Lady A

Force my muse to spill their secrets . accepting

🍏- For something they secretly wish didn’t exist

Snakes, serpentes and variations thereof - maybe it’s not even a super secret, but definitely something Aranea is ashamed of admitting. She had a near-death experience as a kid, getting bitten by one and being too poor to afford the antidote then - the pain, the hallucinations and the trauma were strong enough to make the girl irrationally afraid of these animals (and similar daemons).

People close enough to her will know about it - she needs to tell them because otherwise she becomes a liability in the field, too frozen to act when a damn nagarani appears out of nowhere. But everytime she needs to do it, Aranea feels absolutely bad - she hates this fear, she hates she cannot control it and she doesn’t know how to make it stop.

🍎- For something they secretly wish did exist

As someone who grew up in the heavily industrialized city of Gralea and saw the whole country become much more colder thanks to the Glacian being slayed (with Aranea herself lending a hand), Aranea often wished they had access to the sea - or at least better weather. It wasn’t until she got to travel as a mercenary and stayed mostly in Lucis and Accordo that she found out just how pleasant it could be outside.

But then the starscourge happened - and the sun was once more gone, along with most of the warmth. Aranea misses the safety that sunlight offered, of course, as well as the essential supplies and the general hope of living to see another day… But she misses these beaches terribly. Galdin Quay was one of the heaviest hits for the dragoon - seeing it overrun by daemons and abandoned… Was everything Galdin had never meant to be.