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[luck-and-larceny]

What is your favorite headcanon for your OC? (from @tsukinoxiv)

Oooooh. Fun question! Lemme think, lemme think…

Come on this journey with me:

As I’ve played her:

Malika believes she is right about Nymeia. She thinks everyone's got the goddess of luck and fate all wrong. Everyone but her, of course. She thinks people believe Nymeia has their futures all figured out for them and so they don't really have to do anything or think about it. Why worry about the future? What will be will be.

Malika thinks that's a boring idea held by boring people who are bound for boring futures. She thinks being the goddess of people who just shrug and do nothing would be the shittiest job ever. So that can’t be how it actually is.

She assumes Nymeia herself is bored with that type of thinking she’s and looking for a challenge. Obviously, the goddess actually wants to be entertained. She wants to make, unmake and remake fates on the fly! Fate isn’t decided, it’s a conversation. It’s a performance. 

I don't RP this like it's true. It being true or not true isn't usually the interesting part to me. The part I like is knowing she's such an accomplished con artist that she could actually be conning herself.

Head canon:

But a fun “What If” is:

What if she was wrong but she believed it so hard she made it true? What if she's convinced others that her reading of the goddess is accurate and she's reshaping the way luck and fate work? What if instead of just pretending to be a prophet of this goddess, she is stubbornly strong-arming herself into the position and it's working? What if the domains of luck and fate are like: “You know what? Yeah! Good idea!”

(This all obviously ignores canon reveals that have taken place in the game and that's ok with me… Malika is not a WOL OC and wouldn't know about any of that anyway)

Thank you for the question and sorry it took me so long to come up with an answer. My headspace hasn't really been good for FFXIV lately, but this was definitely a fun question! <3

[ckkikilukilu]

Hi Kikilu, I just wanted to ask if you would be part of the Chocorpokkur event on Twitch?

I sure will, and I'm super excited!! I've been wishing Final Fantasy XIV had things like Twitch Drops for so long now. 🍫

And thanks for asking @tsukinoxiv!! 💖

I'll try remember to announce those streams on all my OC pages (sorry, in advance, for spam to anyone that follows several of them).

[tsunael]

road: What does your OC wear while traveling? Do they have high-quality equipment, or are they making do? What does their gear look like?

oc asks: character design | accepting.

Her traveling outfits are usually casual, loose-fitting and functional, but not exactly fit for combat or hiking to her detriment. She may replace the koshita with the falconer's pants depending on the destination but I think it's just her quirk that she overdresses for things. At the beginning she was laughably unprepared. She was a healer first and foremost in the field, and rarely used her dancing for combat, so any armor she did employ (even if she knew to wear it) was light or nonexistent. She also had a more frustrating fixation on aesthetics so... she probably wouldn't wear armor if it didn't look flattering or was too heavy. She definitely makes do with what she has. Basically, her first trip to Camp Drybone was extremely eye-opening for many, many reasons-- one being that traveling with a professional showed just how under-prepared she was, and two that she has extremely dumb luck.

[tsunael]

2. List 3 shipping tropes you don’t love.

Get to know my ships | accepting!

2. List 3 shipping tropes you don’t love.

1. An extremely dominant character with an extremely submissive character. There needs to be a bit of push and pull for me. A little banter, a little bit of brattiness lmao. I don't like stereotypical 'bottoms' or wilting flowers or w/e. 2. Most slash pairs where they fight so much there's not even a hint of chemistry. Where it's clear they're only being shipped because they're both attractive or spend a lot of time together. There are some caveats because I do like enemies to lovers, but this feels like something else. 3. When they get married-- and especially if they have children (barf). I just don't want the happily ever after. There's a good quote that I have saved that really sums up my feelings and it went something like "... The thing about desire is that it's stronger when it's not totally satisfied."

and you sent in another!!! so I'll put it here ->

34. How would they react to an ex showing up?

LOL uh. They're not really 'dating' per se or together in any official capacity so any jealousy is extremely low-key and not exactly justified, however... I think Tsuna would be rolling her eyes since she knows how much of a manwhore he was, but there would be some kind of judgement / bitterness about it. Not so much because she's jealous or envious, but because she's a lil close-minded and a prude... so some low-ball teasing, for sure. On his end, his main contender is Aymeric. Even though G'raha is head-over-heels for her, he doesn't bring out his inferiority complex like Aymeric does. Tsuna was seemingly so close to Aymeric in HW and... I also choose to interpret all his lines as pettiness LOL.

I also like that he is the one to technically break up wol's date (even if it couldn't be helped) and also kind of butts in when Aymeric is asking for assistance to offer himself up. I'm twisting it to interpret that he's absolutely seizing the opportunity to suss the man out. Imagine the subtle side-eye he flashes before he leaves the room with him and wol is left with the twins. I'm just sayin'.

