B5 Double Drabble: Hidden

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Hidden
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Mid-Season 2.
Summary: The Vorlons are a mystery Sheridan is determined to solve.
Written For: Challenge 417: Amnesty 69 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 34: Masks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

No one knows what a Vorlon looks like inside its encounter suit; no one’s ever seen one, except for Benjamin Kyle, and he’s never told anyone what he learned while saving Kosh’s life. Lyta Alexander only touched the Vorlon’s mind, so what, if anything, she really ‘saw’ is anyone’s guess.

 
The Vorlons are secretive, more than any other race earth has ever met, using their encounter suits like a mask to hide everything about themselves from the rest of the universe. Their appearance, their physiology, what and how they eat, it’s all a matter of endless speculation. They must have their reasons, but no one knows what those reasons might be.
 

Truthfully, the Vorlons seem more alien, and more unfathomable, than all the other races put together, and perhaps that’s why Sheridan is so determined to learn everything he can about them. He knows it won’t be easy, Kosh’s inscrutability makes it near impossible to understand him even when the ambassador does deign to speak to him. But Sheridan loves a good mystery, and he’s stubborn enough to keep trying, even though it’s like trying to prise rivets from the station’s hull with his teeth.

 
Somehow, he'll get his answers.
 

 
The End
 



 
 
 
 
 

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

This is the eternal mystery isn't it. I can't remember if we ever saw what Kosh looks like. Didn't he look like some kind of angel?

[badly_knitted]

Yes, although he looked different to every race that saw him. The only one who didn't see anything was Londo. It was the end of season 2, when Sheridan had to jump to avoid being blown up and was falling to his death. Kosh saved his life.

Thank you!

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh it's all coming back to me now! It was so long ago I watched B5, decades ago! Happy days.

[badly_knitted]

Only a few months since I last watched that one. I need to get back to my re-watch.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I did not remember they looked different to each race.

[badly_knitted]

Every race knows them and has their own name for them, basically sees them as an angelic form of their own race. It was one of those mind-blowing moments when I watched the show the first time, completely unexpected, and at the same time, it made perfect sense.

Thank you!