laminae: (existentialism)
Fern ([personal profile] laminae) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2021-12-06 08:06 pm (UTC)

Last Man Standing

[This is a scene that reminds Fern so intensely of Ooo he wonders for a second if he's actually wound up back here. But he isn't - or at least, this isn't any part of Ooo that he's ever been to before - and once that fact settles in his mind he turns his attention to his surroundings. He's a little comforted at seeing the robot, though the puppet creeps him out. He isn't sure what to make of the alien spaceships that occasionally fly by, since they seem pretty cool but that kid obviously wants to avoid them.

The kid is, obviously, is who he zeroes in on. Everything is going by at a flickering, unstable rate of fast, then slow, then fast again, and Fern chalks it all up to time shenanigans. Glob, he hates time shenanigans. That, and watching the kid, are reminding him of his time as Finn Sword, and not in a good way. Especially when it becomes abundantly clear that there aren't any other humans around, that the kid's only company is the robot. He's alone. He's really, really alone.

It gets to be a bit hard to watch. Fern has never liked being alone, it reminds him too much of those months of being trapped in the Finn Sword, cut off from the rest of the world, just waiting while life passed him by. That's what this kid's life feels like. It's painful, that sense of being trapped, of just existing in some kind of awful, unchanging limbo instead of actually living.

That's why, when he notices everything settling down, he approaches.]


Uh, hey? Cool sword.

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