#lizzer lore

[maeljade]

Shiiiiips? :D

okay this is going to be rambling and chaotic cause its all random thoughts scattered in my brain that appeared as I was playing the game. Also spoiler warning for ... I guess the entire game?

Her general approach is ... not monogamous. She is an adventurer, she is out in the world and sometimes she needs to blow of steam in whatever town she currently is.

So, no ships in ARR for my Lizzer. She just arrived in Eorzea, she is out there delving into basements and fighting small fry beasts and her first gods, no time for romance.

COME HEAVENSWARD. And she meets Sidurgu! First fellow Au Ra Xaela she has met since! (And Yugiri pretty much made it clear that she is not interested in romance). And as fellow Dark Knight they are often covered in blood and guts and gore so tenderly cleaning each others scales afterwards! Also you already adopted a daughter together in Rielle! (Which makes 4 adopted daughters if you include the White Mage girlies).

Stormblood ... Zenos is Zenos and she is a Dotharl (even if only adopted). He is entirely correct, she lives for the thrill of the hunt, the spilling of blood and the rush of death. Its a match made in Hell and you know DAMN WELL that she accepted and embraced him.

Also lets talk about her relationship with Sadu. She is her big sister that she idolizes! You know, the usual. You try to murder her in grief over your entire clan dying and or disappearing, she kicks your ass and when someone tries to finish you of is so impressed by her fearlessness in the face of death that you get adopted into her tribe. And they both very much enjoyed the chance to face off in battle during the Naadam and for my lizzer to show how much she has grown stronger on her travels!

Shadowbringers: She does another bad choice and goes for Emet-Selch. We all know the tension that is already there between them but she throws it out the window at the lift in Kholusia. With full trust and belief in Dotharl culture she knows about reincarnation. So when Emet does his whole speech only to end it with a "not that you would remember it" she confronts him and tells him that she is aware of the fact that he knew her in a previous life. Oh girlie, if you knew how right you are with that one. Anyways that sure spiced up the encounter on Mt. Gulg and the final showdown.

She also tried some flirting with Lyna but sadly that did not go anywhere for her and some joking with Cerigg since its another adopted kid with a "partner", this time its a son!

Endwalker: Well Zenos is back ... kinda so that relationship is back on the table. Also Emet-Selch in the past, this time with the knowledge of Azem and some very awkward first interactions. Also Erenville is here and he is very very pretty and Hopefully something may come out of that in Dawntrail, who knows!

[elizabethrobertajones]

Your Bardams Mettle post has given me inspiration to further flesh out the lore of my own Lizzer, thank you!

Not just a steppe WoL but the WoL who stepped up!!

Glad my replaying SB could help :)

[lilacs-and-lavenders]

I swear I have a weird relationship with FFXIV right now. Like when I play it, I dread being on there and around other players and I get really lonely but when I am offline, I am able to talk about my WoL freely and happily. It's weird, honestly. Like I like to read stuff about my lizzer's culture and lore and the story in general in the game but actually playing it drains me. I don't know why that is. I don't necessarily want to quit it per say especially with Dawntrail well on its way to being released but I don't want to play it much either right now. I dont even feel like grinding in this mogtome event. I went into the Leap of Faith gate and after seeing so many players, I was over it. It was overwhelming. I had all the cactuar trophies except for the gold one, too. I was just done and over it. Like I felt just...bored? 🥱 It's...odd. Its difficult to explain and put into words but I'll put it this way. My relationship with this game has declined drastically after joining FCs and all the drama that followed. The memories, the relationships, the failed bond (whom I dont miss), the connections that fell through, social death. It's a lot. I think if I would have remained a solo player, I probably would have avoided about 80% of the drama that happened. 😅 But you live and you learn. I did learn a lot from all of it though and even though I can't necessarily go back and change things like I would absolutely like, I did learn a lot from this experience. This game has also helped me to be more social and long for human connection tion. I just don't know how. I remember 2 years ago I was terrified of the other players. Now I am mildly annoyed by most of them. Not all but most.😂 LOL sorry. Who knows. Maybe things will change but I think playing it does kind of bum me out at the present moment but when I dont play it, I appreciate and enjoy it more. A proven fact that you don't necessarily have to play a game to love the story and characters. 😌

I'm wierd. Idk lol

[scramble-crossing]

your oc is so fucking cool! divorced to minaman i'm guessing? i LOVE the noise form, that'sso clever! the idea of having a tiny lizzer that he has to hide in a big illusion, that's such a clever + fun idea. also, gecko is a cute asf noise form. the fighting using sigils is SO cool btw, i've done a lot with the idea of sigils myself but the whole concept of tearing out pages to fight is awesome. i love her flaws a lot too btw, most people end up not having ocs with enough flaws

also based as fuck being a union leader. the R.E.A.P.E.R. acronym made me laugh out loud, but man, unions are so underrated. good for them!

i would read stuff about him. also her design is cute! i love the implication that they were strangled to death (?) or are those just tattoos/? i wish that the twewy designs had implication sof how they died somehwere on them

do you actually want a lore dump about my oc? i will gladly give it if you want it, just meant that i don't want to sit here going "and now i will infodump about a topic that isn't actually wanted" (no harm if you don't want to btw) otherwise i will send another ask with the oc info! not gonna lie i don't do much with my ocs but i basically turned several canonical characters into ocs with how much i expanded on them lol. but i do have an oc that i can tell you about :)! i just spend more time expanding on the canon characters LOL

Aw jeez ;-; you're too kind!!

