Brand New Journal

A leather-bound journal that belongs to a super secret dark knight.

[sasslett]

I want more WoLs on my dash. Reblog this with the oldest picture you have of your WoL/OC, and then the newest photo you have of them. Show off what changed! Did they change race? Gender? Hair color? Hair style? Tell me about it!

[abyssal-drain]

(( I don’t technically play Okhi as a WoL most of the time, but I keep a WoL AU for her so’s I know what’s what with her when I go through msq.

This is probably one of my oldest picture of her - I don’t really take too many pictures tbh, but your post popped onto my dash and so I’m delivering.

The big thing you’ll notice is she got bleached by something I like to call The Whitening, which, uh, happened in Shadowbringers, so if you’re past that point you can probably guess what it entailed. 

Beyond that, she also lost her left arm - it was replaced early on with a magitek prototype and later upgraded and iterated upon so it’s at least not a prototype anymore.

She’s got loads of scars, though I’m pretty sure the brand on her right shoulder isn’t canon to her WoL universe.

Over all my poor fight cat has been through the ringer tbh. ))

[harvxyspecter-blog]

Please reblog if you play a character who is 30 years of age or older

I don’t care if it’s an OC or a canon character, and while I play a human, I don’t care if your fandom isn’t but for the love of god, why is everyone in their twenties? Give me some mid thirties or even some fourties. Hell, throw me some silver foxes. Please.

[abyssal-drain]

-dusts this off-

[abyssal-drain]

Journal: 27

Hate bedrest.

Yes, I know it’s necessary. I’m even aware it’s mostly my fault.

Doesn’t make it suck less, though.

So, I fucked up, a little bit.

By which I mean, I don’t exactly record every small-time thug or - I think this one was a band of slavers I helped the Rogues with? Honestly, I’m not sure, it’s not like I asked for their names. 

Anyway, so I have this thing about picking off scum, and sometimes the job’s bigger, sometimes it’s smaller, sometimes I even have help.

This time, I noticed a couple of guys following me. A couple thugs I can handle. The four of their friends I tripped over ... less so.

So, here’s me surrounded, and probably I should’ve called for help.

In the future, maybe I’ll call for help.

Axe-guy has a bone to pick, on account of he apparently was actually friends with the fuckers I killed? He gets in a good hit right off the bat, rips open my belly like an old woman’s purse. If I weren’t me, that would’ve been the end of it right there. As it was, I spent the whole fight holding my insides in with one hand.

One of the others had a sword, and at some point that ended up lodged in my lung, or so I’m told - the details are hazy, just a mess of blood and body parts.

We called Dove when the fighting was done, and then - well. Details are extra hazy after that. Mostly I remember pain.

(Dove’s new, she’s a healer, nearly as good as Min’to, with more botany knowledge, besides. She used some botanist bandages - those sticky leaves hacked off seedkin - to help speed things up, along with good old fashioned healing magic.)

The thing about the ‘dark side’ is, we’re not wholly separate, but for the last week or so, she’s been sparing me as much of the actual experience as she can. So I only sort of remember things. Li and Koga - they’re new too, I’ll write about them sometime - they stopped by at some point. I don’t think they like her that much, for all she’s part of me.

I’m supposed to keep active, but not too active. I went for a walk the other day and ended up needing carried back to bed.

I hate this.

[roxinova]

[east-to-the-sea]

I can't not reblog this lmao

[abyssal-drain]

Please I'm begging

[higharollakockamamie]

I am the Warrior of Light. My strength is my friends, and my weakness is platforms without guardrails.

[elezendad]

I lurk, like, a lot, but since I'm mobile, lemme talk about Okhi Dohki, my dark knight. She pretends she's a stereotypical brainless fight cat miqo'te to avoid attention, but studies aetheric sciences as a hobby and partially overcame her aetheric limitations with the use of unaspected crystals and practice. She's got hella anger issues which became part of her dark side when she began walking the path of the dark knight, too. And yes, she's Aware her name is a pun. Feel better soon! ♡

She is perfect and I love her.

[abyssal-drain]

(A concise summary of the muse, as sent to cheer up the community dad, who is a ray of perpetual positivity.)

[elezendad]

I’m having a little bit of a difficult day with my ocd and anxiety.  I was hoping if anyone feels up to it to show me their characters and maybe talk about them.  It would really brighten my morning up to come back and see some awesome characters.

[abyssal-drain]

"Feel better soon, hey?

The world might be saved by fighters like me, but it's folk like you who make it worth saving - people who shine a light in all that dark."

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 30: Darkness

(@sea-wolf-coast-to-coast

But seriously I'm a DRK main for life, did you expect different from me? )

-WoL-

Serve, save, slave, slay ….

We've come so far from where we started. Saved the world again, and come closer than ever to shedding the flesh that binds us.

