Heh, I... well, okay, I did not even get active in gaming fandom until, good grief, maybe 2010? And didn't play FFXII until roughly two years ago. So it's mostly been me, myself, and I scavenging around for fic on the internet.
Vossler? Makes perfect sense to me and I'm embarrassed he did not occur to me first, except that I was kind of with the idea that it was Basch on both ends of the timeline since he's the only one who could be, pretty much. ;) Al-Cid... I have such problems with how Al-Cid interacts with both Ashe and Larsa in-game (namely, fucking well disrespectfully, to other world leaders that he is treating with and whose help he needs--- like, seriously, I do not want to know how awful he must be to subordinates if that is how he is with his "social equals", I just do not) that... this definitely makes sense in this fic, precisely because it does put a darker/creepier veil over the end for me, at least. Ashe is sleeping with a dude who leched at her and treated another fellow governmental representative (Larsa) with equally casual disrespect... yeah, that is... again, I feel it fits with the narrative precisely because it feels kind of sordid to me. (Apologies if this is a total diversion from your sense of them, but yeah, I was like, "that's Al-Cid, okay, this whole thing just became inherently 10x creepier".)
Wow, I'm embarrassed, I fell right for the reader-bait, lol! In any case, I'm working my way through your FFXII fics on ff.net, slowly but surely! (And, oh, I feel you--- at least you post things; I have only just posted two things that I wrote... um, two years and ~5 years ago, respectively, at my journal.)
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Vossler? Makes perfect sense to me and I'm embarrassed he did not occur to me first, except that I was kind of with the idea that it was Basch on both ends of the timeline since he's the only one who could be, pretty much. ;) Al-Cid... I have such problems with how Al-Cid interacts with both Ashe and Larsa in-game (namely, fucking well disrespectfully, to other world leaders that he is treating with and whose help he needs--- like, seriously, I do not want to know how awful he must be to subordinates if that is how he is with his "social equals", I just do not) that... this definitely makes sense in this fic, precisely because it does put a darker/creepier veil over the end for me, at least. Ashe is sleeping with a dude who leched at her and treated another fellow governmental representative (Larsa) with equally casual disrespect... yeah, that is... again, I feel it fits with the narrative precisely because it feels kind of sordid to me. (Apologies if this is a total diversion from your sense of them, but yeah, I was like, "that's Al-Cid, okay, this whole thing just became inherently 10x creepier".)
Wow, I'm embarrassed, I fell right for the reader-bait, lol! In any case, I'm working my way through your FFXII fics on ff.net, slowly but surely! (And, oh, I feel you--- at least you post things; I have only just posted two things that I wrote... um, two years and ~5 years ago, respectively, at my journal.)