#sky CotL

[thatskynews]

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(ps: please keep any spoilers and info from leaks away from this post -ymir)

[baudshaw]

ITS HERE. THE NEW SYMBOL IS THE ARAMAIC SYMBOL FOR *RESH*. RESH IS USED IN THE CONCEPT ART TO REFER TO THE EDEN ELDER. THE NEW SEASON IS TWO EMBERS AND SPECIFICALLY EDEN ELDER RELATED STAY CALM. OR DONT TWO EMBERS T-MINUS 2 MONTHS

[nanomii]

Hehehehehe got the mask of the ts now

[andaniellight]

While farming candles in Golden Wasteland today, there's a Sky Kid who nearly died and this kid's fading body was located pretty far away from where the candles or lights are but I swear I've never seen a swarm of Sky Children move SO FAST to reach the kid, including me who's only a moth with sloppy maneuvering. Think about you pausing a video game mid-fight to recharge but it's completely the opposite of that: Suddenly there are at least 7 people pulling out med kits to heal you from every direction you can think of (some even land on top of your head but you're too out of it to feel anything anyway)

[catofaurora]

I just had to do a Sky x Webfishing crossover with this TS

[catofaurora]

The cheese post-it prophesy came true!

chibi of my fathead (with bonuses!

[theamberskychild]

Sketches of my Sky Kid OCs, Thistle and Amber!

[maarcyeen]

what was I made for?

[thatskynews]

ThatSkyBot's pea obsession is directly brought upon us once more -ymir

[picklelas]

boat ride!

I didn’t think the gondola would fit here, much less move.

[plutonium-sky]

I am about to come back from the fucking dead. Anyways new season pendant ramblings below (going to take a thing a friend of mine pointed out as well)

look at it. it's perfect. my initial reaction to it was that it looks like some kind of cloth- a scarf specifically. but my friend later mentioned that it looks like the hebrew letter for Resh, which....

I definitely agree with. So! this is going to be the season of the Dawn ember, if i'm not wrong with it being resh. Resh season, HELL YES.

though, what interests me more are the colors. it's the second thing i noticed- it seems to be the realms.

at first i thought it's valley, prairie, forest but then that same friend mentioned that it's probably not valley, but isle. which fits 200% better, AND it's in order. it's orange, not red, so it definitely works.

[danelloevee-sky]

After claiming the candles from the daily spirits, the spirit manning the counter doesn’t immediately close it. When you sit you are no longer served hot cocoa, but are given the daily pastry. If you have claimed it outside, Tiptoeing Tea-brewer no longer prepares one for you in the cafe

[kamyshiiik]

I like this creatures of darkness

[aeonvy]

I've been thinking a lot about Sky recently and specially about how skykids work so I'm really glad to have found this post ^^ it succinctly puts down the same things I thought about the topic as well. I think I might make my own drawn version later, but the OG concept is the same — the skykid's body is the vessel (I like to think of it as a kind of clay-like vessel) in which the light soul is contained. The cosmetics in this case are the light manifested into a more specific shape, which is why a skykid's cosmetics do not appear in their shadow in-game (check it out)! The default cosmetics are what skykids are able to shape themselves into without (much) external help, specially the 3 default hairstyles, for a brief example. The seasonal and event cosmetics could be considered more complex, which is where the need for a "mold" would come in. Similarly, in the lore I had been brewing in my mind, a skykid could go past the simple mask look and take on the shape it dictates (hence the anthropomorphic skykids, since I can't really choose between drawing my dragon skykid as an actual dragon or a masked kid sometimes-), though that requires more 'light malleability' from the user, as OP put it. I really like the inspiration from selkies! They're one of my favorite myths, plus it's a little silly since I do have a selkie skykid oc (though they're a bit unfinished...haha). Overall, this is a really interesting way of looking at skykid...biology? Well, it keeps a ton of doors open for whatever design you'd want, which I enjoy very very much.

