just wing it [open]

[Dream Wolf]

Dream pondered, knowing it would irritate Tayte to some degree, but he had to give Fang something or the extra personality would never shut up. He looked at Tayte after a few seconds of thinking. "Let's head to the Smithy, I can ask Porky what kinds of metal would have the properties we need. Light weight and strong are the basics yes, but we need something with some flex to prevent it from snapping like the aluminum did, and its possible we will need something new. I can smelt metals myself, but to do it right I would need a forge."

The young teen turned to head towards the smithy, then paused. "Actually, lets get blueprints first." Fang had just reminded Dream that Porky, or Callus Swime, which sounded like swine thus the nickname, was very mad at Dream still for making a suit of armor out of an alloy he hadn't fully tested. The end result had been a suit of armor that cracked when exposed to extreme cold, and since Dream had, without permission of course, gone to the mountains to test it against a bunch of pipsqueaks he had heard about, he had once again almost died...but not from Darkness, since the rumor had been just that, a rumor and thus had no standing in reality...

Hypocrite...you tell this poor lad off for jumping off a roof, when you yourself are no better, always running off to become the next great Chaser. If not for those fur trappers you'd be an ice sculpture up on the mountain, stuck inside a suit of armor that wouldn't come off because it locked up with ice and the cracks had sheared off the heads of the pins so you couldn't undo the hinges. Dream could see the smug grin on Fang's non existent face. Which in Dream's mind was like his, but filled with shadow where the eyes were.

"Just a note, if you hear any rumors about me, most of them aren't true, but some of them are."

[Tayte Abbot]

Tayte had taken in the entire scenery as he waited. A younger girl was watching Tayte as he flitted about. He had seen her before, but he didn't know her, it was just a memory. Tayte looked away from the girl and back at Dream. He was still a little disappointed that he had to slow down in the making and testing of the wings, but he was glad that he was finally going to get some better materials. Dream started talking about his metals again, flexible and lightweight metals in order to be able to give him flight. Tayte wasn't sure how to create a flexible metal, but maybe the Porky guy that Dream had mentioned would know. One thing that Tayte did know was how to make wings that didn't need flexible metals to work. The wings he had just tested did need flexible metals to work, but he had assumed that aluminum was flexible enough.

Dream started to go towards what he called the Smithy and Tayte groaned inwardly. He wasn't too fond of following others since they were slow and it meant that he had to walk at a normal pace instead of running at his fast pace. It seemed that Dream changed his mind though because he then stated that he actually wanted to get the blueprints first. Tayte smiled and nodded. He then began trying to figure out the closest and fastest way to his apartment. He had to figure out a good way to get the younger boy there without having to wait up with him, because that was never fun. Finally Tayte decided that it might be easiest if he just pulled Dream along as he ran. He had done it once before and people seemed to stumble more than run, but it was fast and easy.

Dream mentioned something about rumours and Tayte kind of shrugged it off. "If you don't want me making assumptions about what is true and what is false then just tell me what's true. I mean honestly it's not that hard of a premise. Tell me the truth and I won't have to sift through the rumours." Tayte sped along and then started leading Dream in the direction of his apartment. After a few seconds of him walking Tayte noticed that the few people who had been there were now gone, the road was pretty much empty except for them. Tayte turned back to look at Dream. "Okay grab my hand. You can tell me all of the rumours about you later, but right now I just want to get to my apartment as fast as possible and that means me kind of just dragging you along while I run. You shouldn't get hurt, it'll just be a little fast." Tayte held out his hand for Dream to take as he shook a little. In the back of his head he reminded himself that his apartment was probably a mess considering he hadn't picked up any of his papers in at least the past two months. His apartment was also where his bed was, which he always hated the sight of. "Yea let's go." Tayte stated, more to himself than anything.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream nodded, agreeing to talk about the rumors and to being pulled along, when Tayte started running he was caught off guard by the speed at first, but using the speed he had absorbed from the Razor all those years ago he was able to keep his feet and while he couldn't keep pace with Tayte entirely, he could at least keep his feet under him without stumbling too much. But he noticed the lack of people quickly and twice he sensed Darkness, but they were pipsqueaks, and only two of them, s he wasn't worried or compelled to go after them, because he could also sense a couple of Chasers in the area. That was one thing about his Absorb he felt was good, he could tell the difference between everything he absorbed from. Anything within a hundred feet he could identify. As he ran he absorbed some energy from Tayte, enough to replenish his own strength reserves and keep him going, but not enough to weaken the other person.

When they reached their destination Dream still needed a moment to catch his breath. "You're...pretty fast....huh?"


