just a cat who happens to save the star

xiv centric sideblog for @howdomaddie featuring my main xiv character, rowan, his ship, and maybe some of my alts

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Hi! I'm Maddie, and this is my XIV sideblog (my main is @howdomaddie ).

I will mostly be reblogging a lot of XIV stuff, but! Any original content will mostly be of my characters--the catboy above, Rowan, being chief among them. I am a fic writer for the most part, but I've been doing more and more GPosing lately and will post some of those when I remember to do so here!

If you'd like, I have a bluesky account where I ramble about Rowan (and sometimes my alts). If you'd like to get to know the general info behind Rowan and some of the other characters I play regularly, I now have an entire page dedicated to them all that is slowly being updated. I do my best to update tags on posts, and here's the list of tags I use.

For anyone interested in Rowan specifically, I have an entire fic series on AO3 dedicated to him, as well as a more minor tag here for things that haven't made it over there yet (as well as things written by others!). And here's his tag specifically!

Feel free to drop me an ask if you want to chat or ask about any of my characters!

[autumnslance]

I am to the point where the raid boss intro cutscenes ought to be made unskippable, and I am not kidding.

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wolstinien week 2026 day 8 - estinien day :) (with yet more wol/g'raha/estinien!)

They are slowly getting him used to surprise displays of affection. Will he ever be fully used to it? Probably not. But Estinien being a bit flustered when these two are showering him with affection is cute.

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wolstinien week day 7 - affection

"'Tis always good to see you."

(rowan likes getting to see estinien's softer sides, which is happening more frequently as time goes on.)

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wolstinien week 2026 day 6 - battle | duty

(admittedly unsure which of these prompts fit better, and i don't have a real caption, but i enjoy seeing these two ready for battle <3 )

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wolstinien week 2026 day 5 - dragons (featuring more wol/g'raha/estinien)

Ishgard is Rowan's home now (he has a small house in Empyreum), and Estinien and G'raha often join him there. While within the city, these three often go wandering the Firmament, greeting everyone--but especially the dragonettes that eagerly flock to the city.

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wolstinien week 2026 day 4 - faith (featuring some wol/g'raha/estinien)

"…You keep each other safe without me."

(have had a variation on this in my head since 6.0 dropped, basically; rowan had a feeling of what estinien planned to do, and made him say it to g'raha. neither really like it, but respect his choice.)

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wolstinien week 2026 day 3 - family

"We've come all this way already--why are you losing your nerve now?" "…" "If you're worried what Alberic will think of you, I do not think that will be an issue. 'Twould be good to be on speaking terms with him again." "…Someday, aye."

(didnt expand on this very much on bluesky, but eventually estinien patches his relationship with his foster father alberic, after some prodding. it doesn't go as badly as he expects.)

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wolstinien week 2026 day 2 - scars

"…They don't hurt, if you're wondering." "I know. Just…thinking." "If it eases your worry, the only thing I think when I see them now is how lucky I am to have had you and Alphinaud care enough to save me." "…"

(rowan doesn't mind the scars, it's more that he worries and sometimes gets caught up thinking about if things hadn't worked out on the final steps of faith.)

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wolstinien week 2026 day 1 - food | travel

"…You know I don't like sweets that much." "Oh, come on, you'll never know if you don't try it!"

(little of both prompts with this. rowan spent an extended period in kugane with estinien while assisting with the eureka expedition, which is where their relationship first blossomed!)

[jabberwockprince]

me, 2 weeks into playing ffxiv: i dont respect any of these mfs whose names i cant even remember. i will probably uninstall later when i get bored

me, half a year into ffxiv: ok so the botanist questline in which the farmers at camp cloudtop get accused of heresy for infiltrating a non native crop into the country was PROBABLY a cover for house dzemael wanting to cause further stress on house haillenarte bc by destabilizing them, (the weakest link) this means house fortemps (powerhouse but kind of against the holy sees policies) will also be weakened by default. and fortemps controls the literal entry point to ishgard. its dangerous if they ever rebeled or revolted bc that can cut off ishgard from the rest of the continent. so it makes sense that the church would want them to have less influence or power overall, using house dzemael to do so bc we later know that house dzemael were the ones that tipped the fucking church abt the fucking vegetables. and house dzemael is the only house with active members that belong to the heaven's ward (grinnaux, violent guy whose murders were covered with coin & paulcrain, formerly of house fortemps. coincidentally the mfs who also arrest alphinaud and tataru of heresy)

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new house means new ways to embarrass the boys

rowan got his dream house in empyreum this past sunday, and i’ve spent the past couple days decorating both it and redoing his apartment in shirogane!! i had to put up these two portraits in the house, and they just so happened to sit perfectly in the downstairs.

rowan has the most cluttered house in all of eorzea and it’s hilarious.

bonus after rowan says how he got their portraits and realizes he has to keep estinien from burning down the firmament:

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krile: g’raha, is everything alright? your partners handling working with you on assignments okay?

g’raha: everything is perfectly normal right now. nothing to see here.

based on this mcelroy bros screenshot that i always laugh at

[rowanul-tyr]

hi sorry i am unprivating a handful of things.

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An encounter with Emet-Selch at the base of the Ladder.

i made this sort of gpose comic recently! i was trying to figure out what rowan’s azem would look like based on what little i’ve pictured in my head, and this was the result!

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beloved

i decided to retake photos of one of my favorite poses for these three, based on the famous photo of anne hathaway in twelfth night. i’d loved the original but felt i could fix parts of it. i ended up going back and referencing the original a lot more to get the pose just right. unfortunately…i didn’t save the final poses, so i may not be able to get exactly this ever again. oh well!

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sorry to tumblr friends i really REALLY didnt want to bring up stupid fuckin fragments guy bc i am so fucking tired of him but like i said in the tags, he's trying to double down on posting to tumblr only since less people in the fandom have called him out over here. so this will be the last time i mention it, just unfollow and block him