#Sundered-souls

[lilbittymonster]

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them (From @sundered-souls)

Hildibrand! Hildibrand Questlines Good, Actually!

I think more people should engage with them bc they're a much needed comic relief against all of the everything of MSQ. I like the brain off slapstick comedy. I'm very excited to see what faces they can make with all those new bones when I eventually do them on my alts. Mostly I think that a lot of the playerbase could do with a good dose of joy and whimsy.

Incredibly galaxy brained move on the dev team's part to make the EW relics locked behind completing all the Manderville quests. I'm sure most of the hardcore savage raider bros just cutscene skipped, and I've made my derision towards cutscene skippers clear already, but I hope at least some of them actually watched all the way through.

Thanks for the ask @sundered-souls

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[nidstiniens]

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP. (From @sundered-souls )

ty for the ask!! ♥️ sorry i'm definitely writing smut right now:

He cups her cheek and pulls her into a soft kiss, reveling in the taste of himself on her tongue, her shiver as his other hand strokes along her belly, the juncture of her hips. She's radiant, flushed, smiling even when their mouths separate, his forehead pressing to hers. He's utterly spent, but the ache in his chest hasn't softened in the slightest. "I may need a minute or ten," he admits with a dry laugh. She grazes up the line of his lower abdominal muscles with the tip of her finger, making the skin there quiver. "Or twenty?" A wry smile ghosts across his lips. "Keep touching me like that, and I may be able to manage fourteen." "Well, I have no other plans this evening," she says, her eyes glinting impishly. "I wouldn't have allowed you to attend them even if you did."

[ffxivtribehydrae]

What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.)  for all brothers

Dusk always carries a velvet box with a ring in it. He's had very conflicting feelings about keeping it around, but currently he is determined to hold on to it. There is no routine around it, most of the time it is laying forgotten in his pocket.

Dubus has a bracelet. And ever since it was stolen for a while he has made a habit to always check that it still is on his wrist in the morning. He will also often check on it throughout various activities of the day and also check if it is in need or repair.

Khu will always make sure he carries with him some form of paper and pen, or other medium he could possibly write and make notes in.

Zo'ogai carries a knife and always wears his moon necklace. He is a man who always needs something to do. So he will always have a walk in the mornings (unless he already got an ongoing project) and find something he can carve away at with said knife.

- Get to know the Character -

[luck-and-larceny]

🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

Oh! That's a fun question! Malika started as a tabletop character. From first conception, she was always a cowardly and selfish bard/rogue who was obsessed with petty theft. In the tabletop game she started in, there was this iconic figure called The Prince of Shadows who was the most infamous of thieves. Her goal was to steal so many items that were considered 'unstealable' that she'd eventually draw the attention of The Prince of Shadows. Then, I think, she wanted to steal their title and become The Prince of Shadows herself. That game was relatively short-lived, but I really loved the concept and wanted to play her again! I thought it'd be fun to figure out how to make her in FFXIV. Thieves aren't exactly rare in RP spaces and certainly not in Final Fantasy games! I wanted to think of a way to keep her a thief, but in a unique way that other people might have fun interacting with her rather than just being annoyed that she steals all the time. Instead, I thought it'd be fun if her theft were more interactive than that. I wouldn't RP stealing anything from other characters without getting consent from the player first (obviously), but to make it more appealing I thought it could be fun if every time Malika steals something, she leaves something else behind. So every RP where theft happened it wasn't like the character just -lost- something, but that they got a random item in exchange too. I thought that quirk was so much fun that it became central to her personality and to her backstory. Her desire to get the attention and favor of The Prince of Shadows has changed to wanting to draw the attention of Nymeia and to court fate. I really like these changes! And I hope others do too. Thank you so much for the Ask!

[chill-bunn-sage]

3. What is your OC's financial status? Are they just scraping by, making enough to live comfortably, or wealthy? Has there ever been a drastic change in their status? If so, what happened?

“Ah, I’d say I’m living fairly comfortably. M-My apartment is cluttered but fine, I’m not wanting for anything extravagant. Mine’s is a simple life. Well… aside from an island one of my distant relative’s left me but, th-that’s a story for another day.”

[abyssal-soul]

Send 🧥 to see my muse in their favourite coat (both)

Oooo you can align pictures side-by-side in text posts now! Time for some vertical shots!

