#mechanical lullaby

[that-starry-freak]

Okay, wow, uhm-

This is my rant about Eclipse x Solar x Nexus i keep saying ill do. Sooo- yeah. If you don't like it, just scroll. Or block me i don't give a shit- im just ranting about what I like *shrug* (btw this is 95% for/about my tol au, so-)

Cw i do mention abuse a few times, because of Solar's Moon, dark sun, etc.

God i love these three so much. There's just so much potential, both angst and fluff (and a bit of smut but that stays in my head that is NOT going on my blog)

Like Solar and Nexus are both such needs and idiots. They both stay up late working, and insist the other one goes to bed (Eclipse ends up having to drag them both to bed).

They love working on projects together. People arnt usually allowed int he workshop when their working together, because if they have each other they don't need anyone else to help or anything- but they let Eclipse in once, and he got to see how they danced around each other and worked together perfectly.

They're all nerds who love science and mechanics tbh, but they all like it in different ways. Solar likes the hard work, the mindlessly fixing things. He liked the manual labour, the more mechanics of it. Nexus loved the science. He loves asking questions and learning knew things. He loves questioning things and people. He likes building and creating and testing out code. Eclipse likes the results. He doesn't particularly enjoy coding and building, it makes him frustrated, but he loves the results. He likes having a job well done. And getting to enjoy whatever the product is, whether its a computer or a basic machine.

Eclipse and Nexus can also understand each other. They can understand the expectation of who you're supposed to be. To be a remake of someone dead, but not really being them. Yet everyone expects you too. They've spent long nights sharing a smoke and ranting about how unfair it is. About how they weren't v1 Eclipse, or Moon. That they were themselves, and it wasn't fair people pressured them into being their predecessors.

Solar and Eclipse can understand what its like to be an eclipse. To come into this world with Moons hating you. To be called vile, to have a Moon laugh in your face. They may not have always liked each other, but they understand each other, its one of the reasons they became close.

Nexus can also help them both heal from their trauma of Moons. Plus, he isn't really Moon. Sure, he is a moon, coming from he dame basic code. But he isn't an old Moon. He's kinder, he doesn't blow up as easily. Its reassuring to them both, being treated so kindly to someone who pretty much abused them both (Eclipse didn't deserve how Old moon treated him when he came into this world.)

Eclipse and Nexus also know what its like to be left behind. Eclispe knows what its like to be left behind by Moon, to be a piece of code that he doesn't care about. Nexus knows what its like to hurt people and lose them. Yes, its different, but that doesn't mean they can't empathize with each others pain, because it is similar in a way.

solar and Nexus can understand each other's pain of losing someone you care about deeply. Of blaming yourself for their death. Of course. They dealt with it much differently, but still-

Eclipse and Solar both knowing what its like to die, comforting each other, reassuring them that they're still here. That they're alive. That they're them.

Enough about what they have in common tho-

like oh my goddd. I have so many thoughts bro-

Eclipse smells like cigarettes and leather and faintly of the vanilla candles Puppet lights in their apartment. Solar smells like grease and oil and sometimes chemicals when he cleans himself off (and then is forced to take an actual shower by Eclipse because cleaning yourself with harsh chemicals every time cant be good for your casing). Nexus smells like lavender (because thats the scent of the detegerant Sun always washes their clothes with) and faintly of bleach (consequences of living in the same house as Sun) and grease a lot after he's been working. The other twos smells are comforting to all three of them, reminding them that they're safe and content. Nexus eccpecially loves wearing Solar's clothes, and loves being in his arms, reminding him that he's alive. Thats he's right here. That everything is going to be okay.

And oh my god don't get me started on the forbidden love. The fact that Eclipse and Solar can't be in the same dimension till Eclispe gets a new dimensional signal. Solar and Nexus both crushing on Eclipse, but Nexus is the only one that can actually see them both, having to pass messages between the two. Of course they do eventually get to see each other again, but for so long they won't be able to. Its just.. sad

And AUGH im always going to be insane over rmy true loves kiss idea. The idea of Solar kissing Nexus out of desperation, because nothing he says can get through to him and ohmygod he's panicking- and somehow the virus he has just disappearing. The kiss curing Nexus, and bringing him back to his senses. And oh my god, the chaos and angst that follows. Nexus sobbing becuase of what he's done, feeling so guilty. The family not wanting to accept him back, Moon being the worst one-

Solar and Eclipse being the first ones to accept him. Later being Sun, Earth, and then Lunar. Maybe one day Moon, but thats a day far in the future.

