#Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

[shivasdarknight]

you want a better story. who wouldn't? {ffxiv, one sided wolysayle yearning}

Chapter 4: Okay, if you’re so great, you do it—here’s the pencil, make it work

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv ❆characters: Ysayle Dangoulain, Redolent Rose, Mylla, elezen OC (Melisande), other OCs ❆relationship: heavily referenced wolysayle yearning ❆dynamic: gen, implied f/f ❆rating: m ❆key tags: fix it fic, Ysayle Lives AU, recovery fic, POV Swap (Melisande > Ysayle), flashbacks, Echo vision, character study, Ysayle's mine now so I get to decide how she develops from here on out, Spoilers for late Heavensward and Stormblood, Coerthas worldbuilding ❆content warnings: cursing, general crudeness, implied character death, canon typical existentialism, irreality, grieving, character death, references to atrophy and unbearable pain, mc hurts herself trying to rush recovery, family deaths, fire and related injuries, homophobic Ishgard as a setting, referenced animal death but no animals depicted dying (extinction discussed a lot, however) ❆chapters: 4/? {ongoing} ❆words: 23,512 {66,716 in total} ❆series: Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

There weren't many things that Ysayle could call her own even in the modern day, having lost much of it in the Calamity and in her own recent folly. Loaned this and that as she tries to get back on her feet - quite literally, this time - the only thing she could really call hers was her first staff…wherever that went. It had a bloodied history that hurt to recall it - both in its nature and the lengths it took to get it - but now she's stuck with naught. She must find a way to build herself back up, and to that she must accept this aid that she feels she does not deserve in whatever form it comes in: be it rough handling so she might walk again, or clothing with far too much care put into it for someone such as her.

And all the while, Melisande remains colder than Ysayle's own persona - a bitter bastard to the very end.

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Fix it fic/Ysayle Lives AU that's part of my Snow and Dirty Rain au. Timeline goes over the end of 3.0 to 4.0, and is predominantly in Ysayle's POV (chapter 1 is Melisande's POV, chapter 2 is how things will go). From her recovery, to her building a new life for herself - Ysayle's newfound freedom allows her to explore what's going on in Ala Mhigo while the Warriors of Light are in Doma. A few misadventures, a lot of sapphic yearning - all of this to lead into i had a dream about you.

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[shivasdarknight]

you want a better story. who wouldn't? {ffxiv, one sided wolysayle yearning}

Chapter 1: I never liked that ending either

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Chapter 2: So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv

❆characters: Ysayle Dangoulain, named Warriors of Light (Gwendoline, Seraphin, Teodore), elezen OC (Melisande), Hydaelyn

❆relationship: minor wol/wol, past oc/laniaitte, past ysayle/heustienne, heavily referenced wolysayle and ysayle/venat

❆dynamic: gen, implied f/f and m/m

❆rating: m

❆key tags: fix it fic, Ysayle Lives AU, recovery fic, POV Swap (Melisande > Ysayle), flashbacks, character study, Ysayle's mine now so I get to decide how she develops from here on out, Spoilers for late Heavensward and Stormblood

❆content warnings: cursing, implied character death, canon typical existentialism, irreality, grieving, character death, blood and gore typical of injuries, needles, family deaths, fire and related injuries, homophobic Ishgard as a setting

❆chapters: 2/? {ongoing}

❆words: 27,108 {chapter 1: 14,966. chapter 2: 12,142}

❆series: Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

In a hail of bullets, Ysayle Dangoulain fell and this is where it should have ended. The Garleans bring her down, the Warriors of Light continue on, and one in particular remains deeply traumatized for the remainder of the story.

But that's not what happened, and somehow: Lady Iceheart yet lives, thanks to the effort of a dedicated few. ...But is this the land of the living? Or is this just one elongated, cruel joke?

Fix it fic/Ysayle Lives AU that's part of my Snow and Dirty Rain au. Timeline goes over the end of 3.0 to 4.0, and is predominantly in Ysayle's POV (chapter 1 is Melisande, chapter 2 is how things will go). From her recovery, to her building a new life for herself - Ysayle's newfound freedom allows her to explore what's going on in Ala Mhigo while the Warriors of Light are in Doma. A few misadventures, a lot of sapphic yearning - all of this to lead into i had a dream about you.

