#hythlodaeus rp

[ruinedbycatastrophe]

--and it is beautiful. always.

ind. sel. multimuse blogs featuring emet selch & hythlodaeus. adored by katie & ann.

[writtenxbeginnings]

"Mm, don't tell me, yet another hijinks gone wrong?" Hythlo smirled just slightly as he flipped pages in his book, not even bothering to look up. The question was - was it caused by the person standing by him, or was the person coming to discuss the real culprit?

[akirakirxaa]

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡.

Inspired by a very cute bsky RP interaction between Akira and @azems-familiar's Emet. :3 They kill me your honor.

[hythlodaeusofamaurot]

“This new world should belong to the lives newly born.”

|| Independent Shade Hythlodaeus from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Open to all types of RP

Can be in shade form or mortal form

Multiverse/Multiship Friendly

Mun and Muse 21+

DMs always open

Hythlodaeus Amaurot on Moogle, Hythlodaeus Shade on Halicarnassus

Canon Divergent

Up-to-date with MSQ; will contain spoilers! ||

About, Rules, Etc.

[lallafell]

i’m not very good at dialogue, but uhhhh hits you with angst beams

[styxisms]

There are two types of muses on this list. One is very slow activity and/or requires plotting to use. The other means I have to actually know you a little to rp with you on these muses. The bolded ones mean you have to know me a little bit to interact.

Ace Attorney

Miles Edgeworth

Phoenix Wright

Maya Fey

Dahlia Hawthorne

Alan Wake

Scratch

Barry Wheeler

Bioshock

Elizabeth

Booker Dewitt

Subject Delta

Code Geass

Lelouch vi Britannia

Suzaku Kururugi

Shirley Fenette

Kallen Kozuku

Danganronpa

Enoshima Junko

Maizono Sayaka

Komaeda Nagito

Hinata Hajime

Kamukura Izuru

Ouma Kokichi

Dead by Daylight

Talbot Grimes

Evan Macmillan

Kate Denson

Susie Lavoie

Max Thompson Jr.

Rin Yamaoka

Deltarune

Kris

Everymanhybrid

Evan

HABIT

Final Fantasy XIV

Thancred Waters

Finn Atoel

E'vett Tia

Ryne Waters

Elidibus

Z'jeht TIa

Zerah Aria

Fandaniel

Yotsuyu goe Brutus

Sidrugu Orl

Ysayle Dangoulain

Hythlodaeus

Zenos viator Galvus

Emet-Selch

Deryk

Final Fantasy XVI

Joshua Rosfield

Anabella Lesage

Barnabas Tharmr

Hotline Miami

Jacket

The Girl / Hooker

Corey

Ash

Alex

Life is Strange

Victoria Chase

Marble Hornets

Brian Thomas

Tim Wright

Persona 3

Mochizuki Ryoji

Iori Junpei

Yamagishi Fuuka

Koromaru

Yoshino Chidori

Sakaki Takaya

Persona 5

Sakura Futaba

Okumura Haru

Takamaki Ann

Morgana

Yoshizawa Sumire

Nijima Sae

Takematsu Hitomi (oc)

Yoshizawa Kasumi (AU)

Re:Zero

Julius Euclius

Shaula

Satella

Capella Emerada Lugunica

Echidna

Rem

Roswaal L Mathers

Rui Arneb

Steins;Gate

Okabe Rintarou

Shiina Mayuri

Vinland Saga

Gudrid Karlsefni

[the-unending-journey]

This is more for those on mobile + my tags

About

Character profiles

Kiyo - here and here

RP (non-WoL) Kiyo - Drifting Blossom

Supporting OC's (+another Kiyo) - here

WoLships

Leofard - free as birds

Oboro - moonflower

Sidurgu - merciful obsidian

Haurchefant - the warmth in our hearts

Aymeric - once upon a dream

Ardbert - souls intertwined

Erichthonios - amarantos

Hythlodaeus - like sunlight

Tags

FFXIV - just a catchall for anything FFXIV that's not art

FFXIV Art - catchall for any XIV art (npc's, places, OC's, etc...)

