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I’m sick of messing with this I guess it’s time to post
So I started this before this LL#9 came out, and then the issue came out and I realized my little fanart piece was no longer relevant, because it was Brainstorm comforting a distraught Nautica after the revival failed, as I thought the comic would go. Nautica doesn't even feel sad about Skids anymore so my idea of Brainstorm being a shoulder to lean on in learning to cope with grief has gone out the window.
But I wanted to finish this still? So new headcanon to keep it relevant to what’s going on in canon.
Mengel did say that disconnecting from the device prematurely could cause permanent damage, but didn't say what. Nautica herself broke out of it to save Velocity. Maybe it was technically done with one process and it didn’t do any harm, but chances are it wasn’t.
Maybe sometimes Nautica randomly falls into moods where she gets sad and feels like she's missing someone - but not anyone in particular, as her brain just randomly attempts to fire those circuits but can't complete it and only trigger the sad, lonely feeling. Maybe sometimes there are flickers of that grief specifically being attached to Skids’ death, but when they are gone she can't recall the correlation.
Brainstorm is somewhere between mad at her and jealous of her - angry because she erased her feelings and made it so that bond with Skids never meant anything to her; what if had been anyone else in the amica group? What if it had been him? But he’s also jealous in a strange way because he at times wishes he could get rid of the pain he feels over grief for Quark.
But more than anything he hates seeing her deal with the after effects. He watched Chromedome go through essentially the same cycle again and again (which he was clearly not okay with as evidenced by his monologue right after the Overlord incident), and he'll be damned if he lets his amica fall into the same cycle. When she falls into the moods, he's there and it's a bittersweet sort of comfort.

yeah I still ship these two and will find whatever way to make it work in my headcanonworld or whatever

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I’m sick of messing with this I guess it’s time to post
So I started this before this LL#9 came out, and then the issue came out and I realized my little fanart piece was no longer relevant, because it was Brainstorm comforting a distraught Nautica after the revival failed, as I thought the comic would go. Nautica doesn't even feel sad about Skids anymore so my idea of Brainstorm being a shoulder to lean on in learning to cope with grief has gone out the window.
But I wanted to finish this still? So new headcanon to keep it relevant to what’s going on in canon.
Mengel did say that disconnecting from the device prematurely could cause permanent damage, but didn't say what. Nautica herself broke out of it to save Velocity. Maybe it was technically done with one process and it didn’t do any harm, but chances are it wasn’t.
Maybe sometimes Nautica randomly falls into moods where she gets sad and feels like she's missing someone - but not anyone in particular, as her brain just randomly attempts to fire those circuits but can't complete it and only trigger the sad, lonely feeling. Maybe sometimes there are flickers of that grief specifically being attached to Skids’ death, but when they are gone she can't recall the correlation.
Brainstorm is somewhere between mad at her and jealous of her - angry because she erased her feelings and made it so that bond with Skids never meant anything to her; what if had been anyone else in the amica group? What if it had been him? But he’s also jealous in a strange way because he at times wishes he could get rid of the pain he feels over grief for Quark.
But more than anything he hates seeing her deal with the after effects. He watched Chromedome go through essentially the same cycle again and again (which he was clearly not okay with as evidenced by his monologue right after the Overlord incident), and he'll be damned if he lets his amica fall into the same cycle. When she falls into the moods, he's there and it's a bittersweet sort of comfort.

yeah I still ship these two and will find whatever way to make it work in my headcanonworld or whatever