Bursting Out of Your Skin
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I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person, and if I’m not careful, I could be a thing again. - Network Effect, Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries)
Knives remembers something that one of his merged sisters experienced.
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- Part 1 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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Skin against skin, blood and bone / You’re all by yourself, but you’re not alone / You wanted in, and now you’re here / Driven by hate, consumed by fear – “Bodies”, Drowning Pool
Meryl, after Dragon's Nest.
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- Part 2 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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I remember seeing myself splayed across the floor of the kennel, a chimera split along a hundred seams, taking communion with a handful of dogs. - The Things, Peter Watts
Wolfwood goes through a growth spurt.
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- Part 3 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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The heart wants what it wants. What it wants is blood. - Welcome to Night Vale Twitter
Nicholas, for once, is not the one strapped to the table while someone else watches.
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- Part 4 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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Pluck that crimson orb rusted package from the branches mother’s arms our tree you’ve chopped away at for too long with your mouth-bright ax pretty-teethed boy. - "A Brother Named Gethsemane", Natalie Diaz
Vash hits the ground. The ground loves him back.
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- Part 5 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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Fertile Soil by darknesscrochets
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
16 Feb 2024
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It is a corpse rotting slowly from within while maggots writhe in its belly. - Warhammer 40k
Knives started something in his body that Vash can't stop.
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- Part 6 of Bursting Out of Your Skin
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To be trapped, unmoving, within the body that has betrayed her so often, feeling every sensation as it grows and warps and sprouts, never knowing what new mutation it will visit on her next. - The Magnus Archives, Episode 171, "The Gardener"
Vash wants—needs—to look human. His body grows him armor instead.
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- Part 7 of Bursting Out of Your Skin