Continuing my blog entries about my selfshipping!! Sunday and Robin are like cousins to me and I love them very much. They're both really cool characters, and I like their relationship and how it's changed and developed over time.
The lore is that my Penacony self insert, Saint, is the siblings' youngest cousin who grew up with them after she lost her parents at a young age. When the siblings lost their mother in the Stellaron disaster, Mr. Gopher Wood took the three of them in and raised them together. Saint grew distant from her cousins as they grew older, and she has a tendency to get into arguments with Sunday when they do speak to each other. Saint is stubborn, and Sunday is overly protective when it comes to his family. It's only after Sunday joins the Astral Express that they're able to understand each other's feelings better. There's also the difference between Robin and Sunday's worldviews, which causes further tension in the family. Saint is on better terms with Robin, but they don't communicate very often due to Robin's frequent travel, so Saint is a pretty lonely character. When they do talk, Saint tends to hide her feelings (much like Sunday also does with Robin), which makes it difficult for Robin to know what's really going on in her life. Where Sunday tends to treat Robin as his kid sister, Saint treats Robin as someone that she idolizes—it's like being at a family reunion and pretending that you're successful and happy with life because it would feel pitiful otherwise. The whole Charmony Festival incident is also a pretty big strain which causes Saint to get fired from her job at The Reverie.
Despite everything they've been through, I do believe that the three of them could eventually learn how to talk to each other, and they'd be just fine as they grow and experience new things. I don't have any siblings myself, so it makes me happy to think about having family members that I have a close bond with and who will love me no matter what. That's pretty much the basis for my feelings about them, although it started on a whim when I said to myself, "It would be fun to come up with a character who's related to Sunday and Robin." It's also the same character I ship with Aventurine, but that's a subject for a different post. In the past few years, I've had to struggle with some feelings of inadequacy, feeling that I'm behind my peers or that I'm less capable of living in the world as them. Saint is my expression of these feelings, with her quiet and unfulfilling lifestyle and dissatisfaction with life; her cousins are people that she looks up to very much, as well as the ideal of what she can't reach. It's only when she can let go of these feelings that she can interact on equal terms with them.
This is my favorite song to associate with them! We are each other's "harmony!"