Originally this collaboration was only supposed to be until they'd settled things in Garlemald. And then. You know. Endwalker happens. Nara is an Ascian. She has the Unsundered in tow. But she's also probably the only person who can actually get anything done right now. (3/3)

Bold is the single line I wrote while doing In From the Cold on Nara. This is barely, edited it was entirely meant as an examination of how she'd react. As for the aftermath? An incredibly uneasy, distrustful collaboration with the Scions and the Alliance for the duration of Endwalker. (2/3) #ficwip

Nara has always had memories of the world unsundered, even if she didn't know that's what they were. There's a reason she needed no convincing to turn her back on all of that and take her seat. She's angry, she's jaded, she's *tired*. She wants to go home, even if that home hasn't existed for eons.

There *is* vitriol towards her in my writing. From the perspective of a WoL who feels like she's only ever been used. From a WoL who hates that she wasn't allowed to die. From a WoL who didn't even believe in the goddess she was supposed to be serving and didn't *want* to be serving her.

Bonus: This is part of the reason she is not an acn/smn/sch at *all* in her primary timeline. Though I've been toying with the idea that she might dabble in an AU where she's forced to restart, after a comparison between her clumsy concept matrices and arcanima.

Regardless of which though; a major deviation from canon occurs, in which the Warrior of Light is *gone* from the timeline completely.

Might play around with some of these actually, since the writer's block on the smut i've been trying to write is *real* rn.

Trying real hard to keep them both in character but also at the whims of long dormant magick is apparently quite difficult.