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autumnslance · 3 months

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Patch 6.55 & Idle Dawntrail Speculation

I don't normally engage too far, but this is a bit of thought arising from FC chat in Discord that I want to keep for posterity, about Erenville, the crown candidates, and coming to various Scions as champions to get everyone to Tural.

Really don't think Erenville is a candidate--I don't think Wuk Lamat's capable of keeping that under wraps if he's one of her siblings or another able contestant--but there was some idle speculation in the FC chat earlier, started by @yzeltia.

Y'zel thought Erenville seems a bit sus; we know he's been in Sharlayan for years--as has Wuk Lamat's brother Koana, secretly. It's likely Koana's another claimant; I'd bet he's the one who's hired Thancred and Urianger in fact, given he'd be aware of the Scions and the archons' skills. And there is a mystery miqo'te man on the key art next to our Scion bros.

Our dynamic duo also has decent judgment in the kind of people they'd choose to work for; I don't see them throwing in with Other Guy.

Y'zel theorizes Erenville's actually working with Koana, and will support his claim. @driftward, @erickgage, and I took that thread and ran with it a bit.

Maybe Erenville is working for Koana--to help Wuk Lamat. She's young and eager, but also inexperienced and impetuous. So she needs champions to help steady her, and more importantly keep her safe in a contest that's sure to get dangerous, if Other Guy is as mean as he is ambitious.

And perhaps it's a bit of deck stacking too; Koana and Wuk Lamat can both chase the throne, and either of them is a preferable option to this Other Guy who wants to drag Tural into conquest and war. If they're both supported by Scions, they have a better chance of one of them taking the throne. And again, Wuk Lamat might need what help she can get.

So have old friend Erenville nudge her along and keep an eye on her and get her the help she needs; Wuk Lamat, at least, seemed to speak fondly of her brother, and Erenville was also positive to neutral as usual for him; their tones and body languages when speaking of Other Guy were very different.

And we've heard nothing yet of the fourth contender; another sibling, or someone else? A threat, or not? Someone a few other Scions might find themselves working for when they end up in Tural?

(Also wondering if that "split" in the story arcs might come into play to get the cats over there, the way some Scions came in later to HW or StB's MSQs.)

So anyway; there's a few ways this might go. I don't think Erenville's the mysterious fourth, but he's closely tied to this contest and the royal family, and is looking out for Wuk Lamat--either on his own as her childhood friend, or at the behest of his other friend, her brother, who is a sneaky, secretive scholar and has hired on the sneakier, more secretive members of the Scions to aid him--while boisterous Wuk Lamat has Team Violence (with Krile and Alphinaud playing adults to keep WoL and Alisaie somewhat in check and play politics for them).

And of course we could be wrong and Wuk Lamat is better at keeping secrets than she seems, but from what little we saw already, I rather doubt it; if Erenville were a contender, helping a competitor find a champion, it would have come up. The way they both spoke of Koana and family ties also indicates he is not, at least, part of this royal family, though we have yet to get the reticent gleaner's full story, either, and Tural is made up of many peoples.

#final fantasy xiv #endwalker #patch 6.5 #growing light #dawntrail #speculation #erenville #wuk lamat #koana

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scrollsfromarebornrealm · 9 months

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💛 @saesama @yzeltia

He was next to her when she finally started to awaken. Estinien snapped out of the light doze he'd fallen into, his eyes fixed on Riven's face as she frowned. She attempted to shift position, but couldn't because of the bandages wrapped around her body.

Wake up. Wake up, please. The dragoon prayed. He edged closer, unable to help himself. Fear was no longer an icy ball in his stomach, it was lead in his veins, threatening to turn his muscles into water. Riven frowned again, sleepily grumbling as her nose twitched. Her eyes slowly opened, still abit glassy from sleep and drugs. Silently Estinien waited, waited as she glanced around the room, waited for her to regain her bearings. Then those blue eyes finally met his own, a faint smile curving rose-colored lips.

