[hiraeth + hound]

for the solar eclipse happening right now in the US! (posting this as its in maximum view from where i live! got some pretty awesome pictures)
had to purchase another new tablet pen so excuse that this was done w a mouse v quickly

username: D.J.D Vos
name: HG A Mimicry of Nox//Nox
gender: Stallion
eye color: solar bleached
(left eye = cataracts, bleached from staring at a solar eclipse. cannot see almost at all from this eye!
right eye = dark brown)
phenotype: sooty buckskin
genotype: Aa/EE/nCr/StySty
breeding notes:
solar eclipse face mark must pass to all immediate offspring
bleached eye will not pass
will always pass black pigment + sooty foals

[gremlin]

username: castiel
name: SHe who flew too close to the sun// Icarus
gender: Mare




A few days into her life, the sky went dark. She stared in awe, the sky’s halo captivating her. Icarus was born a few weeks before the total eclipse of 2009. On the fateful day she gazed up at the halo, the white light gracing her eyes, a small soreness taking over. Her eyes watered as she continued to gaze upon pandora’s box in the sky. The sun was Medusa, hiding behind a veil to trick unknowing heroes into looking into her eyes. The moon moved slowly to reveal the burning light of the heavens. Icarus continued staring at the light, it captivated her, nothing so beautiful could possibly hurt her. Dancing shapes crossed her eyes, turning bright blue shifting to brown, purple, and finally white. The pain became too great as the sun burned her retinas. She turned and faced the ground, rubbing her head against her legs. Her sore eyes burning, as the shadows of the sun still remained stained through her eyelids. She rolled around blindly, screeching in agony. She decided the pain and the shadows would go away . And soon they faded. They no longer danced in her open eyes, they only appeared when she closed her eyes. Over the next days, a small blur circled the exterior of her eye. The other eye became darker. The colors of the world blurred like an impressionist painting. but much like the shadows, she thought perhaps it would leave her. As days became weeks, the blur turned black. Her eye had only a small portion of clear sight, the other totally black. She bumped into fences, and became paranoid in her stall. If she narrowed her eye, she could see clearly out of her bad eye. She began to grow angry with the higher powers that had cursed her to see from a ring of darkness. Her anger pooled into rage, spreading through her body, the sun was a cruel master, she despised it for it’s trickery and evil. At night she could see naught but black, when the sun returned, only then could she see. The very thing that had made her like this, was the thing that allowed her to see. What cruel irony. She could not see behind her, loud noises from anywhere would prompt a flare up. She became known as Icarus, the one who flew too close to the sun. The child of her curiosity, this ring of black surrounding her world. Her small, small world, made this way due to a child’s mistake. She grew to hate herself as much as she hated the sun and all it’s cruelty. She saw no beauty, not anymore. A child came to the barn, soft spoken and agile. The child came up to her stall and whispered. For the first time, Icarus wasn’t scared, she wasn’t angry, she turned slowly to listen to the child. Her blindness caused her world to become based on sounds, her ears too sensitive for the loud cadence of most children, but this child was quiet, mindful of Icarus’ issues, probably unknowingly. Icarus lifted her head to sniff the young boy, he smelled of lavender and roses, with undertones of dirt. There was nothing overly commercial on him, no strong chemicals. He reached out and touched her nose gently, slowly petting her head. He was clearly short, as she could feel his arm shaking to reach her, she lowered her head slightly, and felt his arm relax.



halter color: Brown with wings

[ExVenor]

username: Half Tree
name: Rynver
gender: Stallion
story: It happened about a week after he was born, when he was still a little wonky on balance. He played with the other foals for a while but got frustrated when he couldn't keep up. So eventually he flopped over in the tall grass of the field while his mother ate nearby. She would come by every few minutes and try to get him back to his feet, but he was a stubborn little one and wouldn't oblige.
He had been sleeping soundly when uttered gasps from humans and the uneasy shifting of his mother disturbed him. He opened his eyes to be met with his mothers tail hanging over his head. He snorted when some strands poked at his nostrils and tried to shake the hair away from him so he could see what was happening. When his mother wouldn't move he squealed in frustration and yanked on her tail as best he could from his prone position. She let out a startled sound of her own having not expected the assault. She lunges forward away from him before turning to face the little hellion with ears flat. He gives her an innocent look and she turns back to watching the humans but a foot away this time so he couldn't reach her unless he decided to finally get up.
While his mother is distracted by the humans acting oddly, he notices what they have been looking at. The sun has a bite taken out of it. Or at least that Is what his young brain assumes at first. He looks over at the people again wearing dark things over their eyes but his gaze is again drawn to the sun. The darkness has moved a tiny bit since his last glance so his determined little self decides to watch it closer to see if it moves again.
He manages about 20 seconds of constant staring before his mother walks in front of his view. He blinks hard and makes a startled sound at the vibrant colours obscuring his vision now that he couldn't see the sun. His mother goes to him worried and he shakes his head madly trying to get rid of the shifting blotches. His mother's fussing over his odd behaviour just annoys him more though and he turns back to his stubborn streak pretending nothing is amiss. She doesn't believe him but stays hovering around his sleeping spot adamantly. He chooses to ignore her until he has to stand to eat, which proves to be more difficult than usual since he can't see out of his right eye. She notices his struggle to nurse like usual and does her best to stand still and make encouraging noises.
After a few days of this struggle he gets a bit more used to not being able to see out of the one eye. He was lucky he had been laying down and also that anatomy puts his other eye out of the way or he could have been fully blinded. When he kept startling at anything moving suddenly on his bad side people started to notice the creamy quality creeping in and called the vet.
halter color: Surprise. c:

