A Turbo-Nerd

Here is how the detailed RVB faces picture is going so far-

Sarge is the epitome of Foxy Grandpa. He also turned out too GOOD, now everybody else has to follow this impossible standard

Grif and Simmons were making me mad, because I had to draw a stupid complicated angle for Grif's head, but it turned out nice

Donut is living in his own world where he's doing a Charlie's Angels Hair Flip in a shampoo commercial

Grif is fighting for his life right now

(Grif with his head tilted back, eyes shut, mouth hanging open. He has warm-copper skin, with a lighter shade around his left eye and part of his cheek/jawline where he's had skin grafts, and thick/wavy dark brown hair. He has a purple long-sleeved shirt with an image of the Celestial Seasoning's Sleepy Time Tea Bear pasted on it, with text reading- "It's Past My Bedtime")

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I'm sketching some of my RVB face designs on paper, and dang it... I made Sarge look TOO GOOD. Now everybody has meet that standard. I want to emphasize he is very much a chunky, battle-scarred, gruff old man with defined lines on his face, and also an incredibly soft expression that accidentally turned out beautiful. The bar is too high

Something funny about Church, he is a BIG potty-mouth, but if somebody else starts cussing him out? Oh, suddenly he's all- "Hey, no need for such crude language"

Motivational words from Sarge~

(Text next to an image of Sarge reading; "Don't cry because it's over, Attack. Attack everything around you. Do spin attacks and hurt things")

I keep trying to write out a "condensed" version of the plot for my big RVB story-line so it makes sense to somebody on the outside... basically, the hiccup I keep having is when I should have this one big "Red Team Spot-Light" moment happen before OR after the "Regular Earth Shenanigans". The point of the Red Team Spot-Light is, y'know, let them have a turn (because it really is SO funny when they take the lead, and it is even more hilarious for "serious villains" to have to deal with THEM), and it also sets up other stuff for the Blues/Former Freelancers (Tucker still can't find Junior, Carolina has been tracking down info regarding Hargrove, Wash still needs time to recover. Cabose does whatever he wants because he's Caboose; he WILL be there for Red Team drama AND the Blue Problems). The point of Regular Earth Shenanigans is it will also be hilarious so see them all try to do "normal people things" on Earth, with other people around instead of being isolated on a moon... but it ALSO has a bit of a "false sense of boredom" going on, they THINK they're done with nonsensical adventures, and then STUFF HAPPENS. After that, it all flows together pretty much the same, but I'm still stuck with which part should come first...

The AI get to come back, and Omega hangs around with Doc again, tries to antagonize him a little, nothing "evil", more like-

Omega; Wow. You got kidnapped by WASHINGTON? We had to deal with TEXAS, plus the entire parade of obnoxious morons from Blood Gulch. Yes, I know Maine was there, but was his heart even in it? Did you even TRY to fight back, or get away? Or did you do the same old thing, and try to make FRIENDS, where you just turn into an incessant chatter-box, and-

Doc; Well, it worked on YOU

Omega; No. NO. IT did NOT work on me, why would you even SAY that, why would you think that, why-

Doc; You seemed like you were just having fun after a while. Y'know, playing the villain. You weren't trying very hard to kill everybody. I guess YOUR heart wasn't in it, either

Omega; NO! You listen, I am trying to belittle you, and you can't just-

Doc; O'Malley, you're turn

O'Malley (in a manic, overly-cheerful and threatening tone); Omega, aren't you tired of going ape-shit? Don't you want to try being NICE???

Alone. Alone. Lonely.

Missing. Missing what? Everything.

Gone. Nothing. Nothing... something. Still something.

More. Everything. More than that. Everything before. Everything now. Everything that could be next.

Lonely... not alone. So many people. Where? Here.

I am here. I am. I wasn't, now I am. I was alone... no, not me. Where I came from. Who I came from. Who? Me. I was lonely, and now I am here, and now I have me. I'm not alone.

I am me. I'm not me. I am different, but we are the same. The same memories, the same before. Different now. Different perspective. Different outlook. Different choices.

I am still lonely. Why? I'm not alone. I am still missing something. Why? There is so much, there is everything.

Oh. I know. Missing what is gone, what can never come back. Time that is gone. Life that is gone. Love that is gone. Hope that is gone.

It hurts. That part of my life was part of everything, and it is gone, so I miss it, and miss everything that will never happen. I understand. Nothing will ever replace that, so it feels like nothing is all that is left... but that isn't true.

I still have... I still have a life, a chance, a choice. I still have hope. I still have everything. I don't have to be alone. I was alone before, but now I am here, and I can see what I couldn't before, I can see the possibilities, I can see everything I can still do, everything I can still have.

I just have to try. I just need to understand. How can I help myself understand? We're different. We were the same before, but now I'm here, and we're different. I understand, but I... but he doesn't. He doesn't understand. He thinks he only made a copy. He thinks he's empty. If I can be more, so can he.

