Chapters: 17/? Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lahabrea/Thancred Waters, Erichthonios & Lahabrea (Final Fantasy XIV), Claudien & Lahabrea (Final Fantasy XIV), Claudien & Thancred Waters, Athena/Lahabrea (Final Fantasy XIV), Athena/Lahabrea (past), Igeyorhm & Lahabrea (Final Fantasy XIV), Hephaistos | Boss of Abyssos: The Eighth Circle/Thancred Waters, Lahabrea/Thancred Waters/Hephaistos Characters: Lahabrea (Final Fantasy XIV), Hephaistos | Boss of Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Final Fantasy XIV), Thancred Waters, Claudien (Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker), Athena (Final Fantasy XIV), Erichthonios (Final Fantasy XIV), Igeyorhm (Final Fantasy XIV), Y'shtola Rhul, Elidibus (Final Fantasy XIV) Additional Tags: Pandaemonium Questline (Final Fantasy XIV) Spoilers, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Patches 6.0 - 6.5 Spoilers, Patch 7.0: Dawntrail Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV), Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, POV Multiple, Tired And Weary Men Yelling At One Another, Warning For Both Lahabrea's and Thancred's Canon Lists Of Trauma, Temporary Amnesia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Suicidal Thoughts, Aetheric Flow Pattern Theory, Consensual Possession, Mutually Non-Consensual Possession (Aka Neither Them Like This Situation), Poking At The Effects Of Tempering, Slow Burn, Slow Burn So Slow I Almost Called The Story That, Loss of a child (in the past), What Is Grief But Love Enduring, Athena Is Her Own Content Warning, The Intimacy of Been Seen And Known, An Untended Heart Grown Wild and Strange, To Name a Thing is to Claim it (But Does it Also Claim You?) Series: Part 8 of Who We Once Were And What We Will Become Summary:
Burdened by memories not his own, Thancred searches for understanding of why an old enemy haunts him so. Claudien holds the memory of his past self in the palm of his hand and chases the duty of a man long dead. And another man, bereft of memory altogether, struggles to even understand who he is and the rudderless purpose that drives him.








