Thread:ThisIsXenon/@comment-32273133-20181231004208/@comment-32273133-20190119212403

chemistry is rad and my teacher tells tons of dad jokes so it's great

—You’d think Xenon would have really earth shaking shower thoughts bc he’s Smart™ but they’re more like the rainbow=Bred gorange rello yeen plue ourple

--tbh this is me irl

—learning about Henry Clay in history is making me do an extended double take because it’s a Clay but it’s not my Clay

—Clay Tambien is the aforementioned toddler-angel and Henry Clay is like 1790s Hamilton but more irritating and nicer

—The Great Compromiser, though he once was challenged to a duel

—My zany history teacher [i’ll call him living history] calls him “the sticky clay that holds the union together”

and does this really obnoxious slurping noise

—now the kid who used to sit behind me does the noise whenever someone says his name

—and on tests everyone knows what questions he’s on because when he reads Henry Clay he slurps too and it’s like “yeah I know who’s on number seven now”

—My book describes H. Clay as the “living embodiment of Whiggism”

—H. Clay ran for president and lost not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times

—I thought when the book said he died it’d be the last of him but twenty-eight pages later he pops up again and I-

—Living History says he’s in psych textbooks too and I’m not ready for this yet

Notable assignments [not a full list]:

=The first ones

—Micah and Clay had a super easy target but they still almost failed

—the plan was to ambush the target as he left a bar and dump his body in the alleyway, messy but effective, and he wouldn’t be missed

—While he and Micah were hiding, Clay knocked something over and the target realised they were there

—Clay shot him somehow in a panic and Micah got two knives in his back

—they left his body where it fell, retrieved their weapons, and ran.

—Hester met them two miles down the road at a river and told them to clean up

—she seemed sympathetic at first (“first kill is always the hardest”) but once she notices how shaken they are she gets mad

—Clay’s staring at his arrows a little too vacantly and Micah’s shaking so hard that he slices open the palms of his hands when he’s trying to clean his knives

—they’re on extra training until they can “prove they’re ready” again

—this starts Micah’s first round of nightmares—> they last about a month and they’re not as severe as the ones he gets later in life

—this is before Hester does sleep training with Clay so Clay usually stays with Micah at night because he’s scared of Hester

=Bahari

—Hester said the job took three but didn't want the gunslingers on it so she gave Clay and Micah a third team member for the week:  Jason Zeitger

—Micah was 13, Clay was 12, Jason was 21

—Neither Micah nor Clay know why Hester chose Jason and Jason isn’t pleased he’s gotta chaperone two “kids” on their assignment

—however, he’s never seen them in action

—this job was to gather information about a new assassin group in southwest forengard and assassinate its leader

—it takes two days to get to Bahari from Illakhana, and they stow away on a boat

—Micah’s very prone to motion sickness and he’s never been on a boat so he’s miserable the whole time

—Once they get there, it’s obvious that this new assassin group is a highly functioning company/bureaucracy? and is much more powerful than Hester thought or decided to tell them

—Micah, Clay, and Jason get a map from a contact and sneak in.

—Halfway through getting to where they want to be they realise the map is wrong and so they have to scout out the area

—Jason is really pissed at this point because the assignment isn’t going as planned and he’s never had one do that, meanwhile Clay and Micah are taking the difficulties in stride

—they’re scouting and all of a sudden someone sees them

—Micah gets away but Jason and Clay are both captured by Baharians and locked up

—So Micah has to finish the assignment himself

—he’s supposed to take out the leader of the group but the dude is incredibly well guarded

—Micah investigates and follows people around for almost a full day

—meanwhile Clay and Jason are in jail and waiting trial, without weapons

—Clay’s a little freaked out and Jason is even more pissed

—he yells at Clay and blames everything that’s gone wrong on him

—Clay yells back and says it’s Jason’s fault for being an ass about the whole thing and that if he had just quit grumbling for three seconds then they wouldn’t be in this situation

—the argument is about to come to blows when some alarm goes off and all the guards rush out

—Clay tries to pick the lock with a hairpin but the pin snaps and they’re stuck until Micah finds them

—he won’t tell them what happened or why he has a black eye and they go back to the Keep

—turns out the alarm was the discovery of the leader’s body—> they find this out from Micah later

—they can’t get a boat to go all the way back to Illakhana

—this boat stops about a day’s walk from Illakhana

—everyone is exhausted and not ready to walk for a whole day, especially because the sun is setting when they get off.

—Jason finds an inn and he and clay go to buy a room with instructions for Micah to come in through the opened window, because if he went with them, their group would look suspicious

—[Jason and Clay both have blonde hair and similar face shapes so they pass as brothers easily]

—Micah sits on the roof and waits for the window to open

—when it does, he leaps in

—and finds out that this isn’t Jason and Clay’s room

—he’s super embarrassed so he just jumps back out before the people inside can ask him what he’s doing and waits again until the second window opens

—he’s luckier this time and it’s the right room

—Jason’s like “what took you so long?” and then goes back downstairs to get drunk at the bar

—Clay tries to get Micah to talk about what happened again but Micah refuses and goes to sleep

—the next morning they walk back

—Jason is royally pissed off and complains to Hester about the whole deal

—being forced to go with these kids on their assignment, stuck on a boat with one who’s seasick and the other who won’t shut up about the fact that they’re on an actual boat, being thrown in prison and all the things that went wrong

—Hester cuts him off eventually and asks him if he hears those “kids” complaining. He doesn’t respond, and she’s like “looks like you’re more childish than either of them” and walks away

=The Incident

—....we’ll get there

—I’ve been reading IDWTKOH [i’m on like episode 23ish] and I love Guineung and Sasa so much

—actually I love all of them what am I saying

—also venom made me cri

—Clay started taking a potion that stopped his periods when he was 12?-13

—he took it until his supplier vanished and he ran out

—so they're back in all of their horrible glory

—[horrible isn't a strong enough word tbh but I can't think of anything stronger]

—[I never realised how salty I was about periods until writing this wow]

—the first few times it freaks him out and freaks Calidi out bc poor Cali doesn’t know what’s going on and Clay won’t tell him

—Clay feels like he's dying from cramps plus he's grossed out and dysphoric because it hasn't happened in 6-7 years

—[after being on hormone blockers for a long time and suddenly stopping, the hormones wreak havoc on your system like "guess who's back bitches" so every symptom is 10x worse and bleeding is way heavier]

—he doesn’t want to tell anyone what’s happening so he basically locks himself in his room for a couple days until it’s over

—Damian as a model and Micah as the photographer

—Alterantively Damian as an Instagram influencer and Micah as his Instagram husband