#dt opals

[emerals]

basic info dumping about the lads

!not set in stone!

JUNIPER PASSERINE:

lesbian

she/her

greek/hispanic

adhd, asperger's syndrome, recovering anorexic

house wren

june 2nd, 2006 (gemini)

ISTP-A

phoebe (mother) + carmelo (father)

cape suzette

spunky, brutally honest, assertive

pink

into engineering

inspiration: nikki (camp camp)

VA: elizabeth maxwell

XIMENA AVIANTA:

bisexual demisexual demigirl

she/they

hispanic

anxiety

robin

may 14th, 2006 (taurus)

ISFJ-T

harper (mother) + alonso (father)

st. canard

quiet, strong, smart

orange

into chemistry

inspiration: varian/catalina (tangled: the series)

VA: ruby jay

OZUL "OZZY SWAN" FLOCKSON:

gay

he/him

black (dark-skinned)

anxiety, depression

black swan

october 7th, 2006 (libra)

ENTP-T

esther (mother) + major (father), rhys (step-father)

faith (younger half-sister by 15 years)

st. canard

laidback, loyal, sarcastic

blue

into pyromancy

inspiration: louis (telltale: the walking dead)

VA: vincent tong

KAMARA "DOTTIE ANGELS" CHAMNANCAT:

omnisexual aromantic

she/her

thai/ethiopian

depression, cptsd

ocicat

november 30th, 2005 (sagittarius)

chariya (mother) + negasi (father)

kimora (younger sister by 9 years)

st. canard

tough, short tempered, rude

black

into therapy

inspiration: cassandra (tangled the series)

VA: eden espinosa

ZEKE "HUNTER" GUNDOG:

pansexual asexual

he/him

irish

cptsd

irish setter

february 13th, 2006 (aquarius)

roisin † (mother) + finn † (father), noelle (adoptive mother) + blanca (adoptive mother)

conor † (older brother by 6 years)

duckburg

friendly, strong, trusting

white

into history

inspiration: glenn rhee (the walking dead)/tadashi hamada (big hero 6)

VA: cameron boyce

WHITTANY LOP:

pansexual

she/her

black (light-skinned)/danish

adhd, anxiety

black lop rabbit

september 23rd, 2006 (libra)

winterva (mother) + leonard (father)

giselle (older sister by 5 years), cashmere and ricky (older sister and brother by 4 years), myrene (older sister by 2 years), jocelyn (younger sister by 3 years), shawn (younger brother by 8 years), malina (younger sister by 11 years)

cape suzette

chipper, condescending, fearful

purple

into art

inspiration: pinkie pie (my little pony)

VA: haley tju

EVERETT MUSTELIDANTE:

bisexual

he/him

indian/german

anxiety, depression

sable ferret

january 24th, 2005 (aquarius)

edith (mother) + emerson (father)

cape suzette

independant, distant, nerdy

red

into music/film

inspiration: sakutaro morishige (corpse party)

VA: jeremy jordan

SYLVIA HONEYBERG:

straight/greysexual

she/her

swedish/white/italian

anxiety, bulimia

red-legged honeycreeper

june 25th, 2005 (cancer)

seek (mother) + nolan (father)

duckburg

preppy, insecure, adventurer

brown

into fashion

inspiration: porsha crystal (sing 2)

VA: abigail zoe lewis

MARSHALL "MARSHMALLOW" SNOWSHOE:

gay demiromantic demiboy

he/they

white/russian

adhd

canadian lynx

august 15th, 2007 (leo)

fanya (mother) + austin † (father)

masha (younger sister by 4 years)

st. canard

outgoing, flirt, sweetheart

yellow

into mixology

inspiration: william clockwell (invincible)

VA: bryce papenbrook

HAE-WON "ASH" FLIWIG:

nonbinary aroace

they/them

korean

osteoporosis, anxiety

yellow canary

august 31st, 2005 (virgo)

soo-ah (mother) + du-ho (father)

duckburg

sarcastic, reserved, logical

sea green

into writing

inspiration: violet (telltale: the walking dead)

