#TSaMS eclipse

[br41nr0t-101]

[nn0us3]

Parallels.

[sourtomatola]

@villainoustrioau was imagining what Jack's reports would look like XD

[beeshoesometimesdraws]

Arcane au? More likely than you think 🔥

Closeups

(also I have a new watermark yipppeee)

[o-i-w-u]

various mimic!eclipse sketches because holy shit-

this episode was SO UP MY ALLY YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.

eclipse acting quick and not really thinking things through after hearing jake's voice, just trying to help his kid, getting tricked, then supposedly being skinned alive to be used as a meat suit while the mimic still uses jake's voice the entire time.

being trapped in his own head again after years is so unbelievably fucked up, especially in the way it was done too. just like the first time he is stuck watching, fighting for freedom as someone else lives his life, right in front of his very own eyes, and he is helpless to do anything about it

it also feels like a tad of a "taste of your own medicine" situation, very reminiscent of the OLD old tsams arcs with the whole theme of control

10/10 episode very sick and twisted i highly recommend

[apocalypse360]

show of the week art I made for the eevnt in the tsbs discord server ^^ I hope they like it

[aaaagggg]

Dis is how it went right?

[jesterchan]

Here is Eclipse! Dorito Man is now a BURRITO!!! His color palette reminds me of a tiger! So I gave his burrito blanket stripes! There are 3 versions!

🐅🐯🖤🧡🌯🎁

Speedpaint below:

[nightixx]

today EAPS episode hit so hard I didn't even realize I was crying from it

"you're a walking curse" AHHHHHH STOPP

What's this unfairness between tsams/laes and eaps like dawng eclipse didn't need his own psychological horror movie

[jack-o-feces]

OMG THEY UPDATED THE BANNER FOR EAPS AGAIN

[br41nr0t-101]

experimental eclipse drawing based off these past couple episodes-

(im coping)

[deafeningfanlight23]

YOU'RE COOKING SM RIGHT NOW

BUT ALSO-

I LOVE THIS THEORY SO MUCH BUT IT'S SO SAD 😭 Uff Eclipse was and is such a TRAGIC character actually if you think more about it: Too insecure and stubborn to show anything vulnerable, yet filled with too much pride to even acknowledge them, creating a hell of his own making as he had been pushed to the edge 😔... BUT HIS PSYCHOLOGY IS JUST DELICIOUS, THAT'S WHY HE'S BEEN MY FAVORITE SINCE DAY ONE >:D But tbh, I like V1 and V2 and kinda V3 way more but don't get me wrong, I like the current one too, it's just... THE A N G S T 😭🙏

TSAMS Theory: Solar Flare wasn't real

So, here's the thing. Solar Flare's final exchange with Eclipse, when they're waiting to die, has this very painful and bittersweet part in it.

Solar Flare: You are not a good man. You are not a good person in any regard. But-- you did care. Even if you could never show it. You are just like him. Eclipse: Who? Solar Flare: The first Moon.

Oof oof ouch my heart. The art folks did with Eclipse having Moon's hat here was *chef's kiss*

But, wait. Hold on.

How the fuck would Solar Flare know anything about Old Moon?!

Consider the timeline. Eclipse builds Solar Flare, steals his body. Approximately 5min later Sun shows up to kill him. Eclipse gets away, tricks Sun into destroying Moon's magic circle. With no magic to find a solution to the looming threat of being trapped inside his own head, Moon makes the decision to reset himself to split off KC, and his memories are wiped in the process.

Solar Flare met Moon a grand total of once, for about five minutes, to sabatogue Eclipse (Eclipse's NEW BODY?!). He otherwise didn't talk to anyone at all. I actually don't think he ever met Kill Code, even, which opens a whole other can of worms like "Was Kill Code even aware Solar Flare existed? Did he forget he told Eclipse to make them?"

So here's my theory: The Solar Flare that Eclipse meets when he goes into the mindscape, the one that's keeping him locked in a dying frame and reads him completely to filth with terrifying accuracy? That's not Solar Flare. Solar Flare is gone, deleted.

The person that Eclipse interacts with is himself. His own subconscious, which knows every little insecurity and doubt he tries to repress. Who knows his past, the things that fuel him, the things he's ignored or discarded.

It's not a completely baseless guess. Sun suffers from stress-related hallucinations, mostly from his guilt regarding Bloodmoon, but about others as well. And later on, with the rebuilt Eclipse, he straight hallucinates himself to talk to shortly before Lunar blows him tae fuck. The rebuilt Eclipse is post-star, but he's not too far removed from the person who was dying in a bunker orbiting the sun.

And... isn't that tragic to consider? 'Solar Flare' prevents Eclipse from uploading himself into a new body. He prevents him from escaping this hell he's put himself through. And if that 'Solar Flare' is really Eclipse...

...then he's holding himself back. He knows, on a not very deep level, that he's done. He won but it's a hollow victory, because the person who's attention he craved, his self-proclaimed rival, is gone. The person who's replaced him isn't interested in starting a new rivalry. Eclipse literally doesn't know what to do with himself-- he has no goals, no other ambitions. Full Megamind 'I didn't really think I'd get this far" going on here.

And the star is killing him. He knows it's killing him, and he makes an effort to prevent that... but what good will it do to keep living? The star was only ever a means to an end, a motivating McGuffin to keep Moon's attention. Eclipse wasn't meant to win, and he knows it.

'Solar Flare' is just a mask, a plausible external individual to voice the thoughts that Eclipse is trying to ignore, and a fabricated companion because Eclipse has never been completely alone like this.

Really is a bit pathetic, isn't it?

[thatmooncake]

He’s going as fast as he can

[witchybittyboo]

Welcome to Celestial Crossing (god this took too long to make)

[that-fox-thing]

I’m normal about this…

[geisthaul]

beware, for he has been colourfulourised