#passion and the allagan opera

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"I am the mask you wear" ~ "It's me they hear"

The Phantom Of The Allagan Opera

Passion And The Allagan Opera

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~music of the night~

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You look like you need a friend

Let me in and we'll pretend...

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careful what you wish for

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Dalamud launch party :)

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You have come here For one purpose and one alone Since the moment I first heard you sing I have needed you with me to serve me, to sing For my music My music…

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You promised the world and brought me it hanging from a string Stuck it in my mouth, into my throat Told me to sing

Febhyurary 7 - Voice

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tags from one of my early Viola posts:

yes I am thinking about Amon tutoring her in music if he has time (he seems very busy with plots and evil science) like Viola has a *very* good voice and some training but not opera training so…

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the most annoying people you know

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passion and the opera

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-Find the man behind the monster This repulsive carcass who seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty,

Secretly, secretly…

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(though usually hidden beneath lavish robes- all Amon's scars are from experiments on himself or wounds inflicted by chimeras and other creations of his)

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36! A Kiss to the Shoulder

Decided to do this one with Viola and Amon. Apparently I saw the lovely prompt and went "how awful can I make this?"

(it did force me to actually update Viola's scar mod for the new graphics, so yay??? Don’t worry she’s alive just unconscious for mad science surgery)

thank you! >:3

kiss roulette

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...stranger than you dreamt it...

(an elezen-ed Amon at last! a thousand thousand thanks to @tallbluelady for their mod wizardry )

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“People never ceased to speculate about how you did it. Rumors and the like, some more wild and fantastical than others. Some say,” her voice sank to a conspiratorial whisper, “to bring an eternal golden age you replaced your heart with crystal, to serve the Emperor forevermore…” Amon shifted, running his fingers over the scar at the base of her neck. The crystal beneath pulsed, and for a moment Viola saw a tower of brick and white stone silhouetted against the setting sun. She shivered, clutching his sleeve. “A pity even the more learned may stoop to rumor when faced with the limits of their understanding. My heart is, as ever, flesh and blood.”

Febhyurary 12 - Feelings

Viola is intrigued by Amon's power, and the charisma he can exude when he wants to. She is aware that he is also incredibly dangerous, but that just adds to the allure of being close to him

Amon sees Viola as a means to get petty revenge on Emet-Selch and Daedalus, and an amusing diversion. Though some affection may seep through from Hermes's memories Amon rejects it as not his own emotions. and yet-

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well its thighday and I'm watching Phantom of the Opera (still? again?) so that means-

woe! violaamon be upon ye

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Febhyurary 14 - Date

An attempt for some normalcy as the end looms nearer- Medusa arranged a double date for herself and Scylla, with Amon and Viola.

(Medusa and Scylla clone 7 (Sophia) : @yloiseconeillants )

extra: view of the table with my cute little improvised allagan lamp that you can't really see in the rest of the shots

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YOU WOULD THINK that after over a year of spinning them in my brain I would have a better understanding of how Amon feels about Viola. Everything I've written on the subject feels full of contradictions.

I have a hard time getting inside his mind. He's not yet the Fandaniel we meet in Endwalker, but he's past the tipping point- the point of no return- to becoming that man.

The friendship between Hermes and Ares is known to him in dream or memory. Whether he feels any of it as if it were his own, I couldn't say. If so I've thought it most likely that he's compartmentalized such feelings as not his own (technically true)

She's a tool- or rather, a plaything. More ornament than companion. And yet he holds some affection for his musical protege.

There's something about vulnerability. Why would a man known for being increasingly paranoid keep someone around who could become a weakness for others to exploit? He must feel so secure in his power over her to let the mask (metaphorical and literal) slip a bit perhaps