Hihivachi Pepevachi

A virtuous protector of Ul'dah and the Sultanate. What this knight lacks in height, he makes up for in will, skill and conviction. || RPer on Balmung

[britishmuffin]

Hihivachi Pepevachi for @oathswornshield!

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[oathswornshield]

I love it! Love the detail! So much thanks to @britishmuffin, and @fiftharbiter for the gift art, Hihi loves his tall lady :D

[fiftharbiter]

Understanding My Ship

Fifty million hours in GIMP!  Thanks to @oathswornshield​ for gauging Hihivachi’s answers.  Hannah and Hihivachi are actually fairly similar people, so they don’t wildly diverge here.

To break down some of their answers:

* Big Spoon/Little Spoon:  Obviously the Lalafell can’t really be the big spoon, though I imagine he’d try on occasion.

* Lends Clothes/Borrows Clothes:  I need art of Hihivachi borrowing a shirt or something of Hannah’s, stat!  This is another one where the reverse likely wouldn’t work.  (Though maybe I also need art of her squeezing some tiny shirt of his on and busting out of it?  Maybe HE needs art of that!)

* Pet Names:  Hihivachi and Hannah both use terms of endearment, which aren’t quite the same, but Hannah tends to also give her boyfriends nicknames which may or may not stick.   Hihivachi’s is “Hiva”, which he’s not real fond of, but she uses it internally.  It slips out occasionally when she’s ill or distracted.

* Introverted/Extroverted:  They’re both fairly in the middle here, sociable when need be but enjoying quiet time at home alone or with each other as well.

* Affection through words or actions: I feel Hihivachi is pretty balanced in this regard.  He told me Hannah is much more about actions, which surprised me; this really might be the player’s natural reserve!

* Confesses first/Waits:  Hannah’s gunshy after a series of relationships-gone-sour.  Hihivachi did confess first, but they both had made various signs and signals that they were amenable to things moving in that direction.

* Bugs:  They’re both tanks, ‘nuff said.

* Drives:  … Chocobos?  

* Can’t Cook/Makes Dinner:  A year ago this would’ve been a much different answer, but Hannah is actually ICly learning to cook in the past six months or so, and is gradually improving.  She’ll never be a master chef like Sei is, or even a very talented home cook like Marisaie, but she’ll be able to cook nice meals.  Hihivachi is field rations only apparently.

* PDA:  He and I discussed this one OOC a bit because what really IS PDA?  I tend to think of it as “excessive PDA” vice any kind of like, hand-holding in public (gasp! clutch pearls!).  Both are pretty affectionate in public, but in the PG way, no tongues going down each other’s throats or anything.

* Overprotective: They’re both tanks, ‘nuff said.

* Relationship experience:  This is one of the few where they greatly diverge (that’s not based on size difference), largely because this is Hihivachi’s first serious relationship.  I think things are going well for them!

[oathswornshield]

Spot on.

[fiftharbiter]

Random recent screenies (pt 1)

The first in what will likely be an ongoing series of the screenshots that I compulsively take at all times…

Hannah’s new years’ look!  She traditionally wears this white robe for Heavensturn.  (That’s Warren looking at her in profile.)

Two Arbiters on the rock.

Starlight portrait with Hihivachi! @oathswornshield​ Many thanks to EAC on Mateus for a lovely Starlight party event!

Hannah and Hihivachi chat outside the EAC Starlight event, keeping warm by the firepit.

All dolled up for the Starlight party.  I think I like her hair down like this!

[eugenieroe]

can we all agree that pressing foreheads together is an underrated act of affection??

[oathswornshield]

“This duty, I take up with honor. This burden, I bear gladly. This life, I walk with the one I love, my raven beauty. I shall not falter, I shall not yield. There is too much that is precious to do otherwise, too much that must be preserved. Her Grace has chosen, and I will not let it be a choice mistaken. My Oaths hold true, my convictions seared into my very soul. For peace, or war, I will see the aspirations of Nanamo Ul Namo, Truest Sultana of Ul’dah, come to fruition in not just our nation, but the realm, the very star.” “I am Hihivachi Pepevachi, the Hand of Ul.”

(Hey all! Just wanted to give a bit of an update on Hihivachi! There has been a bit of development behind the scenes with him, with several storylines with @fiftharbiter (Hannah Castille). And yes, they are seeing each other. Secret Admirer revealed!)

[gallusrostromegalus]

Let’s Have Another Bullet Point Story, Courtesy of a Friend

So I have a friend that used to be in the tumblers troupe at the renfaire as a contortionist

We were chatting online and she told me to tell you all this story.

