Another thing I want to add about this post just because I’m thinking about it, I think Lunar has a hard time getting along with Sun due to his trauma with Eclipse. I mean, we’ve already seen it at play during Sun’s whole “murder” rampage, it’s not super far fetched.
I’m not blaming Sun for this. This is 100% Eclipse’s fault, another thing he did that just put Sun in a hard spot. This isn’t me saying Sun and Lunar don’t get along or are bad brothers, this is me saying Eclipse did irreparable damage to Lunar while in Sun’s body. Lunar probably has a hard time looking at Sun without remembering the times around October.
@socksandbuttons has a post that I think shows this really well, where Sun uses his glow feature at one point after October happens and it triggers Lunar into a panic attack (I can’t seem to find the post so I apologize for the @). Lunar sometimes probably has a hard time looking at Sun without seeing Eclipse, and simply keeps his distance to keep himself safe. I’m not sure how much this theory is going to hold up in newer episodes, but it did seem possible in earlier episodes. I say it could hold up since we haven’t seen Lunar visit Nice Eclipse yet, and they were close before Lunar’s death.
Speaking of Good Eclipse, I feel like Lunar was able to bond with him more than they were able to bond with Sun because Sun’s body used to be Eclipse’s as well. Nice Eclipse may have looked like Eclipse, but Sun had the physical body, if that makes since. Plus, we know Eclipse didn’t always use the glow feature. There were times where he looked exactly like Sun. One of Lunar and Eclipse’s bigger fights happened while Eclipse wasn’t using the glow feature. The fight happened over the glow feature! Lunar has trauma of being hit by Eclipse who looked exactly like Sun at the time.
The irony of their currently situation, though, is that Sun is probably the person Lunar needs to talk to the most. If Sun could open up and they both talked through things, they might realize they both have similarities. Both have dealt with abusive brothers, near death or actual death experiences, and are currently dealing with the loss of a brother. Even though there were moments where Moon was abusive to Sun, we all know Sun still loved him. There are clear signs of grief, even though Moon isn’t technically dead. There was still a loss, and Sun is feeling that. He was heavily hurt by Moon during the beginning of their relationship, even during parts of the show, but that was his brother. Sun doesn’t miss getting hurt, but he misses the shared memories. We can see that he get frustrated sometimes when he has to explain things to Moon. He knows Moon doesn’t know most things that happened in the past year, but he still remembers Moon being there. That Moon is no longer here.
I think, even though Eclipse was abusive, Lunar still loved him. He was still his brother, in some small way. Lunar wants to hate him so much but there’s some small part of him who still wants to love him and that hurts. That tends to be the problem when it comes to abusive family. You are supposed to love this person but they are hurting you so bad and those feelings sometimes get muddled and so confusing. Lunar probably isn’t feeling nothing, he’s probably feeling everything. It’s just too hard to pick apart what he’s feeling, so he feels numb in the sense that he has no idea what he’s actually feeling. We can see that he’s obviously feeling emotions by the way he’s reacting to everyday things. His brain just can’t figure out what that feeling is. Instead of that depressive kind of numb where you want to lay in bed all day, Lunar seems more manic. He’s reactive, easily angered, borderline hysterics at moments.
Every single person in this family needs extensive therapy. No, this is not excluding Earth, she needs it to. Sun needs help with his avoidance tendencies, Moon needs help with his self hatred, Earth needs help with her self worth, and Lunar needs help figuring out his emotions. Sun and Lunar need time to grieve, both for Moon and Lunar also for Eclipse. It’s okay to grieve for what could have been, especially in Sun’s case where he almost had that. I just wish they would talk with each other so they wouldn’t feel so alone.
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It only felt appropriate to draw the man himself today :]
I unfortunately am in Europe, but I hope everybody that saw the eclipse had a wonderful viewing!
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