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seaseren · 1 year

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Genuinely. The idea of needing someone who is so much stronger than you, who is irreplacable, who could leave at a moment and there's nothing you could do and you would all be fucked- and this person has no regard for you, actively resents you, finds you a nuisance at best and at worst actively dislikes you is the stuff of a great psychological horror. Having to mold yourself around this person who is a walking army, a ticking bomb who you know thinks you're useless and demanding and just dead weight- and you look up to them. They have to be right. They're the hero, aren't they?

#anyways. i have trouble reading xiv fanfic #its not even usually explicit? just like. reading between the lines #how they frame things. how they change events and then do not change outcomes #if you narrow in on that perspective its genuinely chilling #anywayd i am the alphinaud defense squad please remember he's 16. please.#im ali defense squad too but usually when people get her wrong its just flanderization #u dont usually see people getting Super Wierd about her the way u do alphinaud #(characterization and story context wise. we are not talking about waifu shit)#i just. look arr alphinaud sucks but please. he's 16. every 16 year old sucks you don't need to like.#make sure to dress him down.#like its funny bc to a certain extent thats aggi and alphinaud's relationship early heavensward #she is SUPER mad at him and treats him really bad #but like a) she's also 16. shes way stronger than him yeah but shes not an adult #and b)she. eventually apologizes. they have ups and downs and it takes a while b4 aggi fully trusts alphinaud's judgement in certain matters #but like. she recognizes that he was in a really bad place and she was making it worse of purpose bc he was there #and ilberd and lolorito and everyone else she wanted to get back at weren't

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