Lightning is seething with envy I am cackling with delight.
Maybe it's because XV and certain FFXIV things primed me to expect it, but the fact that Clive has been so stuck on his duty the entire game made me assume that he was going to end up dying at the end. Like, he's the only Bearer who shows no lithification effects from the *truly stupendous* amount of aether he's throwing around, and that had to catch up with him eventually (and we do see that.) I don't like it and we are not talking about the seventeen "everyone lives" AUs currently lurking in my fics-to-write list, but it felt appropriate, much the same way that I felt the similar lines in XIV and XV were handled. It's not like he throws his life away; he's always been aware that his power has a price, and had he not been Mythos (and had the Night of Flames etc. never happened) he likely would have been near dead by now from channeling Phoenix power. IDK. I don't like the tragedy outcome but I was pretty sure it was where we were going from, well, about the Night of Flames onward.
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Maybe it's because XV and certain FFXIV things primed me to expect it, but the fact that Clive has been so stuck on his duty the entire game made me assume that he was going to end up dying at the end. Like, he's the only Bearer who shows no lithification effects from the *truly stupendous* amount of aether he's throwing around, and that had to catch up with him eventually (and we do see that.) I don't like it and we are not talking about the seventeen "everyone lives" AUs currently lurking in my fics-to-write list, but it felt appropriate, much the same way that I felt the similar lines in XIV and XV were handled. It's not like he throws his life away; he's always been aware that his power has a price, and had he not been Mythos (and had the Night of Flames etc. never happened) he likely would have been near dead by now from channeling Phoenix power. IDK. I don't like the tragedy outcome but I was pretty sure it was where we were going from, well, about the Night of Flames onward.