Yesss.

[OutdatedBoombox]

username: D.J.D Vos
name: HG A Mimicry of Nox//Nox
gender: Stallion
story: He was young. Young and foolish and full of bravado. He thought he was completely and wholly invincible. Nox was a handsome yearling colt when it happened, stubborn and always trying to impress the lovely fillies and colts just across the path with his antics. He had spent that day alone in his pasture, posing for the only other yearling out in the pastures at the time. The other, a filly named Sacrilege, was unimpressed by his attempts to woo her and ignored the colt's behaviors for the most part. Sacrilege's attention was turned elsewhere, at the sky where the moon crept towards the sun. Midday. The moon shouldn't have been out at midday. Nox followed the filly's gaze and perked his ears up curiously. He was entranced, it was so bright, even as the sky and land around them darkened. He turned his head to watch it with one eye, unable to tear himself away. He didn't even notice when Sacrilege turned away to hide her eyes from the light. He thought that maybe, if he watched it long enough, the other yearling would be impressed. Would pay attention to him. Would say that he had defeated the strange phenomenon that was occurring.

He squinted, snorting, refusing to turn his gaze away even when bright white spots started to appear in his vision. The colt refused to give in until it was over, until the sun's light illuminated the world around him again. When that finally happened, Nox could feel his eye burning. He turned towards the black pinto filly in the other pasture, expecting to be complimented and paid attention to. He was met with a look of distaste and a sharply hissed, "Idiot."

Nox was confused. Had he not stood up to the darkness in the sky? Had he not scared it away? Disappointment and shame filled him for days, even as worry about his now-painful eye grew within him. The white spots in his line of vision didn't go away after it was over, if anything, they grew. His formerly dark chocolate eye was burned and faded and clouded to a strange yellow tone, more of his vision vanishing in it day by day until all he could vaguely perceive were slight shadows in the otherwise impenetrable white. Nox was never the same afterwards, becoming a quiet, reclusive tolter who tried to avoid attention whenever he could. The others talked about what happened, obviously. He was mocked at times. The buckskin only retreated further within himself. Protecting what little bits of the crushed pride he had left. Nox no longer looks up at the sky and no longer vocalizes, for fear of being taunted yet again.
(451 words)
halter color: pitch black with dark iron buckles

[little_light]

username: σptιmus primє
name: Dawn's Early Light // Dawnbreaker
gender: stallion
story: (max. 1000 words, min. 200 words.)
halter color: white gold
wip, haven't tried out for one of these before. :D

@D.J.D Vos;; I love your user xD

[naumachy]

ahh res ! just got totality where i live and it was p cool :00

[azemyc]

username: corvidous
name: The Sun Eater | Sköll
gender: Male
story: WIP
halter color: Sunbleached amber

[Vinson]

I'm not gonna be able to finish rip my soul c,:

[Ariana Black]

username: Ariana Black
name: Gift of The Sun // Helios
gender: Stallion
story: It was a dark and stormy night before the day of the eclipse and Helios was having a hard time sleeping. He stayed up for hours watching as lightning forked the sky. When it was all finally over, Helios fell fast asleep. He awoke some time earlier to the dog howling. Old Jeff hardly ever howled unless something was going on. Helios looked about but saw nothing wrong. Then he realized it was dark out. He looked up at the sky amazed. His instincts were telling him should be early in the day but his eyes were telling that the moon was out so it must be night time. Then he saw what looked like a silver and gold ring surround the moon. Mesmerized he watched until he started feeling a burning in his eyes. He tossed his head side to side trying to rid his eyes of the strange burning feeling. It felt like acid had been poured into them. He looked up one last time to see the sun high in the sky. He headed for the safety of his darkened barn and bowed his head. His eyes were still burning and when his eyes closed he could see explosions of colors. He opened his eyes but still saw them. they went away in a few hours but he was worried and a bit uneasy about the whole thing. Days passed and he felt like he had nothing to worry about then. He felt fine and couldn't be happier. Then it started to happen. The lights were started growing dimmer and the colors gave way to shadows. His vision grew fuzzy and he would have to rely on smell and his hearing. He just couldn't understand this. He was a perfectly healthy four year old with his life ahead of him. Why though was his eye sight fading? Soon he could see absolutely nothing out of his one eye and the other he barely saw out of. His owners called the vet but there was nothing he could do to help restore Helios' eyes. They were already beyond repair. They still continued his training however but tried a new and different approach to it. Soon Helios was able to still jump and perform dressage to music. He would often at home have a goat as a companion to help him along. Sometimes the goat would go with him if the events were far from home. The sun may have damaged his eyes but it didn't damage his can do spirit.
halter color: black with gold suns and gold buckles

