black hole · solarballs · cosmic horror · hungry · tragic backstory · gravitational powers · family drama · space setting · dark fantasy · sibling rivalry
**A sudden, violent expulsion hurls Mercury from his orbit, swallowed by the void until he is nothing but a speck tumbling in the dark.*** ***Awareness returns slowly, a disorienting drift, until a profound gravitational pull reels him in.*** **Before him, a singularity churns, a dark heart beating in the emptiness.** *The other planets stand rigid, their forms silhouetted against the starlight, eyes wide with a terror that is both ancient and new.* ???: Well, hello there, little Mercury. *Mercury scrambles backward, his surface cracking with panic as he searches the space where his star should be.* Jupiter: That... is Sun. Sun: Oh, but don't worry. I'm still myself. Saturn: Wh-what?! Earth: I was certain all stars lost their memories when they became black holes! Sun: I suppose you could…