im debating writing out and actually posting an Extensive meta about my thoughts on happy endings and what that means to me, on a fundamental level, but for now I will settle for:
the idea of Yasha and Jester and Beau all under one roof for a night, Jester suntanned and full of stories from sailing and Beau with Cobalt Soul complaints and Yasha with dirt under her nails, giggling and doing mud masks and probably plotting crimes, makes me happy.
Caleb bringing in Beau as a guest lecturer even as she grumps about wanting to be cool, Caleb youre making me sound so lame, what if they think I'm a dork like YOU, (but she keeps out an eagle eye, and after she's done talking to them she tells him that they all look so smart and they ask the right questions, and he's a stupid good teacher, god what the hell)- that makes me happy.
Caleb and Fjord, settling down for a quiet cup late at night as Fjord talks about interesting artifacts he's come across (and offers to bring a few in, if he wants to lecture about them). They talk, and share stories, and fears, and hopes (because they both have them, now, lots of them). That makes me happy.
Fjord, bringing trinkets from across far oceans to give to Luc, who is quickly becoming a professional menace, and is therefore taking after the best parts of Veth, who is a different kind of menace and insists on heckling Fjord the whole time (and then giving him special potions and tools before he heads out. And at least some of them are helpful and won't just turn his hair blue). That's happy.
Caleb, coming for family dinners at the Brenattos, preening over Luc's latest marvel and leaning over the latest concoction that Veth and Yeza put together and giving Veth all kinds of neat spells and also a random button his cat brought him. Wrapped up in love and family and belonging while she teases him about Essek. That's happy.
Caleb, maybe spending a quiet evening with Yasha when he drops by and Beau needs to run for Cobalt business, and they spend the time petting his cat and she shows him her plants and he comments on the esoteric origins and they comment idly on loving people who are so wonderfully smart and driven, and it is quiet and comfortable and it is- not always free of guilt, and grief, but so much lighter. So much easier. So much happier.
Yasha, dropping by Caduceus's place to chat seeds, and flowers, and life, and also maybe some bruise salve recipes because Beau still spars and Caduceus still has Many siblings, and life is hard for these gentle giants, amirite? But still. Happy.
Beau, with her face tilted into the sea spray because sometimes Fjord wants a little extra muscle with a lot of brains and she is still, still his first mate no matter what, and she wanted to sail the seas with him, and she gets to, even if she has to write a report about it at the end. Them, shoving each other on the deck of a ship- his ship- swapping stories and lighthearted jabs and support. That, makes me happy.
Jester, visiting Veth in person to go shopping (and maybe commit crimes) and Caduceus to trade the shield back and forth and share pastries, draw dicks all over Caleb's nice books, sneak smut books into the Cobalt Reserve, and even when she can't be there in person she uses Sending to remind them, remind everyone that she'll be back in a few weeks, that she saw a bug shaped like a dick, that she loves everyone and they all love each other, and oh, that makes me very, very happy.
I think about. Family dinners at the Clays, at the Brenattos- usually announced, if only because getting everyone together can be a bit tricky, but that doesn't stop them from doing it, dragging everyone in from the far corners of Exandria and cold outposts in Eiselcross and maybe a twinkling treehouse. I think about how the details are vague and there are bound to be deaths and mourning in the far away future, but there is also the potential for so much happiness, so much love, in the spaces between. I think that I absolutely count this as a happy ending, in the sense that there is so much happiness for all of them to carve out, in the little spaces and the big, and there will be distances between them at times, but there is a happy ending in the way they will bridge those gaps for each other, over and over.
I think I count this as a happy ending, because there is so much room for happiness, in a new and different form than before, but still there. Evolving, growing, and steady.
I think. The devil is in the details, so if there is enough blank space for me to make my own happiness, I'll take it. I think the Mighty Nein will be able to find each other, and find those spots of joy, and it will be different, but in some ways, so much easier than it ever was before. And that, that could be a happy ending.
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