Special Prompt: Changing Seasons
Sep. 4th, 2010 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiemlordWell, I suppose this is as good a time as any to maybe explain what happened to me. I want to believe it was all just chance, the way things all lined up like that, but there were too many coincidences. I dunno if I necessarily believe it was any sort of god though. In my experience, they don't seem to care for meddling in people's lives like that. They tend to leave that to lesser spirits. Well, you would, wouldn't you, when you've got a whole bloody lot of galaxies and universes to look after, hey?
The first time I met him, I was 15. Him being Stardust, of course. That was the only name I was ever given for him, and I still don't know who he is. He had a bright orange mane of hair, different coloured eyes, wore some strange outfits, that's for sure. When we met that first time, he gave me a little metal spaceship. Promised me it contained all the secrets of the universe. I was sceptical at first, but he proved me wrong. Said he was preparing me for when he'd come again and take me to the stars.
I spent a lot of time gazing up at the sky as a kid. Wondered what it would really be like up there. By the time I found out, it changed me completely. I don't think I'd have believed him if I hadn't seen that spaceship again 15 years later on an album cover. Bit freaky, that, not that I told anyone.
And that's when Stardust returned. The day I turned 31, there he was, in his ship, in my ship, and he took me to the stars. To say it was mind-blowing might be an understatement. To become so suddenly aware you're not the only living being out there, that there are others... Nothing is ever the same after that.
And then I got me powers, charged with keeping the cosmos in order, and that was that. I was no longer human, I was something else, and I remember just sitting up there, staring at me hands, wondering what on earth I was going to do with all this power. I didn't think I'd changed, I still looked the same, but everything had changed. I was connected to everything else in a way that you can't escape. I'd become part of it, and removing myself from that would be painful if I bothered to try, which I did once, after a rather long night out with - with a couple of friends. It's strangely sad to realise you can still get drunk, even when you're not human anymore. Never doing that again though. The hangover was a thousand times worse, and getting out of that depressive mood took weeks. I reckon it changed me brain or something. Never been the same since.
And, y'know, after I first got me powers, I tried to go back to earth, keep on going like nothing had happened, and to a certain extent it worked, but my peace didn't last, and I was called upon to do my duty. I was too inexperienced. Too much power with no idea what to do with it. Mistakes happen. Some things can't be reversed. My own timeline- my own timeline is a complete mess because of some things I did back then. I'm still paying for some of those things now when all I want to do is be left alone. That's all I've ever wanted, powers or not. But when you become so connected to the cosmos, being left alone is not an option anymore.
Muse: Jeff Lynne
Fandom: Electric Light Orchestra RPS AU
Disclaimer: Not true in any way, shape or form. Stardust is my own original character; do not use without permission.
Word Count: 606
The first time I met him, I was 15. Him being Stardust, of course. That was the only name I was ever given for him, and I still don't know who he is. He had a bright orange mane of hair, different coloured eyes, wore some strange outfits, that's for sure. When we met that first time, he gave me a little metal spaceship. Promised me it contained all the secrets of the universe. I was sceptical at first, but he proved me wrong. Said he was preparing me for when he'd come again and take me to the stars.
I spent a lot of time gazing up at the sky as a kid. Wondered what it would really be like up there. By the time I found out, it changed me completely. I don't think I'd have believed him if I hadn't seen that spaceship again 15 years later on an album cover. Bit freaky, that, not that I told anyone.
And that's when Stardust returned. The day I turned 31, there he was, in his ship, in my ship, and he took me to the stars. To say it was mind-blowing might be an understatement. To become so suddenly aware you're not the only living being out there, that there are others... Nothing is ever the same after that.
And then I got me powers, charged with keeping the cosmos in order, and that was that. I was no longer human, I was something else, and I remember just sitting up there, staring at me hands, wondering what on earth I was going to do with all this power. I didn't think I'd changed, I still looked the same, but everything had changed. I was connected to everything else in a way that you can't escape. I'd become part of it, and removing myself from that would be painful if I bothered to try, which I did once, after a rather long night out with - with a couple of friends. It's strangely sad to realise you can still get drunk, even when you're not human anymore. Never doing that again though. The hangover was a thousand times worse, and getting out of that depressive mood took weeks. I reckon it changed me brain or something. Never been the same since.
And, y'know, after I first got me powers, I tried to go back to earth, keep on going like nothing had happened, and to a certain extent it worked, but my peace didn't last, and I was called upon to do my duty. I was too inexperienced. Too much power with no idea what to do with it. Mistakes happen. Some things can't be reversed. My own timeline- my own timeline is a complete mess because of some things I did back then. I'm still paying for some of those things now when all I want to do is be left alone. That's all I've ever wanted, powers or not. But when you become so connected to the cosmos, being left alone is not an option anymore.
Muse: Jeff Lynne
Fandom: Electric Light Orchestra RPS AU
Disclaimer: Not true in any way, shape or form. Stardust is my own original character; do not use without permission.
Word Count: 606