#035 Painted In Different Colours (Echo)

[xfirefly9x]

Title: Painted In Different Colours
Fandom: Dollhouse
Characters: Echo
Prompt: #035 Unknown
Word Count: 171
Rating: G
Summary: Sometimes I wonder. Echo’s POV.
Notes: Written for 50ficlets. February 20. A huge thank you to Sammi (pixilove66) for betaing. *hugs*

Sometimes I wonder what missions I have been on. I wonder what I have seen and done, what skills I have acquired and what personalities I have taken on. I wonder what emotions I felt while I was completing the ‘engagements’ I have been on.

I know in my heart that whatever happened and whoever I was during those times, that it’s not me. I am me. I am Echo, a blank canvass ready to be painted in different colours until the time that the picture is beautiful and complete. It’s a beauty that will never last, of course; my missions may be done, but when they are I do not know of them.

I am painted over when my usefulness is abated to start fresh.

One thing about painting a picture over though is that it doesn’t remove what was once beneath. It covers it, disguises it, but can never destroy it.

Somewhere beneath the layers of paint is my true identity and someday I will know it once more.

Comments

[force-oblique.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!

One thing about painting a picture over though is that it doesn’t remove what was once beneath. It covers it, disguises it, but can never destroy it.
I loved this line...it is so haunting!!

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's my fav line in it. :D

[emmademarais.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey! One of my ficfinishing peeps! /waves/

Thank you for crossposting this to my new dollhouseflash comm! It's a lovely little ficlet with a memorable metaphor. Echo truly is the one capable of sensing those painted over lives and is becoming capable of stripping them away.

Nicely done!

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Hey!! *waves back*

Thanks. :D

[obiwahn.livejournal.com]

Very nice :-) Echo truly does have many layers. I'm hoping that we get to see even more as the show progresses, particularly of her life before the dollhouse.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Same here. :)

[juliet316]

Interesting little ficlet. Hopefully they'll all rediscover their true selves after the Dollhouse is taken down.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Thanks, yeah. :)