#ff14 oc lore

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

Obviously XIV gives us a point of reference for character clothing through the use of glamours. However, beyond that, how does your character dress? Are their fabrics they prefer (cotton over wool, satin, silk, etc), do they tailor their clothes a certain way or do they tend to dress in certain colours? Is fashion and clothing something they care about, or is it more for function? Do they know how to repair their clothes if they get holes? What about things like shoes and accessories?

Thanks for the question! I love answering stuff like this about Mina and Theia!

General:

It ultimately depends on where she is. She grew up in Garlemald so she is most likely wearing lighter clothing than everyone else weather wise, but she's also rather insistent on wearing some sort of armour where she can.

Cotton wouldn't have been part of her standard clothing before she was twenty, since it is not good for cold weather, wool was probably something she wore often under her armour and jackets.

When she ended up in Eorzea she had the nightmare of adapting to hot and temperate weather and often wore as light clothing as she could safely get away with.

In her adventures she is always wearing some form of light armour, likely leather or cermet plate (this is a real material used in body armour!) once Cid is able to get it imported/recovered, enough to protect her from basic injury but not too heavy she can't move freely.

Places she can't or doesn't need armour:

She does have a soft spot for dresses, they're usually too impractical for her to wear though. The softer the material the happier she is, because she likes to pet it, so velvet and silk are her favourite indulgences that she rarely allows herself to have. Usually these fabrics are saved for state events she's been forced to go to due to Scion business.

Shoes: a good pair of leather boots are her favorite, something made to fit her foot and able to withstand a lot of travel and be comfortable. If it has a sole that is grippy for uneven terrain and support for her ankles, she's pretty happy. Think a construction work boot.

Accessories and little things about her:

She always wears a flower clip in her hair, she knows it's impractical, but her hair is one of the few indulgences she lets herself keep.

She also likes braids and plaits and learned how to do them. The gyr abanian plait was her standard hair style up until recently, briefly used Lyse's hair style and settled on Durante's going forward. She also dyes the blond parts of her hair green since arriving in Eorzea, much to a certain character's irritation later.

She always wears a single earring in places where it's warm, she removed them and most jewelry when she journeyed to cold regions such as Coerthas and Garlemald, to prevent frostbite. After Heavensward she wears a ring on her ring finger, the one she would have received from Haurchefant if things had gone differently and a necklace with two small crystals, a dark aspected one from Lahabrea and a ice aspected one from Ysayle. She also has a ring on that necklace after Shadowbringers from Emet-selch, which was something she had made him as Azem.

Can she fix her own clothes? Yes, it may not look fantastic on the inside, but it will be fully functional. She did get better at it from pre-ARR to Endwalker, Tataru got annoyed and sat her down and made her learn proper mending.

Colours: Mostly shades of green where she can. She has a few outfits in blue and reds, but she primarily wears green where she can. Tataru once again said she couldn't have every item be green and started making her wear other colours.

[soupercatte]

I didn't expect these to take off so much! There were some things that didn't fit on the first sketch page (and I had *a lot* of people asking for the extras) so I wanted to try and get some of these out before I moved on to other headcanons about teens/adults.

I also kinda wanna toss up some for other races too :eyes:

[nabaath-areng]

Preservation Unseen.

[mrlarkstin]

Homecoming

[mezumasa]

I love you stupid visual kei man obsessed with fish that lives in my head

(aka Muki, my wol) ♱ twitter

[privateolives]

This moment from my playthrough keeps coming up with friends, so why don't I share the time I accidentally did Aymeric so dirty with my outfit choice for the dinner scene.

So for those of you not aware, my WoL is supposed to be a sweet Thanalan country boy type. Think desert Clark Kent-vibes man but from the burning cliffsides of Thanalan instead of Kansas. And I play a paladin besides, so of course my mildmannered Lambard went through most of Heavensward looking like this:

Covered head beard to toe in steel.

But of course, when Aymeric finally invites you do dinner, that won't do. Showing up in armor would just be impolite! So I pull my ff14 bestie in for an emergency glam sesh trying to figure out what a traditional thanalan lad might wear to a fancy occasion. We end up putting this together, which I was quite pleased with!

Straight Oughtta Ul'dah looking outfit. Looks good right? It's fancy! It's traditional! It's in-character! It's just perfect.

Bit chilly for the road there, so we figure he would have used the supplied Ishgardian coat on the way there. (I didn't get a screencap of that in time sorry)

So I slam the glam on just before the cutscene and go in happily unaware of what I'm about to do to this poor catholic boy and he greets us in a similar coat to what we got... as indoor wear. Which really should have been our first warning of what was to come.

Anyway, we come in and if you, unlike myself, are a nice, observant allosexual, you might already spot the problem.

Because as it turns out, Lambard's beautiful Ul'dahn coat has one major issue when being sat at this type of dinner table.

That being that between the coat and the table, there is now a perfectly triangular window towards the BIGGEST, FATTEST pair of sword-swinging steel-carrying hobby-mining sun-kissed pair of tits to ever grace the frozen lands of Ishgard.

Keep in mind that our poor Aymeric hasn't been lord speaker for long at this point, he's yet to leave Coerthas completely (as far as we know) on any diplomatic missions. He was recently still the knight-commander, polite son of the Pope, from the isolated lands of French Warrior Catholicism, who's grown up and only ever seen tall spindly Elezen people, wearing 50 layers in -oof° degrees celsius weather all day every day every month whole year.

EDIT: It had, in fact, only been 5 years of -WillToLive° outside, thank you @maeljade

And now he's sitting at a private dinner, doomed to look at THIS

for several hours whilst his elderly butler, last remnants of family he has, hovers about the whole time serving that appears to be unseemly amounts of wine

And I took

SEVERAL

HOURS

after the cutscene to realize what I'd done to this poor man.

