#deadtown

[black-eco-sage]

TNT - Cosmic Bonds + Horizons

(Don’t mind me, just over here making my own content for a non-existent / un-popular ship like some common rube >.>)

“Horizons”

In Torn's eyes were dreams of the distant sea; in hers, a memory of the sky.

The sun-warmed shores of Dover with its brilliant, blue-green shoals lapping at the golden sands; of the sweet summer breezes whirling in their hair and dancing in the dune grass.

Once, children flew kites and dug for Precursian beads on the beach.

Once, couples laughed and shoved each other into the surf, while the elders smoked their pipes and swapped stories in the cool shade of the jungle palms and passing clouds.

Once, their sleepy dream-world had a name...but no more. Instead, they remember and mourn a world that no longer exists.

All that remained of home stared back at them, held misty and distant in their own reflections, held safely in the other’s eyes.

Torn told himself that he could live in her memories forever, just as she had somehow moved quietly and sweetly into his dreams. Beyond their pain and grief was somewhere warm, somewhere safe, somewhere beautiful - a place beyond fear, that existed beyond the monsters and the soldiers and the toxic smog. A place both ancient and new, near yet far, in the path of the sun, where the sea met the sky.

Sometimes they would lay like that for what felt like forever, laughing and reminiscing until they both fell silent, just watching, re-living, yearning, their fingers barely brushing in the dark…

Tess closed her cloudy eyes, and the dream was gone. Torn kept watching as she slept, unable to forget a thing.

Content to stay awake, he eventually turned his gaze to the grimy ceiling, and his mind drifted beyond the stained concrete and empty, war-torn streets above them.

Together, they would keep dreaming of the long, lost shores of Dover, with its clear blue waters and vast, open skies that stretched into the horizon.

Forever almost touching…but not quite.

[my-corrupted-pixels]

Dead Town series 13 . . #deadtown #street #blackandwhite https://www.instagram.com/p/B8dWM3JoBr5/?igshid=1pb1wi8rnj7p9

[black-eco-sage]

“In the summer of 4041 p.m.e, the Dover District was overrun by the Metalheads.

In a single night, a village with a population of approximately 130,000 people was wiped off the map due to the failure of its outermost shield-wall. Only 2/3 of the citizens residing there were successfully evacuated behind the new shield-wall; the remainder were strategically crippled and abandoned by the KG to slow the enemy, leaving an estimated 40,000 men, women, and children, to die.

The survivors that escaped were inducted into Relocation Camps, which quickly became the Haven City Slums; but due to the lack of resources caused by the city’s decade-long Lock-down, it was common knowledge that they could not, and would not, be properly cared for. Within the following year, another 30,000 would succumb to their injuries, sickness, starvation, murder, suicide…and even simply go ‘missing’, taken by the KG for some unknown purpose and never seen again.

The intentional failure of the Relocation Program was both a financial and practical success for the City, as the remaining survivors and unaffected citizens now had access to more space, Eco, rations, and resources.

In the wake of the injustices enacted upon them and their families, many joined together as the Underground under The Shadow, it’s enigmatic leader. The destroyed sector has come to be known as “Dead Town”, a toxic ruin that stands as an unquiet memorial to the Lost…

…And a reminder that though their existence was treated as less than cattle to those that preyed above, both from out and from within, that only humans had died that day. Humans capable of compassion, of courage…and of great and frightening change.

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Tess, post-Dead Town Disaster, chilling in the ruins. She’s still my favorite side-character from J2 and J3, so expect a lot more of her (and Torn!) for my future submissions.

[black-eco-sage]

“A Light of Hope”

WIP concept of Tess, pre-Jak 2. :)

[jengyeong]

外面很美哦！#mco #deadtown https://www.instagram.com/p/B-UUxv0J2nNn2Gaa75SamNn0F5Cn3b-oDY_fC80/?igshid=1pljco741oy9p

[my-corrupted-pixels]

Dead Town series 28 . #deadtown https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Ea-auI0Dv/?igshid=5dpjhozllc1u

[my-corrupted-pixels]

Dead Town series 27 . #deadtown https://www.instagram.com/p/B9C8TvxIXk6/?igshid=1fxdvdvoih5i4

[my-corrupted-pixels]

Dead Town series 15 . #deadtown https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gLf2Jo1y9/?igshid=qrpyzgaeifmm