#surviving kumandra city

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari pt bobs burgers

(Specifically thinking about my SKC fic, changed a bit to better fit the scene)

Namaari: (waking up after having a nightmare)

Namaari: ah-! I’m sorry Atitaya! 😫

Raya, waking up: WHAT-…wha- what happened?!? 😵‍💫

Namaari: I’m killing Atitaya. 😣

Raya: wha-? You’re gonna kill Ati-?

Raya: well-…alright, the cars gassed up, so that’s good…guess we could homeschool the kids- 🤔

Namaari: -No, Raya, the stress-…the stress is killing her. 😐

Raya: what???? 🤨

Namaari: the STRESS-…I’ve been putting too much responsibilities on her each day..the stress is gonna kill her? 😐

Raya: oh…gotcha. 😐

Namaari: good God, Raya-..you just had all that ready?? 😧

Raya: what- I’m just being supportive? 😑

[shy-peacock]

👏let👏Atitaya’s👏nose👏heal👏20kEVER👏

😂😂😂

A skit in @shy-peacock’s story Surviving Kumandra City. Atitaya has had enough of this bs:

Raya, leaving Spine with the gang: okay we lost Namaari, got the gem, and everyone’s in one piece! Let’s just head out now and we can-

Atitaya, possessed by the Druun: *appears out of nowhere right in front of her*

Raya, sighing: I really should have anticipated this outcome by now

Sisu, checking her out: damn, even when the Druun has control over her she still has control over my heart

Boun: Sisu please she’s about to genuinely kill us-

Raya: everyone just get in the car I’ll distract her until you guys adjust!

Atitaya: *lunges at Raya*

Tong, not paying attention: *accidentally elbows Atitaya in the face*

Atitaya, breaking free of the Druun’s control and screaming: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? MY NOSE JUST HEALED AND THEN YOU GO AND BREAK IT AGAIN?! WHY DOES THIS ENTIRE GROUP LIVE TO TORTURE ME-

Sisu, already stepping towards her: you know I would never treat you in such a way-

Raya, shoving her in the car: shut up and file in people!

Tong, shrugging as he helps Noi and Boun in the car: that was not what I intended but I’m loving the outcome!

Taglist: @faithfulwarrior-og @isitbussinjanelle @tigerlillyruiz @ratld-sideblog @anywhere-but-here-plz

[thedragonnerd]

Rayaari headcanon - let us be sad with some angst and hurt/comfort

(inspired by a lovely anon)

With the rebirth of Kumandra and the return of their lost loved ones, everyone tries to sweep away the last six years, in a desperate attempt to move on with their lives and not waste any more time dwelling on the past.

But the scars, both physical and mental, still remain, and trauma endured cannot simply be washed away. There is a disconnect between people now - especially between those who had to endure the threat of Druuns hanging over their heads for years, and those who have awoken to a new world and changed people.

The most heart-wrenching discovery for Raya is that she doesn't always know what to say to her own Ba. It's been so long since they spent a lot of time together, and she is a very different person now compared to the 12-year-old little girl he threw into the water. Sometimes, she's worried he won't like the person she has become.

She also has more arguments with him than before, especially whenever he treats her more like a small child than the young woman she is today, who has survived hardship he never wanted her to experience. They don't always see eye-to-eye with each other regarding trade, politics and what is best for Heart, with his optimism and her realism clashing. If they don't resolve their disagreement quickly, Namaari will find Raya crying softly in their bedroom; she hates fighting with her Ba.

Raya sometimes sees children from her past, who were turned to stone in the original Druun attack and been frozen in time until now. It feels a lifetime ago that she was the right age to play with them, and when she sees them laughing and playing games, she wonders was I ever really that young?

She carries a weapon on her at all times, unable to shake off the feeling that something might go wrong. She learnt this the hard way when she was thirteen: a market deal in Talon had gone wrong, and she was attacked by two large men when she was only a child and without a weapon or knowledge how to fight back. Her ability to run fast had saved her that day. Since then, she has vowed never to be caught weaponless again.

