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Added my ladies to page 6, post#56, on this feedback thread on the NA forums cuz the lack of darker-skinned examples in the graphics and model updates discussions is...concerning to many people.
My example images come from the Dark Knight lvl 50 "Our Answer" cutscene 2, the ARR story climax for that job. The lighting does change a little depending on if doing it during the day or at night.
C'oretta and Dark, for instance, I replayed the scene at night.
For Aeryn and Iyna, I tried during the day.
I only cropped, no other post-processing, and only a barely-there gameplay shader (removes the "gray" and gauss blur effects).
Also for reference: here's my characters' skintone selections, lightest to darkest: C'oretta, Aeryn, Dark, Iyna--who is similar in tone to Erenville, set to be a major figure in Dawntrail, and who wouldn't be the first important NPC to be badly lit and nearly invisible in dark rooms and nighttime scenes.
Not to mention all the roes, elezen, miqos, and auri who have not only dark but fantasy skintones a variety of colors and how obvious it is, from shadowed to washed out, that the game's environmental colors and lighting are NOT tested on anyone but pale-skinned base races.
So give feedback, politely, on the graphics changes you want to see, and those you don't, on the forums.
#final fantasy xiv#graphics#lighting#characters#dark knight#C'oretta Khell#Dark Autumn#Aeryn Striker#Iyna Cauld
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Shipping in Final Fantasy the Fourteenth is dangerous business. Especially since glamour is the real endgame.
#final fantasy xiv#zoissette vauban#aeryn striker#gage acquisitions#biot edits#biot comic#does this count as a comic? whatever#shippy nonsense (sort of)
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"Get in, we're going fashion shopping."
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@autumnslance
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One is just seeking adventure and excitement, one just wants to do the right thing, one just wants this to be profitable for once, one has to file the paperwork dealing with the mess the other three create.
The world didn’t ask for them to be its saviors, but it’s let out a collective sigh because it can’t get rid of them.
@autumnslance @erickgage @driftward
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FFXIV Write Day 11: Lush and Vibrant
Characters: Y'zel Tia, Zoissette Vauban, Riven Fortemps, Tataru, Krile, Maythe Bishop, Dark Autumn, Thalia Voss, Minti Chocolate, Erick Gage, Mya Blackburn, Thancred Waters, Aeryn Striker, Ioh'Juhn Reighen, Augstine Seymour
Rating: Wholesome
Summary: Gage Acquisitions wraps up Summer together!
Notes: Thanks for @ladyofvoss for today's prompt!
As the Goblet sun beat down upon him, Y’zel felt his head gently pressed down upon by a large straw hat, slotted to let his ears perk through. Looking up, from his spade and hand rake, he motioned joyfully to Zoisette for the coverage as she passed by to offer another hat to Riven as well. She soon sauntered off back to the gazebo to join Tataru and Krile as they weaved more straw items together for their Gage Acquisition friends.
Summer was at an end which meant the season’s harvest was upon them to ready for the coming fall. His tail twitched happily as he went back to work, digging up some more popotoes and adding it to the basket he was sharing with Riven. Behind them, Maythe picked out morsels from the basket then washed them off in a bucket then inspected the roots to ensure they were healthy enough to be edible.
In the next plot, Dark stabbed the revamped scarecrow into the earth and gave it a little twist before assisting Thalia and Minti in fitting a freshly carved pumpkin head on its spike then dressing it up in a spooky tattered jacket. The two took turns giving it funny poses until finding one that seemed daunting enough to ward off crows.
Making use of the training space, Erick had rolled out a large blanket in the square area and promptly retired atop it, resting his head on Mya’s leg as she cut up a fresh tomato into wedges and occasionally fed him a slice. Beside them, Thancred crossed his arms looking to the couple then to Aeryn with his brow raised and a grin. In response, she handed him a tomato and his own knife before turning her attention to a heated argument by the grill.
Ioh and Augustine by the pit seemed to be rather heatedly engaged, a few swears flying about as they gestured to the grill, both seeming to have opinions on who to best season the bountiful harvest the Free Company had produced together. Looking for support, the Keeper turned to Y’zel and gestured, only to have the other Miqo’te look away and pull the brim of his hat down to avoid getting into it. Having not gotten the support he expected, he looked on slack-jawed while the group laughed aloud. A laughter and lightness that would carry them on for the rest of their night.
#gage acquisitions and allies#erick gage#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#ffxiv oc#ffxivwrite2022#ffxiv miqo'te#krile baldesion#zoissette vauban#aeryn striker#thancred waters#dark autumn#final fantasy 14#mathye bishop#ioh'juhn reighen#augustine seymour#riven fortemps#tataru taru#mya blackburn#thalia voss#y'zel tia#minti chocolate#Nyx is probably hidden in there somewhere
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Today I took on Castrum Meridium and the Praetorium.
While I don’t have experience with the instances prior to the changes, I will give my thoughts on them post-6.1. Needless to say:
It was well worth the wait.
The entire run felt so smooth and streamlined. I don’t think I’ve ever had this much fun with dungeons so far. The bosses felt challenging without being too punishing. It was a great way to test my rotations. The whole experience was amazing.
