𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄, 𝐈𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐓

𝐢 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 , 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐮𝐭𝐲.

[riseifrit]

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your  bleary  bloodshot  eyes  [   𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍  𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐄  𝐈𝐍  𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐃𝐀𝐖𝐍   ]    ,   let  the  light  in  and  brighten  the  shades  that  sleep  inside  you  .  .  . 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃  𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐄   !

𝐈.    [   𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒   ]   𝐈𝐈.    [   𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒   ]   𝐈𝐈𝐈.    [   𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄   ]    𝐈𝐕.    [  𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐃   ]

𝐎' 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 , 𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐒. . . 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃. 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝚡𝚟𝚒 independent , private , mutual only ,  headcanon reliant. not spoiler-free.

FINALLY     ,     WE  HAVE  FOUND  YOU.      YOU  ARE  THE  CHOSEN.      YOU  ARE  THE  VESSEL,   MYTHOS…

RACKED  WITH  GUILT,  YOUR  HANDS  ARE  STAINED  WITH  THEIR  BLOOD,  THEIR  BODIES  CHARRED  TO  ASH  BY  YOUR  FLAME.   YOU  KILLED  HIM   [  ...  ]   joshua  ,     "  FIRST  SHIELD  OF  ROSARIA  "  …

15  years  of  torture,  you  are  hallowed  with  an  emptiness  that  is  overbearing,  your  heart  has  burned  out...  you  have  known  no  love,  have  had  no  comfort.   all  those  you  held  dear  are  dead,  and  their  souls  do  not  know  peace,  they hate  you  .  .  .  and  why  shouldn't  they?   

a  study  in  unbearable  grief  ,   unfathomable  emptiness,  overcoming  self-hate  &  self-deprecation...      [  L3  +  R3  ]      accepting  the  truth,  accepting that the blood on your hands was caused by you  and  taking  accountability,  learning  heroism,  outlawism,  overwhelming  power  and  responsibility  (  tba.  )

𝚆𝚁𝙸𝚃𝚃𝙴𝙽 𝙱𝚈 𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚂𝙸 , 𝚂𝙷𝙴/𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈 , 𝟸𝟻+

[riseifrit]

c.live is so closed off and hardened to EVERYONE he meets before the timeskip.

[shanehollandered]

i am that look on cid's face

[riseifrit]

i will never be able to watch ff.xvi without crying istg.

[riseifrit]

❝  what of me? shall i rot?  ❞

his breath catches and he can feel a numbness start in his chest as he hears her. in the attack they had managed to steal her from her cell, bringing her with them. and then a bitterness tainted is tongue, he’d sat and spoken with her when he found time, cid meant so much to her, as he did to live. he clenched his hands into fists so tight that it began to ache where his nails dug into skin. ❛ benedikta… ❜ his voice leaves him soft and full of sorrow.

had she overheard, had she felt it? since his passing clive felt an emptiness consume him when cid died, like his heart had been ripped from his chest and it left nothing but an ache... had she felt that as well? a pang of guilt rang through him at the thought. he approached her. ❛ you will not be left to rot, you will not return to a cell… ❜ he said as he put his hand on her shoulder, his eyes softening upon her. ❛ you will mourn, the same as all of us, and then we will avenge him… we will continue his work — we will honor him. ❜ he tried to smile despite his eyes growing weary and full of sadness. ❛ he would have liked for you and i to work together… he cared a lot about you, benedikta… ❜

don't remember , but no doubt accepting. @windshrill

[riseifrit]

hopping on here just to say the reason clive loves so hard and is so openly affectionate is because of his uncle. his dad loved him don't get me wrong but the way his uncle adored him? i feel like it was because his mom was such a bitch that his uncle was like "bet, I'm gonna love him 50x harder now." he always will stand up for clive and i know clive notices...

[non-sims]

🥺.

[riseifrit]

the silence continued to grow between them as clive stared out into the water — he had always tried to appease his mother, showing her all the affection she would allow him, which was little to none, but he tried nonetheless, desperate for her love, desperate to belong to her. when he was younger he would have done anything to make her love him, to make her proud of all the things he had accomplished then. now? he found himself indescribably numb… this woman who had birthed him, found every way to put him down had died, been taken before anything could be mended… had he wanted them mended? he felt a part of himself die with her, his child self being the dagger driven into her neck , let me be the one who ends this, for all the pain, all the suffering... and yet, he still mourned. mother...

