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#Solana (SOL)
brainicusrotticus · 26 days
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“So, that’s my shitty parents. What about yours?” Vace asked, taking a quick swig from their stolen bottle of liquor before passing it off. “They even make it to the wormhole? Get eaten by some xeno during the first raids? Fuck off to nowhere important?”
Solane took the bottle, watching the liquid inside. He suddenly felt exhausted, weight tugging at his bones as his eyes lifted skyward, taking in the starry expanse before them. Quietly, he offered, “...You’ve already met them.”
Before Vace could respond, he took a heavy drink from the alcohol, coughing on the burn in his throat. He took a second, and tried for a third before a metallic hand snatched his wrist. “Fuckin’ greedy,” Vace growled, prying the bottle out of Solane’s grip. Sol glanced at him, seeing the tenseness in his shoulders, and laughed.
“Quit fuckin’ with me,” Vace muttered, taking another sip.
Solane sighed, gripping his knees tight to his chest. “...I’m not.” He could feel Vace’s eyes on him, but didn’t bother looking back. He didn’t look down, either, where he knew the fields of Geoponics would be visible from where they sat on the Heliopause.
“Geranium and… Fluorescent.”
“Oh fuck. The farm fugitives?” Vace asked incredulously.
Solane snorted, letting the laugh ease the tightness in his chest. “Yeah… Yeah. Those are the ones.”
“The fuck is that story?”
Vace’s inability to keep his mouth shut was a blessing, occasionally. Refreshing, at the very least. Everyone in the original colony knew who his parents were. Knew that, seemingly overnight, they went from being a close-knit, happy family unit to not speaking at all. They’d tracked every movement for a while, waiting to see who would be the first to break the silence, to finally bridge the gap. By the raid that destroyed the original colony, few still paid attention. Afterward? Well… There was too much else to do.
“A few weeks after my thirteenth, she sat me down first thing in the morning. Started going off about how she was watching me, and she didn’t like what she saw. About community, and needin’ to fit in. That it wasn’t some fucking holovid, this is real life, and I needed to get my shit together,” Solane stated, bitterness creeping into the words.
“Yeah? You not like the reality check?” Vace asked, and Solane could hear the derisiveness in his voice.
Solane waved a hand at the fields below them. “You know the Vertumna Carrtatos? Our staple food?” Vace nodded, opening his mouth to answer, but Sol didn’t give him the time. “I created that. I spent months in the xenobotany lab working on the math, on the DNA. Running simulations, and watching them fail, and tweaking them, and doing it again. Learning how to alter DNA. Not just theoretically, but how to actually do it. Because nothing else was working. Because my parents came home from the fields every fucking night, whispering back and forth like I couldn’t fucking hear them. About how our earth crops were failing, and we couldn’t domesticate native ones. About how our colony was going to slowly starve. Trying to figure out how much time they had to fix it before they had to tell Eudicot.”
He snatched the bottle from Vace, swirling what little remained before downing it all. “So I fixed it. I sacrificed time I could’ve used for school, or Sportsball, or making friends. I stopped going beyond the wall, stopped learning about what’s out there. So I could save them.” He stood up, wobbling for a moment as his feet settled into the slightly curved surface beneath him. Vace’s metal arm snaked around the back of his calf, around the inside of his knee to dig the fingers into the front of his lower thigh, stabilizing the doctor.
Solane drew his arm back, and hurled the bottle out towards the fields with a snarl. He tilted forward in the follow-through, but the counterpressure provided by Vace’s hand kept him from tumbling over. They both silently watched the glint of the starlight on the bottle as it dropped into darkness, before they heard the shattering of glass on dirt.
“...And a few days later, I turned thirteen.”
“Fuck,” Vace hissed under his breath, refusing to lax his bruising grip.
“I told her she had no fuckin’ clue what she was talking about. That if what I’d already done wasn’t good enough, then nothing I did ever would be. Then I shoved some shit in a bag and left. Haven’t… Haven’t talked to ‘er since,” Solane muttered, swaying gently side to side.
“Geranium tried, a couple times, but… He always said shit like she shouldn’t have said it so harshly, or we needed to talk it out, that she’s under a lot of pressure, or just trying to help me… But never once did he say she was wrong. Or sorry. Just kept trying to convince me with excuses covering her ass, until I stopped listening altogether.”
Solane shook his leg, easing Vace’s grip as he stumbled toward the overhang where they could climb down onto Command’s balcony. He hopped off, realizing a minute too late that he’d overestimated his ability to make a smooth landing, and lurched into the railing, lashing a white-knuckle grip on it as he steadied himself.
Vace’s footsteps approached the edge and a moment later, he dropped down beside Solane. The soldier seemed more steady on his feet. “We should get you back to your apartment,” he muttered, half-turning toward Solane and leaning just slightly into his space.
With a snort, Solane turned towards the stairs. “Walk me proper or stand there and look pretty, but don’t start that herding dog trick with me,” he cautioned as he took the first step down, clutching the railing as his feet shook.
Vace squeezed beside him on the staircase, wrapping his metallic arm around Solane’s waist at the same time his right arm slung the doctor’s own over his shoulders, letting Solane lean into his broader frame.
