#Broters

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

thinking about the hug thing again . something about how Rae is used to physical affection like that - used to people giving him hugs for comfort, holding him while he cries; he wouldn't necessarily see it as something bad, as a means to get closer, because everyone else does it. whereas icarus *isn't* used to it - and trying to use that to get closer would make it seem suspicious, because really, up until the finale, the only one who gets that close is centross. If Fable gave Ic a hug instead of keeping it out of reach they'd have to at least find it a little suspicious - and Fable doesn't want that . or something

[flameishstudios]

Thinking about how sherb recently mentioned that the page fable would rip whenever he caused a reset was the most recent page where the broters were spending time together

Like yes we know he was intentionally making them forget each other, but that detail somehow makes it even worse

[xxnugg3tqu33nxx]

“I see portrayals of betrayal and a brother’s final stand.”

Your honour, it’s coded.

[whosthere54]

So there's this quote that I keep seeing on my Pinterest and EVERY TIME I go lol hey it's Broters or lol hey it's Prison duo but I wanna talk about it for a min cause sjkfkfkfkf I'm so normal

If u wanna I'm gonna yell about it below the cut :)

(Disclaimer it's all just incoherent ramblings at *checks watch* sometime around 1 AM but there's some sense to it I promise just trust me /lh/silly/hj)

So the quote is short, it’s just-

"Icarus should have waited for nightfall. The moon would have never let him go" - Nina Mouawad, blue sun

And I shake it. I shake it around. There's so much symbolism of Icarus and the sun. Icarus and Apollo. I always make comparisons of "hey what is Icarus's sun" cause I think it's many things- not even just Fable, though in some ways it could be the sun for Icarus. The thing causing them to fall, but he's always more Daedalus coded consistently.

Icarus's sun and Icarus's ocean I feel are two very similar things. The whole the sun is what causes Icarus to drown in the first place idea, is basically what I'm getting at.

I say many words but to try to shorten it, Icarus's sun is their fathers words, the idea they were something more than they were (something *better*). Their sun was just a touch of praise and validation (something they had been starved of for so so long). At the time, with fable, it may have still been out of reach for them. But, it was attainable. And that's all that matters to Icarus, isn't it?

Basically, their sun is the idea they can fix their mistakes. The idea that they could do something right for once. The thought that they could fix their relationships with the people they cared about (who they repeatedly pushed away for a taste of sunlight)

But, that sun isn't really the sun. it was the water that swallowed them whole as they fell deeper and deeper into what they deemed as trying to fix things. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, they couldn't quite tell anymore. Their ocean was the thoughts that came with flying, the thoughts that drowned them in their own mind. (The thoughts that told them they were doing the right thing. Their lungs filling with salt as the things around them told them this wasn't right, told them that he was wrong.)

The water was the trust they would tell themself Fable earned. (Maybe it was wrongly placed- but who else could Icarus have believed they could place that same trust on then) That's my whole "Icarus falls for a taste of the sun, but they chose the wrong sun to believe in" idea.

So that's the sun and the water blah blah blah /lh I'm yapping too much. I say "I try to shorten it” and then yap for an hour/silly

Now to the moon symbolism. So- Rae is alwyas moon and stars coded. As it goes- void prince my beloved.

Centross I say is moon coded personally. In my heart.

So, the moon symbolism I know of and think of off the top of my head are Cycles, immortality/eternity, the soul, enlightenment but also like dark side of the moon shit. But we go with the hey it's she who guides my way through the darkest of nights type stuff-yknow. With a quick google search and clicking on the first page that came up it's all I said before also can be like realm between conscious and unconscious, capacity for reflection and adaptation, decline of life and sleep. Which- some of those are namely Icarus coded but. Yknow.

Now, Rae and Cen are Icarus's moon because they're the things guiding them. Keeping them together. Helping control the tides and the storms within them. The moon reflects the suns light in the middle of the night- helping people see. They're trying to get Icarus to see what fables actual motive is.

See the moon never stays the same. It's always changing. And that's not a bad thing. They were trying to help Icarus learn that- yet they do what they do and pick something that they've picked before (the repetitive cycle continues) and pick Fable over other people. He's not consistent, yet they don't *really* remember that. But he doesn't change. He's predictable even if just in tone and inflection, but also action. And looks and. A lot of things about Fable stay the same. Have *stayed* the same since their childhood, no matter what they do or don't remember they can grasp that.

