* ⠀& 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓;

𝘺𝘰͟𝘶͟ ͟ ͟𝘴͟𝘩͟𝘢͟𝘭͟𝘭͟ ͟ ͟𝘳͟𝘦͟𝘵͟𝘶͟𝘳͟𝘯͟.͟

[todusts]

#𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐒, a heavily canon divergent multimuse for rwby; exploring the themes of loss and hope, horrifying beings in the dark, hardship and its rifts and bridges, love enduring, and more. LOW ACTIVITY. taught by naminé, 2wenty, he / they / it. muselist, aesthetic sideblog. icon border by my beloved valentine. ♡ ⤷ teamed with: noblessing, omenlink, roseasunder, scythette, thisanger, thisgrief.

one. standard rp etiquette applies. don’t be a freak, don’t be weird, we’ll be fine. two. triggers will be tagged as “ __ / ” and i ask that the following be tagged: animal abuse, images of realistic gore, and insects. three. my muse list is constantly changing, and im sorry for how long it is. i add characters at the drop of a hat. please speciy muses when interacting. i have no dupe anxiety! four. i am pro-callout as long as it’s substantial; i will tag them as “ callout / ” . if someone i interact with has a history of awful behavior, please tell me. five. dni if you support / write / write with people who like attack on titan, hetalia, think the rising sun earrings in demonslayer are okay and won’t properly edit them out, etc. i’m not above blocking you if i eventually find out.

[vtriol-deactivated20251215]

against every warning alighting in their body, they allow themself to be swept away at his lead, his hands carefully holding them at the hand and waist. their expression maintains a neutral skepticism. betraying anything deeper—their thrill, their nerves—is more than they can handle for now. “ did you learn to dance, or are you just a natural? ” they ask, a hint of teasing in their eyes. “ i didn't think any of us had the time for something like that. ”

[todusts]

❝ you think cinder would let us attend without a crash course? ha ha. ❞ a perfectionist, through and through—— not that he cares. ( if he has to even think about the box step again, he might just say fuck it to their cover and set their room on fire. ) ❝ what about you? did your dad teach you? ❞ a low blow, maybe, but it's not like fathers ever meant anything to him. mercury twirls them, letting go of their waist and arm raising into the air as he does so. ❝ 'cuz it seems like he'd have two left feet. ❞

[pin-poo]

Bring me to life.

alt version ( with roses ) on next reblog :).

[todusts]

* 🙴 @aestasrosis ; ❝ you're ... ❞ she has a lot of questions to ask, she's still so tired from carrying the weight of the world; but despite it all, she's still her mother's daughter. ruby's eyes tear up as she barrels into summer, and for a moment, she's home. ❝ i missed you, mom. ❞

[heartslight]

i don't get the choice.  i don't get the choice.  was the option of stepping away even an achievable possibility for any of them?  when have any of them been given the choice to be anything other than a hero  /  a soldier  /  a martyr  /  another pawn in a centuries old game designed by asinine fools?  destiny is all but branded where the metal of the weapon meets innocent flesh,  an oath signed in blood and sacrifice.  not even death could offer respite,  nothing more than a pause before the culling game began once more.  ❛  of course you can’t back down.  ❜  it’s because he understood so well,  that sora could answer with a smile  (  of sadness?  of acceptance?  did it have to be anything more than just a simple smile?  )  ❛  not when everyone’s depending on you.  not after everything that’s been lost.  if you back down now,  then what was it all for?  ❜

[todusts]

his words feel like a mirror to her own, like he'd peered into her heart to say them out loud—— she knows better, though. he smiles like he's a hero as he says them, tired and trying and still fighting for the better—— he understands, too. ruby gazes at him with her silver eyes, feeling like she's just as tired as he is. ❝ but why should it be us? ❞ she says, before she can stop herself, and flinches back—— retracts in—— she can't take it back and it stings like betrayal, her body repulsed by her own words. why does it matter, if you get to be the hero? why does it matter, if you're doing good in the end? why does it matter, if you were the only one that could? ruby shuts her eyes tight as she hunches inwards, wishing she were anywhere, anyone else. ❝ why do i have to be the one constantly keeping everyone together? ❞

[todusts]

starter call! 🩵 no cap, length will probably vary, please specify. request as many as you’d like!

[nightprompts]

&. 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬.

