About Maverick's Wings

Best Moments from the TG:M Script

(Part 2)

10. More Nix and Bob being awesome.

11. Halo! (She has two lines in the script. The other one was nothing special but I kinda wish they'd kept this one.)

12. Hondo attempting to befriend Cyclone 🤣

13. Mav annoying Cain.

14. "Ominous."

15. That's surprising mature from Hangman. I like seeing this side of his character.

16. And again. Sort of. (That's almost ownship of his mistake...?)

17. "Generous."

18. More Bob and Phoenix being a great team.

BONUS!

What was Mav thinking about??? I need to knowwwwww!!!

*fists clenched* I LOVE THEM SO MUCHHHHJJJJJJ *GNOM GNOM WRAAAHHH YHFHFJFJAKAK BARKBARK ADHFHJFJXJXJX GNONGNOM*👹👹👹

These are so great 😂

... I don't know if anyone's made any of the Barbie posters yet...

... but this is the result of a sleepless night.

I tried my best with the captions, but I'm still not keen on all of them.

"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

Maverick with Goose...

Mav: Goose, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Goose: Sure, honey.

OR

Goose: Hey, Mav, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: A what?

Goose: A worm. Would you still love me?

Mav: Yeah, Goose, I'd still love you.

Maverick with Penny...

Mav: Penny?

Penny: Yeah?

Mav: You'd still love me if I was a worm, right?

Penny: *unimpressed/amused* Pete....

Mav: What???

Penny: *rolls eyes fondly* Yes. I'd still love you.

OR

Penny: Pete?

Mav: Mmm?

Penny: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: *totally unphased* Yeah, of course.

Iceman with Slider...

Ice: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Slider: If you- What?? What do you- *stops* Actually. You know what? Sure, man. I'd love you if you were a worm.

OR

Slider: Hey, Ice, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Ice: Like, if you were always a worm, or if you got turned into one?

Slider: *shrugs*

Ice: *rolls eyes fondly* Sure, Ron.

Iceman with Sarah...

Sarah: Tom?

Ice: Yeah?

Sarah: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Ice: Of course.

OR

Ice: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Sarah: *laughing* What?

Ice: Humour me.

Sarah: *kisses him* Of course, love.

Ice and Mav with each other........

Ice: Mitchell, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: *immediately* No, because you're annoying.

OR

Mav: Hey, Ice-

Ice: No.

Mav: What?

Ice: No. Do not ask me if I would still love you if you were a worm.

Mav: I WASN'T GOING TO!!!

BONUS ROUND!

Carole and Goose...

Carole: *yells across a room full of people* Hey, Goose, you'd still love me if I was a worm?

Goose: *yells back* Damn straight, Honey!

Carole: *blows him a kiss*

Hangman and Rooster...

Hangman: Hey, Bradshaw, would you love me if I was a a worm?

Rooster: *without looking up* Yeah, sure.

Hangman: Wait, what???

Phoenix: *manifesting out of nowhere* It's because if you were a worm you wouldn't be able to talk, Bagman.

Rooster: *silently high-fives Phoenix*

I know I am exceptionally late for this; it was supposed to be for @virgiltracyweek, but all my motivation died and I ended up finishing it late. And it’s only one part of what I was planning on doing. I’ll hopefully still be able to do the rest of it; it’s vaguely based off some RP things that happened this summer with @sonatanotwo, @flyboytracy, @starman-john-tracy, and @gordoncoopertracy. But, anyway, here’s a Virgil! Being exceptionally confused at the start of a long, confusing, plaid-shirt wearing day.

EOS stares at the soft, fluffy white material covering the ground at her feet. She must be making a face without realizing it, because almost immediately she hears John laugh.

“It’s snow, EOS! You know, frozen–”

“I am very well aware of what it is!” EOS snaps, mildly hurt that John didn’t think she knew what something as simple as snow was. “Snow is precipitation that has frozen into crystalline ice flakes and collected upon the Earth.” She’s still staring at it, however. Of course she knows academically what snow is, but she’s spent most of her existence on Thunderbird Five, or on a tropical island that never truly sees winter.

She’s never been this close to it before.

