#eris/toland

[eri-223]

and lo on the day of the sun’s darkening there came a message

@cmdthenerd bound Shoot the Moon! and there was much rejoicing! and the message did say Eris/Toland T 69K etc

[synnthamonsugar]

Passing the time til the servers stabilize. i guess.

[flowers-of-io]

we were talking about couples arguing at Target

[bbyfacedx]

i just think that eris morn is someone who is habitually addicted to sleeping with her coworkers/mentees/mentors/bosses. god forbid a woman have hobbies

[wonderwafles]

Eris/Toland 🧐

I do ship!!

What made you ship it?

YOU GUYS. Broadly speaking. I believe the first fic I read of it was from @eri-223 and the goth4goth dark wizard rivalry (gone wrong)(gone sexual) did the rest

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

Sometimes I think about the theory that the quote "In that last moment, she was as wholly luminescent as the sun, and I wished to be so brave" was from Toland about Eriana-3. I tend to think of Toland as being drawn to Eris as a moth to a flame, with an air of pretension and lofty detachment to disguise the fact that he really really really wants to be like her. I also think there is a fascination on Eris' part, where she is so chained down by duty and grief that the utter freedom of Toland is tempting to some degree. So there's, I dunno, a romance born of other things, a yearning that goes deeper than wanting the person near you (although there is that) but wanting them within you, wanting to remake yourself in their image, and also there's the talking about it in deeply dramatic and ominous pronunciations and asides. Codependent CHAMPIONS

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I dunno! I'm not sure I have one. The milieu for this ship is already so small and I borrow most of my opinions from you guys. Instead I will share the undercooked AU I roll around in my head sometimes where Toland survived the Pit (having not yet beaten the allegations that he murdered his teammates) and became the Vanguard's fucked up evil wizard, with Eris as the floating ball of light who tries valiantly to give the Guardian more sane advice and deal with Toland's extreme jealousy of her situation

[xivu-arath]

this was originally for a destcember prompt - I was so attached to the first list that I saved quite a few far past december

haven't worked on it since, tho

“The paths you walk grow ever darker,” Toland murmurs. The words are a warning; the tone an admission of admiration. Only he would watch Eris walk steadfast – daunted, palms clammy and breath too swift and shallow, but she walks nonetheless – into unknown danger and wish to share in it.

[shalalalalaw]

If you're taking drabble prompts: Eris/Toland, library? 👀📚

There’s a sanctity here, a sort of reverent silence they can’t bear to break. The stolen touch of hands as they pass each other by with a new book or map or index to study feels like rebellion. It excites and incites and Eris looks over her book at the hard planes of Toland’s face, the fall of his hair over a shoulder, and wonders how destructive it would feel to take his cheeks between her hands. She wonders if she could drown in the dark secrets hiding beneath his teeth. If he would hold her through it. It feels like a sin, when he looks up and sees her looking at him across the library. A sharp smile crosses his face and he closes his book, carries it under his arm and closes in. His hand is cold around her clammy one as he leads her out into the dark room and into a darker hallway. And if the darkness cares for the slide of dry lips over her own, it does not tell.

I'm always here for prompts >:)

[endivinity]

Part of a big triple-work piece for Crimson Days, here's my part! Eris and Toland wowing the hive, because a dance isn't really a dance unless it's a little bit dangerous.

[thefirstknife]

Got the first two little grimoires that you can collect in the Hall of Champions. It's a lore book called "To Old Friends." First two pages:

Feelings about these old Titan dads. Man.

Hello. Sav writing to Eris?

[saltineofswing]

LOOK BELOW.

The Ascendant Realms are dark and deep, And in them many foul things creep, Including we who dare not sleep, For fear of what dreams bring us.

Done for an acolyte of the vengeful undead, who has also financed a couple of other incoming works.

[eri-223]

thinking about … eris & toland curled up in a dark and damp hole on the Moon, looking distinctly tangled and stuck but in fact very comfortable. six pale mint eyes in the dark (or three eyes and a glow) when some guardian wanders by looking for helium filaments

[synnthamonsugar]

Archie's doing the rounds again so have a closeup Eris, Toland & Archie from that sketchpage I made last year

[flowers-of-io]

when do ghosts have nightmares

“I entered the Hellmouth with a sense of fateful inevitability. We would all die, or worse. I knew this to be true. Woefully unprepared was what we were. I stand by that. But it doesn’t mean I didn’t respect them. I did then, and I always will.” – Toland, the Shattered

Even in his formless form, Toland is not spared the torment of phantoms.

Read on Ao3

[bbyfacedx]

thinking about the first crota fireteam and how crucial eris was to recruitment. the mission in itself was to avenge guardians lost to crota but there was a specific tint of focus toward avenging wei ning, something eris didn’t have much of a personal stake in aside from being a friend of her’s and eriana’s. and yet, she went on to recruit people who were obviously incredibly important to her; sai who seems to trust her with complete faith, vell who saved her life once and is willing to do it again, omar who only agreed to go because eris supports the cause, toland who she’d probably looked up to even in his exile, who has genuine faith in the mission despite everything.

and then, they die one by one and eris is entirely helpless to stop it. maybe it would be less bittersweet if they’d accomplished anything close to their original goal, if eris could come out of the hellmouth knowing her team’s deaths weren’t in vain. but they don’t, and they are, and everything was all in vain from the very beginning.

it’s interesting how eris emulates them, keeps them alive through herself. like sai, she trusts herself to carry out this insane hive ascension ritual with little concern for the personal risk. like vell, she adventures out into a hostile frozen wasteland and fights to protect others no matter the cost, even those she barely knows. like omar, she keeps talismans and charms and gives them to others who need reassurance, a reminder she’s in their corner. like toland, she’s the hive expert who still seeks to teach and mentor despite her more self-imposed solitude.

and of course, like eriana, her passionate love and craving for vengeance are constantly at war with one another. her sorrow, he guilt, her anguish over what she’s lost, competing with her desire to help, to mend, to protect what little she has left, to save a world she still somehow has faith in. the difference between them is that eris’ love will always win. she will not be led blindly into any pit again, not by her thirst for revenge, not by her despair, not by the darkness, not by the deep.

[xivu-arath]

Amidst a hundred thousand uncertainties, Eris Morn seeks a way forward. for a private gift exchange

[lavenderarts]

PARACAUSALITY: DESTINY TAROT || THREE OF SWORDS grief, heartbreak, emotional pain / healing, forgiveness

“They were the last family I had before my time in the Dark. Six of us went in. Only I made it out.”