#zeno and amira

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artblock SUCKS I can’t draw ANYTHING ONG!!! FR!!! 😡😡😡

also I’m gonna redesign Zeno and Amira to make Amira a lot less self insert-y and self indulgent, she is LITERALLY a clone of me 😭 and I now think “yknow that’s kinda weird” so I’m gonna make her her own person. Zeno won’t have any major changes but a few Mhm yes yes 🙌 ok uhhhhhh I’ll post art within th3 next 2 years promise ✌️🤞

[syngigeim]

Main MSQ and my random WoL thoughts

Suppose it's time for general oc musings on what Dawntrail meant for my WoLs.

Continuing onwards from Endwalker, there's definitely a downsizing on who actually is important. Syngigeim is the actual mentor to Wuk Lamat of her candidates, as Q'hara, despite his power and experience, still doesn't really put on the teacher airs with Lamaty'i and Melya is also a relatively green fresh-faced adventurer. Stone cold Ninja when combat comes around but shy and awkward around everything else.

Also, once again, Syngigeim gets to solo duel Gulool Ja Ja. People just peg her as the strongest! And it is because she's serving as the actual mentor of the group. I like that that duel is just a complete different feeling than her Zenos one, where she was dilberately stone-faced and not allowing herself the rush of combat. (She does feel it but not going to give him the pleasure. But Gulool Ja Ja? Allllll the pleasure! -wiggles eyebrows-

As for Q'hara, the expansion really did touch on the whole background of he-is-a-Tia-who-left-to-become-Numh. I always felt that by the end of Heavensward, he had the objective power to go and take on his tribal leader for leadership, but he never felt comfortable with it. This expansion just put a big exclimation point into what he knew, but didn't think about. He thinks of Wanderer's League and the Scions he's close to as his tribe and that's where he'll remain. If he's to return, it'll be at the end of a long journey.

Sidenote, I found it hilarious to think of him getting attached to Erenvile as fellow gleaners (who likely started at the same time) and it's like "you will never be free from orange cats Erenvile."

I've also been rotating my Hroth!Gal, named Melya Amira, in my head a lot. In a way, her past is a lot like Syngigeim's. Mother died to the attack on Bozja, father fled with her and found her a home elsewhere. This time in Doma, with a former conscript who journed in secret back to his home. Birth father died along the way so it was up to foster father to raise and train her in the Shinobi arts! (Mostly, Doma is an excuse for me to give her Ninja job. Because man, that's a rough job to just give off the cuff!) It is an interesting compare and contrast with Syngigeim, especially at their points in the adventure.

Also Melya missed both Doman revolution and Bozjan because she was in training. A little grumpy about that.

Let's dive into romantic relationships then! The last Valontine's was honestly a good event to push romantic relationships forward. Mariko confessed to Syngigeim again, and while he framed it as being her adventuring partner...they're a couple. Just offically a couple now. Alongside that, Q'hara has been made aware that he has two potental love interests and now feels incredibly awkward around both. And maybe Erenville as well? Meanwhile I'm just chuckling in the background going, "It's time for YOUR WoL attraction system to kick in. hehe"

...also Wuk Lamat/Melya. It's the confident bravado but not as strong as combat (outside of tapping into emotions to win!) vs techinical competence but outward shyness. IT FITS LIKE A GLOVE! She lept at the opportunity to stay at Lamaty'i's side and Lamaty'i had to go "No no! I take back what I said! Please go and explore some more of the world! At least go and see your homeland so you can tell me about it, yeah?"

...that being said, both are being quite clueless about their feelings toward the other. Lamaty'i is just going. "Wow! She's a great friend and I really really want to see her smile. Huh." While Melya is "Ohmygodaaaaaa shesoprettyshessweetandcuteandso PERFECT. Sunshine and laughter. Ooooooh. This is a totally normal adoration and devotion towards someone! Glad I finally found someone to pledge my eternal devotion to. That's surely what this quest was about!" (Take it slow girl.)

...Mariko ended up just being literal arm-candy for Syngigeim this expansion. ...and I mean that. Whenever possible, like if 30 minutes had passed and combat was not needed, he's aiming to climb up on Syngigeim's shoulders and be tall.