"Estinien." Riven whispered. And then Estinien was moving, reaching out to embrace her, crushing his lips against hers. He was a greedy bastard, he needed to share her air, taste her breath. He needed to feel her in his arms, here she was warm and alive and real, and she had wrapped her arms around him and was kissing him back, and his soul was screaming in relief. She was not dead, she wasn't lying on the floor of the Ragnarok torn apart and bleeding to death at his feet, she was here and she was safe in his arms and he loved her and he wanted to shake her for making him worry, scold her, he wanted to mold himself into her very being, she was safe and warm and alive and real. She smelled of antiseptics and medicine, she was so frail in his arms, but she was alive.

#ffxiv #wol x estinien #estinien x wol #wolstinien #estinien varlineau #wol riven #riven fortemps

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driftward · 10 months

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Junelezen 2023: Aftershocks

Last week, I had a masterpost of every single entry I made for Junelezen 2023, which I dubbed Echoes. This week, I am posting annotated entries for every post from there, except this time I am linking to specific entries in the reblog chains, or to posts that others made as responses to Echoes. In particular, one member of my FC, (here on Tumblr as @yzeltia), took it upon himself to create a reblog response to every post.

The previous masterpost can be considered the 'original cut', consisting solely of my entries. This is the 'fat cut' I mentioned there. What parts of all this are canonical? I don't know, come back with a warrant.

As already mentioned, this post will have annotations on the various entries. I could go on for hours about my thought process, things I learned, and I may yet make some other posts about such things, but for now, I am (mostly) restricting myself to commentary here, both on my work, and the work of others.

I have learned a lot during this. One of the things I have learned is that in the future, readmores and reblogs do not necessarily play well together for these round-up posts, as readmores will roll out without the linked reblog, and if you just look at the reblog chain, you'll miss whatever was in the readmore. If I do this again in the future, I think I will stick to making posts, and maybe just link back and forth between them. And maybe if I am responding to someone else's work like this, instead of a reblog, I might just tag OP? I am uncertain. Reblogs keep tumblr alive. The cleanest for archive purposes would probably be reblog the original, then make the follow-up and tag the originator. Still though, that's neither here nor there. What is here is the fantastic work done by others.

And I appreciate all of it. I am humbled by the response.

Final note, these will largely link to Y'zel Tia's responses, since he reblogged almost every response with his own screenshot and words. Click throughs and context should make it obvious which ones are which.

.portrait

Where we got started, with a bit of a literal framing device. Y'zel Tia belongs to @yzeltia; part of his character canon is being a cousin to Y'shtola Rhul, and so that'll explain why you'll often see both of them in his responses. I'm not at all sure why Y'shtola would be interested in what happens to some random feckless adventurer, though...

Special shout out to @matrixdragon and @sabbactroll who both had, uh, opinions on this development. :)

.home

Look, haven't we all had a scientific experiment go a little sideways and light someone's world on fire. This is, of course, the bridge between the Incident and Junelezen: Echoes.

.spring

What strange sights are seen beyond the veil of reality, and what utterly normal places those left behind would go. I picked Coerthas as an early anchor point, since that's where Zoissette grew up.

.new adventure

I was still learning a lot here, both about my tools (gpose+more/Affinity Photo) as well as the posting medium (tumblr). An early goal I had was that the Junelezen 'entry' would be its own screenshot with minimal words, and I would build on the 'story' portion in reblogs or readmores, so that way people who were only interested in the Junelezen part could ignore the rest. This one I used a reblog to expand the story.

Studying Her History (by @yzeltia)

Zoissette would probably prefer they stay out of her room at the Baldesion Annex. Y'shtola is always cute when passed out from studying too much though.

.job

Using a reblog chain to expand the story portion again. I couldn't figure out how to make the jobstone work, so I added a light source to Zoissette's hand to make a kind of 'glow'. Not real happy with how it turned out, but making mistakes makes the learning happen.

Informing Alka Zolka (by @yzeltia)

Okay Y'zel was just trying for emotional damage here. I mean, he succeeded, but still. :|

.mount

I have written about part of Zoissette's mission of mercy before. Look ma, my lore has lore. This event left its mark on her; it did not change her in any great way, just sort of underlines who she already was at that point. In the reblog, Y'zel went for the emotional damage again. Writing in my FC is a PvP activity.

