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[#035] Raise Your Arms and Someone's Always There (InCryptid)
Theme Prompt: #034 – Mirror, Mirror
Title: Raise Your Arms and Someone’s Always There
Fandom: InCryptid
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 300
Summary: Verity contemplates the pros and cons of her new secret identity.
It’s a disorienting thing to look in the mirror and not see yourself in it.
I know all the logical reasons why I need to perform this way. Protecting your family is never a simple thing, and for better or for worse, the more I can protect my identity, the better things are for them. But every time I put on that red wig and have to adjust to hearing myself called “Valerie” and not “Verity,” I know that there’s another part of myself I’m giving away. And I know that if I win this thing, I’ll be giving all of me away for good.
Can’t win Dance or Die if I don’t participate. Can’t participate in Dance or Die if I don’t become someone else to protect my family. Feel less and less like myself every day, losing track of the person I want to be.
(The real issue is, this is what happens when your family has pissed off a covert paramilitary organization determined to stomp out everything you love. You give yourself a stage name and a bad dye job or a less than ideal wig to keep from being stamped out yourself.)
Still, I’m determined to make this work. Even though every time I check a line on the mirror or watch myself go through the motions of a routine, it always takes me a second to find myself. One day maybe, I’ll be used to the red hair and the different name, but until then, I need to focus and make sure my A-Game is on at all times.
After all, what’s the point of going through all of this if I don’t win? And whether it’s as Verity Price or Valerie Pryor, the fact of the matter is this: I always come to win.
Title: Raise Your Arms and Someone’s Always There
Fandom: InCryptid
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 300
Summary: Verity contemplates the pros and cons of her new secret identity.
It’s a disorienting thing to look in the mirror and not see yourself in it.
I know all the logical reasons why I need to perform this way. Protecting your family is never a simple thing, and for better or for worse, the more I can protect my identity, the better things are for them. But every time I put on that red wig and have to adjust to hearing myself called “Valerie” and not “Verity,” I know that there’s another part of myself I’m giving away. And I know that if I win this thing, I’ll be giving all of me away for good.
Can’t win Dance or Die if I don’t participate. Can’t participate in Dance or Die if I don’t become someone else to protect my family. Feel less and less like myself every day, losing track of the person I want to be.
(The real issue is, this is what happens when your family has pissed off a covert paramilitary organization determined to stomp out everything you love. You give yourself a stage name and a bad dye job or a less than ideal wig to keep from being stamped out yourself.)
Still, I’m determined to make this work. Even though every time I check a line on the mirror or watch myself go through the motions of a routine, it always takes me a second to find myself. One day maybe, I’ll be used to the red hair and the different name, but until then, I need to focus and make sure my A-Game is on at all times.
After all, what’s the point of going through all of this if I don’t win? And whether it’s as Verity Price or Valerie Pryor, the fact of the matter is this: I always come to win.
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This is so good. It's pitch-perfect Verity, and it feels like it could be canon!
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But thank you!! It's been a while since I've read a Verity book so I'm glad you think it sounds like her.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. =D