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• Stay by EmaTheVampire

  Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Jun 2024

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Zenos yae Galvus/Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV)
  • Zenos yae Galvus/Original Character(s)
  • Zenos yae Galvus
  • Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV)
  • Dark Knight | DRK Characters (Final Fantasy XIV)
  • Au Ra Xaela Characters (Final Fantasy XIV)
  • Patch 6.0: Endwalker Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV)
  • Angst
  • sex and violence
  • Blood and Smut
  • Sadomasochism
  • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
  • Consensual but not even in the lacroix-flavoured vicinity of safe or sane
  • the narrative is no longer forcing them to fight to the death
  • but damn if they don't keep trying to kill each other anyway!
  • technically canon-compliant fix-it for 6.0 if you squint real hard through the tears
  • Undoing major character death but not undoing his removal from the plot
  • canon will be what it will be and that's fine by me
  • but denial is a river in egypt and i'm wading in to build a house on stilts there
  • no beta we die like... no. i shan’t say. maybe he’ll come back. shhhh.

  Summary

  And here we are, bleeding out on the floor after your petty little duel at the end of it all, where Zenos says his piece... again... and we remain silent... again... Really? Really?! We're just going to let that stand?
  No. Oh no, not this time. We too have a voice.
  We WILL be heard.

  I'm not apologising. It's shamelessly self-indulgent and the loosest possible definition of fix-it. I'm only fixing it to break my own heart in a different way. But I was bid to hope, wasn't I? So here we are. Zenos gets an answer to his question from the Warrior of Light, and he doesn't get to escape it by dying this time, whether he likes it or not.

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