She supposes, objectively, the end of the world is something to be sorry for. It still surprises her. Saying that the destruction of everything she ever knew and grew up with didn't affect her would be a lie - that the mass amounts of death didn't effect her, that'd also be a lie. Just... not as much as it should.
She thinks, to some extent, when she lost her home she felt like her city was gone already. Brockton Bay fell in her mind the day Leviathan landed. The day the Slaughterhouse showed up. The day the Undersiders robbed a bank.
The world was already so awful to begin with. She knows that better than most.]
Not puppets. It's kind of tempting to think of them in those terms, as scary as it can be. The stronger the shard is, the more prone they are to... filling in the gaps, I guess? Giving certain emotional reactions? Mine's one of the stronger ones out there. Same as Skitter and Tattletale.
But they're not in control. It just... feels good to give it what it wants. And feels mind numbingly awful to give it nothing.
Hosts is what I use. It's like a sleeper virus. You go through the worst day of your life and then it wakes up. And then you keep having that same day, again and again and again.
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She supposes, objectively, the end of the world is something to be sorry for. It still surprises her. Saying that the destruction of everything she ever knew and grew up with didn't affect her would be a lie - that the mass amounts of death didn't effect her, that'd also be a lie. Just... not as much as it should.
She thinks, to some extent, when she lost her home she felt like her city was gone already. Brockton Bay fell in her mind the day Leviathan landed. The day the Slaughterhouse showed up. The day the Undersiders robbed a bank.
The world was already so awful to begin with. She knows that better than most.]
Not puppets. It's kind of tempting to think of them in those terms, as scary as it can be. The stronger the shard is, the more prone they are to... filling in the gaps, I guess? Giving certain emotional reactions? Mine's one of the stronger ones out there. Same as Skitter and Tattletale.
But they're not in control. It just... feels good to give it what it wants. And feels mind numbingly awful to give it nothing.
Hosts is what I use. It's like a sleeper virus. You go through the worst day of your life and then it wakes up. And then you keep having that same day, again and again and again.