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[twotonedechoes]

@grindinghatchet: From here

She knew she wasn’t going to end up saying something as ‘witty’ as he probably would expect. Nua wasn’t very ‘educated’ as someone as the Emperor of Garlemald was after all. Still, she wasn’t going to stand by and let the bastard insult her.

“And was your mother a piece of cardboard? Because that is by far the most tasteless comment I expected to come out of your mouth.” She shifted to one side, trying not to look too prideful of her ‘witty’ comeback as she took a sip of her beloved alcohol.

Oh she wanted to play, did she? A poor choice on her part: she had not the tools required to compete in a battle of wits. Nevertheless, he would humor her. 

“I didn’t even realize you had taste. I thought you’d burnt it all away, nursing that bottle.”

[zodiaerc]

@grindinghatchet // XXX

        ‘ They would like to live but your people, this generation won’t except them. Imagine if you will, if I were to reveal myself unto the world how others would react. It would be a witch hunt to have me killed off and burned live. That is how my people feel, out casted by others who now live in their wake. ’

    It wasn’t that their heads were...’in there asses’, it was the fact that people have changed. Whether it be for better or for worst, it was hard for the human mind to accept different things or at least this is what Zodiark has observed.

          ‘ Is it wrong to deny people the right to live? Should they just die so that you and everyone else can prosper? Not once have I seen a thank you, after all they gave you Hydaelyn. ’

[musesbyarya-a]

@grindinghatchet | UNREQUITED LOVE STARTERS

>>  ‘ i’m sorry, but i can’t … i can’t be what you want. ’ (ANGST AHOY)

& NUA.

Emet-Selch leaned towards the Warrior of Darkness, grabbing her chin between his fingers to force her to look him straight in the eye. On his face, a bad expression, far from the almost affable attitude he had when he met them at Crystarium. His eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, his golden hues surrounded by black, almost shining with an evil and heavy aura, like the burden he carried on his shoulders.

"Oh... But... this light will eventually consume you and you will become a monster, whether you like it or not," he said in an acerbic, cold voice.

[ofonyxshade]

@grindinghatchet | starter call

It wasn’t that they were a stranger to tests of strength. 

Fury knows their entire childhood was built on recklessly challenging their master and Sidurgu to any kind of competition they could think of, the former nigh untouchable while they could knock the other on his arse most of the time. But they were older and wiser now, they liked to think. Wise enough to choose their battles carefully, anyways. 

Fray watched the auri woman with guarded interest as she slammed another drunkard’s arm onto the polished wood, the resulting yelp making them wince. A curious sight, she was. Rarely did someone become so bored by the shoddy ballads put on the Knight’s tipsy bards that they jumped into the midst of an arm-wrestling competition between off-duty soldiers. 

And win, to boot. They knew what Sid could do without a sword, tear men apart with a desperate ferocity dredged up from the bottom of the abyss. Rend flesh with obsidian claws, snap bones without remorse, shatter ribs to rip out still-beating hearts… that sort of thing. The woman bore the same dark scales and horns, prompting Fray to shake their head with an apologetic half-smile when her sharp gaze landed on them expectantly.

“‘Fraid I’ll have to decline the offer.” They raised their hands in a placating motion to further their point.

(They’d like to keep their arm intact for tonight's patrol, thank you very much.)

[asinfinitum--a]

There was a slight pause as she approached the oddly scaled woman. Though she had been intrigued and wanted to tug at the horns to see if they were real, Esther had decided not to. Not a good first impression would be made if she did that. People didn’t like tugging, after all. So she instead gave a small grin and raised her hand in greeting.

“Hey. You know the way to the guild? I was told that’s where ‘new adventurers’ need to sign up but I can’t find it anywhere in this place.”

@grindinghatchet​

[coeurcondamne]

@grindinghatchet // starter

If this is where he dies, so be it. He wouldn’t care. (He would.) It would be fine. (It would absolutely not be!) Zephirin’s quite sure the unspoken laws of Reunion are the only thing protecting him besides his armor on his sorry hide and the claymore on his back, but if he’d gotten just short of eradicated ten times over at Azys Lla when he was as close to divinity as one could get, he likely wouldn’t last longer than a minute in true combat. He knows what he’d done, even if the memories are strange like fogged glass. He expects no mercy. Hope is another matter entirely.

