#Runaan’s Moonstrider)

[themistdragon]

*smooch*

[antaresjgj]

ちょっとしたらくがき

[halyasgirl]

If I had to guess, I think Callum will immediately fly for Katolis in season 7, but if he is there for Runaan's fuller debrief...

Rayla: So... when I said Ethari was waiting for you, what I meant was, he thinks you're dead and has for the past two years.

Runaan: *pulling on literally the first shirt he can find and scrambling east toward the Silvergrove*

Rayla: ...And I'm Ghosted, and if you try to go home you may be too.

Runaan: *stares at her in horror*

Rayla: But we're not alone! We have Callum! He saved you! He's a ~mage~

(Runaan has not gotten the memo on humans and magic. Callum is also dressed exactly like Viren, and, to Runaan's eyes, looks just like the man who tortured and imprisoned him. Runaan is one wrong move away from snapping)

Callum: Hi, we've met. ...When you broke into our castle... to kill my family...

Runaan:

Callum: Also I pawned your husband's wedding ring and accidentally killed your dog. Is this a bad time to tell you I'm dating your daughter?

Runaan (holding it together only through years of honed self-control): *turns stiffly and walks into the trees. Moments later a flock of birds fly out, disturbed by a completely unrelated scream that rings through the woods*

[hazieash]

Runaan getting a moonstrider puppy for his birthday <3

[zuppizup]

Really hope Ethari isn’t waiting for the shadowpaw and the moonstrider to come back…

[ask-runaan-anything]

do you miss Rayla?

Thanks to the bleeding edge capabilities of dark magic coins, it is possible to miss someone and be tormented by their memory at the same time.

Of course I miss her. I hope she's doing better in the real world than she is in my nightmares.

[apogean-tides]

Ethari: Love, what's wrong? Runaan, sobbing, as he tries to pet all the baby moonstriders: I don’t have enough hands…

[bluemoonblade]

Let me offer an even better option: new moonstrider puppy for Runaan because my man will be destroyed when he finds out what happened to his dog :(((

@hoothalcyon pointed out that Moon Cubs is the title of a s7 song, so now I'm adding "Ethari gets new moon furbabies" to the season bingo card

[themistdragon]

First meeting of lifelong friends <3

[sunstone-nerding]

Nice!

The world ender's comeback

[beautifulterriblequeen]

that old familiar feeling

Runaan tries to enter the Silvergrove but he bounces off the dome. The whole dome ripples in alarm. He stares up at its towering refusal to accept his return to life, feeling nearly like a ghost.

Ethari, who has been fighting a sense of deep unease since the incident with the "broken" lotus in his pond, hurries to the edge of the village. His lost, disheveled, exhausted husband stands outside like a bedraggled moonstrider pup.

"Get in here," Ethari blurts, pointing beside himself.

"Can't." Runaan's single word is somehow breathless.

Ethari squints suspiciously.

Runaan touches the dome again, and it throws him back a few steps.

Ethari frowns. "It still thinks you're..."

"..dead."

Ethari takes a step closer. "Are you? Dead, I mean?"

Runaan can't look away from him. He shakes his head slightly. "Not anymore."

Ethari takes another step. Fully outside the dome now, he turns his head, considering its magic, and a small frown of concentration forms between his dark brows.

Runaan waits. Nervous. Vibrating.

Ethari's eyes slide back to him, and he extends his hand. "One soul, one body?"

Runaan presses a hand to his chest as if to check. He nods slowly, eyes locked onto his husband. "One soul, one body," he echoes.

"Then the dome's spell is just faulty. It's dropped your ritual dance from its roster. We can use mine... if you remember how it goes?"

Runaan's eyes widen, and his face goes slack with longing. "I do."

"Then dance with me." Ethari's voice hovers, speculative. The barrier will destroy Runaan if he is not who he says he is. Ethari extends his hand further.

Runaan clasps it eagerly, his expression nearly pained. Ethari tugs him into the first steps of the dance. Closer and closer they spin, their long hair flying around them. They come to a stop panting for breath in each other's arms.

"It's really you," Ethari breathes.

Runaan can only nod, his forehead pressed to Ethari's.

Ethari takes his hands and begins walking backward into the Silvergrove. "Then what are you waiting for, Runaan? Get in here."

[hoothalcyon]

Runaan's de-coining is coming soon, and it's just making everything revolving around him so much more real. Like:

Seriously injured his arm and will most likely lose it, thus severely impairing him

His Moonstrider died

His best friends had been coined, thus informing him that he (and the rest of the Silvergrove) were wrong and did something that is probably irreparable based on this decision

He doesn't know where Ethari is/if he's okay

Rayla is completely different; even if this is for the better, it's still a big change

The very being he said was "worse than death" is going to be/is free from his centuries old prison

and probably more lmao

So, yeah.

