Étiquette : this is so good

skystones:

so i was talking with jay about vaanmaj (what else is new) when i dug my own graves with feels about how vaan is actually probably like, an extremely good caretaker. like the best bedside nurse…because of all the endless, endless hours spent at reks’ bedside, his brother hollow and empty, but vaan would still fill the room with color, with the warmth of his voice ; he’d talk for hours. when he ran out of his own stories he’d read reks stuff from books. reks never said anything but vaan knew he could hear his voice. so he never stopped talking until his mouth ran so dry his voice was hoarse. vaan is a caretaker at heart.

which, ofc adds more into my whitemage!vaan hc. but like, imagine tomaj being so overworked and getting sick because he’s working 60 hour weeks as a teenager running a bar under imperial rule; the sandsea has never been worse off. (dalmascans are losing their jobs + homes, the tavern is losing money, the only way he can scrape together more gil is to serve the shit the imperial customers and archadian tourists want while also posting as many hunt bills as he can find to take commission from) naturally, he works himself sick, but still feels like he can’t not be downstairs at the bar working. but vaan refuses to let him downstairs and nurses him back to health. especially when tomaj’s illness has to get worse before it gets better. he can barely swallow broth. but vaan does everything he needs done; he runs errands, makes deliveries, runs up and down those stairs from the bar to tomaj’s flat 80 times a day to relay messages and news bc tomaj is so obsessed with the tavern. but mostly vaan sits at his bedside and talks with him, even though he really doesn’t have to, tomaj finally understands after the third day that vaan is so happy to be sitting by someone’s sickbed who he can actually talk to–who he can actually make better.  vaan is loyal and stubborn and so good-hearted and he never leaves tomaj’s side unless it’s something tomaj needs done.