THE IC ANON MEME

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THE IC ANON MEME

• Make an anonymous post with a question or topic of discussion. Or, alternatively, make a blank post with your character.


• Respond to other comments anonymously but ICly.


• Say whatever your character wants to say but never dared in person.


• ???


• Profit.

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Sawbones Jetshard | Homestuck OC

[dubiouslychthonic]

[(Anonymous)]

the grossest thing you've ever seen, as a doctor?

cw: body horror, traumatic injury, parasitism, implied euthanasia .

[dubiouslychthonic]

Ok, this one's a story.

About four or five sweeps back, I was with a scavenge and salvage operation that was in the middle of working an abandoned colony world - uncomfortable place to begin with, heavier gravity than Alternia, atmosphere that's breathable in the short-term but really not anything you want to breathe, very little liquid water. The kind of world where the empire takes what resources are easily accessible but doesn't bother with long-term infrastructure, and generally leaves behind a fair amount of abandoned mining and industrial equipment if you know what to look for. You drop in on the old central bases, strip out the electronics and any specialty equipment they left behind, call it a night.

So this idiot Greenice gets his arm caught in... I don't even remember what it was anymore, some piece of machinery. And getting mangled was - alright, that was part of him being an idiot, no one else lost any grasping appendages on that job. But it was just a nasty crushing injury with several compound fractures below the brachial hinge-nub. Straightforward, as far as amputations go, no real chance of regaining use of the limb and nothing preventing a clean amputation. I cut away the destroyed part of the limb, sew him up, tell him to keep it clean until we can get to a physindustrialist and get him fitted for a prosthetic.

Next station we stop at, I go to make connections with said physindustrialist. Guy I've worked with before, knows his stuff, if I ever need a new arm I'd want to go to him.

Meanwhile, Greenice apparently gets waylaid by some shady as fuck rogue scienterrorist type, who offers him a chance to test some kind of full-biotech custom prosthetic, and the idiot agrees, gives her all his money, and lets her implant some kind of... I think it was fungal? Maybe? Spore in his stump. And the thing grows goddamn fast. By which I mean grows into an impressive-looking and actually fairly functional new hand within about twelve hours, but also spreads up his actual arm.

I amputated that damn thing twice more within three days. Probably should have just culled him as soon as he admitted what he'd let her do to him, but professional pride, I guess. The last time I took out the entire shoulder joint and two thoracic struts. The next evening he had most of an arm back and a fungal mass in his torso that was crowding out his pulmonary apparatus and starting to erupt through the skin at the base of his throat and under his ribcage. Still conscious and lucid, and apparently in surprisingly little pain, but like hell was I waiting to see what the next stage was going to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Does anybody here have a normal-ish name?

[dubiouslychthonic]

There's several people with... first names, at least, that wouldn't be out of place as juvenile names? Anything that's spelled with six letters. But most of those folks are old enough that if they were trolls they wouldn't be caught dead using that name in public.