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12, 24, 45 for Eve, Aki, and Cyn (all three girls for all three questions, to the best of your ability)

Character Development Questions: Hard Mode

12. In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

the cheating answer for all of 'em is the first time they get a whole cuddle pile after they get aki back. nap pile of girls.

Otherwise I'd say...Cyn's the type to get calm right before a battle, deep breath in, let it out slow, everything relaxes so probably before a big battle. I don't think she has any like, routines or rituals before fights (and she's def not the meditating sort.) So top contenders are end of SB, Seat of Sacrifice, and Her Turn in Ultima Thule.

Aki's Happy Calm Space since being taken by garlemald is while doing needlework. Arguably this is a dissociation tactic and disqualified therein but irrelevant bc everything in garlemald is a dissociation tactic.

And Eve's....Ibakha afterglow maybe? Happy and sated, for the moment she's not doubting her place with the Xaela or thinking about being the Warrior of Light bc she's not here bc of that she's here bc Ibakha saw her across the battle field and she doesn't get many of those anymore

24. How quick is your character to trust someone else?

The twins are always much quicker to trust someone if Eve trusts them/Eve's around. Left to their own devices Cyn's trust is hard to earn and not necessarily always easy to recognize bc this girl is autistic coded before I realized I was coding her autistic and emotes? don't know her. She's not great at reading people and tends to extrapolate that out into extra wariness. Whereas Aki's got Anxiety and her sisters were her comfot that helped her try new things and she Suddenly Doesn't Have Them and then you pour trauma on top of that? She also barely trusts. But, again, the exception is if they know Eve Trusts* someone, whether she's present or not.

Eve on the other hand, well, being an empath helps a lot, slap on her echo that makes her literally see others' emotions as colors and it's easy for her to figure out who to trust and who not to once she learn to interpret the color changes. She can however, be a little quick to trust, but that evens out as she gets older and gets more worldly.

*unless they have Good Reason to not that Eve is selectively ignoring or they are unable to share

45. What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

Eve doesn't know. This is a source of actual anxiety for her because While she's been raised Dotharl, she's not even Xaela. She's not even from the Steppe. Could her soul be reborn Dotharl? Does she want to be reborn Dotharl? Or does she want to be Miqo'te again but ""right"" this time? Or does she just want to float in the aether so long she loses all memories and meaning of this life so her next life has a clean slate? or does she want this to be her last life? She doesn't know what she wants and she doesn't know what she beleives and she tries not to think about it because it always ends up with an identity crisis that no one but she can answer but she has no answer.

Cyn 100% believes she'll be once again born Dotharl. She's Dotharl to her blood and bones, she's mom's daughter, she loves the thrill of battle and what great warrior is there than one of the two warriors of light? there might be some haziness in her mind about what happens between her death and her rebirth but ultimately she figures it doesn't matter. she doesn't remember it now, she won't remember it then.

Aki is also strange in that she's never been a particularly good fighter (in fact instead of glass canon shes just glass) so mom did her best to not tout Dotharl belief at her bc this girl was never going to be a warrior and she loves her girls more than she Insists they live a Good Dotharl Life. She doesn't fear death, like any proper dotharl, but she's not throwing herself into battle (tho perhaps that's part of why she's reckless enough to get kidnapped.) However she's also got like 15yrs of garlean propaganda on top of everything and so her beliefs in the Dusk Mother or the Twelve are hazy and uncertain. Mostly, at this point, Aki fears dying without living and she's determined to make up for lost time. Whatever she believes, if she lives a good life, she figures nothing ill can await her.

#Eve;#Cyn;#Aki;#sezja;#asks;#ask meme;#\o/ i did it it i answered it i managed a focus

A-D for Eve and Cyn

Uncommon Questions for OCs and their creators

you're gonna get a bonus Aki on some of these just bc they're a set by design and I sure you'll find aome way to deal with that horrible truth (that's sarcasm for anyone who can't tell)

A) Why are you excited about this character?

It's hard to put into words with OCs so old. Part of my love for both of them is both nostalgia and reclamation. As I'm sure I've told you before, the girls were created via back and forth character development with the person who then became my first ex (and my only Traumatic Breakup) so my development of them fizzled for a while, but Eve's always been my default go-to OC

And that is bc my thoughts in my own head aren't....clear? I think most in impressions and vibes with a Single conscious thought possible at a time, if I'm gonna remember it anyway, which makes character development without a sounding board really hard. So for years Eve was my only fleshed out OC bc 1) she's the more social one so I pull together her story easier and faster without having to pull teeth to get it from her and 2) she's got a lot more of. Who I used to be and wishfullfilment in her so it's easier to figure her out.

and, in contrast, I love Cyn (and Aki) bc they're difficult to figure out. Cyn's selective mutism is hard for me to write bc I'm not great at show don't tell so writing her when not through the lens of Eve who Knows Her can be very hard and when writing her as her is hard bc I'm also not great at nonverbal communication. But that's fun for me, and it requires me to understand other neurodivergences irl which is a big bonus

B) What inspired you to create them?

