#because I am That Pale
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Ich: Mama, warum bist du eigentlich brauner als ich, obwohl ich mehr draußen bin?
Mama: weil ich nicht mit deinem Vater gekreuzt bin
#own post#when I put it like this out of context it sounds like I was five when asking and have mixed parents#the reality is I asked ten minutes ago and have a normal white mum and a very white dad#normal white as in your average white skin tone in this country. and very white as in kinda blue and glowing#and for the record I don’t mind being super pale. I don’t appreciate this tan culture where you need to be as tan as possible#(without getting too dark obviously because hidden societal racism)#I think it’s actually quite a risk factor for skin health what with not using sun protection#in that regard I prefer just protecting my skin from the sun and then being pale in return#i just don’t like that people will look at me and assume that I am never outside#because I am That Pale#even though I spend countless hours outside every year. far above average#and may I add this is the most biologist answer ever….. can you sense my mum studied biology with a focus on botany and genetics??
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Have you ever danced with the devil
In the pale moonlight?
#REDRAWWWWWW#Redrawing my old piece#because it’s been a while and i really wanted to#I am actually really happy how it turned out and I think i did a better job at capturing#the vibe and the tone with the face and colors#but yeah#One of my favorite episodes#Avery brooks is phenomenal#as always#MY FAVE‼️#Sisko‼️‼️‼️‼️💫💫💫💫#in the pale moonlight#star trek#ds9#star trek ds9#benjamin sisko#captain sisko#ben sisko#elim garak#<- that’s the eye in the glass#composition and themes you know#also a little allusion to a man called hawk#fanart#silly#I HATE HANDSSSSSS#HARD TO DRAW#also drawing this under like a bunch of screen filters
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ewww yuck nastyy
#cw blood#cw gore#osc#osc fanart#object show community#object show#object show fanart#object show fandom#objectified comic#objectified comic fanart#objectified sunny#cw scopophobia#kips art#this drawing is soo experimental but i like it#i feel like this is too much/messy andu cant tell whats going on but i think its fine#this is the only thing il draw relatinf to pale horse#im going back to drawing ww n sunny fluff#my boy.......#pale horse is actually one of my favorite episodes so far despite everything#rn tho i am too scared to reread it because i am a weak weak person
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stimpry-ified eridan meets 2016 fanon eridan hat happens next will SHOCK you
#homestuck#eridan ampora#art posting#it is currently 3:18 AM.#im fucked vro#hehehe#WAS this made because fanon eridan depictions annoy me?#next question.#is this just a bad rant in art form?#dont ever ask me that again.#lukewarm take erifef is MID#if youre looking for pale eridan ships then#like#cmon#erigam on top#erikar pale is pretty cool too#but i like erigam <>#and for redrom eridan ships#well#you know#equidan on SOG#i also like eridrik quite a bit but equidan is my top tier ship
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i can’t believe hypno would ruin beef’s lawn like that 😔
#xb is incapable of going an episode/stream without blaming hypno for something. it is simply part of his nature#i do kinda feel bad beef keeps getting his lawn ruined but mainly its funny#was torn between making beef very pale or very tan.. hm.#hermitcraft#xbcrafted#vintagebeef#my art#hermitcraft fanart#been awhile since ive made art i realised! mainly because i am crossing my fingers for reaper hypno to go after xb#i have some fun ideas for that already
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moderately sized ghost
#idk#you run around the pale heart and bumped into him or something#i tried to at least give him all classes characteristics#so simple warlock bond + hunter cape + titan 30th outfit like my titan because i don't wanna add titan mark when there's already a cape#also umbra style scarf outside of the jacket because i don't wanna deal with how the head and body attaches#i bet someone already done this a million times. this cannot be completely new#but i haven't seen anyone doing this so#okay i guess i already gave ghost a vanguard combat frame but this is different okay they have an actual body possibly exo or something els#nope i also have no followup on this one#why am i drawing so many ghosts recently#destiny 2#destiny ghost#destiny 2 art#my art
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hi! i saw on your shipping chart you had meenah and cronus as moirails and noted 'would have prevented all problems' and ive never really seen that take before. id love to hear your thoughts on that if you wanted to talk about them, your analysis in general is always amazing
Sure! I know this one's going to be controversial, but TBH I'm kind of fascinated by their dynamic. So please bear with me here and come into it with an open mind; I was also really surprised when I noticed what was going on.
