#sartbasch

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ew / nonono / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / MY HEART

I ship it entirely due to your influence!!! :D I like reading the things you've shared about them, and also I get hype when there's like a skirmish with mentions of either of them (or it's one of the ones with Sart in it!)

There's something really special about like... Having this really difficult life and getting your hands so dirty throughout it, but still being able to find some soft peace and love in one another 🥺 Idk... I do like the more toxic ships in Bozja too like Lyon/Menenius or Misija/Mikoto also, but I like how Sart/Basch is more like.. gentle, in a way? Even though they have lived lives that are anything but? Assuming I have the right impression of them anyway!! That's what I always think of with them 🥺 just soft old guys... having a lot of history and finally being able to rest together....

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What kind of dates do you think [pairing] would go on? And for this one please feel free to use a ship with one of your ocs, I would love to hear about that. :)

Oohhh thank youuu!! Okay so first: my absolute favourite ship ever is probably Sartauvoir quo Soranus/Basch van Gabranth from ffxiv! They're very obscure, have no cutscenes, and in fact Basch has been dead for 30 years when you meet Sart in game anyway (and we only have one single picture of what he looked like at that!!) They're terrible old men and therefore catnip to me, and I've written nearly 70k worth of fic about them lol

Here they are smooching, back when I HAD THE POWER OF MODDING AND GPOSE, UGH I MISS THEM SO MUCH

what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

what’s your favorite canon moment of cidvayne?

what song(s) remind you of sartbasch?

(or if you wanna swap in other ships + answer with multiple that's okay too!!)

oohhh thank you for theese!!!

i will move away from my answer of sartbasch and quintus/jullus for the first question and go with a ffxii theme: Ashe/Balthier/Al-Cid is a HUGELY underrated ship to me!!! there are FIVE FICS about them and 2 are by me (i'm sure this stat used to be different, maybe someone deleted??) - there hadn't been a fic posted for them since 2013 when I posted my PDE fic last year, and this is fucking insane to me. Think of the political arrangements post-game!! Think of the outrageous flirting and dynamics!! OUGH. then again, a lot of my fave xii ships are massively underrated to me!! Cid/Vayne itself only has 8 (2 by me, 3 for me, and the latest fic posted before my first was 2009), and then there's Noah/Basch like. I know people don't like incest but MAN. RONSENCEST. 29 fics (5 by me)!!! Disgraceful lmao.

My fave canon Cid/Vayne moment is a toss-up between their cutscene around the Giruvegan part of the game where they talk about Larsa and Vayne's plans, and the end of the game where Vayne says "Won't Cid be eager to learn what has happened here. History begins anew." like boyyyyyy you're walking to your painful fiery death by Mist transformation and joining with Venat but you're still thinking about how you're going to be able to tell Cid just how well your joint plan worked?! HELLO??? shit makes me fucking insane.

Oh anon, this is my favourite question! Do you want the one who's mentioned only in text and who dies 30 years before the content he's in? Or perhaps the man who we see in a few fights in bozja who then dies?

The first being Basch van Gabranth! Father of Noah van Gabranth of the IVth Legion, died as an old man of a sudden deadly illness 30 years before the Save the Queen storyline. Much beloved by his people, he was a Knight from Landis who be t the knee to conquering Garlemald, then moved ahead with plans to make his country equal again, working within the wheels of Empire to bring this dream to fruition. His son Noah succeeds in this, long after his death! He'd be so proud!!

The other glub shitto is, of course, Sartauvoir quo Soranus, resident sadistic Pyromancer of the IVth whose favourite canonical pastime is burning people alive! He's 61 and appears to very much have been in love with Basch. You fight him in the Dalriada, and he mentions Basch three+ times in that single fight - his final words before death being "Basch, I have failed you...". "If this is where I must die, I will not do so alone! Basch! I pray you are watching!" UGH I JUST LOVE HIM!!! He makes stupid time and fire puns and he ran away from his home when Garlemald invaded, posed as a scholar in literally the next town over, resists all efforts to be recruited by the IVth until Basch finally turns up, alone, completely unarmed, and somehow manages to sway him completely to his cause, Sartauvoir swears Basch his undying loyalty, just from that one meeting! And thirty years later he's still talking about him so much when none of the other members of the IVth mention him in more than passing?! Yeah. Yeah.

Also LOOK AT HIM!!! (second pic is mine ofc ehehe)

kill me now because this is all i'm gonna be able to think about for the rest of the week

look at him. i'm sick. i can't deal

and ofc then there's this big log of faves from 雨雫 who seriously has some of my most beloved fave pics of Sart everrrr (along with very cute Albeleo and Gilbrisbert and Menenius!!!!!)