#another songs he hums is... well its a melody he's heard occasionally from azem's crystal

[lilas]

can you pls elaborate on avi singing in private 🥺that is so cute to me 🥺

YES.

Avi'li picks up archery and become an unwilling third in some gay couple's ongoing argument sometime after Endwalker. Through this, he relearns the value of song, and the emotional catharsis of it.

It becomes a self soothing thing for him, a private thing, done in the dead of night when most are asleep, and he's alone with his thoughts and the empty breeze.

The rest is under the cut, cause I am shy. u///u

His go to is a lullaby he remembers his mother singing to him. I like to think it's an adaptation of a Vylbrand poem she picked up somewhere.

(Funnily enough, irl, it's my slight adaptation of the song The Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre, which itself is an adaptation of the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling.)

O hush thee, my baby The night is behind us And the once black waters now sparkle so green The sun, o'er the combers Looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between Where billow meets billow There soft be thy pillow Ah, weary wee kinderling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee Nor shark overtake thee Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas Asleep in the arms Of the slow-swinging seas

When I listen to this song, I can imagine Avi'li singing it under his breath, or mayhaps just a slight bit louder, in a low rasp that you get if you're holding back your voice.