#timorous

VALENTINE: You are as inveterate against our poets as if your character had lately been exposed upon the stage.

adj[tim-er-uhs] full of fear; fearful

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Relationships: Clone Trooper Glitch & Jaster Mereel, Jon Antilles & Clone Trooper Glitch Characters: Clone Trooper Glitch (Star Wars), Jaster Mereel, Jon Antilles, For a split second - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Force-Sensitive Glitch (Star Wars), Emperor Jaster Mereel, Blood, The Dark Side of the Force (Star Wars), Gauntlet of Kressh the Younger (Star Wars), Sith Artifacts (Star Wars), Alternate Universe - Horror, Sort Of, Alternate Universe - Dark, Angst and Feels, Whump, Febuwhump 2023

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Glitch feels his mouth open, moving soundlessly as he wheezes out incoherent words, his lungs ache as he breathlessly struggles against the pressure of the darkness clawing at him through the Force. It pushes and pulls, like it doesn’t know what to do with him, and—

Distantly, he hears his blaster clatter to the floor when it slipped from his grip, his hands trembling so hard it's a wonder that his wrist hasn’t snapped in half.

He feels his knees give out, but hands reach out to catch him before he could limply fall in a heap on the floor, firmly holding him up but they don’t tightly grip at him. Almost like the Mandalorian was afraid to do so, but Glitch can’t really tell, with how wrong he felt in the Force.

Something vast lurks in the cavern of his entire being, and Glitch knows, he knows that there would be nothing but darkness if he dares to look.

He lifts a hand, hooking his clammy fingers onto a pauldron, with a Mythosaur painted boldly on it. He sets his feet flat on the ground, and he squeezes his eyes shut, and he keeps it closed as he tilts his head down as he breathes.

The Mandalorian keeps a firm hold on him, keeping him up as he steadies and gathers himself, and it's only when he blinks his eyes open does he realize that the door had shut closed again. Glitch feels the pounding in his chest then, his heart sounding thunderous as it beats. The gauntlet on his arm felt like it was clinging tighter and tighter, it might as well be cutting off the blood circulation in his arm, and Glitch can’t tell if the gauntlet had gone ice cold, or scorching hot.

His eyes slowly look away from the door, drifting towards the Mandalorian, and he freezes. The realization sets in and a vague sense of recognition blooms as he stares with wide eyes, but after a second he tries to jerk away, only to get pulled back.

“What—” he stops short, and his breath hitches, trying to gain control of himself in the hopes that he could use the Force to snatch his blaster from the floor. But—the man who had gently held him up, now tightly clutches his arms, keeping him right in place and preventing him from moving away.

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adjective | tim·o·rous | \ ˈti-mə-rəs , ˈtim-rəs \

of a timid disposition : fearful <”reproached myself with being so timorous and cautious” —Daniel Defoe >

These characters are canonically dead. From time to time, they may actually appear for questions, but they will not know anything about events after their death and would not be aware they are dead. These characters are not available for questions unless stated otherwise.