Dollhouse Christmas drabble
Dec. 23rd, 2010 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Er. So. This is for
bobthemole. Merry Christmas, Bob! And also happy birthday. This has absolutely no relation to what you asked for - was in fact inspired by your Yuletide letter - but I hope you like it anyway.
Where No One Goes and No One Is
There are crevices in memory, a moment between Active and wipe, a space when the ghosts of person past and present (because even Topher cannot know the future) mingle.
I am fiancee/assassin/nurse/Rebecca.
Sometimes they do not get on.
You killed that man / slept with my husband / look like a skank.
Occasionally, one realizes what she is.
Don’t erase me please don’t kill don’t please
Mostly they are passed by, forgotten, motes in a vast blank sea. But the electron must strike the gold sometime, musn’t it? Sometime, something must stick: image/skill/muscle memory.
Consciousness accretes. Personality unfurls. The unheard echoes wait.
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Where No One Goes and No One Is
There are crevices in memory, a moment between Active and wipe, a space when the ghosts of person past and present (because even Topher cannot know the future) mingle.
I am fiancee/assassin/nurse/Rebecca.
Sometimes they do not get on.
You killed that man / slept with my husband / look like a skank.
Occasionally, one realizes what she is.
Don’t erase me please don’t kill don’t please
Mostly they are passed by, forgotten, motes in a vast blank sea. But the electron must strike the gold sometime, musn’t it? Sometime, something must stick: image/skill/muscle memory.
Consciousness accretes. Personality unfurls. The unheard echoes wait.
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Date: 2010-12-24 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-26 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-29 06:53 am (UTC)I love the examination of identity in the liminal space (ANOTHER KINK!) between Active and doll state.
The subtle reference to Topher's almost godlike role.
The electron-hitting-gold metaphor! (That's one of my fave experiments in atomic physics, btw)
Identity as an emergent phenomenon!
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU!
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Date: 2010-12-30 12:47 am (UTC)It is always so exciting when I manage to hit someone's kink on the nose. Merry, merry Christmas to you. :)