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FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Apparently, Krill did not check with law enforcement after the Rumors chapter…
Well shit…
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The darkness around them was hot and stifling. Their breath had leached the freshness out of the crate hours ago, leaving them sitting in a stale muggy darkness. Sunny shifted in the near darkness, struggling to see with the single beam of meager light which filtered in from above.
Adam lay in her arms blacked out completely.
She let his upper body rest gently in her lower arms, while her upper arms searched through his blond hair –matted with dried blood– and across his scalp.
She swore she was going to kill the person who did this to him.
Didn't they know what a knock in the head could do to a human? Didn't they understand what a concussion meant?
He needed a doctor, he needed Krill, but the little physician wasn't with them now.
He was back on the Tesraki home planet with the ship.
And they were... well Sunny had no idea where they were.
It had all happened so fast, one moment they were walking through the streets, going through market vendor stalls and laughing about something stupid, and the next moment Adam was lying unconscious on the ground and her head was inside a bag.
She would have fought, but they threatened to hurt Adam if she did.
Perhaps if it had been some other person, she might have taken that chance, but she wasn't nearly willing enough to risk Adam for her own perceived vanity.
After the attack, they had quickly been carted off across the city and loaded into this crate. She had heard the sound of the docks and the roaring of engines. She had sat in here for hours as the ship passed in and then out of warp.
Wherever they were, they were miles away from home, with no one to come and same them.
And Adam was injured, likely concussed.
Worst of all is that she couldn't even see his eyes to check and make sure if he was ok or not. His breathing was relatively even, a slow expansion of his chest and ribs over and over and over again.
She adjusted herself, groaning softly as she attempted to stretch out her legs. Adam's body was dead weight in her hands as she moved him pulling him further onto her lap to where she could hold him with her right set of arms while examining his wound with the other two.
His head rested against her shoulder breath hot on her neck.
Good, she could make sure he was still alive that way.
The engine thrummed.
She had tried to break out of the box first thing of course, but that action had proven to be fruitless, as had screaming. The engine was much too loud. She had, of course, tried engineering her way out of the box, but without tools, space and with Adam's dead weight to work around, that had also been a fruitless option.
So, she sat in the dark and waited.
She was beginning to worry that Adam would never wake up when he finally began to stir.
Sunny sighed a deep sigh of relief.
"Adam. Adam, are you ok, can you hear me?"
For a horrible moment there was no answer, but then a groggy,
"Sunny... Where are we... Why can't I see?”
A hint of panic crept into his voice.
"Shh, you're ok we are just stuck in a crate, that's all."
"Oh that's good,"
He paused,
"Never thought I would say that about being stuck in a crate."
She sighed again in relief, glad to see that he was at least lucid and understood what was happening,
"Now hold on, what happened, and why do I have such a raging headache?”
She shifted slightly in her space as he adjusted himself.
The crate was small, so there wasn't really anywhere for him to go, so he just ended up resting more securely against her chest, head resting on her chest plate her lower arms wrapped around him to keep him in place.
"We were attacked, you were knocked out and I was threatened."
"And you didn't screw them up?"
"They were threatening to kill you. I only had so many options."
He grunted, and in the dark he sighed, turning his head so his cheek was brushing up against her,
"This has been a shit day."
That made her laugh. Leave it to Adam to make her laugh when their lives were in danger.
Nothing much they could do about the situation now, and they remained in darkness, curled up together under the roaring of the engine.
Both of them felt it when the ship came into atmosphere, growing more and more nervous as they felt their crate being shifted and moved. Their little sliver of light was completely gone now leaving them in complete darkness as they were jostled and jolted around inside the crate. Then there came voices, Tesraki, Drev, Burg, and another voice which was far less familiar to Sunny than any of the others.
She felt Adam go still in her arms.
"What?”
"Prodigum."
He hissed, the sharp crack of the spat word hissing through the darkness.
”Prodigum?”
Sunny didn't know much about that species. The only thing she knew for sure is that they had withdrawn from peace talks with the GA and were an outside entity. She knew they occasionally traded with the GA and that Adam had had some run-ins with them. Run-ins like human slave trade or… infant meat trade that gave him a serious hatred for their kind, which was uncharacteristic for his usual forgiving nature.
The crate jolted and rocked.
A distant thrumming filled the background, the lull of conversation, and then it went silent again.
The box jolted downwards.
"Here master, just as you requested."
"I assume you got a good specimen?"
Adam and Sunny leaned up against the walls of their crate trying to determine who or what was speaking.
"You will be most pleased with us master. Got you a real fine specimen we did, worth well over the asking prices. Will be the most exotic piece to your collection for sure."
There was a low sort of guttural rumble from the outside of the crate.
"I will be the judge of that. Open the crate."
There was some shuffling for a moment, a sharp snap and the sides of the box fell away. Sunny and Adam were forced to raise their hands against the light as bright purple and blue light assailed them from all directions. They blinked past the shade cast by their hands.
The room they stood in was strange.
They got the feeling that the open space was supposed to be some kind of meeting space or gathering room.
Perhaps even some sort of entertainment room with how large it was, two floors connected by wide arching ramps up either side of the wide room. The floor below them was a purplish sort of grey made even more so by the blue and purple lights from above.
Adam turned his head in a wide arc, his head raised towards the ceiling. Sunny followed his gaze, and was immediately horrified.
Overhead at least twenty cages had been suspended from the ceiling. Though most of them were either empty, three others were occupied.
Two sick, mournful looking humans and a bleached white skeleton.
"The fuck!?”
Adam turned his head, eyes narrowing towards the group that stood around them, and Sunny got her first good look at the Prodigum.
She was not pleased with what she saw.
It had to be the ugliest thing she ever saw, and that meant something with them knowing the Burg.
The creature was big, maybe a little taller than her.
It had a body sort of like a gorilla, if gorillas were absolutely hideous in every way.
Its back legs were short and stumpy, just one massive fleshy mass, holding up their incredible bulk. They had no neck to speak of, and their arms were absolutely massive, jutting ninety degrees from their shoulders and then ninety degrees again at the elbow. IF you were to have stretched out one of their arms it would almost have been one to two thirds’ times as tall as their own bodies.
Each arm was thicker than a man's waist, and instead of hands it had one long pointy spike.
When they walked, they walked on their wrists as if a human were to go to walk on their knuckles but have their wrist buckle leaving the spike to point back and up.
Its body was covered in an immense and pendulous collection of baggy folds which swung heavily from side to side as it moved.
There was no neck, and its large face was droopy, its horrific mouth a grotesque, sagging heap like a child was trying to melt a playdough smiley face in the microwave.
With two sets of eyes on either side of its grotesque head and the numbers spaghetti like protrusions, which dangled from its throat – writhing to and fro while also acting as the creature's hands – it was a grotesque and monstrous sight.
Sunny made a face. Adam grunted,
"Disgusting."
The aliens gnored them and kept speaking,
"And the Drev?"
"Consider her a bonus."
The big ugly creature grunted, expelling a burst of air from the two breathing tubes which sagged from either side of its neck, their ends opening and closing like the blowholes of a whale.
Adam shifted and stood unsteadily against Sunny's protests gripping the bars with white knuckled hands.
"You have no idea what you have just started, ugly!”
The Prodigum laughed, through it came out as wet gurgling snorts from its breathing tubes,
"Oh I know exactly what I have started… commander Vir."
Adam stepped back in shock, nearly tripping over Sunny in their tight confines.
The Prodigum leaned in close to the cage, the little spaghetti-like tentacles waving before the bars curling uncurling or wrapping themselves around cold steel.
Adam made a face.
"In fact, it was your presence which I requested personally."
He turned in his spot to look at the room around him, which Sunny was becoming to understand was far larger than she had originally assumed.
"I have many wealthy clients who don't settle for just anyone, commander. Your prestige will be a great selling point."
"What even is this place?"
"Many things, many things. It is a place of business, a place of frivolity, and a place where humans do what they are told."
His voice grew low and quiet. One of his large, spiked arms raised off the floor somewhat. The Spike brandished.
"And what exactly do you expect me to do for you?"
He asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Why, the only thing humans are good for… I want you to sing!”
This time both Adam and Sunny were dumbstruck,
"You want me to do what now?"
"Sing, commander. You do know what singing is, don't you?”
Adam shook his head,
"You have got to be fucking kidding me. That's it!? That's why you kidnapped one of the most –not to brag or anything– powerful men in the GA. The guy with the firepower of an entire human fleet behind him, and you brought me here to be your cage canary!? To sing you little songs!!??"
The Prodigum grunted,
"That is precisely what I expect you to do, commander."
Adam proceeded to laugh in his face,
"You have got to be kidding me. Not only is this possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard of just in principle, but it is ALSO dumb because there are thousands of humans out there who can sing better than me. Sure, I can carry a tune, but I'm not Freddie mercury."
The Prodigum was not looking as bothered by the comments as he probably should have been. In fact, he almost seemed amused,
"This is not about your ABILITY to sing commander. Most nonhumans can't actually tell the difference between good and bad singing, they simply know it is something they cannot do. No, I didn't bring you here for your skill, I brought you here because of your importance. When my clients see you, they are going to understand what you represent... And that is my complete and total control, my absolute impunity when it comes to the law, and my ability to do whatever I want. You are a symbol of my power."
"Yeah, and you can suck a bag of dicks."
The Prodigum leaned closer,
"You will do what I want you to do."
A group of tentacles wriggled through the bars waving before their faces. Sunny saw it coming way before the Prodigum did, though he definitely should have seen it coming. The way the human's body tensed up, the way he grew still, the way his eyes drew to laser focus, the way that his knees bent and his hands curled at his sides.
And then he struck.
Like a cobra.
With one hand he reached out wrapping his fingers around a handful of the nasty wriggling tentacles before yanking hard.
The Prodigum screamed.
Sunny lunged forward to help all four of her arms shooting through the bars as Adam dug his fingers into the writhing tentacles.
There was an eruption of movement.
Adam craned his neck downwards, mouth open teeth poised to strike.
Everyone knew what a human bite meant.
And then there was an eruption of pain. Lightning coursed across her vision and Sunny found herself on the ground, legs twitching. She heard Adam yell, he was screaming through his teeth.
And then a dull thud.
The pain went away.
She looked over to find Adam sagging against the bars of the cage.
The Prodigum had retreated with his posse surrounding him…
He mewled with pain, a few of his face tentacles dripping blue onto the floor, others hanging limp and unusable.
The human began to laugh, despite the pain of the electric shock,
"Fuck-you."
With anger in his expression, the Prodigum looked up,
"Secure the Drev."
Sunny struggled to her feet as both her and Adam realized what was happening.
Sunny yelled for Adam to duck, but he was too late, a loop slipped over his neck tightening and pulling him against the side of the cage.
He choked and gasped trying to force his fingers under the loop kicking and struggling as the door was thrown open and Sunny was electrocuted again, before a group of others piled atop her securing her arms and dragging her form the cage, which was then shut.
Adam was let go, staggering to his knees, hands clenched around his throat.
He choked and gasped.
"I am going to make this very clear for you human."
Sunny was hauled upwards by the back of her carapace and suspended in the air.
"Do what I wish, or the Drev dies.”
Sunny struggled against their arms, looking back towards the cage where Adam knelt.
She wished he would tell them to go to hell, but she could see almost immediately by the expression on his face and the pain in his single green eye that the Prodigum had done it.
He had found Adam's weakness.
He had found humanity's greatest trait and their greatest weakness.
Their lo…yalty.
And now they were in his power.
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.

