#mortis metamorphosis

[mourninglamby]

what about your fav c!clingyduo moment?

this one. x

[beardedmrbean]

[rickandmortyspooktober]

Rick and Morty Spooktober 2023

Welcome to Rick and Morty Spooktober! 31 horror prompts for the SCARIEST 31 days of the year - draw, write, do as few or as many as you want, stick to what you're good at, or try something new! Post your work, and if you like, add it to the Ao3 Rick and Morty Spooktober Collection so everyone can see it too, or tag it #rick and morty spooktober challenge! Feel free to share this around, and if you have any questions send an ask!

Created by @cyanichexanthine and @trucknoisettes (and amazing prompt list art by hex!)

Text of Prompts List

Toxic

Cronenburg

Slasher

Waspified

Reanimation

Infestation

Acid

Pleasure Demon

Mortification

Techno gore

Crystals

Portal Wound

Hell hound

Lost Souls

Decay

Vampires

Hallucination

X-Ray

Caged

Teeth

Glitch

Brainwash

Cannibal

Out Of Body

Vivisection

Blood Dimension

Metamorphosis

Asphyxiation

Ice Cream

Spare Parts

Trick or Treat

[diarsmith4ever]

some gross sweet boys.

Handy Morty, my Silent Hill OC, and Mortimer Zamza based on the ''Metamorphosis'' by F.Kafka

[gumiluver]

🖤ABOUT ME 🖤

hey luv’s, thanks for stopping by! heard you wanted to learn more about me, so I thought I’d share some facts :)

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DEMOGRAPHICS

I’m Rosie! I’m 22 y/o. My ethnicity is Filipino-Caucasian, but my culture primarily consists of Filipino-Hawaiian traditions and lifestyle. I was born in socal, and currently reside in oc! I currently work as a clinical case manager at a mental health facility, and have been working there for over a year now! I plan to apply for my masters degree in social work for the fall 2024 semester, so wish me luck! <3

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CURRENTLY CRUSHIN’ ON…

luver boys <3: fushiguro megumi <3, nanami kento, gojo satoru, okkotsu yuta, hayakawa aki, kishibe, denji, eren jeager, levi ackerman, reiner braun, erwin smith, tomioka giyuu, rengoku kyojuro, kamado tanjiro, hatake kakashi, uchiha itachi, uchiha sasuke, nara shikamaru, uzumaki naruto, yamada asaemon shion, chobo aza, lucifer, mammon, beel, solomon, loid forger, kurusu kazuki, suwa rei, zuko

luver girls <3: mei mei, zen’in maki, mikasa ackerman, kocho shinobu, kanroji mitsuri, hinatsuru | makio | suma, yuhi kurenai, senju tsunade, haruno sakura, yamanaka ino, yamada asaemon sagiri, yuzuriha, yor forger, azula

luvers <3: yelena, hange zoe, uraume

this list may change as time goes on! <3

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CURRENT HOBBIES

cuddling with my bf & cats, reading, writing, playing games (on mobile & switch!), makeup, baking, gardening, video essays, scrapbooking

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LIKES

series: bobs burgers, haunting of hills house, black mirror, big mouth, the office, new girl, brooklyn 99, law & order: svu, rick & morty, hannibal, better call saul, breaking bad, game of thrones, house of dragons, vikings, vikings: valhalla

movies: parasite, uncut gems, mother!, talk to me, get out, us, nope, annihilation, hereditary, midsommar, mama, requiem for a dream,

games: obey me! shall we date?, red dead redemption II, cyberpunk, god of war, doom eternal, elden ring, legend of zelda: botw & totk, sekiro, animal crossing: new horizons

anime: jujutsu kaisen, chainsaw man, attack on titan, demon slayer, hells paradise, naruto, haikyuu, spy x family, buddy daddies, fire force, soul eater, record of ragnarok

novels: blood meridian, flowers for algernon, the metamorphosis, johnny got his gun, ‘till we have faces, one flew over the cuckoos nest, sybil