One morning when Namaari tries to wake her, she accidentally pulls a knife, holding it up to Namaari's neck. Raya is almost sick with the idea that she could have seriously injured Namaari just through instinct, but Namaari just holds her hands until she calms down, rubbing her thumb back and forth. 'I trust you with my life,' she tells Raya.

Raya also still has moments where waves of anger wash over her, striking her unawares and in an uncontrollable manner. One time, Namaari makes an innocuous comment about Benja that sets Raya off, words of anger and blame falling from her lips with malicious intent. She feels awful after having done it - she never meant for Namaari to become the target of her bad emotions that day, and she can see how far it sets back their fledgling relationship. Namaari spirals into several days of guilt before they reconcile again.

For Namaari sees the trauma Raya carries, and can't help but feel responsible. She adds this to the weight of the guilt she has already carried for the past six years, and then bottles it up inside, with the opinion that she doesn't deserve Raya's sympathy, or indeed sympathy from anyone.

She has been raised to place the safety of her people before herself, growing to accept and embrace the risk to her own life every time she had to go out on a mission beyond the Fang borders and into Druun territory. It is something she has always been willing to do if it means keeping the rest of Fang safe, and in this new, safer world it is difficult to shake off these feelings of self-sacrifice being a worthy endeavour.

Indeed, she sometimes thinks that it would have been nobler to have turned to stone herself at some point over the years, but she is also too pragmatic to believe that would absolve her of her sins.

Her way of trying to atone therefore is to help as many people as possible now. Her self-sacrificing thoughts are channeled into working herself to exhaustion, as she tries to juggle fixing Fang's city and palace, expanding her citizen's homes back out into their previously Druun-infested lands, and offering up her services to any of the other lands who need extra support in rebuilding.

All of this responsibility and guilt weighs her down enough that she sometimes gets hit with extreme panic attacks. She manages to get herself to a private location the first few times it happens, but then it strikes in the middle of a sparring session with Raya, and she just sinks to the floor and covers her face with her hands.

She can faintly hear Raya asking 'what's wrong?' and feels a hand being placed on her trembling shoulder. She opens her mouth to tell Raya to go away, but instead chokes out 'Please stay?' It is the first time she has managed to ask for help.

Both of them have scars scattered across their bodies, each with a different story to tell, and some even caused by the other person. Raya is concerned at first that Namaari will find hers ugly, but Namaari soon puts those fears to rest by peppering them with tiny kisses. A couple of Namaari's old injuries give her trouble still, so Raya returns the favour by giving her massages when the pain behind those scars grows too much.

Trauma and loss is not a new concept to either of them, even before the arrival of the Druuns. At night, sometimes Raya sings a song that she can remember her mother using as a lullaby. Namaari doesn't like to discuss her father, but occasionally, safe in the dark, she will mention a story about an adventure they had together.

Over a long period of time, they are both able to release themselves of some of their fears and traumas; others, they learn to live with, or learn how to help the other cope. The most important thing, they find, is being together through it all.

[chaiteahd]

New chapter from @shy-peacock’s fic “Surviving Kumandra City (With Sisu the Supposal Dragon)” got me feeling like

[shy-peacock]

I commissioned the super cool @teabeeart to draw rayamaari with my OC child for them CHAU!!! (From my fic- Surviving Kumandra City)❤️

Look at thee boy 😭 he’s so cute and little!

This was so nice to receive today!! Thank you so much my dear friend!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari fam as tiktoks pt:problem

(Setting- Namaari having a one on one discussion with their daughter after Linh misbehaved)

Namaari: So Linh, are you gonna be a part of the problem are a part of the solution…?

Linh, pouting: IM GONNA BE THE WHOLE PROBLEM- 😒

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari + kiddos pt 876??? (Context- they’re out taking a walk together.)

Chau: (holding both his moms hands when he’s sees a bug zapper)

Chau: Mommy, what is that machine doing?

Raya: Ah- it’s getting rid of the moths, honey..😅

Chau: where they taking them??? 🤔

Linh, walking ahead: Hell. 😐

Namaari: Don’t say that, Linh 😩

Linh: Oh, I’m sorry- not hell…Mexico 🫤

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari kids/teens as TV Quotes (pt have I done this??)