Um. Yeah. Minaman divorce 😔 Long story short, they're childhood friends who had a difficult falling out at the end of high school and reunited in the Reaper's Game. Sho is just as vicious and self-centered as he is in canon, and Fable's swept along in his undertow, blaming himself for Sho's actions and feeling a sense of responsibility, as his oldest friend, to put a stop to him. Sho takes this "betrayal" bitterly. He doesn't understand why Fable can't trust him to make things right again, once he's Composer, and everything that's wrong, he can fix. He just needs her to stay out of his way. He will make her if he has to.

I totally agree with you that'd it be cool if twewy designs implied how some characters died! But actually, Fable received their neck scars after they died :)))

Anyways I'm really glad you like the Noise form and the sigil fighting!! The Noise form is kinda close to Megumi's but I'm attached to itty bitty lizard...everyone else got these cool big cat forms and even Higashizawa's sheep Noise form is intimidating, then you've got this little gecko thing that can fit in the palm of your hand. Made to be held gently. Like hotdog.

And yeah I don't think anyone in the Reaper's Game is a very uh. Functioning individual (except maybe Kariya idk) so it's fun to come up with a character's fatal flaws! Fable is a self-depricating doormat who blames themself for things far beyond their control and clings to strict rules of reason to make sense of an unreasonable world and it pairs really well (or really poorly depending on how you see it) with Mina's unpredictable, domineering personally, especially in NEO once they've grown a bit and Mina has to deal with someone who, even in their best of days, really enabled him and let him get away with anything finally put their foot down and tell him to stop being such an insufferable jackass. Wrangling Support Reapers for three years will do that to a person. They're a funny crowd.

Anyways (again) I would totally love to hear about your oc! I haven't seen too many twewy ocs before and I think it's a series that's ripe for making original characters, so I'm really curious to see the kinds of things that other people have come up with :]

[caba-111]

You mentioned previously that you'd like to turn the Shell into a game, what kind of game were you thinking of? Something like a Civ game, or an RPG, or something else entirely?

So I have a LOT of ideas, but I think the best combo of ”something I might actually be able to make one day” and ”would work well for the setting” is a shell metroidvania with RPG elements… Imagine! You’re a lizard. You pick your cultural and educational background, which influences your starting stats. There’s the surface— a small Family Culture town or outpost. Shops, a cozy building to sleep in at night. And then there’s the ruins! Near the surface, there are marked paths, elevators, ropes to navigate with. The deeper you go the more alone you are. There’s a big focus on inventory management, lots of lizard clothes, bags, gear to pick from. In my dreams, as much as possible is procedurally animated. Think rain world— imagine a lizzer with cloth physics coat and bags clambering down a rope into the darkness. The levels, and most items in the game are handcrafted, but there’s a procedural generation system for artifacts. Think borderlands guns, except you never know what they do when you pick them up. They must be tested— hope that’s not an artifact of ”superheats the air around you”. Artifacts usually have more than one function (and also, more than one risk), so you have to play with one for a long time to thoroughly figure it out. Or you can bring them to an expert on the surface, for a price. There’s an overarching plot, and it’s… geopolitical, mostly unfolding in rumors and newspaper articles when you head back to the surface. RPG elements are light. Improving skills and abilities also unlocks lore. Sometimes, a skill has no purpose except giving you bonus context for things. Sometimes that comes in handy… sometimes it doesn’t. In a world with infinite resources and budget, I imagine there are multiple sites you can explore— you gain access to an airship, or some kind of transportation, at the end of the first act. But it would also work fine as a single level— much more doable that way. So… lord knows I’ve thought about it! I have lots of other ideas too, but this one feels like a good fit for the setting and the closest to something I could actually make one day.

[damienthepious]

Survive In The Wild

[spotify]

i doubt anyone was chomping at the bit for another rad bouquet fanmix from my gay ass but here we are!! here we are. i am weak for a lizzer and his loves. 

