#also not wrong

[ishgard]

4. - First impression of each other? Was it love at first sight?

This one is so fun to think about honestly. Ahru actually ‘encountered’ Gaius briefly while she was hunting, when he was surveying the land around Baelsar’s Wall many years ago - as in, she saw him at a distance and was plenty grateful to have gotten away. So I wouldn’t say that was love at first sight at all, but she very much had the impression he wasn’t someone she foolishly wanted to engage or encounter.

I imagine the first time Gaius ‘saw’ Ahru was in a blue-tinted photo on some fancy Garlean-tech screen Nero handed him along with a report on this intriguing would-be ‘Eikon-slayer’ shortly after she felled Ifrit. A report filled with as much research and details that Nero and the Frumentarium could dig up on this peculiar, Echo-gifted adventurer that left him with a curious impression.

She had no previous political or military history, no real deep loyalties to any of the City-states prior to stumbling into Ul’dah (and eventually joining the Flames and the Scions). He had her pegged from early on; an adventurer of the realm who fought for the realm, but didn’t seem to have any strong inclination or motivations underneath; in other words, it seemed perfectly acceptable that she might even be swayed to join him in his cause if she could be reasoned with. Again: not love at first sight, but acknowledgment and a pinch of healthy curiosity.

(As the events of ARR progressed, this did shift slightly, at least on Gaius’s end. Though he was focused on (and blinded by) his own ambitions, he did find ‘something’ about her stubborn, willful resistance... alluring? I imagine he was always having Nero/the Frumentarium keep tabs on her, because of course he would, she’s a potential threat. But if everything Nero and Livia say about you in CM/Prae are any indication, I think his focus on her was to an abnormal (for him) degree.)

Re-encountering him in the Burn, Ahru’s thoughts were primarily on Alphinaud, but in retrospect best summed up with:

(Send me a ship and a number and I’ll tell you...)

[roses-and-grimoires]

Which Edgar Allan Poe Work Was Written For You?

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum was written for you! This classic short story describes the fear and torment a prisoner is subjected to under the Spanish Inquisition. This particular tale represents the five senses, and how they contribute to the “death anxiety” the narrator is feeling in his experience. He is sentenced after trial to a pending death and is soon after placed in a cell containing both a deep, watery pit and a swinging pendulum. He chooses to attempt to measure the perimeter twice of the cell only to faint and wake up underneath the pendulum after the second coming of consciousness. With the help of dungeon rats who he lures with excess meat, they chew through the restraining ropes and the prisoner escapes the pendulum seconds before it strikes his heart. Then, he is doomed to face the watery pit and just as he is about to fall inward, he is captured and saved by the Toledo men.

If we’ve determined that The Pit and the Pendulum was written for you then maybe this matchup suggests a bit of anxiety or uncertainty about a risky situation you face? Perhaps that’s not it at all, and maybe you feel as if unfair judgment has been passed upon you recently and you’re struggling to deal with it? Whichever it is, you can relate to the prisoner in the pit.

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Quiz here

[chewing-scum]

ALRIGHT WHICH ONE OF Y’ALL DID THIS

[comicreliefmorlock]

me: -remembers Enneagram tests exist-

me: -rushes to take an Enneagram because WHEE-

me: -reads description of test results-

me:

me:

me: ...I feel so called out rn

[phoenixdown-and-fairydust]

My home now.

Love,

The Glitter

[sins-of-the-sea]

What is your true role in the story?

the one at the crossroads.

questioning yourself again? well it's a hard choice is it not. you always decide you've made your mind but you seem to nevertheless return to this state of uncertainty. are you good or evil? dark or light alas? alas, I am not fit for such details in morality. In my slightly skewed sight of it, neither truly exist. they are but a mindset, but mindset or not, they still give you quite the anxieties hm? you are one who has lived in fear, your heart is hidden, and you don't know who to trust. you doubt you can even trust yourself. the caustic words of poisonous people have corroded into your skull. "you are evil. you are a monster. you are bad." well that is indeed a bunch of poppycock, mind my language, for the only one who may decide that is you. my dear, you are torn between never allowing others to hurt the ways you hurt, and from running away from all who might harm you again, with gnashing teeth. you are a cornered animal who has been kicked by the ones it trusted. you do not know whether to trust again, for your mind is screaming, don't. but if I may, you can be both. it is not the question of whether you are good or evil, it is the question, what do I deserve and how might I reach that? you do not deserve pain, correct? so never chase that, instead kindly decline and flee from those like your past assailants, but trust the ones who you know are good. sometimes you will find people to be a messy combination of both pain and love, but so are you and I. my advice is to simply be kind, but be willing to question. always question, always wonder. do not give away your heart on a silver platter my dear, it is worth far more than the sun himself, but don't fail to allow healing. you deserve good things in life. so as you stand between two roads, walk between the third you just now have noticed. life seems to be made of entirely preposterous choices, but if you look close enough, you'll reveal the right ones that are normally hidden from sight. breathe my dear, things will be well. trust yourself, and carve your own path.

[foreverforeverhs]

did i tell u guys

i was talking to my mom about ben barnes as one does yknow

and i mentioned he’s turning 40 soon 😭 pain

so she wolf whistles and goes “someone likes older men”

i hate it here

[swedishgoaliemafia]

The only comment on the commercial on YouTube is this lol.