1969- Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead software engineer for the Apollo program, next to her handwritten code.
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Laes really does not stop breaking our hearts, eh?
Earth's words especially struck a cord of me.
Eclipse feels like he's never been in control, because he wasn't.
He was abandoned by old Moon.
In both their heads, he was the problem.
Every single day he had to watch through Sun's eyes, as another him got to live the life he wanted.
And even that wasn't enough for old Moon, considering the star exists.
And once it all got too much, he decided to take control, and even then he felt rejected.
He made himself his own brother, but never actually got close to him, because he was afraid of being abandoned again.
And he was, but this time, the problem was himself.
The only time he really had control was, when he got that damn star, and even then, he couldn't do anything.
He didn't know what he wanted anymore, this grand dream suddenly didn't feel worth it anymore…
And even now he's not in control!
He thought, he could at least rest in death, but not even that is given to him!
My damn heart can't take this…
-Stardust
RIGHT??? RIGHTTTTTT?????? 😭😭😭
ECLIPSE HAS LITERALLY NEVER BEEN IN CONTROL AND IT KILLS MEEEEE.....
From body to body, losing person after person, and now being brought back every time he dies??? It's so insanely sad to me that, even during his most "in control" moments, he isn't really. Like you said, with the star he ended up not knowing what he wanted to do anymore and it started to gnaw at him from the inside out!! During the october takeover, even though he had Lunar under his thumb, the bodies they had weren't theirs!! It's so fucked up!!!!
I wish Eclipse wasn't so terribly emotionally constipated bc holy shit I would have adored to have that touched on more. Even through all his walls and masks and edge, he told Earth that waking up outside his own body was "horrifying" and that just gutted me. And what gutted me even more is that when Earth sympathized with him he just totally backpedaled!!!
He was almost, like, embarrassed at having said anything even remotely honest! Like he opened up the tiniest bit and it wasn't handled in a way he liked so he immediately shut it back down.
He drives me up the WALLS I love him so much. He's like the trauma and issues georg of the show 2 me </3
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Prompt 242
He looks the same as he had that fateful day, a storm raging around him and risking sending the ship down into the abyss. Hair whipping in the wind as the sky roars its deadly challenge echoed by the beasts they all sought to bring down those centuries ago.
It looks just as human as they- that is to say not at all, not anymore. A body twisted, sand and lightning melding into a molten sea ever-expanding. Its eyes as gold as the treasure it guards, brilliant blues and greens dancing across bodies in sigils unknown.
It looks exactly as it did that time ago, smile dancing on its lips as the sky opened up in torrents, like blood gushing from a wound. “You’re free to go,” it says, in words they understand and words they don’t. “You don’t have to stay here any longer.”
“Where will we go?” They ask, so very tired of this eternal battle, of being trapped in crashing waves and storms of water and sand. Being tossed one way and the other, never able to go home, for home was gone long ago.
It looks up, their own gaze following, the ship crashing through the dredges of a storm they had thought eternal. And for the first time in eternities, they see them. The stars. Dancing and dripping from a serpentine form that cradles the Sun and Moon, smiling down to the beast and them alike.
And so, they take from the seas, and take to the stars instead.
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Neil Alden Armstrong - Aug 5. 1930 - Aug. 25, 2012
US Navy aviator, NASA astronaut, research pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, commander of Gemini 8 and the first man to walk on the Moon.
"Despite Armstrong's status as an American icon for being the first man to set foot on the moon, he considered himself first and foremost as an engineer and pilot." ~ David McBride, director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
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