#Sol Explorers

[sparksechidna]

Don't give up Gale, one day you'll become a hero like your big siblings

[ecoharbor]

📍Komodo Island, Indonesia 🇮🇩

[mayhaps-a-blog]

OK so the thing is

The path to the Dark Side isn't just kriffing up. You don't just go "whoops!" one day and start murdering people for fun. You make decisions. You make choices. And when those choices go bad... instead of standing up and admitting your mistakes, you double down.

Sol's Fall perfectly hits the beats that I think many people lose track of with Anakin - his first Fall wasn't with Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith, but with the Tuskens in Attack of the Clones. Anakin goes from sobbing in Padme's arms that he killed the women, and the children too - he killed them all - to screaming that they were monsters and they deserved it. Instead of facing his mistakes - the lives that he took in anger, in rage - he insisted that you know what, he was right to do that. He did the right thing. He's glad he did it. And he'll do it again.

Sol kriffed up. He was too emotional on Brendok - Indara called him out on it, and she was right. The witches DID love their children, he DID get the wrong end of the stick, and however weird they were and worrisome the bits they saw with the kids were, the answer to that is to find out more information or, I don't know, wait one kriffing day, not charge in, lightsabers drawn.

(I don't blame Torbin, really. He was also totally out of balance, but he was the Padawan learner - the student who needed guidance, not the Master supposed to deliver it. Mother Aniseya had gotten into his head and thrown him for a loop, and Indara needed to sit on him a bit more - but if she'd been on a speeder instead of Sol, I think things would have worked out very differently.)

Instead it was Sol, who dragged Torbin into a dangerous situation without thinking of the consequences - without even considering that he might be wrong.

Honestly, I'm not even sure I blame him for swinging at Mother Aniseya. Mae had said some pretty worrisome things and was literally dissolving into midair. I blame Sol for being there in the first place, where he had no place, and for putting everyone on edge so far that Mother Aniseya felt the need to move to protect her children, and he felt the need to retaliate unthinkingly.

And then. And then.

Hard to say if Indara did the right thing. She was thinking about Osha, and I don't think she was necessarily wrong. She gave Osha a chance to have the life she dreamed of, a chance she would never have had otherwise.

But Sol.

Sol should never have taken Osha as his Padawan. He was too close; the hurt was too painful to hide. He couldn't tell Osha the truth, so he buried it, papered it over with justifications and excuses - he'd done it for Osha. For the girls. To keep them safe. It was the right thing to do. It was the only thing to do. He did it for Osha. And that gave him the means to look Osha in the eyes and smile, and pretend everything was fine.

But of course, he couldn't let her go, either. He'd done it all for her - he couldn't fail her now. Couldn't admit that he'd failed her. He had to make this right - (but it was right already it was it was) - but the closer he bound them together, the harder it was to let go of his attachment to her. After all, if he told her now... what if she hated him?

Sol loved Osha too much from the very beginning. He couldn't let go of his attachment to her: to his idea that he could save her, could train her, to be the master he wanted to be for her. He couldn't face his own failures, so he refused to see them; insisted that they were correct, right, justified, to the last. And in the end, that's what poisoned Osha - and himself.

He was afraid. Afraid for her; afraid for himself. And his fear led to anger - at the Master, at himself. And his fear led to anger - Osha's, at him, for papering over his fears with lies, lies to her. And anger led to hatred. And hatred? Led to suffering.

No one walked away from Brendok without suffering. Not Osha; not Mae. Maybe Qimir; maybe not. But definitely not Sol.

Sol had to make a choice. And he made one. But he didn't just make one choice; he made many choices, over and over again. And no matter what excuses he gave, what justifications, he could never bring himself to admit that maybe, just maybe, he'd made the wrong choices.

Sol's lightsaber may not have been red. But I think, if he'd finished that swing on Khofar? It might not have been all that far from it.

[frostfishy]

waug

+ bonus sols

[pangeen]

" Marbella Costa del Sol " // © Yolanda

[stone-cold-groove]

Phases of the Moon - 1956.

[sex-obsessed-lesbian]

Hypnovember Day 15: Dolly

“Who’s a good dolly?”

Cory didn’t answer, of course—their mouth had gone slack at those words, their eyes glassy, their limbs stiff and rigid. Their Mistress grinned.

She lifted one of Cory’s arms experimentally. It offered no resistance, and when she let go, the arm hung in the air where she’d left it.

“Very good,” she cooed—because even if Cory couldn’t speak, couldn’t react at all, there was some part of them deep inside the dollified shell that glowed at the praise, and throbbed at the hotness of being a passenger inside their own body. And as Mistress posed their blank, vacant plaything, Cory floated in blissful semi-awareness.

Who would want to be a person when being an object felt so good?

[dongshancai]

lovely runner hasnt even ended yet but i petition a season two alternate universe where SUNJAE time jumps instead

[tomurakii]

Look Kristen is a kid so its understandable and Ally is great and I'm sure has a plan for this. But Kristen should not be a cleric lol. I hope that after the wizard synogue incident Cassandra takes the Archfey deal to keep herself safe and Kristen loses her powers because honestly based on her RP that girl has NO wisdom. She has NEGATIVE wisdom. If you don't like the gods currently on offer but can't take responsibility for keeping a new one alive (because you're a kid) then you should just respec. Pick a charisma-based spellcaster class that doesn't require a bunch of work like the Int classes or responsibility like the Wis classes. Give up your soul to Fig (or just give it back to newly-Archfey Cassandra) for Warlock spells idk.

[fulcrum-art-fox]

I was already super sceptical of Sol’s “I’ve been thinking forever about how to say this and now I can ✨explain✨” and now. having seen what went down and had the explanation. Where the actual FUCK does Sol think he’s going with this. How the fuck is hearing all this again good for Mae, going to change Mae’s mind, soothe her, ANYTHING good for her? What, you’ve waited sixteen years to explain to a kid why you chose her sister over her because you just wants a kid that badly and you had a ✨connection✨ with Osha and just weren’t that interested in Mae at any point??? Like Mae’s just lying on that table listening to all this like “ok now I want to punt him into the sun” like what the fuck is supposed to be Mae’s takeaway from this, in Sol’s head??

[adriiivna]

Alina is Shu attire, inspired by traditional Chinese hanfu dress💛

[sparksechidna]

March 9th was Sophia's Anniversary and I forgot to post this here ;v; I always love working on Sophia, her sassy attitude, love for music, and desire to become stronger make her an interesting character.

[ecoharbor]

📍Ponta do Sol, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal 🇵🇹

[solsarts]

On the mountain tall,

Whisper to me words in a voice so small

[solradguy]

I started writing a t4t4c Sol/Jackie/Axl fic today (~1500 words). Haven't gotten to the Axl part yet, so it's just t4t right now still. They're at an amusement park and Jack-O' brought nefarious supplies

[goldenboisoysauce]

my cataclysm dark days ahead character, his post cataclysm animals, his stupid dumb masc top who won't wear his glasses, and his family who he has forgotten when the sky broke :'(