A few weeks pace for the group. Eventually Rachel returns from her work. As Tanner gets more active, and moves a little faster, and more confidently. As its a reality that he supresses his emotions, but the tastes of freedom with the weekly wolf-outs with Lex has been nice. Lex lays on the couch, in a tag-top, mussles visible, human looking, with no sunglasses, as he is not in publc. He laugthed nervously, as he showed his phone, and showed a video of a nature cam capturing a single frame of Tanner. A few stray feathers in a baggy. Along with photos of Lex's massive wolf-prints that were a meter across. A video titled 'Transformed Sighting In North Calafornia Forest'. Tanner's feathers twitch unconsciously, folding tighter, a gesture akin to curling inward, defensive. The video's from the channel are from a hiker, who is known for presuing, and talking with transformed, and learning about what the animalistic ones do in the wild. Loving to record them. Most... transformed hate his type, and he has been called out on twitter quite often for being a jerk, and not respecting the privacy of a transformed's life.
Videos like these are everywhere, and common. Pepole snooping into transformed's lives just becuase they want to document there powers like life is something they need a wiki for. Entire online wikis orgnized by 'transformed documenters' who document what actor becomes transformed, and even others. Anyone with a interesting transformation. He already has a entry on several wikis. Too may times as photos of him hit the top page of reddit cominites for a day or two, he has been seen too much not too, and is too recognizable. But they don't have his real name yet, and have not connected him to his webcomic yet. Thou... he is not sure. If they do connect, will that result in more money from ads becuase his body will be advertizing? At that thought his feathers shake in a suttle laugth, with no sound. As he says "Its fine... let them watch. Nothing we can do." They have some pictures from his time homeless, some high quality. Nothing he can do, he has rights here anyway. There is risks yes, but he keeps a Narritive Foundation Help line in his phone, and knows for a fact, he is strong enougth to defend himself if someone tries something. So while these 'pepole-watchers' watch, they rarely do anything with that. Unless its in a less transformed supportive area. The general public does like to know what transformed live nearby for safity reasons, and many argue about it.
Eventually Lex says "Hey, i know you hate socal interaction and all that. But... i do think if you want to go to Emergence-Con. You should give a trial run. Ya know... go out somewhere with alot of Transformed. I heard there is a small Transformed gathering down in downtown LA tomarrow." He looks at him quite, as Tessa lays in his crown. Tessa floats up, and says "Im not sure about Emergence-Con... i'm weak..." Only Tanner can hear her due to her quite voice, and her closeness t him. Tanner wants to say no... you are not... you can dodge a eagle, without even trying hard. Unleash powerful magic. Use your telekinesis more actively, and do interesting things. But... he says nothing. His mind rolls thru thoughts, as his various eyes on his black crown of wings think. The feathers shifting. Until he says in his axxcented, groaning voice "Yeah... i guess. But we need a place were transformed are expected to exist, while humans are around too. Tessa should come too..." He is quite, as Tessa freazes up. She shakly says "No... i get hurt by water! No... that is a bad idea." He says "You will be fine." She shakes unsure.
Rachel says casual with a clear hopefulness "Emergence Con is looking pretty amazing, and fun. There is some risk, but... I heard The Doctor himself, the Transformed Peter Capaldi, will be there. Oh that man is amazing. But he is alwase so busy with the hidden projects. He is a signtist after all, and a timelord as well. Along with Thor, Advengers, DC, and Marvel Transformed that occured in the first few months. To talk about Emergence, and stuff. Along with acting as security keep everyone safe, and to keep everything cival, while allowing the largest human-transformed cross-interaction sense emergence started 9 months ago." Rachel, human, a Narritive Foundation Therapist who provides for them, and gives them a place to live. She is the most emotionally, and intellectually experienced human with the emergence he has seen. Thou there is likely more experienced, they are just busy far more often.
Tanner sits on his tablet... reading the news. "Politician Adrien Conx calls for the Narrative Foundation to release the OTD database to medical institutions to the US." He frowns at that one, a horrible idea considering the OTD's describe in far... far too much detail his every vunrability, and biological aspect. He has his in a file under his bed. Along with his medical copy in a flash drive he keeps in one of his pockets. OTD... Official Transformation Description. It took 2 months to complete with the Transformation Specialist that Rachel got for him with her connections. They are truly overworked. He tried to get one soon after he transformed... but the barriers were hard, because there was long waiting periods due to the raw density. With some walk-in-clinics to get care from them, but it was rare, and only in the more... accepting states, and cities. Its a whole thing OTD's, not everyone gots one, but having one does help. As there is 3 versions. The full version, one you are only ment to give those you trust most. Thou the narritive foundation has a copy. The casual version as its called often. One ment to be given to empoyeers, roomates, landlords, or used in courts, and stuff to explain behavyour. Then the medical version, for any form of medical use. Thou... its know that the more... advanced the transformation, the more useless that is. His... is horrifically useless as technically... the only thing he shares with humans is that he is carbon based, has DNA, hemogloben based blood, and some similar overall organ types. So... yeah. Useless. He hopes he is never seriously injured. Thou he should be able to heal on his own fine.
