Transhuman writing practice, Gwen exploration
This is just a practice piece for transhumanist descriptions. What better than someone who is wearing a meat suit and can shrug it off like how one shrugs off a coat?
Also this is going to be written like everything else I write, off the top of my head and no actual outline just a vague idea.
Do be sure to R&R if you like.
The first time Gwen felt free, truely free like how she'd always imagined Ben felt whenever he stepped into the shoes of another species, was when she shed her skin and showed her true inner self in all it's radiant and terrible glory.
Magenta light scattered off her skin as the fragile nature of her biology was swept aside by the surge of her emotions as she saw the Highbreed stroll with even steps to finish off Kevin. Her needs to help, to preserve the precious life she'd grown attached to rent her cells and physical matter apart as the light shone like a star around her. In what seemed like both a instant and an eternity she was replaced with her true self, Life itself made manifest and given a persona of it's very own. For a brief moment she stared at all the things her human eyes could never show her, the thrum of life that beat to some cosmic song that was both familiar and hauntingly new. She could feel everything, the Mana field encompassing all of reality was open to her every whim and fancy. She could peer into the very nexus of Mana across the Multiverse, a place that felt more of home than any place she'd ever been.
She closed her eyes to revel in the sheer impossibility of her own senses as she understood the truth of the saying that Life always finds a way. She could taste the very essence of reality, the fear emenating from the Highbreed that dared to harm what was hers was quickly growing to be her favorite flavor of all. Her eyes snapped open as she glared imperiously at the gnat that had the audacity to snuff out Life, with a quick force of will she sent him flying as she turned to face the soon to be invading fleet of ships.
She knew if she drew on more of her power she could /unmake/ the fleet as simply as she unmade herself, with just the slightest thought she could command the very essence of Magic itself to jettison them to anyplace she chose... but something was holding her back. A little insistent whisper, a word of warning to not pull too much at the deepthless ocean of power at her command least she lose herself in it. With a start she realized the words weren't coming from within but from Kevin, his voice pleading for her to stop. That he didn't want to win, not like this. She looked down and frowned at how distant the sensation of his arms around her was, being only able to hold a small portion of herself spread through multiple realities all at once. That most of all swayed her to knit her body and clothes together, yeerning to feel his warmth and strong arms around her again, her cosmic awareness dimming to normal human levels leaving her to stumble back from the sense of immense loss.
She shivered slightly not because of her near loss of self but because a part of her yearned to be one with the universe even now.
Against her better judgement she found herself practicing it in the safety of her room warded from detection or disturbance from her parents, and discovered how Mana weaved into reality to bring forth the effects of her spells, each a diffrent etching and piece of art in it's own right. Each dip into the cosmos had her able to keep her sense of self more and more by the day, until she could step in and out of her body at a moments notice, herself just the same in either form having long grown used to the shock of her expanded senses.
The first time she entered the Ledgerdomain, Realm of Magic and source of all Mana, she found herself in the one place she could truely call home. She knew in the back of her mind that the power she felt here in her human form wouldn't be anything compared to how she'd feel if she slipped off her proteins and the spaces between atoms. She could feel the itch under her skin as the phantom feeling of being made of power grew harder to ignore, the only thing stopping her was the fear of being overwhelmed by the nature of her surroundings. Her mind flew back to her first glipse of it that fateful day she first shed her skin.
Even so far away it was the brightest thing she's ever seen, the most majestic and awe inspiring force she'd ever witnessed, endless potential and possibility like a big bang held in the palm of your hand. She knew instinctively that if she were to glow and set herself free, there was a very real possibility of her being swept away by the sheer potential of the Mana around her, it drowning out her cries and humanity leaving her nothing more than Life run amuck. Unchained and uncaring about right and wrong, a living cancer strong enough to consume all in it's way.
The first time she saw the Alpha Rune she could feel it's call in her very soul, the true origin of Life across every universe and linchpin of reality. She knew that if she grabbed it and possessed it her depth of power would be truly boundless, it sharing with her it's True Name and giving it's user admin access to the very foundations of Mana and Magic. It's insidious call was almost too much to bear, the only thing stopping her from grabbing it outright was her need to survive Adwaita's onslaught finding her magic irreverent to the tyrants overwhelming mastery of it and the unique biology his spacies possessed to be selectively magic immune.
Even upon escaping it's reach she found herself thinking of it from time to time, how it might feel to know things no one should, to be truly able to hold all of life in your grasp. She shivers to herself as she wonders if this is how Ben feels whenever he goes Alien X or if she'd be driven mad by it like Kevin has been from taking in too much energy. She shivers even more at the fact she can't quite stop herself from dreaming about it, stop herself from the phantom feeling of being not only in tune with life but able to shape it as she pleases, having full grasp over the 5th fundamental force that played the rest to it's tune and shaped all there was. She even sometimes finds herself casting out her senses just to stare at it, her subconscious opening up infinitesimal dimensional vortices to it's location before she comes to her senses and wills herself to not draw in the Mana within herself that seeped out like a siren's call.
It's safe to say this got away from me... at least I tried. It's also great practice for that hypothetical Top Tier Team Ben one shot I've been meaning to write for a while now where all of Team Ben stumbles upon what I figure their max output could hypothetically be given the correct circumstances and the logical conclusions to their powers turning up to 11. Which if you're curious is Gwen fusing with the Alpha Rune and Charms of Bezel to allow her free reign of movement without destabilising Ledgerdomain (allowing her to basically BE the anthropomorphic realization of the True Name of Magic/Mana), Ben fusing with the Omnitrix with Ultimate Function and it's AI, and Kevin being able to freely shift into and control any matter/energy (which given the esoteric forms of energy in setting would basically allow him to be any when/where via time fuckery).
I'm not really sure how to end this so I'll just post it as it is.
It isn't strictly speaking complete but what do you think of what's there?
