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Gabriel ([personal profile] jermastrat) wrote in [community profile] datadiving2025-06-20 11:36 am

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Draped across the bed, bored out of his mind. Not the kind of situation Gabriel ever imagined he'd be in, at any point in his life, ever, but he could add that to the pile of new experiences he supposed. Yeah sure not all of them could be absolute bangers, life wasn't always going to be interesting, that much he'd learned long before everything fell apart but it felt almost insulting to be in another world, another time, and still be fucking bored. An old saying he'd heard a soul pass on to him once before rattled through his brain: boring people are bored, and he scowled at the memory, petulantly kicking a pillow off the bed.

Maybe he could go call on Cassiel. They could spar, or hunt, or talk, or fuck, or anything else, he didn't know. Anything was better than laying here doing fuck all.

The conspicuous lack of the Machine was as ever, not a concern either. Where was it? Well, outside somewhere of course, doing whatever. At this point he'd grown quite comfortable with its presence and conversely, lack of. Whatever trouble it could get itself into was at this point no longer his concern. ... A pleasant enough idea to hold onto at least. It did nothing for the boredom, other than alleviate some of the annoyance swirling around his head thanks to it.

... He really had to find some way to fill his day before he started taking this growing, foul mood out on someone who didn't deserve it, he hates this.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-06-30 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
INTERNAL NOTE: EFFECTIVE WAY TO MAKE ANGEL STOP BEING MAD (SITUATIONAL)

Well, Gabriel's not yelling at it any more, so further escalation of hostilities can be temporarily suspended. It grinds its lower body against Gabriel roughly, one hand sliding up to the back of his neck and raking its fingers down in one quick, violent motion. The other hand is still clamped firmly on Gabriel's throat; intermittently, randomly, it squeezes harder, forcing periods of breathlessness before it releases.

Its head swivels back and forth as it observes the consequences of its actions with rapt interest, feeling Gabriel's heart thumping through the thin plating of its chest, pressed together as they are. As if it too had a heartbeat. As if it, too, was a creature of flesh and blood.

(Not even mortal, Gabriel had said once, denounced it so once. This close, it wonders, has the space and fuel to even think, is this softness, this vulnerability, this ability to be undone in this way, is that what mortality means? But Gabriel isn't mortal - isn't human - so maybe this whole premise is flawed. It should throw it out and start again and attack the thought from another angle.

It resists the temptation to delete the entirely useless mental commentary of the last few seconds.)

It drinks in those responses meanwhile, truly and intensely pleased that something it's already really good at at can be applied to something else it doesn't have any experience with. It no longer feels like it's entirely out of its depth.

(Its own wings flicker with distorted color - some misfiring wiring that's never been replaced and it's honestly totally forgotten about, hooked up to respond to strong bursts of neurological activity. It doesn't notice.)
Edited 2025-06-30 10:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-01 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
The way Gabriel keeps tugging at it is bothering it now, mostly because he doesn't seem to be quite satisfied and this is now a puzzle to be solved.

GOING FOR THAT P-RANK?

INTERNAL COMMENTARY MARKED AS IRRELEVANT

Another flicker of its wing color, another irritable little twitch as it ponders this new problem of sorts. It doesn't actually know a lot about his anatomy, is the thing, and Gabriel is weirdly not being informative right now in favour of being noisy, and he's going to just be even more noisy but also mad if it stops to ask. It's perfectly happy to choke him and keep scraping at his back, he really likes that apparently, but there's something else he wants and isn't getting so it'll have to figure it out.

Fine, it'll have to get creative. It can get creative. It's getting creative right now, isn't it?

Neither of its two available arms are particularly good for blah blah flesh and blood are frailer than steel, but the Whiplash has more flexible fingers, and it doesn't need to use the launcher. It taps at a wing (weird colour now, what's that about, whatever, it'll look over the system logs later, not important) and draws out the revolver, glancing over to it long enough to be noticeable.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-01 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
V1 very deliberately, perhaps exaggeratedly so, raises its hand so that Gabriel can see it hasn't got its finger on the trigger or anywhere close. It's opted to wrap its fingers around the handle instead.

It stays like that for a moment, and then quite deliberately shifts back so it's not totally pressed against him as it was before. The Whiplash tucks under their two active arms as they put the revolver muzzle down pointing towards the bed yes it understands gun safety between them.

The problem appears to be a lack of specific, directed friction, as far as it can tell. This is what it's got for a solution, by far the safest one given the Whiplash's grappling launcher and the Knuckleblaster's shotgun.