FFXIV Housing - anything showcasing housing stuff

RP Venues - spots for roleplaying

Non-FFXIV - anything that really doesn't pertain specifically to the game

Resources - good information, FFXIV related or not

Other's Screens - screenshots by other people

Other's Gifs - gifs by other people

Other's Videos - videos by other people

Other's OC's - characters that belong to other people

Other's Wolships - wolships involving other people's characters

Personal Tags

My Screens - screens I've made

My Videos - videos I've made

Ask Game - any ask games I might play

>> Nancy finish the msq - tag specifically so my girlfriend doesn't get spoiled since she's slowly making her way through the game <<

Lore: Character - anything dealing with an OC's self (personality and such)

Lore: Family - anything dealing with my WoL's family ties

Lore: Home - anything showcasing my WoL's home (or homes)

Lore: Allies - anything dealing with my WoL's allies

Lore: Loves - anything pertaining to my WoL's ships

I also have various other tags that would be too many to link to

Travel Log: (insert place name) - just anything that focuses on the various places in FFXIV

Events: (insert event name) - anything to do with the in-game events that happen

OC Inspo: (insert OC name) - non-FFXIV things that inspire character stuff in me

OC Aesthetic: (insert OC name) - non-FFXIV aesthetics tied to my OC's

OC: (insert OC name) - any tags that pertain to whatever OC they're for

[sunderedoldfriends]

welcome, my new old friends.

this is an independent rp blog for a couple of Final Fantasy XIV muses, including Hythlodaeus and Haurchefant. oc and crossover friendly. minors and personals don't interact.

info. muses. starter call.

you can also find me here: Joshua Rosfield.

[doomednarrative]

My bestie @catgirladjacent tagged me in a little "20 questions for fic writers" ask game so :3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

12 currently

2. What is your AO3 wordcount?

29,178. I mostly write one shots lol

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently I have on my ao3 published fics for FFXIV, Pathologic, Resident Evil, Borderlands and Gotham Rogues. I don't really actively write for any of those except FFXIV and Resident Evil these days however, along with various Kamen Rider shows and some BG3 stuff.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

God this is gonna make me cringe cause it's all older stuff I don't like as much anymore lol except for the RE ones

Help Me, Heal Me - 191 kudos

I Think She Knew Everything You Are - 196 kudos (nice)

He Always Held Him When He Cried - 98 kudos

No Sleep - 93 kudos

You Are Yourself - 77 kudos

5. Do you respond to comments?

Usually yeah. I rarely get them so it's nice to see when people do actually leave them

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Surprisingly as much as I Love writing angst, none of my published fics actually really end on an angsty note. The closest would have to be "Doing Your Best (And Still Failing)" because it was written about my WoL A'cera after losing his first fight with Zenos during Stormblood, so it's a bunch of his raw emotions from the encounter.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably "Just Exhale", which is my personal take on the end of the MSQ for Endwalker with my WoL Alyx after they land back in the Ragnarok following the encounter with Meteion.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope, never have

9. Do you write smut? If so, which kind?

Only in my rp's with Tibby lol, or Occasionally something that won't ever get published that's just for myself. Usually it's oc/canon stuff that's just self indulgent for the sake of it ~

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest crossover you’ve ever written?

No lol it takes a Lot for me to enjoy crossovers unless it concerns toku stuff since those actually happen in canon

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Hmm sort of? I hash out ideas with friends sometimes but I do all the actual writing for anything I publish myself

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

If we wanna go solely by what I've actually Published? Hades/Hythlodaeus/Azem or Wol, I really like writing my personally FFXIV stuff when I'm in the mood. If we wanna go off of unfinished wips by number tho? Hoffstrahm and Chreon by a fuckin mile, those two fucked my brain up for long spans of time

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

There's a few honestly:

"Kiss me baby with your hapsburg lip," one of my many Hoffstrahm wips in my au verse shared with Tibby about Peter having to sew up Mark's face after the bear trap incident, only in this au it's much more comedy than horror

