your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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Helios and Seleukos become students at the Akadaemia Anyder, and form the beginning of the relationships that even thirteen thousand years, reincarnation, and the Final Days twice over could not break.
It is, predictably, a bit of a rocky start.
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- Part 1 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
- Part 1 of in the shadow of the sun || ascian azem au
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i do not have wings, love, i never will by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
28 Jul 2024
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A concept gets loose on the grounds of the Akadaemia Anyder, and Helios intervenes - and falls ill. His friends and roommates take care of him, and learn the truth of his disability.
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- Part 2 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
- Part 2 of in the shadow of the sun || ascian azem au
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i'll wreck this if i have to (tell me what good would that do) by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
30 Apr 2024
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He has never been particularly aligned to the Light, nor has he made a habit of utilizing Light-aligned spells when he fights, but his aetheric balance is skewed and he can sense it, and it makes every spell he casts, no matter how minor, behave differently. Hythlodaeus had been horrified, when Emet-Selch had first come home in the wake of the summoning, though he hadn’t spoken of it; he’d merely pulled Emet-Selch into a tight, clinging hug and asked if it was over, then.
No, Emet-Selch had said, because even then they had already known that Etheirys was still dead. But we will end it soon, this I swear to you.
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In the aftermath of Zodiark's summoning, the Convocation gathers to discuss the next sacrifice. Azem and his best friend leave Amaurot. Emet-Selch is left behind with the wreckage.Series
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heaven's touch is often out of reach for those who want it most by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
24 Jul 2024
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Seleukos prepares for the Sundering.
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and you wonder what i believe by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
01 Nov 2024
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Ten years after G'raha Tia arrives in the First, six years after he returns to the Crystal Tower after wandering his new world, and two hours after he begins helping with the creation of a quarantine zone for those who have take refuge near Syrcus Tower that are now sick - the alarm system of the Tower's archives alerts him to an intruder. An intruder far too stubborn to leave.
Or: the very first time Emet-selch gives the Crystal Exarch a well-earned headache.
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the words that i promise i don't mean by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
20 Mar 2024
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In truth, though, there is only one question Emet-Selch wants answered by this place, and it is thus: from whence have you come? All other quandaries posed by the Tower, its keeper, his eight-times-Rejoined soul, and what he truly means to accomplish by dragging himself and it across the rift to a doomed shard can, Emet-Selch believes, be explained by that single answer - or if not explained, at least further opined on, and if there is something he is singularly good at doing, it is having opinions. And yet five decades have passed since Hydaelyn’s irritatingly-well-timed interference and the Tower’s appearance and he has gained naught. Not even a hint of the Crystal Exarch’s past.
Thus Emet-Selch’s unannounced materialization in the Umbilical at half past four in the afternoon, when a cursory inspection of the Exarch’s other usual haunts, including his favored sitting room, turned up nothing but scattered papers and a long-cold pot of tea that must have been brewed and summarily forgotten.
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A Lightwarden attacks the Crystarium.
Nothing happens, save to those outside the barrier- and the one who maintains it.
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- Part 7 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
- Part 10 of in the shadow of the sun || ascian azem au
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(for the time being) i will still avoid my own questions by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
10 Apr 2024
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Prompt: "Can you just- for a minute, can you pretend that I mean something to you?'
The Crystal Exarch rescues a small child from sin eaters. Emet-Selch rescues the both of them.
None of it means anything at all.
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- Part 8 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
- Part 9 of in the shadow of the sun || ascian azem au
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and i said, i'll check in tomorrow if i don't wake up dead by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01) for Altimas_Bane
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
04 Aug 2024
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Prompt: "Where have you been?"
The time difference between the Source and the First rears its head.
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here we are wasting our chances for the last time by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
01 Apr 2024
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He has been a fool for quite some time, he knows, continuing his association with the Exarch despite their firm positions on either side of this conflict. And yet- for a time, he had nearly forgotten the game they play, the rules of it that mean nothing they do is sincere. How long has it been since he has felt any kind of desire to live, outside the duty he bears? How long has it been since any part of him was able to let go of his eternal exhaustion?
The Warriors of Light being summoned had been a much-needed return to reality.
Ah…but if that is true, then why is he here, in Syrcus Tower, during the first night in a century?
