I have come out of it a weird squiggly shape due to all the emotions

Batter my heart is as expected not canon-compliant anymore as regards events, but I do feel spot-on in my character portrayals

Mydei...<3 behold a man

my fic about new titankin may have spiralled into a little fix it because mydei deserves it

I don't feel a desperate need for fixit knowing that it's gonna be like...six months? until whatever happens happens

and it's not like we can't visit

try and stop me

yeah it's just gonna be about him getting visited and also getting nice things like his little treats

yessss

and phainon getting to fly in the flying city

because he'd think that was the sickest shit

mydei: here I made you a squad of stone soldiers and also do you want to fly in my city I'm not trying to impress you with my god powers this is just normal stuff

hahahaha

I am at no moment going to be chill about The God Of Strife Enters The Fray

the blood crystals that weirdly behave exactly like rose petals

Phainon visibly relaxing the instant he hears Mydei's voice

smiling

they settle right in to fight side by side

the music kicking up

he's SO happy to see him

there's like three other people there and mydei only snarks at him

and Phainon - he was worrying about Mydei, I think, more than he ever let on

oh yeah I would bet that he's more relieved to see him because it means he's okay than because he thought they needed the help

like, having critical combat support is also important, but I think the tension that relaxes there was a lot...not knowing if Mydei made it, if he succeeded, if Strife got him

and there's also the element of

if neither he nor mydei could take strife, who is left?

castorice? not in a million years.

castorice is even more Spoken For than Mydei is

I mean, given that our current plan is "shove Oronyx into TB and hope they and the Stellaron get along okay", Dan Heng

substitute Imaginary Destruction

I feel like that's not so much "the plan" as "mem threw it out and no one else bothered to say anything against it at the time"

I have Serious Doubts that Aglaea seriously considered it for even a moment

I think it fully depends on whether Aglaea can rustle up a different plan

she wants to!

but we're on a serious time crunch (ha ha) to get that sucker fired up, and she has no native Heirs who can give it a go (except Phainon, again? maybe?)

i'm pretty sure aglaea at this point has made four about. gestures

letting him try his hand at strife was for him

and frankly, he hasn't gotten his shit together enough for there to be any point throwing him at another Titan, even Kephale

also I'm pretty sure they're saving that one for last due to the. what if taking it turns out the lights

yeah

like they were PLANNING to save Cerces and Oronyx

except it turns out that if you...somehow...know how to navigate these locations...those and especially Oronyx are soft targets compared to "all the Coreflames and their defenders in one place"

if

there's a world quest available in the Grove that deduces that uhh that Flame Reaver sure knew exactly the quickest route to the Coreflame, despite this being a place that longtime residents still get lost him