[Content ID: Art of Sylus and an original character / main character (MC) from Love and Deepspace. The original character is wearing a circular cabochon beaded earring. Sylus is wearing a black shirt and a black collar. MC has long neon-green hair, and teal-green eyes. There are pink and green highlights in their linework. MC is positioned with their chin over Sylus' shoulder. In the background there is a burst of pale blue behind the couple which bleeds out into a darker blue and bordered by pink brush marks. In the bottom left hand corner it is signed @recurringwriter /End ID]
I received this wonderful birthday gift of Faedolyn (they/them) and Sylus from my friend Curry, who has his commissions open!
Thank you so much! I really love it! <3333
I was tagged by the wonderful @peachiehambo in the following:
make your favorite ship (platonic too!!) whether it be canon characters, OCs, or self inserts with THIS PICREW!!!!
Row 1: Faedolyn x Zayne, Étoile x Astarion, Faedolyn x Sylus
Row 2: Nanami x Fukushi, Faedolyn x Rafayel, Shiho x Choso
Row 3: Faedolyn x Xavier, Almanzor x Peregrine, Faedolyn x Caleb
I'll tag @boghermit, @ghostwise, @faerieenthusiast, @razrogue, @lucius-the-sinful
I'm indecisive and leaned into it. Choose your own Fae to be a romanceable character for your love and deepspace mc!
A big thank you to @eolasesayelan for the template: [here]
Any edits to Fae's eye color or body type are my own!
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Their personality is mostly consistent between iterations once you get to know them but some versions of them will be more callous or playful depending on their background and how you meet them.
The full bullet points on the latter half of this character sheet would read:
They've never forgotten someone's name despite having to keep lists of recipes they've made many times before.
They once had to hold their breath for nine minutes to evade a group of assassins. They claim they weren't the target.
They enjoy books and movies that make them feel like part of a community, whether that means they have something in common with a creator or just that there is a lively fanbase.
The aethercore in their throat seems to compel people to listen to their words, and even obey them for a short time.
Faedolyn the Consultant is actually an Agent of criminal organization called the Shards. Obvious Vocations presents publicly as a hiring firm, but the Shards operate in protocore trade. The Shards ultimate goal is to be able to synthesize and control Wanderers from the energy stored in their protocores, to pit them against wild Wanderers, and to eliminate the need for Deepspace Hunters — with the suspect mission statement of protecting humanity. They sit around ninth on EVER's bounty list for their assassinations of competing agents and businessmen.
They are a Chronos Class Evolver who can age whole persons or small elements of living creatures (a thumb joint, a tree branch) or unliving material (oxidizing copper, rusting iron, varnishing gasoline), but primarily they use their evol to stop time (they are also stopped, but they are aware during this time) so they can think out a solution to the messes they get into, or they use their evol to reverse time by negligable increments. Faedolyn's permanent Myth's ultimate would add 15 seconds to Wanderer fights; thanks to the boost from your MC's Resonance (if applicable).
Faedolyn the Deepspace Hunter is a recent transfer from a different city's Hunter Association. They enjoy the friendly competition of Linkon's community, and believe that your MC deserves at least four promotions. Their personal goal is to improve the technology used to steady metaflux levels so that protofields manifesting in cities becomes a thing of the past.
They are once again a Chronos Class Evolver, see above.
Faedolyn the Sound Engineer is a Linkon local flying under the radar and living an everyday life. They work with bands', orchestras' and other private technicians to optimize sound quality at Ethereal Hall. They have a familiarity with a variety of instruments and equipment, and can easily blow any of it out with their evol if pressed, but this is Faedolyn's coffee shop au where nothing has to go wrong, if that's more your mc's speed.
They are a Sonic Class Evolver who can maniplate sounds / frequencies / vibrations / volume and create shockwaves ranging from an annoying pop in one's ear to category 5 winds to a full tsunami (again, with your MC's Resonance, as applicable). They can also temporarily kill a source of noise for stealth or annoying people at the bar.