( this is basically just a very self indulgent list of various fluff, angst, and suggestive themed dialogue sentence starters. )

❛ i could keep you safe. they’re all afraid of me. ❜

❛ i’m trying to fix your hair, so hold still. ❜

❛ your heart is beating so fast right now. ❜

❛ promise me you’ll still be here when i wake up. ❜

❛ you’re not as bad as everyone says you are. ❜

❛ i thought you’d like some company. ❜ 

❛ clean yourself up. you're getting blood all over the place. ❜

❛ here, give this a try and tell me what you think. ❜

❛ you can kiss me, you know. ❜

❛ come back to bed. ❜

❛ you look good like this. ❜

❛ working together again, it’s just like old times. ❜

❛ how is it you always know what i need, huh? ❜

❛ you’re lucky you got away with only a scratch. ❜ 

❛ i can’t imagine losing someone like that. i’m sorry. ❜

❛ you know you can always talk to me. ❜

❛ the only one who gets to kill you, is me. ❜

❛ so, what do i owe this pleasure? ❜

❛ ah, so you aren’t heartless after all. ❜

❛ may i have this dance? ❜ 

❛ it’s okay, you can touch me. i won't break. ❜

❛ enemies make the best lovers, you know. ❜

❛ hold still. this might sting a little. ❜

❛ we can't keep doing this. ❜ 

❛ you look like you've got something to say. ❜

❛ just relax and let me take care of you. ❜

❛ thought you’d be lighter without all that blood. ❜

❛ i had it under control. you didn’t need to do that. ❜

❛ everything looks so beautiful from up here. ❜

❛ you treat all your ladies like this? ❜

❛ well? how do i look? ❜

❛ can’t sleep? ❜

❛ do you mind if i smoke? ❜

❛ i’m scared of ending up alone. ❜

❛ i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile. ❜

❛ how long has it been since you've slept? ❜

❛ you are losing my interest, and that’s very dangerous. ❜

❛ i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight. ❜

❛ you look really pretty right now. ❜

❛ i’ve never cared for anyone the way i care for you. ❜

❛ i’m not wearing any underwear. thought you’d like to know. ❜

❛ just a few more stitches and you’ll be as good as new. ❜

❛ i’d say we make a pretty good team. ❜

❛ i want you to forget this ever happened. ❜

❛ i'm here for business — not pleasure. ❜

❛ if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were jealous. ❜

❛ you'd look better down on your knees. ❜

❛ fine, keep acting like you hate me. ❜

❛ kiss me again. ❜

❛ are you asking me out on a date? ❜

❛ just sit there and look pretty and let me handle this. ❜

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

❛ well, i do feel better now that you're here. ❜

❛ i'm not drunk enough for this. ❜ 

❛ why is it whenever we see each other, you’re covered in blood? ❜

❛ i was wrong about you. ❜ 

❛ the first time i met you, i had no idea you'd mean this much. ❜

❛ you gonna be a good girl / boy for me? ❜

❛ i’m not afraid of you. ❜

❛ books mean more to me than people anyway. ❜

❛ i just wanted to say thank you for protecting me. ❜

❛ how about a kiss goodnight? ❜

❛ i don’t have time for distractions right now. ❜

❛ you shouldn’t be out here by yourself. ❜ 

❛ if i have to think about one more thing today, my head will explode. ❜

[etruatcaelum]

Can’t be. Shouldn’t. Is. She didn’t mean for this to happen—not this way, not tonight—but the flash of golden hair she’d seen in the window a moment ago rooted her to the ground between the trees. (Summer Rose is many things: turncoat, liar, insurgent. Cold-hearted enough to vanish before her daughter came hurtling outside, she isn’t.)

Her own fault for getting too close. “I am,” she says, hardly louder than a whisper. Thirteen years, it’s been. Yang is taller than her now, wall-eyed and trembling like she’s… well. She is seeing a ghost. The words hi, Yang tangle up in Summer’s mouth, inane, inadequate; but she’s not sure what else to say. “I…”

From Yang’s shock-pale face, her gaze flickers down to the absence where an arm should be, and her own hands roll into fists, nails in her palms. Summer shuts her eyes, exhales, looks up again; torn-open wounds and an agony of confusion stare back at her. The explanation, she knows, will hurt far more than it heals. “It’s,” she says, strained, “a long… story.”