Absence Felt (by @ladyofvoss)

Incredible work here, in the expressiveness of the posture, and the choice of shots taken (at my heart). This is Thalia Voss, belonging to @ladyofvoss. Where she's at is Zoissette's office at Gage Acquisitions (designed by fellow FC member Ghurab)

.friends

Another reblog chain. Compositing the 'shards' to put the faces of friends into them was quite difficult, each one requiring four layers (the way I did it) and quite a bit of manual touch up work. The color scheme was chosen on purpose. Look, Junelezen is also Pride Month, I don't make the rules, but I do make things queer.

1000 words remix (by @yzeltia)

Y'zel has a real fondness for all things music, and that's seen here. As @saesama put it, 'he made an AMV in tumblr form'. Having not played FF X-2, I was not familiar with the song, but I am now. This will not be the last musical piece from our aurally inclined catboy.

.beauty

With this one I really found the problems with reblog chains when making archival posts. This links to the reblog I made to my own post to add story, but in going to the original post, it's actually really hard to fish out the reblog!

We get further hints here that 'Adriané' may not be who Zoissette thinks she is.

Dancing Alone (by @yzeltia)

Dance like nobody's watching. Hey. Why are you watching. Go away, this is meant to be a private moment!

.mirror

Getting to here took a lot of false starts, fiddling with Affinity Photo, getting samples from in game, changing outfits, and it was all worthwhile in the end. I really like the end result. Y'zel went for a more chaotic approach.

Absence Mourned (by @scrollsfromarebornrealm)

For context, the character in these shots is Mathye Bishop, who belongs to @scrollsfromarebornrealm, a character who has been courting Zoissette for over a year by this point. They are close, in any case. The tone provided by the filter and his posture all scream of the devastation he feels in the wake of Zoissette's absence.

.summer

A memory that never happened, but did. Strange things in these echoes, and as has happened before, Y'zel's character visits the 'real' location, feeling a twinge of what is going on out beyond the rift, thanks to his own Echo gift. Klynt Gohtawyn belongs to @saesama, and this hearkens back to the days she and Zoissette may have crossed paths back when they both worked for the Maelstrom.

Klynt's a jerk.

.day

Not much to say for this one. I thought the sun would make more of an arc crossing the sky, making for an interesting dynamic shot, but it turns out it makes kind of a very straight line, which makes sense if you think about it. I had an alternative shot planned that, while it was gorgeous, I just couldn't make the story aspect of it work out. I will probably share that shot, and others, at a future date.

.sun

You can see I am choosing more and more often to use readmores instead of reblogs, and I will probably stand by that decision in the future. Also here is where I found out I had been doing a crime these many years. Due to her somewhat reserved nature, I usually have Zoissette have very subtle almost-nonexistent expressions. Clearly, this entire time, I should have been turning them up somewhere around 11. I love her face.

Echo Disrupted (by @yzeltia)

Looks like in the search for their friend, someone may have overdone it a bit. Overdoing it a bit, in fact, seems to be a bit of a theme with Y'zel, both player and character.

.ancient times

I am not going to take the space it would require for me to say everything that I would like about Atlas, so instead I will just mention that this served as a useful pivot for the story, and provided a path forward. I had actually been juggling several ideas up to this point, and this is where I hard committed to a specific direction. Thanks, Atlas.

Sanctuary remix (by @yzeltia)

Honestly I think Y'zel having his character black out was just an excuse to have a space to put this entry without having to worry about what I was doing. Which, really, is a stroke of genius. Another AMV in tumblr form. Should we make a new word for that?

.night

It was around here that I decided to lean more on my strengths - writing - and less on screenshots. That decision did not last long. Junelezen started as a screenshot event, and I was having fun with those. Here we anchor for everything ever after.

Connected remix (by @yzeltia)

Y'zel introduces me to a new song that lives in my heart.

