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   born under punches by homowizard

   Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV  

   • General Audiences
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   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   14 Sep 2025

   Tags

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   • Alphinaud Leveilleur/Warrior of Light
   • Alphinaud Leveilleur
   • Minfilia Warde
   • Cid nan Garlond
   • Aymeric de Borel
   • Haurchefant Greystone
   • Not Beta Read
   • Teenage Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV)
   • Miqo'te Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV)
   • Named Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV)
   • Patch 2.0: A Realm Reborn (Final Fantasy XIV)
   • ARR characterization for Alphinaud
   • Enemies to friends to...
   • recontextualized cutscenes
   • alphinaud is a stuck-up asshole and WoL cant keep his mouth shut
   • struggling and impoverished WoL
   • ‘fake it till you make it’
   • idk how else to explain it Johnny is an illiterate teen being put up against God
   • ‘you should not be the one doing this. You dont know how youre doing it. Somehow it’s being done.’
   • the stone-vigil ‘thank god i dont have to replace you’ scene
   • the very beginning of pining
   • bisexual awakening
   • punchable alphinaud
   • tbh. punchable WoL as well
   • little bit of class conflict
   • WoL and his growing amount of father figures and big brothers
   • imposter syndrome
   • idiotic but somehow competent wol
   • unwitting columbo-type beat?
   • (currently) Unrequited Pining
   • Hot Chocolate
   • Late Night Conversations
   • ‘its 2am and im in the kitchen trying not to wake people up’
   • the carbuncle is some sort of small dog or perhaps a cat
   • Indirect Kiss

   Summary

   “Twelve be praised! I feared that you were….” He didn’t finish that sentence. Alphinaud closed his eyes, and when he opened them…
   it was gone, that earlier smile, that earlier light.

   “I see now why the others rated your performance so highly! While you were caught in the midst of that aetheric bubble with the dragon, I was all but certain my next mission would be to find a new champion.” The words had hardly left his mouth.

   Johnny shoved at him, hard, and he snarled and Alphinaud went tumbling back and the miqo’te had already whirled around and started for the airship, he didn’t look to see if the other boy had fallen or regained his footing or not.

   --
   A progression of moments between a young Warrior of Light and Alphinaud.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,454

   Chapters:

   3/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   13

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   07 Sep 2025