me returning to tumblr so I can stare more at scielune..... like I could not stop having thoughts about them and now there's a 55k word fic on my ao3.
Anyway this turned into my Scielune Dissertation
I just think the way they balance yet reflect each other is so fascinating!
Like, Lune is very mission-oriented, the one who will remind everyone of what really matters, the person who would rather push herself to the very brink and die trying than say she ever gave up. Meanwhile, Sciel is more go-with-the-flow, more serene on the surface, and the words "giving up" aren't in her dictionary because as long as you're putting effort towards Something, then that's more than enough for her.
It's pretty easy to say Lune black cat, Sciel golden retriever. But what I love about them is that Lune is the one who's more prone to emotional outbursts, while Sciel has that kind of self acceptance that's like water running off her back.
And it's not like "oh, Lune's usually really quiet but the few times she gets loud—" no like, Lune is LOUD. When she's not loud in volume, she's loud in her choice of words. She doesn't mind being destructive so long as she gets her point across, and that's real black cat energy to me haha.
And I loveeeee how this game allowed Lune to smile—it would've been so easy to let her become yet another one of those constantly serious, non-emotive, emotionally repressed (in a boring way) characters. But you can tell that she feels soooo much. You see her happy, sad, angry, excited, conflicted, exasperated, like a whole range of emotions. She's not some opposite to Sciel's "cheerier" persona.
And Sciel balances her soooo incredibly well. I could go on and on about her emotional intelligence, the way her past has shaped her but she hasn't let it define her. I just adore the energy Sciel radiates—she's there to calm Lune down, she's a voice of reason that Lune willingly listens to, she's around to coax several smiles out of Lune. She's maternal to Maelle, understanding of Verso, and kind towards herself.
Sciel is like, specifically therapist dog golden retriever. And Lune is the black cat who's surprisingly receptive of therapy LOL.
I loved how, in that scene where they're lying down under the stars together, Lune doesn't fight it when Sciel scolds her. "Friends are not distractions" and "I know that *now."* Lune never denies that her past ways of thinking were flawed. When Sciel wants to clear the air, Lune doesn't deflect, but instead just explains her thought process as it was. She doesn't claim to be correct, just acknowledges that yes, she cut people out, and yes, she was wrong to think of friends as distractions.
Even in their earlier scene right after Act I, Lune never pushes Sciel away when Sciel moves to rest her head on Lune's shoulder. She's receptive when Sciel tells her that everything will be okay, tomorrow will still come. Lune's stubborn and a chronic overthinker, but what kept her so incredibly relatable was how she liked when someone like Sciel would come in to silence the noise, to tell her "hey, slow down, let's work through this with a gentler touch."
I wish we got to see more of them. Methinks they should've gotten together if neither of the romanced Verso 🙏
But beyond that, I also wish Sciel had a bigger role and more sorta, inner conflict? I feel like in the final act, when she learns that she can bring her husband back, she says some stuff that's very like, unnerving LOL things that could challenge her after Maelle's ending. But I won't go into that bc I already wrote my own what-if fic and I'm not gonna just rehash it here haha.
Anyway Scielune should've been canon. I need to find more ppl to talk about them with LOL if there's a Scielune open discord server or smth, someone pls let me know
