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Welcome to the blog!
Main Blog:
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a place to post gposes and roleplay posts!
Sideblogs:
@shinigxmicrew-ffxiv - a liveblog of playing through the FFXIV story! (focuses primarily on Rhela)
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the other thing I find very funny about trying to write a canon compliant wol is taking all the wolship hints extremely seriously.
I don't really wolship because I'm just fundamentally not that kind of fan. But I know for those who are, the sheer number of romance hints FFXIV throws at you can be overwhelming to parse in a context where you have a preferred/intended wolship, particularly if you're not attracted to the gender the hints are coming from in the first place (a particular tip of the hat to wlw fans navigating the g'raha of it all). I've seen plenty of people write around them or write them out or be like "no aymeric was for real inviting my wol to a nice platonic zero-subtext dinner," and God bless all of you.
But it's really funny to imagine them all as all-too-real but unreciprocated or perhaps unreciprocatable. The sheer scale of it is comedy. Spoilers for all of FFXIV follow.
Oh God, the Lord Speaker wants to have dinner, just the two of us, at his family estate and not a government building. I hope he doesn't bring up his crush on me. Thal's balls he's about to bring it up—oh thank God there's an emergency. Oh no someone got hurt! Oh no it's the teenage girl with a crush on me.
Your life is a cosmic joke. You watch the Sultana get poisoned and all your friends probably die to save your life and it's kind of all your fault in some ways, I mean at the very least you should've spoken up when they gave the teenager a private army, and then the teenage boy speaks up and is like, "hey, I guess we have at least one ally. What about if we go visit that guy who is really obviously down unbelievably bad for you and wants to lick the sweat off of you." and you have to be like, yeah, Alphinaud. Great idea. Let's do it. I'll call him.
(brief interlude: also haurchefant's DEATH hits so good if you don't reciprocate. It's okay. He gets it. You're going through a lot and even if you had time to sort through your feelings maybe you're just not into him. That would be okay! You can love someone, or the idea of someone, without needing it to be romantically reciprocated. That's chivalric, even. Knightly. So he won't ask you to lie to him and say you love him as he lies dying in your arms. He's not so low as all that. But could you smile for him as you used to? That true hero's smile of yours. And you do, and he dies. And you both know he died for a lie, in a way, or a flight of fancy. And he's okay with that. Are you? Should you be? Should he?)
Then you're into Stormblood and it's like wow, okay. That last part was all high fantasy, of course there were loyal knights and elegant princes. But this is war. Imperialism. Grim business, surely there's no way—oh no BOTH handsome young revolutionary leaders seem to have a special interest in you?! And so does the Crown Prince of the Empire? Come on, man. I should get to do the whole horrors of war thing without having to also deal with this. Gaius sucked and it was weird that he let his foster daughter run around being openly obsessed with him but at least he never made it my problem.
You can't even get away from it across dimensions. Shadowbringers is a horror story about going on a teambuilding camping trip with your work colleagues for some reason except they all suddenly got really hot and they keep touching you affectionately on the shoulder and being like "I care for you and your happiness. Truly." And also you're being stalked for the whole camping trip by two old men who are obsessed with you. The false climax of the story is that the one old man tries to betray you and give a dramatic monologue about how he loves you but the two of you are doomed by the narrative and then the other old man shoots him in the back like "no actually its MY turn to betray them and give a dramatic monologue about how our love is doomed by the narrative." Then the real climax is old man #1 backstabbing old man #2 in the middle of said monologue before old man #2 dies and gives ANOTHER wistful monologue about his doomed love. Then for the patches they're like okay so we have this even CRAZIER old man who's gonna strike when you're weak and give a dramatic monolo—
and that's without even getting into the literal soulmate ghost only you can see
my warrior of light never felt more betrayed than in that scene where Y'shtola is like "haha Alisaie and G'raha have crushes on the warrior of light." Like I thought we were COOL, Y'shtola! I work here! This situation is already in such a delicate balance! Right when I got here I met Alisaie's "friend from work" who was like oh haha so YOU'RE the one she can't stop talking about and we never followed up on that because the woman died horrifically like five minutes later right in front of us! Then when Vauthry got away and we had to do all that shit with the dwarves, G'raha kept pausing every ten minutes to be like oooooh I'm so old I'm gonna die soon...at least I got to spend some time with some people who are really important to me...in fact here's what I'd tell the person who's most important to me...actually u know them really well haha. And I just had to sit there and be like wow, dude, crazy.
even in the face of apocalypse you still gotta go back in time like 12,000 years and there's somewhere there who makes you sit and listen to his story which is that the purpose of his whole godlike immortal life was to be in a throuple with you and old man #2 from the camping trip. and you just gotta sit there the whole time knowing you/your past life is the one who broke up the throuple over politics. He's like come help me harangue the old man into streaking in public, he'll do it if you ask.
then you meet and fight and kill God and you gotta turn to the team and be like hey sorry guys can you give me a sec. I'm gonna call God by her real name because we met one time for like four days and after that the promise of meeting me again was one of the things that sustained her through her millennia of suffering. Not like that but like. Idk. Just gimme a sec!
