Somewhere between Ishgard and Amaurot

looked at so many photos of people hugging cows for this one

Viera Comm, I love a cool scythe!

and yet! he does not like doing Any of this!!! he is still single in his 30s. he wants to quit his job and see the world, but won’t because he feels morally obligated to stay. despite having his pick of anyone in ishgard, he becomes enamored with the adventurer who not only arrives in ishgard as a fugitive, but immediately gets in trouble with the heaven’s ward and crashes into ishgard on the back of a dragon more than once.

he is the cause of awkward silence at alliance meetings on more than one occasion due to how passionate he gets, and he fumbles around when asking wol to dinner and can’t keep his emotions in check around them.

his adoptive parents (who were by all accounts a nice elderly couple) have passed on and the only family he has left is his birth father who mocks him for his idealism and does not love him; he is visibly ruffled when this is used against him in a debate. he loves sweets and gets excited about the starlight celebration and volunteers to hand out gifts to children. he has a dodo omelette recipe he uses to convince lucia, the literal garlean spy he spared, about the joys of cooking. this does not work.

This I promise. This I swear.

Wherever you may go

UNTIL THEN, MY FRIEND

This really adds a layer to the eventual collapse of the Crystal Braves. Your late grandfather charges you with one thing and it’s to find a reason to fight for Eorzea. You assure him you have it figured out and he’s proud of you for that. Then it all goes awry and you realize you had it all wrong. Your plan was flawed from the start. Your reason to fight wasn’t what it should have been. You failed.