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[Feb 8] [Pacific Rim] Teardrops in the Sea
Title:Teardrops in the Sea
Day/Theme: 8.Yet human in the ripe-red of the heart.
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Newt
Drifting into the Hivemind was to float in millions of years of accumulated thinking. Newt may have been a genius by human standards, but alone in the roaring blue oceans, everything he had ever been was just a speck in the madness. The kaiju had crossed dimensions. Through their eyes he saw other worlds and destroyed them. Countless worlds, full of living things that would make any biologist swoon, but he couldn’t even get a glimpse because there was so much of it.
Eons worth of memories were pouring into him. It was like trying to catch a thunderstorm on the head of a pin. He couldn’t hold it all, couldn’t see it all, could barely comprehend the fraction of it he could see. It was drowning him, dissolving him. He was going to melt into the torrent like a teardrop in the sea and become part of the whole with nothing to ever be only himself again. He was going to be one of them and maybe they would add his limited knowledge of Earth biology to their own collective and maybe with that they could finally create the kaiju that couldn’t be stopped, and he wouldn’t even be able to care because there wouldn’t be enough of him left.
But then, something throbbed behind his eyes, and something stung deep as his neurofeedback failed, and something tore and he was sure that this was it, this was the brain damage that finally killed him. It would’ve been terrifying if he wasn’t so far beyond fear. It was actually a little bit of a relief to die before he was completely absorbed, he could go out with some part of him still human and defying them just a fraction more.
He didn’t know if the uneven impacts he could feel were footsteps or a series of aneurysms. He didn’t know anything until someone hissed his name and snatched the PONS cap off of him.
Day/Theme: 8.Yet human in the ripe-red of the heart.
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Newt
Drifting into the Hivemind was to float in millions of years of accumulated thinking. Newt may have been a genius by human standards, but alone in the roaring blue oceans, everything he had ever been was just a speck in the madness. The kaiju had crossed dimensions. Through their eyes he saw other worlds and destroyed them. Countless worlds, full of living things that would make any biologist swoon, but he couldn’t even get a glimpse because there was so much of it.
Eons worth of memories were pouring into him. It was like trying to catch a thunderstorm on the head of a pin. He couldn’t hold it all, couldn’t see it all, could barely comprehend the fraction of it he could see. It was drowning him, dissolving him. He was going to melt into the torrent like a teardrop in the sea and become part of the whole with nothing to ever be only himself again. He was going to be one of them and maybe they would add his limited knowledge of Earth biology to their own collective and maybe with that they could finally create the kaiju that couldn’t be stopped, and he wouldn’t even be able to care because there wouldn’t be enough of him left.
But then, something throbbed behind his eyes, and something stung deep as his neurofeedback failed, and something tore and he was sure that this was it, this was the brain damage that finally killed him. It would’ve been terrifying if he wasn’t so far beyond fear. It was actually a little bit of a relief to die before he was completely absorbed, he could go out with some part of him still human and defying them just a fraction more.
He didn’t know if the uneven impacts he could feel were footsteps or a series of aneurysms. He didn’t know anything until someone hissed his name and snatched the PONS cap off of him.