Walking down the steps took Solane’s full focus, but as they leveled out onto the dirt track, he murmured, “I think she’s been angry her whole life. Always had someone to fight. The adults who failed her, the world governments, the terrors of space… She was a soldier. But when we landed here, she wasn’t anymore, and… And I think maybe, she was still angry anyway. And she decided it was my fault.”
He realized Vace had stopped in front of the door to Dys’s quarters, and Solane wondered how long it had taken him to get that thought out. “It… It wasn’t fair,” he murmured into Vace’s shoulder.
He felt Vace’s words as he quietly murmured back, “It wasn’t.”
The door opened, and Solane beamed a smile at Dys, who seemed barely awake. The scout glanced at Sol’s face and his eyebrows narrowed before his accusatory eyes snapped to Vace, barely-hidden contempt in them. Vace muttered something, but Solane was too tired to hear it now, just swaying to the melody as his two friends conversed quietly, Dys’s posture easing at whatever Vace had to say.
Dys’s arm curled around him then, and Solane felt Vace’s leave. Glancing over his shoulder, he gave a soft smile to the soldier and whispered, “Goodnight, Vace.”
He wasn’t sure if the boy responded as the door shut quietly, and Dys guided Solane towards his bedroom. He was seated on the edge of his bed as Dys undid the laces of his boots just enough to slip them off. The dark-haired boy walked away for a moment and came back with a damp cloth.
“Let’s wipe off your cheeks, alright? Don’t want them crusting over while you sleep,” he said gently, smudging the cloth against Solane’s skin, tracing tear tracks.
“I was crying?” Solane asked, tiredness quickly beginning to sweep him away.
Dys looked up and gave one of his not-really-a-smile smiles. Solane felt a deep appreciation for those smiles in that moment. “I’m sure it was happy crying,” Dys whispered, helping Sol scooch up to the top of the bed.
“Yeah… Yeah, I think so too,” Solane murmured as the blanket covered him, and he drifted away.
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xy-nox · 8 months
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ayo, so like I did myself a search of around ten minutes looking for cosplays from the Exocolonist fandom (what I found was hella epic) but I can’t find anyone who’s cosplayed as sol
I wanna try and make/buy parts for one of their outfits (haven’t decided which but ending cards are included) but can’t find any good clothes to use as bases or patterns I could use to sew the thing myself or even just someone else trying to dress as them so I could see their process
If anyone has anything they think might be useful for their adult, teenage or one of the ending card outfits—e.g: performer, governor, astronaut, engineer, etc— drop a link or a name I can search please!
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(I finished it! Link to a pic of the jacket in this post)
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manaquartz · 1 year
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Legally required Dys meme.
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insomniac-jay · 2 months
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Love how so many of my OCs are just straight up actual entities. They'll just casually talk about ascending to godhood and they've seen The Truth™️ only to never bring it up again or answer any questions.
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camilaemily · 3 months
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Bitcoin has been the only outstanding cryptocurrency that has the ability to hitting $50k soon. We have a new trading technique called the FARM TRADING SYSTEM. Don’t be left out on this great opportunity of trading 💰🪙….
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x-nephophile-x · 7 days
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Vigilant photo-dump because it's a great mod and if you make it a Blood and Gore ride, its an even more terrific time and definitely doesn't make you cry times two but it's okay, it's all an act of love and im not eating drywall over any of it! <3
Bonus Post-Vigilant Sol because she went through it:
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saturngalore · 1 year
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my sunshine baby 🫶🏾🌞
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omanatascha · 1 month
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(via GIPHY)
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lil2noisy · 1 year
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a way out
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pika-bitch-iii · 4 months
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Here have this I Was a Teenage Exocolonist oneshot since I couldn’t get it out of my neurodivergent little brain
MAJOR GAME SPOILERS!
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brainicusrotticus · 2 months
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trying to do a vace run in iwatex and, man…
obsessed with the idea of an empathetic, sarcastic, xeno-loving doctor!sol and a non-sadistic but still deeply troubled and prone to solving emotions with aggression vace slowly falling into dumbassery together. and it changes the world.
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xy-nox · 4 months
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Hello, I saw https://www.tumblr.com/xy-nox/727929825022689280/ayo-so-like-i-did-myself-a-search-of-around-ten this post and I thought that maybe you can find something similar to the last picture from genshin impact cosplayers. The style reminds me of that a lot and some of the elements of the outfit look similar so maybe you can find a base for some of the clothing. I hope this may be helpful and success! Have a nice day/night
thank you for the well wishes and hey, I did end up finishing it! Ty for reminding me genshin exists lol (cosplayers for the game are epic as hell)
This is what I ended up making :D
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manaquartz · 1 year
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Someone should probably save Rex
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insomniac-jay · 1 month
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Decided to play around and make a concept of what Solana would look like as Queen of Helioas
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hirokiyuu · 2 years
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Solana (or Sol) x Dys from I Was A Teenage Exocolonist 2) Swap AU where the main characters have their canonical augments swapped with each other's (like for the entire cast, for example, if Tammy had Marz's shameless augment or Anemone had Tammy's enhanced hearing). Take your time and I hope I don't come off as a bother 😅
They’re not actually holding hands holding hands. Sol’s just got one of his in between both of hers, eyes wide and wondering as she stares down at his scales. “So cool,” she breathes out, a thumb tracing over the edge of one, and Dys can feel his face light up on fire.
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x-nephophile-x · 4 days
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I,,, love her so much actually-
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