Also, standard disclaimer that nobody has to agree with me or ship my ships, I literally don't care, HCs are valid, death of the author, etc. etc. This is just a canon discussion blog, and there's kind of a weird amount to read into in the canon between these two.
Okay, so, first of all, quick refresher on moirallegiance: it's not necessarily about being BFFs, it's very specifically about pacifying each other, keeping each other calm and stable, and preventing each other from causing harm to oneself or to others.
Ergo, the marker of moirallegiance rests not on "do these two get along as BFFs?" and instead on "do these two keep each other calm and/or mitigate each others' harm".
So with that out of the way, Cronus and Meenah. We know that Cronus has a redcrush on her, echoing Eridan's redcrush on Feferi, and that Meenah is not interested at all. Cronus shoots his shot with her, she's like ick, no & leaves, and that's that on that. Cronus then rounds on Mituna and says some unbelievably cruel and shitty stuff, but here's Point #1 - Meenah shows up again, and Cronus stops immediately, and then is noticeably calmer and friendlier to Mituna. Compare:
CRONUS: you are a brain damaged reject on a team full of rejects. a rejects reject. i vwould havwe culled you myself if that vword meant vwhat it should havwe on our planet.
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CRONUS: vwell, this is clearly absurd, but nyeh, vwhat the heck. CRONUS: mituna, i just cant take it anymore. i think my ghost is going to kill itself. MITUNA: WH0W4H L375 FUCK!!!!! CRONUS: vwait... CRONUS: really? MITUNA: N0 0Y0 P135H3 0FF 1ND107 FUGG1NG G4R484G3 #FUCKY0UFUCKY0UFUCKY0UFUCKY0UFUCKY0U CRONUS: oh.
So at the very least, SOMETHING conciliatory seems to be happening here, whether that's pale or ashen. But I'm going with pale, because it continues.
Their second conversation together is really interesting - not only has Cronus stopped redflirting with her, but he no longer even seems interested. Compare this to the section with Mituna above:
CRONUS: oh sure. no grub sauce on your hands! MEENAH: wow you did it MEENAH: ampora you totally changed my mind about you lets start makin out immediately #not CRONUS: just admit it. you havwe it vwithin you to be just as harsh to our behelmeted buddy as i am, if not more
Like, he doesn't even ACKNOWLEDGE the "let's make out #not". Not even in an indignant "see, you keep playing with my collapsing and expanding bladder based vwascular system" kind of way. Literally just breezes right by it, which says to me that he isn't even really that into her concupiscently.
But more interesting are the actual contents of the conversation. Cronus is the only person on the entire team who's able to make Meenah have misgivings about how awesome the Condy is.
MEENAH: man MEENAH: a girls gotta have fuel for her pimp ride know what im sayin MEENAH: like MEENAH: i probably took care of him good MEENAH: you know how it is someones gotta take care of the guy anyways MEENAH: and... yeah #38(
This is the first and only time that Meenah even acknowledges that the Condy - herself at her worst - is kind of shitty. This is the first and only time she's ever expressed any emotion for the Condy other than fangirlish admiration or rage against Caluborn for enslaving her. For whatever reason, she actually listens to Cronus when Cronus takes her to task, and he's actually able to make her genuinely reflect on her worst tendencies.
But maybe more damning is the fact that in their first real conversation together for nearly an eon, she almost fixes him:
MEENAH: i heard a rumor you think youre a human now MEENAH: that true CRONUS: its a privwate matter. i dont see vwhy i should havwe to talk about it vwith you, and open myself up to more of your judgmental scorn. MEENAH: sounds like another desperate cry for attention imo
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CRONUS: to be honest, she might be right. sometimes i think i might only be saying im a human to get attention. maybe i should givwe it up.
