#everyone go and look at cyber's art of sunshine btw.

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Day 19 - Chipped

prompt by @augusnippets! a little sunshine for today. mostly because of cyber's awesome art of them putting me in the writing-them mood. :)

CW: lab/medical/scientific whump, microchipping, mentioned murder/human euthanasia, dehumanization, mentioned vivisection, self-harm.

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Sunshine had been trying to claw the thing out for the better part of an hour. 

It’d been a necessary evil, they’d been told. Dr. Cara, with the golden-brown hair and the gloves, had reassured them of this. 

Dr. Cara had also held them down until they stopped convulsing and vivisected them, so Sunshine didn’t exactly trust his word. 

They’d been an expensive asset to find and recover, apparently. 

Good. 

Their escape and bonding with Watchtower’s Dog had made them less agreeable. More violent. Harder to handle. 

Good. 

The Sunshine Project mk. 1 was coming to a close, and they’d need to perform an autopsy to get the final results soon. 

Bad. Very bad. Incredibly bad. 

Every time they moved their neck, they could feel it. A little stiff piece below the skin. Pressure. A sensitive wound. Uncomfortable. Ever-present. Sending little electric shocks through their muscles whenever they were deemed to be acting inappropriately. 

So Sunshine tried to claw the chip out. Tried to scratch the barcode tattooed onto their neck so they didn’t have to get scanned again. They bit, and fought, and kicked, and were generally difficult. 

Dr. Cara floated around the idea of finding a way to reunite them with Dog, but it had been agreed that this would only make them behave worse.

And instead, the chip simply shocked them down when they needed it. They were going to be put down anyways. A little brain damage was nobody’s concern.