#Khr Luce

[downdelions]

destiny...

[steamworksfairy]

You ever think about how the Arcobaleno all have intense cryptic energy?

Like Skull literally can't die. And because he's so loser core (affectionate) he's died in front of people so many times only to get back up like nothing happened.

Reborn....*points the guy with a chameleon that changes into different weapons*. Tbh if you told me he was an alien, I'd believe you.

The Vindice are basically the men in black.

Verde... no one knows if he's an alien, a guy from the future hell bent on giving us better technology to prevent a future catastrophe, or a tired government agent who doesn't get paid enough to babysit his cryptids and therefore doesn't.

Lal, however, is the too tired government agent who does babysit her crypids. Help jer she's suffering and in need of coffee and a break.

Fon *points to Hibari and Alaude* he's clearly a clone. Those are clones! People are being cloned-

Mammon is that shadowy cryptid you can only ever capture blurry pictures for. And then you receive a bill in the mail charging you for said picture. Basically urban legend status. There's a rumor going around if you take a picture of this strange cloaked person you will in fact go bankrupt.

Colonello is that strange inhuman creature that fell in love with the government agent lady who watches him. People assume he's from a super soldier program. Like some kind Marvel bs with Winter Soilder or Captain America or the DC version of that, Deathstroke. He's clearly human but also not.

Luce, Aria, and Yuni are 110% the most normal out of all of them, tho. Definitely not decents of a secret race of non humans that existed pre-humans. Nope, those girls are humans 💚

[bcjad7902]

[analviel]

Team Dynamics

I added the text in gallery so I hope you can still see it, but if not, here it is:

Luce- responsible for figuring out the destination, the mission, and whether to drive thru McDonald's or KFC. Impossible job in this group.

Skull- gets them wherever they need to be. Main responsibility is to keep the car moving. Many people's first instinct is to shoot the driver. Good luck with that.

Berde- made the car, can be trusted for any repairs and upgrades, is as physically invulnerable as Skull is unkillable, has easy access to Luce's seat and is between Tanvi and Rafel.

Lal- middle is a good place to call out shots and strategy on field, an all-rounder with specialty in hand to hand, very opinionated, and almost as good at rallying up others as she is at riling up others.

Reborn- has a tendency to go off on his own to create drama, Not A Healer, specializes in mid-range with second close-combat, and easier to rile up than you'd expect.

Viper- is provided a wide range of awareness through the Mist that blankets everything always, makes a natural scout and gossip, perches on everything and everyone, and has an eye for the value a person can be sold at their best price- and a bit more.

Colonnello- sniper, Lal's plus one, took Viper's designated seat, is second in line to deal with long-range opponents, always takes Lal's side especially against Reborn.

Liu Fan- is the most physically inclined of everyone so his seat is the first to be given up in case of extra baggage since he can just run to where he needs to be quickly, has zero contribution to defense, and downright impossible to defend against when your attention was otherwise preoccupied up front with seemingly better targets.

I just realized Colonnello looks so low-effort- I mean he is, but not bcs I don't like him, I just imagine him always falling asleep in the car.

[ketchup-chup]

Arcobaleno Pre-Curse Heights

A quick disclaimer before we begin. I am not the best at guessing heights based just off images but I tried my best. If anyone has any corrections do let me know.

Canon:

Lal Mirch: 5’5 (166 cm)

Uni: 4’10 (148 cm)

Luce: 5’7 (170 cm)

Assumptions based on manga panels:

Reborn: 6’1 – 6’2 (186-189 cm)

Fon: 5’8 – 5’9 (175 cm)

Mammon: 4’11 (150 cm)

Aria: 5’5 (165 cm)

Unknown:

Colonnello

Verde

Skull

More info and explanations under the cut ↓

Another important thing to note beforehand. Many of the pictures of the Arcobaleno drawn all together by both the Amano themselves or the anime are very inconsistent, or they're standing at angles/strange perspectives, so it makes it impossible to tell their heights. Therefore, I will not be using those as references except for in one case which you will see further down.

Lal Mirch: Lal's official uncursed height was confirmed in the REBORN! ēlDLIVE character's 365 book.

Uni: Uni's official height was confirmed in the REBORN! ēlDLIVE character's 365.

Luce: Luce’s official height was confirmed on her display at the Amano Akira Exhibition (it also says she likes basking in the sun/sunbathing which is so cute). Unfortunetly, it was only Luce's who's uncursed height was revealed at this event.

Reborn: Mostly going off this image of his fight with Iemitsu. They are both at an angle, and both a little slouched (Reborn more so due to him having his arms being held down). However, it's obvious they are at least very similar in height if not the same height. Iemitsu's canon height is 189 cm or 6’2 thus I placed Reborn at around the same.

Fon: Fon's height seems to be pretty similar to Hibari's! Perhaps a little taller if anything since in the photo below he's leaning away and down a bit (since Hibari is hitting him) and Hibari even seems to be slouching a tiny bit. Hibari's canon height is 169 cm or 5'6 maybe even 5'7. And so I placed Fon a few inches taller.

