A large hand reaches out slowly. His fingertips only just manage to reach and he pulls the framed papers and pictures out of Hiccup's hand.
He holds the picture up close and two camera lenses telescope out from between some of the cables and zoom in so that he can fully take in the picture.
There is a sensation like some kind of force that was spread out all over starts collapsing inward. The screens around him focus again on all the captured people still in the scenario. Color starts to seep in and they're seen waking up, clothes transforming back to their original clothes. All of them look alarmed at their sudden change.
The camera head monsters and paper dolls start transforming back to people.
And the being - no longer just a creature - starts to cry. The tears sweep out between the cables on his face, looking like the liquid static that had seeped out of everyone's TVs the night before. Giant fingers delicately brush against the framed picture.
Joshua Okafor slowly reaches for his face and then jolts up in a panic, suddenly aware of what's wrong with it. His body language is less monstrous and suddenly horrified. He puts the framed papers and pictures down, off to the side so they don't get damaged, and starts frantically pulling the cables off his face.
They spring out again like striking snakes, trying to reconnect, and he struggles to hold them back. The more of them he pulls off, the more staticy goo starts seeping out of his face - and then pouring. And the more goo that pours out, the more he starts to shrink, as if the goo is what contributed to his massive size.
As he pulls off cables, the monitors around them start to blip off, as if he's disconnecting whatever's going on in this place.
He gestures at the cords and cables plaintively, as if begging for help getting them off.
Re: cw: face body horror
He holds the picture up close and two camera lenses telescope out from between some of the cables and zoom in so that he can fully take in the picture.
There is a sensation like some kind of force that was spread out all over starts collapsing inward. The screens around him focus again on all the captured people still in the scenario. Color starts to seep in and they're seen waking up, clothes transforming back to their original clothes. All of them look alarmed at their sudden change.
The camera head monsters and paper dolls start transforming back to people.
And the being - no longer just a creature - starts to cry. The tears sweep out between the cables on his face, looking like the liquid static that had seeped out of everyone's TVs the night before. Giant fingers delicately brush against the framed picture.
Joshua Okafor slowly reaches for his face and then jolts up in a panic, suddenly aware of what's wrong with it. His body language is less monstrous and suddenly horrified. He puts the framed papers and pictures down, off to the side so they don't get damaged, and starts frantically pulling the cables off his face.
They spring out again like striking snakes, trying to reconnect, and he struggles to hold them back. The more of them he pulls off, the more staticy goo starts seeping out of his face - and then pouring. And the more goo that pours out, the more he starts to shrink, as if the goo is what contributed to his massive size.
As he pulls off cables, the monitors around them start to blip off, as if he's disconnecting whatever's going on in this place.
He gestures at the cords and cables plaintively, as if begging for help getting them off.