His head hurt. Sounds were amplified and distorted. His vision was going in and out, flickering and fuzzy. He couldn't hear, he couldn't see.
He couldn't move.
There was a bright light above him. Swinging? Just hanging? Its glare hurt. He tried to focus on it, but his vision was swimming.
And it went offline again.
This time, it was him that'd gone offline, and when he came back up, things were just as hazy and muddled, but there was a shadow over him. It was speaking, he thought, but he blacked out before he could discern its words.
When he came to, it was due to warnings from his processors: a breach. It–he–
He didn't realize he was screaming until his voice cracked.
When he woke again, his head was throbbing, his body taut with stress, and he had a cascade of warnings bombarding his processors. Breaches, adjustments, alterations. Reprogramming.
He was going to be sick.
He tried to sit up, but a hand too strong to be human urged him to lie back again. He didn't look to see who.
The shadow approached, a man he knew. A man he should have been able to trust.
Dr. Wily's smile had twisted into something sick and sadistic, a shade of the person he'd once known.
"It's good to see you're awake, Break Man."
A/N:
It's a bit interesting, writing for nonhuman characters. It's important to keep the sense of otherness intact while also making sure they're still relatable as people.
Blues is certainly one of the more traumatized characters in the series, and I like seeing how different authors take different approaches to how he deals with that, and how his experiences might shape his worldview and personality.
Sometimes, I feel like it's easy to forget how young all these robot characters are in Classic. While we don't really have a good idea for how old Blues is, as there's no real timeline in place, we can assume that the other Robot Masters, at their debut, are essentially children. How do you even make sense of a world like that, where you're brought online solely to work or to fight someone else's battles?
It's just as bad in the X series, though in different ways, and perhaps I'll explore that in a different story.
As for the question about my Tumblr (from a review I received on ), my main tumblr is the same username that I use on this site, though I admittedly didn't post much by way of fic, so unless you want to see my art or memes, you won't be finding the content you're looking for. I'll add that I stopped posting art after Tumblr's major policy update in regard to images.
I do have more writing, but most of it is confined to Docs or disjointed threads I've done with Mids. We're considering compiling and reworking that into fic at some point in the future, when she's able to focus on writing again. We do have enough content for that, but I'd rather you guys see that once it's been made coherent.
Until next time, and thank you for reading!