#shamsbabs

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Lets go women show us your colors!!

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I'm conjuring up a new lil guy...

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Tis the season again feat. The Duo of All Time

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The Vision™

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[Bad Boy by Cascada playing in the distance]

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Shared the original sketch back in 2019 now I finally got around to finishing my silly beastie!! :)

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You're not the same person you were several reflections ago, y'know?

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You hear a creature creeping up behind

You're out of time

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White hair and white shoes

Neoprene beached around a faded blue

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Oh shit there's a pest on your dash!! Lemme get that for you

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Did I squander my divinity?

Was happiness within me the whole time?

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Finally some good hyuckin' Myst content

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The sapphics have won again, it seems

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Scraps between projects

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Welp. I caught a sprite making bug so [hands you a Lugh hands you a Lugh ha-]

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Ol' reliable, this prompt.

The conflict, the coding, the division...

But also greymatter, in its own way. Malleable like playdough.

For this prompt of @khoc-week I'm going my own fun path and talking about both! In a way that's more personality based because why not?

We're scratching that "or" out and scribbling in an "and"~

Let's get this bread!

Day 5 - Light (and) Darkness

Most of what they are interconnects and stems from one source: destiny interwoven by a KFC meal reject. However their views of light and darkness are all different based on their experiences, as one would expect.

But for the ideas that intertwine, it allows them to keep a different, more personal connection with one another while also being on the same page.

For instance, a point in the direction of darkness has them all agreeing that Igni is a danger to all of them, and not just the heart they all nest in. Together, they all know that if they don't keep her at bay they may all cease to exist at some point or another.

And for light, their deep connection is something they all cherish in different ways, and it helps them make it through the roughest patches even when a good portion of the group isn't physically there for most of it. They keep each other in line for the betterment of all of them.

But they all have their personal ideas to look into as well!

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Iris:

Her ideas of darkness stem from some partial abandonment issues as well as her conflict with how she got here.

She struggles seeing herself as a valuable teammate when she can't do everything all at once, and worries that whatever she can't do or hasn't done will make everything fall apart at the seams.

However, she has also seen darkness puppeteering those who are most susceptible, so she also fears darkness wearing the faces of those closest to her.

Darkness to her is pain manifested to become your worst nightmare.

Light, on a brighter note, is victory and success.

Everything she worked so hard for coming to fruition. It's harmony and rest for her team even when the work may still not be over.

On the shorter end is obviously her companions and getting to see how far they can go, what they can achieve.

She's a go-getter, so light means results in her eyes.

Could this be a problem? Yes, but she seems to take even the smallest steps as little victories. Making sure your local arsonist gets out of bed every day is hard work, but it pays off in the end!

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Irene:

Her view of darkness is more physical.

Experiments leading to destruction, heartbreak, and betrayal. Heartless. Unversed, even. Evil ancient Foretellers who threaten your loved ones. Etc.

If it can physically manifest and holds ill intent, even when redeeming is on the table, it is automatically a threat in her eyes.

Of course that's a radical way of thinking, but it's more of a way for her to test her line of trust. To accept there's potential, but to not take what's there at face value lest you be tricked as it has happened to many others before.

But it also stems from emotions gone too far, too deep letting it rot your core until it twists you into someone you can't recognize.

She works so hard to show everyone love so then that way she can never see that happen.

Her light is giving and receiving love, showing others that they're worth everything despite the flaws, that they can be better when life throws them a heavy stone. Seeing others flourish and live wonderful lives as she too gets to live is what she strives for, including taking care of young, broken teenagers.

Her love may have limits with the darkness within others, but when her trust is revealed suddenly that darkness becomes illuminated so splendidly.

Perhaps she is a true Princess of Heart herself...

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Iliana:

Darkness and light are muddled in her vision, as the concepts have always been mixed in her life, however the further she goes along the more she begins to understand what they may mean as separate values.

Her personal darkness strives with all the horrible things she went through. Loss, isolation, being placed on a pedestal she didn't ask for, her lack of individualism, etc. It all tends to add up, leading to a low self worth, lack of empathy, regrets and guilt. She sees herself as some sort of colossal failure, which in turn she slowly unlearns the more she interacts with those she makes new ties with.

Her views of darkness were mostly internal, but she also learned what it was like to be on the receiving end of those who manifested their internal darkness outwardly a bit too much. Seeing how it ate away at other's psyches pushed her to promise herself she'd never get that far, even if living day by day was difficult enough as it was.

Out of those in the Heart Hotel dynamic, she's the only one who can manifest her darkness in a, albeit very brainless, physically productive way. Productive being a loose way to describe it.

Ah, yes. Rage Form. Where white hot rage is literal and what she embodies. She has other forms, but this one manifests the most, despite all her efforts to be as self controlled as possible. Years worth of frustration on a flimsy hair trigger that when pulled could mean that you get mauled to death, regardless of if you are friend or foe. There is no brain in her wrath filled skull.

And it's exhausting to harbor all of that which she doesn't let others see, especially when it can be a danger to others, but in turn it's also a danger to herself.

So, she had to learn to see light somewhere, regardless of everything going on in and around her, and ended up finding appreciation in mundane things. A good cup of morning coffee, a beautiful sunset, even a bad quality frozen dinner were just a few things she learned to appreciate.

Her light stems from at least being alive to see things she had only heard about in stories, and thought she wouldn't live long enough to experience, that she can carry on and strive to do good despite the hand she was dealt. Even after dying once already (twice if you count the bad timeline of KH3), she still appreciates the little things and it's how she keeps herself sane while she searches for ways to return to one of the real lights in her life.

Her brother is a treasure to her, and her connection to him is so important, and it's his light that keeps her going the most. Even with new friends at her side, something is always missing without him there.

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Now, if we have to go the "or" route to assign them elements, Irene and Iris are definitely light while Iliana is Riku 2 walking the path to dawn or whatever-

Anyway, that does it for today's prompt! See y'all tomorrow for Day 6!!