#not going into details bc those real facts would sound like overdramatized fiction

[nights-at-crystarium]

Fun trivia time: when I wrote the very first iteration of Fragments Vivi was more gruff and cold, emotionally constipated. The premise remains the same, he's fed up with the pre ShB life and doesn't know how or why to proceed, and being on the First and meeting Exarch restores him to a functional state. As I wrote and thought about him some more, the emotional constipation quickly fell off and got replaced by the "manic pixie dream boy". Except he's still fucking edgy, yes he's now in touch with his own and other people's emotions, he's seemingly open, but less in a trusting way and more like a wound.

It's fascinating to me that G'raha's having all these realisations of 'oh I helped him, oh he might actually like me because I unintentionally made his life better' and he's still perfectly willing to throw himself away.

I believe that over a century of delusions and wearing pink glasses built up a veritable fortress around him, a few actually correct realizations won't make a dent in those walls. He may have stopped being oblivious, still there's no option other than keep sticking to the og plan. Good luck with that, now that Vivi's mildly interested in him :3c

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 53 ✧✦✧

Mirage.

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