Cautiously, EOS takes a few steps forward, listening to the scrunchy noise the flakes make when ground together when stepped on. It’s strange, almost like hearing someone squeezing styrofoam, although not as squeaky. Her eyes are still fixed on the ground when something cold and slightly damp impacts the back of her head and breaks apart, spreading chunks of wet coldness through her hair. In shock, she turns back and is surprised to see a sheepish expression on John’s face, along with quite a lot of snow clinging to his knitted gloves.

“What–?” she says, that one word filled with so much meaning that it doesn’t truly need more added to it.

John’s face is very pink all of a sudden under the brighter red at his nose, ears and the tops of his cheek from the cold. Still, he’s smiling even with the apologetic bend to his eyebrows. “It was just a snowball– I’m sorry, I forgot– It’s just… the timing was perfect–” EOS still looks confused, not quite understanding the humor he’s taking from it. His eyes soften at how utterly lost she looks, and he walks over and gently brushes the snow from her hair.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you. Here, let me show you.” He places his hand on her back, and she stoops down as he does, watching, then imitating how he scoops up a handful of snow. “You pack it together like this,” John says, demonstrating the motion, then dropping his own handful to guide her hands through it. When her first snowball emerges at last, lumpy and slightly misshapen though a good first effort, he stands up and gestures at himself. “You get a free hit. It’s only fair.”

EOS shakes her head vigorously. “I can’t throw something at you! I could throw too hard or I could hit you in an unprotected spot or…”

John raises his hands in surrender. “Fine, throw it at the ground then. But snowballs are meant to be thrown, EOS. It’s a game.”

Her eyes flit to him, then the ground, and then back again and he can practically see her processors working. After a few more glances, and even some off to the side in mild distress, she pulls her arm back and throws the snowball as gently as she can at him. It doesn’t even sting as it hits his coat and breaks apart, strewing bits of snow all over his chest.

“Was that so hard?” he asks, a kind smile on his face and in his voice. EOS shakes her head, a smile crossing her own face as she stoops down again, hands reaching for the snow below her.

When John finally tells her they have to go back inside before they’re missed, a good fifteen minutes later, both are lying on the ground, half-covered with snow and grins on their faces.

so I was talking to nibenhu about John loving Star Trek and we decided (x) the massive nerd would totally have a uniform tucked away somewhere and oops my hand slipped…

“… But most of all, I’m thankful for my family.”

Thiiiiis… didn’t get done as early as I wanted it to, but it’s still technically Thursday (and therefore Thanksgiving) in some parts of the US, so I won’t fuss. But I wanted to do some nice vignettes of the family having Thanksgiving together. Especially after the things that have happened in Season 2, I think they all need some family time to recuperate! I was planning on adding Kayo and Brains in the Scott picture but i just ran out of time and energy after today. But I hopefully can do a little follow up picture with them so they’re not left out <333

So here you go, Thanksgiving with the Tracys! Featuring Virgil, Grandma and MAX making the meal (with some possible off-screen help from EOS), setting the table with Gordon and Alan (sword fights with the butter knives are an extra service), EOS making sure to hold all the heavy, breakable dishes for stil-slightly-space-sick John to serve himself with (headcanon that he came down with just enough time to not be a bed-ridden blob in his room, but he’s still not very used to Earth), and of course, Scott leading the family in a toast.

“When I look at John, I recall how he risked his own life to preserve me. I would risk non-functionality for him.”

I managed to pull actually sketch something last night, or at least finish an idea I’ve had kicking around for a bit. If I ever get the idea to write more about the “Let’s steal Thunderbird Three” story, I may end up using this quote that I’ve shamelessly stolen from Mass Effect and tweaked to fit my own purposes. I feel like it really does work for EOS though.

“Boom. Butterfly effect.”

One of the things that got brought up this past week over at the Thunderbirds are Go chatroom was EOS and videogames. I personally see her as enjoying many different types of games, with a special emphasis on simulation games (in an effort to understand humans better), but if she’s forced to play it like a human without messing around with the code, she tends to be somewhat…bad at them. And since I’ve recently been watching LPs of Until Dawn, which is basically an interactive horror movie and not a simulation game but the core mechanics of the game mean that you can finish the game with the entire cast dead (I don’t think that’s really a spoiler), I ended up with this.

I think EOS is probably on her third or fourth accidental death. That’s what happens when Alan refuses to let her use her wi-fi when preparing to play the game (and when EOS is woefully ignorant of horror movie tropes.) However, her mobile platform is spectacular when it gets to the “don’t move” sections.