VA: colleen o’shaughnessey

EMALINE "KIWI" PURRBORNE:

bisexual

she/her

native american

epilepsy, lupus

bombay cat

july 17th, 2005 (cancer)

janese (mother) + king (father)

mariana (younger sister by 4 years), olivia (younger sister by 6 years)

st. canard

goofy, selfless, optimistic

light blue

into baking

inspiration: sayori (doki doki literature club)

VA: mae whitman

ADEN FANG:

demiromantic, demisexual

he/him

japanese/korean

cptsd

dhole

february 27th, 2004 (pisces)

cho (mother) + hiroshi (father)

cape suzette

distant, distrusting, loyal

grey

into criminalistics

inspiration: bigby wolf (telltale: the wolf among us)

VA: adam harrington

SAIGE "NIX" RODENTIA:

pansexual

she/her

portuegese/egyptian

cptsd

gundi

february 1st, 2005 (aquarius)

leonor † (mother) + rodrigo (father)

protective, tired, edgy

dark purple

into jewelry

inspiration: kenny/lee everett/clementine (the walking dead)

VA: lauren ash

DEAN RODENTIA:

straight

he/him

portuegese/egyptian/white

cptsd, depression, anxiety, asperger's syndrome

capybara

october 20th, 2006 (libra)

nour † (mother) + seth † (father)

lackadaisical, smart, strong-willed

pastel orange

into astronomy

inspiration: dipper pines (gravity falls)

VA: michael sinterniklaas

VIVIAN "VIV" PYROAR:

lesbian

she/her

black/white

social anxiety, adhd

lioness

november 29th, 2004 (sagittarius)

frances (mother) + timber (father)

childish, witty, artsy

magenta

into culinary

inspiration: rapunzel (tangled)

VA: erica lindbeck

[kouriimei]

FFXIV Koana - Inspired Handmade Earrings (Pierced/Non-Pierced) 🌱😾

Koana features: 😾 White mother of pearl, shaped like a cat for obvious reasons that he’s a Miqo’te. Perhaps the first thing everybody noticed during DT’s released artwork was, “Is that the other contestor!? He’s a Miqo’te!?” 😾 Fuschia beads to match his contrasting eye colors with his hair 😾 Green, rectangular gem that represents his (originally) stiff personality; rectangles are associated with rigidness, and what better shape to help represent that of his personality? A deep shade of emerald to also represent his hair color 😾 Mint opal bead for his minty garbs, and a Pacific Opal-colored gem to hone that home 😾 Light siam to represent his carvat 😾 A thin metallic rod, strewn with clear TOHO beads, that represents his bandolier - he is a machinest afterall!

Third of four Dawntrail earring designs!

Available starting November 25th, 2024 12am PST

‧‧‧✧‧‧‧ K O U R I I M E I . E T S Y . C O M ‧‧‧✧‧‧‧

[female-buckets]

Sooo Diana's officially on the roster for Paris!

Which means it's time for us to start planning the DT and LJ reunion...

LJ likes finishing tournaments on a win, so she'd prefer to win bronze over losing gold and getting silver. So as an LJ fan, I want USA vs AUS in the semis. I do think this would be her actual retirement, so to go out on a win would be nice. Basketball Australia have helped her a lot with her kids, but I think she's still finding the travel and busier schedule really difficult, and will retire from the national team.

At the same time... the storyline that would come with USA and AUS meeting in the finals??? Like, that would be juicy

Well Australia definitely has the second best team on paper. But if they lose to France or Canada in the group stage, they could meet the US in the semis.

I don't trust France even though they're at home. I love Marine and Gabby and I was impressed by their OQT win over China. But then Japan beat China. And the Opals at half power beat China. So I don't know. Suddenly France doesn't seem as strong.

Canada is a wildcard. They're chronic underperformers. Maybe they'll finally shake things up but maybe not.

