𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 , 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐄.

[phoinixdown]

──────  𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥 .

     #𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐗𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 :   a mutuals-only final fantasy xiv multimuse roleplay side blog to @unmeiha.   open only to mutuals of my main blog ; extremely low activity ; probably heavily headcanon-based / canon-divergent ; iconless ; references to wol in threads with non-wols/npcs will default to my own wol unless otherwise discussed ; will not hesitate to make masc muses friends-only if they receive preferential treatment over femme muses & main blog. ♡   21+ only as nsfw may be present.

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 :      𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏  ✦  XIV → alisaie leveilleur ・ alphinaud leveilleur      𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒚  ✧  XIV → y’shtola rhul ・ venat / hydaelyn      𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚  ✦  XIV → cyella valthane ・ halmarut ・ lamitt ・ nashu mhakaracca      𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚  ✧  XIV → ardbert hylfyst ・ estinien varlineau ・ g'raha tia ・ thancred waters ・ hermes / fandaniel ・ hythlodaeus ・ fray myste

     ☆  not indicative of full muse list. hidden muses and ocs ahoy      ★  minor characters may be shipped with similar-aged characters and will be aged up as story progresses but will have no nsfw content, period.      ☆  all canon muses are portrayed as wolsexual/wolromantic. i'm here to be a self-indulgent whore and bully friends with wolships.      ★  i literally could not care less if you ship with duplicates. collect all the ships. this is a hobby for fun. live your best life, my dude.

[honeyscomet]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyscomet]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[phoinixdown]

[riggedbones-moving]

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

[blackheartbiohazards]

I am not blorbo’s apologist, I’m blorbo’s defense attorney. And baby, we are going for a plea deal cause he absolutely did that shit.

[weltenwellen]

Cameron Awkward-Rich,  from "The Child Formerly Known As _________"

[catchymemes]

[thegodthief]

Thinking of G'raha Tia, only 24 years old and simultaneously beyond and behind his peers because of how the archon accepted the fate of locking himself away in the Crystal Tower. Thinking of him, with the optimism of a 24yo and the attention span of a 24yo and the life goals of a 24yo who just realized that the world is a lot bigger than all the books he studied and slept on could ever describe. Thinking of him, telling his new friends and his old friends and his scared inner self that he's not going to die, that he's just going to sleep, knowing full well that he will likely never wake up.

Thinking of G'raha Tia, only 124 waking years old and carrying the memories of people that never lived because of what he did after waking in the Crystal Tower. Thinking of him, with a heart shattered by experiences and with the careful plotting that comes from experiences and with a pure self-destructive goal forged by those experiences who just realized that he is going to have to live in a world that never was but is now and is greater than all his hopes and fears ever conspired to put together. Thinking of him, telling his old friends and his new friends and the one person that he is scared of losing that he is going to be okay, that he is going to not sleep on life, knowing that this is the world he was ready to die for, knowing that he will likely never discover everything about it but is ready to die trying.

Thinking of that moment when G'raha Tia the 24yo meets G'raha Tia the 124yo in the landscape of their unifying mind. Thinking of them, when the life goals of a 24yo collides with the life goals of a 124yo and how the century of experiences between them makes them completely separate people. Thinking of them, telling his younger self that the ambition was fulfilled and it's time to wake up, telling his older self that there is still ambition more and the dream has just begun, telling each other that this is not a type of death but just a change and both of them knowing full well that they are going to die to each other so that G'raha Tia may yet live for one more adventure with their friend.

Thinking of G'raha Tia and that moment of ultimate surrender of self to self.

Thinking.

[catgirl-gw-hegel]

big fan of a good shit-eating grin. like a ruckus-causing, pot-stirring type of grin. a smile that truly fucks around and finds out. anyway

[kovir]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER | Endwalker’s Statler and Waldorf

“I for one would have been perfectly content to watch, enraptured, from the stalls. But I won’t say no to a bit part.”

[phoinixdown]

i am the prophet with the answers you seek. time, i've unlocked it: i see past and future running free. there is a world where i help you get home—but that's not a world i know. ( what? ) i see a song of past romance, i see the sacrifice of man, i see portrayals of betrayals and a brother's final stand. i see you on the brink of death, i see you draw your final breath. i see a man who gets to make it home alive...

but it's no longer you.

[wrymbloods]

ESTINIEN VARLINEAU in the FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL extended trailer

[phoinixdown]

will these actions haunt my days? every man i’ve slain— is the price i pay endless pain? close your eyes and spare yourself the view; how could i hurt you? i'm just a man who's trying to go home, even after all the years away from what i’ve known. i'm just a man who's fighting for his life. deep down i would trade the world to see my son and wife. i'm just a man... but when does a comet become a meteor? when does a candle become a blaze? whеn does a man become a monster? when does a ripple become a tidal wave? when does the reason become the blame? when does a man become a monster?

forgive me... forgive me... forgive me... i'm just a man.