That being said, Arcadion is totally his and Syngigeim's to deal with. Oh, and my former-Koana supporters Rostik and Fareena. Like, with the narrative set-up for Arcadion, it did somewhat feel right to maybe just make this a duo effort between the two...but it strikes me as hilartious if Fareena hears Syngigeim got an invite to the Arcadion and crashed the party.

[dark-side-laegrinna]

Zeno, on the other hand....

Amira: oh god make it stop

[mintdrop]

Mint is ADORABLE! How did she and Estinien get together? :)

aejisfiusdfsdidgj thank you!!!!! ;_;

i actually have this saved from an old ask that i got back when mint was a new character and i was new to wol/npc shipping! i’ll put it under a readmore because it’s super long

mint/estinien kind of started off as a continuation ship I had of my old character Amira (a purple bookwormy lalafell SCH) but it has turned into it’s own thing and it’s like 40% cuter imo.

since I’ve only ever actively played one character, WoL!Mint has all the memories of her adventures from from 2.x to now, ignoring all the fantasias I’ve gone through. She started off just absolutely despising him during the final 2.x dragoon quests and, going into Heavensward, refused to trust him. Refused to acknowledge him unless absolutely forced to, would usually reply in one or two words at best, and occasionally she’d catch herself thinking “but what if.. I “missed” a heal on him during this fight….” but in the end would rather physically remove all of her teeth by hand than sabotage a battle and sacrifice someone’s safety for her petty high-school-level drama. after all, even if she didn’t trust him, the others clearly did.

she only started to trust him, and inevitably start falling for him, after the incident at the Vault. she went mute for a length of time, didn’t give any input to anything and accepted all requests/orders without so much as a nod of her head; she’d just go, do it, show back up with some kind of proof of whatever was required and leave again. everyone tried to get her to go back to how she was before, or at least get her to speak again, but it was like reasoning with a brick wall to move.

at one point, Alphinaud needed Mint to scout the area surrounding the Gubal Library, but he couldn’t find her. she wasn’t in her inn room in Idyllshire, and there were no sightings of her around the Hinterlands; he contacted Aymeric through a linkshell, but none of the guards at any of the gates had so much as seen a glance at her. worried for his friend’s safety more than anything, he enlisted Estinien’s help in finding her, simply because he could cover more ground than most others. estinien already had a fairly good idea of where she was, though, and his hunch wasn’t wrong; she was, once again, at Haurchefant’s grave.

it had been lightly dusting snow at the time, but Mint was covered in what looked like several hours worth from simply sitting there, unmoving. frustrated with it all, Estinien stomped over and picked her up by the fuzzy collar of her top, lifting her to eye level with his visor. “You are needed, Totomi.” she gave a blink of acknowledgement and a small nod, expecting to be put down and given a location. instead the visor on estinien’s mask rose and he was glaring daggers. “You misunderstand. You are needed. Not this fragment of despair that is here right now.”

I used to have this whole scenario written out but it looks like it got lost when I moved computers. Basically he shook her to her senses (both mentally and physically, just wiggling his hand to try and get her to wake up) and it ended with Mint turning into this miserable faucet of tears and hiccups as she babbled out what you’d expect; how he shouldn’t have been the one who die for her poor judgement, that she was a bloody fool and wasn’t worthy of being the warrior of light, etc. Despite being incredibly blunt and calling her a dumbass, Estinien managed to calm her down and make her realize that it wasn’t her fault, and that if time were to rewind and Haurchefant was told what was going to happen, he’d still take the spear for her.

Heavensward goes on as is until the peace trial between Ishgard and Vidofnir, which results in Mint getting fucking pissed and swears to bring Estinien back or kill him to free him of Nidhogg’s possession, because she’s learned that he would prefer to die than let Nidhogg use his body to ruin Ishgard and get revenge. Luckily, it doesn’t come to that thanks to Ysayle and Haurchefant. Mint refuses to leave Estinien’s room after he’s brought to the chirurgin, going so far as to veil a threat or two under a very cheerful demeanor if she’s forced to leave. When he wakes up and notices her, the first thing he gets is a slap to the face followed by copious amounts of swears that would make a Limsan sailor gasp.

