#haurchefaunt lives au

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

Well here we have it! I apologize for the wait time @lily-ohfally but I do hope you enjoy this little piece of Lily and Haurchefaunt having a moment in Shadowbringers. Thank you so much to @sasslett for arranging this swap! It was a lot of fun!

No warnings. word count 1.5k

Time is limited, Lily knows this. Knows that they don’t really have time to relax and take in the scenery, yet how was he to be expected to focus on any of that when it felt like years since he last saw Haurchefant? Well for Haurchefant it really had been, two years to be exact and of all places for him to have ended up Il Mheg was the last place Lily expected.

He would have sooner bet on his beloved to be at the Crystarium waiting for him. “While I did for quite a long while, this place despite appearances felt like home.”, He had told him, something Lily did have a hard time believing when home was cold, snowy and its grey hazy filter overshadowed by the warmth the people living there had. Il Mheg was nothing like that, warm, bright, and a sweetness one could taste on the breeze as it made ripples on the crystal blue lake. Maybe it was the castle that brought back feelings of Ishgard, Lily would have to ask him again when they had a moment’s quiet.

“I am sorry to have kept you waiting my darling,” Haurchefant calls out as he jogs up the hill, his silver hair blown from his blue eyes, smile sparkling, and in some of the most relaxed clothes Lily had seen outside the bedroom, a simple cotton puffed sleeve shirt dyed a soft blue with dark brown pants and black thigh boots. The whole thing makes Lily want to see just how it looked on the ground as his eyes roam up and down, stopping when he lands on his hands. He carries a book with him that Lily looks at curiously with a smile.

“No need to be. I wasn’t waiting long.” His cheeks darken when Haurchefant sits next to him, arm looping through his. “What was it that you wanted to show me?”

“I simply wanted your company,” he answers, lacing their fingers together, “I also wanted to give you a chance to be honest with how you’re actually holding up. I know it can’t be easy for you being this far from home.”

Lily inhales deeply, “It isn’t, you’re right about that. I want so badly to go back and make sure they’re okay but….” He shakes his head, making his ears fall just a little more in his line of vision, “I am doing something by being away from them. I am ensuring a future for them. If being this far is what it takes then so be it. I will pay the price.”

“Well you are far from alone, so you will not have to carry it alone, my love,” he leans over to kiss his cheek, deepening the red in Lily’s cheeks and bringing a small smile to his face, “And I promise you, we will have you back home before you know it and all will be well.”

Lily nods with a sigh looking over the pink scenery of Il Mheg, catching the glimpse of some pixies fluttering about. “You know I was wondering something, if you’d be willing to indulge me.”

A dangerous smirk plays on the elezen’s features, “For you, I will always indulge.”

“Maybe a bit later,” he chuckles with a nudge, “I’ve been wondering once again  why you chose here.”

Haurchefaunt looks over at him giving a small tilt of his head, “I don’t think I quite understand what you mean.”

“Well I expected to find you at the Crystarium, maybe helping Lyna out with the guard. Instead I find you here with the pixies.”

“If it’s any comfort I did not intend to stay out here when I simply set out to make sure Urianger made it here safe.”

 “Oh, so that’s how it happened, though it shouldn’t surprise me with you love. When I asked the first time, though, you said this place reminded you of home.”

“And you wish to know just how it reminds me of home.” Lily nods, Haurchefaunt looking ahead and closing his eyes taking in the sweet ghostly scent of pine. He lets the feeling of fresh dew grass tickle his skin, the dappled sunlight through the branches of a cedar tree he would lay under as a young man warm his face. When he opens his eyes it's for the briefest of moments that he’s no longer in a foreign land, but home….home from eight years ago. “You spent most of your time in Thanalan, yes? Then you only got to experience my home as the cold and snowy land it has become. Before the Calamity though…..the lands were green, trees were lush, fog and mist only rolled down from the mountains to deliver rain. It was beautiful.” 

“Tell me more, please.” Haurchefant nods starting on stories of his youth, which has Lily closing his eyes listening to the descriptions of an idyllic place, catching glimpses throughout Haurchefaunt’s life with the Echo. The joy radiates from each one and it's one of the few times that Lily can consider it a gift. “I truly wish you could have experienced it before the Calamity. I admit I was disheartened for the amount of time that you stayed in Ishgard, it was long enough to where back then the seasons would have changed from the winter into the beautiful spring when the wildflowers bloomed and the herds of caribou would return. It was a breath of fresh air every year….”

Lily takes in the melancholy in his love’s eyes that dim the nostalgic smile, “Maybe it will one day return,” he says softly with a squeeze of Haurchefaunt’s hand, “It cannot possibly stay that way forever, and when it does return I will be right there with you to take it in.” 

