#Starship Promise

[rincrowe]

Another batch of Lovestruck commissions. ✨

These took awhile for me to complete so there was a bit of... art style change in Astoria and Castaway.

[lovestruck-week]

WELCOME TO LOVESTRUCK WEEK!

Lovestruck Week 2025 runs from February 9th to February 15th. The prompts are written out below:

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**This event is made for the fans of Voltage's Lovestruck app and all the beautiful stories and characters that we still love today, even years after the app's shut down. This event is a gesture of appreciation for all the remaining fans as well as the writers, artists, and producers who gave us the stories we love. Thank you all!!**

[starstrucklovetragedy]

MC REMEMBRANCE DAY 6: Starship Promise Human MC

"When your home colony falls to enemy forces, you're forced to seek help from an unlikely crew of...space outlaws?! There's no shortage of danger as you fight with through the universe to save your colony. But the further you go, the more you come to realize that in space, love is limitless."

[crackengolds]

I’ve got you. The ship’s rebooting. You’re alright.

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A commission of a scene from “A Promise of Empires” from the fantastic Nic on twit! I love their work so much, every piece they create is so full of emotion and sincerity, the kind that evokes Renaissance-era paintings. At least to me. 😊

I’ll add it into Chapter 7 on Ao3 when I finish the next chapter!

[incorrectlovestruck]

Jaxon: And once again, Jaxon and Orion save the day. Atlas: You didn't do anything. It was all Orion. Jaxon: We're a package deal. Everyone knows that.

[riveramorylunar]

Uh I need Aurora, I need Xenia, I need Mackenzie, I need Lorelei, I need Cecelia, I need Zhora, I need Jessa, I need Lexi, I need Madison, I need all of them back 😩😭

[schattenfell-yuri]

I kinda wanna make some Lovestruck art, send me a character and an expression?

(also this is open until I say something else, so don't worry about being late with your request)

[joiedecombat]

I've been thinking about love triangles (for some reason XD) and it reminded me of the potential for a triangle we had with Antares, Alien MC and Slake. So many questions.

How was Antares really feeling when he learned about Slake?

Is there any possibility that Alien MC would be interested in Slake again, and would Slake want to get involved with her again?

Give me the drama XD

Oho, an Antares ask!

You'll forgive me if I keep a few details under my hat to revisit in The Fanfic, but there's plenty of ground to cover regardless!

Slake showing up unexpectedly shook MC pretty badly, which immediately put Antares on alert. By this point, after all, he's seen her handle a good bit of trouble, so the fact that Slake rattled her just by showing up got his attention. Being stuck in the position of observer, control freak that Antares is, did not help either.

I don't think it's accurate to say he's jealous once he hears who Slake was to MC. He'd certainly deny it, but there's also the fact that the way MC talks about Slake to him is very disparaging. There's no lingering tender feelings there.

What Antares is feeling, primarily, is protective. He's developed a good bit of respect for MC by this point. He's brought her onto his ship, which in his paradigm makes her his responsibility (the excuse he gives later when he shows up to help her out against Slake's thugs, but it's not only an excuse). Slake shook her - Slake knows her, in ways that could make it easier for him to get her at a disadvantage - and as the two of them agree, he is probably up to something related to their current mission.

Slake is someone Antares would ordinarily dismiss as riffraff. The fact that his presence rattles MC, and the fact that he took advantage of her in the past, elevates(?) him to the status of "someone Antares would like to crush underfoot in passing, given opportunity." He finds it personally annoying that someone so far beneath MC ever had the opportunity to cause her grief in the first place.

As for MC - Slake burned her badly, and while there are memories and old conflicted feelings there that aren't easily shaken off, she holds no affection for him now. Her understanding of him when they were together was a much more idealized one, and this far down the road she's seen enough to have a clearer view of the kind of person that he is. She'd have to be in a very vulnerable state to feel genuinely tempted to rekindle a romantic relationship with Slake, after how he treated her in the past and knowing what she knows now.

Slake, on the other hand, would probably take the chance to take up with MC again. It wouldn't really be about her, though, so much as it is that Slake doesn't like the idea that she could get over him. It chafes him to see her succeeding as a PI, a profession he introduced her to. He'd want to prove, to himself and to her, that he could get her if he wanted her.

[dizzy-pixels]

I love how MC designates threat level by what it looks like they eat for breakfast

[wittyblather]

hey antares enjoyers, i just remembered this piece of fanfic i wrote for our guy (in like...2018 lol) but never published since i wasn't allowed while working at voltage. hope you guys like! i miss our disaster couple so much.

[pirunika]

Thinking about...Them 🥺

[megatraven]

Question which lovestruck characters would say these lines

"I told ominis his ears turn red when he lies."

"why did you do that?"

"so that I can do this, hey ominis do you love us!"

"no" (replace ominis name with a character of your choice)

funny enough, i was drawing this with alex, mc, and medusa at one point! alex being the one whose ears turn red, on account of.....

their ears really do go red when they get blushy. it just feels like it fits.

i think the sketches are on my old laptop though so i can't grab em for proof :^)

that said, i could ALSO see it for a havenfall ot3, maybe mc, jd, and mac? or mc, jd, and razi. ALSO. starship promise mc, atlas, and jaxon. there's so many potential characters/ships it works for. i won't list them all but now im Thinking About It

[babylovestruck]

Looking Through My Old IPad and wishing I saved more moments of them 🥺

[starstrucklovetragedy]

MC REMEMBRANCE DAY 17: Starship Promise Alien MC

"She's smooth, independent, and a little work-obsessed. She doesn't trust easily and doesn't have time for love. Will she take her chance and find her cosmic match?"

[crackengolds]

People think Antares keeps Victoria subdued.

Which he does. She’s got a drive to build and cause a little chaos that the army cannot handle.

However

Sometimes someone says something incorrect about fish.

[incorrectlovestruck]

Jaxon: So that’s my plan. Orion: Are you alright with constructive criticism? I don’t want to sound mean. Jaxon: No, go ahead, I want to hear it. Orion: It fucking sucks. Jaxon: That’s not constructive criticism.