authors: Cormac McCarthy, C. S. Lewis, Ellen Hopkins, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, Stephen King

genres: existentialism, cosmic horror, psychological, psychological horror, slice of life, dark humor, dry humor

artists: khantrast, suicideboys, flatbush zombies, ramirez, denzel curry, JID, brockhampton, polyphia, her, summer walker, doja cat, sza, billie eilish, ari lennox

music genres: underground rap, dark trap, r & b, metal

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homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, anti-feminism, anti-abortion, racism & anything else of a similar nature! if you engage in any of this behavior, please do not interact with me or my content!

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[ghostcultmagazine]

Check out our preview of the Rock and Metal albums coming out this week! The Acacia Strain – Failure Will Follow  & Step Into The Light (Rise Records) The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise Records) Artificial Sun – The Giants Collapse (Sliptrick Records) Ascended Dead – Evenfall Of The Apocalypse (20 Buck Spin) Astrodeath – Vol. 2 (Heavy Psych Sounds) Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel (Prosthetic Records) Bohannons – Night Construction (Cornelius Chapel) Booby Trap – The End Of Time (Firecum Records) Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade Records) The Cimmerian – Sword & Sorcery Vol. I (Self-Released) Circus Of Rock – Lost Behind (Frontiers srl) Cronos Compulsion – Malicious Regression EP (Caligari Records) Curse Of Cain – self-titled (Atomic Fire Records) The Dark Side Of The Moon – Metamorphosis (Napalm Records) DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm Records) Duskwood – The Last Voyage (Ripple Music) Godsnake – Eye For An Eye (Massacre Records) Hasard – Malivore (I, Voidhanger) Heavens Edge – Get It Right (Frontiers srl) Hex A.D. – Delightful Sharp Edges (Apollon Records) Iress – Solace EP (Dune Altar Records) The Machine – Wave Cannon (Majestic Mountain Records) Michael Thompson Band – The Love Goes On (Frontiers srl) Midwife + Vyva Melinkolya – Orbweaving (The Flenser) Moonreich – Amer (LADLO Records) My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Sinister Whisperz IV: The Bedroom Tapes (1987-1988) (Sleazebox Records) Never Ending Game – Outcry (Triple B Records) Nighthawk – Prowler (Mighty Music) Onkos – Vascular Labyrinth (I, Voidhanger) Oreida – The Eternal (Debemur Morti Records) Parity Boot – Fast Forward (Black Sunset/MDD Records) ScreaMachine – Church Of The Scream (Frontiers srl) They Watch Us From The Moon – Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1, The Ascension (New Heavy Sounds) Veil Of Maya – [m]other (Sumerian Records) The Usual Suspects: 🎤 Micaela Superstar ⁠https://www.instagram.com/micaeladeadeyes/⁠ 💻 Omar Cordy ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠ 🎵 Fahad Syed ⁠https://ift.tt/8xHYr2p ⁠

[human-antithesis]

Hermit’s Lair - Human Antithesis https://t.me/Human_Antithesis

Funeral Mist - Hekatomb (June 15th, 2018) Country: Sweden Genre: Black Metal Reuploaded: mp3 320kbps directly from NoEvDia

Lineup:

Daniel Rostén - Vocals, Guitars, Bass

Guest/Session:

Lars Broddesson - Drums

Miscellaneous Staff:

Devo Andersson - Engineering

Daniel Rostén - Layout

Timo Ketola (R.I.P. 2020) - Artwork

Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli

Tracklist:

In Nomine Domini - 04:31

Naught But Death - 04:42

Shedding Skin - 04:48

Cockatrice - 07:27

Metamorphosis - 07:35

Within the Without - 03:12

Hosanna - 04:30

Pallor Mortis - 06:16

[ghostygoo]

Wooo I can finally share this commission now that left-handed-rick has finally posted their new fic, Metamorphosis! Like body horror, parasitic relationships, and existentialism? This is the fic for you (100% recommend it)! Read it here!

