#ffxiv blog ask

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Highlight a FFXIV blogger who answers OC (or other) asks with really interesting responses.

A really obvious answer would be @starrysnowdrop!

She really puts a lot of effort into really thoughtful responses to asks and I love learning more about Hali and her relationship with Aymeric. Sometimes, when I've asked about something slightly obscure, she will take the time to research the lore and and put together a really interesting response - which always feels like quite an honour!

One of my favourite blogs on Tumblr and one of the nicest bloggers too!

[kayzis]

one of the best parts of the Dinner is that there was no asset to make a salad so if you zoom in on aymeric's plate you can see it's a scaled-down grassy hill

ayo what the fuck

[ainyan]

Highlight a FFXIV blog that explores difficult or complex emotions really well.

If you want someone who is very good at exploring complex or difficult emotions - or situations - look no further than @thewitchofelpis. Her FFXIV fanfiction is incredibly well-written and explores some very nuanced and complex relationships and the emotions that come with them. I highly recommend going through and reading both their shorts on Tumblr and their series on Ao3.

Let's spread some positivity. Ask me for a blog rec!

[akirakirxaa]

Hey everyone. o/

I hope everyone's been enjoying the new expac. Unfortunately I come to you with some heavy stuff. My husband and I moved states last month, and while we're in a much better place now, we are still temporarily unemployed. We have some funds, but it's getting to where I'm having to make unpleasant choices, such as not paying my phone bill (the only way I have to contact pretty much everyone I know now) and car insurance (need a car to get a job so also not ideal). And I'm concerned about being able to get my cat and dog their food as well.

So I'm coming asking for help raising some funds. I'd rather do commissions but until plogons are back, this is mostly impossible, so I have to ask for donations.

My goal is to raise at least $200. If everyone that follows me and has enjoyed the posts I share and gposes I make gave one dollar I'd be nearly there.

If you are more comfortable with using Ko-Fi, you can find my link here, or you can send to @/LauraWrites without the slash on paypal or venmo. (Didn't want to tag a rando. ^^; So literally just remove the slash and you're good.) If you go through kofi I would prefer if you paid with paypal there since, full disclosure, Stripe does have a sizeable wait period (a couple of weeks usually) before it releases funds.

I'm working on things I can do for commissions so I'm not just having to ask for money, but until I can figure out something I can do with enough skill that I feel comfortable charging for it, this is what I can do.

Thank you. <3

[arcanistvysoren]

tfw your online life bleeds into your video game life

@nihilnovisubsole

i did DM you like i promised but i'm still cackling about it so i need to commemorate it as a post

a real "i like your shoelaces" moment 🤝

[feralkwe]

For the Director's Cut: To The Edge (And Back Again)

Also, i just want to congratulate you on your exquisite taste of being an Elidibus fan. He is so <3

to the edge (and back again)

this dinged danged fic may be the best work i've ever published. it is, hands down, the one i am most proud of writing, and definitely the one i worked the hardest on. so many lovely little threads to pull together. i spent so much time reading so much lore, combing wikis, sifting through short stories with a fine toothed comb. listening to music. replaying cutscenes. i've never worked so hard to get the lore so right (and i still made some pretty big errors!). it is the most work i've put into a fic ever, and my only chaptered canon character centric work. in a way, it was my white whale. it is by and far the most popular fic i've ever written.

the shb patches gently and slowly broke me as the more we learn about elidibus through them the more he broke my heart. in the beginning i was furious about what he does to ardbert, and it quickly evolved and i felt awful by the conclusion. at the end of the trial the wol is putting down the remaining shell of a very broken man, angry and mad and absent the memories of why he is so driven, and in the throws of rage in his grief at being the last of the unsundered. there was no glory in that victory. nothing to take pride in. it is quickly apparent after anamnesis anyder that he is unwell. even y'shtola mentions that it seems like a mercy killing put in motion by emet-selch. i think the game meant for me to be very sad about one thing at the end of seat of sacrifice, but i was very, very wrapped up in elidibus' fate. the wol has no choice but to stop him, and the only way to stop him is to kill him. i was devastated that it came to that. perhaps being someone who suffers from psychosis made it personal. i couldn't say for sure.

and then after all of it, he gives the very last of his self, his essence, to send us back in time to do what he could not.

it was some time before i did the pandaemonium raids, and they smacked me in the face from the moment you drop into elpis. i became preoccupied with elidibus (and since i played them so late, i already knew the themis-elidibus connection). how did this clever, sweet, smart, driven, and oh so young man who valued his job and duty above all else, get to "i'm going to sacrifice myself to give life to god?"

more than that, the overarching story of ffxiv reinforces a falsehood that zodiark was corrupt, power hungry, and even the source of all evil right up until fandaniel actually corrupts him. this just is not true. even though the writers carefully leave us a trail of crumbs to lead us to question the in-world narrative of zodiark's motivations and morality, much of fandom blithely accepts hydaelyn's misleading of the wol and the word of the lopporits, who are unreliable, being literal creations of hydaelyn herself. the zodiark plan worked. the souls who sacrificed themselves saved the world, at least bought it time. and elidibus somehow got to a place where he felt it was his sole responsibility to bear it all.

