The plot thickens. Anyone who's got an interest in Ajora's doings will find their grimoire announcing that he had an audience with the queen of Dalmasca today.
Please enjoy! (And blame Stella when you get kicks in the feels.)
I also regret nothing.
You all never regret anything
Of course not.
It's why I love you
oh dear
On the one hand, Gabs is all NOT MY PROBLEM ANYMORE
on the other he's all "...why does everything fall to a trillion pieces the second i leave. /sighs5ever"
Well stop getting yourself killed
Maybe then things won't blow up
Like you can speak, Tidus
Gabranth is JUDGING YOU from the hell realm just fyi
I feel it's fair to confirm that yes, what Ajora said is going to happen, is in fact going to happen soon
Oh that does remind me that i need to poke a mod to fix gabs on the taken list
.........Vayne is not excited
Still needs to become Ajora's friend
yes, yes he should
Heyyyyyyyyy, he chose to kill himself. It was to save a world!
...so, it's okay when you do it, but not when I do?
YES. Kind of. Because you had a lot more riding on you to be around to take care of!
crincakes what needs to be fixed?
not really, no.
Oh! Gabs needs an asterisk-y star thing by his name to reflect the dissidia canon!
otteratplay: thats what his brother is supposed to be doing.
okies! lemme go take care of it right now
Also you are allowed to want beraks form micromanaging the world :|
breaks*
and it's taken care of, bb
But you traumatised Larsa!
ty darlin earthkingdom
But Larsa is still alive, you'll notice :|
Which was not, necessarily, a given, considering Lord Vayne's state of mind at the time
Okay, true :|
Besides, people tend to dislike oyu if you micromanage their lives for them.
also it is not a fun job :|
all the lineface, Gabranth :| :| :| :|
....no. No. This is his life. No, Noah, this is atonement for his entire family line
:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
you cannot beat a ronsenburg at linefacing
He can sure try and lose
Nope, winning
/you've already killed him once, what else is there....?
/he can always count on you, Noah......
and then I went back and re-read the part with Shadow Sword and gave myself feels 
............../doesn't try to avoid Shadow Sword, just....manages to
oh lord if she finds Vayne it'll get ugly
but dont worry! she's just as happy killing his brother. 
He willoffer himself up first as a way to Sate her rage and try to entreat her to recognize that it will not make the pain go with his life
That even though we take the lives of those we think who deserve it, it will never bring back nor make the years that we have lost return
oh but it's not really one life she's after
she's plotting to wipe out Archadia >_>
a whole nation for a whole nation because that's fair, right?
Grant his brother a chance, take everything from he himself because he is on the worthy and he is the thing you should hate
she's just pissed off that Zecht is already dead and denying her the chance to make him pay for using that rock
Please, do not make him stand against you and save the only thing he has left
such an angry little thing /siiiiiiiiiiigh
No, no
He is the one who used to that stone
oh good, she can killl you too!
/swats the brat and makes her shush and sitdown
If you want to fight, he will give it to you in order to make sure that you do not go after his brother
Or after anyone else
Noah: /dumps Cidolfus's mist essence on Sword-whiner
This guy created the bomb.
I've already had my nation wiped out before, thanks
and i was the one who came up with an alternate so idiots like this mist-fool didn't use it again.
Have at it, toodles
/teleports away
best
Noah is just DONE
let me tell you
blowing up other nations doesn't make you fill better
Clearly, Noah does not understand the nuances of a leader and having to take responsibility for the rest of his nation's actions
Vayne, shut up you are being an idiot for no reason and i am fixing it for you
and only disrespects the memories of those who died when the nation was annihilated
PESRONAL EXPERIENCE AT WORK HERE
SWEAR TO FARAM
.............................................disrespects? I will not be my father and seek to pacify those of Landis only when I am dead
YOU SWEAR TO FARAM
YOU!??
I AM NOT TALKING TO YOU ANYMORE DEAR PLEASE SHUT UP AGAIN
BLOWING UP OTHER NATIONS DOES NOT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER
AND IT IS DISRESPECTFUL
my lord if you shut up and stopped being dumb :|
i am talking to the idiot with the giant sword and an obnoxious revenge quest that will only end in self-loathing in tears
\WANTS TO THROW SOMETHING AT HIS HEAD
\REVENGE QUESTS
\kjlsadfkjljnkldfs
I CANNOT BE SORRY WHEN IT TAKES MY FATHER NIGH MOST OF HIS LIFE TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING AN ASSHOLE
I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU
YOUR PROBLEMS HAVE DIFFERENT ROOTS
THAT MANIFEST INTO SOME OF THE SAME LEVELS OF STUPID
O RLY
/sighs
TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE?
yes.
