Captain K. P. Hob x Delloso de la Rue (Hobrue) - Dimension 20, season 15: A Court of Fey and Flowers
Starts out as a star-crossed, Beauty-and-the-Beast-style romance between a very animalistic, awkwardly formal, military man—well, goblin (Captain Hob) and a very elfen-esque Master of Ceremonies (Rue), who’s busy with the job of hosting the huge, politically important party they just put together, and is also technically a member of another royal court. SPOILERS: Turns out Rue is an owlbear under their glamour, aka just as massive and animalistic as Hob. Both of them really love the other’s body specifically because it looks like theirs rather than fitting in with the traditional fey standards of beauty, so they’re lowkey serving t4t-vibes, despite existing in a setting where there are zero social expectations around gender. Technically they’d be a monster x monster pairing no matter what, as they’re both fey, but the fact that they both stick out even among the extreme visual variety of the fey people, and very much feel the weight of that exclusion, really makes them a monster x monster pairing in spirit too.
SkekGra X UrGoh (GraGoh) - The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance
They literally are each other's halves. No really. They used to b a whole being named GraGoh and split as two separate beings and now want to be joined into one again. So in the meantime they live together like an old married couple. Bickering and trolling, taking drugs, with the same passion for theatre and puppetry, going against their species' philosophies to be joined again (SkekGra is the only Skeksis in the whole franchise to have redeemed himself and live like an UrRu alongside UrGoh and was banished for that, and said Urgoh does not exactly follows the Mystic way either). They even have a rock gollem son. They long for each other and seem to want to hug and their one goal is to essentially hug further forever
Guess what movie I watched and loved and watched again and loved even more and then binged the prequel series of and then watched again wiser and more knowledgeable and completely obsessed within the span of like a week?
I literally cannot believe that I never saw The Dark Crystal growing up (although I am certain it would have traumatized me)! The film and the series give me such a strange and striking feeling of nostalgia, even though I’ve only just seen them for the first time! It’s so rich in inspiration and imagination I can tell I’m going to be thinking about it for the rest of my life.
Here’s my telling of the backstories of the Heretic & Wanderer. Thank you @fenth-eiria @blaubug @noriretherford for allowing me to use your art in some of the images!
The Archer and Hunter seeing through each others eyes
I like to personally headcanon that this is bc they've interacted so much more than the other skeksis and mystics have with each other, so they're closer in a way.
Additionally I like to think that the reason skekGra and UrGoh don't seem to do this is because they've spent so much longer with each other, they've actually surpassed this connection, so they don't even notice it anymore.
Hey folks -- since the next chapters in the two major Dark Crystal stories I’ve got going are still, ahem, delayed, please enjoy this first offering of a chain of related drabbles/draft excerpts I’ll be posting over at AOOO in their stead. Lots and lots of our favorite Desert Hippies, *mostly* in their pre-hippie stages.