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Austin Butler training for Dune Part Two. Credits: iTunes Extras.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR + angry buck about to kill a child

requested by @springsteens

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- Daddy…

- Yes?

- Are you always strong?

- Nobody is always strong.

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John & Judy’s reunion in 3.04 “Nothing Left Behind”

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Dave Auburnbrie

Even though I ain’t one to talk, I beat myself up over the lives of the hunters I couldn’t save … — that’s what each of these tags mean to me. They hurt.

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it didn't feel like it. in the middle of the whole mess, she hadn't had time to think, just react - make a split second decision, based on a dozen changing risks. but now in the haunting light of hindsight, kim was poking holes in her choices; the beach had been scattered with daemons too, but would a push to the haven have been a better option?

the mother of pearl had backed them into a corner, but a corner that had had far too many points of entry and limited resources ... the haven would have been a struggle, but at least it had the oracle's runes.

petra's arm felt heavy and warm around her shoulders, his embrace grounding her and steering her off of the airship, keeping her moving forward and preventing her from looking back at the literal carnage that lay on the floor of the airship.

reaching up to swipe away the hot tears that streaked down her dirt-stained cheeks, kim sniffed and shook her head to try and shake away the tears - she wasn't allowed to breakdown. not right now. it wouldn't help anyone, and there were so many people to help after this.

' — do we know who we lost and who's hurt? i, i need to contact next of kin for them. '

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"You made the right call under pressure; the beach was crawling with daemons too." She was in shock and he could see it in her eyes, only letting the horror of what they had been through sink in now. Petra shook his head and kept his arm around her, making her walk away from the airship and the devastation left on its hangar floor. "Every call you made was right, Kim."

Of course she was poking holes in it all now, but there hadn't been another safe place to land. The road still had streetlights and was the safest landing zone. The airship would have been inundated with daemons if it tried to land closer to the Mother of Pearl.

he's not supposed to get hurt. Those words made him slow his step, struggling with how to respond. The fear in Kim's voice went through him like a bolt and all he could think of was the wave of grief when he realised his own parents had been killed in invasion of the Crown City. But Dave wasn't a civilian; he was the head hunter. He wasn't supposed to get hurt, just like Kim said.

"We need to get you patched up, come on." He couldn't give her an answer on her dad right now, but one step at a time; get her to triage and then find out how serious things were with Dave.

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Kim @meldacioxhq & Ana

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John & Judy’s reunion in 3.04 “Nothing Left Behind”

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It was only when they were safe on the airship that reality struck true.

The medics gathered around Dave, their tones low and panic tangible in the air. Radio messages were sent to Formouth to have an emergency team ready by the power plant’s plaza. This wasn’t good.

Petra could sense the fear in the air as he looked around the airship. Every other hunter was nursing an injury, him included. His right shoulder wasn’t in its socket, and he had some cuts and bruises that would bloom in a day or so. But that was healthy compared to some. Gashes, stitches and missing fingers … but they were alive.

Two daemon walls had never been seen before. Half their convoy was dead and Galdin was lost.

But someone else was lost, he realised as his attention settled on her. Kim’s eyes wouldn’t leave her dad the whole flight to Formouth, even when Pelna and the others met them at the landing zone and rushed Dave away. This was bad. Even Kaleb looked paler than pale as he slowly walked off of the airship. Dave could die. What would the hunters do? Petra stopped himself from that train of thought there and then. No.

“Kim?” She didn’t blink or give any other sign she had heard him; standing motionless at the base of the airship’s ramp and it was then he remembered how scared she was of airships too. Trauma heaped onto trauma. “Kim?” Nothing again. Rounding the girl, Petra frowned when he saw how faraway her eyes were; following the trial of blood on the concrete.

“Hey, come here.” His shoulder was dislocated, but Petra didn’t care right now. His good arm wrapped around Kim’s shoulders, trying to shake her back to here and now. She had made all of the right decisions at Galdin. There was nothing that could have been done differently. “You stay with me, okay?”

