hc + TekTih / headcanon time, lads.
TekTih was a lot of things; scholar, dreamer, heretic and exile. everything the scientist is and isn't, everything they can and can't be.
a renowned astronomer and teacher, yet terribly hermit-like, as time went on it became more and more prone to locking itself away in it's crystaline observatory with sprawling star charts and planetary models for company. for in the eyes of all others except for a selective seventeen, that was it's problem, the perceived dark smear on what would be considered an otherwise perfect being; the desire to be an it, the outbursts of " it's not OUR research, it's MINE. "
not to mention what a common urSkek would view as radical ideas. TekTih was never as unreserved as skekTek, but still willing to go up and beyond.
urTih might have the fonder memories from it, and might be at ease knowing it can't expand off of what they kept in the split, but skekTek broods on the ones with sharp edges / buries them as deep as it can go. the whole self's knowledge sits as shattered pieces in skekTek's mind and it can do nothing but cut it's hands trying to piece the bigger picture together. it can try, even excell at things TekTih never did or never could, but it will always be haphazard and messy in it's field when compared to them.
due to scientist and alchemist sharing shards of that knowledge, and having their own individual talents gained on thra while never quite being perfect at it, i like to think in another life — one where TekTih joins their brothers — it would have been deserving of the title jack of all trades, master of none; engineer, biologist, doctor, and alchemist, but still learning.
@gammagelfling.
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