#kusimayu

[pearlesaseas]

kusimayu and her little baby goat :(((((

[whenfatecollides]

PLURIBUS 1.09 'La Chica o El Mundo'

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

The Joining of Kusimayu…

The disturbing quietness as the Hive abruptly cuts off the cultural singing once she had Joined. As they quietly remove themselves from what was once a village and to them is now nothing more than dirt. They don’t need to pretend anymore.

The Hive isn’t the connection between humans, it’s the abandonment of humanity itself.

Kusimayu had a home, she had a culture. So did her family. But now they’re all gone. And not just them as people, them as individuals, but everything around them too - their lives, their beliefs, their practices, anything that was once them, that was once theirs, that was once human is just. gone.

[loveridden1999]

the ironical thing about kusimayu's joining is that she joined because she longed for the community that her culture once gave her. she wanted to join her aunts and cousins and experience that cultural community joy again, not realising that she was the only reason it was still alive. yes, the hivemind stopping the singing was abrupt but that's the point, as soon as she—the last living member of her culture—joined they no longer had to pretend to care it. they want the bodies, not the soul.

[warningsine]

[bmoharrisbankofficial]

they stopped singing.

[gayintensifies]

Darinka Arones as Kusimayu

Pluribus - S01E02 "Pirate Lady"

[dangerouslyfleetingmanticore]

There's a fly buzzing over Kusimayu here (you can see it over the yellow stripe). When you're Joined, it doesn't matter whether your body is rotting or walking around with a smile on its face. You're dead either way, all the colours you once contained bleeding out into your funeral shroud.