🧥 Their favorite coat

Meka Tsukuyomi: Skallic Coat of Fending Qaralun Kha: Edenmorn Coat of Fending

Send a symbol and I’ll give a screenshot for it!

[aetherotransformer]

What made them join the Scions? What do they think about them now?

Truth be told, Ashen was never that close to the Scions - during the events of ARR (a lot of which isn't canon for her), she viewed them as something akin to talent agents that helped her gain access to opportunities she wouldn't otherwise have. The only reason she stuck with them at first was that she felt somewhat responsible for the massacre at the Waking Sands, having taken a detour between defeating Titan and returning there. By Endwalker, none of this has fundamentally changed. She's come to appreciate their talents, and generally likes them, but in that sort of coworker-you-make-pleasant-conversation-with sort of way.

The exception to this rule is Tataru, whose role as the Scions' secretary/logistics person instantly garnered respect from Ashen. He's the type of person to respect her skillset more than regular combat ability or book smarts, and they probably hang out outside of Scion business sometimes. I haven't gotten to those quests firsthand but he probably co-founds her boutique.

[disciple-of-frost]

Putting this discussion under the cut because I CAN'T NOT talk about this NPC we meet in Dawntrail!

I am unwell!

This is 100% Ysayle's shard from this reflection yes????

Also I do not recall anyone using specific pronouns for them so I hereby decree Shale is nonbinary. And even if it turns out that Shale does use "she" she can still be she/they.

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

Mayncient Day 31: Farewell

"And among these uncountable stars, it was yours that crossed my path. For that I shall be forever grateful." -Themis

more screens below the cut and links to their inspiration

With all the souls returned to the atherial sea, Anthea and Hythlodaeus were granted another life in the forms of Ellen and Laelius. Neither knew the other in this lifetime until their assistance was needed to help the Warrior of Light and the few memories etched onto their souls awakened. Since then the two helped to build a new life for those that were living in Ultima Thule, using the power that took so much from their past selves to create a future for all those to come after. Inspired by this commission

What once were fragmented memories became whole once more and Elidibus found himself greeted by Conner who was lost when the Final Days hit Amaurot. While witness to all that happened in the initial days to follow and the times he was not living a new life on the star, it didn't make the feelings he had wane and so he waited. Waited until the day Elidibus would come back and they could rest living the life they denied themselves, now that desire could supersede duty. Inspired by one of the first screens I did of them

Having made a promise Deimos and Phobos' soul could never forget they would be reincarnated a thousand lifetimes to see it fulfilled. The two weren't always brought together but when fate allowed them too they were a force to be reckoned with, and none as much as their promise fulfilled Demos and Siberite. With the star now saved the their souls can now continue exploring the world and Shepherding a path for others to follow in an ever changing world. Inspired by this sketch commission and this colored one

[menphinaswhitemage]

Papa once told me that tomorrow an asteroid will descend. And in a single moment, everything we know and love will meet its end. So I tried to smile a bit- despite the end I see. After all, tomorrow I'll finally be free.

[lilbittymonster]

🎉 Say it's their love interests' birthday, how would they celebrate it? (For both of them!)

For Aymeric, she has already coordinated with Lucia and Artoirel that he is not to be at either job for the day, possibly longer. Then she asks where he wants to go that he's never been before. Could be Kugane, could be a tavern in the middle of nowhere, Gyr Abania, but she will teleport them anywhere he wants to go. She has the whole star at her fingertips and she wants to share as much of it with him as possible.

For Estinien, they will try to find the most esoteric place to eat that they haven't been to yet. Culinary exploration is something that they both enjoy doing together, so half the meal will be actually eating and then the other half is trying to figure out how to make it themselves.

Thanks for the ask @sundered-souls

OC Asks

[digeethegenie]

Coffee, Biscuits, Coffee Biscuits.

Day 23 - On Cloud Nine Shadowbringers (5.3) - Reflections in Crystal Shadowbringers Raid Series - Where I Belong

Soft Ryne and Gaia shinanigins.

With The Empty restored, and life on its way to flurishing on the once light-blighted star, Ryne and Gaia finally have a moment to just be a couple of teenagers and enjoy some Coffee, Biscuits and, well, Coffee Biscuits.