The two bring their lips together, Haurchefaunt’s fingers caressing up Lily’s neck and jawline to rest his hand behind the viera’s neck intensifying the kiss. Lily’s hands start to wander the knight’s toned body looking for the hem of his shirt. Haurchefaunt releases a breathy moan into their kiss when Lily grasps onto his hips. As Haurchefaunt turns to face Lily more the book he brought out with him falls between them, halting the kiss. The two look down at it a moment before they laugh, Haurchefaunt returning to his original seated position not even bothering to fix his more open shirt. 

“What is that?”

“This,” he answers, dusting the book off, “is the other reason I invited you out here. I found this tome at the Cabinet of Curiosity and I thought its contents were just lovely. I wished to share them with you.”

“Oh.” Lily’s eyes go a little wide as he tries to put on a smile. He peers over at the open pages, the letters and words blending together, “Well I do enjoy the sound of your voice.”

“Good. Because I’ve memorized a few so you can follow along and lay in my lap.”

“But I-.”

“You do not need to know any of it, and I am not turning this into a lesson. I simply find that poetry must also be seen along with being read.” Lily tilts his head with a furrowed brow, “Trust me. You will understand soon enough. And do not feel bad for asking me to stop and repeat them. I will recite to your heart’s content.” Haurchefaunt moves to allow for Lily to get into place, flipping the pages to the first poem with its words curving like wind. He clears his throat before starting to recite the poem as Lily’s eyes follow along to the words he can recognize as images form more clearly and the near neutral cadence of the elezen’s voice takes on a more melodic beat with the rise and fall of each word. The echoes of the sea crashing on the shore envelop his ears, salt landing on his tongue and a nostalgia for a place he’s never seen forms in his chest as the words elongate. Enchanting and calming and finished all too soon as Lily is left wanting. Wanting for a place he knows nothing of but can see in his mind’s eye as if he had lived it. Lily had heard many a song, heard lyrics that could make him sad, elated, and inspired but none created the sensations he’s trying to hold onto. Even the books his sister would read to him and used when teaching him couldn’t stir these images for none had their words look as they do in this book. 

He flips through the book catching glimpses of poems that make mountains, ones that keep straight but place themselves all over the page, and some that have words of differing sizes. He beams looking up into Haurchefant’s blue eyes. His smiling face matches his own, running his fingers through Lily’s short hair, something the viera didn’t even know started as the poem took him in, “Shall we move onto the next one?”

Lily shakes his head, “Once more, love.” 

“As you wish.”

[keicordelle]

Not a Champion, Just a Knight, Ch. 4 (Causes and Costs)

Fandom: FFXIV Rating: M Pairing: Past F WoL/Haurchefant Greystone Word Count: 4.4k Archive Warnings: Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions of Violence Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Haurchefant Greystone Lives, Angst, Tragedy, Dark, Grief/Mourning, Body Horror, POV First Person

Summary: You have ever been my hero. Now, you must be the world’s. I pass my mantle to you.

Atop the Vault after racing to save Aymeric, Ser Zephirin hurls his Spear of Fury and Haurchefant is not fast enough to save the Warrior of Light. As she lies dying in his arms, she makes one final request of him: that he take up her title and become Eorzea’s new hero. Overcome with grief, he vows to avenge her death, and sets his sights and his rage on Thordan and his knights twelve. Even so, he is not the vaunted Warrior of Light, and he cannot face these challenges alone.

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We all knew the peace wasn't going to last. Nidhogg was coming, and even the heartfelt hails I received from people on the streets weren't enough to raise my spirits. But I smiled to each and every person who called to me, offering them a reassuring wave and stopping to talk to them when I had the time. Just like the old days, when I’d just been a knight. Back before... before. Somehow, it didn't feel the same.

Was this how she had felt, as she'd navigated the thorny path of an unsuspecting hero? She had not asked for the title any more than I had, had she? I'd always thought it suited her, that a hero was exactly what she'd always been meant to be, but... Perhaps people looked at me and saw the same thing. Surely, though, surely this duty had not weighed so heavily on her. She would not have bequeathed it to me if she had known... right?

No, no, what was I thinking? Of course she wouldn't have. She had been blessed by Hydaelyn herself, brilliant and talented and destined to be the champion of the people. I was just a knight, just... me.

I drew in a deep breath, the chill air searing through my lungs as I shook off the rising hopelessness and despair, affixing my signature smile upon my face. The dark flame buried in my soul receded as well, I realized with a start. I hadn't even noticed it swell until it backed down, content to simmer in the depths of my being. My smile soured, brow furrowing as I rubbed at the center of my chest, where the darkness seemed to lay. Even the slightest provocation or shift in my mood seemed to spur it to life these days, and I was certainly not short on woes of late. Each whisper of that flame was both blessing and curse: one more chance to hear her voice, and one step closer to losing myself. I had to find some way to control it, and fast. If our chances of defeating Nidhogg were slim even with that mysterious power at my back, they were infinitesimal without it.

