maybe with the ending.. make it be like the link between Breezepelt's leaving to join Kin and his POV in AVOS? of course from Nightcloud's perspective but
like. she would be injured and recovering away from the clan. but they would be unaware that she is alive and like in canon assume she died and hold her a vigil. Breezepelt, who is already at low point, taking it very badly - yes he was pushing her away bc he was hurt and angry and started taking it out on her, but.. it's still his mom. his Mi. and she is dead? or is this stupid clan just going to believe this to make it easier? are they really giving up on looking for her, or her body??
i can see Nightcloud being the one of very few, if not THE Only one, things that kept Breezepelt in WindClan at this point. and without her, what's the point? it's not like anyone else likes him. the link is gone and they buried it in a bodyless vigil. so it's what pushes him to actuall take the step and leave.
not sure how well it would align with the timeline and events. and how soon Darktail was assembling cats from other clans like Breeze. but i think it would be interesting and heartbreaking if at the end of her SE, Nightcloud just arrived back to WindClan and asks where Breezepelt is and someone tells her.. he either was missing since this morning or just left the clan earlier the same day. like, just have them miss each other by a hair.
I'm thinking that the second-to-last chapter is her with Pickle, having a bit of a sabbatical to unpack everything that happens through the story. Mostly because I want to throw her into some kind of pretty garden as a nice setting for this lmaoo
A LOT of BB stuff is being added to Nightcloud's Pannage that wasn't in the main series; Hillrunner's abuse, her mentor Addersong, several expanded little background characters now complete with their own side conflicts. I think what I can bind all these things with is Nightcloud considering what a Clan means.
Because of her new reputation, I'm noticing I'm writing scenes where she's intentionally doing and saying things to try and sway them. While also grappling with her resentment towards them, and things she can't change.
There's a bit of a melancholy air so far, so I'm starting to feel like the best ending is just having a bit of space to herself to think. Ultimately, she decides that it's more than Breezepelt or Crowfeather that binds her to WindClan. It's the life and connections she COULD have.
WindClan cats are also quite religious next to other Clans, so I really do mean "sabbatical." I'm going to have Addersong die of old age shortly after they reconnect, so she's in Pickle's Garden talking to her new friend, choosing cats she's lost to pray to as patron spirits to give her the traits she feels she needs, and just recovering both physically from injury and spiritually from turmoil.
So all that to say; it works well that by the time she gets back, Breezepelt has joined The Kin. He was one of the first to join when he started calling for members anyway, so having Night be gone for about two or three weeks sounds appropriate.
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💎💎💎 for giliys?
[I was hoping for this you have no idea]
"First, I suppose I should ask who put you up to this." Minovae smirks. "Everyone that knows Giliys has their own, strong, opinion on him, and it wouldn't be wrong to say they're probably more similar than not. Was it Theo? I know he worries about anything jeopardizing his healing relationship with Regill, and I can easily see him agonizing over the respective spouses not getting along."
She chuckles, and shakes her head.
"You know there's something to be said about Derenges and their chosen partners being so very unlike them! Still, he needn't worry. Against everything that says I shouldn't, I actually like Giliys. Or, well", her brows furrow. "It's hard to describe. I like him, but also I don't. He's abrasive beyond words and somehow more aggressive and angry than a vrock, but he's also... kind. He's generous, too. Just look at him with his and Theo's kids! Actually, he's so many contradictions folded on top of each other because of the things he's gone through, and it would be so very wrong and hypocritical of me to condemn him for what he had to do to survive it all."
A sense of sadness pulls down her smile and dims the light in her eyes. "He... the things that make him up at his very core are the same ones that make up any other good soul. His sense of right and wrong is amongst the strongest I've ever seen, and it's a crime that such an innately just and bright person has been shaped into what he is now. Society failed him. So many people failed him. His justice has been turned into retribution, all his goodness twisted to be in the name of survival."
