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Clio
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Clio
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In celebration of Dragon Quest's 40th anniversary, I dressed Clio up as Stella and went to an art party in Final Fantasy XIV!
My friends also went to it with me, and.. of all the characters they could have chosen to go as, one actually ended up picking Kana, who is one of my own OCs for Dragon Quest IX! It felt like such an honour to see her cosplayed like that~
DQIX is one of very few games I could potentially call my absolute favourite of all time, and I hope to have made that clear with how I am about it here. So this was a really nice event to get to be part of, and I was really happy to get to commemorate the anniversary in this way ^-^
Clio's resting expression is generally supposed to be more smiley than it comes across in her FFXIV self. I still think she's really cute, though ^-^
have you seen my beloved OC girlfriend?
now you have ^-^
alright! @everynya asked to see all the different outfits I put Clio in across her story in FFXIV, so I went and took pictures of all of them!~
Here are her main outfits/appearances for A Realm Reborn, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, and Dawntrail respectively! The one on the left in each picture is more for the main release’s story, and the one on the right is more for the post-expansion patches.
I’m currently working on a more organised post on my actual FFXIV blog that goes into a bit more detail about each one, which I’ll link here when it’s posted ‑ but if anyone here has any questions in the meantime, I’d be more than happy to explain my design choices! ^-^
As requested by @wizard-selfships, here are some general fun facts for Clio as she appears in FFXIV!
First of all, I've thought a lot about her design, and part of that is shown by how her outfit changes for each expansion and post-expansion, which could be an entire massive post by itself. However, her accessories stay slightly more consistent overall despite all the outfit changes, because she is always wearing:
a ring on her right hand gifted to her by her mother, which she's had since first setting out on her adventures (alongside the axe her father gave her);
an eye-of-lightning pendant around her neck, gifted to her by her father (alongside a set of traditional armour) when she visited home just before defeating the Griffin at Baelsar's Wall;
Lyse's liberator earrings, having traded the pair she was wearing with her after the liberation of Ala Mhigo so that something of Lyse could always be with the Scions and something of Clio could always be in Gyr Abania;
and, of course, a flower crown made of white clovers around her head - it is enchanted with magic that prevents it from ever wilting, and she has worn one since the day she chose the name Clio for herself.
On the note of the last point there - FFXIV consistently uses the term "namedays" instead of "birthdays", but in Clio's case, those two days do not perfectly align with each other ('cause she's transgender) - so, she just gets to celebrate twice! She tries to make a habit of spending time with her friends on her new nameday (as in, the day she chose the name Clio), and then spending time with her family on what she might refer to as her "original nameday" (as in, the day on which she was born). Incidentally, the latter - so, her birthday - is the 14th Sun of the Fifth Umbral Moon, since this translates to the 14th of October in the real-world calendar!
Clio has a pet capybara pup called Tea Leaf! He was very hastily given to her by a treasure hunter she ran into only minutes after arriving in Limsa Lominsa for the first time, and has been with her ever since. He is extremely fond of being in hot water, which is why Clio named him Tea Leaf - though the actual out-of-canon reason is that Tea Leaf is also the name of her Foxstar Spirit Pet in KHUX, but it fits very well here too for this reason. Fun fact: he's actually over one thousand years old! (This is canon in-game lore about the capybara pup minion.)
Clio also has a pet chocobo, whose name is Cucumber! He is, out of canon, named after her Chirithy from KHUX, but in canon is named for his colour - he has green feathers instead of the more common desert yellow! He was given to her when she joined her Grand Company, so is usually stabled with them.
..This is less of a fun fact, but: you might have noticed that Clio's eyes are slightly different colours, and her right eye (which is a darker purple) has a scar over it. This is a result of something that happened near the end of the Shadowbringers story, though it doesn't get fully resolved (in terms of her eye colours no longer changing) until after the patch 5.3 trial, which is also the point where Lorenza enshrouds her for the first time despite the two not having a reaper's pact at the time. She's fine now, though! ^-^
Due to FFXIV lore being what it is, Clio has a number of equivalents/counterparts across the Source's reflections - as in, people whose souls are shards of the same ancient that hers is. Her last known counterpart shard on the First was a girl named Amy, whose spirit became the pixie eventually fought as the Lightwarden Titania; her counterpart shard on the Ninth is a woman called Ornith, whose details I haven't quite ironed out yet, but she definitely has a fondness for butterflies. (Ironically, the one reflection I haven't sorted is her counterpart shard on the Thirteenth. Maybe someday.)
I hope that works as enough facts for the moment - if there’s anything you would like me to elaborate on then feel free to get back in touch and I can explain further!! Thank you so much again for expressing your interest - it really does mean a lot, and I hope that this serves well as what you wanted!!
incidentally if anyone would like some FFXIV Clio Facts(TM) then I am very able and eager to provide them considering how much I've been playing that game as of late (and also for the past 18 months)
I took screenshots of Clio’s FFXIV version last night, plus also some other OCs I have from that game, so that I could update her Art Fight references in preparation for Wednesday (and also hopefully make profiles for the aforementioned OCs)
However as part of this process, I ended up taking closeup screenshots of her with bare collarbone/shoulders, to better show her hair length and necklace and so on
and I am consequently feeling very sapphic about them