If the Opals have a perfect group stage, it'll be DT and LJ in the Olympic finals. Again. Wow. I still can't even really believe it. It's so perfect. 20 years ago, DT and LJ were in the Athens final. And Lebron was there too! Crazy. Journalists better show us some archival footage of that!

[missazurerose]

FFXIV Write 2024 - Day 15

Extra credit - Tundra

(very minor DT spoilers for the tank role quest)

While the chocobos settled into a corner of the stall, Aymeric found some livestock blankets tucked away for them. Riona smiled as their birds happily cuddled up to each other while he covered them. “If the storm lasts too long, we might end up just like those two.”

He took her hand as they went downstairs, his thumb brushing against the opal ring on her finger. “Regardless of the circumstances, I can think of no better way to spend the night.”

Once they had a fire going, Aymeric shed his armor in favor of a heavy blanket. He settled onto the fur rug in front of the mantle and she settled into his lap. She rested her head against his shoulder and closed her eyes. 

“You're always so warm. Feels like home.”

[rickeajacksons]

I understand the hate for DT. But what about Penny and Lauren? What are your thoughts on the Opals vets?

i don't hate DT at all lol i just feel neutral about her (other than that she's funny as fuck and a dog and bitchy (complimentary) and married to an aussie goat) but i'm actually so sad that i wasn't around for the primes of penny and lj. i'm thinking about going back and watching the championships of both?? i hope they're on the app??? but idk if they are. but i want to so bad. lj the aussie goat and they both had that eyeliner and makeup the fuck on lol

[akulride]

Subcompact Crossover SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) Diesel 23.23 km/l 6 Airbags (Driver, Front Passenger, 2 Curtain, Driver Side, Front Passenger Side) 1.2L Turbocharged Revotroq Engine Daytona grey with White roof, Flame red with White roof, Creative ocean with White roof 5 Star (Global NCAP)Subcompact Sedan Petrol 19.6 km/l 2 Airbags (Driver, Passenger) Revotron 1.2 L Magnetic red, Opal white, Daytona grey, Arizona blue 4 Star (Global NCAP)

[the-physicality]

fun fact: celeste, cayla, dt, bg, and db have all played with each other, though not at the same time

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

9, 15, 21 + o’ravi for the pre-DT questions? 💚

ty dani!! i'm gonna answer these out of order because the answer for 9, what's in wol's bag, got really fucking long 😂 (there is a gpose in there 👀 and a lot of Ravi lore)

15. what would your wol be if they weren't the wol? what would they do as a job or career? would they be happier?

O'ravi would've just kept doing the stuff she was doing pre-ARR- namely, traveling the realm as a minstrel, and supplementing that with her skills as a huntress if she didn't make enough gil with music. She would've been SO much happier with that, but it wouldn't have filled the hole in her chest that longed for purpose and deeper meaning. (Obviously, the pursuit of art and sharing it with others does have meaning, but she still wanted more, if that makes sense.) She would never in a million years have been a Scion- as it is, she very nearly turned tail and ran after first meeting them ldfkjghdjgh. (She felt very small and stupid around them in ARR, and she felt like an outcast among them up until the end of base ShB.)

21. what does your wol do to unwind? any hobbies? reading? sewing? croquet? sitting in a dark room in complete silence?

Laying on the floor in a dark room is how she calms down when she's overstimulated/having a panic attack FDLKGDLHGJKH

To unwind, she always goes somewhere very quiet, maybe wraps herself up in a big soft blanket if temperature allows. She'll read letters, perhaps write some letters, do some embroidery or make a tiny stuffed animal, or literally just sit there doing nothing and maybe doze off lmao. She used to refuse to do any weaving as a "fuck you" to what her tribe/family expected of her, but she takes it up again post-ENW now that she doesn't have to worry about her work being compared to her mother's masterworks. She also likes to people-watch from rooftops or balconies or wherever else people are unlikely to notice her.

As far as hobbies go, perhaps her favorite is music. She plays the lute, the harp, violin, and later, the piano. The piano and harp are the most calming for her to play.

