AuroraRayne
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For a fleeting moment you see the age in his eyes, tender and nostalgic as though he were the old man he once claimed to be, looking back upon misplaced yet beloved photographs of times long past.
G'raha turns his arm to regard the arcane eye painted there. The deep hue is stark against the azure of his body. "I shall wash them off in the morning, but for now I enjoy being able to see my old markings again."
"You seem more upset than anything," you counter cautiously, the unspoken question evident in your voice.
"’Tis difficult to put into words. Memory is not always without mourning, and mourning is not always an act of grief." G'raha looks down into his tea, tracing a crystal finger along the curve of the ceramic mug. The faint scratching sound it makes is nearly deafening. "Tis good to remember how it felt to fly before I clipped my wings."
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- Part 2 of Adagio
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This time when he looks at you, all you find is searing adoration. The scorching weight of what that means blisters through you, melting the sand beneath your back until the solid, earthen certainty of your life has morphed into nothing more than cracking glass. G'raha brings his hand to your chest, fingers spread, his palm coming to rest above your pounding heart. He is trembling, just as you are. You place your hand over his and let your pulse convey what you cannot. Fortune finds you wanting for words, but not for meaning.
Red eyes soften to the shine of hearthfire, the light of a home you never realized just how much you needed.
"Raha," you call him for the first time.
The weight of one word can be enough to shatter glass.
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(Can be read as a one-shot, but is technically a full version of the sort-of flashback from Chapter 1 of Adagio)
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- Part 4 of Adagio
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"Keep your secrets, Exarch." The Warrior's hushed voice cracks like G'raha has never heard, longing bringing him to break when not even the consuming light could. "Tell me why you smell like home."
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(Pre-Kholusia conversation / Mt. Gulg. Technically written as a prequel part of the series, but can be read separately/standalone.)
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- Part 3 of Adagio
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Lyna's request makes more sense now, though perhaps not in the way she intended. Pray be patient with him.
It's not just the Exarch's body that needs time to heal.
G'raha grows heavy against you as he succumbs to sleep. "Stay with me," he murmurs into your chest. His hand finds your tail where it curls around him, and he holds it ever so gently in an unspoken claim.
Not much has changed after all.
He is asleep before you can answer, but it doesn't matter. This time you will be there when he wakes.
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- Part 1 of Adagio
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'The future is where my destiny awaits. This is my destiny. Here, and now. This, I have accepted.'
Foolish foolish, naive! He hadn't given it enough due consideration. Accepted? The only thing he accepted was to preserve Allag, to carry on their legacy. Although it would pain him still he could have accepted waking up to this future if it wasn't so...so...
He had hoped, hoped so dearly Y'sato with the help of the Ironworks would have found a way, to have been the ones to wake him, and now...because of Black Rose he...everyone is-
No! He refuses to accept this. This isn't his destiny! And yet he finds himself powerless to do anything.
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Finding himself waking up two hundred years in the future, G'raha realizes damning truths. Soul-crushing truths cause in this world not even his inspiration, his dearest friend survived...
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- Part 3 of Silver Linings
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21 Jan 2024
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A handful of months have passed since G'raha sealed himself in the Crystal Tower. Still burdened by his loss Y'sato finds his spirits at an all-time low following the events of the bloody banquet, but he forges on regardless, unable to do aught else. Y'sato, Alphinaud, and Tataru currently find themselves in Ishgard as the esteemed wards of House Fortemps. Y'sato who already struggled after losing G'raha to the Tower, struggles even more now after the betrayal, feeling responsible for what happened to Nanamo and the Scions. He is neglecting himself and his health in an attempt to cope with everything, opening up to no one as he keeps himself busy, wearing himself thin. One day it all comes to a head and he will come to find things aren't as bleak after all...
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- Part 2 of Silver Linings
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04 Dec 2023
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Y'sato's tail lashes against his leg. No, this is all wrong! Raha, don't do this I beg of you!. Come back to me. I want-I need-
Crimson eyes lands on his, and the look in them brings him pause. There is vulnerability in his royal gaze, a fickle flame trying so hard to burn strong. Y'sato realizes G'raha's self control is hanging on by the thinnest of threads.
His friend opens his mouth to speak, his voice surprisingly even as he wills himself to smile. “And you, Sato...I know history will remember you. No doubt your heroism will be the star by which I chart my course when I awake.”
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Their shared hardships was the spark that forged their friendship. A true bond formed, a true connection. One Y'sato thought would last for life only for fate to tear them apart...
It is more than Y'sato's heart can bear.
He shatters.
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- Part 1 of Silver Linings
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26 Aug 2023
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Going back to the beginning, before the battle of carteneau and becoming the Warrior of Light, K'tahir finds himself an unlikely Student of Baldesion. Seeking answers amongst the learned about an unknown curse and struggling against the stigma of his origins all K'tahir wanted was a friend. Little did he know he was about to get one named G'raha Tia, nor that he would change K'tahir's life forever. (This is a complete rewrite of an old fanfiction.)
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24 Jun 2022
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[ENDWALKER SPOILERS]
The Warrior of Light has returned home from the edge of the universe after quelling the threat of the Final Days.
Their wounds are wrought deep.
Recovery is not kind.
But they are not alone.
They never have been.
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01 Mar 2022