I love Kat dearly

but she forgets that she’s stupid strong and hypermobile

so one day she throws her back out

bad enough that she needed painkillers and couldn’t stand upright

“But also I needed Tampons and like.  A Burrito, real bad.”

she’s flat on her back in her apartment when she decides this

and, in an

impeccable

leap of reasoning, decides

“I can’t roll my back forward to sit/stand up like normal.

But I can ARCH my back just fine.

SO 

I’m going to do that and get on my hands and feet in a stomach-in-the-air this-shit-belongs-in-a-horror-movie-type pose,

And amble on down to the 7-11”

“And get me that Burrito”

It is, 

for context, 

after midnight in July during a wildfire so it’s hot as satan’s own asshole and the moon is red and shit’s already generally cursed.

Imagineyou are some poor sap working nights at the world’s deadest 7-11, and you hear the door jangle but you don’t see anyone’s head over the counters.

Whatever.

Except you keep hearing noises like there’s someone in the next aisle over.  

Fucking around in the burrito section

It’s also worth mentioning that Kat

1. sings whatever earworm is currently running through her head when she’s not paying attention

2. sounds EXACTLY like some kind of creepy child from a horror movie when doing so

tonight’s song is something from veggietales.

DUDE ACTUALLY STANDS HIS GROUND

and/or is really fucking high and isn’t sure if he’s tripping balls or notanyway

Kat goes up to pay for her burrito and tampons

She realizes the counter presents something of a challenge, and then demonstrates for me on her kitchen table at 4AM during a different july wildfire, 

exactly 

how she used the shelves to climb up the counter 

like one of the boston robotics beasties

dude stares at her for like, five minutes and says.

“Register’s broke.”

“Oh No!” Says Kat. “Just Take ‘em.” “Really?  I can leave cash-you don’t have to give me change I don’t want you to get in trouble with your manager.” “…Nah.” “Oh!  OK!  Thank you!” “Yeah ok bye.”

Shortly after she arrived back at the apartment, she got a text on her phone from the campus security about  "A Suspicious Individual” at tle 7-11. 

It took her 

FOUR

FUCKING 

YEARS

 to realize she was the suspicious individual

[ethanrayne]

every time this crosses my dash, all i can think is “i’d love to hear this from the perspective of the cashier who encountered some sort of demon buying a burrito on the night shift”

[its-one-dark-paradise]

Units of time/length measurement FFXIV

Ilm = Inch  Fulm = Foot (12 Ilms)  Yalm = Yard/Meter (3 Fulms)  Malm = Mile (1760 Yalms)

 Onze = Ounce  Ponze = Pound (16 Onzes)  Tonze = Ton (2,000 Ponze)

 Bell = Hour (1 Hour in game time = 2m 55s in real life)  Sun = Day (24 Bells)  Sennight = Week (8 Suns)  Fortnight = 2 Weeks (16 Suns)  Moon = Month (32 Suns)  Year = Year (12 Moons)  Epoch = 12 Years or one full Zodiac.

 Astral Era = Time when mankind builds up his civilizations. (Seem to average 1000-1500 years.)  Umbral Era = Time when mankind tears down his civilizations. (Length of time varies greatly.)

http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=13330  (main post) I highly recommend looking at the #5 post by Sounsyy!

(Also a thank you to Cam'nahl for finding this post for me <33)

[oathswornshield]

It's a good thing nobody uses the game's interpretation of time, because if I calculated correctly, each year would be just shy of six days.

[fiftharbiter]

Answering the mail [RP post]

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[askmichigan]

Smells like disappointment

[ratfuck]

oh fuck you

[ratfuck]

op has michigan in their url this is propaganda

[nezclaw]

more astronauts are from ohio than anywhere else. coincidence? i think not

[kumboochies]

Imagine being a child in Ohio wanting to go to space just so you can experience something for the first time in your life.

[oathswornshield]

if this isn’t a ‘burn’, I’m not sure what is.

[fiftharbiter]

LFRP: Hannah Castille [Balmung]

((Art by the lovely @britishmuffin​!))

Full Name: Hannah Castille

Age: 33

Nameday: 13th sun of the 4th umbral moon

Race: Highlander Hyur (NOT Ala Mhigan for some generations)

Gender: CIS female

Alignment: Lawful Good

Sexuality: Straight

physical description:

Hair: Deep black, usually kept mid-length but currently long. She changes it when she goes through a turbulent period in her life.

Eyes: auburn.