\GESTICULATES AT
it does, actually.
...........................my point is made.
you are an idiot
Someone who has watched their entire world razed to the ground in ashes
\why do I care about this again
lost all their family
and is TRYING TO KEEP SOMEONE FROM BEING JUST AS STUPID SO IF OYU COULD SHUT UP PLEASE
NOT EVERYTHING I DO IS FOR YOU
.................8T
\HAS YOUR LOYALTY
\SHUT UP
some of it is for this poor lady with a giant sword who is going to end up in a world of hurt
not any more
I died.
.....so Cloud, but on drugs?
.....more drugs
I fought a war
I am not your hound any more
but yes, actually,a great deal like Cloud on drugs
or possible sephiroth
........................................................you were never my hound, you fucking -
WHAT WAS ALL THAT PACT MAKING ABOUT, HM?
Your Lordship. I am not your anything, any more
that pact was to our deaths
which we have reached, and surmounted
I am not bound to you, or even to these continents any more
This is the funniest damn thing I have seen all week and it needs to happen in game
Then I don't know you
no see if this happened in game
Noah would head-conk Vayne out
finish his discussion with swordwhiner
and then dragged vayne off to yella t him
in a ltter
this all sounds great
They are adults, they wouldn't have this discussion at all
/dumps a letter on cayne's head
I agree
Even Vayne would just be like
nope
walking away from
perhaps a couple moments of pursuit
"stop being an idiot and trying to get yourself killed"
but Noah running
"next time ultima might just revive you more painfully and more conspicuously"
"This is what I do best, sincerely, go fuck yourself first, dad"
"and implicate larsa becahse she knows it will fuck you up"
"signed: sincerely 'your so fucking done old pal,' gabranth"
but yeah
noah would run
"I think you mean Noahbear because you are clearly everyone's mom"
just think of all the goodies they'll have for smalltalk at the party now
That's the problem
they won't talk, it makes me so sad
yeah, no
they wouldn't talk if they were trapped in a room where there was only enough space for them to stand up tall and look at each other
You will have to force them to
Ashe: So hey Larsa, I had this girl in here who survived her country being blown up and she wants me to do something about it.
much adult
such coping
Noah thru-Basch: "Tell her to fuck off, that path never ends well."
they're fucking moon moon put together
excuse you
what, you deny the truth?
xD
they are not stunted, idiotic (usually) or otherwise moonmoon
just... really good at nopeing out of shit
just, different shit
and in different ways
SHALL I SAY THEY ARE GREENLEAF GREENLEAF aka LEAGOLAS GREENLEAF MOON MOON OF THE FF12 WORLD?
noah physically removes himsel
vayne... pretends he doesn't ahve a soul
........................but really, wouldn't it be fun to break out the feels?
\makes googly eyes at
it would end explosively.
and noah would go underground the underground for a solid year
but it might actually fun for them to scream at each othr
but it has to happen with relevant witnesses
like basch and larsa, unwittingly
(also maybe penelo, she seems solid)
Vayne suffers from a Machiavellian(sp? m' buzzed) predisposition self imposed so he would survive and be the most effective tool
LET US AIR ALL OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY AND SHOW EVERYONE HOW WE WERE ACTUALLY HELPING THEM IN THE MOST SCREWED UP FASHION POSSIBLE YEAH
THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT
MIGHT I SUGGEST SUCH AND SUCH DATE
AROUND TEA TIME?
YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIVES WERE HELL. HAH YOU SWEET SUMMER CHILDREN
LOOK AT THE MONSTERS WE BECAME
ilu guys. so much.
