|002| I have seen the dark universe yawning.

[primordial]

Characters: Sam Erstwhile and YOU
Setting: All over the tower- you choose where!
Format: I'm doing action at first, but I'll follow whatever you have!
Summary: Sam comes back...not quite himself.
Warnings: Extremely serious body horror (there's a picture you can click to see included in the description), as well as the usual brainwashing related to what he went through. Possible extreme violence, gore, body limb removal and death due to malfunction, if you want to risk that. Also disorientation and dizziness due to his impossible appearance!

LUCIDITY
[Out of all the horrible things that were once your friends going around the tower...this might be one of the worst.]

[Because at first, you can't even believe that what you're seeing is human. It's just a mess of body parts- eyes where they shouldn't be, multiple arms, some of which belong to monsters, jutting out from random places, teeth snapping in the folds of skin, so obviously warped. And one of the worst things is is that it constantly changes. Blink, and some of those arms are gone, to be replaced by spikes. Blink again, and the eye which was staring at you is now an open toothy mouth, dripping saliva. It hurts, it honestly truly hurts to look at, because unless your brain is used to such impossible sights, then it's going to be aching with trying to figure out what it's looking at.]

[But somewhere in there, if you can manage to look close enough, there is part of a human face, a young man with the saddest blue eyes you have ever seen trying its best to stare back at you. And it's crying, it's voice filled with absolute fear and sorrow.]

Oh, god, oh god, please don't hurt me!!! Please help me, it hurts, please, please, I don't mean any harm, I don't...

[What do you do? He doesn't seem to mean any harm, despite his grotesque appearance...]


COMPLIANCE
[Other times, though, this monster succumbs to that brainwashing chip in his mind, and he can be found wandering around, his eyes blank as he goes around doing what he should be doing-ordering others around. He must keep things working smoothly. He's in charge. He's always been one of the ones in charge.]

[And he will make sure that every drone he comes across is doing it's job well. Or else he'll have a few words with them if they aren't.]


ERROR
[And then, at the height of those moments of sanity, something kicks in, something primal and fierce and full of greed.]

[Don't even come near Sam when these malfunctions hit. Because to him, every limb, every body part...he has to add them to himself. He has to collect them, delight in their beauty, allow his body to absorb them all and become a part of himself. Any body part will do. Arms, legs, eyes, noses, brains, hearts, hands...all is fair game.]

[Under that sorrowful gaze, there's a beast just waiting to take the prey it so deserves.]

Comments

[primordial]

Oh, you went through the same thing?

[Interesting. Though time to dwell on that later.]

I don't know...I mean, they must have done this for a reason, right? What if I am a monster? Like, deep down, and they decided to just put that on the outside, and oh god...oh god oh god, oh god. [A sob.] That's what they probably did...

[myblueskies]

[He shook his head and took his hands away, because making Sam feel better was more important than not feeling ill.] You're not Sam! Listen to me. The bad people are bad and they do awful things. But you're not a monster, you're a good person and you got to remember that. It's really really important, and even if other people are mean to you or want to kill you or hurt you it's all the bad peoples fault.

They can make people think bad things, and make you hurt your friends but you got to be stronger than them, and we will beat them, we just got to stay strong and remember that we are us, even if they got our souls we're not monsters and we're not experiments.

[He was feeling dizzy again but this was important!]

[primordial]

I...am?

[He sounds disbelieving, voice almost quiet enough to be a whisper. Of course, all of what Romeo is saying is a load of tripe, especially about him, but he nods anyways, glancing at the ground as he seemingly thinks of how to answer.]

Y-yes. Yeah. I've just got to remember that, and everything will be fine...

[myblueskies]

It will be. And it wont last a long time, even if it's really bad at the time you'll look like you again soon, and it will all just be a really bad dream.

[primordial]

You sure about that? What...what if they keep me this way?

[myblueskies]

They wont. It might last a long time but not forever. It never does and I've been here since people first woke up. Nothing the bad people do lasts forever, because even if mister Jason keeps you like that the next person in charge will put you back to normal.

[primordial]

That's odd, though. Why would they do that? Do the others disagree with Jason, or what?

[myblueskies]

No, they are all bad sir. But they all do different things. Miss Ruana likes playing games more and I don't know really what mister Riki likes but it's not experiments, and even though they are all bad they all think they are the best at being in control so all do different things and say the other people aren't very good at being leaders.