#cori lore

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your oc as one of the seven virtues

tagged by @impossible-rat-babies, ty!! 🩷 i'll tag @hythlodaes, @lavampira, @robynostornwyn, @birues, and anyone else who wants to do it! here's the quiz

corisande - kindness

you place others above yourself. you love. you sympathize. you forgive. always, you forgive. you offer second chances. the benefit of the doubt. affection without question. chips and chips and chips off the block of your heart. of course, you do it without expectation of anything in return; but with a dwindling supply, the question is when you’ll run out of parts of yourself to give.

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Who worries the most?

otp asks

Y’shtola worries more. There’s kind of a similar baseline worry they both have about each other, in their line of work, with both of them being so self-sacrificial as well, that also comes with a kind of acceptance—they want each other to be safe but they trust the decisions the other makes, that they’ll carry on the work if one of them dies. But Cori is so quiet, so withholding with negative feelings, so prone to pulling away to protect others and avoid being a burden, that Shtola worries a lot about her when she does that, and she worries about the toll all of their losses takes on Cori.

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3, 7, 19 for Corisande & the character asks 🤓

ty fren!! 💗

character asks

3. What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?

Technically the first thing I decided is that they would be Viera, but before I had decided anything else about them I stayed up til like 3am combing through nameberry to find them a name. The only real guideline I had is that I wanted it to be long/multi-syllable which is really not that useful in narrowing things down lol. But I thought Corisande was really pretty and I had never heard it before, and I liked the greek origin of it but that it wasn’t like, a recognizable greek figure or anything. I didn’t actually anticipate that they would be nicknamed Cori but it’s cute to me so it’s allowed T^T

7. What is an aspect of their appearance that you like the most?

Their nose is my favorite 🥹 the kind of aquiline shape with the lighter bunny tip is so cute to me. also a big fan of their fluffy curly hair and the shape of their eyes!

19. What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite?

My favorite thing about Cori is their kindness 🥺 it’s partly innate to them and partly borne of a lonely childhood that led to the conscious decision to treat other people with the kindness that only a select few people showed them. And it’s so essential to everything about them, everything they do comes from this place of kindness and gentleness.

My least favorite…idk, I love them too much!! I suppose my least favorite thing is that I still have a hard time writing their dialogue 😂 I have an idea of how Cori speaks in my mind but i find it sort of hard to describe to myself, I just have to type and retype til it sounds right to me

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one more thing sorry lol but part of the whole cori keeping things to herself thing is of course their desire to not have others worry about them, and part of it is a brute force optimism that if they don’t think about it then maybe it will stop, and also a big part of it is they literally can’t bring themself to speak of it bc it hurts too much. okay goodnight

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what about #13 for the oc asks?

xiv oc asks

ty! 💕

13. what did they lose to the calamity? or where were they when it hit?

Cori was still in their village deep in the Golmore Jungle! They were very isolated from any society outside of it, and so I don’t think they were much affected by the calamity! They probably did not know much about it at all until they left for Eorzea about 3 years after it happened, and learned of what happened.

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📻📻 requesting a cori song and a corishtola song from whichever universe you're thinking about most rn :>

ty azia!! 💗💗

In Okains Bay, oh, I could have stayed and never went home Might have been brief, but at least I was free from all of my ghosts That live in my head like reflections on water that only come once I still haven't learned, deceptions in the cinematic version of love But I can't get enough These days, oh, the world doesn't sing to me quite how it used to See, this life is a touch too damn much for me Maybe that's meant for me 'Cause I know there's a room where I'm happy But I can't find my way to the door Tell me who wins the war 'tween my heart and my head? I forgot what I'm suffering for I surrender to dark, when it all falls apart At least I won't have to pretend And I know there's a room where I'm happy Let me in, let me in

let me in - dermot kennedy: i probably could have copied the lyrics for the whole song lol, but I added it to their playlist for island fic reasons and for cori's mindset post endwalker. they've isolated themself from everyone, including shtola, because of their trauma and because they don't want to inflict it on anyone else. when shtola comes to visit they think they can get through the feelings without ever talking about them, but they can't--they can see how they can be happy with shtola, they want that, but they can't figure out how to get there! and on their island, at least, they can let themself be sad and a mess without putting it on anyone else.

Tried the fake shit, but it ain't the same A girl just knows when it's the real thing Yeah, I'm a cup of tea with a touch of cream, but something's missing So I'm gonna put this nice and sweet Baby, would you be my sugar, sugar? Make my heart race, even on a good day You make the world taste better, better Good on anything, want you on everything Just a little bit is all it takes Like a Coca-Cola on a Christmas Day You're what I crave, babe, what can I say? Would you, would you Would you be my sugar, sugar? Would you be my sugar, sugar?

sugar - maren morris: i know i was just telling you about this song earlier alkjdsd but i've been obsessed with it this week in the context of rodeo au, where shtola has gone her whole life thinking she doesn't need or want any romance/romantic love and now she's met cori. and like, she doesn't need it but sharing her life with cori does make things all the sweeter!!

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12. If your OC were in love, how might they recognize this? Or would they be too much in denial?

oc love asks

ty fren!! 💖

how cori knows they are in love: y’shtola exists in front of them :>

this is a good one! Cori wouldn’t be in denial so much as in ignorance, not really having any idea they were in love until it just clicks suddenly. Some clues they would definitely miss are the way they always want to share with that person first when they learn something new, the way every quirk makes them more fond, the difficulty of turning away from them and the warmth they feel when looking at them. In canon, they won’t realize this until the other person does something dramatic that sparks the thought in Cori’s mind. In AUs, they know they have romantic feelings early into them but it might still take a while before they realize it’s love!

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22 and 23 for Cori for the xiv oc asks? 👀 (If you're still taking those?)

xiv oc asks

ty rue beloved!! so happy to see you not shadow banned anymore 🥰

22. At journey’s end, have they changed for the better or worse? Or does their journey continue still?

Cori has mostly changed for the better, I think. She grew up a v isolated, lonely child who was determined to be independent and not burden her mother. They’ve lost a lot and have so much grief but they found so much love too, friends and family who care so much for them and have shown them how to let others help. She still struggles, she’s still working on letting people see her hurt, but she’s more open to it now (when she is not struggling so much with her trauma. but she’s also retained a lot of things too! Her kindness, her warmth, her optimism, all things that have been reinforced by her journey.

23. If there’s something they could forget, what would it be?

under the cut for enw spoilers!

Definitely how it felt to be in another person’s body, how it felt to try to reach for their magic and not be able to grasp it, that whole trial of trying to get that body to work for them. it’s one of the biggest sources of their struggles right now and they desperately wish they could forget it, even more than they wish they could forget how horrible their burn was and how horrible it was when they healed it.