FFXII: Five Strange Things Fran Notices About Humes
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Pairing: None (vague hint at Basch/Ashe)
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: From a Viera's point of view, Humes are very strange. For first_seventhe.
"It isn't a friendly creature, Penelo," Fran says, patiently. This is one of those things about Humes she has never been able to understand -- just because something is small, and fuzzy with fur, it doesn't mean it doesn't have a nasty bite. "It will bite you if you touch it."
"Well, we should just leave it alone! It's not attacking us, see? And it's so... small!"
"A rat is small, but you are the first to urge someone to kill one," Fran says, bemused. Penelo rolls her eyes, hands on her hips.
"I won't help you kill something so cute."
(That's another confusing thing, though hardly worth mentioning -- Penelo calls many things cute, including Larsa, yet he looks nothing like one of the small creatures she coos over.)
Another confusing thing about Humes that she too often forgets is how often they use hyperbole. When Vaan says he's dead tired, her first reaction is to reach for a potion -- but Balthier just shakes his head at her. "I am sure you can push yourself for another mile, Vaan," is all he says.
And then when they reach the camp and Vaan plops himself down, he declares that he's going to go to sleep. But the minute his elders start discussing their course from that point, he sits up and appears just as alert as ever, even excitedly giving his own input.
If he's so tired, Fran wonders, why does he not sleep?
When Balthier tells her that they have no money for anything and must live simply, she nods and smiles and is quite prepared to do exactly that. She is already learning, though, that although they have no money for anything, they still have money to completely upgrade every instrument in the Strahl. She doesn't understand why a possession -- even one as central to their lives as the Strahl -- should come before putting food in their bellies, but she accepts that as part of living with a Hume.
The Wood was simpler, though. The parts, the leaves, all renewed themselves automatically and at no cost -- except perhaps for the piles of crisp brown leaves which would collect anywhere they were allowed to drift to, but they were less of an annoyance than a growling stomach.
A visit to Rabanastre a year or two after Ashe's coronation simply highlights another thing about Humes: they do not say what they mean, and they do not mean what they say. For all that Ashe swore she'd never forgive him, nobody can misread the way she looks at Basch. More than forgiveness -- she has fallen in love with him, and that much is obvious even to Balthier (who is surprisingly grumpy about it), and he has never been as good at reading emotions as her.
And again, on a visit to Archades: Larsa tells them, his expression serious and worried, that he does not think he can atone for the things his brother did. He says that there are wrongs that cannot be righted, and yet he tries to right them anyway, working himself to exhaustion to make things right. He does not even believe her when she tells him that he has repaid the people for his brother's wrongs a thousand times already.
Pairing: None (vague hint at Basch/Ashe)
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: From a Viera's point of view, Humes are very strange. For first_seventhe.
"It isn't a friendly creature, Penelo," Fran says, patiently. This is one of those things about Humes she has never been able to understand -- just because something is small, and fuzzy with fur, it doesn't mean it doesn't have a nasty bite. "It will bite you if you touch it."
"Well, we should just leave it alone! It's not attacking us, see? And it's so... small!"
"A rat is small, but you are the first to urge someone to kill one," Fran says, bemused. Penelo rolls her eyes, hands on her hips.
"I won't help you kill something so cute."
(That's another confusing thing, though hardly worth mentioning -- Penelo calls many things cute, including Larsa, yet he looks nothing like one of the small creatures she coos over.)
Another confusing thing about Humes that she too often forgets is how often they use hyperbole. When Vaan says he's dead tired, her first reaction is to reach for a potion -- but Balthier just shakes his head at her. "I am sure you can push yourself for another mile, Vaan," is all he says.
And then when they reach the camp and Vaan plops himself down, he declares that he's going to go to sleep. But the minute his elders start discussing their course from that point, he sits up and appears just as alert as ever, even excitedly giving his own input.
If he's so tired, Fran wonders, why does he not sleep?
When Balthier tells her that they have no money for anything and must live simply, she nods and smiles and is quite prepared to do exactly that. She is already learning, though, that although they have no money for anything, they still have money to completely upgrade every instrument in the Strahl. She doesn't understand why a possession -- even one as central to their lives as the Strahl -- should come before putting food in their bellies, but she accepts that as part of living with a Hume.
The Wood was simpler, though. The parts, the leaves, all renewed themselves automatically and at no cost -- except perhaps for the piles of crisp brown leaves which would collect anywhere they were allowed to drift to, but they were less of an annoyance than a growling stomach.
A visit to Rabanastre a year or two after Ashe's coronation simply highlights another thing about Humes: they do not say what they mean, and they do not mean what they say. For all that Ashe swore she'd never forgive him, nobody can misread the way she looks at Basch. More than forgiveness -- she has fallen in love with him, and that much is obvious even to Balthier (who is surprisingly grumpy about it), and he has never been as good at reading emotions as her.
And again, on a visit to Archades: Larsa tells them, his expression serious and worried, that he does not think he can atone for the things his brother did. He says that there are wrongs that cannot be righted, and yet he tries to right them anyway, working himself to exhaustion to make things right. He does not even believe her when she tells him that he has repaid the people for his brother's wrongs a thousand times already.