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The Useless

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"The soothing waves caressed the shore gently as he sat to contemplate the endless landscape before him...
The crystalline ocean that reflected the muted, gray colors of the heavens as they were being slowly swallowed by a distant storm...
The lightning dancing across the sky so playfully, flashing and burning brighter than the mottled sun...
The wind that smoothly flew upon the surface of his skin...

As the world collapsed into itself and gave way to his most succulent of dreams.

It was there where she sat...
It was there where she lie...
It was there where she always waited for him...
And submerged him into her deep, hazel eyes.

Her perfect, porcelain face glowing ethereally with the light of a raging fire...
Her soft, nimble fingers dancing upon his lips with a pianists' grace...
Her long, flowing hair cascading like crimson waterfalls in front of his eyes...
Her sweet, luscious voice seeping into him like a river of honey... bewitching his soul.

Unto such beauty,
He desired only,
To bestow gently,
A treasured gift.

'Take this, my beloved, that you might marvel at your own grace', he said, as he handed to her a mirror, 'and bask eternally in the divinity of your infinite allure'.

And such a mirror it was,
As beautiful as its new owner,
Made from his own passionate affection,
Crystallized into a perfectly reflective surface,
Which would shine through physical barriers and show beauty beyond what the eyes can behold.

She held the mirror aloft with great admiration in her eyes...
And a subtle smile that seemed to accentuate every wondrous emotion that she could express...

But the image within the mirror viciously portrayed what seemed like a terribly misplaced nightmare.

Her immaculate face was frozen with that tender visage...
Yet it was crudely torn from her body like a grizzly mask...
Now placed upon the grimace of an grotesquely misshapen creature.
Her silken skin cracked and crumbled away...
Ripping the warmth and softness out of her essence...
And replacing it with the cruel, bitter coldness of a decaying, mechanical husk.
Her passionate and affectionate heart rotted away...
Pumping tar through the cables and wires that tied her to existence...
Bereaving her of all life and joy...
Leaving only the bitter, resentful and lustful desire to possess, manipulate and drain in her perverse circuitry.

He watched in abject horror as he felt the demonic entity before him parasitically cling to his own thoughts and slowly withering his own spirit so that he might join her/it in her/its boundless agony and heartless desires.

The image within the mirror had now taken the place of the ethereally beautiful creature that he once beheld...
And his own world had taken a similar shape as her/its own...
Twisted, grotesque, macabre...

...And Useless."

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FINALLY! After 2 or 3 months or so of having to put this off I can FINALLY publish it and show it as my 100th deviation! :p

I know that it might not be a particularly flattering photo, but getting all of her into frame is a little difficult without sacrificing the attention to detail. As such, I think that I'm going to have to take a whole series of photographs in order to show all of the work placed into her.

Her initial concept was a LOT smaller than that... But after I began work on her and I kept cutting and welding and adding more to her, well... I found it a little difficult to stop :p Because I always wanted her to be even more unsightly... even more disgusting and a whole lot more impressive O_o But, I wasn't going to allow her to fall into the same fate that I let most other projects see themselves end up in... and I decided to finally just leave her as she is and FINISH her once and for all.

So yes... I have to admit this is quite a milestone for me :p It's the first time I ever even TRIED my hand at welding... and I'm pretty sure most of you will notice that quickly enough :p Then again, the idea was to give it a very crude kind of image... as if it were cobbled together very "messily". I can only hope that it is well received and that you guys enjoy it as much as I did finishing it...

She remains as a testament to overcoming adversity... and seeing that there should be much more to everything than meets the eye.

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"I was made for someone who didn't want me...
I was made by someone who didn't love me...
I was made for something that negated my purpose...
I was made by something that negated my integrity...
I was made for a world that would cheat me...
I was made by a world that would bleed me...

I scour the remains of these ruins to try and find non-existent treasures.
I dig through the tattered dilapidation to find a damnable salvation.
I search within these scattered corpses to find a breath of life.

What cosmic grace defines the essence of reason?
What divine order establishes the place where each fragment of the universe belongs?

Or is it just my own will that puts each piece into its place?

Through my own volition,
Through my own discretion,
Through my own selection,
Every particle,
Every shred,
Every piece of the puzzle of reality is set into its niche...
And the puzzle itself paints the picture I want it to.

Is this what its like to be a god?
Is this what its like to tempt fate?
Is this what its like to be a demon?

Then the purpose I have is only the one I've obtained...
Not the one given to me and set to be by the will of he who made me...
Not the one taken from me and defaced by the will of she who earned me...
Not the one that nullified itself by my own existence.

This world is mine to create/destroy...
This world is mine to live/waste in...
This world is mine... and is only as I am... as I will always be."
Image size
2048x1536px 503.97 KB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-W50
Shutter Speed
10/800 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
May 26, 2009, 5:51:00 PM
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visceraldagger's avatar
I certainly wasn't expecting *this* when I heard of your creation.

She is, as you desired, monstrously hideous. She's intricate and ferocious looking... but also fragile like she might lose herself at any moment. The spindly reaching hand is banshee-esque... and for whatever reason she reminds me of Scarlet from SH: Homecoming. Her wings are impressive; it's they are layered like feathers... and is that a crown on her shoulder? The tail is very alien looking ( well done) and I like the way her doll-like visage is projected in front of her true face. I love the rusted metal you salvaged; it perfectly portrays what you were thinking... at the same time I'm mildly disturbed you would honor anyone in this way.

One last thing for now; I didn't know you could weld? Tell me all about it, please.