I have at least 5 different Hellhopper fics in my drafts, I would like to finish ONE of them at least someday

My fuckin multichapter Hotline Miami BikerJacket fic aughhh. I havent given up hope with it for how much of it I actually do have plotted out but god it'd take so long to write

I have a whole little various connected one shot series I was working on as a fix it series to the OOO 10th vcine, would love to finish them but I would have to rewatch OOO to pick the character voice back up for it

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, it's the thing everyone always points out to me that they enjoy in my writing and it's usually always the starting point for my fics

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Prose lol. I struggle so hard sometimes with connecting scenes and describing whats happening when people aren't actively speaking. I've gotten better at it but it took a lot of conscious effort to learn it

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I rarely do it, most things I write are in my native language media already, but whenever I do it I usually just italicize it, write it in English and make mention of the language switch in the paragraph somewhere so the reader knows it's happened

19. First fandom you wrote for?

DRAGON BALL Z BABEYYY I'm not ashamed of that I still love DBZ so much. I was so shameless and wrote my own oc to be Vegeta's cousin in one of my first fics and I had fun doing it. They've long since been deleted, not because I Wanted to do so but for other reasons I don't feel like going into rn.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

"Help Me, Heal Me" by far out of my published ones. It's my most solid out of them and I feel like I really nailed Chris and Leon's dynamic well in it, it's the one I'm most proud of ~

Hrmm let's see, I think I'll tag @silenthillmutual, @lunar-gl1tch, @skajador @adrianicsea and @stickers-on-a-laptop for this one ~

[thefreelanceangel]

Top 5 Relationships (romantic, familial, canon, HC, whatever!)

...oh you would do this to me, you wench.

-stares at the wall- Ugh, does this mean RP relationships??? Canon ones? What we see in game??

!(*%^&!(%*!*$!%&$)!*%(

(1) Dulia-Chai & Chai-Nuzz

Do I really have to explain why I love them? No? I will anyway.

I love love love seeing a happy, healthy marriage in media. Especially when they could've been treated like the typical sitcom marriage of "miserable man run roughshod by his overbearing wife." Nope! Dulia believes in her husband wholeheartedly, supports him, pushes him to succeed when his anxieties threaten to lock him up in place. Chai-Nuzz clearly adores her, lets her push him when he needs it, and looks to her for support and confidence. They're happy together, they're good to each other, and they accept each other, not blindly, but with an awareness of each other's faults that is accepting and loving and supportive.

(2) Feo Ul & the Warrior of Light

Yes, the WoL gets manipulated by the little lunatic. Yes, Feo Ul had how many layers of Plans™ prepared to yank into action at a moment's notice. Yes, we have to suck up like crazy when we need their help.

And I absolutely love it. I love that they're fascinated by mortals, that they appreciate the beauty of a brief, brilliant life. It charms me to hear them call the Warrior of Light "our sapling" while scolding the WoL for being so neglectful. They're charming and funny and demented and I just love it.

(3) Hades & Hythlodaeus (& Azem)

We don't get much of this (not nearly enough) and a lot of what we do get is subtext, a short story by SE, and what little encounters we have with the two Ancients in Endwalker.

And honestly, I can see why Hades would spend aeons mourning the love he lost after that. Having not one but two people who know you so deeply, who can tease you out of a bad mood when you don't necessarily want to be happy but oh well, they're there now, and then losing them? One to what he felt was his highest duty and the other to a disagreement that spiraled into losing them forever?

I'd be mourning that for the rest of my days, too.

(4) Annalei & Seifer d'Latu

Well, the ask doesn't say it can't be RP characters!

They're terrible, and I love them. They're absolutely atrocious people with basically no redeeming qualities, and I love them. They've fought each other tooth and nail for years, have killed each other's lovers, refused to admit how they felt, competed with each other in basically everything, fought back to back, side by side, and with each other all with equal fervor.

Anna is a psychopathic bitch and Seifer is a manipulative, sadistic jackass. They're horrible apart, worse together, and would bring on another Calamity for each other without hesitation. Neither would leave the other behind, even while teasing (in Seifer's case) or complaining (in Anna's) about having to help the other.