.romance

Zoissette, no longer losing herself in the echoes, shows up only in the containment suit in shots from here on out. I continue to be cheeky about the colours I use whenever she's in the rift, and Y'zel drops a slick FF8 reference, which just really plays into my love of multiverse shenanigans.

.magic

Not completely sworn off of reblogs yet, though this reblog was pushed out fast, before I had a riot on my hands. This is also where I started hinted more heavily at things to come, with another Lavender PoV piece.

In the reblog chain, where you see the fairies, from left to right, is C'oretta Khell's (belongs to @autumnslance) Lotus, pink-shifted compared to the others; Ryssthota Sundstyrwyn's (belongs to @erickgage) Glitterdust, and Riven Fortemp's (belongs to @scrollsfromarebornrealm) Sugarplum, who I tried to make the little hairtufts rounder for.

.magic response by Y'zel Tia

You can ask Y'zel about this one.

.autumn

And pulled that trigger. This is where I finalized the smoke effect I wanted to use for Lavender, and I'm rather proud of how it turned out, particularly in future shots.

.landscape

I really like this shot, for the utter alien landscape I managed to make using FFXIV assets and some aggressive photo editor work. My only regret is that it does not -quite- look like Zoissette and Lavender are actually in that place, but I think that can be fixed with a few more adjustments.

I'd been leaning on Y'zel's entries to sort of weakly gesture at what may have been going on in the 'real world' while Zoissette was gone, but here I start to make my own narrative about the matter. Judging from conversations I've had, there is one thing I could have made clearer in this story. Zoissette's perspective of how much time has passed is dramatically different from that of the Source. In the Source, it has been a short time. For Zoissette, it has been quite a lot longer.

.travel

I think this is the only one with a single screenshot. I lean more heavily on my writing abilities once more, and I think they speak for themselves.

.dungeon

Figures. Zoissette is having one of the worst days of her life, and the cats are napping. It took me a while to settle on a ghostly effect for the people 'yelling' at her, and I rather like how it turned out. We also are spending more time with Lavender. Hard decisions to be made, but just because they are hard does not mean they are difficult. Lavender and Zoissette are alike like that.

.deity

Some trivia. Zoissette's mom lost her right arm fighting a dragon, back before the Calamity. The Deity is supposed to be a mix of Halone and Zoissette's mother, and so, she, too, is missing her right arm.

.harvest

Reaper job unlocked. Un-edge-lording your edgelord jobs since at least 2016.

.hobbies

So while I was writing a follow-up story for The Incident, I was also trying to follow the Junelezen prompts. And one of my goals was that someone who was just here for Junelezen could just see the photo, nod, go 'ah that makes sense' and move on without having to know a damned thing about the Incident or about Zoissette. I probably did not succeed as well as I would have liked, but I did try.

Having said that, the location of the hobbies prompt in the middle of the others and what I had planned presented some real problems for me, and I did not solve it until pretty late. So we get this moment of downtime. I like how it turned out, but it sure did vex me getting there.

.winter

Back where we began. A lot has changed, a lot has stayed the same. There are a lot of subtle things I did intentionally throughout this story. In this shot, the shift to the skybox and lighting, as well as changing where they are sitting relative to the fence, were decisions I made on purpose.

Speaking of changes done on purpose, Y'zel-the-character's hair goes white as he once again overdoes it. We do recurring themes here, sir.

.cozy

I will stop composing shots of Zoissette and Y'shtola sitting like this the day I die. Also, seriously Y'zel, is NOW the time to be forcing that question??? Ridiculous, now we have -two- casualties.

.relaxing

Under the readmore, we spend more time with the science team, as they try to work out what to do next. But here...

A Relaxing Summary (by @matrixdragon)

I will let @matrixdragon provide the summary.

.fancy clothes

A schematic of the Aurora Laboratories Containment Suit. And two more questions from @matrixdragon, who picked up on my oh-so-subtle (okay no it wasn't) Babylon 5 reference. On that note, I adore the Babylon 5 questions, and I think they serve as an extremely useful framing tool for just about any character in any universe.

