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the lustrous
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| Pronouns | she/her (她) |
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| Lifeform | human |
| Allotype | Felis |
| Height (cm) | 176 |
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A pleasant, easygoing yet refined individual. An outstanding one that shone amongst the common filth.
…It’s such a shame that HIS brilliance was extinguished so easily.
During her younger years, careless words or actions were only met with gentle discouragement; after all, confusion is of common occurrence among uninformed children. Her misdirected curiosity only grew as she aged, eventually leading to a single naive question which would sentence her to a lifetime of denial.
The cold eyes of the audience reflected something unreadable, an emotion which overlapped over fear and revulsion. Her flawed figure was brought into the arms of correction facilities, and thus her treatment began.
Drowned to the point where she forgot what air tasted like, her mutilated form was returned to shore in the shape of a perfect boy. She upheld those masculine expectations without fail, not daring to take a breath, parading across the stage in the ill-fitting costume of a nonexistent man.
Even within the confines of her room, the audience gazed through the fissures. Not daring to move, her skin began to gather a fine layer of undisturbed dust. Clutching herself, she willed the eyes to pass.
Since then, decades have passed. Time waits for nobody — her prized androgyny had long since faded. Her reflection is that of a decayed husk, the skin of a stranger which envelops her. There is no such thing as “pretending” now. She cannot deceive the audience, much less herself.
HE wills himself to forget.
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