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[daughterofdoma]

Returning Home:  The Crystal Exarch (Part 4)

This is part three of a series of Post-6.0 but Pre 6.1 Gpose stories I’ve created for Akiko’s journey back to Doma to say farewell to her family who perished in the razing of Monzen.  In Ultima Thule, G’raha asked the WoL to take him to Ishgard properly, as well as embark on other adventures, so this is my version of that promise fulfilled.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (Current Post)

It goes both ways in friendship.  It’s not always about how the Warrior of Light feels. Anime toxic positivity tropes shape much of how the characters of FFXIV respond to crisis and trauma, but what are they holding inside?  100 years on another planet isn’t anything to sneeze at, and thinking you are going to die, then suddenly being alive, in your youthful body, separated forever from the people you knew for those 100 years, is going to have an effect.   He was only on The Source for 23 years, as opposed to The First, where he spent the majority of his life, so really... The First was more home than The Source.  The game doesn’t really cover whether or not G’raha has any struggles with it though.  He’s elated to have a second chance at life, but when he is alone with his thoughts... does he think about The First?  Does he grieve for the people he can never see again?  I wanted to imagine what his internal feelings would be regarding it.  The soul vessel had been a shot in the dark after all, not a guarantee.

[daughterofdoma]

Memories of Azem (Complete!)

Alone for a time, Akiko sheds her worries by spinning and dancing around in a clearing of flowers.  This was a habit she’d had for as long as she could remember.  Shadowing her, as he had been doing since her journey to The First, Emet-Selch bears witness to mannerisms that remind him of his long departed friend, a woman whose memory still haunts him even a thousand-thousand years later.  His suspicions about Akiko’s soul had been mounting for a while, yet it was becoming harder and harder to deny as time went on.  

In my headcanon, for the Akikoverse, Emet-Selch loved Azem, but she died and was sundered with everyone else before he could tell her.  As was his (lovable heh) nature to be tsuntsun af, there were unfortunately many words left unsaid.  Would you look at that, I figured out how to include all the images in one post so that it was easy to click through.  Figured I’d reupload this set for the ease of tabbing through the story!

[daughterofdoma]

Memories of Azem, Part 1 (this is the beginning!)    

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Alone for a time, Akiko sheds her worries by spinning and dancing around in a clearing of flowers.  This was a habit she’d had for as long as she could remember.  Shadowing her, as he had been doing since her journey to The First, Emet-Selch bears witness to mannerisms that remind him of his long departed friend, a woman whose memory still haunts him even a thousand-thousand years later.  His suspicions about Akiko’s soul had been mounting for a while, yet it was becoming harder and harder to deny as time went on.  

In my headcanon, for the Akikoverse, Emet-Selch loved Azem, but she died and was sundered with everyone else before he could tell her.  As was his (lovable heh) nature to be tsuntsun af, there were unfortunately many words left unsaid.

[daughterofdoma]

Memories of Azem, Part 4 (This is the conclusion! check other posts for the beginning! )

Part 1   

Part 2

Part 3

Alone for a time, Akiko sheds her worries by spinning and dancing around in a clearing of flowers.  This was a habit she’d had for as long as she could remember.  Shadowing her, as he had been doing since her journey to The First, Emet-Selch bears witness to mannerisms that remind him of his long departed friend, a woman whose memory still haunts him even a thousand-thousand years later.  His suspicions about Akiko’s soul had been mounting for a while, yet it was becoming harder and harder to deny as time went on.  

In my headcanon, for the Akikoverse, Emet-Selch loved Azem, but she died and was sundered with everyone else before he could tell her.  As was his (lovable heh) nature to be tsuntsun af, there were unfortunately many words left unsaid.

[daughterofdoma]

Memories of Azem, Part 3     

Part 1

Part 2

Part 4

Alone for a time, Akiko sheds her worries by spinning and dancing around in a clearing of flowers.  This was a habit she’d had for as long as she could remember.  Shadowing her, as he had been doing since her journey to The First, Emet-Selch bears witness to mannerisms that remind him of his long departed friend, a woman whose memory still haunts him even a thousand-thousand years later.  His suspicions about Akiko’s soul had been mounting for a while, yet it was becoming harder and harder to deny as time went on.  

In my headcanon, for the Akikoverse, Emet-Selch loved Azem, but she died and was sundered with everyone else before he could tell her.  As was his (lovable heh) nature to be tsuntsun af, there were unfortunately many words left unsaid.

[daughterofdoma]

Memories of Azem, Part 2     

Part 1

Part 3

Part 4

Alone for a time, Akiko sheds her worries by spinning and dancing around in a clearing of flowers.  This was a habit she’d had for as long as she could remember.  Shadowing her, as he had been doing since her journey to The First, Emet-Selch bears witness to mannerisms that remind him of his long departed friend, a woman whose memory still haunts him even a thousand-thousand years later.  His suspicions about Akiko’s soul had been mounting for a while, yet it was becoming harder and harder to deny as time went on.  

In my headcanon, for the Akikoverse, Emet-Selch loved Azem, but she died and was sundered with everyone else before he could tell her.  As was his (lovable heh) nature to be tsuntsun af, there were unfortunately many words left unsaid.