So I started Fresh!PC a few days ago,I guess Fresh is a refresh of the series as GoGo allegedly killed the franchise until Fresh debuted.
What I noticed is:
It seems Toei stopped giving a damn about parental complaints about midriff baring Cures💀,starting with Milky Rose and now Cure Berry. Cure Berry's midriff is far more exposed than previous midriff baring Cures and they amped up the "Evil is sexy" trope, it's probably a middle finger to the parents💀
I don't know if anyone noticed,but Love Momozono's hairstyle makes her head shaped like a heart,although who names their child "Love"
I wonder what's with the CGI end titles? It didn't age well and you can tell it's dated but I still like it. I know it was more up to date in 2009. It kinda reminds me of Caramelldansen and those fanmade videos where CGI characters dance to a particular song,etc. For some reason there's something in the end sequence that makes me not want to skip it,the other previous entries I didn't stick around when the end credits rolled,but for some reason Fresh just makes me not skip the ending
So is there a reason the girls aren't drawn in a "Pettanko" manner anymore? That is the TV trope name for "when characters are drawn flat chested". Is it another middle finger to the parents? Funny thing is there's a fanart of flat-chested cures being offended by Fresh cures having a visible chest here:https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=976926
The Nakewameke can say other words other than their names(though limited)unlike Zakennas, Uzainas,Kowainas and Hoshinas that can only say their name.
I used to think Splash Star's violence was toned down, but so far the violence in Fresh!PC just seems like your average Saturday morning superhero cartoon,I mean as far as I am seeing,I don't know if it'll change later,but the girls don't get brutal beatings like the previous Cures did on a daily basis.
I love that the cures don't fight in secret anymore like the first 3 entries and are known by all

