#rq light steve

[reponute]

Back to whatever fixation I had long ago, Favremysabre stuff and Ruined Reality

Whipped this up in a few hours while I watched some RR episodes

[ungodlysaltyinfrastructure]

RQ Light, Happy, and Funny hugging?

From episode 93, right after Happy came back :3

For u <3

Had lots of fun designing funny and happy. I always thought drawing colored Steve's was a nice creative challenge of "how does one make them look different and unique from each other yet staying true to the fact that they all look the same?"

[strangersatellites]

posting this feels like I'm crawling out of my grave and gasping for air

anyway- inspired by this post by @inthedarknessofnight

here's 1.3k of concert photographer!Steve and rockstar!Eddie because I couldn't get this out of my head

gimme, gimme more

1.3k words | this is the most g-rated thing I've ever written, it won't happen again

Steve’s feet hurt.

They always do after a show, but this one was particularly hard on him.

He’s been at this venue for two years now and shot countless shows in that time. But never in his career has he been challenged so– athletically. 

The photo pit at this place is light years better than his last venue. There’s more than enough room for all of the photographers and their gear without stepping on each other. Usually Steve is grateful for this because surely there is only so many more beatings his 35mm can take before it kicks the bucket. Today though, he’s grateful for the space because of the full-tilt sprint this band had him in. 

He’s never seen anything like it.

Well, less so did the band have him in a sprint and more so the frontman but, semantics. 

The guy is everywhere. Steve could barely keep up with the way he ran around stage, jumping, climbing on equipment, leaning off-stage toward the barricade.

It was fun but Jesus, what is his deal?

Steve hadn’t even known who Corroded Coffin was 24 hours ago. Now he’s burned through two SD cards in an hour and a half. 

The guy’s hot and a good photo subject, sue him.

Well, he thinks he’s a good photo subject at least. He won’t know until he’s culled through every single shot. Steve’s a good photographer, took to it naturally the first time he picked up a camera. His downfall though, according to his college professors at least, was that he pays absolutely no attention to what he’s shooting while he’s shooting it. Hence the overshooting. 

On more than one occasion he’s gotten started on editing and someone is wearing an outfit he’s never seen before, someone’s got sunglasses on in every photo, a tag hanging off their jacket. All he’s concerned with is the framing, the lighting, and the focus. The content can be a problem for Future Steve. Everything can be fixed in post.

Almost.

Anyway, his feet hurt and he hates culling, so he pours himself a full glass of wine and plops down on the couch in front of an episode of trash tv with his laptop and props his feet up. Settles in for a long night.

2,461 images.

He throws his head back with a groan. Ugh. 

The first hundred or so are garbage.

They always are.

A few shots spent fucking with the exposure, a few the focus, some the flash.

He denotes the purple flag as his ‘good’ tag and orange as his ‘trash’ tag. The orange is stacking up fast. Around 163 he starts finding some good images. Ones that aren’t tainted by motion blur from his running around after this frontman. 

His photos of the drummer are pretty sick; he can't lie. The lights and the smoke and the near-manic smile on his face make for great photos. He’s not even this band’s personal photographer but he can imagine at least one of these will get posted to the band's socials. He’s good, what can he say?

He has a good bit of the bassist, his energy infectious enough you can almost feel it through the screen. Purple is making a comeback.

He finally gets through some crowd pics, some more drummer, some guitarist, some detail shots before he finally makes it to the frontman. 731 photos later. 

What did Wikipedia say his name was? Eddie, he thinks.

Weird, the very first shot Steve has of him he’s making fierce eye contact with the camera.

Ew.

No matter how long Steve does this, photos of people looking directly at the camera never get less jarring. 

Orange tag. Trash.

The next one is exactly the same.

Shit. 

He’s really bad to fall victim to the high speed shutter on this camera and often finds himself with a dozen copies of the same picture. Looks like he’s done it again.

Orange.

More piercing eye contact.

What? He squints and flips back and forth between the last two photos.

They’re not even remotely similar. As a matter of fact, Steve was in a completely different location in the pit for the second one. 

Green tag. Come back to this.

Taking a long swig from his glass he shifts so his laptop is closer to his face. Thinks that surely he’s not seeing this right. 