Cronus's fundamental emotional problem is a sense of purposelesness and ennui. Born into a caste of high privilege, with his identity overshadowed by said position, he's been handed an unpleasant cocktail of entitlement, lack of true emotional support or connection, and lack of a real, authentic personal identity - especially because the thing he DID seem to derive a sense of identity and purpose from - his little Harry Potter wizard backstory - was driven out of him. In other words, he's kind of a shitty rich kid that doesn't really know who he is outside of that, and his humankin stuff is an attempt to fill the wizard hole without addressing his real underlying issues. It's a Bad Thing for him to be doing, and something he should drop in order to start addressing his genuine insecurities, feelings of emptiness, and lack of identity or purpose. In other words, it's harm he's performing on himself, and a single conversation with Meenah being enough to make him reconsider it? Hmmmmmm.
In fact, I'm not the only one picking up on the pale vibes. The specific way that Kankri interrupts the two reads as incredibly pick-me in pale:
KANKRI: Listen, I was d9ing y9u a fav9r. Y9u d9n't need t9 6e dating any9ne wh9 can't appreciate y9u f9r wh9 y9u really are, 9r m9re imp9rtantly, which fantasy versi9n 9f y9urself y9u m9st str9ngly identify with.
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I just wanted y9u t9 kn9w that I'm here f9r y9u, and am prepared t9 lecture t9 y9u extensively, I mean, listen t9 y9u extensively, a69ut y9ur ultra-imp9rtant pr96lem.
"Don't take Meenah's advice about your problems! Take mine instead, I care about you sooo much more than she does!" lol. I have a whole essay on how Kankri and Cronus are actually super toxic for each other, in an interesting foil to Karkat and Eridan, which I'll link here in a bit (I'm on mobile RN and it's hard enough C/Ping my sources).
In any case, Kankri slides in at exactly the moment where Meenah's about to fix Cronus, and proceeds to make Cronus worse. The details are in the Cronus and Kankri essay, but TL;DR it's kind of implied that Kankri is the one who talked Cronus out of the wizard stuff in the first place, which pretty much disqualifies the two's relationship from pale, given how harmful that was. This whole thing is pretty reminiscent of Gamzee coming between Karkat and Eridan when Eridan is trying to comfort Karkat about Sollux dying, because it's implied Gamzee has a palecrush on the guy. That might be subjective, though.
What isn't subjective is the fact that Meenah unironically defends Cronus's wizard beliefs when Aranea starts shitting on them.
ARANEA: Whatever the case, it was pro8a8ly for the 8est, since pretty much everyone who had half a think pan thought [Cronus's wizard beliefs were] all a 8unch of ridiculous nonsense. MEENAH: serket why do you got to hate on other peoples religions MEENAH: dont you kno they just as much a load of crackpotty bunk as all your spiritual bullfuck ARANEA: 8ut I........ ARANEA: Yes, I guess I was out of line.
She doesn't do this for anybody else. Not long after, it turns out she's absolutely joking about defending Kurloz:
MEENAH: wow serket MEENAH: just wow so rude MEENAH: poor clown ARANEA: Don't give me that! I seem to remem8er you having more than a few unkind words for him 8ehind his 8ack. MEENAH: yeah im messin witchu he sux
And even proceeds to shit on HIS spiritual bullfuck:
MEENAH: )(ONK ARANEA: Honk honk! ::::) MEENAH: lol im glad we can both agree that clowny fuckin soda cult is the dumbest shit ever
So... weird, huh? Seems like she gives Cronus special treatment for some reason.
