#sunstide

[panacaeus]

     blake whenever sun is sad: who the FUCK is responsible for this. i will unleash a fury the likes of which this world has never seen upon whatever unfortunate soul dared to dull the shine of my sun, prepare to catch these hands and never recover

[laelapsz]

"nice tail, dude."

          “hey, thanks!” cue immediate wagging. “same to you!”

[thcrned]

@sunstide​ / kinda plotted

         ‘  you’re looking much better,  ‘  warm smile lightens up kali’s entire face, carefully changing sun’s bandages — gentle fingers unfortunately used to patching up ghira and others in the white fang.  ‘  i … also wanted to apologize. we haven’t been very hospitable towards you, sun.  ‘    

[chatroscuro]

“ i hate to admit it, but i’m really going to miss you once i get to atlas. it’s such a… i dunno, threatening place? it’s so overwhelming just by thinking about it—it’s nothing like home at all, ” she hugs herself, looking to the moon so intensely that it almost seems like that was who she was actually speaking to. this venting thing is a lot more difficult than she’d like to admit, but it’s all about the small steps. or something. “ honestly, i think it’s because of this trip that i’ve finally started to appreciate the ‘little things’, or whatever it was that you keep telling me about. do you think it’s too late, though? ” // @sunstide​

[livestosave]

"so do like, magnets both you or?" (ironwood)

       He likely should have expected such questions when he had been in the streets of Vale…well.  In such a state of undress, really.  Though, if he were honest, the sheer gall it took to walk up to him and ask likely should have been expected from one of the students.

       A warm smile found itself on the Atlesian’s face, even he shook his head.  After a moment, the smile gave way to a chuckle, equally warm, and genuinely amused.

       “Under normal circumstances, no.  Any magnet strong enough to bother me would likely also bother you.”

[intiqaam]

pinches her cheeks together, "say pudgy bunny."

there’s confusion and annoyance and maybe just the tiniest bit of amusement in her eyes at his antics, groaning somewhat and rolling her eyes as if this were some laborious task he’d presented to her. it was weird but then this was sun she was dealing with so that wasn’t a shock.

” pudgy bunny. “

it wasn’t the best pronunciation but she did manage to at least say the words.

[kintsgimoved]

@sunstide​  said   :    braids her hair, "you smell nice. did you use a new shampoo?"

      what  a  moment  of  respite  this  is  :  before  the  storm  comes  blowing  o ‘ er  their  heads  ,  further  demolishing  the  innocence  &.  happy  days  they  once  knew  ,  destroying  their  dreams  like  a  fragile  sand  castle  &.  replacing  them  with  an  upcoming  battle  they ‘ ve  hardly  agreed  to.  it ‘ s  easy  to  get  caught  up  in  the  chaos  &.  spiral  ,  especially  when  blake  &.  the  rest  of  her  team  have  tensions  so  thick  that  she  could  easily  slice  through  them  with  gambol ‘ s  blade  ,  but  thank  goodness  for  friends  in  high  places.  which  is  to  be  taken  literally  ,  for  when  she  steps  outside  the  mistrali  safehouse  &.  unto  the  roof  for  air  ,  she  is  to  be  greeted  with  a  light  so  strong  that  hovering  moonbeams  pale  in  comparison.  there  really  is  no  running  from  this  one  ,  is  there   ?   no  escape  even  if  nightshade  wanted  it  more  than  anything  else  on  this  planet.  perhaps  . . .  she  is  lucky  in  that  aspect.  if  it  weren ‘ t  for  sun  ,  maybe  belladonna  would  never  have  been  so  brave  ,  so  bold  as  to  lead  a  revolution  &.  come  back  to  what  used  to  terrify  her  more  than  anything.  who  knows  where  blake  would  be  now  if  it  weren ‘ t  for  that  persistence.  sunshine  boy  greeted  with  relief  woven  smile  ,  eyes  blown  bright  &.  starry  as  she  plops  down  next  to  him.   ❝  . . .  needed  a  moment  ,  too  ,  huh   ?  it  . . .  just  got  a  little  crowded  inside. ❞

