11-24-2018, 04:23 AM
[align=center][div style="max-width: 500px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.4;letter-spacing:.1px"]/ this is unnecessarily long lmao. random 1-2am muse spike. he's just sitting around building stuff out of spare parts, you don't have to match this or anything lmao.
Perhaps it was just melodramatic teenage angst, but the longer Garrett stayed in one place, the more certain he became that he would never fit in anywhere. Even back at home, he remembers how he started being a bother. Too big to slip between his parents' feet, too small to do any heavy lifting. His dad's paw would collide with his head and there would be a frenzy of apologies that bled to aggravation when he realized that he wasn't hurt too bad. Be more careful. So he'd jump out of the way, say yes, and feel his skin burn a little bit. His mother would check on him later and they would — they would build. That was how he dealt with things, it was how he felt better. Even in The Typhoon, he'd turned to fidgeting whenever he could. This way he stayed out of the way and kept his paws busy. His head too. Today, it's that distraction he finds himself craving again, just something to do with his paws.
The young canine is soaked and so is everything he touches. There's a little concentration-filled frown on his face, mouth twisted a bit. Even though the rain had let up half an hour ago, it still manages to make his life difficult. Spread out in front of him, organized biggest to smallest left to right, are all sorts of gears, wires, nuts, bolts and springs. Like this, they don't seem like much. But every little piece is all he has left of home. Until he finds his way back there, every part has to stay with him. So everything he builds is subsequently destroyed and put back together another way. That's the phase and Garrett's currently in, staring at all of the pieces and wondering what else he can make. He's already made a few different robots, though one could hardly stand on its own and the other had to be manually moved every time you wanted it to take a step, and boy that was hard with only teeth and paws.
This time, he starts building without a plan. He twists the ends of two wires together, then another, and another. It forms something of a spine, though it flexes in a way that no living creature could. A head goes on one end. It's long the way his own snout is long, but it doesn't have a bump for the forehead. No eyes, either — he's learned to use his imagination for things like this. As more parts are added on, wires wrapped around bolts and held in place with nuts, interconnecting pieces for the limbs and tail. It's not really a dog. Or a cat. It has four legs and a really long tail, but not much else. Garrett's expression only seems to sour further once it's completed, eyes narrowed and brow drawn. But it's not angry, really. It's not dark. A little angsty, but what about him isn't? Mostly he looks sad, because what he has in front of him lacks his family's touch.
"Tô com saudades de você," he mumbles to the creature, but it's not home.
Perhaps it was just melodramatic teenage angst, but the longer Garrett stayed in one place, the more certain he became that he would never fit in anywhere. Even back at home, he remembers how he started being a bother. Too big to slip between his parents' feet, too small to do any heavy lifting. His dad's paw would collide with his head and there would be a frenzy of apologies that bled to aggravation when he realized that he wasn't hurt too bad. Be more careful. So he'd jump out of the way, say yes, and feel his skin burn a little bit. His mother would check on him later and they would — they would build. That was how he dealt with things, it was how he felt better. Even in The Typhoon, he'd turned to fidgeting whenever he could. This way he stayed out of the way and kept his paws busy. His head too. Today, it's that distraction he finds himself craving again, just something to do with his paws.
The young canine is soaked and so is everything he touches. There's a little concentration-filled frown on his face, mouth twisted a bit. Even though the rain had let up half an hour ago, it still manages to make his life difficult. Spread out in front of him, organized biggest to smallest left to right, are all sorts of gears, wires, nuts, bolts and springs. Like this, they don't seem like much. But every little piece is all he has left of home. Until he finds his way back there, every part has to stay with him. So everything he builds is subsequently destroyed and put back together another way. That's the phase and Garrett's currently in, staring at all of the pieces and wondering what else he can make. He's already made a few different robots, though one could hardly stand on its own and the other had to be manually moved every time you wanted it to take a step, and boy that was hard with only teeth and paws.
This time, he starts building without a plan. He twists the ends of two wires together, then another, and another. It forms something of a spine, though it flexes in a way that no living creature could. A head goes on one end. It's long the way his own snout is long, but it doesn't have a bump for the forehead. No eyes, either — he's learned to use his imagination for things like this. As more parts are added on, wires wrapped around bolts and held in place with nuts, interconnecting pieces for the limbs and tail. It's not really a dog. Or a cat. It has four legs and a really long tail, but not much else. Garrett's expression only seems to sour further once it's completed, eyes narrowed and brow drawn. But it's not angry, really. It's not dark. A little angsty, but what about him isn't? Mostly he looks sad, because what he has in front of him lacks his family's touch.
"Tô com saudades de você," he mumbles to the creature, but it's not home.
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AIN'T EVEN SCRATCHED THE SURFACE
thinking i deserve the dream but
I DON'T DESERVE THE HURTING; I WANT THE FLAME WITHOUT THE BURNING
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