User:Ioanatomici/FICTIONAL FRAMEWORK

Definition

terrafying = a global-scale condition of fear and terror;
origin: terrifying

The positive charge of impeding doom

Describing the feeling of constantly being on the brink of disaster as a form of endurance, rather than a negation of stability:

-The feeling of mistrusting the past
-The feeling of being unable to grasp the present
-The feeling of uncertainty regarding the future
-The feeling of defeat

An empty shell, sorting inputs, flows rapidly passing through it, leaving nothing behind except for hollow structures.

Prologue

On the brink of a disaster which fails to arrive

I laid down my head, closed my eyes, and began to slowly surrender my senses, one by one, to an eradicating slumber, a capricious physiology with an elusive promise of renewal. I woke up later that night to the sound of a deep hum. I searched everywhere but the source of the sound was simply undetectable. When I tried falling back to sleep, the hum was still there, an unwanted guest visiting my dreams. Day after day, night after night.

I still hear that low hum to this day. It seems to be coming from far away, somewhere past the horizon. I've become so accustomed to this sound, that it is allowing me to wield it, to sense through it and be carried by its frequency. It gives me the ability to travel without moving and access a space and time that I can only describe as sensations of what is yet to come.

I often gaze into the distance, whenever I feel like the sound is intensifying, the source coming closer. What looms over the horizon sometimes casts a shadow at my feet. I look down at it without seeing. For a brief moment I can distinguish its shifting forms and anticipate their trajectory. Its telltale hum overrides my auditory receptors and begins to spread throughout my body, bouncing off of tissues and resonating between organs.

The Probe

Surveying the disaster site before, during and after

Before :
- Calculating risk
- Classifying disastrous potential
- Preventing

During:
- Immediate distributed response
- Self-adjustment based on disastrous variables

After:
- Database updated
- Searching for the next disaster which has yet to happen