[todusts]

yang realizes her eyes are trained on summer without truly seeing her. ( for a moment, she's scared the woman will fizzle out of her vision, leaving her—— alone in the clearing. she's already so tired of being haunted by her mothers, she thinks she's relieved this one is real. ) she exhales, a fragile sound, shaking her head as she tries to think of something, anything to say. ❝ a long story? ❞ she's grown up on that phrase, this is nothing new. ❝ more like ten years overdue. you're—— ❞

she tries to bite down on the surge of pain and anger. ❝ mom ... summer. ❞ that name sounds foreign, foreign, on her tongue. but what does she call her, now? summer was always mom, in ways that yang's real mom never could be, but mom died years ago; she doesn't get to come back like this. yang feels herself tear up and leashes that even tighter—— holds onto it tight with the frustration in her gut—— bites her lip hard enough to bleed because—— SHE DOESN'T GET TO COME BACK LIKE THIS.

( she doesn't get to see yang cry. )

❝ you were alive this whole time, and yet you—— you were—— do you know how hard it's been? for us? for me? ❞

[vtriol-deactivated20251215]

further protest builds in their throat, but it dies away quickly. they have the urge to wipe that smug look off his face, but they doubt they'll put up much of a fight in this awkward dress. “ okay, okay. if something goes wrong, i warned you. ” as they raise their hand to meet his, one final moment of hesitation gives them pause—should they take this step? (what would their father think?) but they steel themself and rest their hand, gently, in his. “ you have to lead. as the taller one. ”

[todusts]

he pulls them in immediately, squeezing their hand as that smug grin of his widens—— of course, he hadn't expected anything else, but he won't let them slip away now. so mercury laughs at their request, louder than he expected, but it's not like it matters in the middle of a party. ❝ it's not like i'd let you, ❞ he says back, ❝ so no complaints on my part. just don't step on my toes and i won't step on yours. alright? ❞ and they both know that won't be a pleasant experience at all.

[murcuryblack]

mercury doodles

[xebime]

I drew Pyrrha Nikos for @rwbyprism zine!

Leftover sales are open until October 15th ➡️➡️➡️ HERE🌈

[todusts]

* 🙴 @etruatcaelum ; ❝ ... this can't be happening. ❞ she's half convinced she's dreaming right now; yang inhales sharply, hand clenched into a shaking fist. ❝ this—— you can't be real. ❞

[todusts]

* 🙴 @likemosaic ; ❝ s'nothing personal, i promise—— we would have trashed anyone else too. just so happened to be your team that round. ❞

[vtriol-deactivated20251215]

“ you don't know that. maybe the first time i dance, someone will break a leg. literally. ” they are dressed for the occasion, but surely mercury didn't have the time to waste with them.

[todusts]

❝ was that supposed to be a personal jab? ❞ still, he doesn't move—— in fact, he's outstretching his hand to them anyways, grinning from ear to ear in an all-too-smug way. ❝ i think you owe me a dance just for that. i'm just trying to be nice, y'know. ❞ don't cause a scene, he seems to say, with a brow quirked up and his head tilted towards the crowd. it's an important night for them, after all.

[todusts]

* 🙴 @thisgrief ; ❝ i mean it, jaune. you truly have gotten better. our progress in the tournament is a testament to that, don't you think? ❞

[todusts]

* 🙴 @vtriol ; ❝ c'mon, don't be like that. a simple dance has never killed anyone, has it? ❞

[todusts]

also re:pyrrha and her death this is so autistic of me but i enjoy the way she haunts the narrative, haunts each character's every choice, in the same way adam haunts the narrative in the saw movies. her death propels the plot, yes, but it also provides strength to (and, generally, shows vulnerability in) the characters. ruby unlocks her silver eyes because of pyrrha, and uses her death (and summer's) to stand firm on her choices. jaune is shown affected by pyrrha most, and honestly, for good reason. she was his friend and teammate and realizing that she loved him the whole time and in a sense also died for him is hard. very hard! from her death onwards, he is always thinking about her. and it's not just her- nora and ren lost her too, after all. she was their friend too, she was loved by them too. it's even more personal for ren, however, because he's lost everything before. losing pyrrha is a stinging reminder of that but also another new wave of grief. he's lost his family but the universe didn't stop there; it took pyrrha from him too. who else is next? this is something that i think nora is also keenly aware of- it's why she's constantly trying to bring him to the present.