#liscanon

[penthepoet]

we gladly feast on those who would subdue us

( lycoris hoard comm by @marudyne! thank you so dearly for rendering this hungry pack of monsters! )

[ffxvficrec]

by penthepoet Ignis Scientia and G'raha Tia have a chat that spirals out of control. (or, an exploration on hunger, and martyrdom, and being unfit for the world around you, or: a character study of Liscanon's Ignis Scientia) Title from the Modest Mouse song. Words: 1964, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 5 of Dragoon's Reverie [Liscanon] Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV , Final Fantasy XIV Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Ignis Scientia , G'raha Tia | Crystal Exarch Relationships: Ignis Scientia & Noctis Lucis Caelum , unintended unrequited ignoct if you squint , Ignis Scientia & G'raha Tia | Crystal Exarch , G'raha Tia | Crystal Exarch/Warrior of Light Additional Tags: Character Study , Surreal , Episode Ignis Spoilers , Unhinged Crystal Exarch , autistic Ignis Scientia , Codependency , in which two would-be martyrs talk about their circumstances , Patch 5.0: Shadowbringers Spoilers (Final Fantasy XIV) , Mentioned Warrior of Light (Final Fantasy XIV) , Mentioned Noctis Lucis Caelum , Mentioned Gladiolus Amicitia , G'raha/WoL is unrequited , I love that catboy but he is exquisitely messy in this fic , Ignis Scientia Has An Existential Crisis , takes place near the end of EW

[jeffdavila]

@aerolatino @aerolatinotori #amongfriends @liscanonancy @andreapawsey #brixton #uk #nearneighbours #soades

[penthepoet]

at long last, Dawntrail-era Lis/Gladio and Shadowbringers-era Lis/Ardyn, rendered in loving detail by @yukianesa.bsky.social <3

thank you so dearly for bringing these pairings to life!!! I am so blown away by how utterly beautiful these commissions are and how splendidly they turned out!

[penthepoet]

one soul in four bodies —

( commission of the Lycoris Hoard [WoL/Lis, Ardyn, Emet-Selch and Gladio] by @angstyastro ! thank you so so so dearly for bringing this wretched quartet to life! )

[penthepoet]

the one big canon divergence in the XVI/XIV crossover questline in Liscanon

Whenever I want to laugh, I think about the very specific big canon-divergence in the XVI/XIV quest in Liscanon.

Instead of taking Clive on an airship, Lis called up Noctis on the tomestone and asked him to bring around the Regalia because they were going on a road trip with "a new friend".

Noctis pulled up in the Regalia with Ysayle and Prompto, with Lis choosing to sit in Clive's lap. The whole car trip was nothing short of psychological whiplash for poor, poor Clive Rosfield. It is one thing that there is a tiny strangely-clad half-dragon woman is in his lap.

It is yet another thing that there is a woman in the "passenger seat" that reminds him very, very deeply of Jill. The "driver" and his blonde friend are using all sorts of lingo that he does not understand and the half-dragon woman is laughing at most of the jokes.

Lis has to show Clive how to open his first canned drink, Prompto ends up taking a picture of them all including Clive making the most confused face, etc. That's not even getting into Clive having total whiplash over seeing creatures like Cactuar that don't normally populate Valisthea.

[penthepoet]

Liscanon's Ardyn Izunia is really, really well-adjusted and definitely not kind of unhinged in his own right (/lie).

I do adore writing him too much to stop, though. >:3c

Honorable mention to a few metaposts like the FFXV seven deadly sins post about Ardyn's spite and the Ardyn Broken Leg Essay that are foundational to how I write him that I forgot to mention here.

[penthepoet]

(that second one is slightly outdated in a few ways but FITS for hte most part)

Fun Facts about the Lycoris Hoard (Lis/Ardyn/Gladio/Emet-Selch):

they all have magical wedding collars that reinforce a mental + Aetheric bond between them, which gives them a bit of a telepathic hivemind between each other

they co-rule a city-state (Lycoris, founded in Amaurot on the First)

they can all shapeshift (to an extent)

they can possess each other

they are deemed Faerie nobility by Feo Ul/Titania

they share clothes (Mostly! Obviously Lis is too small for them to wear her clothes but she almost certainly wears theirs and the other three swap clothes sometimes)

their memories, feelings, preferences and skills bleed through into each other sometimes, on account of the telepathic bond

Lis takes nesting insanely seriously, so lounging around in the nest doing things like reading or listening to music is rather common for the four of them in their downtime.

