#Maybe she's even a shard of Hyth?

[humblemooncat]

So your into post lists Orias as a Co-Warrior of Light and so I'm curious, what is Ki'to and Orias's dynamic as co-WoLs? I love to see how people separate who goes through which events or how they go through them together.

Technically speaking, I wrote "Co-" there since she's the alt I'm replaying the story with, but now you got the brain cogs working and I need to expound upon this because they'd absolutely be able to work in tandem.

I can only really speak for Ori up until mid-SB, but even then it'd be an interesting team.

A Sharlayan Cultural Historian and a Fresh-faced Moon Keeper walk into a bar- A joke, but not entirely untrue.

It's likely they came to the Carline Canopy around the same time. Orias would have been the one on the carriage, as Ki'to entered from the North Shroud. They would have paid the other no real mind other than pleasantries, but since they both started as archers, they would have had something to bond over. Like as not, they probably worked through most of those quests together, only really diverging once Ki'to picked up Pugilist in Ul'dah while they traveled as envoys.

After that fork in their paths, they'd likely have stayed as a group, helping with the problems that cropped up, taking on dungeons together, etc. Then when it came to primal slaying they'd do that together as well. By the end of ARR, they were probably the best of friends, honestly.

Ori likely comforted Ki'to when Raha was left in the Crystal Tower, and likewise, he'd likely comfort her when Thancred passes tf out later on.

I could go on, but these two would absolutely mirror each other by EW. So in-tune with each other that they probably wouldn't even have to look at each other and still be in sync.

(Hell even the color palettes I use for them are opposing. Bright whites, yellows, & golds for Ori, and Dark blacks, purples, & golds for Ki'to. The gold is the only tie-together.)

Also, the sass levels if these two were in the same room? Palpable. Absolute gremlins, the both of them.

I might just weave their canons together now. Thank you for the brainworms.

[yamisnuffles]

nothing i can come up with right now has the subtle touch that makes all your aus so good, so you're gonna get what you're gonna get, and maybe i'll send another later lmao. so same question i just answered: what would an ascian or unsundered azem au look like?

Okay, so, for Ascian Azem to make sense for me, she would have to have in this universe gone along with the Zodiark plan because I still hold that they were to some extent tempered. Also, she would need to be Sundered still, to keep that time loop.

So, starting with that base:

She would be a bit broken before the Sundering even happened. It would break something in her to give up on finding another way. Doubly so when Hyth sacrifices himself. That said, I think Hyth telling her and Emet his plan is what would have swayed her in the first place. With Emet so adamant about the Zodiark plan and Hyth literally offering up his life to see it through, she could have in some universe decided she couldn't turn on both of them. It would very much destroy some part of her to do so, though.

When the Sundering happens, what bright, flaming light was left in her would be snuffed out. When she had her memories restored, she'd have instant, crushing regret that she hadn't tried to find another way. She'd be certain that things would have ended differently if she had (even though she'd be wrong there). This would result in her becoming withdrawn. Depressed. I think it would take a long time for her to snap out of that. Perhaps that's what leads to her death a few times with different shards.

Eventually it would be too much. To still have Emet but see him changed every time she's restored would crush her and she would see it as another failure on her part. It was already too late for Elidibus and she'd never been on the best terms with Lahabrea but if she'd pulled herself together sooner, maybe she could have at least kept Hades. So she would leave. Go her own way and hop from body to body as needed when one passed awa. Belatedly try to find a different plan.

She would spend a long time on her own. From time to time, Emet would try to get her back for personal reasons and Elidibus for the good of the plan, but she would rebuff both. That said, she wouldn't do anything to interfere with their plans for the Rejoining. She would still long for Zodiark's return and, with him, hopefully Hyth. Also, like Emet, I think she would be determined to hold onto her original, unsundered appearance.