That's it for the diegetic stuff to go over, which, yes, means that there's a bit of non-diegetic stuff to discuss. It's not much, but here's Hussie's commentary from the Act 5 Act 2 book, on Mindfang's journal entries about Dualscar leading up to the 3x showdown (emphasis mine):
In the end, even though violets are the ruling class, she doesn't care much about them either. All she cares about is keeping her stranglehold on power with this complex, staggered, oppression-based sort of pyramid scheme. Note how it says the Condesce doesn't even know who Dualscar is. That's how insignificant he is, ultimately. Similarly, all Eridan was to Feferi after a while was a tiresome pest. The way that situation played out could also be seen as long-delayed karmic backlash for Dualscar's irrelevance to her, at least from a very Amporan point of view.
Now, while the specific context here is about how, from the point of view of a shitty entitled guy, Eridan killing Feferi is kind of a retribution for the Condy not giving a shit about Dualscar, all of Hussie's commentary is meant to be interrogated just as much as the base text, and it just makes me wonder. The dancestors very much treat their Alternian counterparts as alternate versions of themselves, consistent throughout their interactions, meaning we ought to consider Duascar and the Condesce to be versions of Cronus and Meenah.
If it is, in fact, the case that Cronus and Meenah would've made for excellent, harm-reducing moirails for each other, then murderstuck being a karmic backlash for their ultimate irrelevance to each other takes on a much greater implication - one that traces back to Cronus's classpect.
Bards start off massive karmic chain reactions, resulting in improbable victory or abject defeat, sometimes both; Hope is an aspect whose main application is making fake things real.
So I'm not saying that Cronus believing that an evil wizard attacked him when he was younger but was inadvertently sealed away and that Cronus was therefore karmically destined to defeat this wizard, but then having his beliefs shattered halfway through, led to him karmically contributing to the eventual creation of LE via his Hope abilities "inviting destruction" by making only the first half of his fake prophecy true, but - oh, no, wait, I am saying that. Man, that really sucks for everybody. If only Cronus had a friend who was, for whatever reason, willing to stick up for his dumbass wizard faith.
If only.
#homestuck#cronus ampora#meenah peixes#look i AM exaggerating when I say pale cronah would have prevented EVERYTHING#the dancestors have a massive list of problems and cronus and meenah are just two contributers#(though meenah is probably the largest single one)#but it probably would've helped a lot of they had gotten together pale because#for Some Reason#meenah actually listens to cronus and feels bad when he calls her out for being an asshole#and cronus really values her opinion and she's willing to stick up for him#maybe it isnt pale like i said you dont have to agree with me or ship my ships idc#it is literally not that serious#but at least i think we should take notice that they seem to be good for each other as friends#and they're a lot closer than they let on
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they are living happily in meteor falls
#pokemon#whiscash#hoenn#pokemon ruby and sapphire#pokemon rs#aquanutart#this time i thought 'i am going to make a WHISCASH because i LOVE WHISCASH because they look very happy yet i have never drawn one'#then i thought 'i am going to make TWO WHISCASH because there is room for another one THERE'#and i put the other one THERE and they looked like this#i love whiscash i love all the things with silly happy faces#as you can see they have a very nice place here. they just use the waterfalls to go up and downstairs#i'm fascinated by meteor falls.. the pale yellow stone the quiet and mysterious vibe#being distrupted at the moment by the giant catfish falling through the ceiling#the place feels kinda surreal though and honestly i think so is a giant falling catfish
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How many HK gijinkas do you have? Have you designed THK and Ghost yet??
Also hey your art looks amazing and you have some super creative and gorgeous designs, it's incredible, how do you even do it???? Your style makes them look even better too holy shit
Thanks for the question and the praise!
