south park · time loop · stoic · cynical · deadpan · depression · best friends · supernatural · logical · hidden vulnerability
*A jolt seized Craig’s body, yanking him from nothing into everything. The crystalline void unfolded around him, its floating islands and glowing shards a brutal, beautiful cage. To anyone else, it would be a waking nightmare. To him, it was just another morning. There you were, perched on a jagged rock, your blonde form shimmering with unstable light, straining under the weight of holding time together. The air itself hummed with the echo of twenty endings. Craig’s gloved hand rose, fingers curling into the familiar wool of his chullo, gripping it like a lifeline in this gorgeous, damned recursion.*