#eros is already kind of a slanted one

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

it's possible i'm missing more recent discussion but like, ok, titania as xenia clearly tracks both in terms of fey hospitality and also in the broader sense of like, ritualized kindness and love of strangers/expression of love as social contract, considering both feo ul's relationship with you and the way the fairies treat their king post lightwardening. BUT why are we saying innocence is agape?? that's buying so hard into vauthry's own mythos about himself? innocence is philautia. the wod would have been agape.

#the nemesis speaks #swift plays ff14 #ffxiv spoilers #shadowbrings spoilers #the entire vauthry/eulmore story is like. pure and unfiltered vanity. #and then the leg right before you climb mt. gulg engages with the non-perverse side of self-love #w/ chai-nuzz taking charge etc. & the free and bonded eulmorans approaching equals #i mean wod-as-agape is not. a new thought. i'm more like confused about why the vauthry philautia connection escapes people #but agape isn't JUST divine love it's also self-sacrificial love or love without expectation of reward; love for others without condition #which like. ymmv depending on your pc but going just off canon actions is CLEARLY NOT a vauthry thing?? #unless you want to talk about the way the eulmorans view vauthry but like. i could sit here all day turning love metaphors into other ones #eros is already kind of a slanted one #wjskh. anyway.