He takes to forgoing his tagging system and just flipping through every photo as fast as his fingers can press the arrow keys.

He’s clicked through about 200 when he starts getting worried, his heart rate speeding up. Surely he got something usable.

“What the fuck?”

He’s clicked through 50 or 60 more when he decides that, no he did not fall victim to the shutter speed at all. This guy is just making direct eye contact with his camera in every single photo.

Steve’s not mad, the opposite really. He didn’t spend much time looking at the guy during the show and now he gets to have an eyeful while he works. What’s there to be mad about? 

He is, however, mildly concerned that he won’t have a single decent photo to use for the venue socials when he posts about this show.

Whatever. Maybe fans of their music are also fans of uncomfortable eye contact. Who knows?

He finishes sifting through the rest of the photos, Eddie staring directly down the lens in every one, one’s where he’s not the subject included. Throws them all in an editing software and mass edits them all at once. He’ll detail edit later.

While the eye contact was a little unsettling, he did get one photo he’s particularly happy with. One that makes it look like the staring was on purpose.

It’s during the second to last song, a ballad– or as close as you can get with a metal band. Eddie’s standing center-stage and Steve had snagged the spot directly in front of him. He’s looking straight down, backlit with red spotlights, surrounded by smoke pumping from side-stage, and just close enough that Steve can see the sweat dripping down his neck. He looks a little bit scary, but that’s how Steve likes ‘em. 

That’ll be the cover photo for sure.

He shoots an album link to his boss to review before he distributes them anywhere, then spends  the next twenty minutes laughing to himself while he collects the goofiest photos of Eddie staring straight at his lens.

He puts them in a new album and copies the link.

When he opens up Instagram and searches Corroded Coffin he lets out a low whistle at the six million followers. Maybe he really should know who these guys are. With that many followers he doubts they’ll even see a message from his personal account, but whatever. He clicks on the message button on their profile and hits paste.

@ steveharrington.jpeg Great show tonight! Somebody tell this guy that he is allowed to look away from the camera though…

He only waits a few minutes for the reply.

@ corrodedcoffin HOLY SHIT THAT WAS YOU

@ corrodedcoffin Wait hang on

His phone pings with a message from a new account.

@ whoiseddiemunson HOLY SHIT THAT WAS YOU

@ whoiseddiemunson Sweetheart I wasn’t looking at the camera

Steve furrows his brows, confused. Starts typing a response but gets interrupted by another message.

@ whoiseddiemunson I was looking at the smoking hot guy behind it. Kinda hard to get a good look when he’s hiding behind the camera though.

Steve feels his cheeks flush and huffs a laugh to himself.

@ steveharrington.jpeg Well the guy behind the camera did manage to get a few good ones even though he was under surveillance the whole show. Wanna see those?

@ whoiseddiemunson Hell yeah I do. I just scrolled through your profile, your work is amazing. Do you want to show me the rest? Maybe over coffee tomorrow?

Steve smiles. His earlier heart palpitations replaced with butterflies.

@ steveharrington.jpeg Is this a date?

@ whoiseddiemunson It better be

[frostbyte744]

It happened again

[vb-void]

Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

[thebeingmerf]

RQ aftermath thoughts as I watch- aka mostly just things that stuck out to me (Note: it’s been a LONG time since I rewatched RQ, at least a year. I don’t remember much of the ending)

————

• M’s official cloak being tailored to have a hood on it like his other one😭

• REBUILDING THE ORIGINAL RED KINGDOM? HELLO? AND A NEW ACADEMY??

• I need to draw the scene with M visiting Sabre’s grave (or technically memorial? There wasn’t a body to bury).

• I love that it shows the process of putting up Sabres memorial. Ik we got a glimpse at the end of RQ, but the sentiment of it is still sweet

• HAPPY (🟧) JOINING THE COLORLESS GUARD 😭

• orange steves helping build the new red academy

• Sol being the only prisoner HELP 💀

• O/Y/G trading (not surprising in hindsight but I just never thought about it)

• I love that all the chromatics can have a successful attempt at living together this time. The rainbow kingdom was made in a time of stress and fear, tensions were bound to rise. But with nothing to be scared of anymore, it’s nice that they can fully integrate their lives without force

• what mod did they use for green wood planks??? (Side note; my favorite color is green, and I’m still salty that my MC houses always have to be made of wool and moss. Yes I know concrete and terracotta are options, but that’s a lot more tedious.)