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- Part 10 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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your reflection, your bitter deception by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
24 Apr 2024
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The Warriors of Darkness and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn meet Emet-Selch for the first time.
Emet-Selch and the Crystal Exarch come to an agreement.
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- Part 11 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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if i breathe in you my life // can i still pretend you're mine by avtorSola
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
23 Jun 2024
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Emet-selch acquires a new coat while in the Crystarium, and one hundred years of self-control snaps in an instant.
Maybe for these shining moments, they can pretend this will not end in tragedy.
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- Part 12 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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the terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
04 Aug 2024
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In the aftermath of the Rak'tika Lightwarden's demise, and Emet-Selch's revelations, the Warriors of Light seek him out.
In the Crystarium, the Exarch watches their conversation, and discovers something he never wanted to hear.
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- Part 13 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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the peace we steal for promises will never last by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01) for Altimas_Bane
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
11 Jun 2024
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Prompt: "Helping each other wash up in the shower; back massages under the running water to help relieve the other's tension." Not quiiiiite the same, but close enough.
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When the Exarch's chronic pain flares, Emet-Selch takes care of him.Series
- Part 14 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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if this be our last conversation (don't lose hope) by avtorSola
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
17 Jun 2024
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Night falls. It's impossible to tell that when the sky bleeds Light.
Corrain works himself to exhaustion, and G'raha considers a future without the Crystal Exarch. And through it all, Emet-selch endures the endgame.
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- Part 15 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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and i know, i know the way that it goes (you get what you give, you reap what you sow) by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
27 May 2024
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Emet-Selch takes a long breath in and lets it out, clenching one hand into a fist at his side, eyes fixed on the distant lights of the Capitol. “It is,” he agrees. “That shining city beneath the sea, which I once bade you seek out in the event of my defeat. Your precious heroes ought to be arriving sometime in the next few days, by which point I will have the answers I seek from you.”
An interrogation. Once upon a time, that was all their meetings were, was it not? Ah, how much simpler everything is when one is merely an enemy.
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Emet-Selch kidnaps the Crystal Exarch to the city beneath the Tempest. No one gets what they want.Series
- Part 16 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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(for the time being) i will admit my defeat again by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
20 Jul 2024
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“I’d say it’s nothing personal, but really it is,” he says. “You see, I want to end the world the way it should have been all those pesky thousands of years ago - the way my emperor would have wanted - and you just have too much power to leave for the end to claim you. But don’t worry - I will take very good care of Zodiark for you.”
He lets go - and with a quick shove, pushes Emet-Selch to the floor as the crystal blade flickers out. “Damn you-” Emet-Selch manages through gritted teeth, panting. It hurts. Certainly not as badly as the Light, but- “Don’t be a fool!”
“Enjoy the long, slow death Elidibus saved you from!” Fandaniel cheers, lifting one hand in a mocking toast - and then he’s gone.
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- Part 17 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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G'raha gets to finally make good on his promise to wash Emet-selch's hair, long after they have both left the First.
Emet-selch is not expecting to see the marks left long ago in crystal etched again into living skin, in the form of a tattoo.
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- Part 18 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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you knew you had a reason (it killed you like diseases) by avtorSola, azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
08 Sep 2024
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The tempering cure- works. Ga Bu is cured, Alisaie rejoices, and there is now hope for the future of all those bound to a primal's will.
There is now hope...for all but one man who is finally able to realize what he has done, thirteen thousand years too late to matter.
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- Part 19 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
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to dissolve the walls i've built with my tired hands by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
16 Sep 2024
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Unsurprisingly, he’s to be found in the small lounge near his sickroom - while he’s allowed to carefully, under supervision, make his way out into the main room now, he seems to prefer this one - in an armchair by the fire, a blanket tucked over his lap and a large volume on the aetherial sea in his hands. On a small table next to his chair rests a mug of tea and a stack of papers and a pen, and Lelesu stands in the doorway and watches as he rolls his eyes at the page and scratches down a few notes, likely amusing himself by tearing the poor Sharlayan scholar’s work to shreds. The sight brings more than a little fondness to her chest - more than it in theory should.
And…and that’s why they need to talk, isn’t it?
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- Part 20 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck