#hythwolemet

[akirakirxaa]

Au Ra August Day 1 - New Dawn

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑛 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒

[suwisuwii]

OT3 sketch commission for @vrdnblaze

[cynthffxiv]

FFXIVWrite 2024 Day 24 — Bar

CW for Alcohol and drunkenness; takes place post-Endwalker in my AU

Cynthia and Hythlodaeus sit at a bar, talking about the Ancient world versus the Sundered world.

“By the way, why do you drink those anyway?” She nods at the mixed drink in front of Hythlodaeus as she pours herself more wine, re-corking the bottle when she’s done. “They’re a lot more expensive.”

“They may be more expensive,” he says, picking up the light blue drink and taking a sip, “but they taste quite a bit better, in my opinion.”

She stares at the drink, worrying her lip between her teeth.

The idea of drinking something she can’t guarantee is safe reminds her of two days she really, really does not wish to repeat.

But if Hythlodaeus has already had half of it…

“Do you mind if I have a sip?”

When Hades hears a ridiculous amount of giggles as his partners return home, his brow furrows in confusion. Walking to the entranceway, he sees Hythlodaeus supporting a very, very drunk Cynthia as she tries to remove her shoes without falling over. The two of them have their hair down, and they keep having to push their hair out of their faces to see anything.

“… What did you do?”

They look up at him, and Cynthia smiles even wider.

“Hades! Hi!” She stumbles over to him before wrapping her arms around his neck. “I tried new drinks.”

She’s barely able to keep her balance as she nuzzles up against him, and Hythlodaeus laughs at the sight.

“Hythlodaeus.”

“Ah, well…” he starts, but his face is fairly flushed as well, and he seems to be having trouble putting the words together. “She seemed to have an interest in the types of drinks I prefer, and we may have gotten a bit carried away.”

“What happened to your hair?” Hades asks, shifting his weight to better hold Cynthia as she leans on him entirely.

Hythlodaeus opens his mouth to respond, and then closes it. “… I don’t remember.”

“The drunk girls in the bathroom needed hair ties.” Cynthia mumbles against Hades’ shoulder. “They were cute, so I just gave them ours.”

As Hythlodaeus falls into another fit of giggles at the memory, Hades just sighs, rubbing his temples with his free hand.

[akirakirxaa]

I have three ships, each for a different universe. The first, for canon, is Akira x G'raha. They met the way they met in canon, at the tower, and they officially got together after returning to the Crystarium after defeating Hades. G'raha is the kind of person she really needs, someone that is determined to convince her that she's a better person than she believes. They are very good at mutual support, but Akira often becomes overprotective and though it can be frustrating, G'raha understands why and makes sure not to make her feel bad for it.

(My two AU ships under the cut)

Then I have Akira x Haurchefant, for my Haurchefant Lives AU. Haurch, instead of dying, became injured during the Vault severely enough that he had to retire from knighthood early. Shortly after, while he was recovering, Akira confronted him intending to admonish him for taking such a risk, only to end up admitting her feelings for him. He's her biggest supporter always, and it's not long after they begin to date that they move in together, and not long after that that they get married. When she wound up pregnant, Haurch easily moved into a 'stay at home dad' role.

And my current favorite and most self indulgent ship, HythWolEmet, which I am sadly lacking a tumblr-safe pic of all three together. This exists in my Hyth and Hades Stay after EW universe (which still needs a more succinct name). They are basically three extremely traumatized people trying to figure out how to be normal again. (Well, as normal as two ancients and the warrior of light are ever going to be.) They got together a little while after returning from EW; Akira got together with Emet during ShB (up until she had to kill him anyways), but in an 'enemies with benefits' type of situation. What they have now is much more openly emotionally attached, and Hythlodaeus is happy to encourage it. And since this one is complicated and lacking one of all three, here's a collection of favorites for each segment.

WoL/OC Question(s)!

This one goes out to the WoLshippers! Who do you ship your WoL/OC with? An NPC or another WoL/OC? How did they meet, and how long have they been together? What kind of relationship do they have?

Show me your favorite SFW gpose/art of them together!

[azems-familiar]

🥤🐇🦷🍅 for the writer ask? :O

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

i'll do ffxiv for this since that's the fandom we share. this is a pretty popular emetraha fic but i'm obsessed with how it's written. i also have to, obviously, highlight @thewitchofelpis for their DELIGHTFUL hythazemet and hythwolemet!

🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both? 

i know reader inserts are all the rage for some people (and i respect that) but i hate reading them and i will never write them, lol. ocs on the other hand....sometimes i wish the oc printer in my brain would turn off. what am i supposed to do with all these guys. they're not even paying rent.

