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Mercedes Snippet
May. 9th, 2016 03:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellipsoBeing on EAN-7162439-HP changed her. Crash landing on a hostile planet that consumed her ship, her crew, and quite possibly her very soul, altered every fiber of her being in innumerable ways. The things she did to survive- the things she’s forced to do now- they haunt her, gnaw at her, threaten to bury her under their weight.
She can’t breathe, she can’t sleep. She exists, going through the motions of being the fearless, intrepid soldier they paint her as.
They call her tough. They call her a hero. All because she saved the life of one very important person who has more secrets than even she does. She’s decorated and they sing her praises.
They’re wrong.
She doesn’t deserve any of this.
If only they knew the truth of what she’s become, what she's lost. But no one can know the cost of making it off of that planet. They’d lock her up and throw away the key. Saving the life of a president wouldn’t be enough to wipe her slate clean. So she masks the grotesque truth that fights to finish the job it started on EAN-7162439-HP. She becomes what they all so desperately want and learns there are many ways to lose one’s self, one's humanity.
She wonders how long it will take before someone comes along and sees the monster clamoring for control just beneath the surface of an ever crumbling facade.
She can’t breathe, she can’t sleep. She exists, going through the motions of being the fearless, intrepid soldier they paint her as.
They call her tough. They call her a hero. All because she saved the life of one very important person who has more secrets than even she does. She’s decorated and they sing her praises.
They’re wrong.
She doesn’t deserve any of this.
If only they knew the truth of what she’s become, what she's lost. But no one can know the cost of making it off of that planet. They’d lock her up and throw away the key. Saving the life of a president wouldn’t be enough to wipe her slate clean. So she masks the grotesque truth that fights to finish the job it started on EAN-7162439-HP. She becomes what they all so desperately want and learns there are many ways to lose one’s self, one's humanity.
She wonders how long it will take before someone comes along and sees the monster clamoring for control just beneath the surface of an ever crumbling facade.