[phoinixdown]

you are the worst kind of good 'cause you're not even great. a greek who reeks of false righteousness, that's what i hate. 'cause you fight to save lives but won't kill and don't get the job done. / you are far too nice; mercy has a price. / the line between naïveté and hopefulness is almost invisible. so close your heart, the world is dark and ruthlessness is mercy— / i am your darkest moment, the monster that always draws near.

[yozora]

[phoinixdown]

daithi drops in to very, very, very gently leave a smooch on thancred's cheek. <3

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𝒖𝒏𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒅 ・ @dawnsung

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He doesn't know how long he's been about his task, seeing to the repair and upkeep of his armor and blade. He'd settled into the familiarity of it with an ease akin to breathing: the slide of whetstone across steel, the light scent of oil as it's massaged into his leathers, the deft repetition of pushing and pulling needle and thread as he mends tears in his coat. Tasks he knows he could leave to Tataru to have taken care of, but Thancred appreciates the simplicity of it, of working with his hands, even if the monotony of it gives his mind too much leave for wandering.

And wander it does, as is often the case when he's left to his own devices. It travels its usual route down memory lane, reminding him of all that he's lost, of all his failures. But where he once lingered on those feelings, now he uses them to fuel his determination to push his journey forward. For those he can yet save.

It is an odd thing, however, for the ever-vigilant Thancred to be taken unawares, even while seemingly lost in quiet contemplation. Whether it be that he's slipping in his age or he's simply been taken in by the unusually relaxed atmosphere of the Rising Stones and found himself in a rare moment where he might let his vigilance drop, he isn't certain—though for the sake of his pride, he's happy to err on the side of contentment.

This is how Daithi finds him now: so unusually preoccupied that he doesn't so much as glance at the Viera's movement in his peripheral until he feels lips on his cheek. He jolts in his seat, swiftly lancing the tip of his finger with the needle and thread he'd been so intently focused on. He mumbles a curse under his breath before turning a scowl—albeit a half-hearted one with no heat at all—on his affectionate assailant. He can't hold it for long; a few seconds at best before he huffs out a sigh and the scowl melts away into a crooked smile.

  ❝ Ever given a thought to espionage? I get the feeling you may have a knack for it. ❞

Setting the half-mended coat on the table before him, he leans back in his seat, stretching his arms over his head. An audible pop! comes from behind him and he lets out a small groan of relief, suddenly very aware of how much his back aches from too long spent hunched over.

❝ You've come at the perfect time if your intent was rescue. I daresay I'm overdue for a break. Join me for a drink? ❞ He poses it as a question, but even as he's getting to his feet he's holding out his hand for the Warrior of Light to take.

[raviollies]

“ I shall consider it a miracle if mine armor is not stained crimson ere this conflict is ended. “

[phoinixdown]

i'm replaying hw patch and just got through the wod arc and it got me thinking about a little au where ardbert doesn't go back to the first with the rest of his comrades. that's it, that's the au.

but in all seriousness and further elaboration, nyelbert says the power of their crystals is almost gone but then ardbert spends a century just vibing as a half-faded shade, wandering around the first. if he had enough strength left to exist like that for a century, i feel like he could handle a few years on the source.

the word of the mother wouldn't let him help with the flood anyway, like... she took him home, but at what cost? there's not really anything that changes by him staying on the source other than where he is and what he does during that time between hw patch and shb.

so my thought is basically her saying "i'll take the rest but fate's not done with you yet. don't worry, you will see the first again," and then leaving him there, where he proceeds to join up with the wol and becomes a (temporary) scion.

then, come stb patch when the exarch is doing his gacha pulls, he pulls ardbert. of course, because ardbert has already (technically) given up his physical body (and exists in the same "physical" way the scions do on the first as souls), he gets completely yoinked, whereas the scions only have their souls taken.

the neat thing about this is that shb can literally play out the exact same, too. he can still merge with wol (unless....) but this way he actually gets to physically help defend the first in the meantime. he can help around the crystarium, he can help fend off sin eater attacks, he can continue to travel with the wol as they slay lightwardens. he can right some of his wrongs and then play his part in the story's climax.

he'd probably have to keep a low profile, too. maybe keep his really dumb alias arbert while going around the crystarium, because the first's wols are infamous.

...of course, they're also supposed to be dead, so maybe he just uses his real name and people give him a look like "damn your parents must have hated you to name you after the warrior of light lmfao"

i like the idea of him and cylva meeting again, too. she probably never expected to see him again, but there he is. and then they rekindle their friendship, bonding over the both of them being the ascians' puppet fools because that's!! the kind of person he is!!! ("he chose mercy. he chose love, and i was undone"!!!!)

i think he'd want to help her restore the thirteenth, too. he'd want to send her home. i think if he didn't rejoin with the wol in shb (and stayed in the first), that would be something he'd want to help her do.

so like... the paths his canon could take are basically

full game canon compliance. he goes home in hw, shb happens as-is

he stays on the source in hw, helps with shb, rejoins at the end.

he stays on the source in hw, helps with shb, doesn't rejoin, stays on the first, goes on to become part of the void quests/void story.

he stays on the source in hw, helps with shb, doesn't rejoin, decides now that his world is safe there isn't really much there for him so he opts to travel with the wol, even if that means leaving the first.