"... Frayed are not born in a way we would define birth...at their core they are a monster. Though some circumstances leading to a Frayed's creation may be sympathetic or tragic they will gradually disrupt the ecological balance in the area and push many creatures- not just sentient beings- out....

The Fabric of the Universe is fickle and all of the worlds creatures are subjected to the whims of an ever shifting cloth."

Sprout Fight - Cloudgazing

Two sisters enjoying the clouds :3

© richard b potter 2023

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.... the missing thoughts...........

....(january beckons)...... ..... .

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[Frayed. Burnt at both ends, I'm dry and drained. A world of weight flows through my veins. Like words so hard to conjugate.]

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«Frazzle—colloquial term meaning to wear or ravel away; fray. Also a frayed end. One who looks frazzled is shabby or untidy.”

Many words that started as technical terms for describing yarns, threads, or fabrics, end up working their way into our vocabulary as metaphors of various kinds. I have heard or read of people saying they were frazzled, and they did not mean they were untidy, but that they felt like they were coming apart emotionally. So the meaning has changed since Mary Brooks Picken wrote this definition in The Language of Fashion in 1939.

So the word started with fabric, was applied to general appearance and has worked its way into describing one’s emotional state. The one element that survived is the reference to something or someone who is not doing all that well. If you have ever made a garment, loved wearing it, only to have the fabric itself finally give out on you, you know the feeling.

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Frayed: A Dawnhaven Tale

Prologue

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I was also just wondering if you had a comprehensive list of all the scars the 2012 boys have in the tattered remains/frayed universe? I've been potentially drawing fanart of some of the scenes once I get my drawing tablet!

You... want to draw fanart of my fic

Ignore the whale noises in the background, that's just me casually sobbing that someone wants to do that 🤝

BUTTT since you asked, I probably should list all the scars because. There are a lot. I always wished they had more visible aftermaths for injuries, esp Leo, but since this is my fic - I can do what it want (within reason lol)

Spoilers below for the fic and canon series and trigger warning for injuries/scars.

2012

Leo has the most noticable scaring out of all his brothers! There is deep gouge marks on his right knee, sort of all over the place and just messy in general and the knee is slightly misshapened (due to it being crushed and then stabbed multiple times). His plastron also has three gouge marks across it from Shredder's gauntlets and there is a tiny scar on his throat from his throat being crushed/cut. Not noticeable unless he lifts his head up to show it. He also has scarring on his right shoulder that looks like shark teeth from being bit there.

Raph's left eye is a few shades lighter than his right because he's blind there! He also has a small spiral scar on the right side of his temple just under his mask from the brain worm cutting into his skin. Another brain worm scar is on his wrists and ankles! He rubbed off a lot of skin while struggling in the restraints and it left a mark. He also has a lot of scars on his knuckles from busting them open during fights and when I imagine him/write him, where that chip in his shell is there is also a wide scar across his shoulder that attaches it to the chip in his carapace, like a follow through. As for post his attack from Shredder, part of his carapace and plastron are missing and the chips also spread out like cracks. There's two holes in total!

Donnie had more so burns than lashes! His hands and forearms are pretty discoloured from chemical and heat burns. Also electrical burns on his head from the fourfold trap episode! But his mask largely covers that. This is only noticeable if you stand close to him so doubtful it would be seen in any art, but he has thin scarring all across his body from April ripping him apart! Sort of spiderwebs around him. It will come up at some point, but right now it just isn't notable in the fic. And then he recently cut his thigh open on the glass at the end of frayed so he would still have stitches from that.

Mikey, before the events of the book, has a spiderweb crack on the back of his shell from the letter falling on him from season one. And then he has a canine bite on his left arm from Rahzar. I just assumed his brothers were so focused on protecting him that he rarely got scarred since in my watch throughs, he got majorly hurt the least? Less visible scarring from shackles compared to Raph, but he still has some too. After... that chapter though??? Oh boy. With the bandages off, Mikey is now missing his right eye completely and the wound is scarred over. His shell is slightly cracked and the back of his thighs have minor scars as well. Bruising all over. Not having a good time rn.

Rise

Just because I'm already doing 2012, here are Rise as well! They have less scars to show they have had less battles and because like 2012 Donnie pointed out - they heal a lot faster so most of the listed marks are quite faint unless they are major/recurrent or you are really looking closely

Leo has small knicks on his shoulders from his odaci and katannas! He was clumsy with pulling them out and they left marks until he got more skilled. He also has scarring on his right wrist from the cuffs in season two. He was pulling and yanking on that thing like crazy. Scarring on his right knee now from Shredder slamming his gauntlet into his knee at the end of frayed and minor slashes from breaking through that window and cutting up his skin.

Raph has three slash marks at the top of his shell from defending Donnie from Shredder and it's slightly indented by Shredder stepping on it. His fists are also heavily scarred and his knuckles are constantly swollen and misshapened.