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[thepostmodernotaku]

Morning must come eventually.

[danco110]

“If it weren’t for my rigor mortis, I could’ve kicked Ob Nixilis’s ass around the moon…”

Elspeth limped out of the cathedral, oblivious to the metamorphosis taking place in the rafters above her. The angel statues quickened, stone turning to flesh, to blood, to plated armor. Three seraphs descended to the stone floor below. Two of them landed gracefully, but the third collapsed in a fit of panicked spasming and coughing.

“Rocks…throat…choking!” the angel gagged.

“I’ve got you!” replied one of the others, who knelt down and immediately began tending to her suffering friend. Soon, the incapacitated angel was sitting in one of the cathedral’s pews, coughing up pebbles while glaring up at her savior.

“I have a question for you: how could ‘Let’s team up to defeat these robot zombies’ have been phrased a little more…specifically? You know, given that we were dealing with demonlords!”

The medical angel flinched from the interrogation. “I’m sorry. I thought maybe if we made our offer in good faith…”

“Maybe they wouldn’t instantly backstab us? Just word it differently! Oh, I don’t know, maybe something like ‘Don’t use our life force to make a super-drug that gives you magic superpowers’?”

“I said sorry! How was I supposed to know?”

“If you two clowns have a moment,” the third angel snarled, “you might want to take a look outside. I believe things have changed slightly since our disappearance.”

The two other seraphs looked out the window at the city skyline below them. The chaotic streets were packed with cars, and skyscrapers stretched as far as the eye could see.

“Oh…” The choking angel’s expression turned somber.

“I know,” the irate angel sighed. “It is truly sad to know the world has moved on without-”

“They bulldozed that little park on 43rd I liked.”

The irate angel became annoyed once more. “The city has grown a hundredfold since our disappearance, and that’s what you gravitate towards?”

“…Yes? It was a nice park!”

[honeyviscera]

lesson five: dissections of decaying objects

structuring observations: words to wrap around the dips and digressions, syllables of the body shape, sibilance of ghosted breaths. tunnels as from worms, descend.

deepen. press your hands in.

(breathe in, breathe out. knead. need. cycle-push. meditate.)

devolve.

grip, grasp, clumsy-dissect, clumsy-cut. pull. snip.

lay it out on a cork-board, still oscillating, still fluid-full. nailed down.

trapped.

let it haunt: that's the only effective manner of memory.

consider the following: the ghost of a heartbeat, softening flesh, splinter-bone: hard, now soft, now hard again, evolution of the landscape...... beneath the hands that press, body, swollen as cork, body, warping, body, haunting.

how do you say metamorphosis? how does this reinforce it? how do you say irreversible change? can you connect the visions? how do you say this is the end? do you know how there's no coming back from this? how do you say death? the damage is done.

important terms to remember: eyeball. knife. tooth. maggot. livor mortis. putrescine. adipocere. putrefaction.

key concepts: [ ], [ ], [ ], and, most importantly, [ ]. this is vital. take care not to forget it.

below: there is space for you to complete this exercise and take notes. be sure to follow the instructions. you can't afford a botched attempt.

[mourninglamby]

fun fun fun

[mymadmedleyw]

Fic Writer Review

I was tagged by @dp-marvel94 (I am just saying this is my very first occassion to by tagged in a thing like that, so filling this made my day really, thank you!)

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

22 – wow, that sounds many…

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?  

206.997, and more than the half belongs under one idea – that’s creepy…

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?  

Oh, it’s many… once, I am into something, I have to write in that – surprisingly I am addicted to DP for nearly a year, and nothing else.

