#ashadowatthefork

He’s certainly not expecting anyone to come hunting him down at this point— they were all too wrapped up in their little escapades with the Night’s Blessed, scampering about hither and yon doing mundane errands and whatever else they thought best to do with their precious time that wasn’t getting on with killing the Lightwarden— but here someone is, a tiny little Au Ra (or Drahn? Ugh, but they needed to stop picking different names for everything on every shard.) looking up at him with the oddest look on her face…

{❧} ---- “What are you doing here so far out from Ala Mhigo?”

//For my broken baby over at @ashadowatthefork

She is the only incarnation of Kaida so far that is an ‘alcohol virgin’. She’s never had any form of it, except maybe in cooked dishes.

She and her platonic soulmate did try to have sex so she could have an heir...but could never get far at all. [Kaida is still convinced she’s ‘broken’ because of it. Despite Ni’s reassurances that she wasn’t.]

Kaida never saw the ocean until she came to Eorzea and good luck getting her to spend anything less than a day there when she can go.

She loves cuddles and hair brushies and such but she’s also very touch-starved because she only lets friends do that and her last friends before Ardyn either died or were thrown into the multiverse. o uo

She has a collection of plushes on her bed in the Roost, and doesn’t share this fact. The pile helps her sleep at night, because she still isn’t used to sleeping alone.

Kaida is the first of her line to regain herself after the ‘Amano Curse’ has taken her. She’s not sure if this is good or bad, but it does bring her guilt off and on.

It’s not uncommon to see her napping in the shade of a tree, as it does take a lot of energy to keep from letting the lives of everyone around her from drowning her in visions.

Kaida hates gods. She actually bristles when folk talk about them, and it takes a great deal for her to not make snarky commentary. The wonders of having the very goddess you’re descended from wipe out your people. o uo

Kaida doesn’t know her actual age anymore. She spent enough time ‘lost’ in herself that she’s lost any sense of time between when she shoved Mana into the multiverse and when she finally came to herself for more than a few hours at a time in Gridania. She just knows she’s twenty-something most likely.

acts of affection meme | accepting 

It’s been a bad day, really, and this time he has no daemonic essence in him to offset the pain in his side. It’s nowhere near as bad, not filling his every waking moment with fatigue and bone-deep aching and headaches – but that just means the badly healed injury in his left hip and leg drove him even more crazy, without anything else to distract him from it.

He’s trying to sleep against a tree beside his new friend, eyes closed and trying to tune out the aches and pains and his exhaustion, and…she’s singing? He’s not sure if it’s for him or just because she wanted to, but it’s a pretty tune even if he doesn’t understand the words.

She actually seemed to perk at that, tail swishing a bit as she reached up. “Well, whoever was using less kind terms had no idea what they were talking about.” She was careful with her motions, lightly touching his hair before running her fingers through a bit of it and giggling. “I haven’t touched someone else’s hair in…in years.”