1. Black Mambo - Glass Animals - he’s been waiting to / bring you down / snake eyed / with a sly smile / he can hold you / and shake you child

2. Superposition - Young the Giant - I don’t believe in fate / no psychic vision / but when things fall into place / superposition

3. Buttercup - Hippo Campus - scale a tree, snap a branch so you can’t leave / on the ground, lost and found, understand me / putting words in my mouth, trying to get free

4. Static - Minimall - there were twisted, grassy tongues / we got too close to blood and breath / yeah those warm breezes filled our lungs / sending knives into nerves and chests

5. Oh, La - Ra Ra Riot - still so warm, but I’m lonely too / suddenly she is still and says, “I hope that things will be better here” / oh la we’ve got a lot to learn from each other / we have got to stick together

6. Free Animal - Foreign Air - know what you’re made of, what you’re made of / flesh and bones won’t lie / they won’t lie

7. Monster - Dodie - oh, I think it might be worth a try / oh, am I ready to let this die? / mhm, a monster’s here / mhm, you plug your ears / but hey, you might just listen to it sing / please let the devil in

8. Glorious Warrior - Electric Guest - oh yes, I know it’s wrong / I don’t want to die, stay for more

9.  Fred Astaire - Jukebox the Ghost - when I lose myself, there is no one else / who ever sees through me quite like you / those eyes, damn those eyes, they get me every time

10. Shrike - Hozier - I was housed by your warmth, thus transformed / by your grounded and giving and darkening scorn 

11. Beige - Yoke Lore - let me go under your skin / and let me find the demons that drive those heavenly limbs / you know you’re beautiful 

12. Bloom - The Paper Kites - oh you fill my lungs with sweetness / and you fill my head with you / shall i write it in a letter? / shall I try to get it down? / oh you fill my head with pieces / of a song I can’t get out

[maeljade]

Character lore poll

I am cooking an OC and my brain has come up with two possible variations of lore and cant decide so I am outsourcing it to Tumblr! Here's the OC, Jade!

And here's the poll, answer based on vibes or full information with Dawntrail spoilers below the cut!

And now under the cut the full lore. Once again, spoilers for themes of Shadowbringers +, things that happened in Endwalker and the entire second half of Dawntrail! Consider yourself warned.

As should be easily visible from the picture, she's my Solution 9/Alexandria OC. And yes, she is in fact the local shard of Mael, my lizzer and WoL. And since Solution 9 has the whole Regulator business its a great opportunity for some wonderful storytelling.

Her basic lore backstory is that she's working as one of the hunters keeping the outskirts of Heritage Found safe and thus naturally uses a regulator. Between Lightningstrikes and wild beasts the risks of death are high and hunters also use it for simple soul fusion to enhance their fighting (so no full transformation like Arcadion). Unfortunately for her there is no Hydaelyn since Endwalker sending a crystal of light with images of a starshower attached so no echo for her. Also she used to have a partner, which is at the center of both torments!

Now unto the 2 possible torments that my brain has come up with!

Torment of Forgetting:

Imagine having a loving partner, half the room decorated in her style, her perfume in the bathroom, small trinkets from her in your outfit. This partner also wears a regulator ... and dies. And because both of you had a regulator the memory is erased. Gone. Nothing there anymore. The memory has been erased leaving only an emptiness and a feeling of something missing. And looking around her home everything makes this void sting harder. Decorations Jade would not buy but that still feel right in the room. Perfumes the smell of which she loves but wouldn't wear herself. Accessories that feel close to her heart but she cant remember. The typical Elidibus/Solution 9 package.

Torment of Remembering

Same relationship as the other torment, same loving partner dying ... but this time her regulator had been destroyed before it happened so she alone remembers her love. Friend groups her lover introduced her to suddenly missing the connection. In laws who don't even remember how you met. The entire world moving on and forgetting, leaving you all alone to grieve. Let's call it the Emet-Selch deal, to be the only one remembering and mourning.

Both of these sound like horrible torment to heave upon her. Yet both feel fitting, especially when I consider both the connection to Mael as Dotharl and her beliefs and the parallels with the two unsundered.

And both parts would lead her on a path towards working with and maybe even joining the resistance, yet also being reliant on the regulator for fighting and doing her job.

And not least of all the potential angst of meeting someone new and struggling with fears of also being forgotten.

[maeljade]

Yes for Mael. She's a Xaela lizzer from the steppes. I'd say her tribe lived somewhere between Nhaama's retreat and the mountains bordering Doma (... before they disappeared/were kidnapped by the imperials). And then she got adopted by the Dotharl and we can quite literally visit their camp so.

Probably helps that I spend lots of time watching others play the game and reading lore so I went into character creator with a plan already.

Deliberately chose the binary yes/no, but with the caveat that you can be as pedantic as you like because it's about how you FEEL. Are they from Doma but actually that nice farm you can see across the water in Yanxia and so you've never set foot there but you sort of feel at home in the zone? You can click yes. You made them from Dalmascus and an alliance raid runs right past their old front door, but it doesn't feel like a legit place to hang out in game and you're sad they didn't give us a full zone out there? Click no!

I've wondered about this since I started playing because the character creator gives you vague geographic details before you even start and maybe know nothing about the world, and then takes you up to the starter city like you're from somewhere else, and sometimes if you roll a character without knowing the story you end up accidentally Magnai's long-suffering sibling because of your choices and the naming conventions in the randomiser. How much drastic change has that caused or are you sticking with early OC characterisation plans?