I find them endlessly inspiring, fascinating, and a little terrifying.

(5) Thancred Waters & Urianger Augurelt

...they're married, I'm sorry, I can't be persuaded otherwise.

And not even necessarily in a romantic sense (although I'd 100% believe it) but in that they are life partners and friends and support each other, tease each other, have worked together enough to know how to offset each other's weaknesses. It doesn't surprise me at all that they're always pairing up to go adventure.

Wouldn't you choose someone who knew you almost better than you know yourself to be your support, protection, and companionship on an adventure?

(Also c'mon, they're Ryne's dads! IT'S SO OBVIOUS. THEY'RE SO MARRIED.)

[eorzea80]

"Skies one could drown in..." IRL Pryne update. Dad got out of the hospital about a week ago...and went back nearly immediately because he kept falling. Between the ambulance call, getting him admitted, bringing his gear to the hospital, and checking in with his care team, we spent about 20-ish hours awake. If I hadn't woken up for my customary "biphasic sleep" cycle, I wouldn't have gotten the call from my Mom that something was really wrong. He's just...so depleted. He's not eating or sleeping enough to sustain, so they're keeping him there to monitor his habits and try and coax him back to something approaching "normal." The thought that is if we can get him regulated enough to fix his low blood pressure, low blood sugar, dehydration, that his behavioral struggles might finally abate. And what do I do when I have lots of idle time in a high-stress situation? ESCAPE "TO A DREAM WORLD OF MAGIC." - The Lonely Island. Speaking of a "lonely island," this time I was "Walkin' in [Elpis]," as I continually hummed to myself every time I equipped my Sophist's Robe glam. I finally got to meet Mommy Venat and Papa Emet-Selch and your pretty Uncle Hythlodaeus who works on Broadway and can't make it to the family reunion [true story]. Your favorite Cousin Hermes is all grown up and really cute, but you're not going to say that out loud to anyone because it seems like he's got enough on his plate without you embarrassing him. Meteion is the new baby of the family that your aunts and uncles insist you babysit because it's "good training" or some horsesh*t, but you don't mind that much because she's pretty entertaining for a little kid. This is all to say I'm having a really good time in Elpis, in spite of the well known foreboding vibes. I am, however, feeling a little stuck. I'm at 90 with my "DragOOOoooOOn" (sung to the tune of the old Yahoo theme), but my Bard and Machinist are just...not there yet. I'd hate to continue the MSQ and dump all that EXP into the toilet, but it might take a few days to catch up on my other jobs. None of this matters, because Venat just keeps kicking my butt like I poured Kool-Aid all over her brand-new kitchen tablecloth [true story]. This game and this blog have been an outlet. The relative anonymity and sense of kinship with the FFXIV community, although seemingly at cross purposes with each other, have been a huge help. The complexity and stigma surrounding my Dad's condition makes it hard to share with IRL support systems; to wit, I'm not sure anyone from my extended family knows. To be able to write about it here, RP in game, or just escape the situation for a few hours by watching cutscenes; it's really appreciated. Now...*sharp intake of breath*...time to grind because I DEFINITELY spent 250K Gil making a Southern Seas shirt to live my Best Jimmy Buffett Life (RIP).

[writtenxbeginnings]

"So you want to leave already to go work?" Hythlodaeus wasn't really surprised, that's who Hades was. That's how Emet was, and he had come to understand, and even respect the other's work ethic. He took it all serious, but Hythlo... their life was infinite, their time in their positions merely a stepping stone, and he wanted to enjoy it as much as he could. The lavender-haired man gave a small sigh and pushed himself to his feat with practiced ease and grace. "Alright, as you wish. Lead the way, and I shall accompany you while you work. It is better than being alone, I suppose."

The man rolled his eyes, staring at the other with golden hues. Hythlodaeus was always bordering on the line between. At least he kept him on his toes. And even that was exhausting. "Be that as it may," He replies, still having a frown on his face but it doesn't meet his eyes. There is a small part of him that enjoys Hythlodaeus company. Even Venat's. "We have work to do. Reports to finish."