TEA TIME SOUNDS EXCELLENT
I COULD BRING A PLATTER OF CRUMPETS?
iceyarticuno & I share this terrible headcanon
I AM NOT FOND, AS YOU KNOW, OF SUCH THINGS
I RATHER LIKE FRUIT AND SIMPLE THINGS AND NOT ACTUALLY GETTING INVOLVED
DONT FORGET THOSE HIDEOUS SANDWITCHES WITH SNAILS OR WHATEVER THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE
OH GOD
OF COURSE, WE COULDN'T HAVE A DAY OUT WITHOUT THEM
YOU KNOW, BEING SICK
BUT YEA terrible headcanon about how Noah spent a lot of time in the Ninth hiding that Basch existed
and when that was found out. as noah's twin brother. /grINS
oh and also noah and vayne just being
really sucky life decisions
and gramis is a creep
so manny terrible headcanons
okay but actually now i kind of want the shouting match to happen
earthkingom ONE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN THAT MAKES NOAH BUY INTO AJORA AND DO THE THING
................we need to do all the things, bae
I MEAN
WE DON'T HAVE TO
but
\rolls over
yes yes yes
I want these things somuch
We need to come up with some terrible situation where they run into each other with basch and larsa and penelo coincidentally present
honestly, if you shoved them in a small enough space they would probably start yelling
FORCED INTERACTION => EXPLOSIONS
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
"WHY HAVE YOU FAILED TO DO AS YOU SAID YOU WOULD?"
\why have you not been the brother MY BROTHER needed, that I cannot be
\I GAVE YOU ALL I HAD LEFT
I DIED. IT WAS YOU WHO NEARLY KILLED ME!
come to rabanastre, we're having a party
DEFENDING YOUR BROTHER
AS YOU WENT UTTERLY MAD
WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO DEFEND HIM FROM ME!?
WHY WOULD I EVER DESIRE HIS DESTRUCTION?
PERHAPS BECAUSE YUO JUST DRAINED HIS LIFE FORCE IN FRONT OF THE ALL OF US!
DID YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING!
DID YO THINK I SIMPLY TURNED ON YOU IN THAT LAST MINUTE OVER NOTHING?!
I
YOU HAD GONE INSANE
I WOULDN'T DO SUCH A THING
I WOULD NOT
I CANNOT
oh oh oh Manda? March bad things, closed space y?
/smirks knowingly
YOU DID! IS MY WORD NOT GOOD ENOUGH? ASK ANY OF THE OTHERS THERE IN WITNESS!
YES a thousand times yes
evil smirk
THE OTHERS DO NOT
THEY
THEY DO NOT KNOW ME AS YOU
YOU DO
THEY SAW WHAT YOU DID AS I!
IF I KNOW YOU. THEN TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU YOU WERE NOT YOURSELF
AND YOU NEARLY KILLED HIM
\okay yelling stops
it'd be something to get everyone in small space I think
\Vayne's entire face slowly exposes that really raw nerve
\stares into Noah's face
\Noah's face does the 'aw shit i didn't mean that but actually i di'
\DOES NOT WANT TO BELIEVE THIS BULLSHIT
\'i can't lie to you but fuck sorry'
\yknow that face
earthkingdom next time someone tries to nuke his big bros older brother's current country he'll just let it happen, is that what you would prefer?
\did I...really?
\I....I can't - I wouldn't
Yes
You did.
\buries face in hands
\Vayne is 17 - 18 years old again, one brother, then two, are at his feet
\he is -
\undeserving
"You have done well to run from all." \he does not say me because that is implied - he does not deserve, did not deserve such....grace - if he had instead become the literal mad dog -
\oh shit i broke vayne and people could find us at any time shit
"You were not yourself, at the last. But if you are truly yourself now, you owe Lord Larsa that explanation, at least."
"Even I gave my brother that much"
"Were we all so capable, or so wise." \yeah no, after this he will really just have to go and find Ajora and the Espers and make himself into a terror yet again because it is what he must do
\thats not entirely untrue
\suddenly angry
"You ave no right to near kill him again!"
"Do you think he does nto know you live?"
"Do you think he is not straining for word of you?"
"You doubt his strength?" \half smile, so sad, so bitter
"Will you harm him again?
So full of your self-loathing and hatred that you will make yourself his nightmare monster TWICE OVER!"
/furious
"He who has been raised so well - he has the ability to do what must be done, and I.... my hands are stained with blood."
\you have the chance he will never get
\take it, damn it
"AS ARE HIS! AS ARE ALL OUR HANDS"
"I am not his brother."
"LESS, PERHAPS. BUT STILL BLOOD RUNS FROM THEM JSUT AS SURELY."
"YOUR BLOOD."