Other hobbies are:

collecting flowers during her travels and pressing them in journals

collecting mammets (specifically, the wind-up little guys you get in-game; she has probably a dozen different wind-up O'ravis at this point, as well as minions of her friends, enemies, allies, the entire First Brood, and random others)

collecting plushies (her collection includes the stuffed Estinien and Hraesvelgr, as well as every single adorable little thing on the market!! tonberries, chocobos, baby dragons, sheep!!)

drawing her favorite locations (she is bad at it. this does not stop her)

collecting orchestrion rolls and sheet music, as well as a small collection of musical instruments which are of a dramatically nicer quality than the ones she started out with FDLKHGKJH

gardening and tending to animals

riding chocobos (she's a horse girl without the horses LOL)

Now, lore time!!

9. what's in your wol's travel bag? any trinkets? any vital items they can't go without? do they travel light and figure stuff out on the fly, or do they bring way too much with them?

Hmm....a good question....well for starters,

she NEVER goes without her purple lipstick (she has a few different shades, and the worse she's doing mentally the darker the color she uses- for the record she doesn't do that on purpose lmao)

she also has a small array of jewelry that she pretty much always keeps with her. For practicality's sake, I like to think there's enchantments on them that prevent them getting lost or broken lkjfghdkgjh. She decides which things to wear based on either aesthetics, or which memories she wants to keep closest to her today

In ARR, she was always wearing a pair of fluorite earrings, which was the first thing she bought as soon as she had the money; in Heavensward, she had a set of opal jewelry Haurchefant commissioned for her; from the HW patches on, she always wears at least one piece of Fortemps jewelry, usually the earrings + choker; after ShB, she started wearing Amaurotine and Crystarium rings; and post-ENW, she has rings from Asphodelos and also her wedding rings! 💞

She also has the Dravanian earrings of aiming, which I like to think are shards of Shiva's ice (pretend they glow lol). The Orthodox ring that I think drops from the Aery is what I use for a wedding ring in-game lol- I like to think that she bought it from some random jeweler because it reminds her of Aymeric :> She also has Zenos's ENW necklace. Probably.

As far as more practical travel items are concerned:

she buys paper and ink just about every chance she gets, so she can write letters to people back home; she also has a journal that she keeps notes in. They're extremely disorganized

obviously, she has all her job stones; from the Zenos assassination attempt in Doma onwards, she fights the same way Meteor does in the ShB trailer, switching between classes mid-battle (in rapid succession, once she gets really good at it). The gear she's not currently using gets stored in the job stones, and she switches between classes by slightly shifting her aetheric attunement to the stones so that one takes priority over the others. This is all headcanoned bullshit based on my very limited understanding of how aether works, the gear set system, and the ShB trailer LMAO

whatever the Eorzean equivalent of ibuprofen is 🥴 probably some Thavnairian potions lmao

bandages and shit for cleaning wounds. She is very particular about not letting any of her injuries, no matter how minor, get infected!!

SOAP. for being an adventurer she actually hates being covered in blood, dirt, and sand so fucking much she cannot STAND it. Begone, damned texture!!!!!!

comb. She hates it when her hair gets matted (if her hair's a mess, that's a sign that things are Very Bad)

glamor prisms :> she will not prioritize fashion over comfort, so if she really wants to wear a pretty shirt/dress/whatever but it has a bad texture or something, she'll just glam it over something more comfortable. It also means she can shake up her accessories without needing to take the time to actually switch something out

Azem's crystal is with her at all times, no exceptions. She also has some other similar crystals that she's experimenting with (with the help of Y'shtola, G'raha, Urianger, Professor Claudien, and some folks back in Elpis who don't know the full scope of her project), with three main goals: enshrining all her knowledge and memories in them so that people who don't have the Echo can see her memories as if they did; preserving her history and journeys so that future generations will have access to the facts, no matter how warped the stories get; and tying these crystals as well as Azem's to her soul so that when she dies, her reborn soul will have a means of learning their past, if they so choose. Taking a page out of Erichthonios's book for that idea lol

if she anticipates an arduous trip or incredibly difficult fight, she brings a cane. Such things take a lot out of her post-ENW and she finds herself in need of a mobility aid at times. I think she also has a variety of potions and tonics to help manage her conditions, courtesy of Nidhana, probably.