There are times where the four of them all get collective unspoken ideas for magickal rituals or plots/schemes in their head, which is when they usually lock themselves in the library or war room to strategize, sometimes for days at a time (which is why there's an additional nest hidden in at least one of those places, for those instances). They often emerge manic and ready to rumble.

Gladio and Lis like to grill for Ardyn and Emet-Selch on the Eorzean equivalent of Sundays. They take turns swapping off on who grills, but sometimes for special occasions they will grill together.

Every so often, they all feel the need to recreationally hunt for sport (whether it's hunting each other or others like monsters, Lis's Three Other Unlucky Devotees, some poor son of a bitch that's made an enemy out of them) or otherwise fight/spar. Naughty, terrible things usually result, before, during, and after.

Lis likes to bring her partners things like a cat bringing dead things to you as treats. She will also very often curl up atop them to a.) "leech their warmth", as she puts it, and b.) claim them as part of her hoard. Gladio especially gets cuddled often because he's a big warm guy and she fits perfectly in his arms, but she cuddles Ardyn and Hades just as much. Ardyn loves snuggling up to Hades, which Hades has cursed him out for in Ancient-speak more than once.

They are banned from at least one eatery. They have blackmailed their way back into the eateries in all but a single case. (Ardyn and Lis hold a grudge about that fucking bistro, and plan to burn it to the ground or buy it out someday.)

[penthepoet]

As a birthday treat, I posted a fic I've had in hiding for a long while. Please enjoy Ardyn and Lis being freaks (affectionate).

Feat. Thancred Waters doing what Thancred Waters does.

Here’s the link to the fic!

[penthepoet]

I also bring you: a Liscanon iceberg chart detailing all kinds of the fun, fun things Qlisaiah "Lis" Amaranth and her allies get up to.

Feel free to ask about anything that sparks your fancy here.

[penthepoet]

This is, bar none, one of my favorite chapters of any fanfiction I have written in recent memory.

Please curate your experience appropriately and mind the warnings.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60401851/chapters/159816034

[penthepoet]

the various inspirations for Liscanon's Gladio

I am not helping my case when I post unhinged shit like this about Liscanon Gladio/Gladiolus Lycoris Amicitia-Kaviraja of the Amaranth Clan, but I have an entire Dark Knight questline-centric longfic's worth of defense for how the fuck he gets to this VERY divergent point from his unpopular canon iteration, to be fair. You'd best believe I've deep-delved into his lore and dialogue to do him justice. >:3c

[penthepoet]

Facts about Liscanon Gladio/Gladiolus Lycoris Amicitia-Kaviraja, of the Amaranth Clan

He's Half-Galahdian! Kaviraja is his mother Ishani's last name. Her side of the family is full of their own variant of Dark Knights as well (the Ragni), and more than a few Galahdian clerics inspired by the hijras of Hindu society. He takes the last name up more fully into his own as a form of empowerment post-base Endwalker.

He's a Dark Knight! I'm working on an entire longfic about it right now, but close to the start of Endwalker's MSQ, Lis throws the Dark Knight jobstone at him during an argument, leading him to start "listening" to it as she instructed, tapping into all the sides of himself and his emotions that he shoved down in the process. A lot more in him gets awakened as a result.

Like his ties to a past life he lived as Caim, from Drakengard 1! Sometimes Caim sends sensations and feelings into his head (mostly revolving around irritation, bloodlust and general murderous urges), but Gladiolus is learning to live with this in his own way.

He is also (due to the process that Etheriys has of giving Shards of souls to those that come from outside it, in Liscanon) a Sundered Shard of Pashtarot! Specifically, he got the Thirteenth Shard of Pashtarot, a brutal Voidsent general by the name of Umbris of House Carcosa, absorbed into him — Umbris manifests inside him partially through the Dark Knight questline, affecting some of his Dark Knight abilities.

He and Noctis are on much better terms in Liscanon! He realized he was being an ass to Noctis and gets humble enough to apologize fully for everything he put Noctis through, which Noctis accepts later on. The two are pretty good friends in Liscanon! :D

Gladio, uh. He's a little more ruthless in Liscanon, too, on account of The Voidsent Partially Embedded In His Soul and Caim Drakengard and the Dark Knight Questline. This has fun consequences down the line.

