Nero's Better Half

Hopelessly addicted to gposing. Occasionally FFXIV unrelated. Lover of muscled ladies, nero scaeva, ysayle, and music

[haellen-o]

Welcome to my brain rot facility

Character tags #haellen #ophelia #Ophelia De Fortemps #Halcyon

This is a personal account where i browse the waves of tumblr, enjoying various media i follow and spewing my blorbo and ship brainrot when it gets aggrevated enough. This blog is mainly FFXIV centric but will occasionally dip into other things that i like, OC information below the cut

My (Publicly posted) Writing

PFP by pewterbee

Bnuuy hael by @hdawg1995

(May contain spoilers for ARR, HW, SB, SHB's, and EW)

Haellen Orestes! Magitek engineer. Published author in applied and theoretical aetherology. Practitioner of (most) forms of magic. Allagan history expert. And proud wife of the great Nero Scaeva

(Also the warrior of light and darkness but that's not important and she wouldn't introduce herself with that)

Age: 40 (As of patch 6.3)

Height: 6’1 (187.45cm according to the race height wiki)

Haeling from gridania originally, she spent most of her life in the city of limsa lominsa honing her trade as a scholar of all things aether related at the arcanists guild. Her life before the fall of dalamud was fairly uneventful, aside from the occasional excitement of being dragged on a field research job by her two close friends A'rhaz Y'vikti a scholar and summoner respectively that worked with the arcanist guild to provide the lore and history of various subjects of interest

Following the fall of dalamud however her life was swept up in a whirling dervish of activity. From the inheretence of the scholar and summoner jobstones after the deaths of her friends at the battle of cartenou, becoming an adventurer to honour their memory. And learning that she was the fabled warrior of light, and being inducted into the scions of the seventh dawn and becoming the protector of eorzea... many more titles would be earned along her path, but none were earned without sacrifice

Her dream is to eventually find someone to replace her. The likelihood of someone doing that is slim to none, but it was never her intent to become the warrior of light. Her goal was to explore eorzea, uncover secrets, and settle the affairs of her fallen friends before returning to her normal ordinary life at the guild

Her duty as the warrior of light of course does not allow for that. Should she fall or give up, (Or simply refuse to act) there are none who could replace her. It is her duty to bear this burden and she will bear it for as long as she must (At least that's her belief)

GENERAL INFO

Canon Jobs: Warrior, Paladin, Dark Knight, Gunbreaker, Machinist, Dragoon, Monk, Ninja (LvL 80), Red Mage, Black Mage, Arcanist Conjurer (LvL 30), Sage, And formerly Summoner and Scholar. But as of 6.1+ she is no longer a summoner or scholar

Stoic in public settings

Emotively reserved. Doesn't really change expression much, and when she does its sublte and reserved (unless angered)

Confident and bold in conversation

Ignorant to social taboo's and fopaux's, will say what she thinks. When she wants to, so long as it wouldn't be insensitive to say at that time

Prefers clothes that cover up a lot of her body

Husband is Nero Scaeva (in case that wasn't obvious. Did she mention that yet?) Daughter is Aurelia H. Orestes

Hates coffee and the smell of it with a passion

Loves the smell of freshly brewed tea, Lime scented incense sticks, and the smell of rain

Enjoys maintaining her own gear and weapons

Enjoys tinkering with her MCH contraptions and prototype projects

Good cook (However only cooks her custom recipe for archon loaf)

Ophelia De Fortemps. Twin sister to haurchefant greystone. Battle hardened warrior of light and darkness. Fight sexual. Will(Probably)not kill you unless she has to

Name: Ophelia De Fortemps (Formerly Ophelia Sharduex, and Ophelia Greystone)

Age: 30 (as of patch 6.3)

Height: 6’6 (200.15 according to the race height wiki)

Growing up as an orphan on the streets of ishgard wasn't easy. And ophelia learned from a very early age how harsh the world is, and more importantly. How important it is to have people you can rely on and who will watch your back, the streets hardened her but she never lost her smile. Or sense of humour

When she turned 18 she hauled ass as fast as she could out of ishgard to become an adventurer. Plying her trade with sword and shield. Self taught by observing the various ishgard knights training, as well as other people who used such weapons. And then applying what she watched into practice, it made her style unorthadox and very unique. Combining reverse engineered ishgardian sword techniques and the typical sword swinging of gladiators and paladins. It caught her a lot of attention pretty quickly and this style was honed in battle fast. Eventually becoming a paladin through... Unorthodox and certainly unapproved methods. She vowed to always protect those she cared about, no matter what the cost

After becoming the warrior of light and returning to ishgard after the events of the sultana's banquet she discovers that she is the bastard daughter of edmont de fortemps and the twin sister to haurchefant. This is discovered the night before the events of the vault take place. Learning that she had the one thing she had always wanted, family. And having it taken away from her faster than she could even attempt to realise sent her down a dark path. And in her darkest moment she met her mentor, the dark knight known as fray