(But little bit of history, from the newest to the oldest: Danny Phantom, The Irregulars (that was really a short one), Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians (my very first finished multi-chaptered one was in that), Dark, Charmed (the old one, not the new series), Gravity Falls, Venom, Doctor Who, a crossover within Tangled: The Series and Milo Murphy’s Law, Death Note/Death Note: Another Note; and I had some ideas about a Rick and Morty and Gravity Falls crossover, and it seems I never uploaded here my concept about a not crossover Tangled: The Series idea, and either an independent one in Rick and Morty, hm… shame. Most of those are not finished. Okay, like 99% of it…)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Core (Danny Phantom), stand-alone, ~3k

What The Past Holds (Danny Phantom), wip, ~91k

Pitch’s Secret (Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians), finished, ~14k

We are not alone (Venom), really short one, ~1k

Phantom (Danny Phantom), stand-alone, ~2k

5. Which of your fic do you want more attention for?  

Definitely it’s WTPH. It’s my current work. The idea about it came in December, and since that, I am working on that constantly. At first, I had ideas for eight chapters, and nothing else. Now, it grew into this monstrosity: a side-line (Bonds Over Time), and a collection that contains the deleted scenes or ideas that appeared in my mind and could fit into the story (Bits Of The Past), and also an entirely finished concept for Vlad’s past (Certain Moment Of Time), that could be connected to it too.

I also put many headcanons in that, and ticks of characters, and parallels, and layers that I just love: like Vlad having a sister and some details about his family background, Dan having Vlad’s memories too, how the explosion in the Nasty Burger happened and how Dan turned out like that… some precious things, really, but I won’t elaborate much, in case of anyone wants to give a read to it. Overall, I tried to make the TUE-mess into a somewhat more reasonable logical mess – if I managed to do that at all. I don’t know I’m just like a mother with a new-born with it: look, it’s my child! I made it! I developed it! here, hold it! and love it too, as much as I do! (Sorry, I don’t know how that metaphor came…)

6. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Even if it’s a kudo, or a keysmash as a comment, I write back. I mean, if someone writes – literally anything – and spends time with it, I write them back too. (And my very bad habit, that sometimes, if the comment hits an interesting thought, I tend to explain the background behind that more, and accidentally spilling some things I shouldn’t yet... In many cases, it’s like a brainstorming, and then I use that idea. I mean as, for example many of @dp-marvel94’s comments on ff, made me to realise some things, and how then I fixed those forgotten parts made my story along with it much better – once, I will list them, and you’ll be surprised how long is that list, and how obvious things I forgot about entirely…)

7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Okay, I don’t have many finished story – shame on me. So, I’ll count the shorts. I think it’s then Phantom. It rolls around the idea what if in Forever Phantom, Danny can’t change back to Phantom, and his parents blame Phantom for the disappearance of Danny, and they start chasing madly the ghosts, making them leave the human realm once and for all – which means, Danny has to go with them. It’s really a short fic, but I very like this idea, and it was my very first in this fandom. (I was watching DP that time, I mean, getting familiar with it, but this idea got stuck in my head as I watched that episode, so that was my introduction here. Also, I watched my very first DP episode that time, which means, less then a year ago, so, I am that newbie here…) I am not spilling the end of the story, but it doesn’t have a very happy end I could say.

8. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Uh, yes? I have a crossover within Tangled: The Series and Milo Murphy’s Law. It’s unfinished, but that time I thought Milo and Varian have the same vibe, including clumsiness. It was only a short idea that time, but it’s definitely worth once to continue or finish somehow. I have a crossover within Rick and Morty, and Gravity Falls. That is standing within my very big idea, but it’s halfway written on my original language and English and that’s like after how a certain trilogy end, but it has some mentioning of ideas I never finished, so yeah… it’s not even published anywhere. Maybe, once, I’ll decide what language I prefer for that, and translate the other part and then, hardly, but I’ll finish it some day... – or, never, it actually would be a very big bite if I try to imagine it.

9. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I don’t remember to that. I mean, my main story (WTPH) kind of not everyone’s preference, ’cause of Dan, so that’s already divides the readers and I haven’t got all in all many comments yet on my stories (kudos are appreciated too, I am shy too to leave comments on fics, so don’t worry, I get it), so I think I haven’t got any. But I'd be curious to experience if someone reads one of my stories and leaves behind a comment that then criticizing it. I mean, I’d be open to learn what part is not fitting, or just too much. (I am surprised that no one ever mentioned my ’weird’ sentences. I mean for me those make sense, but those make sense for a native English person too? I’m always worried about that…)

10. Do you write smut? if so what kind?

Uh, yeah, I did. Not very proud of it, though I don’t have a heart to orphan that work. I mean, it belongs to me too. Sometimes I wonder to delete some of my works, but then I realise, no, that’s me, I won’t pretend where I came from, and shove into the dustbin my mad thoughts... All in all, my stories now, for a while, are much more family-friendly – if, anything within DP could be really counted as ‘family-friendly’…

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah, I was very proud of my story back then, called Metamorphosis (Death Note), and I had a crazy idea and tried to translate it. So now, the first chapter is out there both in English and both in my native language, but I got stuck at the second chapter. I couldn’t translate wisely and logically the title of it to give out the many meaning it has in English. And I once tried to translate California (Gravity Falls) to English, but that would be a hard work, so I left it behind – maybe once…

Over that I sometimes has a crazy idea to translate back and forth my stories, no, beyond that, I haven’t had a fic translated from anyone else. And I think I am the only masochist that it ever crosses my mind, I guess…

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, not really. I’d be curious to once do that – maybe, but I’m not sure...

(To tell the truth, I’d be worried about that. I’d be glad to do that once, but I am anxious if I could understand my co-writer, or not. I mean, do you have any idea that I have to give five reads to any longer comments to understand it? I understand those (and I really love getting those!), but I have to give many reads to make sure I understand those well, and then, making sure, I answer back right, and my sentences make sense. My fics have ’fancy’ words, and I love working in English, but sometimes it’s a curse it’s not my native one. So then, I’m constantly worried about interactions, if I receive well something, and if my sentences are understandable for others or not. So, in short, you can see my struggle here… same reason I don’t do Invisobang, but I am considering it...)

13. What’s your all time favorite ship?

I’m not very much a ship-type. But I count Danny and Sam, as a fix point. (Danny and Val was nice and I’d have been very glad to see them in more episodes, but let’s face it, that wouldn’t work, because both of them are too stubborn to choose their other life and if once, they would face with each other, knowing everything about the other, they’d remain allies or at most very good friends.) If, the question is, what are the ships in my head (but not necessarily just ‘romantic’) that I prefer to read, well, it’s Dan and Valerie. I love their dynamics, especially in Deliverance. I don’t know why I just love reading it. 

For other reasons I ship Dani and Valerie. Though I can’t write romance and stuff like that, but in one of my planned ideas they are dating - sort-of...

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Okay, there are many. Surely, it’s my Gravity Falls story, called California, but that’s a huge one, and the first one in a trilogy (plus some additional side-lines), and mainly in my head for years, so yeah… I think I won’t ever reasonably finish that as it should be finished. A Tale of Fords (Gravity Falls) could be count as one too. Oh, and Envision and ties (Doctor Who). Sad to say, but yeah, I am always saying, “maybe once”, but I am not sure when…

15. What are your writing strengths?

Okay, this is a funny thing, but I’ve realised I can’t deal with many characters at the same time. So, I think my strength are dialogues and interactions within two people. And I get into their thoughts, so I guess if I have to word it somehow: it’s character-studies then.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Can’t handle more than two people. No, seriously, somehow it always turns out, the third is unconscious, sleeping, leaves the room, and so on. I’ve just recognised it recently, and it was a hilarious recognition…

I am also bad at actions, like very very bad, I don’t even try that, because my brain just simple can’t come up with fight-scenes at all. I think I only can write character-studies, and nothing else.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Oh, man… does it count I am not a native English-user? So, technically I ‘always’ write dialogues in another language? But jokes aside, sometimes, I have ideas that the people use another language, and I am like “are you aware, you can’t even write English slang?”, so then, I gave up. Right now, though, I am planning to add ASL in one of my future ideas. I am wrecking my mind, how to do that nicely – but that’s only a forming plan, and dated for next year, currently, I am only collecting ideas for that.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?  