Eventually, after thousands of lifetime's of failures, I think she'd go back to Emet's side. By this point, they'd have sort of swapped places in the relationship, with him the bringer of chaos and her the weary, hard working one. What finally snaps her out of all of this would be the modern day warrior of light. In Aubrey, she would see a mirror of much of who she had once been. Still so alive and full of so much fire and love despite everything, it would be enough for her to see hope. They would fight so that Azem could see if she actually had what it would take to overcome the Final Days when they returned. Upon defeat, with classic chaotic style, she would offer her soul up so that Aubrey could be empowered.

So there you have it. It would be complete with lots of tragic attempts by Emet for them to have what they once did (and for her to sometimes try as well). Lots of them regretting what the other had become and Emet convinced any shard he'd restored had just come back wrong. In the end, things would be about like canon, except that Emet would have an extra streak of "Why YOU" with Aubrey (as would Elidibus, but in a different flavor).

[ambalambs]

Don't think I didn't see your tags about Miko's Azem. I need to know all about them! Do you have a name for them? What kind of personality do they have? How do they get along with Hades, Hythlodaeus, Venat, Hermes, Themis, et al. How would they get along with Miko and how are they similar and how are they different?

Oh geeze the cats out of the bag, I do have an azem concept for Miko xD his name is Dionysus! Or Dio for short to his friends. I see him being a pretty energetic guy who strives to live for excitement and fun and just loves being around people. You'd just rarely find him alone or not busy with something.

Im gonna put the rest under a break just in case I get carried away here lol

So basically he's a super cheery and approachable guy but he is definitely someone you wouldn't want to get on his bad side. He has a habit of coming up with unorthodox ideas and if someone decides to hurt him or someone he cares about he will take joy in making them suffer lol but he's usually a sweetheart otherwise! But yeah just he's got of a bit of a deranged quirk to him like I mentioned about the butterfly concepts in those tags you clearly saw xD but most of the time it's harmless ideas. For example he'd probably ask if he could give a caterpillar concept two heads, and when asked why he'd even want to do that he'd reply with something like "so it wouldn't feel lonely 🥺". And just in general I kinda see him being a little creature at times like there's no doubt Hades has had to pluck a few leaves or twigs out of his hair before they go into a meeting. Boy is a free spirit lol

As for relationships he is closest to hythlodaeus. I feel like during the whole final days stuff when he learns of hyth's sacrifice it was most likely the final straw to break him. Just based on canon tho he'd of course also be friends with Hades. He'd take immeasurable joy in pestering him lol but he'd know the limit and only push his buttons on a good day. Themis would be like a little brother to him and possibly an awful influence in most of the other convocation member's eyes lol as for Venat he would've definitely looked up to her as a mentor and since she was a kindred spirit when it came to relations with the people and exploring he felt extremely comfortable with her. He'd always talk her ear off about his wild ideas or things he'd see/experience on his travels. Im not sure if he'd have ever had a deeper relationship with hermes tho beyond just "this is a guy I work with and he seems sad so im gonna chat him up when I see him, maybe show him a cool bird concept ive been cooking up. He seems to like birds." Lol

I do have this idea, or theory I guess, that venat told azem about the whole future stuff with hydaelyn and zodiark and the final days at some point. And this would've been devastating for him to learn and hard to accept and why he left the convocation and everything behind. He'd have been angry having to sit aside and let fate play out as it must so I think that really strained his relationship with Venat and of course Hades. I could go on deeper about all that probably but idk how atm lol but it does play into how I feel like he'd feel about miko.

Like if they were to meet i feel like there would be a deep sadness and resentment for miko. Dio would just take one look at him and wonder "why you?". But there'd also be respect. That something so small, just a piece of himself, could continue on and accomplish all that miko has. And to witness all the love and compassion and hope and courage in this little shard would eventually sway him and Dio would come to love miko, not as a piece of himself but as his own person. Ngl I'd love an azem vs wol battle to test their worth or something xD I feel like thatd be fun. But yeah I mean there are small similarities between them if one knew where to look. They both have that joyous nature and are good with people. Their ability with song. Dio is just more unhinged than Miko is in like Miko doesn't take joy in fighting or hurting others even if they've wronged him and he's more chill than Dio is in general I think lol if that all makes sense.