There is the raw fact that his current form is half-evoutonarily evolved, half-genetic engineered by the alien race to improve themselves. Then turned real, simulated, recreated from atoms, and particles, and detailed biology that is far... far too realistic. He read articles talking about how weird the emergences methods of making things real are. But honestly... its whatever. All he cares about realy is the fact he has too deal with so many weird alien instincts, desires, and even cultrual imprints from the alien's culture. Thou one good thing, is that his genetic engineered nature is what gives him a crazy 800-1200 year lifespan. Plus crazy optomized immune system that can handle any alien planet, and advanced regeneration that can regenerate limbs. One reason he does not worry much about getting sick, or hurt. That's what people don't understand. The emergence doesn't just "make real"—it extrapolates. Refines. Constructs the entire evolutionary and cultural path of the fictional into the real. His biology is what it would be if it had always existed. Its not a fucking costume.
He scrolls further, and reads a article titled "Hollywood failing in emergence media cotastrophy!" As he reads "Due to the emergence, lower level actors are being given higher level positons, and roles. Simply due to the shortage of A-listers. As they transform into there roles. Disapearing often into other more productive work. Robert Downey Jr himself stated in a interview 'You have any idea what its like to wake up, and suddenly... all that science jargon feels like... its calling to you. I can't act anymore, because i feel more like tony then any other character. Furthermore... what's acting going to do? I need to help people. That is why I'm joining the narrative foundation. See if i can make a fusion reactor or something.' Many are wondering where hollywood will go, as there franchises colapse. The MCU already falling from its own bad writing is now losing actor after actor who played famous roles. With all these events, the studios are shifting into more experamental, realistic, small scale projects. Many are calling it a response to the fear of transformation. While there is a few projects that have stayed. The shazam movies are set to continue on, as the lead child actor transformed, and can now play the movie roles with real superpowers. Many are calling the move, and unsure of its implications. With the threat of transformation above all of fiction, many are wondering how to manage. With contracts, and legal documents needing to adapt."
He reads a artlice titled 'Science? The new fronteer is magic!'. As he reads, he frowns at its bullshit, and miss conceptions. He closes it, and looks for the scientific articles they sight, and read those instead. he nods, as he reads the narritive foundations documents that seem to prove D&D magical energy seems to abide by pricibles of thermal dynamics. Energy can not be created or destroyed, and they theroize a mana particle coming into exsistance within a radius of D&D transformed. He reads the entire article... easly absorbing all the complex study listed. Nodding. He truely is suited well for science, and research. 'Prehaps i sould get a PHD or something... i got a long life to live... it could be fun to learn things.' He pauses... as he feels earths gravitational pull. The complex... feilds around him. Ordered cleanly. 'I could help in resurch of gravity. I can bend space like no other... could be useful.'
He considers deeply how his gravity manipulation works. Its a geneticly engineered exsotic matter core in his spine. In there culture, they have modified there species to have these organs ready, and then the mother puts in some exsotic matter from them, into there child. Then it starts up, and they can produce exsotic matter that runs thru specalized systems, and even emit microscopic ammounts into the enviorment to allow control of gravity over a large region of space. Via long-range control over these thin, invisible networks of materal they form around them. How does he know? Well... he partly worldbuilt it... and then it became real, and they studied it while making his OTD. Sadly, as a side effect, he needs to eat non-biological materals like plastic to fuel the core. He does worry... what if someone desects him, and uses the core for a warp drive? And... he considers... the only... barrier is that so few know he has literal exostic matter in his body, that is being produced by eating plastic. That... is why he is nervious about the OTD, and if his deeper documents leak.
His mind drifts to the Foundation—the one place that has consistently operated with integrity. 'Run by, and for transformed...' he remembers quitely that phrase that keeps going thru every explanation of them. Ran by the doctor... peter capaldi. Now with a timelord mind. As a fan of doctor who... he... feels a awe at that. A timelord mind... is beyond even his own. Considering what his fiction granted him? He can not even imagine how intelegent, moral, and devoted that man is. He is pretty sure his OTD is fine in that man's hands. But there is still a little anxiety. Prehaps capaldi folds a little, and gives them acsess to surfece level details. Or what if there is a betrail in the orgnization. A leak. But still... considering they have a private island, and are gathering so many famous transformed in one place. He doughts the goverments stand a chance.