      she  falls  silent  for  but  a  moment  ,  still  in  her  stance  &.  only  jerking  slightly  when  determined  fingers  begin  to  card  &.  weave  through  thick  bundles  of  midnight  wisps.  caught  by  surprise  ,  yes  ,  made  crystalline  by  the  momentary  widening  of  dual  toned  hue  ,  though  it  doesn ‘ t  take  bakeneko  long  to  settle  &.  relax  to  sun ‘ s  touch.  it ‘ s  always  been  gentle.  warm   &.  inviting.   shoulders  of  once  stiff  &.  tense  nature  relax  &.  blake  slouches  ever  slightly.  this  is  nice.  she ‘ s  missed  this  ,  more  than  words  could  ever  explain.   ❝  ruby  wanted  to  visit  some  local  shops  ,  so  i  picked  some  up  when  i  could.  the  lavender  isn ‘ t  too  strong  ,  is  it   ?  ❞   sure  beats  how  her  hair  used  to  smell  of  pine  &.  mountain  air  ,  that  much  is  certain.  who  knew  growing  up  ‘ pon  mistral ‘ s  largest  mountain  peak  &.  weaving  her  way  through  various  dense  woodlands  would  have  an  impact  on  something  so  minuscule  as  her  hair   ?  the  change  is  nice  ,  however  ;  welcomed  ,  one  new  start  of  many  in  her  life.  her  gaze  falls  to  the  ground  below  ,  stare  crestfallen  as  velveteen  ears  come  to  lay  flat  atop  crown.  this  won ‘ t  last  forever  ,  will  it   ?  soon  they ‘ ll  have  to  leave  each  other  yet  again  ,  separated  by  vast  desert   &.  unforgiving  frost.  how  cruel.   ❝  i ‘ m  . . .  going  to  miss  this  when  we  leave  for  atlas.   ❞   i ‘ m  going  to  miss  you.    ❝  do  you  think  it ‘ ll  last  if  i  just  don ‘ t  wash  my  hair  again  for  a  bit   ?  ❞

[metalpetals-a]

questions about canon muses | accepting !!

@sundragcn​ said :  1. What is the biggest headcanon deviation from the canon material that you have incorporated into the way you write your muse? Why did you come up with it? @sunstide​ said:  number one for the canon muses thing!!!

for true canon divergency,  i haven’t really done a lot of it entirely out of my own preference!  however,  i do use slightly differing allusions for her if that counts.  

kind of similar to how blake in canon alludes to both beauty and the beast,  ruby alludes to both little red and the big bad wolf.  little red riding hood represents ruby’s goodness,  her innocence,  even her naivety in a certain sense.  she views the world through highly tinted rose-colored lenses at the beginning of the series,  and she compares being a huntress to being like a hero in a fairy tale.  in a lot of ways,  she’s very much so the little girl wandering through the woods with no idea of what real dangers (i.e. salem for example) that are lurking there. 

but on the other hand,  the big bad wolf represents ruby’s darkness,  her ruthlessness,  the part of her that’s unafraid to go for the throat and fight dirty.  her story doesn’t correspond fully to the trope of ‘innocent hero learns the world doesn’t always play fair as time goes on’ because one thing people don’t always acknowledge is that she knew that from day one.  she’s always been struggling with the dark realities of a huntress’s life because one of the very first things she learned about it was that sometimes it doesn’t have a happy ending.  sometimes good people die and mothers don’t come home and families are never the same again no matter how much they love each other.  the big bad wolf in a lot of ways is the part of ruby that people don’t see or even pretend not to --- the part of her that knows exactly how dark the world is,  who doesn’t shy away from doing violent,  terrible things to bad people in pursuit of the greater good or protecting her friends. 

the image that i have in my head of her two allusions when i’m writing her is like...  there’s this little girl in a red cloak walking through the woods,  alone,  unarmed.  her head’s filled with fairy tales and fluffy dreams.  she’s naive at best,  ignorant and childish perhaps at worst,  and there are all these monsters and dangers lurking around her that she’s simply too caught up in these romantic fantasies to really protect herself from.  but...  then you look under her hood,  and you see  'my,  what sharp fangs you have.’  and you realize that despite all of her inexperience,  despite all of her conscious decisions to remain good and hopeful even in the face of overpowering hopelessness,  she is still a wild beast capable of terrible things,  and she is the most dangerous creature in this forest.