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FLASH BLIND. My debut release from Markosia. Action packed and with a heart at the centre. #flashblind #graphicnovel #comic #markosia #aaronmoran
April 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Cass free-associated right into the Pillar of Fire :(

Yeah, I'd call that a major trauma. To see a city vanish right before your eyes...and the survivor's guilt that comes with it.

No wonder it can still burn her.
There was a terrible moment when nothing happened, when she thought something might have gone wrong — then, on the horizon, there was a light amidst all the others that flared brightly before it was joined by others, and more and more until the entire thing was a massive fireball of fusion remass lighting up the sky above the Sea of Marmara. It took thirty seconds for the rumbling, thunderous sound of the explosion to reach them, a hot slap of wind Cass could feel on her skin. The heat became a tingle, which became a burning on her arms, and the light faded far quicker than it should have. The night reconquered Cass’s sight in record time, as if she were flashblind, and still the burning grew sharper and sharper until she could no longer hold back the screams. “Stop, stop! Whatever you’re doing, stop it!” Tsuga cried as she held Cass’s thrashing body down. The little terran’s voice was one long, crackling scream, her back arched up off the desk, and though the visor on the apparatus strapped to her head hid her eyes, Tsuga was sure she hadn’t blinked once since she’d entered this state. Above her, the screens were a wild jumble of visual noise. “We’ve hit a major trauma,” Polyphylla said, vines tapping away at a control panel. “She’s getting lost in it instead of processing it. I’m giving her a microdose of Class-B to break her loose, and we’ll walk back from there and reapproach after I stabilize her.” As she said it, Cass slacked in Tsuga’s arms, though she still gasped for breath, whimpering something under her breath in a language she didn’t understand. “Cass, listen to my voice: Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand–“ “And Eternity in an hour,” Cass muttered back as she went absolutely limp. <Good, the conditioning is still holding,> Polyphylla said, nodding and tapping in a few more notes. <You want to keep going?> Tsuga stared at her, vines twisting into knots inside her. <After that?!> <It’s not ideal, of course, but she’s out of that memory now,> Polyphylla said. <And I have a good idea of where to plot it on her psyche map. Once we sketch out more of it, isolate it, we should be able to find a way to approach it in a safer fashion, or skirt it if need be.> <And if not?> Tsusa rumbled, one hand gently cradling Cass’s head. <What then?> Polyphylla reached out and coiled a comforting vine around Tsuga. <It’s already in her head. It has to be dealt with, one way or another, sooner or later. We both know that.> <I don’t want to see her like that again,> Tsuga said. She watched as Cass’s breathing slowed to the same, easy rhythm from before. At least it was over for now. <I’ve seen Leah like that more times than I can count.> Polyphylla said quietly, <She doesn’t scream quite like that, but no two traumas are identical. In any case, I feel the same way you do now every time — but it’s necessary to keep her balanced and healthy. This may hurt to watch, but it’s part of the process of helping Cass, both to pursue her goal of remaining independent and also to treat these very traumas we’re running headlong into.> <I know that,> Tsuga murmured. <I know that.> <She’ll be alright. I promise.> Tsuga looked up, meeting Polyphylla’s eyes, and saw at once the intensity of her look — she meant every word. <…alright,> Tsuga said. This is for Cass, she told herself. She wants to be independent, and this is how she gets there. <Keep going.>
November 2, 2024 at 8:02 PM
aaronmoran.bsky.social
FLASH BLIND. My first graphic novel and a important part of my career. A Nagasaki survivor joins an anti-robot police team to battle machine terrorists in alternative 1970s England. Available here: www.amazon.co.uk/Flash-Blind-... #flashblind #aaronmoran #markosia #nagasaki #robot #graphicnovel
November 21, 2024 at 9:43 PM