Homestuck - Covalent - Rose (1/3)
Thu, Mar. 21st, 2013 20:19Post-game 'verse, troll!kids.
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She wakes cradled in a womb.
It is dark in here, and wet warmth cocoons her, steals all gravity; she floats.
Her first thought is, well fuck. Growing up all over again is going to be so tedious.
She's read so many short stories with this exact premise -- reincarnation, and the slow erasure of the old self into the immaturity of synapses, unfinished neural pathways, preferable maybe to the madness one might succumb to after years of being trapped in a body that cannot move and fight and even focus its eyes on things farther than its own hands, that cannot communicate or be communicated with. She finds it so vexing; she kicks, swift as the thick liquid around her will allow it.
Bonk.
Ow.
This was not a flesh wall.
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--
She wakes cradled in a womb.
It is dark in here, and wet warmth cocoons her, steals all gravity; she floats.
Her first thought is, well fuck. Growing up all over again is going to be so tedious.
She's read so many short stories with this exact premise -- reincarnation, and the slow erasure of the old self into the immaturity of synapses, unfinished neural pathways, preferable maybe to the madness one might succumb to after years of being trapped in a body that cannot move and fight and even focus its eyes on things farther than its own hands, that cannot communicate or be communicated with. She finds it so vexing; she kicks, swift as the thick liquid around her will allow it.
Bonk.
Ow.
This was not a flesh wall.
( Read more... )