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[ffxiv] (ew spoilers possible)
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from a streamer's chat: She RDM, she use RDM skill. But she use it wrong. Supposed to backflip off ledge, not into corner
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pfft
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exactly
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things I learned today:
if on the second boss in don mheg the group is close enough, an Assize can literally break EVERYONE's fetters
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the scene where Emet-Selch introduces himself is HILARIOUS on a lalafel WoL
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he kind of twists his body and bends a little and LOOMS while at the same time there is still the hope in his face
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also looking at Urianger post astro outfit reveal cut scenes makes me go, but what if he's a descendant of a previous incarnation of Emet-Selch...
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... oh right. I knew shb would wreck me and here we go
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https://imgs.plurk.com/QBk/dxU/9HBYxXms1NTkraV9LR0XCmjkd7N_lg.png
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he follows that up with 'well she's dead, isn't she? Wishing it were otherwise won't make much of a difference' I see the knives are out
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https://imgs.plurk.com/QBk/6eO/568wUftKjHWdxIqR9yNjRVrPbW1_lg.png
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and then he fucking SMILES
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and then
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https://images.plurk.com/6T5Do7FsFUcHh8KogGN7A4.png
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. https://images.plurk.com/1HZ9ik50dugnRtek06YHn3.png ... idr the english va but the jp one sounds actually sincere asking this permission, gods
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https://images.plurk.com/2FoAkftUVhDibg5pd8vxWh.png old man, he forgets.
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https://images.plurk.com/61gohRIu7bT51JEheKlEhT.png so gently
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(annnd the first snap
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Immediately followed by a second because what is this leaving here there in the forest all nude.
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https://images.plurk.com/4x2AqYgx7TljWw8kLIPCzd.png RESOUNDING LAUGHTER
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I can't with this game. I can't with this man. https://images.plurk.com/3maCfN3iTcQut3M9IcZLjG.png
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... and I once again forgot that shotal smacks urianger's ass after the dungeon.
𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐅. 🐺
I love him
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sob
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https://images.plurk.com/5LvZ0cxSZjgdligwJ5TOBS.png
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annd Larsa has brought the shadows
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my first ffxiv alt
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Husbands though https://images.plurk.com/5jkAFO9E98dzV60vpCqPRI.png
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my Emet-Selch and Azem emotions are alll over the place
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Emet-Selch... gone. Lahabrea... gone. I alone remain, the last of the unbroken. This LINE hits differently when I know why and how these three remained unbroken and how since this happened after he left Zodiark, Elidibus remembers that those two were protecting him at the time...
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"Emissary" ... What a poor jest this title has become. The flow of history has become muddled, its currents wild beyond my capacity to direct them. sob
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... yeah 5.3 has me sobbing. Again. It's my fourth alt. through it.
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also from last night and 5.3 ... Elidibus explicitly not remembering Azem. Which is its very own knife, given the way Themis is about Azem.
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The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day, but you're not here to see it
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and yes, those are the crystals of those two, I believe.
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(thinking) Larsa is in 5.4 and l85... which means he'll come into EW at level 86 or so. And I should pick another job for him to do early EW with and... level it up to there.
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Haurchefant: My safety was never in doubt, father, not with ser estinien and the warrior of light by my side
me: ... yelp. Ishikawa, PLEASE.
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;;
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lucia: the high clergy are not allowed to marry or sire children, but even the holiest are not immune to temptation.
Edmont: /looks down and away
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yeah this scene is pretty pithy in many ways
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Lucia: If he gets arrested, I'll got fetch him
Estinien: I'll lead the charge!
Haurchefant: I'm in too
Edmont: ... Haurchefant, be reasonable
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of note: He does NOT forbid him.
