☆ Stella | 21+ | she/they | 15+ years experience | est. 2025 ☆
New mutuals welcome — mutuals only blog
felismarinae is a highly selective ffxiv warrior of light blog — meaning that i reserve the right to interact with who i please and to deny interaction if i feel like we don't click.
this blog contains:
a thirst for adventure
coming to grips with mortality
the reluctant hero
finding hope in the hopeless
clinging to whimsy with all your might
a deep yearning for the open sea
loving with all your heart when no one else will
looking to the stars for answers
an excess usage of 'I Am The Sea' for character themes
About || Rules under cut:
I am currently midway through Endwalker MSQ - TAG YOUR SPOILERS FOR ENDWALKER AND DAWNTRAIL. I have #ffxiv spoilers, #ew spoilers, and #dt spoilers all blocked.
A'steri is played as the canon Warrior of Light; any relationships with her can be discussed beforehand for canon and OC interactions alike.
Unless you have an RP sideblog, I will block all personals.
I don’t use icons. I’ll try and use my writing to accurately depict whatever I can, but icons are far too much of a hassle and as such will not be used on my end.
As of right now, I'm not really open to crossovers – I'd prefer to have my threads remain in FFXIV.
The writer and muse of this blog are 21+, so NSFW is possible and likely. However, it may not happen often, as I like relationships to develop a little first.
I’m semi-selective when it comes to shipping. I adore shipping, but I would like our muses to at least interact a bit first before we start considering it.
The best way to break the ice is with ask memes! If I reblog a meme, feel free to send one! I tend to leave my meme responses open-ended, so if you want to continue it, by all means, go ahead.
When I say I’m mutuals only, I mean it. Nine times outta ten I will follow back, but if I have no genuine interest in your muse or feel like they wouldn’t mesh well with my muses, I won’t follow back.
That being said: in order for me to consider following back your OC, you must have a coherent information page for them so that I can actually tell what they’re like without having to dig through your blog to try and glean it from various posts.
I'unno if people still do passwords - I don’t send 'em. They make me uncomfortable, and I make a point to always read rules pages before following. I hope you can trust me on that. That being said, I don't do them either; I'm trusting y'all to have read these.
I am a 21+ year old adult. This blog will contain occasional NSFW. Minors are not welcome here.
This is a sideblog; I follow back from @sci-the-superb.
Although she is the Warrior of Light, A'steri is still at her core an OC; be kind to OCs or get out.
I will not tolerate hate or unnecessary drama of any kind. I will not participate in discourse. If you plan on doing so, kindly refrain from bringing it my way.
I trigger tag with "#[trigger here] tw". Let me know what I need to tag!
Please tag descriptions of medical procedures ("#medical tw" is what I have blocked), needles, and bones.
☆ "...and then, once your line is baited, you cast it out, like... this!"
The Nym River. A quiet, serene spot in central La Noscea, and a perfect spot for beginner fishermen. A'steri stood alongside Hades in far more casual garb than her adventuring gear, and with a practiced arm, cast her fishing rod's line out with a flick of the wrist, sending it sailing out into the gently-flowing river.
Ever since the fated return from Ultima Thule, life had been pleasantly calm. Different in ways she could never fully describe, but calm. And when she had realized that her new-old friends of the unsundered world had never known the joys of modern day, A'steri felt it only right that she introduce them to this smaller, brighter world they found themselves in.
Which, of course, meant that she was taking it upon herself to teach Hades how to fish, a skill she'd been well-versed in since childhood.
☆ "Now, you try. When you feel something tug your line, we can move on to the next step."
STERIBERT FANKID. ROSE I AM GRIPPING YOUR SHOULDERS AND SHAKING YOU. IT WILL BE REAL.
Name: A'laurent Hylfyst (a Miqo'te forename and Hume surname for their little guy :D)
Gender: Male, sonboy
General Appearance: Moreso resembles A'steri with dark cobalt hair and brown eyes (more amber-colored than hers, though), but with stronger features - and notably sharp chompers. This kid bites. Oddly short tail with short-growing fur.