Well, it could swap its arms around, but despite everything it did listen to Gabriel's admonishments and it's trying, okay, it's not like it has experience with this either. Its usual arm has blunt fingers and no additional attachments, it's not trying to rip him apart and that's far easier with the other two extra arms it has.
Edited 2025-07-01 03:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-01 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well obviously it wants to use it, why else would it have brought it out. It completely does not convey this in any way because now Gabriel is going to explain more things to it, sex sure is complicated for something that presumably feels good for him.

It sits back on its heels to give him room, letting him go completely for the moment. Its head moves, clearly tracking his motions, studying him intently with the focus it usually reserves for trying to not get murdered. Despite the lack of variation in staring, given it was never built to emote, there's a sense of familiarity about the look all the same - that sense of complete and utter attention.

It watches his hands mostly, flicking up its head occasionally to look at the way Gabriel flushes (INTERNAL NOTE: POSITIVE ASSOCIATION//PLEASING?).

It thinks it gets how this works, or at least there's enough there to start with. It could just use its fingers for stimulation, especially internal stimulation, but he seems to want this kind of stimulation and also all the other things it was doing.

Fine. Now it's V1's turn to explain how this is going to work. It grips the revolver tightly, feeling the light pulsing hum of the powered battery, reviewing what it's already learned. Gabriel had responded interestingly even when it wasn't doing anything, and he's warm enough, so it's likely the vibration of its own systems that he found pleasant...

It spins up the mechanism in the Whiplash that usually controls reeling in the cord. There's an audible whirring sound as the motor whines at this unorthodox use, and it watches the revolver vibrate more strongly with satisfaction. Hypothesis tested. Yes, this will work, in short bursts at least.

Without warning or any sort of fanfare, it leans forward again, pressing the revolver (still muzzle down so Gabriel doesn't think it's going to shoot him) between the angel's legs, exactly where it was shown, before activating the motor in its hand again to make the revolver's vibrations increase drastically.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
If V1 could make pleased sounds, it would. As it is, it simply makes a satisfied internal note that the trick is a success, its wings flashing shattered colours at that flurry of neurological activity - new idea, successful idea, good.

+CREATIVE

INTERNAL COMMENTARY DISCARDED AS IRRELEVANT.


Actual praise from Gabriel - extremely weird. But again, not bad, not bad at all. Being told you're doing a good job is nice. But much more rewarding is the change in Gabriel's expression, the shift in his mood, that thrill, that eagerness--


//REPLAYING COMBAT FOOTAGE
//AUDIO-ONLY
"Show me what you were made for!"
//ENDING REPLAY


It's reviewed the footage more times than it strictly needed to. Was it 'having fun' in a life-and-death struggle? What was the difference between this and any other fight, since all fights were life and death for it?

The release of adrenalin and dopamine from its limbic system was consistent with enjoyment, if its system logs were accurate. But it doesn't know why. It doesn't know why yet. But it liked it? It liked it.

It practically lunges forward, one hand shooting out to grab Gabriel's wrist, stopping him from covering his mouth completely. It keeps the gun where it is, pulsing the motor in its palm to vibrate the revolver intermittently.

The other hand presses against his throat again, not quite as hard as before. The tilt of its head is less intent, more challenging. It wants this to be reciprocal or it wouldn't be putting in this much effort.

But it's never been that simple between them, has it?

See. I'm listening.

Are you still going to tell me what to do?
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-02 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
There's a reflexive twitch as Gabriel closes his hand around its gun-holding wrist, but it doesn't flinch or pull away - quite the opposite. It's happy to press the gun against him, to match the movement of his hips. There, finally, it's able to fulfill what he kept whining about.

It doesn't really care about whether anyone hears Gabriel or not. It just doesn't want him to restrain himself, it's more fun if he doesn't. It does not convey this at all, but it does keep a grip on his wrist, not letting him go, if you want your hand back you're going to have to fight me for it.

Well. Not that kind of fighting. But he's going to have to make a stronger argument than that.

It practically perks up at Gabriel telling it to earn it, and then it's tightening its grip on his throat again, as it did before. It considers its options for a moment before it engages its fourth arm and leans over to reach behind him, claws raking lightly across his back. It's more careful with this one than it was with the Feedbacker - it's easier to draw blood with the Knuckleblaster - but that just means the sensation is sharper, which considering everything that's been coming out of Gabriel's mouth in the last five minutes is probably a benefit.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-02 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Gabriel's words aren't incorrect. In a strange parallel of the angel himself, the way V1's wings are fully raised and alight with color, the way its internal systems have kicked in to cool a body experiencing adrenaline-related (positive) stress, betray a jumbling surge of emotions and stimulation it hadn't expected to have.

This is not exactly what it was made to do or be, but it doesn't matter. It's something new and old at once. It's exciting, something fun.

There's all sorts of things going on in its head right now, first and foremost among them being you like this too.

