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it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
it’s a repirse, gays
A HERO STANDS BEFORE THE HEARTH FLAMES OF THE GELFLING. but not alone. from the darkness that surrounds him comes … wind. lightning. light. earth, shadow, water … FIRE. # SOUGHTFOR , PRIVATE AND INDEPENDENT rian of stone - in - the - wood from JIM HENSON CO’S. SHOW the dark crystal : age of resistance & J.M LEE’S dark crystal novel series.
ok anyways it’s jim henson hours so i just wanna have a Moment rq
he’s one of my fave skeksis :>
* @relectus : ❝ no one ever thanks me when i’m done . ❞ / repo ! )
A DISMAYED , AGITATED SOUND bubbling up in the back of the throat , drawn - out a touch too long as scientist’s head lolls back . did it regret any caustic remark made to the ornamentalist ? not really . how do it’s fellow courtiers suffer this ? skekTek has never been particularly outwardly picky , normally complacent as long as there are pockets sewn somewhere ─── but of course it is a being that values it’s practicality too ! perhaps that is one thing it and their more brutish ilk share a common ground on . but of course , even they mind the pungent stench of sterile chemicals / discoloration and splotches of ash and singed fabric . and unfortunately , so do gelfling : gelfling nobility that is , EXPECTING ALL LORDS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE HARVEST NINET’S FESTIVITIES .
the scientist could have protested , vehemently so , insist that perhaps the all - maudra would understand the daily side effects of such demanding and strenuous toil ! but , skekSo’s word and dismissive hand carry above all else in the end , ‘ this is a matter of appearances , good impressions ! ’ he had said . and , try as it might , skekEkt is one creature the scientist can not seem to shoo away with naturally vitriolic demeanor .
with the distinct pop of strained joints , skekTek’s head had once again fallen forward , beak wrinkled and talons picking fretfully at intricately woven cuffs , just barely risking tearing and unraveling the pattern . ❝ well , frankly , ornamentalist ; I DIDN’T ASK . ❞
RE ; SCARS ,
as the scientist , and a somewhat reckless one that : prone to learning through trial and error and sacrificing health in favor of study , skekTek is one of the few skeksis bearing physical scars , other being those of a military status and the emperor . they include the following ;
─── CHEMICAL BURNS . across palms , back of hands , and forearms . self - explanatory really , the byproduct of everyday accidents and always concealed by work - gloves . ─── ANIMAL BITES . up hands and forearms , varying ranges of severity and depth . also hidden by gloves and gained through handling the laboratory’s caged animals . ─── ELECTRICAL BURN . a small streak directly along the left side of it’s beak . gained in the struggle with the gruenaks after being slashed with one of the devices in which it attempted to reanimate the arathim corpse . mostly hidden by a metal bolt in the skin save for where the scar begins and ends . ─── SURGERY SCARS . two trailing vertically up abdomen and torso , minor scarring from a delirious patch - job on it’s shoulder and stump leg after amputating the limbs , and the remnant of a vertical neck incision in order to remove the jugular vein . these are all the proof of self - preformed surgery , mutilation , and vivisection done in the name of science . there’s varying reasons , be it in order to learn more about skeksis anatomy , to remove malignant growths from darkening exposure , removal of organs , to make room for mechanical augmentation , or simply because it wanted to know what would happen .
───────── SKEKTEK THE SCIENTIST , HOWEVER , WAS ANOTHER MATTER . the others feared it because they could understand nothing of it’s work . it had amputated it’s own arm and leg in order to fit itself with appliances it had invented that were more powerful than the natural limbs . likewise , it had cut out part of it’s circulatory system and substituted a series of exposed , transparent tubes in order to study the operation of it’s own blood and juices . some thought it demented , and it was distrusted by all . ❞ / written by bee .
something that’s worth noting , i think , is that skekTek’s omni - disciplinary in every since of the word . it’s an engineer responsible for every machine in the castle , it modified the skeksis’ armor to have projectile weapons , it constructed the carriages most likely , it’s a chemist judging by all that’s laid out in the lab , it’s a biologist who’s gone as far as to eviscerate itself in the name of learning what makes the body tic , it’s a doctor that admittedly learned through trial and error but still succeeded in successfully amputating itself , and finally , i imagine it to know a thing or two about stars . TekTih built the orrery , and the skeksis had to predict the conjunction somehow as 1982 tdc material portrays it as an event you can’t exactly see clearly coming . tldr ; it’s smart , it knows damn well what it’s doing , but it’s also ... messy . it overwhelms itself , it has just as many failures as it does success and sometimes even more so , and it’s caught in the perpetual loop of trying to dissect TekTih’s work but being physically incapable of doing so , as is one of many inabilities that come with being only half of a balanced being .