But what really made it special was my party.
I could spend hours gushing about these guys. :D
(Special thanks to Lyn, aka @autumnslance, for putting the whole thing together! I’ll admit I was a little starstruk seeing the Aeryn Striker in action, lol. She and her friends (game names not shared to respect privacy) really came through)
These amazing people took the time out of their day, hopped all the way over to Mateus to run these dungeons with me. We cracked jokes, they gave me encouragement, we had a funny wipe (cause Gaius is a right bastard xD), and they even set me up for my first LB3!
I’m so glad I waited till the time was right for me to do this, that I didn’t rush through it. I’m glad that Lyn and her friends were with me the entire time. I don’t think this experience would have been as memorable without them.
They really do give credence to the best of the FF14 community. If that silly little troll I encountered on Friday was one of the worst, then these guys represent the absolute best. Yeah that probably sounds corny, but I mean it.
This has been amazing. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the game series has in store
Special screenshots under the cut (cause spoilers!), including a fun little GPose group photo, courtesy of Lyn!
Fun GPose! (RIP Gaius, lol)
#zoe plays ff14#arr spoilers#a realm reborn spoilers#words cannot describe how amazing this was#i hope to one day pay it forward#and make a baby sprout's experience#as special as these guys have made mine! :D
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Commission for @autumnslance of her lovely WoL Aeryn Striker!
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Another adorable commission for @lynmars79 Aeryn and Thancred are so darling 💕
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GAMMA SLIDER
0, 50, 100 on the Benchmark's Gamma slider in the "Display" tab in Settings. Messing with this can adjust how much light comes through your screen; it's pretty simplified from the in game setting.
If you're experiencing some character color washout even after checking other settings, give this a try. Then make any potential color adjusts in chargen.
#final fantasy xiv#Benchmark#Dawntrail#Settings#Graphics#Gamma#Roegadyn#Midlander#Miqo'te#Viera#Roegadame#FemRoe#Dark Autumn#Aeryn Striker#C'oretta Khell#Iyna Cauld
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FF14 Picrew Generator!
Ladies only, can't seem to get highlights. But there are submenu options when you see a number on a selection, so you can get your correct horns or the placement of the earrings and so on! There are an impressive number of hair options, and recognizable glamours too.
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Patreon warmup painting by @britishmuffin originally posted to Twitter.
I've had the image open for 2 days to look at now and then for the happiness. She looks so pretty!!
(and Muffin said such lovely things in the twitter comments about Aeryn's design)
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A Realm Reborn MSQ, "The Warden Works in Mysterious Ways", (before 5.3 changes):
As you kneel before the mark of the Warden in a moment of quiet solitude, you breathe deep of the dry desert air. The roar of the rushing waters is punctuated by the faint chirping of vilekin and the shrill cries of a hawk. The gods, however, remain silent...
Endwalker, patch 6.3, "In Heavenly Company", Myths of the Realm:
Menphina: We are not all-powerful. We can't grant all of mankind's wishes.
Menphina: Nonetheless, we always─always─hear you. No hope is too small, no prayer too faint.
Menphina: I just wanted to make that clear. Lest you forget, we love mankind dearly!
The retired ARR MSQ quest after the Waking Sands massacre where the WoL prays at Azeyma's mark and hears nothing in response to their prayers, compared to the current story with the supposed Twelve, where Menphina insists that even if they cannot always answer, the gods always hear.
#Final Fantasy XIV#A Realm Reborn#Endwalker#patch 6.3#Myths of the Realm#Azeyma#Menphina#Aeryn Striker
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Felicitous Tunic, Educand's Sailor Skirt, Moonward Boots
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Dark Autumn, Aeryn Striker, C'oretta Khell, and Iyna Cauld, with current hairstyles and no other tweaks as of yet.
I may adjust some shapes of jaws and noses, and colors of some things; Dark's eye color may go down a shade, I'm debating warming some skintones or not. Just some minor adjusts.
And of course played around with the hrothgals:
A Lost and a Helion to play with the options.
#final fantasy xiv#Dawntrail#Benchmark#Roegadyn#Midlander#Miqo'te#Viera#Hrothgar#femroe#roegadame#Dark Autumn#Aeryn Striker#C'oretta Khell#Iyna Cauld#Lost#Helion
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Year of the OTP - November 2023 - Missing Scars
(An unusual look at the "De-aging" prompt, perhaps, but Shadowbringers' resolution for the Scions sits with me. 980 words.)
The differences were so subtle, it was difficult to explain. Six years all told had passed, which was not many, but just enough.
In six years in the First, he had watched children and adolescents grow up—had watched Ryne grow up, most importantly. Yet now, looking out over the Toll, local children exactly as he remembered them played in the yards and through the streets of their small frontier town.
Animals too; six years could be quite some time for many a beloved pet or farm animal. In dangerous lands and uncertain areas, six years was an entire lifetime for many. Yet the same dogs and cats scampered through the Toll after their masters.
The external similarities, where he expected changes, were not the only ones, of course. He turned back to the hand mirror and inspected his eye once more.