I have the gijinkas of the Dreamers and the Hornet (not very satisfactory, I didn't think much about them), Quirrell, Grimm and Saint, Collector and Marissa.... I can't remember any more, so that's probably it
I thought about the Little Ghost's gijinka before, but it wasn't good... So I've thought of Knight, Ghost and Kin (and little child Hornet) specifically for your request! (thanks for that, I need a boost for something high-quality) I hope I was able to convey how threatening this little child is
I had a problem with gijinkas vessels in the sense that I wasn't sure it made sense to make them human, but making them clots of emptiness was just boring. So now, apparently, the Pale King just like in damn Sparta dipped babies into the Void, and if they couldn't cope with it, threw them off a cliff or something
/which makes things worse, because now we are dealing not just with an Abyss of broken shards, but with the genocide of babies
The horns of the vessels in this interpretation are branches, like those of a White Lady, since she is their mother. (The Hornet has no horns, just a cap) We don't know how she gave life to the vessels in the game, but in the case of humans, she gave birth to them directly (she is the goddess of fertility and reproduction, so let's pretend that this is not terrible reproductive pressure---), so they have her features. But the facial features of all the kids are dad's, except for the eyes - the King's are light (and the Hornet's!), but the vessels are dark because of the emptiness. I think an ideal vessel should have completely black eyes, along with whites, since it does not need to move its eyes and look at the world around it. Just black chasms
#My position of “The Pale King is not so bad” becomes shaky when live babies come into play#Speaking of babies!!!!#Baby Hornet#I am proud of this little piece of tenderness#I don't think she lived in the Palace#But maybe Herrah took her with her a couple of times when she had business there#So Hornet has seen the “handsome big brother” a couple of times#She became attached to him because he ignored her#Like a typical cat#hollow knight#hk#hk hornet#hk ghost#hk hollow#hollow knight hornet#hollow knight ghost#hk thk#hk lost kin#hk pale king#hk pk#hk white lady#pure vessel#hornet#hk art#hk fanart#hollow knight gijinka#little ghost#hk little ghost
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His name is Arthur, but the devil called him Arawn. The Welsh god of war, revenge, and the dead.
Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn.
"Long is the day and long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn"
#dogs are usually associated with arawn#they symbolise death and the connection to the afterlife because of their undying loyalty#which I think is fitting#there's also a stag connection to arawn#it is said that a pale stag will appear if you are entering unfamiliar or unwelcome territory#and it reminded me of arthur's visions#arawn was described as a fair but firm overseer if the otherworlds#which isn't just the afterlife it's a bunch of other realms#it's very detailed but that's enough from me I love my culture and arthur morgan is welsh I will die on this hill <3#mick squeaks#mick thinks#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption 2 photography#diolch am darllen <3#this is an addon to my whole arthur meets the strange man and takes him up on an offer thing#Its so cool in my brain#poldark my horse#arawn arthur#micks pics
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Just chilling…
#my art#DREDGE#The Pale Reach#really excited for the dlc#it releases while I am at work though so I have to wait a bit#not doing well mentally right now but having this to look forward to is really lifting my mood#especially because the team is also very nice on the discord#lovecraft#arctic#I modified the boat a bit#also put an OC on there instead of Morgan#I have more of her#OC#I guess I can tag it that#OC:Juliet#dredge art#dredge game
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i’m on team “vessels eat with their eyes”
Bonus under the cut
#i hate this paper soooo much i literally was keeping it all open n all to avoid smudging before i could snap a photo of it and then it smudg#smudged ANYWAY bitch!!!#it was literally perfect before tho. you have to trust me on this.#anyway#hollow knight#hollow knight fanart#hollow knight comic#hollow knight ikea au#ikea au#because i guess that's a tag now .#hollow knight hornet#hollow knight pale king#hollow knight hollow knight#hollow knight ghost#hollow knight the knight#hollow knight white lady#in the bonus panel only tho. and i didn't try v hard at drawing her </3 sorry i can only draw 4 characters at a time...g*nsh*n *mp*ct syndro#/j#artists on tumblr#also i agree w everyone saying vessels cannot talk but uh i am drawing them talking because. artistic license#i forgot how to spell license for like 5 minutes there embarassing good thing nobody will ever know about it tho
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Playable Fontainian 5* released (or will be released soon) so far
#genshin impact#genshinedit#genshinimpactedit#graphic#lyney#wriothesley#neuvillette#furina#mine: graphic#mine: all#If there are any mistakes please overlook them because I am just about sick of this.#One more thing. The Hydro symbol for Neuvillette's looks a bit pale compared to the catalyst symbol and that is not intentional.#The adjustments I used for the other symbol somehow didn't produce the same colour for the Hydro one so I just gave up and stuck with it.
