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[thevikingwoman]

FFXIVWrite 2024 - Prompt 4

Scholar is not really a job I do, so I like to think she never really picked it up. Yet at least.

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV | Words: 371 | Read on Ao3

Meryta Khatin & Alka Zolka | Heavensward time | sch quest intro Rating: Gen. Struggle with studying, mild HW spoilers, sch quest intro spoilers

Reticent

Meryta is studying. Or at least pretending to be, trying to make sense of something without Alphinaud’s need to explain or the general distractions of the Fortemps Manor. Like Emmanellain.

She sighs, and flips the page. It’s diagrams doesn’t make more sense than the ones on the previous page, and the text is incredible tiny. She can summon a carbuncle just fine, and channel her aether to attack without the diagrams. Once she does it, it just works. Learning from a book feels like nonsense.

“You! You there!”

A lalafel marauder with a determined look on his face marches towards her. She panics briefly – though nominally cleared of the Sultana’s murder, perhaps he’s here to arrest her. Can she petition with Merlwyb? She can’t attack here in the Wench.

“You’re an Arcanist right? The one from the guild Murie recommended.”

“Um, I guess?”

She recalls Murie did say something of the marauders being in need of some researcher. Truth be told, she’s more likely to go there to swing a big axe around, that looks fun. A lot more fun than trying to understand these void cursed diagrams.

“Good. I’m Alka, Alka Zolka. I realize that it’s a little unusual for a marauder to strike up an interest in research, but I promise you this will be worth it. See, the ancient Nymerians…”

Alka goes on, and Meryta thinks she can handle his axe quite easily. It is made for a lalafel, of course. She doesn’t need to use an axe, preferring the precision and agility of the katana, but it’s still an interesting thought.

“I don’t need to learn any more healing,” she says, interrupting the overeager Alka. She winces, and feels bad for her rudeness, but the tiny letters have already given her a headache, and her astrologian training lets her channel aether into curing, with naught but a pack of card and the stars above.

“I see.” Alka’s expression sours, but he picks up his enthusiasm again. “Murie was most certain, so give it a thought. I will be there. Or it may pass you by, if another candidate approaches! Good day!”

He marches away. Meryta snaps her book shut, and sinks her forehead to rest on it.

[crispyliza]

Fanfiction in the late 2000s-early 2010s was wild bc you'd find a beautifully written story with the most compelling heart-wrenching plot you've ever seen and the author's note would be like:

Author with a username like ~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Ohayo gozaimasu! ↖(^▽^)↗, I'm sowwy it took me so long to update (๑•́_•̀๑)

tsundere twink from their fic : It was about damn time you idiot (눈‸눈)

~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Hey now! It's not my fault the plot bunnies kept wunning away fwom me (╥﹏╥)

tsundere twink: W-watever, it's not like I missed you or anything (💢,,>﹏<,,) b-baka!

[chloesimaginationthings]

Five nights at Springtrap’s is just William Aftons arguing..

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thanks for listening to my sad backstory. Anyway, here's Wonderwall.

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[beebfreeb]

To all my long-term followers: You have to look through all of my art and deduct exactly what's wrong with me. I know you can do it by now.

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[metalmachination]

guys. lets blow it up. to smithereens? ok?

[wyverncult]

i cant remember wtf i was doing with these ngl. apparently you'd have had to pay me to draw his armour though

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I cannot wait for this Stan to reconnect with his Ford.

I still haven't figured out HOW exactly they'll meet yet, but I do think that Ford would ATTACH himself to Stanley and talk his ears off forever when they eventually get comfortable :] and Stanley would listen because HOLY SHIT, THAT'S HIS BRO HE HASN'T SEEN FOR 40-ISH YEARS, HE MISSED HIS VOICE. Nonstop certified Yapper & Listener relationship <3

Stanley looks dead faced because of his ingrained poker face, but he's thouroughly enjoying it, even if sometimes he has no idea what the fuck Ford is saying. He never interrupts him though, since he knows people usually ignore or interrupt him mid-talk already. So sometimes Stan gets stuck in awkward situations where he has to leave or do stuff, but also doesn't have it in his heart to stop Ford and extract himself out of a (one-sided) conversation.

[cainternn]

9 to 5 core

[fudgecake-charlie]

I wanted to play around on aggie drawing BigB because he deserves to have more exploration in his design!! I think I quite like the blue and purple

[mohntilyet]

about illario working with the venatori, we can't forget that elgar'nan gifted him blood magic, so I do think that he somewhat influenced him and that's why he's so much more vindictive and jealous in comparison to tevinter nights. I don't mean that he's being mind controlled, but it's a bit like cyrian, a god just amplifying those negative emotions in you and promising power and glory can push a person to that edge and to make stupid af decisions.

im also not forgetting that zara line in inner demons where she talks about an envy demon. like. why an envy demon in specific...there's THINGS between zara and illario that were not shown

no literally if you get me talking about illario + envy + the possibility of getting him possessed, you will have me here for fucking ever. a non mage doing blood magic (any magic at all) is really weird and interesting to me and i don’t remember an example of this happening before (feel free to correct me tho lol. i’m discounting possessions and dwarves)

i had started wildly theorising after bloodbath that he had been possessed and he was tapping into the fade using an envy demon. especially like you said, zara mentions it, AND because i swear there’s a codex in the ossuary where it mentions an envy demon whereas spite is obviously determination, right? so i thought it was a breadcrumb trail to a big “illario is being influenced and doesn’t even know” reveal— same as you anon like great minds am i right— but i’m not sure there is actually any evidence of that lol. like maybe if you squint but i do believe it was explained away by “oh yeah, and elgarnan let him do special blood magic”

it does also make sense to me that illario can only control lucanis, due to being part of the same family. a bloodline thing, and it is very poetic to me that their shared family connection in caterina is what allows him to control lucanis, even for a moment lol. spite being the extra magical boost that lucanis needs to block that out ALSO makes sense to me so i’m not too fussed abt these details lol🤔

the envyllario in my heart also gets spectral weapons for himself. lucanis gets wings, illario gets talons, PLUS green-purple are complementary colors so it would have been really fun to see them clash with their spirit/demon-powers. the talon thing is also a kind of reflection of his end-goal desire, how envy demons already have those freaky hands, and it manifests as claws and is a much more aggressive, strength-augmenting manifestation (as opposed to manoeuvrability and speed-augmenting that spite’s wings give lucanis.) anyways that's what the diagram above is supposed to be (this is extremely hot to me)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

give me some whiskey and ill draw The Most Thing i can come up with

bonus:

[spkyart]

Hello folks guess what I am reading

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: What was wrong with the timing?!

Pac: You did it in the worst possible timing! Everything was–

Bagi: I think we ruined the kiss.

Everyone:

Pac: It– it wasn't the kiss, more– you know? It was– *mumbles*

Tubbo: IT WAS MORE?! IT WAS MORE?! ON THE FIRST DATE?!

Bagi: WE DON'T NEED THE DETAILS!

Fit: That's not what he meant!

[ryllen]

how nice it is if the phone headmage gave u actually has special magic attribute, where it has very shitty network on twisted wonderland universe, but actually very good to connect back and forth between your world to twisted wonderland