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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julien Davinos/Azune Nayar Characters: Azune Nayar, Julien Davinos Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Star Wars Fusion, Ambiguous Relationships, they're not-not together but neither one wants to admit it, Thjazi Fang Haunts the Narrative, Espionage, Dissociation, you ever almost fall to the dark side and then the peer you 'hate' helps you out of it, 'no attachments' is really aspirational for this generation of jedi. no one has ever been more attached. Summary:

YEAHHH SCANLAN!!! 

Everybody Loves You Now - Billy Joel. Loneliness will get to you somehow / But everybody loves you now.

The Performance of being The Bard my beloved <3 Yes I do always see a deep sadness under the surface of Scanlan, but he’s very good at pretending that isn’t there. Until he isn’t.

Tell Me It’s Real - Seafret. It's because of you that I believe in me for first time.

This is The Pikelan Song. I am not accepting disagreement on this. I guess honorable mention also goes to Freshly Laundered Linen, but it’s not as much Them as this one. 

Better Version Of Me - Fiona Apple. I don’t want a home, I’d ruin that / Home is where my habits have a habitat. 

Now you know I’m gonna be crazy about the Aranessa of it all. Thank you for this opportunity. 

Slow Love (Night Version) - MØ. Let me love you all night long 'til the word spreads / Singing along, again and again, again and again. 

When I think about Aranessa in her youth it’s always like a dream. I think of House Royce as a real ‘turn the Social Dynamics up to eleven’ House before everything happened. This is pre-doors closing Aranessa to me; no matter how badly things go, they can’t go entirely wrong. 

Autodomesticated Animal - Birdtalker. Yeah she's so fine / Inside the lines. 

I think there’s a deep internal struggle in Aranessa because she knew what the right thing to do was in most situations (mainly the rebellion) and still, for years, chose to follow the conventions of the Sundered Houses. This is a flaw of hers that I love, it makes her a fascinating character! She’s as good a person as we’ve seen coming from the Sundered Houses (with the exception of Wick) and she’s still both Too Late and Not Enough. She’s what her world made her!!

All in Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple) - Iron & Wine. All in good time, our plan went to shit / I told my future by reading your lips / You wore my ring until it didn't fit / All in good time. 

Ultimate Thjazinessa Divorce Song. My doomed lovers my tragedy I think they ruined each other much more than we’ll ever know and I hope it was really really awful. Ahem. IT’S BETTER IF IT’S SAD.

I Haven’t Even Started With You - Mieka Pauley. How does it feel to have enough? 

I have a lot of feelings about the doors closing and the subsequent decline of Royce. The Sundered Houses unite against outside threats but internally pick at each other like scavengers, and I like to think of Aranessa not noticing the vultures until it’s too late. The nobility should be hungry. When I think about the magic she was doing during the Thimble & Occtis flashback and how that went away I lose my mind.

Symmetry - Maggie Rogers. Two halves mourning / A wretched whole / Bring life to fire / Oh, I wish we wouldn't fight.

Azune my beloved Azune!!

Puzzle Pieces - Saint Motel. It's never right, but you just can't move on / You can't decide, take away, or put on?

I have really normal opinions about what regularly using Alter Self would do to a character.

Nostalgia - Uwade. It's time to say goodbye to what you thought you'd be / Maybe one day you'll remember this feeling. 

The sense of unreality following him to Hal’s house, when he’d been planning on dying for Thjazi that morning. 

Pressure - Billy Joel. All grown up and no place to go / Psych 1, Psych 2, what do you know?

I went through like eight Billy songs re: Azune but I’ve landed on this one as The Song. Thjazi did his best but he got there too late and then he raised this kid on a battlefield and now he’s on the schemer’s table. No one has ever had it as hard as Azune.

Long & Lost - Florence & the Machine. Is it too late to come on home? / Can the city forgive? I hear its sad song.