#the endsinger’s aria
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umbralaether · 2 years ago
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MiqoMarch day 10: boundary
You alone stand between endless despair and everlasting hope— do not falter, for you have your friends by your side.
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nyxvaledoeswriting · 6 months ago
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Endsinger's Aria
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fell-court · 14 days ago
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WE CLEARED ENDSINGER'S ARIA AFTER TWO HOURS OF TRYING
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Everyone did so well and I am so so proud of everyone!!!
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(Featuring:
S'ria - @snow-system-wol Ryn - @umbraldraw Nimda - @soothingmind Camellia - @servantverse and Clio - me, @fell-court!)
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lucinata · 4 months ago
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FFXIV Write, Prompt #2: Horizon
At the edge of the universe, she had won. More than just the star, this time, every star was saved from destruction. But it was close. If he hadn’t been there, defied every expectation and flown to her for that final confrontation, there is a very real chance that she would have lost. Died, leaving nothing but memories, sacrificing herself to keep the scions safe, to get them away, that they might figure out some other way to stop the Endsinger’s Aria. They always thought she had a plan, but in that moment, she’d had none at all, save for ol’ reliable: throw herself at the enemy and take them down with brute force and sheer determination.
But this time. For the first time. She thought that wouldn’t be enough. Damned if she hadn’t been ready to try it anyway, despite it all. Mind gone blank, weapon gripped tight, she’d faced down the Endsinger and been certain that their clash would destroy her, if not kill her.
And then Zenos appeared.
Zenos, of all people! The villain who killed his father for the crime of getting in his way and threw an entire country into civil war and disarray, who’d slaughtered his own men out of boredom, who would go to the moon and back and throw away his mortal form just to goad her into a fight, he who cared for naught but the heady rush of mortal combat against his only equal, he who called her friend with the same breath that he threatened her companions with death… he who was more a cataclysm than a man, had found her there, had saved her, and had died.
She wonders if his body is still there.
In that space, with an infinite horizon perpetually on the cusp of dawn, she had comforted Meteion, helped her remember how to be more than the embodiment of nihilistic despair, and he had waited. The starbird flew off, and he waited as she watched it go. So different from their clash between the blooms of the Royal Menagerie.
In Ala Mhigo, he had denied the parts of her outside of what he could understand while claiming kinship. He raved like a madman, and his words rang hollow; only his fusion with the eikon Shinryu tipped her hand against him, and he remained dissatisfied.
But he had changed since then, somehow. Somehow, some way, he had realized that her truths, though different from his, were no less real for their incomprehensibility. So he waited for her. He gave up on his attempts to force her hand against him, and let her be the hero the universe needed. And when, at last, her job was finally, truly finished, when she had no more threat to stop, no more fight to fight… he had asked.
He did not demand combat from her. He did not threaten her or her loved ones, and this time, his words struck true. At that time, in that place, she could no longer deny it. She had wanted to fight him all along, in truth, but duty ever called, always needed pulling her elsewhere, always some other crisis to solve, person to help, realm to save. But finally, she had nothing left to stop her from an emphatic yes.
Their clash had been everything she’d ever wanted from a fight. No people at risk in the crossfire, no buildings or nature to take collateral damage and need restoration afterwards, no aftermath but the one left upon their flesh, their souls. No linkpearl could call her away, no airship could swoop in and “rescue” her. Finally, she could bring her everything to bear, no holds barred. Every step rippled beneath their feet as they danced to the song of combat, and her heart sung as she exhausted every last dreg of her strength. It was… glorious.
She thought he felt the same.
He had spoken again, after their fight. Disappointed with his loss, of course, but not mad about it. Collapsed on the ground, she listened as best as she could, until eventually, he said no more. Had he died, then? His last sentence left unfinished, hanging loose in the silence, and she remembered a falling star landing beside her, before all went black. When next she woke, she was among a sobbing crowd of Scions, and Zenos had been nowhere in sight. They’d blubbered and begged her not to be so reckless again, and when she asked how she’d gotten back, they told her she’d probably used the teleportation device Wilfsunn had given them before their departure, since it had been right beside her when she’d turned up (more than half-dead and within an ilm of her life, as Alisaie put it).
She was sure she’d tossed it to the void, though, that her friends might escape without her. So how had it ended up beside her, in that realm where emotion dictates all? She hadn’t felt much of anything, other than bone-tired, when she’d passed out. Perhaps…
With so much kerfuffle, and the heady feeling of their biggest victory yet, it was only much later that she wondered if his body was still lying there, in that bubble at the end of the universe. Frozen in time, or decaying, or vanished to nothing… she wasn’t sure she could ever find that space again to check. Though perhaps Zenos would prefer that she let him remain frozen in the memory of their fight.
