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"Ooh, 's perfect. I was getting hungry." The half grin is at full force, and Leon's biting his own cheek to keep from beaming himself. This wasn't a terrible idea. It's fine, it's fine. "Thanks, Leon." "-- Happy Birthday, Sabin."

Leon still wants to run especially at the (friendly,) jab, but he's already out here. And announced himself. And, and-- "Breadrolls, the uhh, the good shit?" Please accept it. "One of the women in town found white flour and I paid her off for portion. It's no cake, but it's better than nothing and-"

& there's a pause, waiting for a reaction, until Sabin cracks an eye open to stare at him. Somber, not frowning, but it's enough Leon's about to dump his armload and bail-- until it breaks into a grin. Crooked, but there. "Can't get anything by you, huh, Figaro-fanatic? Whatcha got there?"

there's a moment when he wakes up, scrounges together what he can from town, and goes to hunt down the monk (off meditating, on the edge of town; close enough to jump back in of something needs him,) "--I'm sure you don't want to celebrate it, with everything going down, but its..."

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I was gonna draw for it, but I got Really distracted by other things (oops) anyway I think Leon is very normal(abnormal) about the Figaro family and has their birthdays memorized so when the Coma Year rolls by, and he's still tracking the days out of habit of chocobo rearing,

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im still alive im just really busy with artfight hi hi

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[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

chain of sales down, because haha Oh No." ok brain calm it down lets focus back in canon timeline please--

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[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

trying to go to bed and im hit with "weird semi-modern AU where Sabin, a runaway prince, having to hide out in a small game farm for a bit because the gov. that took over is hunting his family & all their associates down, & that game farmer is really hoping nobody tracks the Figaro's meat supplier

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[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

(I love 9 I’m not truly bitter. I’m feasting on new Steiner and Beatrix merch alongside everyone else. But I AM laughing at the difference in marketing these annis got)

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Trying to tell myself all this stuff theyre releasing for 9 for itd anniversary is great actually totally fine I’m not gritting my teeth upset at how little 6 got in comparison for ITS anniversary— Think of the wallet. It’s great actually yeah we got the $14k Terra statue it’s fine, I don’t need it

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Entered Leon into ArtFight this year after really waffling on it— there’s a few ff6 ocs in the tags I want to draw (one is even connected to Sabin. Hi hi hi don’t mind me,)

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

( Leon's not getting out of this un-teased. He's got a single band around One Elbow and only half his fingers )

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Celes has latticework on her thigh Gau's got like, half his chest covered Locke's bracelet/arm-wrap game has got to leave some marks (same with Sabin, who also has way more chest/arms shown than most save Gau) a LOT have knuckle/finger tans

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

FF6 cast but I rank them by most normal to silliest tan lines

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

like Gau leaps+glides a cliff edge on his bird, cackling, cheering Cyan yells at him to be careful and mind the birds' safety, they're (probably) more delicate than he is but Leon's laughing, awkwardness totally gone cause this is his element, "No worries, sir, they're trained for it," LEAPS TOO.

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

running around on chocobo is so fun in 15, I keep thinking about a remade 6 & getting to leap over stuff and just barreling around on the birds,,, party banter while hanging out, wahhh

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

i love going "what job would XYZ have in a very modern setting?" and then giving them 1:1 translations like - the 18 year old war general - the "how he's not in jail for calling every B&E and Trespassing charge a 'treasure hunt' is beyond us but he's besties with the Monarchy so, i guess." - yeti

Leon's house would have a pilot-light style stovetop oven and Edgar will take one look at it and "oh absolutely not," tidy that right up for him. "I have well-tapped water but it takes a bit for the fires to heat it up if you want to wash up--." "Not anymore." "?? SIR ??"

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There's a crinkle hitting his eyes, and Leon can feel him vibrating under his thighs. Laughing. There's teeth against his palm when his grin splits, and Then the gross palm lick he'd worried about. His hand snapped off with his own alarmed yelp. "Ohh, Leon." "Ew-- what?" "Wrong kind of Monk."

flipped off with a flick of his wrist. Shit-- "Aren't you a MONK?" Silence Way too many beats of a silence. Leon's going to flip Himself off his perch and figure out how to make Edgar's fancy security doors crush him. But Sabin's scrunched, soured face is lighting up under his palm.

