Subject: Paranoid and short-sighted, then.
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Posted on: 2015-11-18 16:13:00 UTC
Sorry for making that much of a fuss. I should be thinking a lot more before posting. I said it elsewhere, but I can get really carried away and overlook details sometimes, once again sorry for that.
In which two friends are reunited at long last. Not everyone is happy.
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Note: This is a preview for an upcoming mission that might not be out for a while yet since DF is busy with school, and Ix wants to get the ball rolling with more Zeb/Aviator missions. (Her only issue is they feel incomplete without knowing how the agents reunited.) As such, we decided to release it as a preview. Enjoy, guys!
On the plus side, I'm really happy to see this scene, although I must admit that now I'm also thinking about the Aviator's reaction at the very moment where she learnt about Zeb, but Dawn's reaction... Was Rina really that much of a bitch back then. I mean, she was going slowly crazy, had a truckload of issues, the missions she get after regenerating were torture in all but name, but I didn't really think she was that much mean to Zeb before the killing which prompted LMM. Can't help but getting a sour taste in the mouth, but I guess I didn't see it before. That remains a great scene though, nothing less would have do, I cannot wait for the actual mission.
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I guess that Ave's mistake between three hundred and four hundred years will be relevant, right? Besides, there's still this time loop that needs its kicking off.
From "Glitter Levels Spiking":
Zeb looked over at his partner, who was dressed in her shabby aviator’s jacket, her face thoroughly un-made up, and her nails unpolished and bitten to stubs. “Either you aren’t a very good example of the ‘element’ or this is just the Sue talking again.”
“Shut up,” Rina snarled.
Zeb backed off slightly, holding his hands up in hurt surrender. “I was just making a joke,” he muttered.
Later:
Rina just groaned and rubbed at her eyes. “I think my brain’s melting out of my ears.”
“You sure those aren’t just growing pains?” Zeb grinned.
“Zeb, you are really just asking me to whack you.”
Zeb gave his partner a hurt look. When she didn’t apologize, he sighed and opened a portal to the next chapter.
Later later:
Zeb patted her gently on the back. “We can also charge for in-fic inconsistency, too,” he said in an attempt to make her feel better. “She claimed toddlerhood lasted until thirty, not that it began at thirty.”
“Oh, sure, because that’s something to be happy about!”
From "Wisdom Like Silence":
Zeb tilted his head curiously. “What, you don’t want to see your boyf—”
“Shut up, Zeb!” she snapped. “He is not my boyfriend, he’s a p***k! And I am not putting up with his jack***ery just because Des asked!”
“But, um, Rina, the Librarian isn’t—”
Rina put her head against her knees, holding her ears harder. “If you want to go, fine, but I’m staying here!”
“Rina, if you would just listen to me—”
“GET. OUT.”
Zeb flinched, ears flattening against his skull. “I’m going, I’m going!” he cried, racing out the door. Once in the hallway, his tail drooped, and he sighed.
From "An Overabundance of Snrf":
“Reyna’s dead?” Rina snarled. “Okay, that is it, I am fed up with this fic!” She drew her bow and reached for her quiver, glaring at the OC.
Zeb grabbed her arm. “Not yet,” he said. “We have to wait. We’ll kill her later.”
Rina swung around to look at him. Zeb braced himself, ready to duck if she swung at him. It was a long moment before she relaxed. “Fine,” she snapped, slinging her bow back over her shoulder.
And this is just from skimming. I think the fact that Zeb expected to be hit is a little telling on its own.
As for your question, I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you're talking about the part where she says to herself "three--no, four hundred years", that's not really super-relevant. She just didn't know how much time she lost in the time loop.
"Besides, there's still this time loop that needs its kicking off."
Mind clarifying that for me?
I'm too much of a RinAviator fanboy to be reliable, and I certainly not reflected about it too much before, it's just I think that she never really get a break and that I find Dawn is a little too much hostile because we also know how much Rina was broken at this point and she' already acknowledging she was wrong, but like I said, I'm not exactly reliable here, sorry for posting this.
About the second point,
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At a moment or another, you'll have to show the loose ends of LMM, right?
Namely:
1°) Who sent Zeb to Medical.
2°) Who gave Rina the RA.
3°) Who activated Baby before Rina arrived, since she was supposed to be hibernating.
4°) Who ripped off the tracker. Call me paranoid, but I'm sure as hell that Emiran never talked about these tracking devices to Rina, besides, they would probably hidden so that a snapping agent could not rip them off. Finaly, at this point Rina was emotionaly destroyed, mad with grief. There's no way she could be thinking clearly enough for taking care of the device at this moment. Later, surely, but in the midst of the shock? No way.
Well, I won't go quoting, but you can see how Zeb reacted to her leaving here. She messed him over, emotionally, and that's what Dawn saw and knew. Her new partner's self-confidence was shot because he let himself be used as a punching bag.
As for your questions:
1) Er, Zeb portaled himself. He's had the remote's speed dial set to Medical for ages in case another Rose Potter happened.
2) The agents had two remotes, one for each of them. Again, because they didn't want another Rose Potter situation.
3) If by Baby you mean her TARDIS, Rina did. She used a fast-time field to get it running.
4) Again, Rina did. It was mentioned here (page 4). Complete throwaway line, but she did know about them beforehand.
Sorry for making that much of a fuss. I should be thinking a lot more before posting. I said it elsewhere, but I can get really carried away and overlook details sometimes, once again sorry for that.
She had a lot of help from the TARDIS when getting away. They're a bit smarter than your normal time machine, after all. :P
Will probably take a lot of time before she can get back her thief, right? (I use Baby because Ave used it when she was talking to her TARDIS, and if the Doctor's TARDIS goes by Sexy, why not Baby?).