#and Yet. here we are BSJXND

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thinking about Khozzak & Zojja throughout the story, plus a little on his sisters Lihllo & Inkii.

He doesn’t become the Commander in the traditional core story way. In fact, he drops out of college long before he even meets Zojja, and his relationship with her is very distant at first.

Inkii becomes the Snaff Savant for 1325 AE, and it’s through her that Khozzak even meets Zojja. He’s only in to check on his sister, and it’s a brief meeting; more like bumping shoulders on his way out than an actual hello.

He doesn’t meet her again until Fort Trinity. They’re both busy, they have no time between her inventions and his missions, but they start to wave at each other. They don’t know each other but they certainly know of each other. Inkii talks to them about the other all the time, but they still don't quite interact.

Eventually they get a mission together, on Orr, and they have a little time to get more acquainted. Khozzak isn't the mindless oaf that she first assumed him to be, and she's not as stuck-up as he was expecting. They get along a lot better than they expect to, and Inkii takes the opportunity to take them both to eat in Lion's Arch. Their other sister Lihllo gets dragged along as well, and the dinner hangout goes great.

Orr and Season 1 go along as scripted (so far, actually haven't played Season 1 yet, lol,) until Heart of Thorns. They're both with the Pact fleet when it goes down over the jungle, and she's on the shortlist of people he's looking for in the chaos. She's quite important to his little sister, so she's just as important to him as Inkii would be.

Khozzak is the first person to her Blighting pod. He wastes no time in cutting a path to Zojja and cutting her down, instinctively ordering Phoenix to go for Logan's pod. Getting the two of them out becomes his top priority; he trusts Phoenix to rescue Trahearne alright on her own. The team is there to back her up, and she's already gotten this far on her own, so he encourages her and turns his attention back to his family.

He checks on Zojja as regularly as he can while she's in hospital care. Inkii checks on her even more, and despite her best attempts, her older siblings pick up on what's going on. But regardless, they realize that they've kind of unintentionally adopted Zojja into the family, and it's a sweet thing for them to notice.

They keep contact with her, albeit sometimes shaky contact, for as long as they can. Inkii sees her the most often, and even when Zojja goes silent she still gets visits. She never gets invited to visit Zojja, but it's alright as long as the elementalist still comes around every now and again.

Until the visits trail off, and Zojja doesn't come by the shop anymore.