"Then perhaps you will do it for him instead, as you have sought to do so before?"
"Shield him."
HE WOULD DISGREE. FOR IT IS HIS BROTHERS BLOOD THAT WEIGHS SO HEAVILY UPON HIM
HE has a shield
"HE DESERVES A WORD"
and only you can grant him that
"You are more his brother than I - no."
Even if it little more than a letter!
"I cannot. It is not my place."
IF YOU THINK THAT MY DEATH WEIGHS UPON HIM MORE HEAVILY THAN YOURS YOU ARE BOTH A FOOL
AND HATEFUL
IT IS YOUR PLACE. And only yours
No one else is his brother.
You fought gods for him
can you not even FACE HIM
"I am not. I am the thing that killed the brothers before him."
"Before me."
My one regret in your brother's deaths
"A sword, a device."
is that I could not have killed them for you
"No, don't -"
but if you intend on killing the last of your brothers
then Go ahead
kill him with your silence
"He will not fail."
with the endless agony of not knowing
"That you would so doubt him."
of the heavy weight of your blood on his hands
I don't doubt your brother
but i know far better than you
"If I am not such the terror you proclaim me to be, then why are you so afraid??"
I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU
I AM ANGRY WITH YOU
"He will kill me - "
"THEN WHAT!?"
"JUST ANGRY?"
FURIOUS!
"OH REALLY?"
"AFTER ALL THESE YEARS?"
"Well, here I AM, NOAH."
\OPENS ARMS
\COME AT ME
You idiot
I am angry with you now
and this idiot foolishness with which you persist
Korik
is
it foolishness?
Or is it the hope that I can be a stepping stone?
in not believing that—in spite of what feelings of betrayal one might feel towards an elder brother, justified or no—there is a single thing
And make Archadia, nay, SEE IVALICE be more than what we made it to be??
that a younger brother would not do to see that elder safe.
Or happy
or even just See them
the once.
YOU TRIED THE STEPPING STONE PATH
......................is that why you have run from your own brother?
and you WERE DRIVEN MAD
to the near-death of the brother you claimed to protect
\laughs\ madness - it....it runs in the blood, sometimes...
NO
this wasn't your blood
this was just you,
THEN WHY ARE YOU AWAY FROM HIM?
I know of how he has caused you pain
I would like to think I've seen enough of solidor madness, to tell the difference
Of how you have desired to see him
OF HOW YOU RAILED AGAINST HIS IMPRISONMENT
I made rest with my brother
OF HIS USE
I lived long enough, breathed enough
That you healed him
to do that
Vayne
That you still.....
I love Basch more than is good for my soul
or his
or either of our sanities
and I know you love LArsa just as much.
Say it again, it will hold longer...
As does he love you
\SNORTS
First you say that I was closer to him than you
and then you claim that I do no know his mind
of the itmes he asked for you
after you
inquiring for your wellbeing
and health
of how he stood up to you
and loved you
even as you hurt him
You cannot have it both ways
.................\waves it away
No
He did not know better
he does not...know better
he is
Larsa, after all
\smiles anyway
\snorts loudly
And you wonder why i am ANGRY at your foolish, blind, stupidity
he LOVES YOU
and whether or not you derseve it
he DOES
He does not know any better
Lord help us all.
We have no control over the hearts of others
But you owe him word
........I cannot grant him anything because I have none to give, Noah.
You can try to deny it with your last bloody breath
All I gave were actions
...my life.
But you owe him taht much.
My life for his.
And now you have your life again
and he knows it
we all know it
IT's written in these bloody books of ours
So send him word
of the truth
\heaves out a twisted, mangled breath, DAMN THIS CLOSED SPACE, HE WANTS TO GO AND WALK AWAY
\THESE WALLS ARE TOO SMALL
and then be a fool and disappear, if you wish
this is what happens stellations
But don't you dare walk down that path of madness again,
I stood to stop you once, and I will kill you
If I do, it shall be for none but him.
before I watch some play-god twist your mind again
And, like last time, you will likely near-kill him.
..........\smiles gently\ You were always sweet, in that way.
If you truly wish your brother well
stop setting yourself up so that others can twist you against him
you did well unto the last, in our first attempt
I can tell you this much of gods. It will not work near so well, again
But if I do so, it will be my choice, my decision. I cannot help him in any other fashion.