Once again adopting her own fighting style rather than a standard trained one. She combined aspects of her sword knowledge that would allow her to seek her revenge, and fulfil it as quickly as possible. All dark knights walk a dark path, but her's was one far darker than most. A violent and hateful path, of which she would later come to refer to as her becoming a "Wraith" as her style of combat drastically differed from a typical dark knights. Her raw hatred and vengence combined with her lack of self-restraint allowed her to far outweight the power of anything at that time, easily dismantling the white whale known as bismark singlehandedly without breaking a sweat. And even withstanding the power of the ascian Igeyorhm even without the full power of the blessing of light. Allowing her to retain the key to azys la and averting ysayles fate

After the events of the dragonsong war. Ophelia's power had calmed more, regaining the power of the blessing of light and her desire for revenge satisfied, still far stronger than anything that could face her. But that would change after the grand companies of eorzea had decided to liberate ala mhigo. Her meeting with the crown prince of garlemald, zenos. He was a light in her life of boredom and emptiness. Someone who was as powerful as her and fought as murderously. This light was brief but their shared feelings of emptiness sparked a unique kinship the two felt. Resulting in a unique friendship in which the two desired to kill each other. This light was brief, but it would influence events that had yet to even be set in motion

During her trip to the first she had a revelation, brought on by her weakened state and emet-selchs "Elucidation" on his goals. The realisation that her dark path was adjacent to emet-selchs. And that if given the opportunity she would sacrifice anyone to bring her brother back. Even those close to her... This caused her great emotional pain, all of the atrocities she had commited for revenge in the name of haurchefant, and how if he were alive. He certainly wouldn't have been happy with her actions. From that moment she swore to change and promised herself, and her brother. That she would let go of that pain and finally start to heal, no longer would she fight without any care for mercy or the state of her opponent. Her dark power finally being able to fulfil its purpose of protecting those who who cannot protect themselves. instead of being a tool for revenge

Now after the events of endwalker and the final days. With the help of her friends, the scions, and the woman she loves. She has finally started to heal, it's a slow journey and one she could have walked sooner were it not for her bloodlust and want for violence, but its a journey she can finally begin. And a new adventure awaited the healing soul of ophelia greystone, the warrior of light. And proud member of the ishgardian house fortemps

GENERAL INFO

Canon jobs: Wraith (Custom job) Paladin (Level 58)

Occasionally zones out while in civil situtions

Intense love of warm drinks (Coffee, tea, and especially hot cocoa)

Calm and light hearted. But serious when it needs to be

Prides herself on her self taught martial prowess and swordsmanship

Girlfriend is Ysayle Dangoulain

Was officially recognised as a member of house fortemps after the events of endwalker

is very supportive and protective of emmanellain, despite his age he feels like a kid brother to her

The smell the ishgardian tree's give off when burnt fill her with nostalgia

Uses a modified ishgardian longsword style for combat (akin to the Schlüssel longsword stance)

Preference of wielding longswords over greatswords (However she used greatswords up until endwalker)

Enjoys sowing

Good cook

Envoy to the sundered star. The last seat of the convocation. Azem

Name: Halcyon (or azem)

Age: Very old

Height: Varies (Currently 5'8)

A survivor of the sundering, halcyon has walked the source and its reflections in so many different lives. Never forgetting their job as azem once. Walking paralell to emet-selchs path through history. Halcyon has spent their time breaking bread and living with the people of the source and the reflections. Their most recent iteration has been the most true to their real self, adopting their own name and title instead of the name given to them by their parents and filling the mantle of Warrior of Light to defend the people of the sundered world against her kin and their shattered and forgetful minds

GENERAL INFO

Canon jobs: Warrior, Foebreaker, Mystic

Prefers they/them

Enjoys confusing people with their androgyny

Strongest (Physically) out of all their kin

Amongst the weaker mages of their kin

Enjoys garlean opera and poetry

Completely oblivious towards romantic advances

Hot-headed

Enjoys introspection

Nicknames creatures and people they enjoy (rarely uses those nicknames in public)

Possibly the cause of the "Inner beast" warriors use

Cuddles a solus plushie when going to sleep

i won't ever post NSFW/Lewd stuff here (tho i may occasionally reblog other's work out of appreciation for their effort) but i may post stuff that's of a more sensitive/mature nature. so consider this blog 18+

(Also yes i have a lot more written for ophelia because her story strays the furthest from canon lol. Despite being my main character, haellen stays very true to how the story is presented as she herself is playing the "Character" or "Role" of the warrior of light. Ophelia however doesn't care what people think the warrior of light should or shouldn't be, and plays to the sound of her own orchestra... And also kind of goes a little crazy from HW-SHB)

Message dividers originally by saradika but have been edited by me with permission. The banner masterlist is here in the event you like what you see and want to use them

[wizardpotions]

If your whole personality is being gay to the point of not being able to engage with stories about women and only scanning media for the most yaoiable white boys you are the problem.

