#ahlis

[karoiseka]

Thank you @ahlis-xiv for being there for me last week.  I was having such a horrible brain-day, and out of nowhere you were there, shining brightly for me.

(and ty to @blackestnight for use of your in-game house for the setting!)

[kukurubean]

Happy Moonfire Faire 2021!

[aethernoise]

Compilation time! Thank you @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast for your hard work organizing and hosting another fantastic #ffxivwrite! 

Prompt fills

1. crux | 2. sway | 3. muster | 4. clinch | 5. matter of fact | 7. nonagenarian | 8. clamor | 9. lush | 10. avail |11. ultracrepidarian | 12. tooth and nail | 14. part | 15. ache | 16. lucubration | 17. fade | 18. panglossian | 19. where the heart is | 21. foibles | 22. argy-bargy | 23. shuffle | 24. beam | 25. wish (nsfw) | 26. when pigs fly | 28. irenic | 29. paternal | 30. splinter |

Reading guide & final thoughts below

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Fills by major characters and/or relationships:

Alyx & Aymeric: 4, 5, 8, 11, 16, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30

Alyx & Ardbert: 2, 9, 14, 15, 18

Rhodry Vance: 7, 12, 26 (inc. @holyja’s Hyana Geriel) 

Alyx, Emet-Selch and/or Hythlodaeus: 3, 17, 19

Alyx & Ahlis Ildilayan: 1, 22 (thanks @ahlis-xiv) 

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Lots of character development for Alyx this time in particular, as well as fleshing out some important relationship moments. While I didn’t end up accomplishing any of my loose goals (wedding planning coughs) I wrote a lot of ideas I had been holding onto for a long time. I end the month feeling very refreshed for having cleared out some mental backlog! Also, I was brave and posted smut on main, so that’s fun. 

The Ardbert pieces will eventually be edited and included in Sundered on AO3, and at least one of the Alyx & Aymeric pieces has already become part of an upcoming Damn Well chapter. The rest will remain here untouched unless inspiration strikes me to embellish and continue--it’s certainly happened before.

Thanks again Moen for your hard work, and everyone who participated--writers, readers, well-wishers, etc--and for your notes and feedback on my stuff :) As always, I see you and appreciate you. You are the wind beneath my creative wings, or something cheesy to that effect. Happy October!

[glaciesclover]

Colored sketch commission of @ahlis-xiv ‘s gorgeous FFXIV character Ahlis! Thank you once more for commissioning me, and for being such an immensely kind and patient person ;o; !!

It was such a pleasure to work with you and to draw the lovely Ahlis! <3

[yshiara]

Do not repost or reupload on any site without my permission. I’ll file a dmca against you if you do it and believe me, I’ll notice sooner or later. 

I learned how to do magic smoke!!

Character belongs to  ahlis-xiv 

Are you interested in a commission? Take a look at the profile! There is a link to my chart.

[captainbasch]

waist up commission for @ahlis-xiv !! Thank you so much again! ; v ;

commission info  |  ko-fi?

[erichtai-m]

EXPECTATION ASK MEME: @ahlis-xiv

A hard and focused look was mustered re thinking on the suject. Almost conflicted really as she came to mind to "her dreams".

"...I dont know if i wanna call them dreams...or rather should I count them..."

"When grandpa sent me to Hingashi and Kugane to protect me, it really frustrated me i couldnt do anything seeing I wasnt in any position to oppose them even in Kugane when the Empire established a Office in the Thavnarian Consultate."

"When letters from grandpa started to cease, I had made up my mind that when I was old enough, I'd go back and find him to help fight in the rebellion. He was all I had and I was scared of forgetting who he was. Though fate sent me to Limsa instead when that day came."

"It was probably a good thing, I guess. While I was told I was a natural in the arcane but I wasn't going to be useful with the heavily limited resources I had in Kugane. I always heard of the Arcanist guild that was settled in the west and I always wanted to train there. I never thought itd be a reality! Nor ever seeing my first carbuncle!"

"While I trained my goal was to becone stronger and return to help grandpa and the rebellion post haste, however..."

"...before I knew it, things just started happening...events, occurances, one after another. Suddenly, I was needed here in Eorzea and was obligated to the kami and Hydalyn."

"...before I knew it, I was an adventurer; a Warrior of Light, chosen among many to save this realm, and my goal to come home to grandpa was only pushed further and further. I wanted to see grandpa before it was too late but neith did I want to leave what was rested on my shoulders."

"When he appeared that day at Rising Stones to Yugiri back home to help Lord Hien, I wanted to go with him, now that I was finally reunited with him. He reminded me though I was needed still in Eorzea and he promised I would see him again."

"When the Scions decided they would help liberate Ala Migho and Doma I took this as a wish come true. I was finally able to come home and help grandpa liberate her after being had been away for so long. The journey had made up so much time I had wanted in so long with grandpa I hardly left his side during the whole adventure, from arriving to Doma, helping my people, finding Lord Hien and the Nadaam- just all of it!"

"Well...except...that moment he sacrificed himself in the castle. I didnt want accept it. I refused to leave him there bleeding and struggling with all his might! After waiting so long and going with the whims of the kami and trusting fate to bring me back home only to suddenly say goodbye to my only family!"

Suddenly a warm stream came down a warm cheek and the sound of a fist meeting wood brought her back from her drabble that had suddenly become overwhelming. "Ah S-Sorry... it.still kind of gets to me...thinking about that moment." She wiped off the salted drop from the cheek and too a moment to breathe.

"A-Anyways...he still bade me to leav him, grandpa that is. No matter how much I pleaded and cry but he told me to stop and dry my tears to pick up where he left off. That moment he told me to be at our Lord Hien's side in his place for him and ordered me to llive to leave as the kami would rather not have me just yet..."

Taimu coulldnt help but look above past the leaves and into the stars before looking down to the wood grain on the table and bench in deep refelction of the moment where she struggled with all her might to pull away from his bloodied abdomen and nodding to Gosetsu as he smiled proudly to her, saying she had truely grew up since she was a crying lonely babe he held her in his arms all those years ago before she found herself turning to the exit to ensure Lord Hien's safety and not looking back and held everything in until she could find a moment to herself to finally cry out the years of absense compared the time spent.

"I guess...I thought I had truely lost it all that day. The dream I wanted...of course my grandpa is now relatively alive and well...I...I'm just scared...it will happen again..."