Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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/ Kryptongirl - 1
They made her
helpmehelpmehelpme
but they left her
savemesavemesaveme
and they forsook her.
whereami?
It is cold here,
tooclosetooclosetooclose
cold and dark and she is all alone.
Please? Someone? Anyone?
And she is so angry.
Why would you do this?
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Sometimes, Psimon will creep into his mind and fill it with these feelings. They make M’rgann’s heart burn
But he doesn’t have a heart, right?
and his hands clench and send him into a foreign body where he is trapped within white, white walls. M’rgann learns, soon enough, not to question Psimon, or all of those feelings will come back and then… he’ll be trapped. He hates feelings.
There is a level of enthrallment with humans, of course, who feel so much. He doesn’t understand how they aren’t all completely mad. Psimon assures him, almost daily, that most are.
‘Mad,’ he says, ‘Mad with power, with overwhelming sorrow, with passion.’
‘It happens to everyone,’ he tells him fondly.
So, in order to stay sane, M’rgann transforms himself. He dons a human mask, white skin with cutecutecute freckles (bones), red hair (blood), and brown eyes with sleepy rings under them, just for character (bruises). He knows how to play a character. He continues to use his human name, Morgan Morse, which still makes his tongue ( ... )
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Did I mention that I adore the italicized lines? I did? Okay.
I can't wait for Kalda to meet Dixie and Will! Also, really liked the conflict going on with Kalda being attracted to Rae, who is dangerously like her father. Atlanteans are stronger and faster than humans, and yet Kalda sees herself as weaker than Rae. On the other hand, after being subject to Jade and Sportsmaster for so long, obedience in someone else should be... appealing ( ... )
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And thank you. Those italicized lines take forever to format, so I'm glad someone enjoys them!
Morgan is one of my favorite boy's names. Mainly because of Morgan Freeman.
And maybe. School's kicking my ass 'cause it's the end of the year.
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/ Kalda - 4
Kalda is nervous, because today Rae is taking her to meet Willow and Dixie, and she wants to impress them. She tells Rae this, and the other girl laughs a little.
“Can you get your hands on an Atlanean?” Rae asks. Kalda blinks at her.
“Yes, of course.” She replies. “All I have to do is swim down to get one.” Rae chuckles again, and it’s the happiest Kalda has seen her in a long time.
“Do that, then, and they’ll love you. I’m serious. Especially Will. She loves fresh bodies.” Kalda isn’t sure that she gets it, but nonetheless retrieves an Atlantean man from the depths of the ocean as soon as she can. It feels good to kill someone in the water again.
Oh, where the child liesThey drag him with them as they go to meet Inertia and Giggles in a cave near Star City (they have to stay close because Rae has to be able to get back, and it’s easier for Inertia and Giggles to travel because Will can just speed ( ... )
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I'm a little disturbed by myself. The first thing that popped into my head when Kal told Will and Dixie that they could dichotomize the body was, "Why doesn't anyone bring me a body and tell me to dichotomize it?"
Because if someone brought me a body and told me I could dichotomize it, I'd be really happy. No joke. It would be such a nice thing for them to have done for me.
I blame you for this.
Of course Dixie would read up on Atlantean customs. She's still a jack-of-all-trades child prodigy, right? And Will is still a science prodigy?
Well. Kal's not quite so alone anymore.
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Good, good. It's my secret evil ruling the world plan to get everyone to want this.
Of course Will is the science prodigy! And Dixie reads a lot. She loves cheesy romance novels and enjoys writing new endings where they make the ultimate romantic gift of some body part that encompasses their relationship.
:)
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/ Apollo - 3
The first time his father forced him onto the bed, he was eleven. He had been seven when it was Jade’s turn.
There is a bed in this room
It was also the first time he went out on an actual mission. Sportsmaster took orders from someone, although Apollo didn’t have the knowledge of who. He’d been so excited. His mother was quietly happy for him, if a little tense, and Apollo hadn’t understood it at the time. He did now. He wishes, always, that he had never gone that day, had never begged to go.
it is his bed
But he did. They crept through Star City, Apollo’s bow notched with an arrow, and his father practically glistening with the amount of weaponry he carried. Apollo killed someone that day.
and this is his first time
He remembers it so clearly-it is a stamp on his mind, embedded within his ( ... )
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Wait, no, let me try the word thing again.
Apoloooonoooodunhurtmybabies
Closer.
The absolutely awful creepiness of this part was amazing, and I think that officially makes me a horrible person. Where people were talking about the italics in the story? I was silly for not mentioning them before, because they've always added a ton to your narrative.
Except for this part, where they just made something disturbing that we've known about and has always been not-quite in the background and added extra layers of horror and squick super effective and I feel like making Pokemon references makes me even worse of a person.
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And yes. Disturbing was my... intent, here. Apollo and Sportsmaster's relationship is difficult and scary and all I can hope is that I correctly portrayed Apollo's state of mind and why he's so messed up for later on. Admittedly, though, I have never watched or read Pokemon. But thank you very much for the comment. :D
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/ Kryptongirl - 2
The genomorphs keep saying something, but she does not know what it is. Inside here, inside of this thing, there is no sound, there are no words. Instead, she follows their lips when they speak and wisheswisheswishes she could hear something, anything.
She can’t.
Rage bubbles like a ram
Sometimes they shut her down, make her fall asleep, even when she isn’t tired (she never is, not with how she’s cooped up here, alone). She can only read one word off of their lips, and that’s because they use it so often.
“Her programming is not complete.” She can only be sure of the one word.
piercing her chest
The man, that man, he… comes to check on her progress. At least, that’s what she thinks they’re saying. He is bald and large and there is something inherently ugly about him, but when he looks at her, she thinks maybe there is a flicker of pride in there-a flicker of something. Something genomorphs do not have.
telling ( ... )
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They disobey orders, but there’s a good reason for it. She knows daddy will forgive her.
And now, hacking the motion sensors, Dixie cannot bring herself to care. This is too… awesome. Will taught her that word-awe and some (a little bit of [awe] (as in awful) and [some])-and she loves it. Uses it every day. Mommy bought her a dictionary filled with more awesome words the other day. Dixie likes to make up words of her own, and daddy approves. Dixie likes it when daddy approves.
She remembers
when he didn’t
others who dismayed him
she was punished
but they are all gone now
it hurt so much
only the Darkest Knight of all Knights
it hurt so good
remains to carry on a legacy
but DADDY hates scarring
of those who disappointed
her pretty skin
the Joker.
‘Don’t do it again, my doll.’ He coos.
And Batman has never truly disappointed her daddy. Everyone else has, though. That’s why daddy plays with him so-to see how long he can not dissatisfy. It’s a wonderful game. Giggles likes to play it too ( ... )
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/ Kryptongirl - 3
They offer her a way out. She stares at the lovely, milky hand before her, the face caked in makeup with two glowing orbs of eyes peering out and oil-slick black hair and tiny, tiny breakable body, and glares in awe.
There is another one, equally as wonderful and new and different, with little dots (freckles, her mind supplies) all over and a brilliant, electric green gaze, smiling so prettily, like the moon and the sun combined, and hair like fire.
The third is dark gold threaded with aquamarine and she glows everywhere. She, too, is amazing. She wants to go with them and because she never gets what she wants, so she decides to be selfish and does go with them.
They are like paintings from another world, another life.
The fire-moon-sun one grins sharply, showing off incisors bloodied from when she bit off the good Doctor’s nose, and says
“I promise you the moon, Kryptongirl.”
Kryptongirl believes her ( ... )
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