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A FFXIV BLOG warrior of light-coded

[hallabun]

i like the part of post shb where wol runs into aymeric and it sounds like he just slammed down five cans of monster energy before getting off that airship and offering up ishgard's entire supply of ceruleum

anyways here's a quick stupid comic

[fatedbrand]

He can grow out his hair for Evercold, as a treat.

Mashup is Phantom by Sneef!

[damagepersaku]

Happy UMAD week, my page for the RaidLog zine yippee.

[shmz042]

winter is coming

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[nanndana]

[eukrasiancrisis]

Junelezen #1: Intro

Happy Junelezen 🖤

I don't know how to do proper introductions, so here are my usual two pointy eared guys plus an extra pointy eared gal who may or may not make an appearance. Random lore be upon ye.

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Gabriel (42): sage(ish), bard, mentor, therapist, concerned about you

Used to be self-conscious about his relatively short ears. (I hc the ideal beauty standard in Ishgard was long ears.) Earned him the nickname Professor Stubbsy as a kid at the scholasticate (yes it was Nellie.)

His favorite smell is You Applying Yourself.

The House, Gertrude, keeps kicking him out. It was built by a witch using golemancy and functions as its own living soulkin with its own life force and what is essentially an immune system that tends to purge foreign objects it finds intrusive. It does not recognize Gabriel as his own living being, so Gabriel often finds himself opening, say, the door to his own bathroom and stepping outside the front door. It’s rather irritating.

Straight as uncooked pasta until Theneras happened. While Nellianne was his first love, he never really confessed to her until too late and now he has only one shark-bitten ass on his mind 24/7.

His milpreves are built more for healing than offensive spells because he hasn't had formal sage training, but Fourchenault did custom-build him lil milpreves for his own medical needs. What he did learn to do with them instead is induce a frequency-based echo-like trance state where he goes into your mind and relives your memories..

And also because they're frequency-based, he uses them to augment the effects of his bard songs! super bard buffs.

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Theneras (42): Gabriel’s shard in the First, druid, ex-Dreamer, probably seen how you’ll die but won't spoil it for you

May look like he’s plotting to murder you in your sleep but he’s actually intensely affectionate. It may have been his influence that turned Gabriel into a warmer, more affectionate mentor/father figure for Yuuko than his own (terrifying military dad) was to him.

His favorite smell is one of his wolves Dirthamen’s fur when he’s been rolling around in the levin mint that grows all around Lakeland. Theneras can always tell he’s been there by the bit of static in his fur.

It helps if you’ve seen Sense8 because I stole a ton of tropes from that show, but after a few years of sharing aether with Gabriel, he comes to a point where he can reliably “visit” with him. They’re able to feel what the other’s feeling, taste what they’re having and hang out together across worlds. (time fluctuation shmime shmuctuation)

Speaking of stolen things, he has DA ancient elven nicknames for several other OCs and NPCs; Durgen'len (child of stone, dwarf) for the lalafell who kins rocks (@pocketyoukai), asha'bellanar for the aforementioned witch, Fen'mamae (motherwolf) for Shadowkeeper, etc.

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Nellianne (42): Gabriel's former Scholasticate classmate, fencer, rumpy pumpy enthusiast, acquitted of all charges

Fought and won her own trial by combat at the Tribunal, even though half a dozen perfectly chivalrous knights had volunteered to be her champion. Was she safeguarding her clientele? Were the battles staged? Did gil exchange hands? Nothing was proven and it's all good entertainment either way.

Got suspended from the scholasticate partly because of little Gabriel but also avoided getting permanently expelled thanks to him so they're even.

More coming cause I'm having lots of fun writing and dressing her up. Also school days flashbacks!

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[confusedtia]

[deathflare]

just doodle

[wisteriaphyte]

chasing the feeling, finding the meaning

[lavampira]

let's have an adventure head in the clouds but my gravity centered

[yyymmmrrr]

[galpalaven]

anyway that xiv comic fragments' author is an out and proud biphobe so do not put his shit on my dash anymore thanks 🙏😊

[birues]

for those who want to know the url of the biphobe, it's @/nights-at-crystarium

after his blantant biphobia he has chosen to ignore people who have called him out and also has the audacity to act as a victim as if he is not the one who is outright hostile to bi folks. he also thinks if he grows big enough, his biphobia will be more acceptable.

[mythandral]

they're doubling down too, by the way

[galpalaven]

so thats NOT what YOU said nor is that what the anon said in the post that started all this. try again.

[birues]

so. supporting gay ships isnt the problem here. i do have many many gay ships as well, and i would never ever put down my fellow queers. Anyone who goes to my blog can see this. i have spelled the problem out for this person, that being "if you ship emet with a woman you're homophobic" and "all threatre queen flamboyant men are gay and cannot be bi" parts are the problem. This person has deleted a comment someone asking "does this include bi people as well". Frankly, they have blocked everyone regardless of how polite they were with them, and they refuse to answer dms about this situation. they're refusing to engage with a constructive communication with fellow queer emet fans which they have hurt.

that anon ask they have said "i agree with everything you said" also had a quite bit of racism about japanese folks and the op's refusal to engage with me as a queer brown person from west asia speaks volumes.

it is especially disappointing to see this from an artist who used to be my mutual, whose work i have admired and supported for so long, whom i shared headcanons over raha. it really hurts.

It also is disappointing that they're doubling down and accusing people who are calling them out as "y'all are homophobes."

i had to close this tab 5 times bc my relatives walked into my room. i face homophobia in a way that is actually unsafe for me. i will not accept such an accusation from someone who has said "if you ship emet with a woman you're homophobic" especially since this person is incapable of accepting queerness apart from their very narrow understanding of queerness (if flamboyant can only be gay and nothing else) and their weird perception of queer cultures besides western imperial one (that weird comment about japanese).

[emeships]

#WhatDatMean

[zylphiacrowley]

I commissioned @yyymmmrrr and I'm delighted with how it turned out! I can't stop staring at this. ~♥

[knightowl-studios]

Lyna reminisces.

I had a lot of fun being part of the NPC Mini Bang event over at xivnpcbang.bsky.social the past few months, during which I got to draw this huge mural/comic of one of my favorite FFXIV characters, based on a story by @quillofevernight ! <3

Big thanks and kudos to the mods running the event and everyone who participated, this was a lot of fun (and now that I'm done, it's time to go catch up on all the art and fics 👀✨)

[hafrun]

Wayward Daughter 🌕

[dieicarian]