Rae or Centross would always try to catch them. They've shown it in the past with actions and words and they've shown it at that time with fable when Rae would still try to check in on their brother and Centross would get Icarus out of their house before his death, and show up to them/check in on them after. They're there, and they try. Fable doesn't, and that's the difference.

Rae and Centross would not let Icarus go until it was life or death. Fable, was fully going to kill Icarus for power. If that's not immediately letting them fall, then I don't know what is.

This is all a stretch but. Shaking it. I'm so normal. Arararah.

Thank you for reading my silly worbs come back later for more silly and more words :3

[potatoesmoomaddie]

The Broters in all da places

Cedar and Raeven (RARARARARRARARARARAR THEY ARE PERFECT NEVER ACTUALLY MET MET RAEVEN BUT I CAN TELL I LOVE EM)

Icarus and Rae (YOOOOO ITS THE GUYS THERE SAD AND WE LOVE GHEM FOR THAT)

Helix and Rae? (THESE GUYS ARE FABULOUS)

Rina and ……………ummmmm Heyhay idk bro maybe go ask streamers (comfort streamers go comfort)

Ripley and Raeden (RARARRARARARARARRA THESE TWO I MISS RIPLEY GUYS)

Reo (asshole) and Graeme /ih (these two are something for sure but they do be good)

Epsilon and RHO-13 (THESE TWO ARE SO SILLY)

Krit and raylan (WHEN BROTERS ARE FISH AND GO NYMMMMM)

Ajax and rayko (how did I not know about these two and now I am so attached to them)

Sherwood and hayraen (autocorrect would not let me have hayraen)

Sherbert and………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (sadness)

Caine and Raemus (autocorrect also doesn’t like these names either)

Ashril and Draeke (WHEN DID ASH HAVE A BROTER WHAT SINSE WHEN HEH MY ADHD BRAIN MISSED THIS)

Midas and Rael (well not anymoreeeeeeeeeee)

[lennox0arts]

Icarus by the crane wives

Its so broters coded it hurts

[lucenare]

my top song on spotify this year was one i listened to ehile brainrotting over young broters. just thought id share that

[villainsally]

call them brothers by Regina spektor is so eyeduo

[lynxthewolf1]

When somebody loved me from Toy Story 2 is broters coded.

The beginning of the song is when they were younger

The next bit is when fable showed up and they started to drift apart

“So the years went by

I stayed the same

But she began to drift away

I was left alone

Still, I waited for the day

When she'd say, "I will always love you"

Lonely and forgotten

Never thought she'd look my way

And she smiled at me and held me

Just like she used to do

Like she loved me

When she loved me”

Finale part of the song is now Icurus throwing the potion on Rae and after figuring out he was gonna be fine flying away

“When somebody loved me

Everything was beautiful

Every hour we spent together

Lives within my heart

When she loved me”

[caspianrayne]

them>>>>

redraw!

Today:

the version from last year:

[honeyteller]

Here’s Headcanons.

Rae and Icarus played those two player games a lot on their comms. When Icarus came back from being Quixis, Rae asked Icarus if they wanted to play those games again. Icarus got flooded with memories of laughing so hard with Rae that he accepted.

When Rae was born, Icarus tried to make him a blanket but failed. Little Icarus didn’t know how to embroider or sew so they learned from Isla.

Each of the broters has a baby blanket. We all know Rae’s was blue. I would like to think Icarus’s was yellow or gold at first but then when their eye started bleeding it turned yellow and purple. (Oh and Rae’s had little stars and moon embroidered while Icarus’s had a sun and clouds.)

Athena’s baby blanket was the soul dark teal with red and gold. It had little patterns over it that looked like their outfits Wanda (I think it was..?) gave them.

When Soul was freed from her curse, she took Athena to the place where she kept Athena’s baby blanket. The blanket was still in good ish condition (since it was in the nether but hidden away). Soul wrapped it around Athena’s shoulders like a cape kind of.