Linh, whining: MOM- please don’t make us go!? 😩

Chau: PLEASE-?!? 😫

Namaari: No.

Chau and Linh: BUT-?!?

Namaari: No, stop trying to figure a way out of this- the answer is no. I don’t want to hear another word about it!

Namaari: (walks away)

Linh: (begins signing ASL)

Linh: She won’t have to hear another word because we’ve mastered the American Sign Language. 😏

Chau, also signing: Ha ha ha 😆

[shy-peacock]

Random rayamaari HC nobody asked for.

I know we all joke and say Namaari would be super mom while Raya would be a bit of the crazy one. But I have this HC where while they are both good parents, Raya has this like- insane instinct something isn’t right with her kids and goes all like “spidey senses” about it (especially in the SKC AU I wrote). So it goes like-

Raya and Namaari: (chilling/cuddling on the couch, watching tv)

Raya: (suddenly sits up straight) 😐

Namaari: hm? 😟

Raya:…..😐

Namaari:……what’s-😟

Raya, getting up: Chau’s crying 🏃‍♀️

Namaari: wha-???? How do you-??? 😨

Chau, bursting into the door: MOM, I FELL OFF MY SCOOTER AND SCRAPED MY ELBOW!!!! 😭

Raya: awww, come here 🥺

Raya hugs him while Namaari is still on the couch like- ???????

[shy-peacock]

Legit was gonna write a prompt where Linh gets asked on a date as a older teen/young adult but all I could think of was this.

Person: hey, Linh- so I was wondering maybe sometime you and I could go on a date? 😊

Linh: ew. 😐

Person: 😰

Chau: LINH- don’t you remember Mom and Mom said you should at least try to be nice, even if it’s rejecting someone?!

Linh: ugh fine 🙄

Linh: ew, no thank you. 😐

[shy-peacock]

Modern AU of Virana and Benja the first time they babysit the Rayamaari baby (Chau)😂. They accidentally lock him in the car.

Benja: (runs towards the car with a large object)

Benja: IM BREAKING THE WINDOW! 😫

Phone: emergency assistance this is Trina- 😊

Virana: HELP! We locked our grandson in the car- and people are JUDGING us?! 😫

Benja: I SWEAR TO GOD IM GONNA BREAK IT 😫

Virana: Do NOT break the window- you’ll get glass on him!!! 😠

Phone: m’am, please tell your wife to relax- everything is going to be okay- ☺️

Virana: that’s-…a man???😑 (And not my husband)

Phone: oh- really??? 😳

Benja: DONT WORRY CHAU- GRANDPA’S COMING!

Phone: M’am, we just sent a signal- the door should be unlocked now. ☺️

Virana: CHECK THE DOORS-…CHECK THE DOORS!

Benja: THEY’RE NOT-…(opens) oh…😳

Virana:…..😐

Benja:……😐

Benja: well that is amazing- how did they do that? From space or something? 🤔

Virana:…no idea

People: 👀👀👀

Virana: we got it- thanks! 😒

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari children as TikToks. (Only I’d change the words from “what’s wrong with him” to something like “what does he have?” Or something like that cause there isn’t anything wrong with people who are autistic)

Namaari talking to Linh before they head out.

Namaari: are you gonna make sure nobody picks on your brother?

Linh: *nods* yep ☺️

Namaari: you gonna stick up for him? 🤔

Linh: yep 🙂

Namaari: what does he have? Do you remember what it’s called? 🙂

Linh: Au-ti-gsm 🤔

Namaari: Autistic, yes! he has autism. ☺️

Linh: yeah! 🥰

Namaari: so if other kids pick on him, what are you gonna do? 😊

Linh: kill them! 😄🔪

Namaari: NO- 😫

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari children pt !?!!

No dialogue needed- just Chau after they sign him up for karate lessons.

Bonus- Namaari, filming in the background:

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari as parents as tiktoks pt: deedle dee

Raya is the blue hoodie - Namaari the one trying to stop her 😂😂😂😂😂 (any universe- but in SKC it’s definitely Chau and he’s laughing the entire time)

[shy-peacock]

Rayamaari kids as TikToks pt 35421

Just pure LINH energy- with Namaari 😂