Blossoms and Tea

•FFXIV• •Gauchi Lavendar• He/They, Male Viera (Veena) Age Unknown (Late 20s) Herbalist/Wanderer/Tinker

[wol-questions]

If your WoL retired from adventuring tomorrow, what would they do?

[blossomsandteaxiv]

Gauchi is currently a semi-retired adventurer. His story as a WoL follows MSQ-canon up through the end of Shadowbringers. The rapid, excessive suffusion of Light aether incurred in The First began to take a toll on his ability to manipulate and channel aether within his own body, however. They have become aetherically stunted, unable to channel large amounts of it, or even to travel long distances via aetheryte.

They have taken up botany and alchemy in their now-ample free time, eager to work towards using the abundant plant life of Eorzea to enrich and help whomever they can.

(Extra backstory below the cut)

Gauchi's first large experiment with alchemy was conducted at the Scion Urianger's behest and with the help of Gridania's Sylph tribe, using herbs they commonly utilize to glamour themselves. With this, Gauchi concocted fantasia, a potion that can alter the material structure of a being through aether. Urianger's hope was that this would help to release and rebalance Gauchissant's overabundance of aetherial Light.

The fantasia's effect was gradual, with Gauchi losing aether through the subsequent night. After a night spent dreaming of his walks through the treescapes of Eorzea and The First, he awoke to find himself changed - shorter, lither, and embodied as an Viera.

To the present day, Gauchi is regularly visited by Urianger, and occasionally Y'shtola, the pair of them working together to help the former WoL heal, and slowly practice manipulating aether once more.

[voidsentprinces]

[blossomsandteaxiv]

"So, you two are... Together?" "You could definitely say that. I'm sorry, I-" "No, it's okay. I think a part of me is supposed to be jealous somehow, but I'm not. I'm more... glad you both have someone." "He still cares for you, you know. I don't think that's changed." "It's been a long time away. I guess I'd have to talk to him." "You should." "Did I... I didn't interrupt anything from The First, did I?" "Hmm? Oh - oh, no, this... Came about quite a while after. Maybe thanks to you."

[blossomsandteaxiv]

Someone has probably posted this before, but...

My WoLQoTD is:

Would your WoL/OC have taken Zenos up on the invitation in Stormblood, "To bite down on my jugular, to feel the warmth fill your mouth and run over even as you drink deep..." ?

Additionally, do you think their opinion would have changed in the expacs since?

[taxidermycatgirl]

you’re just jealous my blood is all over the floor and yours is stuck inside your body

[shadesofblades]

summer soak. ft. hideji

[berrybooze]

All the love

Full image on my bsky - linked on profile

(Credit for pose template here!)

[inkpressedpetals]

[avirael]

A moment of rest

[blossomsandteaxiv]

You used to think that someone would come along And lay beside you in a space that they belong But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new What's the point of holding onto what never gets used? Other than a sick desire for self-abuse

[voidsentprinces]

May I offer you a giraffe in these trying times?

[blossomsandteaxiv]

My body is a cage

We take what we're given

Just because you've forgotten

That don't mean you're forgiven

I'm living in an age that

Screams my name at night

But when I get to the doorway

There's no one in sight

I'm living in an age

They laugh when I'm dancing with the one I love

But my mind holds the key

[blossomsandteaxiv]

some final beach-date cuteness to round out Pride Month

[thedeafprophet]

forced immortality is a fun trope. unappreciated. someone/something wants you to remain so it makes you. it will not let you die

[blossomsandteaxiv]

Oh. I was in the middle of a gpose.

And they reset the router.

Oh dang.

[solely-ashes]

Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the wringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault

[blackheart-biohazards]

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

[dovesndecay]