Donnie has slash marks on his soft shell from Shredder ripping into his battle shell and reaching his soft shell. He also has some burn and chemical scars from his lab and down the center of his plastron is a thin line from when SHELLDON tried to kill him and minor shackle marks on his wrists and ankles.

Mikey has a ton of tiny scars, mainly from skidding across the ground and cutting himself on glass/sharpnel. His shell is significantly scratched up from sliding against the ground as well/being thrown around.

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Anyways, hoped that all helps!! I am a huge fanatic of scars and normalizing them - I recently joined the Leo's with my own knee scars after needing two surgeries to fix it lol. If you do make fanart, PLEASE tag me so I can repost it and cry even louder LAHAKSHJSH ily and drink some water!!

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During my rewatch, noticed how in the episode where Scott is feeling such guilt over Derek's apparent death that his body is refusing to heal, one of the words Stiles is quizzing Scott on is anachronism and how it seems relevant due to this episode being inter spliced with flashbacks.

And of course, I cannot NOT mention the BRILLIANT scene with Allison hallucinating Victoria. Her mother telling her to approach the problem unemotional and clinically, echoing Gerard who told her to attack the situation from a place of strategy vs emotion. How Allison is fully aware her mother wasn't a flawless person but still loves her and as you stated once, chooses to take strength from certain aspects of her. I have no doubts Victoria genuinely loved Allison and her always pushing her to be "strong" knowing the world(s) they occupy and what's expected of women in their family. And here she is, struggling to save the life of the same boy her mother tried to kill to keep her safe and ended up taking her own life because she was bitten. The love was definitely genuine, I could see it as Victoria tried to talk to Allison one-on-one but was told she was busy but rather than be upset she was disappointed and chose to die in her bed to be close to her.

One of the things I love so very much about Teen Wolf is how it was willing to push the boundaries in its storytelling conventions. One example of this that I've talked about before is the idea that it grounded its perspective in the experience of teenagers, none of whom were occult scholars, so some of the supernatural things they witnessed simply went unexplained. The adults who understood these didn't teach them the intricacies of the supernatural world either because it allowed them to manipulate the teenagers, as in Peter's case, or because they thought that the teenagers should be allowed to be teenagers, as in Deaton's case.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, sometimes it didn't work. They weren't successful when they focused an entire season on a character's absence (6A) or when the story's surprise reveals frustrated the audience rather than disoriented them, such as the Dead Pool's computer towers. On the other hand, I'd much rather watch a show which tried new things and fell on its face than one that stayed conventionally predictable.

But Frayed (3x05)'s experimentation with non-linear storytelling did not fall on its face, mostly because it used the fractured narrative to highlight essential aspects of individual characters that could get lost in the plot. It also helped that it dropped the audience enough hints to suggest that they not spent too much effort on the narrative mechanic and more time on what the mechanic brought to the story.

There were two hints. The first was that particular word that started Scott's vocabulary quiz --

Stiles: "Anachronism."

Scott: Something that exists out of its normal time.

The second was Lydia's textbook: Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time. This is one of the basic building blocks of the universe: certain functions only go in one direction.

In my opinion, these point to the show -- there are certain characteristics (both positive and negative) that Scott and Allison show that are not dependent on events to motivate them. They exist within each character, and not only as a response to the horrors around them. By breaking up the narrative, we can isolate those particular traits.

Scott: It is this episode that I find definitive proof that Scott is motivated primarily, and forcefully, by compassion. The events of previous seasons came at Scott, he had to react to them. But in this case, the event has already came and went: Derek is dead. We see that Scott has compassion for Derek, perhaps too much as it becomes guilt, and that he is unwilling to use it as an excuse not to take action. By seeing his reaction to Derek's death before we learned the particulars of it, we can see he doesn't feel this way because he's being forced to by expedience. The deed is done; Derek is dead. There's no necessity for Scott to have to feel bad for Derek or to take responsibility for the aftermath. It is part of his nature.

Allison: For her part, I find this episode a refreshing statement that Allison may have been shaped by her parents but she's not their puppet and that Gerard's manipulation of her was an anomaly and not a real flaw. Without the burden of the linear narrative, we see Allison accept the teaching of her mother, which helps her save Scott from his overabundance of compassion, but she we also see her reject the teaching of her father (which, ironically, he is also rejecting). Allison, outside of the flow of events, is and will remain her own person. She's not being pressured to help because of external expectations but by her own internal concept of duty.

By randomizing the audiences experience of this particular part of the narrative, Frayed separates Scott from the pressure that certain events create in characters, allowing us to see that they are the way they are not only because of where they find themselves, but the way they act on the inside.

As you can no doubt guess, I'm very pleased with how it worked in this episode.