#the shackles of my main are removed now i can write long esssys about silly headcanons i have for my bun

[verraising]

Thinking about Myrri and her Chocobo and that she canonically never actually had a company chocobo to begin with because she was afraid that she lacked both the know-how and the means to take care of it.

Like... she's never really looked after a large creature like this, she's always out on the road, constantly in dangerous situations... she just didn't feel like it was an ideal living situation for an animal, even if said animal was meant for adventuring life since, well... she wasn't really your average adventurer even back then.

So she's good!! She's used to walking and there's always the porters if she is in need of a Chocobo at any point temporarily, and she can do so with the knowledge at the end of the day it will be back in a warm stable with food and someone who knows how to take care of it properly.

BUT. Then comes the point where Haurchefant rolls up to her and gifts her a Chocobo and what is she supposed to do other than smile and say thank you and accept it because she sure as hell isn't gonna look him in the eye and refuse his gift. That would be rude!! And possibly make her friend sad!! And she doesn't want that, and it's not like she hates animals, not at all!

So she names it Sesame and asks Haurchefant if she can stable it at the keep for now, and she takes it out a little bit for the less dangerous errands every now and then but mostly tries to keep it away from any real danger by leaving it in the stables and spoiling it with treats and pets when she has some downtime instead.

Eventually Myrri gets an apartment in Ishgard, the city famous for how great they are with Chocobo husbandry, which makes her feel a bit less guilty for intending to leave Sesame there p much permanently from that point forward.

She's gotten really attached! And she wants him to have a nice and comfortable life!

So she hires some stablehands and promises to visit whenever she has time, and in her mind that's a good and solid plan, at least until one of the people she hired contacts her like two weeks later like "Hey uhhhh I'm really sorry but you need to come home, your Chocobo has been acting increasingly more crazy and we can't calm him down no matter what we do."

So she comes back and spends some time with Sesame before she is needed elsewhere again but a week later the whole thing repeats.

And when she comes back this time the keepers she hired are like sorry but we think your Chocobo just really loves you and just really hates to be left here without you, have you considered taking him with you?

So she decides to just. Do that. Maybe Sesame just needs a lil enrichment and once he's got his fill he will be happy to stay in his cozy lil stable after all.

And it turns out her Chocobo just REALLY wants to throw hands! He's a menace and Myrri is bamboozled that she has to make sure her cute bird buddy doesn't try to fight every squirrel they pass, and it takes her a hot second to eventually figure out that he's just really protective of her, and in his silly little bird brain everything that moves is a potential threat apparently !!!

And Myrri can't help but be reminded of who raised her Chocobo, after all, and comes to the conclusion that of course it kinda makes sense he would have a protective streak a mile long, doesn't it? :')

So she resigns to the fact that her Chocobo is going to be her permanent travel buddy now just as the gods intended, and in her free time she brushes up on her animal care skills as much as she can, and Sesame is v happy and v content.

tl;dr myrri's in-game company chocobo is canonically the black chocobo haurchefant gifted her and they are besties who care for each other very much and i have lots of thoughts about them