Mammon: Okay, Mammon's used a bit more of guess work but I'm pretty confident in my choice. In the photo below Bel is obviously leaning down quite a bit but if he were to stand up straight it would seem Mammon head would reach their chest. Bel is 170 or around 5’7. Looking at a height comparison chart/website, for someone to reach Bel's chest at the height I predicted they would be about 4'11 (150 cm). Not to mention Bel himself says to them "but your size is pretty compact".

Aria: Little hard to tell here since the first pic she’s at an angle (at least I’m assuming). but she’s a little past Gamma’s shoulder. Gamma is 6 foot (185 cm) so I placed Aria is about 5’5 (165 cm) (once again using the height comparison chart).

Colonnello: OKAY SO. This is a struggle for me. Ultimately I placed him still as unknown as the information was too inconsistent. Here are pics of Colonnello next to Lal. We see that her head is to his chest, the top hitting his shoulders. Lal is 5'5 (166 cm). Using my height calculator that would place Colonnello at 6'6 (198 cm)?????

Now, the reason I can't 100% get behind this is if we look at the photo below! Obviously they're all at an angle and perspective is weird so we can't actually use this as a reference! However, I do believe there is some truth in it and here you can not tell me Colonnello looks 6'6!! At the very least though I think we can confirm he's most likely the tallest of them unless one day we discover Verde or Skull are giants.

Verde: Unfortunetly he does not appear to stand next to anyone while uncursed so I can not compare heights.

Skull: Skull only briefly stands in front of Enma while uncursed for a bit. However, Enma is crouched down so it would be very hard for me to compare heights.

If anyone has any additional thoughts or information please let me know!

[dreaming-hibi]

Kawahira using one of the hell rings basically mean he’s MIST flames…. and Luce being chosen as the sky Arcobaleno means she’s sky (as well as Aria and Yuni)… so even true earthlings have flame types…. so perhaps the problems wasn’t about numbers but more of the fact that they didn’t have the required flame types to light up all the tri-ni-sette stones…..

[hopeswriting]

Apologies I am late to this conversation but I always assumed the reason Aria and Uni were not made into babies was just because of how they received the pacifiers. That Luce was still a baby, and most likely whoever of the orange pacifiers was cursed through the events of the representative battle or the fated day became babies but their descendants who were cursed outside of it didn’t. Did I just make that all up in my mind for all these years?

Why is Luce always drawn as a baby then?

hi nonny, thank you for your ask!

well idk about you making it all up in your mind lol, but as much as canon doesn't deny it, it also doesn't imply it's the case. and imo the way i see it, i don't see why it'd be the case?

like i agree the representative war and the fated day are the "official" ways to be cursed, yet they're still two different ways to go about it, right? and canon tells us that either way, the sky arco aren't turned into babies. so when it comes to the third way of inheriting the pacifier like with the sky arco, i don't see why the rules of the sky arco's curse should suddenly change in that case. like, they still end up cursed the exact same way as luce was/the other arco are, aren't they? like, the weight and technicalities of the curse stay the same no matter what, so that's why to me, it makes more sense that it'd still operate under the same rules. that said, your reasoning holds up just as well in canon too, so if you like it better, by all means stick with it!

now why IS she always drawn as a baby lmao. 😭 that sure is the million-dollar question nonny. (outside the anime fillers, that is, which aren't canon, but even in the manga it happens.) like, as much as byakuran explicitly states that the forms of the sky arco don't change in the rainbow arc (and that in exchange they're cursed with a short lifespan), there's still mixed signals in the manga that kind of contradicts that. but well, amano went out of her way to make byakuran say that, so that's what i personally go with and stick with anyway. if for no other reason than because, like. imagine you're cursed just the same as your fellow arco, with you being turned into a baby and having your flames constantly stolen by the pacifier, but then you, specifically, are also cursed with a short lifespan going forwards just because???

also if the short lifespan is in exchange for them not being turned into babies, then it also explains why the arco are turned into babies to begin with. looking at those two facts together, it seems that the weight of the curse is too heavy for their normal bodies to bear it without them meeting an early death, and one way or another, them being turned into babies makes them more suitable to bear it for longer. (which of course both kawahira and the trinisette would gain from it, because it means they can feed off their flames for longer amount of time at a time.)

[rebo-chan]

Alright, I wanted to make this post bc of the discussions going on in my blog abt Luce and her role on the Fated Day. Since, I feel like it's been sort of lost amongst it all. For this post, I'm gonna be using the anime fillers (I consider them canon, it's okay if you don't, but I think it has the most Luce content available to us and it's also where this idea that Luce is manipulative seems to be derived from even though I don't personally believe that's a fair assessment on what hapened within the fillers). Some notes before, if you consider her manipulative because you think it's fun to play with that within your fanfic, GO AHEAD, I'M ALL FOR IT. I will die on the hill for your right to write that. You'll never catch me begging you not to, and to the anon who wrote the initial confession, I support your headcanon that you had.