it worked. and the burden broke him on the most fundamental level even before hydaelyn made her choices.

that journey gripped me so hard that i had to tell that story. i had to set the record straight in a way that satisfied me. the souls who fueled the creation of hydaelyn get to be literal gods. the souls sacrificed to zodiark are all but forgotten. we only know one of their names. elidibus fought until his last breath for them, for better or for worse. that has to matter.

and now i kill him at least once a week in the hopes of getting my hands on that "fleeting moments" orchestrion. i begged forced my free company to help me do the seat of sacrifice (extreme) so i could get the axe that drops.

so, thank you for this ask. i am so normal about elidibus in a way i've never been normal about another fictional character before.

[neighawolf]

Because answering this on tweet site is gonna be hard I'll try and make a thread lol but feel free to ask me here!!

I stole from fren <3 Please ask me about my ship dynamics and/or ships (including all the others that aren't Rorianger/Thanlex) they are: Rornir/Urianger Alex/Thancred Bastian/Marcechamp R'aurora/G'raha Sera/Y'sthola/Aymeric Saoirse/Estininen Mizuki/Sidurgu Sorn'daer/Heather (oc)

[fooltofancy]

oh he's HERE.

[the-waking-sands]

9 (favorite song) and 25 (favorite Minion)!

Favorite song... Hard to pick but I think I'd have to go with the dragonsong! It makes me so fucking emo everytime. Ive started to make a playlist of all my fav FFXIV tracks as I go through the game though! You can listen to it here!

As for my favorite minion, wind up alpha without a doubt. I recently finished the omega raids and oh my god I would die for this fucking chocobo. The ending cutscene genuinely had me full on weeping. Very very good raids, which certainly was a nice change of pace after uhm... The everything of stormblood. (I have a lot of thoughts on this expac, most of them not that positive... Maybe I'll write a whole post about it.)

[lily-ohfally]

✏️ (from Mor - pick any one, be it Tits Height Kitty, Lily's Turn To Be Tits Height Lizard, or just.. Arisu giving headpats to The Strong Baby XD)

Khaer surprise! I feel like they would get along surprisingly well but in a more odd "mentor/student" relationship.

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Highlight a FFXIV blog which has challenged you to think about an aspect of lore in a different way.

There are definitely quite a few blogs that have challenged me in that regard, but one of the first and most engaging was (and is) definitely @spotofmummery.

The character of Amon in @spotofmummery manages to fit comfortably into existing lore, whilst simultaneously exploring and extending it. It took a raid boss, from a raid I trundled through without really thinking about it too much, and promptly took me on an emotional journey that explores themes of power, politics, guilt, redemption and love.

It definitely made me think more about the character of Amon, what motivated him, both in the past and now, and the legacy of the Allagan Empire. What I initially interpreted as a fairly standard "psuedo sci-fi ancient civilisation destroyed by it's own hubris" trope, actually became much more engaging and tragic. Similarly the divergent path taken by the Amon of @spotofmummery makes both the "OC" version and the canon incarnation feel deeper and more complex, with a mixture of conflicting, and even contradictory, impulses and desires.

Plus the hat is always impressive!

[kayzis]

my favourite part of the eden questline so far has been Ryne's 3 dads giving her a pep talk for asking Gaia out on a date to hang out with her. then watching them pretend not to eavesdrop. Shura's doing squats. Urianger and Thancred approve of his technique. yes yes. they're definitely not listening to see if their girl is winning. are ya winnin' girlie??

[ainyan]

6. Highlight a FFXIV blog with an OC who is just incredibly, if not unreasonably, sexy.

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12. Highlight a FFXIV blog that deserves more recognition by a wider audience.

And!

22. Highlight a FFXIV blog with an engaging OC who is morally grey, if not outright villainous...

6. Oh come on. Give me a hard one. As everyone knows, @sylaurin's Kabniel is not only incredibly, but incredibly unreasonably, sexy. And I'm not just saying that because she's my RL wife.

12. Everyone should be grabby-handing for @paintedscales amazing OC Nomin and her beautiful relationship with our favorite dragoon, Estinien. Check out their artwork while you're at it - they're amazing!

22. A morally grey, almost villainous OC? Well, you need look no further than @furys-mercy's alt Sebastian de Vairemont, otherwise known as @bastardofvairemont.

Let's spread some positivity. Ask me for a blog rec!

[ffxivtribehydrae]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

My friends! I mean of course, that is what firends are, people that make you happy. It's always a comfort to spend time with them!

Nature! To get away from the city and buzz of traffic and people, to the silence of the wind. I tend to always feel more at peace far away in the wilds.