(sorry for the slight powerplay I felt it would help with the progress. feel free to PP if you need to)

[Tayte Abbot]

[Sound good, it's fine.]

Tayte was glad that Dream accepted being pulled along. It would make it faster by far, and that was really all that Tayte wanted. He took off running the second Dream took his hand, and although he could feel the younger boy struggling to keep up, he did pretty well. Better than the last person he had pulled along like this. Tayte got to his apartment building in a normal amount of time and waved at the door keeper. They didn't even flinch as Tayte sped inside. Everybody in the building was used to his frantic running by now. Tayte looked stopped and looked back at Dream once they were in the main lobby.

Dream looked like he had just run a marathon, which maybe he technically had, considering the distance they had just covered. Tayte heard him say something about really fast. Tayte nodded his head. "Yeah I'm pretty fast, well more like everything else is really slow. See when people talk I hear them like they are talking slow motion, so I guess I'm just sped up. It's become a normal thing." Tayte explained he then looked over where the elevator and the stairs were. He always took the stairs because he was faster than the elevator and it was cramped, but Dream looked like he was exhausted so he probably wouldn't want to climb the stairs to Tayte's apartment on the sixth floor. Tayte sighed.

"Okay so I'm going up, you can come up when you're ready. The elevator is right there." Tayte pointed to a pair of sliding metal doors. "And I'm going to take the stairs. I live on the sixth floor, third door on the left." Tayte purposely slowed down his speech so as to make sure that Dream understood everything he was saying before he ran off up the stairs. Once he got to his apartment he propped the door open so that Dream could get in and then went to work. His apartment looked like a mini hurricane had come through it and that wasn't acceptable for hosting people usually so Tayte wanted to clean up a little. The walls had paper and writing all over them, the ground was littered with book and paper, his bed was hidden beneath boxes, and the air had a feeling of dust in it. The first thing that Tayte did was open the window to let some fresh air in. The cold air made the room feel less stuffy. Then Tayte starte running around picking up papers.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream made his way to the elevator, pushed he button and slowed his breathing. he was in the elevator with a girl a few years older than him, but she was full of energy and he nudged his Absorb power to pull a bit more from her. When she visibly began to slump, he cut it off as much as he could, thankfully she got off on the second floor, so she could get away from him and recover, but in his experience, she would be fine within a couple minutes, she was the kind of person who had more energy than she used.

Once he reached the door, he paused outside, listening to the sounds of frantic cleaning, he was still tired though, so he stood in the hall, leaning against the wall, pulling energy from the people around him. Some were sleeping, and he took more from them than the others, because they were actively restoring themselves. When he felt like he could keep up with Tayte he entered the room.

"So, anyway. I guess I should tell you right off, one of the things they say about me is that my mother was infected with Darkness while pregnant and that I'm actually half Darkness. It's not true, I have a power called Absorb, it lets me pull a sort of energy from the things around me, even trees have this energy, but so do Darkness, though their energy is very different. I just want to tell you because it always works, even when I don't want it to, so if you start to feel tired, let me know and I'll go for a walk to give you time, but just so you know, you have a LOT of energy, more than any other person I have ever met."

[Tayte Abbot]

Just as Tayte was gathering most of the papers up off of the floor he heard the door open more. He didn't stop cleaning as Dream started talking. The younger boy seemed to have some issues of his own. Like absorbing Darkness into himself. Tayte set the papers in his arms on his desk and rushed over to Dream. "Okay bud, that sounds pretty shitty, but I don't really mind it, the Absorb power I mean. Like you said I have lots of energy so I haven't even noticed it yet. Anyways that sounds like it could be useful at times, even if you absorb some Darkness."

Tayte patted him on the shoulder and then ran back into the heart of his apartment. He hadn't cleaned it very much, but now the floor wasn't coated with random loose papers everywhere. All in all his apartment just kind of looked like it was owned by a crazy person. Writing on the walls and windows and piles of things led to the crazy person vibe. He was at his desk sorting through the papers he had thrown there when he found the two he had been looking for. Both of them were wing blueprints, but they were both drastically different. One was the one he had just used, which resembled a bat's wing more closely than an actual bird's wing. The second one, one he hadn't made, was more complicated with individual feathers and moving joints in order for more movement.

