trainerlyra | home is wherever i'm with you || sormik @trainerlyra3 | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 1 day ago
just a quick raw edit bc i literally haven't stopped thinking about these two since i picked the game up for the first time.... how do you play zestiria and not fall in love with them, asking for a friend (me)

anyways. gracie loves zestiria so much so awhile back i was like "eh what the hell i've been enjoying the tales series so far" so i grabbed it on steam sale for like $5.... took me awhile but finally started playing 3 weeks ago and, well, i went from 20 hours in 2 weeks to 40 hours in another 4 days-ish, so you tell me how it went lmfao
i just.... was really not expecting it, tbh. not just sormik - though i'll get there - but the game itself. the cast was way more charming then i was anticipating, the relationships they all shared.... and idk. maybe it's after playing arise which was a pretty big let down for me by the end (though i still did enjoy it it to an extent, just so far my least favorite of the series lol), i just had my expectations so low lol, but something about this group really really clicked for me. i love each and every one of the party members to pieces. (please don't talk to me about dezel/rose i WILL start crying again)
and these two...........

oh man. these two. idk if you know this about me but childhood friends to lovers with no drama or angst in between is actually my least favorite trope, like, ever.. it's not something i usually find very interesting, with a few exceptions on occasion. so when i realized they had known each other their whole lives i expected to lose interest in their relationship pretty quickly. but the exact fucking opposite happened!!! and instead the more they kept interacting the more i just wanted to see them TOGETHER. i wanted to see them happy!!! to see them laughing and joking more and just having fun. i just want them to be in love!!!! there's so much i could say that i'm sure has already been said a billion times about them, since i'm just a liiiiiiiiiiittle lot late to the zestiria party, but oh my god. oh my god!!!!!
they just love each other. so much!!! they would literally go to the ends of the earth for each other. THEY DID EXACTLY THAT!!!! mikleo waited, like, what, 500 years?? just for sorey to come back. and the love in his eyes, the gentle smile when he realized just who was there to catch him when he fell in the epilogue..... GOD!!!!! and the scene right before everything kind of goes to shit, where they're talking on their own, there's just so much understanding there. neither of them are happy about the choices they're going to have to make. but they know what has to be done, and they trust each other so much to keep their dreams alive. and to fulfill the ultimate goal - for sorey to return to a world where his dream has been realized. for mikleo to keep that dream alive until sorey can wake up again. and they just. and they. and they

anyways
i chose this song bc i literally couldn't think of a more fitting song for them. i know it's a bit of a cliche and not everyone's favorite, but this is one of the warmest songs i know. i heard it first when kyle and i were first dating, way back when, and so i can't help but think of those times - when we were still just realizing that our feelings changing didn't actually change anything about our relationship. we were still just us, and we were still best friends, and that's.. kind of how i think it would be for these two. nothing would change between them, just because it was no longer strictly platonic. i think they'd known for a long time, how they felt about each other. and i just. i love them so much, y'all. i've done nothing but read fic of them for like 5 days. i have watched every single amv i could get my grubby hands on.
this does mean that yes, i will be editing them again soon. and also yes, i will absolutely be writing for them too.....i mayhaps have already. started a few things. i am a machine who cannot be stopped

SO IN CONCLUSION, thanks grace for being an enabler as usual. and also thanks red for listening to me ramble on about them (and dezel/rose starts sobbing) even tho she had not a fucking clue what i was talking about lmao love you bb
peace out till next time