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and yet! he does not like doing Any of this!!! he is still single in his 30s. he wants to quit his job and see the world, but won’t because he feels morally obligated to stay. despite having his pick of anyone in ishgard, he becomes enamored with the adventurer who not only arrives in ishgard as a fugitive, but immediately gets in trouble with the heaven’s ward and crashes into ishgard on the back of a dragon more than once.

he is the cause of awkward silence at alliance meetings on more than one occasion due to how passionate he gets, and he fumbles around when asking wol to dinner and can’t keep his emotions in check around them.

his adoptive parents (who were by all accounts a nice elderly couple) have passed on and the only family he has left is his birth father who mocks him for his idealism and does not love him; he is visibly ruffled when this is used against him in a debate. he loves sweets and gets excited about the starlight celebration and volunteers to hand out gifts to children. he has a dodo omelette recipe he uses to convince lucia, the literal garlean spy he spared, about the joys of cooking. this does not work.

So earlier today I found the French versions of the TFTDW, which if you don’t know, is a series of 8 small stories pertaining to characters in Heavensward. You can read them all here.

The final is titled Thoughts Unspoken and includes a letter Haurchefant penned but never sent to the Warrior of Light during their journey to the Churning Mists. Bittersweet, of course, but even more so in the French version, which is titled “Intimate Confessions”

You can read it here if you like, which you should if you are a francophone because there are a few gems in it, but for those of you who cannot speak French, here is a translation of Haurchefant’s letter. Read it and weep. 

(Disclaimer: I am not a native French speaker so there may be some mistakes. I did my best.)