mhm.. yes and what not.. yes yes thank u for feeding me kalea hcs but... can we get floryn hcs wlw next... yes yes and make it doomed and sad pls.. yes..maybe part of it doomed and part of it happy..thank u master
floryn x f!reader doomed hcs
writer's note: thank you for this req!! normal floryn hcs are already fun to think about, but ohoo making it doomed??? angst??? yummy!! also thank you for calling me master, that has stroked my ego quite a bit.
masterlist introduction
This requires some knowledge of Floryn's lore btw!
Short summary in case you're not familiar: Floryn was a girl born when Belerick accidentally poured too much power into a flower. For a while she was isolated in the Oasis so that she could live her life carefree and away from the harsh environment from the desert. Eventually some events occurred which led her outside the Oasis. Seeing all the suffering and despair of the drought, she resolved herself to help the desert recover.
Also, Floryn and reader is already in an established relationship.
Floryn never means to neglect you. In fact, she spends most of her journeys thinking about you. Every village she restores, every patch of green she coaxes from the barren earth, every child she helps and every flower she discovers becomes another story she can't wait to share with you when she returns. And when she leaves, it's always with the same promise:
"just one more trip! there's a settlement to the south-" "it's just one more village, i recently heard from a group of merchants that their farm caught fire and-" "there's just one more place that needs help, I promised that I would return to heal them-"
Then she would come back and spend more time with you. And Floryn means it, every single time.
In the beginning, this arrangement works. Floryn returns often enough that neither of you notice the years slipping by. She comes home with dirt on her boots and excitement in her eyes, eagerly taking your hand and launching into the tales of her travels before she's even sat down. She shows you the sketches of villages before and after her work, tells you about the people she's met, and presses new species of dried flowers into your hands. Seeing her so happy makes it impossible to resent her for leaving again. You love her, but more than that you love seeing her fulfill the purpose she was born for.
The problem is that Floryn does not experience time the same way you do. Born from a flower and the magic of Belerick, it would not be a stretch to say that she is essentially immortal. A year feels short. Five years can pass by in a blink of an eye. Everytime she returns, she looks almost exactly the same as she did before she left. And she never seems to realize how different your experience has been, because every sign of your aging was healed away without a second thought.
Then one day she returns from a journey that felt especially short. Perhaps she had spent only a year away restoring a drought-stricken region, bringing rain to villages that had not seen water in decades. Floryn arrives practically glowing with excitement, already rehearsing all the stories she wants to tell you. She is eager to show you how much progress she has made, how much of the desert is blooming because of her efforts.
But then, she sees you.
You, who's hair is now entirely silver. You, with lines adorning your face. You are not frail or dying, but you are undeniably older than the girl Floryn had once left behind all those years ago. The differences are no longer subtle, impossible to explain away. While she spent years believing that she always had more time, your life continued moving forward without pause.
And perhaps, what makes it even worse is that you are not angry. You greet Floryn with the same warmth you always have. You ask about her travels, the people she's helped, the villages she's saved. There is no resentment in your eyes. If anything, you seem proud of everything she's accomplished. And that kindness just makes the guilt worse, because at the very least, if you hated her for leaving, perhaps she could've convinced herself that she deserved the pain.
But instead, you cradle her teary face in your wrinkled hands, and you tell her that everything is okay. That you understand, that you would never blame her.
After that, Floryn becomes desperate. She starts searching for solutions, asking anyone she meets, even traveling to the Celestial Palace to consult Lunox about extending lifespans or reversing the effects of age. She chases rumors of forgotten magic and ancient relics, for hints of how previously mortal beings turn immortal. There had to be a solution. There simply had to be. Floryn would not accept any other outcome.
Floryn had to accept there was another outcome.
For perhaps the first time in her existence, Floryn encounters something she cannot heal. Time is not an illness. Time is not a wound. There is nothing wrong with you. Your life was simply moving forward exactly as it should. No amount of rain can make a flower return to its seed. And no amount of her magic can restore years that have already been lived.
end note: there was genuinely so much more i wanted to add, her angst potential is so big esp because she's a compassionate character. like we could've gone, reader was like the young man who stole her seed out of desperation, then we could've had this big scene where floryn was like "i know why you did it, but i still can't forgive you". OR we could've gone for the savior angle, where reader keeps getting hurt because floryn cannot stop helping people (kinda like what happened here, except i didn't emphasize the angst of her not being with reader and focused more on the mortal/immortal aspect). we also could've gone for a scenario where floryn is forced to choose between the desert and reader, and lowk i feel like floryn would choose the desert aha....