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When it’s Valentione’s Day and you spend it with him. ❤️

[alicelufenia]

Writing up mine under the break rather than include a million tags.

So Alice's main canon is just the MSQ + literally every Job quest (probably all the sidequests too). She's been adventuring since the Calamity and was already seasoned at the start of ARR. This is the one where Zenos dies, but his final dying wish is for her to live, for herself this time rather than for him. This one is the subject of my screenshots. I have difficulty seeing her continuing adventuring after 6.0 with this ending, it just makes too much sense that she'd settle down with G'raha and work on her Archon mark, but time will tell with the conclusion of 6.4 and the lead up to 7.0 whether that holds up or not. Tag: #The Boundless Queen

The canon I REALLY want to write for, and may become main canon if I can work it into MSQ right, in which Alice accidentally brings Zenos back with Dynamis in an effort to lay him to rest, roping G'raha into these shenanigans too. Lots of involvement with the tribe quests, starting with Omicron and creating a portion of Elysium with Zenos and G'raha's help, then progressing to the Loporrit quests with Jamingway's blessings, and eventually returning to Etheirys and Alice and a Zenos-disguised-as-Shinryu (now very small due to losing all his aether) are just thriving in Thavnair. Fans of Adventurer Zenos, Soft Zenos, Zenos Learns to Live would love it, basically everyone else would hate it lol. Too bad.

Also this isn't technically Zenos x WoL x G'raha (that ship is too powerful for me to wrap my head around it yet), basically it's Alice x Zenos and Alice x G'raha but not in a gross het love triangle way, they're just sort of incidentally in each other's lives and develop a platonic relationship in the process of following along with Alice's insane antics. Arguably the most healthy relationship Alice could have barring certain dead characters (Haurchefaunt) or characters she's become hopelessly alienated from (Lyse :'c). Ship Tags: #A Mirror for the Princess (Alice x Zenos) and #Griffin and Bear (Alice x G'raha)

Then there's the forbidden au. The roleswap au. The corruption au for Alice and ultimate "what if" for Zenos' thirst for fulfillment and G'raha's desires to be a hero. G'raha became an adventurer instead of getting spirited away by the Sharlayans, and is now the Warrior of Light; Alice sas Darnus got conscripted rather than fleeing Corvos, and has become an infamous and ruthless officer under Nael van Darnus (who lives in this au), committing atrocities far in excess of anything Gaius or (pre-Endwalker) Zenos ever achieved; and Zenos Baldesion is the lost princeling, having run away prior to the events of The Hunt Begins and found by the Sharlayans instead of G'raha, and by present day is an Archon carrying the Baldesion name, and travels to Eorzea to find the returned Warrior of Light, out of bemused curiosity to see such a figure of epics come to life, and sheer boredom of the Sharlayan archives. And yes, still will develop a fascination with Alice, but from the other side.

The crackship potential is off the charts with this one, I'm talking not just Zenos x G'raha but Zenos x Krile too (nothing weird, I was thinking in the way Krile and G'raha have a familial relationship in main canon), and Alice x Nael which is so cursed, Nael being one of the people main canon Alice hated the most for what he did to her hometown, and her parents dying in the Calamity he orchestrated. I love it and hate it at the same time, I want to slap myself for coming up with it but can't abandon it. I refuse. Ship Tag: #The Warrior the Witch and the Wayfarer

Anyway thank you for reading this I will be accepting your unfollows on my desk by the end of the day /j

Hi! I'm just curious how many people have a single AU or Headcanon that they stick with religiously for their OC, and how many people write their OC through several different AUs or follow through several possible Headcanons. I'd love to hear more about your AUs/Canons in the notes, tags, and reblogs!

And as always, feel free to reblog for variety <3

[starsoverishgard]

uh did someone say haurchefaunt lives AU?

anyone? really? coulda... sworn...

[voidsentprinces]

Just as the Sauna wraps up in my brain. A distant voice echoes from beyond the veil, “Bar AU”

Which tender would you prefer this evening?

