#it is what brought Eos—quiet and reserved soft-spoken unseen Eos—to flit about in such terror that had she a heart it would surely fail. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

blackwaxidol · 1 year

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the scar Valin has on his jaw from when Drone had a muscle tremour shaving his face... the jagged black line along Drone's left palm where her blade cut into her silicone flesh so deeply it bounced off her titanium metacarpus.

#oc: valin #oc: drone #if she holds his jaw just the same way she did then she can see how the scars fit together.#after the Traveler was restored she allowed her Ghost to heal the flesh.#but only enough to restore severed neural and connective tissue to allow full movement of the digits once more.#the scar itself... she asked that she keep it.#i have this concept that a Ghost would not be able to use its Light to heal when the Traveler was caged.#it is a gameplay component obviously but i think it has no place in lore things. raises the stakes in a logical manner.#and i think it would make a tragedy out of Guardians so reliant on their Ghosts that they have no innate pain tolerance #bar the few moments in which they grapple with being bisected or gutted.#a very long time ago there was a post on here discussing a similar fantasy concept. an overreliance on healing magic or potions.#effectively exploring a more unpleasantly addictive element to it. i found it interesting.#this is not what i am getting at here but i am just pointing out what it reminded me of.#i think a Ghost feeling well and truly helpless if they cannot even heal...#it is what brought Eos—quiet and reserved soft-spoken unseen Eos—to flit about in such terror that had she a heart it would surely fail.#transmatting a few meters at a time as much as her power would allow #letting out a near incomprehensible short-range hastily-encrypted transmission asking of her fellow Ghosts #that one might have a strong and able Guardian to help bring 200lbs of dying weight to a medic.#her chassis is stuck in place by blood dried so thickly it is like tar.#Eos has always been a very tactile companion to Valin.#there is no hesitancy to her actions. when she expands her shell momentarily #and closes so that she catches his skin between the pieces of her hull like two magnets pinching your fingertip.#in that moment she remembers the Dorylus.#strange medicine—to coax an ant into biting around a wound. sealing it shut with their mandibles. decapitating the ant. jaws unrelenting.#she wishes she had better perfected her movements. she has never held Valin in such a way.#she gets a true sense for the fragility of organic matter. from where she is clamped on his wrist she swivels her electric eye to witness #the half of the wound she cannot close with her body.#found this in my drafts...#ask to tag.#injury

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