And auggh, Solar and Moon's friendship. Moon hating his boyfriends but midly tolerating them for Solar's sake. Solar aclimating him to Eclipses, and he starts tolerating him a bit more. Hearing him say so many good things about Nexus makes him hate him more, though, insecure about Nexus being back in the family. Afraid of being replace.

Sleaking of being replaced, Nexus feeling like he's replaceable. That he's disposable. That one wrong move and he'll be thrown out again. Solar reassuring him that even if he is hell go with him. That he refuses to let Nexus be completley abandoned and manipulated again.

And god, all three of them have such communication, trust, and attachment issues-

Solar feels like he has to be useful to be loved. That he has to prove himself. That he could also be thrown out of the family because he's not from this dimension. He's afraid of being a burden. He's afraid that if he complains he'll be seen as a nuisance. That he doesn't deserve help or to get anything, that he barely deserves the celestial family as it is even if he does so much for them.

Nexus also feels like he has to be useful. That if he isn't, what is he for? What was his purpose if he can't help? He compares himself to Moon a lot, feeling like he has to match up to his standards, even if they're impossible. Moon has years and years of experience on him- he also struggles to talk about his own feelings. He bottled them up so much because he felt like they were stupid that he just doesn't know how to talk about them. The only time he can is in the middle of the night, and is usually with Eclipse. Solar will try to comfort him and almost baby him when he tries to rant to him, Eclipse will just complain and rant right back though, and he prefers it.

Eclipse didn't really ever have any healthy relationships. He's used to pushing people away and bottling all his feelings up. To lashing out at people. Yes, this version is much calmer, but he still has the memories of the ones before him. Hes still used to that being what Eclipses in this dimension did. He doesn't know how to talk to people. Earth helped him open up though, and Solar and Nexus helped him more. He's a lot calmer now, and it helps that they both enjoy listening to him rant. Solar will listen to him and gives advice, while Nexus will just complain with him in the middle of the night. He loves both, though it depends on the situation for what he wants to do.

Their relationship isn't perfect, though. Nexus will still sometimes yell and freak Solar out, and he has to frantically apologize while Eclipse calms him down. Eclispe sometimes will push them away, and will sometimes use their insecurities and trauma against them when hes frustrated eith them. Solar refuses to talk about his own issues, and it worried the other two to no end. Nexus sometimes will hit himself or bite himself to the point of denting his casing when he's frustrated or having a breakdown, not wanting to lash out at anyone, and this worries the other two so much but there's nothing they can really do to stop it, just comforting Nexus the best they can and restraining him when they see him doing it. Eclipse will be rude to Nexus, treating him like Moon, and they'll get into fights about it that they both always regret later.

The hallucinations Nexus suffers from also doesn't end. He still sees Solar telling him he isn't proud of him. He sometimes gets vivid hallucinations that Solar is still dead.

They also all suffer from horrific nightmares

Solar dreaming that he's still in his original dimension. That he's still being abused by his Moon. That he still has no one to love him. He has nightmares that he's still dead, that Nexus never got better. He has nightmares that he ends up like Eclipse, that he hurts people. He has nightmares that the family shuns him and kicks him out. He has nightmares that old moon shows up at his dimension again and he can't stop him this time, and he hurts him and everyone he loves.

Nexus dreaming of Solar still dead. Nexus having nightmares that he actually killed his family. He has nightmares that he's still under Dark Sun's control. He has nightmares that he never was saved from space. He has nightmares of Eclipse betraying and killing him, never having truly gone good. He has nightmares that the family kicks him out for not living up to their expectation, for not being good as moon.

Eclipse dreaming of Moon. Nightmares of Bloodmoon torturing him, of Moon hurting him, of Lunar killing him again. Nightmares of him betraying everyone, even though that's the last thing he wants to do. Nightmare of Earth hating him, of Solar an Nexus hating him.

They often have to comfort each other from these night terrors, holding them close as cooing to the and rocking them.

Solar panics and sobs when he wakes up from one, but refuses to talk about it. He shuts down once when calms down, and often gets up in the middle of the night after to mindlessly do work to get his mind off of it.

Nexus wakes up screaming and crying and often hallucinating. He ususally has to be restrained so he doesn't accidentally hurthimself. He always feels bad about it after, and just wants to cuddle and feel loved, reminding himself that his partners are here and they're real.