... Though in my defence, my ace ass was busy laughing my head off at the reaction they give your WoL to the butler mixing you a cocktail.

[flamebunnyy]

Observations of the people of Limsa Lominsa: The Arcanists in Action.

[amalthea-felsblood]

I was inspired by an earlier post I shared and decided to explore Marian's mixed heritage a little more and with that came a change to her design.

Marian is half Raen and half Hyur, and you might be wondering why the pointed ears? While her Hyuran blood might suggest rounder features, I imagine that her Raen lineage shaped her more strongly. As a child, Marian's ears were veiled in delicate scales, but as she grew and her horns curled, those scales slowly shed, revealing sharpened ears with pointed tips that closely resembles her horns.

[shionxion]

They're going on a shopping trip.

Hey, me again. I haven't been feeling 100% well. So artwork has been going a lot slower now. But 7.2 has been helping me feel a bit better with the new raid and S rank day. I'm also wondering if I should post all of my new drawings at once or one by one. I may just do some small things for now. Anyway, I'm gonna try to power through this because I'm way behind schedule.

So here's a sketch of Ava and the Blissful Kamuy going on a shopping time.

The Blissful Kamuy belongs to Ava's father and is often tasked to look after his children while he's working. So these two are usually seen together doing various activities; especially when the rest of Ava's relatives are busy. And after some time of bonding, the Blissful Kamuy became Ava's faithful companion.

The Kamuy are still my favorite trial series mounts.

Do not use or repost

[punklilyyy]

that short new short story made me think about gender neutral viera babies so take some dhor stuff (Nalvir, Merve and that disapproving bunny Narha are dhors siblings)

[uldahnprincess]

The tale of Tua's 1st love still haunts her to this day...

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

The sacrifice post definitely made me think of just how much my WoL sacrificed for everything else. She didn't want to be part of anything grand, quite the opposite, when she woke up in Eorzea six months before the events of ARR she found a quiet life doing small adventures and guard work. She found peace and time to study, learning magic that she was always denied before. Her life before was very regimented even before she joined the Legions, and after when she was discharged it only got more confining.

She gained her personal freedom and the ability to dream of her own future for six glorious months.

Until Fate and Destiny came calling with a very large crystal shaped stick.

[soupercatte]

"One good strike…" he murmured to himself as he neared, swords glinting in the sunlight, muscles in his arms coiled to spring and strike once he was close. The beast moved forward towards him and he prepared to dive for the worm's throat until his foot suddenly sank deep into the sand, eyes widening as he felt his center of balance shifting. Trapped in sand to his knee he let out a gasp as he crashed hard onto his chest, swords skittering to the side. Glancing up, he found himself face to mandible with his quarry, the two seemingly having switched places of hunter and prey.

[nabaath-areng]

" What a pitiful child... so thoroughly trained in the art of curse breaking, yet not once has your teacher taught you however you shall break your own. Did she ever tell you why? Has she ever allowed you ask the questions you have, rather than coldly shut you down for being nosy? Wouldn't you like to know why you were born like this? Why you consume that which corrupts others without harm to yourself? Wouldn't you like to know why those beyond the rift are so heedful to your call? Wouldn't you like to know how much your teacher has kept from you? And lastly, perhaps most importantly, Wouldn't you like to know about me? The sun is rising, and so I shall bid you farewell for now. Whether you will remember our meeting upon waking up or not, it matters very little, for as surely as you are alive and air flows through your lungs, I would never lose sight of you. "

[mrlarkstin]

When you're yearning for the space mines but they aren't open yet so your husband has to drag you home against your will.

[mist-touchedxiv]

While I seek to be lore compliant, often it seems there's just not enough official lore from Sqeenix to provide guidance in more specific areas. I feel like the Viera culture is a big one. But, what is official does paint an intriguing picture that really could use some fleshing out! A big source of inspiration for me is this great Carrd:

I don't agree with ALL the fanon ideas it puts forth, especially the more Raava-centric stuff, however I find it to be a fantastic blueprint! Big recommend!

Now, it got me thinking about Viera culture and I have an idea that would be a great addition to their shared cultural heritage. For the consideration of the Midnight Society- I mean, the FFXIV Tumblr community, I present...

Vieran romance poetry

I'm intrigued by the segregation of Viera society by gender, especially how it's run by women who outnumber the men by a great deal: men in the role of Wood-warders act as a first line of defense of civilization and women ARE civilization as they are leaders, artisans, teachers, doctors, academics, uphold the martial traditions as warriors and creators. There's that one (I think) official lore quote regarding relations between the sexes that sticks with me that I'll poorly paraphrase: "[our loins may often be far apart but that don't mean we don't feel love...]". Again, poorly paraphrased 😅

But, it got me thinking, what if this led to the Viera deeply feeling passion, but the societal expectation is that they must not show it, similar to Vulcans in Star Trek? I love the idea that this caused the Viera to develop an extremely beautiful tradition of deeply passionate, romantic poetry that is meant to express the passion they cannot show due to the distance between lovers.

As there is a literacy gap between men and women in Vieran society, with men topping off at roughly 8th grade education before becoming Wood-warders and women receiving much more education because they are the leaders, the vast majority of the celebrated poets of this tradition are women. I like to think that the origins of these poems were essentially love letters given to Wood-warders during their periodic visits to the villages that were meant to serve to both court them and give them something to read during the oft-long periods of isolation.

Common themes are "longing", "distance", "frustration", "desire", "hope" even eroticism.

Loksen is low-key fan of this poetry and keeps a small battered paperback collection on him at all times.