#oc: f'lihn

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OC kiss week day 1 - Almost

OCs are Glassi (femroe) and F'lihn (miqo), she/her for both!

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Before pride is over… please look at my girls 🥰🌈🧡🤍💗

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favorite things about a few of your ocs!!

I feel like this is so hard to answer because I love everything about my ocs, like with my whole chest 🥺

I guess one thing I always try to do that makes me really happy is that I try make them all look really distinct from each other? I tend to exaggerate their features way more than I feel comfortable doing on a canon character, and I think it helps them stand out more!

All of my ocs have a little bit of me in them too, some small aspect of them is a reflection of me, like Leigh being gnc and fuzzy and having a muscle-fat build, or the fact both Leigh and Cam are about the same height as me (they're both 5'6" while I'm a sliver of an inch below 5'5"), or Mal having a color scheme that matches my favorite colors (brown, green, and teal), Glassi being loyal and loud and a little obtuse, F'lihn being cautious and contemplative, Mal being overly trusting and naive, Leigh being compassionate and earnest and a little hot-headed... I could go on! I don't feel comfortable putting my whole self into a character like a self insert type of an oc, but I like putting tiny aspects of myself into them, so I can feel connected to them in little ways, but disconnected enough to not feel self-conscious-- while in turn still appreciating things in them that I might not appreciate in myself.

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I made some small tweaks to the design of my gentleman catgirl, F'lihn :3

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Rambly story thoughts about my other wol, F'lihn!! She's not in the same universe as Leigh, so in her story Leigh is probably just like.. a normal guy in Ul'dah lol. But I had some new ideas about her recently and today thought of adding another one of my OCs to her story so I wanted to talk about it!!

First of all, I changed her look ever so slightly the last few times I drew her:

Pictured with Glassi in this first one 🥰 I had been waffling for a while on whether she just bound her chest or had surgery, and ultimately I decided it made the most sense for her to at some point in her story have surgery. A big part of her background is that she is running from her past and afraid to let others know that she's a woman, so she presents as a man to most people she meets but doesn't identify as such in private. I thought the leaf tattoos would be nice because it ties into purple as her overall color scheme, and also her tribe is from a Garlean occupied territory so I thought of the Roman motifs using leaves as like a nice way to kind of.. reclaim her homeland by putting flora from it on her body.

Here, I opted to give her a different nose and make her hair even curlier, and you'll notice I gave her a Garlean third eye as well. Which leads into the next thing...

In my initial draft of her story, she was just pressured to conform and mate per usual sun seeker tribal lore and that was her reason for leaving her tribe, but I felt like something about it didn't quite sit right with me. Like it felt a little too upsetting for me personally and kind of disingenuous for the way seeker lore works out in practice.

Not that it's any less dark what I decided on... 🥲 but basically, I had an idea that her tribe was being subjected to experimentation by the young Prince Varis. His grandfather may have invented magitek, but Varis was seeking genetic modifications to try and create a way for Garleans to harness magic. F'lihn's mother was one of the test subjects, with the intention of F'lihn coming out as a magical garlean but instead she was born a very magically apt but otherwise normal miqo'te-- save for the third eye which normally was only in full blooded garleans. So the experiment was regarded a failure, Varis was pulled away by the emperor for other matters, and F'lihn was left to grow up with her tribe as some sort of abomination-- half garlean, half miqo'te.

It made her an outcast in her tribe, it made her hate herself at first, then as she grew older she directed that hate toward Garlemald and the future emperor instead. Her echo awoke when she had a premonition of her becoming the next subject for experimentation and she got the fuck out of there, never looking back and changing her entire identity.

She traveled for a while through Garlean territories until reaching Kugane, then from there secured travel to Limsa Lominsa. There, she began ARR as the warrior of light, and also she would soon meet her gf, a failing but stubborn ship captain named Glazisil-- Glassi to her mates.

Glassi was my first OC in ffxiv but she never ever felt like a proper warrior of light. She's not very bright, she's loud, she's brash, but by gods is she loyal and stubborn!! She had been trying to follow in her father's footsteps ever since she inherited his ship, but Limsa is different than it was in her father's youth, and between the red tape around piracy, her own inexperience, and her inability to wrangle her crew all into one place long enough for them to have any amount of success, she's been floundering and just barely making by up until she meets F'lihn. She's totally awestruck and enamored the first time they meet, and she's the first person F'lihn ever really gets close to. Think of her like a golden retriever in the body of a pitbull, with a bad habit for swearing and drinking. (I wrote about them once for ffxiv write-- their first meeting, centered around her and her crew making bets after not being able to discern F'lihn's gender at first glance)

F'lihn would've begun her journey as an archer I think, trained to hunt like most miqo'te women even despite being the black sheep of her tribe. In Limsa she would discover arcane magic, and learn just how much magical ability she truly had in spite of being half garlean. Which would eventually lead to her becoming a scholar, but I'll need to work out details of just how that happens :3

It also gives me a fun dynamic to explore for her when eventually meeting Zenos, since they would share a father and have their connection spark due to that. Zenos obsessing over the sibling he never knew he had, you know? It makes it so much more complicated for her too, that she hates this place and these people with every fiber of her being but that there's reminders like this that she's connected to them in an inescapable way. And that she seeks ways to reclaim her own body like the body modification stuff I mentioned above, to try and deal with it!!

Onto the new thought I had today:

This is Aya, she's another OC I made who I ended up not doing anything with after I made her... but I had it in my head that her being absolutely huge despite being a female au ra was due to some sort of garlean experimentation as well.