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

so this isn't a trick i use anymore, because i've mostly outgrown the need for it, but when i was a new writer doing nanowrimo for the first time (an event which focuses on word count/quantity over quality/get the novel written so you can edit it later) (as a side note i no longer endorse them given everything that's happened but the event was an important part of my life for multiple years so there's that), something i really struggled with was constantly writing and erasing things. some advice i was given was if i found a sentence or a paragraph or a scene or whatever didn't work, instead of deleting it, turn the text red (or another color), leave it there, and move on. you could probably also cut it out and stick it on another doc, if you preferred doing that. but that let me write without fear of deleting everything, or fear of fucking it up, because i had that stress-free option, and sometimes i could come back to those bits and pieces and use them for something else. even if i didn't, those were still words i wrote to be proud of and worth keeping around because i wrote them!

🍅 ⇢ give yourself some constructive criticism on your own writing

i'm not going to answer this one, and here's why: i struggle deeply with self-image and one of my worst issues that i'm constantly working on is my own tendency to consider everything i write bad, to not see the positive elements in it, and to need to be talked out of erasing whole swathes of story when i'm not happy with them. (you see why the above tip was helpful for me when i was younger.) while concrit is an incredibly useful thing, it's something i only personally engage in in specific mindsets, and the constant critical urge is something i'm attempting to train out of myself - and so since i already read my own writing through a heavily critical lens, this is something i'm not going to encourage in myself further!

[pancakesprince]

hades cant ever relax around hythlodaeus and dionyasus

[akirakirxaa]

I have more than one ship for Akira, depending on universe, so I have ship cuddles!

For my Haurch Lives AU, Ishgard is great for cuddles

Then good ol canon with Raha with some warm weather snuggles

Hythazemet (the one with just Azem and Emet being in my Stardew Valley crossover universe)

Solus x Empress with my OC Valeria, a former incarnation of my WoL

Hyth and Hades Stay AU (I wish I could show their snuggle pile but it's NSFT)

I currently have the kind of tired only a month of sleep will fix, but I only have two days left of this hell. (If this is how Aymeric feels all the time, that man needs like 50 vacations and a nice mug of tea)

So, in the meantime I am asking for pics of your WoL/OCs looking cozy. Just all bundled up n' content. Bonus points if they're having a good snooze or a cup of something warm. Extra bonus points for ship content. <3

I'll reblog 'em once I get home on Sunday!

[akirakirxaa]

Akira, unable to sleep laying down but also unable to hold herself upright for long periods thanks to her injuries, petitioned Hades for help. Hades, unable to tell her no after everything she'd been through - that he'd put her through -, obliged. Hythlodaeus, returning home from a fitting session with Tataru (who would not take no for an answer on making them suitable clothes to fit in with the sundered world), joined in the cuddle pile on the bench. Despite being propped against a hard wall, legs and arms slowly falling asleep from the weight of his loves, Hades had not slept so well in centuries.

Bonus End page

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 21: Picture Perfect

[continued from Day 20: Dance]

"You really care about them a lot." It wasn't a question, and Hades knew the Third Promise was the same variety of infuriatingly intuitive as Hythlodaeus. When he didn't respond, she went on.

"Akira told me that there was a time that Hythlodaeus was in trouble, and you did some...extreme things to save him," she pressed. Hades' jaw clenched; here it comes, she had found out what he really was and he would have to leave or else cause more problems for-

"I think I understand," Wuk Lamat's next words took Hades by surprise. "If something were to happen to Papa or Koana or even Zoraal Ja, as much as he's tried to distance himself from us...I would do anything for them."

Hades fought the knee jerk reaction that demanded he snarl that she knew nothing of his suffering. It wasn't fair to her; Wuk Lamat was barely an adult, and she knew nothing of his true past. She was only trying to be kind.

He thought that if Persephone had gotten to meet her, they would have gotten along famously.

He had to push the thought down, lest he make more a fool of himself.

"I pray that you never find out what you'd be willing to do," Hades settled on.

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 17: Multicultural

In which Hythlodaeus bullies his beloveds into trying out the local fashion.

[akirakirxaa]

POV: You're an NPC a few weeks after the Final Days were ended. You spy the Warrior of Light while going about your business.

She seems to be on the mend and in good spirits. You think to yourself that you should ask her to do a mundane task for you.

But you won't.

[Yes this was inspired by that picture of the cheetah with her cubs and the poster going "I want to cuddle them *zoom in on mama cheetah death glare* but I won't".]

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 22: Map

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡, ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙

[akirakirxaa]

[Hyth and Hades Stay AU] Hyth went exploring Thavnair and was quite taken with the fashion there. So much so that he brought home a matching set for Hades.

Akira, somewhere off screen:

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 5: Safe Harbor

Akira's heart was stricken by all the people, young and old, that now just...did not exist. Hades was disgusted by how Alexandria had interfered with the cycle of death. And Hythlodaeus was unsettled by the callous use of souls as if they were potions.

Luckily they had each other to lean on.

[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.

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 4: Feast

They should wait until Hades returned with dinner.

But Hythlodaeus didn't particularly feel like being patient.