It's a relief when you finally get to Lahabrea and he's like actually I still don't fuck with your vibe. Like thank GOD.
And my WoL is very obviously dad-shaped so Dawntrail had a very specific energy for me but I understand that for plenty of people your deepening rapport with Wuk Lamat had a romantic subtext (same for Koana depending on how you read a few of his lines). And personally I think it's the height of comedy to be like, noooo, babe, your highness, I know you and your brother the king are in love with me and want me to stick around and support you emotionally through this governmental transition haha. But it's just...the cursed wineglass, babe. I GOTTA go figure out what's up with this cursed wineglass.
It's a running gag in some of the more optional content that people are like "you have an unreasonable number of hobbies and side gigs" to the WoL from time to time. But if every time you tried picking up a new hobby some new elf started baring their soul to you, you too would be like Hey Jessie (or sometimes Krile or Tataru), my good friend who is one of the only people in my life who knows what professional ethics and work-life boundaries are, any chance you need muscle on a gig on the other side of the world? Ideally with only Cid and his ex so all libidinal energy in the room is directed towards machinery or someone who isn't me?
ironically one of the only places you get a break from psychosexual obsession is the nier content
ALIVE ONCE MORE and so deep into DT, but still need to finish it off... The week's appeal has been leveling classes that are sorely needing it.
DRK? 50. DRG? 41. Lowest crafters are up to 21 (from 18; ilu, Ixal) and the goal is to eventually even them all out to 30s (everything minus, WVR, GSM, and CUL), before hopping them all up to 50s. (Which is the rest minus CUL, who's lvl 53!)
.....And that's just Rhela's workload! Gotta love it. @ w @; /lh
Excited to be back!! Starting up a new organization system of my screenshots along the way, so I'm hoping I'll be able to also post gposes- old and new- very soon~
New Muses!
Haname Gyoji [ Raen Au Ra : they/he : DRK main : anxious mess ]
Aeri Desrosiers [ Veena Viera : she/they : WHM + BTN : Aerith Gainsborough alt! will give gifts when recognized...eventually ]
Quinzy Valentina [ Xaela Au Ra : she/her : WAR : inspired by my DnD PC; the tanking menace ]
Elethara Lavellan [ Wildwood Elezen : she/they : WHM + BLM : inspired by/AU of Inquisitor Lavellan, of Dragon Age; lost in another world ]
ALIVE ONCE MORE and so deep into DT, but still need to finish it off... The week's appeal has been leveling classes that are sorely needing it.
DRK? 50. DRG? 41. Lowest crafters are up to 21 (from 18; ilu, Ixal) and the goal is to eventually even them all out to 30s (everything minus, WVR, GSM, and CUL), before hopping them all up to 50s. (Which is the rest minus CUL, who's lvl 53!)
.....And that's just Rhela's workload! Gotta love it. @ w @; /lh
Excited to be back!! Starting up a new organization system of my screenshots along the way, so I'm hoping I'll be able to also post gposes- old and new- very soon~
They're trying to mind their own business. Focus on something else. Anything else. …And yet, the staring persists. At this point, it seems like only a direct confrontation will do anything about this… "Who are you…?"
I'm enjoying the cloud server. 💖
Pretty sure I need to update this blog a little... Also finish up a post that's been sitting in drafts forever.
...And then reorganize all my screencaps, cause I decidedly don't want to organize them the way I have been for nearly 3 years. (...It's because I hop from quest to quest a lot.)
this is... the gleaner Erenville!
prints now available
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endwalker hype making my ffxiv brain go brrr
[plays XIV for a few hours] That was fun! I guess I'll break for today-
[boyf goes to a party] ...More XIV for me-
Sketches from Garlemald, digitally coloured
Summer is almost over! Quick, post floral shirt Zenos! [2021]
Erenville in the new pvp gear.... 💭 (sketch is from a warmup page i did a couple days ago, so its a little messy hehe)
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10/28/23
Where was your wol(oc) at during 1.0? What were they doing?
Rhela was either attempting to settle into Gridania or working with the chirurgeons! Though they had latent magical abilities, they wouldn't really come into form after the Calamity...
Rheza, on the other hand, was being an adventurer! Having run away from their own family (for similar reasons, funnily enough), they were the one to have found their abilities first, and set about embracing them in full. First learning Conjury- to becoming a White Mage- then dabbling in various arts as the whims took them.
...They wouldn't survive the Calamity, however.
[ Short answers for the rest: I'karus likely avoided the fight at Carteneau, as he hadn't hit his Character Arc yet. Kinara hadn't come to Eorzea at that time, and neither had Valmir. (They were likely home or fighting to protect it.) Moriri was involved in the Dragonsong War, so it was unlikely she joined the Eorzean contingent.
Alexios... I'm not sure when she ran away from home, so I cannot say for 100% certain, at this time. However, that means they were either with family or already wandering Eorzea in search of style. Altan was still home [on the Steppe], U'zahra hadn't died yet/been saved by the Brotherhood of Ash (so she was still with the U Tribe)... Circe was Very Sundered, and Sinmara hadn't been born yet. ]
FFXIV x FFXVI