"You know", she continues, "I truly, genuinely think he would've made for a knight the likes Avistan has never seen had he not been crushed and pushed to the breaking point like he had. It's just...", she sighs, "It doesn't excuse some of the things he's done, and I admit I might have executed him myself if I had caught him mid-act of some of them, but he's trying. I see it. It might only be because of Theo but that doesn't diminish that he's trying to make amends. I see it, and I see where he's come from and I see the frayed pieces there of what could have been and I see what could still be..."
She hums, low and mellow, musing further on it. "So yeah, he's awful and mean and has done some truly heinous things and yet I would say in full honesty that I would trust him with my life. I'd trust him with my family, too. Even if we didn't know each other, if we weren't 'family' as tenuous as that word is, if he saw me fall protecting Jess and I begged him with my last breath, in my unmistakable Hellknight armor and he just the nearest person I locked eyes with, to take my daughter and get here out of there, I know he would."
A sharp, dry laugh cuts through her thoughts. "Actually, Giliys might be the greatest Hellknight there never was. He definitely would've been an incredible paladin, though I'm not sure which god he would've pledged himself to, and none of them deserve him anyway. I'm under no impression that he might kill me for saying that if he finds out, though", she smiles sheepishly.
"I'm under no impression at all that he doesn't hate me, period, make no mistake of that. I'm everything he despises, and I know it. I'm a proud Hellknight, and one who joined to escape the horrible life I had because of what I am. He sees me as a traitor in that sense, another 'slave who picked up the whip themselves.' And the thing is? I can't blame him. I can't blame him at all. He's the exact person I became a Hellknight to protect and advocate for and yet... here he is... as he is. We didn't help him."
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the cow jumped over the moon, because of course i’d jump on the pearl and gem cam account bandwagon. I’ll be doing AriesEva soon, I have a lot of ideas :D
For Pearlescentmoo, I really wanted to make ‘the cow jumped over the moon’ joke, so I made her a cow, and I wanted to make her a lot more alien than my regular Pearl design, because her skin looks really cool. I made her hair a lot choppier because the cam account skin is Pearl’s older more pixelated version (at leas the hair). I’m really happy with her!
I don’t have as much, I guess lore planned for moo, but I do have quite a bit for Aries, so can’t wait for that :D
A little bonus doodle because also she runs the tumblr account /j
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watching a palestinian father feed his children rotten potatoes, a squad of armed police beats up crowds of musicians in my home state, the mountains all around my city burn through day and night, i write my thesis with a single cup of coffee because the too-much-jitters turn into obsession about ending up with a bullet between my eyes for writing the wrong paragraph, all of the forests have dried up in this land of lakes, our lord comes back this sunday but today the sky has not clouded over, sugar sugar oh honey honey you're my candy girl
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incoherent valentines-season dream last night. I was looking at flightradar and noticed that the map was covered with these little pink helicopter and fighter jet icons. when I clicked on them, their callsigns were things like LUV4EVER, and the photographs showed aircrafts with hot pink loveheart livery. in addition to the usual info, there was also an annotation tab with a small post-it note textured background, showing comments sent in by users. some of them said things like, "YESSS TAYLOR SAID YAOI REAL" and I was like oh god is this a t.aylor swift thing??? how much pollution is she causing with these???
after that, I started watching and photographing an oddly (normal non-swift) small and silent plane that was cruising about 80 feet above my neighbourhood. then I "woke up," and was still checking fr on my phone. my mum walked in and talked to me, but when I tried to answer, my voice wouldn't come out and I suddenly felt extremely fatigued and tight in the throat like I was getting a cold, thinking aw no is this bc my grandad had a cold and he visited the other day (true). I woke up fully, coldless :)
I'd also already woken up for real in the middle of the night, completely well-rested, only to find it was 1am and I'd been asleep for like an hour and a half, so basically a nap. but then I felt anxious falling back to sleep. :( I need to figure out how to time my sleep cycle correctly, bc I've often woken up at the very end of the stage you're supposed to and felt Amazing after it. but unfortunately that typically occurs at like, 4am and 5 hours is not an ideal amount of rest to keep having long-term lol.
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