#mal lore

[mountain-in-springtime]

every time i remember that my mom wanted to name me victoria but didn’t i get a little upset bc not only have multiple people told me i look like a victoria but also my nickname would’ve been vicki which is so cool

[tartppola]

very specific au thought, silver if he was the shield instead ( read the tags to see explanations )

[magitekconveyor]

At long last! Who The Fuck Is Aulus mal Asina The Powerpoint Presentation: The Tumblr Post.

This was a long labor of love, combing over every piece of lore I could find in-game and in the Encyclopedia Eorzea. I initially made this because whenever I mentioned Aulus, I inevitably got met with "who?", so I thought I would have one place that contained all his lore and how it relates to MSQ as a whole.

For ease of access, here is the twitch link. It goes to a clip from 2018 Fanfest where they discuss Aulus. If you listen veeeeery carefully after he says "He's dead", you can hear a faint "Noooooooo!" in the audience. That...was me. I was actually there for that question and let me tell you I've never had so many heads whip around to stare at me all at once.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy and have learned something new about my favorite FFXIV character.

Edit: Coming back since this is gaining a bit of traction to add, if you like what you see here, please check out my friend's FFXIV fangame Indagator , where you can either romance or betray Aulus. It builds off of a lot of the info from above and masterfully expands on it. Mind the tags.

[cozymochi]

I'm not going to lie, I had a whole ass vision of Cecil teaching a young Sophia/Sophie looking neighbor who got their magic late and needs help learning control. for some reason, Diasomnia trio gets to see him with her and how different he is. Not soft, but less sarcastic and a bit more confident with somebody who genuinely believes in him. Would that be close to the relationship he has with Twisted Sophia, or something more complex?

I— I don’t even have to add anything that’s hitting the nail right on the head right down to the detail that the neighbor has magic 👁️👄👁️

wonder where malleus is

oh, comical b plot

[miquella-everywhere]

Like I find it genuinely incredible/fucked up that thanks to all the bullshit Fromsoft has done with the dlc's Miq lore how it bleeds into Malenia's own character and makes her actions and motives... questionable. There was already so much vitriol towards Mal before the dlc and now it's infinitely worse.

And this is absolutely insane to me because like

MALENIA IS LITERALLY THE ELDEN RING POSTER WOMAN

THEY GAVE HER A COLLECTORS EDITION FIGURINE!

THEY GAVE HER A LIFE SIZED STATUE!

THEY GAVE HER A HELMET!

THEY GAVE HER A FREAKING LIFESIZED PROSTHETIC A R M!!!!

and yet they still shit on her lore this fucking much......

[shellibocs]

there's smoke seepin' out of the bar down the street / but we're home somehow

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[riverstyxsarts]

The king of scars and the tracker

[beetleboyoart]

‘I itch all the time. Deep beneath my skin, where the bone sits, enshrouded in flesh, I feel it.’ - Hive, MAG032

———

To be consumed by what loves you, to give pieces of yourself,

To be a home.

Sing to me your hymns of woe.

———

A little bit about Rhys for those who don’t know. Rhys is an undead treant he struggles with concentration on using necrotic magic to keep himself alive while his body slowly crumbles away. Since he is an undead Treant his insides are hollow making it a home for unwanted guests, which slowly becomes wanted. Rhys has a hive living in the sick, hollowed and crushed cavern of his chest. They sing to him but not in ways of words, but hum their sickly sweet tune, telling him he is beautiful telling him he is loved. Even though they slowly consume his body, to be fully consumed from what loves him.

[threepoint14art]

redraw de idol duo porque los quiero mucho

El pelo largo de la niña antes de que le agarrará el lore </3

[koiisure]

"I watched Heaven and Hell crumble around me and all that was left was me"'

When Mallard said it this was the vision that came to me,,,i love The Spirit World

[magicalmyu]

first day of the rest of my life.

[sourmelonnn]

Do y'all fuck with Mitty (Mal and Kitty) or is it just me and my best friend?

[twink-shadow]

MOM HELP ME

A strange distant cry for help can be heard in the Ward's head, the voice sounds.. familiar but is too warped to recognize

(totally not your possessed son)

@pandora-in-babyjail

The Ward's head shoots up, turning away from butch silver as its ears flick this way and that. Another familiar voice...