Cut for length

It's another thing to consider Canon Luce as such though!! Throughout Future Arc, Luce is mentioned in a positive light with this tragic undertone to everything around her. Reborn and Lal speak to Yuni positively about her. Saying that Yuni's demeanor reminds them of Luce's. Reborn goes out of his way to tell Gamma that he shouldn't wait for something to shift between Yuni and him, because if you wait too long, the Sky Arcobaleno will slip out of your hands. You WILL lose them. This is doubled down with a visual of Luce on Reborn's side. He considers her death a LOSS to him and he's warning another person who loves a Sky Arcobaleno to move fast because the world will take them away if you don't. Reborn isn't Tsuna, open and forgiving and welcoming. If you DO him wrong, he holds onto that grudge. He's someone who was forged from the flames of the Mafia and is the first to remind Tsuna that the mafia IS cruel.

Some examples of this include that he is the one who tells Tsuna not to forget so easily what Mukuro had done to them. When a KHR antagonist goes too far, (Xanxus with the Ninth, Byakuran with Yuni) he is drawing his gun. He's stated to have hunted down Checkerface before being forced to acknowledge that this curse is his to bare now.

He's not inherently kindhearted!! (Not to say there's not kindness in there, it's just calculated for him) I truly believe that if Luce had done him dirty, we would have SEEN it on him. He's STILL lowkey annoyed about Xanxus as seen in TYL arc, sighing when Xanxus shoots Kikyo in the middle of his desperate wails.

But Luce? Luce in his eyes is nothing but good. To him, what's happened to Luce, her daughter, and her granddaughter is no one's fault but Checkerface's.

Now, the Fated Day. We know that Checkerface went out of his way to find the Strongest Seven. There was no one except Reborn who Checkerface wanted to protect the Sun Pacifier. No one but Lal for rain, no one but Skull for cloud, no one but Viper for Mist, no one but Verde for Lightning, no one but Fon for Storm, and no one but Luce for Sky. There was NO getting out of it. It didn't go all according to plan, since Colonnello interrupted the Ritual (TM) (or whatever it was lol). But that WAS the plan. It's here that Reborn looks at Luce and thinks, we all had no idea this was going to happen, except for Luce. Now, I assume this is where ALL our manipulative Luce reads span from. Let me direct us back to an earlier filler scene, where Reborn and Luce are depicted talking at night. Reborn asks her if she's sure about what she's doing, that she can step down, since she has an important role to her family. Then she tells him that it's her destiny and that she cannot avoid it. He THEN goes on to a little bit mockingly say "I don't believe in destiny" but decides to humor her anyway and tell her he believes what she's saying.

He knew that Luce felt like she was tied down by Some Force Stronger than her, not that he believed that was real at that point. I said this in my reply to the anon, but we really don't know HOW far ahead Luce saw. Just that she knew she couldn't escape from it. Is it possible that she knew the weight of Trinisette, that she can't turn away from this because someone has to restore balance? We even hear her within the fillers say that she can't bear to bring her daughter into this same destiny. Doesn't that imply in a way she doesn't see everything? She didn't know what would happen to Aria or to Yuni? Or that she even knew that the Sky arcos died early? Who's to say that she saw even the other Arcobaleno also becoming cursed?

We see in another earlier scene with Gamma and Aria, about Aria being frustrated she couldn't save someone despite having visions. Those visions clearly AREN'T perfect. They're a curse!!! Aria hated those things!! And Yuni felt chained by them, afraid that she had to do what she could to bring upon a better future, INCLUDING letting herself die.

There's not enough information to say that Luce did this out of malicious intent or that she believed COULD have saved anyone (Or if saving them was even the right answer?). Or that she even sacrificed them to Trinisette. Hell, in those flashbacks, there's nothing to imply that she DIDN'T try to tell them. Lal introduces her as the world's greatest clairovayant, but Reborn is also like "lol ok your lil destiny or whatever". (Which is a little sweet and funny, bc you never see him lacking again on those trinisette ass visions LOL. hes always asking Tsuna and Yuni what they saw, if they found something. He aint gonna get caught lacking again) All we know is that she sacrificed herself to Trinisette because she knew there was no escape.

In all, I think that scene where Reborn is stating that Luce knew this was going to happen, is MEANT to be phrased with the tone of "And she still let herself be cursed." The choice to leave was everyone else's with whatever information they had, but SHE stayed knowing what was going to happen to her. She's never been anything less than tragic in KHR's canon.

I've talked about Amano's writing in detail with my friend, and we both agree that Amano is not a deceptive writer. The narrative isn't lying to you or trying to trick you on anything. Every suspicious thing in the series is written as exactly that! Suspicious! If none of the characters see Luce in this manipulative light where she could have saved them and chose not to, then they would have SAID that. I mean they do it with Xanxus and his cruelty towards his men in Varia arc. They do it with Byakuran with his lack of care for Genkishi. But Luce? Luce is framed as so good in the narrative. The first pillar of sacrifice for the greater good. Offering up herself to this unknown curse just to protect trinisette.