Would you like the gruff enforcer bartender Raubahn?  One of the three Knight of the Bartop; Estinien the Tsun, Haurchefaunt the Lively, or Aymeric the Fair? Or maybe you’d enjoy that handsome rogue of a bartender, Thancred? The Garlean Reaper’s Motorcycle gang roll in here occasionally. Their newly ascended leader Zenos “The Hunt” Galvus or the quieter but mentor figure of The Black Wolf? Let us not even get us started on the Poolhall Sharks Cid and Nero with Bouncers Biggs and Wedge rivaling 10 Time Tankard Master Hien with his enforce Yugiri and his exhausted mentor Gosetsu. Who used to make rounds in this hall in his younger days with Hien’s Father. The armwrestling champ Lyse and the ever graceful Urianger who is always willing to lend an ear as you drown your woes.

Can never go wrong with our servers, the legendary Warrior of Light, the Vii Sisters, Kai-Shurr, and Raubahn’s Son, Pipin.

The regulars are also an assorted crowd. The pompous but entertaining Emet-Selch, the worldly Y’shtola, the exasperated Papalymo, the tarot reader Minfilia, the Saint Ysayle, the hotel chain owner Varis and of course, the self-proclaimed detective Hildibrand and the boastful Tiduslayer. Who once challenged the Warrior of Light to an ice crushing contest and lost.

On occasion, the establishment is visited by the near by High School Twins Ryne and Gaia. Known around these parts as the Oracles. They drag Alphinaud and Alisaie to act as referees and hype up events like when anyone challenges Hien to a tankard chug.

Metal Head Fray and Punk Sidurgu wander in too from time to time with their adopted daughter Rielle.

Branch Manager G’raha and his bodyguard Lyna sometimes come in to inspect the place and drop off crystal shotglasses.

Oh, performers? Whats your poison? If you like a good shanty, the Admiral and Mistbeard is a fine set up. More up for something lively? Never miss the Seedseer and the Bards. Occasionally Fray and Sidurgu do a gig. But the swing master X’rhun and the Reds gets the bar shaking. Up and comers for rock are Curious Gorge and Broken Mountain. Though Broken Mountain seems to be branching out into more experimental stuff ever since Gorge found himself a girlfriend. 

If you want divinity with sass look no further than the Seedseer’s brother and his apprentice, E-Sumi-Yan and Sylphie. Though if you want something that’ll set off a brawl, the Black Mages always try to start a moshpit in our tiny bar. If you’d like sensational dancing, every Saturday Night. The Dancer’s Guild makes the bar lively.

Public service nights, the Gunbreakers Guild leads safety meetings in here. But they have been making some new alternative rock. A rare treat occurs sometimes when Estinien isn’t working, the Azure Dragoons perform but the Warrior of Light and Estinien’s days off never line up much.

If Music isn’t your forte. The Arcanist Guild sometimes performs drink theatre on stage. Recreating beverages based off the Primals and handing out Egi shots with the aid of the Scholars. In the basement, the Puglists set up fighting matches, and the Thief’s Guild perform along Doman Shinobi for Acrobatic performances. The up and coming Blue Mages sometimes also perform...but a lot of their performances end up being very short because their pyrotechnics keep blowing them up. More public astrological readings are held by the Astrologians, if you want to double check Minfilia’s results.

Sometimes Nanamo and her Gladiators enter to show off proper fight etiquette. Protected by her Paladins. She is quite fond of Raubahn, who used to run with her. But after fighting back an infamous rioter the Griffin and the Monetarists. Raubahn is taking it easy. Allowing Pipin to head up proper etiquette.

Doman Art and Culture Nights are held by the Samurai and Ninja Guilds respectively. Though if you’re looking for long range. The Bards and Machanists Guilds get into shooting contests occasionally.

When you’re done with your drink and food, please see Tataru or Hancock at the cash register to tally up your receipt.

[wolchaos]

Haurchefaunt Lives! AU where my WoL finds him in the First and whelp... it’s a mess of BIG feelings

[erichtai-m]

Sleeping in Aether CH.1

this is kinda experimental for me sense I haven’t wrote something for myself for a long time. And I did say i was gonna write this eventually for my best friend @velvetomen so part thanks for her for being my drive to write this or at least attempting.

Side Note, this takes place starting Mid Heavensward and onwards so there will be a lot of spoilers so read at your own risk. Also in this universe there is more than one Warrior of Light so you’ll be seeing multiple characters featuring in this especially my friends and such. There will also be mentions of angst and WOL shipping everywhere (both WOL/NPC and WOL/WOL) cause i’m a huge sucker for this.

The basic synopsis of this is the events that happened from the events and onwards along side the Main Story Quest from the main perspective of Taimu with a few AU-ish elements that happens along the way but is fairly straight forward. If people are interested I’ll post here on tumblr but if not well i’ll most likely keep writing if not for myself and close friends to share for funsies really.

Enjoy!

