#celeste the summit

[sondrox]

Through Rocks and Snow Ch. 17 - The Summit

FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14146784/17/Through-Rocks-and-Snow

AO3: Through Rocks and Snow - Chapter 17

17. The Summit

Prompt: Rigid

Before that day, Madeline’s relationship with herself, and by extension, with Badeline, has been nothing short of a wretched one.

Now they’ve had made amends, their relationship had become rigidly tense. Tense as in “Meeting a new distant relative” Tense. Still, climbing the mountain had never been more exciting and Madeline has never thought of herself as more capable than ever.

Trees, undergrowth and sky grew in abundances as they reached the surface. Madeline and Badeline were climbing their way out of the caves just as fast as they have fallen.

In a moment of catharsis, both person and reflection spun into one being. With the determination of Madeline and the power of Badeline, time froze for a second as Badeline launched Madeline through the skies. Everything around around became a blur of snow, sky and sunset where Madeline floated despite the unparallel speed she climbed with.

The moment she reached the forsaken city, Madeline noted something different on the place.

The buildings lit bright and sunlight shone through the window frames and what little broken glass remained attached alike.

The once suffocating sensation of space became as old as the buildings Madeline now traveled through running with the chill wind hitting her face and her pink fluttering free as her.

Did the city change or had Madeline changed instead?

Not so long ago, change may have been the scariest thing for Madeline whereas now excitement and adrenaline rushed through her blood for her and Badeline to spring once more into the sky with the power of the mountain.

Even with her newfound vigor, Madeline couldn’t help but feel uneasy at the place she met the other part of herself, even if her relationship with literally herself was in a whole ‘nother world in comparison, the red-haired girl couldn’t shake the feeling of their lukewarm first encounter they had.

She noticed Badeline also carried mixed feelings in one of their breaks when Madeline had to rest and figure where to go. The person turned to her reflection reluctant. She could feel Badeline stare on the back of her head burning; Just like she felt on the city behind them.

“You’re thinking about too, right?”

Badeline pressed her lips together in a curved line and shied her eyes away from Madeline into the giant view of an once great city. “I just don’t know how to feel. I always thought we would be nothing more than enemies or allies at best, always trying to control everything about the other. Is so…complicated to put all that in words.”

“You don’t need to.”

Madeline’s word pulled Badeline out of her head, startling her as if she had just woken up from a bad dream.

Madeline smiled with smiled with shame and a tad of laughter seeing the same confusion and empty headedness that plagued herself since forever. “You don’t need to explain. I feel the same.”

Badeline opened her mouth but no words came out. Her breath stopped midway before shame invaded her and her lips pressed together in a twisted S form. “I’m sorry,” She whimpered with half closed eyes filled with tears on the edge.

“I know and it’s okay.” Madeline opened her arms wide.

“Are you seriously asking for a hug right now?” She asked between small coughs trying to contain her cry.

“I’m trying to do something nice for us.” Madeline’s tone grew irritated. Slowly but surely, Badeline accepted the hug. They stayed in that position until Badeline’s breathing soothed.

After a while they arrived to the backdoor of the celestial resort, expecting to find Oshiro as soon as they put a foot in. The storage room they entered was surprisingly clean of dust and webs.

“I remember this place in a lot worse shape,” Badeline said to the air as she idly grabbed a bag of food for birds with disinterest.

“Badeline.”

“What? Is true. That old weirdo forced you to do his job. It would not be the first time.”

“He needed help.”

“You needed help. Help I tried to give you, by the way, and you ignored me for the umpteenth time.”

“This time was dif–“

“This time was no different than all those times you ignored what was best for you.” Badeline teleported behind Madeline and grabbed her by her shoulders to turn her to the nearest exit. “Please.”

The new, cleaner and far more spacious Celestial Resort allowed person and reflection to get out of the large storage room in a matter of minutes, and before they knew it, the vast and colorful scenery of the golden and purple ridge filled their eyes. As soon as Madeline exposed to open air, wind fluttered against her hair and the cold breeze froze her red cheeks.

“This place was always this quiet?” Badeline asked upon materializing above Madeline.

