#erichtonios

[marionettic]

SOUL, LAID BARE

thank you pandaemonium!!

[hanuqi]

endwalker chibis 🤏🏻

[kilmiel]

And a second art for Valentine's day OwO

This time it's Final Fantasy XIV and a pile of cute ancient beans so you can choose the one you want to be your Valentine for today OwO And please notice that Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus goes only in pair. Hehehe ;)

I can call it a speed art because it took me only 2 evenings from idea to final piece. I think I can be proud with this one. Specially with all those tiny flowers XD

[wearebaldesion-ffxiv]

#30

[cestpassam]

[unionizedwizard]

so i started the pandaemonium storyline again with the Added Bonus(? unclear) of the Knowledge Of The Narrative and it's like. so much more insane the second time through. holy shit

[noxtivagus]

found this just now n i'm freaking out silently

[dysloyalty]

(. Me, fighting Athena for the second time only to realize that funny wings mod I tried on Max awhile ago was directly Athena’s wings: WHEN WILL IT END .)

[freckledbastard]

how is there only 9 fics with this tag? half of them don't even have this as the main pairing!!!

i guess most people ship erichtonios with themis which is valid but i ship everyone with my mary sue bunny girl oc and after finishing the pandemonium raid series and erichtonios has that small speech i thought more people would ship him with their wol feels bad

[toadeyes-miqote]

Return of Little Cat Friend

Yes I want a doll that looks like you too..... Oh wait.. I still owe your doll your outfits....

"Claudien we need to go write that book about daily lives of ancients."

Are we visiting or not?

Dude please go tell Tataru that. There's a line of dolls in Hylnyan's likeness.

The temptation to do crimes and convert Black Kitten into Little Cat Friend.

Bonus

"Excuse me? Are you my Azem in disguise?"

i never paid them much attention and then I saw the green eyes. Let me pretend that my Azem is nearby or something. My OC usually wears brown hair on account of not being able to get the grey version of Yuna wig before the option was discontinued.

[toadeyes-miqote]

Hylnyan's Azem name is Helen - torch: light that guides, light that burns. launcher of a thousand accidental ships sorry. Friendly Rivalry with Halone's ancient There is some sort of a Cat fancier club back then

There be dynamics with Scions that reminds Emet of dynamics that Azem!Helen has with him and Elpis folks. While not 100% replicated it upsets Emet to see the dynamics and mannerism in current times.

Doubly so because Hylnyan has no memories of Azem!Helen, she checked with Ardbert and neither does he.

Sad and funny when someone notes shades of Hades in Thancred

And she's friends with Claudien (documenting Erich's life and what Ancient times was like with Studium Gathering couple ) and like with Gaia there is this sharing of information about past lives with those affected by it. She can't remember everything by herself no?

ancients friendship chart for all your ancient friendship (or non-friendship) purposes!

[tahri-nhupuju]

It's interesting to me that despite being the only unsundered that doesn't appear, Pandaemonium actually does show us a bit about how uniquely nasty Emet-Selch is as a person.

Like, he has his whole spiel about how the sundered are not even human to him, and how all the unsundered would agree with him if they saw us.

But then a rejoined-with-Hephaistos, from-right-before-the-summinging-of-Zodiark Lahabrea sees the unsundered and goes "Oh, there are people here! Surely this means my plan succeeded and we saved the star!" Like he not only doesn't have any issues with the sundered, he just immediately accepts that they're people.

Likewise Elidibus and Erichtonios also don't seem to have any issues whatsoever accepting the sundered as people, but Lahabrea is the one who talks about/interacts with them the most.

When he finds out what he ends up doing to the sundered as an Ascian, he immediately accepts it, and describes what he does as monstrous, and pushes the point that it was the right thing to do to oppose and kill him.

And yes, sure, they all get tempered and go mad in various ways, but Emet-Selch is constantly shown as the most complete, the one who is the most like his old self. And while the Amaurotines are shown to have a fucked up relationship to non-human life, Emet-Selch is really the only one of the Unsundered shown to view the sundered as Not Human.

[tcfactory]

Mermay 2021 and 2022.

Garleans are all sharks, Estinien is a seadragon horse.

