[He's been hugged exactly once in his life, so it doesn't register that that's what Iggy's trying to do. Still, he moves closer, unconsciously preferring the company of another person to the creepy TV clown.
The pictures get a thoughtful frown, eyes flicking between the smaller version of the stranger beside him and the real one. The shadow is noted quietly, filed away.] So it isn't just me. The pictures start out true, and then they get...strange.
[Another one for Koby, this one showing him the same age he is now, but...definitely not the same person. His hair is long, pink curls and loops all pinned up and back, and he's in a veil. And a white dress. And he looks thoroughly hollow, dead inside.] That...also never happened. [It could've, but it hadn't. He'd gotten out. He was himself, not -- that.
The next photo has the alternate universe version of Koby -- veiled and pale and tight-lipped -- talking to a version of Iggy, which definitely never happened. And then they're stabbing each other and -- well, there's a theme here, clearly.]
cw: idek misgendering via magic photos
The pictures get a thoughtful frown, eyes flicking between the smaller version of the stranger beside him and the real one. The shadow is noted quietly, filed away.] So it isn't just me. The pictures start out true, and then they get...strange.
[Another one for Koby, this one showing him the same age he is now, but...definitely not the same person. His hair is long, pink curls and loops all pinned up and back, and he's in a veil. And a white dress. And he looks thoroughly hollow, dead inside.] That...also never happened. [It could've, but it hadn't. He'd gotten out. He was himself, not -- that.
The next photo has the alternate universe version of Koby -- veiled and pale and tight-lipped -- talking to a version of Iggy, which definitely never happened. And then they're stabbing each other and -- well, there's a theme here, clearly.]