#I saw some post about how Tim's eyes should be unsettling and I've been kinda inspired with the idea of unsettling mechs

[unsat-and-strange]

jonny d'villes heart ticks audibly. the crew can hear it during the few and far between quiet moments on board the aurora. it's so steady, tick tick tick, a reminder that he is there and they are all alive together, never speeding up or slowing down. sometimes they joke about using it as a metronome during practice.

jonnys heart ticks. he can hear it every waking moment. tick tick tick. it never slows down, even in the deepest sleep according to the rest of the crew. it never speeds up even when his blood is more adrenaline then actual blood, times when normal peoples hearts would be racing. whether he's laughing his ass off or terrified for his life (I guess old habits die hard?) it. never. speeds. up. sometimes it's fine, he can ignore it but there are days when the constant tick tick tick tick tick tick tick is too much. the days when he has to drown out the sound with gunfire and screams or music loud enough to make his ears bleed. some days even that barely cuts it and he debates putting a bullet in his head just to make it quiet for a few hours. the rest of the crew has gotten pretty good at recognizing those days, and they know how to help him get through them, just like he knows how to help his crew through their bad days. nastya will bring him into the near deafening engine room and theyll play with power tools until their hands are covered in grease and grit, or Tim will sit him down on a speaker and play the bass so loud the whole ship can feel it, or Marius and raphaella will tell him about unethical medical practices they've witnessed/performed or Brian will just hold him close until the rhythms of the metal man's body distract from the tick tick tick tick of his own heart. the constant tick of immortality is loud. jonny can't deny his luck in finding a crew that is almost always louder.

#ebb rambles #the mechanisms #sorry guys jonny got into my brain #ending feels kinda weird I think I had this better worded in my head but hey whatever I guess #jonny dville #should I tags this for body horror? maybe a little? #body horror #I saw some post about how Tim's eyes should be unsettling and I've been kinda inspired with the idea of unsettling mechs #when my thoughts on the subject are a bit more in order I'll make a coherent post about it but for now you get jonny and his heart :) #kinda want to draw something based around this but haven't figured out what #ebb writes some stuff #poetry #kinda #I guess #should probably tag the other mechs I mentioned lol #gunpowder tim #nastya rasputina #marius von raum #raphaella la cognizi #drumbot brian