“Er, sort of. I suppose that’s why I went here after…”

“Yeah,” She said irritated.

“Yeah,” She said ashamed.

“What is it with you running away like that whenever trouble appear”

“Were you not the cause of those impulsive ticks?”

Badeline stopped her “walk” mid-air. “Hey, don’t throw me under the bus like that.” She growled with her nose and some cold air could be seen coming out. “If anything, I was the one who learned that from YOU after you…kicked me out.”

“Sorry about that again.”

“Don’t care, didn’t ask.”

Madeline couldn’t help but notice the wind in the ridge blew stronger than last time. She soon became aware if it wasn’t for Badeline, she wouldn’t have made it to the Mirror Temple.

The once dark lit temple now was illuminated in almost every surface and corner. Madeline stopped to contemplate the temple, now in all of its magnific. “This is all my doing?” She asked to the large space in the room.

“This WAS your doing,” Badeline rectified. “I told you, the temple reflects your mind, but you didn’t listen to me, as usual.”

“Okay, okay, no need to gloat about it, what do we do now?”

“Miss problems asking for help? I thought I’d never live to see this day.”

“Don’t jinx about it,” Madeline poorly mimicked Badeline’s voice being done with it all.

“Okay, okay. Just listen to me and keep your mind calm.”

And so she did after Badeline returned to Madeline and her hair turned pink again. All she had to do was listen to her instincts and everything would be okay as her reward.

The full weight of her journey fell upon her head when she realized she had climbed what took her two—almost three days—in a couple of hours.

Strong and aggressive breezes of wind hit her body. They threatened to freeze her bones and hindered her every move rigid and tense. Madeline knew she could fly away if she was not careful.

Amidst the excitement and joy inflating her chest, Madeline couldn’t shake the feeling of shame. How much else could have she gained and achieved from the beginning, only if she had not been so messed up.

Madeline would always wonder about the “what ifs” and “coulds”, “woulds”, and of course, the “only ifs” alike. How could she not? What laid inside her had been the reason she almost gave up and now it was that very same thing the reason she was achieving her goal.

Right there, in the verge of reaching the summit, how could she forget?

She could not. She would not.

Not as an intrusive thought as before, but as a willful reminder.

And what a willful, cherishable reminder she’d have as her steps in the chill snow reached the red flag at the very top of the summit. Madeline could catch the sunset hiding in the horizon painting her skin in a dim orange tone and witness the view of her whole journey since she started at the very same drive that almost stopped her.

#celeste game #celeste game fanfiction #celeste madeline #celeste badeline #celeste the summit #fanfiction

[gears2gnomes]

AGDQ 2024 - Celeste

"The summit."

#gdq #agdq #agdq2024 #gamesdonequick #Celeste #Madeline #mountain #snow #summit #dawn #illustration

[exophreak]

i need to get into posting art here damn we love and appreciate the Badeline :]

#Exoart #Celeste #Badeline #fanart #artists on tumblr #i feel pretentious putting that one #she's in one of those summit bubbles #pixel art

[pottletheidiot]

this idiot girl finally beat 7B woooo

#i love celeste #celeste #celeste game #summit celeste

[craniumknight]

the climactic scene from celeste !!

#===[ #◎ #▤ #◮ #]=== #craniumknight art #[2021] #celeste #celeste game #celeste art #trans rights #summit #celeste chapter 7 #madeline #badeline

[selfindulgentsillinessbracket]

SELF INDULGENT SILLY BRACKET

Group 5 - Round 1

No I didn't make a lore error, Madelines' last name IS Spaghetti because she IS Peppino's niece bc Peppino is her uncle & that is canon & I refuse to accept that it isn't canon. It's canon that is that. Also CANONICALLY Madeline & Hat Kid are very close & they hang out every second they can together & Hat Kid is like an adopted niece to Peppino & he loves & supports them both.

Remember to tag this blog in any propaganda posts so that I can see it. Also you can send in propaganda through my asks.