There's a sharp, soured look across his partner's face. A bark of 'hey--!' and before he can go further, Leon's slapping his hand over Sabin's mouth in a panic. "Nooononononono not like that like--" Shit shit shit. Sabin's nose is scrunching. T-minus 5 seconds before his palm his licked and he's

--!" he's rambling, he know he is. Thankfully Sabin is beyond patient. More patient than Leon could be in this scenario. (Legs astride his lap, pressed chest to chest. Hands buried in the beard fluff Sabin had let grow free in prep for the temperature.) "--am I even suppose to be here?"

side. Zoning out? "--Sorry, I was... Uh, thinking about how I got here?" Leon gave a wiggle, swatting the encroaching hand away from Another Pinch. "I kinda zipped through the steps. Breeder, smuggler, roommate, smuggler again. And now I got a house your brother threw fancy gears in as a Gift and

And friends (friends! Plural!) to share it with if they were passing through. He also had-- "Hey, buddy, you with me? I'm gonna get a complex if you keep zoning out." There's a hand swatting his thigh. Attention forcefully brought back to the moment by a firm (too firm, ow?) pinch to his

Leon wasn't a builder. Engineer? (King with a hobby in mechanics?) All he knew were Chocobo, really. And he knew that if someone says "leave it to me,"-- you leave it to them. Even if it Was the King. (How did his life get here again?) But he had a house, again. One he actually used this time.

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

[ World of Ruin--? (Healing, fixing) ] Fixing the old house up had been easy enough; the bones left from it after countless earthquakes and scoured earth cutting just outside the fence-line were... rough, but it was better thank working from freshly broken earth. Or that's what Edgar had said.

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"Hey you know how we stayed together for like, a year, totally platonically just to survive? wanna try that again but like, a lot less platonically? if you want. No pressure. the kid can come too if you want. If... if He wants? I'm gonna stop talking."

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

vs "Well, I did give Leon an actual House pre-ruin (like the ff7 style farms), he just never uses it and prefers to sleep with the birds. It was probably destroyed when the world died but... what if he finds it. cleans it up. Rebuilds. And--"

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[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"Would he go back with Duncan?" vs "--things are kinda settled out, maybe he'll go to the castle and hang out with Edgar for a bit but not Stay," vs "-- I'd say there's the mountain but didn't it get destroyed when the world shattered?"

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shadow delivered the final blow in this recent replay (silly 'fuck it why not' team of shadow/celes/sabin/umaro) so to see him just go "Aight guess I die here," was extra upsetting this time I like to think the tower crashed and he still made it out alive like fate said No.

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a severe storm rolled in right as the credits did aaaaa that timing is amazing now that I'm done replaying this round i need to rot with the thoughts about it again like... i wonder what everyone does, once they land.

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I do wish they’d like. Have made the text not so “Good luck if your eyes suck!”

Completely accidentally (like for real I forgot team layout picks who gets to speech at him) I ended up with this and I’m being so normal about it (lying)

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One last thematic stop in S.Figaro so I can say it's Leon saying goodbye to them all and [desperately keeping the yearning down] and it's off to Kefka Tower :') I got a lot of little piddly stuff I could be doing but I burn out easy on games so I gotta be careful

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

if Leon heard what I'm making the party do (or I guess, what the party themselves are doing,) to prepare for kefka's tower, he'd lose it "We're going to the Dinosaur Forest :)" ok dangerous as hell but sure, some of you are unbelievably strong-- "Relm is coming too :))" THE CHILD?

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

once I'm done replaying 6 I've decided to replay 15 (again. for the fourth time.) so I can go look at what Edgar's weapons would look like in an updated vers (since the 14 versions are amazing, but Prompto's weapons are a little closer to my headcanons)

Punches pillow Mission failed I’m spiraling on it (again) (It has been decades and it always fucks me up)

I know like “officially” Sabin is written to be like Gau’s new big brother/mentor or whatever, but idgaf thats his sonboy now. If the original dad is such a unwell piece of shit that it shatters your idyllic views, then just become the replacement yourself it’s FINE

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Laying in bed trying not to let thoughts spiral on how excited and happy Sabin was to have Gau meet his dad, since Sabin lost his own pretty young and didnt handle it well, just to be met with the realization that his idealization of father+son isn’t always the reality and in this essay I’ll—

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What bookstore in the world of ruin did he raid and/or patronage that is selling tech help books next to the raunch

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I feel a kinship with this blob of a man after dinner

you think the characters ever sit around the tent, or in the ship at night thinking about how many leapfrogs they had to slaughter just to afford dinner in the inn that night (I'm grinding them for free gil) (finally playing again)

[ wark ] @figallo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

i keep drawing Leon silly, I wanna draw him proper