• green leader listening to his people 👏

• Greens wanting to explore and find ancient plants 😭 I love that so much- and the fact that they love lush caves. THEY MADE IT THEIR NEW HOME?? AWW 😭✨ my plant babies

• they would love sniffers fr

• Blue leader experiencing The Horrors™️

• at least the green steves are safe from the ghouls I guess?- since they didn’t want the redstone towers

• Indigo :((((

• indigo trying to keep busy 24/7 to avoid depression hes just like me fr

• wondering if they have Colorless guard members that are blue or indigo to go to their respective dimensions. I noticed the colorless guards have portals to each colored kingdom, but mortal steves wouldn’t be able to go to the world beyond

• steves canonically turn dull when they die.

• one of the green steves from the new settlement died D:

• “emotional effects of the darkness” brother that’s depression 😭

• THERAPY FOR EVERYONE ‼️‼️‼️ take notes American healthcare system

• oooo Violet Steves + Alchemy is such a fun concept. And I love that they’re getting green and red steves involved to help (in case of injury, and to help with knowledge respectively)

• if Assistant Steve can be affected by potions, does that mean he’s a cyborg (partially robot partially human) instead of a robot (100% artificial)?

• Violet Steves teaching potion brewing to others 😭✨✨✨

• I love that the Violet Steves are falling into more jobs/trades and not just being ‘the flowery love guys’ if that makes sense

• THE LEADERS VISITING SABRES GRAVE TOGETHER 😭

[ender-niffler]

In fact, here’s one of my headcanons for y’all!!

Light Steve cannot wear colored things, when given new clothes (that are all decked out in color) they’re fine, but as soon as he puts them on they immediately lose their colors and are more silvery and greyscale colors!!

Light doesn’t mind this much, but it freaks some of the younger Steve’s out

[illusion-reality-steve]

Sorry guys, I don't think I can do this. I'm feeling a bit lightheaded right now. (my Minecraft character is wearing Light Steve's head in the helmet slot box)

[brainrot-stitch]

(Plucks him out of a box by the scruff like a scraggly ass kitten) I love him

[cavedweller1st]

Hc for Light

One of Light's nicknames is 'Glowberry' because of his original colour, and I hc him to glow :]

[keepers-of-storycrafter]

Introduction

Hello all! Welcome (officially, hah) to our collective blog! ^^ I'm Time Steve!

Professor Red here. It's nice to meet you all, we'll be exploring our fellow parallel universes through this.

Welcome, I'm Light Steve. We come from the Rainbow Quest universe, as Sabre has told me.

Some guests from our multiverse may stop by here and share the tales of their journeys! We may need to adjust some things to help them get comfortable doing so, so their posts may be different from ours. We're already quite used to the internet ourselves, so we're the main trio behind this account!

Feel free to visit, we've already had a few guests before we'd fully unpacked. So now we're fully set to accept guests, packages, and questions!

Once Time finishes putting it together, we'll add a list of everyone currently in our universe. It may have some basic information on where they are and their current state, but I'm not sure.

Thank you for the reminder, Light! As a side note, feel free to tag us in anything! We'd love to see it!

[reponute]

Light stev and the colourless guardddd

[carvedrobin]

kinda in love with how I've been drawing light recently

[itisindigos]

I do a lot of these ^^ I just need to work on making sure every character when I write has their own way of speaking.

(Fun fact Cyprus, I’d like to write Light in a way he speaks very oddly and formally. Light wouldn’t use ‘you’re’ Or ‘I’d’, Light would use ‘you are’ or ‘I would’, making his speech very off in certain cases. I just haven’t done it because I’m too scared to make Light’s speech look super awkward-)

Things Real People Do in Dialogue (For Your Next Story)

Okay, let’s be real—dialogue can make or break a scene. You want your characters to sound natural, like actual humans talking, not robots reading a script. So, how do you write dialogue that feels real without it turning into a mess of awkward pauses and “ums”? Here’s a little cheat sheet of what real people actually do when they talk (and you can totally steal these for your next story):

1. People Interrupt Each Other All the Time In real conversations, nobody waits for the perfect moment to speak. We interrupt, cut each other off, and finish each other's sentences. Throw in some overlaps or interruptions in your dialogue to make it feel more dynamic and less like a rehearsed play.