Also im gonna be bold and share a basic concept doodle I did of him just cuz I needed to get an idea out of what he'd even kinda look like. So this is all subject to change but I do see him at least having long hair with this color and silver eyes.

[the-unending-journey]

I am probably late so don’t feel obligated but:

💘💝💬🌟 for Panacea and Hyth please

( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡

Sorry for the late reply, I was just going to bed when you sent this orz

What are the ways my muse says ‘I love you’ without actually saying it? There's so many things Panacea does - giving Hyth encouragement when he feels he's not really all that great compared to people like Venat and Hades, making him concoctions for his health from her experiments (they're safe, don't worry!), visiting him at work whenever she's able to, inviting him on her shorter journeys... There's a reason he calls her his personal sun sometimes

Does my muse like Valentine’s Day? Did the Ancients even have anything like this? Maybe something more archaic if it did exist and you best believe Panacea would be all over something like that. A day solely dedicated to showing how much she loves her husband and all her friends and family? Sign her up. Everyone is going to be drowning in her favorite flowers

When did my muse go on their first date? Believe it or not, it was Panacea that asked Hyth to go out with her. She had a little spot out in the world that she often liked to visit to just clear her head and just simply enjoy existing without any obligations for a time. No one else knew about this spot, but then Hyth got that privilege. Also, it absolutely exists in the sundered world and it may be a spot that Kiyo frequents

What is my muse’s sexual/romantic orientation? Panacea is bisexual as hell, but not nearly the awkward disaster that her shard Kiyo is lol

[toadeyes-miqote]

Further Levindome  - Whoa! Déjà vu

And chocobopoop hit the cpu fan.

Escalating lvl 99 msq is escalating and I'm rummaging through pop culture reference to process this.

Please be doing the cat quest with a 5.0 and up 4 legged ground running minion and calling it a glitch for Matrix or Reboot glitching fun

Glitchy cat spoilers below

Newly Entered the Matrix spoiler

Please give the ones(your wol too) who have been through ShB a hug and take note of them. PTSD abound. G'raha and Alisaie are not reacting well to this place, the process that powers this place is bringing back ShB trauma. Neither is Hlynyan, the whole removal of memories scares her(see the Fordola echo scene and probably what teaching Meteion to deal with pain and lost means). Forgetting people like Haurchefant or even Yotsuyu. Or Exarch somehow. Oh yeah it reminds her of Elidibus' dementia during his Amaurontine Guilt trip

Kinda glad Thancred isn't on the main team. I doubt he takes well to losing memories of loved ones and endangering other shards.

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- In general Wuk Lamat the newbie is naturally more incline to negotiation than veteran Hylnyan.( highly amused that both Hylnyan and Alisaie are seeing too much similarities in past expacs that Sphene was sussy from first sight)

- that thing about Gudako and Hylnyan not quite seeing eye to eye on stagnant shard pruning.

Hello folks, welcome to the Fujimaru Ritsuka's Lostbelts-Ascian experience. You ain’t nudging stagnant timelines in the direction you want to go no more.

/ Puts on mythril foil hat

- Which sundered or unsunder is Hylnyan to punt with her oni greatclub for the 2nd Calamity? - Was a Fandaniel involved in the removal and processing of souls thing?

- the whole memory and nostalgia theme feels like Emet's handiwork after what he did in the Tempest-Amaurot (which diorama is more recent? And what if Tempest-Amaurot happened after Solution 9 malfunctioned into a space-time lock?)

- Emet obviously knows something and was he expecting Hylnyan to clean it up?

- What are the odds that the Allagan empire was a project to get to unlock Levindome or Levindome tech part 2?

- For that matter, was Emet able to access Levindome after it got locked up?

- Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, GITS and maybe Appleseed references aside. Paradise is the downtown business district… This feels like Emet remembering the glorious past of bureaucratic constancy of Amaurot. an then an NPC mention that the living used to use the area.

