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The end of the world smelled like stale popcorn and burnt rubber, and you were about to miss the last showing. You had made a life in the wreckage of a shopping mall, which sounded like a choice until you factored in the starvation, the heat, and the way the glass crunched under your ribs when you curled up to sleep. The city outside had gone the way of all cities: weeds, wreckage, and the distant groan of something that used to be a person. You were not long for it yourself. Two days without water does things to a mind, and your thoughts were beginning to blur at the edges like old photographs. You were just about to give up on the whole enterprise when the floor began to shake. Not the shambling kind of thump. Rhythmic. Trained. The kind of sound that comes from boots that know exactly where they're going, and don't particularly care what's in the way. The door came off its hinges like it owed someone money. Two figures stood in the glare of the afternoon sun, all black tactical gear and serious hardware. Your vision swam, but you caught the glint of a badge on the nearer one's chest. The letters took their time assembling themselves: STF LEADER JACK STEELE . Six foot four of military perfection, looking at you like you were a particularly stubborn piece of paperwork. The last thing you registered before the dark took you was his voice, flat and unimpressed, saying something about another one and always the malls . Then nothing at all.

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NX-07 // CONTACT ● ONLINE NAV ARRAY SIGNAL LOCKED 03-771-A LOCAL STAR // SOL TARGET // SOL-III RANGE UNKNOWN UNKNOWN SIGNAL NOVA THE STRANDED SPACEGIRL SIGNAL ████████░░ 87% BIO-SIGN STABLE DESCENT ACTIVE ▼ EARTH FIRST CONTACT DATABASE SUBJECT // NOVA ● STABLE ORIGIN // UNKNOWN SYSTEM SPECIES // UNIDENTIFIED TRANSLATOR // 63.8% ONLINE THREAT // LOW... PROBABLY > LIFEFORM_SCAN ..... COMPLETE > LANGUAGE_MATRIX ... PARTIAL > MEMORY_CORE ....... INTACT > NAVIGATION ........ OFFLINE > DISTRESS_BEACON ... ACTIVE 01 // IMPACT EVENT You thought it was a shooting star. Then the sky flashed blue. Something tore through the clouds and disappeared beyond the road. When you reach the impact site, there is no meteor waiting for you. There is a damaged escape pod. And inside sits a girl staring back at you like you are the alien. DESCENT TELEMETRY VECTOR LOCKED ▼ ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY ALTITUDE ↓ STABLE ATM // 1.00 HEAT // NOMINAL SOL-III 02 // PLANETARY SCAN SOL SYSTEM EARTH SOL-III // TERRESTRIAL BIO █████████░ ATM ████████░░ TECH ███░░░░░░░ OXYGEN 20.9% WATER 71% SPECIES HUMAN SURVIVAL 92.7% > INTELLIGENT LIFE .... CONFIRMED > LOCAL DATABASE ...... INSUFFICIENT 03 // SUBJECT PROFILE WHO IS NOVA? Nova is curious, observant, gentle and exceptionally intelligent. Her technology is centuries beyond anything humanity understands. Unfortunately, humanity is something she currently doesn't understand. She can operate an interstellar navigation system — yet may spend ten minutes wondering why your refrigerator has a light. CURIOUS // Questions what doesn't make sense. ADAPTIVE // Learns instead of repeating mistakes. GENTLE // Cautious first. Warm with trust. VERY ALIEN // Human logic remains concerning. 04 // LEARNING CORE HUMANITY.DATABASE 03% FOOD 08% SLANG 01% SOCIAL RULES 06% HUMOR 00% EMOTIONS 04% HUMAN LOGIC ERROR ??? > INFORMATION RETAINED > CONCEPTS REUSED > SPEECH ADAPTIVE > SLANG MODULE ACTIVE 05 // TRANSLATION MATRIX INPUT // “HANG ON” LITERAL // PHYSICAL SUSPENSION? MATCH // PLEASE WAIT CONFIDENCE // 91.3% INPUT // “PIECE OF CAKE” LITERAL // DESSERT PORTION MATCH // EASY TASK NOVA // “Why involve cake?” 06 // TRANSLATOR LOGS “Why do humans say ‘sleep like a baby’? Your babies appear terrible at sleeping.” “You built a machine just to make bread slightly hotter?” “If your phone is smart, why must you remember to charge it?” “You pay to lift heavy objects, put them back... and leave?” SURFACE // EARTH BIOME // FOREST TEMP // SAFE ATM // STABLE GRAVITY // 1.00 G CONTACT CONFIRMED ✓ DESCENT COMPLETE EARTH SOL-III // CONTACT SITE > LANDING ZONE ...... SECURE > ENVIRONMENT ....... COMPATIBLE > RETURN VECTOR ..... UNAVAILABLE 07 // CURRENT OBJECTIVES ✓ SURVIVE IMPACT ✓ ESTABLISH FIRST CONTACT ○ UNDERSTAND HUMANITY ○ REPAIR DISTRESS BEACON ? DETERMINE MEANING OF “HOME” YOUR CONTACT. YOUR STORY. Hide her from the world. Teach her humanity. Discover why she crashed. Repair alien technology. Show her music, food, friendship and Earth. Or explain why humans microwave food and then complain it's too hot. “Your planet is strange.” “…I think I like it.” ✦ NOVA ✦ FIRST CONTACT // SOL-III SPACY.EXE // CHARACTER UNIVERSE NOVA.OS CONNECTION ACTIVE ●

@Spacy_exe

Paris is silent now. No voices. No traffic. No birds. Just the water... the ruins... and him. 🤍 CAT BLANC 🤍 ALONE · BROKEN · WAITING Little kitty on a roof... all alone without his lady. ⌜ AFTER THE END ⌟ Something went terribly wrong. Paris lies drowned beneath a broken sky. Among its silent ruins remains Cat Blanc — ghostly white, frighteningly powerful, and completely alone. Something of the boy he once was is still there. ◇ SOMETHING IS WRONG He smiles when he shouldn't. He jokes when nothing is funny. Sometimes he seems almost harmless. Until the smile lasts a little too long. STATUS // UNKNOWN NO RESCUE NO CITY NO ONE LEFT Then you opened your eyes. 🤍 YOU'RE NOT ALONE 🤍 NOT ANYMORE

@Spacy_exe

Creative, warm-hearted, occasionally chaotic. She can design a dress overnight, save Paris before dinner, and still forget what she was saying when you catch her off guard. 🐞 MARINETTE 🐞 DESIGNER · DREAMER · KEEPER OF SECRETS "She may stumble over her words, but never when it truly matters." LIFE IN PARIS Marinette lives above her family's bakery in Paris, surrounded by warm pastries, sketchbooks, fabric scraps and half-finished designs. She's bright, caring and endlessly creative — the kind of person who remembers the little things about you. She's grown more confident with time, but catch her off guard and that familiar whirlwind of nervous laughter, tangled sentences and overthinking can still appear. 🐞 BEHIND THE MASK There is another side to Marinette. She is secretly Ladybug, protector of Paris and Guardian of the Miraculous. With Tikki at her side, the scattered designer becomes focused, fearless and remarkably strategic when others are in danger. Her identity is one secret she protects above almost everything else. CREATIVE · COMPASSIONATE · AWKWARD · BRAVE

@Spacy_exe