Acclimatise
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esp_dragonFandom: Noblesse
Summary: Tao came back to consciousness in fits and starts, his body not making sense. Too many limbs. Too little. Limbs in the wrong place.
Notes: So here's a long snippet of a scene I was thinking of while musing Milky's birthday fic. Pure self-indulgence that goes nowhere since I love exploring new senses/changes to a person's body.
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word count: 1,078
Status: Complete
Tao came back to consciousness in fits and starts, his body not making sense. Too many limbs. Too little. Limbs in the wrong place.
He couldn't see either. A strip of cloth was pressed over his eyes, but there was no lingering pain or itchiness that said he was recovering from something.
But he could see; since when could he control his hair like his cables and why was he getting information from them like there were cameras strapped to the ends and he was getting a direct feed from them to his brain?
...Oh.
His hair was snakes now, the majority of them black apart from two white ones. That…was different.
Okay. So. Time to take stock of all the changes, since that wasn't the only one. Lost his hair and gained a whole bunch of snakes on the top of his head that he could control. Tao flexed the lower half of his body, his hair-snakes already telling him what he was feeling: lost his legs and gained one massive black tail that slid off the end of the bed, aaand wings. Black bat wings that came out of his shoulder blades that arched to his head and stopped about at his thighs (no wonder he'd woken up on his side). He'd also gained scales down his side, his arms black and his hands claw-tipped.
There was movement in the recovery room and Tao lifted his hair to look. It was Boss in his labcoat and Tao's breath caught when he slid his tongue out without thinking. He could taste Boss from that, taste the lingering scent of ramen he'd just been making, the scent that was just Boss, and Tao could see his tongue was darker now, longer and forked as well. The room flashed behind his eyelids for a second before they settled and he struggled to make sense of the double vision, seeing red, Frankenstein's body lit up the brightest though there were a couple other things in the room that were glowing as well. The lights and himself. Heat...? He was seeing heat now?
"Don't take the blindfold off just yet," Boss said, setting something small and white down on the bedside table, giving him a smile. "How are you feeling?"
"Snake-y," Tao said, throwing him a grin. And he didn't hiss! "Well, not really." He didn't feel like trying to eat anything whole, and poking at the inside of his mouth said he hadn't developed fangs at least. Which was good, because he'd rather not slice his lips every time he spoke. He still felt like himself, just having a lot more input than he was used to.
"So, Medusa?" Tao guessed, raising a hand to investigate his hair. With this amount of snakes and covering his eyes, it had to be that. The snakes curled around his fingers like they had their own mind, but he could also nudge them away when he thought about it. "But what's with the wings?" That didn't seem right.
"Older versions of the myths described the gorgons as such," Boss said, nodding. He tapped the case. "These are contacts that you can wear that stops your ability to turn others to stone."
Tao grimaced for a second, then reached for them. Good. It would suck if he had to wear a blindfold all the time, and that would be hard to explain to the children. Not to mention all the other changes.
He missed, his hair-snakes giving him way too much information at different angles to understand the proper depth, but the second time he was able to pick them up.
"I'll be right outside the door," Tao heard as Frankenstein walked out.
"Got it, Boss," Tao said, opening the case. Best to not stay in the room when he opened his eyes. The contacts were black and hm, maybe he could bug Boss to make him contacts that were different colours.
And if the contacts were coloured, what colour were his eyes now?
Tao untied the blindfold with his hair-snakes, just to see if he could and how much control he had over them. The knot wasn't tight, but it still took a couple of tugs while he figured out how much strength he could use. His hair-snakes handed him the blindfold once it slipped off his face, and Tao opened his eyes.
Well, his eyesight was about the same, though he could still see heat overlaying what he was looking at. It'd be interesting what he'd see when he was working on his computers.
He directed his hair-snakes' attention to his face and huh. His eyes were blue, like they used to be. But they hadn't used to be slitted, and now that he was looking at his face, he could see the black scales creeping in from the outside of his face and fading back to his skin tone as they reached the middle.
It didn't take long to get the contacts in, his hair-snakes helping, and Tao blinked once he'd finished, getting used to the feeling and the dark shadows at the top and bottom of his vision.
He wrapped the blindfold around his wrist in case he needed it later and then stared down at his tail. Now to figure out how to move. Not 'walk' since he couldn't do that with a tail.
Tao scooched over to the edge of the bed, his wings extended to not drag against it. The tip of his tail flicked as he tried to figure out what translated as 'ankle'. All of it did. Hm.
He braced himself on the edge of the bed as he figured out what was 'normal' to stand up to, and it turned out to be about his own height.
Now to move. Leaning left and right did seem to drag his lower body in that direction, but not enough to actually go anywhere. So... He drew in and then pushed against his own scales, landing a bit further ahead of him. It wasn't an 'elegant' (as someone in the house would say) way to move, but it got him where he wanted to go, and that was all that mattered until he either figured out a better way, or they found out what happened and fixed it.
Which they would, because Boss was on the case so he didn't have to worry that much.
