Its a fun little tragedy of two people who love each other and were sooo close to a happy ending, if the bloody banquet had just gone as planned they wouldve gotten together that night and everything wouldve been fine because they never wouldve been given cause to question each other's feelings 🙂

just for Thancred to pop back up in her life and make her question the decision to let go of the idea of having a relationship with him!!!

just not meant to be no matter how much they do love and care for each other because its become too complicated and fucked up and shes always going to feel like a substitute for Minfilia and he's never going to feel secure given Tonari's flightiness and romantic track record/being prone to ghosting

After several years of not seeing each other Thancred seeks Tonari out because he is still haunted by their stupid not quite relationship and finds her on the Steppe where they finally have a reckoning because Tonari is so sick of constantly coming to terms with the fact that she and Thancred are

Rotating a post-canon AU, like an ACTUAL disbanding of the scions where they all just slowly drift apart to do their own things and Tonari fucks off to become a 'monster hunter', essentially illiminating beasts for coin in her travels (so basically an adventurer i guess???)