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Synthwave Doughnut can't remember much about what happened before they entered the Earthbreads atmosphere and hit the ground. A trained and experienced astronaut at the time, all they can remember is something going wrong before the ship began beeping, yelling, and blaring and them scrambling to pull up what was labeled as an uninhabited planet on their radar so they could hopefully scrounge up some parts and quick fixes with whatever was around the place so they could fix their busted ship and go back home. Much to Synthwave's horror, however, this planet was not uninhabited and the broken equipment in the ship had shown it wrong and also their GIGANTIC CRASH LANDING had unfortunately attracted the attention of whatever did live on this planet. Scared and not looking for a fight if it could be avoided, Synthwave dug through the wreckage of their ship and found a piece of tech they had originally joked they wouldn't need for such a simple trip, a cloaking device built like their favorite trees from back home.

Just in time, Synthwave managed to activate the device and get a scan of the creatures from far enough away, too panicked to read the description of whatever "Cookies" and a "Car" were and was more focused on making themself and their ship look like either. Not only is the device supposed to cover their body, but their voice as well, allowing for their language to be translated into whatever it detects these creatures speaking, but while Synthwave could understand them, the words that came out of their mouth in response to these folks could be likened more to watery gibberish. A lot of things in the ship were busted in the crash, including the P4LMTR33 device it seemed, which explained their lack of whatever language these folks were speaking plus the half assed appearance of their disguise they caught in the window of the "car" their ship had turned into.

By some miracle, they got the point across that they didn't mean any trouble and just needed help fixing their... "car." Given the late hour (or at least that's what these people say it is, the dark usually means it's time to wake up where they come from), one of them offered Synth a lift and a room after they got across the fact that they didn't have a place to stay.

This, unfortunately, was eight years ago.

Synthwave is still stuck here, still trying to fix their ship, given that there was no mechanic in the damn city or the ones over that could figure out what was wrong with their "car," let alone what some of the parts in it even are. They work at a local arcade for the time being, the aesthetic of the place reminding them enough of home to keep them from being too terribly homesick. Some people ask if the alien spaceship centerpiece of the complex is really real, but Synth always just laughs and shakes their head and ushers them off towards a game or the food court.

....Okay, yes, that's their spaceship and, yes they only got this job because they claimed to have a "cool attraction idea" to add to the place but their apartment building doesn't exactly have the parking space for a godforsaken spaceship. The P4LMTR33 device can and does run out of power and they can't risk their "car" not exactly being a car when they aren't there to cover it up.

They'll get it fixed and head back home someday, but for now, they're stuck here, hoping that the boring, white moon might be pink and yellow the next time it rises.