#rigtel

[faemytho]

it was @thegreatyin's birthday yesterday and i missed it, SO happy belated birthday to him!! rigel and betel are the qpps of all time uwu

#my art #im ngl i REALLY enjoyed drawing betel. their body hair and scars and everything was just. mwah. #apf #rigel apf #betelgeuse apf #rigtel

[thegreatyin]

the difference between rigtel and paifar as blue/orange couples is that paifar would be a stable steven universe fusion. full garnet situation. two gay men stacked on top of each other. meanwhile rigtel would conceptually be a stable steven universe fusion but in practice they'd actually fall apart at the first sign of emotional instability from either party

#both halves of rigtel are codependent and emotional. one would panic and the other would fall apart panicking too #meanwhile both halves of paifar would simply function together as a couple. do you get me #yin-thoughts #above #apf #opal. the rigtel fusion is opal.

[thegreatyin]

is betelgeuse named after beetlejuice

i get the misconception, but nope! every apf monarch is named after a star!

in betel and rigel's cases, they're both halves of the orion's belt- with rigel additionally being the 7th brightest star in the entire sky (betel is the 10th!).

in addition, betelgeuse (the star, not the very beloved oc of mine) is known as alpha orionis, while rigel is known as beta orionis. rigel is usually the brighter of the two, but in rare cases betelgeuse can outshine it- such was the case when the stars were first recorded, hence their names.

(◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。rigtel are the orion duo. even their names give away how close they are.

#the only oc of mine that can be legally classified as beetlejuice is urael #who has it all. the suit. the energy. the voice. betel however would look FABULOUS in a beetlejuice suit and i support that wholeheartedly #ask #apf #unprompted asks about my ocs are my favorite thing ever ty anon #all the monarchs (and above demons + angels!) have reasons for their names to some extent. some more clear than others

[faemytho]

! "You are my home." with betel and rigel?

yessss the stupit idiots!!! the married qp gays, thank u i adore them!!

(Prompt List)

Betel, Rigel, and APF // @thegreatyin

"You are my home."

Betelgeuse blinked their eyes open, the whispered confession hovering over them. Rigel didn't seem to realize they were awake, simply cuddling closer and continuing with his whispers.

"Before you, I never thought I'd even find a home," The Star whispered, his voice so raw and awed that Betel's eyes suddenly felt damp and hot. "Meeting you, it was like... It was like I hadn't ever really been living before. It was like waking up. It was like flying in the clouds for the first time in forever."

Betel choked on their breath, suddenly finding it hard to breathe, and Rigel immediately stopped, shifting to sit up and lean over them, panic filling his voice.

"Betel? Are you okay?" He asked, so worried and so suddenly frantic it made them laugh through their tears.

"Angels, my angel, you're so sappy," they gasped through their laughter and their tears, looking up at their husband, their husband, whose teal eyes began to fill with relief.

"Well what else am I supposed to be?" He cried in lighthearted, laughing protest, cupping their face and wiping their tears away. "I love you, of course I'm going to say something about it."

"Rye, I was asleep, I wasn't even going to hear any of it," Betel laughed, and their stupidly adorable husband only looked confused.

"And? I still love you."

And somehow, that simple reply brought them to tears again. They shook their head in disbelief, and Rigel's gentle palms squished their cheeks again.

"You are still my home, whether you're around to hear it not. You are my home, Bet."

"You're my home too," they whispered, their voice thick with tears again. Rigel smiled at them, wiping their tears with his thumbs and gently nuzzling his forehead against theirs. His version of a kiss. Their version of a kiss.

"I love you, Rye," Betel murmured softly, and Rigel smiled down at them.

"I love you too, Bet."

#apf #rigel apf #betelgeuse apf #rigtel #my writing #drabbles #mae writes apf

[thegreatyin]

i cherish them so much

#yin art #apf #rigtel #my dearly beloved...

[faemytho]

:gun emoji:

rigtel, either panic attack or nightmares, bthb. ùwú love u too

Prompt: Nightmares

Ship: Betelgeuse/Rigel

Word Count: 666

Fandom: APF // @thegreatyin

u did this not me

(check out this post to see what y'all can request!)

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"Why would I?"

The three words knocked the air from their chest, sinking and digging deep into the bleeding, festering wound that had been torn open long ago by their own anxiety. The Star, The Monarch looked at them, his eyes cold, the familiar dark blue no longer welcoming and warm.