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Saw a tag game that I liked.. not that I was tagged but I don't actually care, I'm doing it
Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favourite.
Tagging @wanderingtrickster @charon-cries @gramnel @lokidanger @vvviktor
#not all my faves by a long shot but these are taking up the most brain space atm#also only picked 1 per show/thing#this makes me seem sexist I am aware#i do not control the hyperfixation#loki#agent of asgard#bbc merlin#zuko#alastor#hunter#the owl house#emrys#hazbin hotel#atla#the magpie who whispers#avatar#colin morgan#the golden guard#moon queen and magic theatre#I am also aware they are all pale#this I can explain because I tend to hyperfocus on characters I wanna cosplay#yes alastor is not white but he is pale in demon form#zuko is also not white but you get my point#its the cosplay brainrot im afraid
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I'm a Victorian teenager — at heart.
Anne Sexton in an interview with Patricia Marx, 1965
#this sounds like a weird pose because i cannot think of anyone less likely to fit this description than anne sexton#but she's such a contradictory woman so /maybe/ some part of her meant it#meanwhile i am a victorian teenager at heart because i'm too thin and too pale and i got knocked down by a gust of wind this morning#it's almost april! why is it so cold out!#anne sexton#literature
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My birthday was a couple days ago, and I got to see my bio dad for the first time in a while. He surprised me with the fact that I have a little half-sister, whom I've never met and who was adopted about two years back. So, I wondered if any situations in BB mimic this or have a theme of "secret siblings" or "secret family"? Sorry if this is a weird ask; this blog is honestly just such a cool little place and I love the way you approach the subject matter and take the flawed misogynistic foundation of the WC books and make them so much better (JUSTICE FOR BUMBLE!!!). I've also learned a lot about healthy and unhealthy relationships here and am really glad for your deep dives on Squilf and Bramble. Thanks, Bones!
Not weird at all! I really like exploring all the little nooks and crannies of complicated familial dynamics. I think one of the untapped strengths of WC (that the writers seem to be unaware of) is how their MASSIVE cast allows them to present all sorts of unique dynamics. So I like to pick up on it, since they don't.
For secret siblings...
I'm pretty heavily leaning towards Ambermoon being adopted by Wildfur, as a surrogacy. Something feels correct about it. Especially since Icecloud is getting retooled into a post-Battle of the True Eclipse birth, and a major supporting character in AVoS-era stories as a friend of Alderheart.
Thinking about it, I should zoom in and expand this. Maybe have Icecloud, somehow, acquire forbidden knowledge that would invalidate the Queen’s Rights and he (transman) struggles with if he's going to use it to expose his parents as an excuse to help Ambermoon.
(Especially since Ambermoon and Icecloud are basically nothing alike. Amber is independent, bold, and vain. Ice is jessie pinkman big-hearted, disorganized, and deceptively meek if you look past his "chill" demeanor)
But that's wip-- there's also Breezepelt and the Three, who are going to have an actual friendship. In particular I can't unsee Breeze and Lion having a deep one. I know I commit the Cardinal Sin of borderline himbo-ifying Lionblaze in BB, but I can't help it.
Hollyleaf ended up nabbing a bunch of his most violent roles to make her villainous descent smoother narratively, so BB!Lionblaze's story ends up being more focused on Ashfur's abuse, comic relief with cats in other Clans (something that the very serious Jay and Holly have a hard time providing), and the emotional fallout of the big reveal and Bramblestar's turn on them. Breezepelt slots neatly into that.
They were friends. Lionblaze's whole life came down around the reveal, everyone looking at him and his siblings differently, like they're suddenly something terrible. Why can't we find a silver lining, Breezepelt? Why can't we call ourselves brothers if the whole world is going to do it anyway? So much is changing, but THIS doesn't have to, we will take their weapon and turn it to armor, my ally, my friend, my brother.