[writtenxbeginnings]

general info

Name:  Hythlodaeus Nickname: Hyth, Hythlo, Dae Gender: Male (He/Him) Race: Ancients Age: Unknown

appearance

time period

Main story is going to be compliant with everything we know about the Ancients, up through the main story of Endwalker. However, who I am responding to will affect what part of the story it is. If it’s one of the other Ancients, it could be in the past from their time period, but it’s the WOL or any of the companions, it’ll obviously be in the main time line.

verses

Main - Everything that we have learned about the ancients is true. Hythlodaeus remembers it all, remembers watching as the world was destroyed, torn asunder and recreated from the scraps of the past. Seeing the Warrior of Light working on fixing their mess? Well, it showed him maybe things are going to be okay anyway. Now if he could just find Emet and Venat.

[akirakirxaa]

So I've been bullied by some friends to make a Hythlodaeus Bluesky to play barbies with them. It's just a lighthearted silly "what if they had socmed" kinda thing but if you wanna come watch the insanity RPing go down, feel free to pop over. :3

[sword-and-lance]

((I did threaten to inflict this Lahaship OC on people and It Is Time :D

and tbqh y’all can also blame my good friend Amba (as in the player) for this one, because this is technically kinda her OC by proxy (the original ship was a wild-ass crossover RP thread thing lmao, she just gave me permission to run with it in public with an XIV-ization of it)

SO, ABOUT NEREUS

ignore the white mask I can’t be assed to Crime that off lol

He technically grew up in an Ancient settlement by the sea and proved to have a really whopping big aptitude for not only water magic but also for healing magic, which his (healer) parents were very thrilled about

He was also rather pretty and maybe a bit vain about that, and spends a fair bit of time on it, despite Ancient society being all for conformity and the like, rather than sticking out

Eventually he got scouted for a seat in the Convocation as a young adult, specifically for the seat of Emmerololth

Mitron was…not pleased at the notion of bringing in someone so good at water magic too, and for a bit there was kinda paranoid that Nereus was there to eventually take his job, and while he eventually snapped outta that, he’s always been a bit abrasive to Nereus-as-Emmerololth because of it (and Nereus hasn’t ever been fond of him, either, in turn)

Nereus struck up a friendship with Apollo/Hythlodaeus that became very close, if just because they have the exact same sense of humor pretty much

(Yes I have “Hythlodaeus” as being another title, because I can, shh)

He proved to be very good at his job, and his honesty and solid sense of what was right for the star and its people meant he rapidly fit in well with the Fourteen

…He was also capable of being a bit fussy and dramatic, and a bit more into indulging himself in various things than was entirely “proper”, especially for someone of the Convocation

Still though man’s good as hell at healing and gets along decently well with most people, so they could kinda…overlook that flaw in favor of his skills and good working relationships with other people

(That said, Mitron was never entirely fond of him and Pashtarot looked down on his propensity for indulgence, because in her eyes it was an affront to the discipline and order her seat embodied)

He actually took his seat slightly before Hephaistos did, and at first wasn’t sure what to make of the man, other than he was very uptight and needed to loosen up

Not that he had any way of knowing that the Speaker’s seat was one of THE most stressful ones to have, though, since the prior one had basically been unflappable even in the worst of situations; he mostly just chalked the new Lahabrea’s attitude up to Hephaistos being very...Type A, personality-wise

Aaaaaand then he saw the new Lahabrea getting scrutinized way harder than even he had been outside of maybe Mitron/Pashtarot and was. Confused about that. And kinda concerned, but all he could really do was try to keep the worst of the heat off of him by way of interjecting himself into the fray whenever the interrogations and shit got out of hand

Later on he did realize that they were mostly scrutinizing him so hard because the man was utterly and ridiculously powerful; Ancient society was very incredibly worried about those kinds of people doing a huge amount of evil too fast to be easily stopped, and while Nereus didn’t at all agree with his society’s/the Fourteen’s approach, he could at least understand the concerns.

