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.
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It has taken me this long to realize that yes, the fact that Tamett is from a country that has been conquered and subjugated and had its culture and language suppressed and been expected to assimilate and to be glad and grateful to be part of--but never truly one with or accepted by--the conquering nation until many of its people conclude that the safest thing they can do is keep silent and keep their heads down and try to appease....that's a parallel for his situation as Josiah's companion.
If I ever write anything thoughtful, it is entirely by accident.
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Haan, baat'ien toh boht si karni hain tumse,
Yakeen hai ki tum sunn loge,
Magar samajh paoge kya?
Mere jazzbaat abhi zra bikhre huye se hain,
Yakeen hai ki tum sameit loge,
Magar sambhal kr rakh paoge kya?
Mana ki hum kabhi ek nhi ho sakte,
Yakeen hai ki tum saath nibha loge,
Magar hamesha saath reh paoge kya?
Haan, ye baat'ien bhi kisi khaas shaqs ke liye hain,
Yakeen hai itna toh tum jaan hi loge,
Magar uss shakq ko tum khud main dhoondh paoge kya?
Batao, tum mujhe samjh paoge kya?
-jm
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yknow it's funny how i'm acting embarrassed over my ~secret crush~ like i haven't reblogged art of him on my main several times in the last month, one of which was literally an x y/n drawing (but i guess i was still embarrassed about that since i waited until right before i logged off and went to sleep)
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