Height: Tall (~6 fulm)

Build: Muscular and athletic

Distinguishing Marks: White facial tattoo on the right side of her face; parallel scars on her back; left eye always covered up (perhaps missing)

Common Accessories: Black bandana covering up her left eye; a fine necklace with a crystal bearing the mark of Oschon; greatsword with a moonstone focus in the hilt

personal life:

Profession: Arbiter of the Grindstone; Ul’dahn nobility; works for the Sisters of the Edelweiss in Limsa Lominsa

Hobbies: Travel, collecting plushies and knives, charity work, grudgingly attends Ul’dahn upper crust social events (balls, galas, etc.)

Languages: Common

Residence: The Duskbreak (seat of House Castille) in the Goblet in Ul’dah; a secret apartment, also in the Goblet

Birthplace: Unknown (likely somewhere in Vylbrand)

Patron Deity: Oschon, the Wanderer

Fears: Abandonment, voidsent, falling from heights

Likes: Honesty, sweet food, the color green, straightforward people, warm weather/beaches

Dislikes: Politics, cold weather/snow, super-spicy or salty food, rudeness or overly aggressive behavior

relationships:

Parents: Mother - Liah Blackroad/Liah Castille (living); Father (deceased, died when Hannah was a toddler)

Siblings: Older Brother - Warren Castille; Sister-in-law - Sei Castille nee Ikari; Brother-in-law - Howl Castille/Ha’uruh Nunh

Other Relatives: Aunt - Serah Blackroad/Serah Castille (deceased); various adopted relatives of House Castille

Significant Other: Recently began dating Hihivachi Pepevachi (@oathswornshield​)

personality:

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted

Disorganized / In Between / Organized

Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded

Calm / In Between / Anxious

Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable

Cautious / In Between / Reckless

Patient / In Between / Impatient

Outspoken / In Between / Reserved

Leader / In Between / Follower

Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic

Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic

Traditional / In Between / Modern

Hard-working / In Between / Lazy

Cultured / In Between / Uncultured

Loyal / In Between / Disloyal

Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful

habits:

Smoking: No

Drugs: No

Alcohol: Mostly socially; she’s the only Castille who doesn’t drink heavily, and has a lower tolerance accordingly.

rp hooks:

It’s Time to D-D-D-DUEL: Hannah has been involved in the Grindstone as a combatant, overseer, and now Arbiter for literal years. Maybe your character has met her there, knows of her role, or has heard of the tournament; it’s an easy way to strike up a conversation. While she has yet to cut off any hands or heads in her role as Arbiter, as this has happened before, maybe your character has heard of lethal force being utilized to maintain the Grindstone’s uneasy peace…

Criminal elements need not apply: Hannah is strongly lawful good, and her particular crusade for most of her adult life has been stopping human trafficking, especially child slavery. Perhaps your character has been involved in one of her operations, or has information to share on slavers or criminal elements. If YOUR character is the slaver or criminal element, I wouldn’t recommend letting Hannah know that unless you’re out for combat RP. 

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”: Hannah’s past plots have pitted her against the Corpse Brigade and extreme religious elements in Ishgard and Ala Mhigo, including elements of the Ala Mhigan Resistance (pre-events of Stormblood). If your character has any connections to these elements, hit me up and we can definitely work something out.

The terror that quacks in the night: Hannah has walked the path of the Dark Knight for a year, though beyond the giant sword she is rather quiet about her abilities and potential in that regard. If your character is another Dark Knight, either more or less experienced, I’m sure they can swap war stories and/or training. Alternatively, Hannah still calls herself a free paladin although she has abandoned the sword and shield. Maybe your character has a liberal interpretation of what a paladin should be - or a narrower one that would highly disapprove of someone calling themselves a paladin while walking in the darkness… 

If you can think of something else, let me know and I’m happy to work something out!

ooc notes:

Server: Balmung

Data Center: Crystal

Timezone: Eastern

Availability: Afternoon Eastern time during the work week (typically 3-7 PM); Saturday availability limited to afternoons/early evenings (I go out to the Grindstone for pre-RP around 6-7 PM and remain there until the Grindstone has wrapped up). Additionally, I travel a lot for work and my availability fluctuates while I’m traveling.

Contact info: I have Discord; ask if interested.

Preferred RP platforms: In-game or Discord; I prefer to use Tumblr for background info/solo writing as opposed to active back-and-forth.

Other Notes: I’m open to most things, but character death/serious maiming is a no; capture or anything that involves removing Hannah from RP for a while, talk it out with me beforehand. No sexual violence or sexual harassment. I prefer to keep my personal plots out of the Grindstone to keep the focus on the fighters and the event, but I’m open to plot-related happenings before or after. I’m sure I’m forgetting something, so hit me up if you have any ideas or questions!