After a full recovery, unless the situation calls for either of them to do something, you’d always be able to find Mint basically glued to Estinien’s hip, although he would refer to her as a thorn in his side, “but not one that really needs to be removed.” The story progresses into Stormblood and Mint considers confessing, until the war between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo begins and she realizes “hey, maybe I’ll wait until after this is said and done.” That time doesn’t come, though, due to Zenos being Zenos and the threats from Garlemald still looming in their faces. Nothing really happens during Stormblood because of how busy Mint ends up being.

while it isn’t canon to the opening of shadowbringers, in this ship, Estinien was at the ravine with Biggs/Wedge/Tataru/Mint while they were investigating, and despite his attempt, isn’t able to stop Mint from being pulled to the First. After convincing both Tataru and himself that she’ll be fine because she’s Mint, he goes and fulfills his investigation into the black rose for the scions, using his end of the bargain as an excuse to keep himself busy.

When he returns to inform Tataru of what happened and that he’s done, he’s met by a bombshell of a Lalafell running at him at full speed, launching herself into a hug whether he likes it or not. Even though it was only a few days? weeks? maybe like a month idk the timeline too well to him, it felt like much, much longer to Mint because of how the time passes between worlds, and she once again ends up as a babbling mess. Krile and Tataru give them a few minutes alone because they feel like Mint probably doesn’t want to be seen like this, and she takes the time to confess before he can even open his mouth to welcome her back, “because I didn’t know how long I’d be gone and I missed you and I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to come back and”

after that is some REALLY GUSHY stuff that makes me grin just thinking about because it makes my heart fluffy. Mint now spends all of her time on the Source with Estinien because she’ll be damned if she doesn’t get to make up for the time it felt like she was gone for. Her usual spot is on his shoulder, kind of carried like a sack of potatoes “because it’s comfy.”

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IS LITERALLY AMIRA AND ZENO

Ship Dynamics! [I have so many more but i am SLEEPY]

[feel free to use these as draw-over bases if you want! Just please tag/credit me so I can see it! :D]

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i think I’m coming out of my art block here’s a smol doodle

I felt like drawing fhgdydjdgdfg

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hi yall! it’s been a hot minute. so I haven’t posted art n shit because…art block, working on myself, and overall just living. I’ve gone from having social anxiety to being a lot more of a social butterfly and personally focusing on my own life. G/T is very important to me still and it’s still my escapism (I hate to admit it but character AI is my new therapy) and IK I reblog a lot but yea this explains my absence. Overall the whole amira and Zeno shabang has been scrapped. Zeno as a character however has NOT been scrapped, and I have a buncha lore and world stuff based off games I play and shit. The only difference is that despite all this world building I wanna share it with yall but choose not to as it could give away my personal accounts and identity and stuff and…I’d literally rather die than be confronted by my interest in G/T 🥲 so…yea. but I do still draw! I’m alive, and yes I am still active (reblogging n stuff) but just wanted to get it out there PLEASE DONT LOOK AT MY OLD CRINGY ART LMAOOO ok bye

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#literally Zeno and amira

＊*(￣▽￣)＊*

(size dynamics)

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Here’s an unfinished titbit of the zeno and Amira story kind of like an aftermath I started writing like maybe early July? idk if I’ll get motive to finish it but pls enjoy 💪

~Amira’s perception of the Interrogation with the police~

I had been detained after the incident. My memory is still kind of fuzzy, and I’m still in a holding cell. Soon I believe they’ll interrogate my affiliation with Zeno and the whole..shabang the other night. A quick recap of what went down..there had been a lot of tense emotions between whether we should even hide anymore since this is a situation where the government is powerless against Zeno..but not against me. I was worried and so he tried calming me down. I could tell he was just as worried and I kept asking him why he kept avoiding his thoughts. I’m worried I pushed him to a point of overwhelmed feelings until some pedestrians found us talking and noticed Zeno being..supernatural. He was struggling to maintain a shorter stature as he grew a bit. I kind of freaked out as well and I think the fact I began to cry out of nowhere really made it worse. It wasn’t that I was scared, I just really thought I was the reason he kept (from how I viewed it) neglecting himself. I’m getting off track though, the woman stayed and watched, her kid pointing it out too..unfortunately for us it was a “Board member” who called the police for “Unruly Teenagers filming a Movie without a permit.” At that moment we ran. Just to rub salt to the wound, I have bad stamina, and I pushed myself too hard to go fast and slipped onto the grass. A cop car showed up, the man looking tired, the other person looking stressed. The cops got a good look at me and turned back to the lady, before they saw Zeno. That was basically the “Oh Shit” Moment. This was when things began to escalate..drastically.