Faedolyn the Film Director has a focus on films, but might take on a commercial or twelve when they're inclined to studio work and don't want to fly out on location - which is their preferred method of filming even despite their fear of flying (they do not have a fear of heights when their feet are on the ground, or when they're laying on their stomach in a more secure way to glance over a cliffside). Isolation Studios is situated in Linkon and has had a hand in a few of your MC's favorite movies, whether or not you like Faedolyn's work. Faedolyn might spend 1-4 years on a particular project, and benefits from being from a wealthy family and having apprenticed under two separate directors of great reknown. The wealth and the time between projects however leaves a lot of leeway for them to accompany your MC on various missions and vacations and trips to the arcade.
This Faedolyn is cousin to Viper, whom they think is deceased from when a city was destroyed during the Chronorift Catastrophe.
They are also the current incarnation of the Great Serpent, a God of Sacrifice and Rebirth; where snakes shedding their skin is a symbol of new beginnings. In a past life with your MC, they tried to warn you that you do not wish to be loved by Sacrifice, but avoiding one another is rarely an option once you've met; so even platonically, your MC can blame Faedolyn for all their problems if you like.
Rafayel's abilities as the God of the Sea are distinct from his Fire evol, and different still than his identity as a lemurian.
This version of Faedolyn is a Serpens Class Evolver who can control their physical body like the Ovophis family of Vipers. This means they have incredible grip and limb strength, as well as fast reflexes — the better to constrict one's enemies with; as well the ability to produce venom from fangs. A default companion ultimate (and not a myth ultimate) that they would have would involve them kissing / spitting on an arrow which they hand off to your MC to fire off with a bow.
This version of Faedolyn is lying about possessing a protocore / having Protocore Syndrome, unaware of the Hunter Association's distinctions with aethercores, but your MC can easily deduce this through use of your Hunter's Watch (if applicable).
Faedolyn the Metaflux Bio-Engineer is a radical scientist who sits somewhere between Rafayel and Xavier on EVER's bounty list. They are a council member of an underground organization based several hours outside of Linkon called GREEN; so named because of a collapse of an EVER laboratory nine years ago, and EVER's subsequent hunt for their research subjects, it came to the attention of these survivors that they were being tracked as the Escaped Evolver Network (EEN); two years later they dubbed themselves the Grand Rebellion of the EEN (GREEN).
GREEN has little to no faith in legal authorities, including Deepspace Hunters, but even less love for EVER and their affiliates. They focus on recovering, corrupting and destroying EVER's research, and only ever as a secondary focus when the possibility of more victims comes into question. Faedolyn, like many of their peers, feels a strong kinship with any who's dignity, autonomy and humanity has been infringed upon by overzealous doctors, scientists and executives, and they strive to free EVER's victims (even those of circumstance).
Research that is recovered and Faedolyn's own endeavors guide them to modify and invent medical assistive technology (pacemakers, prosthetics) that can reduce effects like Protocore Syndrome, as well as technology that can focus the inhuman effects like evol into practical weapons towards their organizations purpose with a member's consent (energy weapons, devices that limit physical growth for those with evols that change their physical shape, devices that help maintain cognitive function on evols that push pain or adrenaline to levels that would otherwise leave someone incognizant or comatose).
They are a Creatura Class Evolver who is able to transform themself either partially, with enlarged muscles, teeth and abilities to be something akin to a were-tiger, or entirely, into a monstrous tiger-like creature. Immune to the evol cats kitty curse, but can present tiger ears and tail if they choose (they generally expect teasing and disparaging comments).
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Faedolyn generally has an agreeable manner, and is accepting of rejection. They are polyamorous, bisexual and nonbinary; and very interested in friends if their boundaries and identity aren't a romantic match.
Here's images of their body type from my LaDS Plus Size MC Week creation, a character sheet in an FFXIV format (with a screenshot from the same game) but with details or references to FE3H, the little chibi I managed to draw for this post and a link to a post with some lines of dialogue for you to be more acquainted with their personality: [here]
I also need to write / finish more lads fic, but I do have 6 litle lads fics which feature Faedolyn: [here]
This edit had so many moving pieces, but I think it mostly turned out well!!
I like the idea of Zayne teaching Faedolyn (they/them) to stand on a board / chase a wave being superfluous because it was child's play. The pair of them would have fun being competitive, which I think is the more likely reason to lead to them sharing a board.