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It felt like a nightmare back then. A horrible, inconceivable and most terrifying nightmare I could ever dream of. If I say otherwise, I’m pretty sure it’d be a very deep understatement to myself. No, I was most definitely awake when it happened. With all the adrenaline in my life, how could I ever sleep and dreamed when we failed a most dear and valuable friend for risk their lives for our own and broke our hearts. My heart-no, rather more importantly....Talaani’s heart.

I couldn't bear that sight...the sight of blood and his body on the ground and the strong woman I called ‘sister’ during our adventures together, was crying, wailing, sobbing. Never before she would ever claim to break tears over any other man, and yet the very first in her life, of stealing hearts, throwing lines back and forth like a mischievous fox and went about with flirtatious flair amongst many men in her days, here she was with the look of a woman on the brink of breaking and desperate to speak words that have not been said to the Knight of Ishgard only failing with in her panic. 

To admit frankly I did too share such feelings but it only changed when the look I saw on her face, no longer seeing determination, with a hint of cocky elegance to it. That deep blue emotion they expressed between the two in their last moments together did not compare any to how I could ever probably feel in my whole life. I know not of love or affection like the way Talaani and Haurchefaunt probably have felt, however witnessing two of my friends, one so ever close to me since my arrival into Eorzea, were descending rapidly from themselves; one to great despair and heartbreak, while the other to a fate of a true hero...but one of tradgey no less. 

A fate I just couldn’t accept, even by Hydalen’s-no, any higher being in this world, could I accept this written fate before us. This outcome I just couldn't leave be. 

So I tried. No matter, what I kept trying, insisting to pour every bit of aether I had to heal the gaping wound that never closed; to cease the ever flowing life that was slowly slipping away. I barely could hear Reinhart panicking behind me, the sobs and desperate cries Talaani just couldn't hold back, the insistence of Shiro telling me stop before I went too far. Really...all of it just went quiet the moment I could hear the last few breathes being slowed and the pale blues closing as the curtain on his life came down.

No.

That's not what I want. I had the knowledge and power of Nymians past, their wisdom and teaching; their very souls and memories and yet every onze of healing aether invoked did nothing to hold back the falling curtain. This can’t be it. I won’t let it be the end for this man, not when I know I can heal such wounds! 

I kept trying….and trying...and trying…

By then everything around was quiet...in fact rather foggy. No. not like that...more like when one looked to the sun straight on, and the light of the heavens shined out everything around you till you only saw white. Yes perhaps more like that. I don’t remember much after that...tired perhaps...like I am now…

This feeling I have now, as if i ran yalms across the Coerthan snow in laps without breathing. My chest felt heavy as it did burn out my lungs, as if something else pulled all the air out of me. Of course the more I try to relax, it felt better enough to tolerate, more sore than anything really. It was a good thing i=I didn't feel like moving much as I lay there...at least I thought I was lying there….wherever ‘there’ was. 

To me it was a white abyss and I was too sore to try and look around and thus ended up paying no mind to anything else but my thoughts. Thoughts of weather Talaani was no longer crying, Reinhart eventually steeling his nerves and jumping into action and helping the others, or perhaps Shiro readying to scold the three of us and trying to regain a sense of order among their little group of friends. Ah that goes without saying about the others back at their little house in Gridania...What of Rizsa and her husband Radial? Their partners Nebikus and Deiridth would eventually visit us soon surely? Spanner would eventually be complaining about something to us...perhaps for forgetting to water the plants back home…

Ah...the more she thought about it the more she felt tired. Perhaps I can think on this more after another nap...

I could already feel eyelids grow heavy till my lashes meet in the middle. I ready myself to drift off once more but something pulls me. Nothing physically really but there is something I felt. I wasn't sure what it was but I felt a calling of sorts. A presence made somewhere but not known to me. I don’t find out what it was that beckoned me, for now I was too tired and simply drifted away once more in silence before hearing hushed sounds in my ears.

“-I’m so sorry, please don’t leave us-”

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

5 - Is your muse comfortable with public displays of affection? and 12 - Is your muse easily flustered? Do they blush, swear, etc.? For Anthea and Sib!

Ahh! Thank you for asking!

5 - Is your muse comfortable with public displays of affection?

Sib is very comfortable with PDA. While she was more reserved with Haurchefaunt with it (frankly she didn't want people to know they were some kind of together), that still didn't stop those two from uh finding nice alcoves every now and then. This is something that does also happen with Thancred and frankly there is just a heavy sigh that happens from almost everyone when you can't seem to find them. However, there is a more openness with PDA because she's trying to make up for not being able to have the freedom in showing off her partner growing up. She adored and wanted so badly to be like the other girls her age in the markets that had partners, kissing, hugging, laughing, just all of that relationship stuff.