It turns to the Gray Young One.

"A second charge? Another Young One?"

It attempts to concentrate, trying to find the other's location, but it's difficult with all of that interference...

It narrows its eyes.

"Do you know where the other Young One is?"

-The Ward

[capitan-mal]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Music to my ears <3

[yuckydraws]

I genuinely do not have the time to write and it’s angering me so.

[creampuffqueen]

okay i got one like so now i'm going to give y'all a rabbit lore drop! meet this guy, #4, aka Number Fucking Four

be me

second year raising meat rabbits. mostly know what i'm doing

it's the day of the county fair

i'm dressed and ready to leave, all that's left is to grab my show rabbits from their hutch

look outside

little brother is chasing a white blur around the backyard

Oh Fuck

turns out one of the cage doors was open overnight. either accidentally unlocked, or somehow fell open. no idea. doesn't matter

thankfully, not the cage door of the rabbits i'm taking to show. those three are still waiting in their hutch, perfectly behaved

but in the other cage, 5/6 of the babies are running haywire around our backyard

we live on 3/4 of an acre, btw. it's a large backyard

whole family chases rabbits for 30 minutes

4 of the 5 escapees are caught

1 still eludes us. it's hiding beneath the shed

i have to leave for the show. family promises to catch rabbit and meet me there

i go to the rabbit show

parents show up right before it starts. they were unsuccessful in catching the last rabbit and have decided to try again when we get home

i do really well at the rabbit show :D my trio makes sale!!

we all go home

baby rabbit is ducking between fences outside. staying close but not close enough

finally my mom goes into the neighbor's yard and catches it from behind

rabbit screams bloody murder the entire walk home. it's not hurt. just furious at being caught

we discover this is rabbit #4 (we don't name the babies, just number them. helps with attachment as they are meat animals)

surely the excitement is all over! we can rest easy

NOPE

next day, #4 looks a bit sluggish. i start getting worried

day 2 post-escape, he looks almost on death's doorstep. Oh Fuck

during his hours away, he must have gotten into something bad

we scramble for what to do

he is floppy, clearly extremely dehydrated

but, on the plus side, his mother is still taking care of him! that's a good sign. rabbits won't take care of a baby they think is going to die. she's protecting him from his siblings and spending all day grooming him

the babies are weaned at this point, so he can't get his mother's milk to help perk him up

we improvise

we start syringe feeding him watered down heavy cream for hydration + nutrition

^^^^ do NOT do this. idk why it worked honestly. weaned mammals are lactose intolerant. somehow it worked, but don't try this home

but it did work

#4 managed to push through the worst of it and his body cleared whatever toxins were in his system

we were syringe feeding him every few hours. during the day when we were at work and school a neighbor came and did it. we didn't want this baby to die

and bonus: since he got held so much, he quickly became one of the most docile babies i've ever raised

okay, now it's over! he's healthy again!

NOPE

be me, a few weeks later

mom has been in the hospital. family is pretty stressed

but she's being released today! dad and brother are going to pick her up, i'm tidying the house, home alone

i notice a white blur running around in the yard

Oh Fuck

run outside. a corner of the cage wire has come loose. just enough for a baby rabbit to slip through

and guess who's fucking running wild in the backyard?

Number Fucking Four

i chase. he runs

i manage to corner him behind our pool chest. he's squeezed between the chest and the side of the shed

i reach down to grab him

Uh Oh

my arm is stuck

like. really stuck

like, wedged down to my shoulder stuck

try not to panic

panic a little

thankfully, i have one free arm and my phone

call neighbor

no answer

call other neighbor

no answer

call dad

answer! he's still at the hospital getting my mom released. won't be home for another 30-45 minutes

FUCK

try not to panic

panic some more

call neighbors again. still no answer

then, somehow, someway, manage to free my arm

we're so back

stick a pool net at one end of the tunnel. position myself at the other end

#4 falls right into my trap and into the pool net, where i grab him

obviously can't put him back in the hutch

am forced to take him inside and just let him hang out in the kitchen until my family gets home

that's where these pictures are from. look at his assholeish face :/

jk i love him

dad fixes hutch

finally, we're done

#4 is no longer with us, but he will forever live in infamy