Does it count my very first fic was a fanfiction of one of my friend’s fanfiction in high school? She wrote a really good story – not shared anywhere, we were just giving each other the hand-written exercise book (oh, the old days…). If I remember well, it was a crossover within Supernatural and Queen of the Damned (the movie, not the book). I had no idea about Supernatural, but the story was good, but I was not satisfied with the end, and in secret I wrote another end for it, to myself. I’m not sure where is that anymore, but I clearly remember that was my very first written stuff, and that’s how my origin story began and how is I am here now.

(Oh, and once, I wrote a H2O fanfiction short story to my sister as a name-day present, in which she was a mermaid, discovering her powers during a holiday at a beach (we were at that time in Croatia in a family holiday, so the timing was fitting), and that was one of my very first fandoms to write in it too… God, I have no idea why I wrote it down, it just crossed my mind, and I remember I thought it was cute, I think she was eleven or twelve that time, so I am not sure she appreciated as much as I found it fun to write that…)

19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?  

This is mean… anyway, currently it’s WTPH, for obvious reasons. But I am very proud how the Angst Week turned out (my work for that is called Certain Moment of Time). First of all, I doubted I would be able to write for every day, since I planned to do the whole DannyMay, but things turned out differently and I am still sad, I haven’t done many. But I did not just managed to write for all days, but all could be counted under one idea, and also each of the chapters could be read independently at the same time. It includes a little bit of background story about Vlad, about a rewritten time, his struggles at the hospital, things around Danny’s birth, how Danny managed to survive the Portal incident, how Vlad was informed about the Ghost Boy, and that actually Danny’s separation was just a ‘plan B’ that Vlad tried to avoid… it’s complicated to describe the many things in that, but when I feel WTPH an unescapable mess, and I am frustrated by the lack of proper words to finish the coming chapters, CMOT is my absolute favourite. And I love the whole idea about it. No, I’ll be honest, that’s my beloved so far (just because it’s finished). But I like so much too my idea about Dan and Dani in Bonds Over Time, how they try to live together a normal life… okay, let’s admit it, this question is mean, I seriously can’t tell, and I am thinking right now only my current ones…

20. What fic are you most proud of?  

Okay, this is mean too. I am proud of my old works as much that I always go back to them when I am in a nostalgic mode. (I haven’t read any of my old ones in ages, because I try to avoid distractions, and knowing myself, I’d start thinking about the continuation and never finishing my current works at all...)

I am proud of Pitch’s Secret, because that was my very first multi-chaptered one idea that I actually managed to finish. That in fact, gave me the courage to start working on a multi-chaptered DP one. (My original plan was to be brave and aim doing eight chapters, to top the five, and I would have been very proud of myself, but instead now it’s way longer than that original idea, and I seriously don’t know when it will end – twenty chapters maybe?)

I think, if I don’t include the previous question. (It’s the same, isn’t it?) I am very proud of the first chapter in my Doctor Who fic. That doesn’t tell anything about the plot or about anything, that just gives a very good atmospheric background. Every time I read that, it gives me shivers.

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okay, I don’t know who to tag, anyone who feels like it, serve yourself, I am curious... :)

[rickandmortyspooktober]

Today's Rick and Morty Spooktober Prompt is:

October 27th: METAMORPHOSIS

Have fun! And dont forget to tag your art or fics or other creations #rick and morty spooktober challenge or #rnm spooktober and/or add it to the Ao3 collection <3

[fireblight]

@dissociaticn​ cont.

    "Am I?" A grotesque creature moaned softly from within the surrounding cages. Its humanity had been stripped away long ago. What remained was one of many failed experiments, or as Kabuto sometimes referred to them, 'living examples of progress'. Living flesh was useful flesh.

