#sonazeweek

Suns and Stardust are an interesting thing to think about. These two live in an eternal loop, Stardust gathers and breathes life into a new sun, which will eventually burn out and go out in a big display of passion turning back into Stardust that shall make an even bigger Sun. There can’t be one without the other, they’re both responsible for the continued existence of each other, but perhaps going even deeper than that they are the same thing. A single Sun could die and come back bigger, and sure, it’s made of different bits of Stardust now, but remnants of the original Sun still remain. In some ways this is the same Sun, this is the same being as before, just older and wiser. A Sun never fears disappearing into a quiet eternity, and Stardust never fears loneliness. A Sun might LOOK like it stands on its own, mighty and regal, but it only is what it is by allowing Stardust into its heart.

Sol and Chaos. Sol is often misinterpreted as just being the lawful good force of rules and order, but it’s oh so much more than that. Sol is the Magic of Community, of people coming together to form a society, or really just a group, to embellish each other’s strengths and eradicate each other’s weaknesses. Sol is the promise of warmth and support and boundaries that protect a family, be it one you were born with or one you found. Rules and order are revered amongst worshippers of Iblis, because they’re what keeps them safe, they’re what keeps them together. You’d think a force of magic so focused on societal order would reject the teachings of Chaos, right? It’s so easy to think of Chaos as something ugly just because of its name, but reality is never that straightforward, not unless you make it that way.

Chaos is not just the magic of unpredictability, uncertainty, fickleness and whimsy, no, it’s so much more. Chaos is a force of dreams, both literal and our aspirations. Anything that the individual wishes could be true, anything they yearn for and work for and seek to make a reality. The truth they seek to bring into existence. It’s constant change, it’s a child’s future, it’s wishing for power, it’s hope, it’s dreams, it’s everything because what people want is so often changing. It’s the heart’s truest deepest wish, and the hope that we might obtain it. Honestly isn’t that so beautiful? There is a very real part of the world that whispers in your ear and tells you “If you can try, you can do anything”. How could we scorn a force so big and so important?

How would one feel free to pursue their dreams if not for the support and love from a community? How would a community form if not for the dream of the people of making something beautiful together?

Fire and Wind. Their relationship is so easy to figure out. A harsh wind might put out a fireplace, but the warm air left behind is swept up in the breeze and taken outside to be free, it’s not really gone. The wind might part the leaves on a tree to let the warmth of the sun in, just as it might spread the fire that might destroy the forest. So great and powerful is their union that nothing could stop them should they together choose to turn on everything else. They could do so much harm, but they don’t, because the sun would rather shine and the breeze would rather help her reach out that beautiful light onto the rest of the world.

Blaze and Rollin. Even when they thought each other a mystery, once they took the first step to let each other in it was like being apart no longer made sense. They hold onto each other tight, burning sun and shining stardust, Sol and Chaos, Fire and Wind, Blaze and Rollin and so many different concepts and beings and names both mythical and forgotten and ancient and new. So many lives that they’ve lived together, so many worlds that they’ve been in, so many times they’ve been separated, but they always come back, and they always meet again. Rollin assures Blaze that they’ll see each other once more, and Blaze finds it so easy to believe in this wonderful dream. After everything they just remembered it’s hard to imagine a world where they could ever truly be apart.

They meet again, they fall in love, they laugh and they cry and they make it work until their final days. They die as young heroes, with a history and legacy far surpassing their current lives.