Anthea is fairly comfortable with PDA. She's not as adventerous as Sib, but Thea and Hyth really are just always touching in someway. Hand holding, hugs, arms linked, one sat in the other's lap, etc. Truly they are sweet enough to give someone a cavity. Which is a shift as Anthea wasn't as open to touch for a little bit there having just spent so much time alone inadvertently once their parents returned to the star. Once with Hyth (or other partners in AUs) its like lights click on for them and they realize how much they miss having touch in their lives. For platonic relationships you can expect hugs often!

12 - Is your muse easily flustered? Do they blush, swear, etc.?

Sib is less easily flustered, she's very confident overall and if she's not then you'll never know. At most she'll get not flustered but more of a frustrated with things when they don't work out how they should. Really this just more translates when she tries to be domestic which involves a lot of cursing, screaming into pillows or pots, and then giving up to just go and buy it/find someone else that can do whatever it was she was trying to do #richgirlproblems. Anthea is so so so so much more easily flustered. Truly the masks the ancients wear was such a blessing to helping them hide their feelings. Even when first meeting Hyth they were so flustered and blushing so much because he was just so pretty and they had just bumped into him like that's just so cringe oh my god! They also tend to have more tendencies to anxious thinking and talking in circles. And I'm just gonna show you below in this little snippet:

 “Can I ask you something?”

“Yeah.”

“Just what is it that those tickets were for?” He looks up with a furrowed brow, “Well it seems that it's something he does often and as a good friend I wish to try and take an interest in something he enjoys in support.”

“You have a plan forming in there,” he teases, tapping his temple with his pen.

“No,” they sigh when Conner cocks an eyebrow, “Possibly. But I do also want to try and be more accommodating to his interests if possible. If it's something he doesn’t ever invite us to go to then he may be under the impression that we wouldn’t care or find some enjoyment in it.”

“Well I mean-.”

“Though at the same time I guess if it is something he prefers wholeheartedly to do on his own, he is certainly entitled to such a thing, but what if we wanted to give him a gift? We could have the opportunity to get him something really nice and special. Am I being too invasive? I have done worse though, so this is very minor compared to those other things and we are friends and taking an interest in something that-.”

“Okay, slow down there, Anthea,” Conner says, “You’re going to make someone dizzy with the circles you would be running.”

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

♥ (18) Does your OC have a “type”? For all of them. Yes I know that's a lot.

Thank you Jess and @mimble-sparklepudding for asking! Sorry it took a hot second but like Jess said its a lot of ocs (7 in total) and I am prone to rambling (however i tried my best to not get too rambley so things make sense). Anyway hope you enjoy!

She doesn't have too much in the way of looks, but taller than her while a default is also a preference. What Sib gravitates towards most are people that feel or offer some kind of freedom. While she had many one night stands (she had to catch up to the thancred numbers i'm sorry) they were only offering the freedom of expectations because none of them really wanted anything more than just sex, except for that one lancer npc in the HW trusts she broke his heart a little sorry my dude. When it comes to longer term relationships she wants someone that can free her from the life she's lived and will continue to do so when needed, but also more importantly give her the freedom to be herself and explore what that is and means. Thancred gives her the most freedom and agency of her major relationships all while still keeping her grounded in reality. Not to say the other ones didn't offer any its just that with Haurchefaunt he offered her agency but not the freedom from her sheltered life since he was still within high society (her parents would have given him their title nullifying bastard status). Ardbert offered freedom from the choices and life she had been leading up to that point, but not the agency to explore what it all meant for her because there would be an obligation to be whoever they needed her to be. Her first love Jalshir was in the middle but they were both so young and so idealistic that it would have translated in disaster if Sib had managed to run away with him. So all in all Sib's type is someone that offers some kind of freedom and agency in her life.

It would be quite simple to say that Demos when it comes to females his type is "Ones who could easily kick his ass" but its a bit more than that. The women that he gravitates towards are ones that are self assured and have a connection or love for their home. Its the connection to home that really strikes a chord with him, as he's someone that was a mess of a person being so far from his, like he didn't feel like himself or that he would continue to be who he found himself to be there, while Sib had no idea who she was he was very sure only to start doubting it and having a hard time assimilating the new ideas of what that meant until the end of ShB. So women like Yugiri and Lyna really resonate with him even if he's not fully aware of it, and they vibe with his quiet listening and observation of the world around him.

When it comes to male partners he's drawn to those that are extroverted and hypemen to an extent. Demos is someone that just listens and observes so having a partner that will do nothing but talk for hours on end doesn't bother him, he finds it interesting and fun to see the world they weave and share. He's also drawn more to the artsy types because they seem to just understand each other better and are more accepting of his ways of communication that can at times be simply drawing a picture to express his thoughts and feelings. Like there's this kind of artistry that comes from people who have experienced the world and a multitude of people that just translates to this understanding that just works and hard to put into words.

