I am Become Death

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Author: kleinefee92
Title: I am Become Death
Rating: PG-13 (I think)
Pairing: N/A
Characters: Freya
Summary: Why should they enjoy what she cannot?
Warnings: Implied character death
Word Count: 131
Prompt:Skin
Author's Notes: Freya can't really be as innocent and untouched by her curse as she seems in the show, can she? Nah. Didn't think so. I don't remember where I've heard the quote the title comes from. Gluten-free boysenberry thumbprint cookies for whoever recognizes it and lets me know?

Edit: I figured out (with the help of my friendly neighborhood search engine) where I first heard the quote. In an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah quotes J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was actually quoting the Bhagavad-Gita.

I am Become Death



Every night, she sheds her own form for one from some devil’s phantasmagoric fantasies.

Every day, she covets the silky smoothness of her complexion, and desires nothing more than to bask in its pristine innocence always.

Over time, she believes her jealousy of those not plagued by her wretched affliction, those her demonic form stalks in the shadows, seeps through and twists what once was a hunt into a malicious mawling.

Sniffing delicately, her enhanced senses detect the arrival of night, and while one part of her, the sane, compassionate part, recoils in fear and revulsion, the other coils, ready to spring, to slice, to shred.

If she cannot hold onto her beauty, then neither can they.

Snap, scream, snarl.

The moon bids her good hunting.

Gladly, she hastens to oblige.

Comments

[yenny2206.livejournal.com]

Poor Freya.

Not so innocent yet one cant help but feel sorry for her and yet understand her.

Great characteriation.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she has it pretty rough - for the most part, she wants to stay away from the rest of the world during her transformations, but I think that the curse would seize the darker parts of any person's personality and magnify them during the night.

Thank you!

[fuckyeah.livejournal.com]

...Holy shit. I would've never considered this, but it's totally my headcanon now, because it makes sense! Such visceral imagery!

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Ahaha - thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed this.

Cheers, darling ;)

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

♥ WOW! This was dark. Great imagery and characterazation!
♥ I really loved this and I agree with the first comment.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured the prompt would get a lot of responses dealing with love and lust, so I thought I'd write something that has nothing to do with either of those concepts, and I wound up with two dark fics.

Thanks - glad you enjoyed this.

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

♥...and you pulled it off nicely. Both were well done.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly :)

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

:) ♥

[alby-mangroves.livejournal.com]

HELL YES! I quite like this secondary/tertiary-characters-exploration business! You're rocking it. Visceral and raw, and quite unapologetically sexy in her brutality. Nice!

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Ahaha - thanks, darling! Visceral - I love that word.

Thank you :)

[kathyh]

Wow! That's a really interesting look at Freya. Beautiful in both the writing and the character exploration.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

The thing I love here is that she's torn. She loves the beastial part of herself just as much as the frail beauty.

It would be interesting to play with a story where she and Merlin did leave Camelot and he was able to not only protect her, but also appreciate her beast as much as she does. (*attempts to put plot bunny in your lap and run*:) ♥

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Exactly - and the two parts of herself sort of mix with each other, even though she tries so hard to separate them as much as possible.

Ha. Hahah. Ha. I love that you think I'm actually capable of writing something of that caliber (even though at present, I'm really, really not). Maybe in that far off Someday, I'll actually be able to pull that off, but for now, it's something I'll keep in the back of my mind.

♥

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Dude. You can totally do that. I know you have fifty million other plot bunnies running your life right now, but I don't know why you think that story is beyond you. You do the feelings sooooo well. ♥

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Keep saying things like that, and I'll be red as a tomato. (Your faith in me is a bit staggering, but very, very appreciated.)

♥

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Great way of showing Freya's thoughts on her situation. Well done.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Thank you - glad you enjoyed this take on Freya's relationship with her curse.