The living quarters of the emperor and empress were certainly a comfortable place to sit and wait. In it currently was Empress Hope, Rabia (Sombra’s mother) and Etéra.
“Etéra please calm down. I know your excited but please just sit down” Hope asked her daughter who was practically bouncing of the walls with excitement. Right know she was doing a little dance on the coffee table.
“Why don’t you give your best grandma a hug?” Rabia knew it would calm her down, until of course her dad walked in. Etéra leapt into her grandmother’s forelegs and almost completely relaxed until the door opens. And there stood was one of the most amazing things the three of them had ever seen.
There stood Sombra, with a flowing mass of hot pink hair, somehow even the shadow had been dyed, accompanied by a very amused smile.
“Dad!” Etéra was the first to react. Launching out of her grandmothers embrace and galloped towards her father with an ear-to-ear smile. It was safe to say she was proud of her work, even if it was a little patchy in places.
“Oh wow Sombra that’s amazing on you” Hope complimented her husband, instantly taking a liking to the colour.
“I’m honestly not against it… don’t laugh at me mother” Sombra commented, then he noticed his mother holding back a laugh.
“I’m sorry. Is just that I can imagine your father would be on the ground rolling right know.” She blurted out as she laughed at the thought, it’s a shame it was tainted by death, but it was certainly something that would happen.
“Ok but seriously, does it look good?”
“It’s pink! Why wouldn’t it” Etéra said in full confidence of her decision. Hope and Rabia agreed with the toddler. And to be fair, Sombra did have the ability to pull most things of (like that time Hope but him in stockings, which he rocked with pure pride, even if they did rip).
“Just kidding, I know it looks good. Te, do you know where the brother and sister are? I think they would like to see wouldn’t they” he didn’t get a response from her, but he assumed they would be down by the barracks. After all magnolia is the army general.
“You better put that armour and crown on. I want to see the full outfit and it better work or I will change it” Rabia instructed him, but she got a nasty glare from Etéra from the threat of destroying her hard work. She quickly altered her words.
“Maybe you can just keep it for a few days if it doesn’t work” she gave a nervous chuckle. Sombra turned back to put his armour and crown on, which were displayed on a mannequin which stopped it being damaged. Fortunately the gold did somewhat suit the pink, although the rich yellow was definitely competing with it.
He set of to find his other two children. Magnolia was his oldest, Platino was his middle. They were both drastically different in appearance from each other. Magnolia had inherited her mother’s purplish fur and his eyes and mane. She also inherited Umbrum characteristics such as the sharp teeth and back claws, however she didn’t get the height. Platino was almost completely opposite. He was almost the exact same as his younger sister, but his mane was solid blue and he inherited the skin stones from his mother’s crystal genes. He had his father’s height, which ticked Magnolia off as she was older but significantly smaller, despite him only being a teenager.
He found them when he rounded a corner and saw them walking together, they were most likely already coming to see him. The second he made eye contact with them was when Magnolia came out with one of her best quotes.
“oh my North your as gay as Platino now!”
“Sister!”
“I saw the chance and I took it. you can’t argue with me!” the short exchange causes the small chunk of the family to burst out laughing, except for one who wasn’t quite used to his sister’s new quips after he came out.
“You know when Te said hot pink I wasn’t quite expecting that hot of pink dad” Magnolia said as she swirled his mane around in her hoof.
“Although it is a little patchy” she commented on the chunk of mane that was slightly darker in places.
“Well a six-year-old isn’t going to be good at everything” Platino said with heavy sarcasm.
“Watch what you say about your sister Pea’s” Sombra told off his son, he wasn’t quite used to dealing with a teenager phase yet. He was in prison for all of Magnolia’s so his experience was rather limited. But he should be fine by the time it comes to Etéra’s in another five hundred years just after Platino’s.
“Can you stop calling me that. Also don’t you have a meeting with the elements of harmony in like three days or something?” Sombra had forgotten about that. It just meant he would have to cut it all of the day before so it would be back to normal by the next day. But at least he got to enjoy for a few days.
He definitely wasn’t sad to shave it all off.