#back in like. arr

[impossible-rat-babies]

one day I gotta sit and ponder eyrie’s feelings about primals bc going into arr what they know/their opinions are based on a lot of what they were taught with the garleans

[hinamie]

I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

[unsanctitude]

⭕⬅😨THE SQUEEMERRRRRRR

[ishgard]

"The most important thing is that you survive."

[3416]

Auston Matthews Media Availability | 01.04.25

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

hate hitting the point in doing a thing where you're 90% done but the last 10% is a wall because it's about refining everything you've done prior

tedious!!! don't want to!!!! someone take the last bit and make it pretty!!!!! and finished!!!!!!!! please!!!!!!!!!!!

[crystal-verse]

god i want. an au where it dosn't work. where it's just arr g'raha who's woken up, and he doesn't have all these memories and all these people keep looking at him like they're mourning someone. the world has changed and time has changed and all the people he knows have changed, but he hasn't changed, he was just sleeping, just sleeping, and the world nearly ended several times and apparently he helped prevent yet another end but he has no memory of this. they want him to join the scions. he does not know these people. (he barely knows the warrior of light, now, but did he ever truly know them in the first place?) his little sister is alive and well. she looks at him like a ghost. she's changed, and she's older than him now. he acts bratty and loud and brash to cover up the fact that he does not know anything it seems, and he is tired but he was sleeping for so long, so how could he be tired?

he doesn't know these people. they seem to know him. he wonders if he'd killed someone, when it was him and not that exarch who woke up. he wonders if it should have been him who was "killed" in that way, if it is him that lives and not that man who had known and become friends with all these figures from legend. he wonders if he'll always be fated to be a historian one step back from everything, because he simply cannot be a hero.

[justiceisoverr]

replayed crystal tower the other day & arr g'raha is something that can actually be so personal

[shalpilot]

well one of us is going to have to change

[just-somehuman]

You’d seen the newspapers, you’d seen the officers, and still none of it made sense. He’d disappeared so suddenly without a single word. A week ago, he was grinning as bright as the stars you were certain he’d returned to. Now, there was an emptiness in the Capital; the air felt heavier, the streets quieter, despite nothing having changed. Death was a mistress you were familiar with, yet her typical heartache stung sharper than any other time before. Perhaps it was from the unexpectedness of his death, though you knew this thought was only a comfort. The truth was that, deep down, you felt guilty. In a way, you were wholly to blame. Had your heart not lead you towards another, he never would have let his heartbreak consume him.

You stared down at the untouched headstone opposite your feet. Where his rowdy laughter should have been was a cold, suffocating silence. It was Death’s silence, mocking you for causing it. In your hand, clutched between tense fingers, was a red camellia. It was the same flower he had gifted you on a patrol once, a wordless promise of devotion that you had so cruelly broken. You gently laid the flower atop his grave, its striking red petals sticking out sorely amidst the rows of dull headstones. Your dim eyes skimmed over the words engraved into the stone, like you were hoping they would change each time you read them. But, of course, they never did.

You were too late. Too late to his affections, too late to his aid, too late to apologise, and too late to say goodbye. Of the heart he had given you – that you had crushed and treaded on to give your own to another – all that remained was melancholy and a faint sense of longing. Perhaps, if you hadn’t listened to your heart, things would be different.

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inspired by @shonenkun309 's post

[scionshtola]

i’m still thinking about this sorry but the idea that the wol’s actions are the same as the garlean army’s actions just really rubs me the wrong way. like i dont think its actually a nuanced position to suggest that theres no difference between resisting imperial violence and committing it. the reason the garlemald section stands out to me is not because well it’s okay, the garleans thought what they were doing was right and we committed violence against them too so who’s to say who is right or wrong. it’s that they are demonstrably in the wrong and we help them anyway. because we can, because they need it.

[ishgard]

The Prince of Tech Duinn in the region of Orenshaar. Once a nation of many warring clans, the King and his son conquered and united the tribes under Tech Duinn's banner. An accomplished warlord at a young age, he was called 'The Black Lion' in both fear and reverence.

[sunbeasts]

I found a screenshot I took when I was so proud of getting everything to cap all the way back in heavensward. HOW OLD IS THIS A true relic from the past right here.

[unionizedwizard]

Tell me of the irma/y'shtola pastabilities.....

ohhhhhh at this point it's public knowledge that irma got a bit of a crush on y'shtola LMAO i'm sorry she's so much her type on every single front that it was unavoidable. but specifically because of that nothing could ever happen because i don't see y'shtola wanting it (from what we've seen, her type is something entirely different). doesnt help that y'shtola was her first contact with the scions as a whole <- her #1 weakness is weird scholarly miqo'te and her #2 weakness elegant competent and bossy older women who don't mince their words so. you understand. she's a bit intimidated by y'shtola still, i think (but who isn't?). i think it's pretty much the textbook case of Workplace Crush actually

[palladium-poisoned]

I'm having such a good time w drk idk when I'll use warrior but everyone seems to rly love it so

[fooltofancy]

guy who makes your lover more annoying (thancred)