2. They Don’t Always Say What They Mean Real people are masters of dodging. They’ll say one thing but mean something totally different (hello, passive-aggressive banter). Or they’ll just avoid the question entirely. Let your characters be vague, sarcastic, or just plain evasive sometimes—it makes their conversations feel more layered.

3. People Trail Off... We don’t always finish our sentences. Sometimes we just... stop talking because we assume the other person gets what we’re trying to say. Use that in your dialogue! Let a sentence trail off into nothing. It adds realism and shows the comfort (or awkwardness) between characters.

4. Repeating Words Is Normal In real life, people repeat words when they’re excited, nervous, or trying to make a point. It’s not a sign of bad writing—it’s how we talk. Let your characters get a little repetitive now and then. It adds a rhythm to their speech that feels more genuine.

5. Fillers Are Your Friends People say "um," "uh," "like," "you know," all the time. Not every character needs to sound polished or poetic. Sprinkle in some filler words where it makes sense, especially if the character is nervous or thinking on their feet.

6. Not Everyone Speaks in Complete Sentences Sometimes, people just throw out fragments instead of complete sentences, especially when emotions are high. Short, choppy dialogue can convey tension or excitement. Instead of saying “I really think we need to talk about this,” try “We need to talk. Now.”

7. Body Language Is Part of the Conversation Real people don’t just communicate with words; they use facial expressions, gestures, and body language. When your characters are talking, think about what they’re doing—are they fidgeting? Smiling? Crossing their arms? Those little actions can add a lot of subtext to the dialogue without needing extra words.

8. Awkward Silences Are Golden People don’t talk non-stop. Sometimes, they stop mid-conversation to think, or because things just got weird. Don’t be afraid to add a beat of awkward silence, a long pause, or a meaningful look between characters. It can say more than words.

9. People Talk Over Themselves When They're Nervous When we’re anxious, we tend to talk too fast, go back to rephrase what we just said, or add unnecessary details. If your character’s nervous, let them ramble a bit or correct themselves. It’s a great way to show their internal state through dialogue.

10. Inside Jokes and Shared History Real people have history. Sometimes they reference something that happened off-page, or they share an inside joke only they get. This makes your dialogue feel lived-in and shows that your characters have a life beyond the scene. Throw in a callback to something earlier, or a joke only two characters understand.

11. No One Explains Everything People leave stuff out. We assume the person we’re talking to knows what we’re talking about, so we skip over background details. Instead of having your character explain everything for the reader’s benefit, let some things go unsaid. It’ll feel more natural—and trust your reader to keep up!

12. Characters Have Different Voices Real people don’t all talk the same way. Your characters shouldn’t either! Pay attention to their unique quirks—does one character use slang? Does another speak more formally? Maybe someone’s always cutting people off while another is super polite. Give them different voices and patterns of speech so their dialogue feels authentic to them.

13. People Change the Subject In real life, conversations don’t always stay on track. People get sidetracked, jump to random topics, or avoid certain subjects altogether. If your characters are uncomfortable or trying to dodge a question, let them awkwardly change the subject or ramble to fill the space.

14. Reactions Aren’t Always Immediate People don’t always respond right away. They pause, they think, they hesitate. Sometimes they don’t know what to say, and that delay can speak volumes. Give your characters a moment to process before they respond—it’ll make the conversation feel more natural.

Important note: Please don’t use all of these tips in one dialogue at once.

[thebeingmerf]

Stevetember Days 19-26 @stevetember

Day 19, Change: Shy Orange Steve —> Light (RQ)

Day 20, X-Ray: Q from Z’s pov (TPORR)

Day 21, Insidious: Elemental (TSS)

Day 22, Machine: C!Sabre (TSS)

Day 23, Paradise: The World Beyond (RQ ver)

Day 24, Musical: Galaxy Steve (SCU Hamilton au)

Day 25, Quarrelsome: Void (TSS)

Day 26, Lackey: Soul and Corrupt (RQ)

[illusion-reality-steve]

Gerald is living like a Barbie among Kens. (Episode link)