#ffxv x tgcf

[angelrider13]

In the 'HX Publicly Kills SWD' AU, everyone expects his wrath to fall on SWX as well, after the truth comes out. It - doesn't. HX, quite frankly, doesn't *care* about SWX at all. And that - might actually hit SWX+the Heavens hardest. That this entity, who *slaughtered a major god* in front of *everyone*, doesn't - care, about the person benefiting from his stolen divinity. He's *nothing* to him. SWX is also probably going to have a full-blown identity crisis.

@hamelin-born

In this verse, SQX is not even on HX’s radar. He knows where the blame lies in this. He knows who wronged him and stole from him and ruined him. Quite frankly, SQX doesn’t matter. SWD is the one with the debt and he is the one who must pay it.

The fact that SQX isn’t even aware of what SWD did just furthers the point. They are just an innocent bystander. Which, as a concept, is something that Heaven doesn’t get. Because innocence doesn’t really matter to them. Association is guilt enough, sharing blood is guilt enough.

But that is not how the Sea works. You are responsible for your choices alone. You do not get to claim benefit or blame for the choices of others. And HX is the Sea as much as the Sea is HX.

So he doesn’t care about SQX.

And SQX doesn’t know how to deal with that on top of everything else.

#if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf #sqx always seems to get the short end of the stick huh #ask #elri answers #hamelin-born

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[angelrider13]

*grins* Can I ask how, in the modified Still Waters Invite Storms AU, how the heavens react to this - *stranger* just. Almost casually striking down the Water Tyrant? Or how Hua Cheng reacts to He Xuan just. Bucking The Plan(TM) and going after SWD?

@hamelin-born

I mean. It’s entirely possible that this all happens before He Xuan ever approaches Hua Cheng in the first place. Who knows! Idk what the timeline for this verse is, if it ever even had one (it did not).

But!

Given He Xuan’s new understanding of the world - if he’s already given his word to Hua Cheng then he will keep it. He’s just not personally invested beyond that anymore. He got what he wanted, he doesn’t have to be around these idiots in Heaven any more, so sure, he can help Hua Cheng out.

#ffxv x tgcf #ask #elri answers #hamelin-born #if still waters could invite storms verse

[angelrider13]

Shi Wudu: I am the Water Tyrant!

Thalassa, the literal embodiment of the Sea: ....is that supposed to impress me?

#if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf #thalassa is surrounded by toddlers who think they’re hot shit #(spoiler: they aren’t)

[angelrider13]

*grins widely* Just - currently trying to imagine /He Xuan/ singing 'Hoist the Colors' (Thalassa taught it to him). The version you reblogged recently, I mean - haunting, melodious, and ominous. Beautiful, but foreboding - like the sea stilling before the oncoming storm.

@hamelin-born

That’s perfect.

Idk why, but for some reason I feel like people would be surprised He Xuan can sing?? Which makes no sense because someone with He Xuan’s background would definitely be taught the musical arts in some form. Maybe it’s the ghost thing. Ghosts aren’t supposed to be good at singing. But I digress!

His voice is hauntingly beautiful. There’s a danger to it that most don’t quite understand - an echo that seems to loom right over your shoulder, the silence right before the rush of a tidal wave. He Xuan’s sea is not gentle for he is not gentle. He is jagged edges and raging fire that burns cold tempered by loss and grief and heartbreak.

He Xuan’s sea sings - mournful and beautiful and dangerous.

#if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf #ask #elri answers #hamelin-born

[angelrider13]

“So what are you?” A-Qing asks.

Zan-er doesn’t look up from the small block of wood he’s carving.

A-Qing can’t see what he’s making from this angle, but she already knows it looks far better than the hacked at chunk in her own hands. Her hands aren’t made to create things. They’re rough with callouses and covered in branching scars. They’re ugly things. She’s an ugly thing. She is not meant to make beautiful things. But that’s fine because she is not interested in making beautiful things. She’s too angry to make beautiful things.

Hairong had disagreed, she could tell, but she hadn’t argued with A-Qing. He Xuan had frowned and called her an idiot, but he hadn’t argued either. Zan-er had just smiled and put a block of wood in her hands and told her to try anyway.

And she did try. Is still trying. Because Zan-er is the one who asked her. He didn’t tell her to do, he just asked her to try. So she does, even though she doesn’t think anything will come of it.

There is something oddly meditative though, about hacking into a block of wood. It’s soothing, in a weird way, to whittle the wood down into nothing.

“What do you mean?” Zan-er asks.

“You’re not a ghost,” she says. “You’re not dead. But you’re so old for something that’s still alive.” She squints at him suspiciously. “Are you a god?”

Zan-er hums, lips quirking up in a small smile as he continues carving. “I’m not that special.”

A-Qing scoffs. “Gods aren’t special,” she mutters mutinously.

Zan-er huffs a laugh at her.

“So you’re not a ghost and you’re not a god and you’re not human,” she ponders.