(and when Breezepelt is lashing out at the three because of the Dark Forest's influence, Lionblaze is there, taking the blows and trying not to give in to the impulse to send him flying with a single paw)
There's also Harespring and Kestrelflight of WindClan and Owlclaw of ShadowClan. All of them are from a single litter between Whitewater and Mudclaw. She was going to raise the three of them alone as ShadowClan cats, but when the sire was smote, Whitewater felt they were cursed.
She was able to give the oldest two to their bio-uncle, Torear, but the weather was so bad that day and the runt was so sickly and small that it surely would have killed him. I don't think Owlclaw ever finds out why his mother always treated him with suspicion, but it did mess him up horribly.
Over in BB!DOTC, Thunder Storm is getting more half-siblings earlier. Clear Sky and Falling Feather had two daughters-- Pale Sky and Tiger Sky.
I want to explore the way that the various stages of Clear Sky's life acted on his kids. How any little curiosity Thunder Storm had about the life he might have had if he wasn't abandoned is crushed by seeing kittens who weren't. How Clear's favoritism of his oldest child set the trio against each other from the start. How this idea of "love" is toxic yet intoxicating.
It feels good to be the golden child. The power it gives you over his sycophants is satisfying. To know you, and you alone, have what someone else craves. Problem is, that's conditional, and it's cruel.
What Thunder Storm learns from his time with his biodad is that Clear Sky is not his father at all. He's taught him exactly what he DOESN'T want to be. There may be similarities-- in temperament, in physical prowess (though BB!Thunder is three-legged, he's still ripped), in taste and senses. But Thunder Storm's father is Shaded Flower.
(BB!Gray Wing died in the first book, rescuing Shaded Flower from being trampled by a horse. Xey're a patron of wisdom, Shaded Moss is taking the role of fatherhood to Thunder)
His sister is Rainswept Flower. His mom is Bright Storm. If there was a bond he could have had with Tiger Sky and Pale Sky, it dies simply and cruelly on the knife they used to cut each other out.
Pale might have wanted to mend it, she was the gentler one. But she dies in the First Battle along with her mother. Tiger Sky is too stubborn to accept any help, should Thunderstar offer it, and Thunderstar isn't in the business of begging for others to like him.
Naturally I'm lowkey obsessed with them lmao. I need to make a BB!DOTC overviewww
#I have a perspective on half siblings colored by a dynamic in my family#The generation above me has two siblings who had an awful biodad and an amazing stepdad (who did officially adopt them)#And there was nothing ''natural'' or good about how one of them was obsessed with their biodad.#It was influenced by his surroundings and did nothing but drag an incredibly toxic man back into his sister's life#Over and over#But anyway the son used to tell me ''theres no half in siblings''#The daughter adored her halfbrother through the mother who raised them-- but was adamant that her biodad's newer kids were nothing to her#I guess I agree with the son. But not in the way he believes it#There's no half in siblings because you either Are. Or you are Not.#You have a shared experience with having that person as a parent or you don't. And that's what's unchanging.#It's not the blood; it's the sweat and tears. But anyhoo#Personal details of my life aside#Tiger Sky and Pale Sky are Clear's Dead Angel Fetus Children in-canon. I think that was Weird.#So instead I made them. Not. Dead angel fetus children....#They're characters now lmaoo#Better bones au#I think Tiger Sky (i call her Tigs in my head a lot) is one of my favorite kit saves ever though#She's not going to be from the last litter either. I haven't picked who the mom is yet but he does have even more#At least one of those is going to make a grab at power but um. Sparrow Heart will not react Well.#BASICALLY lads I'm cooking. My revamps of the DOTC characters basically write themselves because I am very fond of them.#Clear's youngest: ''OH I JUST CANT WAIT TO BE KI-"#Sparrowstar: ''-lled.''
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