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An all-in-one 50/50 sidebar theme which is a revamp of my former theme blog, which is now for public use.

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alisaie: 

sb lifts his robes when they’re alone and instead of pants there’s stockings. 

I let my muse take the reins and decide what threads to start or reply to in a given day. If the muse doesn’t feel it, it isn’t happening. That doesn’t mean that I hate you or that I no longer want to interact with you; I probably either lost our thread or my muse just said, ‘nah bro.’

I’m sorry I drop threads. I’m sorry I don’t reply to memes. I’m sorry I ignore my asks. I’m sorry I plot things and then don’t do them. I’m an impulsive roleplayer: my muse guides me.

Roleplaying isn’t my job: it’s my hobby. I do it for fun. My muse isn’t my coworker: my muse is my friend. We have fun together. If I started treating this as a job, it wouldn’t be enjoyable for me anymore, and the quality of my content would diminish greatly!

And while we’re on the subject, just because a thread gets dropped does not mean the relationship between our muses is dead!! Thread =/= relationship! We can start something new and continue building their bond! Relationships are important to building new aspects of our muses!

I’m just thinking about minfilia in the verse she survives and how hard it’d be for her to just. live again. as herself. but still carrying the weight of the several lives she had to live in the first, fighting against the sin eaters and dying horribly multiple times. the fact for a hundred years, she existed for that, and although I think she would always have chosen (and would still choose) to act with kindness and for good, the fact for a hundred years how lonely it would be, on top of all the tragedy and the pain – because she would not get close to anyone. there were no friends and comrades. why would there be, when she was just going to die horribly again? 

I’m just thinking about how, even though she has faith in hyd.aelyn, it’s difficult to have the same love as she had before. not even just because of herself, but for seeing the first, fighting for it, and knowing it was almost lost and hyd.aelyn almost just let it happen. that even in intervening, the greatest asset she sent was just. minfilia. with the power of the oracle of light, yes, but would an entire world, a world with heroes who fought for it as much as the scions did in the source, not deserve more than that? she was closer to hyd.aelyn than anyone else, literally becoming her avatar at one point. I think she understands better than most that hyda.elyn isn’t evil, or cruel, or that it’s not she doesn’t care. I think she understands better than most that hydae.lyn has good intentions, but she’s also, in a way, ruthless – that it isn’t all love because it can’t be. that her intentions are benevolent, but that doesn’t always mean what a mortal would see as good. but that understanding both brings them closer and changes the relationship minfilia once had to hydae.lyn imo. it’s hard to be as infinitely faithful and loving in a pure and even naive way towards a supposedly higher being after knowing them so intimately and growing familiar with their flaws, I feel.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MUSES // those literally make my day better, pls send more

I actually think that’s complicated asiduhfaisudfh but I’ll do my best to explain my thoughts, and I really appreciate the ask because I love Minfilia and I love talking about her because she deserves all the love

anyways!

I think it’s hard to define it so I’ll begin with what I don’t see it as. I definitely don’t think Minfilia ever looked to Thancred as a parental figure, he’s never been like a father to her. I’ve seen many people online talk about it like that, but to me ( someone who started playing only recently, but who has looked into 1.0 stuff ) that was never the case in any way. It is for Ryne, not Minfilia.

A more sibling-like relationship would be what makes the most sense, I think, though I hesitate to really call it that. In her short story, Minfilia notes Thancred has never been around that much ( ‟Perpetually passing by, Thancred had drifted in and out of Minfilia's life for years.” ). He’s a constant in that he’s always coming and going, not in that he’s always there for her, even if in some form he is --- which is something Thancred himself expresses regret about in game, after Minfilia is gone. 

But they clearly are close, in a way, enough they get to open up about things they also don’t seem to talk about with others. In her short story, there’s a bit from her side of that ( “In a moment of weakness, Minfilia had confided in Thancred about her visions — fragments of the past she had started to glimpse a year before. No one else knew what she had seen. Or that I have heard Her voice.” ), while in ARR, right after Ifrit iirc, we see Thancred being hard on himself for his ‘failure’ precisely because he talks to Minfilia about it. And it sort of seems like there’s? An hesitance there ( she thinks about it as ‘a moment of weakness’, after all ), even if ultimately they are close enough to sometimes open up, and loss seems to be quite definitive in changing that, because the most openly emotional moments they share come after she’s taken by Hydaelyn.  

The tldr, less complicated version of this is: I think they were close, in that they care for each other a lot. I think that’s more likely to take a sibling-like form, given how Thancred wished to look after her, but I also think he was too absent for it to be outright that. And I also think after she’s taken by Hydaelyn, the distance aspect is lessened when they interact because not taking someone’s presence for granted definitely has a way of forcing you to acknowledge how much you care about them, which is why they’re more upfront in caring about each other.

But also, on Minfilia’s side of how she feels about him and how he treats her, I think it’s obvious she cares for Thancred a lot, and while she’s generally caring, Thancred is clearly closer to her heart than the average. And I think it would be? Confusing for her at first, when she was younger, the fact he seemed to care but then disappear and then returned, and was always coming and going, close but not too close. 

Eventually she got used to it, and eventually it likely grew to be ‘just how Thancred is’, which is not to say it’s good or bad and more just that she accepted it the way it was, also because she was aware that even if he wasn’t always there, he cared and he looked out for her. Minfilia appreciates that she had him to protect her, because ultimately she knows she could count on him. She’s capable of opening up to him enough to tell him something that was a secret, and she’s comfortable enough to provoke and make fun of him ( remember that one time she did the exposed about his past in limsa? skdnjkasdnfjkdnf ). She clearly loves him, and I think she was always aware that in his way, he cared too, even if he wasn’t always open about it.