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cut it all away from yesterday until a new era is in sight | 6.0

thinking about Estinien & Zero. both of us are in this new world with old, outdated language. it's scary, but we've faced worse monsters. let's learn together. maybe this one isn't a monster, even

while I am very proud of this fic I have written so far, & am writing it for myself above all else, I do anticipate that people will open up a fic ostensibly about Estinien, see the first word is "Her," & clock out but I just need everyone to trust me & follow the vision

feeling exactly like that scholar that realised on air her entire paper centred around the misunderstanding of a theory as I scroll thru XIV wikipedia looking to fill in an inconsequential detail & stumble upon a piece of information that renders the premise of my whole fic invalid.

there are two types of FFXIV expansions: “Buddhism is good” (stormblood, endwalker, dawntrail) and “Christianity is bad” (heavensward, shadowbringers). Usually they alternate, but because we just had a rare Double Buddhism Convergence Event, we can only assume 8.0 will be “Christianity is bad”