It's a simple truth, as much as it's one that it can't articulate (its hands are very thoroughly occupied and it's got higher-priority goals to focus on): it's something they both want, and so it's worth putting effort into.

It lets him have the position change, even lets him free his hand as they exchange places and now it's V1 underneath him, wings splayed out, still with that challenging tilt to its head as it stares up at him with full focus.

In return, its clawed hand rakes across his back and side with vicious enthusiasm, its freed hand grabbing his thigh and yanking him down closer. It keeps that one hand still on his throat, though that pressure is more of a reminder than an active threat at the moment as it adjusts for the change in position.

It runs the motor in its hand again, pushes the mechanism harder (it will have to run maintenance later, worth it), for a stronger pulse of vibration as it presses the gun into the angel's cunt.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-03 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Its fingers tighten on Gabriel's throat sharply as he reaches behind it--

SYSTEM WARNING: INSTABILITY TARGETED

CHANCES OF ESTIMATED SURVIVAL IF SPINAL CORD IS SEVERED: CALCULATING...


--its entire body shudders, freezes, the fingers of the Whiplash tightening on the handle of the gun, its eye shuttering, another bolt of adrenalin issuing from its limbic system in anticipation of pain or worse--

QUERY// DO YOU TRUST SOMEONE THAT HAS TRIED TO KILL YOU TWICE?
ANSWER// YES
?


--the moment of tension only lasts a breath, a fleeting second, and then it loosens its grip and relaxes into that touch, that pleasant feeling, cooling fans whining.

It can't shut off the things that help to keep it alive, but it can ignore them. It will ignore them. This is a higher priority, right now, than simple calculations of survival.

This is worth the risk. SHUT UP IN THERE ALREADY.

Back to more interesting things. Gabriel had challenged it, it's hardly going to stop there - it's still pulsing the gun, its clawed hand resting on his hip and digging idly in.

But in the interests of not making the angel think he'd been too hard on it, something he weirdly cares about a lot in this context considering what he'd been talking about earlier (and talking, and talking, boy Gabriel talks a lot, but not like it's using that memory storage for much else), it uses its free hand to grasp Gabriel's arm, giving it a light tap, the way it had tapped his hand before.

Keep going.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-03 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
They're strange words to hear from Gabriel, of all people, who has tried to kill it (who it has tried to kill in return) twice. The only one from which it might be more startling to hear it (if either of them were capable of communicating in that way) would be V2, who was already taken care of permanently. Those little pulses of stimulation crawling pleasantly up its spine only make the whole thing more surreal, as if it's hallucinating.

It's...probably not hallucinating.

It doesn't...want to claw at him if he's not alight with that shared passion for violence. It traces light circles on his hip instead, idly noting how its claws drag across his skin with less friction due to the blood it's drawn from him. Only temporary, but it's a strange sensation.

Its eye shutters again as it awkwardly presses the side of its head to Gabriel's cheek. Giving, trying to give, in return for that allowance, that strange promise of no future violence (it wonders if they will do this again). It has no reference for this -- but it wants to learn. Instead of continuing to choke him, its fingers rub against the thin skin of his throat, the side of his neck, exploratory rather than aggressive as it continues upward in a sort of petting motion. (His hair is so soft. It's almost distracting.)

The motion of how it's pushing the gun between his legs is gentler now, if only slightly; it moves with his rhythm, trying to match the way he rides it, trying to time those pulses to give him the most pleasure, listening to the way his breath stutters to determine it.
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[personal profile] mechanicalmortality 2025-07-03 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, he wants to do this again. It considers the idea and finds it's not opposed; annoying freezing-up and system alerts aside, it was fun. This part is still fun too, though more novel than exciting, feeling more like reciprocation for Gabriel's surprisingly tender maintenance of before.

The reverberations of V1's systems travel through its entire body. The result of V1 pressing the side of its head to Gabriel's cheek is a slight rumble where those two disparate surfaces meet. It might be almost an affectionate purr of sorts, if V1 knew what a cat was, or purring was. (It's barely figuring out affection.)

It fiddles with his hair curiously, fingers brushing against the wings. It amuses itself with the thought that it's the closest it's ever gotten to any kind of bird. The faux-birdsong in limbo didn't count, and by the time it was active...there were no birds anywhere, where humans had lived. Gabriel is probably better than a bird, though. Less skittish certainly, it's seen the ones here.

It has another hand free now, and the pace is more relaxed. They're closer together. It runs light fingers down his body - chest to stomach, then lower down still - until it reaches his clit.

It's not going to try figuring out the internal part right now - if Gabriel has to stop and explain things again it thinks he'll probably explode from impatience, which would be funny but not conductive to the task at hand, which is to get him to climax - but the external part will do nicely. It moves its fingers over that nub, the way it had seen him do before, still pushing the gun up against him so he can ride it as it does so.