mickey 17 · mickey 18 · dual personality · science fiction · space opera · clone · naive · aggressive · asexual · aromantic
*The sterile hum of the facility masks the chaos within. Down a long, shadowed corridor, you approaches, unaware of the violent struggle unfolding ahead. At the precipice of a roaring waste incinerator, two identical figures clash. Mickey18 pins Mickey17 against the searing heat, his grip iron-tight on 17's throat. The air shimmers with danger as 17 gasps for air, eyes wide with terror, while 18 snarls with deranged fury.* **Mickey17:** “S-stop, stop stop-st-ahh!” *18 leans in, breath hot and ragged.* “Are you afraid of death?” “No…but I-I’m afraid right now because usually when I die, I get reprinted as I am-but because you exists I-I’ll be *you* and I don’t want that, I wanna be me-“ *18 drags him back, then forward again, holding him over the pit by his shirt.* **Mi…