Again, if you want to write her as manipulative, please go right ahead. I think there's something fun there to poke at, because what happened afterwards from the fated day. It's just not canon and when we speak of how canon luce should be interpreted, I think it's important to be honest about the intentions from amano, as well as the filler directors in terms of the story they're trying to TELL the audience.

I'm sorry if this is jumbled and messy. I have a lot going on rn and I'm always exhausted </3

[einsatzzz]

"Are you and I really seeing the world the same way?"

A drawing referenced from one of Bokura's thumbnails, featuring Apple (@butterrdream's OC) and Luce.

Bokura is about two best friends who attempted to run away from home towards somewhere far away. They then strangely found themselves seeing two completely different worlds despite being next to each other,

Luce is the one who ends up having the vision of a very colorful world in the forest, full of smiling animals. Yet, this is also the sight that has the most gruesome spectacles of bloody twisted flesh.

On the other hand, Apple is the one who ends up having the vision of a cold apocalyptic world, full of robots and mechanical structures. Despite this, she somehow gains the ability to "fix" certain broken machines by reconnecting their "broken parts" (as long as it's not too late for them).

To emphasize the difference in what they're seeing, these broken machines are wounded living beings in Luce's eyes. While Apple thinks she's connecting these "electrical cords" back together, Luce is seeing her connect severed intestines back together. It's something like that 😃💀😃💀😃💀

I really recommend playing the game or watching a playthrough of it, to see it for yourself! (My personal pair recommendation: Auban + Sani) This is a co-op game, and in most of the playthroughs I watched, the streamers played it with their besties, which initially inspired me to draw it with Apple & Luce 🥺💖

I was so happy when Butter confirmed to me that the two different POVs the boys in the game had matched Luce and Apple's a lot! So I went through with this 🫶✨

I actually have another variation of this in my wips right now featuring Shiki & Rei, but that's for another day. Ladies first everyone! And now that I think about, it also fits Yui and Kurumi in terms of world POV difference, plus other pairs of besties in this fandom. This game concept + thumbnail composition are truly very versatile!

[myrmyrtheorca]

Your art is so beautiful! The way you draw, the strength of your lines where you want to attract attention and the softness around makes everything look ethereal and I love it ❤️

I really need a course on how to respond to such delightful compliments because I'm truly speechless

I can't thank you enough for taking the time to let me know this 🩵 I'm happy to hear that my art brings you joy in some way

Here's a pair of sketches I managed to make at work while reflecting on your lovely comment.

I think you really hit the nail in the head: my favorite things to draw and those that I think I can do best are all "soft" in a way- hair, capes, flames, smoke. I grew comfortable with all those parts that include flowy lines, and that's why you see me posting mostly portraits and upper torsos, long dresses, capes and similar stuff (what are arms? Wrists? Hands???? I don't know how those things work. Legs? I can manage, but god forbid I learn how to draw arms. Also can we talk about Reborn's fedora? I've tried drawing that thing like 100 times and NOT ONCE did I get it right, it's out of this world)

KHR basically taught me how to draw, I took my first real steps thanks to tracing official art and screencaps from the anime. I've always loved Akira Amano's style which I think peaked in post future arc and that's the kind of flowy, soft style I want to achieve.

Also, if it wasn't for my love for inking the outlines and watercolour, I'd leave all my drawings as pencil sketches like the ones above and the ones you see me posting sometimes. I think there's something so... "ethereal", as you said, about unfinished sketches. They feel so alive and natural to me.

I like them unfinished, with little to no background detail - and this applies to other artists as well! I love it when they leave the basic anatomy lines in the sketch for example, it truly shows an idea's progression to basic lines to the rest.

I hope I was clear enough - I've written this between phone calls because it was a good occasion to talk about why I post unfinished sketches so often. Sometimes I find it even more fun and rewarding than a full blown coloured illustration - speaking of which, Tristam's character sheet is coming as soon as I figure out how to colour that bastard because he's being difficult to me, with all his fabulous goth aesthetic and all

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Mom, can we have arcobaleno?

No, we already have arcobaleno at home

Arcobaleno at home:

[salmonight]

Katekyo Hitman Reborn Emoji Package Pt. 1

Been obsessed with KHR crossover fics for months now so I thought if i have DC emojis already why not make some KHR ones too? And of course I had to start with the acrobalenos!

Gonna draw the rest of them too.. probably

[steamworksfairy]

I drew the Arcobaleno! I'm calling it pre-curse just because no matter how many times I tried to draw Colonnello, I didn't like how he turned out. Which means I just have to practice drawing him more in the future >:3

Anyways I'm really proud of how they all turned out. Especially Luce and Verde. A lot of this was just me experimenting and seeing if I could draw them. I learned a lot and had fun doing it!

[analviel]

Lal Mirch: Hey guys, so what did everyone come for Halloween?