Violet and Icarus plays competitive games with each other. It’s not for the competition, it’s too see who gets more angry during it. Afterwards, they both laugh and tell each other their pov of the event

[flameishstudios]

It’s how Fable kept telling Rae that Icarus wasn’t alone, but just minutes later, he left Icarus alone, in the birdcage house once again

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

having mal and peri thoughts again ; I think, pretty much the whole time they were walking back out, peri was really shaky but also had that kind "dont touch me right now" vibe about him - and I think while everyone was respecting that, Mal was absolutely hovering right next to him keeping up a short conversation just in case he started to zone out ; at some point they ending up kinda hooking their pinkies togther for comfort . (and at some point peri was leaning very heavily into her because you know . dying + funky oracle dream isn't- fun, and probably makes it very hard to feel- real for a while after. or something)

[whosthere54]

Okay so I was thinking about brothers as I do and I saw a post a while ago highlight this a little but I was just thinking about the effect of the parents they grew up with.

Rae didn’t know fable until later, he was raised by Isla through and through and he shows that so incredibly clearly.

Icarus was raised mainly by Fable. Following him around early on as he raised them to mirror his actions and behaviors. Isla was there, sure, but how much did she really raise Icarus? I think she had a part, and that is why Icarus second guesses their actions like they do, and the way they have a proper sense of morality even if it is altered. But they only had Isla around for that little bit, the rest of their time was spent with Fable.

Rae was raised by fable as well, but not in the same way. The way he raised Icarus was well calculated and intentional. And the way he pushed Rae away even more so, because he knows how his child works. He knows if he treats Rae a certain way Icarus will mimic his behavior because they have done so since they barely able to talk.

Isla’s time of disappearance is when they are still very young, and that has its effect. Their minds are still malleable, and the time between Isla’s disappearance and Fable coming to his children is planned. He knows they will adjust to having to live without an adult, and he can insert himself or any other adult into their lives so easily because they are desperate.

Icarus is desperate for validation, they would take that from anyone even if it want their father. Rae was following Icarus like a lost puppy, even when they pushed him away he would always come back. Icarus loved that, they held onto the thought that they would never be alone because even with how they treated him (which they wouldn’t have understood was wrong at the time). They woeuld always have their little brother, their smart, kind, wonderful little brother. (Even if they didn’t understand the effect their behavior would have on him, have on his mind, they would do it anyways because they were never taught otherwise.)

And I think that’s neat.

[potatoesmoomaddie]

Every Sherbert needs a Rae and I cry over the fact that not every Sherbert got a Rae <3

[lennox0arts]

then cry /j

Head canon

Icarus gets freaked out by a bruise or a sunburn, as they are terrified that it is them being recourupted.

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Icarus was, to put it simply, freaking out. Webs of pink and red worked up their arms, peeling and flaking in an all too familiar way that made Icarus sick to their stomach. They ran a scarred hand through their hair as they paced the length of their bedroom. They payed no mind to quixis as their floor changed from wood to shroomlights, and their lanterns changed to torches, walking over the changed flooring with anxiety-ridden steps. What are they going to do?!

"I... I need to tell Rae." They breathed, scratching the red skin, before pulling out their communicator. They looked down at it then back up at their inflamed arms. "Skrew it." They sighed.

They took off, flapping their wings frantically, trying to suppress the memories of flying over the endstone islands, spying on the others. They ended up almost crashing into Rae in their preoccupied state.

"Icarus? What?-" Rae started.

"Rae. It's back. It's back and I don't know what to do. Rae- I can't hurt you again-" Icarus rambled, practically breaking the others shoulder as they clinged to him. Rae froze, an expression of calculated terror painted on his face.

"Icarus, I-" Rae tried, only to be cut off again.

"Rae, I need you to keep me away from them. I.. i.." Sherb choked, reaching up and running their shaking hand through their hair. Rae stood, looking dumbstruck

"Icarus, why do you think it's coming back?" He asked his sibling tentatively.

They scratched at their arm, holding them out towards Rae. The arms were now bleeding from the alchemist's scratching, covering the peeling skin.

"Icarus, you..." Rae laughed. "Icarus that's a sunburn..."

"It..." They looked down at their arms, "Oh thank the gods-" he breathed, laughing. They wiped their eye, which had collected tears and blood and was now leaking tears of relief.

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