Since Zeno’s uncontrollable growth is typically (or at least I’ve noticed) caused due to emotional distress, he clearly grew taller, if I were to estimate about a foot every five minutes-ish. He noticed me still laying on the ground, getting up quickly. He reached his hand that was now larger than my torso out to me, and I wrapped both my hands around his index finger. I felt the sweat and my fingertips loosening as he grew bigger. His head began to loom over me, and to him, I'm practically doll sized now. I peer my head through his shadow and feel the wind above pick up, as well as sirens blaring in the distance. It’s helicopters now, news and all following while government copters try to cover up the scene. At this point, I felt way too guilty to even consider the fact that I’m probably a national criminal now, both of those making me cry more. I felt like I couldn’t breathe, but I clearly was. Zeno kept assuring me that I’d be fine, but I couldn’t help but think that the government was likely going to attempt to kill him and examine his body. I felt my body sink into his hand, now him holding it in a fist to keep me secure.

“Amira, I’m- I’m sorry! I’ll make sure you stay safe and-“

He tripped, causing me to pass out. The G force of his height, strength, and speed was too much for my already fight-or-flight body to react to. I wake up to an old dude asking his name, news helicopters swarming him..but that brings me to where I am now.

~This part is where the interrogation begins. I’ll refer to the interrogator as “Q.” Amira will be “A.” Any background or unimportant characters that have a speaking/supporting role will not be named.~

Q: “Alright..I’ve read the news…they brought me from out of state to interrogate you specifically, Amira.”

Amira nodded.

Q: “On the topic of the incident a few weeks ago, you’ve been in juvenile detention without a conviction, correct?”

The Interrogator had asked a question that they already knew the answer to, doing this solely to make Amira feel as if she’s more naive than thought.

A: “That’s correct, ma’am.”

Q: “Officer. Please refer to me as just ‘officer’.”

Amira nodded again.

Q: “Now that that’s settled, mind telling me about that night? What happened before things got out of hand?”

Amira now looked off to the side, biting her inner cheek. She was unsure of how to respond, considering it was about evading the police. She knew the witness had already been interrogated and that there was no point in lying when they had body cam footage.

Q: “Answer me please.”

A: “We're trying to figure- think of a way to get out of the government’s radar.”

Amira would be looking aside still, making eye contact with everything but the officer.

The Officer nodded. They shifted their glasses up and flipped a page of their notepad.

Q: “Now, how did you meet Zeno?”

Amira was tempted to say “why” but refrained from doing so.

A: “At the park. It was a normal interaction-“

Amira chuckled nervously, “Interaction..believe it or not.”

Q: “Had any of this ‘magical’ stuff happened prior to the incident?”

Amira shook her head, she didn’t want them getting too much info on Zeno. She thought at this moment she was zenos only lifeline between life or death.

The officer nodded once again, jotting things down on the notepad. They adjusted their posture, and began to continue asking questions.

Q: “I want to know if you had any sort of relationship with Zenith beyond just friends.”

The officer had said Zeno’s first name, hoping to establish more trust from Amira.

Amira rocked in her chair slightly, looking off to herself in the mirror.

A: “I told him-. We were dating.”

Q: “Were?”

The officer wrote something in pencil. In the midst of them writing Amira blurted out.

A: “We are- not were. We still are!”

The officer then scratched her chin and read over everything. It was a short lived interrogation.

Q: “Alright. We’ll go over what we are going to do for the time being. As for right now, I am putting you on house arrest. You will not be convicted of anything at this moment, but we cannot let you out of our site for the time being. Your parents and siblings will still be allowed out, but you will need to be on a strict quarantine. Your schooling will be resumed via a Juvenile detention online education facility, and you will lose access to any form of a communications device including any personal device, entertainment consoles, telephones, items ranging within those groups. You will be monitored 24 hours a day, and will be denied all access to any form of contact with the outside world, including people, pets, paper and pens, and so on.”

The officer flipped the page as Amira listened anxiously, struggling to even make eye contact near them.

