#but if i don't use miqo lore...

[eidingate]

Then vs Now

I got tagged by @robynostornwyn! Though honestly I've been seeing this trend across my dash for days and it's been a delight to see the journeys of all these characters.

October 2023:

December 2024:

Well, she got new hair and a swag coat.

I wish I could say that I've had Eidin since the start of my XIV journey, but what actually happened is that the casual alt I'd made to play on the server where my friends were more active gradually evolved into my main -- but I was playing a character who I didn't feel represented me, and whose lore got completely busted by MSQ (if you roll up a sunseeker miqo, there should be a big flashing warning that says "don't use a name that starts with M if you don't want to accidentally lock that character into being from one specific tribe in Ala Mhigo"). Still, it was hard to let go of my little guy and I didn't feel good wrapping up his journey until Endwalker gave me the kind of closure I needed for him.

Since I never got to experience the game with a character who felt firmly embedded in the setting, my promise to myself was that I would not hit that fantasia until I had a character concept that fit the game lore AND felt good to play. It still took me weeks, from initial concept through hours in the character creator, to finally make her real, so it's not surprising that I haven't felt the need to make too many changes since then.

The biggest change to her physically is, well, the great Dawntrail upgrade. It's amazing how the graphics update actually makes her feel more complete now. And after landing on That One Femroe Hairstyle I never thought I'd switch to anything else, but Meteor's hair elevated her dashing rogue vibe to a whole new level.

TBH though, finding the tumblr OC community and having a place to share her lore amidst so much support and feedback has taken her lore from character concept to an actual story. I am so grateful that my brainworms about this character have somewhere to go. I can't wait to see where her story develops next.

Tagging @ravandfriendsxiv, @expedienceffxiv, and YOU if you are reading this and still have not done it!

[lesenbyan]

NAMING CONVENTIONS

me: okay so if I make Pela in XIV that means she needs a party which will def have Serval and probably Lynx which means it ought to have Gepard ig

me: okay cool, what fucking race is that family

[nijohirjesyho]

would you ever make an nsfw ver of the miqo biology thing??

I currently don't see myself doing so because, sorry to disappoint, but I'm pretty vanilla in what I imagine Miqo'te biology to look like for the following two reasons

Knots are not a feline thing, they are a canine thing so that's that popular headcanon down

What cats have instead are barbs, and I am wincing just thinking about it.

Since I based the Miqo'te biology thing mostly on actually animal biology and behaviors, with what luttle lore Square's given us mixed in... yeah.

[pangolinheart]

me: I should tie my WoLs backstory to miqo'te lore so it feels like they have a connection to world and the lore...

also me: But that would require me to acknowledge that sun seeker lore exists and I Don't Want To.

[neriyon]

All answers are purely from what I headcanon things to be like, and probably hold close to zero actual lore relevance (but I thought to throw in my two cents as a miqo player):

I'd say no? I go with "ears are fur, hair is hair", but again, no idea if that has ever been addressed in canon. They can have patterns not present in their hair tho (some hairstyles have darker ear tips, and I think at least one has these little dark spots in the ears), which I'd count towards the two having different types of hair.

I go with their tales being your avarage cat tails, so yes to wrapping around things (or people) + and swishing them around. Many of the emotes have your tail moving (happy swishes on /joy, sticks straight up in many of the fearful ones), so I kinda see it as them using it to express a lot of emotions, like real cats. Iirc lore mentions something about them using their tails for balance too, so moving them at will seems logical?

This one is probably very different from player to player, but my hc is that miqos don't shed that much. Somehow getting tons of cat fur on your white healing robes seems like a hassle (lol), but I wouldn't scoff at other miqo players who feel like their kitties should shed tons. That could possibly tie that into their personal grooming habits - for example Hawu'li spends a loooot of time making sure his tail is nice and fluffy, so maybe someone doing the same might shed less over furniture/clothes/whatever than someone who prefers to leave their fur be and let the nature take care of it?

Again, probably something people have different hcs about. I happen to like the idea of their tails being somewhat sensitive around the base (so you can surprise them by petting there), but also able to take some beating. Like an overly curious baby-miqo pulling and/or biting it. Nothing quite like play hunting mama's (or some other poor soul's) tail when you are feeling playful.