Still you serve them, loyal as ever. 

Still I serve you.

After all this, who else could I love but you?

-Non!WoL-

Stopped the hemorrhaging aether, but that alone isn't enough. 

The light wants us dead, it will have to kill us itself, and that is an insult we will not abide.

Leave enough for her to live, yes, but I've a need as well.

Won't let ourselves be so weak anymore.

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

#29: No prompt today!

Every Sunday is a Make-Up + Extra Credit Day.

You may add as many late entries to the Google Form as you’d like, but note that only one of the late entries that you submit will be counted toward the participation prize raffle.

More on why I only count one, here.

Please DO submit all of your entries to the Google Form, regardless of whether they were written on time or not. I LOVE data and want to see everything, please! If you don’t want to be considered toward the prize raffle simply note that in the Google Form and I won’t factor you in. I still want to see what you wrote. :3

If you reblogged the Updated Rules post at any point then you have 1 extra free pass on a late entry. You can submit that late entry at any time, including today, and it will be counted toward the participation prize raffle. Please note in the Google Form that you reblogged the Updated Rules post and that the late link you’re submitting will be your free pass.

For Extra Credit, you can write about whatever you’d like and submit the link to the Google Form to be counted toward the participation prize raffle at the end.

Yes, you CAN submit a link to a late entry AND a link to an Extra Credit entry today for 2 participation prize raffle considerations!

(3 if you also use your Free Pass for having reblogged the Updated Rules post a week ago)

Or, you can take a break today!

Sometimes taking a day off from writing is what’s needed in order to keep the creative juices flowing longer term. If that’s you, sit back and relax! Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.

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[abyssal-drain]

EC "Prompt" 29: Blue

Wherein Sastasha is fucking horrifying and so is the ocean itself actually.

@sea-wolf-coast-to-coast

-WoL-

"The captain likes his seas blue."

-

She opened the locked gate, fingers trembling with rage. Pirates, she'd learned, were the lowest scum born to this world.

Finger to her lips, ears twitching, she beckoned the young women - it was all women - forward.

Flee, she wanted to shout. Don't look back!

-Non!WoL-

The first time she'd laid eyes upon it, the ocean was fair overwhelming.

It was only slightly less intimidating for how accustomed she'd become to its vastness, its emptiness, and its apathy.

It seemed endless, water and sky stretching as far as she could see.

Sailors were mad, she figured.

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 28: Attune

( @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast , with a special mention for @mightier whose comic absolutely inspired this, and featuring @wyrmwave 's M'iksa Sunea.

Minor spoilers for Shadowbringers.)

-WoL-

"I wonder," she murmured, fingertips tracing the line where crystal met skin. The Exarch shivered, lain deliciously bare under her touch.  Aether danced there, as she considered. "Do you suppose I could attune to you? Find my home, wheresoever you've wandered?"

He scratched her ears, drawing a contented purr from her throat. "I haven't the strength to wander as I once did. I'm afraid I won't be terribly hard to find."

"That's for the best," she smiled, resting her cheek on his chest. "I'd rather neither of us was left alone for long, not now we've found one another again."

-Non!WoL-

"'M fine," she mumbled, burying her head into Iksa's chest to stop the world from spinning so much. "'S just the aether, you know that."

She was, in fact, not fine. Okhi's aether had never been strong. Unaided, it took heroic effort to teleport across town. Her skill with the dark arts was at least partly owed to the fact she'd learned ways to cheat the cost, as even weak spellwork drained her meager reserves.

After the Whitening, she could barely follow in the wake of another adventurer's path. 

"He's right to worry, and you know it. Welcome home, Okhi."

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 27: Palaver

(On the plus side, @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast , if you keep making prompts that I have to look up the definitions for, it's less likely you'll trip over porn.

Also, new words!

Featuring minor spoilers for the end of Stormblood and also featuring dragging through the mud @tired-gay-and-a-dj 's Daoko who it wouldn't initially let me link.)

-WoL-

Okhi well and truly did not understand why she kept being invited to these things. 

Possibly because Daoko might have taken the opportunity to introduce Emperor Varis zos Galvus to something she insisted was "Fire V," bigger and meaner than the last four iterations of face-melting magical flame.

Right. 

She sat a bit straighter, trying to pretend she gave a singular damn about the bureaucratic proceedings of trying to press the Emperor for information, given that it was obvious from the start that the peace talks were a sham.

Boring as it was, it bought them all desperately needed time.

-Non!WoL-

The nice thing about being hired muscle, Okhi reflected, was that she didn't have to pretend her eyes weren't glazing over at the proceedings themselves. 

Her job was to watch for trouble, and keep people from getting killed if trouble showed up.

