I'm still going through all of the new followers by the way! There are a lot of you but I'm genuinely so honored you all wanted to reach out to me. That's very kind of you!
Brief OC intros until I get a proper post going! (under the cut for your convenience)
Akari "Kaida" Asagiri - a Raen from the Ruby Sea, my "main WoL" so to speak. Hails from an underwater city with deep religious ties to the ocean. Daughter of a cold-hearted general and prodigy soldier. Considered a strategist in the Scions and an all-rounder. Getting a bit of a rework but is usually DRK/DNC/SGE.
Cassius Flavus - Garlean from the capital city, an OC that supports Kaida/the Scions. Part of a polycule with Kaida and Gaius Baelsar. Former courtesan, number #1 Emet-Selch/Solus zos Galvus hater, and kind of a disaster of a man (but really funny). Usually DRG/RPR/GNB.
Lillian Willows - A Gridanian botanist that discovered she had the Echo one day, considered a "late bloomed WoL" that joins in post-Shadowbringers. Kind of a spiteful little firebrand, ran away from home to find her missing husband. Probably 1 bad day from her villain arc. Has a crush on Thancred but too stubborn to admit it. Usually a WHM/RDM/BTN. (May be dabbling in PCT in the future!)
Eirian Yascaret - Nonbinary viera from the Golmore Jungle. Eirian and Kaida join the Scions at around the same time. Eirian is a trained fighter with a no-nonsense attitude. They're matter-of-fact, stubborn, and typically don't dilly-dally. Gets embarrassed if they're called cute (to the point where Eirian hides their tail). They're usually a PLD/SAM.
Given changes to m*dding and things of that nature, there may be some updates for each character but as of right now, these are their current appearances!
Hi, it’s been a minute since a huge major big post regarding my characters. I want to start this off by saying that most fics are gonna remain unchanged because a lot of these revamps are not things that will require much in the way of retconning! There will be minor tweaks to And Love You Shall Find and MAYBE to Alea Iacta Est. Everything else will remain the same.
The big two things are that Kaida and Lillian are being reworked slightly. Unfortunately when I upgraded my PC, some things were lost and certain files got corrupted. I had to rebuild Kaida and Lillian’s looks from scratch and due to certain things, some changes were made to their appearances. And then I realized... I kind of like those changes.
I also am in process of making a new probably secondary OC but I’ll post about that later when her design is finished. I think much like Ifra and Y’aana, she may not necessarily have full fics dedicated to her but she’ll be a character that shows up in fics. But that’ll go in a later post, time to talk about Kaida and Lillian!
Appearance Changes
Kaida has a new set of scales. Lillian has been given wavy hair and freckles. Both have new hairstyles for 6.3 onward.
Additionally, Kaida’s appearance in previous expansions will be getting slightly revised moving forward (mostly hairstyle changes and I’m going to come up with official “looks” for her for each expansion).
Further changes are under the cut because long.
Backstory Changes
The only characters receiving backstory changes at this time are Kaida and her Unsundered form, Euphrosyne. I’ve been doing a lot of deep diving into Kaida’s character lately and I’m ready to reveal these new changes.
Euphrosyne (Euphie)
Formerly, Euphie was adopted into Hades’s family. However, I’ve decided to switch the scenario so that Hades was adopted into Euphie’s family. Euphrosyne also had two sisters (Aglaia and, tentatively, Thalia).
Kaida Asagiri
I have bumped back the time that Kaida was exiled from the Ruby Sea. Rather than being exiled at age 16, she was exiled at age 19. I chose to do this to give more time to explore her life in the Ruby Sea prior to her adventures as a Warrior of Light.
Kaida had a pet syldra during her time in the Ruby Sea. These were not uncommon for richer clans to own. The pet syldra was named Gin. After her exile, Kousuke and Aika-- Kaida’s siblings-- took care of Gin.
While Kaida lived in the Ruby Sea, she had a long-distance relationship with Yugiri. This relationship was kept mostly secret as Kaida knew that her parents would not approve of her dating someone outside the village. At the time, Ao-no-Sato and Sui-no-Sato were still repairing their relationship after generations of political conflict.
Yugiri was Kaida’s first kiss.
Kaida’s curiosity of the outside world was influenced by Yugiri’s stories, especially the tale of her encounter with a young boy name Shun.
Yugiri broke things off with Kaida when she departed the Ruby Sea to become a shinobi in Doma. Yugiri explained to Kaida that she was doing this because she could not see a future in which the Garleans did not invade the Ruby Sea. Although Yugiri tried to convince Kaida to come with her, Kaida felt, at the time, Yugiri was too obsessed with this paranoia of the Garleans invading (a paranoia Kaida was too familiar with as it had caused her village to become even more reclusive than normal-- something she did not like). Kaida refused and lost contact with Yugiri soon after, which broke her heart.
Rather than being part of a free company prior to the Calamity, Kaida worked in Gridania as part of the Conjurer’s Guild. She trained under E-Sumi-Yan, who took an interest in her geomancy. Because Kaida’s form of geomancy had more to do with water than the earth (given that she learned everything in an underwater village), she was tasked frequently with seeing to aetherial imbalances in the Shroud’s waters. She helped tend to the wounded during the Calamity and afterwards, she was recruited by the Order of the Twin Adders. She attained the rank of Serpeant Sergeant Third Class and mostly did Grand Company work for spare gil to cover living expenses.
During the events of rescuing Minfilia, Tataru, Urianger, etc from Castrum Centri in ARR, Kaida was captured by the XIVth Legion’s Livia sas Junius. This is going to be a fic so please look forward to it, I guess.
When Kaida and Yugiri reunited in 2.2, they tried to make things work out. However, they quickly discovered that they had simply become different people and after a month of trying, they decided to split things off permanently. They remain friends, however.
During the events of the Naadam in Stormblood, Kaida did not fight for the Mol. Instead, she fought for the Malaguld-- the tribe that her father hailed from. Kaida met some of her extended family during this time including her grandfather Sükhbaatar, the khan of the tribe and an experienced warrior, and her cousin, Erhi. Upon winning the Naadam, she gave her title of khagan to her grandfather as she felt it was not her place to hold that title.
Character Changes
Kaida’s Echo is now slightly altered. Rather than simply seeing the past through another’s eyes, Kaida experiences them in a more vivid and emotional way. The emotions sometimes cloud her mind post-vision to the point where she can fall into a state of delirium. The delirium is born from a blend of lingering emotions from the vision (usually the emotions of another) and her own feelings, giving her a cooldown period where she’s more emotionally volatile.
Not entirely a change but more or less something I’ve been developing over time. Kaida is pretty anti-piracy, specifically due to a bad past with the Confederacy, who has long harassed people from her village. Because of this, certain scenes in Stormblood are a bit different, with Kaida likely being forbidden from dealing with Rasho due to her immense hatred towards him. I will probably write about these scenes later. Kaida also has a civil but colder relationship with Merlwyb and does not particularly find Limsa to be a comfortable place. Characters such as Sicard, who lean into piracy a tad too comfortable, make Kaida wary and she is not comfortable around them. There is a bit more to this but I will also save that for fics.
I think that about covers the major changes! I plan to replay Stormblood when Trust support is added because I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to play through it as Kaida before! So when that happens, I foresee many more headcanon posts.
I will be revising banners and profiles gradually over the next week!
