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Vierapril 2025 Day 30
Vierapril Day 30 - Future
While I've featured a fair bit of stuff about the boys (and their daughter!) in terms of post-MSQ, I don't think I've ever really laid it all out. What better time than now?
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After MSQ ends, Laurent will wrap up his studies on botany and how aether can be manipulated to assist in growing flora in places where they can't usually thrive in. Given that he's doing field work and studies in between all the world-ending stuff going on, this doesn't take particularly long. Once he gets his Archon mark, the two return to Rabanastre.
Kris (who goes back to calling himself Gale after MSQ to separate himself from the Warrior of Light moniker), is a bit worried about this at first. While they had promised they'd return to Dalmasca once it was all said and done, Gale didn't want to force Laurent into a position where he'd be unhappy. After all, Rabanastre is in the middle of a desert, and a desert doesn't make for a great environment to grow much of anything.
But given Laurent's studies, he was confident that he'd be able to grow flowers out there. In fact, he saw it as a challenge—what was the point of theorems and ideas if he couldn't try and put them to use in one of the harshest environments he could think of?
So they head back to Rabanastre, and they make a new home in Gemna's old bar. The war and simply time away did mean that most of the bar needed repairs or rebuilding, and the bar was admittedly not in a great area of the city, but the boys didn't care—it's where they wanted to live, no matter how much of a struggle it may have ended up being. They always loved Gemna, and by living there, they felt closer to her.
But just renovating the bar wasn't the only problem that needed solving.* Gale really wanted to leave the life of being the WoL behind. He did not find pride in being the world's 'hero', and he just wanted to relax and live out the rest of his days with his husband. Gale very much did not want to be bothered about imminent threats or a squirrel causing havoc in a village or whatever. It was something for the next generation to handle.
All that said, it's not easy for the Warrior of Light to simply disappear. While he made sure he wasn't all that memorable in terms of looks, it's hard to dodge those who did know him. (Note: I do headcanon that the flow of information worldwide isn't instantaneous and is prone to inaccuracies and tall tales—Gale generally used that to his advantage to make him less immediately recognizable to the average stranger.)
Should people come to Rabanastre and start asking for Gale, things could quickly become out of control once someone did find him. It's not as though everyone looking for the WoL is in search of help, either, and there are plenty of his enemies looking for a chance at revenge.
Tataru helped in this way. She took some great efforts to help them "hide" with some clever rumors and bribing a few specific people… as in the boys' neighbors. Many of them got a fair chunk of change to simply not ask any prying questions, and looking at the gil on offer, why would they? They're just an eccentric Viera couple. And they never had the urge to ask, either; even as new people came around and the original tenants became elderly and died, the two were simply known as the flower shop owners.
And that is all they wanted to be known as. Laurent eventually cracked the code of 'growing stuff in the desert' and cultivated a colorful garden of flowers both inside and outside the shop. Being such an unusual site, people came to visit to look at the flowers and typically buy a bouquet, but the location made it so that it wasn't a tourist attraction.
But these two… are terrible shop owners. Like, incredibly bad. They'll often sell the flowers for a pittance (if not completely free), they're open and closed at seemingly random times, and Laurent doesn't know what 'customer service' is. By all intents and purposes, there should be no way in which they keep the lights open.
Well, if they only relied on the shop's income, that is. The boys made quite a bit of money during their time as assassins, and they had no reason to spend it once all the ~events~ started happening—and despite looking lavish at times, Gale is rather frugal and able to talk his way into a good deal, so those savings go far. Laurent also gets some funds from the Studium in exchange for some of his research findings… if he remembers to send them in a legible format.
Honestly, they're very well off for the rest of their lives, lol.
That's basically how post-MSQ came to be for the two of them. They're just living out the rest of their days in the place they consider their true home, and remembering their mentor and mother figure. Just… quiet and peaceful. It's all they wanted.
(*Final note: There was also the matter of being in the Saraab that might have made the boys' life after MSQ less peaceful, but this is taken care of by the end of the Bozja campaign. Once Fran learns that Gale is the Warrior of Light, she doesn't want to earn the ire of someone that powerful who also knows a lot of the Saraab's secrets, so she 'releases' both of them from duty at that time, so to speak.)
