riverviewlogs | [open] don't know where i am, don't know where i've been

who: cisco + anyone!
what: catch-all; tdm prompts
when: the rest of june
where: anywhere; if you want a separate starter, please hit me up!
warnings: will add as necessary

i. monster plants

Cisco isn't a member of the Perimeter Guard for a reason. He's just not a front-lines kind of guy. He'd get in the way, put himself and the people around him in unnecessary danger. But when Killer Vines From Hell™ start coming over the wall and mayhem breaks out, he has to help somehow. Back home he'd do that from the safety of S.T.A.R. Labs, over the coms, with Barry facing down the real danger. Here, he has to improvise.

He gets close enough to the fighting to pull aside one of the Guard members who is resting and to ask what weapons have been working. And when one of the answers he's given is fire, Cisco knows what he has to do. He rushes back to his workshop, and to a few stores, comes running back as close as he dares to the fighting, and starts to whip up as many fast-and-dirty flamethrowers as he possibly can. The more he can make, the more he can give to people to help defend themselves and defend the Quarantine.

ii. attraction

After the whole Little Shop of Horrors mess at the wall, Cisco heads home for a very needed shower. He doesn't know, yet, that some of those very same experimental chemicals that had brought the plants over the wall had seeped into the ground, into the water supply.

And because he is such a naturally friendly, extroverted person, Cisco doesn't realize that anything is off for quite some time. All he knows, after he gets dressed and heads out for a celebratory meal, is that he's feeling acutely lonely, that he just needs to see a familiar face, or strike up a conversation with a stranger if he has to. He sends out over-affectionate texts of appreciation and jokes and fondness to his friends, but that isn't nearly enough.

iii. repellant

They do their best to clean up the area of the spill as quickly as possible, and Cisco does his bit. But a few days after the worst of it, as he's walking past, he can still smell it lingering in the air. And this time, unlike when it had gotten into his system via the water, it has quite the opposite effect. Without quite realizing it, the stuff puts Cisco on edge.

How could they have been so careless with such a dangerous project? Did they not realize what would happen? What if those plants had killed people? There are children living here, and civilians, and people who never hurt anyone in their lives. Was it criminal negligence, or did the scientists involved just not care about collateral damage? (The way Dr. Wells had not cared, when he set off the particle accelerator explosion, just to further his own ends).

The idiocy and injustice of it keep churning away in Cisco's mind, putting him in an uncharacteristically foul mood. Better not bump into him, while he's like this, or you're likely to get a piece of his mind.

Threaded | Flat

Now, Chandra can't build things. Just lacks the patience, skill, or overall artistry her parents had. But she can tell when someone's building a torch. It isn't using aether, whatever the fuel is it smells awful. But she does remember what she did when she first discovered her pyromancy.

"Hey Cisco," she calls, to her they met when she was like this, the whole conversation about her powers the same. Just... at a different angle. "Can I have one of those tank thingies? The fuel stuff." Chandra isn't a perimeter guard, but she's still been surveying since her little mishap. More importantly, she was a walking firebomb of red mana so really who would tell the little girl not to help set plant monsters on fire.

"Oh! And a screwdriver."

[poe noticed cisco helping with the monster plants by giving out flamethrowers (or maybe he received one? sure why not), and when he sees him just walking along on the street he decides to show his appreciation by thanking him. because he's also a super friendly dude.]

Hey, you helped with the plants earlier, right? Even though you're not on the Perimeter Guard. That was great! I just wanted to thank you.

[ It's not entirely unprecedented, for Eddie to stop by Cisco's workshop and say hello. But in the past, any time he'd done so, he had texted first to warn Cisco he was coming. And in the past, up until the last three days, Cisco had had no problem with unannounced visits from anyone at all.

But when Eddie turns up at the door to his workshop, there's a definite reluctance about the way that Cisco lets him inside. ]

Eddie! Hey, what're you doing here? [ It's mostly friendly small talk, but with the tiniest hint of coolness, too. The reason for that is fairly obvious; Cisco never has been the best at hiding anything, when confronted. And it's all too clear from the way he's trying to draw attention away from the broken-down couch in the corner, with a few blankets and pillows on it that make it clear that someone has been sleeping there, and recently.

If he'd known Eddie were coming he could have hidden the evidence, kept up appearances. Now, he doesn't really have that option. ]

Being assigned to Search and Rescue or not, Garrus isn't going to sit idly by while there is something going down. As soon as word comes in that there are plants attacking people, Garrus has his gun in hand and immediately heads out to where he can be useful. It's simple really, if he can help he will and that's all that there is to it. If the Turian would have been told earlier that there'd be monstrous plants to tackle, he might have laughed it off. At first.

Right now? Looking through his scope and seeing that bullets aren't doing much good? Garrus really thinks that some days it would have been better to have Incinerate. He's already out of proximity mines and concussive rounds don't seem to be keeping the hungry greens down for overly long. There's a swear on his tongue just as someone insist on thrusting this weapon at him.

"What the..."

At first glance, Garrus has no idea what he's looking at. While he really does favor his rile, there's nothing to lose by trying this weapon out. All he has to do is point and aim.

I - Monstah Plants

ii

for eddie

Monster Plants