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and then, of course,
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https://images.plurk.com/3yEsCnLZwpjltbOFQaBzOu.png
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edmont: Romantic, reckless fools, the lot of you
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https://images.plurk.com/3X6WDlpiTdRDnJWEg9v1HQ.png one of these statements is not like the others
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hey
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Ishikawa just put these knives here like nbd
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when you go fishing and catch the sunrise. https://images.plurk.com/1WRVE5tWtbb2nfLDnHkeuu.png
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ooooh prety
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very
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I didn't even register I was fishing facing west
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east
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also you'll recognize the alt
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mengmeng
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:>
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and the sunset also gorgeous
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https://images.plurk.com/4TRQNSQzVUZvlz9hGMLSuG.png
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... I did not expect the last word to be stature
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Apparently a better translation would be 'slender', but...
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/Also, holds up Zephirin as evidence that people can be Tempered into abandoning their most fundamental priorities and still have enough will left to function normally outside of issues related to their Primal.
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oh def
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that's very much how it seems to go
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when you have some strength of will
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It's a shame the WoL never seems to find out how horrified Zephirin must have been with himself when he reached the Lifestream.
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okay but consider
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haurche is there to help
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And would immediately forgive him, because he would know that none of this is like Ser Zephirin.
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or even if it's not immediate and he needs to talk it out
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he will
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because haurchefant is a decent man
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(which is part of why Zephirin would have been horrified)
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(Also, scrolling up, it always gets me how Emet did seem genuinely sincere in his sympathy for Y'shtola's 'death' and desire to help, even if his manners were as bad as ever.)
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oh yes. there was a softness to it which T_T
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especially knowing there is someone he can't pluck out of the lifestream... but some people he can.
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And the fact that he recreated her exact outfit, instead of just tossing her a blanket or even disregarding her dignity altogether...
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Even how quickly he did it, so careful to make sure no one saw anything she wouldn't want them to.
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ayup
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That's not the behavior of someone who doesn't consider her a people, Emet-Selch :V
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he's just. He's known so much pain and loss, and just about al of it has been irreversible. But... there is azem, splintered and faded and in trouble, and he CAN help in a way that doesn't contradict his tempering, and he WILL, and he'll do it right
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not at all
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I imagine he and Y'shtola actually got on pretty well, since her first impression was 'he s
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'he sa
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CAT+
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Her first
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impression of him was '
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okay but that works too, he IS a cat and so is she
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True XD
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But he's more of a gremlin cat, while she's a 'YOLO-wait, I totally knew that would happen' cat.
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and he loves his catnaps
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Her first impression of him was 'he saved my life', and she's reasonable enough that it WOULD earn him a chance to make his case.
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Especially since he followed it up with a history lesson XD
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definitely her kind of people for all of being an ascian
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Not to mention...she has aethersight. How long has it been since Emet's spoken to someone else who can imagine what he means when he talks about the appearance of a soul?
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GRANTED he could have talked to the pixies
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who very much do see souls
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But the pixies would have Shenanigansed at him XD
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which, also nostalgic
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He'd much rather inflict them on someone else than suffer them himself.
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They won't let him nap >:C
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unless SOMEONE specific is around to shenanigan him.
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I think he also found Il Mheg uncomfortably Bright, albeit not as bad as Ahm Araeng.
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yeah ahm araeng was a pain for him
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Whose idea WAS it to do a Light based Calamity, anyway?!
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lmao I love how he's working SO HARD to usher in the light.... and yet he can't stand it
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plus, there was going to be a light based one... sooner or later.
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which reminds me I need to finish eden though those later fights are making me UNSURE about my life choices
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Difficulty or One Fear?
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basically I stress in fights. Which is funny because I actually am not too horrible or anything
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If you're on Aether, I can lend a hand. I've cleared all the normal raids.
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on aether... my alt is in stormblood
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Well, cross-DC play is coming soon!
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I'm focusing on my crystal alt right now so I can hopefully get his canonic gear from ... zadnor...
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though then I'll have to do it with the aether alt also
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those alts being a larsa and a basch respecively
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But yeah, all that Light was not easy on Emet's Darkness Tempered soul...
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it's fine. Now he can take a lot of naps with his head in hyth's lap
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It was probably easier on the Sundered, since they weren't Tempered for nearly as long? But for Emet...