You ask me to be what I am not
Please
don't ask me to be his brother
Please
Noah
don't
I....cannot face his disappointment.
I cannot face myself anymore
I am not asking you to be his brother
I have given everything
You are already that, whether you will it or no
To my father, to my brothers, the Senate, Archadia
I am simply asking that you write to him, but the once
to relieve his fears, and his worries, as best you can
and then don't do anything stupid
I AM NOT HIS BROTHER
I gave THAT UP
\bitter, wry, disbelieveing smile "Of course you are not"
"because brotherhood is something so easily forsaken"
WHEN I TOOK THE SWORD AND POISON I USED UPON THOSE ELDER THAN I
Vayne.
When I let
myself
Would you ahe left them alive to prey upon Larsa as they did upon you?
.............
\shivers
Because if you were not Larsa's brother then, I cannot see why it should have mattered to you at all.
\looks at Noah
\stares at him
\MY POINT, DEAR
\he himself is rigid
\terrified
\Vayne is not often afraid
\but damn
\he's frightened
Vayne. They cannot hurt him
Because of you.
\voice gentled, soft.
\reaching out as he had so often.
\a young soldier's only comfort for a scared young man
I have....become them.
Not yet, you have not.
And I am trying to plead with you
that you do not, by mis-step, take that path.
Because I know you
No? \the laugh is so bitter and so hollow, he stares at Noah again, no longer 8, no longer innocent
and never of your own will would you do such a thing
Which is why I am trying to ensure you keep possession of it.
Vayne. If you were them, you wouldn't care.
\not for so many years, a child to solve a feud wherein an emperor could not choose on his own until forced, coerced
And clearly, it shakes you so much.
That fear isn't a weakness, it shows you are still human.
And yet.....as you say: I hurt him
I fear it....is
Becaue you will was not your own.
too late for that.
And I knew it
No. I chose magicite.
I chose that death.
And I nearly took him with me.
Then, you will agree with me
I am them.
Yes.
that we should avoid that outcome again? /sighs
You chose mmagicite. At Venat's urging, and behest, and advice
and Venat, even in trying to help you hurt you
....it is....inevitable. I am.....Solidor.
and took the choice of how to use it, against you
I will not let some other, crueler power, do the same
\chuckles, shakes head
I wanted to die.
Vayne, if Solidor madness was your disease, Larsa would already be dead
And I didn't?
oh speaking of Larsa dying 
But you did not want kill bring Larsa with you
DONT YOU MODS FUCKING
damn it
we have plans
..........................great. Vayne will rupture.
(the above two statements are in parenthesis)
See, vayne
you need all your faculties to make sure your brother doesn't die
the Mods are out to kill Vayne. Tadaaaaaaaaaah
no making deals with sketchy priests
Someone must know him, know his connections, know his path and choices. If a head must be bent, let it be mine.
A snake for the house of snakes. see also: espers are assholes
Vayne, you say that
I am telling you
as someone who WATCHED YOU DO TAHT SHIT BEFORE
(Espers ARE ASSHOLES)
it will only end with you nearly killing LArsa again
/bounces back out after leaving horrible and vague thoughts
perhaps succeeding
(but he's a baby with a baby's mind?)
(easily manipulated by Ultima, then...)
We Solidors are also capable of being...quite...stubborn.
I have noticed \grit teeth deadpan
(NO! /CALLS BASCH)
(HAUL YOUR CHARGE AWAY FROM ANY AND ALL ESPERS I STG)
idgaf about ashe she can burn in esper hell
but i stg brother if you let larsa get zodiac braved i will hunt you down
....how old was I, again? Determined to keep a stranger so I... I... \voice fades
(DAMN IT NOAH, GET RID OF ALL ESPERS.)
(Belias is MORE than enough)
(You know that well enough from the history I crammed down your throat)
(DYNAST KINGS, HELLO)
oh but it's okay for noah to get it
nope
yes but if i wait until she is belias'd, that is two with one stone, right?
(sometimes I wonder which of us actually dislikes Ashelia more)
(HMM)
(me. its professional and personal)
(and she's a bloody self-entitled terrorist :| )
(.............ah well, that I.... Noah. 8T)
Basch. I am adult. If I make foolish choinces, they are my choices.
(Noah. Stop.)
(No. Down)
If Larsa is presented that option it will not be as a choice
Do you want Larsa to end up like the Vayne you faced?
