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candycryptids · 2 days ago

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Levraut fishes up what is CLEARLY a cursed artifact. Like the kind of cursed that'd take Y'shtola and Urianger half an expansion to figure out how to deal with it.

Who would he try to give it to with a big ole smile and a "Oh I just thought of you when I found this" ?

[as a mild aside I love this ask so much I might gpose something for it later because it made me laugh]

So there’s two options to this- and both are equally possible, so just think of it as a place where the timeline splits 😂

The first one is handing it off to Kizuna who he thought of immediately as being just the sort of Hero to deal with the sort of mess a cursed artifact comes with. Perhaps it would be of use during his battles to come? Who knows- Kizuna’s Eaten Voidsent several times in the past so hopefully the worst case is he slurps it dry, and it’s just a cool definitely not cursed trinket that doesn’t pulse under your fingertips like it has a lifeblood of its own.

Lev needed it out of his own hands asap though. It was whispering to him. Shapes curling in the corners of his vision. Out on the water he saw what he thought was a ship, lantern dangling as an inviting beacon. So why did it have fins, the glint of teeth poking out of the water at the bow? “Hail, sailor,” it calls, “come hither, cast off the dingy, we’re stranded, we can pay you handsomely, and more,”

Anyways. Get rid of it.

Or! He gives it to Tangy- an orange cat who would probably appreciate this sort of thing. Some sorta gauntlet, mysteriously lacking corrosion from its time under the waves. When he’d hauled it up, it had been grasping at the lure. Yet it pried away easily, like it was meant to be held. To be worn.

‘Much too big for my hands, though,’ a voice unfamiliar in his mind murmurs.

“Here, you seem the sort what would really ‘preciate this sorta find,” he declares, presenting this glove, washed clean of the salt and wrapped in soft cloth. To Tangy, his new made friend, made in the Rising Stones. She’d just been complaining her hands had hurt from using them bare to fight. Surely a glove would be a welcome gift.

Certainly, he was not guided into her path, a gullible, stupid girl, who slides the gauntlet on like a perfect glove with a bright and too-toothy smile. “Oh I LOVE IT!” She squeals, and then she goes off to crush another Garlean squadron that was patrolling too near for comforts.

The gauntlet tries to whisper, to probe, to control, manipulate, but Tangy brushes it off. ‘Thats not very nice,’ she tells it once, when it had suggested that if the merchant was going to insult her she should show him her full might, demand respect.

‘I’m not going to waste food like that,’ she stubbornly defies it again later, when it urges her to pour boiling hot soup into someone’s lap after an off-handed comment about Moenbryda rubbed raw wounds of all seated.

She polishes this glove, gives it a place of high honor (right next to her bedside table!) and even has a replica made for her other hand. Too stubborn to be manipulated. It gives up, eventually, resigned to its fate of being wasted

Sometimes it tries to call to others; Thancred, Urianger, Y’shtola, Ishi’li- never Keathan, who would smite it before it could take hold.

Someday she’ll slip up, and perhaps some other hand will slide into that welcoming embrace, and it will renew its efforts to overtake, consume, throttle, command, Rise.

Anyways Kizuna + Keathan belong to @dustedbooksandreadingnooks and this was really fun to answer MWAH

#ffxiv Levraut #ffxiv Tangy #ffxiv Kizuna #I really liked Dredge.#but also Cursed Gauntlet that wants to dominate 😬😳#I shoulda gotten weirder w/ it but- it is a start #TY FOR THE QUESTIIIOOON #2sday answers

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