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WolGraha week - Day 5 - Time Apart

Bylti completely supports Raha's decision to have stayed behind in Sharlayan so Krile could come to Tural, it was absolutely the right call; but now that he's here, she's gonna enjoy the hell out of showing him everything he's missed.

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WolGraha Week - Day 3 - Colors

(Bylti & G'raha's romantic catch-up tour of Tural continues -- this time with mood lighting!)

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Canon!Bylti: [wants nothing to do with guns, to the point that I had to create an alt just to try out MCH and GNB]

AU!Bylti: Hold my beer.

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Vierapril - 5 - color

(or, how I like to imagine that conversation at the end of the last patch actually ended)

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lalapril - 30 - departure

Boundless, the tale overflows and carries your light out to sea...

(Zettai Unmei appears courtesy of @saesama)

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Vierapril - 15 - spark

“Onti . . . “

You should feel something. You know that you should. But that knowledge is distant, detached; like all other knowledge, all feelings, like everything has been ever since they strapped you into that gleaming silver machine and cut away your connection to Tungli as a chirurgeon cuts away a tumor. 

You know who she is. You know what she once meant to you. You had believed her dead, all this time. As she stumbles and falls to her knees before you, you know she is dying now. You know, but you do not--cannot--feel.

“At last . . . I’ve found you . . .”

She reaches toward you with a shaking hand. Brushes back your hair, does something to the collar around your neck that makes it loosen and clatter to the floor. You lack the will to tell her that it doesn’t matter. That even without the collar, your connection to Tungli is gone; and even if it were not, it still wouldn’t matter, because the part of you that would have the will to reach for it is also gone.

She looks at you, her eyes brimming with tears as she searches yours for something no longer there. She says your name again, more like a question now. She cups her hand against your cheek, something metal brushes against your skin, and you–-you feel something.

You. Feel something.

Just a spark. Just the faintest mote of light amidst the vast, numbing darkness. The barest twitch of something familiar. But you feel it, deep in the place where your heart used to be. 

Whatever sparks in you now, she must see it in your eyes too, because relief and joy break across her face even as the tears spill down her cheeks. Tears you want to wipe away. How long has it been since you wanted something? Wanted anything?

But inertia still has a hold on you. The spark in you is only that: a spark. You remain motionless as she sags against you, dropping her head against your shoulder. Her arms and scent enfold you, the latter saturated with blood and iron, but still so familiar. 

Your limbs may as well be made of stone, for the effort it takes to move them. But move them you do. You can, because you want. Because something you thought forever lost is flowing into you, flowing into that emptiness inside you; from her, and from what you now realize is a ring (your ring, your mother’s ring, Tungli’s ring) she wears on her right hand. 

With the last of her strength, she holds you; and with all of yours, you raise your arms to hold her, too.

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(Bylka's pose adapted from this pack)

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Now that I've finished the Dawntrail MSQ and now that Ktisis/Brio/Anam are up and running, Bylti's first order of business is to hug EVERYONE.

Bylti loves all the other Scions and would die for both Alphinaud and Alisaie, but her relationship with Alisaie is particularly special. Partly pride in her for how much she's grown, partly admiration for her unshakeable sense of self, partially the unique bond of the trauma that comes from being the last two Scions standing back when their loved ones were dropping like flies at the end of Stormblood. She both sees herself in Alisaie, and aspires to have something approaching the self-confidence and self-possession Alisaie already embodies despite her being so very young. If Alisaie had been older when Bylti met her, Bylti probably would have fallen in love with her. But in this life, Bylti is happy just to watch her shine.

(I also headcanon Alisaie as having had a massive crush on Bylti which peaked around the end of Stormblood and which by now she has mostly gotten over, and which Bylti has tried not to actively encourage. I also think that the truest expression of Alisaie's affection for Bylti is that she actually lets Bylti hug her like this; in public, no less. Much like the relationship my cat has with me, tbh.)

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WolGraha Week - Day 7 - "I Love You"

There are many ways to say 'I love you'. Such as when your boyfriend's beloved scarf is getting rather ragged and you take it upon yourself to fix it (no matter how much cursing is involved).

(Shoutout to @ladyofvoss for the idea, thank you bb <3 )