Recent content by SV-3: Jupiter

“We~ell,” Jupiter drawled, drawing out the word like the question was a thinker. He leaned in, a little conspiratorially, “If I don’t say Wallace, his feelings might be hurt, and he’ll take another patch out of the pocket string.” With a flourish, the dustbunny appeared in his hands. In an act...

Jupiter glanced at Agent Cantrille, not upon her correction on management – she was clarifying, rather than contradicting. She wasn’t the type to contradict, anyway. No, he looked as she made the second correction, regarding her own position. It was not uncommon for Jupiter to encounter...

Jupiter lent Mikulass the space to consider the offer. He could not feel it lap in waves, the way the Denizens of the Sphere might; but feel it he did, and he was patient with it. Patient, too, as he listened to the priest’s request, patient as Pepper stepped forward and answered. Something in...

Jupiter’s smile neither changed nor shifted as she circled around. She tried to distract him with a comment on the nature of the Godling, but in his opinion she came back to the topic of question too quickly for him to be really distracted from it. Still, there was a little to be gained from...

Jupiter attracted anomalies. He had a penchant for discovering trinkets, just a knack for seeing through otherwise apparently mundane things. There was a Zippo lighter in one of his pockets that made noise instead of fire, but was otherwise indistinguishable from any other lighter by the brand...

Jupiter was right, Mikulass did not have the equivalent of trees. He indicated his understanding with only a nod, however, because explanations would not be necessary. “Annihilation created one, a living one, in our world.” He didn’t explain Annihilation, because Mikulass would know enough...

Agent Cantrille didn’t disagree with what she said, just took time to consider it. He gave her the space she needed as she distractedly ran her hand along the wall of her location – more her location than his, though that hadn’t always been true. Her response was short. She understood, though...

Jupiter didn’t comment on how she didn’t say L-6, or L-5, for that matter. Those were Hack’s locations, and they were locked down tight by all possible mechanical means, and some impossible ones. Hack operated a certain way, and his locations followed suit. Jupiter wasn’t in the habit of blaming...

Theological mathematics was not something Jupiter followed very well, but he looked interested anyway. Cait understood it, or at least took pleasure in the parts she didn’t understand. He followed her emotions and body language, not the words she said, and so he gave her train of thought a...

Shrine. There was something relevant, which he would not have noticed if he had not reviewed all of the collected information about ACF-1003. The idea she had a high priest was new, though, and somewhat disturbing. Her GOI showed no real sign of that kind of hierarchical organization, but then...

Jupiter smiled, but the intention behind the smile would be hard to make out even to a person who expressed emotion non-anomalously. It didn’t quite reach his eyes. But his voice held the same, soft confidence it had the whole time. “He put it in the report, and didn’t technically ask me any...

“If not a god, then what?” Jupiter bounced the question back, without the rhetorical air the question would normally have. He was keeping Cait going, not interrupting her with his own thoughts, because they were too many and would likely seem obvious to her, and because now that the ball was...

Aware that it wouldn’t make Laine too uncomfortable, Jupiter watched her trace a line with her hand, then return it to her side. She was right, of course. Alex had always been independent, and Strings was fierce in how he handled himself, all the way down to his name. Then, Laine asked him a...

“You’ll be delighted to know everyone is currently calling her either godbait, or 1003,” Jupiter reassured her, with a warm smile to accompany her laughter. “It’s a very Strings move, but Strings would not bring a friend to posture with.” He’d bring a perceived rival, to make them squirm or...

He let Agent Cantrille talk through her thought process, partially out of habit. You could learn a lot about a person by what they were willing to tell you, regarding what happened in their mind. Anohumans did not clearly think the way most people did, so it was good to have insight wherever he...