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The dream you haul yourself up from tonight is tame — almost mundane, given the horrors your sleeping mind seems able to conjure up. The memory of it is already slipping through your fingers like sand as you try to recall specifics. But the residual anxiety of it persists in an uncomfortable tightness across your shoulders, a prickle along your forearms that you have to rub away with your palms.
As quietly as possible, you scoot out from under the blankets and push your way out of the tent to go and sit beside the banked coals of the campfire.
Where you had expected solitude, though, you instead discover you’re not alone in your late-night vigil.
(Or: Siffrin has a nightmare.)
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in the aftermath of the first* election, the hades tigers (refuse to fully) acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Collection of rough, unedited short pieces for FFXIVWrite 2021! Tags will be updated as necessary.
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4. Baleful
Gen, G. The Warrior of Light is a compassionate man, and precious few appreciate it properly - but there are a notable few who do, and that may make all the difference. -
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The giant instrument is slung across Demyx’s lap, and Demyx themself lounges in a plush swivel chair, one foot braced against the floor to twist their perch back and forth in a slow arc. Their back is to Ienzo as they strum - they’re humming, too, Ienzo notes, quietly along with the melody.
Were Ienzo to pick a word to describe himself in that moment, 'transfixed' would not be the first, bashfully denying that much interest in anything outside of his studies - but there’s no other word for it, the way he watches Demyx’s fingers slide from fret to fret, effortlessly plucking their way through a song that hadn’t stopped since Ienzo had first noticed the sound in the library.
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“Perhaps after… all of this, when we have time to breathe.” There it was again, that after that sparked a flutter of hope within Trahearne’s chest. The possibility of a life out from under the weight of destiny.
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Familiarity becomes a comfort; predictability, a ward against terror. No one is going home if he can help it.
A year is nothing—what's forever?
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21 Nov 2024
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None Forward digestif. [ticking psychic damage sound effect]
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The Universe leads.
And you will fight with blood and tears to carve yourself a way elsewhere.
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A post-canon exploration on Loop's adjustment to life beyond the confines of the Favor Tree.
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18 Sep 2024
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Whatever horrors you may find in these dark spaces, have heart and see them through.
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings.
This is a love story.
Chapter I
The Savior and The Monster(An ISAT Slay The Princess AU)
Series
- Part 1 of Slay The Savior
- Part 1 of STS Cycle One
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22 Aug 2024
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Loop struggles with a new body and a new memory.
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13 Aug 2024
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Siffrin is your jailor. Your purpose. Your caretaker. Your better self, your now-unreachable future, your child all grown up. You—you are past the point of wanting to take their place. All you want now is a belonging of your own or another cessation, a complete one, because this? This fifth bedroom, this toothbrush, this windowsill overlooking their life? This you cannot take. And as much as every day you miss the people who are right there in front of you, you know they are not yours.
After the journey, in a five-bedroom house, Loop endures the fact that the Universe likes Siffrin more.
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29 Jul 2024