kintsugi IN SPACE

Hot damn.

 

I am a sucker for a well cut blazer, especially if you can roll the sleeves into 3 quarter sleeves.
But holy hell military jackets. One day I will own millions.

 

Military jackets are so cool looking.

 

You know it occurs to me that threatening to bite people if they brought up Jurassic Park with reference to dinosaur cloning was Not Very Nice so I would like to apologise for that.

 

Wes would like to apologize for any sparks.
he heard that humans had electricity in them but apparently only a little bit?
He would also like apologize for not having a mouth, he knows that can be scary. He forgot.

 

Someone should try to draw one on.

 

@unknownanonymous I sort of ended up assuming you would want a shirt with Norm the genie on.

Spoiler: also one of those dinky little crown things because they are cute

 

/wails a bit about having missed a notification somewhere and therefore not got notifications for any of this cool shit
Oh well I'm here now and having caught up on eight pages would like an excuse to ramble about my kintsona

Mirrors is probably human. Or at least they started out human, almost certainly, probably. Somewhere along the line they discovered they had an affinity for mirror magic, and started fucking around with it without really knowing what they were doing. This caused a few things about them to get a bit funny- the panther ears & tail being the most obvious thing, also their eyes are both catlike and far too reflective, in that while it's perfectly normal to see your reflection in other people's eyes, if you look into Mirrors' for too long you can't see anything but yourself, and not just your outward appearance either.
This is not the whole reason they don't make eye contact but it doesn't help. People sort of tend to get unnerved by seeing reflections of their inner nature in someone else's eyes, after all. It's probably lucky kintsugi has a large population of non-eye-contact-making autie folk.
On the whole though they look mostly human, and their dress-sense is camo pants or jeans, boots and BRIGHT GREEN HOODIE. Except if it's hot out, in which case a variety of stupid slogan/picture t-shirts will be worn instead.
Despite this, they are surprisingly willing to be used as a living dressmaker's dummy and/or dressed up for exciting occasions, provided nobody expects them to start wearing fancy shit all the time.
They're perfectly okay with tech and will integrate it into their powers but they're far better at magic. They get mirrors. No, they grok mirrors. Every reflective surface that can provide a recognisable reflection of the outside world can be included in their mental map, and they know exactly which mirror is where, even if it's moving around, so they can see through any one they please and connect other people to them so the other people can see through them as well. They can't really say how, the best they can manage is 'they all taste different'.
They can also move through them, and yes they can pop their entire body out of your pocket mirror if they need to, or your robot arm if it's shiny enough. After a few short, sharp lessons about boundaries, however, they only tend to do this with permission. Mostly. Unless it would be really funny.
They have a sense of humour a mile wide and are not above fucking with people for their own amusement, which is not ideal in someone running a colony's communication network but they're also not stupid and know this is a cushy as hell gig and a nice place full of nice people so they don't ever dick things about in a serious manner. I imagine there are codewords and suchlike to use when placing calls to signify 'Mirrors, do not even think about doing anything, this is important/urgent/a matter of life and death'.
Mostly their unhelpful streak is channelled into fucking with the Tumblr folks who try and get in contact. They love those games so much.
They are extremely proficient with the longsword, and the communications and surveillance systems are sufficiently automated that with a few tweaks and a body to sit in front of it it can be left alone, so occasionally they'll join in a defence squad or go on an adventure, though they don't like being away from their control room for too long in case something happens and they miss it.
The range of their mirror control extends over the entire colony and a ways outside of it (enough to encompass any satellites located immediately above the colony) without effort, over the entire moon with some effort, and can go out into space, only they need to concentrate extremely hard and it's rather tiring. This makes mirrors great short- and medium-range communication tools but not great for taking on missions to other moons/planets. They are slightly sulky about this and insist on being in charge of any other communication devices used to communicate with the colony if they're going along on an adventure.
They only tend to steal food, their favourites being lollipops and cookies, though only if they can pinch the cookies without being seen. It's a game. They like games.