Betel couldn't breathe.

"I'm so tired of wasting time with you. You know by now that I wasn't ever really serious about you, right? Or are you as stupid as I thought?" The words were sneered in his ever beautiful voice, and somehow, even while tearing their heart into pieces, Rigel managed to make even that sentence sound breathtaking.

Their mouth wouldn't move. They were frozen, stuck, unable to do anything but let their eyes well up with tears.

"Did you really think I ever loved you at all?" Rigel scoffed, turning away. "That's fucking pathetic."

Dark teal feathers bobbed above the ground, and their partner walked away. Their voice built up in their throat, and they finally found their mouth unstuck.

"Wait, Rigel, please-" they babbled desperately, but Rigel kept walking. "Rigel please don't leave, I'm sorry! Don't leave me alone, Rigel, don't leave me alone again, please!"

But he didn't hear them. He walked away into the trees, letting them call after him, helpless and stuck and desperate.

As soon as the last teal feather was out of sight, they found their feet unstuck, and they rushed forward into the trees. Their next step dropped out from underneath them, and they fell, plunging into the ocean.

They were freezing, sinking, the weight of their feathers dragging them down. They flung their arms out, but their magic sputtered and died. The ocean, water was their domain, and yet they couldn't save themself.

Nobody was coming to save them.

They were alone.

They opened their mouth to scream, and water rushed in.

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Betel sat up, gasping for air and nearly knocking heads with the person who had been kneeling over them. Dimly, they realized they were sobbing, their chest heaving for air and tears falling in rivulets down their cheeks.

"Hey, Bet, hey it's okay, I've got you, you're okay-"

Rigel knelt by their side, concern in his deep teal eyes and his beautiful rich voice. They looked up at him, blotchy heat stinging at their eyes and their lips twisted up in heavy anguish. How could they ever compare to him? What could he possibly see in them?

All their thoughts tumbled up their throat, begging to be voiced, but they didn't say anything. Rigel's own face twisted in concern, upset because they were, and another ugly thought pushed itself behind their eyes. Rigel was in pain because they were in pain, and it was all their fault, why couldn't they do anything right?

He hugged them, and they slumped against him, another round of tears gathering in their eyes.

"I've got you, Bet, I've got you," Rigel cooed softly, in that strange, lilting, singing way he sometimes did. It was oddly soothing, and they buried their tear streaked face in his shoulder and cried. "You fell asleep with your binder on, I managed to unlace it but you were thrashing around, I thought you were… you scared me, Bet."

"'m sorry," they muttered, voice still thick with tears, and Rigel's hand came up to bury fingers in their fiery orange hair, pulling them closer and calming them. "Had a nightmare."

"… Do you want to talk about it?"

Betel froze. What if their nightmare was right? What if, when they asked him, he laughed and dropped them and abandoned them?

Their heart twisted in their chest. They couldn't bear to lose Rigel today. They'd rather live ignorant and blissful than face rejection.

So they shook their head, and kept their mouth shut. Rigel held them close, nuzzling his face into their hair and folding his beautiful, soft, warm teal feathers around them both.

And for a second, they could believe everything was okay.

#apf #betelgeuse apf #rigel apf #rigtel #my writing #drabbles #bthb #mae writes apf

[thegreatyin]

ship dynamic: one of them doubts that the other actually loves them while 99% of the other's thoughts are just "man, i adore my datemate"

#yin-thoughts #rigtel

[thegreatyin]

Which OC/s make you think of yourself the most?

I kind of want to ask which oc is the most likely to kill someone too, but recalling recent fics? I think I might know the answer

ur right. it's canis*

*it's not actually canis. it's reguel. and also a tie between caeru and greylu

ANYWAY betel occasionally hits a little close to home BUT if you want a more goofy answer, rigel

#ask #rigtel... #love wins

[thegreatyin]

alright enough cookie run posting. back to your regularly scheduled posting about my ocs that absolutely nobody followed nor asked me for

#my writing #apf #today on the ao3 we have *spins wheel* *wheel breaks* *looks at the wreckage and squints* sad birds aka rigtel hurt/comfort #huh. diversity win! your ryebread has ptsd!

