This technically isn't a WIP because it's part of something that I've finished, but I'm saving some stuff to post while season 2 is airing because I'll be traveling for the first three weeks of October and won't have much time to draw.
Here's a background from a run cycle animation I made! Took forever to paint these dudes and they're barely visible in the finished thing.
I guess I'm technically the one that created this? I've never seen anything for Sage X Ciel. Anyway.
When they first meet, they have this exciting moment where they realize they're both from the same people group in Vacuo. There just aren't that many of them in Vale + Ciel and Sage's families immigrated to Atlas and Mistral respectively, so they haven't had much of an opportunity to meet people from their homeland besides their families.
I've talked about Ciel's fighting style in a previous post, but my idea for her is that her watch serves as a storage unit of sorts for her weapon: hard light blades. These break pretty frequently, but she essentially has an unlimited supply as long as she's got the dust. I wanted to give her fighting style an element that ties her back to Penny somewhat. She's a dual-wielder because we stan an ambidextrous queen. Ciel wields in an almost dance-like manner. While she does a lot of fancy-pancy flips and twirls (show-off) rest assured they are all well calculated beforehand. Ciel's semblance is simply that her brain is capable of processing information much faster than other people. Her intelligence and rapid-fire strategies make her an irreplaceable member of team CFVY.
While Ciel is light and flexible like her partner Velvet, Sage is the tank of team WRAP. His semblance is time manipulation. He can create glyphs somewhat similar to the Schnee family's semblance, but his are primarily green. Like the Schnees, he can speed up time to give himself an advantage over his normally slower fighting style. He may also slow down the movement of a specific target using glyphs. Both of these techniques consume a lot of his aura, so he can't just use them as freely as Weiss does. For both attacks, he specifically has to charge his aura. When he does this, both the roman numeral symbols on Pilgrim, as well as the tattoos on his neck begin to glow gold, starting at one, and going all the way up to twelve. His time-manipulation attack takes more time to charge, but consumes less aura, while his speed attack has a faster charge, but burns through aura faster.
They're possibly the first couple in this AU of mine to get together. Despite being from different teams, they become fast friends because of what they have in common.
While both Ciel and Sage maintain a stoic professional demeanor, they let out their more playful sides around their teammates and each other.
They do end up dating for a while, since they get together at Beacon. Since we always need to specify who the domestic one is, it's Sage. He likes to cook and clean while his successful wife goes out and kills it, because of course Ciel just HAD to have an office job, even though two huntsman paychecks are more than enough for a high standard of living.
They're just that couple who's ideal date is trying new blends of tea, visiting a museum, or discussing physics and the makeup and chemistry of dust, all the while giggling and linking fingers. Absolute nerdlets.
Our regular dose of enchanting fantasy worlds for your amusement
In the Realm of Eternabloom, time is not measured by the ticking of clocks or the turning of calendars. Instead, it is dictated by the blooming and withering of immense, otherworldly flowers that dot the landscape. These extraordinary blossoms, with petals spanning the size of houses, possess an intrinsic magic that determines the passage of days, seasons, and years.
As one flower begins to…
Does free will exist in your AU? Or it's an illusion and everything is predetermined to happen in certain way? And why do Fluff and Faae seem to have disagreements on this matter?
Free will most certainly does exist. Nothing is flat out predetermined, and there is potential for so many different things to happen. That is actually what Faae looks at the most when viewing the future: potential. She sees what can result from the many paths one can choose, and can see what choices one is most likely to make. What she sees can change if people's choices change.
Meanwhile Fluff is looking over all of time and making sure existence keeps moving forward. She is Evolution, and she makes sure the world as whole can press on. So for an event like Chat Blanc, who wiped out all humanity, she and Bunnyx sent LB to change it. Meanwhile she isn't going to watching interfering with every choice LB makes, even ones that don't end well, like when she gave Felix the Dog Miraculous.
So Fluff and Faae look over different elements of time when it comes to looking to the future. Faae might tell one that they have the potential to marry someone, while Fluff isn't going to care who someone marries unless that marriage leads to like, another world war somehow. Faae works with individuals, while Fluff looks at the world as a whole.