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The first time they meet for the first time, Fig is too consumed with thoughts of her father. He’s trapped in that damned ruby, and it’s all her fault. If she had just been stronger, more able, less weak- It’s not worth spiraling over. The more she spirals, the more distracted she gets. Her and her friends have reached the Compass Points Library, she needs to focus on finding out how to free her father. When she meets Ayda, she thinks rather distantly that the other girl is beautiful.
The second time they meet for the first time, Fig is older. She’s buried herself in her Archdevil duties for the past 20 years or so, after Ayda’s death and subsequent reincarnation. She left the infant Ayda with Adaine, and fled to Hell soon after. She floods Hell, rather like Ayda had once threatened. Not with magic, but with her grief. 20 years later, she finally leaves for the day, entrusting Baby with a mountain of paperwork. He probably won’t work on it at all, but at least she can say she left someone in charge of the Bottomless Pit in her absence. She doesn’t want to leave, Spyre is too filled with the memories of her and Ayda’s travels, but Adaine has been extremely persistent with her use of Sending spells, and “Fig you really should come, it’s Fabian’s 115th, and you’ve missed the last 23 of them. Plus, there’ll be cake. ”. She arrives at his party, snags a glass of champagne and drops her gift off at the table. A mountain of presents for Fabian, as is typical. She stands there, sipping her champagne, planning on leaving as soon as is socially appropriate, when she drops her champagne flute in shock. Standing there, wispy flames around her, is Ayda Aguefort. She looks much the same she did in her younger years. High cheekbones, inquisitive eyes, and a butch fashion sense that always made Fig a little weak in the knees. Ayda smiles at her, “I’ve been waiting for you.” and Fig delights in falling in love with Ayda all over again. This is an Ayda who has never been alone, raised by Adaine and the knowledge that she is loveable. For all that she’s different, though, she’s so much like she was when they were 16 and awkward. Still that same blunt sense of humor, honesty that gets her into trouble sometimes, and that beautiful smile.
The sixth time they meet for the first time, it feels almost routine. Fig says goodbye to Adaine (or occasionally Aelwyn) for roughly 20 years, and finds other ways of occupying her time. She rules the Bottomless Pit more actively than she had in the previous 50 years, she works on a flurry of albums, she writes poetry. Those 20 years are often lonely, but there’s a certain anticipation that colors them. She knows she’ll be seeing Ayda again soon enough. Sometime, early on, of the fourth time meeting Ayda for the first time, she had told her “You don’t have to pick me again, if you don’t want to. I’d understand if you met someone. I know you’re not the same Ayda each time.” Ayda had laughed at her, in that shrill shrieking laugh of hers. “Of course I’ll choose you again. I’ll choose you every time. I always miss you, even when I haven’t read my journals yet and don’t know who you are.” After that, Fig has dealt with their reincarnation-enforced separation differently. Gone are those long years spent in grief, now she fills the space between them with creation.