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[shivasdarknight]

i had a dream about you {ffxiv, wolysayle}

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv ❆characters: named warrior of light (Surkukteni), Ysayle Dangoulain, Krile Baldesion, Tataru Taru, Ardbert Hylfyst, oc (Melisande + others referenced) ❆relationship: wolysayle, referenced wolestinien & wolcylva (neither estinien nor cylva appear, though) ❆dynamic: f/f, referenced m/f ❆rating: e ❆key tags: xaela wol, bi+intersex+bigender wol, polyam wol, sapphic bi4bi, YSAYLE LIVES BITCH, hurt/comfort, POV swap (Surkukteni > Ysayle > Surkukteni) ❆content warnings: cursing, implied character death, canon typical existentialism, dream fic, irreality, grieving, vaginal fingering, sapphic blowjobs, temperature play, clothed sex, praise kink, discussions of gender, reference to sexually fluid au ra (and how Surkukteni is intersex within that), brief discussion of sexuality (in a fairly humorous tone) ❆chapters: 4/4 {complete} ❆words: 31,395 ❆series: How to Obtain a Polycule (ft. Emotionally Constipated Dumbasses), Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

If it wasn't bad enough that Surkukteni had not been allowed the time and space to grieve, her dreams became quickly plagued for a love she'd lost years ago. There's a strange sentience to this Ysayle that haunts her dreams, but was that really important? If she could seek some sense of closure for her broken heart, she'd take it even if it meant reopening that wound every night.

Set in Shadowbringers and ending in 5.3, this is Ysayle's reentry into MSQ. Chapters 2 and 4 are spicy, emotional support Ardbert through half of it, and a sequel planned very soon. I can confirm that this fic made someone cry, so have fun <3

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[shivasdarknight]

you want a better story. who wouldn't? {ffxiv, one sided wolysayle yearning}

Chapter 3: I talk to you as if you’re really there. Are you there, sweetheart?

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv ❆characters: Ysayle Dangoulain, named Warrior of Light (Surkukteni) in an Echo, elezen OC (Melisande) ❆relationship: heavily referenced wolysayle yearning ❆dynamic: gen, implied f/f ❆rating: m ❆key tags: fix it fic, Ysayle Lives AU, recovery fic, POV Swap (Melisande > Ysayle), flashbacks, Echo vision, character study, Ysayle's mine now so I get to decide how she develops from here on out, Spoilers for late Heavensward and Stormblood, theistic world building through textbooks ❆content warnings: cursing, general crudeness, implied character death, canon typical existentialism, irreality, grieving, character death, references to atrophy and unbearable pain, mc hurts herself trying to rush recovery, family deaths, fire and related injuries, homophobic Ishgard as a setting ❆chapters: 3/? {ongoing} ❆words: 16,052 {43,160 in total} ❆series: Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

Despite being known for being a deathly powerful mage as Lady Iceheart, Ysayle's aptitude for magic was sorely lacking prior to the Calamity. She'd struggled a great deal to master it, and in a frustrating relapse she was back at the start with no magical capabilities so to speak. Beyond her magic being slow to return, and the dreadful state of her atrophied body, Ysayle still is not convinced this isn't Hell. But regardless of if it is or isn't, she must do something — anything! — to get her strength back so she might relieve the one she dearly loves and sorely misses of the belief that Ysayle had died at Azys Lla. It's a task most pressing, as it's a vicious grief that would see Ysayle's love consumed and destroyed.

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Fix it fic/Ysayle Lives AU that's part of my Snow and Dirty Rain au. Timeline goes over the end of 3.0 to 4.0, and is predominantly in Ysayle's POV (chapter 1 is Melisande's POV, chapter 2 is how things will go). From her recovery, to her building a new life for herself - Ysayle's newfound freedom allows her to explore what's going on in Ala Mhigo while the Warriors of Light are in Doma. A few misadventures, a lot of sapphic yearning - all of this to lead into i had a dream about you.

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[shivasdarknight]

spare a moment, would you? {ffxiv, wolysayle}

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv ❆characters: named warrior of light (Surkukteni), Ysayle Dangoulain ❆relationship: wolysayle, full relationship is wolestiysayle ❆dynamic: f/f, as well as m/f/f ❆rating: e ❆key tags: xaela wol, bi+intersex+bigender wol, polyam triad, sapphic bi4bi, bi4bi4bi triad, YSAYLE LIVES BITCH ❆content warnings: cursing, biting, blood & bloodplay, tail fucking, vaginal fingering, temperature play ❆words: 4,444 ❆series: Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

Finally allowed a moment to sleep in, Surkukteni tries to savor this rare day off - but Ysayle has other plans with her, now that she's got Surkukteni all to herself.

It's literally just smut, have fun. Wrote it for Pride last year lmao

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[shivasdarknight]

in a turn of events i should've seen coming, i finally gave a name to my ysayle lives au for the sake of a collection

and of course it's the name of the poem that i referenced in the dream fic.

because something about Surkie just screams Richard Siken, and that poem in particular knocked me on my ass and I haven't stopped equating it to surkie and ysayle

gestures at the dream fic and its title + chapter titles

help

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