Now this, this is the good stuff.

It's adorable!

Died for the sake of toxic yuri shenanigans. 😔

And from there, it just gets messy. Bris sticks around cuz she's been led to believe quelling rebellions will get the Garleans to ease up on them so she wants that to happen faster. And she has a deal with Valeria: any time, anywhere, Bris is free to try to kill her

For Bris, Valeria just thinks someone willing to charge at her without a second thought could be useful. So she has Bris dragged off and sent to the medics, instead of Bris being rescued by her comrades after she's severely wounded.

Valeria isolates Bris, which gets her head all messed up -

Oh no! Mir without the wives!

And I sorta imagine in the bad timeline, Bris is to Valeria what Fordola was to Zenos: a tool to demoralize the local populations when they get roughed up by one of their own

Bris was not ready to explain, and Emet was not ready to hear

Thanks! I really liked how it came out so I decided to make it the first one. Helps that it's early chronologically too so it helps set the tone for how Bris will view herself for all of Heavensward and most of Stormblood.

Emet's attitude makes him the perfect foil for everyone else's antics, it's great.

The Birds and the Bumbling Bees (2/2)

Everything I've written so far that's from Bris's POV is very much her thinking there's no possible way someone actually sees her as a person, let alone worthy of love. But she grows closer with Yugiri while struggling to figure out how to express it.

In other words: she starts yearning

I wanted to put a more personal spin to some of the conversations with Venat, she's got some of my favorite bits from EW

Bris gets there eventually, it just takes her a while to believe someone actually loves her