by Drizzle » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:12 pm
"Dax! Dax, wake up!"
The words were distant, hollow, empty. Dax? He wasn't Dax, not anymore. Maybe he never had been. Wake up? Was there ever such a thing as being asleep? He supposed he used to, or at least pretended to, once upon a time, but the concept had since become foreign. There was no sleep now, there was only powering down, and even that brought little relief. It was an itchy, static state of waiting for future action, rather than one of relaxation and peace.
"Go home, Anya."
Even to him, his voice sounded empty, devoid of whatever emotion it once held. How long ago that seemed. Had it really only been a few weeks? Could this revolution of character really be quantified in such a small number of days, a handful of hours?
"Not without you."
Pitiless grey eyes raised, staring back at this strong, bold, wonderful woman he'd fallen head over heels for before discovering the truth - that behind her avatar, she was real. A living, breathing being making living, breathing decisions and he... he wasn't. Code, that's all I am now, he thought bitterly to himself. Easily made. Easily manipulated. Easily destroyed.
A shudder rippled through his pixels, small fractals shaking loose from his wings, his tail, form flickering uncertainly before, with a self-depricating chuckle, he turned and melted into The Game without a further word.
[Code is a romanceable video game character that gains objective sentience and realizes he isn't real... or is he? >:D Dun dun DUNNNN reserve for the rest of his story~.]