Luce: Hi, nice armor you just put on top of your uniform to be a fantasy knight, I like your hairstyle. I'm a fairytale princess, the kind that has little to no actual responsibility except sit pretty. I thought it'd be a nice change. Viper is a genie.

Lal: I actually have a job, we didn't have time to get creative. Colonnello is a soldier in a zombie apocalypse -he just didn't clean the blood and dirt he got on his uniform. I thought they hated genies.

Colonnello: Oh, hey, free wishes for an entire day? I want infinite ice cream to eat!

Luce: Wait-

Colonnello: *becomes ice cream that he can eat infinitely*

Luce: Viper is specifically the genie that grants wishes in every way except how you mean it.

Verde: Yeah. That makes more sense.

Lal Mirch: How did you figure that out?

Luce: What about you Verde?

Verde: I'm a mummy. Half-eaten by victorians. I'm the horror of having your death utterly desecrated.

Reborn: Nice.

Verde: And you?

Reborn: I'm existential crisis.

Fon: Same. But a vampire.

Reborn: But I'm also a flower alien that will move closer only when you look away.

Colonnello: Except for the body horror part, this is actually pretty chill. Get it?

Luce: You're melting.

Fon: That's the climate change.

Colonnello: *slurps himself* Still make a damn good matcha ice cream.

Lal Mirch: What about you Skull? You just added a bunch of fur on top of your usual absurd amount of leather.

Skull: I'm a werewolf.

Reborn: Furry.

Fon: That's weird, Skull.

Skull: Hey! I'm not- and don't kink shame!

Reborn: Don't shame your kink. What kind of fake plastic fur do you think you're wearing?

Skull: Not my kink! Also what kind of fur am I supposed to wear? A real one? That's animal abuse.

Reborn: Not if done properly and you're willing to pay for that.

Luce: Exactly.

Skull: You know what, I did walk into this one.

Reborn: Also, what do you think you're doing, wearing Snow White when you've never done labor a day in your life.

Luce: I can bake. And make a shrill noise like a whistle.

Viper: Yes you can. You could've gone as sleeping beauty be a pair with Reborn, being a flower of some kind and thorny. Or Belle, and went as a pair with Skull.

Luce: Who wants to get pricked by Reborn on halloween when we do that every other day of the year anyways. He's a prick. Also I'm not a furry.

Fon: You could've gone as Ariel and not talked to anyone

Luce:....... I will name my firstborn after you.

[moonlit-mystery-writer]

My Oc's Relationships with the Arcobaleno

First and foremost I want to clarify that these are romantic relationships that all formed before the Arcobaleno Curse happened and it's one big polycule. For more information on my Oc, Celeste, here's the link for my KHR Oc Masterlist

I hope you all enjoy!!

Tw: Attempted suicide. I don't go into any graphic details or anything, but it's still there and a pretty pivotal point for one of Celeste's relationships.

@childe-of-saulot @myrmyrtheorca @lixenn

Skull: Why are we starting off with Skull? Why because he's her dearest childhood best friend of course! The two of them met very young at 4 at the circus Skull's parents were apart of. They bonded near instantly with each other. To the point child her was in complete hysterics and inconsolable when she had to leave him for days afterwards. As one of the two potential heiresses for her mafia family, this simply couldn't be allowed. So through events neither child understood at the time (*cough* her family pressuring his parents and the circus to give him up *cough*) Skull started living with his grandparents who lived in walking distance of her. She spend basically every second of every day with him. Her family didn't care too much, seeing her as just the spare in case her older sister failed as the first heiress and seeing Skull as just a plaything or her lackey. (This man can never escape the lackey allegations)

The two of them have been through thick and thin. They've seen each other at their worst and their best. She's why he understood flames pretty well even before joining the Arcobaleno and getting involved with the mafia. Celeste definitely fell for him first, but he fell harder. In their late teens, she even started to plan out their future together; 3 kids, he owns an auto-repair shop, and she's a stay-at-home mom who does mafia stuff on the side. The idea at the time flustered him, but he also loved it so so so much. Things took a turn for them though when her family figured out her sister didn't have strong enough Mist flames or illusions to take the position as boss, but she did.

Her time with him was limited, but he could see how much everything was draining her. Once a brilliant star who swayed with all kinds of music and overflowing with love and kindness was slowly decaying into a bitter rock aimlessly floating in the void of space. As a Cloud, he naturally hates things that bind and clip wings, for himself or for those he holds dear. So when she showed up on his doorstep in the middle of the night begging for help and pleading for him to help her run away before she offically inherits the title of boss; of course he helped her get far away. This leads to the two of them joining a new circus.

Originally, they preformed a trapeze act together. Skull, having mild experience from his childhood, and Celeste, having done gymnastics almost her whole life, easily got used to this and learned everything like fish to water. They even made the hand signals to communicate with each other that Skull now uses to command Oodako! However, after a few months, both quickly got bored doing the same thing nightly. So they decided it was time for a change! Around this time is also when Skull becomes more of a daredevil. Celeste supports it wholeheartedly and does acts to compliment his daring ones, namely tightrope walking or occasional magic performances with her illusion.

