#zoom(2006)

Zoom was pretty fun. I still like it for the most part.

I made a monocolor version of the zenith logo! I'm planning on making keychains with my cricut mweheheh

Dr. Marsha Holloway (Becomes Her Own Twister)

There is something to be said for the fact that when you’re a nerd growing up with few acquaintances and even fewer friends, you find yourself falling for fairytales. That is the way of lonely children since the history of man began, isn’t it? You fall for the version of reality where the lonely child living in the tower, the child separated out from the rest of society, gets to be rescued.

And then, when you grow up, you have that naivety shattered. You have that hope thrown against the ground and destroyed because the world can’t hold itself up to the version of life that you made up in your head, a world where lonely kids are sought out, a world in which the girl doesn’t have to confront her fear of the outside world because it comes to her.

Marsha didn’t grow up reading fairytales. She grew up reading comic books.

But, as she’d come to learn, that was much the same thing, at the end of the day. 

She grew up idolizing Team Zenith. Falling for the image of Zoom and Concussion before he lashed out and betrayed everyone and killed his entire team.

(She grew up dreaming of darkness. Of the day that the world ended and all that was left was the shimmer of her breath against the oil-spill darkness of the end of days.)

She’d thought, for so long, that Zoom was the hero that she couldn’t be. 

And for so long, it was that faith that got her through it all. Through the bullying of kids at school, through having to tuck away her powers where no one could see them, through her parents’ divorce and the soul-sucking press of grad school and all the rest of the shit that the world threw at her.

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And then she meets Jack Shepard.

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They say never to meet your heroes. 

-aletterinthenameofsanity, tornado warning

For my dear @atariakana!