#final fantasy arr

[ladymischievous]

Playing with a small personal project. Making something featuring some the evolution of my WoL as I headcanon it. There’s some canon divergences here and there.

Final Fantasy 1.0:

Corven was an employee of the Gold Saucer. They had a comfortable life, their father had recently gotten married, and he loved his job. For all intents and purposes, Corven’s life was good but he always wrestled against a desire to travel. At first, he stayed for his father, who was a single dad doing his best to raise him well. After his father married, Corven moved out to live on his own, and found that without his father to look after, his wanderlust only grew. Then he kept making more excuses for himself to stay. He had a great job, his own apartment, good pay, why disrupt any of that? Corven was happy, or at least he should be. Sensing his discontent, his father is always keeping an eye out for any potentially good romantic matches for Corven. While it is half jokingly, as Corven’s father is mischievous and enjoys playfully teasing him, he does worry for him. With the end of 1.0, Corven finally decides that he will go out to travel and become an adventurer. Life suddenly felt too short to keep lying to himself and staying in one place.

Final Fantasy: A Realm Reborn:

By the time ARR starts, Corven’s been traveling for a year and a half. He’s been roaming around Eorzea, not really with a dead set plan. He winds up in the city of Limsa Lominsa, goes on a bender, and ends up having strange dreams of a giant crystal. Corven couldn’t quite hear or understand what they were saying, it sounding oddly muffled and far away. Upon waking Corven had found that he had been crying in his sleep. He passes it off, joking with himself that it was out of fear. ( Deep down, he knew it was from a strange mix of anger and sadness that he couldn’t explain, it was unnerving. ) Looking in a mirror, Corven tries to psyche himself up for a new day. He tells himself it’s going to be fine, great even. That he was going to one day be one of the best adventurers on the continent. It’s not a serious goal, just means to warm himself up and get the day started. This was the beginning of Corven’s problems, sometimes he will look back on this day and wish he had just stayed in bed. (More Details under the cut.)

Personality:

Personality wise, at this point in time, Corven isn’t that heroic of a person.  Often he finds himself in over his head, and relies on guile, luck, and often makes things up as he goes to make up for his shortcomings. He’s not above using underhanded and shifty tactics, often preferring them as they get the job done. Corven’s been called a few names by other, more ‘moral’ adventurers (mostly fledglings that have a more romanticized look on the business) over how he does things but he lets the results speak for themselves and gets paid.

The adventuring life is certainly not glamorous and he didn’t expect it to be. Corven had the advantage of hearing the harsh truths of it from his father, who was quite the adventurous scoundrel himself back in the day. But Corven certainly finds it fun, there’s something about it that simply feels natural to him. He’s happy and is looking to go even farther and seeing even more of the world.

Corven during ARR is mischievous and can be a smart-ass, some of it is to cope with the dangers he finds himself in during the course of the story. He’s not usually the first choice one would go to for a job, most preferring bigger and more experienced adventurers.

Corven does take what he does more seriously than most would think, as he has every intention to survive.

Corven is surprisingly very compassionate. Most wouldn’t really expect it from him, given the image they try to project. But he tries his best to offer what comfort he can when people need it. At the end of the day, Corven would choose doing the right thing over a large payday. He has a habit of going out of his way to help people, sometimes causing more problems for himself. This gradually becomes more of a problem over the course of ARR and after.

There’s a voice in the back of his head, a pang in his heart that chides him for being foolish. As the plot goes and he gets more entangled into this ‘Warrior of Light’ stuff, this voice becomes smaller and smaller, more muffled and distant. It feels like they’ve been losing an important part of themselves as they become the ‘WoL’.

Plot Headcanons and Divergences:

Fray has always been a part of Corven’s life, at first being an ‘imaginary friend’ that he unwittingly conjured as a simulacrum as a kid. They looked like a pair of twins. This stopped as Corven grew older, having a much better balance in self love/preservation and their care towards others. This changed over the course of ARR, as Corven gradually fell more and more into their role as the ‘WoL’.

Edda Pureheart and the events that would later happened in post ARR had a huge impact on Corven. He was kind to her, spending more time with her than depicted in game. Joining their party for a while, Corven was with them for Sastasha and Tam-Tara Deepcroft. Ending up in a one-sided rivalry with Avere which eventually led to the adventurer’s death.

The party threw the blame on Edda. Corven tried to defend her which only made the situation more volatile. The party fractured and split. Leaving Edda and Corven alone with Avere’s body. Edda insisted she couldn’t leave Avere so far from home. Corven and her made a compromise on only taking his head. Corven didn’t have the heart to leave Edda on her own after how he saw her treatment by her former comrades and her fiance. He escorted her back home. They bonded a bit over this trip together. By the time it was finally at an end, Corven and Edda promised to see each other again one day.

This started a chain reaction that would lead to the events of Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard). Edda’s feelings for Avere somehow got mixed and mingled with feelings she was starting to have for Corven. Ultimately leading to her desire to combine the two, but reasoning to herself that it was what Avere would want instead of it being her wanting the both of them to herself. Edda’s strong and passionate feelings and being unable to save her, would haunt Corven for a very long time. Leading him to be far more careful in flirtations and having unease when people showed potentially romantic interests in him.

The events at Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) took the wind out of Corven’s sails after victories prior. It was a harsh reminder that he was still fallible. That he couldn’t save everyone and that his actions could and would have impacts on others and themselves, not always positive. There’s other stuff too, but this post is long enough as it is. I hope that you enjoyed reading about my brat.

[saepo-lin]

[katriaarts]

who up finalling their fantasy fourteen

[mrslittletall]

Unpopular opinion, but I actually like that the WoL was not the center of attention in Dawntrail because my god, after the shit they went through in Shadowbringers and Endwalker they deserved a break.

[jxthics]

(id in alt)

DARKNESS!

[diadoescomics]

= Solo Duty: Midgardsormr=

Realised I never posted this before I got sick.

I'm reviving my sprout journey comics (as soon as this stomach bug goes away) and while I have a list of moments from the game, feel free to ask my impression or experience with any part of the story and who knows maybe I'll make something out of it (no promises tho).

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[oograths-pizza-and-chill]

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[fheythfully]

3.20.24 NG+

[cascanora]

Recruitment drive for Garlemald's XIIth legion

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[lesbianneopolitan]

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[mmediocreman]

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[saepo-lin]

[justiceisoverr]

replayed crystal tower the other day & arr g'raha is something that can actually be so personal

[to-be-frankie]

Any landenel fans out here still in 2024? As in landenel from final fantasy 14 the npc from the company of heroes that shows up very briefly and threatens to hang you by your intestines and sends you on a fetch quest then is a pissbaby about losing at triple triad. Landenel.

[aaronmcfocks]

Little sketch of Haurchefant bc I will never stop loving him