Because I do not.
(He can behave. He just... daydreams, sometimes)
(having Ashelia die would be far to destabilizing to the current regimes)
heeeeeeeey kill off Larsa, make Vayne think there is nothing worth it anymore and he'll just come back and FUCKING RULE EVERYONE AND ACTUALLY BE A TYRANT, I WILL BABYSIT YOU ALL.
(....UHUH.)
YOU TAKE THE ONLY THING GOOD HE EVER GOOD PUSH OUT
*could push out
YEP NOPE
DONE
ilu2
;}
u ass
you helped
and you enjoyed it
;P
push out is oddly specific
"oooh mr vayne ooooh"
BECAUSE HE HAD TO GET HIM AWAY FROM HIMSELF
JUDGE MAGISTERS
TURNING GAY
(look at these idiots)
(from arguing to terrible dorknerd jokes to yelling at each other again)
.................this is their life
no one knew it
they were the Odd Couple?
hahaha
hey though, you missed that "I HAD A CHILDHOOD MEMORY OF STEALING YOU, OR AT LEAST TRYING TO, WHEN I WAS LITTLE BECAUSE I WAS LONELY"
"and ROYALTY, WE DO THAT SHIT"
you see that dude?
that is an awesome dude
he tells me stories
he makes me actually laugh
Vayne: im keeping him
Vayne: he
is my person
\8 YEAR OLD SOLIDOR SPARE HEIR
Vayne: bitty resolute face
\sits on ANGRY 17 year old's head
hi, be my friend?
please?
\LITTLEST MANIPULATIVE PONY
\pretends to be younger
\more people get him shit
\also it keeps them from hurting angry, strange soldier boy
who kind of talks funny sometimes
.............Landisi? What's a Landisi?
Can I see it?
.............oh. You mean a Landis -
...........the refugees....the people who are dying
the
\resolves to take home immediately
no stop bitty them are still cute
and less broken
and hurted
....\big eyes\
do you have any stories?
\not science or history or pain, just fairytales
\that's all he wants
\smiling in spite of himself
\fairytales and a friend
of course I do. would you like to hear one?
(no stop /whines softly my feelings)
\excited! ARM SHOOTS UP
Yes please! Please, do you know any adventures?
Or oh, dragons!?
( earthkingdom stellations you guys both realize now that Larsa has to tell Basch about that fairytale that Vayne would always tell hi,)
(and Basch has to be 'ohshit i know that story.)
\he's small for 8, with crazy curly hair, eyes that have gone from being black at birth to near pale white-blue
(that has to happen now, you realize)
(please do)
(my heart will explode)
(Vayne would tell Larsa stories until he was 17)
How about an adventurous dragon? \tosses up to settle on shoulders
you guys are horrible omg
\WOAH, OMFG, HOLDS ON and laughs in sheer delight
also sorry, we're plotting everyone's demise in another plurk
Adventurous dragon?? Dragons have adventures??
(earthkingdom SMOOCHES U)
(wow rude)
Of course! The very best of adventures.
i'm a mod. it's what mod's do
(oh god, I want it but also I'm crying)
(/shakes head)
What kind?
(......well, the crying is more on Vayne's part - )
(while you are manufacturing everyone's demise)
people will die
lots and lots of people
(please include some sort of horrible event like the memory one at TnT)
althea is evil, water is wet, news at 11
don't you mean water is poisoned?
....in bed?
everyone's dead before 9?
hahahaha
(so Larsa and Basch can be bombasted with images of Vayne and Noah)
(when they were young and helping each other cope)
(oh god)
but that happens anyway so yeah
(and telling stories to little bitty vayne)
(please don't give them the....uh....awkward memories)
(please no please no please no )
(and this young soldier being escorted to the royal quarters for the young prince's bedtime)
(OH GOD NO NOT THOSE EITHER)
yes, the water is poisoned, but who is going to fix that 
(the young prince just wanted a good story, and he was home for a little while?)
Vayne may be made of toxic asshole, but even he can't absorb it all.
(Noah humming landisi lullabies to settle vayne)
(oh man, look at all those stories and songs that basch and larsa remember)
(from their childhoods)
(8'D)
(that Vayne shared with Larsa)
(and Basch just knew)
(yEP)
(don't even get into a couple of the songs Larsa got while Vayne carefully danced with him to distract himself and hummed a Landisi tune)