#random-nerd-posts

Shaking his head, he shuddered a sigh and trudged on. He didn’t like this feeling of helplessness. A year had passed, and he was still afraid of losing control and hearing that voice telling him that he never had control. I need to get home! I need to stop thinking and I need to get home RIGHT NOW! Connor thought as he started to jog but couldn’t keep the pace due to the shivering. He had to shut that down, but he didn’t know how. The snow was falling harder. He held his quickening breath and stopped all together. He looked at the sky and it was dark grey. This wasn’t good. He really needed to get out of there, but he had to get the Ha- his house first. He ignored his shivering and darted. He ran and breathed a steady beat. He stopped only because he hit a spot of ice and slipped upon his back. He looked at the sky and could feel his face getting warmer. He was crying. He hated winter. He hated Amanda. He hated Kamski. He hated snow. He loved Sumo and Hank. He didn’t want to move, but he had to move faster to get out of the snow. He was afraid that if he didn’t, he was going to be buried alive by the blanket of white snow. He still didn’t move because he was interested in the cloud that was expelling from his breath every time he breathed out. It was a light blue, like a mixture of water and thirium. He didn’t know what this meant, but if he focused on this, the snow wasn’t too bad. He still hated it, and it was unbearable, but it wasn’t that unbearable. So, Connor sat up, focusing on his breath once more, he looked up into the sky. The stars we covered up by the clouds, and Connor couldn’t see the moon, making it seem like the night and snow was consuming him. He could feel his stress rising, so he looked at what humans would call his breath, and he calmed down a little bit and he got up and continued onward to home. He almost collapsed when he saw Hank’s house, but he had to run to get away from the snow. When he entered the house, Hank looked at the android like he was a crazy man, but Connor didn’t acknowledge the lieutenant as he went and hugged the Saint Bernard and sobbed into the dog’s neck. Hank sat down by the android, realizing that he totally forgot that the deviant was petrified of snow and snowstorms. Something to deal with his programming and self-testing program installed into his system. Hank just didn’t push it, but also didn’t ask why Connor was slightly breathing blue air while he ran into the house either.

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Q: What inspired this work: What inspired me for this work was the fact that I was looking for one-shots ideas online (like a boon) and I saw a list of December stuff. Looking into it, it just screamed Connor due to the whole Amanda sequence after CyberLife tries to control our Conno-boi again. 

Q. How long did it take for you to create this piece: Because, when I first made it, there were a ton of mistakes in it, grammar wise (I am a freak about making sure my spelling is correct), I wrote it in one day due to the fact that I wanted to relax after a day in class. 

Q. Why did you choose to feature Connor as your main character: I chose Connor because the title said Blue Air, White Snow. Looking back at the scene at the end, where CyberLife is trying to gain control of his memories, it's hectic where there's the blizzard, it's cold, and he has to stop himself from shooting his friend. So, thinking, "okay, Connor would correlate any type of snow falling with Amanda and that moment. That's why I think it's important to show that impact it had on Connor with the whole freaking out part with any type of snow. 

Q. Do you have a favorite trope to write about: Honestly, my favorite type of trope is showing what canon events did to impact a character and describing it. That's why, when you read a lot of my one-shots in my 100 Prompts on my tumblr page, you see a ton of description and not a lot of dialogue because I feel looking at another's actions in depth, like what type of expression and how they respond to an event would be more valuable than instead making them say it. It really shows who that person is, especially if something happened that would cause them to freak out over a simple blackout in a supermarket (different one-shot, sorry), or on another end, have fun with a snowball fight with the other Jericho leaders because it isn't that bad of a world like when Amanda is around.