Sunshine Challenge - Indigo
Jul. 24th, 2020 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arias_hollowInky pools of water stretched all around, reflecting the gleam of starlight and softly wandering clouds. I reach my hand out to the crystals growing about, and they alight at my touch, shimmering shades of violet. Around me, the cosmos; I can feel its energies like the ringing of bells, weave them about as I wish. Echoing up from the depths of the pool come a million cries, reverberations of every human dream. Walking deftly across the water, I move my mind towards the swarms beneath, calming them each with flicker of light, a feeling of wakefulness. The clouds move over the sky, dimming the reflective surface. Each scream fades, and the crystals glow just a bit more.
Indigo was an interesting color to write for since all of its themes were ones I loved to include in my stories, but putting that into single-paragraph format felt like a struggle. I'm far more used to writing - and reading - big stories revolving around destiny and magic and experience, so it was pretty fun to try and make that a bit more tiny-sized. Being a fantasy fan I of course saw 'magic' and 'dreams' and thought of various mages, dream weavers, and dream walkers in fiction (specifically dream walkers were common in some of CLAMP's works, such as Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic, in which Tomoyo has such a power - and she does have sort of indigo-like highlights to her hair in some pictures!). The color indigo itself isn't one I usually think of very often, so my associations with just that are more limited, but as it's connected to blue and purple and I think of it in a similar light - kind of dreamy and magical, or at least relaxing/ponderous. Elegance and intuition I thought were fitting themes, to me they fit really well with the mage-like and spirit vibes of the color, so while they didn't quite make it into the drabble overtly I hoped to kind of give off that impression a bit. Indigo's themes are extremely atmospheric (dark indigo does make me think of the night sky too), so it's always fun to play around with those in storytelling.
Indigo was an interesting color to write for since all of its themes were ones I loved to include in my stories, but putting that into single-paragraph format felt like a struggle. I'm far more used to writing - and reading - big stories revolving around destiny and magic and experience, so it was pretty fun to try and make that a bit more tiny-sized. Being a fantasy fan I of course saw 'magic' and 'dreams' and thought of various mages, dream weavers, and dream walkers in fiction (specifically dream walkers were common in some of CLAMP's works, such as Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic, in which Tomoyo has such a power - and she does have sort of indigo-like highlights to her hair in some pictures!). The color indigo itself isn't one I usually think of very often, so my associations with just that are more limited, but as it's connected to blue and purple and I think of it in a similar light - kind of dreamy and magical, or at least relaxing/ponderous. Elegance and intuition I thought were fitting themes, to me they fit really well with the mage-like and spirit vibes of the color, so while they didn't quite make it into the drabble overtly I hoped to kind of give off that impression a bit. Indigo's themes are extremely atmospheric (dark indigo does make me think of the night sky too), so it's always fun to play around with those in storytelling.