A glance to Holly and she nodded back; they would clear up that blood straight away. “Come on, we need to get you checked out to. There’s a triage set up inside.”

her back was pressed up into a corner where two walls of the airship met, the furthest point away from the loading ramp. she didn’t hear him, not at first, not really at least. petra’s voice was distant and muffled, like it was underwater. ger gaze was fixed, locked on the dark red trail that led down the ramp. if she squinted and turned her head so that the shadows danced across the loading ramp, kimi could convince herself that it was oil maybe?

but it wasn’t oil. it was blood. her dad’s blood. 

her name was spoken again, louder this time, and closer. she registered it as petra’s voice. sharp and commanding, cutting through the fog like a beacon. his arm was around her shoulder next, jarring her from her daze and bumping against a tender spot she knew a bruise was blooming, but she didn’t flinch. she couldn’t. everything felt too heavy to move. but the warmth that seeped from him anchored her.

kim swallowed hard. blinking once. twice. her eyes finally lifting from the trail of blood to petra’s face. he had a cut on his cheek. smears of blood and grime across his skin. his eyes were bloodshot too, but steady. far more steady than she knew hers were right now. 

kim’s lips parted, dry and cracked, her throat was tight, and it took a conscious effort to force her voice out.

‘ i should’ve seen it, ’ her voice was barely a whisper, hoarse and uneven, brows lifting and knitting together as she replayed events in her head, ‘ the second on. we fell back to the mother of pearl. it was far enough away from the cliffs … why - why didn’t i tell them to land on the beach? ’

twisting to look behind her, back to the dark trail pool on the floor of the airship, kimi’s throat tightened again, a lump lodging and threatening to cut her voice off altogether ‘ he was covering me, he always — ’ kim stopped short, the lump in her throat making her voice crack and it took a solid few seconds before she spoke again, finally tearing her gaze away from the airship as petra steered her down the ramp, ‘ — he’s not supposed to get hurt. ’

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He didn't often get t'leave the mainland, let alone touch base in Altissia. But this was a special mission so t'speak. Waitin' for the walkway t'be lowered, Dave kept a hand on Kimi's shoulder as folks shuffled off the ferry. The sun was shinin', the city alive with banners an' balloons for the Moogle festival. How many times ha his little'un asked to visit here? Reachin' down to lift her up onto his shoulders, Dave grinned as Kimi's face lit up. "Jus' you an' me squirt, whole weekend."

were they on a holiday? she'd gotten to take her shoes off at galdin, but the boardwalk had been too hot to walk on then without her shoes, so her dad had put her on his shoulders and the view from up there had been so cool - she could see angelgard and all the people swimmin' and playin' on the beach.

and the lady who cooked the food at the place there had been so nice too and she'd given her cookies to eat. the man sittin' on the bench near the boat had been funny too, joking with her papa and then he'd given her a pretty little bracelet with a red stone on it too!

and then she'd gotten to go on a big boat, but she didn't remember too much other than it was bumpy because she'd fallen asleep for a little while, until he papa had woken her up to tell her they'd arrived.

all the other folks rushed t'get off the boat, bumpin' into each other and elbowin' each other t'try and be the first off, kimi wrapped an arm round her papa's leg to make sure she didn't get knocked over in the rush.

but then her papa lifted her up onto his shoulders again and kimi instinctively ran her little fingers through his hair when he settled her on his shoulders - none o' them folks were gonna knock her over up here! and she could see waaaaaay more from up here!

she could see the fancy boats they called gonda-somethins, and all the pretty banners with all the pretty colours, tons of balloons, an' there were moogles! and chocobos! kicking her legs as she let out an excited squeal, kimi felt her balance rock, but then her papa caught her ankles and all was okay again.

' y'mean it? y'ain't gotta go on a hunt over here or nuthin'? daddy - can we play some o' the games? '

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John & Judy’s reunion in 3.04 “Nothing Left Behind”

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FFXV Reference: Hunter Ranks

Just a table with the ranks for the hunters in-game and the names of those ranks. Also included the stars needed to reach each new rank and the reward earned for each benchmark.

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ffxv aes | dave auburnbrie 

(shout out to @meldaciomartyr for making me realize max martini is a spot on fc for our favorite hunter)

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ffxv aes | vesperpool, cleigne

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ffxv aes | hunters