The Light's Nightmare

this blog’s been really inactive for quite a while, huh? sorry about that ;; i’ve thought about reviving it a few times but i don’t know if i’ll ever have enough time or motivation to pull it off. it doesn’t help that it’s been two years since i actually had a computer that can run Maplestory. i’m just not really in the loop anymore :( but i may post on this blog occasionally!

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 Pulled from his weapon as the chains tighten on his limbs the thief continued to smile.Soon he found himself thrusting his head forward into a headbutt with the mage.A small cringe of pain as he wobbled back laughing.

❝It was not petty. You held someone dear no? If they up and vanished from your life because of someone would you want revenge?Is it so petty then?❞

   He moved back jerking the chains with him,glaring at the mage’s mismatched eyes.The bastard struck a sore nerve of his.

❝How is the search by the way? Still no body yet?❞

The headbutt took Eclipse by surprise, and he stumbled backward but still kept hold on Phantom’s chains. The dark mage raised his dulled rod and eyed the thief warily. Phantom’s hollow laughter, his imbalanced stance, and his steely glare were disconcerting to the magician. He had never seen Phantom so off-kilter.

But Phantom’s words burned away his caution. Outrage quickly contorted Eclipse’s features. A storm of pain and anger thundered in his mismatched eyes, and his ocular flame billowed with the tempest. Too furious for words, he let out a wild roar as he swung his weapon at the thief, raising a row of black spears to skewer him.

“GRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHH!!”

But suddenly, the dark mage recoiled, as if someone had restrained him. The blades halted inches from Phantom’s chest. A moment later, the dark chains and blades all dissipated in a burst of bright light, bathing the two in warm, soothing rays as it faded.

A discordant expression remained on the magician’s face as he slowly lowered his weapon. His red eye glimmered with grief, the anger stripped away. His blue eye seemed full of concern as he regarded the thief.

With that verbal spat over, Aran turned back to the board and tried again to pay attention. Looks like the teacher was talking about the example problem now; if they listened, they might actually understand it this time-

RRRRRRIP

A loud noise to their right broke their concentration. They shot an annoyed glance at the source, who had just tore open a potato chip bag. That explained the sound. They turned back to the teacher, but cursed internally when they saw that a new equation had appeared on the board while they were distracted. They copied it down the best they could, trying to listen to the teacher’s explanation for how it worked-

CRUNCH. CRUNCH CRUNCH

The hand holding their pencil clenched. Another side glance confirmed that Eclipse was now eating the potato chips with a smug look on his face. What was he smiling about? The guy only just got here, and they heard from Luminous that he never showed up to any of his classes. There was no way he already knew the answer to the problem, right?

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

Deep breathing, Aran, they thought, trying one last time to turn their focus back to the lesson. Just ignore him, and then the class would be over and they would be able to grab lunch and then never have to deal with him again-

CRUNCH

Their temper snapped, already worn down by a long and tiring day. “Would you keep it down?!” they hissed to Eclipse, at a volume trying but failing to be a whisper.

Before Eclipse could snap back at the grumpy student-athlete, a handful of eyes turned on him as the students sitting around them looked back to see what was going on. The teacher noticed the interruption and paused the lesson once again, staring pointedly at Eclipse.

“Eclipse, please stop interrupting my lesson and pay attention,” he said sternly. “Or you’ll have to repeat this lesson again.”

“But I really was paying attention this time!” Eclipse protested. He jabbed a finger at Aran. “They were the person talking. I didn’t even say anything!”

“If that’s the case,” the teacher responded skeptically, “then tell me what I was doing to solve this problem.” He gestured to the board.

Eclipse crossed his arms. “You’re using tangent of the triangle’s bottom corner to find the height of the tree. You were about to explain that since the angle is sixty degrees, it would be easy to use the unit circle to find the height without a calculator. You were going to use that new equation, tangent equals sine over cosine, to tell us that the tangent of sixty degrees is 1.73, which is obvious from the unit circle. The length of the tree’s shadow is ten feet, so the height of the tree equals the tangent of sixty times the length of the shadow, so the tree is about 17.3 feet tall. Is that enough for you?”

The teacher paused, leaving the room in uncomfortable silence. “…Well, Eclipse. If you could just put that amount of effort into your assignments, I’d excuse you from these remedial classes. But even if you understand the concept, please keep quiet so your classmates can learn the material.”

“Whatever,” grumbled Eclipse as he popped another chip into his mouth. CRUNCH!

As the class settled down again, and the teacher started to explain the solution of the problem at a much slower pace, Eclipse turned and glared at Aran.

headcanons to consider

can they use chopsticks?

only to stab his food tbh. He has no experience with them

what do they do when they can’t sleep:

train/kill things until he gets tired enough to be able to sleep except most of the times he can’t sleep is because of Lumi, so if that’s the reason then he’ll just lie there and at least get some physical rest if not mental

what would they impulse buy at the grocery store:

lollipops, jawbreakers, chewing gum, any kind of thing that you can play with in your mouth for a while. It’s a nice distraction

what order do they wash things in the shower:

face and body first gotta wash off the blood of his victims lmao and then hair, which has been taking longer because he let it grow out and dyed it again

what’s their coffee order: black like his soul with as many extra shots as the barista will let him order. That counts as sleep right?

what sort of apps would they have on their smartphone:

every kind of music app, legal and illegal puzzle games, like 2048, crosswords, sudoku, etc. more little mental distractions

how do they act around children:

He can’t take care of children because he is a child tbh He’s not comfortable at all around children. At least the encounter doesn’t last very long because children aren’t comfortable around him either. They usually run away.

what would they watch on tv when they’re bored and nothing they really like is on:

a detective show..? He’s not really the type to sit down and watch tv anyway, too fidgety and restless to stay still for that long