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tenebraecious ([personal profile] tenebraecious) wrote2019-12-18 04:29 pm

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Awwright, I'm in the mood for a ~question meme~ for Glacies and John Doe! Let's go back and forth until we're exhausted from words. I will also accept thread planning and CR plotting, because I've been remiss on that front, oops.
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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2019-12-23 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
So! I was looking for Glacies' inbox and ran into this. If I am too late, that is fine but I am curious!

Question 1 - CR for Glacies and Ardyn because I stalk them. They are so good.

Question 2 - CR for Emet-Selch and Glacies.

(also if I want emet to text Glacies where should I do that?)

[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2019-12-24 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I am excited to hear the rest. I am on Idaho internet (which might as well be my computer plugged into a potato!), but I hope you got some good rest!
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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2019-12-27 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for indulging me on Absinthe and Glacies. I do really enjoy them! And I did see the hug and got a good chuckle out of it. Indeed, no one did die. I really enjoy how Glacies just pushes him just a little. And that they are just both polite face at each other sometimes. It's really good.

It was really good of Glacies to be wary of Emet-Selch, because he absolutely was going to use her to learn more about Absinthe, and it became quickly apparent that she was going to make him do his own research. So she got a few begrudging respect points for that. That is someone who is reliable.

In the GM game, he was not lying when he said he trusted her. 1) She seems the person who when she says she is going to do something, she will indeed do it, and 2) She generally seems like a person who is caring of the lives placed in front of her. #2 is probably what got him to respect her more. It's the attitude he would like to have, but he keeps falling back into his own cannon headspace of everyone else are not real people so there is no point in caring about the masses. It's been a few lifetimes and habits are hard to break. While he realizes he will never have that attitude, he will always respect those that do.

I find it amusing that both of them have come to the conclusion of 'be very careful with Absinthe's trust'. He's quite sure that once that particular bond is broken it will be impossible to repair. On the flip side, he also knows of Absinthe's goal, and he does not like it. He does not like it one bit! It is a monumental waste of effort for no gain whatsoever, and it will do him no favors. However, doing anything about it seems complicated and he's got enough on his place, so he's putting it aside for now.

Curing and figuring out the mess that is Absinthe's soul, however, seems like both an intriguing puzzle and a boon to him. So that has his current attention. He was very surprised to see that Glacies also suffered the same illness, though he's not quite sure if they are the same. He is curious to see if her soul is also corrupted (thank you dream powers!). He would genuinely like to see her cured without the reliance on these gods of hers. Also before all that crazy stuff happened to him and his people, they were a group of scholars, and he hasn't been presented with such an intriguing puzzle in a long time.

So a lot of Glacies CR is still wrapped around Absinthe CR, but he definitely sees her as her own person with wants and desires and hopes. He will pick and choose which of these he will assist, as he sees no reason for her not to live a long and happy life after this whole Hell ordeal. He's mildly invested in seeing that happen which for someone outside of BARiTONES is quite a feat.

For both John and Glacies, do they have any idea what they plan to do if presented with graduation?
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[personal profile] firstworldproblem 2020-01-01 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
John! I really enjoy John a lot and this is something he would totally do, but John!

Absinthe is probably the person he is most comfortable around. Their banter is engaging, he's mellow enough to just let things be, and he's surprising calming to be around. Now he knows a lot of this is an act, but oh, well, he's taking it.

Absinthe will always have his respect for what he did with the Starscourge before his imprisonment --- that selfless sacrifice. It reminds him of his people and how they sacrificed themselves for each other, and he has such deep awe and almost reverence for that. So even if they were to have a falling out, Absinthe will always have his respect. He will be placed on par with his people which Emet has nothing but love, appreciation, and awe for.

However, Absinthe's stated goal of revenge is just plain dumb. To put all that effort, all that planning, all the grit for what? When it's over, he'll be no happier than he was before. Worse yet, he wants to go to his grave shortly after. If he isn't going to find peace or solace or some amount of world where he is happy after the fact, then there is no point. He won't tell him that to his face because at the end of the day it is Asbsinthe's choice. Absinthe is smart, he weighed the options, and while he believes he came to the wrong conclusions he won't bully him about it.

Emet-Selch also as sees a lot of parallels in himself compared to Absinthe. A worldwide tragedy, a betrayal, and then being thrown into a world that doesn't seem your own. He's pretty sure if he was in Absinthe's shoes he just would have stopped, simply put. So he can't really begrudge him his desire to end it. It fortifies just how lucky he was to have his two companions even if they didn't necessarily always get along. He always had them. He can't imagine attempting it alone. (Subsequently it also just fortifies his horror that out of the three of them only Elidibus is left, and Elidibus will absolutely break under it all.)

He also can't imagine being imprisoned unable to die for two thousand years in isolation. That almost chills to the bone more than the state of his soul which is a mess! A mess and something that looks exceedingly painful. Honestly, he really did start his research on the Starscourge to cure Absinthe's soul. No one deserves that. The fact that he blights other souls is really quite sickening to him --- another huge strike against the pointless revenge --- and if it could be cured, it would be better for everyone involved on the planet. This is why he approached Glacies to see if he could give her a tool to fight the Starscourge as farfetched as finding an actual solution is. He knows a cure will undermine Absinthe, but he can't in good faith not try to find a cure. He will still use it for a rejoining, but that excuse was mostly for Absinthe.

Emet-Selch has come to the conclusion that he can't really do it anything for Absinthe that will have much impact. So he has decide to see if he can at least give Absinthe some semblance of joy before he goes off and does his revenge. He's not arrogant enough to think he can make him happy, but a pocket of good memories here or there wouldn't go amiss and he certainly has earned it.

Outside of his horrible circumstances that is FFXV, he genuinely likes him! His dry humor, his wit, and Emet-Selch does derive a lot of comfort from Absinthe. Of the people he's told about his goals, he wasn't worried that Absinthe would be upset by it. He finds great joy in the banter they have back and forth. He can definitely push more boundaries than he can with anyone else. Also despite being a decaying zombie, somehow Absinthe's physical presence is a comfort which Emet-Selch isn't sure why, but just accepts it all the same. Absinthe is also incredibly frustrating at times, but that is part of his charm. He's a delightful puzzle!

So to contrast Absinthe and Glacies. Absinthe represents the comfort at the end of a very bad day where all you want to do is blanket burrito. Glacies is the inspiration, the goodwill towards others that makes you want to get up in the morning and appreciate the day.

It's weird. Not sure how it came to this, but here it is.

For both John and Glacies, if they had to yeet one unit from existence, which unit would it be and why?