Personality: Soft-spoken and gentle, but with a strength that belies his demeanor. He has a particular fondness for nature, getting the best of both parents in terms of their love for both plants and animals. He grows up alongside Junior the amaro chick and they are utterly inseparable.
Special Talents: Practically an animal whisperer. Amaro, chocobos, karakuls, horses, he's like a capybara in human form. Animals are just, super chill around him.
Who they like better: He gets along with both parents swimmingly, but was an absolute mama's boy as a kitten. Bit Ardbert a lot because he thought it was funny and didn't grow out of it til he was like, five.
Who they take after more: A healthy mix of both. A'steri's gentleness and Ardbert's determination, as well as both of their outright stubbornness.
Personal Head canon: He takes to a wood axe quickly when he's old enough, and eventually BEGS to learn to take up a battleaxe like his papa
ALRIGHT. So... my headcanon for when A'steri dies, is that she doesn't.
I want you to envision a much older, frailer, and content A'steri. Pushing her 90s. She's lived a long and fulfilling life and knows it won't be that much longer. So... gathering the people she's come to love over her life (who are still around at this age), they throw a massive 'going away' party. A big, happy goodbye. It's not a sad time because she won't let it be. And after she's said her goodbyes and love yous to everyone she's come to love in the Source...
She makes one last journey to the First.
Time works differently over there. It could've been a few decades or a few centuries. I like to imagine it's been a few decades, and seeing Ryne, and Lyna, and Kai-Shirr, and the Chais again make for one last hurrah before she sets off. She's old, and her adventuring days are long behind her, but she makes the final trek to her chosen resting place: Il Mheg.
☆ "My most beloved branch... may I call upon your radiance, one last time...?"
She meets with Titania, her darling Feo Ul, one last time. And with them, she makes one final decision. Recall the time when she was dying of the Primordial Light, and they offered to turn her into a pixie to grant her everlasting life, free of pain and burden...
...she finally makes good on that offer.
A'steri Arkus, in the embrace of her beloved Feo Ul, is reborn as Wyn Sol, Happy Sun. To live out the rest of her life in happiness and magic, hand-in-hand with her darling branch.
Oh my god trips and falls in here STERICRED FANKID... IF THEY HAD A KID MEME...
*rubs my grubby little hands together*
Name: A'llayan Waters (Miqo'te first name, Hyur surname)
Gender: Demigirl, she/they.
General Appearance: Thin and lanky, like her father, with lovely white hair and big golden-brown eyes. Though she favors her mother's race, her ears and tail are shorter than average, and her ears have a definite curve to their edges. Is also taller than the average AFAB Miqo'te, but not by much.
Personality: Plucky and smart. They like sports and running around and rolling in the mud and getting dirty. They also have a love for taking things apart and trying to figure out how to put them back together. Not always so good at putting things back together, though. They do not care for reading much at all and struggle a little in school, but not for lack of smarts. They just don't like to sit still.
Special Talents: A master tinkerer. Having started pulling things apart at a young age, she has a lot of experience with figuring out how things work. By the time she's a teenager, she's building watches. She LOVES Magitek and gets along famously with Cid.
Who they like better: Tough call. Dad's great when you need a laugh, Mom's awesome when you trip and cut up your knees. I think Thancred is the favorite when they're young, but they get along with Steri famously when they get older.
Who they take after more: Although she favors Thancred's appearance, she ends up being more like A'steri in personality. As an adult, she plays with the idea of being a machinist like Mom, but in the end, she decides the adventuring life isn't for her.
Personal Headcanon: They definitely join up with Garlond Ironworks as an adult, where they can make all sorts of neat machines and gadgets and gizmos. They have a blast working with Cid, less so with Nero because he's annoying, but they respect his smarts nonetheless. While their parents sort of wish for them to become an Archon like both of them did, they choose not to because school isn't very interesting to them, although they're smart enough that they probably could have.