#self indulgent silly #self indulgent silly propaganda #self indulgent silly summit #self indulgent silly bracket #swag summit #tumblr bracket #tournament #character bracket #bracket #voting poll #va11halla #anna graem #hat kid #celeste #madeline celeste #a hat in time #indie games #trans #lgbtq #trans rights #peppino pizza tower #the sillies #the silly #theyre so silly #so silly #autism #adhd #va11ha11a #trans pride #fuck transphobes

[megahorous]

Peppino taking on every boss at once [at the end] is kinda like how in Celeste [in the last stage] she climbs up the entire mountain from the bottom

They both found the power within themselves

#Pizza Tower #Peppino Spaghetti #Celeste #Madeline #boss rush #summit #level up #anxiety

[greendog3]

celeste ost save me. save me celeste ost.

#celeste #looping reach for the summit rn #it's so good

[cowboy-in-training]

summit

#my posts #cowboy-in-training #myart #my art #art #artists on tumblr #reblogs appreciated! #feel free to share #celeste #the summit from celeste

[latetothegames]

#sound #spectrogram #video game music #celeste #ost #reach for the summit #half audio full spectrogram because this song is over ELEVEN minutes long

[goldiipond]

ogh i want to do voice acting again

#skye's ramblings #did it for celeste it was really fun. ithink the last time i va'd an entire game was playing de/tarune w my friends when it came out #i want to share my voice acting stuff but i have no way to record it without the audio sounding shitty i think. sad!!! #its very much a hobby i dont think im amazing at it or anything but like. i still want the quality to be good </3 #wish i had the ability to stream games just to do voice acting and as an excuse to hang out w friends. ive been so lonely recently #also back to celeste that was my second ever full playthrough n i got all berries w only 607 deaths be proud of me #my death count the first time was around 2000 ithink so. improvement!! #also half my deaths on both playthroughs were on the summit some of those berries fucking hate me. also 2000m gem my beloathed

[kordenmainen]

Just spent 3 whole hours on Summit B-Side.

3 years have been taken off my life.

#celeste #summit #mountain climbing is significantly more difficult that i thought it would be #like holy shit #those corner jumps

[patricia-taxxon]

idk if ur still playing celeste but I think u do make some rlly good points abt sj.

First off I absolutely agree abt the maps in general being less memorable, but I would say that sj in general is more polished (sometimes to the point of it being sanded down into nothing), and generally doesnt have bad levels like sc had bad levels.

That being said, I found that the gm lobby in general is phenomenal, as it's the place in which mappers did not have to water down their creativity. Do u intend on playing red/cracked maps? I find a lot of them have rlly cool ideas that are executed well.

I do find it rlly annoying that sj has become *the* celeste mod ppl rec when it rlly is just a good mod with a big scope. There's also half a million nitpicks w sj's design but I will not get into them as asks have a character limit :'3

Also I am rlly sorry abt clord we are generally rlly nice ppl but trans woman on the internet moment.

Yeah, I could tell that it was getting a lot better at high expert & gm. I have a sneaky theory that difficulty at that level is kind of a design blunder no matter what, so you're forced to lean into it and make it interesting on purpose. going through the expert lobby in ascending difficulty was like watching a flower bloom, every green expert map just instantly left my mind as soon as I completed it but many of the reds were super weird or at least memorably jank & i found two of my favorite maps of the bunch in that range, fortress fall and summit down-side. upward trend seemed to be continuing for gm, i loved loved loved flipside cliffside.

everyone wanted me to play shattersong but i left such a bad impression on that community that its mapper said she'd disregard anything good i said about it, like i dunno how to engage with this space in a way that doesn't make me feel like shit. some of that old desire to grind is starting to come back though, who knows.

#cilantromixture #patricia taxxon ask

[amavaria]

The summit

Been meaning to draw fanart of Celeste for ages, this game very quickly became one of my favorites ever. It means so much to me.

#celeste #madeline #madeline celeste #badeline #I’m so glad this game exists #celeste game

[me-and-my-son-dingus]

The dialogue from Celeste's Summit

#celeste #celeste game #video games #hits every time #soft feels #my post

[twocubes]

eventually i will beat celeste summit b-side. this is an inevitable thing