again, as mentioned above, they were being created with an ex. I'm not sure exactly if I had any real inspiration for them past the fact of "I'm friends with writers, I'm the [child] of a writer, my brother's a writer, and i write fanfics now, surely this means I have to make up characters" and like. Faulty logic, but I poured into Eve (and the story around her) everything I wanted for my future. I'm not quite certain why I created Cyn in all of it. Like in their original mostly scrapped story Aki and Eve's roles were clear but Cyn didn't have one. I invented a role for her but I could never think of a way for that to tie into what Eve was doing apart from the fact of Aki and Cyn being twins. She only really started getting development when I decided I wanted a "adorable and Bloodthirsty" character but even now I have issues trying to figure out exactly where and how Cyn fits sometimes, for all I love her and know she cannot be removed from Eve and Aki anymore.

C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?

I- well I kinda went into this above, but to further expound the issue always was that Aki was a metaphor for depression (and possibly suicide coming to think on it) and Eve was her White Knight and I've never quite figured out where Cyn fits in that. Eve's always been easy, she's a protector and a lover and a martyr if she has to be, even if she's angry about her mission, she does it bc it's her mission, as you see with her attitude and mental state in recent events in XIV and Aki's hopeless despair romanticized and turned "beautiful" whereas Cyn's... Cyn was anger at one point but that doesn't fit her. Like don't get me wrong, you don't want to piss her off, but she's much more stable and self contained than that. I've recently ish come to realize she's also a protector but a different kind- Eve protects the world, Cyn protects her own. But I'm still not sure where that fits in with even the base original narrative with the other two girls.

D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?

Cyn has! she's always been on the mid to short side of average, medium build, and adorably dressed. I would always imagine her in a right red empire waist knee length dress with a black under bust corset and matching bright red like 3-5" heels. And a giant axe. She and her sister (as you can likely guess somewhat from the names) were meant to be Fantasy East Asian looking and then. had none of the culture. bc i was a 13yo weeb (and if i ever revist them outside of fandoms I will either adjust them/their designs and/or their culture accordingly)

Whereas, as we kinda briefly touched on last night while talking about Eve's patron, she's actually slid around a lot. She was originally far more self insert so she was my skin tone and skinny, at a certain point I....in some weird ass logical leap, decided to make her vaguely middle eastern looking (bc of the skin tone??? despite being lived experience that tone =/= nationality or race????) but I didn't do much with her then and when i went to revisit her just went ".....having none of the culture here make this feel gross, she's back to self insert-ish." And one of her defining qualities has always been "attractive" so there was a years long war in my head bc I prefer women mid sized and up but society prefers skinny women and I was never sure how to marry the two so her weight was always inconsistent. Until recently. When I've just been loudly declaring that she is fat and she is gorgeous and she loves her size.

#Eve;#Evelynn;#Cyn;#Cynthia;#sezja;#asks;#ask meme;#this was wordier than I feel is expected from the meme #but there's A Lot behind characters that I've had for literally 14 yrs #and have thus also been effected massively by my teen years my DP/DR my need for validation and my understanding of society #IT IS WORTH NOTING: that while Eve was vaguely middle eastern I did MEAN to do research and incorporate it (bc a separation from identity #has always been part of her story) but I accepted later that I don't have the time energy or means to do that at the time #so if I was to keep playing her she needed to go back to her original design if I didn't wanna be approaching (if not actually at) racism

📓!

Hey, here's a fun new game. Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

Other than the two obvious answers, I've been stewing a lot on Eve and Matija and trying to iron out that relationship and it's ups and downs. I'll get a moment here or there that I want to write but I can never pin where in ShB it goes and that matters more in ShB and EW than other expansions bc Eve's mental state does drastic shifts across both story lines

#asks;#sezja;#ask meme;

Character meme: both of Coeli's cousins

Send me a character and I’ll answer these!!

1: sexuality headcanon

Cedir: cis gay man Yrys: feels labels are limiting (some flavor of "everyone")

2: otp

Cedir's kinda obviously Chlode since it's his only ship though I remain wishy washy on it. Yrys I've not thought of any actual ships for. I don't think they date I think they're just here for casual shags

3: brotp

each other and Coeli tbh. And probably Sleeping Smile.

4: notp

/shrugs

5: first headcanon that pops into my head

They're all cousins but, when together, have sibling energy and Yrys is the most Youngest Child ever. sometimes you'd forget they're a pirate

6: favorite line from this character

Man I've only written them on discord and lord knows I wouldn't be able to find it now. it was never much.

7: one way in which I relate to this character

I. hm. Well Yrys I relate bc masc leaning nb, but Cedir I'm......not sure if I do? That's kinda his appeal tho, yanno? Given Chlode's everything.

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

the fantasies Cedir and Chlode play out :| Yrys probably....how shameless they are. it's hard for me to write them bc if it's not sex related I do have quite a lot of shame actually.

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

man they land in both. They're a pirate but they're also here for a fun time. Probably lean more Problematic tho

#ask meme;#asks;#sezja;#Cedir Tym;#Yrys Qoet;#<- I hope I spelled that right?#ffxiv;