Hi, I just wanna say that I recently just discovered your blog and as someone who's been following the complete cutscene/walkthrough of ffxiv online, I LOVE Alphy for his adorkable-ness and am so in love with your "Illya x Alphinaud" ship posts~! They just seem so cute together that I even hope there's a "love story" that follows the retelling of the game with their romance included~ 😍 😍 😍 Keep up the good work my friend~!
I can’t even begin to tell you just how happy this ask made me??? THANK YOU SO MUCH??????? I’M SO HONORED, FLATTERED, OVERJOYED!!! I love Alphinaud too!! I just love how well written and developed he is, from the egotistical, naive and kind of overzealous boy, he grew into such a brilliant, yet still adorkable young man!!!
I never really intended to end up shipping Illya with him as I played through the game, it just happened as a result as I was progressing the story and saw how wonderful, wholesome and HEALTHY their dynamic is.
I’m always really self-conscious about Illyanaud because they feel so...vanilla. They’re the very definition of VANILLA and FLUFF and I always feel like people would think they’re boring compared to other ships on this platform. So hearing you say that you love this ship really warms my heart ;;; And I can’t thank you enough ;;;
Honestly, yeah, I’d definitely pay for a recreation of the game with changes to fit my headcanons for what I think happens in Illya’s canon!!! From their not so pleasant relationship in ARR, developing into a sort of awkward friendship in HW and all the way to crushing and then romantic love AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! They’re just such a huge emotional support for me which is why I feel so passionate about creating content for them, even if I am severely handicapped in what I can do.
This turned out to be a ramble but DNofndefodn honestly it just goes to show just how happy your ask made me and I’m really really really grateful to know that people out there actually support the stupid things I do ;;;