this is completely serious idk why you would ever think otherwise


Equius laid on the floor of his room. It was cold in the corner, and the ground was STRONG. He appreciated that. He looked at the poster on his far wall. It featured a brown horse-man and some trolls. Truly fine art. Beneath it was one of many broken robot heads. The more Equius looked at the horse-man, the tenser he became. He began to sweat.

Sweating was a problem for Equius. It always had been. He did not really know what to do about it, but he also did not really mind. He sat up and laid his head against the wall. Equius thought about how great it was to be STRONG and he began to sweat more.

It started at the core of him, at his chest, but soon his entire body was slick with it; rivulets of cold, saline water streamed down his back, in jarring contrast with the heat of his skin. As always, he felt the sudden need to rip off his shirt, to wipe himself dry and clean, to do something, anything, in reaction to the constant drip that plagued him as he thought more and more about his own STRENGTH, about the STRENGTH he could still achieve. His long hair matted to the sides of his head, yet he only sweated more.

His eyebrows even felt moist; his sunglasses fogged up so that his vision, already obscured by the cracks in the lenses, was almost a non-entity. Equius wiped them off with his thumb, but it only made it worse. Even his hands were as wet as if he had dipped them into a bucket of water. His feet felt clammy in his shoes. He tried to turn his thoughts away, but even when he averted his eyes to the ground, all Equius could think about was how STRONG the material was.

Equius squeezed his eyes shut tightly and willed his excitement away, imagining all of his pores closing up, imagining his skin clenching itself everywhere the same way his skin clenched when he worked out. It was effective.

He looked at the poster again.

He wondered why he had such a problem with sweating. Then he shrugged and laid back down. Even though he was sweaty, he went to sleep.

The End!