Signal Boosts: @balmungrp @ffxiv-crystal-rp @mooglemeet

[oathswornshield]

She's such a lovely person to come into Hihivachi's life! There will be updates on this development!

[oathswornshield]

The Return

For all my followers, I thank you for being patient with me and sticking around for as long as you have. Life hasn’t been the best lately at allowing me time to keep up with Tumblr, but I am happy to announce that I will be returning in full force soon! I have a lot of catching up to do, and I’m happy to see that my following has expanded some even in my absence! Keep watch here, as we bring Hihivachi into a new stage of development!

The Hand of Ul rises!

[magnoliamemes-deactivated201906]

Plot ideas.   

🤗 Send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where are muses are strictly platonic but are extremely close, they are practically family to each other.  

😊 Send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where our muses are related by blood. A child/parent,  siblings,  etc.  The relationship can either be good or bad or in between.  

🥰  Send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where our characters are childhood friends.  Could involve a one sided or mutual crush.   

😢 send if you were interested in plotting a thread where our muses used to be very close friends,  but something came up that made them bitter towards each other.  perhaps they are enemies now or long to rekindle their friendship.  

😍 Send if you were interested in plotting a thread where there is an unspoken attraction between our muses but for whatever reason they cannot express this.  They can only pine after each other.  

😡 Send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where our muses are in a toxic relationship,  not necessarily romantic.  just one or both muses are cruel or  manipulative etc to the other.   

😣 send if you were interested in plotting a thread where one muses is overly protective of the other.  Their relationship is good but at times the other muse gets frustrated with the coddling.  

😘 send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where one muse is openly interested in the other. They shamelessly flirt with and try to woo  them. It either works or doesn’t.   

💕 send if you’d be interested in plotting a thread where our muses are SOULMATES.  They may try to stay away from each other but always end up with them again and again.   

💖 send if you’d be interested in plotting out a thread where both muses have mutual crushes on each other but fear the other doesn’t feel the same way.  

🤔 send if you were interested in plotting out a thread where one muse doesn’t like the other but as time goes by they end up building a close bond, platonic or otherwise.   

🥵  send if you were interested in plotting out a thread where both muses can’t stand each other, mortal enemies/rivals/just doesn’t like them for no real reason. There isn’t much that can fix this and it’s likely they will keep these negative feelings for each other.  

[crazy-coeurl-lady]

Uimet is the best of the viis sisters and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[oathswornshield]

Uimet is Bunny Nora.

[anxietyproblem]

[oathswornshield]

Literally me just today with cleaning my car.

[oathswornshield]

So I’m planning to write a fanfiction...

And it will by my first one ever, but I’m no stranger to writing in general, as many of you have already HEAVILY begun to suspect. However, I am having trouble organizing my thoughts and focusing myself on one particular project, because I have ideas for many. That said, I would like some of you to help me by peering into some of these ideas and telling me which you’d prefer to see! Opinions and feedback are also welcome! (And if you’re feeling bold, give me a challenge to look into!)

The majority are crossovers with FFXIV (since the game has so many wonderful ways to displace people) and various other games, shows and anime that I’m familiar with. Yes, I know I’m a nerd, and not everyone will have seen some of these. Proceed below the cut to take a look!

Keep reading

[lilac-memorials]

An incoming rant that I’m not bothering to put under a cut because it needs to be said and it needs to be seen because some folks are just rude as hell about this:

If you and another individual talk about and mutually agree to a ship between your characters, be respectful of that. Want out? Talk to the other player involved. Other RP happened and plans changed? Communicate that to the person you are shipping with.

But do not be the asshole who ghosts or flakes out on your shipping partner just because you found a better match for your character or circumstances changed and you decided that talking about it was ‘too hard’ or ‘you didn’t want to deal with the drama’.

It’s more dramatic to put someone through the silent treatment than to be an adult and show you’re capable of communication skills befitting your age.

[oathswornshield]

So I’m planning to write a fanfiction...

And it will by my first one ever, but I’m no stranger to writing in general, as many of you have already HEAVILY begun to suspect. However, I am having trouble organizing my thoughts and focusing myself on one particular project, because I have ideas for many. That said, I would like some of you to help me by peering into some of these ideas and telling me which you’d prefer to see! Opinions and feedback are also welcome! (And if you’re feeling bold, give me a challenge to look into!)

The majority are crossovers with FFXIV (since the game has so many wonderful ways to displace people) and various other games, shows and anime that I’m familiar with. Yes, I know I’m a nerd, and not everyone will have seen some of these. Proceed below the cut to take a look!

