#zane spends 2 weeks as a human and goes on a whole arc of grief and trauma and reconciliation

[destinysbounty]

Me: hey we should come up with original ideas sometime

My brain: no wait actually what if you came up with another Zane-turns-human wip that features Zane turning human at some point and having a strange scar running down his face, that he later realizes is representative of when his face fell off during his battle against the Overlord. And what if we used this scar as a very over-the-top metaphor for how Zane becoming human has forced him to confront all the trauma he's been repressing bc humans cant just delete their memories, so everything hes been bottling up for the past several decades is breaking out all at once - and this is represented by a death scar. Because no matter how hard Zane tries to put on a mask of being happy and calm and well-composed, its just that - a mask. And now that his deleted memories are flodding back, that facade is slipping, and the cracks are starting to show, both emotionally and physically. Cmon you know you wanna write another au like that

Me, beating back all 140+ of my human!zane aus of that exact premise with a baseball bat: no! No! Bad brain! Stop being melodramatic about legos!!