One thing is certain- There’s no point in bothering with any attempt at self-defense. Hopefully, she won’t attack him, and he will most certainly make no move to start a vain (and illegal, mind you) struggle. He still eyes the warrior warily, uncertain if she’d be kept by something like law even in what he assumes to be her homeland. He simply lifts his hands, fingers spread and palms forwards in peaceful gesture. If there is a quaver in his voice, if it is softer than his usual tone, he does not admit to it.

“What is your intent?”

[aryalaenkha-a]

@grindinghatchet | STARTER CALL

& NUA.

Alliance leaders and their Far Eastern allies were preparing to meet the Emperor Varis zos Galvus at the border between Aldenard and Ilsabard, which made Aria very nervous. While she skillfully hid her Garlean origins after fleeing the army several years ago for fear that the Eorzeans would mistake her for an enemy, she was no longer afraid to show that she was fighting against her native country now. As she finished greasing the mechanisms of her gunblade and sharpening its blade, she saw Nua approaching her.

"Need a little control of your axe before the negotiations?"

[crystariis]

“....You know as well as I do how this story may end.” His voice is soft, as if afraid of waking the dead. He knows how it will end, but does she?

@grindinghatchet | starter call

[aryalaenkha-art]

Draw your friends’s OCs in your style

This little meme allowed me to practice digital drawing and painting with my new XP-PEN Artist 22 Pro graphics tablet.

Kheda @convivxncia

X’luna @ofastrcmancy

Zenos @beasthuntergalvus

Nua @grindinghatchet

Tairin @gegegenotairin

Hero @herohikara-wol

Emily @emily-lotus

Angelique @candideangel

Esja @violet-warder

[thedarkestdragonknight]

Behind the Dragon: About the Mun

Tagged by @grindinghatchet I honestly don’t remember if I did this one already or not so... a second time if I have!

Rules: Tag 20 followers you want to get to know better

Nickname(s): Tox, Toxic or Test Gender: Cis Female (For the most part, anymore I don’t mind if people call me whatever they want) Astrological sign: Libra Height: 5′3″ Sexuality: Asexual, Aromantic (@talechaser-ffxiv will have to correct me on this if I am wrong on this one) Hogwarts House: Slytherin (At least if I remember that’s what I got from Pottermore >.>) Favorite animal: Too many to list, I’m an animal lover. Top places go to Horses, Tigers and Crocodilians Number of blankets: 1 (For the most part, it’s usually a thick one) Dream Trip: Um let’s rain check on this one... lol  When I created this blog: December of 2017 (Huh I thought it was 2018 >.>) Why I created this blog:  I was starting to get back into FFXIV thanks to both @talechaser-ffxiv and @theaetherhealerffxiv and I wanted to do my attempt at making a blog for my character(s) and their stories. Of course I also wanted to ‘dip my toes’ into the world of FF RP and well that’s how this blog came about. I’ve since made a couple side blogs for other characters that I didn’t want to be on this one (AKA @thefallenofbajhiri and @solveigmekta) but yeah... this blog was created for RP and Aesthetic purposes as well as for Jacques’ story.

Tagging: Ummmmmmmm @unatobajhiri @skyysinger @talechaser-ffxiv @theaetherhealerffxiv and anyone who wants to. You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to obviously <3

[ofthebleedingheart]

🖤🖤🖤

– one / NAME / ALIAS. Kinley, Kin, Erza

– two /  BIRTHDAY.  Dec 7

– three / ZODIAC SIGN.  Sagittarius

– four /  HEIGHT.  5'0"

– five  /  HOBBIES.  Video games, roleplay, drawing, coding

– six /  FAVOURITE COLOURS. Pink,black, pastels

– seven / FAVOURITE BOOKS.  Way to many choices!

– eight  /  LAST SONG LISTENED TO. Fear Is Not My Guide-Demon Hunter

– nine  /  LAST FILM WATCHED.  Legally Blonde

– ten  /  INSPIRATION FOR MUSE.  I wanted to do something different than my usual. A morally ambiguous character.

