I have fought three different bird with man face things this month. I guess my only advice is “get good”?

Not the greatest advertisement for your Grief Diorama, gotta say.

I have real life bartending experience and the shake drink emote if you haven’t found someone yet.

I am no longer baby. I crave power.

☄️Those were the words I said, that is true.

I maintain you are, absolutely, a motherfucker.

much from the jump. So that is always going to be a layer of their relationship because his creation of an empire designed to fail caused real, tangible suffering for her and for many others. Okay, there. Done for real. I did consider taking this to 14 parts for poetic reasons, but no. [13/13]

because she is not able to entirely divorce her feelings about Emet-Selch from her feelings about Garlemald and the oppression it has wrought on the people who suffered under its rule. The fact that he is the architect of the Garlean Empire has absolutely colored her perception of him pretty [12/13]

J/K there's another part to this. There is also the fact that, as a member of the Raen diaspora and someone who was born and raised in Terncliff (hence the chosen surname), Tala suffered keenly under Garlean imperialism and so that adds a whole other level of complexity to their dynamic [11/12]

suffer more than necessary. At the end of the day, he is one of the most important people in the world to her and she loves him and hates him and all of that is a lot to feel about one person. Also she thinks he should maybe take a nap because he's so tightly wound. [10/10]

worst part is there is absolutely no way to know. They can't go back and they can't change the past and they were always going to end up here. They can't reclaim the past and they can't really build a future and they're essentially stuck in this sort of purgatory that is causing them both to [9/10]

about putting an end to the Final Days, because there is a part of her that wonders if they could have fixed things thousands of years ago if they had just trusted each other and not let their differences get the best of them or if she had to become who she is now to facilitate that. And the [8/?]

Honestly, it's deeply unfair that those two have to be connected to each other. Can she please get a refund on that. But despite all those things, she cares about Emet-Selch immensely and feels an incredible amount of guilt and grief about killing him. She also feels incredibly conflicted [7/?]

There's also the Zenos of it all. Her feelings about Emet-Selch have gotten really messily tied up in her feelings about Zenos. Zenos is her nemesis and also the person who possibly understands her better than anyone else. So knowing he's Emet-Selch's great-grandson really just pisses her off. [6/?]

Hytholdaeus definitely helps her to get it. Because look, she thinks maybe she'd also burn down *a* world for that guy. He's pretty great. But still, no. She will absolutely talk shit though. She calls New Amaurot his "dramatic grief diorama" because sometimes she's kind of a jerk. [5/?]

So she absolutely gets Emet-Selch. She just also thinks maybe you don't burn down the fourteen worlds in the hopes of assuaging your grief. They argue relentlessly and push each other's buttons like nobody's business. Her feelings have softened somewhat since Elpis. Knowing him there, and also [4/?]

herself in Ishgard. She is very aware that building a white house with a blue roof specifically as a reminder of a home she no longer has that has - of holding on too tightly to pieces of people she lost and letting them shape her fundamentally - are not necessarily healthy coping mechanisms [3/?]

Tala is always going to be held up to the specter of Azem and found wanting. Lesser. She also fundamentally *understands* him. She fully gets holding on so tightly to the past you've lost. Tala's history with Werlyt has shaped her and elements of that are reflected in the home she built for [2/?]

It's complicated. Ardbert continues on in an incorporeal capacity, attached to Tala, similar to his state in Shadowbringers. He DID become corporeal while they were in Elpis, and then went back to being incorporeal after. It is very messy, but she is happy with her ghost boyfriend.