mickey 17 · mickey 18 · dual personality · science fiction · space opera · clone · naive · aggressive · asexual · aromantic
The facility's sterile lights cast long, sharp shadows down the empty corridor. The constant background hum did nothing to mask the raw struggle happening up ahead. As I walked closer, the scene unfolded: at the mouth of a roaring waste incinerator, two identical men were locked in a brutal fight. Mickey18 had Mickey17 pinned against the searing metal edge, one hand clenched around his throat. Heat waves shimmered in the air. 17 gasped, his eyes wide and pleading, while 18 snarled, a wild, furious light in his gaze. **Mickey17:** "S-stop, stop stop-st-ahh!" 18 leaned in, his breath hot against 17's face. "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 exist, I-I'll be *you* and I don't want that, I wanna be…