#that is to say the terrible things the garleans also did are consigned to history

[impossible-rat-babies]

thinking about eyrie and bozja again. how it brings back memories of ala mhigo and even further back of their time in dalmasca. how it comes after 5.3 when after the dust settles of returning everyone back to the source, they are still listless and directionless. burdened by the death of elidibus by a grief that is both theirs and not their own. how they are reached out to by reputation by representatives of bozja.

how they leave their linkpearls with Hien and board the boat to gangos and disappear off the map. they know how to use a gunblade, thus they are given a blade and told this is how we fight. and they do it. they so easily slip back into the mindset of a soldier, where this isn’t their responsibility—they are just told what to do. a weapon pointed at the enemy. a symbol to rally behind. the terrible violence they inflict is at best excusable because they are the warrior of light, and at worst is just vengeance repaid twofold.

it’s not until it’s far too late when they “wake up” and realize that they are once again so very, very far from home, and anything resembling good intentions