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man
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the whole question is how tempered are the sundered ascians
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/stares at fandaniel
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I imagine it was variable. Something that happened frequently, and might have...been forced if a Convocation member tried to reject the Rejoinings, but wasn't inevitable with Zodiark imprisoned.
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(And likely happened incidentally more often to those who spent a lot of time around Elidibus...)
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Because Fandango definitely wasn't Tempered.
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yeah, basically
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But also. I'm sure Emet wasn't the only Convocation member who would have insisted on finding a different way if he could have.
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man, a friend and I were talking like. Pre-tempering Hades would never have been about Lord Zodiark
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I haven't once had post-death Hades call Zodiark his Lord.
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good
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but yeah going through shb was like. Ahhhhhhhhh
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He'll always use capitals for pronouns referring to Zodiark, but even that's just...habit.
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He actually doesn't. Really. Like Zodiark all that much, now that he has his will back >.>;
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It was only the Tempering keeping him from being furious with Zodiark for stripping Elidibus of his very identity.
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Forcing him to watch as his little brother faded away, one memory at a time...
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The fact that Elidibus didn't even remember the phoenix, in the context of the Panda raids...
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He does, however, keep clinging to the belief that the previous Rejoinings were necessary, and that humanity wouldn't have succeeded if not for every last one of them.
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Elidibus didn't remember Azem either
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that was a heartbreak in my last alt through the 5.x patches I did not expect.
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and yeah hyth would... agree with that even while grieving for all the lives that ended so horribly
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Emet still tries to tell himself that no one before the Seventh Calamity counted, but...he really does hate all the death and suffering it took to get them here.
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/wry he couldn't help witnessing it either
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Being the empathetic sort while also being forced to destroy civilizations over and over, and even build them to be destroyed...
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Allag deserved to fall, though. There was something...not right with them.
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T_T
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Allag was such a mess
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Xande was...A Mistake.
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esp the redux
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Possibly why Emet took a more direct hand in the next empire he built.
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that could be it. Although the tail end of allag did do its part for that calamity so
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Yes, but. It did. So much unnecessary harm.
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And they honestly got kinda disturbing.
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I still can't believe emet looked at amon and his ... experiments and went, oh goodie, time to get fandaniel back
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He probably hoped Herme's memories would help him settle down.
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Besides, he also looked at Amon and saw a fellow theater geek.
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sneeerks the theater geekery that was hyth's
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Yes XD
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He was nostalgic!
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(Wait until Hyth finds out that Hades bought an entire theater ship for his favorite actors.)
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(A fancy one, too.)
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(wholehearted approval)
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(He knew it was what Hyth would have wanted.)
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(absolutely delighted. )
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'Ancients stayed' AU involving Hades taking Hyth to see the Majestic Theater Company perform.
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And Hyth gets to see how much Hades' own love of theater blossomed because it reminded him of better days.
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T_T
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Bonus points if they turn out to be doing a production of one of the more personal plays Hades has written in one of his past identities.
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pffffffftttt
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Surprise, Hyth, your husband took up writing while you were trapped on the moon! (He's a pretty accomplished poet, too, if that one he came up with about his own death is any indication...)
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he's had time
but hyth would posit that is not exactly new. slave to sentiment... very wonderful
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And Hades would turn red and tell him to hush XD
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He denies being sentimental!
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and get a sunny smile and actual hush
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Augh, he can't stay huffy when Hyth's smiling and being extra pretty...
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And this is why their relationship was the worst kept 'secret' in Amaurot.
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basically though hardly anyone can blame him, given... hyth
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He's too beautiful and sweet not to swoon over.
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The real surprise, I'm sure, is that Hades has learned how to keep his composure and deliberately charm people.
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Instead of turning into an awkward, flustered mess when he's actually trying to make a good impression.
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that's because he's stopped caring about leaving a good impression
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Now, sometimes it mattered! It was very important to empire building that Solus be well regarded!
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........But, yeah, it helps a lot that he no longer cares what people think of him unless he's personally invested in them (for better or worse...) or needs something from them.
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and even when he wanted something of them he didn't care about what they thought, just that they do what he wanted
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but let's be real if he has to ask hyth for opinion, awkward will be back
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....
