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)

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!)

Well, Twitter got rid of Moments. I can no longer update this collection! I will instead start curating it all here on tumblr, under the #wolchefant alt timeline tag.

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.

Azem

Aristaeus! Specifically, this is the Azem for the sad WoLchefant alt timeline (thus, Haurchefant isn't wearing yellow. That's your cue for this specific timeline- dark/tarnished silver palette).

Aristaeus - Creator of Chocobos, but he also probably hung out on that picnic island doing some plant cultivation before taking up the mantle of Azem. Flowers, bee-keeping, mead-making, maybe growing some figs and pomegranates (the latter for a Certain Someone). Friend shaped, his talents lie in cultivation, agriculture, animal husbandry, the humble and practical arts. He dreams of a star whose life forms sustain each other without the need for magical intervention, since not everyone is capable of weaving miracles from nothing but aether.

Okay but out of curiosity- for WoLchefant, is Ardbert still his enemy in the First, a fragment of Meteor, whom he failed to save? Or Will Haurchefant also face another fractured piece of Aristaeus there?

Good question! I debated this one for a while since Ardbert being an azem fragment is important, but I also feel it’s important for him to be a fragment of Meteor still- meteor was a 1.0 Warrior of Light, and that feels more in line with the important Ardbert beats - what I can’t figure out is whether this means the First’s azem shard just looks like meteor rather than aristaeus, or do I completely alter the dynamic of Ardbert eventually joining with us?

the one certain thing is that Ardbert is meteor’s spitting image. Elidibus also didn’t elaborate to tell Ardbert that the savior of Eorzea was a different person rather than Haurchefant, leading to some rather painful conversations (because Haurchefant is not yet being called the Warrior of Light as of 3.4)

ugh i need to sort that one out… why can Haurchefant see him? (Haurchefant might be a little haunted)