Like... sorry he sounds so petty and sarcastic about it to me. I'm very normal about it. TL;DR he's a little bitch about it.

[tsunael]

What was their initial impression of Sphene? How did this change as the story progressed?

Dawntrail OC Questions | accepting!

Somehow you managed to ask the exact same one as @/aethergazing so I'll be answering a random one!

17. The theme of family and legacy is repeated throughout Dawntrail— did this theme resonate with your character? Were there specific moments relating to family that impacted them?

Obvious Dawntrail spoilers below.

It did, and I'm really happy about it, honestly. As much as I, personally, didn't enjoy DT I think the themes fit her very well.

If I were to think of her as canon, Stormblood really began her arc.

This expac brings back the proverbial ghost of her mother as she travels to her ancestral home. This begins her journey of understanding where she came from, and confronting her past. We would learn about what she was doing before ARR--and what had her running to Eorzea to begin with.

Shadowbringers continues where Heavensward leaves off. Her personal feelings are brought to the forefront when she is forced to contend with her own mortality. She still hasn't learned to stop running as she nearly takes Emet's offer.

Endwalker forces her to stop running and face what she fears most. The world is now so much bigger than she could have ever imagined and there is more at stake than just her homeland. Her past comes up again when she runs into her father, and when she finds her mother in the Aitiascope. This is where she can say her farewells.

6.x is about her healing: mentally, physically. She wants to run away from it all again and almost commits suicide because of it. So, she quits being a Scion and they are disbanded. She resolves to live for herself for a time.

(Don't ask me if the void quests are canon for her I haven't decided lmao).

So, for Dawntrail's theme to be legacy and family... it ended up being amazing for her story on paper. It definitely made her reflect on the recent past.

As for moments that resonated with her... Zoraal Ja's misplaced hatred for his father certainly, and Wuk Lamat and Koana watching on as their father passed would have opened wounds that have yet to close for her. As an aside: I haven't decided if I'll kill her father (Kartal) off yet but Tsuna also held him in her arms as he was near-death, so it would have been a mirroring-- especially if Wuk Lamat is meant to mirror the wol's (or Azem's?) journey.

Tsuna has extreme daddy issues is what I'm trying to get at here.

Any others were inside Living Memory. The entire concept would have left her inconsolable, if not extremely anxious and uncomfortable. Certainly not the strange, morbid joy ride the game made it out to be.

Cachiua and Erenville having one last moment together probably gave her a lot to chew on. Like a misplaced jealousy or an envy, but also a deep empathy.

What Tsuna leaves with... and the message she learns having gone through it all though...? I still gotta think about that :T

[tsunael]

🧡 What's a platonic plot you'd like to write?

Writing Wishes | accepting

My problem is that all my plots revolve around my wolship or don't pass the Bechdel test (lmao) so I really should branch out.

I haven't given it much thought but in a perfect world where I wrote well and wrote a lot... I would love to include Tsuna and Arenvald in some capacity. Not only do I think they have a lot in common, but since he has the echo and is underutilized in ARR I like to think they helped each other out a lot. I don't believe Tsuna would be able to defeat most of the primals she does wholly by herself. Ifrit would have been a fluke, bolstered by another Hydaelyn miracle

The other might by Lyse or Ryne. With the latter I had a plot long ago about Tsuna teaching her some kind of textile craft like embroidery, or just doing it with her... she needs some sort of positive female influence 🙁

[tsunael]

What creature (real or mythical) do you associate Tsuna with?

unprompted! | always accepting!

OHHHHHH?? Thanks so much for this random ask! I've never really thought at length about it. I've noticed that Au Ra players either go the reptile route or the fish route because of face 2, but I don't care for the former because it's debunked in canon. I also think of the Orl tribe and feel bad about it lmao. So if I had to choose one I guess it's a mermaid-- which feels overdone and quirky but... her mother (Suzume) is from Sui-no-Sato and it's been my headcanon that the Kojin's blessing is either passed down through a Sui inhabitant's bloodline, or they bless every new child born there-- which probably isn't many considering how small their community is so it's kind of believeable. ANYWAY that's a whole lot of words just to say: Tsuna's always been able to breathe underwater. That and the sea has always been important to her-- above all else it ties her to her mother. She's also represented by Limsa Lominsa, another port town, whose patron is llymlaen, (a Goddess depicted as a mermaid). Her azem is also represented by the pearl. Her patron saint is Nymeia (more water symbolism) and her beau's surname is-- you get the picture. She has a lot of water symbolism. Some of it was planned, while others were happy accidents. There's also, of course, the fact that Ruta's scales already look like they belong with a fishtail. So Mermaid just works for her, I think. Or any other aquatic, pretty-thing. Naturally I took a bunch of pics -> here