as we relive our lives in what we tell you

General Audiences | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Gen | for KentuckyTheFried | 111 words | 2022-03-02 | Xeno Series | AO3

Original Male Character & Adel Orudou | Addam Origo, Original Male Character & Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife

Original Male Character

Torna: The Golden Country DLC, Headcanon, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Phil Collins

Pongo is lost. He has all but forgotten how to make an alien place a home.

Title is from Genesis's Home by the Sea, of course. :)


Morytha is all buildings, broken and desolate. It makes sense to call them buildings when you are constructing them, but why do we still?

Building a building. It sounded like something Addam would love to say, cheery and full of hope for the world.

And Pongo had been like that, once. He had felt just so sprightly and courageous.

He had been just so assured that Flora would make it out safe and smiling.

Maybe eventually he would feel like he belonged here. Maybe he could survive to tell others, someday, how it once was.

Maybe he could relive that happy home.

Just like he remembered. Just like he always would.


Since Ken recently finished Torna and talked through some of her concepts for how her OC Pongo would weave into the story, and since I had been very careful to remember what she had told me her favorite Genesis song was...well, here we are! I hope this is something like how you imagined it - and at the same time, not too much! <3