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🌆 Polyamory Week 2026 - Day 4 - A Warm Greeting 🌆

A reunion 12,000 years in the making...

🌆 Polyamory Week 2026 - Day 4 - A Warm Greeting 🌆

Together at long last...

PART 1 || YOU ARE HERE

🌆 Polyamory Week 2026 - Day 1 - Freedom 🌆

"Would that I didn't need to second guess my every action…"

"Would that I could tell you why you worry me the way you do…"

🌆 Polyamory Week 2026 - Day 1 - Freedom 🌆

"Would that I... could love you both freely..."

A memory of Elpis, lost and only returned at journey's end.

& it's hard for the wol to truly earn hythlodaeus' trust! it's conditional in elpis and only due to hades on the moon. the only part of the story in which hythlodaeus does actually trust the wol for himself & therefore encourages hades to help the wol is after you find out hythlodaeus and hades have been watching you & appear as ghosts which hythlodaeus is stated to have convinced hades to help.

i know the answer to this. i hope you dont mind me answering. @emotional-support-carbuncle

hades is a dark knight & natsuko ishikawa is very passionate about dark knights, spefifically as she repeatedly emphasizes in the drk quests that love is the modivation for being a dark knight. this ties into the trope of knight/beloved, a trope based on chilvaric romance that ishikawa often pulls on in her work. think thancred and ryne, or sid and the little girl. often there is a male character protecting a female character based on some notion of honour/obligation/etc. these other examples are less traditional examples of the trope but it's obvious natsuko loves pulling from it because its a huge theme in her work (the power dynamic between someone being protected and someone who's doing the protecting)

more traditionally, a knight and his beloved/princess usually has a knight with a self imposed rules and a princess/beloved who is determined to break them. (these often centre on her flirting with him as to try to break his oath of chastity. this is because historically at the time men were seen as less horny than women and women very horny. fun historical fact! i digress) often, the beloved/princess would be aware that her power would be mainly in commanding the knight in various ways without much systematic power of her own (often there is an power dynamic imbalance) & they would create a partnership in which they both contribute equally: the princess with her commands & the knight with the power to enact them.

& it's hard for the wol to truly earn hythlodaeus' trust! it's conditional in elpis and only due to hades on the moon. the only part of the story in which hythlodaeus does actually trust the wol for himself & therefore encourages hades to help the wol is after you find out hythlodaeus and hades have been watching you & appear as ghosts which hythlodaeus is stated to have convinced hades to help.

And to be clear, it IS shitty and there's a lot that can be said about the intersectionality between racism and dismissing an oppressed people driven out of their homeland and fighting for their right to live with dignity as "politically angry", and how in the Ala Mhigan Resistance's case it may very well be rooted in the player's own discrimination towards brown people...

...but for the most part I think this just shows how shallow and self-absorbed the Fragments author is—not just about engaging with the game's lore but just in general. The Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo mirror many different real-world refugee groups fleeing their war-torn homelands who struggle to adapt and assimilate in the countries that have given them refuge—countries whose cultures are so different and dissimilar to their own that they'd have to give up their cultural identity to be properly "accepted". If he's dismissing the Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo as "politically angry men", how does he view refugee groups in his country? How does he view a minority group (that he doesn't belong to) protesting for their civil rights? The answer is simple: he doesn't. He's never thought about it. He equates everything he doesn't care for with "politics (derogatory)", even when it involves fighting for the civil rights of an oppressed group.

If it's not about him, he doesn't care. Note how he says the Sylphs and the Little Ala Mhigo sections are important because "we get to prevent the primal summonings". It's important to him because it revolves around (his) WoL doing stuff and being cool, but he doesn't give a rat's arse about things that don't actually impact him or his WoL directly, such as the people who are affected by Laurentius' treachery or Wilred's well-meaning but foolhardy actions. He doesn't care about them, and to "personally dislike the politically angry men" shows how much he dislikes having to engage with things that do not relate to him and that he sees as disruptive to his nice little bubble of a life where the biggest struggle he has is not having enough eyes on his self-indulgent webcomic and being one of the precious few gay creators in the horrifically straight FFXIV fandom /s

And it's genuinely mirrored in the very thing that propelled him into this mess! He doesn't give a shit about biphobia, he doesn't give a shit about bisexuals constantly getting flack for not being queer enough for liking the opposite gender as well their own—all that matters to him is his struggles. He's the one being oppressed as a gay person. He's the one who has to see all these icky "straight" M/F ships. He's the one who has to deal with the indignity of seeing his favourite blorbo that he identifies so much with headcanoned by other people as anything other than gay. He wants to claim Emet-Selch as gay because Emet-Selch is so camp and flamboyant and theatrical that it's an affront to gay people to deny his stereotypical gayness, even though stereotypical determinism in 2026 is the opposite of queer progress. It's all about him and what he thinks being gay is, and fuck every other queer identity. Up yours, he's fighting for his.