skystones:

MORE WRETched balvaan orphan girl headcanons:

• penelo teaches her to read!!!! vaan is so thrilled he wants 2 cry
• when vaan’s out of town she lives at the orphanage with the others
• orphanage headcanon: it’s a small orphanage. after queen ashe establishes her rule and dalmasca’s economy skyrockets, more people are better-suited to start families and thus orphans are adopted instead of cast to lowtown. and in that light it is well funded; proper beds, three square meals, some schooling.
• when vaan is in town she lives with him cuz he snatches her away for cuddles and to tell her cool sky pirate stories; he has a small flat above migelo’s that he bought recently and paid off all debts with the bangaa despite migelo trying to say nonono you don’t have to pay me, but vaan did anyway
• vaan ends up spending more and more time in town with her and less and less time in the air; his airship sits in the hangar longer than usual, hmmm, odd
• balthier on the other hand continues to balthier around with fran. pats orphan girl on the head when he sees her. brings her a smol trinket or gift. …eventually brings her more gifts
• balthier headcanon #39438952 as far as he knows the only way to bond with children is to give them material goods. he is an archadian by blood what do you expect. affection? stories? playtime? what are those. here is a toy. go play now. (he does his best. kind of.)
• i want to weave balthier kitten headcanon into this, where balthier is docked in balfonheim for some time – quite far away from vaan, and quite torn and conflicted with this whole orphan girl business that’s making even more of a mess of this whole being-in-love-how-inconvenient-to-begin-with business; stray balfonheim cat worms its way into his ship and Does Not Leave. he decides, after some time, to keep it. 
• ‘maybe orphan girl would like kitten…’ balthier thinks
• ‘maybe vaan would like it if i brought her a kitten’ balthier thinks harder
• ‘balthier. i want to keep the kitten’ fran says
• they obviously keep the kitten because fran wants the kitten. duh. fuck anyone else but fran
• …but orphan girl can come on the strahl 2 play with kitten
• consider in order to bond bal closer with orphan girl:
• camping trips w vaan and fran
• STAR GAZING
• im dying
• please tell me to stop