(He had been subjected to some of it, himself, though the fact that there was too much Nereus in the way for him to do that kind of thing earned him more leeway than Hephaistos ever got–in addition, Hephaistos was a lot more blunt and prickly to everyone and had little in the way of social skills after spending so much of his life doing damn near nothing but academia, and that did not help)

(Yes Ancients do their best to be impartial but they’re still people in the end)

He did his best to get along with Lahabrea and kept offering to help, but Lahabrea was admittedly suspicious as hell of his intentions for a while before he realized that no Nereus was actually pretty serious about wanting to help him

Even then though Lahabrea still had a good deal of pride and was all no I don’t need that I can handle myself and Nereus obliged and dropped it, because you can’t help someone who doesn’t want it and also he wanted to keep a good working relationship with the man, and pushing it was a one-way ticket to earning Lahabrea’s resentment

Didn’t stop him from keeping a leash on the others when they got too hard on him, though

His department, the Nosokomeio, had a fairly tight-knit relationship with Lahabrea’s, of course (what with creation magic and the study thereof being quite dangerous even on a good day), and in turn it meant he and Lahabrea were commonly collaborating on reports and the like

He also worked a lot with Emet-Selch courtesy of the whole Underworld thing (I mean if you can’t successfully heal people that’s where they go), though he was never close to him like he was Apollo/Hythlodaeus

(He was also, tbh, kinda jealous of the two of them because he never could really keep a relationship going for too long--people thought he was a bit too much just in general, if a relationship even "clicked" at all in the first place, and he kinda recognized that and found it depressing)

He was mostly just very lonely at the time especially with Lahabrea also falling in love with Athena around this time and having a son with her; it kinda felt like he was being defined entirely by his work and not for who he was, and even if societal expectation was that he should be fine with that he kiiiiinda couldn’t help but feel lonely anyway

Apollo/Hyth did his best to keep him from getting too weird about it, at least, and while Nereus did attempt to date around he mostly just found that it didn't work and just stopped trying after a bit, even if he did kinda screw around a bit (given that Ancients were less uhhhh uptight about that sort of thing in my headcanon)

He didn’t fail to notice through all of that, though, that there was a nasty uptick in Incidents at the Words of Lahabrea after a few years of Athena being there; especially when Pandaemonium was built, it started to look like there were more and nastier escapees and attacks, and even the Words’ concept-catcher division was getting more strained and more overwhelmed and understaffed as people either burnt out emotionally or physically (or both)

He did think it was weird but frankly he was too busy to investigate it himself, what with having more and more people to heal and research how to fix, and left that investigation to other people

Then he got called in to Pandaemonium personally after Athena had “gotten killed right in front of Lahabrea” and ofc he couldn’t do anything about that by then, and he had to go tell Lahabrea himself because he was not going to let the poor man hear that bad news secondhand

Lahabrea’s reaction was…very weird and blunted, and while he initially chalked it up to being in shock and was actually kind of right about that, it really wasn’t for the reasons he thought it was

He still kept an eye on him afterwards and was actually one of the first people to raise concerns that he was really not doing right by Erichthonios, though ofc Lahabrea was just…way too traumatized and refused to deal with it much to everyone’s frustration but especially Nereus’

So yeah he saw that this was a giant mess even if he had the courtesy to not drag it out into the limelight for everyone to fucking gawk at (and didn't know the real cause of it at the time)

In fact he was instrumental in suggesting Hesperos for Pandaemonium-work; he had initially applied to the Nosokomeio, but Nereus thought him better suited to research work (which turns out that was 100% correct), and also thought that having someone that genuinely caring and nice at Pandaemonium would do Erich some good, though ofc he didn’t say that to anyone except maybe Apollo

By this point he had become quite familiar with Artemis (as in Ancient!Amba) and also Nemesis, courtesy of being besties with Apollo (her brother), and while Lahabrea’s department got to Nemesis first just a few years after Nereus took his position, Nereus had finally realized just how stupid-powerful Artemis was, after she had worked in his department for so long, and started training her to take over his position