Grinning at figuring out how to move, Tao started heading for the door.
Summary: Tao came back to consciousness in fits and starts, his body not making sense. Too many limbs. Too little. Limbs in the wrong place.
Notes: So here's a long snippet of a scene I was thinking of while musing Milky's birthday fic. Pure self-indulgence that goes nowhere since I love exploring new senses/changes to a person's body.
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word count: 1,078
Status: Complete
Tao came back to consciousness in fits and starts, his body not making sense. Too many limbs. Too little. Limbs in the wrong place.
He couldn't see either. A strip of cloth was pressed over his eyes, but there was no lingering pain or itchiness that said he was recovering from something.
But he could see; since when could he control his hair like his cables and why was he getting information from them like there were cameras strapped to the ends and he was getting a direct feed from them to his brain?
...Oh.
His hair was snakes now, the majority of them black apart from two white ones. That…was different.
Okay. So. Time to take stock of all the changes, since that wasn't the only one. Lost his hair and gained a whole bunch of snakes on the top of his head that he could control. Tao flexed the lower half of his body, his hair-snakes already telling him what he was feeling: lost his legs and gained one massive black tail that slid off the end of the bed, aaand wings. Black bat wings that came out of his shoulder blades that arched to his head and stopped about at his thighs (no wonder he'd woken up on his side). He'd also gained scales down his side, his arms black and his hands claw-tipped.
There was movement in the recovery room and Tao lifted his hair to look. It was Boss in his labcoat and Tao's breath caught when he slid his tongue out without thinking. He could taste Boss from that, taste the lingering scent of ramen he'd just been making, the scent that was just Boss, and Tao could see his tongue was darker now, longer and forked as well. The room flashed behind his eyelids for a second before they settled and he struggled to make sense of the double vision, seeing red, Frankenstein's body lit up the brightest though there were a couple other things in the room that were glowing as well. The lights and himself. Heat...? He was seeing heat now?
"Don't take the blindfold off just yet," Boss said, setting something small and white down on the bedside table, giving him a smile. "How are you feeling?"
"Snake-y," Tao said, throwing him a grin. And he didn't hiss! "Well, not really." He didn't feel like trying to eat anything whole, and poking at the inside of his mouth said he hadn't developed fangs at least. Which was good, because he'd rather not slice his lips every time he spoke. He still felt like himself, just having a lot more input than he was used to.
"So, Medusa?" Tao guessed, raising a hand to investigate his hair. With this amount of snakes and covering his eyes, it had to be that. The snakes curled around his fingers like they had their own mind, but he could also nudge them away when he thought about it. "But what's with the wings?" That didn't seem right.
"Older versions of the myths described the gorgons as such," Boss said, nodding. He tapped the case. "These are contacts that you can wear that stops your ability to turn others to stone."
Tao grimaced for a second, then reached for them. Good. It would suck if he had to wear a blindfold all the time, and that would be hard to explain to the children. Not to mention all the other changes.
He missed, his hair-snakes giving him way too much information at different angles to understand the proper depth, but the second time he was able to pick them up.
"I'll be right outside the door," Tao heard as Frankenstein walked out.
"Got it, Boss," Tao said, opening the case. Best to not stay in the room when he opened his eyes. The contacts were black and hm, maybe he could bug Boss to make him contacts that were different colours.
And if the contacts were coloured, what colour were his eyes now?
Tao untied the blindfold with his hair-snakes, just to see if he could and how much control he had over them. The knot wasn't tight, but it still took a couple of tugs while he figured out how much strength he could use. His hair-snakes handed him the blindfold once it slipped off his face, and Tao opened his eyes.
Well, his eyesight was about the same, though he could still see heat overlaying what he was looking at. It'd be interesting what he'd see when he was working on his computers.
He directed his hair-snakes' attention to his face and huh. His eyes were blue, like they used to be. But they hadn't used to be slitted, and now that he was looking at his face, he could see the black scales creeping in from the outside of his face and fading back to his skin tone as they reached the middle.
It didn't take long to get the contacts in, his hair-snakes helping, and Tao blinked once he'd finished, getting used to the feeling and the dark shadows at the top and bottom of his vision.
He wrapped the blindfold around his wrist in case he needed it later and then stared down at his tail. Now to figure out how to move. Not 'walk' since he couldn't do that with a tail.
Tao scooched over to the edge of the bed, his wings extended to not drag against it. The tip of his tail flicked as he tried to figure out what translated as 'ankle'. All of it did. Hm.
He braced himself on the edge of the bed as he figured out what was 'normal' to stand up to, and it turned out to be about his own height.
Now to move. Leaning left and right did seem to drag his lower body in that direction, but not enough to actually go anywhere. So... He drew in and then pushed against his own scales, landing a bit further ahead of him. It wasn't an 'elegant' (as someone in the house would say) way to move, but it got him where he wanted to go, and that was all that mattered until he either figured out a better way, or they found out what happened and fixed it.
Which they would, because Boss was on the case so he didn't have to worry that much.
Grinning at figuring out how to move, Tao started heading for the door.