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@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:58 AM

Lu gave Sorrel a matching necklace that has a pendant with the symbol for the goddess of love, family, and fertility. Lu left his behind when he ran away, but Sorrel kept them both. He wears the one Lu gave him all the time.

It's something like this, more in alt

#AwesomeCharacters #VeilOfStarlight

Simple art of a black heart with a vine with small flowers surrounding it. Meant to represent the heart and soul of people in love being tied together with flowering vines. A soulmate is forever so the soul is represented by the circle which is never ending. The heart inside the circle represents love being sheltered/protected by the soul. And the flowering vines are for fertility and love "blooming", but they also represent the emotional and metaphysical ties that bind the soul and heart together.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:46 AM

NSFW inferred here, but nothing remotely explicit.

#WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #VeilOfStarlight

Sorrel smiled dumbly up at the roof of his tent. Only one side of his vision was clear, the other was fuzzy. But that didn't matter. He would have gladly gone blind for that. Permanent eye damage wasn't new to him anyway. Lu's face came mostly into view with a proud, crooked grin. He fixed Sorrel's glasses (his vision came back fully into focus) before softly kissing him several times, cradling his face with his palm.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:16 PM

Most accurate aim goes to Lux(one of Lu's sisters)she doesn't miss in spite of being mostly blind in her right eye

Most accurate with any blade would be Sol

Most accurate insults/comebacks is Lu. He rarely gets upset enough to hurt with words, but when he does😬

#AwesomeCharacters #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:35 PM

I have *ZERO* uses of "helper" so I went with "assistant"

Very mildly NSFW joke? If you squint.

#Sniptober #SnipShare #VeilOfStarlight

The next time Lu ran into Sorrel was surprisingly in the city library, funded by the Queen for research and open to the public with special permission. Lu had been recently granted total access, after proving he wouldn't burn any books by simply touching them. Before then he'd had to request books by title or subject and hope the librarian's assistant at that time would find what he wanted. And he had to read them within sight of the front desk while also wearing elbow-length leather gloves which made it nearly impossible to turn the pages. Now that he was old enough to show 'proper discipline' over his magic, he could actually roam freely. Like he was incapable of controlling his own flames. Alright, he sometimes wasn't, but that had only happened with a book once. Maybe twice… They were his own books at any rate. And he doubted the royal library had any smutty half-copper paperbacks anyway.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:44 AM

Torn between something cute and something sad. So I did both

1.) Lu made a deal with Nebula to switch clothes at a ball so he can sneak a dance with Sorrel and Lu's showing her his handiwork with her makeup

2.) Sid sees his reflection after a *long* time

#TBBPrompt #WritingPrompt #VeilOfStarlight

"Okay, close your eyes again," Lu told her, taking her shoulders and positioning her in front of the mirror hanging inside the door of his wardrobe. She sighed, waiting as Lu tied her veil in place with the ribbon high on her forehead. She could feel the shorter end that usually fell to her chest was folded back to keep her face more visible. "And… now." She opened her eyes, her mostly flat expression immediately fell in shock. "I–?" She took several steps closer to the mirror, carefully inspecting her reflection. "Oh, th-that is me, holy shit." She glanced at Lu before turning back to herself with a stunned scoff. "I…" She reached out and pulled him into a hug. "Thank you," she whispered. "Thank you," he replied. With a proud grin, he gently took her elbow and opened his bedroom door, playfully presenting her to their brother and sister. Nit gasped in excitement. Lu took a mock bow, Sid politely clapped with a crooked, playfully regal smile. "C'mon, you need to go show off." Lu told her. "And piss off Stella." Sid added, his smile growing genuine. "A win-win." Neb lightly shrugged, snickering. There wasn't any room for him to rest his hands, but he was desperately curious about what lay beneath the covered trays. He was unfortunately side-tracked by his reflection, brow rising in shock. His eyes were almost too dim to make out in the weakly flickering flames of his face. Flames that were also darker than he remembered. He was nearly the flat gray of wet ash, no longer the heavy-cloud gray he expected. Or the soft gray of twilight he was named after. Before he could lament or process how confinement had changed him physically, Tara motioned for the chefs to uncover their trays and he was immediately distracted. He didn't even notice the chefs leave as Tara dismissed them and the door closed.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:58 PM

Oh jeeze I haven't really *mapped* constellations yet but Lu and his siblings (and Stella) are all named after stars/constellations that match their flame colors

There's a really soft scene where Lu and Sorrel are stargazing and he points out two of his sisters stars. ⬇️

#Octember #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:07 PM

Lu's scariest moments are ones he doesn't really remember. Considering what he's gone through as a young adult and what he feels from flashbacks is so much worse, he never wants to truly know what made him so scared.

#OCASK #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:13 PM

Sid gets a view outside of the prison he's been in for an unknown amount of time. Winters in Atoria are longer and colder than he's used to, and if you go far enough north the winter never ends. At least if what Lu said about the isolated, war-mongering country is correct

#WIPSnips #VeilOfStarlight

The large window to his left wasn't rippled privacy glass like the washroom, and for the first time he could see what laid beyond the prison. The wind blew hard, shaking snow from the thick conifers below. "Where are we?" he asked without thinking, looking over the snow-covered, high-sloped mountain forest around them. "Just south of central Atoria," she answered. He wished he'd paid more attention to geography when he had a tutor as a child. He knew Nightfall inside and out after searching for Lu for several years, but he had almost no clue what the rest of the continent looked like. He remembered the view beyond the Nightfallen/Atorian border when he was in the back of a canvas-covered wagon, looking up through a small splitting seam. Were those the same mountains he was currently in? Or somewhere further in the country? How many mountain ranges laid between him and home? They were at least three stories up if his comparison to Nightfall's capital castle was correct. The window didn't rattle, there was no draft as the trees bent in the wind and snow flurried wild enough to block the view for several seconds. He realized though his cell was downright frigid some nights, he rarely heard the wind. He could hardly hear it now.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:00 AM

With the main antagonists Stella, Sol, and Gabriel, they struggle with how isolated they feel from everyone else.

