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How the Immortals got over their Incompetence: A Story in many Acts they could have easily avoided by vanitaslaughing
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
22 Sep 2024
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The People: Hydaelyn's Chosen, the Oracle of Light, the Crystal Exarch, the Emissary
The Issue: two deities roused by the wildcard Zenos erasing everything they worked for and elemental imbalance
The Solution: that's a good question, but perhaps if they address the elemental imbalance they can get their own wildcardThe Second Issue: addressing that means they have to save the two other Unsundered... and find the Fourteenth.
The Second Solution: stop fighting, good luck, and enough competence to steer this ship to a better endingSeries
- Part 1 of back to the drawing board
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A rework of the Eden questline that keeps it's beginning and ending the same but shuffles things around slightly to give more time for growth to Ryne, Gaia, and the villains.
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Azem turned to look at Hermes. “Hermes. You created them to find… the meaning of life on other stars, did you not?”
He nodded.
“Do you reckon you could… change their directive, if necessary?”
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- Part 5 of an answer of sorts
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The Third Seat, two candidates. One refused, one picked up the torch.
His name was Hades, and he became the last Emet-Selch before the end and his fall from grace.~
The Third Seat, one candidate. Persistence is key, you're told.
Your name is Hythlodaeus, and you are the last Emet-Selch before the end and your fall from grace. -
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Clearly Hermes and Azem had attempted to deal with the familiars as if they were their creators and were instead met with what happened to familiars that were given a duty who remained after their creators returned to the star.
“One seemed open to the suggestion.”
Meteion seemed to shrink down on her chair. “… was not. Got tricked. Noticed too late. Azem did not.”
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- Part 4 of an answer of sorts
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When faced with punishment rather than censure, he had been relieved. He had been less relieved when the vote unanimously agreed that the punishment ought to be decided by the slighted party.
So it was that Lahabrea himself had decided their punishment.
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- Part 3 of an answer of sorts
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“If anyone asks for me today, tell them I am out of the office—Akademia Anyder does not hold any sort of lessons today, meaning I will be able to reel in Mitron and demand answers.”
“C-Chief!?”
“If I see another bizarrely dangerous shark concept that offers naught to the seas but vainglorious attempts to outdo Mitron, I shall surely expire. So in order to prevent my own premature return to the star, I will be demanding the fool’s attention for a full day if such is needed.”
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- Part 2 of an answer of sorts
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The one on the lowest branch closest to the one with the dark mask closed her connection. Took in a deep breath they did not technically need to take.
Took off.
She traced a blue arc through the air as she descended down towards dark mask.
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- Part 1 of an answer of sorts
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Downstream - The Many Things left floating in the River of Time by vanitaslaughing
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
09 Aug 2021
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Side-stories focusing on the supporting cast of "How the Immortals got over their Incompetence" across three timelines with one shared past.
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- Part 2 of back to the drawing board
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The ebb and flow of life before, during, after Termination.
And the catastrophe in the making that is a red-masked Ascian after the Sundering.
(Mitron character study)
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At the near end of a world, the last Lightwarden encounters the first Sin Eater.
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Unukalhai is unaffected by death around him.
Normally.
Everyone cracks eventually.
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They weren't always thirteen, but perhaps that was what they had always been supposed to be.
(thirteen plus one non-connected drabbles about each member of of the convocation)
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“The day they shut up about us will come, and then we can continue as we always did,” Persephone said almost overly dramatically—it was worth getting that small giggle out of Aigle, at the very least.
“As always—you have my back, and I have yours?”
“As always.”
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- Part 5 of bygone stages
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Before the tides of war change in their favour, the Chastiser seeks a ship to investigate a strange occurrence some fishers reported.
It sounds too familiar, too ancient, to be a mere coincidence.
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He was no master at phantom creation; Lahabrea had been the last of that.
He still tried.
He needed something, someone, to roam the streets of his recreated city.And one by one, he put his fallen brethren into the streets as he remembered them.
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In the wake of tragedy, an Emissary had to remain calm even if his very soul felt about ready to disperse into into base components.
Someone here needed to keep their mind on something productive even when everywhere he looked he but found another reason to give in to utter despair.
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- Part 4 of bygone stages
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“Stay serious, Hythlodaeus. Please. For once.”
He frowned beneath his mask. “In case you missed that memo, I have been for the past four years.”
Hades shook his head slowly with a sigh. “Okay. Okay, we are starting off on the wrong foot—is this the part where I ask for parley? Because I am asking you for it.”
Hythlodaeus closed his eyes with a long sigh. “That is something I have not heard in centuries. You, my friend and eternal bane of my existence, are dreadfully serious about this.”Series
- Part 3 of bygone stages
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The Commander shot 2B a smile. Hopefully a mischievous one, but getting a reaction out of 2B was harder than trying to glean what she was thinking. “But of course. Seeing as your former partner 9S is involved with reconnaissance work, perhaps you could escort your Operator.”
“And who, in turn, will oversee our operations?”
“That, my dear 2B, you can leave to me.
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He spoke until the mortal body he had taken for himself’s throat was raw and he was parched.
It felt like lecturing an unresponsive class.
An unresponsive room full of students that brandished weapons.
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- Part 2 of bygone stages