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Metamorphosis

She catches a glance at herself in the mirror and for a moment, she doesn’t recognise who stares back at her. She knows it’s herself, there an unmistaken sense of familiarity in the reflection, a likeliness that never really changes even if there are other, more prominent changes.

This person isn’t who Dana expected to see. In many ways, she still expected to see the starry-eyed, green field agent with her poofy hair and oversized clothing but who stares back at her is very much the opposite of that.

Like a caterpillar, she metamorphosed, went through a transformation, but she turned into no butterfly. She turned into something much darker, her clothes darker, her hair darker. Once bright and colourful brought too many onlookers, too many people noticing her. Now shadows are her camouflage, the darkness hides her trauma. If she can’t be seen, they can’t choose her. She can be safe.

5 Who first had romantic feelings? -- usually I would say Mulder, but I think as soon as Scully walks into that office she feels something. If you look at the first couple of episodes, the way she smiles at him... It's like she can't contain herself. But rather than it be deep romantic feelings, it's more of an unstated attraction and possibility. When they get to know each other and become friends, Scully shelves that possibility and perhaps a bit of that attraction. But actual romantic feelings, Mulder has those first and then Scully realises that their friendship and that attraction she felt has changed into romantic feelings when she sees them in Mulder

I'm sorry that was an essay nobody needed 😅

17 favourite Scully style era -- *Chants season 3 season 3

But I do really love her quirky s1 fashion, nothing can compare to the gayness of whatever the 90s were and I'm here for it

19 if I'd never seen xf would my life be different? -- yeah I'd probably be able to focus on studies more. Fun fact, I started watching a month into my a levels, so I was doomed from then on. I probably spend too much time doing fanart/fic and not enough time studying, yeah

I feel like I should know this story. But there are a lot of Christmas (and other holiday) X-Files fics where Mulder and Scully sneak off and talk, so I’m having trouble placing this one. Sorry!

thank you! :)

Robins Egg Blue: If you were an animal, which one do you think would you be?

A squirrel

Periwinkle: What’s something ordinary that has personal meaning to you?

Ice cream

1. the last time i counted my earring collection, i had a total of 1,314 pairs! ive definitely lost a lot of them since then but thats still ridiculous

2. whatsapp seems to be the only messaging service that really works on my phone. regular texts barely work. line never works. oh man does anyone else remember viber

Random facts:

1. I saw the original Star Wars trilogy in this order: Return of the Jedi, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back.

2. I won a local spelling bee when I was 8 years old with the word “I”. The other speller thought the judge had said “high”.

okay I could not think of ANYTHING so I asked my friend and this was what she came up with lmao

1. a teacher that I’ve never even had told me I had “apple cheeks” once in eighth grade and I’ve had to live with that nickname since

2. I thrifted a windbreaker that had the name christy on it and subsequently created an alter ego called “christy guttermind” (because my mind is in the gutter) that I break out once or twice a month (whenever I wear the windbreaker)