welcome to a WIP of an animatic ive been working on for 13 fucking months!!! (which is why some of the frames look like ass, it's cause I drew them over a year ago). I always thought Solar would be the type to sing a disney villain song
(for the record I need gratification on this. so fucking bad. if you like it please tell me so, I worked so hard on it)
Briar, Icarus, Monsoon and Coral are by @andizoidart . Solar, Neptune and Euro are by me!
(tw for references to abuse because my ocs have tragic backstory for days)
ok so I'm jumpin around doin my favorites here. first off; Piper
Piper, before being the bastard goat child she is, was a bastard human child! except said bastard human child was in an ongoing abusive environment and most of the bastardry was in an attempt to get revenge on the world around her. now it's just bc old habits die hard
essentially, Piper's life was her mom, who was physically abusive, and then all the adult at school who treated her like she was made of glass because she couldn't see. one day, Mom Of The Year got bored of this whole "raising a child" bullshit and took her on a walk to mt. ebott, where she promptly drove off and left Piper there
Piper, of course, falls into the underground (it should be noted that during the falling process, Piper ends up landing in a different Au than she started in, this one an Underfell au). she meets Smidge, Instant besties, and gets adopted by everyone's favorite Goat Mom while the rest of the monsters in the ruins try to kill her. Fun Times
so now she has essentially switched from Abusive Mother In A World That Treats Her Like Glass to Mother Who Treats Her Like Glass In A World That's Trying To Kill Her, but this time with a flower friend. she peaces out, hangs with the skeleton bros (and gets battle training from UF Papyrus, she still visits sometimes) and then goes on with her way of multiverse hopping and causing trouble for anyone who stands still and some people who don't.
at some point Indigo finds them and decides "yeah these two are my new siblings now" and brings them to codebound, where they are still happily living, with the get out of jail free card that is a super powered older sibling and mommy issues that could fees a small village
Ok next up; Solar and his planets!
all of the planets have suitably tragic backstories, but while most of them have things that can and do happen in the real world (child abuse, trafficking, dog fighting rings, rich people), Saturn and Jupiter are from a full on coliseum style arena. I call this out because they wrecked ass and still do
now, for the big boss himself! Solar is the son of two Very Important Heroes, Daydream and Dapple (this universes version of Dream and Ink, they're still called that sometimes) and hates them both with a passion. We'll get to why in a sec
Daydream was very, Very concerned about two of the resident bad guys that follow him around, Nightterror and Daybreak (another Dream variant) hurting him, and spent a lot of time out keeping tabs on them to make sure they didn't hurt his baby. unfortunately in the time he spent watching the bad guys he was not watching five year old Solar, so they kinda scooted on in while there was an emergency and kidnapped him. Whoops!
Daybreak and Nightterror (mostly Daybreak) taught Solar several fun ideas like Have You Considered Killing People Actually, and got him to eat one of the corrupted apples. This went predictably, making Solar an absolute powerhouse but in a way he couldn't control
it's at this point we get Solar's Halo, which is actually a magic restrictor. this keeps him from flipping the actual fuck out and turning into a full on beast from the corruption, but he can only produce pure magic while wearing it, not shape it into attacks. this is why he has the pins, which he essentially feeds his magic into like a battery to do what they're programmed to do, like pre-made attacks.
The star pin is a gift from Daybreak and can and will blind a bitch when used, as well as being able to grow for him to chuck at things like captain america's shield. the moon is a gift from Nightterror and allows him to step into and manipulate peoples dreams (he's more powerful in the dreamscape but also more vulnerable), and the sun, which is a gift from Daybreak and also his literal soul, emits a warm and protective light made to guide him to safety in times of need
you may note that Daydream's gift is more gentle and protective while the gifts from Daybreak and Nightterror seem incredibly combative. this is because they are
bonus fun fact, Solar is never seen without the black bodysuit he wears under his outfits. Ever. Not even while sleeping.
so yeah Solar has some fun trauma from being manipulated by his uncles into accepting a corruption that his six year old body couldn't handle, but he's still best buds with Daybreak and Nightterror so he blames all the symptoms of that on Daydream, who's much easier for him to villainize. Fun!
so yeah that's Solar's traumatic backstory. tune in next time for his traumatic frontstory
Daybreak, Daydream and Nightterror are by @andizoidart
I have just had the absolutely CURSED realization that Earth has no bones and could therefore squeeze themself into whatever fucked up shape they so please do whatever you must with this information
little oneshot delving a bit more into how Earth works! This one is in the earlier days of the groups adventures, but not after everyone had had some recovery time from their respective traumatic pasts
Pluto is by @andizoidart
Solar liked to think of himself as a calm, level headed leader, capable of facing unexpected scenarios with an objective gaze and a plan of ending any further incident.
