i. portrait // what could have been
FFXIV Vanilla Gpose Challenge — Prompt 1: Portrait
Mayhaps there existed a world where her mother never fled from her ancestral home and remained a proud, loyal daughter of House Dzemael—or its mirror equivalent—to the end of her days. Adricienne couldn't imagine a world where her mother had never fallen in love with her father, but stranger things have happened. Would the her of that world be born to her mother still? She imagined a portrait of herself, painted in that style so favoured by the Ishgardian high nobles, and it was an image so foreign and displeasing that she banished it from her mind at once.