Some very touching possible answers from Y'shtola in Y'zel's reblog.

Midnight talk

Things are happening, and faster, now. I did not use a readmore or the reblog chain for these additional entries, which I made sure were scheduled for 2300 in my time zone every night. 1100 for the Junelezen post, 2300 for additional story posts. I keep to this plan for the rest of the run. These special additional entries I refer to as The Eleventh Hour.

.family

Thank you to everyone in these shots. I have a little story in my mind for each one. Maybe I will even write them one day.

The Trapeze Swinger remix (by @yzeltia)

As I go through these entries, I can tell how and where my skills are improving. I can say the same for Y'zel, whose 'tumblr AMV' skills expand. While they are all very good, this is one of his best works, in my opinion, and I found another new song through him.

Recovery plan

Another Eleventh Hour entry. You know, it's funny, this arguably all started because Zoissette was trying very hard to not be a burden on her FC or an inconvenience to anyone.

Sure seem to have inconvenienced a lot of people here.

The Last Contingency: Judgement Call (by @saesama)

This one stabs right in the feeling-parts, but somebody has to think of these things, and Zoissette isn't here to do it.

.holidays

Erick Gage (@erickgage) has something to say about this whole mess.

The Only Exception remix (by @yzeltia)

You may have invented the AMV. But Y'zel tumblrized it. Perfected its new form. And then he unleashed it upon us all.

Reconciliation

And truth, at last. I could say so much here. I elect to say nothing.

.free

The final shot was a pain to composite, and I am so proud of how it turned out.

.begin

One year, from Zoissette's perspective, give or take a lot. Two weeks for the world. But she's home again.

Ma there's a cat on the foot of my bed I don't know how it got there (but seriously, thank you @yzeltia :) )

BONUS SECTION

Imposter Syndrome! (by @starladyquasar)

Ladies, ladies, you're both beautiful. Though also seriously, Squeenix, give us more customisation options.

ELEZEVANGELION (by @yzeltia)

You want to know what it's like being part of the funniest FC? It's pretty great, I tell you what.

Anyroad. Special thanks to all of you - those who stopped to leave a comment, or found me on the moon during a screenshot session (you know who you are), or even those of you who just followed along, in whole or in part. And for those of you who were just here for Elezen shots, I hope you found something you liked in here!

#final fantasy xiv #junelezen 2023: aftershocks #aftershocks #masterpost #zoissette vauban #lavender #gage acquistions and allies #scions of the seventh dawn #y'zel tia #and so many more <3

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eorziapple · 7 months

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FFXIV Write 2023 Prompt 18: Fish Out of Water

(Character: Apple Silverberg, Setting: GA Apple, Sprout safe)

The company party seemed to be going well. just about every couch, chair, and barstool had been taken up by chatting, friendly faces. Erick and Meya were certainly in the middle of things, regaling some sort of humorous tale, from the looks of things. Aeryn was with them, though she seemed to be rolling her eyes.

Dark absently pulled Y'zel back by the back of his shirt, probably giving him a lecture about his teasing, or perhaps a prank. His ears folded down a bit, she could only chuckle, havning seen Dark Autumn put a lot of people in their places over the years.

Riven and the boys were arguing about something, she wasn't sure what, but it seemed to be a rather heated discussion. She smiled, Apple never really had any siblings, but from her understanding they were not related either, though they certainly acted like family.

Zoissette, C'oretta, and Ryssthota were embroiled in what seemed to be some sort of game, the wager was shots of something, clearly, as two would be forced to drink the unpleasant looking concoction from time to time. She wondered if they were doing trivia, or maybe a quiz?

She sighed as she put a hand on the bannister, watching it all. She knew by now that she'd be welcome down there. She could probably join any conversation and be met with a smiling face and an offer of food or drink. She really should feel at home with them.

Why was it so hard?

She moved back to the stairwell, climbed her way up to her office, grabbed a book and headed to her reading chair.

Why did she always feel like such a stranger?