and then we have urTih who , like skekTek , is patient , diligent , lost to its work ... but only has one profession . it is simply an alchemist , nothing more nothing less , and yet it has perfected the craft . it sits for hours doing the same thing , stagnant , but getting it perfectly right . and i think this highlights the division of TekTih and how halves struggle so perfectly . one can do so much but fail so often , one can do a single thing without fail but never branching out . they’re complete ghosts of the genius they were and they’re Stuck .
though of course , it’s also worth noting that it’s canonically stated in aor material that some of skekTek’s professions were taken up to appease skekSo . i play with this a bit , mostly because i like 1982 lore’s canon stating this as apart of the division just a bit more , but keep aor’s take because i like it too of course ! and find it very in - character with how desperate for approval and praise skekTek is . in my personal headcanon , this mainly applies to skekTek’s medicinal work , which officially started in the arathim wars , gruenak campaigns , and the attempts to corral the makrak .because after all , the skeksis have an image of immortality to uphold , and surely a doctor to soothe their ails could help further fuel that .
* @hersylver / generated dialogue sc . )
❝ THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT YOU ; it’s about what’s best for all of us . ❞
* @swordpulled / generated dialogue sc . )
A BROW SMEARED WITH ASH FURROWS , SHARP TEETH BARED IN THE FAINTEST BEGINNINGS OF A GRIMACE . scientist’s mismatched eyes , one fluid and murky , the other a searing artificial light , travel up and down intruder’s frame with a mechanical rigidness . it stands in carved archway dumbly , the talons clasping either stone side fidgeting with an unease buried deep ‘neath it’s scaly skin . unannounced guests approach the lord’s gloomy dwelling often , yet nary without imperial guard at their flank , unless they are of noble status themselves . and even they , the oh - so - esteemed , are prohibited from castle’s lowest levels : acrid and dust - caked halls , home to scuttling crawlies and the most hermetic of the skeksis court , who now sputters before the man in a way most unbecoming . HOW COULD THE GUARDS DO THIS ? do they not care for the importance of their ways , their safety ? or has his majesty emperor skekSo finally left skekTek and it’s academic spoils to dust ? was the poor fool lost ?
❝ YOU MUST BE MAD , coming here like this . ❞
* undyeth .
THE UNDERCITY APOTHECARIUM WAS NOT A WING OF THE CITY OUR QUEEN OFTEN VISITED , her forsaken ( mostly ) were undying — desperately loyal to her … the grand apothecary putress was the one who orchestrated her needs : from research of THE NEW PLAGUE , to creation of her city guard , the abominations . HOWEVER , THIS WAS A CALL FOR COLLABORATION ! here now , shall it find whatever is needed , a lab MUCH FAR LARGER THAN IT HAS , ‘ my people take it rather serious … ‘ tone trailed / QUEEN BASKING IN THEIR WORK , HER WORK —- ‘ i’m sure you’ll find it all suitable . ‘ ghostly echo of her voice , ‘ — trusting that you’ll make yourself at home . ‘
a wordless , decisive grunt is offered in agreement as scientist’s neck cranes forward , as if it could somehow see more of what is already laid before it then ... it will do , efficiently so if the dissimilarities between tools at hand and those of skeksis craft are only as deep as cosmetics . and , skekTek ; for all it’s brilliance , can not imagine anything otherwise .
THE PROCESS OF PLANTING SEEDS AND TENDING TO THE FRUIT OF ACADEMIC LABOR is a burdensome prospect to it’s brothers ─── one so unlike political intrigue and abstruse ritual . they are not gardeners , they are gluttonous maws in wait to reap and devour the benefits of harvest : vultures circling overhead in a gloomy sky . the notion of a kind taking such toil in earnest settles strangely over the scientist , alien - like . a wary glance is cast upward to newfound ally , lone eye narrowed with a suspicion as if it were intentionally looking for something , anything akin to court’s prosecution , hidden just out of plain sight / poised to leap from the shadows and bite the moment one’s back is turned . ❝ is that so ? ❞