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and once again reminded that when the discussion about the lycaeones is about to start, it's hyth who asks that they attend so emet can do his work more thoroughly. just. He will absolutely be his interface with the rest of the world.
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tmw in leap of faith there is a small line of people cheering when you jump from the golden cactuar spot to the finishing gate island and my brain is, do they cheer everyone who makes it, or is there a streamer...
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hmm given they all seem from diabolos I'll bet on streamer
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........Yeah, yeah it would be.
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He also gets awkward when embarrassed or put on the spot in front of the WoL.
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and hyth just his interface with the world
until he's just not there
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Getting all defensive when he was captured by the Viis, and then doing the awkward monkey gif face when he said something and suddenly everyone was looking at him and expecting elaboration XD
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Really, just further proof that he cared what Azem's reincarnation thought of him.
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bae
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He's mostly improved on the social skills front...but also he's still not used to dealing with people whose opinion matters to him from the start.
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(I do think he eventually came to value his empress' opinion, but it very much started as a purely political arrangement.)
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(very fair.)
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... on that note, he doesn't seem to have that flustering with hyth
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just. so used to him already that it's all right.
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He already knows Hyth loves him no matter what :3
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Though....I do imagine. He would be somewhat awkward and uncomfortable around the subject of his Tempering and the Rejoinings >.>;
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Because with his head clear, he absolutely knows Hyth would want no part of any of that.
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it's hades, he will not turn away
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but he WILL be sad.
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That's not much better!
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... he'll be sad FOR hades too
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and will hold him
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He, of all people, would know how much becoming a villain really forced Hades to break his own heart...
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he does. he does know.
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And he doesn't even want to admit it, because he knows if he lets himself acknowledge how much the tragedies he's caused hurt him too, it'll be too much...
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oh, hades
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hyth is there now. And if there are nightmares, he's there to hold him through them too
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I thin he has a mix of nightmares and nostalgia dreams.
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You don't go through what he has and not have some nasty dreams about it, but short stories seem to imply he pretty regularly dreams about things he misses...
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(And I think that's part of why he likes sleep so much. When he sleeps, he frequently gets to go back home, at least until he wakes back up.)
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at least the latter kind is easier WITH hyth there
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not quite home, but not alone either.
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Yeah, he's not losing everything when he wakes up.
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And unlike Elidibus, Hyth remembers things >.>;
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Just. Wakes up and buries his face in Hyth's hair to take in the nostalgia of his husband's favorite shampoo...
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he's right there. Right there.
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hyth's own dreams are far less... intense, but he probably holds on to the edge of hades's sleeve in his sleep, no matter how tangled up they are.
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Hades clings in his sleep...
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Better hope you don't have to pee in the middle of the night, he is Attached.
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I mean aethersea I think we can do without peeing in the night
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XD Yes, but what about AUs where the WoL pouted at Hades until he agreed to stay a while?
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lmao
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even there he can hold it in if it happens.
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especially since he's doing his own clinging, whether small spoon or big.
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Hades tends toward big spoon, he likes holding his loved ones in his arms...
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of course. But in case he needs to be held, the other option is open.
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lmao I witnessed a discussion in a streamer's chat recently who between hades and hyth is top/bottom
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and I'm like. Arguably both switches but for his part hyth likes being on the receiving end but also... tends to call the shots, in this situation as in most others.
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By default, Hades is a service top and Hyth is a power bottom. But. Sometimes the mood will strike and they'll feel like switching things up a bit.
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basically
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I had a thread with a WoL who was expecting Mr. Allergic to Effort to be a pillow queen, and was happily surprised when he turned out to be very attentive XD
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i can see him having been pillow queen with the empress early on
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with hyth and azem... well
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Back when he was attempting to keep everything professional, and the physical aspect was just because an emperor needs heirs...
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yuuup
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Not to say he didn't enjoy it at all, but the motivation wasn't there to make it anything to write home about.
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but no, his actual spouses he is extremely attentive to. Post the 12k years, even more so
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