[penthepoet]

FINE I'LL STOP BEING A COWARD AND POST THE GLADIOLUS LYCORIS AMICITIA-KAVIRAJA SCREENSHOT DRAWOVER DOODLE I DID WHILE SLEEP-DEPRIVED A FEW DAYS AGO

more about him here, for those curious!

[penthepoet]

the mutual possession between a royal pack of monsters

( part of an art trade with @farlouream — you have no idea how grateful I am to see how faithfully you've captured the Lycoris Hoard, thank you thank you thank you!!! )

[penthepoet]

More about Qlisaiah 'Lis' Amaranth, my Warrior of Light/FF14 character!

It's time to crosspost more about my girlie from the Bluesky feed and the massive thread full of essays on her in the FF14 Wholesomely Debauched & Enabling Book Club Discord server.

Qlisaiah 'Lis' Amaranth was raised in a village in southern Doma known as Avain, which was founded by Dravanian refugees seeking sanctuary from war. She was raised as a high priestess in the faith of her village, the Scarlet Faith — a religion worshipping Angelus from Drakengard 1, with Caim as a revered minor deity.

As the high priestess of this faith (the Scarlet Herald), she was tasked with recording the stories, lives and truths of others around the world in her adventures, loving and hating in equal measure. So that's just what she set out to do, with high hopes for both the world and herself. Little did she expect that a bloody fucking rock would claim her as its champion, and everything else would go to shit shortly thereafter.

Long, long list of facts about her below the read-more.

Race: Au Ra Xaela [born in the Azim Steppe during a thunderstorm, raised in southern Doma shortly after]

Gender: Beastly woman (she/her, it/its)

Age: 20 (ARR) / 26 (DT)

Height: 5'0

Jobs: Dragoon, Dark Knight, Red Mage, Reaper, Viper, Astrologian, Dancer [all merged into the Ruler of Twilight/Sorceress Job post-EW]

Epithets: Scarlet Herald of Angelus, Ruler of Twilight, Warrior of Twilight, Scarlet Lioness of Doma, Crimson Dragoon, Heart-Eater Butcher (in Ishgard), the Empress of Lycoris, the Flower Maiden, the Blood-Stained Intoner, etc.

Voiceclaims: Her main speaking one is Keira Knightley and her main singing one is Emi Evans, but she can also switch her voice once awakening to her Intoner abilities. She has different secret voices she uses around each of her partners: for Ardyn she uses the voice of Florence Welch (also Azem's main voiceclaim), for Emet she uses the voice of Laura Bailey as Catherine in the game Catherine, and for Gladio she uses the voice of Elizabeth Fraser, singer of Cocteau Twins.

Birthday: 10th Sun of the Sixth Astral Moon

Languages: Avaini Auri (both High and Common), Common, some Dravanian + Draconic, more than a little Ishgardian, Hannish + more

Major Goals: Initially in ARR it was gathering as many stories from others as possible + learning more about the world and everything in it. Post-EW, protecting her loved ones and the city-state she founded (Lycoris/the Twilight Sanctuary) becomes one of her top priorities.

Motivation: She wants to live. Even if it hurts, even if it bleeds, she wants to live, know and love.

Personal History: Lis's childhood in Avain was a Addams Family writ Eorzean melange of the wholesome and immensely morbid. Her fits of anger were seen as sublime and horrid gifts from her Goddess, and allowed to pass by without any intervention when she was young. She was taught divination, mithridatism + poisonry, ritual blessings, curses, dances, ornate illumination calligraphy, and the usage of many weapons such as the blade and spear. Her Echo (which was known among the townsfolk of Avain as her Visionry) began to activate from the moment she was born - she could read and write before she could even talk, and she could compel secrets and life stories out of those around her. The look in her eyes was far too intelligent for one of her age.

Lis had to kill someone as part of her initiation as the Scarlet Herald of Angelus. She could choose the person, so she chose someone who had been deeply hurting a close friend of hers (K’haraa Miernost, her best friend since she could walk). The man had been mocking her close friend, trying to press said friend into an arranged marriage. For the first time she can really remember, Lis willingly gave into her anger that night and mauled him in front of a crowd of dozens. She clawed out his heart and ate it. It would not be the last heart she ate in her journeys.

This is far from a bloodless tale, but it is hers.