EDIT: this post wasn't meant to bring hate. People can engage with media however they want.
Basically title. Fandoms that engage with the media they are attached to in thematically, or tonally complete disparate ways.
Since Super Eyepatch Wolf did his video on Fear and Hunger, the fanbase (and Reddit) has grown exponentially. And while I love having more people engage with a game I really enjoy, a lot of the recent fan art has been.... Let's say tonally dissonant.
The game is a mess of gore, sexual abuse, and really, really dark subject matter all around - all bound together by an eldritch aesthetic. However, a lot of the recent fanart depicts both games cast of characters in incredibly horny ways that just feels tone deaf based on the connent of either Installment of Fear and Hunger. "Oh, is one of the characters a heroin addicted 15 year-old child soldier??? He's totally a bottom tho UwU"
I'd love to hear more examples of this (and a way to handle a fandom you like engaging with spinning wildly out of your comfort zone lol)

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Imu is from the No-Legs tribe
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Imu is A bird (V1)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V3)
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Imu's crown is actually its teeth
Imu is A bird (V2)
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Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V1)
Imu is A Demon
Imu is A rat
Imu is from the Akatsuki
Imu is an endless army of dopplegangers
Imu is Stronger than Luffy
Imu is Scary (V1)
Imu is The Strongest swordsman (V2)
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Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V1)
Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
Imu Already read all of the One Piece Manga
Imu Just want a bigger hat
Imu Blows Islands for Breakfast
Imu is A dwarf
Imu Knows the biggest one piece secret
Imu is A fishmen hunter
Imu is from the teeth eyed tribe
Imu is The most OP character of OP
Imu's crown is actually a fork
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Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V4)
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Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V5)
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Imu is Higuma
Imu is A Vegetable
Imu is A bodybuilder
Imu is I(Lon)MU(sk)
Imu is Having a good time
Imu is S(A-E)NGOKU
Imu is From the Moon (V2)
Imu is Jango
Imu is The Original Den-Den Mushi
Imu is King Kong
Imu is The key to all mysteries
Imu is G.O.A.T.
Imu is Smoker's sensei
Imu is Heisenberg
Imu ate the Soul-Soul Fruit
Imu is Shanks
Imu is Roger
Imu ate the Fruit-Fruit Fruit
Imu found the One Piece
Imu is Stelly
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V7)
Imu is Buddha
Imu is Eminem
Imu is Oda Himself (V2)
Imu is French
Imu is The dragon Egg from Roger's Ship
Imu is Louis XVI
Imu is Foxy
Imu is Scary (V3)
Imu is An alien Species (V3)
Imu is from the Chest-faced tribe
Imu is Rocks D. Xebec
Imu is Kidd (V1)
Imu is Kidd (V2)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V8)
Imu is Shanks (V2)
Imu is an Atlas Beetle
Imu is Shanks's Brother Banks
Imu is a Random dude
Imu is Ask D. Question
Imummy
Imustachio
Imuchacho
Imowgli
Imushroom
Imuthep
Imusician
Imunga
Imouse-ama
Imusketeer
Imumbai
Imascara
Imu found the One Piece (V2)
IMUG
Imouth-sama
Imu means I'M Uzumaki-naruto
Imu is Angry
Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
Imu is Scary (V4)
Imu is Hypnotizing
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V6)
Imu is the moon
Imu is from the long-legs tribe (V2)
Imu is Three people
Imu ate the REAL gomu-gomu no mi
Imu is Medjed
Imu is a waifu
Imu is simple
Imu is Luffy's mom (V2)