He’d asked her questions, when they were both so exhausted they could hardly move. She’d barely been able to keep her eyes open, let alone answer, but he’d asked them all the same. Was her life a gift, or a burden? Did she find fulfillment? She wasn’t sure, really. It was possible he’d been asking himself as much as her. But she thought, despite the hardships, that her life is a gift, in the end. And if she’s yet to find fulfillment, then there’s nothing for it but for her to seek it out, wherever that journey may lead her. And perhaps, in a different life, in a different time, Zenos would find the same.
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galpalaven · 10 months ago
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endwalker spoilers below~
no cuz Kiri and Andromeda (Azem) make me so fucking sad. the entire trip to the World Unsundered had Kiri's stomach turning with guilt and self hatred the more she saw
what right does she have to this soul? this life? what right does she have to fight for the broken world she loves when she could, here and now, put everything right? she could save them all of that pain, save everyone that she's ever known the pain and suffering they've known.
playing with the idea that she may have run into Andromeda that same trip -- to have seen the person whose soul she keeps, whose broken heart her existence will keep from reuniting with the people who she clearly loves dearly (Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus) in the afterlife...
and then that leading into the idea that, once she fails, once the endsinger has escaped and begun her cursed aria, all she can do is return to her own broken timeline and do what she can to save the people she loves. and in that final hour, drained of everything but the very last shred of stubborn refusal to curl up and die, calling upon the souls of Hades and Hythlodaeus, and having a third robe-clad figure appear by her side --
"Oops," laughs the familiar voice, "standing there wasn't the best idea, apparently."
Andromeda has watched over her this entire time. She has seen each life -- each pain, each triumph, each sorrow, each love -- and she has been giving her blessing, since the moment Kiri was born, and long before that.
Since the thirteenth fell, and a piece of her was forever stalled in the aetherial sea, plucked from the flow by a brokenhearted Venat, she's watched and she's walked beside each and every one of them. She has walked the worlds, the reflections, a million times over -- and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Andromeda reaches out and brushes away one of the tears rolling down Kiri's cheeks.
"You are real. You are as real as I -- and you are so loved. Come, let me share my love -- with you, and with she who would rip you from those who yet live, and yet have love to give you."
and when its time for hades and hythlodaeus to return to the sea -- when kiri is barely even able to see them through the tears blurring her eyes as she clutches at G'raha's shoulders -- andromeda gives her a fond smile and wraps an arm around the waists of the men on either side of her.
"I've got these two. Go -- live. Be joyous. Bring me memories to love when your time comes to return to the star."
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45liza109 · 3 years ago
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Singer of the end, Aria
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Concept
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demonrice · 2 years ago
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aria of despair
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aethernoise · 3 years ago
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Endsinger cleared! and I got a feather :3 the barding is so pretty
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nekohooch · 3 years ago
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My kitty collection... it grows!
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amaiuna · 2 years ago
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helped fc friendos in clearing endsinger ex!
some side rant: i remember i used to feel a bit cross when i knew people cleared this ex trial without me, because of..... wait for it............. timezone difference 😊✨✨ not even worth being angry about because of the obvious fact lmao
but i'm glad i at least was able to clear it alone through pf, so all was good
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mistwander · 3 years ago
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Endsingers song Ended!
Once again Lord is a Miqo and not only is he a Miqo he’s holding the book in front of his face because he’s impossible.
Obligatory thanks to Hapi Sa’vel, Lord Arimathea ( @arimathean-industries), Nova Shadow, Rina Mistwander, Drewscylla Rose, Yjrn Mistwander, Amos Toth, and Garik Vigorouspaw! (And Garuda-Egi)
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sebastard69 · 3 years ago
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So Endsinger's Aria, huh?
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charlottedabookworm · 3 years ago
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endsingers aria farming complete! i never need to brave the party finder for it again thank fuck
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wolnation · 3 years ago
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Can’t get enough of this new emote. It is so good! Getting ready for Endsinger’s Aria tonight with the FC Static. Fun times ahead!
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voidsentprinces · 3 years ago
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Good news finally had a dream that wasn’t my car accident relived in painful detail from 11 years ago. Bad news it was about them making Endsinger Aria able to be run in a Trust. Alphinaud is dead. Very. VERY. Dead.
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45liza109 · 2 years ago
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Singer of the end, Aria V2
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