[thegreatyin]

get you a little man that you found alone and half-feral singing in the woods. get you a little man that tries to swallow an unpeeled orange whole because he forgot how people usually eat food. get you a little man that clings to you and chirps in a language you don't comprehend but you think it's the first handful of genuine compliments you've received in years. get you a little man that mimics your voice perfectly and one of the first full real sentences he says is about how much you matter to him. get you a little man who's stupid but like in a cute way

#apf #rigtel callout post #yin-thoughts #early days of arboret society is so fun. legitimately just two birds. both stupid. one with no comprehension of how to function. #the other the same except he also doesn't know how to sleep in a way that doesnt involve clinging to betel like a lifeline #(he still kinda doesn't) #anyway orion duo So Soft more at 11

[thegreatyin]

things that are rigel songs that probably shouldn't be rigel songs:

-until dawn fansong

-aldeba's voiceclaim??

-dear wormwood

-a mother mother song

-feeling good michael buble

#yin-thoughts #apf #honorable mention goes to evelyn evelyn and love like you. for rigtel

[thegreatyin]

not to be dramatic but like,,, close platonic relationships are allowed to exist bro. it's not all just romantic bro. being extremely close doesn't inherently mean you wanna kiss someone and do romance with them bro. bro,,,

#yin-thoughts #i cant wait for apf to be quote-unquote popular (if that ever occurs) so i can watch people think rigtel is romantic and get physical pain

[thegreatyin]

things we as a society desperately need more of:

-qpr relationship prompts

#yin-thoughts #it is CRIMINAL that i cant write about rigtel because there's like. absolutely no platonic otp prompts out there

[thegreatyin]

rigtel is actually just a pretty bird and a lonely fellow bird they found in the trash and decided to adopt but who is the bird and who is the trash dweller? yes

#yin-thoughts #rigel found an angy urchin and went 'i adore you' #betel found an emo hermit and went 'you're fucking stupid im going to hold you so gently' #apf

[thegreatyin]

sending u rigel for the listing ask meme bc i know u have answers for all those questions ready to go specifically for him /j /t

you know me so well

also these are still open im just slow

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favorite thing about them: he's so scrunkle and complicated and stupid i want to kiss his cheeks

least favorite thing about them: he's absolutely ATROCIOUS in every single aspect. he's horrible. he's ableist. he's canonically a great kisser. he has no fashion sense. he's white. he's [redacted]. he exists. h

favorite line: have you seen the entirety of his speech to fomal at the end of ornithology? no? you should it's so good. "before you were even thought of, before stars fell and kingdoms rose" is such a banger of a line i can't believe i wrote it

brOTP: rigtel but it's an otp actually

OTP: for legal reasons it's also rigtel but if you ask me? rigelhaut

hOTP: i don't actually have any ships i Truly dislike so im just gonna casually replace this section with hateships. anyway, rigdacted and riglie

random headcanon: he drinks recreationally and was only seen drunk once at a party in 450 AB. he spent the entire thing clinging to betel and sobbing about how much he adores them. he's since drinked way more than ever before and yet has never been seen intoxicated since. scientists want to study him in a controlled environment

unpopular opinion: he deserves to be roughed up a little actually. feathers plucked, even. like a chicken

song i associate with them: OH BOY SO we got saint bernard (lincoln vlogs), dear wormwood (the oh hellos), curses (the crane wives), goodbye to a world (porter robinson), home (cavetown), i can go on all day

favorite picture of them: this doodle i made bc it's so very cute

#ask #apf #technically #yin art #bc there's art in it

[thegreatyin]

hey. Hey. rigtel. "I'll be here until all the stars fall out of the sky. And even then, I'd never leave you behind."

okay first of all, fuck you,

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"I'll be here until all the stars fall out of the sky, okay? And even then, I'd never leave you behind."

Stars. Falling.

Rigel took a shuddering breath, staring down at his hands, clutched in Betel's own. "Promise?"

They laughed, light and sweet, music to his ears. "Of course I promise. I love you, dumbass."

The insult made his heart soar. Skies, maybe he really was a dumbass.

"...then I won't leave you, okay?" he whispered, bringing a hand up to brush against their cheek. "I'll stay with you until the clouds dry up. Until the universe fades into nothing."

Betel hesitated, biting their lip, and he tugged them forward to hug them close to his chest. "Listen to me. I love you too. Okay?"

His shadow swallowed, trying to ignore the doubt welling up in the back of their mind. "Okay."

#ask #apf #my writing #short and sweet(?)