hello nonexistent meridian 157 fandom i give you a david for my fun au
if you're curious the basis is this:
before the bomb blew up, his artifact launched him into a different reality where it's 1997 before the incident thus he ends up preventing it from ever happening. in the process though a piece of his reality's artifact got stuck in his body and it's kinda slowly spreading. he basically gets quarantined to a repurposed sector c where flare's trying to find out what tf happened
also three other characters merge with their alternate selves and have shadowy patches on them that are ALSO spreading
and yes i know that's not where the heart usually is located but you know what it is for him now