So, I'd commissioned a picture based on the song Dance Along the Edge previously, but in many ways, Huntress takes 'Dancing on the Edge' rather more literally, and
rjbartrop was the obvious person to show this. Huntress is pretty good with Capoeira, and her balance is really good, so she's not really in much danger there despite the height... but, honestly, a lot of cyberpunk types are adrenaline junkies or they wouldn't get into mercenary work in the first place, and Huntress is well into 'seen enough to be rather fatalistic about it all'. So whether or not she cares about the amount of danger she's putting herself in is a difficult question to answer at the best of times. Someone who both seeks out and then survives working as a combat mercenary tends to not be exactly a 'normal' person.
Artist's posting at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45539124/ so go check things out there!
rjbartrop was the obvious person to show this. Huntress is pretty good with Capoeira, and her balance is really good, so she's not really in much danger there despite the height... but, honestly, a lot of cyberpunk types are adrenaline junkies or they wouldn't get into mercenary work in the first place, and Huntress is well into 'seen enough to be rather fatalistic about it all'. So whether or not she cares about the amount of danger she's putting herself in is a difficult question to answer at the best of times. Someone who both seeks out and then survives working as a combat mercenary tends to not be exactly a 'normal' person.Artist's posting at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45539124/ so go check things out there!
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"Sir, HISWAT-1 just reported in that they saw a tigress on the ledge of a building doing calisthenics. Anecdotal-unproven: she looked happy."
The desk report officer responded, curtly, "Not a tiger, is that what you're saying?"
The HISWAT responder stiffened internally, but little betrayed therein his tone, "No, sir, not a tiger. Not a tiger at all."
The deskwoman then said, softly, "So she isn't bothering anyone, other than your notice," a statement, not a question.
"I doubt it. A tigress wouldn't dance on the edge of a building that high if she didn't want to be seen."
"Then stop looking at her. She values her privacy."
The HISWAT responder didn't know whether his superior knew the tigress doing her calisthenics or not, but assumed the best anyway.
And he took his notice elsewhere.
-2Paw.
The desk report officer responded, curtly, "Not a tiger, is that what you're saying?"
The HISWAT responder stiffened internally, but little betrayed therein his tone, "No, sir, not a tiger. Not a tiger at all."
The deskwoman then said, softly, "So she isn't bothering anyone, other than your notice," a statement, not a question.
"I doubt it. A tigress wouldn't dance on the edge of a building that high if she didn't want to be seen."
"Then stop looking at her. She values her privacy."
The HISWAT responder didn't know whether his superior knew the tigress doing her calisthenics or not, but assumed the best anyway.
And he took his notice elsewhere.
-2Paw.
Note that I only identified the deskwoman as being female, and her reputed position of authority at the immediate response desk. Huntress does have a good, murine gentlewoman friend who could've arranged for a bit of privacy if someone was being cheek and peeking at her tigress-friend. ^_^
-2Paw.
-2Paw.
I heard Deedee's voice (or my internal prejection of what I thought she might sound like, in your stories told) as the immediate response deskwoman, about halfway through writing my wee bit of interpretative narrative. Even if Huntress wasn't worried about being peeked at, spied upon or recorded, Deedee would worry for her, and would be inclined to give her the gift of a bit more privacy as her tigress-friend danced her measure by the cusp of the city-sky.
"Computers have mice, or they and we can have them. And then we have proper opportunity knocking, using a standard protocol."
-2Paw.
EDIT: Tainted Overlord, or Tainted Overload; might that be a musical group in the dark future of Huntress' and Deedee's Huntress?
"Computers have mice, or they and we can have them. And then we have proper opportunity knocking, using a standard protocol."
-2Paw.
EDIT: Tainted Overlord, or Tainted Overload; might that be a musical group in the dark future of Huntress' and Deedee's Huntress?
I'm going to have a look for 'Tainted Overlord' relating to Cyberpunk 2077 on Youtube; I don't know if there are actual compositions put together for CP2077 the game, but I'm rather curious now. As for DeeDee and her Exotic-mouse biosculpy, I can't imagine why she chose a Sqk! /s <3
-2Paw.
-2Paw.
Yeah, I tried to keep that sort of thing in mind... Huntress has aspects of PTSD, DeeDee is more the 'old school' hacker type that's more interested in knowing things, Scythe is more the consummate professional. As I said, really, most 'normal' people don't go do that sort of thing.
Though the sorts of stressors involved in a full cyberpunk world where the gloves are off are likely to make a whole lost more people deviate from anything we currently consider 'normal'.
Though the sorts of stressors involved in a full cyberpunk world where the gloves are off are likely to make a whole lost more people deviate from anything we currently consider 'normal'.
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