Dr. Hermann Gottlieb and Dr. Newton Geiszler (Electric Powers AU)
Hermann has never forgotten what it felt like, to bite down on his own lip, to taste the iron and the steel on his tongue.
He remembers how it felt to have his leg be nothing more than a bloodbag beneath him, the way that it had felt to have a storm wrecking its way through his body, the way that it had felt like to have to crawl his way up the side of the mountain.
For so long after the fact, Hermann had been determined never to taste the iron in his mouth again.
He was determined to become galvanized steel. To be coated in zinc to avoid corrosion. To avoid weathering any further.
He would not rust. He would not stain the world rusted red.
He would not burn.
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Hermann gets dressed and things go back to normal and he tries to forget this conversation ever happened.
But it’s hard not to linger in that moment. In Newt's comparison between Hermann’s ache, his growth, his awkwardness, the fact that he’s never felt at home in his own skin—
And fucking lightning.
For the first time in Hermann’s life, his scars don’t just carry the memory of blood and pain, but also of the bright white that danced behind his eyelids, fractal promises of the fact that the scars that he carries aren't just the wretched reminders of agony; they are something cosmic.
-aletterinthenameofsanity, the first law of thermodynamics
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