Blood Runs Red
Pairings: Emerie Karr x gn!Reader
Content: angst, some references to Emerie being trapped in her occupation under Hemlock + having to kill clones in the past, slight yandere, no real happy ending here; drabble
Emerie knows exactly what happens when a clone negates the code of conduct it is meant to operate within. She's seen it happen before, she's been the hand to deliver the final blow to a vod on more than one occasion.
And yet she allows herself the joy of the fall.
She wakes up every morning to go about her work - studying, experimenting, working working working until her heart gives out and her compassion runs dry. She works to break Crosshair until he begs, to twist Omega's tiny little heart into something more malleable, and all the while she falls, she runs, always into you. She falls more in love with you every day, falls that much further from the grace of Hemlock's mercy, falls further and further from the purpose she was born into.
But how could she not? You protect the child so fiercely, as if Omega were of your own flesh and blood, cradling the girl to your breast to protect her, placing your body before hers in a futile attempt to protect her, delay whatever horrible inevitability you fear awaits her beyond the walls of your holding cell. Emerie has seen you spit and swear and take beating after beating in Omega's name. Even Crosshair, who has betrayed you and the rest of his batch more times than can be counted, has become a recipient of your dedication. How could she not love you?
There is no room for such things in the realm of Hemlock's science. The chambers of his heart are empty save for his love of knowledge. It's an incessant lust that boils beneath his scalp, a desire to know, to study, to understand, no matter the cost. It is the only kindness she has ever known, and it is colder than the vast emptiness of space.
Not like you. You are everything alive and warm, vibrant, passionate. You are bold and strong, resilient, kind. Human.
She wishes she could be like you. She wishes she could have you, have this one thing for herself in the darkness of the Empire's looming shadow. How she would treasure you, hide you away where the cold could never reach you and the pain would never lick at your bones. Hemlock would never need to know.
But clones cannot afford secrets, not when their price is too high to pay. And so she watches, for it's all she can do. She falls in love, falls from grace, falls and falls until all that's left to do is let her broken body shatter on the duracrete of Hemlock's laboratory floor. She prays you'll be there to pick up the pieces.
prompt: omega ✅️
@clonexreaderbingo
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You might not have to hear this but some one piece ships literally don't make sense that it gives me the ick 🥲 (some ships i just respect and leave alone, i'll color them in blue.) (And the ones that give me severe trust issues is purple)
AceSan - ...okay... The smirk...? What else...? Trauma bonding?? What...? I mean, its cute, i can leave the ship alone and its fans. I think this ship stemmed from the way Ace was drawn looking at Sanji *my boy was greasy* Y'all are horny though.- (sorry. But they'll get along so well with supporting and stuff- TRAUMA. MY GUY. I KNOW IT WHEN I SEE IT 😭
HanLu - thats a grown ass woman.
LawLu - and thats a grown ass man. (But Luffy's 19- AGE GAP???)
ZoSan - i'm sorry HUH. The two men that insult each other 24/7 were being shipped??? HUH. (But they respect each other- I KNOW THAT??? BUT GODDAMN THE FICS DON'T GET THEIR CHARACTER RIGHT 😭 ZoSan is a well-liked ship, but don't consider them canon and that they'll kiss after Zoro defeats Mihawk)
ZoBin - THAT IS HIS MOTHER FIGURE.
SaboSan - ...They never met 😶... and what if they do? Trauma bonding again?... Y'all I'm sorry but huh- how. Legitimately I'M SPEAKING RATIONALLY, HOW THE FUCK WOULD TWO PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE??? THAT WAY???
UGH ITS JUST A 2D CHARACTER!!
Well DAMN YOU WEREN'T TREATING THEM LIKE THAT WHEN I WAS DISSING THEM??
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