@erickgage @healerstail @autumnslance @driftward @yzeltia for the mention

#ffxiv write 2023 #apple silverberg

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karoiseka · 8 months

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3) Free Day 1

((I decided that I'm going to use at least a few of these free days to finish the prompts that I hadn't gotten around to finishing/posting! So, here's one that had me gasping at the various ideas that sprung up, including this one. [seriously, I had like 4 different ideas for this one]. Have some Kar'a and Hades Forgiveness thanks to @yzeltia ))

Ikarus gasped as she pulled herself up onto the rock, the howls of her hunters close. Too close. This wasn’t how the trip was supposed to go, and she almost regretted not prepping more before leaving the city. She hadn’t been sitting in the seat of Azem very long, but had instantly chosen chaos–immediately leaving after her appointment for the wide open road. The stack of paperwork sitting on the desk as she left and sent a shiver down her spine–Venat had not cleaned up before stepping down.

There had been one other reason for leaving so quickly. Emet-Selch. Hades. Whatever she was supposed to call him now that she was his equal on the council. It had been years since they had actually spoken, Hythlodaeus and Venat being their only connection. At this point she couldn’t even remember what the argument was over, just that it had shattered the life-long relationship that they had–only that it was something to do with a council decision that she didn’t agree with and that he had put forward as an idea.

The rumor from Hyth that he had backed Venat’s decision to promote her to the Seat of Azem had startled her into remembering that Hades always did try to think logically and without emotion–especially when it came to work related items. She supposed with how much she had worked as a Word of Azem under Venat that it shouldn’t be a surprise that she was a candidate for the position, but it was startling to hear from him nonetheless.

Which brought her back to her current predicament. Her leg was cut fairly badly, and she needed time to let the healing magic kick in. Shields could only do so much as she sat heavily, watching the pack circle, as best she could. Weaving in and out of the tall grass, their natural camouflage concealed their true numbers when she tried to count them. There was nothing else for it then. She needed help.

There was only one that was usually willing to teleport to her side, one that had the magic to whisk himself home afterwards. Loathe as she was to call upon him, there wasn’t much choice left, and she let the magic fly. It had always been a part of her, the ability to call and summon those that she needed most to her side. The tendril of magic hung in the air as she was unsure if the call would be answered–the circle glowing at her side.

The runes burst into blinding light as the magic activated, a moment later grey robes brushed her leg. His topaz eyes took in the scene, before resting on her wounds for a moment, adjusting his grip on the greatsword he had already drawn.

Hades had answered her call. Sighing in relief, the shields drew in as Ikarus–Azem–pulled in her aether to work on the wounds, before accepting the outstretched hand tugging her to her feet.

“You came.”

“Of course.” and that was that. Time shifted once more, and despite everything, they moved as one, as they had so many times before, and most likely would again. Her weapons spun around them, weaving their deadly protective dance, as she threw her head back and laughed. All was right on the star once more, forgiveness granted, and goals aligned once more–at least for now.

#ffxiv #FFXIVWrite2023 #kar'azem #emet selch #ask me!#I've had it written for over a day #just needed those pesky screenshots.#lol #thank you for this ask #like. my brain went NUTS #this was the tame idea. ;-)

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mintibunny · 12 days

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Vierapril, Day 16 - Tough

Minti Chocolate only hangs out with the roughest, toughest padres this side of Western Thanalan.

You hankerin' to rustle up totems?

Lookin' to loot all the treasure maps?

Show us what you got, pardner.

We're the cowpokes from Gage Acquisitions.

Yee-haw.

(Minti's Ul'dah Posse: @driftward, @yzeltia)

#final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy oc #ffxiv #minti wol #minti chocolate #final fantasy viera #rava viera #zoissette vauban #y'zel tia #this is silly

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hear-feel-think · 20 days

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nine people I'd like to know better

tagged by @myreia Thank you!