– eleven  / DREAM JOB.  Doctor

– twelve  / MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL.  Erza started out as a cosplay character in a Fairy Tail guild(Erza Titania) but developed into her own character as I got into RP in the FFXIV community. Just kept the first name since that's what everyone knew me by and it really stuck.

Tagged by: @aryalaenkha

Tagging: @ehri-sabrae, @party-of-rpg-muses, @eligos-venator, @grindinghatchet, @ad-luc3m, @lady-of-crowns, @littlestcreampuff and anyone else!

[twotonedechoes]

❛ You know, my mom always said when life gives you lemons, drink whiskey. ❜ [to Emet-Selch] (grindinghatchet h-hello owo~)

“Was your mother a lush? That certainly goes a far ways toward explaining how you turned out.” 

[blueyemxn]

Updated my description for my blog! As much as I love Neena and Xeala, I don’t have much of a muse for them right now as Nua has taken over my life. So, I have opted to just mentioning this as the main blog for just grindinghatchet instead. That way when I follow people I wanna rp with, they can see that’s the blog I wanna rp on!

[musesbyarya-a]

@grindinghatchet | INBOX.

>> "So how long do you plan on following me again?" (for Emet-Selch )

& NUA.

The Ascian would have liked to answer that he had much better things to do than to observe the Hydaelyn's Champion. Unfortunately, this was not the case. He was not named "The Architect" for nothing. The projects he planned were always built and think for the short, medium and long term. The flood of Light on the First Shard was expected in the medium term. He and Elidibus had sown the seeds of the chaos necessary for its accomplishment and they had germinated and were not far from reaching their full blossoming. All he had to do was observe from afar, making sure his plan went well, before reaping the rewards.

However, the arrival of the Xaela did not seem to worry him too much. As if it were just an insignificant grain of sand throughout the perfectly oiled mechanics. But he'd rather keep an eye on her. This is for several reasons. In addition to finding it entertaining.

"What is it, dear Warrior of Darkness? Does my presence bother you so much?" he replied with a ghost smirk on his lips, raising his hands with a falsely innocent look. 

[prxsperpina]

PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER.

repost, don’t reblog.

– one / NAME / ALIAS. Claudia, Blue – two /  BIRTHDAY.  December 10 – three / ZODIAC SIGN.  Sagittarius – four /  HEIGHT.  5′1″ – five  /  HOBBIES. Writing, drawing, playing video games, reading, and roleplaying! and obsessing over Emet-Selch – six /  FAVOURITE COLOURS. Teal, blue, green, pink and purple – seven / FAVOURITE BOOKS.  The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine, the Tortall book series by Tamora Pierce and Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney – eight  /  LAST SONG LISTENED TO. Good Night by Genki Rockets – nine  /  LAST FILM WATCHED.  Steven Universe: the Movie – ten  /  INSPIRATION FOR MUSE.  Nua was created solely because of my obsession with Emet-Selch from the recent FFXIV expansion Shadowbringers. She’s actually become a pretty strong muse, stronger than Neena, my other character to whom I owe one of my best friends ( @lust-in-lavendar​ ) for the creation of when we were trying to make an original story together. Nua is a combination of my love of Emet-Selch AND the fact I’m a GREEK NERD and I love Greek Mythology. I even have her past self, Kore, pretty down to a tee, taking inspiriation from both Pink Diamond from Steven Universe and Persephone from the webcomic Lore Olympus! – eleven  / DREAM JOB.  Becoming a well known Author – twelve  / MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL.  The url grindinghatchet was based on the fact that you grind a metal weapon against something to sharpen it for battle and hatchet because that’s the main tool for a botanist. It combines Nua’s loves; fighting and gardening/botany.

TAGGED BY:   @aryalaenkha TAGGING: @zodiaerc @lust-in-lavendar @thedarkestdragonknight @littlestcreampuff @osaviour and anyone else who wants to!

[asinfinitum--a]

“Are you well?” The concern passes from his lips before he can stop it, and he pauses in his thoughts. “...I can tell from the exhaustion lining your face that you haven’t slept a wink. Is aught the matter?”

@grindinghatchet​ | starter call