 

Moss keeps a spot on their arm free of skin and exceedingly polished at all times just in case. After all, a mirror in the hand is worth two in the bush...(That is definitely how that saying goes and I don't care. :D)

(I don't make eye contact that much but now I find I would be hideously curious to find out my true nature. So many experiments. Apparently eye contact is only ok if it is not recommended, possibly dangerous, and actually interesting.)

 

Man, now I wanna ramble about achillobator!SS.

SS can usually be found wandering around the network of underground tunnels which cover a large part of Kintsugi. "SS," people say, "we are very nearly almost completely positive that those tunnels are an ancient sewer system. They are certainly extremely unsanitary and filled with horrifying space bacteria, also probably space crocodiles. Please do not wander through the sewers."
Does SS listen? Shit no, SS has never listened to anything and isn't about to start now. SS likes the sewers, which are filled with exciting places to explore and exciting echoey noises and exciting alien machinery. Also, the sewerdwelling space crocodiles are delicious.
(SS is developing quite a hoard of broken alien machinery. Whenever SS manages to find enough matching parts to have a piece of working alien machinery, SS takes it out of the sewers to show it to people and babble semi-coherently.)
SS spends time painting beautiful murals on the sewer walls. SS' concept of "beautiful" being somewhat uh, the murals depict anything from underwater scenes to spaceships in orbit to disembowelled corpses.
SS is super great at sewer exploration! SS can fit into quite improbably small spaces. Whether this is due to sizeshifting magic, spacewarping technology, or sheer determination is unknown at this point. SS is very good at climbing things and carries many useful objects in bags and pockets.

Also, SS is generally willing to give rides to people who are short, slow, tired, or just think it would be really rad to get wherever they want to go via dinosaurback.

 

I am enthralled by the concept of space crocodiles and also echoey noises

and also getting dinosaur rides places

 

Dinosaur rides sounds amazing.

 

Mirrors has learned this about Moss very quickly and is not above doing things like. Sticking their hand through it to make rude gestures at people they saw through it. Whether or not Moss is aware of any potential animosity between someone they are nearby to & Mirrors or not. xP

Pfft yes I don't either but I would also be curious...
Mirrors says that people tend not to like what they see and they won't let people do the eye-gazing thing except under very special circumstances (if only because they find it deeply uncomfortable too) but they are game for making a game out of people trying to catch them and look into their eyes. xP
It would just have to be a game with safewords.

 

Wes isn't so worried about true nature- he doesn't appear to have eyes (sorry)
Though he supposes he's more worried about someone else seeing his true nature, he's heard it's rather- massive? he's not sure, he can't really see himself.
Doesn't everyone else just absorb ambient electro-magnetic waves?
He doesn't appear to have legs, either, so he'll just... float awkwardly on SS's back?

 

I keep missing stuff on this thread too.

 

:D I am pleased that people like the idea of dinosaur rides as much as I like the idea of giving them.
I like carrying people around places because it makes me feel Cool and Important, but I am too puny to carry anyone who is not a small child and that doesn't count because anyone can carry small children.

Also, SS is a member of the Emergency Spider Removal Squad. When the alarm is sent out, SS pops up to gently remove the spider and take it to a farm where it can frolic and be free. (This is not a euphemism. There is an area of the sewers which is solid spiderwebs from one end to the other. SS has painted many THIS IS SPIDER TERRITORY ABANDON ALL HOPE YE ARACHNOPHOBES WHO ENTER HERE signs in the tunnels surrounding it.)

 

@sicknastyspades you should have a spider army

 

"On the fifth day, look to the East"
"Is that when you'll bring the Rohirrim?"
"Nah man, that's when I'm bringing the Spider Armies. 's gonna be fuckin sick, bro"

For true authenticity of "what the fuck is happening in my mind", imagine a dinosaur talking with Gandalf's voice to a tiny hobbit.

I AM ONE HUNDRED PERCENT NORMAL SHH

 

@sicknastyspades DINOSAUR RIDES DINOSAUR RIDES
I can just see kintsugi!Ivy will never walk anywhere themselves anymore between SS and Void and probably floaty platforms to carry lazy people around

(edit: wow I fuck up my own pronouns and wonder why the post reads weird. thanks a whole lot brain, you self-misgendering piece of soggy cardboard)