Watching - and listening - for malicious intent was less mind-numbing than dithering over every minor detail in a contract she would neither be signing nor expected to recall the details of. 

Thus far, she'd noted a sort of dull hostility between both parties, but nothing so sharp as to become actual, physical violence. 

Which made it not her problem. 

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 26: Slosh(ed)

( @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast )

-WoL-

Despite everything - or maybe because of it - Okhi never could bring herself to drink. 

The idea of being mentally compromised - with the power she could bring to bear? Fear for herself had become fear for others.

Even sober, it was sometimes hard to restrain the urge to kill some folk.

-Non!WoL-

The hyuran fellow was sloshed, which was likely why he ignored all the warning signs to grab the flesh beside her tail. Metal fingers twined through his, her smile unpleasant as she applied pressure. 

His glared. "Let me go, miqo bitch."

"Next time?" She twisted. His wrist snapped. "Hands off."

[nekhs]

Prompt 25: Trust

(@sea-wolf-coast-to-coast

Ft. @tired-gay-and-a-dj 's Daoko and somewhere in that pile of cat-limbs, @wyrmwave 's M'iksa Sunea)

-WoL-

Okhi liked people a great deal, but she hadn't really learned to trust them again.

She was the first to notice how Daoko would sneak away at night - and the first to find out why. 

"If he makes you happy, I won't tell you to stop. Just - be careful, okay?"

-Non!WoL-

It took a good deal of trust, Okhi found, to let herself lay in any man's bed.

Honestly, it wasn't until she'd embraced her Darkness - until she knew her strength - that she could sleep beside another. 

Resting contentedly, her limbs tangled between her mates', she was glad she had managed. 

[abyssal-drain]

Whoops, wrong blog rebagel.

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 24: Unctuous

( @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast

Mild spoilers for start of SB)

-WoL-

Her first impression of the man was immediate distrust. 

His smiles were false, too broad, never quite meeting his eyes.

She opened her mind to her gifts -

- and nearly doubled over with the force of the raw hatred spilling from Asahi's pores.

What could she have even done to him? 

-Non!WoL-

The Moogles of the Wood knew she wasn't particularly fond of them, so when one of them arrived, pom low, with an air of deepest deference, she knew something was up. 

"Yeah, yeah. I'm the greatest, all that. Cut to the chase: what d'ye want?"

He looked relieved. Little shite.

[abyssal-drain]

Prompt 23: Parched

( @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast )

-WoL-

Amh Areng was parched, dry and thirsty in ways that Okhi had never seen.

Unlike most deserts she'd borne witness to, this place was always chilly. The sands were dry and tired. The people were dry and tired.

The aether here was at its thinnest, aspected wholly toward the light. 

-Non!WoL-

She upended the canteen into her mouth, and for a moment, it was the best thing she'd ever tasted. 

"Gods, I needed that," she grinned, lopsided, wiping her mouth with the back of her arm. "Ye ever let yerself get so thirsty ye turn inta a slut fer water, Iksa?"

( ft @wyrmwave 's M'iksa Sunea )

[sea-wolf-coast-to-coast]

#22: No prompt today!

Every Sunday is a Make-Up + Extra Credit Day.

You may add as many late entries to the Google Form as you’d like, but note that only one of the late entries that you submit will be counted toward the participation prize raffle.

More on why I only count one, here.

Please DO submit all of your entries to the Google Form, regardless of whether they were written on time or not. I LOVE data and want to see everything, please! If you don’t want to be considered toward the prize raffle simply note that in the Google Form and I won’t factor you in. I still want to see what you wrote. :3

If you reblogged the Updated Rules post at any point then you have 1 extra free pass on a late entry. You can submit that late entry at any time, including today, and it will be counted toward the participation prize raffle. Please note in the Google Form that you reblogged the Updated Rules post and that the late link you’re submitting will be your free pass.

For Extra Credit, you can write about whatever you’d like and submit the link to the Google Form to be counted toward the participation prize raffle at the end.

Yes, you CAN submit a link to a late entry AND a link to an Extra Credit entry today for 2 participation prize raffle considerations!

(3 if you also use your Free Pass for having reblogged the Updated Rules post a week ago)

Or, you can take a break today!

Sometimes taking a day off from writing is what’s needed in order to keep the creative juices flowing longer term. If that’s you, sit back and relax! Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.

Need to check the Form Submissions to see if your post links came through? Go for it!

Here’s a link to the Google Spreadsheet that the Form feeds all submissions to:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q2CP1ewwOS4EK7sHqUY-dzxRv-YnPuUw5n7VLn73TxY/edit?usp=drivesdk

Search your username in the spreadsheet to find all entries that you submitted.

More info on the Spreadsheet and how I track late entries here.

About the Writing Challenge || Prompt List || Entries so far