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While I've featured a fair bit of stuff about the boys (and their daughter!) in terms of post-MSQ, I don't think I've ever really laid it all out. What better time than now?
Also on Tumblr
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After MSQ ends, Laurent will wrap up his studies on botany and how aether can be manipulated to assist in growing flora in places where they can't usually thrive in. Given that he's doing field work and studies in between all the world-ending stuff going on, this doesn't take particularly long. Once he gets his Archon mark, the two return to Rabanastre.
Kris (who goes back to calling himself Gale after MSQ to separate himself from the Warrior of Light moniker), is a bit worried about this at first. While they had promised they'd return to Dalmasca once it was all said and done, Gale didn't want to force Laurent into a position where he'd be unhappy. After all, Rabanastre is in the middle of a desert, and a desert doesn't make for a great environment to grow much of anything.
But given Laurent's studies, he was confident that he'd be able to grow flowers out there. In fact, he saw it as a challenge—what was the point of theorems and ideas if he couldn't try and put them to use in one of the harshest environments he could think of?
So they head back to Rabanastre, and they make a new home in Gemna's old bar. The war and simply time away did mean that most of the bar needed repairs or rebuilding, and the bar was admittedly not in a great area of the city, but the boys didn't care—it's where they wanted to live, no matter how much of a struggle it may have ended up being. They always loved Gemna, and by living there, they felt closer to her.
But just renovating the bar wasn't the only problem that needed solving.* Gale really wanted to leave the life of being the WoL behind. He did not find pride in being the world's 'hero', and he just wanted to relax and live out the rest of his days with his husband. Gale very much did not want to be bothered about imminent threats or a squirrel causing havoc in a village or whatever. It was something for the next generation to handle.
All that said, it's not easy for the Warrior of Light to simply disappear. While he made sure he wasn't all that memorable in terms of looks, it's hard to dodge those who did know him. (Note: I do headcanon that the flow of information worldwide isn't instantaneous and is prone to inaccuracies and tall tales—Gale generally used that to his advantage to make him less immediately recognizable to the average stranger.)
Should people come to Rabanastre and start asking for Gale, things could quickly become out of control once someone did find him. It's not as though everyone looking for the WoL is in search of help, either, and there are plenty of his enemies looking for a chance at revenge.
Tataru helped in this way. She took some great efforts to help them "hide" with some clever rumors and bribing a few specific people… as in the boys' neighbors. Many of them got a fair chunk of change to simply not ask any prying questions, and looking at the gil on offer, why would they? They're just an eccentric Viera couple. And they never had the urge to ask, either; even as new people came around and the original tenants became elderly and died, the two were simply known as the flower shop owners.
And that is all they wanted to be known as. Laurent eventually cracked the code of 'growing stuff in the desert' and cultivated a colorful garden of flowers both inside and outside the shop. Being such an unusual site, people came to visit to look at the flowers and typically buy a bouquet, but the location made it so that it wasn't a tourist attraction.
But these two… are terrible shop owners. Like, incredibly bad. They'll often sell the flowers for a pittance (if not completely free), they're open and closed at seemingly random times, and Laurent doesn't know what 'customer service' is. By all intents and purposes, there should be no way in which they keep the lights open.
Well, if they only relied on the shop's income, that is. The boys made quite a bit of money during their time as assassins, and they had no reason to spend it once all the ~events~ started happening—and despite looking lavish at times, Gale is rather frugal and able to talk his way into a good deal, so those savings go far. Laurent also gets some funds from the Studium in exchange for some of his research findings… if he remembers to send them in a legible format.
Honestly, they're very well off for the rest of their lives, lol.
That's basically how post-MSQ came to be for the two of them. They're just living out the rest of their days in the place they consider their true home, and remembering their mentor and mother figure. Just… quiet and peaceful. It's all they wanted.
(*Final note: There was also the matter of being in the Saraab that might have made the boys' life after MSQ less peaceful, but this is taken care of by the end of the Bozja campaign. Once Fran learns that Gale is the Warrior of Light, she doesn't want to earn the ire of someone that powerful who also knows a lot of the Saraab's secrets, so she 'releases' both of them from duty at that time, so to speak.)
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