Emi ra'er, Taei'Vasiáll - My liege, Prince-General
Eclipse's design is done!! Part of my DCA!Alien AU, Dark Matter. I'm so happy with how he turned out omg 😭
You can find Sun and Moon here.
As you might guess from the above honorific and title, Eclipse is the leader of his people, comparable to a king. He's also Sun and Moon's oldest sibling and spends most of his time on the Capital Ship patrolling their homeworld and keeping it and the people safe from those who would do harm.
Sun and Moon spend most of their time on-planet as his eyes and ears, because Eclipse is kept so busy most of the time. But the three of them are very close and take every chance they can get to spend time together.
Now that all three designs are done I can finally focus on some proper story illustrations, chapter art and doodles, yay!
for no particular reason, about how tall are your alien boys? :3
So I've answered this before but I'm terrible with numbers (hello discalculia my old friend) and also feet and inches will never make sense to me even with a converter.
So I tossed together a quick height chart! The y/n is from my other AU but I draw them all the same anyway.
(again bases on that DM spin-off) I have a feeling that if Eclipse set guards to follow us around i would NOT be able to shut the fuck up, like, i know they can't understand me, but baby, I'm about to yap about every little thing from my feelings and thoughts on the situation to what i think of their planet and culture and my life back at Earth, they don't know a thing Im saying but they are being forced to stay around me so yes, Im going to fill in the empty gaps that language barrier created for as long as i need to, thank you very much
Please have mercy on the poor guards forced to listen to the incoherent gibberish of this weird little alien 😂 They'll be begging Eclipse for a different position before long.
Hoo boy I can tell I haven't drawn nebuterrans in a while. Still trying to kick this very persistent artblock, figured I'd take this opportunity to design a very quick-n-dirty-basic-definitely-not-final design for the soldiers. The final design will probably be quite different and actually look decent but for now, good enough
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New post, had to reupload the chapter! Please disregard the previous post if you reblogged it, that link no longer works!
There's a weird error where the end notes of the first chapter appear under the second chapter and I can't seem to fix it. I don't know why it's happening but it's really annoying. Maybe it's a site glitch and it will fix itself, I dunno. Fixed.
ANYWAY!
Welp, this only took me forever! Apologies for taking so long to upload the next chapter! Between getting distracted with my other AUs, a creative block I'm still struggling with and some real life stuff, it just… took a while. I can't promise it won't happen again, I don't decide what I focus on, the hyperfixation does lol. But I hope this lengthy chapter makes up for the wait, it certainly turned out longer than I initially thought it would lol.
What would Eclipse do if we were to suddenly kiss him? Like spur of the moment, we’re spending time with him and then we just lean in without even thinking? I bet cause kissing mouth-to-mouth isn’t a part of their culture, he’d probably be a little perplexed and think we were just doing some weird human thing lol
Yeah that sounds about right lol, if it's the first time we try to give him a uh... human style kiss, he's gonna be sitting there like 0_0?? what just happened????
Poor guy is gonna be so confused 😂 To be fair, we are doing a weird human thing.
Ngl, that's kinda a cute way to make that first kiss happen, I'll have to remember this~
With Moon being Moon ... Would he reprimand us for staying up too late and try to, politely, get us to go to bed?
You know what, yeah he would!
We've taken care of him when he needed even though we were all strangers, so in return once he's gotten to know us and learned to trust us, he would try to repay the favor by trying to take care of us in return, including making sure we get enough rest for his liking.
He does it to Sun too, since Sun is known to get really absorbed into his work and forgets to do basic things like sleeping and eating. He'd even do it to Eclipse.
What would Eclipse do if we got hurt really bad while protecting him? Let’s say there’s some kind of conflict happening on the planet, and Eclipse told us not to go out and stay somewhere safe, but we see him getting cornered and an enemy coming in behind him, so we rush to save him, but pay the price for it. Would he be upset; angry, sad, worried? Or would he be kind of impressed, like wow the human just risked their life for me. Sorry that’s kinda long, I just thought of this while at work and just had to type it out real quick lol
I was gonna answer this as a normal ask but then I remembered I actually wrote a drabble for this months ago lol. Sooooo have a drabble. It's not great but eh.
Warnings for blood and injury.
He watched it happen as if in slow-motion. You were there so suddenly, without warning, appearing in his peripheral before he could even think to shout out a warning. The yell of his name in your voice. The bright flash of a plasma rifle, the way your body was thrown backwards, catching the blast that was meant to end his life.
