#metmorphoses fic

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@dreamwatch I am answering your ask here so I can hide it under the cut!

METAMORPHOSES spoilers ahead for anyone not caught up/ who cares about that sort of thing fjdaksljf

first of all thank you so much for not just reading my little universe but for thinking about it enough to have such an interesting question I am beside myself a little bit maybe!!

second of all, you're exactly right! his transformations didn't make themselves known for so long because he was so scared of what he'd already done/ what he'd been as Kas that he kept all of it on just. a painfully tight mental and physical lock. our boy was so tense, created so many rules for himself in how he interacted with the world that his body would fully freeze sometimes to keep from transforming without his permission.

which makes your question so interesting because you know what? I hadn't thought about how being sick or incapacitated would affect that!! but I sure am right now!!

because the thing is, Eddie doesn't let go of control entirely even once he knows what's up, right? he learns how to manage this part of himself in a healthy way by allowing it freedom and in the process comes to actually identify with the whole of himself rather than "Eddie" and "The Thing Eddie Sometimes Is" which is to say that the Snakes of it all would probably react to illness much the same way they react to Eddie's episode in chapter 10 when he gets triggered by the lights.

Eddie's brain and heart and soul know that he is at his most protected with all his pointy bits on display, he's the least mess-with-able when he has his powers at full volume so to speak, so if he's sick or hurt enough to be stuck in bed, then he's physically vulnerable enough to slip into a form that feels safer, I think.

The snakes are protective, they snap at Owens because he isn't safe and drift towards Steve and Wayne because they are, and if Eddie is laid out in bed not wanting to be touched then god help the person who tries to cross that boundary close enough to those sharp little rows of teeth, you know fjkasdlfj

which of course brings up the issue of "what if he shifts in public on accident" and our boy has a nifty little ability to tell someone "forget you ever saw that" and have it stick for real so good for him but trust that he'd have to immediately be talked down from taking that free spare identity hopper and murray have waiting for him too because HE'S STILL EDDIE AT THE END OF THE DAY FLAWS AND ALL.

anyways this is such a rambly response to your question and I hope I answered it somewhere in there, but now I want to write about Eddie being grumpy and sick with a bunch of stuffy-nosed snakes growing out of his head because there is something so hilarious and endearing about that. you're making me want to write FLUFF who AM I

thank you for your question I could obviously talk about this universe for a thousand years but I'll refrain have a lovely evening!! 💚🐍