send me a “۞” and I’ll introduce you to one of my other muses.
The wind is frigid, its gales a trusty companion in this season, and the Coerthan storms have covered the city and its outskirts in thick layers of heavy white.
The crunch of boots skipping around on snow accompanies every step up to the house, thuds and low growls a warning to the scene playing out at its front.
Straw has mingled with frosted soil and grass, its blades trampled inbetween kicks and punches at a dummy's mangled body. It looks like it's seen better days, and really, it's probably been fixed at least half a dozen times inbetween training sessions.
The assailant's breathing is accelerated, brows drawn in sharp focus on the dummy's head, and the next roundhouse kick takes it off in a clean blow in a flurry of powdery snow. The erupting snarl is victorious.
The man turns, pointed ears twitching at the approaching steps, and something cracks through his frown, splits it down the middle. He grins.
"You're late! I was getting cold, so I started without you. Find a wyrm on your way back?"
(I've been playing FFXIV since its 2.0 release 10 years ago, and my character never changed all that much aside from hairstyles and color scheme. After a time, it was a natural thing to start shaping him as an OC, and he's my joy and pride to this day, be it in raid or when he decorates the house with his in-game husband.
He's not the most welcoming guy to approach, but will warm up if given time and reason to find trust. A devoted Monk in his earlier years– as well as my first two expansions–, he is a Scholar main nowadays, although it feels like he'd rather eat his pets than use them sometimes.)