They're drawn to the more gentle spirits of life. While a gentle spirit themselves its very comforting to find someone else that fits and understands that. The main ships I have for them is Hythlodaeus and aus with Hermes, both of whom also have different perspectives on the value of lives which can be placed on a scale of "Everything deserves to have a chance". Hyth with his inability to say no to concepts and Hermes in his determination to rule out all options before putting a creation down. It also has to do with their ways of not disregarding imperfect things, Anthea is so susceptible to creating things that aren't their creations even when making multiple of the same things is a lot like baking homemade cookies in that they're all cookies but they all are slightly different shapes have different ridges and chocolate placement, and both find this kind of value within them. Like these are people that see their insecurities in the day to day and gives Thea hope without even fully knowing it by having this more positive outlook on such things. Unfortunately though I will note that this is a curse along with a blessing because the timing is everything for Hermes and Thea to work out in a positive manner, if it doesn't work out the two will feed off one another's despair and it will become a never ending cycle.

To preface, Deimos is aroace so what his descriptions refer to are the platonic relationships in his life. This man though seeks people that will take the time to see him and only him. See growing up Deimos was a prodigy (until Menphina he was the youngest for many things) and it was discovered pretty quickly in his schooling and because of it was moved to higher grade levels where the only reason he stayed where he was, was because his parents didn't think it the best idea to have him be in classes without Hades there since there was that age gap. Because of this the two were always paired together and many teachers referred to the other as the other's cousin eliminating any individual identity, which while that is almost a norm this kind really would have stifled any talents, creativity, and drive to seek the positions they ended up in the two had that were valued in Ancient society. Outside of academics and society at large though no one really took the time to engage with Deimos because there was a misunderstanding of just what was happening, that Hades eventually understood because he answered every question that boy had and noticed that Deimos wasn't simply moving about or having his hands do something constantly because he was bored it was just a way for him to focus, because no matter the question thrown at him Deimos had an answer for it that was thoughtful and correct. Hyth was the same way in that he listened and engaged with Deimos ignoring the supposed "boredom" behaviors which led to the same conclusion. When he got older and looking for his own passion in life, Lahabrea was the one (future) mentor that didn't outright disregard the far fetched idea of a creation he presented and offered a quick critique of it before promptly leaving to some meeting or another an interaction that the man hardly remembers as Deimos was very much prone to just asking strangers just anything he felt they could have an opinion on and the old man was preoccupied with other things. Like despite all the relationships he has to people in a superficial sense the deeper ones really do involve those that right off the bat didn't lump him with Hades, seeing him as his own person, and listen to him and will respond in kind so he too can listen and have engaging discussions which leads to him opening up more.

Now this is kind of going a little into the different universe he originally came from but it's important that you know of his prior relationships. This man gravitates to people that are very decisive in life. People that have this wonderment for life and the world around them. People that take in moments and somehow manage to keep their head in the clouds. Because as much as he likes to put an air on that he's not like this at times he very much is and it does take being around people that are always like that and unashamed in it. People that encourage him out of his shell and also just see him for him and still love that about him. Now there's probably some questioning on well how does Themis fit into this? To which the answer is, in this universe Conner is the archetype that he gravitates to in other universes, whereas Themis is Conner. There are things that will always be true of Conner, but there's been no opportunity for him to be shamed or need to be hidden that put these walls up (no being a stranger in a strange land, no hiding because someone is trying to kill off your family line, no illicit deals to a mob boss so you're in debt to them, no being undercover in a place that detests your kind because that was the favor the mob boss cashed in) so he's able to be decisive, have his head in the clouds a bit more, and just be more open about his wonderment. And from everything that I've seen and my interpretation it seems like Themis very much has these same qualities but there is a wall there because of his duty. Themis is a man that found joy in the antics of Azem when it came to the whole saving an island because of some good grapes, a man that cheekily used his position of power to win one over Lahabrea, a man that took a chance on a supposed prophecy (the validity of which varies from Azem to Azem, my personal little guy was simply joking/being a little sarcastic so it was coincidence) and waited for the arrival of a falling star that may or may not have come. Like there are many hints of who he was outside of the title Elidibus and part of what makes it such a tragedy, and it was that person that Conner gravitated to. He saw beyond that title and mask, and sure the wall was thicker and harder to get through than Conner's in his og universe, but it was still there, it came through behind closed doors and those times when the uniformity of their society worked in their favor to be out in public. So like all in all, Conner gravitates to decisiveness, extroverted, wonderment, and a dreamer.