Tayte brought the two papers over to Dream again. He smiled at the younger boy and held out the paper. "So those are my two idea for the wings. One can use a more rigid metal as the design allows it a lot of movement, but the one I previously used, as you know, needs a more flexible metal." Tayte told him quickly. He gave the papers to Dream before he ran back to his desk and started rummaging through the papers. Once he couldn't find them there he went to the bed and started going through the boxes blocking the surface area of the bed. The first thing most people noticed about his bed was that it would be impossible to sleep in it.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream looked the designs over, he was a little startled, well shocked really, that Tayte didn't care about the Darkness. Most people avoided him after hearing it. He looked over the design for the bat like wings. They would be simpler to make, but would be more difficult to maneuver with, they also had a higher chance of the frame snapping after repeated use because of their rigidity. He gave the more complicated wings a good looking over. Both had draw backs that he could see immediately, both of the draw backs potentially fatal to the user.

"I hate to be a negative Nancy here, but neither of these designs will work. The stiffer wings will eventually break, with no way of predicting when. Even if you have a good metal, any metal light enough to be used won't hold up to the continued abuse. Alternately, any metal strong enough to hold up will be too heavy. As for the other wings, too many moving parts. Even the best craftsmen in the world couldn't make something with so many joints work right. That and the maintenance would be ridiculous. We could work on the design for the more complex wings though, reduce the number of joints, and alter the shape a little to make up for it. We would need Aluminum Pyrite, a metal only someone like me can make, its a combination of Iron Pyrite dust and Aluminum, the Iron adds strength, without adding too much weight, but that would only work for the frame, the feathers would have to be something lighter, like tin, because cloth simply won't work, lucky for you I used to make metal birds to sell as trinkets or some spending cash. I know how to make really good feathers that actually feel and work like the real deal. Well small feathers anyway, for this we would need Condor sized feathers, so I'll need samples of intact feathers and video of the feathers in action, if you can find them."

He looked around, taking in the room, it looked like a place a very interesting person lived, in his opinion. He didn't tend to call people crazy, seeing as he had a voice in his head...

[Tayte Abbot]

As Dream started pointing out the issues with his designs Tayte kept looking through the boxes. He shuffled through a couple books until he found a notebook, which he ripped out of the box and began flipping the pages. He threw it aside when he realized it wasn't what he was looking for. He pulled out a few more notebooks as he realized that Dream was talking about metals again. Tayte really had to read up on metals because every time the younger boy started talking about them he got a little lost, which was a new feeling for somebody who usually knows everything. He finally pulled out the book he wanted. He could remember perfectly every single page in the book and he was pretty sure there was at least one thing that matched what Dream was explaining, but he wasn't good with metals so he couldn't be completely sure.

Tayte smiled at Dream. "Yea those two are just my most recent designs. I hadn't tested the jointed one yet since, as you mentioned, it would be nearly impossible to make, but I have tested a few others. All of my designs are in this book. I think there are approximately two hundred and eighty two. You don't have to look through them all, but there are a couple options I think might look for you." Tayte explained as he handed the book to Dream. Once he did that he ran over to a door and opened it. Inside it was a couple of his old prototypes. None of them had worked, so they were all mangled in some way, some even covered in a bit of blood that he had never bothered to clean off. Tayte started searching through those until he pulled out the oldest one, which was, in fact, the only one that had ever worked. Although it wasn't wings, it was just a glider.

[oh dude this is so late]

[Dream Wolf]

Dream watched Tayte with a look of 'what in the world is wrong with this guy?' He started looking through the note book and found one about halfway through that would probably work if made with aluminum and a fine steel wrapping that he often used for making lightweight weapons. It had some movable joints that would reduce the stress on the stiffer parts of the frame, but not so many as it make it structurally unsound. He glanced up as Tayte pulled the glider out. It was a very basic piece, but, it obviously worked since it wasn't broken.

"I found one that could work, it would take me about a week to make the frame and joints, but, I think I could also make some feathers for it. That's what would take the most time, the amount of detail in a feather is incredible, but workable. Give me a day to work out a solid design, and another day to make the feathers. After that four days to make the frame, to be sure it won't break, and two more days to do strength testing on the design, to make sure it won't break under the combination of weight and lift. I realize that for you that's a long time, but its the safest way to do it."


(no worries, holidays are busy my post is kinda late too lol)

[Tayte Abbot]

Tayte held the glider in one hand as Dream explained all the time and effort it would take to build the pair of wings he had picked out. Tayte nodded along, but really just wanted to get on with it. Now that he was assured that Dream would be helping him create a fully functioning pair of wings he wasn't really worried about it too much. He could pass the time another way, it was just that he had to be able to fly at some point. Didn't matter when it just had to happen. In the mean time Tayte wanted to do something else while Dream was here.