An expansion of my headcannon of skykids being able to transform into the animals their masks are based off of! Typed versions of the image text and additional notes below the cut, because LORD do I have so much to say about this concept.

Image 1:

Bottom left text:

BODY is just the CONTAINER—Skykid soul is the LIGHT inside

Light takes shape of container at first, but has no one shape

Top right text:

Light grows used to assuming humanoid shape to fit container, but as a skykid strengthens their light, they remember/learn how to assume other shapes and gain the ability to mold their container to their will.

Image 2:

LIGHT is fluid, but the container is stiff and easily broken (at least at first). It takes a lot of slow, hard work to mold it, and MASKS are used to tell the container what shape to take/give the LIGHT a direction.

Skykids imbue their mask with their light so that when they wear it, it connects to them and allows the transformation to occur.

Change happens in increments, not all at once—learning to shape oneself takes TIME.

Small notes: "Small changes first" above the drawing of the two hands, and "Most stick to an anthropomorphic form" beside the fox skykid.

Additional Notes:

This process is also why Skykids are born wearing masks. Because light is fluid and has no single shape, the light of a newborn Skykid has not yet learned how to be humanoid, and is at risk of breaking the fragile body it inhabits, therefore: Megabird gives newborn Skykids a basic mask to “teach” their light how to maintain its shape inside the container. It takes a lot of effort to obtain the blank/“faceless” mask because it takes a lot of effort for Skykids to maintain a humanoid shape without the assistance of a mask.

Also potentially how the chibi mask works (in a world where chibis aren’t just toddlers/babies)—the mask tells the Skykid to be small.

The process of becoming a Morpho (workshopping the name) is long and arduous, and involves a lot of studying the animal one wants to take the shape of, before then making the mask that will guide the shape-change. Though most of the Skykids who take an animal form choose a more anthropomorphic default, it is possible to transform completely into the animal of choice, and this is often done for fun or stress relief.

Possible that the Eden cycle strengthens the body and makes it more malleable to change? Something to do with repeatedly dying and being reincarnated and becoming more familiar with/at home in the body you possess. Kinda like how exercising is just you tearing muscles in your body so that they grow back even stronger.

Masks can also of course be just masks. A lot of Skykids like to wear animal masks without doing any of the actual Becoming; its fun to disguise as a little creature sometimes!

Unlike human beings (and potentially ancestors?), who are all full of guts and bones and stuff, Skykids are pretty much all light in there, and the outside is just a shell. They can eat and drink and everything, and it’s fun, but it all gets burnt up instead of being digested or anything and they don’t need it to survive. Also how Krill work; they’re starved for light, and Skykids are full of it, but there’s this pesky little shell in the way, so the Krill have got to crack it to get the light out.

This is slightly inspired by the legends of the Selkie, with the masks being akin to the seal pelts that the Selkie wear to turn themselves into seals.

The body/container is what protects Skykids from having their light too badly damaged and allows them to walk the realms of Sky, but it is also what limits them in their ability to shape-change. In a hypothetical situation where a Skykid was completely unrestrained (i.e. pure light without a body, like we are in Orbit), they could potentially become any and every light creature available to them.

Essentially: Skykids = light, and light = all light creatures, so Skykids = all light creatures.

I’ll probably think of more stuff to add to this later, but for now that’s about it. I’m already thinking up possible animal forms for my singular sky OC lol (because even though I looked it up and that mask is technically a serow mask, it could very easily be any number of other things, like a dragon or a giraffe).

Bonus content: a little bird guy, and closeups of the random fox guy I made without their cape and hair (because I put way too much detail into parts of their outfit that weren’t even going to be visible). I’m for sure drawing them again <3

[ferniforest]

A year ago today I "finished" Sky: Children of the Light for the first time! I was so scared that Eden was THE end—aaah you never forget your first time. Thanks for over a year Sky! You hold such a special place in my heart <3