28 Needlenoses

[lunatron]

Bring it.

1. Naughty Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
2. Happy Needlenose
3. Silly Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
4. Angsty Needlenose
5. On-Vacation Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
6. Horny Needlenose - claimed by dualistic
7. Transforming Needlenose
8. Excited Needlenose
9. Book-Reading Needlenose - claimed by raisedbymoogles
10. Dancing Needlenose - claimed by koilungfish, with his Nebulans

Comments

[lunatron]

9. Book-Reading NeedlenoseNeedlenose was hunched over his worktable, his fine tweezers out. He had to be very delicate, or the small object would tear. Needlenose would tell anyone that he was so engrossed in his activity that he didn't notice Spinister slip in and take up hovering, metaphorically, over his shoulder. Of course, anyone would tell him that Needlenose wouldn't have noticed Spinister if he'd spent the time staring at the door and set up a monomolecular tripwire

[raisedbymoogles]

....You have made me a happy moogle. ^_^

[lunatron]

Aww, I'm glad you liked it. ^_^

[koilungfish]

So I said, about ten months ago, that I'd review these, and now I am.

The description of Spinister's voice catches my attention, since I never can get a fix on how I imagine he sounds. For him to have a lower sort of voice seems a little strange, possibly because the only helicopters I can think of who had speaking parts were Armada Cyclonus and G1 Vortex, both of whom were comparatively high-pitched.

Would Needlenose think of his book being "wounded" rather than, say, "broken"? Or does he think of xeno-things in xeno-terms?

So what does Needlenose glean from his study here? That humans imagine themselves looking considerably more different to one another than they actually do? :)

[lunatron]

Thank you! I appreciate it.

I tend to think of Spinister having a low, whispering voice, like the rustling of leaves in the wind, like the strangling cord as it is looped around unwilling neck, something soft and subtle.

Describing the book as wounded was me getting flowery with language.

He's learning about cultural stylisation.

[koilungfish]

Well, I try to keep to my word ... even if it takes me a year or so >.>

Sounds quite plausible, I just can't quite hear it in my head. He always looks like he speaks sharply when he's annoyed.

Fair 'nuff.

I'm sure that left Spinister wondering why he bothered.

[lunatron]

Well, yeah. I do tend to imagine he gets louder and more staccato then.

Spinister is eventually going to stop wondering about Needlenose's hobbies. That, or Needlenose is going to start picking on Spinister's bad goth poetry,

[koilungfish]

Spinister writes poetry?

[lunatron]

That's more of a joke on my part. Sometimes, his speech is very informal. Sometimes, his speech is polite and professional. Sometimes, his speech seems to be taken from bad Goth poetry.

[koilungfish]

Is there any pattern to the changes?

[lunatron]

It's situational. He's formal when there's a scary boss, he's Goth when he wants to scare people, and he's informal the rest of the time.

[koilungfish]

Makes sense, that.