In general, she's pretty meticulous about packing things ahead of time, and ends up bringing a whole ton of shit rdlkfjghfdgj. But she just gets anxious thinking about "I probably don't need to bring this but what if x ridiculous scenario happens and I do?". Pre-ARR she just grabbed a few things and made shit up as she went.

[donaldtheduckdad]

I AM YELLING

IM MOTW OJA. I QVZW

sorry

I AM NOT OK

MATILDA

IT'S MATILDA

SORRY IM

AAAAQH

Edit: this is real btw: https://twitter.com/DisneyTVANews/status/1328393638083170305?s=09

[twinklecupcake]

Certain people are grand enablers. You know who you are.

[emerals]

dottie is the best driver and nobody trusts kiwi near a bicycle

[peachhoneii]

What would Opal have her say in the last episode?

Absolute confusion before acceptance. She shouldn’t be that surprised.

[astudyinfreewill]

hi i've only joined the fandom this year but everybody is always talking about that harvard is adam's second choice could you explain it? did maggie write a tweet? or did she release a short story? sorry for bothering you, i'm just really confused. Thank you for reading this! and i love your account your metas are amazing!

hey anon! thank you for the compliment, and welcome to the fandom! <3 i hope you’re having a good time :D

harvard being adam’s second choice is based on events from the opal short story (which was published at the end of the trk paperback, but you can also buy it separately as an ebook, it should cost under £1/$1/€1). the story takes place before the start of cdth, and in it, adam is shown to get a rejection letter from a college, about which he says “it was what i wanted the most”. but since he’s going to harvard in cdth, clearly that’s not the one that rejected him... meaning harvard must have been his second choice! (which honestly like. what a flex)

[female-buckets]

So I'm watching the Opals games in Tokyo

1. It's so weird to watch games with so much court noise and no audience, major flashbacks

2. Opals wore the bodysuits in Tokyo, which got me thinking - can you imagine DT wearing them 😭😭 maybe she'd ask for a custom pair with extra long shorts?

Ohhh those poor Tokyo Opals were so traumatized!!! They were having a bad bad time that year.

And I'm 100% sure that Diana has worn the Opals bodysuit many times over the years. But that's her private business! 🤭😂

[white-agony-creek]

OPAL!!!! Oh man, this is super adorable!

Little Opal's first steps towards GOLD!!!

🐣👣💰

It's Opal (@moonstoneflowers 's OC ). She's Scrooge and Goldie's wee bairn. I had so much fun designing Opal as a baby and drawing her with her parents altogether.

Thank you so much, Moonie!!! ❤❤❤

[fistsoflightning]

stories you want to write...

...but for some reason haven’t yet.

tagged by: @to-the-voiceless​!!! thank you cyan for giving me the opportunity to dump out my slightly dusty idea doc onto everyone’s dash sdgsndfnsdfn

tagging: hmmm... @windupnamazu​ (double tag yes yes) @whitherliliesbloom​ @windup-dragoon​ @heirsofdiscord​ @ancientechos​ and you! as you can see, i like fic concepts >:3c

1) okay, so. there’s a section of my idea doc that’s labeled ‘azim steppe shenanigans’ because i Can and Will rewrite as much of the azim steppe MSQ as i please including characterization (yes i’m looking at magnai) ANYWAYS. top idea of the list, which is also the one i want to write The Most, is the naadam duty rewrite! catch me on the ‘why is the wol the khagan of a land they probably don’t even belong to’ train, more news on how zaya and oktai beat up hien at 11. or whenever i get around to writing it since it has Combat and i’m. not the best at it. honorable mentions to the pre-canon sadu, magnai, and zaya tearing through bardam’s mettle fic and the solar eclipse remix that i don’t currently have the energy for ;W; sorry oktai and magnai you’ll have to reside in “are we actually. dating.” hell for a bit longer

