Studying the Ice Giants
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Some theorize that Neptune and Uranus' order used to be switched, Uranus being the furthest from the Sun initially. Due to Jupiter and Saturn's gravity, Neptune and Uranus got pushed further away and swapped places at some point.
Jupiter and Saturn's accident did more than just destroy rocky planets and eject Planet X... even if they aren't aware.
Neptune and Uranus being alone in the solar system, and how Neptune got where he is today.
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- Part 1 of SolarAngst
- Part 1 of Studying the Ice Giants
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Uranus woke up somewhere cold, dark, and lonely.
In the distance he could see the light of a large, distant object ( the Sun, he somehow innately knows) but beyond that there is a lot of nothing and cold.
And he’s so alone.
Uranus just came into being, so logically he probably shouldn’t understand what it means to be alone, but he does: and he knows he hates it.
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Uranus is the stinky one. The boring one. The awkward one. The one with lesser rings. The one with the dumb name. The crooked one. The one with the weird accent. The one that isn’t quite Saturn or quite Neptune. The one always forgotten. The one who scared his moons away. The local joke.And he doesn't want to be.
Or: How Uranus got to where he is today, and the difference between how the friendships of Neptune and Planet X were offered to him.
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- Part 4 of SolarAngst
- Part 2 of Studying the Ice Giants
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Babies. His babies. He never should have let them do this. He’s going to lose them all. He couldn’t protect his two long lost babies from the collision. He lost his mind and all his moons in the Kuiper Belt. And now he’s going to lose them all again. Triton. Nereid. Proteus. Larissa. Despina. Galatea. Naiad. Thalassa. Halimede. Sao. Laomedeia. Neso. Psamathe. Hippocamp. S/2002 N-5. S/2021 N-1.
He’s going to lose them all.
And maybe- maybe this wouldn’t have happened if Neptune didn’t disappear all the time. Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if Neptune listened to his friend’s concerns. Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if Neptune wasn’t as much of a dimwit.
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It wasn't revenge to Caelus. It wasn't! ...right?Neptune never got it. Never understood. Neptune may have been fine with his orbit. With the loneliness and losing his mind, but Caelus wasn’t. How could he be?
Well, whatever. Neptune got what he wanted. Everyone did. Everyone’s story gets a happy ending. Except for Caelus', as usual. Because stars forbid he's allowed to be happy.
Neptune and Uranus during and after the BOPX arc: them grappling with the possibility of losing their moons… and one another.
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- Part 8 of SolarAngst
- Part 3 of Studying the Ice Giants
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Neptune was a lot of things.
Silly. Flexible. Really good at math. Introspective. Ice giant. Planet. Blue. Not bound by the confines of reality.
But one of the things Neptune also was, one of the things people often didn't connect back to Neptune was that he was a protector.
Sure, maybe in regards to his orbit and the Kuiper Belt but considering his mental state it was easy to write him off on that.
But Neptune was good at protecting the others from other things, or at least... tries to.
Sometimes at the expense of himself.
OR: 3 times Neptune smiled and tried to protect someone at his own expense, 1 time he questioned if it was enough, and the 1 time he finally cracked.
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- Part 12 of SolarAngst
- Part 4 of Studying the Ice Giants
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Caelus hadn’t taken into account just how far out the Oort Cloud stretched.
Why would he? His orbit was far enough as it is. Even entering the Kuiper Belt was something he only really did with Neptune-
No, no. Don’t think about him. He doesn’t actually care about you. He’s just silly, goofy Neptune. He can never be serious. Can never take what Caelus says seriously. Doesn’t actually care.
But now he was traveling further than he ever had before. He could feel the Sun’s gravity weakening by the second. Sense the distant glow of the star’s light getting somehow even dimmer as he continued on.
And he thought his orbit was dark and cold.
OR: Caelus tries to leave the Solar System, but he keeps on getting chased by all the things he's running from.
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- Part 11 of SolarAngst
- Part 5 of Studying the Ice Giants
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"I'll be fine! Besides, I'll have you... right?"
When Neptune had told Uranus he'd be fine in this distant orbit billions of years ago, he didn't exactly know what he'd be signing up for.
"I'll be fine! I promise!"
4.5 billion years later he does.
OR: the two times Neptune chooses his orbit.
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- Part 6 of Studying the Ice Giants
- Part 14 of SolarAngst
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Jupiter convinces Uranus to go back to the Solar System, promising things will change.
...and then he immediately has to go fix some drama happening with the rocky planets.
It's fine though, Uranus totally doesn't have any doubts.
Enter: Neptune, who has been absent this whole time and who Uranus has a lot he needs to work out with.
Like... 4.5 billion years of stuff.
OR: Neptune and Uranus discuss what it means to be friends. And family
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- Part 7 of Studying the Ice Giants
- Part 15 of SolarAngst
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Truth: Neptune doesn’t like lying.
Honestly he doesn’t see the point. Why say something that isn’t true? Isn’t lying bad? Hiding things never helps anyone, it just leads to more confusion and pain when the truth is revealed.
For all that other celestial bodies don’t believe what Neptune says (which he’s learned to expect, other people’s brains don’t seem to work like his, and Neptune isn’t good at explaining things all the time (ask Uranus)), Neptune rarely lies.
Lying requires twisting reality, and Neptune chooses to see things as is (because how else can you see things? Upside down?)
But then he accidentally captures Triton, and he feels like he has no choice but to.
It would probably be easier if Neptune didn't suck so much at it though.
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- Part 8 of Studying the Ice Giants
- Part 16 of SolarAngst
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Triton was right in saying that Neptune always remembers his moons well.
He works to remember all he can about them, how can he not? And even the things he doesn't try to remember, he is cursed to.
Except for one thing...
Because Neptune's mind will not allow itself to know about Triton's eventual fate. Not for long anyways.
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- Part 17 of SolarAngst
- Part 9 of Studying the Ice Giants