#featuring the endless salt mine that is my spite and anger reguarding the PLD 30-60 quests

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You my friend get the non WTF thoughts (most because I’m out of them)

So some day I’ll get around to writing all of this and like actually stitch the few scattered paragraphs together. Bel is by far the most fleshed out of my OCs and someday I really am going to write her entire journey from child to warrior who can stand side by side with her mom (WoL). The kind core start of her story that isn’t family fluff and drama is figuring out how to get a dragoon soul stone to work for her. I subscribe to the cannon/HC/Fannon (I’m honestly not sure which it is) that only those of Ishgardian decent with the blood of Ratatoskr can be dragoons, it’s not a outsiders bad thing it’s a need dragon blood in your veins thing. (WoL is an exception because WoL) So before Art’imis goes off to do WoL things for n Ala Mhigo she helps Bel work out a deal with the Knights Dragoon that she has six months to get the soulstone to work for her or she has to give it back. So after much training and frustration Bel goes to Aynx Trine to get advise from Vidofnir. (Art’imis’s skewed ideas of age appropriate activities for 11 year olds included visits to Eorzea’s biggest cat tree) Vidofnir directs Bel to Hrasvalger who says he’ll only help her if she rejects Hydaelyn’s blessing of light and remakes it by her own work. The intention is that the tiny hatchling will never do that and go away and stop bothering him. However what he doesn’t account for is that A) Bel really fucking wants to be a dragoon B) has the teenage arrogance not to consider that she can’t do what he asks and C) Bel has been very sus of Hydaelyn for awhile both because of Lahabrea dropping doubts on to the impressionable child while he was wearing a Thancred suit and because she is very bitter that Hydaelyn took Aunt Minfilia away. So crystal gets yeeted and Hrasvalger lives in a state of surprised Pikachu face while Bel goes through shenanigans to meet his criteria. (There may or may not be a scene where Midgaurdsommer shows up to ask his son what the fuck he thought was going to happen) So once Bel’s task is completed, Hrasvalger give her some of his blood to drink (thank you Into the Land of the Unicorns for that idea that has never left my brain) and is effectively adopted into Hrasvalger’s horde. So couple of training montages later we arrive at Ghmlyt Dark where Bel is a front line soldier for the first part of Shadowbringers until a grenade blast destroys her hip and to much aetheric healing makes it so that the muscle and bone can’t support the aether needed for a dragoon’s jumps. From here we follow her recovery and coming to terms with having to find something else now that she has had to put aside her Drachenmail. Once she has a clean bill of health she follows Krille’s suggestion to join the arcanist’s guild. Here we explore a lot of head cannons about the dragon song and dragon magic as Bel researches how to repurpose Hrasvalger’s gift to her new situation. By Endwalker Bel has an ESA carbuncle, a Utahraptor like familar (another story) that actually does battle, and a working knowledge of how to use the dragon soul for spell casting. Thank the twelve that the guild mistress is willing to give her an ‘end of the world’ extension on her dissertation.

The other long winded story I think about is my rewrite of the PLD 50-60 line. Because that line SUCKS and is the worst set of job quests in the game, no I will not be taking criticism at this time. It’s kinda evolved into three stories intertwined about how three character come to their own place of faith and conviction that a Paladin needs. There is Tristan the Fiend Slayer a Paladin of an Ishgardian order that got the Knights Templar treatment while he and a rouge set of Paladins were at Cartenau. Exiled on pain of execution he wanders Ethyris looking for a purpose after his oaths in Ishgard have been denied to him. Somehow he finds his faith again and now stands tall as a free Paladin who is not related to the Saultansworn and therefore 100% cooler. This leads into my WoL’s (Art’imis) line. Art’s faith in pretty much everything is shattered after the bloody banquet. While her swordsmanship is top notch she can no longer call on the magics a paladin uses. She meets Tristan when Momondi sends him to help her fight a newly summoned Ifrit. (Yes Tristan has the echo) with Tristan’s help she escapes the ambush Ilberd and the Crystal Braves planned and Tristan goes back to Coerthas with her under mask and an assumed name. Tristan goes with her to check out what’s up with Sozkazgyl. With his guidance and having to help train Constaint the three unravel Sozkazgyl’s frankly selfish and unhinged plot to make Constaint an Ishgardian Batman and show up the Sultansworn. (Because that is exactly what he’s trying to do in cannon and it needs to be deconstructed hard). This leads into Allie asking Art to teach her to be a Paladin after the weapons line. Art can’t promise to be around enough to be an effective trainer but she can take Allie to Ishgard where Tristan is rebuilding the Order of the Unseen Crown at Aymeric’s request. There under Tristan’s tutelage and with the support of her girlfriend Bel, Allie finds her own faith and conviction to honor the memories of her siblings and protect their home. So yea it’s like three versions of the heroes journey and would probably be told concurrently rather than linearly.

And that was extremely long. Maybe someday I’ll actually write it.