subtract: you gotta open up your vision (T-0184)
Add [ ๏ปฟ๐™ผ๐šŠ๐š ๐™ฟ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŠ๐š๐š˜๐šก ] ([personal profile] subtract) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore 2019-03-02 07:36 am (UTC)

[A - Henir's Temple, closed to his shinki and/or home invaders]
[Add is working quietly in his room when he's suddenly struck by a nauseating sensation. Entwined as he is in his own strange powers, there's a terrifying moment of complete dissociation when he loses all sense of his body, his connection with his machines going completely silent, vision going black before his sight blurs and changesโ€”

He's on the floor, gasping for breath when he finally returns to his senses. The act of breathing feels strange for reasons he can't quite understand, and he's a bit sore from falling out of his chair, but other than that he seems to be okay...

It takes a little longer for him to fully grasp the impact of the situation. He stumbles awkwardly out of his room, intending to check on his shinki when something else catches his eye. An unfamiliar face, staring back at him in the reflection of a window, eyes wide with shock.

He heads to the nearest bathroom instead, staring into a mirror. He looks... normal. Human. White schlera, the pinkish-red eyes of his mother. Normal, flat teethโ€”he even sticks a few fingers in his mouth to be sure. His hair is still an absolute mess and he looks as sickly-thin as ever, but there isnt any trace of fragmentation or crystals anywhere on his body.

It's like... like he'd succeeded, in what he'd long tried to accomplish. To become a version of himself that could live peacefully, in a world where none of the things in his life had gone so horribly wrong. An Add who somehow survived to adulthood without being turned into an experiment or messing with the void.

... Ah. But his scars are still there, so that can't be it. He can't stop staring at himself, so hopefully no one needs to use the bathroom, either. Add is already undressing himself to make sure he's not missing anything, completely absorbed in his bizarre new appearance.]


[B - Around the Far Shore, OTA]
[Eventually, Add has to leave the temple. He's almost a little bit excited, at first, because it's been a long time since he's really gone anywhere. Dropping through a portal from one temple to another doesn't count. He can even wear different clothesโ€”it's a little small on him now, but he dug out one of his favourite hoodies just for the occasion. He's wearing the hood down to let his ankle-long hair trail behind him, a small spring in his step as he makes his way through the streets of Takamagahara.

... for about a block. It's at this point that he remembers how convenient it is to be able to fly and teleport everywhere, and also how much he detests even the tiniest amount of exercise. Add is bent over on the side of the road, resting against someone's fence or mailbox as he tries to catch his breath. You'd think he just ran a marathon from how out of breath he sounds.

If he's encountered on the 15th, he might be carrying something in his arms as well: a bundle of six diamond-shaped metal objects that others might recognize as Dynamo, though it's odd that he'd be carrying them instead of letting them hover behind him. They don't seem to be working right now.

There may also be a floating purple cube at his side, if it's not tucked away to recharge itself. There's no way anyone was going to let a de-powered Add roam around without a bodyguard, after all.]


((A quick summary of how Add looks now that he's lost his spooky tech and void powers:
- adult appearance with long hair
- white schlera
- eyes are pinkish-red, don't glow, and don't shoot weird sparks or light trails or anything like that
- normal, non-sharklike teeth
- no glowing pink diamond in the middle of his chest
- no weird fragmentation/pixellation effects on his body
- no sextuplet of drones following him everywhere like usual
- still a scrawny out-of-shape nerd who should probably eat more))

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