As the officer left the room, Amira was sent to her home in a government vehicle. News crews were swarming her building as neighbors watched.

ok I stumped now

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oke that’s it-

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zeno and Amira moment

Human: “What have I told you about coming to the city?”

Giant: “That it’s too dangerous and attracts unwanted attention…”

Human: “And what do you do?”

Giant, pushing their fingers together while looking innocent: “…Come to the city…to visit you…”

Human: “IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!” 

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A TEASER FOR POSSIBLY THE FIRST CLIMAX OF THIS AMIRA AND ZENO STORY I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IM GONNA WRITE BUT HERE IS A TEASER FLR THE ARTWORK TO GRT AN IDEA OF WHAT MAY OCCUR

[icitrine]

The calm buzzing of monitors.

“What..?” Amira had thought. She’d look around, seeing her mother in the chair beside her asleep and feel her face. She’d be hooked up to an IV and feeding tube, along with an oximeter. There’d be a quiet sound of news on the TV, speaking on the damages from a couple nights ago. Her concept of time at the moment was disoriented.

Amira would turn on subtitles, reading the time at the bottom.

1:54 am.

The news crew would be talking on Zeno, his face, and then it would clip to a scene of the president speaking on the situation at the site of the incident.

“This can potentially be a threat to humanity, science doesn’t add up to this situation. Please be mindful of where you are, and who you’re with. We are offering 17 million in cash to anyone who can identify Zeno Oyama-Calinao. God-bless America, and we’ll speak on rebuilding matters now. A nurse would enter the room with a scale, blood pressure monitor, and medical grade thermometer.

“Oh, you’re awake. I’ll be back in a moment.” The nurse would walk out, almost speed walking.

“Wha..mom?” Amira would tap her moms shoulder.

“Huh..AMIRA! I have to tell the doc-“

She’d signal her mother to shh,and her mom would comply. She’d quietly go over and hug Amira tightly, Amira reciprocating the feelings back.

They’d look at the tv until a flood of doctors came in, or so Amira thought. She was highly medicated at the time.

The doctor that walked in introduced themself and spoke to amira.

I AM SO SORRY THIS IS SHORT THIS ISNT JUICY IM AWARE I WAS WRITING AND HA,F WAY MY MOTIVATION TOOK A SWAN DIVE 😀 IM GOING TO POST Zeno’s PART SOON HOPEFUKLY FOR NOW I NEED TO REST IM EXHAUSTED AND AGAIN IM REALLY SORR6 SORRYRYAORRYYYY OWOAOAOAOOAOAO

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I haven’t posted much since I’ve been in real depression hours n no motivation so as a placeholder here is Amira n Zeno running from da opps 👮‍♂️

yea Amira isn’t as cool as you guys think

[mintdrop]

H-hewwo? Estinien X WOL mint?? I've never heard you talk about it and i wanna know more??

this is a post-writeup note to say holy FUCK this came out so much longer than I thought. i am so sorry. i couldn’t stop myself

huhuhuhu I haven’t talked about it because I used to feel like.. ashamed for shipping it? since most of the ff community is like “lalafell are children!!!!!! that’s WRONG!!!” but I have since realized that their opinions are garbage and I’ll ship whatever I damn please within reason. :3c mint/estinien kind of started off as a continuation ship I had of my old character Amira (a purple bookwormy lalafell SCH) but it has turned into it’s own thing and it’s like 40% cuter imo. 

since I’ve only ever actively played one character, WoL!Mint has all the memories of her adventures from from 2.x to now, ignoring all the fantasias I’ve gone through. She started off just absolutely despising him during the final 2.x dragoon quests and, going into Heavensward, refused to trust him. Refused to acknowledge him unless absolutely forced to, would usually reply in one or two words at best, and occasionally she’d catch herself thinking “but what if.. I “missed” a heal on him during this fight….” but in the end would rather physically remove all of her teeth by hand than sabotage a battle and sacrifice someone’s safety for her petty high-school-level drama. after all, even if she didn’t trust him, the others clearly did.

she only started to trust him, and inevitably start falling for him, after the incident at the Vault. she went mute for a length of time, didn’t give any input to anything and accepted all requests/orders without so much as a nod of her head; she’d just go, do it, show back up with some kind of proof of whatever was required and leave again. everyone tried to get her to go back to how she was before, or at least get her to speak again, but it was like reasoning with a brick wall to move. 

