Talk about your ships for Angelique. All of them. Pretty please.
Ooh boy are you asking for a story!)
Starting with the MSQ ship. Otherwise known as Crystalangel, and I think it’s better Angel describes it herself~!)
“When I first met G’raha Tia, it was the expedition of the Crystal Tower, pretty normal. Except he dragged me halfway across the Gods’ green star! Ahem. Anyways, back when I first started my journey, I wasn’t exactly the most open and sociable of person. I know people didn’t quite like me. Because no one really trusted outside their walls you know? So in similar I just walled myself up. But back to G’raha after he had chosen to drag me around on that wild dodo chase of a game. However, despite how much Cid often told him that I wasn’t social, he kept trying to really break his way in past my defenses. He got in my space, and when the cracks in those walls started to appear...I started to see him genuinely caring. He didn’t like how the Scions at the time sent me around, slaying Primals and being at beck and call. He didn’t care about my hero status...he wanted to know the real me.
However, that would only last briefly, we got on some misadventures in our off time, but nothing too far from camp. Eventually came the day he had to close himself off. The night before...he acted strange. And well...we almost kissed I think, then the morning came. Since then everything felt...off? Like a part of me that was missing. Eventually I was on the First and met with the Crystal Exarch...of course the events that happened, I was shocked and terrified, and slightly relieved. Once we took him back to the Crystarium, we started to talk, to reconnect (little did I know we were reconnecting all along). I wasn’t sure what to do with my feelings, I put myself deep into work to just...stifle the sensations, but everything boiled over...and everything came out. We dated when we could, keeping it mostly a secret...not that it was easy in a city of gossips.
When he came back home to the Source, everything kind of just goes from there. We’re still learning to enjoy ourselves and be comfortable in each other’s company. He’s almost like a prince.” she chuckled. “Though I did get a startling realization that Aymeric and Haurchefant flirted with me after a while of not...quite getting it.”
(time for the non MSQ ship)
“Well, this one’s not a story that’s complicated. Just...confusing at the time. I was originally working at a night club with my friend Shuri, she’s the one that not only convinced me to dance, but taught me plenty of skills I know today. We were at the time, just that. Good friends. Then Vhas ended up coming into the picture, he was dating Shuri and really I was fine with it, but I swear by Nophica he was super pretentious. I...admittedly didn’t personally like him at first. It’s not like Vhas rubbed me the wrong way, it was just at the first glance his personality and mine...clashed.
Which is sort of what happened when Shuri arranged for him and I to go on a date to the beach. It...was awkward. I didn’t know what to feel or how to think. In the end it unfortunately turned into a “woe is me” session. Like I was venting. It...was a bit of a poor start to a date. I’m still embarrassed to this day about it.
The rough bumps didn’t stop unfortunately, I got drunk and said some things that he did try to explain gently, but...at the time I took it a little too hard. While we came to an agreement that we would try to do better. Then came the day that they were announcing that he and Shuri were going to get married...and I just...I didn’t know what to do. I guess it’s because I’ve never entered the relationship between more than one partner. It was confusing, and believe me the two have had to bring me down from being lost in my own head; several times. Maybe more than I can count.
The night club I worked at eventually closed up and something I think something inside me broke. My self-confidence especially. I wasn’t sad that the club was closed, but I realized my confidence got blown to the Seven hells. I felt undesirable. However, everything changed after a while, Vhas and Shuri as well as myself spent more time together the better things got and the more comfortable I started to feel in myself and my trust in them. Even now, Vhas is still pretentious, but he’s lightened up a lot since I met him. He’s happier, and it’s amazing when I can get him to laugh, but I still need to take that city man out under the open sky and camping! Shuri is also still amazing as ever, she never stopped teaching me things, and she’s very sweet and loving. I wouldn’t be where I am now without either of them.”
