thecat-inthehat’s masterpost
About me
Hello! I’m known as Neeb, Creator, or Azlykumos, and my main blog is over at @reflectionsofacreator, so likes/follows will come from there.
This blog was originally created for My Girls, Nive, Shining, and Hel, so they get the lion’s share of attention around this place. In addition to my own bullshit, I have several long running msq RPs with various partners, and will occasionally talk about them here. I’ve been playing XIV since September of 2015, as I left Star Wars: The Old Republic and was looking for another MMO to play. I found two very lovely FCs, and the rest is history.
My favorite expansion is Stormblood, while Heavensward remains my least after multiple playthroughs. While I don’t bash the expansion (or any expansion), sometimes I do talk about things that frustrate me about XIV from narrative structure, pacing, and underutilized characters. My favorite characters from XIV are Arbert and Zenos, so you can expect to find a lot of them here.
Characters
Nivelth Ajuyn - my primary main. A half hrothgar, half miqo’te Summoner and Allagan researcher, and has revitalized the art long dead. An avid lover of tea, she also dabbles in her mother’s family art of Astromancy, though with limited success. She’s something of a thrillseeker, and is quick to get into trouble, usually by sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. Practical and inquisitive to a fault, she can often talk her way out of people (her sisters) yelling at her for getting into said trouble. Rarely seen without her signature Saint Valentione’s red feathered hat, or her coeurl Mila.
Shining Comet - a paladin songstress primarily based in Ul’dah, who often sells her skills as a bodyguard or an entertainer. Fun loving and easy going, tends not to care much for politics or intrigue, save for what she can find at the Quicksand. She’s quick to flirt with pretty girls and go for a drink, and she treats most people that come across her as new friends. She has massive scarring on her left side, from crown to calf, and a tattoo over her left cheek to try and cover up some of it. With scarring that extensive, it’s a bit of a mystery as to how she didn’t lose an eye or loss of motor functions -- and she won’t tell, either. Many people have claimed to have seen her out and about, and she’s wanted for questioning involving several crimes, the most notable being a massacre a Rabanastern night lounge, some three years after the 7th Umbral Calamity.
Helisent Wynter - A wind-aspected conjurer affected by wanderlust, traveling the world and offering up her services in return for a safe haven for the night. Quick witted and playful, she sometimes doesn’t think before she opens her mouth. Her signature spell is “float”, and oftentimes you can see her simply drifting along, or seated in a cushion of air. She can fly for brief periods, and is working on lengthening the time she can soar in the clouds. Born Ala Mhigan but raised in Gridania, she knew little of her heritage before she set out to help with the Liberation, and struggles with the facets of her identity that seem so at odds with one another. In an effort to be closer to her homeland she learned the teachings of the Monks of Rhalgr, and practices her new discipline as much as she can.
Karla Oandore - After losing her betrothed in the 7th Umbral Calamity, Karla spent five years attempting to regain a sense of normalcy amidst a realm that was frantically trying to do the same. A chance meeting with a hyur-raised Xaela named Caliban Abyra on a carriage into Gridania led to an unlikely alliance, and the two struggled to find their place in a world that needed them. Over the course of their adventures, Karla learned that she was a Warrior of Light of the Magi era, now reborn to fight once more. Several ghosts, both real and imagined, linger and follow her around while she attempts to remember her old life. This causes her to really wrestle with the question of if she should be beholden to her past, or attempt to live her life as it is now, oftentimes with no clear answer.
Strikefire Oandore - A royal Mhachi Black Mage with tattoos all over her body, Strikey has spent the last 1600 years waiting for her lover to be reborn after the disastrous last battle that lead to the 6th Umbral Calamity. A letter from her friend, E-Sumi-Yan, brought her back to Eorzea five years after the 7th Calamity, where she managed to make acquaintances with Suna’ya Molkoh, a miqo’te man with uncommonly powerful empathy, and Emmanellain de Fortemps, freshly run away from his home in Ishgard. The trio become an unlikely party as they journey across Eorzea, and realize with some horror, oh no, Eorzea calls them the Warriors of Light.
Koru Sai’nalia - The last prince of Mhach sought to become a god for his people, on a man in a white robe’s suggestion. He succeeded. Thanatos, the Lord of Ruin, flew aloft and turned the tide against Amdapor in a devastating offensive with his lover, Diablos. Desperate measures forced the Amdapori to capture them both, and bound Thanatos in an undying body of clay with an enchanted blade driven through his chest. Some 1600 years later, a man with strange tattoos is found in Snakemolt by Scions Yda and Papalymo, and wakes to having no memory of his past or why he shows such a strange affinity for thamaturgy.
Aiden Ravensblade - the twin brother of Hilda Ware, known in the Burme as “The Raven” due to how his voice would croak on the rare occasions that he spoke aloud. He hates to be touched, and has more knives than the Inquisitors know what to do with. If Hilda is the face of the Burme, Aiden is the ear in the dark-- he gathered up information and distributed supplies to the disenfranchised. This lead to him being charged with false accusations of being a Heretic, and he was forced to flee Ishgard lest it come back to Hilda. When he arrived in Limsa Lominsa, the Rogue’s Guild quickly recruited him to their cause, which led to him thwarting an attack on Swiftperch by a man in a black robe. Now having caught the attention of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, he has to decide if helping them is worth the possibility of putting his sister in danger.
Links
ao3 | creator writes - not all things are crossposted FFXIVWrite 2020 | FFXIVWrite 2021 | FFXIVWrite 2022 | FFXIVWrite 2024
vg caps - no edits, but sometimes uses gshade/mods
edits - screencaps that I’ve edited for more than basic color correction
ultrawide series - I got gifted a massive gaming monitor and now I have to retake all my scenery photos for backgrounds. Have some of the better ones!
musings - somewhat catch all tag for meta or random long posts of mine
tags for specific continuities













