Axis

Despite this, they never officially divorced, so any benefits from his being in the glaive were honored even after Axis left his family. He still loves his wife and kids very much and they continue to be his source of strength. He fights for his family, to make a better world for them. This extends to his close friends as well, but primarily he thinks of his kids. At the moment I haven’t finalized names for the four of them, but they are in the works. 

All four survived the World of Ruin, but his wife’s emotional and physical condition declined drastically both when Axis left, then again when the sun stopped rising. It was mostly up to the older two siblings to take care of their mother. The eldest remembers their father well, remembers when their marriage was still happy and understands why it pains their mother so to be like this. The middle child, younger sister, however has only fleeting and vague memories of Axis. Her first vivid memory of him is, of course, the last time they saw him. She resents him deeply and blames him for their mother’s condition. 

The three siblings stick together in Lestallum. They work against the daemons like everyone else, but privately, apart from the Hunters and Glaives. The eldest has become a renowned healer in their section of the community-- beyond sickness related to the daemons, of course. She still holds a kind, motherly nature despite being only in her late teens, on the verge of her twenties. 

The middle child has become a skilled huntress, having found what little can survive in the cursed lands beyond Lestallum. She is able to cultivate small amounts of food and plants to use and occasionally sell, but this becomes less and less over the years. She mostly takes on minor hunts to pay for supplies. She and her sister are close, of course, but are rather black and white opposites of each other. While her sister is soft spoken and well liked, she is known to be sharp-tongued and anti-social. 

Their brother, the youngest, was born during the final days, it’s true. But he is of the generation that knows only darkness. He’s also considerably younger than his sisters. While all of that generation grew up fast-- he himself killing his first daemon during the later years of the WoR-- he was always something strange. Most children tended to be much more subdued than any preceding generation as a whole. Their ways of thinking and reasoning tended to be darker, more coldly logical and apathetic, as if responding to the harsh world around them. 

Of his two sisters, though the eldest raised him like a mother figure, he was closer to the middle child. And of the three of them, though all strong in their ability to use the Royal line’s magic, he was the strongest. Or rather, his power was the most raw, coming in uncontrollable bursts, where his sisters struggled to press their magic. The middle child is capable of warping, but it tires her easily. The eldest can also do so, but only once before she’d dizzy and entirely drained. 

Axis knows they are alive. He also knew about his wife’s state. There were many times he wished to return to them, but it never seemed right. He was afraid returning would only make things worse. The four of them, however, assumed him dead in the attack on Insomnia, perishing as many glaives did that day. There comes a time, however, when he finds his youngest daughter and son in mortal danger, she having taken a job bigger than she could handle and him having tagged along without his sister’s noticing. 

The eldest sibling had followed to try and bring her brother back and witnessed her father saving her siblings. She’d run to him, intent on embracing him and pleading with him to return with them, but her sister had beaten her to speaking. All her rage and anger seemed to be exactly what he’d feared, and before anything else could be said, the group of Hunters and Glaives he’d been working with when he’d spotted them were upon him, and Axis was able to slip away from them.

Heartbroken, the three returned. Oddly, the encounter seemed to have no effect on the boy. When pressed he answered simply that he had been rescued by someone who was a stranger to him-- why should he be hurting over a pain which was not his. At this, the eldest snapped at him, the younger sister stepping to his defense. The argument continued until finally the younger two departed the eldest’s company, leaving her to return home alone with their mother. The two went off on their own for awhile. 

Eventually, through meeting someone else of her age and lonely circumstance and, oddly, from her brothers push as well, they-- now three-- return to her sister who welcomes them back with open arms and tears of joy. But they return to find their mother gone. Some madness had taken her one night and she’d sought out Axis, eluding her older daughter. The four continued the day to day routine, only searching for their parents in what had come to be the mundane, though sure both had likely perished somewhere in the cruel night. 

Axis had finally made the decision to return, only to find what his encounter had caused. But his wife caught him by surprise, discovering him. She begged him to stay, but again he had to leave to fight. She insisted in joining him, but her condition left her unable to pursue. The next few weeks she became engulfed in her rabid desire to find him once more, to fight the world side by side as they once had. Do not mistake, she was and is a very strong and capable women, if broken. Then, one night-- or rather what had become their resting period-- something seemed to fall into place. 

There were no theatrics whatsoever, she simply found the strength to push through the depression she’d fallen into. She had been fighting it, the roller coaster of capable and not through the emotions, and she had been getting steadily better. Losing the younger two had been another major blow, but for some reason, that night she’d finally found stability again. So she left to pursue Axis, and with him, find her other children. Once finding him and finding the three of them safe once more, she and Axis continued in their fight against the Daemons. 

When news of the King’s return reached them, they found themselves more hopeful than ever before. They returned to where their kids had settled, having kept an eye on them as well, and told them of their plan to fight in this final push. But before they could depart to rejoin the Glaive and Hunters, the sun once more rose. So, instead, they focused on staying together, rebuilding their life. Axis and his wife found that fighting would always be a part of them, but that didn’t extend to the new politics forming with the re-establishment of the world.