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“The results are in, and… you don’t seem to have gills,” David says. He sounds oddly disappointed by that, though Simon can’t even begin to fathom why.
Or: Simon's thoughts and relationships as he adjusts to his new normal.
A continuation of my other story Thicker Than Water (which you will want to read first for context)
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17 Feb 2026
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The day is new, but the dawn falls silent. Never before the Filament incident was there a day wasted, but mourning does strange things to desperate people.
The Convict sat still at his hearing. His hands are clasped, intertwined, bloody. He looked down. Bloody figuratively.. physically clean. Something deep inside him is telling him he did kill those people, but he can’t explain why or how. So when They come in to question him, he has nothing to say.
The Convict is given a number, not a name. He’s told he isn’t deserving of a name. He thinks he should accept that.Bookmarked by DragonMerchent
16 Feb 2026
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Eden has always been Simon's home, until they left him for dead on that station. Sure, they had been harsh sometimes but what was the alternative?
The Consolidation of Iron? The people who wanted to rip out Eden's tree and take their kids?
At least Eden was peaceful, at least Eden didn't lie.
Choking, gagging on his own blood, he realized how much he wished that was true.
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Eden had long used children for war, they were easy to train, and easier to indoctrinate when they were born and raised in a nursery. Eden was more than fine with the knowledge they were sending kids to die, after all, they all became soil?But what COI had laws to stop trials/convictions for minors? How could Eden get around that?
Simple: If your calendar years are half that of the COI, your 15-year-old becomes 30, and you have “righteous” anger aplenty to point right back at the COI.
If a few kids have to die to make ends meet? Well, It's just bigger than us.
(OR I wanted to write a fic where Simon is actually just a really fucking scared and traumatized child, because Mark you hurt me with that ending so name Simon will get hugs.)
Title: Machine Gun Sun by Barns Courtney
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16 Feb 2026
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What if the Quiet Rapture didn’t destroy all of the planets and stars, simply moved them far away. What if it caused time to start working differently for those left behind and those moved? What if the people moved became so advanced that some of them came across AT-5 and found Simon before he died? What if they knew what caused the Quiet Rapture?
Aka: What if TMBD and Iron Lung took place in the same universe? That’s it. That’s the fic.
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“So why…why haven’t you consumed me?”
“You intrigued me,” it cooed directly into his ear.
No.
“Your fierce will to survive…”
No, that wasn’t right.
“To live.”
No, that was wrong…
Something in him was wrong.
“Stop it!” Simon screamed at last, desperate as he pushed himself back into Eden’s tree — but there was nowhere to go.
It was in his head.
In his body.
…In his mind.
His heart felt like it was going to explode as he held it in pain.
He thinks he’s begging. He has to be. He can feel his lips moving, but his ears are muted to the sound of his babbling. All he is — all that he can hear — is the voice of God in his ear.
“I could make you a god,” it continues, either unaware or uncaring of his distress as he watched, horrified, as tendrils of prismatic light drifted from its swirling iris. Nebulas gutted themselves before him and bled into his world so that they could curl around him.
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Simon wakes after what should have been the end.
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16 Feb 2026