Eclipse wakes up in a cold sweat, quiet. Hell just sit there for awhile, before getting up to take a cold shower to clear his mind.

they all overwork themselves, Solar and Nexus eccpecially-

solar because he needs to feel useful. Also because working helps him not think, it helps him "relax", even if it stresses him out more.

Nexus because he'll get so caught up in what he's doing. He'll start working at like noon and he'll zone out and suddenly its midnight and Eclipse and Solar are coming down to drag him away from his lab. Or Sun, sometimes sun has to come after him.

They're just so sad and gay and such a polycule i love them <3

Im so normal about them, clearly (im sorry this is too long im not going to go through this and edit rn- there probaly really a lot of grammar errors and typing errors and spelling errors but im tired soo-)

[alexandraisyes]

Solarnexus canon 🗣️💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️

Canonized. Just for you pookie.

They are holding hands under the sycamore tree. You're welcome.

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[polaris-stuff]

The old just came back and I don’t know how to feel about it :/ Besides serious note- I thought of a SolarMoon( yes I like the ship ) scenario. Old moon comes back and doesn’t remember anything before and was told that his new self was in a relationship with solar. OG moon is completely flabbergasted that he actually had a relationship with someone but at the same time doesn’t care. When solar comes back, he’ll just pretend to love him even though he’s deeply uncomfortable that he has to act all lovey dovey, he doesn’t want to solar to find out that he’s not the new moon and hurt his feelings.

Eventually solar finds out and is devastated that the new moon is off the Deep end and is upset that know one helped him out of his insanity.

OK I JUST SAW THIS (I'm looking at the asks I have before the fanchildren) AND GOD THIS WOULD BE SO A AMAZING AU

Now that so much has happened on the show since Solar came back, I can imagine this and god. Imagine how BROKEN and distrustful Solar is going to be of the entire family if EVERYONE lied to him to make him believe that Old Moon was New Moon. If NO ONE ever told him what happened until somehow he discovered it himself.

The whole family swore to him that it was for a good elder, that Nexus would never return or that if he did, it wouldn't be like Solar expected and that it was better to just get on with life and be happy. But Solar is SO angry and hurt. Not because Nexus is gone, but because EVERYONE lied to him, played with his feelings as if Solar was a fool and worse, angry with himself because he BELIEVED it for a while.

Fool, fool, Solar. How did he not notice before?! Now that he knows that this is not New Moon, he sees all the signs that indicated it and he just pretended not to see them. Thinking that it was only New Moon having a bad day or something. He's so angry and hurt and he's desperate to know what happened to New Moon, where is he, is he alive? He NEEDS to know.

And maybe Solar ends up somehow crossing paths with Nexus at some point, and Nexus doesn't look or even speak similarly to New Moon but something inside Solar screams "That's him!" and it's right. Nexus can't believe it, he refuses to believe that the Solar in front of him is the Solar he loved, the Solar he lost, but it is! His mind isn't playing another game with him, is it? It's not a hallucination, right? The two end up hugging each other, Nexus basically carrying Solar in his arms due to the new height difference.

In the end Solar decides to go with Nexus to wherever Nexus is living. It's not worth staying with people who deceived him and played with him for months. And as soon as Nexus finds out what the family did to Solar, all hell will break loose.

[yukimomodivorce]

ok let's do this (inspired by this poll):

(badly cropped low quality images of them under the cut for reference)

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

girls who would probably find being a living doll created for a specific duty enriching

the dress (i was gonna change the details more for this drawing but i liked it too much)

id in alt but also below cut

[id: hand-drawn fanart of kujo aya from idolish7 as a hypothetical mechanical lullaby character named “sept”. in the center is a color drawing, a fullbody of her standing, and there’s also four sketches. text names her as “sept” and also reads: -fabras assistant -lives a lively life in town -hangs out with meir, martin, and april; next to “april” it reads “they feel a connection, for some reason?” -also does odd jobs -knows everything. found out three years ago.

she wears a steampunk-style dress with a big, wide, lolita-fashion style skirt. the dress includes a cream-colored ruffled shirt with two bows and a fancy clip at the collar, and a corset made of blue fabric and brown leather (slash leather like material), which has straps decorated with bows that clip the skirt (which is blue-gray) up into its position. her socks are similar to what she wears in her first appearance in idolish7, and she’s wearing boots. her skin is a slightly inhuman purplish-pink color.

two of the sketches show her from the side and back, revealing more details of the outfit as well as a large key that inserts into her back- she’s like a windup doll. in both the sketches she’s curtsying (as opposed to the colored drawing where she’s talking casually.) the other two sketches show her working. in the first, she’s sitting crosslegged with a mechanical human leg. fabra calls offscreen “finish with the wiring, then help me screw these together!” aya’s briefly paused, holding the wiring in her hands, to answer “kay!”. in the second, she’s looking at the partially built head of terra, riku’s character, with her chin in her hands. she looks pensive and a bit annoyed. end id.]