Stasia isn't one to have many relationships in her life both platonic and romantic/sexual, there's a danger to them and so its safer to just not have to deal with it at all. However! this doesn't stop them from happening and it is different in terms of gender. Females Stasia gravitates to those that hold anger, feel they've been wronged by the world in some way, and want to serve in some manner. Like her partner will always be equal to her but there's a trust that has to be earned first, so there's some servitude to be expected, but Stasia also loves a woman that can and wants to take care of herself and is ambitious. Even if they are not successful yet the fact that they are is what Stasia is after and will help them. This is what happened with Carly and why Carly is always her primary partner, though they do bump heads now and then which results in minor dramatics of break ups. In terms of men, Stasia gravitates the ones that talk (which is a bit of a broad definition), that let her do her own thing, but still have this tenderness about them and how they treat her especially in the night. In her original universe Stasia had two male love interests, the first of whom was the father of her child, and he was a man that respected her and treated her status as legitimate as the woman just made her own kingdom, but he liked to tell stories of his adventures and complimented her and listened to her when she did speak. It could never be more than a few times a year that he would visit as he was married and had his own duties to tend to, but it was the treatment of her that just spoke to her and what made him be her choice to have him be the one that fathered her child. Her second one was that of her creator that really gave her a lot of power but he, at first, took a lot of what she had to say into consideration and kept her as an equal from the start, man loved to talk and be dramatic in the same vein as Lestat from the movie version of Interview with the Vampire, so suffice it to say he didn't last long and really was mostly for sex. Now! for ffxiv this becomes Urianger that she kind of has a thing with but not really but yes they do. The two met though when handling the Void Ark and in some of the minor dealings Stasia had with the WoD, but most of their interactions happened in the Void Ark storyline. Now this is a man that is willing to try and look past initial impressions and which side a person is on, which works for Stasia and he manages to get some conversation out of her that comes easily to him because he hides it in his words and thoughtful responses. He also sees the benefit of her style of making choices and executing them, but he also cares for those around him and there were plenty of times he could have let her just die or be in pain and he opted not to do that and Stasia in her life hasn't really had anyone that chooses her and chooses to care what happens to her. Now this isn't to say that he forgives all her wrong doings or is in agreement of the choices she made/makes but he has an understanding and acknowledgment of when they can provide positive benefits. Like there's just this air about him that calls out to the parts of her that have been hurt and broken from the people in her life. And really at the end of the day that's what Stasia gravitates to, people that validate who she is and her beliefs but also have the ability to heal parts of herself that she will never acknowledge outside of very specific circumstances and choose to do so.

It is so easy to just say she loves evil people but its not that simple. Because the two love interests Carly has in ffxiv (one of whom is from the og universe) are not as simple. We can start with the fact that Carly does not want to ever feel powerless, she spent her entire childhood being powerless and abused, so she wants a gravitates to people that will either grant her power or not stifle her ambition to have more power. Stasia and Zenos both check this box. Stasia in that Carly was still pretty low in the ranks of the Garlean army when they met having just been passed up by Gaius as he chose Livia over her, so Stasia coming in and offering her a position of protection at the royal family level only to then find out what Stasia was capable of magic wise, and who she was working with, it was a no brainer. It was then the treatment of Stasia to Carly that just cemented her loyalty and love as Stasia never looked down at her, treated her like an equal, and stood up for her until she had the confidence to stand up against the Unsundered and their orders (she wasn't loyal to them what did it matter). Zenos fulfills this because he showed time and again he does not care to be around people that cannot hold their own both on and off the battlefield, he actively encourages her drive to gain power to achieve her goals, and he gave her more power because near anything he had and gained he shared it with her. The other thing that Carly gravitates for is validation for her past and present. Stasia always knew the anger and hatred carried for the world, but she never let it be something to hold that woman back, she justified how right she was for doing so without ever once asking just why she held such emotions. Zenos is the only person that ever actually got to see Carly in her "true" form (aka the body she had before becoming a dark knight and letting her esteem take over full time) and confirm that she really wasn't that person anymore, that there was strength for who she was but she is beyond that woman now and nothing else matters or exists. Like for someone that internally at times felt like she was still that girl that was so desperate to leave her mother she killed her and then kept finding more and more reasons why that young woman wasn't good enough, it was such a solidifier in her mindset to know that she was and will never be seen as that version ever again. Which I guess the short of it is Carly wants someone that will grant her power, give her the freedom to pursue what she wants, validate who she is and not judge her for it, and if you do all of that then congrats you have her undying and unwavering loyalty and love.

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uh so basically what's happening is im playing around with a long fic idea for a haurchefaunt lives AU wherein kerrich's conjury attempt to save haurchefaunt's life ends up soul bonding them by mixing their aether