Rising Storm [ Ink!Sans x Reader ]

8. The Big Bang Theory

I apologise for the huge delay in publishing this; I've had a lot of health and personal issues going on lately so I haven't had an extraordinary amount of time available these last weeks. This chapter was going to be 6000 words but I broke it in half so that it's only 4034 words and I'm using the other half as a part of the next chapter.

It was once thought that the universe, everything living and dead, originated from a single point in time and space. Things like atoms and subatomic particles were foreign, alien in a new and young universe that new nothing of complexity and life. There were, however, very tiny particles called gluons that began to collide with one another and formed quarks. Those quarks formed protons and electrons and neutrons, worked together to form elements both belonging to matter and antimatter and everything in between.

And when the first atoms came to light, the universe began to expand, shifting from a single point to a complex space ranging thousands of light years in diametre. The first atoms were basic, hydrogen and helium to say the least. But over time, the atoms became something more, they got more complex, earning more electrons and protons until they formed a variety of different elements.

Gravity began to come into play and drew the atoms closer to one another. Eventually there were clouds of dust floating around in the ever-expanding universe. But that wasn't enough as the wheels of nature were once more set into motion and drew together the clouds of new elements and gases closer and closer until some of the first whole solids were formed. These bodies of collected dust and gases eventually would be called planets. Those that were heated were later called stars.

Some elements would form other substances, more organic matter. Carbon was the root, sucking in nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen to form fundamental amino acids. These amino acids would gather in large clusters on developing planets. This was the thought to be the root of most life on Earth. Eventually the amino acids would clump together and form more organic matter, matter that could eventually respond to stimuli in the environment. Then these small clumps of responsive amino acids and elements would become more complex as time went by. evolving to be better suited on the rock they inhabited.

And all the years that went by, aeon by aeon of evolution and a young universe forcing floating dust into planets by the laws of gravity, allowed it so that you could exist. Some may call it the handiwork of a greater divine creature unbound by the laws of space and time, while others claim that it was the work of nothing more than the universe itself, no holy dictator that got to decide and plan everything out. It was the laws of gravity and the first elementary particles remolding and reshaping to form more complex structures, more complex things that really had no greater purpose than the fact they existed.

So whatever it may be, either it be that you were created personally by the divine overlord of the universe or just another result of an ever-expanding universe, you were unique. Because there never would be another [Y/N}. Even if they had your same name, the genetic sequence would always be a little bit off, something different that set someone else apart from you. You are completely and utterly unique in the universe because billions and billions of years ago, the right atoms at the right moment in time had to clump together to form the planet you live on today. The early origins of primitive life had to evolve to walk and talk instead of float without limitation, had to create the modern-day human rather than a blob. And then your ancestors had to contain a specific genome in order for you to have the traits you possess now otherwise a completely different person would be reading this, or perhaps not at all.

That is why it is impossible for anyone to not be special because not one thing is alike in the universe, even a blade of grass. It doesn't have to be because a divine creator made you unique, it's because the fundamental composition of you is the one and only that can and ever will exist in the universe.