Sarah meeting Number Five was a chance encounter. Deciding to hire him to work in her physics lab with the ulterior motive of helping the lost former-superhero find a positive life-trajectory… now that was a conscious choice.
A prequel to Holding It Together and AU offshoot of orsumfenix’s The Shifting Mirrors.
After months of life and writing, here it is! The final chapter of Joining Together! How could it possibly all end!?
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jamie watch out! oh no he can’t hear us he’s got his airpods in
*spams self-promotional fic art after a month of no content* hi may i introduce you to our religion
@imdeadtiredtm and I bring you Chapter two of Apotheosis, Wreckage Wrought, aka The Bennett’s Take Charge: In which we introduce Mrs Joyace Bennett as a spunky mom and hell of a woman, where Jamie is a little shit and a nerd for all things spooky, and Sophie is a mastermind who can’t talk but makes herself heard anyways. Go check it out, our souls are for sale :))
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Our Scarlet is technically capable of draining life force from things like plants and crystals and occasionally structures, but it gives a lot less in terms of returns compared to just eating bugs because what he's doing, basically, is taking life force from other people and then converting it to his own life force, and what a plant has running its body isn't necessarily as useful when it comes to running his body. It's a last-ditch option at best and something he really doesn't want to do in general, because if he wants anything even vaguely resembling a decent flow of life force, he had to actually bite the thing and it really hurts your teeth to bite crystals.
Due to the specific mechanism that he converts energy through, he is also fully immune to a handful of conditions, such as The Infection, as that is... more or less just The Radiance shunting part of Her essence into a host with a specific designated purpose. It gets processed into Life Energy For Him over time, same as with any other life force he drains from anyone - though with gods, specifically, it can get a bit strange. Life force from a god is a very concentrated form of That God and the domain that is essentially their lifeblood, and though it converts fairly effectively it's also A Lot to chew through, to the point that it can functionally drown out his own conscious mind for a time. This is very unpleasant for him. Generally results in him losing time at the very least, and getting stuck with severely altered states of mind for however long it takes to process. He tries to just avoid the divine, if he can.
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Mannequins
This room is filled with mannequins
Some dressed up as people from my past
There's the girl with the ocean blue eyes
Who I still love even after all this time
Dressed in sunshine and forgotten dance steps
There's the violent codependent abusive
With red blood painted on it's pale plastic skin
I stare at it, daring it to make a move
because this time I won't let them in
There's the gay man who sold me drugs
sometimes for money, sometimes for love
Where I learned I have no limits for depravity
and that I never really knew my own sexuality
Here's the girl from California who I think of daily
my best friend when I had no friends
the one who listened to me cry on late and lonely nights
And I'm reminded of how much I miss her
Leaning haphazardly against the wall is kid
a tragic romance if there ever was one
five years of each other's life we wasted
before we realized we just didn't work
With missing limbs is my junkie angel
And her last words to me play like a scratched vinyl
"You need to get clean or your going to die"
And a month later she swallowed her tongue
and i skipped out on the funeral
I walk through this room of memories
The most important people in my stories
And I am overwhelmed with nostalgia and sadness
I miss you all so much, so so much.
I see my best friend growing up
we stopped talking ten years ago
because he said he didn't want to watch me burn
And I can't say I'd ever blame him
I love you all.
I'm sorry.
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