2) second on this list is the ‘ysayle lives’ fic!!! honestly there is a whole ass series sitting in my idea doc that also includes moenbryda, papalymo, and maaaybe bad-end flavored minfilia lives? but the ysayle one is like. 60% done but i need to trash and restart since i don’t. like it that much. highlights include: ysayle but a little more dragon flavored, separation of iceheart vs. ysayle, and gratuitous earth imagery versus the ice of coerthas

oh god okay im sticking the rest under a cut this got. Long

3) there is also a section of my doc labeled ‘angst elie isn’t allowed to have as a treat’ because at this point all of mom squad deserves to swing a bat straight for my head, buuut the idea i’m looking at is lightwarden au related! funtimes. ehsk al, anyone? (yes that means either promised love or love’s promise in dragonspeak. yes there’s a reason for this.) the line keeping this idea’s spot is: “ thancred climbs up mt. gulg one final time to meet the mourning dragon.” :)))

4) i want to go more into the various different cultures of my wols!!! i detest the lack of ala mhigan lore (monk lore too. i’m Salty about SB) which is why i haven’t gone into dewah’s family that much but i have an idea and some minor worldbuilding in the making? there’s also lumelle, whose emotions on ishgard are (as all emotions are) complicated, and zaya, who hasn’t been home in a literal decade give or take. i have to think real hard for it tho sdgnsdfsd that’s why they’ve been collecting dust for months.

4.1) the amount of hrothgar and viera lore is also criminal. don’t make me homebrew more lore squeenix give us Actual Lore. duscha and valdis deserve More.

5) okay i. i am very embarrassed by this but i have a longfic draft for a fic that at this point legally has to be tagged “slow burn, if by slow burn you mean 18 years” whenever i finish enough to be able to start posting it and YES ITS ZAYA AND THANCRED. 

yeah. i know. this has been haunting me since ffxivwrite last year-ish. it is also very D U S T Y but it has about 15 different ideas i’ve just mass dumped into it and i despise it and myself. additionally some ardbert feelings slipped into the SHB bits and i’m. maybe unrequited ardbert/zaya.... mayhaps

6) i love carbuncles and i love dt’s writing about the carbuncles which may have led to the thought bunny “what if: black opal carbuncle for zaya’s nameday” and it has haunted me but since zaya’s nameday in real time was a day off from the 5.3 drop it promptly got buried under all the ideas i got from 5.3

7) SPEAKING OF 5.3 CONTENT: carmela predicted correctly that i would like the ‘you’re a long way from home, moogle’ interaction you get if you choose the option that has kupo when talking with thancred and i’m possessed. i want to write something surrounding zaya’s honorary postmoogle title and thancred finding out they spent three weeks delivering eorzea’s mail.... there’s a bunch of canon rewrites but for multiple WOLs i’d like to do but i’m Tired

8) rhmrhrr.... AU time! main street au is still haunting my bones and i want to write more because mom squad spent like. an hour talking about how it’s just like dime store romance fiction amassed into an entire au and there’s a certain flowershop romance i need to write >:3 there’s also the ol’ CHB AU hanging around Somewhere and a very small part of me that craves to keep writing hanahaki au which is just slowburn 2.0

9) OH WAIT. i have Exactly One idea that’s mostly npc-based which is just me having feelings about the going-ons of norvrandt before the WOL is summoned, mostly revolving around ryne/baby-filia which i think? will have four parts? it’s really just me worldbuilding with norvrandt and having a great time. i scribbled down a beginning to try and shake off some rust (it did not really work) but:

10) honorable mention goes to the ‘zaya, thancred, and co. give ryne a nameday celebration despite her not really having a nameday’ idea and to this, which never fails to give me a chuckle when i read it in my idea doc: