rar "too many AUs" sneezes

ywkon daemon au, focusing on jade in AAP, because aera voice "flesh eaters keep their driver's daemon" has been haunting me for probably a year now, and some prose came to me in the shower, so i just doubled down

note: the flesh eaters keeping their daemon thing works best in a xc2 au i think (for jin, for nia), and i don't know how it's going to function for other ywkon flesh eaters ((partly because kratos would be, like, this Whole can of worms, if he still had a lloyd's daemon and then met lloyd again several hundred years later, and that scares me))

but that's not the point here. let's get on with the prose.

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technically i have no qualms about making the most of the night being so thoroughly a relationship/character study fic as it is, while also being a smutfic, and i'd be lying if that wasn't at least partially what i set out to do with it

but i also know that some ppl possibly don't want to read smut, so, here's the keystone relationship moment from it, isolated

i'm not editing out the context of "they started having sex but almond got really anxious and stressed about it so they stopped" but that's the context. enjoy your neurotic catgirl and her patient not-yet-her-gf-but-you-can-see-why-they're-getting-there

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nael pitched this and it was haunting me

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hey!! this is on ao3 now!!!

hi we're doing an intro post and then i'm going to post fic in the comments, hee hoo hee hoo

preliminaries:

"Why is Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss here?" because Mythra is here

"Mythra is here?" Almond is Mythra

"two WoLs??" IT'S MY AU AND I GET TO CHOOSE THE STUPID SHIT I PUT IN IT DOT PNG

"wait by Anna you mean Anna Irving tosymphonia right" SURE DO! SEE PREVIOUS ^

Jade and Anna were born in Eorzea.

Mythra was not born in Eorzea. i could elaborate on her lore but maybe it'll be fun to figure out as we go!!! :3c

Jade is elezen, class "black mage" but also hybrid combat between LNC and BLM where he uses a lance as his casting focus, and also for stabbing people.

CRASHES BACK IN HERE the most important thing is that despite being miqo'te Mythra is still like 5'9 as she deserves to be.


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Anna

been thinking about this prose i've had sitting around for awhile about Anna Irving's dads meeting but i don't really have anywhere to post it on ao3 so i'm just posting it to the dreamwidth void lmao

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i have........ some prose that i've just let sit around for a while because there's not really a place FOR it, but it's kind of cornerstone kranna lore ig so dumps it here for you

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General physical contact is really only a problem on bad days. On in-between days it can be sometimes uncomfortable, but rarely unbearable. On good days, it is only a problem if it is unexpected or forceful or—Architect forbid—both at once.

And Anna is often the exception, as she is for most things in his life.

Of course, even she can’t touch him on bad days, and he’s punched her for coming up on him unexpectedly as often as he’s punched anyone else. But while most of the people he gets to know, the scant few he has ever called family, all of them have mostly just learned how to tell when he is good and when he is not and touch him only when he is good… Anna has gone out of her way to fill the times where he is good with only positive sensations. She does this thing where she’ll trace his ether lines with her fingers, gentle if deliberate, an action that’s sometimes almost meditative for her, and has become soothing to him. It’s something so small, but… There’s something about his body being praised instead of used that’s freeing in ways he didn’t know it could be. It’s easy to feel treasured, under Anna’s hands. Treasured, but not fragile. And that, too, is a blessing.

Anna’s mouth on his skin is another thing he finds rather easy to bear. There’s no bad memories attached to the sensation at all, so even on bad days she can manage to kiss him briefly without his brain immediately setting itself on fire. Kratos thinks she could probably get away with kissing him longer, if she wanted, but she doesn’t want to push her luck—for his sake—and there’s something about that that’s a blessing, too.