❛ i… ❜ he finally opens his mouth, letting himself feel the loss of whatever held him to her. ❛ i will share with you mine, brother. ❜ his eyes were tired, a hand gentle upon his brother's shoulder. [...] ❛ mother was not good, no… she was driven by power and desperation… but she did love you, i believe that truly. how could she not? ❜ maybe it was biased, clive never did know anything about her, but he knew that joshua had been the best thing she had done. ❛ if we do not mourn her, no one will. ❜ he will never know if it was her hatred for him that drove her to betrayal, that drove her to murder those who shared blood with him. had she hated him that deeply?

⤷ @awayfly sent a missive — ❛ clive. ❜ joshua spoke sudden to gather the attention of his brother, ❛ mother is dead… and neither of us have said anything about it… ❜ joshua breathed in deeply and shook his head, ❛ well, until now… i just.. i cannot find the grief inside of me that should belong to her. ❜

[riseifrit]

if someone doesn't make a "would you fall in love with me again" clive and jill edit i really don't know what I'm going to do.

[riseifrit]

saw a ff.xvi post about clive and jill and immediately cried.

[colbridgerton]

@pscentral event 17: vibrance ↳ FINAL FANTASY XVI + THE SONS OF FIRE

[colbridgerton]

Thank you, Clive. For this, for the flowers, for... everything. It's exactly what I needed. You are my treasure.

[riseifrit]

⤷ @praymetia sent a missive — ❛ so much has changed since we last saw each other… ❜ the ghost of a smile was on her lips, never quite leaving when she was with clive. she turned her head to him and her head tilted as she looked upon his countenance, ❛ even still… i still can find that young boy i last saw on the balcony in rosaria, staring up at moon with me, eager to lead his first command. ❜ jill felt her chest grow tight, she became aware how hard it felt to breathe thinking again of that night and what came after and led to their worlds unraveling. ❛ so much was stolen from us…❜

in  a  moment,  clive  lost  everything.   he  had  failed  them  all,  he  was  not  worthy  of  her  smiles  but  cherished  them  nonetheless,  he  felt  a  pull  at  his  heart  when  he  saw  her  lips  tug  ever  so  slightly  upon  her  lips,  it  was  healing  in  a  way,  but  the  ache  remained.   that  night  at  phoenix  gate  their  whole  world  flipped  upside  down  and  inside  of  him,  clive  felt  a  hollow  hole  where  his  heart  had  once  been.   joshua,     his  brother  he’d  sworn  to  protect  had  been  torn  from  him  by  a  monster  —  a  murderer  —  him...   even  the  memories  brought  upon  a  familiar  ache,  one  that  stirred  in  his  head  and  in  his  heart.  he  put  his  hand  on  his  chest  and  took  a  sharp  breath. 

her  smile  was  the  only  thing  that  gave  him  the  strength  to  stand.    since  reuniting  with  her  he  found  his  purpose.  she  did  not  look  at  him  scornfully  or  with  disgust.   ❛  that  night…  we  lost  more  than  we  could  ever  have  imagined.     and  i…  ❜  he  still  did  not  want  to  believe  it  but  when  he  looked  down  at  his  hands  he  saw  them  stained  blood  -  red.   the  blood  of  those  he  was  sworn  to  protect.  ❛  i  have  so  much  to  apologize  for…  so  much  i  cannot  undo…  so  much  that  cannot  be  forgiven.   how  can  i  go  on  knowing  that  i  am  the  monster  that  murdered  him…?  murderer  joshua.  ❜     i  ruined  it  all.  i  killed  them  all.   he  felt  like  he  was  sinking  further  and  further  into  a  dark  pit  and  the  only  light  that  he  could  see  was  her,  beckoning  him  out  of  the  shadows.   step  into  the  light.     oh,  how  it  burned…  ❛  i  will  never  forgive  myself…  i  am  the  monster,  jill.   it’s  me.  ❜   he  does  not  want  it,  he  does  not  deserve  it.

[marlenadia]

『 Random gifs of CLIVE ROSFIELD ✰ 2/∞ || FINAL FANTASY XVI 』

Credit: @marlenadia

[colonelpipsqueaks]

"We don't even know where the fucker went. How about we cool our heads and think this through, eh?"

[riseifrit]

more arcane then i will tend to clive.

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from "Stars", Poems: 1962–2020