#ffxiv asks

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Short Summer OC Ask List.

Does your OC enjoy sunbathing or do they prefer to keep to the shade?

What is your OC's favourite summertime treat? Ice Cream? Sorbet? Or perhaps a chilled cocktail?

Does your OC have any inclination to play beach games or are they above such things?

What is their priority when choosing their swimwear? Practicality? Modesty? Or are they aiming to be as sexy as possible? What is the finished result?

How does your OC prefer to spend their time when the sun goes down? A quiet drink and gazing at the stars? Watching the fireworks? Or something more raucous?

Is your OC a confident swimmer? How do they feel about swimming in the sea as opposed to a pool?

How does your OC keep cool on hot sweltering nights? Do they struggle to sleep?

What is your OC's favourite summertime activity? Are they competitive or more keen to relax? Do they like an audience to witness their high dives? Or would they sooner hide away with a book?

Would your OC be the first to leap in the water to save a struggling stranger? Or would they leave it to someone else?

How does your OC feel about sand? Are they irritated by it getting into places they'd rather it didn't? Or do they accept it as a fact of life?

[relentless-boredom]

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality? For Imani, Cedrik, J'mhazi, Ryun :)

Thank you for the ask <3

Imani: As a Viera she grew up in a society that strictly divides men and women and, growing up with the other females in her village she never questioned her gender identity. As for her sexuality... she is straight but generally it's another thing she never really questioned since she never put much thought into it. She did have a brief fling with one of the young men visiting her village once but after she set out to Eorzea she never really thought about it for a while. Sadly she only recognized her own feelings for Haurchefant after he died but that showed her that she desires a deeper connection to someone before she thinks about sexual desires.

J'mhazi: He identifies as a cis male but within his society he never had any desire to become a nuhn (the breeding male and leader of a Seeker of the Sun tribe). While he possesses the strengh and experience to make a good nuhn one day, the mere thought of it makes his skin crawl. Aside from that he's bisexual, always has been, but never experienced any attraction to non-Miqo'te.

Ryun: That is a more complicated story. While he was raised as a male and identifies as such he always assumed to be only attracted to women. His fiance was a Samurai like him, they trained together for years under the guise of Imperial education, secretly labouring towards Doma's liberation. She was his inspiration, his drive to save his homeland and the one that understood him best. Sadly she died in the failed revolution which led to him scouting ahead for a save route for the Doman refugees. His sole purpose became to liberate his home at all cost, avenging both the deaths of his Lord and his fiance, until he followed the Scions and the WoL into their temporary exile to Ishgard. While he had pledged his sword to the WoL's cause for the time he stayed in Eorzea, he watched Tatapi tread down the path of the Dark Knight with gowing concern. After agreeing to meet her mentor on one of the rare quiet evenings, he was surprised to find another Au Ra in the middle of Ishgard. While initially he was weary of the grumpy Dark Knight he soon learned that they shared a very similar tragic past. He started to accompany Tatapi to her lessons (and to check in on Rielle) on a regular basis and so his friendship with Sidurgu deepened. Except it was more than a simple friendship. It was a mutual feeling of understanding that he thought he'd never experience. During his time away in doma he kept writing letters back to Ishgard and after both he and Tatapi returned to Ishgard after the successfull liberation of Ala Mhigo, Ryun and Sidurgu found themselves in a kind of companionship that danced around the thin line between friendship and love (Rielle already viewed him as family at this point). It would take until after their return from the First for both Ryun and Sidurgu to decide to retun to each other's side, come what may. So, to cut a really long story short, Ryun still would consider himself to be attracted to women generally, his current situation is simply a result of a deep sense of trust and understanding, a once in a lifetime encounter, where he loves Sid simply for who he is.

Cedrik: While he lived the life of a typical Viera male in the past he thinks that his gender identity (and that of others) is non consequential to who he is as a person. How he was raised and socialized yes, but not how he identifies. According to this, he first and foremost looks for a person he can trust, someone who shares his values and independence instead of linking attraction and sexual desires to the gender of a person.

[ravandfriendsxiv]

Do Ravnur and/or Mazeh'a have further parts to their names? Or is that not part of their background/heritage?

They do! Ravnur's last name is Rhun, something he took on after leaving Golmore. He's given many titles, so most people don't actually know him as anything other than “Ravnur” or by a title like "The Lily Knight" because of the white lilies he's always seen wearing (or if people don't bother learning how to say his name). He also has a surname from his Wood-warder upbringing but he keeps that locked tight, so no one knows what it is.

Mazeh'a's last name is Zorroyo. He comes from a blended tribe of a Keeper mother and Seeker father, and his last name is a combination of sounds important to both his parents. It's considered strange by both peoples' linguistic conventions, so he's used to coming across as “alike but not alike” to other Miqo'te. While he has a complicated relationship with it, he's fine using it socially! In comparison, his fraternal twin Yama just goes by the mononym “Yama” and nothing else because he's cut off all ties.

Thanks for the ask @mimble-sparklepudding!

[stalwart-spirit]

Poses. I would like to know more about the Damascus Djinns! What inspired their creation, how did they come about; who were the founding members; is it a thriving, rich organisation and was it always that way? Please tell me everything. :)

Oh you have opened the FLOODGATES on some character lore here, so sorry not sorry for the literal wall coming your way!

There's primarily three founding members of the Damascus Djinns, just a trio of orphaned Rabanastran streetrats trying to get by day by day. What would be seen as petty thefts were just ways to get by. With no gil or family, how else are kids meant to feed themselves?

Saeed's the eldest of the three, the one to set about their plans of pickpocketing and stealing goods, though throughout the years those would escalate into distrupting imperial goings on within their city and was the one to set into motion their part in the Dalmascan Resistance.

Farah is certainly the more level headed of the group, though can't help but use her arcane trickery to cause a distraction if they happen to get into a pinch. Over time she trains these skills, eventually becoming quite the formidable arcanist with particularily potent magicks at her disposal.

Tahsin, a little more hotheaded, is one to charge in and get right into the action as soon as possible. To some it would seem reckless, and perhaps that is true, but more often than not he will get himself out of whatever trouble he and his friends have gotten into by sheer power of will alone.

Honestly, they're family, always will be.

Over time their membership grew, with fellow wayward souls wishing to help out one another, to in time those who also wished to get back at the imperials who discriminated against them and their people.

So Saeed took up the place as leader of this group with Farah and Tahsin standing by his side as his most trusted co-leaders, and finally they had a name for themselves; the Damascas Djinns.

From here on it was no longer just a gang of youths doing what they could to survive, now it was a fully fledged espionage group willing to do whatever they could to disrupt imperial political matters, the manufacturing of magitek within their city and steal as much information as possible for the Dalmascan Resistance.

Unfortunately with the subsequent bombardment of Rabanastre, they all found themselves scattered and many of their number lost in the tragedy, many choosing to go into hiding with the subsequent headhunting lead by the empire for those involved with the Dalmascan Resistance.

The founding trio, however, thankfully reunited within Neimrahava.

And in due time, others would appear back into the fray and with the following uprising in Bozja, many moved to help on the front and take their chance to bring down the very imperial airship that destroyed Rabanastre.

Presently, with the reclaimation of Dalmasca from the empire, most have moved on to settle down within Valnain. Farah herself taking up a political position within the new capital whilst Tahsin gets involved with the goings on within the Rumta-Zaraam.

Saeed however, forever unable to settle down, currently keeps himself occupied with mercenary and spy work wherever he can, taking him to every part of the world that he never even dreamt of going to.

Of course, there isn't much time spent apart. The Damascas Djinns still stand strong as a group, and their founding members even stronger.

[mist-touchedxiv]

What is Loksen's favorite holiday? What about least favorite? [from @dragonsongmakhali]

Loksen enjoys any kind of festivities that involve food and drink in massive quantities, but his favorite would have to be Heavensturn. Celebrating in the cold reminds him of home, and he has a soft spot for Hingan culture after essentially being adopted into the country after his escape from prison.

Least favorite is probably The Rising. He associates it with lots of bad memories.

[avtorsola]

Does your OC prioritize winning? (from @wandererxiv)

Hiya!!! Ty for the ask! This is Also a fun one, I think, because my OCs sure have some Opinions on what "winning" means. Answering for two again!

Corrain prioritizes winning, definitely. But depending on what point in his life he's at, he defines it differently. Post-Vault through the end of Stormblood he's in a pretty dark place, so to him "winning" means killing and defeating his foes. And he will do that by any means necessary- to him, with his NIN skills and DRK self-necromancy, there's no such thing as a dirty trick in a fight. Just people who can react fast enough to counter, and people who can't.

However, after the liberation of Doma and Ala Mhigo and end of Stormblood proper, he kind of has a "come to Hydaelyn/Zodiark" moment. Because in fighting Zenos, he sees a reflection of himself and the endpoint of the path he's on, and he chooses not to keep going that direction. And thus after this period, his definition of "winning" shifts to mean defeating his enemies' *plans*, specifically - stopping people before they can hurt others. It's not about winning a fight for him anymore, it's about winning the "war", so to speak.

Inara, however, is sort of the opposite. She actively avoids winning, in a sense, because what's most important to her is her independence - and she doesn't care whether or not she 'wins' any particular conflict as long as she can maintain that independence. The one exception however, is when she fights for the Mol in the Naadam on the Azim Steppe. As someone who abandoned her former clan, the Oronir, in order to pursue her independence, winning the Naadam proves more than anything else that she does not need her former clan to be strong. And if it impresses a certain Dotharl mage and Mol archer, well then. That's even better for her.

(To be clear: Inara's beef with the Oronir is onesided. They didn't really do anything in particular, she just felt Stifled and turned into a black mage to explode things about it)

Thank you for the ask!!!!! <3

[whispering-jabberwocky]

I don't think I have asked this, so...

How do SUiren and Soren get along with the various "beast" peoples? Do they enjoy helping them? Do they have a favourite, or perhaps there's a tribe they would rather avoid?

Oh, Suiren absolutely loves meeting new "beast" people. She has a very adaptable personality and always goes all in into participation. Pretty sure she had to go through a linguistic detox, issued by Alphienaud, every time. She finished her sentances with a compulsive "kupo" for like two weeks. Her favorite are probably Namazu. What a silly bunch. And the festival was a great fun on its own. On the other hand, she finds 789th Order absolutely hopeless. Twelve bless thease kobolds, they need that.

As for Soren; he haven't got much expiriences with them yet. He is a bit apprehensive, to be honest. Most of them have a language quirks he has trouble to understand. His grasp on eorzean language is not yet perfect and he tends to get confused. Sylphs for one, tends to abuse it for pranks.

[thebrumeknight-ffxiv]

If Garrett had to pick one popular saying to embody their philosophy toward life, what would it be?

Sorry for the delay with answering your question but thank you for your time and asking! --------------------------------- "My philosophy towards life?"

"I'm not really sure if it's philosophy or not but something that I was once told is something I do my best to live by." "No matter how many painful and ugly wounds you've suffered, there's always a possibility of healing so long as you keep moving forward."