#Gopher Wood

[aventurineswife]

hear me out: sunday x reader, but when Sunday was Bronze Melodia and reader is someone who Gopher (and by extension, Sunday bc y’know grooming.) considers a sinner. Sunday finds himself falling for reader, but kinda mentally battling between love and what he was taught. aka religious trauma sunday ig (bonus points if he argues w gophers nasty ahh)

u can decide what to do with the rest :D just a lil concept i wanted to throw out

"Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies."

Summary: You are deemed as a "sinner" by the Oak Family, led by Gopher Wood, and is frequently summoned to the Dreamscape. Sunday, once a revered figure as Bronze Melodia, is tasked with guiding lost souls, but he begins to question the teachings he’s spent his life upholding. As he finds himself drawn to you, his inner battle between duty and newfound emotions intensifies. Torn between his role and the love he’s beginning to feel, Sunday faces a difficult choice—one that challenges the very core of his existence within the Oak Family.

Tags: Sunday x Reader, Religious Trauma, Forbidden Love, Angst, Slow Burn, Emotional Struggle, Conflicted Feelings.

Warnings: Religious themes (exploration of indoctrination and guilt), Emotional conflict (internal struggles, self-doubt, and identity crisis), Mentorship/Manipulation, Angst (heavy emotional tension and heartache), Mild violence(?).

In the Dreamscape, Sunday is Bronze Melodia—a revered figure among Penacony's people, tasked with guiding lost souls under the Oak Family's watchful eye. You've become his frequent visitor, someone Gopher Wood has labeled a “sinner,” a title that weighs heavily on your shoulders and darkens your interactions in the Dreamscape. Gopher’s sermons have painted you as a threat to the Order, yet there's something about you that draws Sunday closer, unsettling the foundations of everything he’s been taught.

It begins in quiet moments: Sunday, reserved yet diligent, listens as you confide your thoughts and fears. You sense his inner conflict in the way his hands tremble ever so slightly as they rest on the pages of his book, the way his gaze occasionally softens before hardening again. He's polite, distant as Bronze Melodia, yet there’s an undeniable pull between you—one that frightens and fascinates him.

One evening, when the weight of Gopher’s teachings grows too heavy, Sunday finds himself seeking solace in your presence. As you speak, he’s caught between his role and the truth that he feels stirring within. You challenge the ideals he's held all his life, quietly unraveling the bindings of his loyalty to Gopher’s ideals. But still, he’s torn. He’s been raised to believe you’re dangerous, yet your gentleness speaks louder than Gopher’s condemnations.

Sunday can’t help but wrestle with his emotions in moments of solitude, replaying your words and Gopher's warnings over and over. The idea that love and care could exist outside of the Order’s defined “purity” haunts him, conflicting with the strict doctrines he’s internalized. Finally, unable to stay silent, he confronts Gopher.

In a tense exchange, Sunday questions Gopher's labeling of you as a “sinner,” a term that has started to feel hollow in the face of what he feels for you. Gopher's response is calm but chilling, reminding Sunday of his place, of the Order that has made him who he is. Yet Sunday doesn’t back down entirely, holding onto the fragments of his love for you. In the end, Gopher leaves him with a choice—one that could seal his fate within the Oak Family or cast him out as an exile.

Sunday returns to you, conflicted but resolute. He confides in you, sharing the depth of his battle against the values ingrained in him. Your presence becomes a grounding force, something that feels like hope amidst his turmoil. While he’s not ready to completely turn away from the Dreamscape and the Oak Family, he begins to imagine a world where he can both honor his beliefs and explore the connection that has grown between you.

(Art credit to @oversaltedcat on Twitter/X)

[nnayomaise]

time machine

[n4tsum1-san]

2.3 was short but fun

(actually a lot of these memes are relevant to 2.2 but i made them late so i'm posting them now)

the following two images are dedicated to my fav simulated universe events:

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Planet of Festivities Collectible Cards

Upscaled version by 景三尧 on Weibo

[pawnyao]

Pride month gopher wood and sunday

[b1adie]

[ruru2406]

hello everyone !! sorry for not posting in ages, i promise i’m still surviving & thriving somehow ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ i’ve been really into hsr lately, so i hope you can enjoy these wips (the second img is of gopher wood)

[scarlettroubles]

Favorite Son

[sporkkles-irl]

mesmerizer angel siblings but its lore accurate

[ducko-l]

Hello please hold the dove gently he means a lot to me. Do not shake him no dont do that hey stop. The raven you can take shake him all you want.

[erieri333]

Since no one said it yet. (I just finished penacony and I'm not okay)

[nnayomaise]

amazing happy halloween night x hsr

extra that i wanted to do but i am not drawing all those damn cartoon characters. but this is a callback to the web event. i think about it a lot. all of the clockie characters are based off of real people from penacony's history. sunday is the only one there who is just himself. idk if it speaks to just how young he is that despite being the head of the oak family he doesn't have his own caricature or not but. yeah. i just think about it a lot.

[lotreckk]

yes pay child support mikhail these children need support

[wurstigdurstig]

family reading time ☹

[kuniikunii]

They all look the same 😿

[b1adie]

so i’m sure u guys also noticed this bird hanging around. if u recall, we first saw it on sunday’s shoulder in black swan’s trailer

i think the bird is Gopher Wood. there’s no info about this guy yet except that you can find his planet of festivities card on the edge of the sandpit, and his name is the type of wood used to build noah’s arc.

given his appearance, location of his card, and name, i thought he’d be the head of the nightingale family, but we already know who that is (sir whittaker). so… i think this guy is sunday’s little spy bird (his “servant,” as he calls it).

he has a haircut that looks a lot like the bird’s head, the same mark on his chest as the bird (and sunday), and an actual bird on his shoulder.

the only noticeable difference is he has a torn and scarred wing, and the bird doesn’t. bet if he opened those eyes they’d be the same as that bird’s!!!

edit I WAS RIGHTTTTT