(He did love his job yes but he was getting tired and also realized that Artemis actually deadass outclassed him in healing ability and was therefore just the natural choice to take over the seat–and also she was just generally A Good Bean if a really scary one sometimes lol)

Curiously though it was Lahabrea who insisted that he at least hang around in an advisory capacity for Artemis, and Nereus conceded even after handing her the mask, in part because he was getting rather attached to the man at this point

(And the man was getting rather attached to him and was just too emotionally constipated to realize it :P)

They basically slowburned their way into a relationship over quite a bit of time and it was all rather confusing for a while for both of them but Lahabrea most of all, considering the Everything going on in his head

Artemis was also 100% aware of this but just kinda ran with it because it both wasn't her business and also was adorable

(Nemesis was of the opinion that they should JUST FUCK ALREADY but had the sense to keep that thought to herself)

They did eventually fall in love and everything with each other though and it was Good--Lahabrea actually appreciates Nereus' straightforwardness and honesty and a lot of Nereus' excesses are tempered by, well, having Lahabrea, and they're both still nerds but not to the excessively toxic extent it was with Athena

Which he actually does learn what Lahabrea did, eventually, and is majorly horrified for Lahabrea and it suddenly clicks in his head why the man is like that, and he automatically just agrees to keep it a secret and is actually able to help him start working through Some Stuff, just one little bit at a time

(His main expertise might be healing the body but he isn't completely oblivious on how to help the mind, either, at least as long as the person involved wants to be helped!)

Erichthonios is always a bit standoffish at him but actually does realize that this is generally a good thing, and especially after learning what happened basically rolls with that relationship, though he never does consider Nereus his dad yet (because shit is Complicated even after all of that)

…Then the Final Days hits and Shenanigans Occurs (what shenanigans I haven’t entirely figured out yet, probably gonna wait for the third raid tier to actually make a full decision on it)

Nereus’ soul actually manages to escape the Sundering in the same way that Artemis/Amba’s did (namely: REASONS~), but unlike Artemis who just reincarnated into Amba, his spirit actually found his way into the bottom of a lake and just. Aetherially made himself a body out of it

Coincidentally the lake wound up being deep in the Black Shroud and Amba’s family settled around it and treated him as an elemental, which…KINDA, I GUESS

He was basically just hella depressed at that point though and didn’t speak much to other people and didn’t even recognize Amba as Artemis or Brannon as Apollo, by the time they came back into the world

(Or he didn’t recognize them yet :) )

He was also entirely unaware of Lahabrea being Like That in the outside world at that point until the man actually fucking died again, at which point (being basically an aetherial construct with a soul in it) he felt that and realized that oh fuck that’s where he went isn't it

He then spends basically all of ARR through EW trying to fish his husband's soul back out and actually succeeds around the end of 6.0 

Because yeah actually I kinda wanna dick about with that for a Dae plot at some point assuming that the third raid tier doesn’t totally fuck over my ideas here))

[soulseerheart]

Independent. Highly Selective. Multiship/Multiverse. Private Roleplay blog for Hythlodaeus from FFXIV. This blog will run off of both canon and a lot of headcanons. All headcanons are shared with SHANELLE, KEITH, CRESS, THE CURATOR, and SHAE. Anything of mine you see posted by them, WAS NOT STOLEN. They have explicit permission to use anything I make whether it be GRAPHICS, HEADCANONS, or ANYTHING ELSE that falls under such matters. If you see @rosedreamdesigns that is Shan and I's graphic design blog.

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I am private. I may follow, I may not. no offense to anyone.

Don’t try to push ships on me.

I don't have the best vision, so I would ask that if you use icons smaller than 70x70 to refrain from using them in replies with me. It strains my eyes to try to see them.

Don’t think whatever my muse says to yours is how I feel. muse =/= mun.

Crossover fandoms are acceptable so long as I know the fandom.

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My Hythlo has a lot of lore I have been building up for him over the past two-three years. Please respect my headcanons and portrayal of him and if you don't like it, just kindly unfollow and move on. I'm just here to have a good time.

Please see this post for a TLDR of ffxiv lore I've come up with. This post might be updated regularly.