Imu is ShanksBeard (V1)
Imu is Luffy (V1)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V1)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V2)
Imu is Darth Vader
Imu is Biblically Accurate
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V1)
Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
Imu is Luffy's mom
Imu is From the Long-arms-Long-Legs Tribe
Imu's crown is actually a crow
Imu is from the No-Legs tribe
Imu is from the Long Neck tribe
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V2)
Imu is ShanksBeard (V2)
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V3)
Imu is Vegeta
Imu is A bird (V1)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V3)
Imu is A blank Sheet
Imu is From the Big Mouth Tribe
Imu's crown is actually its teeth
Imu is A bird (V2)
Imu is A good guy
Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V1)
Imu is A Demon
Imu is A rat
Imu is from the Akatsuki
Imu is an endless army of dopplegangers
Imu is Stronger than Luffy
Imu is Scary (V1)
Imu is The Strongest swordsman (V2)
Imu is A Fishman
Imu is A shadow
Imu is Cool asf
Imu is Luffy (V2)
Imu is A random flying guy
Imu is A brat
Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V1)
Imu is From the Long Legs Tribe
Imu Already read all of the One Piece Manga
Imu Just want a bigger hat
Imu Blows Islands for Breakfast
Imu is A dwarf
Imu Knows the biggest one piece secret
Imu is A fishmen hunter
Imu is from the teeth eyed tribe
Imu is The most OP character of OP
Imu's crown is actually a fork
Imu is The Legendary Sad Boy
Imu is Vearth
Imu is A Dandy
Imu is Down D. Stairs
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V4)
Imu is The Redline
Imu is A waifu (V2)
Imu is A God-like Character
Imu is The Sandman
Imu is A Psychopath
Imu is The Stongest swordsman (V3)
Imu is Facing a Dilemma
Imu is an Emu
Imu is an Emo
Imu is Scary (V2)
Imu is Afraid of Luffy
Imu is A waifu (V2)
Imu is from the Hairy Legs Tribe
Imu is a Kabuto
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V4)
Imu is The funniest and most relatable character
Imu is Lonely
Imu is Oda Himself
Imu is Umami
Imu Hates the sun
Imu is Umi, the Sea Itself
Imu is The moon God
Imu is an Alien Species (V1)
Imu is a crown
Imu is King Elizabello the First
Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
Imu is From the Moon (V1)
Imu is From the Three-eyed tribe (V2)
Imu ate the Blood Blood fruit
Imu is A random monarch
Imu is A cruel monarch
Imu is afraid of the Laughing Demon
Imu is all ears
Imu is Celebrating his birthday
Imu ate the win-win fruit
Imu is Luffy (V3)
Imu is a Dark Lord
Imu is An old monarch
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V5)
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V5)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V6)
Imu's crown is actually its tongue
Imu is From the Ashtray-head tribe
Imu is A Candle
Imu's crown is actually flowers
Imu is an Alien Species (V2)
Imu is from the mouth-over-nose tribe
Imu is Monet (V1)
Imu is The Imu Guy
Imu is The Void Itself
Imu is Buggy's Father
Imu is Still a child
Imu is Inu
Imu means I'M U
Imu is The Empty Throne
Imu is The N-Gage
Imu is a (B)I(G)MU(C)
Imu is The One
Imu is A virus
Imu is Gaimon
Imu is Pandaman
Imu is From the No-feet tribe
Imu ate the Butterfly Fruit
Imu is Monet (V2)
Imu is ShanksBeard (V3)
Imu is Two People
Imu is Tonjit
Imu is Higuma
Imu is A Vegetable
Imu is A bodybuilder
Imu is I(Lon)MU(sk)
Imu is Having a good time
Imu is S(A-E)NGOKU
Imu is From the Moon (V2)
Imu is Jango
Imu is The Original Den-Den Mushi
Imu is King Kong
Imu is The key to all mysteries
Imu is G.O.A.T.
Imu is Smoker's sensei
Imu is Heisenberg
Imu ate the Soul-Soul Fruit
Imu is Shanks
Imu is Roger
Imu ate the Fruit-Fruit Fruit
Imu found the One Piece
Imu is Stelly
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V7)
Imu is Buddha
Imu is Eminem
Imu is Oda Himself (V2)
Imu is French
Imu is The dragon Egg from Roger's Ship
Imu is Louis XVI
Imu is Foxy
Imu is Scary (V3)
Imu is An alien Species (V3)
Imu is from the Chest-faced tribe
Imu is Rocks D. Xebec
Imu is Kidd (V1)
Imu is Kidd (V2)
Imu is Incredibly Ugly (V8)
Imu is Shanks (V2)
Imu is an Atlas Beetle
Imu is Shanks's Brother Banks
Imu is a Random dude
Imu is Ask D. Question
Imummy
Imustachio
Imuchacho
Imowgli
Imushroom
Imuthep
Imusician
Imunga
Imouse-ama
Imusketeer
Imumbai
Imascara
Imu found the One Piece (V2)
IMUG
Imouth-sama
Imu means I'M Uzumaki-naruto
Imu is Angry
Imu is Exactly like you would expect from his sillhouette
Imu is Scary (V4)
Imu is Hypnotizing
Imu is The most disappointing thing you'll ever see (V6)
Imu is the moon
Imu is from the long-legs tribe (V2)
Imu is Three people
Imu ate the REAL gomu-gomu no mi
Imu is Medjed
Imu is a waifu
Imu is simple
Imu is Luffy's mom (V2)

u/100beep (that's me), u/Seraf-Wang, u/sadsoymilk, u/West_Gape6631, u/synxical, u/reallycrow, u/RebeccaDarking, u/UkeKyle, u/In_Dreams_Begin are our participants.
In no particular order, here are the original requests. If you see one that hasn't already been claimed, DM me and I'll put you on the list for it. In this stage, if you wish to claim one, following any further requests is mandatory, and following do-not-wants (DNW) is always mandatory.
I did a bit of cleanup on some of the requests to make them easier to read. If you feel that I misrepresented you, please DM me and clear things up.
If you do not claim one during this phase, one will be assigned to you, along with that person's backups - at which point you no longer need to follow their specific requests but still need to follow their DNWs.
This phase ends in three days, on June 6, 11:59 UTC.