More love and deepspace nonsense. Takes place between death and rebirth, and to our yesterday. Features my oc/mc Faedolyn. Rafayel and Xavier are present, Zayne is not. 810 word polyam fic with a reference to what I'll call "di/e/t culture."
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Xavier and Rafayel found Faedolyn in the backseat of Rafayel's sports car. Discovering Faedolyn in self-imposed isolation — melancholy and angry, had become painfully commonplace since Zayne's departure; and this behaviour had even influenced Rafayel's request to Xavier to attend this event, since his bodyguard had left so conspicuously in the middle of the last event Faedolyn had agreed to attend.
Rafayel nodded Xavier to the other side of the vehicle so the pair of them could slide into the back on either side of their partner. He groaned dramatically as he slumped into the car, letting his head fall across his partner's lap in a display of exhaustion.
"It's finally over," Rafayel whined happily, letting the back of his hand fall to his forehead.
Xavier's hips collided with Faedolyn's as he took his seat, his closer arm snaking around their shoulders while his opposite hand curled around to cradle their face towards him as he asked them, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I—" Faedolyn began, pulling Xavier's hand away from them only to have it snatched further away by Rafayel.
"Wait, were you crying?" Rafayel asked, surprised. He hadn't noticed they'd been separated for so long, and hadn't really seen Fae in tears for weeks now.
"No, I just—" Faedolyn huffed, embarrassed. "I just upset myself because something happened and I realized that a few months ago it would've really upset me, but with … with everything that's happened lately, it barely breached the surface … but not in a good way."
"What happened?" asked Xavier, attentive and to the point.
"It was nothi—"
"Don't say it was nothing," Rafayel insisted and Fae couldn't help a smirk at how silly he looked with Xavier petting his hair across their lap, and how silly they felt to accept Xavier and Rafayel's concern over something that wasn't life or death, or safety or separation.
Faedolyn reached into a pocket on their jacket and handed Rafayel a business card for a bariatric surgeon.
Rafayel's eyes lit up like he might set the car on fire, and Fae put a steadying hand on his chest in anticipation of Rafayel needing defusing.
"What is it?" Xavier asked, even as he accepted the card from Rafayel.
"A fucking weight loss clinic?" Rafayel boomed, sitting up sharply. "Who gave this to you?"
Fae tried to take the card back from Xavier as they answered, but he held his grip and slipped his hand away so Faedolyn fell against his chest.
"A well-meaning girl," Faedolyn insisted. They stretched and succeeded in stealing back the card this time. "The gallery director's girlfriend." Fae turned to Rafayel and took one of his hands in one of theirs with a sad smile. "She said she'd seen three celebrity break ups recently and suggested I take advantage of your wallet while things were good — whether to keep your interest or to make sure another man would look at me after."
The distress in Rafayel's two-toned eyes bordered on hysterical as he moved his free hand to cradle Faedolyn's elbow as he leaned into their space as if clinging to them from a precipice.
"You know that I think you're perfect, right?" he asked desperately. "More breathtaking than any natural wonder—"
"Raf—" Fae sighed, as if prepared to disagree or chastise him.
"I'm serious," he promised. "If anyone looks at you and thinks you need to change, then their perspective is so far removed from what I value that I kind of even regret showing my work here. You shouldn't value an opinion like this either."
The three of them were accustomed to people presuming things about their lives; operating under the illusion that certain experiences were universal. Yet no matter how many times people presumed, intuit or even, on occasion, deserved the worst that Rafayel could be, he was never able to rest when wracked by the insecurity that these impressions might be shared by one he loved.
"I know—" Faedolyn began, but then Rafayel's hand flicked up and stole the business card back from Fae.
"Good," he said with a confident finality, burning the business card with a quick flicker of flame.
Faedolyn chuckled softly and shook their head, "I was saying, this didn't even upset me, not the way it might've before. The world won't end if—"
"At all," Xavier said, helpless. "The world's not ending, and you don't need surgery."
"Mmn. Not that kind, anyway," Faedolyn pouted.
"Right," Rafayel agreed, sadly, not interested in offering future-shame in the event that Faedolyn's medical needs took a turn in the future. "Because you're perfect," he repeated himself; more than incidentally to keep the subject from turning to Zayne.