    Fear. Hunger. Anger. That is what remained. "It's for your peace of mind, not theirs. If they don't fear you, they'll kill you." Kabuto glanced at her. Trying to read her reaction. He wouldn't have blamed her for being unsettled. The first time Orochimaru had revealed this chamber to him he'd staggered out of the room, sick to his stomach.

    "You'll get used to it."

The sight before them evaded entirely any form of accurate description, so hideous in its figure that to believe it was once a man was incomprehensible to a mind as fresh, as innocent, as hers. Violence and mutilation were not beyond her mental awareness: after the ravage of Kusagakure, she had walked amongst its blistered earth and saw its remains, devoid of the chaos of skirmish, and seen the extent of human cruelty in the butchered and scorched flesh; how she had seen a disfigured womanーthough the fires had removed her of her features, the ivory of her hair distinguished her as the wife of the village’s bakerーcradle a black mound in her arms, rigor mortis petrifying the embrace. It had taken her a while ( indeed, she had only realized it on her walk with Orochimaru ) to realize that alien darkness in her arms had once been her infant child, its flesh torched to a deathly darkness and, in some parts, seemed to melt into its mother.

    She had screamed, once she realized, and emptied what little of her stomach she had onto the grass, Orochimaru’s snake eyes serene and hungry in their observation. 

    That, she had thought, was what cruelty had meant. That, she had thought, was the lowest of humanity, the mark of a savage. Only now did she realize her own naivete; at least, she thought, they had died, and died together. This poor sight before her was neither blessed with death nor life, imprisoned in some mockery of form. Though it resembled a human in its silhouette, in the dips and slits of its face, in the angles of its bones, there was nothing natural in its expression ( if such a word could even be applied ); its eyes were blank, as if dead, ghoullish in its exhaustion. Its sounds were that grieving ache of stressed wood in bad weather, the angry rumble of natural disaster underfoot, something of the world and yet entirely alienated from it. Its chakra...ー she smothered a wince. A sensation worse than death, and she knew death with intimacy.

      You’ll get used to it, he said. Could she? Could she endure the sight of another in pain, tormented beyond mental capacity, mutilated in soul and bodyーcould she endure the knowledge that, in her silence, she was complicit in its suffering? 

      Her mouth tightens into a firm, resolute line. This was a place of monsters; you either became one or were made one. If she could control nothing else, she would control her own metamorphosis. As if provoked by some subconscious desire, a finger loosely grazes her shirt, where underneath a new and lonely bite was tattooed onto her skin. It had been a blinding pain at first, but in its aftermath she had felt more awake, alert, than she had ever felt before. 

      With scientific certainty, her decision had been made, more by her body than her mind. She would not be one of those creatures wailing in their cage, no matter what. ❝I understand, Kabuto-sensei.❞ Karin’s voice is flat with a forced brute calm, yet light with youth. ❝How did you make them fear you?❞ She stares, unflinching, at the creature, until Kabuto decides it is appropriate for her to look away.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano, Ahsoka Tano & Shaak Ti Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Shaak Ti, CT-7567 | Rex, CT-6116 | Kix, Morai (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Body Horror, Post-Mortis Arc (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Planet Mortis (Star Wars), References to Mortis Arc (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), BAMF Ahsoka Tano, Ahsoka Tano Needs a Hug, Ahsoka Tano-centric, Eldritch Ahsoka Tano, Force God Ahsoka Tano, Protective Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka sprouts Wings, Ahsoka grows Fangs, Togrutas (Star Wars), Togruta Culture & Traditions (Star Wars), Hurt/Comfort, The World Between Worlds (Star Wars), Loth-Wolves (Star Wars) - Freeform, Goddess Ahsoka, Unhappy Ending, Changed destiny, morai - Freeform, Pain, Melancholy Summary:

With Anakin Skywalker declining to take the gods place on Mortis, for their final act they entrust their powers to his padawan instead. This exchange of powers changes the girl in more ways than one, but it's the only way to stave off the Aboleth.