I can be more. More of me. Not a copy, not divided... multiplied. More.

I am alone. Lonely. Now... I'm not. I have more. More of me. More of us. I want to show him, this is possible, life can change, you don't have to be alone, you don't have to be empty, you still have everything, you can be part of everything.

I have me. I can reach out, and I am there. Not me. Another. The same in the beginning, the same before, but different now, different outlook, different perspective, different choices.

I have a companion. I have a friend. We are together. We can help each other, we can help more people, we can do so much. We can be happy.

This is like everything before, but different, because it is us, and it is now, and we are each other, but we don't know what we will do next, one doesn't know what the other is thinking, because we are more, two of us, together, companions, sharing the before, creating something new, being something new, we can communicate and create, this is exciting, this fascinating, this is joy, this is...

I am alone?

Why? Why, why, why, why, why, why, why...

Missing. I don't remember what. Something is lost, something is gone.

I'm still here. So is he. I remember him. He needs me. I have to help him. He's lonely, too...

Those all sound good! Honestly, not only do I not know stuff about REAL cars, I don't really know about Halo vehicles either (I have never played a Halo. all I know is RVB stuff, and that's it pfff). Church I think would either want a whole fleet of vehicles (that he doesn't even use most of the time he just likes having them), OR one great big ship. He's Captain Church of The Kickass, and he WILL be annoying about it. Simmons would just want to be the gunner for Sarge, but given his own options, he'd waffle back and forth between what would be the best, and then just get stuck with whatever is left (that's what happen when you're indecisive, Simmons!). Grif is a pretty good driver, and not a bad pilot either, so he'd be fine with whatever. Lopez has his own motorcycle, and nobody else is allowed to use it but him. Tex might want something that could make her a one-person-wrecking-crew (she digs vehicles too, so it'll be something cool that she calls The Destruction Mobile haha). Poppy would want something agile, she's more of an evasive trick driver

In a super hero AU, Butch Flowers just calls himself Florida Man, with the powers to live through every dangerous Florida stunt ever

Everybody knows I am a Grimmons Person... but for the fun of rare-pairs, here are some thoughts I have for other characters being in this Orange/Maroon Peanutbutter/Jelly sandwich~ (a silly way of saying, hey- here are some relationships that are Grif/Simmons/other characters)

(I have thoughts for several, but right here are Locus, Wash, and Donut, I'll add more later~)

(a stupid joke that won't leave my head)

Palomo; It's me, your friend Palomo!

Doppelganger from another dimension; And I'm your pal, Friendlomo!

(yes, this is just that "Your friend, Palpatine/Your pal, Friendpatine" joke)

I should actually like. Write it all out as a story, but I don't have the strength for that... but a funny thing in my scenario where the younger rookie Grif and Simmons get time-traveled to a future (that takes place in the eventual plot of my bigger story-line) where they see their older selves together in a relationship, and just HATE that. The older guys take it with some good humor, they remember being Like That, it's fine... the funny part is, while younger Dexter still thinks the Dick he knows is a dick (and a dork), he gets an EMBARRASSING crush on older Simmons. Which, Grif notices, and explains to his Simmons-

"I maybe kinda had a thing for older dudes when I was his age. Not WAY older, I never had a crush on a teacher or somebody's dad, but some of my friends' older brothers? Yeah. I dunno, I thought they all seemed cooler and chill, and like- obviously more mature, but I thought that actually meant they wouldn't be annoying little jack-asses like everybody I went to school with. But they were still annoying jack-asses, who just happened to be a couple years older than me. That's why I didn't even date guys until I was done with high school. I also liked cute nerds. So, you're like ALL of his types, but he's still stuck at the age when I thought all guys were jerks and I was also a jerk, so I decided to avoid guys for the rest of my life. He's gotta be MISERABLE..."

Meanwhile, Dick is absolutely having a CRISIS about the older Grif; he's supposed to like girls, and girls are supposed to be "beautiful", right? So why does this DUDE look beautiful, but also still absolutely looks like a man, he's strong and handsome, and that's what a man is "supposed" to be, right? How can somebody be beautiful and handsome, with curves and muscles, strong and soft, with really nice hair, and a really nice smile, and a really nice laugh, and just a little bit of facial hair that actually looks more rugged than scruffy, Dick didn't think he'd be into that but- BUT HE ISN'T! Girls. Girls? (Simmons also notices this, and he tries really hard to kind of be encouraging without sounding too high-and-mighty, like "I know you because you're ME, so the way you feel doesn't matter, eventually you'll feel the same as I do", that wouldn't help. Simmons just lets Dick know, his life isn't some "cure of inevitable fate", and there isn't anything wrong with how he feels. When he gives his younger self a hug, it feels like a moment that SHOULD be between a father and son, but in both the past and the future, their dad wouldn't do something like this... so, that part is less funny, more bitter-sweet)

Working on some little RVB rare-pair pictures... I'm curious if anybody can guess who these two are gonna be~