u/sadsoymilk - Claimed	DNW: Itto, Gorou, Bennett, Mika, Baizhu, modern!AU, crackfic
Childe/Xiao	Canon compliant
Kaeya/Dainsleif	None
Albedo/Xingqiu
Kaveh/Kaeya
AetheKaeya
Backups
Dainsleif/Kaeya
Kaveh/Kaeya

u/UkeKyle - Claimed	DNW: Kazuha/Heizou, Ayato/Thoma, Itto/Gorou
Itto/Scaramouche	Fluff and love
Alhaitham/Cyno/Kaveh/Tighnari	Dom/sub with dom Alhaitham
Azhdaha/Childe/Zhongli	Angst with a happy ending
Bennett/Xiao	Protection from a distance, establishing relationship
Kaveh/Tighnari	Accidental mpreg Kaveh
Backups:
Alhaitham/Childe
Chongyun/Venti

u/synxical - Claimed	DNW: Bennett/any, Razoany
Kaeya/Zhongli
Kaeya/Venti
Alhaitham/Cyno
Gorou/Kazuha
Ayato/Kaeya
Kaveh/Tighnari
Ayato/Kaeya/Thoma
Backups:
Kaeya/Dainsleif
AetheVenti

u/100beep	DNW: Rape/noncon, ABO
Bennett/Xiao	Smut, first time together
Bennett/Childe	Adventurer!Childe, first meeting
Alhaitham/Cyno/Kaveh/Tighnari	Smut, dom!Kaveh taking control from another dom
Childe/Diluc/Zhongli	Childe and Diluc get in a confrontation, Zhongli plays peacemaker
Childe/Kaeya	Harbinger!Kaeya, some confrontation with Diluc during his time as the Delusion Theif
Backups:
Childe/Diluc
Gorou/Itto

u/In_Dreams_Begin - Claimed	DNW: Smut, especially ABO, major character death
Ayato/Diluc	Something from both of their pasts, from Diluc's feral revenge years. Either that or a classic masquerade ball liaison. In any case, bring on the spy/ninja/cloak and dagger stuff. All romance tropes accepted.
Diluc/Kaveh	Either a "help I'm in love with my client" situation or pre-canon Kaveh picks up a wounded Diluc from the side of the road and nurses him back to health.
Childe/Thoma	Now, hear me out: Thoma has a passive skill about fishing. Childe loves fishing AND is very competitive. Do you see where I'm going?
Childe/Xiao	This one can't help but have some fighting in it. Maybe hurt/comfort?
Albedo/Kaveh	When Kaveh gets commissioned to do some illustration work for Yae Publishing, the editor has 01 meeting with him before he decides to put him in contact with Calx, so that maybe he can give that prima donna some "pointers." Kaveh is not happy with that, but he can't help being fascinated with the mysterious artist and his logical without being unemotional tone.
Baizhu/Xiao	I think hurt/comfort goes well here. Unrequited love is perfectly fine.
Ayato/Kazuha	Not enough fics have been written about the fact that these two know each other for a long time, since Kazuha's family was subordinate to Ayato's. Then they grew up and now there's a whole gulf in their statuses. Sweet sweet angst.
Diluc/Heizou	I'm putting this here because there are 0 fics for this pairing. Is it a little cracky? You betcha. But if you do write something, I'll make you a little treat (it's fanart. I'll drawn a scene.)
Backups:
Diluc/Venti
Albedo/Diluc

u/RebeccaDarking - Claimed	DNW: Watersports/scat, Kaeya/Diluc as anything but background, ABO, teachestudent, mpreg, OC kids
Ayato/Itto	- angst and hurt/comfort are always nice lots of potential with itto being an oni and ayato being human- also big fan of itto being completely oblivious to ayatos advances- or ayaitto already dating and everyone ELSE being oblivious- but anything fine really I'll take any ayaitto crumbs
Diluc/Venti	- FLUFF !!!- lots of venti flirting and diluc getting flustered maybe maybe- hear me out venti turning into his archon form during sex - any plot is fine really
Capitano/Mika	- no cause hear me out.- I like the hc of capitano actually being like a nice dude when he isn't yknow murdering people but really anything fine- i literally don't have a plot request for this one just go ham
Albedo/Cyno	- absolutely SMITTEN cyno and megaflirt albedo- jealous tighnari maybe maybe- I know albedo freaky asl maybe he got an aphrodisiac or two in his lab - lots of puns. obviously
Dottore/Pantalone	- literally be as freaky as you want- hardcore smut like these mfs have the most toxic sex possible- I like bottom dottore but like either works- just absolutely toxic sex like go ham
Backups:
Alhaitham/Cyno/Kaveh/Tighnari
Childe/Kaveh

u/Seraf-Wang	DNW: Smut
Albedo/Scaramouche	Nothing too special. I guess exploring the fact Scaramouche feels abandoned and is jealous of Albedo’s way of lide seeing as he still thinks fond of his creator. That would cool. Or just domestic fluff. Anything works
Alhaitham/Cyno/Kaveh/Tighnari	How Alhaitham reacts to everyone and their personal problems. Like how he relates to Tighnari’s dislike of noise, Cyno’s sense of duty, and the opposing side of logic with Kaveh.
Backups:
Kaeya/Heizou
Kazuha/Gorou

u/reallycrow - Claimed	DNW: Chongyun/Bennett, Yae Miko, Kujou Sara
Diluc/Venti	Venti can hear prayers to Barbatos — what has he heard?
Kaeya/Venti	Is it a cop out if I say that I like them as sort of a regular hookup, or maybe behind especially extra in public because Venti wants to put on a show for Diluc?
Itto/Xiao
Backups:
Diluc/Venti

Edit: Running a bit ahead of schedule. Signups are now closed. Backups are now public - remember, if you chose to write for someone, you must write one of their main submissions.

FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Damn! The last LFIL chapter a while ago had a pretty legendary photograph moment, but this one tops it by far!
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"Please everyone, calm yourselves. The Galactic Assembly is addressing the issue as we speak."
The crowd roiled and churned like the bubbles in a pot of boiling water. Flags waved and voices rose high into the air.
The chanting increased in fervor.
"Please!"
The Rundi struggled to raise his voice high enough to be heard over the crowd, who only grew with strength and intensity.
Commander Vir keyed his mic,
"Delta units to the GA side of the crowd, some of these protesters are looking extremely agitated. Let's make sure they don't do anything we're all going to regret.”
He stood with his back to the GA chambers, its wide arching courtyard devoid of life, except for those unfortunate Rundi ordered to carry messages from one side of the compound to the other, otherwise they tried to keep their distance from the front facade of the building and the churning mass of protesters.
White flags waved and fluttered.
Commander Vir held the energy shield with one arm, pressing it back firmly against the crowd, so they could not pass the dedicated marking point.
"Commander, the crowd over here is getting violent."
He grimaced and reached a hand down to open the line,
"Stun them and let them calm down, do NOT catch anyone else in the crossfire. We do not want this escalating."
"Yes sir."
Something pushed against his shield and he grunted, pushing back.
The white bandanna on his arm was pressed against the clear blue force field and helped to at least confuse the crowd before them.
And luckily, they would be kept too confused to get violent.
The aliens among the human protesters helped as well.
If this was on earth, things would have broken out into a riot by now, but the Drev the Tesraki and the Finnari tended to be more levelheaded when it came to these kinds of things, and they managed to reign in their humans from doing something stupid.
He closed his eyes tight for a second, praying that the GA would rethink their position.
It hurt him to watch these people struggle like this.
It just felt so strange that anyone should be here in the first place.
Beside him, Sunny had taken control of two young humans who were getting a bit more than rowdy,
"Let’s keep this a protest, and not a riot."
She growled, giving them a look that would have made anyone quell in their boots. It sort of made him half smile, Sunny was such a badass, he wanted to be more like her when he eventually grew up.
His thoughts were cut off, as the crowd churned a bit, pressing into his shield.
He keyed his mic again, prepared to go over the loudspeaker and tell them that if they didn't calm down he was going to turn this protest into a mass nap time.
He had the power to do that if things got out of hand, though he honestly didn't want to.
The GA needed to see this.
He was so preoccupied with the crowd, that he barely noticed as the Rundi ran up from the inside of the compound, flying forward on its long spindly legs.
It stopped by the first Rundi to say something, and the conversation that passed between them didn't look particularly encouraging.
HIs heart sank into his stomach.
He felt... Surprisingly disappointed, very sad for all those people who were going to get their day ruined.
The Rundi waffled around at the front of the crowd for a bit before turning and looking over to where he stood.
Oh great.
The Rundi walked over, and he backed off from the crowd, allowing Sunny to take a step in his place with her shield at the ready.
The people looked as if they were about to start something, but seeing her expression, they decided not to.
He dropped his shield and lowered his head to hear the Rundi over the roaring of the crowd.
"The GA is not budging."
The Rundi whispered,
"They are asking the protesters to leave."
Adam growled in frustration.
Behind him someone in the crowd pointed at him,
"They're saying no aren't they!?”
Others took up the call, and soon enough the rest of the crowd had been alerted. Adam was forced to run back to support Sunny, as everything suddenly grew more intense.
Fights were breaking out on the left and the right.
People were hitting the ground as the guards were forced to stun them.
That only agitated the rest of the crowd who also began to buck and fight.
Adam keyed the mic for real this time, filling the intervening space with his booming voice,
”ALL OF YOU KNOCK IT OFF RIGHT NOW OR I WILL STUN YOU ALL."
The aggression in the crowd died down, though the anger remained sizzling at the surface.
Overhead clouds passed over the sun, before him the crowd roared like a wave, and behind him the GA council chambers were as silent as a ghost town.
"LISTEN, QUIET DOWN ALL OF YOU."
It sort of felt as if he was floating.
The world around him hardly seemed real though that was not the best way to explain it.
The crowd died down a bit,
"You may not understand this! And I have said it before, but these are not humans. Protests don't work on them. When they see a group of angry humans, they get scared and when they get scared, they double down even further. I know it does not make any sense to you NOT to protest for what you believe in, but if you are going to do this, you MUST remain civil. Even now the GA is frightened by you. They don't believe you are rational, and they are not going to listen to you if this keeps up."
The crowd had quieted down to a milling sort of confusion.
"Then what should we do!"*
The shouting came from somewhere and in anger, though he couldn't pinpoint the source.
In frustration he nudged Sunny, and she allowed him to climb on her back as he had before.
The crowd could see him now, and he could see them for the most part.
He waved them down trying to cut off the others who had taken up the chant.
"I understand what you are trying to do, and I support your efforts, but you are only hurting ourselves. The GA can only be won by rational discussion."
"The GA won't see any of our representatives. They are debating only on their own facts and opinions."
One of the crowd's people snarled. The call was echoed and Adam stared at them in shock,
"Wait what!? Are you serious?”
There was a muttering throughout the crowd.
"For fuck's sake."
He muttered under his breath,
"The Rudi think none of us are high ranking enough to be allowed into the council chambers, and none of the representatives will take up our cause. The human ambassador thinks we are disgusting, so she won't do anything and says she won’t represent our minority."
The muttering through the crowd grew louder.
Adam looked around, head turning to see all the angry faces, blushed with red, or streaked with tears.
These people were frustrated, and hurt, and he understood why.
This wasn't right!
He closed his eyes again and took another deep breath.
What was he thinking!?
He stepped down from Sunny's back and walked over to one of the protestors in the front row, pointing to his large flag on a pole that was about eight feet tall.
"May I borrow your flag?"
The protester stared on at him in confusion,
"What, why?"
"Because, I am going to give you the representative you need."
[…]
Commander Vir and Sunny walked alone down the length of the GA outer courtyard.
A billowing white flag streamed lazily over his head, suspended there by way of the pole which rested heavily on his shoulder. The white of the fabric had been marred now by many colors as hundreds of rushed signatures had been scrawled on its face.
He was armed with the backing of a thousand protesters, a hundred signatures, and more than a few dozen stories.
Sunny turned her head to look at him, and he fancied that maybe he saw an expression of pride in her eyes, though she didn't say much except,
"Pretty brave."
He didn't feel very brave, and as they walked through the front doors of the GA atrium, his hand was shaking against the cold metal of the flagpole.