That doesn’t mean he didn’t freak out the first time Earth lost an arm, though.
They had gotten ambushed in a horror Au, and Earth had been slow to react, resulting in getting their arm bitten off directly below the elbow. It would have been wrong to call what was happening “bleeding”, the bite hadn’t broken into any bloodstreams; there weren’t any to break into. However, the newly-exposed flesh hadn’t built up the integrity that the surrounding had developed in the face of the world, and had begun secreting a viscous, orange liquid.
Saturn had seen this, scooped Earth into her arms and ran for the portal, pulling Neptune with them and started to scream for him to get his first aid kit. Neptune had been heartily confused until looking up at Earth, at which point he also screamed. In the meantime, a few of the others caught sight of the attacking monster chewing on Earth’s disembodied arm like a chew toy, and also started screaming. Pluto had tried to calm down the others, but was splattered with Analogous Earth Internal Fluid as the monster crunched on their arm, prompting more screaming from the others. There Was A Lot Of Screaming.
Oddly enough, Earth was the only one not screaming, although against their heavy aversion to swears, they did shout a hearty “FUCK” which seemed fair given the circumstance.
Neptune had been freaking out, trying to find a way to stop the “bleeding”, eyes as big as saucers as Solar came running, prepared to give all of the healing magic he had. It was at this point Earth decided they had had enough of everyone gathering around them and screaming, and in a moment that would make Saturn proud for years to come, threatened to bite off the ears of the next person who crowded them. This was widely effective.
Solar, who, due to his lack of ears as a skeleton, was safe from this threat, stayed behind as the others filed out as he cleaned up their lack of an arm and tried to figure out how to use healing magic with his ongoing… interference. He had begun to work himself up into a panic again when Earth informed him that it would grow back.
“It what?”
“‘Grows back, boss. I mean, like, it’ll take a few days and all that, and I’ll be eating a lot, but like, still-”
“How??”
“Always did before,” Earth shrugged, seeming far too relaxed for the situation. “Happened a lot back at school, disciplinary action and all that. It’s not exactly my real body, anyhow.”
Solar was momentarily so distracted by the revelation that Earth’s former “living situation” had been regularly cutting off their limbs as a substitute for time out that he almost didn’t catch the last part of their statement. “It what???”
Earth tapped their chest, pointing out the hard shells in the center. “Not my real body, that’s in there. It’s a fungal colony thing, kind of somewhere between an advanced ventriloquist dummy and whale blubber. I can move and feel and see and everything, it’s just that I can’t get hurt unless my core is damaged.”
Solar was unnerved and transfixed, watching with morbid fascination as their arm started to slowly stretch and reform. “How does that.. Work?”
“Kind of like human nervous systems, I guess?? Like, I just make more matter to pilot around, I just don’t have to deal with organs and all that complicated stuff. And I’m not as stuck in it, I guess.” They make a slight face. “Would’ve been easier if I oculd get the arm back though. Now I have to regrow everything by hand instead of using the old stuff.”
Solar blinked, somewhat mortified. “Not stuck? You can just.. Leave???”
Earth wrinkled their nose. “I mean, I can. It sucks though. It takes forever to get anywhere and I have too many nerves. I’m used to having limbs; wouldn’t recommend suddenly regressing into a fungus lump.”
Solar nodded, processing. “I always assumed you were a… gummy based monster.”
Earth shrugged. “Gelatin is made out of, like, bone marrow and stuff, personally I don’t see how fungus is much worse.”
There wasn’t really any arguing with that logic, so Solar nodded, standing up. “Well then! I’ll go retrieve what I can of your arm, do you want me to kill the man who took it? Need anything on the way back?”
Earth beamed, nodding. “Yes please! And cookies, if you can, Euro keeps sneaking extras.”
