Slaytober Day 28: The Mirror
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Slaytober Day 28: The Mirror
you are nothing at all
Cleo's stitches and rotting parts hurt. No one knows this better than them, but there is one other person who can get close.
Gem still remembers vividly how Cleo's body felt, actively falling apart even while she was inhabiting it. She wasn't there long enough to get used to the constant agony, the way Cleo has, and from then on has a far deeper respect for the zombie.
Sometimes she gets phantom pains from stitches that aren't there, and she doesn't tell anyone, not even Cleo. How could she when she doesn't hurt nearly as much as Cleo does, every single day. Instead, she just goes to offer Cleo some help.
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I thought it would be a cool idea to draw Winslow Leach as "The Body of The Dead Christ in The Tomb" by Hans Holbein the Younger.
do NOT look if you are uncomfortable with looking at the dead. This drawing contains A VERY DEAD WINSLOW.
(CW: early stage of decay)
leave me for the worms; they need to eat, too.
i'll miss being your dog, i'll never stop loving you.
only with her flesh
feeding butterflies
and fertilizing daisies
could she finally be pretty
🦴 Coining: Necrotherian, cw; mention of death & decay.
[PT: Coining: Necrotherian, cw; mention of death and decay. End PT.]
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I've been meaning to do an SCP verse version of Albert for a while but never found the motivation to draw him for that potential version of him. Until today obviously.
In short - he's a janitor for the foundation who keeps dying then respawning the next week with a minor immunity/resistance to whatever killed him. The effect can stack up infinitely over infinite deaths.
Dead AU ask caus ima suck for ash being a pokemon:
his body was found after a year, right? that means if decay works similar to our world, only bones would remain. How did they identify the body? dental records?
I think it works differently, Only because there isn't small decay eating bugs.
We can say that Weedle and Caterpie are the main culprits, but considering the area was filled with Spearow, we can assume that the bug population was greatly reduced.
Ash did not bury his and Pikachu's body, so, that does leave a few options. Mummification is out due to area being filled with moisture.
A normal decay without any outside help (ie caskets and all) takes about 10 days tops. Considering Ash and Pikachu's body was left in the open, the bug populace was reduced to nill, he would have been subjected to more underground pokemon.
Rattata are more than likely to feast on his corpse whereas the Sandshrews would aim for Pikachu. The infestation of Spearow and the mass exodus of many of em due to Pikachu's lightning powered thunder shock would likely lead all the pokemon to the bird pokemon. Smaller game equals easier meat.
This is on a long winded rant to say that Ash and Pikachu's body would have likely decayed within 2 weeks. A little longer than the average 10 days!
As for identification - it was a Molar test where they had /presumed/ it was Ash! Why do i say presume?
Ash was 10 years old at the start of his journey and subsequent end of life, He has NO dental records as of this age due to not needing crowns, fillings etc. Especially since he still at his baby teeth stage.
Typically speaking, Baby teeth start to shed between the ages of 8-12 years old, prominent ones, such as the canine teeth, take a while longer compared to the others.
Ash still had all his teeth, so we can presume either a) his baby teeth never fell out, or b) Most of his teeth had already prematurely fell out and he had his adult teeth at this point.
I'm more inclined to the thought of baby teeth never having fallen out, leading to the inability to have any records!
Technically speaking, the only thing police would be able to find out, is that the body had been there for close to a year already.
You know what's odd though? That the victim had a Pokemon right next to him.
A Pikachu
Looking into records of any trainers with Pikachu narrows it down greatly. And suddenly, they come across the record of Ash Ketchum, the only Pallet town trainer (a direct correlation of why he was in the viridian forest) with a Pikachu as a /starter/
So clearly, the body MUST be him. He even started as a trainer this year!
And thus, they believe that someone else stole Ash's identity since their are records of monsy being used, Pokemon being caught etc.
Except that's very clearly not the case, when Ash Ketchum -living breathing and looks EXACTLY like his trainer photo- conducts an interview with confusion.
"I've been traveling with freinds this entire time, why do people think I'm dead?"
And his Pikachu is right there on his shoulder- far too smart for a pikachu- looking on in the same amount of confusion.
The call is off, the grave stays with the body of the unknown trainer, and they never buff out the name Ketchum.
His name was Ash Ketchum