#moonrot space au

[varteeny1234]

👀 hallooo

omg hi pebbl!!

so. i have one specific au that i think you may enjoy! it is a pearl-centric SPACE AU featuring alien etho + tango, and also moonrot :D

so basically pearl wants to explore space and cleo is her gf back on earth (they are both human as of now) and cleo is worried about something going wrong (pearl will be the first to embark on such a mission) but supports her

and pearl goes off into space and manages to somehow crash land on a really weird planet but SPECIFICALLY in the middle of a dense jungle and she wanders around looking for somewhere to stay since her ship can't fly and thats when ETHO APPEARS WHEEE and he's like "oh snappers, you alright? that's a nasty cut on your leg! say, I havent seen you around before" and pearl looks down and Oh Wait, That's New and also "no man i just crashed on this planet do you have like a house of smthn??" so etho takes her back to his house and TANGO IS THERE TOO :DDDDD they talk and all, they help pearl get situated and she tells them about her situation and all and she's grateful she's alive and has people helping her but also! she can't get back home to cleo! :(

so as the plot progresses pearl etho and tango try and fail to repair the spaceship (theydont have the right materials, and also dont know how to leave their planet. tango actually was once in a similar situation, he woke up there with no memories of anything before. etho spent his whole life there) and since the communications message transmitter thingy is broken pearl cant call earth for help. to cope with this she borrows a journal from etho and writes letters to cleo in it, telling her about her day and what's been happening and all <3 it's very sweet

also, the more time she spends here, the less human she becomes...

eventually, tango starts acting weird and etho Knows What's Happening, because something similar happened in the past. there was a mysterious corrupting force that took over a small area and tango fell victim to it but luckily etho was able to save him! unfortunately, it is back, and stronger. much MUCH stronger. that winter is colder than it should be. (can you tell where i'm headed with this)

it's the Deepfrost! basically, tango changes under its influence but still is himself deep down, and he's stuck in the corrupted parts of the planet which are conveniently his house and the surrounding areas. etho and pearl are trying to save him while also fighting back Deepfrost themselves: it's taking over the surface of the planet. they find out they can't do anything from the surface, so they go into a weird cave, and etho's too nervous so he stays above and pearl goes venturing off into the darkness. (this is supposed to represent the burning dark from do2)

pearl finds a bunch of weird thingamabobs on her adventure, including a mysterious key. she sees a weird tower structure thingy in the middle of a big cave opening, with what appears to be a keyhole without any clue as to what's behind it. she mentally flips a coin and tries it, and it works, and a quite possibly magical crown materializes on her head. then Deepfrost crumbles around her and she feels it both physically and mentally, and it takes the cave with it. she's able to escape thanks to her wings she's grown while on this planet (she really isn't human at all anymore), and at the surface she finds etho and tango, and tango's back to normal and they're all happy again and life goes on for a bit normally! pearl manages to at least fix the message transmitter, so she attempts sending SOS calls in the hopes that someone somewhere picks them up.

BUT! you may be wondering what cleo's been up to this whole time!

well basically, after she received word that they'd lost contact with pearl and couldn't locate her ship, she was devastated, but also somehow knew in her gut that pearl was still alive somewhere. they manages to get a spaceship of their own (probably not the best idea but she Does Not Care), and goes on a rescue mission. she stops at a few planets and explores them, but ultimately they can't find a single sign of life anywhere.

time passes, and she refuses to give up hope, and one day her effort pay off! she receives a message, the one pearl got out! they are from then on able to locate her, arriving on planet PET (calling it that now).

she and pearl have a wonderful reunion, and cleo loves pearl's new look too! unfortunately, cleo may love it, but the rest of the people on earth might not, and pearl feels like she belongs here rather than back there anyway. cleo and pearl talk, and they come to the decision that for a number of reasons (they're clearly safe here, pearl feels at home and her going back would be forever awkward at the absolute best, and cleo never really had a serious attachment to the planet anyway so they dont really have many negative emotions about abandoning it) they should live out the rest of their lives there :D

i. think that's the end possibly...? question mark?

i do hope you've enjoyed my word vomit :3

also. the funniest part about this. i just wanted to write something short but space themed in the beginning! if i ever end up writing this it's definitely not going to be quick aelksdflkadshfhuertgfhdgahrr

[varteeny1234]

I LOVE PEARL SO MUCH anyways so SPACE!!!!

i have a post explaining most of the plot here already, but i was thinking more about pearl's transformation of sorts, and how the more time she spends on this strange planet the less and less human she becomes and all the fun stuff that comes with the experience of not knowing if it's the planet that's changing you, or if you were really never human at ALL,

and how she doesn't really mind either option, which is the scariest part? she's got etho and tango there with her, and tango went through the same thing who-knows-how-long-ago, and she feels more at home here with them out in space than she ever did on earth with cleo. but she still feels homesick, like she's missing something, and isn't sure if it's earth she wants to go back to or if it's what she had ON earth (spoiler alert it's the second one)

there reaches a point, after she's now grown antennae and wings and her eyes are like a void with speckles of light that remind her of the stars, that she realizes she won't be able to go back to earth and stay there, not anymore, she's too alien now. but she can't just stop trying to fix her spaceship, cleo doesn't know where she IS and probably thinks she's DEAD!

when Deepfrost starts to really take control of the place and she and Etho have lost Tango to it, she pushes this all to the back of her mind for a while. unfortunately, the back of the mind is still part of the mind :3

after she manages to get a message out, which unbeknownst to her has been picked up by a Cleo who should NOT have access to that spaceship but is here anyway, all the internal conflict comes back in full force and she's now thinking "going back is now really a possibility. I have to make a decision, stay or leave. Why can't I make a decision?" and it's all fun

cleo set off on this rescue mission to find pearl with the mindset of "I need to find my gf and take her back home, there's no way she can be dead, she's just lost somewhere in space. I trust her and her ability to stay alive, but she's stranded with no means of communication. I need to get her back home." and then once they find her, they're surprised but like her new alien self.

pearl tells cleo that she doesn't want to go back to earth, and now that they've reunited she's realized the only thing she would miss there is cleo but cleo's here now so she truly feels no connection to there? cleo is... less surprised at this, since pearl always seemed like she was made to explore the stars

pearl also feels guilty because if cleo doesn't want to stay here too, they'll be separated again, and even though she really really doesn't want to go back to earth she feels some sense of guilt that she SHOULD, especially now that cleo's arrived with a working spaceship that can take both of them.

cleo thinks about what THEY want to do, since pearl didn't need nor want to go to earth again after all, and that was the main reason they left to find her: taking her back home. but she IS home, her home just isn't what either of them thought it was

and come to think of it, cleo herself had always thought of home as more wherever I am, as long as I have Pearl so maybe it wouldn't be awful if they stayed too? they'd still miss earth, of course, but they'd rather be with pearl.

in the end, it all works out and they decide to stay on the new planet together (with etho and tango too of course) and they're happy :D

that was one heck of a word vomit i hope this was coherent LOL

can i ramble about my pearl-centric space au (feat. etho tango and cleo)?

i have many thoughts :>

yes absolutely<3