#.......also because i have so many more pictures of him saved than even aias LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[queenofnohr]

Asha’s player gave me permission to simp for him on main 🥺 Anyway if you haven’t seen my past couple posts that mentioned Asha offhand he is a dear friend’s WoL and the dude Aias is primarily involved with (yes yes I cannot believe I am saying that but I Am Not Immune To Asha and by the end of this post you will not be either, hopefully)

This is my introduction to him unattached from Aias...... I will be making posts later detailing the Themes between them 👁 but for now You Will Stan Asha And Asha Alone.

I’ll be talking about his character growth through the story, but I won’t be talking about any events in particular so this is completely spoiler free! And yes, both the lizard and bunny are him and both are canon 😊

Asha was borne of the Steppe, but his sickly mother fled by ship after the splintering of Xaela clans due to Garlean occupation. His mother died late into her pregnancy aboard the ship/while going into labor, but miraculously he was pulled from her corpse and granted life. He was raised by the Roedagyn sailors upon that ship with no contact with others like him basically until he started his journey as the Warrior of Light.

He is...... both favored by fate and a slave to fate. He is a boy that should not have lived, yet thrives anyway. Conversely, he is the chosen hero that does not know for whom or what he fights, simply playing the role of Warrior of Light because that is what is asked of him, and because people look to him with hope in their hearts.

If there were to be an image attached to him, it would be a man drifting in an empty sea, staring down below at the indiscernible and unfathomable depths. (”Hey Dei, aren’t those exactly the words you used to describe-” shhhhh shhhh shhh do not perceive Aias right now. Eyes on Asha, we will get to that later.) To him, the world is a place in which he is constantly drowning, where everything is unknown, requiring him to ponder deeply before committing himself to anything, but conversely an ocean in which he cannot fight the tides that pull him to and fro. A vast and implacable sea in which he is alone. 

There is actually a canonical reason he’s a bunny but that gets a little into spoiler territory so I’ll. Maybe make a separate post for that. (Or maybe add it under a cut in a reblog?)

Anyway by the end of Endwalker, Asha has both become jaded in his journey and has found pride in himself and his role. His character development can be summed up as going from “people want things from me :(” to “people want things from me :)” And as you can see from the last couple pictures, he’s leaning very hard into the reaper/voidsent lore...... Fully embracing his voidsent and feeding on others’ aether/emotions, he consumes the hopes and wishes and wants people place upon him as food. That which once bound him now sustains him. He’s become a veritable demon, indiscriminately feeding on people, yet still maintains his role as a hero because those very feelings directed toward him as a hero nourish him, the relationship between himself and others like an ouroboros eating its own tail. No longer does he drown in the sea, but looks toward the stars scattered in the night sky, infinite in their possibility, curious about what other delicacies the universe has yet to offer him.