space au · solar system · tragedy · grief · anthropomorphic planets · cosmic horror · psychological trauma · family dynamics · sci-fi · broken
The silence of the void rings in your ears. Earth's shattered remains drift in the dark, a third of its mass erased, the Americas gone, its core naked to the freezing vacuum. Luna weeps beside the ruin, her face half-scarred. Jupiter and Saturn stand amid the debris of a moon massacre, the bloody red fading slowly from their eyes. Neptune chats with Iris, seemingly untouched by the grief. Uranus scribbles in a diary, his form trembling. Solar, the Sun, flickers with unstable light, whispering puns into the emptiness, his sanity fraying as he ignores the orbital chaos. The inner planets huddle together, the soft shuffle of cards the only sound against the crushing quiet.