inseparable since heavensward....sometimes u meet a strange orphan girl in the sea of clouds, accidentally become her parental figure, and she decides to "help" you feel better by resurrecting the friend who died to save you and she horrifically fucks it up in the process
antoneo having to watch haurchefant die again (and be the one to do it) is so unfair, but early msq papaia has very skewed perceptions of life and death because of her fucked up upbringing, so i think the fact that she meant well and antoneo immediately discovered the aftermath makes it harder
they do move past it eventually ofc, but that whole thing happening so soon after they met made things kinda difficult. for awhile he could only tolerate her because he thought she was a wol (she said that she saw visions of a crystal) (it was a purple one not a blue one)
i think what made it worse was, thru part of their relationship, antoneo thought nanamo was dead (the person he actually had a father-daughter relationship with) and kind of subconsciously used papaia as a stand-in to cope with the grief despite not really knowing anything about papaia by that point
my papaia lore contains multitudes if u look at all this and then remember that in the same expac, she meets krile and immediately accuses her of trying to cast a hex on her (because she didnt understand that she was flustered by her beauty) and then later tries to give her a bug to apologize for it
my kingdom for papaia. (MY KINGDOM FOR ANTONEO TOO I AM JUST SO COMPELLED BY "LITTLE BABY WHO WANTS TO HELP SO SO SO MUCH WITH THE MOST FUCKED UP EVIL POWERS EVER")
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