Bad Decisions [WoLchefant Alt Timeline]

This started out as a silly brainworm and became a whole THING:

(WoLchefant timeline) Haurchefant clocking Emet-Selch as one heartbroken sad man to another, and Emet HATING being perceived. that's it that's the relationship.

(also Emet refusing to acknowledge how familiar his soul feels, and Haurchefant not understanding WHY Emet feels familiar and like someone he wants to save)

Haurchefant: I WILL stop you, but I refuse to hate you. Emet: [grinding teeth, increasingly perplexed and annoyed]

(hello, have more WoLchefant Alt Timeline content. I wrote a fic!)

WoLchefant Alt Timeline Primer

This is the sad alt timeline where Meteor dies at The Vault, Haurchefant's Echo is awakened, and he chooses to lay down the Fortemps colors and take up instead the mantle of the Warrior of Light. He is a knight who serves all of Eorzea (and, eventually, Etheirys and her reflections). He carries an unadorned shield and bears armor the color of tarnished silver, symbolic of his grief and failure to protect a close friend. But grief will not stop him! Black, the color of tarnished silver. Black, the color of mourning. Black, the color of a shield with no sigil, because the mantle he must don is that of a cause higher than any other. A knight of Eorzea and Hydaelyn, not merely of House Fortemps. The Warrior of Light’s cause need not die with him!

It is Zephirin’s spear against this blood-red sky that finally awakens the Echo within Haurchefant… right before it cleaves through Meteor’s breastplate.

My posts about this AU will all be tagged with #wolchefant alt timeline for easy tracking! The posts may contain spoilers all the way through current content (6.3 as of posting this) and I will do my best to tag them accordingly. You can also find them here on Twitter, but I can no longer update that collection since the Moments feature has been retired.

His Legacy (4 images)

(WoLchefant timeline. Meteor died at The Vault because Zephirin's spear against the red sky triggered the Echo awakening within Haurchefant, and he faltered at that critical moment)

(See the AU tag for all of my posts on tumblr about this timeline)