to the stars who listen.

dreamt about a knight coming to you after a battle and getting on his knees in front of you and roaming his hands up your legs and smearing blood across your skin as he rests his cheek against your upper thigh. btw. additionally i would like to add taking his helmet off and hearing it rattle against the stone floor and running your hands through sweaty hair and praising him for protecting your kingdom. anyways.

it is an often-repeated fact that alphinaud and alisaie are the youngest entrants to the studium ever at age 12, and like it's crazy that these infants got into harvard, but the narrative does not seem to remember/notice/care that thancred was an archon by 17 (he has the archon marks in the 1.0 ul'dah start flashbacks, where minfilia's 12 and he's 17). also he got picked up by louisoix as "an adolescent" so he had spent at most 7 years in sharlayan by the time he got his PhD in "espionage and survival". SHAKES HIM. WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU LITTLE MAN. WHAT DID YOU GET UP TO IN SHARLAYAN SPY SCHOOL. DID THEY MAKE YOU A TOOL, BOY. DID THEY HONE YOU INTO THEIR SHARP OBJECT

think of all the times an NPC will praise the WoL up and down before giving them a quest to do something really unpleasant - putting them up on a pedestal one breath and treating them as a tool the next. The WoL's skills make them superhuman, their tendency for violence makes them subhuman, but their most defining trait is their compassion, making them more human then most. Their adventurer status makes them a perpetual outsider but they have allies they can call on in every port. They have no choice but to be Hydaelyn's chosen one but they consistently choose to go above and beyond their duty to help others. They're an empty vessel for the player to inhabit and they're a distinct being that exists in the world of the game. You get it right