Last Song I Listened To: Yellow Submarine by the Beatles Currently Watching: Avatar the Last Airbender, the OG cartoon. Also Delicious in Dungeon. Sweet/Savoury/Spicy?: Spicy! Relationship Status: Married to my wonderful husband for nearly 7 years now! Ethically non-monogamous, I've also had a casual girlfriend for 2 years. Current Obsession: My baby daughter 😍 We took her for her first trip on the metro today so her father and I could see the eclipse with some friends. She slept the whole time.

Tagging: (As usual I'm going through my notes and getting the last few folks who liked/reblogged from me. No pressure! Feel free to answer on your main instead if I tagged a sideblog. And feel free to ignore me entirely!) @mages-ballad, @fjotla-vithir, @driftward, @jmadreugimal, @shadepelt4673, @belethlegwen, @blancaleona, @abominablesnowdude, @yzeltia

#kc speaks #tag game

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yzeltia · 1 year

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NovemberDWC 2022 Day 5

Title: Damage

Characters: Carter Summers

Rating: T for Temper

"Too angry and volatile. Not ready for the front lines."

Carter crushed the review in his hand then threw it at the wall. Rejected for deployment again with the same throw away comments. Of course he was angry. His elder brothers might have forgotten their home, but he hadn't. Even if he was barely a boy when they'd left.

He huffed as he pulled out his soul stone, watching it pulse I his hand, wondering why they wouldn't want to put his wrath to use. His ferocious love for home and country that fueled every heavy swing of his sword.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #ffxiv oc #ff14 #ffxiv hyur #stormblood #carter summers #novemberdwc2022 #novemberday52022 #yzeltia

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biot08 · 1 year

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List 7 comfort movies. Tag 7 people.

Tagged by @tehjai who already tagged a lot of the people I would have who then in turned tagged a lot of the people I would have who -

I should've been faster on the trigger I guess

Now, the list: Tron Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Batman (1989 version) Terminator 2 Wall-E Ghost in the Shell Wallace and Gromit (any one of them) Equilibrium Tagging @saesama, @scalefeathers, @sasslett, @eorzeanflowers, @mremaknu, @yzeltia, and wildcard @cipheramnesia because I want some chaos in my life.

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okami-zero · 1 month

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OC Name Meanings

I appreciate the tag, @kittynomsdeplume! xD

Rules: Google and post the meaning of your OC’s name (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! bonus if you can find something for their last name too.

I believe I shall tag... @elveny, @vasheden, @greyias, @traveleorzea, @autumnslance, @kunstpause, @sasslett, @clockworkdragonffxiv, @karoiseka, @yzeltia and anyone else who see this and wants to join in!

Okay, so one thing to note about most of my OCs, is their names generally just pop out of the random mess of alphabet soup constantly simmering in some corner of my brain. Not ALL of them (for example, Akagi's family name), but most. Or are inspired/pulled from other places. I will go with my big three main MMO fellas, and my two 100% original OCs. Also, have a cut cause I, uh, got carried away. ^_^; (And I am sorry this took so long. >.<)