They have different reasons for ending up so distant from any real connections. It didn't start intentionally, but they did nothing to fix it either

#AwesomeCharacters #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:05 AM

Lu: foreign languages and culture, or world history

Sid: Music and dance

Sorrel and Nebula: Nursing/caretaking/medicine

Lux: Archery, track/field, cardio classes

Nit: Horse-riding, dog training

#QueerPrompts #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:41 AM

Little delayed!

Sid wants to ask where his little brother's been the past two days and specifically *who* he's been with (he's worried Lu's doing something stupid) but gets side-tracked for a bit by a book Lu found.

#Snippetshare #VeilOfStarlight

Lu set the book aside with a grin, rushing to open his door before Sid even knocked. A little startled, Sid looked down at him. His older brother's expression fell to disappointed resignation as he took in Lu's unhidden excitement. "What's that face for?" Lu asked, stepping back to let Sid in. "I could ask you the same," Sid countered with a sigh after Lu shut his door. Lu frowned at him, hand still on the door knob as he listened for Stella. Satisfied she wasn't returning, he gestured for Sid to sit on the bed. He excitedly pulled the massive book onto his lap, he turned to tell Sid about what Sorrel had found and stopped-short when he saw his brother's expectant look. "What?" "Where have you been?" Sid seriously, quietly asked. "And don't fucking lie to me." "I won't," he replied simply, looking down at the book and opening to the title page. "Have you seen this before?" He asked. "Lu," Sid shut his eyes, massaging the space between them with his fingers. "I could not care less about some stu–" he looked down, instantly shutting-up the moment he realized what he was looking at. "Wh–? What the fuck is that?!" Sid asked in an astonished whisper, sliding closer to Lu. Pleased he'd successfully avoided that conversation with his brother, Lu slowly turned through the uncomfortably soft pages, biting back a smug smirk. "It's 'Generals and Specifics of Calor: Its People, Environment, and History'." Lu proudly told him. "It's about two hundred years old, but–!" Lu excitedly turned to the section he'd read with Sorrel. "Look," he pointed to the details about biology and magic. Specifically, how they could avoid burning others. "Wh-? We can what?" Sid reached for the book and then grunted in surprise at its weight. They both chuckled as he sat it on his lap and he began to curiously read it over. "No way…" he quietly said under his breath.
@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 8:36 PM

Lu: Um...I don't know, what made you decide to focus on us specifically?

Sid: Hey, follow-up question. Is this "Distant Observer" or "I'm a Sadist" situation here with this whole thing? Because just writing what you see is *very* different than making it up for--⬇️

#QueerCharChat #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 4:04 PM

I mean... cannonical mpreg is a thing and Lu *has* always wanted to be a dad.

There's quite a few pregnant people in my series actually 🤔

#nsfwocdaily #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:43 PM

Lu (25): "Home" is bittersweet. I was happy with my family and Sorrel in our apartment back in the castle. And Sorrel's apartment was even nicer. It was smaller than my room, but it was private and easy to sneak into.

But beyond that wasn't good. Or safe most of ⬇️

#QueerCharChat #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 1:21 AM

Pretty queer-normative, with some groups against things like men/males giving birth. But overall very accepting. With same sex-couples being able to have biological children with magic, it's not considered as "unnatural" as it is in our world.

#QueerPrompts #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:52 PM

Lu (25): I've fought Geese in battle. Can I pass?😅

Sol: Can I use a sword?

Lu: Holy-! Where did you come from?! And no I don't think you can use a sword on a normal goose, you *psycho*

Sol: Then grab it by the neck and throw it. What's the big deal?🤷‍♂️

Lu: Really?⬇️

#QueerCharChat #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 5:50 AM

#SongsOfSeptember Day 27 #VeilOfStarlight

One of my favorites that I stumbled on a few years ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ckz...

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 10:59 PM

The Velum siblings and Sorrel all enjoy each other's company but also:

Lu likes reading and napping
Sid plays or writes music (also annoys Lu and Nebula)
Sorrel reads or tinkers with plans for medical devices
Nebula reads, but she also likes to sew and knit

#AwesomeCharacters #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 7:48 PM

Immediately?

Well, if they've scrolled through the posts here beforehand, Sol. But he's actually the opposite of worrying initially.

When Gabriel shows up, and later when Stella's first interaction with Lu is shown, it's very clear something's wrong.

#WritingPrompt #VeilOfStarlight

@rhysackhurst.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 6:14 PM

Lu (25): I'm just... here, I guess? I know people would classify me as a 'victim'. My sisters and Sorrel tried to explain that once to me and Sid, and I don't think I've ever seen Sid that pissed without at least saying something. He just left. When he came back ⬇️

#QueerCharChat #VeilOfStarlight

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