#「absa shocking isnt it」

I’ve been thinking a whole lot about Absa in the past couple of days…

I don’t even know what it is, but like… getting to call her my friend is like the highest honor I can think of. I think what gets me the absa-loute most about her is that— in nearly all of her appearances in canon and fanart— she’salwaysgotthisgrufflookgoingon. Clearly, this portrayal isn’t without reason; she’s practically the most stoic character in Lovers of Aether, and perhaps even Rivals of Aether as a result, though…

… knowing that I’m good enough for her to consider me a friend? A best friend at that? That she might be against showing affection of any kind but makes an exception for me? That, in spite of her no-nonsense personality, that she genuinely cares about me deep down, even if she doesn’t like publicly expressing the such?

That’s so special to me.

She may as well be my ultimate favorite platonic F/O, and while I obviously love all my F/Os the same… Absa was the first character in the franchise I had feelings for, after all