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Vessel of the Void

Allen, an emotionally fragile and dependent teen, becomes the unlikely host of a cosmic entity seeking to experience human vulnerability.

May 23, 2025  |   4 min read

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This is the story of Allen, a deeply sensitive and overthinking teenager who has spent his entire life under the protective wings of his parents. Despite their care, Allen struggles with academics, lacks focus, and is emotionally dependent on others. His life feels unremarkable - until a cosmic entity named Aeron takes interest in him.

Aeron, a powerful but hollow being drifting through the universe, seeks something he's never experienced: vulnerability. By chance, he finds Allen - not through cosmic design, but by simple accident. Intrigued by Allen's emotional fragility and perceived weakness, Aeron chooses him as a host, hoping to finally understand what it means to feel human vulnerability.

With Aeron bonded to him, Allen gains incredible powers - energy projection, flight, and even the ability to travel through space. At first, he uses them secretly, simply for fun and practice. But his strange behavior worries his parents even more; Allen, once seen as incapable, now seems distant and unusual.

Allen is not some overpowered god. Despite Aeron's cosmic nature, Allen's human body limits his strength and abilities. Aeron did not want to create a perfect hero - he wanted to feel. He had no grand plan, only the simple hope that by bonding with Allen, he might experience vulnerability firsthand.

As a big fan of superheroes, Allen decides to play the hero - stopping robberies, fighting petty criminals, and testing his powers. But eventually, even this excitement fades. One day, he asks Aeron, *"Do you feel it now? Vulnerability? I'm enjoying this. What about you?"*

Aeron answers with unexpected honesty:

*"I don't know. When you're happy, I feel power surge through me. But when you're sad, I grow weak, almost sick. I think our emotions are linked. I've always been emotionless, but your feelings reach me. Now I'm scared. What happens if you break?"*

Allen asks, *"Wait? you don't know how to leave my body? You just entered, but don't know how to get out?"*

*"I don't,"* Aeron admits. *"My existence felt meaningless, just drifting through space. Then I found you, hoping to feel vulnerability, but I don't even know who I am."*

*"So I'm stuck with you forever?"* Allen asks. *"What if I get too sad, or break down?"*

This question becomes painfully real. Allen faces emotional pain - mockery online, friends leaving him because they find him weird, constant failures in school. Each blow weakens Allen, and Aeron grows weaker too. Allen starts falling ill. His parents become more worried than ever.

In a tender moment, Allen's mother tells him,

*"Your father and I love you deeply. We may shout because we care, because we want you to succeed and be happy."*

They embrace, and Aeron whispers, *"I've never felt this before. I'm happy."*

For a brief moment, peace settles. Allen shares a final dinner with his family.

Then tragedy strikes.

One of the criminals Allen had confronted using Aeron's powers returns for revenge. But at this moment, Allen is weak - his connection to Aeron unstable, his powers gone. Powerless and vulnerable, Allen is helpless. The goon brutally beats him to a pulp before murdering his parents.

Shattered and broken, Allen collapses in grief, crying uncontrollably.

*"Please stop,"* Aeron pleads. *"If you don't, something terrible will happen. I feel like I'm dying..."*

But Allen cannot stop. The sorrow is too great.

And then - it happens.

Aeron explodes - not in anger, but in agony. A cosmic being emotionally tethered to a human soul ruptures under the weight of human pain. The blast is cataclysmic.

The story ends there - tragic and ambiguous. Did Allen die with Aeron? Did the planet survive the cosmic blast? The answers remain unknown.

What's clear is that this isn't a story about power. It's a story about *feeling* - the unbearable strength and fragility of the human heart.

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