Status Updates From Catalyst Gate (The Protecto...

“Sometimes, she decided, you just got hit by an asteroid, and there was fuck all you could do about it. Strangely, that was comforting.”

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Group therapy on board the alien spaceship at 5 o’clock. Please bring your best life advice for this tormented “man” during this trying time

Oh my 😳

Maybe…. maybe no one should trust ANY promises Rainier makes

“The universe was fucked three ways from Sunday, and now the man she’d thought she had a connection with before he ran off to the the Nazca’s bidding turned out not to be a man at all, but a creation made by the very thing she sought to destroy.”

Well. That lie did not last long.

"He pretended not to notice when, far down the hall and behind at least one locked door, he sensed Dr. Liao take a sample of his blood from the floor." Oh my this tormented man can't catch a break. Leave the guy alone he just found out he was grown in a vat and his life was a lie and he's been nothing but a tool to reset and reuse and he was literaly killed by his badass girlfriend who's still mad at him

He would not be subsumed.😠

The power of friendship🥳

“…Tomas thought he could feel the change inside of her, the immense pressure of her will to succeed reaching out from her core, slamming against the impossible pressures… Those pressures collided against the woman that was Sandra, compressed her, made her as hard and immovable as the deep ice on far-off super planets that lived their lives crushed by gravity, having never seen the light of their star.”

“I continue to be the most effective weapon in the known universe.”🫩

“Or maybe that was how Tomas always was. She wished she could tell the difference between who he was and who he was trained to be.” HE WAS GROWN IN A VAT🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

“Fuck off, Bero. I’ll do what you want. I’ll make sure Sandra pulls the trigger even if I’m strapped to the bon, but if you want to… to imply I’m less human than a goddamn spaceship? Then you can go fuck yourself. Which you cannot do, because you are a spaceship.”🫣

“I do not want to have to space you, Tomas, because I have already stretched the bounds of Sandra’s ability to forgive me.”🫣

“Tomas pretended to ache as he shuffled into a bed that he noticed was slightly wider now than it had been before. He bit back a comment, knowing that pointing it out would irritate Bero and risk that the next time he tried to go to bed, his cot might be only wide enough to fit one leg.”

Waiter! Waiter! Another loose-cannon variable with unknown motives in my space opera, please!

“Could a personality emerge in am empty husk?” Oooohhh boy… questions about the nature of sentience…..😵‍💫

“i haven’t been human for long” girl what the hell does that mean because last i checked you are human

WHAT???????!! Can’t Tomas get a BREAK??? From being tormented and losing Sandra’s trust despite trying his best????!

“Fried her like an eel. It was so fucking satisfying.”

“‘Are you alright?’
… ‘Fine.’
‘You nearly died,’ said Bero dryly.
She shot a glare at the wall. ‘Privacy, for fuck’s sake.’
‘If you insist. Grippy is outside the door with the linens. Scream if you need help.’
She roller her eyes. ‘I’m not sure if his time as an amorphous cloud in the net made him more, or less, of a sarcastic ass.’
‘His time as a WHAT?’”

“You weren’t always a spy. Don’t you remember what being a person was like?” WOAH! That’s a touchy subject for a guy who found out like yesterday that he’s a synthetic construct grown in a vat and all of his memories from before he was a superspy are fabricated