everyone, sorry. I only have so much budget.

So, first order of business, I had fun at the movie festival. It was good all around. Managed to meet up with some old friends and handle old business. We're going to get together for a project in the near future, so I'm hoping everyone can keep the universe safe until then.

Timber Wolf: I found some crystal statues for the cub. They work as data crystals too, so that'll be useful as he ages up!

[The statues in question are about four inches high. Red, gold, green, and blue. No black, unfortunately. But they're all done up as Legionnaires. Some time went into that.]

Kid Quantum: A non-magnetic alarm clock!

[He just figured it'd be useful.]

Wash! I have a movie! Maybe you can show it at movie night if you like, it might be a bit too old for your tastes. I haven't seen it yet, but it's supposed to be a legendary feature!

And Cortana, Delta, Theta, I picked up something for us, too.

[The camera focuses back on Babbage and zooms out. He's wearing a... very brightly striped polo shirt. Blue with gold stripes. He's holding up three more, one sized for her and the other two in miniature for Delta and Theta.]

I was thinking that if we decided on a team theme, we could go with green and magenta thread for the letters. Green outline, magenta filling?

Everyone else, I got you some mugs! They play soothing jazz when filled with coffee. The hotter the coffee, the more soothing. The lower the liquid level gets, the more energetic the jazz! Or you can just use the controls in the handles, that works too.

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[goddamngrenades]

The Bionic Bowlers - Or is that too literal?

[legionnpcs]

It sounds good to me, but we'll need to put it up to a team vote.

[steelandtemper]

None of us have any biological components, unless Delta's counting York and North.

[nofortunateson]

But we're kinda doing bionics, right? I've been watching a lot of bowling footage figuring out how people do it and why they're bad a lot.

[steelandtemper]

They're bad because the human form is terrible for anything involving balance. Bipedal locomotion is bad enough. Plantigrade just makes it worse.

[prettycoolguy]

Ouch.

[ He's kidding though. ]

[steelandtemper]

The truth hurts, Chief.

[super BFFs Cortana and John-117]

[nofortunateson]

Oh my gosh.

[It doesn't even occur to Theta to contradict Cortana, because she's right. But he never meant for his observation to lead to hurt feelings, either, and he jumps in quickly, voice nervy but earnest.]

Don't feel bad! Most builds have a lot of problems, but they have a lot of good stuff too. Sometimes the problems are stuff you can't fix all the way and that's okay, you just do your best and focus on the stuff you're strong at.

[If he were in any way constrained in his ability to make sound, there's a sense he'd be taking a deep breath right about there. In actuality it's just the space where he realizes that he's just babbled a rough mishmash of what he's heard his brother and his brother's human partner express a handful of times when this feeling comes up. To Cortana's partner.

Quietly, he tries to salvage the outburst with something more appropriately rational.]

Um. It helps more than just feeling bad, anyway.

[legionnpcs]

We could fix his legs by attaching tank treads to his armor, though.

[steelandtemper]

[This is the greatest thing Cortana's ever heard.]

Yeah, Chief, don't get discouraged. We're all here for you.

[Staying deadpan for this is gonna kill her.]

[prettycoolguy]

[ Oh no, he made the little AI worry. He didn't mean to! ]

It was a joke, Theta.

[ He didn't mean to trick him, but still feels a little bad about it anyway. ]

She'll have to try harder if she wants to really hurt my feelings.

[nofortunateson]

[Times when it's nice not to have a physical manifestation - when you've just done something so horrifyingly embarrassing that you'd be crawling under the furniture if you could.

Then again, if he could crawl under the furniture, he wouldn't have to reply. Probably.]

-oh. Yeah. [Maybe he can just. Decrease his volume until another level in the conversation takes over.] Well I'm glad you still feel good then okay I gotta go back to running munitions sims thank you.

[prettycoolguy]

It's fine.

[ He's made such a mess how does he fix it??? ]