Music! There is always a time and place for that specific track. Even those sad songs have their time when they are soothing, or they just instill inspiration!

Cleaning! Yes I know it is a boring thing to do, (and I do hate it as a job) but at home, it just feels great to see and be in a recently cleaned home!

Travel! Be it a vacation to anothe rcountry or just a road trip to the next town over. I love exploring and discovering new things!

[mersi-kokhavasheva]

Hello!

This is Mersi Kokhavasheva, she/her. She is an Ilsabardian Raen Au Ra diviner-turned-knight based out of Gridania. I hope this will be a repository for the fan content I write about her story, from thoughtful snippets to five-part fanfiction.

FAQ&A

It's pronounced "mare-see" — not "mercy", though she understands the confusion — "koh-hha-vuh-shay-vuh".

Her preferred jobs were originally Bard, Dragoon, and Paladin, but she has of late swapped her arms for those of the Samurai, Dancer, and Gunbreaker. Blue magic is something of a special interest. She was raised on astrology, but has sworn off the cards since leaving home. Above all else, Mersi is a talented Weaver and seamstress, and is learning goldsmithing from her love.

She is engaged! Her love, A'rhya Velore, is a Gyr Abanian Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te with gorgeous ruby hair, and eyes like sapphire and amethyst, and a lovely soft voice that's not always able to be heard, and she's more than Mersi could ever have dreamed. However, recent events leave Mersi feeling less worthy than ever, and it shows in her haunted eyes whenever she's asked about a date for their wedding.

There is a timeline under construction for Mersi, A'rhya, and some friends along the way, to see how their spin on the Warrior of Light saga might look in a world in which, logistically, not every one of forty-eight million heroes could be veterans of the same battles.

I'm on Behemoth, in the midst of post-Heavensward. Feel free to say hi if you spot me, but I'm just as happy to chat here on Tumblr, or to share what I've written of her on AO3!

I'll likely be bouncing in and out of character here on Tumblr because, while this is not an RP blog, it's just fun to write in her headspace. If anyone wants to ask her a question, I think we'd be happy to answer. Perhaps we'll crack open the ask box and find out!

Frequent Tags

the Road to Sharlayan: This is for the stories written about Mersi and friends, or for progress made toward the next. I am new to AO3, so I would appreciate honesty when it comes to tagging etiquette! I hear it's "the more tags, the better" but, stars above, there are so many tags.

the Ruby and Larimar: Any Q's-and-A's Mersi gets through the ask box will be tagged as such, as will any fanart I mock up along the way. Casual coffee shop vibes! We love it.

Lore Have Mersi: For when Mersi have lore! These will be posts that explore who Mersi is as a person, or how she came to be as such. I will likely also use it for theorycrafting, such as my thoughts on the Deck of Sixty.

an Average Day in Eorzea: Memes. Nonsense. Shenanigans. Nothing you wouldn't see in Limsa, I'm sure!

Stories So Far

the Spineless Serenade (Romance) War in the north has found peace; those who fought alone to the east have found allies. From the patrol squadrons of Ishgard comes Mersi Kokhavasheva of the Knights Dragoon; from the war rooms of Rhalgr's Reach comes A'rhya Valore. This is not a story of their struggles, but of a rare moment in between. This is the story of a chance to grasp, and of their refusal to let go.

Coerthan Call (Drama/Tragedy) A sudden decision on the battlefield brings dangers unforeseen, and well foreseen. High above the Coerthas Western Highlands, two Knights Dragoon weigh the risks and put it all on the line to slay the dragon Graoully, but Mersi Kokhavasheva's past flies close behind.

The Lovers' Plainsong (Drama) In the fallout of her abduction by the heretics of Coerthas, Mersi Kokhavasheva rests with her fiancée in the shadow of war. Trauma shapes her future, worsened by the knowledge of how and why, of agency and fate. With the help of the one she loves, a woman broken must once again be made whole. All the while, the Dragon roars.

In Progress:

the Forgotten Berceuse (Romance) Two outsiders, strangers to the land of Eorzea, have found themselves sudden heroes of the realm. One misses the sands; the other, the waters. Together they find harmony, self-confidence, and room to breathe.

Ballet de Cour: A'rhya's Card (Romance) Despite two decades of training in the ways of astrology, Mersi has long been afraid to ask the cards for further guidance. With help from a dear friend, that bond may be renewed—or, by overcoming insecurity and learning unshakable trust, two diviners may strengthen their own bond instead.

A Tençon for Ishgard (Drama) The Dragonsong War has raged long enough. Both sides seek harmony, yet forces of darkness and light yet seek destruction. Caught between both worlds and asking for neither, Mersi Kokhavasheva has put down her lance; she rejoins the fray on her own terms.

[mezzomorendo]

so I think I burnt myself out OTL

I'll be around on discord but Zack is gonna be wayyyy lower activity and I miiiight purge people I am following not sure