There’s a woman, with long, wavy black hair. Her face is always obscured by shadows, but Jay knows that she’s smiling at him; smiling at him with the biggest smile that no one has ever given him before. She wears a long dress, he doesn’t know if it’s a qipao or a kimono, but it matches her perfectly, a bright rose red.
Or maybe it was a soft pale pink.
Or maybe it was a cool ocean blue.
The woman grabs his hand, and he jolts at the sensation of her cool skin against his warmth. She says something. It’s muffled, and Jay tries to listen, but he can’t, her words are getting fuzzy, his ears are ringing, the hand in his isn’t real, his hand isn’t real, his body isn’t real, this isn’t real-
It’s dark. Stars decorate the night sky like freckles. There’s another woman, one with blonde hair, and she holds him as if her arms were molded to do so, molded to love him. She’s soft and warm and Jay leans into her touch, eyes gazing up at her obscured face.
The woman speaks but there’s no words. Her voice trembles, Jay knows it does as she stumbles over her words and chokes back sobs. A few tears fall onto his soft face and she quickly wipes them away.
The woman hands him to an older one, and she holds him with the same warmth, but he doesn’t like it. He sobs and cries and reaches out to the woman with blonde hair, and she hesitates. Her hands tremble before she pulls back, words barely audible througher her sobs.
“I love you.”
Oh.
The woman with black hair had said the same thing.
Jay wonders if it’s real, their warmth, their softness, their love; he doesn’t know who they are but they’re so familiar. Like he knew them in a past life.
Jay wakes up with a jolt, eyes wide and chest heaving. He’s sitting under a tree, leaves shielding him from the pouring rain and arms wrapped around himself to keep himself warm.
Jay gathers his supplies quickly and stretches before he begins to walk. He has a job to do; reminiscing on forgotten memories won’t help him. It never does.
I’ve been having so much brain rot about them teehee !! I feel like it would make sense for them to like… return after the merge. Here’s their ref sheet (might change it later idk) and doodles and light practices under the cut :33
How the fuck do you draw comics. Anyways I hc Cinder and Ash to be siblings, and Cinder looked up to Ash when he was younger and later ended up stealing his fit lol. Sorry it’s not consistent, I made these during therapy 😭😭 more art on Friday (26).
“As I looked at my reflection I noticed it winked at me.”
Anatomy was beating my ass so hard with this 😭😭 also I flipped my canvas halfway and forgot so when I was putting my watermark i was so confused on why it was backwards lmaooo
One of my headcanons is that Libber (Jay’s mom) is a nickname and her full name is Libitina Noe.
Libitina is an ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burials, and Libber might as well be a woman of the dead since we have no idea what happened to her. Not only that, Libitina was associated with Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, prosperity, and victory. Doesn’t Venus sound like Cliff Gordon?
In Korea, the surname Noe can be written in two different ways, one meaning thunder and the other meaning “to request”. Libber was the former elemental master of lightning and she requested Ed and Edna to take care of Jay.
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Got a little silly. Character designs under cuts bc they flash too fast lol. U can do whatever u want with them as long as you credit me :3c also, todays my BIRTHDAY !!!!!!
Save me buff old man, save me …… I hc him to be Ethiopian and Japanese :33 also as u can tell , i’m very bad at coloring streaks when the hair is down lol
For @fandomsareforlife im so sorry I lost ur ask 😭😭
T4T !!! HC Pale to be nonbinary (he/they) and Shade as genderfluid (they/he).
Moon x Sun
Orange cat × black dog
Goth Academia × Light Academia
Cold hands × Warm hands
Pales nickname for Shade is "moonlight"
Shades nickname for Pale is "sunlight"
Pale is an early bird whilst Shade is a night owlz
They're each others muses!! I HC Pale to be an artist and Shade is an author.
Their families are company rivals. Their parents disapprove of their relationship and their siblings dgaf.
Pale is small spoon and Shade is big spoon, even tho Pale is 6 inches taller than Shade.
Shade pretends that he doesn't know how to dance so Pale can teach him. They like seeing Pale get excited while teaching them.
Shade gets cuteness aggression whenever they see Pale and often bites his arm.
Pales love language is touch and Shades is quality time. They're always holding each others hands and standing close to each other.
Had so much gay tension before they started dating 😭😭
They r so in love. When Shade got captured in season 4, Pale started tweaking and almost killed a man trying to find them.
Pale: Are you homophobic?!???!??!!? Why'd you kidnap my boyfriend?!???!!!
Chen: I'm not homophobic, I just hate seeing people happy.
Pale "has to sleep with calming music* Man and Shade "has to sleep with metal music" Shadow.
Chamille, whenever she sees Pale and Shade: My god!!!! These bitches gay !!!!!!! Good for them, good for them !!!!!!!!!!
Shade's the only one who can see Pales appearance (aside from Pale himself) and forgets that fact. They often boast about how pretty Pale is and people have to remind them that literally no one except Shade can see Pale.
Shade: Are you from Mississippi? Cuz you're the only miss whose piss I'd sippi.
Pale: ...I'm from France? (or the Ninjago equivalent of France)
Pale has long hair (like half his back) and Shade is always fidgeting with it.
Matching scents !!!! Pale smells like citrus and Shade smells like flowers.