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Donatello Hamato ([personal profile] purplexing) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2023-07-31 10:38 am

[Open] Transmissions Echoing Away

Who: Donnie ([personal profile] purplexing) and you..?!
What: Weathering the aftermath of Downburst events while trying to get back into some semblance of whatever accounts for normal around here
When: End of July into Mid-August
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: N/A
Notes: Will match pose pref!


i. Lost Child (Tiny Turtle 1)
It was supposed to be a couple of simple errands, a stop at the hardware store and then an automotive shop for some replacement headlights. Sure, he might've been able to scavenge those but finding purple-tinted ones is considerably more difficult when you can't turn on cars in the junkyard to check.

Donnie tucks his phone away, a corner coffee shop catching his eye. Well, maybe a stop there on the way back. He stuffs his hands into the pockets of his purple hoodie, crosses the street...

...

The first thing that hits him is the noise and the brightness. This isn't the sewers, it's not even an enclosed space. Not to mention there are humans everywhere!

It's the blare of an impatient car horn that sends the suddenly small bundle of purple and green running for the nearest cover in absolute panic. But when you're only about two feet tall, practically everything towers over you and is that much more scary.

The purple-hoodied tiny turtle cowers under a bus bench. Just breathe, just breathe. What did dad tell them to do in a situation like this?

...he has no idea.


ii. Runaway (Tiny Turtle 2)
He has decided that the world above is terrifying. While he's been somewhat surprised that not everyone seems to freak out at first sight of a small, glasses-wearing, green child, not everyone proves to be very nice!

Case in point, a couple of thuggish bullies who have apparently decided it's good sport to chase him down.

For the record, Donnie does not think this is fun! He's in tears as he does his best to get away from them, but he has tiny legs and not the greatest coordination.


iii. What Fun is Force if it Can't be a Little Deadly
For how effectively Donnie had managed to clear out the otherwise abandoned warehouse the last time he and Accelerator had made use of it, the place seems to more or less have become a default space to use for their choice of illicit activities. The tape's probably still stuck in some places from when Leo outlined the layout for their even earlier heist.

Today, it is for the purpose of testing out weapons. Donnie's been working on a few things, one being finalizing Accelerator's laser attachment for his crutch, which Donnie can't really test out in the penthouse.

And then there's his personal project he'd decided to sink some time into ever since those Arcadian guards had popped up and power neutralization was a thing: the resurrection of his beloved tech-, Version 2.0. This one's considerably pared down from the original model, sleeker and more subtle. True, it was hard to convince himself that he didn't need a flame thrower, or a saw, or even a third of what his fourteen-year old self had crammed into the original design, but he is pretty happy with what he's come up with.

He's even more eager to put it through the motions.


iv. Frequency - (first come, first serve)
It never fails; you're just walking along, enjoying your fancy cup of coffee when you suddenly get hit by some several hours' worth of memories that you technically hadn't even experienced yet. The sensation's jarring enough that it stops Donnie dead in his tracks.

A foiled heist gone wrong, The Foot Clan again, April dragging some unconscious kid into the Lair, aliens--!

His coffee's all over the ground now but his thoughts are still scattered between places, eyes twitchy like he's dreaming with his eyes open. It takes him a moment before he gasps, feeling like he'd just been submerged underwater.

"Uggh that was really weird and highly disturbing, let's not do that again," he groans, running a hand over his face.

levelshift: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/73296157 (hmmm 2)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-08-14 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Accelerator sticks his phone in his back pocket, thinking he'll have to try and call Leo later. Now is a bad time, he's fairly sure he'd never live it down if he did. Better to wait for Donnie to calm down, first.

Making a mental note to register this property destruction with the Society, he'll make his way past the growing crowd. Donnie needs somewhere quiet to calm down and he doesn't particularly want to deal with the police, so with a light hop he takes off, right up to the roof of a nearby building. He'll hop from roof to roof until he spots a small park, and will jump down to the edge of it.
levelshift: (who cares about saving the world)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-08-15 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's a very good thing Accelerator is used to small children being small children. Last Order has never cried on him, but there was that one time she took it upon herself to try one of his coffees, and after spitting it out wiped her mouth off on his shirt. So it's fine, he's just going to have to wash this shirt later.

.... He does pull a pack of travel tissues out from his pocket, though. It's probably too little too late since Donnie's crying seems to be calming down, but he might as well hand them over.

He heads into the park, walking towards a bench. "Feeling better?"
levelshift: (what?)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-08-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Good, great. Any situation where Donnie is no longer crying is an improvement. Accelerator falls silent as they head into the park. He makes his way towards a nearby bench. Trying to call Leo right now seems like a bad idea, he should at least give the kid a bit more time to calm down, since talking about doing it before seemed to freak him out so badly.

So he drops down onto the bench, setting Donnie down on it before hitting the switch on his choker.
levelshift: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/59332647 (......... 2)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-08-16 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"......................"

Ugh, small children and their dumb needs. Accelerator sighs a little but refrains from letting go of Donnie.

Why is he such a pushover. It's one of life's great mysteries.