Name: Rhea Ades (mixed-species children take after the mother, and thus being a Miqo'te, A'steri followed Seeker tradition and gave her a shortened version of her father's name for her surname)
Gender: Female
General Appearance: A tiny copy-paste of Hades but with cat ears. Feathery white hair that tends to tuft out into countless flyaways, gold eyes that stare all the more into your soul having Seeker slit-pupils. Perpetual pout.
Personality: A little sasshole and prankster. Creative, energetic, with a natural talent for summoning magic that definitely gets her into trouble on more than several occasions. The reason Hades looks so old.
Special Talents: A natural-born magic user, particularly gifted with arcanism and summoning.
Who they like better: She'll say her mother, but really she most seeks to impress her father. She just really loves to push his buttons.
Who they take after more: Definitely got her attitude from her father, that's for sure. (A'steri thinks her wild streak came from overexposure to Hythlodaeus when she was small.)
Personal Head canon: She managed to summon a unique, pinkish-white carbuncle she lovingly calls Pearl. Pearl is her partner in crime.
*spins the roulette wheel* what if steri aaaaand (drumroll) haurchefant!!! :) give me sterifant baby STAT
If they had a kid
STERIFANT!!!!! MY 2ND MAJOR PAIRING OF THE GAME RIGHT AFTER STERICRED...
Name: Étoile Aurchefant (being mixed species, the child tends to take after the mother's species, so A'steri honored the Seeker tradition of giving her a shortened version of her father's name as a surname)
Gender: Female
General Appearance: She looks as if someone took A'steri and gave her Haurchefant's color palette. Silver-blue hair and bright blue eyes, but with notably soft features (round face, large eyes, and a few pale Miqo'te stripes across her cheeks). Very large ears even by Miqo'te standards thanks to her Elezen father.
Personality: A rather quiet girl who finds herself preferring the company of books (and her parents) than to other children. Loves plants, birds, and storybooks.
Special Talents: She has a knack for the written word and takes great joy in crafting her own stories, many of which based on her mother's adventures.
Who they like better: HUGE DADDY'S GIRL. Catch her hiding under his desk at Camp Dragonhead to 'surprise' him whenever he returns. Hides behind his legs when in the presence of others.
Who they take after more: Definitely A'steri - she's more softspoken and far less boistrous than her father, and also inherited her mother's love of botany.
Personal Head canon: Has a tendency to bring home stray animals and beg to keep it. A'steri drew the line at a coblyn.
ON THE TOPIC OF FANKIDS... YES. I do have one fankid concepted from a discord rp with a non-tumblr FC member btwn Steri and Aymeric, and let me tell you, that little thang got her papa's eyes and someone needs to give her brown contacts ASAP
“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
An independent and selective roleplay blog for Emet-Selch/Hades from the hit MMO RPG Final Fantasy XIV. This blog contains spoilers for the expansions Shadowbringers and beyond.
promo credit @liightbringr. Written by Yumi (he/they/30+)
A study in human tragedy, a fall from grace, words spoken with dark truth, knowledge of a thousand thousand lives, and the willingness to destroy thousands for a memory. Open to alternate universes, original, and canon characters. Heavily headcanon-based. Canon divergent.
For all of Sharlayan's myriad facilities of learning, it was exceedingly difficult to find someplace with a suitable amount of peace and quiet. Study halls always had at least one someone in them doing solitary bookwork, workshops were crowded and typically did not have much room to allocate for personal projects. Thus did A'steri find herself where she was now.
Sitting on the floor of one of the stone gazebos outside of the Noumenon library, A'steri was hard at work. Ceruleum soot marred her hands and sleeves (and her cheek, from the occasional reaching up to scratch an itch), as before her on a mat sat a fully deconstructed aetherotransformer - her own, as a matter of fact. To her right, an open notebook, similarly besooted, and a stylus with which to take down her notes. Pulling apart two components of the aetherotransformer and setting them aside, she turned to scribble down another bullet point on the subject, before turning to pluck up a finely-pointed screwdriver to begin further dismantling one of the parts she had pulled out.
So engrossed in her work was she, that she took no notice of her current observer. She may as well have been in a sensory-deprivation bubble, hearing and seeing nothing beyond her current work.
