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Mandi's Random Headcanons #5 - Moving

Every few years the nations have to move to avoid people noticing how they don’t age normally. Some of the countries learned long ago to distance themselves from their neighbors and not get too attached to anything or anyone, because in just a couple of years they have to leave again - yet it often happens that they just start chatting with someone. It can be that the guy next door asks if he can borrow an egg, or maybe the old lady from across the street forgot to close her window again, it’s not rarely the nation in question soon befriends the people around them, making it even harder to say good bye when the time comes to move on.

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Firstly....love, love, LOVE the blog! It's become my daily ritual to check it out in the morning after I get off work and before I go to bed for the day. Keep up the awesome work! ≧▽≦ Secondly, headcannon thoughts (silly or otherwise) on Hope and Vanille? Or Hope and Fang?

Well thanks~

Hope and Vanille get along really well, as shown in the game. Although neither of them really like being considered the “kids” of the group, they kind of find solidarity in being the “under 20s” of the party. Hope thinks Fang is super cool, although he was a bit intimated by her at first before he realized that she’s not really all that scary. Hope reminds Fang of some of the younger boys in Oerba, even though Vanille spent more time with the village children than she did.

Also, Fang and Vanille told Hope that if he lived in Oerba, he’d be at the age when he’d be doing solo hunts. Hope is just like “oh hell no” to this.

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How about a Lightning/Hope headcannon? Doesn't have to be romantic :)

On the silly side: Lightning is the best worst influence for Hope. He had his first taste of alcohol when she offered him a sip of what he thought was water but turned out to be something much stronger. 

On the more serious side: Lightning definitely came to regard Hope as a younger brother of sorts, and during the time she spent in Valhalla her priority wasn’t only getting back to Serah, but getting back to Hope as well. I think if she hadn’t been sucked into the paradox and taken to Valhalla, Hope is the party member that she would have wanted to keep in touch with the most after they go their separate ways. Hope also entertained ideas of maintaining a friendship with her too, as their journey came to an end, which is why after her disappearance he became determined to find out what happened to her.

Lightning also taught him basic self-defense while they traveled together. Even before she gave him her knife, because sometimes just waving a knife around won’t cut it. Hope is also the party member who probably knows the most about Lightning (except for maybe Snow, and most of the stuff he knows is what he has heard from Serah).

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Since they didn't interact to much in-game (since it seems the story was mostly told via their perspectives), what is your headcanon (if any) on how Lightning and Vanille would interact/be friendly with one another on a regular/daily basis?

Pre-character development, Lightning would have little patience for Vanille’s chronically perky exterior. Which is probably why it’s a good thing that the two of them parted ways pretty quickly after they all became l’Cie, because otherwise I think we would have seen a lot more of Lightning being annoyed at her cheerful “think about it later!” philosophy. Vanille would also try to spread some good cheer to Lightning, thinking that upholding a facade of happiness would help Lightning deal with her pain just as it helps her.

Once Lightning softens a bit, however, she’s a lot less exasperated by Vanille’s perkiness (although I’m sure she still rolls her eyes about it every now and then). By the time that Lightning and Vanille would be interacting regularly (when they’re on Pulse), Lightning has heard Fang talk about how devoted she is to Vanille. Therefore, she’d probably have a lot more respect for Vanille as someone who Fang wants to protect. Vanille would probably still joke about how Lightning needs to lighten up a bit, but she also is good at encouraging her that they will indeed see Serah again. And Lightning definitely appreciates that, even if it’s just because it’s encouragement coming from a source other than Snow.

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Do you have any Caius/Yuel headcanons? (This Yuel, first Yuel, any Yuel?)

There was definitely at one point a Yeul that loved to dance because I think that a Yeul naturally skilled at ballet would be precious. (or maybe that’s just my inner dancer talking)

This is something that is kind of supported in canon, but I think that each Yeul lives an increasingly shorter lifespan, so some of the earlier Yeuls lived into the 19-22 age range. Caius certainly does love Yeul, and may have loved some of these older Yeuls romantically, but I think that ultimate his love for her is more a protective, familial love.

And also the flower crowns thing that I mentioned the other day. Idk, maybe this is just my love for Domestic Caius showing but I really do thing they did cute things together. Life doesn’t always have to be doom and gloom even when you have the Eyes of Etro and the Heart of Chaos. It’s not very hard at all for me to imagine the two of them cooking up some behemoth meat together and Caius telling Yeul bedtime stories based off Pulsian legends. Caius is definitely the storytelling type.

Also I have this fanfic that I was writing like a year and a half ago that was a crossover with FFX in which Yeul was a summoner and Caius and Noel were her guardians. Yeul’s rebirth and Caius’s immortality were tied to the curse of Sin and how it could never truly be defeated. I really should go back to writing it one of these days because I think Yeul, Caius, and Noel work really well in Spira.

Oh and one last thing about Caius: even though his age is never given I’ve always had him in my head as being 27 years old. No idea why.

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What are your headcannons for Hope and his family?

Well, I already talked about Hope’s dad in an earlier post, so I guess now it’s time to talk about his mom

Hope was a bit of a mama’s boy growing up and underwent a bit of teasing for it, particularly as he got older. In his early teens, this left him in the kind of awkward situation of still being close to his mother even though his peers pressured him into thinking that moms are the most embarrassing thing in the world. He’s definitely willing to show more affection to Nora in private than in public.

When Hope was growing up Nora used to always tell him that he was just like his father, but as the distance between Hope and Bartholomew grew, Hope eventually told her to stop because he didn’t want to be connected in any way to the father who was always busy working. Nora stopped making comments on the matter, but she couldn’t help but feel hurt that Hope didn’t understand how much he embodied Bartholomew’s good qualities. Even though she loved both Bartholomew and Hope dearly, it made her sad that her husband and son could never seem to connect to each other.

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what are your headcannons regarding Snow and Serah?

The two of them met during the summer at the beach at Bodhum when he accidentally walked into her when he wasn’t paying attention. He offered to buy her a coffee or something as an apology, and she accepted. The connection between them was immediate, and they sat together talking for hours that night. Team NORA, naturally, spied on them from a distance because it’s not every day that the boss hangs out with a cute girl.

Snow and Serah enjoyed going on fun dates together. He wasn’t afraid to let his inner child free in front of her, although Serah did have to remind him “no, Snow, you’re too tall for that” on occasion. They particularly enjoyed going to festivals together, which made Snow very happy that he ended up proposing to her at the fireworks festival.

When they weren’t out on dates, they spent most of their time in the original NORA house. Serah quickly befriended the other NORA members as well, and in particular became close to Lebreau, who she regarded as another older sister. Gadot also became fairly protective of her, and he even gave Snow a stern “if you ever do anything to hurt her” speech.

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Head canons on how would Lightning and Jihl Nabaat interact?

Since Jihl is of a higher military than Lightning, Lightning would likely treat her with the same respect that she would treat any other superior officer (even though Jihl is PSICOM, not Guardian Corps). Their interactions pre-FFXIII wouldn’t be very exciting, I’m afraid.