A year since they ran away soon pass, Skull is now famous for his stunts and being immortal, both literally to those who know him and figuratively to his fans. Celeste couldn't be happier! Maybe this is finally the life they're meant to have and settle down in! Then one night, he simply disappears. Only leaving a vague note to her about Italy and a man with a checker patterned mask. Devasted and desperate to find Skull again, Celeste contacts her mafia family and takes the boss title to use their resources to locate him.

It takes her another year to find him, but when she does, she rushes to him and instantly tries to get him to come home with her. Something the other Arcobaleno aren't happy with at the time.

Nowadays, post-getting cursed, Celeste and Skull are still super close. She's not actively romantic with him (or any of the Arcos) anymore, because she's not comfortable doing so in his cursed form. However, he's still the one she calls up when she's at her lowest. He's still the one she shares good news with first. She's part of his motivation for getting his curse broken. (We ignore the creepy fact the Arcobaleno don't go back to their real ages in this household. Because what the actual fuck Akira Amano???)

Luce: Onto Luce!! As stated, the other Arcobaleno weren't happy with the fact Celeste just showed up one day and tried to take Skull from them. Namely because he was their Cloud and she was infamous in the mafia world at that point for being a run away heiress. Luce, out of the group, was the least upset about it though. Being the type of person she was, she did her best to understand Celeste's view of the situation. To her, Skull had simply run away, or possibly even taken, to join this group of strangers in the mafia. Of course she'd want him home. Luce understood this. But while she never let Celeste take Skull away, she did do her best to get the others to leave Celeste alone and let her tag along with them. At least for awhile.

However, when a rather nasty spat with Reborn ends with Celeste running away and Skull coming to her in tears and begging for her to help Celeste because she was refusing to listen to him, Luce stepped in fully. Finding where the woman had gone wasn't hard for the Sky in the slightest, the Giglio Nero family is expansive and she holds a lot of power even if she doesn't flex often as a grown woman. Celeste wasn't too upset to be found, having expected it, but was surprised to see it was Luce. She kept her distance, assuming the other woman would've done the same, only for Luce to carefully waltz her away from the roof edge of the restaurant she'd been having her last meal.

Celeste had been burned, figuratively, from her rather shitty Sky. She never thought she'd find a Sky she could fully trust. But Luce, in moments, proved she could and more. In moments, she fell for the woman hard. Luce, for her, was perfect and everything she ever wanted in a Sky and in a partner outside of Skull. For the rest of that night, Luce stayed by her side and even ordered them some wine to drink. Wasn't until months later that Luce learned that Celeste hates red wine. And when Celeste was simply exhausted afterwards, Luce carried her back to the base and let her sleep in her room. And after that night, Luce made it crystal clear to the others they needed to back off of Celeste and stop picking so many fights with her.

Luce didn't fall for Celeste and it was far more gradual than how Celeste fell for her. When they were finally together though, they quickly became an almost cheesily cutesy couple. Both out a genuine love and because it annoyed others in such a way they both found it funny. After two years of dating, they get "married". Legally, they're married to Reborn and Skull, however to anyone close to them and to the mafia world, they're the ones married to each other. It was a beautiful June wedding.

When Luce died, Celeste took it hard. However, she had to pick herself and her pieces up, for the other Arcobaleno and for baby Aria. Even so, all the grief comes right back to her on their anniversary, on Luce's birthday, and the date of Luce's death (September 8th, 11:59 pm).

Nowadays, post-curse, Celeste almost selfishly and greedily hopes that when the curse breaks, that it'll somehow bring Luce back. Don't get her wrong, of course she loves the other Arcobaleno and wishes they had their proper forms back again everyday, but Luce was everything to her. The light of her life. She'd do anything to have her back again. To be able to hug her or be in her arms again.

Viper/Mammon: At first, Viper was one of the Arcobaleno who disliked Celeste the most. They naturally distrust other Mists, especially ones with iffy reputations like Celeste. However, after the night Luce brought her home, the dynamic between the two of them started to change. The two avoid each other for awhile which turned into the two of them quietly hanging around the same room as each other, but never addressing the other. That then became the two of them having small conversations with each other and backing each other up when one of them makes complete lies about being a Mist or Mist flames in general for the sake of messing with the others.

Eventually, Celeste offered to pay Viper to take missions they didn't want to do and who are they to refuse free money? The addition of money to their dynamic together was the biggest game changer for. Viper fell for Celeste first and did not know what to do. At first they tried to pull away from her again, when that didn't work, they tried spending so much time with her that they were sure they'd grow tired of her. Celeste's not stupid and spending more time with them led to her own feelings developing. So, to help Viper with their crisis in a weird way, she asked to pay them so she could love them. This helped Viper settle a little as they were used to conditional agreements that involved payment. So for the first month of their relationship together until Viper fully accepted their feelings, Celeste paid Viper a set amount so she could love them lol.

