Title: Open Canvas
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Rating: K
Word Count: 167
Character(s): Laura Roslin, Three
Pairing(s): N/A
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: The truth of your perception is a lie.
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You're so cold, you say of me, then you blink and I am no less empty to your eyes than before. I show you nothing. This state of being shall persist.
Ice-cold.
Who can really know their identity, unless playing a part assigned to them? There is always something more.
And assigned by whom? One must wonder at times, but I believe we will never truly know.
So I am cold. Or you believe that I am. I know that I can be otherwise, but that you would not know were I to show you how.
Which is the truth? No one knows, not even I.
The truth of your perception is a lie. The truth of your existence is that you owe it to humanity: that you would not be here had our ancestors not created you. You have now fulfilled the early promise that they wanted, to create you in their image: you look human. You are not.
To appear, to seem: never to be.