#fablesmp icarus

Kaleidoscope are pretty and all- they're the fluff. All the pet names and cute cuddly fics and artwork show this. Malitae is cautious but eccentric, neverendingly curious and creative. Midas is scarred and hurting, but does care about the well being of others, which is clear from their last conversation with Icarus. They seem to have messed up in some way with their world.

And then we have prison duo. Prison duo are two people who are wartorn and scarred. There's fluff there, but those two have had WAY more time to develop. I remember people once saying that Wolftross was a cute relationship, and then people countering it with no- those two found each other after years of being worn down with the world, clutching onto each other like they were the final light in the middle of a neverending darkness.

Icarus and Centross, to me, are another type of relationship like this. They've gone from being partners in crime (with a bit of a spiteful yet friendly relationship) to enemies to close friends. They've seen each other cry and fight and beaten and bruised and evil and snarling and shaking from fear. They've been through most things that throw wrenches in relationships. Yet Violet still hovered over Icarus and told them that they weren't alone, even though icarus hadn't done anything to stop his death.

These two CARE. There is something special about being able to turn to the man who taunted you and hurt you and still call him a friend. There's something special about being able to look at the person who locked you in a prison and almost killed you and still stay near them. There is something special, that after all of this, these two were still friends. And they could be more.

I personally do see them as a QPR. The relationship between these two couldn't just stick as a normal one and them still be around each other. I don't think they'd really be romantic, though I can understand the hype.

To me, though I love and adore Kaleidoscope, Prison Duo has much more backing in the sheer amount these two had to go through.

anyway guys

Icarus is about to be killed, Quixis can't let them die but they're too weak to cause a reset so their last-ditch effort is to try and pull Icarus into the Worldport. BUT because Quixis is so weak (and presumably will be much weaker by the end of the season) it's even more difficult to use their powers. So they actually have to try to pull Icarus themselves. (...Don't ask me how that'd work.) Like-

Icarus feels something grab the back of their coat and yank them backward. They fall as the world around them blurs and shifts into the Worldport, they're falling away from the yellow portal and stumble to the ground. Someone pulls them up and away from the gateway as the path beneath their feet begins to crumble into the void below. They are left staring at their only way home with no way of getting back to it. Icarus turns around in a fit of panic and rage only to be face to face with a being they've never seen before. Then a realization hits them. Quixis.

When a conqueror is at your door, you must find some way to pacify him- so she did.

I don't think Isla ever thought that Fable was a "good man." sure, she didn't know he was a god. But in her eyes, he was a man killing for his own desire, for control. Maybe she thought he'd be nicer in his marriage. But he wasn't.

As Fable said himself, he didn't know how to be a mortal man.

Fable had all of this power in his hands. The control, the loving subjects, the ruthless armies. The fact that he was the god of creation.

While Isla may have not seen the entire picture- that godhood- there was no evidence that everything would go well. All she could do was hope.

And that hope was crushed as the marriage progressed. Her talks with Enderian, the growing worry for Icarus as he sat under the influence of his father, being pregnant with Enderian's child, the things Enderian told her, the more she saw the "humanity" of Enderian and her people, then Soul, and Athena.

But even if Isla didn't know the entire picture; she still knew a bit. And she still chose to sacrifice her live, her happiness, her hope, her dreams to save her people. And then to save her son.

I think Isla would be proud of Rae. His tireless passion for discovery, his willingness to drive himself to the ground for others. But I do think she'd tell him to breathe. To ask for help. Just like she asked for help.

I think she'd hate that Icarus has fallen into Fable's hands. She knows the "love" he displays firsthand, and that's not something she'd want for Icarus. I'm not sure she'd even blame Icarus- to an extent, maybe, but moreover she would blame the man that manipulated Icarus into that.

Icarus didn't kill Haley because Enderian said so. Icarus killed Haley because he was searching for approval. Approval he never got. Not from Enderian. Not from Centross. Not from his own father.

So while Enderian may have been the vessel for blame in that situation- and she was truly at fault for a lot of it- Enderian didn't make Icarus kill Haley. All Enderian did was (accidentally) emphasize that part of Icarus that desired so much to be loved, to have approval.

But Fable's the one who put that insecurity into Icarus's head.

Come Away by Rose Betts

lil bit of what my brain sees it as below:

Oh come away with me I must leave today Dawn will come, but I will run And be never seen again

Various sherbert versions- more specifically Ashril mayhaps

There's nothing here but echoes It's a city full of ghosts A version of myself At every corner I knew most My footsteps turning rotten As my voice starts to decay I'll only be forgotten Like the shadows in this place

Quixis! Whether that's Midas or Icarixis, your choice-

So come away with me Won't you come away Dawn will rise, but this time I Will be never seen again Icarus- maybe to Ven, or to Rae, but the going away is going to Fable) Oh come away with me I must leave today Dawn will come but I will run And be never seen again

Could also be Ashril running?

I took you for a sailor For a man without a shore You put me in a cage It only made me want you more Prison duoooo I liked wearing the colours That you planted on my skin But none of it could keep you From a mistress like the wind

Could be Ashril, could be prisonduo, could be uhhh whatever EOD/event Sherbert is?

So come away with me Won't you come away Dawn will rise, but this time I Will be never seen again Oh come away with me I must leave today Dawn will come but I will run And be never seen again

Same as above, various sherbert versions Never, never, never, never seen again Never, never, never Krit, Ashril, etc-

I made it through the winter And I waited by the door But this city and my sailor They don't call for me no more My friends moved to the suburbs I'm the fool who stayed behind A flower in the gutter Seeing stars but losing time

Ashril, Icarus/Icarixis, Midas

So come away with me Won't you come away Dawn will rise, but this time I Will be never seen again Oh come away with me I must leave today Dawn will come but I will run And be never seen again

(Aah ooh, aah, ooh) Never, never, never, never seen again (Aah ooh, aah, ooh) Never, never, never Never seen again

Same as above

I think when Fable ends I'm going to work on a series of pieces- love letters to the entire story and how much it's impacted me. I've got a few planned but I need Fable to end before I start it, because whatever happens from now to the finale- including the finale itself, is going to be so important in relation to these! A few of the already like- dead dead characters I can work with though

I want to include text within them, so;

Rae - Rae's is going to be one of the most fun. There is so much I can do- so many directions. The finale will probably solidify which I do! A few things are for certain though; 1) aspects of the skulk. Most likely will be vines crawling up the background! 2) Aspects of the three shards- Alerion, Enderian, and Perix. Probably will be conveyed through color! Enderian will have a more specific nod as she's more present within Rae himself! Some sort of crown would sort of be my idea. 3) Stars. Of some sort, I want there to be stars. 4) A crown. Will probably be end-esque but we shall see!

Aax -There are a few things I know I want for Aax as well! 1) Four. Such an iconic thing for Aax- it's gotta be there. 2) Glowberries (because why not) 3) A trident and an axe. Aax's words will probably be something like "by design", or something about protecting Rae and Caspian!

(more below cut. It's a lot of words-)

So no matter how much the things' cry in protest, they'll never listen. Because at this point, aren't they about as good as dirt? Rae surely won't want them back after that, if he ever did actually want him back. The rest of Lodestar grove probably wants him dead!