“Who said I wasn’t human?” Zan-er asks.

A-Qing blinks. “There’s no way,” she says after a beat, “You’re too old to be human.”

Zan-er shrugs. “I never ascended. I never even cultivated. Not at first anyway. You pick up some tricks after a while whether you mean to or not.”

A-Qing stares.

Her gaze is such a heavy thing that Zan-er looks up at her as the silence stretches between them. He smiles at her, he always smiles at her. Zan-er smiles just for her and just for He Xuan and just for Hairong. Soft gentle things that shine brighter than the sun.

A small, sad tilt of his lips and eyes so, so old. Zan-er smiles at her.

A-Qing hates it.

“I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, is all,” he says, “And now I can’t die.”

There’s such a heaviness in that single sentence that A-Qing feels it crush her chest. She doesn’t need to breathe. Not anymore. But she remembers what it felt like to need air and not be able to get it. She knows without asking that he’s tried before. She knows what death looks like. It isn’t always a violent bloody thing. Sometimes it’s just quiet. Quiet and still and aching.

She doesn’t realize she crushed the wood block in her grasp to dust until Zan-er takes her hand.

“It’s not so bad now,” he says, his smile grows warmer and the sight of it soothes the edges of the raging storm building inside her chest. “I have you, after all. And Xuan-ge and Rong-jie.”

He places his carving in her hand and she looks down.

A phoenix.

It’s in flight, wings spread wide, its long tail feathers trailing behind it. She runs her fingertips over the etching of the feathers, the detailing on the beak and crest, feeling each groove even with her worn, rough hands.

It’s beautiful.

Zan-er was made to make beautiful things.

Zan-er is a beautiful thing.

“I think that’s pretty good, actually,” Zan-er says softly, smiling just for her, “Don’t you agree?”

A-Qing curls her fingers around the phoenix.

“Yes.”

#if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf #elri writes #some family bonding! #am I implying the zan-er was cursed? #yes yes i am #a-qing is ready to kill over this knowledge #zan-er is immortal a la baccano style #for those unaware #that means he no longer ages #it also means that if he is ever violently murdered #his body would reassemble itself down to the last drop of blood #and yes this is knowledge he is intimately aware of #a-qing is comfortable with destruction #and uncomfortable with creation #she doesn’t have a lot of positive thoughts about herself #but in a passive matter of fact kind of way #zan-er is working on it #a-qing ready to Murder™ on zan-er’s behalf at any given second #zan-er gently coaxing a-qing into realizing that she’s more than a feral whirlwind of destruction

[angelrider13]

Thalassa may or may not be wondering how to get HX a Ramuh or a Titan of his very own. Just - true friends, true /family/, not just alliances of circumstance.

@hamelin-born

See, part of me really wants this to be Hua Cheng and Xie Lian. Because I want them to be friends damnit. HX and HC have this weird almost-but-not-really relationship and I want them to be friends. Horrible, snarky, asshole friends. BUT. That wouldn’t really work - not in this context at least. Because HC will always, always, pick XL first. And XL might dither about it, might feel more conflict about the choice, but he would pick HC first too.

No, He Xuan needs stone to ground him and a storm to guard his back. People that will choose him first and will not hesitate to do so.

But I can’t really think of any canon characters who would fit - the only ones I would consider real candidates would be HC, XL, SQX but that’s obviously not gonna work out - SO. OCs it is.

Thalassa doesn’t want to leave HX alone, but she cannot stay with him. She can visit, perhaps, from time to time, but this world is not her world and she has responsibilities everywhere. The sea can survive on its own. But it doesn’t need too, not should it have to. There is stone on its floor after all, and a sky far above. She will find her littlest brother heart siblings of his own.

#if still waters could invite storms verse #sweat tears or the sea au #ffxv x tgcf #thus begins thalassa's quest to find hx siblings #hx has no idea what she's doing #she just shows up one day with two kids #a spitfire of a ghost girl who died as a teen #with lightning scars burned into her skin and venom on her tongue #who died screaming in a violent storm #and a quiet young man who still lives but never ages #who wanders from place to place #and silently provides support to those who need it #...i might explore this more later

[angelrider13]

The Astrals, watching Thalassa walk in with He Xuan thrown over her shoulder: whatcha got there?

Thalassa, holding up her cup: a smoothie

#sweat tears or the sea au #ffxv x tgcf #*squints* #am I gonna need a verse name for this #if still waters could invite storms verse

[angelrider13]

Thalassa, holding He Xuan: This is my new little brother.

Thalassa: I have had him for one day.

Thalassa: If anything were to happen to him, I would kill everyone in Heaven and then myself.

#sweat tears or the sea au #if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf

[angelrider13]

“If still waters could invite storms, imagine what silence might have in store.”

Chayanika Deka

#quote #sweat tears or the sea au #if still waters could invite storms verse #ffxv x tgcf