when i take out my bottle filled up high with gasoline

Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

Gen | for MachineryField | 100 words | 2023-03-08 | the lamb | AO3

Valdi (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) & Alexandria (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Valdi (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Alexandria (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


Everyone seems to think it's so simple: either you're hurt by something generally considered hurtful, or you're pretending not to be. For Valdi, it's more that he has a very specific set of things that are important to him, and while he's always...what's the word, empathetic? to things bothering other people, it really does take a lot to get him down. Well, not a lot, but enough of something specific.

Unfortunately for him, Alexandria is determined to find that weak spot whether by careful inspection or brute force - whichever comes first.

He won't budge, though.

Call it...stress testing.