at one point, Alphinaud needed Mint to scout the area surrounding the Gubal Library, but he couldn’t find her. she wasn’t in her inn room in Idyllshire, and there were no sightings of her around the Hinterlands; he contacted Aymeric through a linkshell, but none of the guards at any of the gates had so much as seen a glance at her. worried for his friend’s safety more than anything, he enlisted Estinien’s help in finding her, simply because he could cover more ground than most others. estinien already had a fairly good idea of where she was, though, and his hunch wasn’t wrong; she was, once again, at Haurchefant’s grave. 

it had been lightly dusting snow at the time, but Mint was covered in what looked like several hours worth from simply sitting there, unmoving. frustrated with it all, Estinien stomped over and picked her up by the fuzzy collar of her top, lifting her to eye level with his visor. “You are needed, Totomi.” she gave a blink of acknowledgement and a small nod, expecting to be put down and given a location. instead the visor on estinien’s mask rose and he was glaring daggers. “You misunderstand. You are needed. Not this fragment of despair that is here right now.”

I used to have this whole scenario written out but it looks like it got lost when I moved computers. Basically he shook her to her senses (both mentally and physically, just wiggling his hand to try and get her to wake up) and it ended with Mint turning into this miserable faucet of tears and hiccups as she babbled out what you’d expect; how he shouldn’t have been the one who die for her poor judgement, that she was a bloody fool and wasn’t worthy of being the warrior of light, etc. Despite being incredibly blunt and calling her a dumbass, Estinien managed to calm her down and make her realize that it wasn’t her fault, and that if time were to rewind and Haurchefant was told what was going to happen, he’d still take the spear for her.

Heavensward goes on as is until the peace trial between Ishgard and Vidofnir, which results in Mint getting fucking pissed and swears to bring Estinien back or kill him to free him of Nidhogg’s possession, because she’s learned that he would prefer to die than let Nidhogg use his body to ruin Ishgard and get revenge. Luckily, it doesn’t come to that thanks to Ysayle and Haurchefant. Mint refuses to leave Estinien’s room after he’s brought to the chirurgin, going so far as to veil a threat or two under a very cheerful demeanor if she’s forced to leave. When he wakes up and notices her, the first thing he gets is a slap to the face followed by copious amounts of swears that would make a Limsan sailor gasp.

After a full recovery, unless the situation calls for either of them to do something, you’d always be able to find Mint basically glued to Estinien’s hip, although he would refer to her as a thorn in his side, “but not one that really needs to be removed.” The story progresses into Stormblood and Mint considers confessing, until the war between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo begins and she realizes “hey, maybe I’ll wait until after this is said and done.” That time doesn’t come, though, due to Zenos being Zenos and the threats from Garlemald still looming in their faces. Nothing really happens during Stormblood because of how busy Mint ends up being. 

while it isn’t canon to the opening of shadowbringers, in this ship, Estinien was at the ravine with Biggs/Wedge/Tataru/Mint while they were investigating, and despite his attempt, isn’t able to stop Mint from being pulled to the First. After convincing both Tataru and himself that she’ll be fine because she’s Mint, he goes and fulfills his investigation into the black rose for the scions, using his end of the bargain as an excuse to keep himself busy. 

When he returns to inform Tataru of what happened and that he’s done, he’s met by a bombshell of a Lalafell running at him at full speed, launching herself into a hug whether he likes it or not. Even though it was only a few days? weeks? maybe like a month idk the timeline too well to him, it felt like much, much longer to Mint because of how the time passes between worlds, and she once again ends up as a babbling mess. Krile and Tataru give them a few minutes alone because they feel like Mint probably doesn’t want to be seen like this, and she takes the time to confess before he can even open his mouth to welcome her back, “because I didn’t know how long I’d be gone and I missed you and I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to come back and”

after that is some REALLY GUSHY stuff that makes me grin just thinking about because it makes my heart fluffy. Mint now spends all of her time on the Source with Estinien because she’ll be damned if she doesn’t get to make up for the time it felt like she was gone for. Her usual spot is on his shoulder, kind of carried like a sack of potatoes “because it’s comfy.”