[wizardpotions]

This site is so actively anti woman it's actually embarrassing.

[wizardpotions]

If some of you spent half as much time understanding intersectionality as you did talking about your white man of the month we wouldn't be losing all of our trans women

[fyeahpersonamusic]

Visit Original Link

“Paulownia Mall”

Persona 3 Original Soundtrack

[galactica-phantom]

[arkobit]

IT'S FINALLY FINISHED. MY THUMB IS KINDA NUMB. WOOHOOO!!!

[wolchefant]

there are people on here who get thousands of notes on their fanart and headcanons of a game they publicly admit to not playing or understanding and really i just don't get that

[wolchefant]

so this was a broad statement with a few different people in mind but apparently something happened. ive been hating this dude for the love of the game i didn’t even know he was finally getting called out… anyway nights-at-crystarium is also the person who dismissed ala mhigans as “politically angry men in a cave” when he didn’t want to do their part of arr, so he’s always been racist and an idiot 👍

[wolchefant]

like on top of being a fucking moron who calls the scions a "cult" because they're friends who knew each other before the wol joins, he's just straight up racist

[konnono]

Big up to OP for this because while everyone and their mothers have been coming out of the woodwork about the shitty things the Fragments author has said and done, not a single one actually gave receipts on what exactly he said about the Ala Mhigans that was so shitty—and that's if they even mention it!

And to be clear, it IS shitty and there's a lot that can be said about the intersectionality between racism and dismissing an oppressed people driven out of their homeland and fighting for their right to live with dignity as "politically angry", and how in the Ala Mhigan Resistance's case it may very well be rooted in the player's own discrimination towards brown people...

...but for the most part I think this just shows how shallow and self-absorbed the Fragments author is—not just about engaging with the game's lore but just in general. The Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo mirror many different real-world refugee groups fleeing their war-torn homelands who struggle to adapt and assimilate in the countries that have given them refuge—countries whose cultures are so different and dissimilar to their own that they'd have to give up their cultural identity to be properly "accepted". If he's dismissing the Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo as "politically angry men", how does he view refugee groups in his country? How does he view a minority group (that he doesn't belong to) protesting for their civil rights? The answer is simple: he doesn't. He's never thought about it. He equates everything he doesn't care for with "politics (derogatory)", even when it involves fighting for the civil rights of an oppressed group.

If it's not about him, he doesn't care. Note how he says the Sylphs and the Little Ala Mhigo sections are important because "we get to prevent the primal summonings". It's important to him because it revolves around (his) WoL doing stuff and being cool, but he doesn't give a rat's arse about things that don't actually impact him or his WoL directly, such as the people who are affected by Laurentius' treachery or Wilred's well-meaning but foolhardy actions. He doesn't care about them, and to "personally dislike the politically angry men" shows how much he dislikes having to engage with things that do not relate to him and that he sees as disruptive to his nice little bubble of a life where the biggest struggle he has is not having enough eyes on his self-indulgent webcomic and being one of the precious few gay creators in the horrifically straight FFXIV fandom /s

And it's genuinely mirrored in the very thing that propelled him into this mess! He doesn't give a shit about biphobia, he doesn't give a shit about bisexuals constantly getting flack for not being queer enough for liking the opposite gender as well their own—all that matters to him is his struggles. He's the one being oppressed as a gay person. He's the one who has to see all these icky "straight" M/F ships. He's the one who has to deal with the indignity of seeing his favourite blorbo that he identifies so much with headcanoned by other people as anything other than gay. He wants to claim Emet-Selch as gay because Emet-Selch is so camp and flamboyant and theatrical that it's an affront to gay people to deny his stereotypical gayness, even though stereotypical determinism in 2026 is the opposite of queer progress. It's all about him and what he thinks being gay is, and fuck every other queer identity. Up yours, he's fighting for his.

What a horrendous little person. Hopefully this is the last time I reblog anything about him because I think we can establish by now that he's really just a shallow, self-absorbed and selfish little prick who refuses to take any warranted criticism into account, and the sooner he disappears into obscurity, the better.