After his misadventure in the Lifestream, and all that had followed in Coerthas, and then their participation in liberating Ala Mhigo, he just hadn’t taken the time to let it rest and heal. The best he had done, that he could do, for so long was to keep it covered and unused, or at least as little as possible. His depth perception had suffered, and even now he had to practice to get back to using both his eyes, instead of compensating for missing one.
His body’s enforced slumber, tended to by their excellent healing staff, had finally allowed the aetheric damage time to heal. He didn’t see so much as a wisp of aetheric underlay, there was no eye strain, no clouded vision. He had been concerned about that, returning from the First to his own body once again. But the damage was finally healed.
A few other aches and pains he thought he ought to have seemed to have vanished as well; he couldn’t be certain if it was due to the rest, or if their healer team had taken advantage of his soul’s absence to repair some old damages.
Not to mention missing scars; he knew when he had arrived in the First, his mental image of his Self had neglected a few minor ones, or those he did not see and think about often.
Aeryn had noticed. The first time they were together as lovers again, she had noted the differences in his scars; some missing, some new—to her anyroad, there in Norvrandt, and his misadventures over the years he had spent caring for Ryne while missing Aeryn.
He had not asked yet about the changes to his scars again now. The ones they had forgotten, the ones that were now missing—all the evidence of his time in that other realm. Scars were stories, and so he had always been proud of his. Evidence of times he had survived, his years of experiences.
Six years wiped away and lost forever.
He finished shaving, cleaning and packing away his kit, tossing the soapy water. “You look years younger, clean-shaven and with your hair cut” more than one person had told him, in more or less those words. He had, perhaps, let himself go a bit, after Dravania.
After the Antitower.
Aeryn had never minded the stubble and long hair, but Ryne had quietly bullied him into shaving and trimming up. And it had made him look more fitting to be her guardian in the First, rather than a rough wilderness scout.
He turned, and found Aeryn silently watching him now, arms crossed, leaning on the doorway as he stood on the small balcony. “The washroom not bright enough?” she asked.
He shrugged. “That, and I didn’t want to disturb you, sleepyhead.”
“As if I ever mind being woken by you,” she pouted.
“Oh, you mind. I simply know best how to distract you from your ire,” he teased.
She blushed, as he knew she would, tracing her finger down an old scar on his bare chest. “How are you feeling this morning?”
“Fit as a fiddle—though we shall see if Krile agrees, and allows me to train with Radovan yet.”
“Just don’t overdo it, old man,” she joked.
“Oh, don’t you start that again,” he grumbled as she giggled. He frowned, looking down and away in thought. “I do keep forgetting how old I am now. I have to think about it.”
Her fingertip hooked under his chin, turning his gaze back to her lovely gray eyes. “Old enough,” she said gently, pulling him in for a kiss.
He hummed thoughtfully as they broke, leaning his forehead on hers. “There is some time before I’m due to see our healers,” he noted. “Perhaps a private demonstration of just how young and healthy I feel right now is in order.”
“You’re incorrigible,” she murmured, blush tinging her ears now. She traced another scar, still reacquainting herself with his reset appearance.
“That isn’t a no,” he pointed out, slipping his hand under her shirt to touch her skin, fingertips finding a scar that she had earned in the First, that she got to keep, having been there in both body and soul, only five physical years between them now instead of six. It wasn’t much time at all really, and yet—
His thoughts came to a stop as she pulled away, clasping his hand to draw him after her. Her face was very red now, the ease with which her blush appeared ever endearing. “It wasn’t, and there is time,” she said.
Five of those years had been spent missing her. There had been an underlying fear of growing old—worse, growing old without her.
But only a handful of moons had passed in the Source, those years he spent in the First reset, only the memories good and bad remaining. And here she yet was, here they both were, finding what had changed and what remained the same for all those years that had passed in no time at all.
#final fantasy xiv#lyn writing#lyn edits#YOTP 2023#Shadowbringers#Thancred Waters#Thancred x WoL#wolcred#shippy nonsense#Aeryn Striker
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Year of the OTP - March 2023 - Fairy Tale AU
A young thief becomes embroiled in the tale of a pair of cursed lovers; by day, the lady is a hawk, but by night, the man is a wolf. Forever together, eternally apart, cursed so after crossing the evil bishop. Aided by the thief and their old friend--a penitent, drunken monk--the couple must somehow face their foe as humans together on "a day without a night and a night without a day" to break the terrible spell.
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...So Ladyhawke is one of those cheesy 80s fantasy films (complete with rock score instead of orchestral, that was a thing in that decade), but the story is very fairy tale-esque and I thought it'd be a fun set to do. Thanks to @driftward for help with some photoshopping, like the Ifrit eclipse and fixing our stubborn Ascian standing in for the bishop.
Year of the OTP prompt list here. I'm not great at writing AUs, so it's more about the images for this one.
#Final Fantasy XIV#Lyn Edits#Fairy Tale AU#Ladyhawke#Urianger Augurelt#Emet-Selch#Thancred Waters#Aeryn Striker#Thancred x WoL#wolcred#shippy nonsense#YOTP 2023#Ryne Waters
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