He was stopped by a pair of Rundi guards on his way into the chamber, but was let in after they recognized who he was.
He could hear voices up ahead, and the sounds of the protest going on outside had all but died away,
"They have proven that they cannot be civil, and based on the humanizing effect, we can assume they will do similar things to any non-human lifeform that they encounter."
"I may not agree with their decision counselor, but that sounds like your prejudice against humans is seeping through."
There was an uproar in the council chamber.
He paused for a moment, staying with Sunny just out of line of sight and took a deep breath.
She lay a hand on his shoulder.
"Here goes nothing."
He muttered, before stepping his way out onto the GA floor.
At first no one noticed his presence as he made his slow way into the center of the circle, but his large, white flag soon changed that.
The council chambers went silent.
The chairwoman stood,
"Commander, what are you doing here. Shouldn't you be taking care of the protesters?”
His lips drew into a thing line,
"With all due respect councilwoman, I am."
He rammed the flagpole against the stone, sending a loud cracking sound out and around the wide atrium silencing the council,
"I have been made aware that you refuse to see their representatives based on a ranking issue, well I assume my rank is high enough."
The Human rep leaned forward,
"Commander, this is not your place!”
He shot her a look,
"Then whose place is it counselor? I heard a certain democratic counselor refuses to speak for them because they are and I quote “a too small and insignificant minority”…”
He turned his head in a wide arc at the watching crowd,
"Counselors, you have known me, longer than you have known any human currently in this galaxy. You understand that I know your rules and your customs. You understand that I have only ever striven to protect and uphold the GA and the planet's it encompasses. I have thwarted wars, signed treaties, and broken my own body for your best interests."
There was silence about the room.
"Will you let me speak now, with the understanding that my loyalty has never wavered from you, and never will?”
The silence continued.
Aliens understood the power of human loyalty.
Or at least they should…
The chairwoman took a seat,
"Very well, commander."
He lifted his head, feeling his heart slow as he took a few deep breaths. There was a muscle in his face that had begun to twitch, like it always did if he was extremely angry or nervous, but he held it down,
"I understand you are frightened, and I understand that you are confused, but I want you to know first of all that those people outside are good average people. They don't mean you any harm. They are hurting, and they are afraid for themselves, and they are trying to get your attention. Historically, humanity has used protests to right the injustices of government to combat prejudices brought on by one's sex or the color of their skin. You must understand that they see this as an impingement on their happiness and a decision made out of line."
There was a murmur around the room.
"So, I ask you now, that I may, perhaps, answer your questions and ease your worries. Why are you so against them?"
"It's unnatural."
It was the Bran representative that had spoken, and he did it quite emphatically.
"Why?"
The commander asked,
"Because they aren't even the same species."
"So?"
The Bran seemed caught off guard,
"They... It's not natural. They can't reproduce, so it isn't... A thing that should be done."
The commander shrugged,
"So if one can't reproduce then they aren't natural? I see a couple issues in that logic relating to prejudices against people with infertility."
There was a murmur around the room.
"So, they can't reproduce, so what? You know who we can reproduce with though... Adaptids."
There was a sort of hushed exclamation form around the room.
The commander shrugged,
"They can't have kids.... Hardly a good enough argument to bring to the floor of a government discussion."
"What he is trying to say is that this practice equates itself to bestiality. It is utterly disguting!"
It was the human representative this time, and she stared at him with her eyes narrowed in anger.
He kept his cool, though he very much did not like her.
"That is absolutely disgusting and wildly insulting of you because that implies that one or both parties are no better than animals, beasts as you will."
The room was silent,
"So which one is it, are humans animals, counselor, are the Finnari or the Rundi animals?"
He turned to the Drev counselor,
"Are the Drev just dumb animals that have no understanding, and no decision making abilities?”
The Drev representative stood, angrily cracking his spear against the stone,
"We are most certainly not!"
The commander held up his hands,
"Then what is so bestial about it? Bestiality is absolutely disgusting because you are taking advantages of a creature that can neither understand nor protect itself from what you are doing. It cannot say yes, and it cannot say no. It has no greater understanding than that of a child, and so cannot make its own decisions."
He looked towards the Finnari representative,
"Tell me counselor, is your species a species of children, with no greater concept of their own decision making?”
"Of course not. Why would you even imply such a thing!?”
"I imply nothing, counselor. This is what YOU imply with your decision. So far we have established that all parties are intelligent consenting creatures, and none of you have managed to give me an actually good reason for banning the practice."
The floor was growing more agitated.
"They will be a poor example for the rest of the galaxy. If we make it legal others will surely follow."
Adam turned his eyes on the speaker, an Iotin,
"You're worried that they are going to turn the rest of the galaxy extrial?"
He laughed,
"That is a poor argument which is not only selfish, but foolish. People should be allowed to make their own decisions. And assuming you are right, what then? Oh no... There are a few more extrials... And it does... What exactly?"
He turned in a wide circle,
"If you are worried about population growth or in this case population falloff due to this issue then you should be reminded that extrials comprise a percentage of the human population so small that I could fit the greater majority of them on my ship comfortably. This occurrence is not common, and even if the numbers were to rise, it would not be of enough significance to cause issues."
His heart was hammering hard inside his chest. He felt like he was doing alright, but that might mean nothing.
"In any event, these relationships do not affect the vast majority of the galaxy. Humans cannot be with the Bran or the Rundi due to the water we shed from our skin. The Gromm and the Iotins are out for similar reasons. Vrul and Gibb are incapable of having feelings for humans in that way as far as we know, and both the Tvek and the Celzex are too different from humans for either party to be interested."
He walked around in a circle, allowing the flag to trail behind him,
"Furthermore, the humanization phenomenon happens with or without romantic intent, and as it is, its mention is more a mark of prejudice on humans than it is an argument against the two groups being together."
He left the floor open for a little while, as the council muttered with each other.
Finally, the Drev representative stood,
"My species culture and our way of life has been upturned by the GA. I fear relationships with humans will result in the loss of our culture. We have already strayed far from what we originally were. We are hardly recognizable as Drev anymore."
The commander let his voice soften,
"I understand that the Drev have lost a lot in joining this..."
Sunny held up a hand, and in surprise he was cut off.
She took the floor,
"Your Glory…"
She said bowing her head,
"If you would have truly upheld those ideals, you would not be sitting on this council."