Thanks for coming along on this journey! Here we go!

Souls of Crystal

Crossover: FFXIV: A Realm Reborn (+) & Fairy Tail

Details: Non-WoL, OC, Elezen, Echo-bearer, Sharlayan Scholar/Student of Baldesion, multiple soul crystals. Includes elements of later expansions, potential shipping.

Summary: When the Isle of Val is swept up in a catastrophic maelstrom of aether, wiping it off the map, the losses incurred among those that called it home and sanctuary were nigh incalculable. Yet there were those few spared by the Mothercrystal’s benevolent intercession. One, however, could but be preserved, along with those many souls of stone he had long labored to study, until flesh and soul could find safe harbor from the shifting tides of the Aetherial Sea. What new and strange discoveries await him beyond space and time?

Notes: I’ve always loved Fairy Tail for it’s amazingly varied take on magic, and the more I looked into it, I began to draw similarities between the two worlds as well as the differences, allowing me to introduce potential new effects, as well as some old ones. Definitely an extended endeavor. No spoiling!

To Summon a Scion - Mentor & Apprentice

Crossover: FFXIV: Stormblood & Familiar of Zero

Details: Non-romance, Y’shtola (Conjurer), Louise.

Summary: Across space and time, knowledge has ever been a path of power, of progress. Yet when a young soul cries out to the heavens for a sign, for salvation, for knowledge none else can give her, she is answered. A scholar, plucked from her world without warning after restoring life to a dead land, is thrust into a destiny she did not ask for. Yet fervent pleas do not fall on deaf ears, nor are eyes too blind to see the situation before her. Besides, this girl is nearly as audacious and brilliant as she was at her age...

Notes: Yes, I know Familiar of Zero is one of those quirky, odd harem anime with plenty of frequent fan service. Definitely a bane to some. But looking beyond that, I find that the world building itself is very, very intriguing, from magic to lore, potential for political intrigue to the potential for combat. This rendition would take a more detailed perspective on the culture and intricacies involved, while still including a good bit of the light-hearted feel from comedic elements. And we all know how ‘Shtola takes to ‘romantic gestures’. Poor little sun.

(Alternatively: To Summon a Scion - Guardian) (Details: Non-romance, Thancred, Louise.)

Grimm and Gunblades

Crossover: FFXIV: Shadowbringers & RWBY

Details: Non-WoL, OC, Garlean, Gunbreaker. Potential shipping.

Summary: Kinslayer. Savage. Defector. Traitor. When a proud son of Garlemald becomes disillusioned with the path of bloody conquest, where is he to turn, but to the very savages he once fought to conquer?Armed with the weapons of former enemies, among the storied secrets of the Cartenau Flats riddled with the secrets of Allag, perhaps a soldier could find new purpose... or perhaps new purpose could find him. Shunted across the stars by the crazed creations of a long-dead Empire and with no discernable way to return, he now faces the unknown, and the evils is harbors. At least crystals didn’t seem too different...

Notes: This would be something of a challenge, but I liked the prospect! And let’s face it, a Hrothgar gunblade wouldn’t seem all that weird on Remnant. This one isn’t quite as developed in my head as others, but I wanted to put it out there!

Adventures of Light -- A Star of Warcraft

Crossover: FFXIV: Shadowbringers & Warcraft/ World of Warcraft (Vanilla/Classic)

Details: Warrior of Light, OC, Half-blood (Wildwood-Highlander), Full job mastery.

Summary: You’d think he’d have learned by now to leave some things well enough alone, especially when it came to Allagan ruins. But, once again, he’d allowed Cid’s enthusiasm to stir his adventurous spirit, and this time, their luck ran out. Where did that portal even lead to. and where was he now? It almost looked like Belah’dia.  It was time for a new adventure, one unlike the Warrior of Light had ever known, on a new world with new enemies, and new allies. The winds of time were changing, and many would take note. For good, or ill.

Note: Oh BOY, now this would be one hell of an investment in exploring both franchises. Having become distant with retail WoW after Mists of Pandaria and falling hard into FFXIV, I felt it more prudent to visit the roots of WoW with this concept, now readily available with the release of WoW Classic, which I have enjoyed in moderation. And yes, I realize this would be my ‘going ham’ storyline, considering how ridiculous a fully-classed WoL gets at 80. There would still be plenty of challenge, though.

That’s all I have for now! I should note these are basic outlines still, essentialy my first swings at anything of this sort, and will be developed if chosen! Give me all the feedback you want, good or bad! I am at your mercy!