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"The ghost you were chasing...it was inside you all along. Though I'll be damned if I know what that means."

𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖊. An independent, low-activity writing blog for Final Fantasy XVI's Clive Rosfield. Stoked by Leon, 26, GMT, he/him.

carrd.

#pinned.

Clive will be moving to @avalior ! With my job, I don't have the free time to maintain two blogs, but any owed threads and plots will be continued over there.

#tbt /

#tbd /#[ it's...been a while ]#[ i do have full intentions on coming back soon but for anyone not following my other blog it's not been a good time for the goods guys ]#[ i've also finally finished that game and hm. i have Thoughts about the ending ]#[ will most likely be going canon divergent when i return but in the sense of 'this is cool fuck it we ball' ]#[ any spelling mistakes here are between god and my phone ]

levinstrike

More times than I can bloody count, a voice in the back of his mind says, but he's too stubborn to ever open up about all the shadows that dog his steps. Instead, he asks, "Why're you asking me this all of a sudden?"

brimflame

Something close to embarrassment shuffled along the edge of the once-soldier's gaze, a shadow to knit close the brow, set taut the muscles of the jaw. Clive had intended his query as an olive branch, of sorts, a stepping stone that he might know Cid as more than the course-mouthed relative stranger he had positioned himself to be, yet he had not foreseen that Cid would be as unwilling to share as he might be, faced with the same question.

"No reason," came the tactical lie, the proverbial hand to wave away any further curiosity. "I can't say I've ever known you to sleep." Though surely he must, it seemed an odd thought that Cid might ever be at rest, that he might ever stop.

#levinstrike #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. never realising they too deserve a choice.#[ clive abt to tidus laugh his way out of admitting he thought it was a universal dominant thing whoops ]

sweatermuppet

grief & anger & grief & anger & then regret & further grief & somewhere between it all, me

#⚔ i burn away what makes me who i am.

magistera

Clive’s promising career is to end in tragedy at the hands of a mysterious dark Eikon, Ifrit, setting him on a dangerous road to revenge.

#⚔ let the flames burn within you.#⚔ all this fire and fury.

"Who would have sons, knowing all the orphans they would soon deliver?"

@madrites | straight and arrow.

#madrites #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ is the shared mother/mother figure clive is alluding to in the room with us now ]#[ 'little boys who became what they feared' arguably slaps as a motif for both dion and clive in terms of their eikon shenanigans ]#[ the way this can be read as both the sons & the mother making orphans which works for ana's plot & dion/clive's respective eikon rages ]

not writing anyone linked to the construction of the enterprise or the einherjar but still having Things To Say about it be like

#tbd /#[ clive is involved with material gathering/finding the engine bit cid built but the design itself is all mid and cid ]#[ this game really put ten toes in the ground & said with its whole chest that the einherjar is the fastest vessel ]#[ when it's out here built like a big tescos and is three galleons stapled together ]#[ people can turn into birds and dragons and fire dogs but trying to say the einherjar wouldn't be slow af is a step too far ]#[ but the enterprise has a lot of historical naval basis behind her and it's really very fitting for cid's legacy ]

"Have you ever died in a nightmare? Woke up surprised you hadn't earned your fate?

@levinstrike | laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!)

#levinstrike #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. never realising they too deserve a choice.#[ clive with that 100 in cryptic comments ]

"It's easy to find what's wrong, but it's harder to know what's right."

@eikonshiva | dance with the devil.

#eikonshiva #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ clive hammering x to self doubt ]

Something of a wry smile pulled at Clive's lips, a touch of gallows humour held as peace offering and brotherly jape alike. "I fear we've become something of the walking dead."

@carrotsaversion | zombified.

#carrotsaversion #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ tfw both you and your brother have been considered dead at least once in your lives; just rosfield things ]#[ set somewhere around joshua's return in the second timeskip who knows ]

"You've been at it for too long, Denzel. Take a rest."

@wolfrings | critical acclaim.

#wolfrings #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ sweating trying to find smth child appropriate in this one ]#[ left this open as to whether you wanted leviathan denzel or not ]

"When we forget the infection, will we remember the lesson?"

@oadventurescall / dion | parasite eve

#oadventurescall #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ smth smth waxing poetic about the mothercrystals and the future of valisthea ]

"I know I shouldn't have kept you waiting, but I'm here now."

@phoenix-flamed | break the ice.

#phoenixflamed #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. a man is not defined by a title.#[ i left this as open as possible as to whether clive knows 'miles' is his dad or not ]#[ whether it's 'you the king and telling you i'm alive' or 'you the bearer coming to free you' ]

Tension seized with harsh hands upon the line of his jaw, pulled taut the muscle of his shoulders and set his hands to clench. Though he must surely imagine it, the breath of the beast felt hot at his neck, the memory of magma beneath his skin, lancing like a network of hate-filled veins, flesh turned to plate and stone, the tremulous cries of the Phoenix beneath its fists a storm of remembered and reviled sensation; try as he might to shoulder such grievous memories aside, to cast them back into the shade that they tormented him no longer in the day, still they surged back, pressing and insistent, with the voice of a demon behind them.

"All of these thoughts running through my head...my arm on fire, veins burning red...this demon inside has a hold of me, clenching its power and trying to break free."

@glacierites | devil trigger.

#glacierites #⚔ in character.#⚔ v. never realising they too deserve a choice.#[ ifrit holding up a boombox in the background: gotta let him out; gotta let him out ]#[ buckle up clive it's time to talk about the ifrit in the room ]

spotify shuffle starter call .

#tbd /#[ uncertain of clive's voice with certified eurovision banger playlists? trial by fire only at brimflame dot tumblr dot com ]

welkingunther

#⚔ let the flames burn within you.

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