Rafayel kissed Faedolyn deeply, pushing them into Xavier's embrace, and then kissed Xavier too, quick and affectionate.
"I'll drive," he declared, but the meaning of his words were clear: 'Let's go home.'
I looked at two of my love and deepspace wip's yesterday and moved some things around but didn't write anything new. Maybe this will help.
In the game love and deepspace there is an "anecdote" that introduces that a character named Zayne (who is a cardiac surgeon) has a parallel universe self, also named Zayne but known in-world as a serial killer named Dawnbreaker. Spoilers but Dawnbreaker isn't actually a serial killer and the fandom kind of views him in the same way as "Batm/an," though he's kind of more like "Re/d Hood" in terms of morality. When Dawnbreaker sleeps, his dreams are that of the main timeline Zayne's life (not in chronological order, which is fascinating), and he is in love with the Main Character (MC) through the doctor's relationship with the mc.
My oc/mc is Faedolyn, and here's a 416 word Dawnbreaker fic.
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Zayne was accustomed to dreaming of the doctor's life. When he watched through eyes that weren't his own and saw hands less than half as scarred, it was with the logic of a dream that there was no dissonance in witnessing these hands perform intricate surgeries and delicate work that would be beyond him in his waking life, much as he studied.
He had seen anatomical drawings and sketched penguins on the doctor's desks and in his personal belongings, and knew that this skill was just another in a long line of accomplishments for the doctor. It had always felt like just another talent that would be out of his own reach, even as he smiled to see the art sometimes accompanied by stickers and doodles and smudges of lipstick that belonged to the familiar green haired beauty who loved him so gently.
But this was the first time Zayne had dreamed of the doctor while he was sketching his partner. With his phone connected to his laptop, the doctor opened an album full of playful smiles, and soon he had a whole page full of lips and noses scribbled out in front of him. He initially covered the top half of his work with inaccurately long bangs as he perfected the curves of their cheeks, and then hesitated for a long time before attempting to draw their eyes.
When the doctor was satisfied, he pulled all of the elements together in a proper portrait on delicate paper.
A knock at the door stole the doctor's attention, and shocked Zayne out of his dream.
Zayne pressed his hands around his face, slowly sliding his palms to press upon his eyes, frustrated that he'd been permitted to experience nothing but the doctor's yearning. Faedolyn could have been at the door. He wondered whether the doctor would hide the portrait, or offer it in immediacy.
He hadn't tried to draw the doctor's lover before, but if he could manage a likeness even half so well as the doctor had managed, then the indignity of quiet, private failure would be tolerable; if only to the same degree as the shame of his voyeuristic heartache.
If he could only remember the movements of the doctor's hands, the doctor's eyes ... Zayne had no need to invoke any reverence but his own when it came to the way Faedolyn's features were etched upon his mind.
Determined, he stole paper from beneath the map of his objectives, and with trembling hands, brought pen to paper.
LADS Height Comparison
but I subject you to my headcanons
[Content ID: A chart that measures from 0 to 7 feet titled "Sorry if ur Chars are above 7 Feet" which has additional text in the bottom right corner which reads "made by inthenameofSweden" . On the chart are the 5 love interests from Love and Deepspace and an original character. /End ID]
I made edits to someone's chart (10 ft originally) so I didn't have to come up with my own. I'll put a blank below the cut.
My edits include making Zayne and Caleb wider, making Rafayel narrower, and giving Xavier wider hips and legs. I've also tinkered with my mc's body (wider, lower/larger breasts, etc.). And my headcanons include height adjustments: Zayne 5'10" =/= 178 cm, Rafayel 5'09" =/= 175 cm, Sylus 6'04" =/= 193 cm, Xavier 5'07" =/= 170 cm, Caleb 6'00" =/= 183 cm.
If anyone else wants to use this, you're welcome to.
There was another one of these going around a while ago. The post I saw it in didn't have anyone I could credit, but if this reminds you of something it's probably this:
Cramped version if you want to crowd them:
If you want transparents of the LIs, here are mine (clean as I could get them, look best on a bright background / meme purpose):