Did a quick check on wiki since I could've sworn miqo hearing has been called "good", but could not find any mention of it so ehh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I assume it's not super bad at least, so I guess somewhere above hyur but below whatever races do have their hearing praised in offical stuff.

Some Miqo'te questions for... reasons...

Is miqo'te head hair and ear fur the same thing? Or are they completely different textures/types of hair?

How much control do miqo'te have over their tails? Obviously cats don't have prehensile tails like monkeys, so presumably they can't pick things up or manipulate things with their tails in that way, but can they wrap them around things or swish them at will?

Do they molt? Or does the hair on their ears and tail fall out in the same way as human hair? Is there any seasonal impact on their level of shedding?

How sensitive are their tails? Presumably they can feel them being stroked, but are they quite robust? I daresay pulling on them would not be good (as well as being very rude), but I imagine baby miqo'te probably pull on and even inquisitively chew on each others tails in play?

Is miqo'te hearing better or worse than human (Hyur) hearing? I suspect it's probably better than Roegadyn or Au Ra hearing, but worse than Elezen or Lalafells, but that's purely a guess.

Share with me your lore knowledge and your headcanons and ideas that have literally just randomly occurred to you.

[adventuresofpotat]

Thoughts #011

I need names for my minions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or at the very least, the ones I have out the most often!!!

My initial thought was to use food names but for the sake of immersion, that would require me to research what the names of food stuffs in Eorzea (though I already stuck with naming the chocobo Mushroom despite not thinking about whether mushrooms exist in Eorzea LMAO) and ngl idk if I have the brain energy for that atm

I could just go with irl terms though, since my lala is already not named conventionally, and if I go with the ~is actually a miqo but was turned into a lala to be forced to become an adventurer~ lore then I don't even have a miqo name either LOL so maybe to hell with it

Could name various creatures stuff like. Cheese... Bagel... Yuzu... Omelette... Toast... Miso... Taro... Chip... Marshmallow... Ketchup... Tuna... Berry... Peanut... Nugget...

Or even names of flora and fauna could be cute... Basil... Daisy... Chamomile... Maple... Ginko... Jasmine... Sage... Lavender...

...why am I such a basic b*tch HAHA god it's not as if this idea is original IN THE SLIGHTEST LMFAOO soiaweohghw this is fine... it gives me joy so it'S FINE...

I'll have to think more on it to see what name suits the red panda the most since that's the minion I have out the most <:

[pangolinheart]

How did Rhiki react to Out in the Cold? It was extremely glossed over in game, but for a miqo to be stuck in a random Garlean body while someone else literally tried to kill her friends with her own, that's gotta be pretty traumatic.

Does she have nightmares where her tail is gone? Does she constantly fidget and touch her ears to make sure they're still there? She's she see phantom images from a Garlean third eye that's not there?

Full disclosure, I haven't actually started Endwalker yet so I haven't played this quest and the answer may change depending on the broader context.

From the ask, though, ii think that the "some else trying to kill her friends in her body" would probably bother her a lot more than being shunted into a Garlean body. it would definitely be weird - I imagine if you are used to having ears with mobile pinnae and essentially an extra limb to control and keep track of it would be a little disorienting to suddenly not them. And the third eye thing would be strange. It would definitely be an uncanny experience. That being said, I don't know how deeply being a miqo'te is tied to Rhiki's identity. Because she's technically a sunseeker and I wasn't a huge fan of the lore surrounding them, I imagine she didn't grow up in a traditional miqo'te family structure, so her connection to the culture wouldn't be very strong, and she would have grown up surrounded by people of all different types. So if she one day mysteriously woke up a hyur or an elezen or a roegadyn I'm not sure how much, if at all, it would upset her. It would be an adjustment - different size, different number of appendages, but it probably wouldn't change much else about who she was so I feel like she could adapt pretty easily. The stress of the situation would certainly make it more traumatic, but if she did have nightmares about the incident it seems like the strange new form would be secondary characteristics, with the primary focus being on her own body being responsible for killing her friends.

BUT like I said, I haven't actually played it so I could feel differently when I do. And because Rhiki doesn't have a backstory, I'm really not 100% sure about how much importance she places on being a miqo in the first place