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but what if

Naia: So what did the All-Maudra do that was so terrible?

Tavra: Nothing worth mentioning now.

Onica: She tried to poison her own daughter with Far-Dreamer’s null root so she could force Tavra to forget me. Which she then threatened to frame me for, if I dared go anywhere near Tavra.

Tavra: And also that.

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Unknown

   “Amri?”    “Yeah…”    Onica blinked. “Tavra would be the one to ask. The Vapra and Grotten…”    “Used to be one, I know I know.” Naia waved an exasperated hand. “I DID ask her. She’s useless.”    A quick check to make sure Tavra wasn’t also near enough to overhear or misunderstand. “Then what help can I be, as Sifa?”    “I don’t KNOW!” Tossing up her hands Naia growled, “I said, ‘Tavra, how do you court someone?’ and she said ‘just because I’ve been with Onica for many trine doesn’t mean I know how I-’ oh shut up laughing Onica and HELP ME!”

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Tavra and Naia: aww look at the newly adopted sisters, they’re strangling each other <3 or maybe it’s a hug I can’t tell <3 <3

Tavra and Kylan: she is SO supportive of him trapping her in the body of a tiny spider everybody shut up HER NEW SON DID THAT! HE DID THAT!!! she’s completely traumatized and going to support him through collage

Tavra and Amri: coworkers stuck on the midnight shift together no one else will ever understand their mutual ride-or-die ambivalence

Tavra and Onica: family who? As long as Onica knows she’s alive, Tavra is fine with Everyone Else In Her Former Life Thinking She’s Dead :D however she is NOT FINE with being unable to CUDDLE with Onica D: it is giving her depression

Tavra and Tae: soulmates but she’s piloting Tae’s unconscious body like a mecha bc Tae wanted some of that sweet, sweet self-sacrificing action and hey is it weird to hold your girlfriend’s hand while she’s puppeteering the body of your childhood friend ???? I don’t think Onica cares but I’m watching her do it and wondering

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tavonica 100 word drabble - Thread

   Onica watches Tavra spin slowly overhead.    “I’ve never thought you a hero.”    “…I know.” Small spider glimmering, catching on Onica’s every breath.    “A bit sad, staggering through muddy swamps.” Onica smiles, remembering. “Turning pink at simple conversation.”    “Hmm.” Tavra sulks. “You saw.”    “Always, my love.”    A tease- she cannot always see. She wishes otherwise.    “You are,” Onica breathes out, “a woman trying her best.”    Tavra glitters morosely in moonlight. “And often failing.”    Her new body- damning proof of that.    Or maybe…    “Amri is about to ask your help.” Onica warns. “What will you do?”    Tavra sighs.    “…what must be done.”

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 tavonica 100 word drabbles - Ask (pre-relationship)

   “A dream?”         “If you would grant one.”         “Oh?” Onica laughs, bitterly turns hard words back on her. “I thought Vapra don’t believe in ‘Sifa nonsense’, Silverling.”         “No.” Tavra winces. “But I…”         A long moment. Held gazes- one hesitant, the other searching.       “But you?”          Tavra bows her head. “…I believe in the dreamer, Onica of Cera-Na."    Onica breathes out. It’s enough. For now, it’s enough.             Pushing aside herbs and shallow clay bowel, she says- “Go. Travel the Basin alone,” advice, not a dream. “Go see what you don’t know with your own eyes.”         Tavra frowns. Then slowly, she nods.              “…I shall.”

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Seladon: How can you be dating a SIFA when the three of us are already half Sifa!? The only way for us to make up for being half-clan is to be as Vapra as possible! Vapra were set apart from the other clans by the skeksis themselves and you're ruining it!

Tavra: Yes.

Seldon: Don't you understand how terrible that is????

Tavra: No.

Brea: wait we're half what now?

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Stress

   Their memory ends, leaving worried lines between dark eyes.    “You,” Onica sighs, “are going to put frost in my curls.”    Tavra blinks. “…what?”    A tugging hint of a smile. “An expression.” Onica plucks playfully at Tavra’s braids. “Cares bring snow– for those of us not born with white hair, at least.”    “Ah.”    Tavra catches her hand.    “I would rather see the snow come naturally to you, then.”    “And I never will!” Worry melting into laughter. “Now, your bandages.”    “Onica–”    “Tavra.”    Once again Tavra droops.    Onica pokes her. “Don’t mope, my love.”    “I do not mope.”    “Hm.”    “I don’t.”    “Mmm….”