[dragonprince-imagines]

Could you do relationship hc’s for Runaan and Ethari with a shared S/O?🥺🥺

You can hardly remember a time the three of you weren’t together. Running through Silvergrove as children, playing at being warriors. Meeting up in a meadow after dark, passing around a bottle of illicitly-acquired moonberry moscato as teens and commiserating over your respective apprenticeships. Finally slipping silver cuffs over each others’ horns, making a promise words could never encapsulate.

Your life together is soft and slow. The same days bleed into the same nights, full of quiet conversations in the night air, morning strolls through the market, and your beloved daughter’s endless entertainment.

Runaan is known throughout Xadia, the best assassin in all the land. Ethari is invaluable to Silvergrove, the smith who forges the sharpest weapons and twists wire into the most delicate jewelry. And you? Perhaps you tame the moonstriders and shadowpaws. You may be the head of the mage’s faction. The three of you are the envy of all.

Until the night the lotuses sink. One by one, you watch them sink and their lights dim. Ram, Scor, Andromeda, Callisto, and finally Runaan. The world stops spinning. The stars stop shining. You and Ethari are rarely seen outside, and when you are nobody knows quite what to say so they say nothing.

It’s not until you stroll down to the pool to watch Rayla’s lotus, all you have left, that you see a light begin to flicker and rise in the water. You and Ethari sob in each other’s arms all night for relief—guilt for the other assassins, but relief nonetheless—and for the first time in a long time the stars look bright.

[zuppizup]

“Do you know where Stella found it?”

“I have no idea where Stella finds most of the stuff she’s “acquired”.”

“What do you want to do about it?”

“What can we do? It’s not like Stella can tell me where the wee one’s mother is.”

“So, you want to keep it?”

Rayla finally looked up from the wriggling bundle in her lap, seeming confused by his question. “You don’t want to keep it?”

“I didn’t say that.” Callum sat next to her, trying to get a better look at the squirming pink ball. “When Soren said you’d got a baby ���moony” animal, I thought it was going to be a shadowpaw kitten.”

“You don’t like moonstriders?” Rayla’s face fell a little as she hugged the little creature closer to her chest.

“I, well-” Callum sighed, reaching out and stroking its back only for it to squeal loudly and push itself closer to Rayla. “I guess I think they don’t like me. Or shadowpaws prefer me-”

“It’s a wee puppy, Callum. All she likes right now is milk and sleeping.”

“She likes you well enough.”

“Are you saying I’m not usually likeable?” Rayla teased as he rolled his eyes. “She probably just feels my moon energy. Might feel a bit more like her mama than you.”

“I guess.”

“Here, you hold her.” Rayla shuffled closer to him, passing the wriggling moonstrider puppy into his arms.

She cried and called out before Rayla even took her hands away.

———

“Hey, sorry I’m late, training ran over,” Rayla called out as she hurried inside their room. “Soren-”

She stopped suddenly, surprised to see Callum asleep on their couch. As usual, he was snoring softly, his mouth a little open, a hint of drool on his bottom lip... and the moonstrider puppy fast asleep across his chest.

- Rayllum fluffy prompts to cheer me up.

Rayllum “acquiring” a puppy/kitten prompt suggestion by @thedizzydinosaur and @leftboob

Love those memes of the bf not wanting the animal but then is the best dad to the animal. I feel like Callum would still be haunted by his first experience with a Moonstrider. Runaan’s going to want this one, isn’t he? And ain’t no way Callum is giving his baby up now.

[ask-runaan-anything]

What was it like with your moonshrider when they were a baby?

Lachir was a perfect little angel baby who has never done anything wrong ever. She loves me most, as she should, and she begrudgingly puts up with everyone else.

As she should.

When she was brand new, she would nuzzle up under my hair while I was sleeping and make an absolute nest of it. And I was soft enough to let her, because she made the cutest sleep sounds right in my ear.

The trouble is, now that she's fully grown, she still assumes she can fit under my ponytail when I lie down. I have tried instructing her about physics and mass, but she's very good at pretending she does not see things that do not benefit her - I have no idea where she gets this irritable habit from!

Anyway. If she finds me catching my breath on the ground during training, she will stuff her nose under my hair and assume that she fits. And her whuffing noises are still cute.

[apogean-tides]

Callum, to Runaan: Hi! I’m dating your adopted daughter. Also, I got your pet horribly killed.