#ffxvi au

[redwinelvr]

He didn't want hugs to begin with...

[xamaxenta]

square enix has gone done it again and got me all obsessed over traumatised pretty boys with tragic backstories

very inspired by how gorgeous the game and character designs were so I had to draw Ace in the role of Clive Rosfield, theyre very similar when it comes to adoring and protecting their younger brother 🥺

[wurstigdurstig]

some au that only lives in my head - uhh dion thinks terence dies and gets brough to waloed where they try to convince him to join barnabas cue rescue mission - or maybe i just made this up so I don't have to draw armor

[autumnslance]

BLINDSIDED and HELPED for the meme!!

(Yes these are taking me awhile. I do not control the rate at which I respond to prompts. You'd think so, but you'd be wrong. *pokes OCs with a stick, gets slapped back*)

send HELPED for a scene from my muse's past in which someone helped / saved them

“I can’t use magic,” Aeryn whispered, the admission stinging. “I’ve tried and tried, and I know it’s there, but it just…won’t come.”

The old woman nodded. “Perhaps one day you will find out how to change that,” she said. “But there is more than magic.”

Aeryn couldn’t help wrinkling her nose.

The old woman chuckled. “Yes, all the platitudes and reassurances you’ve doubtless heard before—but also more than that. Aether is not the only way in which we interact with the world.”

“But aether is everything,” Aeryn answered.

The old woman chuckled. “Spoken like a well-taught academic. Well, my teachings are not those of a university curriculum.”

Aeryn watched and listened, a small frown on her face, head tilted in curiosity. There were those who said the old weaponmaster’s wife was a witch. She hadn’t given the rumors any thought, when her stepfather had arranged her instruction for her requested nameday gift.

The old woman smiled, reaching a hand out. “Tell me, dear, in all your many readings, what did you learn of akasa?”

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(This one got a little long, so going below the cut, BUT how about something from my Free Company’s FF16 AU "On Our Fates Alight"…)

send BLINDSIDED for a scene from my muse's past in which they were betrayed or shocked by what someone did

Everything was supposed to have been better, once Emelia brought her children to Thavnair.

Away from Coerthas, away from its never-ending war. Away from the Inquisition and the dragoons, away the betrayal of the village priest.

Away from the loss of her husband and home.

Instead, she stood in the opulent chambers of the Meghaduta, trying not to tremble in the face of divinity.

The great wyrm sighed heavily, pain in his motions. Her eyes flicked to the wounds and burns scarring his massive form. “Worry not,” he intoned, the words clear in her mind as much in her ears. “I shall heal.”

“I’m so…sorry,” she said, the word trite and absurd for the enormity of the situation. “I had no idea…”

Aeryn, so small and young, so timid now since the events in Coerthas, had panicked—and the Manusya Eikon of War, Asura, suddenly stood in her place, roaring in fury, light and fire and storm flashing with each of her many blades.

So Zaine, to protect his sister, had rushed forward, heedless of danger. And then in his place stood Daivadipa, the Mrga Eikon of War, drum rumbling, snakeheads hissing, as he met Asura in battle.

It had taken the island’s protector and true ruler, the Great Wyrm Vrtra of the First Brood, to stop them from leveling Vanaspati.

Her children were Dominants. Her children were Dominants.

Vrtra shook his head. “Thou has but recently returned to our shores, and while the Eikons often take time to manifest, thy recent struggles hath primed thy children to accept the gods’ favor.”

Favor. Not how they would say it in much of the world. Memories of the Inquisition, rumors of Garlean hunters, crowded her mind.

“What do I do?” she asked, voice small.

“The children must be guided, as well as guarded,” the wyrm answered. “They shall be my wards, and I will teach them to control the divinity within. To the rest of the world, they shall be under the care of the Satrap—those of Alzadaal’s line who maintain my secrecy. You understand you are now part of this secret.”

Emelia nodded, mouth dry. “I want to stay with them.”

“Of course,” Vrtra replied, a warm gentleness in his tone she had not expected. “I would not separate them from thee.” He looked away briefly in thought, and she could swear he was frowning. “Emelia, what dost thou know of Aeryn’s Eikon?”

