System born of nothing: Marlyn

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In the past, I don't exist. I'm a formless blob of nothingness. Emotions are something that didn't exist in my formless body.

A soulless creation, an empty void, and an ocean of unknown things.

But somewhere in a time, I can't remember, light blooms. These are new things I cannot understand.

Who am I? What am I? Why can I think?

So many questions are unanswered.

The light is so bright, it's calling me, promising to fill what's missing in me. I tried to approach, but before I can get closed, it fade away.

I feel hopeless, sad, warm, and yearning. What are they? They drown me, I can't stop them. I hope to understand, but what is there to understand in a place that offers no answer?

I tried to scream. Scream? No voice came out and even if there are, the familiar darkness swallowed them. But what is a voice? What is darkness? What is light?

I continue floating around in this abyss, these emotions soon settled down, and the unfamiliar become familiar.

Occasionally, the light appears and it brings with it new things and two presence that brings warmth to this cold place. Who are they? The void and light say whisper that they are my mother and father.

What is a mother? What is a father? Are they delicious and what is delicious in the first place?

I ponder on them and soon found my answer when the next light came. Mother and Father, they're the ones who gave me this ability to think and the new things. I want to see them, it's lonely here.

The light starts to flicker in a familiar scene of it disappearing, but something feels different.

Somehow it didn't disappear, it stays there flickering so weakly. I quickly move my body closer to it and I feel the familiar warmth as soon as the light touched my formless body. Soon I start to change, my form no longer formless.

It brings happiness to my once hollow heart. I now have hands, I now look similar to them. I can't see myself, but I can't help shedding what's called tears. The light becomes stronger in my embrace and my body continues to change. I can now see colors other than white and black. The color of my skin and hair. I'm happy.

But came a surprise, a new sensation raised, I feel the heat and blinding light on my eyes. It's not painful, but something I'm not used to.

Once my vision returned, I'm no longer in the familiar darkness. Everything looks new, excitement arouses in my chest. There's the ball called the sun and green things called the trees. I want to stay here, I don't want to return to that lonely void.

I bask and absorbed the light emitted by the sun, but soon I noticed two figures under me. Standing on the ground were two figures too familiar and engraved in my soulless existence. I excitedly went to them, not noticing my body split into two.

I want to be with them forever together. In my excitement, I forgot what's happening. All I want is to be with them till eternity. I passed through their foreheads and inside I saw two lights similar to the light in the darkness.

They are calling for me, wanting to be bound with them and be one. I hugged the lights let them absorb me. It's my biggest joy and happiness.

It's so warm, information flooded in my head, but I'm more than capable to handle them.

From then on I'm going to the known as a system, the virtual system: Project Marlyn Lilyen. A name that will be bestowed upon me by my parents soon in our encounter.

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