#grothweek

In honor of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’s most adorable bean characters, it’s time to introduce GROTH WEEK (thanks to @mystics-and-chill for coining that name, haha)! Deet + Kylan = Pure and Absolute Joy.

Starting Monday, July 5 — Sunday, July 11, 2021, Groth Week is designed to be a celebration and fun experience for fans to submit fanfiction, artwork, headcanons, and anything related to the characters and the week’s themes!

The only specific rule: tag your work properly so that any parties who are either a) too young for certain subject matter, or b) concerned about potentially unsavory subject matter, may make informed decisions about what works they do and do not want to read. (AKA – use common sense, and all will be well.)

It isn’t required to participate for the entire week. If you’d just like to submit a piece of work for only one of the theme days, that’s completely fine! Please be sure that any work submitted is new content.

Just be sure to hashtag #GrothWeek so we can see it and reblog. 

Here are the themes for the week:

July 5 — Day One: Comfort

July 6 — Day Two: Hidden Talents

July 7 — Day Three: Warmth

July 8 — Day Four: What if Kylan and Deet met when Kylan first visited Grot? (Book universe...) / What if Kylan and Deet met before the Dreamspace? (Show universe...)

July 9 — Day Five: Darkness and Light

July 10 — Day Six: Song & Dance

July 11 — Day Seven: Alternate Universe of your choice :)

Remember that although Deet and Kylan are the focus, all other characters are also welcome! Also remember that if you don’t like the ship or think it is plausible – that’s totally fine. Pass the week by! This is meant for good fun only 😊

Remember, don’t start tagging or submitting anything until the official week has started.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to send a message here, or to @tofadeawayagain or @orange-yarn.

I wrote a little drabble for Deet/Kylan (otherwise known as Groth) week! The prompt for Day 1 is Comfort. I also used a secondary prompt of Willpower. I intended to write something cute and fluffy for this, but... that didn’t happen. So, without further ado: a sad drabble. Text here, and a link below to AO3. Drop me a comment and let me know what you think!

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There are days where she’s lucid enough to remember his name. It doesn’t happen often. He lives for the days when she meets his eyes and she’s there looking back at him. He lives for the moments where she knows him, and the nights when her touch makes him feel alive again. She tells him she loves him, and he believes her.

He loves her, too. He always will.

But every joyful moment has a cost. When he wakes, she’s always gone again, taken by the Crystal. Her violet, empty eyes haunt him.

He doesn’t stay at her side any longer when she’s missing from her own body. He doesn’t need to see her catatonic and nonresponsive – doesn’t need to keep wearing himself thin by talking to someone who cannot hear him. He’s had to learn about the destructive power of hope, and he’s had to learn not to spend his life waiting.

He simply stays on the periphery and does what he can to bring her back and to bring himself some comfort. He plays the songs that bring a spark to her vacant eyes. He tells stories of his travels around the campfire, and he pretends she’s the one listening to them. He spends long months traveling across the mountains and into the eastern waste, searching for a way to bring her back for good.

The day will come when he can’t stay away from her anymore, though. He knows that it is only a matter of time.

Time they don’t have. Time she doesn’t have.

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