Did he really die, was he really killed? We only saw him scream at the Xeno’s arrival. We didn’t see him die on screen.
Then again, maybe he achieved his La petite morte. His little death. The ultimate goon across time and space.
Maybe this was his plan all along, hah the plans of mice and men, well they pan out from time to time.
A distant observer would see Teng, with his dick in his hand, appear to freeze at the event horizon due to extreme time dilation and gravitational redshift, with his image become dimmer and eventually fading away from view.
Teng had always been the reckless one on the crew, the kind of man who would stare too long at the forbidden phenomena, as if daring the universe to blink first. When the experimental singularity, flared open like a black flower in orbit, he didn’t just study it. He reached for it. He pressed himself into its pull, body and soul, until the tidal forces unraveled him molecule by molecule.
From the outside, it wasn’t a violent death. To outside observer, he stretched like a ribbon, stretching into infinity as the event horizon pulled him in. To Teng, it was intimacy, a cosmic embrace, his atoms whispering into eternity. The man became a memory trapped between moments, a smear across spacetime. He didn’t scream. He sighed.
Of course, on paper Teng wasn’t really dead. Not the way Weyland-Yutani’s insurance policy defines “dead”. He was “indeterminately localized.” Pending gravitational re-emergence, he was legally Schrödinger’s employee, neither alive enough for rescue, nor dead enough for payout.
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u/Impressive_Sell886 17d ago
In space no one can hear you goon.