an~ im back for my weekend out! yay! it was sooo fun, but i got absolutely no sleep and im running on coffee right now. i was suggested puck pov and i wanted something serious for once, so here it is.
Sunshine has been very important to Puck. He learned so much about himself and others in the sun. He doesn't quite understand why, but he sees things more clearly in the sunlight.
When he wasn't even five years old, he discovered that he was filthy. That was the first time he ever left the woods. He flew out into the sunlight and saw the normal people who were all clean and neat. He looked down at himself and realized he was covered in dirt. He also realized that he liked being dirty that day.
Later, about a month after he met Moth, he realized what an idiot she was when they were in a clearing. Before that he had just seen a shadowy girl who liked to dance. In the sun, he saw her face clearly, and it wasn't the kind of face he wanted to spend any time with.
He figured out much about his family's characters in the sunlight too. Over the course of a thousand years, he discovered that his father was selfish, his mother was obsessed with her sons, and that Mustardseed would make ten thimes the king he would.
For quite some time after that, he didn't make any big discoveries. He mad a few small ones, but not much else. He discovered what affect the sunlight had on him. It was almost as if he has some special ability to understand things in the sunlight. he has made a habit now of making sure he always meets people in the sunlight, to prevent misconceptions of character. Sometimes being unable to lie to himself can be a pain.
The next big discoveries he made were in Ferryport Landing. There he learned something about each of the people he met. He learned that Charming was secretly very insecure, that Snow was deeply wounded by her encounters with him, that Jack would stop at nothing to rgain his fame... he learned many things, and he remembered them. Some of them he kept to use for pranks, some for reasons he wasn't entirely sure of. He just felt they might be useful someday.
The biggest thing he learned when he first moved in was that Relda Grimm was one of the nicest people in the history of the world. She would go to the ends of the world to help someone she cares about. He also learned about Canis's struggle inside, how he must keep calm constantly or risk letting out the Wolf.
THe first time he met Sabrina Grimm, he was in the woods on a cloudy evening. That was why he thought she and Daphne were the Old Lady's kidnappers. He realized he was wrong about her when she threw him into the pool, but he didn't figure out HOW wrong until the next day, when they were outside together. That ws when her saw the fear, the uncertainty, the hurt, the refusal to trust etched into her face. It was then that he realized this girl would need someone to look after her. He figured he might as well be that person.
Daphne in the sunlight was a surprising sight. The desire to make others happy and the love of words was obvious, but the loss, the secret hurt Daphne harbored was a surprise. No one would no that daphne was so upset by Sabrina's actions, or how much she needed approval, or the maturity of the seven year old to look at her.
Puck figured out how he felt about Sabrina in the sun, too. That was a day he would never forget. He had just dumped a water balloon on her head, and the cloud which had been blocking the sun moved. Sunlight suddenly shone down on Sabrina, and her wet golden hair glistened in the sunlight. Puck was surprised to see that Sabrina was beautiful in the glistening sunshine. He stared at her for a full minute, puzzling over this discovery. Sabrina was looking at him anxiously when he finally snapped out of his reverie, and the worry on her face made him strangely happy.
For a long time after that he avoided the sulight, because there he could lie to himself, pretend that Sabrina Grimm was just a person to annoy, someone with anger management problems, a girls who was of no personal interest to him whatsoever.
Months later, the first time he had been in the sunlight with her since his epiphany, he figured out how she felt about him. Another prank, but this one led to Puck catching her, and, she blushed. in that sunlit blush, he read confusion, hope, fear, sorrow, embarassment, and something he had seen an other's faces many times. That something looked vaguely like... love. That was impossible, because Grimm couldn't love him. But... he had never seen anything wrong in the sunshine before, and the chances of him misreading a person's face for the first time in thousands of years was extremey unlikely. So he decided to try something he had tried once before. He kissed her.
This time, he pulled back to a safe distance to read her face again. It confirmed his earlier thoughts. But now there was less confusion, no sorrow, and a lot more hope.
Puck never avoided the sunlight after that. He decided it was better to know the truth than to live in the more comfortable world of shadows, and he made the most of his ability.