"Okay, yea, yea, thanks for helping me and all that. The time frame will be fine, but for now let's do something else more fun." Tayte jogged over to where Dream was standing and smiled. The glider in his hand was fairly large and bulky, but it wasn't too big that it was impossible to move with. Tayte opened the door and started menouvering the glider outside of it again. "Let's head up to the roof. I think if you're going to help me build some wings then you should see where this all started you know? Anyways this will be pretty interesting." Tayte finally menouvered the glider through the door and looked back at Dream, waiting to see if he would come along.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream raised an eyebrow as Tayte maneuvered the glider out, but he followed the other man to the roof. To be entirely honest the height kind of scared him, but he had a few tricks to use if he fell, for example he could change the density of his blood and make himself more shock absorbent.

"You go ahead and glide away, I'll watch..." Dream waited for Tayte to launch himself, he kept his 'Forge' ready, incase he needed to alter the metal frame of the glider. He doubted it would happen, but he was a cautious person when it came to others, despite his self destructive tendencies.

[Tayte Abbot]

As. The pair reached the roof Tayte noticed that Dream looked a little uneasy. Maybe he was scared of heights? Wouldn't that make them an ironic pair of friends. One who would give anything to fly and one who would give anything not too. Tayte really hoped that Dream didn't have a fear of heights but there would be nothing he could do to prevent it. Tayte laughed when Dream stated that he would watch. "I brought us up here to tell you a story, the glider is for after all that, so you might as well have a seat." Tayte himself sat down on the edge of the roof.

He frowned as he tried to think of how to word everything. He already knew that he was going to have to slow down in order to get everything out in a conprehensible way, now it was just a matter if wording. After a few seconds of pausing Tayte began to speak. "One of my powers is that I can remember everything, ever, like ever since I was born. This helped in school and I graduated a few years early, but a couple months before I graduated I, um, well I don't know what happened. I kind of blacked out and lost all memory for six months. When I woke up I had this apartment and, um, some scars on my back. I can't remember anything from that time. I think that's when I could fly. So I think if I can fly again then I'll get my memories back. It's really important to me. I thought you'd want to know." Tayte stopped talking and rubbed the back of his neck, feeling the spot where his scars ended. He hadn't told Dream about those, but they were much more personal.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream nodded at the explanation. "That makes sense. And if you are going to be honest with me, I will be honest with you. When I was five I fully absorbed a pipsqueak. It formed a second consciousness inside my mind, one called Fang. Fang is made up with a number of my emotions, he is my anger, my fear, and a couple other bad emotions and feelings. To be wholly honest, he is also my confidence. I can do nothing without his support. When I was eleven I absorbed a Razor, I gained its speed and power, and Fang became even stronger. Ever since then people have been afraid of me. Not many people know the truth of it, but, those that do either think it makes me stronger, or makes me a danger to those around me. In theory I could reach out, grab you, and drain you of your energy so completely, you die, and then I would have your powers, in theory. I have never tried this on a human or animal. I can also control blood, the way I do metal, and that really scares people."

He looked at Tayte, waiting for an expression of fear or disgust to appear. He had not lied about Fang being his confidence.

[Tayte Abbot]

Tayte listened intently to Dream as he explained his absorbing power. The idea of absorbing something into his body was foreign to Tayte so he couldn't relate fully, but he could sympathize and understand the loneliness and exclusion something like that could create. He had experienced that in school with his powers, but probably not to the extent that Dream might have. To have a second personality born from Darkness and have the ability to kill people with a flick of you wrist might freak some people out, not Tayte though.

The older boy didn't really care what was wrong with Dream, as long as he could make a working pair of wings then they could be friends. Tayte smiled a wolffish grin at Dream when he was done. "If Fang controls your confidence then you better get his permission cause we're about to do something that requires just a bit of confidence." Tayte brought the glider over to Dream. The younger boy had already looked a little nervous so now he would probably be a bit more. "We're going for a little fly, well, you are. There's a building that's perfect height to land on, right across the way. All you have to do is get a running start and jump then hold on tight." Tayte held out the glider for his new friend to take. Now that they had secrets out of the way this was happening.

[Dream Wolf]

Dream stared at Tayte with a stunned expression as he explain how to glide. He choked several time before managing to spit out words.

"There is NO WAY I am doing this..." He had no intention of doing so, but then something, strange happened. Fang took control. The wild, untamed personality surged up and threw Dram to the back of his own mind. "Oh Hell yes!" Fang grabbed the glider took a running start and leaped off the edge of the building. Although Tayte would have had little time to notice, Dream's eyes went from blue to green.

Fang flew on the glider, yelling like the lunatic he was. When he landed on the other roof, he turned back to the other building and let out a resonant shout of victory. But before he could relish in his control, Dream slammed him back behind the bars of his mental cage.