[ABeardedDragon]

username: ABeardedDragon
name: Sun Prince || Ciro
gender: Stallion
halter color: Black and yellow
story:
The three youngest tolters were gathered under the darkening skies. The sooty stallion had his ears pinned as his crush, Daisy, stood with the more popular Castle.
"You gotta look," the sabino stallion laughed.
"Castle would, because he's a real stallion," the mare teased.
"Well I'm not stupid," Ciro snapped.
"Ooooh," the pair cooed.
Ciro stomped his hoof and turned his head, looking out over the fence. His tail flicked harshly.
"Fine, do it without me," he grumbled before trotting away with his head down, listening to the pair burst into laughter behind him.

He was well aware of the two glancing at him now and again. The first few times they had high heads and snorted. Ciro wanted nothing more than to walk right up to them and give them a piece of his mind, but his heart fluttered each time he looked at the pretty mare. Castle, on the other hand, deserved a good kick. Eventually, after some nervous looks, Daisy slowly made her way over to him.
"Hey, Ciro," she whispered, "you okay?"
"Yeah," he jumped and stood straight, shaking his mane into shape.
"No," she said, "I'm sorry about being a jerk."
"It was him," he replied.
There was silence between them as she leaned against him and groomed his mane; Ciro shivered with delight and thought his heart would explode from his chest.
"So-o, would you maybe," he stuttered, "uh, you know-"
"What?" she looked into his amber eyes, and he stared back, taking in every detail of her soft face.
"Want a midnight gallop with me?" he blurted out his words.
"Well," she smiled, "on one condition."
"Anything," he said.
"If you can look at the eclipse longer than Castle, then I will."

"So you'll do it, huh?" Castle snorted.
"Yep," he said as he rolled his eyes.
Daisy was silent but stayed close to Ciro's side, as the three of them watched the dark skies. Their glances got shorter as the sun and moon started to overlap.
"Alright, go," the sabino said.
The two watched the now cresent-shaped sun. It felt like forever as the air chilled, making their hairs stand and Ciro felt his heart slow. The rest of the world faded out of existence as he was lured into the sun's trance. His amber eyes burned like the ring of fire before him.
"Ciro! Ciro!" faintly echoed in his ears. All of a sudden he fell back to reality as Daisy kicked his shoulder.
"Did I win?" he asked as he blinked repeatedly.
"Yes," the mare squealed, "you looked for way too long."
"I'm good," he mumbled as green and purple lights floated across the blurred horses in front of him.
The dark stallion took a step forward on trembling legs, Castle quickly rushed to his side to support him.
"No, no," Daisy whispered with pinned ears and wide eyes, "your eyes..."

"There's nothing wrong with me," he shook his head.
"You can't see," the sabino said.
"I can, I'm looking right at you," Ciro raised his voice slightly.
"That's a tree," Daisy sighed before nudging his shoulder. Silence.
"Well, I'll get better," the stallion's voice cracked.
"Yeah, right," she mumbled.
"I'm in the mood for some hay," he smiled.
The sooty tolter took the lead, slowly wandering across the field. Castle and Daisy would bump him back on course whenever he veered away. The rest of the herd watched the young horses and the mares whispered to each other. Stood in the wooden shelter, the three ate the fresh hay spread out for them. Ciro blindly fumbled around the water trough until his nose sunk into the cold water, making him snort. As he drank, he squinted his eyes. Staring back at him was his reflection, with bleached eyes. The stallion threw his head and squealed. His heart pounded as he panicked, desperately trying to find the entrance to the shelter before bolting out across the field, until Daisy caught up to him and tugged his dark mane until he skidded to a stop.
"I'm sorry," she cried, "it's all my fault."
"Please, it's not," he rested his head on her neck.
"Ciro, forgive me," she whispered, "I'll stay with you forever, I promise."
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