He watched you fall like a puppet whose strings had been cut, left unsupported as you dropped to the ground with a sharply cut-off cry of pain.
He'd told you to stay back. The battlefield was no place for a little human with no combat experience. Fighting off invaders was something he was used to, not you. He should never have allowed you to accompany him when the call for help came in, he should've made you stay behind on the Capital Ship where it was safe.
But no, you insisted. “I can offer moral support!” you'd teased with a bright grin you knew he was weak for in an attempt to break his resolve. “Safely from the sidelines! You won't have to worry about me.” You knew he already had trouble denying your insatiable curiosity, often giving in despite the repeated warnings of his advisors to not tell and show you too much of their home and way of life.
Eclipse knew he shouldn't, they'd all learned the hard way not to trust outsiders at the cost of many lives, but how could he resist when you looked at him the way you so often did? And then you'd pleaded with him in his own tongue, and even though you'd butchered most of the words with your human accent Eclipse couldn't fight back his own amusement. His siblings had been trying to teach you at your request, your wish to learn in the hopes it would make it easier to earn the trust of the people. Their language wasn't an easy one for outsiders to pick up, but still you were determined. You worked so hard, tried your very best and it was nothing short of commendable.
And so he'd said yes.
He'd trusted you to keep yourself safely out of harm's way – just like you'd promised him – and now look at what had happened. Despite it all you had jumped in to save his life at the risk of your own and in the end, the only one he could truly blame for you getting hurt... was himself.
With a roar Eclipse turned on your attacker, rifle in hand and squeezed the trigger, blasts of blinding plasma bursting out of the barrel to slam into the body of the one who had shot you. He kept the trigger pressed until the weapon in his hands turned too hot to the touch, until his enemy was reduced to nothing but a smoking pile of atoms on the ground before he threw it aside, not caring where it landed.
He was at your curled up side in an instant, hands shaking when he reached out for you and oh so carefully gripped your shoulder to roll you onto your back. Smoke billowed from the burned edges of your shirt, framing the blackened flesh of your shoulder as bright red blood oozed from the grisly wound, soaking in the ground beneath. It was deep and it was bad. Very bad.
“Why did you do that?” he snapped as he unclasped his cloak with hurried movements. “You promised you'd stay back!”
“O-oops?” you wheezed and despite the clear pain you were in, you raised a shaky thumbs up and grinned. “Worth it t-though.”
“Stubborn.” Eclipse hissed as he carefully wrapped the thick, velvet-like material around your smaller body, uncaring of the blood that soaked into the expensive fabric. Balling up one corner he pressed it firmly down onto the blistering wound, ignoring your pained cry as he grabbed your opposite hand and guided you to keep pressure on it. “Are all humans like that or is it just you?”
You didn't give him an answer right away and he wasn't expecting one, listening to you biting back a whimper as he moved his hands under you and as gently as he could, lifted you off the ground.
“B-both?” you wheezed as he rose to his feet with you cradled against his chest, safely in his arms. “Stubborn is humanity's middle name, but...”
Eclipse glanced down, brows lowering in a soft look of growing concern as you pressed your face against his shoulder and squeezed your eyes shut. Wetness gathered along your lashes, your trembling lips parted as you took ragged breaths.
“... it's k-kinda my specialty too... Saved you.”
Teeth grit Eclipse turned on his heel and hurriedly marched back to the scouting ship they'd used to get here. Behind him the battle raged on but he knew his men were capable enough to finish the invaders without him and leave no prisoners. He wouldn't accept a different outcome.
“You did.”
You were shaking in his arms, he could feel the tremors shoot through your smaller frame even through the thick fabric of the cloak you were bundled in.
You weren't going to die. He wouldn't allow it. In that sense he was stubborn too. You'd disobeyed his clear orders, something he wouldn't tolerate under most circumstances... but you had done it to save his life. You. A stranger. An outsider.
An alien.
You'd saved him, and now he was going to save you.
How would Dark Matter Sun/Moon do if we had pet rats? Would they be less scared since they're smaller than most other types of pets? Or even a pet mouse/Mice since they're so much smaller than rats?
Well considering that their first interactions with earth animals are a cat and two goats and those are friendly, they'll have no reason to be scared of rats or mice, especially if they're being kept in similar conditions (as in, a companion like the other animals). They live in Y/N's house so they're probably safe to be around and touch.
Fur is interesting to them since there are no furry animals on their homeworld so they're gonna want to pet the little furry bbys too.
Rats are great pets so I wholeheartedly approve. Though of course Y/N will have to make it clear to them to stay away from any wild ones. Same with mice.
