FATE of the Liberation Union Strike Team

[WritesNaughtyStories]

The Liberation Union is still recruiting. We have sex and mechs and mech sex and nutrional paste shaped like cookies! Come, help us fight the Hive!!

[DreamsnThings]

9 hours ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

@DreamsnThings, can you tell us about the first time you liberated a Hive BioFrame? And what is that BioFrame's name and what were they like? Does it have a pilot now?

well, not entirely sure how detailed I need to get with this (or how this should necessarily look per say) but ill just make it up as I go along a little bit and work from there

...especially since I barely have a character let alone the little details lol...

im thinking that the way things lined up, all started with the accident that destroyed her Bioframes body and resulted in her being in a short coma... because Bioframes are... well, biological, the shrapnel that embedded itself in her body from her partner merged with her, leading to her... atypical appearance once she woke up, devastated from the loss of her partner she made herself busy working on the backend of things, her own reflection a reminder of her partner as she was slowly looking more and more like her frame.

she knew a little engineering from the maintenance she was doing on her own partner... or atleast the maintenance she used to do on them, so she threw herself into maintenance... helping other frames heal... feeling a fondness... a closeness she was not used to, with most of the frames. she chalked it up to the nostalgia she had for her partner, her frame who was gone... but she truely could feel what the frames needed, where they where hurt, what was wrong with them at a... fundamental level, an emotional level, wants, desires, and needs

she may not have ever understood why... if the hive did not raid the workshop she was operating at. suddenly multiple enforcers charged through the door, gunning down anyone and everyone who stood in their way. one of the enforcers bioframes was half destroyed, the pilot inside having died, she felt a calling from the mech, a cry of pain, muffled by something. running through the gunfire she approached the mech, her hands on autopilot well something was screaming at her to... Do something anything ... so she did, her altered body intigrating with the framework briefly as she physically bypassed the protective layers blocking her from the core of him... of the bioframe she was feeling her hand slipping through the metal like a scalpel cutting back the good flesh to reach the tumor that was killing her friend... not the frame, her friend, Granite. he was fascinated by stonework, his view always drawn to different materials as a fascination, an element of individuality that was suppressed. rapidly the metal in his framework was almost molting, a craggy exterior forming as plantlife sprung up through the cracks. looking closer to a golem than a mech, with a bonsai tree forming atop his spine he sprang to life, much slower than a normal frame but his blows carrying the force a magnitude stronger than before. her body sinking into the walls lining the cockpit, her form half embedded in the walls as almost was in a trance, seeing the fight from granites eyes... then from another set of eyes that almost lingered outside of her friend, adapting to her craggy ally... she saw an old friend, almost spectral in form rapidly reworking granites form to match what he wants. her partner, seeing her attention, her notice, gave a smile that she could never give back as a bioframe "took you long enough partner"

the fight turned in our favor, the hive soldiers needing to retreat with their own suppressed frames being taken with them. the development of a frame switching sides mid conflict developing into its own issue... once a moment of quiet happened. she was released from the wall... her snatch having been stretched wide by a phalic length of marble as she shudder and fell to the floor... a threeway was certainly fun, but she had her partner back~

granite found his, a girl by the name of flora, they seemed to resonate with his natural earthy vibe... and was all to eager to bond with one another. currently they work in a strike team that sometimes needs the extra potency granites fist give as a battering ram

[WickedCadrach]

A BioFrame using plant-life instead of animal features is a cool idea! Like you say, very golem-like

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Very cool. So your partner is really present for you, but it blurs the lines of where each of your personalities begins and ends. Do they remember their name, from before you were combined? What do the physical parts of them that are embedded in your body look like? Is it tissue, circuits some of both?

I think this story suggests you're twice as nice.

Are Granite and Flora part of this squad or was that long enough ago that you've been transferred? Do you ever wonder what Granite is doing now?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

@WickedCadrach, I'm really curious about this Lizzie Al-Azhar. I feel like she must not be from the Hive - their meds and compliant society certainly don't breed chainsaw guitars and growled vocals. So, is there some kind of broader civilian Liberation Union society?

I had thought there would be, but how extensive is it? Is Lizzie a professional musician who makes records that get sold at stores or are her and her band recording in an improvised studio after their shirt at the munitions plant?

[DreamsnThings]

On 26/03/2025 at 22:49, WritesNaughtyStories said:

Very cool. So your partner is really present for you, but it blurs the lines of where each of your personalities begins and ends. Do they remember their name, from before you were combined? What do the physical parts of them that are embedded in your body look like? Is it tissue, circuits some of both?

I think this story suggests you're twice as nice.

Are Granite and Flora part of this squad or was that long enough ago that you've been transferred? Do you ever wonder what Granite is doing now?

As far as names go i haven't latched onto one frankly for either the frame or the girl, but they both still have their own "self" to a degree

Physically it was metal shards of their blackbox that got embedded in me from an explosion I suffered in battle. but well i was healing the natural nature of bioframes linked up with my own body, crossing circuits... physically she looks like... a mess frankly, different aspects of different animal and creatures cropping up that seem to vanish the next time you see her, she is... physically unstable, hence why she is able to form bonds with bioframes so quickly, even if those bonds are incredibly shallow.

Elaborate on twice as nice?

As for the npcs, i have no direct preference, i have them set as a raiding party that are able to smash through baracades dur to the raw, albeit slow power Granite brings to the table

[WickedCadrach]

12 hours ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

I'm really curious about this Lizzie Al-Azhar. [...] is there some kind of broader civilian Liberation Union society?

I hadn't really thought about LU having much established territory for stuff like that, and you're right that the Hive's control definitely stops anything but the most mundane and conformity promoting 'art' (if any art at all is still allowed).

In my head, Lizzie Al-Azhar and her band Scylla existed before the Hive took control. Their music is part of the remnant of old world art that the LU has managed to preserve and Emily just connected with it the most when she was detoxing from the emotion-blockers and started being shown 'everything we've lost' by her new LU compatriots. Just like Emily and the LU are fighting the Hive in the present, Lizzie and the protest artists of her day were trying to warn people and stop the Hive from gaining control in the first place. There may be a fragment of a record somewhere that shows Lizzie being arrested for an illegal garden—being used to circumvent the consumption of emotion-blockers in the food supply—or being rounded up during a protest turned riot when Hive policy started being enforced. 

Really, she's just a touchstone so I can let Emily be a bit of a furious metalhead when metal music has been illegal for a hundred years (or something; the timeline is vague and that's ok). 

[WritesNaughtyStories]

@DreamsnThings, twice as nice drives at you carrying a double personality. When the mechanic is in charge, she can invoke the aspect to get her old BioFrame to help her with something they'd be good at or understand (what does this injured/enraged/catatonic BioFrame want or need, maybe) but I can compel the aspect is there's something the mechanic is trying to do or wants that the BioFrame personality doesn't.

@WickedCadrach, thanks for clearing that up. Do the Liberation Union is  a ragtag band of rebels?

[WickedCadrach]

58 minutes ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

thanks for clearing that up. Do the Liberation Union is  a ragtag band of rebels?

Yeah, I think A ragtag band of rebels is a fair aspect for the LU. We certainly seem ragged here, lol