[morayofsunshine]

interview with the masquerade

[morayofsunshine]

vampire: the vampire

[kiwimintlime]

not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

[kiwimintlime]

love is a beautiful wonderful multifaceted nebulous thing that shouldn't be reduced to the strict bounds of Tier One: Romance and Tier Two: Friends. get weird with it. love your friends deeply, wildly, passionately and platonically. cowards

[emcapi-gaming]

watching people getting swept up in some sort of clown thirst mass event like a rural midwest american standing on the porch with a beverage watching the tornado go by

[velnica]

So this is a callout post. If you want to stop reading there that's cool, but I cannot let a raging misogynist, biphobe, transphobe, lesbophobe person parading as an upstanding queer artist keep getting platformed when he's said some heinous things, behaved terribly and begs for likes as if life is a popularity contest. Block me if you disagree but I'm writing this here as Tumblr is less ephemeral than other channels. Part of this post was originally posted here as a reply.

fragments/nights-at-crystarium/Jay have been posting misogynistic, biphobic, transphobic, lesbophobic, entitled comments and then claiming people are homophobic when they criticise him back. Please rethink if you want to keep supporting him.

A/N: warning this is a LONG POST and I have truncated it under the break. I have also added the most recent misogynistic rant at the top just below the biphobia.

C/W: Biphobia, misogyny, transphobic language, lesbophobia, entitlement

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Biphobia

Context: an anon send him a message about how Emet can only be gay, Japanese people don't understand queercoding and that people who ship femme character with him are delusional.

See here for why his Emet-Selch comment was biphobic at worst and misguided at best. (thank you @birues for bringing this to everyone's attention)

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Misogyny and Trans-exclusionary language

Jay HATES the idea that women want to share this space too. In addition to the Tumblr post above he posted this to his Patreon discord, which is not private as his patrons can access it. He laments that people make fem characters because it's default and he wishes they all would transition to men. He also jumps in to insult two artists with m/f Emet ships @nipuni and @ja-ck-du and calling their art hetslop:

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(continued with more of his terrible behaviour after the break)

Pattern of rancid behaviour over the years

Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS. You can read this better on my reddit comment here which I posted in reply to a shill thread made by what most people agree as Jay's sockpuppet account on the ffxiv subreddit. All of these I had the displeasure of witnessing myself or have been corroborated by multiple people:

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Self-aggrandising behaviour

Here is Jay claiming that there aren't many queer creators in xiv which is INSANE because this is the queerest fandom I have ever seen. You can't sneeze without hitting a queer artist. He also calls himself a pillar of the community, which is HILARIOUS because I have never seen him uplift other creators. You can't be a pillar of the community if you don't engage with the community. Your sycophants don't count.

How can you victimise yourself to such a degree?

He also claimed that if he was a lesbian, all of these callout of his rancid behaviour won't happen, which is laughable because you ask any lesbian in this space what being femme entails, they'd tell you straight up that they have experienced misogyny, no less from people like you Jay.

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Entitlement

Jay being ungrateful that ONLY 25 people have shared his post, and then saying you deserve to not be helped when you need it unless you share his post because he's a poor comic artist earning $1.2k from patreon every month. Because not sharing a post from a popular artist is obviously equivalent to not helping someone in dire straits. If you have been around, you'd know that times are hard, especially when you're queer. He's wishing you ill for the offence of not pressing that repost button.

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Being ungrateful with a sprinkling of misogyny

Jay straight up insulting anon's wife because how dare she reads his comic when she hasn't played ShB because her mind would not comprehend the complexity of his plot. And this is AFTER he begs for followers, as he does with every single one of his goddamn post.

So which is it, are you going to appreciate people who read your comic or are you going to put up so many qualifiers you only deem them worthy of following you when they've ticked all of them?

Hey Jay, maybe you should connect to your readers in a genuine manner and not in bad faith where all you want is for them to stroke your ego whilst giving a facade of appreciation.

And maybe, just maybe, you should start uplifting your fellow queer creators before demanding everyone support you.

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If you've read this far, thank you. I hope if you have ever supported him in the past that you rethink if you want to still support him after this. I do not care how big his following is; I do care that mask off misogyny is being let loose in our space. It doesn't matter if you're queer or a woman, we should not sweep this under the rug especially during Pride Month.

[jabberwockprince]

picked up machinist for the ishgard/haillenarte lore and im instantly endeared by whatever the fuck is happening here

[realest-slenderman]

i do accomodate people with disabilities when they collect my pages btw

[realest-slenderman]

i cant provide adderall for you but i can give you an extended time limit + cryptic hints for collecting my pages

[soupkiddo]

thank you Slenderman! can I wear earplugs? the static is a bit overstimulating

[realest-slenderman]

yes you can 👍

[soupkiddo]

I love you Slenderman. can you kill my boss.

[realest-slenderman]

i love you too and i cant leave my forest but if you send your boss over to me i can probably arrange something

[jabberwockprince]

my friend mio finished main stormblood last night so ofc i started doing some cocomelon shit

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are sexist

[clementine-kesh]

not all character interpretations are valid some of you are racist

[illyadolatry]

just like. for the crowd.

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion, (this is what the termination email is warning you about)

sharing content without content labels isn't either

[naturallyred]

Sepulchure the Doomed, the Queen's Boytoy

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog