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I decided to take a break from Twitter today. I expect others have/will too. So if you're looking for FFXIV blogs to follow here's a quick summary of what you'll find on mine. I do ask that no one under 18 (or prudes) follow since I curse, write about some heavy themes, and do the occasional mild NSFW. 😳

I usually focus on FFXIV - specifically my main OC. Wolfram is a 40yo Highlander Spellblade. He's the Warrior of Light and is shipped with Raubahn Aldynn. Here's his character Carrd. I do gposes, comics, and the occasional house design.

IRL I'm a software dev in my 30's living in the southeastern USA. She/her/they/them, bi, and gloriously neurodivergent. I'm married so no thirsty DMs please! 😂

GPoses

Comics

A chronological list of the comics/scripts so far can be found on my Carrd. It's a long story with most comics covering several pages and split into chapters or "parts". I also post the scripts for those who don't want to wait for the comics to get the story. For a preview here are some of the cute lil 1-shots I do sometimes if I'm inspired by a prompt.

Lore/Prompts/Shipper Stuff

WolfBahn's story is a long one so follow if you want a painfully slow burn "lovers to exes to friends to complicated to friends to lovers" over the span of 15 years *gestures frantically at the blorbos*.

Housing

Housing Snap! I used to be a "housing main" but then my creativity broke free of it's restraints and refuses to be contained to one thing. 🥹

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Wolfram's Character Inspiration Chart

This took me a while because I've answered variations of this one before but forgot who I said. Honestly I consume a lot of media so… Wolf is basically 80% me with character traits thrown in from shows I like. I'm focusing more on personality/aesthetic/narrative than physical inspiration here... Ok maybe if Ravi and Eliot had a kid with Geralt's muscles and green eyes from somewhere?

Xena - Xena: Warrior Princess A person with a dark past seeks redemption by traveling around and doing good deeds. Wears lots of leather. Their primary weapon is a sword. Consistently flirting with their best friend. After writing the synopsis of his character story I realized Wolf is basically Xena… ok he looks more like Ares. Whatever, it's my bi-awakening show I can do what I want! After realizing this, I had to give Wolf some chakram lore too for the comparison to be complete! (which was easy with the Thavnairian dad)

Geralt - The Witcher Excellent fashion sense plus Wolf is also a person who tries to be neutral but will do anything to protect their loved ones. Mostly, Geralt is on here for his fighting style. Wolf uses more magic but he also has a very active/fluid way of combat. This is due to his dancer training and why he's so evasive, but I imagine it looks similar to how Geralt fights in the Blaviken scene from the first episode of season 1, just with the occasional VerFlare.

Ravi Chakrabarti - iZombie Did ya'll know Wolf is a bit of a nerd? I try and show it sometimes but due to the subject matter of many of the comics, it may not be obvious. He's really smart. Figures things out before others (like how did other people not realize Liv is a zombie?!) Unlike Ravi, he didn't have a formal education. He only knows the common language but reads a lot and even asks Y'Shtola to translate tomes for him. When he's around friends he's extremely talkative, usually about his interests (Mhachi history, cuisine, non-traditional uses for magic, etc). Also, Ravi's relationship with Peyton is (usually) really great power couple stuff. Plus they're good friends who joke around but are very sweet and flirty with each other. (Rahul Kohli is also Wolfram's voice claim btw!)

M.M. (Marvin Milk) - The Boys For some reason, I'm the only person I know who watches The Boys?! Anyway MM is great. He's got stuff from his past that really weighs on him but he fights through it for his friends and family. He's usually kind of the moral center of The Boys with a strong sense of right and wrong even if it doesn't align with those around him. He's also the paternal/fraternal figure trying to look out for everyone.

Jessica Jones - Jessica Jones She's got kind of a dark and snarky sense of humor. Leather. Alcoholic with PTSD but she doesn't let it stop her from doing what needs to be done and being a hero. Honestly I just really love characters who save people while not really knowing how to save themselves but hanging on anyway. Wolf's also got a pretty strong vigilante side…

Eliot Waugh - The Magicians Absolutely the most relatable depiction of depression I've seen on TV. He's usually really friendly and charismatic. Always joking around. It's all a mask for his major chronic depression. Drinks a lot. Also, very smart and talented mage without having to put in as much effort as Alice (read the books) which can be a double-edged sword. His biggest enemy is himself.

tagged by: @talion-graves (Thanks! This was funnnnn!!!)

tagging: This part always makes me nervous I'll forget someone. So just - anyone else who wants to do it - I wanna see it! The original template is here! I just tweaked it a bit for me.

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I made Wolfram a job stone for his Spellblade class! It's basically a mix of PLD/RDM. I chose Rose Quartz since it's pink like Magick Barrier (his shield). While he doesn't use job stones and created the class from mixing years of training I like to think he carries a stone around in case he needs to pass down the knowledge one day!

More about Spellblade

Wolfram doesn't use job stones, he has mixed the skills he’s gained over the past 40 years to create his own fighting class. I call it Spellblade. It’s mainly a mix of Red Mage and Paladin with a little Dancer thrown in.

Shortly after their marriage, Raubahn gifted Wolfram a longsword with an aether focus pommel. Joking that he kept breaking his rapiers by blocking with them. Wolf can now switch between DPS and Tank seamlessly. He doesn't use a physical shield and is an evasion-based tank. If one is needed he will cast a small concentrated Magick Barrier in front of him or above him. His tank LB3 is an impenetrable Magick Barrier concentrated directly in front of him, wide enough to shield the party.

As for DPS - Rather than casting Jolt he's learned to imbue it into his blade, similar to Tizonia. After a few hits, he's stored up enough aether to dual-cast one of his heavier-hitting spells, which he does using the sword exactly like traditional red mages do the rapier. As such he is a melee-heavy caster. When he builds up enough dark and light aether he unleashes a powerful melee combo that looks more like the paladin combo before leaping back to instant cast his powerful spell combo finisher and then charges right back into melee range. His DPS LB3 is still Vermillion Scourge because it's the BADDEST limit break in the game.

He's not a dedicated healer but can assist in a pinch and will often dual-cast VerCure if the healer is busy. Outside of combat if he focuses very hard he can still use his conjury skills like Esuna but he's so rusty he can't pull them off in a fight and as they say - The best mitigation is damage.

He's been known to throw the occasional chakram in a pinch, having learned his lesson of not having a backup weapon in his fight with Ilberd. Usually has a few hidden daggers too just in case.