Nero and Cid best friends rivals under the sea and two retired soldiers resting on the volcanic rocks because toasty warmth is nice for old wounds.

Not posting the 2023 one here because that's just straight up Themis/Erichtonios monsterfucking filth, but you can see it on twitter.

[kilmiel]

Shackles is the one exception. And 'tis only because I've been forced to practice it since I was but a small child. Other magicks leave me feeling completely out of my depth.

I'm really glad they showed us all those ancients in msq and 8 ppl raid. Today we have cute Themis and Erichthonius. We met them in a raid and Eric was one of the wardens of research facility where dangerous species was kept. One of his special spells was shackles that was to bind almost everything. But from other hand... he wasn't a really good mage.

[wine-dark-soup]

i think every classicist should experience the retelling of the hephaistos/athena/erichtonios myth provided by ffxiv

[lovehotelreservation]

Muscle Memory

Summary: From past to present, no matter what would become of them or their memories, Erichthonios and Lahabrea would never truly forget you.

Even as they were driven absolutely mad by the mere thought, the mere remembrance of you.

Rating: R

Pairing: Reader/Erichtonios, Reader/Lahabrea

oml i was meaning to post this like last year while pandamonium was going through its last patches but i forgot 🧍♀️

anyway eric and LAHAA both crave wol hole--

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How maddening.

The hour was late, Amaurot was still, and Erichthonios was stumbling his way out of his quarters in a delirious sweat.

His hands clawed at his sleeping attire, his inflamed skin thirsting for relief while his heart hungered for something he could not easily attain.

You.

Even as Azem’s familiar, there was something so mystifying and captivating about you. Unparalleled strength, a gracious heart, and looks that bewitched him so, his feelings towards you were nothing short of pure desire.

It had been some time since you last departed and yet he could still feel it–a phantom sensation by this point, but yet his skin was haunted by your bare hands ghosting over his skin. The late hour made it difficult for him to recall the exact context, but all he could recall at this moment was the concerned yet affectionate look in your eyes while your hands cradled his face ever so gently.

Desperately, he wished you could be here before him, your hands there to soothe his aching loins while he thanked you tenfold by indulging in any wish that you and your body craved.

In light of your absence, his thoughts, his dreams–all were for you to take residence in. While he was often tongue-tied when it came to thinking of you in a romantic light, should you return to Elpis any time soon, he was determined to make his feelings for you known.

Erichthonios soon made his way to his bath, his hand reaching for the cold faucet, his cure for his current throbbing dilemma soon raining downward.

He hoped for the day that you could join him in the bath, all while he sought to make you delirious in pleasure as well.

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How maddening.

The sun was gleaming, Ul’dah was bustling, and Lahabrea was striding beneath shadowed canopies in a near uncanny perplexed state.

His hands clenched into fists, his blood boiling while his mind wracked itself for an answer to a conundrum he could not easily solve.

You.

As Hyadelyn’s champion, there were plenty of reasons for him to despise you. And yet, there was something about that defiant look in your eyes that angered him with such passion that it could only be likened to that of love.

He had just encountered you moments ago, his burning ambition to the goals of the Ascians hindered by the overwhelming flood of thoughts of you and only you. For such a long-harbored dedication for his cause to Zodiark, the brief standoff with you had his skin searing as he recalled each attack and counter you sent his way, all while that rebellious look on your face brought forth phantoms of memories that only stoked flames of vengeance.

Ever a step ahead, he was already plotting how he could get you alone, bound and powerless while he delighted in interrogating you tortuously as to how such an insignificant pawn such as yourself was capable of rendering him so insipidly nostalgic.

Since becoming aware of your role as Hyadelyn’s pet, his goal of either ridding or subjugating you had taken unnecessary possession of his thoughts. And with the odd sense of nostalgia, he was only all the more determined to discover why being around you hearkened memories of Elpis, cheeky smiles during Convocation meetings, and why wishing you farewell was more familiar than greeting you.

His anger hitting a boiling point, Lahabrea soon tore off his hood with a grunt, far too irritated to simply and snidely cackle his irritation away.

While the small brush of cool air from the canopies above offered him some relief, he knew he would feel much better with you squirming and defeated beneath him.