She blinked. “Asura is the Goddess of War; not always well-regarded among our people, who ever strive for peace, under your all-seeing eye. She wields many blades, and has many faces, all aspects of why one fights in war—justice, vengeance, conquest…”

He nodded, stretching his torn wings with a groan. “I hath known many a Dominant of Asura in my time. Yet none have also wielded the power of dragons.”

“What do you mean?” 

“Asura drew not only upon her own power, but upon Aeryn’s own. The inherent qualities of her bloodline have affected this manifestation of the goddess.”

“What are you talking about?” Her voice came in a hoarse whisper, her heart hammering in her chest. What was happening to her baby?

Vrtra’s head hung low. “Many Coerthans carry within them part of my sister, Ratatoskr, betrayed by mortals a thousand years ago. And in the time since, those men call heretics have found ways to strengthen the dragon within, by consuming the blood and essence of other dragons, as their ancestors did her.”

Emelia stepped back, bile rising in her throat. “That’s not how I’ve heard the story,” she said. “They only speak of Nidhogg, and his rage. Regardless, my daughter is five—she’s no heretic, and we’ve never…eaten…a dragon!” The very idea was blasphemy, even if it wasn’t already disgusting.

“No, she hath not committed such a sin herself,” Vrtra agreed. “And yet I sense my sister’s daughter’s blood within her. Thou hast obviously not partaken. Which leaves—”

“No,” Emelia sobbed, clinging to herself.

They had said the old priest was a heretic, secretly corrupting others for decades. Corran had been one of the men in town to spend time with Father Comfraire. Corran had so often worked longer, later, than some of the others, with certain comrades. Strange behaviors, strange scents and stains, strange secrets she had never looked much into; she had her own harmless friendships and interests, didn’t she? She trusted her husband implicitly, why shouldn’t she?

Emelia had seen Asura’s red draconic face, in the place of fiery Vengeance. Heard the goddess cry out in the draconic language as she had slammed magics into the wyrm repeatedly as Daivadipa tried to wrestle her down.

Vrtra tried to continue to explain in his gentle, rumbling tone, but all Emelia could do was fall to her knees and scream.

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(No I did not proof Vrtra's Elizabethan language maybe later when it goes on Ao3.)

[writermich18]

FFXVI Writing Prompt - AU Idea

Cid, instead of abandoning his post of Lord Commander, went missing. Rumors pop up about an outlaw who looks like Cid Telamon, rescuing Bearers and Dominants alike. Benedikta and Barnabas try to find him, to no avail, not even his shadows manage to draw near for some reason. When Benedikta finds him on the battlefield after two years of silence, standing with the young newly rescued Shiva's Dominant and Phoenix's long lost First Shield, he looks at her without recognition. And she knows, after his scout tells the group who she is, and he doesn't talk to her like the Cid she knows would... she knows he has amnesia. He has forgotten about her and his king.

Barnabas's freak out and temper tantrum is not something she wishes to see again. Benedikta wishes this was not the news she brought before her king regarding Cid. Neither of them knew which would have been better: Cid choosing to abandon them in favor of aiding Bearers or him losing his memory, not willingly leaving them behind, and going missing.

[fatewalker-phoenix]

Kiana, Dominant of Garuda, Eikon of the Wind

[shizucheese]

I need people to recognize the AU where Dion grows up as Clive and Joshua's stepbrother.

Clive and Dion trauma bond over how much of a bitch Anabella is (as adults, maybe even teenagers, maybe this happens over ale/ beers or some other alcohol).

Joshua half defends her, not because he actually fully believes it when he says "she's not that bad...", but because she's nice to him and she's their mother and mothers aren't *supposed* to he that bad, but he also sees how she treats his brothers so it just takes Clive and Dion giving him a *look* for him to relent.

This can be a canon timeline or modern AU thing idc I just need more people to acknowledge that there are three (or at least two and a half) brothers to that dynamic, not just two.

The age gap between them and Olivier, and the fact that Anabella dotes on him and keeps him separate from the other three, means that the council does not acknowledge him as part of the brotherhood.

[dead-n-lovin-it]

"𝔜𝔢𝔱 𝔡𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔱'𝔰 𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔢, 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔲𝔭𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔦𝔯 𝔰𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔰" ℑ𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔞 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔶𝔞𝔪, 𝔇𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔖𝔥𝔦𝔳𝔞, 𝔈𝔦𝔨𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 ℑ𝔠𝔢

(Divider by @samspenandsword)