The Drev pulled back in surprise at her words,
"Yes, we lost a lot in joining the GA, and after the war, but I would argue that some of that was for good. Before the GA people like me, with perceived imperfection were cast into the fire and perceived as no better than animals. This practice still takes place on our planet, where these traditions are still alive and well."
Her words made the room shift nervously,
"However, culture changes and adapts, and it must to survive. We changed in order to live among the GA. We found other alternatives to fighting that still maintain our honor and our prowess in war, and this includes the sports that the humans have brought to us. Furthermore, the vast majority of the Drev I see who are with humans are those of us who would not be accepted by our own kind, perceived as ugly or malformed. If this is the case then your traditions remain sound, and those like me are removed from the mating population."
The counselor almost looked ashamed at her words, turning his head away so as not to look her in the eyes.
"As far as a change of culture goes, it was bound to happen, and it seems you are more worried about change than you actually are about human Drev relationships."
She went quiet, and Adam nodded to her taking the floor again.
A Finnari counselor stood,
"I am simply worried about our birth rate. The Finnari were farmed by the Gnarlak for many years, and we are only now replenishing our population."
"I don't think you need to worry. The amount of actual relationships is so small that it will not affect the Finnari population in any significant manner."
The representative sat back down with no real argument to combat him.
The chairwoman stood,
"Your arguments have been heard commander, though, what the others do not mention is the issue of disease. We have seen a great increase of illness transmissible from humans to non humans and-"
"I hate to cut you off chairwoman, but that is NOT related to interspecies relationships, but instead has another simple explanation: the rise in human tourism."
She paused,
"Explain."
"You all know very well that humans are not allowed to leave their planet unless they are tested for all communicable non-treatable diseases. This means that those of us that you see here cannot physically pass our diseases off onto other people, except for the germs that are found naturally on our skin. In this case these issues did not stem from relationships at all, but poor vaccination, the poor regulation of tourism, and allowing aliens to travel onto earth where infected humans are located and not testing them as they leave."
He looked on at them pleadingly,
"You see. You don't even have problems with them, but you are using them as a real scapegoat for the actual issues. And I am here to tell you that, in fact you are causing more problems by banning this! The more you push, the harder they will push back, and eventually someone is going to get hurt, because they are not allowed to be together legally, they do it illegally, and because they do it illegally, they end up in dangerous places exposed to greater rates of crime. They get hurt, and they get involved in things they would otherwise not have gotten involved in if you had not banned it. Just look at Noctoplis. It has the highest rate of extrials living there and the lowest policing force and the most corrupted system. There are no legitimate jobs there, so we see an influx of crime by desperate people who won't be accepted anywhere else. Not to mention that it increased the depression rates, which increases suicide rates. Your laws have ostracized them, forced them to become criminals, and turned many of them to think that killing themselves is better than living in a world where they are seen as disgusting when they don't actually do any real harm."
He had to take a deep breath,
"Earth has seen all of this before, and one way or another, eventually someone will see what I am trying to say."
He rested the flag on the floor beside him, feet planted at shoulder width.
"I hope that this rational conversation will allow a more open mind on the council. I encourage you to talk to their representatives. They are more rational and educated than I am, and they can give you hard facts and statistics. But please, they don't want to cause trouble, if you allow them to do as they will, you might find these problems going away for you."
The human representative clearly did not seem convinced, but he didn't expect to convince her, he expected to convince the others who were more afraid than they were prejudiced.
"It seems as if we have some other potential policies to discuss, commander."
The chairwoman said, tapping her fingers on the table before her.
"I have a suggestion, ma'am."
"And that is?"
"A temporary revocation on the ban, that way you can SEE what the universe will be like without it, and you can judge for yourself whether The ban does any good. You don't have to overturn the law just yet, but temporarily suspend it, that way you can re institute at any time. Then you will have concrete proof. You can do testing, and polls and whatever else, then you would know for sure."
His suggestion turned into a discussion, that dragged on for many minutes before the chairwoman raised her hand,
"It has been decided, all in favor of this temporary proposal please indicate."
The voting lights flashed above them.
Commander Vir waited with baited breath.
[…]
He walked from the venue, hours after he had entered, totally tired and exhausted.
The flag felt heavy in his hands and his boots thudded with exhaustion on the white marble below him.
Outside, the protest field was surprisingly silent, though he could still see their flags.
As he walked closer, he could see that the vast majority of the crowd was sitting down.
Their voices reached him from a distance at first, until he realized they were calmly singing with each other.
Waiting for his verdict.
Suddenly the first people from the crowd noticed the two silhouettes coming from the chambers towards them.
A lone man and Drev were walking from the building.
The man was wearing riot gear, a full helmet, a shield, and carrying their flag, resting against his right shoulder.
The group of them began to stand, rising to their feet and yelling.
Pointing in his direction.
They quieted as he got closer.
"What did they say!? What did they say!?”
He stayed quiet, holding a hand in the air to silence them.
He passed the flag to the original protester who looked on at him with such an expression of pleading that he felt his eyes tingle a bit with rising emotion.
He had to look away, boosting himself onto Sunny's back, keying his mic.
The crowd was silent.
A thousand eyes fixed on one human and one Drev.
"I spoke to the GA."
They waited on tenterhooks,
"And after a long debate, and a slim majority the GA have decided..."
Flags whipped in the wind,
"To temporarily revoke the ban on inter-species relationships until a-"
He didn't get to finish his sentence, drowned out by a powerful wave of noise and joy so overwhelming that he was nearly knocked backwards off his feet.
The crowd surged forward, and Sunny staggered as the group surrounded them, pressing inward and upwards.
Adam found himself on the ground on his feet, packed in by bodies enclosed by hundreds of pairs of arms, which slapped on the shoulder and the arm, as every person tried their best to get one hand on him.
The flag from earlier was ripped off its stand and pressed into his hands.
He was deafened by cheering and an outpouring of gratitude so profound he had simply never experienced such emotion.
He looked up at Sunny, pressed in with him by the enthusiastic crowd.
And she nodded her head in approval.
He grinned.
He had to admit.
This felt pretty good.
Though, whether it was all over was a question for another time.
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.

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