Zedd Overkill/Zed'rika Ov'redis- Okay, this guy. My half-echani smuggler in SWTOR, who is based on the original I made ages ago (and who is the descendant of the SWTOR one, after some revisions/additions/etc.) The OG is Zedd Overkill, inspired by my favorite Power Rangers villain (Lord Zedd), the head agent from MiB (Zed, as in the letter) and with inspiration from Hackers (Crash Override), a dash (heh, pun) of Dash Rendar from Shadows of the Empire and a maybe just a hint of Han solo. The name popped into my head after watching Hackers and was trying to think up a cool email during computer class (back when Hotmail was still Hotmail xD). The name was repurposed with a smuggler character I made with a friend when we were just making up neat Star Wars OCs for a maybe story we were writing. Story never got finished, but Zedd stuck around. "Overkill" is more a nickname now, as his preferred method of rapid problem-solving involves liberal applications of thermal detonators. x3 Rav Masahiro & Marshall O'Donnell - These two are my second oldest persistent OCs after good ol' Zedd. There is technically one that is older (in fact, old enough that he used Zedd's moniker for a while, back when folding an OC to fit any AU was my MO), but he's kind of only half-baked, for the most part. Rav and Marshall are next in line, and are, by and large much more polished. The story they were to be set in was very grand in scale and scope, considering it was kind of a series of AUs where things in various realities were being fucked with, and they are two of a team of six who are sent out to deal with such things. If this sounds like a certain popular video game franchise from a prominent Japanese publisher, you'd be right in there being some similarities, I guess, but they predate it by about a year. Well, technically Rav predates it, Marshall didn't crystallize until about a year or so later. Powersets are very shounen-ish, I guess? Little bit of henshin and other stuff thrown in for flavor (and things have been tweaked and appended over time). Anyway, Rav's name comes from a reworking of my own name, as he is kind of my self-insert-ish guy. His last name comes from my at-the-time rampant obsession with Japanese culture (yes, yes, I'll say it, I was a weeb. The interest remains, though tempered by time, experience and education). I thought his last name meant something else, as Googling in those early days was... a crap shoot. And the fact that Masahiro is a given name in Japanese hasn't deterred me, as embarrassing as it might be, it just... is a thing now. xD (The other half-baked OC I mentioned has a similar nomenclature goof). Marshall's name kind of just, popped out of the ether, but it flows well and it fits. She does let people close to her shorten it to "Shall" (sounds like shawl). Do NOT call her "Marsh", "Marshie" or "Marsha" or she'll deck you. Like, lay you out flat with one punch. Moving on!

Xanotos Delkai - My Warrior tank in WoW. Another lad who went through some changes. xD So my first character in WoW was a human hunter back in the...alpha or beta, whenever it was they were originally playable before getting nixed. His name was Thanatos, inspired by the character of the same name from a Sega CD fighting game Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side. He was a typical Grim Reaper-y Death (as Thanatos was the personification of death in Greek mythology, and a psychopomp, I believe). I liked the name. However, the character was nuked after the alpha or beta or whatnot. So, when I remade the character for the full version, I rolled up a Warrior and named him Xanatos/Xanotos (depending on the server), or Xano. Now, I have remade and moved this character many times over the years. Delkai became his surname at some point, and when worgen came out, he was race-changed to worgen, and his backstory was shifted and fleshed out further. Fun fact: the Gargoyles TV series was the farthest thing from my mind when I made this toon, and was for many years. It wasn't until... just before or around Legion, I think? that I realized I had named him the same (if spelled differently) as Evil 90s Will Riker. xD

Akagi Obinata - And now we get to my most recent and most prevalent MMO OC, Akagi. Paladin, Tankfriend, tol dragon/lizard man. So, sadly, this boy is the third I have given a Japanese-style name to, and borked the order of, because Akagi is a freaking surname. >.< Now, I am aware that Hingashi (he was born and raised in/around Kugane) is only kind of Etheirys-Japan, but... I am just...moving on! The inspiration for his given name is one Akagi Shunsuke (or Shunsuke Akagi, in Western fashion) from the anime Dai-Guard. It is an absolutely insane super robot show and I love it, and I see a lot of myself in one of the protagonists (the aforementioned Akagi Shunsuke). So, in honor of a favorite character, I chose that. Forgetting, or blindly ignoring the fact that just because everyone in the show (save for his one relative we see) refers to him as Akagi because it is a cultural thing, and not because it is his given name. >.< What's done is done, however. His surname, thankfully, is one from a list of suggested surnames from the raen au ra lore I could find. It means "blades on waist", and I figured that there were samurai in his family line far enough back that that was the name they took. Akagi, by the way, is if I am not mistaken, "red castle", and well, he IS red. And the Paladin LB3 is a freaking castle WALL, so... it fits in a retroactive kind of way. xD (I was not thinking of his coloring, nor was I aware of what the LB3 looked like when I made him. ^_^; )

And that is it! Do I have more OCs? Yes! But they are all kind of self-contained to different things, and their names are more of a kind of mental slot machine than these goobers (plus the one xD). Hopefully I didn't ramble TOO too much, but I get excited about my homemade blorbos, y'know how it is. Thanks for reading!

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