In the weeks that followed both the confirmed felling of the last cardinal virtue and the empty's restoration to habitable land, a change had begun to take place in the general populace. One such instance of this was the fact that the children of land had begun to socialise, and dream of lives beyond the desperate struggle against an inevitaible and painfull death that had marked the last centry of the star's history.

This also meant that businesses were adapting to the demands of youth culture. This included The Leaky Keel making the most of the daylight hours to serve more youth aproperate drinks and meals.

Two such youths were Ryne Waters and Gaia who were taking a break from their respective duties, both in studying and in perparing for the festival that had been in the plans even before restoration of the Empty was finished.

Gaia, for her part, took the cup of coffee to her nose and allowed the arouma of the drink- made from beans imported from Eulmore- to take her out of the moment.

Partly because that moment was spent by Ryne sighing very loudly.

Dragged back to reality by the haggared sigh, Gaia could only look in sympathy for the Oracle of Light.

"Long night of it?"

Ryne leaned back on her chair. "Oh, like you wouldn't believe! Sometimes it feels like herding torama cats with the other committie members. Especilally that Seifer jerk!"

Gaia hummed, wanting to know more.

In an impressive bit of agrovated manouvering, Ryne took a coffee biscuit and took an impressively large bite out of it.

"I don't-" she stopped to swallow the current infused biscuit, "I don't care that his father is a big shot in Eulmore. If he speaks out of line or gets his flunkies to back him up one more time, I'm going to take that beanie of his and pull it right down his face!"

The name was fimilar to Gaia but for the life of her she couldn't put a face to it. There was a lot about her past life in Eulmore that she couldn't remember thanks to Mitron's influnace. It had been quite the sorce of frustration.

But that was then and this was now. And she was enjoying the now where Ryne was just venting her frustrations. It was cute. Sort of like, aproperatly enough, a torama kitten that was meowing out of frustration for reasons beyond the ken of man.

That wasn't to say it was all her taking in Ryne's woes in organisation.

"But enough about my rotten luck. Hows things going with Lyna?"

Gaia looked at bit put out. In order to make herself useful, she had joined The Crysterium's guard. She hadn't ment to out herself as anyone special, given how that went the last time, and given the fact that monster- and, more pressingly, sin eater- attacks were starting to dwindle. But no, a big old monster rolled up, nearly flattened Lance-Corperal Lyna who was only spared her fate via vigerous application of Gaia's hammer to the monster's forehead.

That made it twice that thing had embarassed her.

So now Lyna had taken her under her wing to train.

And she was not a soft hand.

"I genuinly don't know how the Exarch raised that woman but I have questions about his partenting style" she scoffed angerly. "She's a complete battle axe!"

Ryne tilted her head. "I thought she was trained in dancing artes."

"I- sch!" Gaia splutered, caught off guard before she shook her head. "You know what I mean!"

A smile crossed Ryne's face. As embarassed as she was, Gaia knew that the Oracle of Light found it adorable when she got flustered so that sort of teasing comedy act had become a frequent thing.

Not that she mind.

Oh no, far from it.

The two took a sip of their cofee and felt the heat warm them up. There would be trails, tribulations, and probably some reality shattering disaster being stopped by three foot of drawf that they would have so get themselves involved with in the future but, for now, the two oracles of The First were simply on cloud nine.

[ffxivtribehydrae]

1. What kind of person is your OC in a crisis? Are they calm and collected? Do they panic? Or are they chronically the cause? (Dubus)

For all his confidence, when the crisis is there, Dubus is the one who panics. Flight and last resort fight. He won't be the kind who tramples others on the way out though, especially not if there are people he knows nearby. He'd help those he cares about even if it would be a rather stressed assistance.

But in all honesty, he'd be the one in desperate need of help and all the crises he has been through, that has been the case.

- Get to know the OC -

[hexavexen]

((Dragging him kicking and screaming through the multiverse))

[sealrock]

had a dream about my sadboy wet beast hector last night that gave me inspiration over a major lore detail I've been trying to solve for a month, it's all coming together

[frogenthusiastt]

DUNAMANCY FOIL HATTERS HOW WE FEELINGG you split your souls apart to observe yourselves!!! what does it MEAN!! THE IMPLICATIONS!! AABRIA IYENGAR WHEN I GET YOUU