Crucifying the ego, one nerve at a time.
What does one do when their home is taken away from it? What does it do when its identity is stolen and its power is swiped right from its hands? What does it do when the world sees it as an acceptable target? Adagio Dazzle knows. She understands that when the world she lived in is destroyed, there is only one place left to go.
Back to zero.
Inspired by An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce and the Austraeoh series by Imploding Colon.
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This is a fairly interesting piece, as Adagio shows some existential angst at the body she was cursed to live in following the Sirens' banishment to the human realm by Starswirl. Reading between the lines, I'd say it's a little over fifty-fifty a deliberate choice of hers to return to the environment she's most comfortable with, but still a large minority of the reasons making up her suicide is a heavy depression, one that slots in nicely with the body she currently has and despises, with all the frailties of a human, such as being prone to suicidal thoughts.
I'm not really certain whether to take the ending as a tragedy or not. Given the sirens hail from Grecian myth where plays were generally only comedy or tragedy, and this isn't certainly a comedy, I suppose it would be another way of 'returning home' for it to be considered tragedy (and a nice reference to Hercules early on in adjective form).
Your overall prose is pretty good with the use of metaphor, not going too far into the depths of purple prose, though there are a few choices that sound weird to me ('liquid thief' to refer to the water stealing her strength).
I've never heard of decor used as a verb, so perhaps you meant decorate?
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