#aurcred 2024

[myreia]

— vi. the last

They stay. They go. Ebbs and flows, as certain as the tide that will take his ship to sea. Their responsibilities take them in different directions. This is the way it has always been, and in truth, they prefer it. Independent to a fault, wanderers in answer to different calls. But the time apart makes the time together all the more sweeter. Goodbye for now does not mean goodbye forever.   Till next we meet.

[myreia]

— vi. stay | follow

It is an inevitability, she feels, that they are always a little out of step, a little out of sync. One ahead, the other behind, a shadow to the other’s light. Pulled together not by fate nor by destiny, but by a small series of choices that are greater than the sum of its parts. They will always find each other—to the very end.

[myreia]

— v. raison d'être

It was never going to last. They knew it from the beginning, all of them. Their time in the First was temporary, fleeting. For some, that would have been enough to give pause, to keep distance. For them, it made these moments all the more precious—even when it was difficult, even when it was unfair. Ryne knows they are both proud of her. That will never change, even when they live in separate worlds. It is a bittersweet thing to say goodbye, to close one chapter and begin the next. But change is necessary, a fundamental aspect of life. There is no sense in clinging to the past when the future—with all its countless possibilities—lies ahead. There is no looking back. Only forwards.

[myreia]

— ii. lion-hearted

Fires burn, the sky crackles, a storm incoming. The front is devastation untold, enemies and allies lying dead alike in the field of battle. She could weep when she finds him; they lost sight of each other when the fighting started. There is still so much to be done—the rage and the fury and the madness blazing around them—but she needs this as desperately as she needs breath. One moment. One single, precious moment. A reminder that they both survived.

[myreia]

— iii. need | want

Her breath mists in the air. A sigh, a pause, soft in the moonlight. The pulse of life—her life, theirs, intertwined in a way she once could not have conceived—thunders in her veins, a rare flicker of desire stirred by his touch. Their wants and needs are different, not always matched, but tonight is different. Special. Private. She can give him this, as it is what he needs.

[myreia]

— iv. broken | trust

Trust. It isn’t easily given, nor is it easily accepted. He was the first person she trusted in Eorzea. She doesn’t know how or why, but she did. She took that risk. In the years that followed, there was a time when their friendship had disintegrated to such a degree that it was a stab to the gut, and all they knew was how to twist the knife deeper. Even then—even through that—she trusted him. Trusted him when they were both broken and stupid and fuelled by spite and hate and grief. The faith she has in him is a different kind now. Stronger, implicit, as natural as drawing breath. When they are in the thick of it, he is her guardian and she his shield. She trusts him. Even when he is being impetuous and stubborn and a fool. Even when he has no regard for his own well-being. When sacrifice is a word that comes terrifyingly easily to his mind.   She knows he will do the right thing. And she will be there, to pick him up when he is broken, just as he has done for her. Come what may, she will be there.

[myreia]

— i. the first

The sun was blazing that day beneath the Sultantree. An unexpected meeting, an unanticipated battle, the first of many. They were strangers, then…

✦ prompts

[myreia]

And we're done!! ✨

i. the first ii. lion-hearted iii. need | want iv. broken | trust v. raison d'être vi. stay | follow vii. the last

This was such a fun challenge, thank you so much to everyone following along with me and my silly hyperfixation on these two non-functional fools.

Shout out to the ever-wonderful @tsunael for making the prompt list and letting me tag along with the shenanigans! It was a joy to see Tsuna's story come to life (and I love your writing so so much).

time to sleep forever and also write a thousand fics because I still have brainrot