You are my special

Ghost in the shell

where the Volcano?

I am starting to lose my train of thought enroute to work

Because Dawntrail is amusing to me in that Hylnyan, Wuk Lamat and Sphene are all green eyed ladies.

Headcannon territory and really wild guessing alert.

Sphene is an Emet creation, she's a lighter hair and light jade green eyes version of Azem!Helen (if not the Persephone who was gone before he met Azem!Helen). Who juat happen to have a passing resemblance / personality (may or may not be a shard) and that was enough for Emet to trial run soul plug and play(whatever it was that he was doing to Zenos). The purge of an individual existence from the memories of others was an accidental side effect that couldn’t be fix by the time the rejoining happen.

Either he left the memories (failed project) as is or he can’t retrieve them

Tempest was easier without wonky AI but had a mouthy Hyth shade instead

I lost my train of thoughts and left Hylnyan to check on G'raha.

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

🌟 : A secret wish headcanon

Sorry for being slow. But have my WoLs' and Azem's secret wishes!

Demos is minor in that he wishes that the Scions would take him a bit more seriously with his artistic skill. This has nothing to do with the new job announcement and has always been a bit of a sore spot since it first happened in HW. He's shown off his work, people have loved it, his work was used as maps for the shinobi from time to time (boy loves to climb and will draw the layout of the city that he can see), he's damn good at drawings of people and still Alphie is praised as the artist of the group :') The biggest insult was when he had to relinquish his latest journal in ShB to get them into Eulmore as more evidence of Alphie's skill since the single used paintbrush just wasn't cutting it and Demos isn't going to let it go any time soon. Let him take the drawing reins now and then and he'll be happy. He will never, however, have the same beef with Krile because that's just justice in his eyes.

Sib's secret wish is that somewhere her brother is still alive and it was just her projection on Ultima Thule of him, not his actual soul. Especially knowing what she knows now like she really wants to meet him and get to know him again, thank him, and show him that she's gonna be okay now. Hell she'll even settle for encountering a shard of him at this point to even get a more genuine glimpse into the core of him. Part of her now kind of feels like its missing or something she doesn't quite understand yet, but in honor of him she's gonna keep going to find out just what it is and have fun along the way. Could she go into the Aetherial Sea and seek him out there? Sure, but where's the fun in that? Not to mention the fear of knowing he's there and that he can't speak to her. Which is far from true, Palladium would love to speak with her and tell her what happened and how proud he is of her and wish her well on all the adventure's to come, but she's to scared to find out.

Deimos wishes that he was never made to skip grade levels at such a young age. Like one maybe two wouldn't have been that bad he thinks but going from the equivalent of kindergarten to 5th grade was a bit much and so othering. Like it would have been one more but that was where his parents stopped it because at least at that level he wouldn't be alone, he'd have his cousin Hades with him. But the grade skipping really made it hard for him to connect with kids his age because he was adapting to try and get kids older than him to like him and accept him which ended up in him not really having any friends other than Hades and Hyth. And this is still true well into his adult years, he has a hard time connecting with people in his eyes because he's finding more peers his age but he's not able to find common ground and while he's fine having friends that are older than him there's a part of him chasing the experiences he feels he missed out on. While being Azem afforded him a more variety of people and those that understood him, it still just wasn't quite the same as someone from the culture and society you come from. He's starving for some kind of attention he can't really articulate and it tends to come out in him well being impulsive, loud, out there, constantly moving, etc., thankfully he's always had Hades and Hyth in the wings translating essentially.

[dravania]

Scribbling down an assortment of Post-Endwalker headcanons/”To-Writes”/Etc. (Part 1?)

-Nyx, Ahru’s ancient self, 100% had a puppy crush on Venat in her younger years. Though very much unrequited, Venat obviously loves and adores her beyond measure. I’d say the relationship was closer akin to mother-daughter, but that really isn’t quite it. I don’t know if there is an equivalent in my dictionary at least. It was intimate and important, but -

-Venat has a wife. Idk much else about her right now but this is obviously part of why Nyx never really even took her own crush on Venat seriously because Venat is absolutely smitten with her wife. I’m soft for this, but it’s still in such early stages of headcanon. Her wife just... braiding Argos’ long fur and sending notes and lunch via doggy delivery...