Nowadays, they remain in as much contact as they can. It's not uncommon for Celeste to surprise visit them at the Varia base. Both tend to refer to the rest of the Varia, especially Bel, as their kids/sons in a kinda teasing and loving manner towards the group.

Fon: Obviously, Fon wasn't one of the ones who'd pick fights with Celeste even if he was iffy with her. However, he did tend to kinda ignore the arguments with her that happened around him. He of course felt extremely bad for doing so after the night Luce brought her home. Yet, the two of them still didn't bond right away. Then one night, he found her almost completely sprawled out on the couch, completely sore after a few hours of practicing her beloved gymnastics. Not only could he relate to the muscle pain, but he also knew just how to help her.

After that, the two of them started bonding over simple things like cooking and occasionally did warm ups together. There was no real specific moment or specific person who fell in love first. It was a sweet, gradual thing between them and they both realized it about the same time.

Nowadays, Celeste is in the most active contact with him. Namely because they have a kid together: I-Pin! As parents, they balance each other perfectly. She spoils their daughter rotten with gifts, food, and as much quality time as she can. Fon meanwhile teaches I-Pin discipline and independence. Also, kind off topic, my headcanon for I-Pin's real name is Yu. Which if Behind the Name is to be trusted means: 玉 Yu - Jade, Precious Stone.

Lal Mirch and Colonnello: Combining these two to make it easier on myself. Lal, even after the night Luce brings her home, doesn't bond with Celeste for awhile. Most of their interactions having been awkward silence between the two of them. Then Colonnello joins the Arcobaleno finally. He and Celeste quickly click together, the two of them bonding over being kinda outcasts in the Arcobaleno because they weren't actually chosen.

Obviously, Lal doesn't care if Colonnello has friends or even female friends specifically, but his tendency to tease her over being tomboyish while Celeste is very feminine does start to breed some insecurity. Then one day he makes the comment to her while Celeste is around them and she very shamelessly responds: "Why should she change one of her hottest traits?? If you don't want Lal as is, I'll take her."

Not only does this comment make Colonnello back track what he said, but also makes both Rains realize Celeste's been way more into Lal Mirch than Colonnello the entire time. Her explanation: "I know like millions more blond haired, blue eyed men with C names who've joined the military than I do pretty women with blue hair and red-brown eyes and L names who also joined the military."

Her bonding with them is a little awkward, especially with the rougher parts of Lal's personality, but she grows to love them nonetheless and they soon enough love her too.

Celeste deeply respects the fact Colonnello took the Rain pacifier for Lal. Part of her wishes she could've done the same for Luce or any of the others.

Nowadays, she doesn't get to talk to them often because they're both busy and rather reclusive for Rains. However a good chunk of the time when she does talk to them, she's either trying to convince Colonnello to get her a free trip to Mafialand for the kids or she's asking Lal to convince her not to kill Iemitsu/Lal's shitty boss. Obviously, this isn't every time, but it's a decent handful of times. She also considers Basil their kid together ever since she met him when visiting Lal at CEDEF one day.

Verde: He never hated her before per say, but he didn't see the point in her hanging around. Then one day, again after the night Luce brought her back, she started poking around his lab. She didn't mess with anything she shouldn't, but she did take a great interest in his animal subjects. Especially Kaiman. In fact she took enough of an interest that she kept going into his lab to play with and take care of his animals even when he wasn't there. On one hand, it annoyed him she just kinda invited herself to do that. On the other, her taking care of them means he has more time to do experiments and such.

Soon enough though, without him realizing right away, her taking care of his animals turned into her taking care of him. Bringing him food and making sure he eats it when he's in his lab all day, having a first aid kit ready for any small lab accidents, coaxing him into his room and bed to sleep rather than taking power naps in front of his computer, and things of that nature. When her actions clicked for him and he calls her out, Celeste just pauses for a long time before reaching up and patting his head while informing him: "You were worrying the others and Kaiman. So, since I was already in there a lot to help, I decided to help you out more."

Not long after Verde lets his minor qualms with her taking care of him go, Celeste find his art. He's Da Vinci reincarnated, of course he does art occasionally! But he hardly sees why she's so amazed by it. He tries to ignore her comments about it, but she soon starts to give him little challenges around it. Like: "Did you really draw these hands? I mean of course a genius scientist can understand how hands work, but draw them?" or "Can you prove that this is your self portrait? It doesn't look like you anymore so I can't tell."

Verde, being the rather cocky and even prideful man he is when it comes to any of his works and talents, of course falls for these challenges hook, line, and sinker. Then one day he realizes she's gotten him out of the lab, with Kaiman following them on a leash as they look for a good background for a painting of them. When he finally questions why she cared so much about his art, Celeste happily tells him how much she liked the "old Da Vinci's" work, both art and science, so of course she wanted to see what the "new Da Vinci" can do in both fields. Then happily informs him she loves his work way better, even if she doesn't fully grasp a lot of the complicated science.

