Étiquette : headcanon

I headcanon The Breakfast Song from Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill as one of the small songs composed by Reks and Penelo.

On a nice morning of spring, Tomaj is cooking, while Vaan set the table. Reks plays and Penelo sings.

skystones:

ok but the main 6 cast getting a ton of gil from marathoning hunts and using it to splurge on some well-earned rest. they get a bunch of inn rooms instead of the usual skimping/splitting one or two among the six of them; now all of them have their own rooms. vaan and penelo are beside themselves, they don’t even know what to do with that much space. and the pillows. they’re so fluffy. vaan is nuzzling into his when he gets a wicked idea on how to disturb the peace that has settled over the third floor of the inn, so he takes one in his hand and knocks on penelo’s door before bed. she answers, sleepy-eyed, to get a facefull of pillow as vaan whacks her over the head with it. penelo starts shriek-giggling, grabs her own pillow, and she and vaan pillowfight half-out in the hallway at 11pm. 

enter stage right balthier, who swings open his door with a Look on his face as if to ask what the devil these devils are up to, but before he can ask, vaan and penelo exchange a wicked look and ambush him. balthier getting his ass kicked in a pillowfight by two orphans. he of course makes a right racket of it as he runs back inside to grab his own pillowammo even though vaan is now on his back and putting him into a headlock. fran watches from the door grinning until penelo turns to her and smirks, and fran braces herself before grabbing penelo’s pillow from her; balthier suplexes vaan and grabs his pillow too. insert the sky pirates beating the daylights out of the orphans with pillows while ashe watches in the doorframe next to basch. then she mutters something in basch’s ear and he disappears only to return with a giant couch cushion that he hands to ashe who goes to beat on everyone because she can.

skystones:

a thing that always makes me sad re: vaan is that throughout their journey, i feel like every new place our sheltered desert orphans discover, vaan thinks to himself “reks would love it here” or “i wish reks could see this too”

this ofc goes for penelo, too, who lost her brothers as well. idk i just need our orphan babs just having a moment together mid or late game where they kinda go off on their own for a few hours to be together, because the grief still comes in waves, and they are both the only people who would understand – vaan and penelo both knew and loved the ones the other lost. 

penelo gets really shafted in the game in terms of character spotlight, but i know she is hurting just as badly as vaan is. she lost all her brothers too. so i’m sure there are moments where it just consumes her and the only person that she feels would understand is vaan. dalmascan orphan solidarity thanks

sunclone:

FF12のバルフレアとパンネロ

パンネロは普通の女の子だから
最初は上手く戦えなかったと
思うのです。

剣術はお兄さんに
習っていたとしても
魔法は習って
なかったんじゃないかなぁ

だから時間のある時は
1人で一生懸命
魔法の練習したりしてるけど
なかなか上手くいかなくって
気持ちがどんどん焦るばかり。

そんなパンネロの焦りに
気付きたバルフレアが
パンネロを慰めてたりしたら
いいなぁ。

バルフレアがパンネロの
お兄さんに年齢が近くって、
パンネロはバルフレアに
兄の面影を重ねてしまって
弱い部分を見せてしまう。

そんな妄想が止まりません。

The artist’s headcanon :

Penelo is a normal citizen, so at first she wasn’t really good at magic. Her older brothers did teach her how to use a sword, but not magic. So when she has time, she tries to learn by herself, but it’s really hard. Balthier notices Penelo distress, and comforts her. Since Balthier is close to her brothers’ age, she thinks a little bit of Balthier as a big brother and she want to become strong.

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