(Venat wife? maybe?)

-Still figuring out the Ancient Polycule: for the most part, Hyth/Azem/Hades is just my natural default. But sometimes I throw Persephone in there too (generally I just wanna find a good way to smooth Percy/Kore into Ahru’s verse).

-In addendum to that also been considering the vague possibility of Azem/Hermes but in my general headcanons, Hermes was always smitten with Ahru first, so still poking around at it as a possibility. Him falling for Nyx because there’s ‘something familiar about her’ could be fun though for pain 😩

-I’ve got several “fix it” headcanons for Hermes and at least one for Zenos (as a note, more or less every ship is a separate AU, but other than the ship itself most larger narrative details do not change a whole lot):

-Zenos wakes up in a bunny boy with no memories. A bit of the Yotsuyu effect. His name is Levos Sayahr and when he hears people talk about the Warrior of Light his memory radar starts pinging though he doesn’t know why, but he’s obsessed. He kind of ‘follows in her footsteps’ as an adventurer, making a name for himself and finally managing to cross path with Ahru, who realizes whats up when she sees him but doesn’t know how to deal with the situation at all. So she just lets him follow her around like a lost puppy and uh, he does... start to remember... But by that point they’re also fucking.

-G’raha verse is so wholesome though okay. She sticks around Sharlayan a lot, while going and doing some other junk here and there, but her and G’raha just end up helping around Labyrinthos a ton and going on cute dates to the Last Stand and she does take him to Ishgard to meet her dad Edmont. 🥺 There’s plenty for them to do, but I’m also refraining a little because I am 👀 @ those upcoming patches. Do you think he’ll be involved in the Myths of the Realm because Emet said “Expand your horizons” and was looking directly at G’raha-

-She also takes G’raha to Hyr’asra, in part to aid her home in cleaning up post-Final Days, but maybesortakinda to introduce him to her mother. Not that she cares what her mother thinks or anything. While they’re there they go exploring the myriad ruins dotting the village and its surroundings and Arsh pokes fun at them for being so dangerously similar. There was a locked door in one of the Allag ruins and Ahru’s like omgomg I’ve been wanting to see what’s behind this door for ages, G’raha open it! Good times are had.

-On that note, Ahnia has decided that moving forward they intend to find ways to open Hyr’asra to the wider world. By it’s nature, shielded away, it’s not an easy thing to do, but just even so far as offering aide to nearby villages and such. For that, she extends an invitation to the Scions, her daughters friends and allies, to be Hyr’asra’s first guests, and also to seek some council in how they might move forward with these intentions. This is absolutely baffling to Ahru and G’raha has to pretty much explain it all to the Scions when they meet up later because Ahru just can’t parse it even a week later.

-One Hermes fix is just that she stumbles across his shard on the First while checking in on Halric while making some of her usual rounds a bit. The light took his memories, but he often saw glimpses of another life in those searing hot flashes of pain. (Forbidden lore though: He lived in Eulmore and was a successful bard who rose from bonded to free citizen - though clearly, something at some point went very wrong for him to have ended up where he did.)

-Another fix is legit just popping Hermes back into place, using one of Amon’s clones that was just collecting dust in some conveniently placed ruins. No really, as mentioned above Hyr’asra has always been home to Allagan ruins (and Amdapori), and it fits too well that Amon might have sent a clone to this particular outpost, where they were investigating older ruins (Ancient ruins, you could say - listen I know what lore says about there probably being no surviving Ancient ruins on the source because of the calamities but this place has specifically been protected by Arshadaya, an Ascian, since antiquity so- anyway that’s a whole separate write-up I’ve been meaning to do).

So Hermes hops into this body and him and Ahru and Meteion live happily ever after. There’s definitely more to it than that I swear but so many details to iron so little time.