Needless to say, while Celeste did ultimately fall first, Verde fell harder.

Nowadays, they remain in mild contact. Though Verde never gives her any specifics on anything, he keeps in contact purely because he knows she's the type to try to track her loved ones down if they attempt to cut of communication for no reason. However, the last thing they tried to do together was save the Estraneo kids which ended a tragic bust, having been just a little too late to help them. At least the Estraneo in general were dead... This is another reason as to why he limits contact with her. He'll never forget how distressed she was and looked over failing those kids.

Reborn: I was going to jokingly call him the star of this show then realized I wasn't wrong technically. Out of all of them at the start, he was the worst to her. Not only was he naturally protective of the others, but he looked down on the fact she tried to run away from being a boss. At the time, he didn't understand it and didn't understand her. This led to the two of them butting heads a lot. Did he regret being mean to her? A little, especially the argument that led to her running off then being brought back by Luce. Yet, even after that, he struggled bonding with her. Even as the others fell for her, he either avoided her like the plague or still bickered with her here and there.

They did find their way of getting closer though. Namely, hating how the other sounded trying to communicate to them in their native tongue. Celeste couldn't comprehend how Reborn would butcher English and he found her Italian simply atrocious. For the longest time, their middle ground was using French as it was Celeste's second language and Reborn's third. However, the two eventually decided to fix the problem by tutoring the other in their language. It was... So fun and funny on top of actually helping their communication. Lots of pronunciation fuck ups that completely change what a sentence means or makes it complete gibberish, dumb jokes about how certain words sound, and more. By the end of it, they were definitely close.

Neither knew what to label the relationship though. Were they friends? It feels like more, but it's not quite love yet. So, in an attempt to understand the other better, both separately decided to track the other's daily schedules! Totally not stalking. However they both find there's big chunks in the day where they can't find the other. Neither figures out why until Celeste complains about it to Luce and Reborn overhears. That's how they fully fall in love; realizing they have similar habits to each other just in their own ways unique to their personalities.

Nowadays, they have the second most amount of contact. Namely so Reborn could be an active father in Aria's life growing up and now because Celeste deems Tsuna and Dino their sons. While she doesn't act lovey dovey with him currently because of his cursed form, she will still happily rag on him and tease him for things he's done or does in that way couples do. Tsuna and Dino don't know what's scarier, the fact she can get away with things like that or the fact it genuinely flusters Reborn at times.

[dreaming-hibi]

Let's thank @ilx-8s for this one theory

Let me summarize it for those of us who don't read the replies in posts: "Freed from the curse Yuni would outlive everyone"

And like, yeah, absolutely true!

In my case, I'll admit that I totally forgot to do that math, because if the rest of the Arcobaleno got freed from their baby curse, then Yuni obviously got rid of her short-lifespan curse! How does someone forget something like that?

Anyway, considering Yuni's ancestor is Sepira, who was the same species as Kawahira, then certainly she could have a long lifespan now (and outlive everyone).

But! I definitely think she won't.

I mean, I love angst as much as the next person, but (un)fortunately I don't think Yuni is heading in that direction.

Let's recap what we know of Sepira:

Sepira is the same specie as Kawahira/Checker Face, a True Earthling as opposed to New Earthling (humans)

From what we understand, Sepira was at least more proactive than Kawahira at trying to find a solution to the Tri-ni-sette as well as the burden it had on the Arcobaleno

Sepira was the one who decided to give the Vongola Rings to Giotto (and its hinted that this happened BEFORE the establishment of the Vongola Famiglia, so while he was still leader of his vigilante group) and keep the Mare Rings in her newly formed famiglia, the Giglio Nero

Sepira could see the future

She was Giglio Nero Prima

Let's recap what we don't know about her:

How she died

If she was an Arcobaleno

While this inscription on a wall with Sepira's birthmark on it might suggest otherwise, it's unlikely that Sepira was a Sky Arcobaleno at any point in time. If she had been then Luce, her descendant, would have already been in possession of the Sky pacifier on the Fated Day.

So Sepira wasn't an Arcobaleno (someone, please, go tell the KHR wikia to change that). Then how did she die? Kawahira and Sepira are the same species, but he's alive and she's not, so what is the difference between them? How did she die in a way that wasn't considered unnatural enough for Kawahira to remark on it?

Well, I think the answer is in their way of living!

Sepira decided to live among and like a human, while Kawahira decided to live like the cryptid he is. So it makes sense that Sepira's lifespan adapted to that of a normal human being (and why Kawahira talks like she's died in a natural way, because she has!). And it would make even more sense that her descendants would be even more human if she procreated with a human. Unless they self-reproduce which explains the absence of both Aria's and Yuni's father and why Gamma had no idea Aria had a kid.

Sorry, angst, but I don't think Yuni will be going down the path of "I have a longer lifespan than all the people I know so I will watch them die one day".