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@outerwilds-events Campfire Fest 2026, Day 1.
Prompts: Purple, Nomai, Broken, Rare Pair.
For this fic, I wrote about the long path toward romance between Solanum and Ilex, filled with a general inability (or unwillingness) to actually address their feelings, in favor of letting them toss and turn and fester indefinitely. …Also, there's, like, a deadly comet or whatever at some point, which definitely doesn't affect those feelings at all, no sirree!
…A ship between one of the most popular characters from the game, in a situation featuring next to none of the why behind that popularity, and a character who has a grand total of like three lines of dialogue, an essay, and a poem for characterization, all from childhood, pulled from among the many individuals who rarely ever appear in fanworks, let alone fic, let alone fic where they're major characters. A ship that doesn't have any works for it on AO3 ('least as far as I can tell), let alone a Canonical Tag. How's that for a Rare Pair?!