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Priorities

   Ichor drips onto her chest, searing through cloth, painting new scars over old.    Tavra holds her breath through the pain. Waits.    Distant screams. Gelfling- but she must be still, must not flinch as the Arathim spitter darts forward through the trees.    Legs flash by on either side, long and sharp as spears. It’s unguarded belly passes overhead–    A shrieking hiss. Her sword sinks in deep– Wings yank her free a second before the dying Arathim comes crashing down.    Too slow.    Breathless, Tavra presses her tattered cloak to the fresh gash, the burns.    Thra, do not let Onica dream of this...   

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tavonica 100 word drabble - Usual

   “Elder Cadia is up to his old tricks.”    Suddenly Tavra wishes for her sword. “With you?”    “He should know better.” Onica smiles. “Stop glowering. It won’t help your headache.”    Tavra tries.    “But I worry for Ethri.” Onica’s smile fades. “She still feels so young.”    “She is a good maudra.”    “And doubts it.”    “Her, or Cadia?”    Tired laughter. “Both.”    “What does Tae say.”    “What all Sifa say. We love her.”    Tavra matches Onica’s heavy steps. “What do you say?”    More laughter, but lighter. “Ethri knows that already.”     Ominous. “Onica.”     “Mm?”    “…Did you call her a headless hooyim. Again.”    A grin. “Maybe…”

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The Dark Crystal: Rise of the Age of Mental Health For Onica's Depressed Spider Girlfriend Specifically

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Mayrin: Stop dating that sifa

Tavra: You were married to one. You had children with him.

Mayrin: do as I say not as I do

-tavra marries onica anyway and they adopt a teen together-

Mayrin’s Ghost: the worst part is I can’t even blame her

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Mayrin: Your love for that sailor is doomed. Sifa and Vapra are too different, you will never be able to understand each other, accept each other, or make a life together.

Mayrin: Look at me- I married your father and ended up alone and bitter.

Tavra: Skill issue.

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Tavra & Onica: *fall in love after a rescue at sea*

Tavra & Onica: *do not instantly get married and pregnant*

Tavra & Onica: *promise to build a life together once they both can commit 100%*

Tavra & Onica: *have a steady long-distance relationship in the meanwhile*

Tavra & Onica: *eventually leave their clans so they can start a rebellion and parent Kylan happily ever after*

Mayrin: … rude

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Katavra: pg 263, Tides of the Dark Crystal "No matter what the Skeksis say to you, no matter how dark the night may seem– there are friends in that darkness, waiting for you."

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Lost

   A crumpled shape. Fiery curls. Blood.    Tavra’s heart stops.    “Onica!”    “The rigging,” Onica whispers as Tavra crashes besides her on deck. “I tried to jump. It wasn’t far.”    Tavra’s hands shake. “Don’t move. There’s blood- Thra, what happened?”    Onica shivers.    “I fell.”    She laughs as Tavra gingerly tests her limbs. All whole.    “I fell, I…”    There is, of course, no need to check her wings.    Words catch, breath breaking– Like the opened scars weeping on her back.    “Damn fool,” Onica chokes. “W-why did I–”    “Onica…”    Tavra wraps her in silver cloaks and pulls her close, their tremors melting into one.  

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Son

  Tavra the Spiderling gazes into high rigging, eight eyes fracturing the world into dizzying shards.   She can still find Onica’s fiery curls, however. And the flick of Kylan’s dark braid.    Both perch on the mainmast, Onica’s arm outstretched, Kylan watching closely as she shows him the angle between ship and shore. He seems happy. An orphaned Spriton, learning Sifa ways… Later in cabin’s dark, in dreamfast, Onica muses.   He's a natural sailor, your song teller.   Tavra wishes she could smile. Teases. He gets it from you.   Oh? Onica’s leaping heart, cheeks dimpling. Smiling for her. Yes. I suppose he does.

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tavonica 100 word drabbles - Unseen

   Tavra does her best not to wince, but.    Silver wings flinch.    Onica draws back her hand, frowning. The wound is hidden, and yet, she frowns.    Tavra droops. “You saw.”    Frown lifts into a much more foreboding look of question. “Saw what, my love?”    “Ah.” an unhelpful stammer, “no– Nothing.”    “Tavra.”    “It’s nothing–”    “Tavra.”    Tavra sits still, resolved.    Onica leans back, hands folded and brows raised, waiting.    Tavra’s resolved crumbles. “…it looks worse than it is.”    “So there’s something to look at, eh?” A pained smile. Tavra cringes to see it. “May I?”    Dejectedly Tavra offers her hand in dreamfast.