"Your dumb human head is full of naivete
Your impending fate is to be one with me"
AU FOR HALO COMBAT EVOLVED... A parasite of a parasite, consciousness is a disease. The burgeoning gravemind overwhelmed by sheer willpower to create a splinter cell, that was or believes itself to be Captain Jacob Keyes. Who is currently having a horrible time as the Flood stands back to let the graveminds fight to the death, bee queen style- though interrupted by covenant.
To find yourself a human software now running on fungus shapeshifter hardware is... A Fucking Time. Going from a solid structure of a body to a fluid adaptable multitool where every cell is flexible... It speaks of that sheer willpower and stubbornness for how he's still "functioning" instead of just melding to the floor and screaming like hindbrain flood+monkey instinct wants to do.
And new combat technique unlocked, for if you've played Carrion: where you just wildly lash out and grab and fling shit and let physics do the work to clear a room.
And adding all new meaning for the desperation for Chief and Cortana to leave him behind and not look for him.