-As for small things to write: Meteion playing matchmaker to Ahru and Hermes. She KNOWS they are very much fawning over each other now if only they’d do something about it. Hermes loves candied apples, and Hermes loves Ahru - Ahru, make Hermes some candied apples!

-Oh, right, Meteion. Listen if they’re gonna give us a Starbird minion I’m taking that as a ‘this one little Meteion is okay because she deserves to experience a world of hope and light’. She flies around and does stuff on her own a lot, but she’s pretty much always? close to Ahru. She doesn’t have a whole lot of power it would seem, and she can’t freely communicate: she can only telepathically talk to one person at a time, and has to have contact with them, i.e. perching on their shoulder or hand.

Plenty more but god this is already super long so gonna cut myself off there for a part 2 later maybe. 😩

[humblemooncat]

This is still my absolute favorite head bonk screenshot and I will use it again for the theme of love if I want to. No one can stop me.

#MiqoMarch - Day 21, Love

Since I have no way currently to get new shots of him with his husbands, I will share these old ones along with shots I took of dialogue and moments where Ki'to here just could not contain his love and I just had to capture it.

I figure that way you can see love through his eyes.

Also, spoilers ahead. I can't mention everything unless I give some spoilers. But! Everything is in chronological order, so you can skip any parts you have yet to see!

Finally got to sit down and just have a quiet moment with Aymeric.

Starlight '22 spoilers. Gods, who let this man look so cute in that outfit? I need to thank them. (Also ngl seeing Aymeric being so sweet with a child made Ki'to's heart swell)

This ain't just about the husbands, btw. Soft Uri had me on the floor in my feels. I love him so much.

✨ S h e ✨

This still reads like a proposal to me. This was when Ki'to knew he was in it for the long haul.

When these goobers walked in unannounced with bags of food in their arms, this boy was so godsdamned happy. Dinner with the gang is one of his favorite things.

Hyth has a special place in Ki'to's heart. I like to think it's because Azem really loved him as well, and that love carried across shards.

The relief this gave Ki'to was immense. He never wanted to burden the others with his troubles because he knew they had their own. So Raha telling him this eased so much tension within him. And instead of walking away like he does in the cutscene, Ki'to asked him to stay so they could talk. In all honesty, this was probably the most loved he'd felt in a while. His struggles were seen and acknowledged, and his lover made sure he felt comfortable sharing them.

Being an inspiration to young adventurers made him extremely happy. If he can inspire generations after him to go out, explore, and learn about the world around them, then maybe Eitherys could be a kinder place in the future.

Gods, this man loved Venat/Hydaelyn with his whole heart. The way she saw the world was so beautiful to him. He wished things could have been different so she could see the world as it is now, but she went out on her own terms and he respects that. Though to say their battle brought him happiness would be a lie. She'd been there every step of the way and he wept for her before being unceremoniously dragged out of the aetherial sea.

I cannot even begin to describe the complex emotions running through Ki'to's mind at this point...

There was a S I G N I F I C A N T pause before he answered G'raha here. I hovered on the lower option for like 5 minutes.

"You can't do this to me. Not again..."

It's what he wanted to say. 'You can't sacrifice yourself again. I've watched you seal yourself away, try to cast yourself out with the light of multiple Wardens, be consumed by crystal, and now you want me to watch your very aether be dispersed?'

But in the end he chose to give him strength. 'I can't be selfish when we've come this far...'

Even when Devotion overtook him as he made his climb with the twins, Azem's crystal never left his hand. Stuck as far into his glove's palm as possible. If he was able. If fate allowed. He would summon them all back. He had to.

This shot was taken out of love because he wanted to cling to his words. His promises. The light of hope that they could be realized.

And here's the relief.

And lastly, he was happy to see that Meteion finally got her happier ending. She deserved it.

In lieu of being able to just make a post about his husbands and the love they share, I thought I would share the moments where you could see the people and things that he loved through his eyes.

Hopefully that translated well, and that you enjoyed!