[ypsese]

Pretty sure someone is copying Mechanical Lullaby on archive. Merry Christmas I guess?

[mirkatz]

thanks anam (@yaotomesgaku) for paying me to color my own sketch

[rabbit-library]

RIKU - MECHANICAL LULLABY

RABBIT TV 1 2 3

[devilish-parrot]

each option includes every version of it, eg: miracle musical includes hawaii part ii, hawaii partii, variations on a cloud etc

reblog for bigger sample size :3

[go-to-the-mirror]

I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side

MARTIN Yeah, but if, if you're that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y'know, do manage to— ARCHIVIST We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on.

The price of a long due reckoning Laid in blood when the battle has done Old King Cole has paid the toll Of the crimes levied upon his soul The rebel blades have achieved their goal Laid in blood when the battle has done

Pip: We're doomed Flip: We're not. Pip: Are you sure?

There's been so little time to share We've always had our loads to bear I won't forget I won't leave you this time This time

MARTIN I refuse to accept that this— ARCHIVIST (Firm) Tough! The world doesn't care what you accept. It just... is! It just is.

It's getting late, Little Moon. Finish the song. It's not that late. You are my moon, Little Moon, and it's late enough. So climb down out of the tree. Is it safe? Safe enough. Are you dead as well?

MARTIN Yeah, yeah. Come on. We've got a job to do.

(“i bet on losing dogs” - mitski // “mag 181 - ignorance” // “laid in blood” - the mechanisms // “war of the foxes” - richard siken // “ragnarok v: end of the line” - the mechanisms // “mag 194 - parting” // “the worm king’s lullaby” - richard siken // “mag 181 - ignorance”)

[blazeismyname]

Thank you Tumblr for puting together this playlist. Not only has it helped me calm my baby sister, but keep my rowdy ass calm and is getting me through today as I illy do school work like the frail Victorian child I am

[alexandraisyes]

Just saw your ship trope ask and I wanted to ask for the best trope for the best poly:

Solar/Nexus/Eclipse?

-Kuu

THE POLY EVER

Unrequited Love (Solar to Nexus at first)

Turns into Mutual Pining (Solar and Nexus)

Accidental Confession (Solar to Nexus)

Friends to lovers (Solar and Nexus)

Grief-Stricken Romance (Nexus to Eclipse)

Reluctant Attraction (Nexus to Eclipse)

Enemies to friends to lovers (Eclipse and Nexus)

Forbidden Love (Eclipse and Nexus)

Reformed Villain (Nexus and Eclipse)

Love triangle (When Solar Comes Back)

Enemies with Benefits (Eclipse and Solar)

Love/Hate Relationship (Solar and Eclipse)

Enemies to Lovers (Eclipse and Solar)

Lovers in Denial (Solar and Eclipse)

Soulmates (Eclipse and Solar)

Broken Birds (All of them)

Slow Burn (All of them)

Healing Together (All of them)

Repressed Feelings (Eclipse)

I got a bit silly with it and made the tropes into a timeline

[polaris-stuff]

What are your favourite TSAMS ships?

Good morning, anon! ✨💖 Hmm, well, some of my favorite ships are too obvious, I mean, I draw them very often! But let's see:

Solarnexus - Solar x Nexus (ofc, i love them sm, they make me so fucking happy)

Nexus x Eclipse

Solar x Eclipse

Dark Sun x Nexus

Nexus x Solar x Eclipse x Dark Sun (The supreme polycule)

Sunchips - Sun x Eclipse

ShadowPlanet - Earth x Eclipse (babieees)

BM x Lunar

Solar x Sun

Lord Eclipse x Servant Sun (Love through divine worship, my favorite)

Spaniard x Sun

KC x Ruin

Ruin x BM (they are so toxic)

I also like Lumini (Lunar x Gemini) to a certain extent but more in the fanon I create for myself, I have to draw them more

I think that's all! Tysm for the ask, anon! I hope you have a nice day!!💖✨

[yukimomodivorce]

certified fabra post

[hawaiiparty2]

This is some of my Hawaii part II miracle musical designs

Enjoy (or something)