So what I thought of today, was that she was kidnapped from sui-no-sato as a child (to kind of compound their reasons for being so isolationist) and taken to garlemald after the occupation of Doma, and then was experimented on to make her grow tall and muscular like that. They wanted her to be a super soldier but they underestimated how resilient she is, and one day she was able to break free and flee the capital. She's a gunbreaker, so I want to think she fled through Bozja and picked that up there, and eventually made her way to Eorzea.

Given they have a similar history and similar hatred for the garlean empire, I thought Aya and F'lihn would get along really well and become fast friends!! Another addition to the wol's entourage.

At this rate F'lihn is just gonna be surrounded by giant women... 😂 which I'm very okay with (and so is she lmao)

Slowly I'm developing this alternate wol storyline and I'm enjoying it!!! Much as I've built up Leigh and he's forever going to be who I consider my main wol, I really love all I've thought of so far for F'lihn and Glassi's story :3 I kind of had some hopes to draw the two of them for oc kiss week but I'm quickly running out of time, so we will see if I pull some things together last minute haha

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send 💩 for a ridiculous headcanon - For F'lihn <3

She's really really stubborn, and I want to think it comes up about trivial things constantly. Maybe he loses a bet with one of the sailors in Limsa and completely changes the route she walks in the city to avoid them going forward. Or she can't stand vegetables so when having important meals with leaders, she either eats in advance or feigns an emergency to avoid a few slivers of mushrooms. Little things like that!! F'lihn is a really serious and stoic character, and acts like he's really pragmatic and has all the answers, but like most cats, is also extremely petulant and stubborn about the smallest things.

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53%. If your character could only wear clothing of one color, which would they choose?

Battery percentage meme

Since the character wasn't specified we'll go with F'lihn! She wears mostly purple or otherwise monochrome colors like white and black. I like to think she sticks to purple as the primary color because of its associations with regality and influence. She grew up in a pretty harsh environment under garlean rule so now that she broke free and is off destroying the empire wherever she can, I think she wants to feel like she has some sort of power in how she presents herself. She always wears really elaborate and beautiful coats too, to reclaim the dignity that she and her people lost under imperial occupation.

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My girls at the beach ⛱ belated happy moonfire faire!

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Wow I love my OCs... 😊 Emmanellain is also here and I love him too

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I wanted to repost these separate from the meme :3

In order: Ellort x Emmanellain F'lihn x Glassi Ilsoux x Iviette Leigh x Lau

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stolen coats and stolen kisses

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Looking respectfully 😳

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Glassi and F'lihn, my big dumb pirate and skittish little scholar ocs~

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FFXIV write 2021

I lost track of uploading them at some point, so here is a big link of all my submissions and what’s what!!

Please mind the ratings! They’re in the links and also each summary! Content warnings are also in the summaries of each chapter!

Day 1 - Foster: Genfic (T) || OC Count Durendaire & Jannequinard de Durendaire - Day 2 - Aberrant: Genfic (T) || Warrior of Light & non-WoL OCs - Day 3 - Scale: M/M (T) || m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 4 - Baleful: Genfic with mentions of M/M (T) || Warrior of Light & Aymeric de Borel; Past m!WoL/Haurchefant Greystone mentioned - Day 5 - Pick your own word (Compulsion): F/F (E) || f!Estinien Wyrmblood/f!Aymeric de Borel - Day 6 - Avatar: Genfic (M) with mentions of F/F || Ysayle Dangoulain - Day 7 - Speculate: Ships not tagged for spoiler reasons (T) || Original non-WoL characters & Thubyrgeim Guldweitzwyn - Day 8 - Adroit: Genfic (T) with mentions of M/F || OC Count Durendaire & Original Durendaire characters - Day 9 - Friable: M/M (T) || Estinien Wyrmblood/Aymeric de Borel; Platonic Aymeric de Borel & Haurchefant Greystone - Day 10 - Heady: M/M (E) || Estinien Wyrmblood/Aymeric de Borel - Day 11 - Preaching to the Choir: Genfic (G) || Alphinaud Leveilleur & Estinien Wyrmblood; Alphinaud Leveilleur & Aymeric de Borel - Day 12 - Pick your own word (Scandal): F/F (E) || f!Estinien Wyrmblood/f!Aymeric de Borel - Day 13 - Oneirophrenia: F/F (E) || Ysayle Dangoulain/Heustienne de Vimaroix - Day 14 - Commend: Genfic (T) with mentions of M/F || Edmont de Fortemps & OC Count Durendaire - Day 15 - Thunderous: Genfic (G) with implied M/M || Warrior of Light & Thaumaturge quest NPCs - Day 16 - Crane: M/M (G) || m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 17 - Destruct: M/M (M) || m!WoL/Haurchefant Greystone - Day 18 - Devil's Advocate: M/M (T) || m!WoL/m!WoL & m!WoL/Haurchefant Greystone - Day 19 - Pick your own word (Overdone): F/F (E) || f!Estinien Wyrmblood/f!Aymeric de Borel - Day 20 - Petrichor: M/M (T) || m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 21 - Feckless: M/M (T) || Estinien Wyrmblood/Aymeric de Borel - Day 22 - Fluster: F/F (E) || f!Estinien Wyrmblood/f!Aymeric de Borel - Day 23 - Soul: M/M (T) || m!WoL/m!WoL & m!Azem/m!Amaurotine OC - Day 24 - Illustrious: Genfic with mentions of M/M (T) || m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 25 - Silver Lining: M/M (T) || Exarch/m!WoL & m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 26 - Pick your own word (Dysfunction): F/F (E) || f!Estinien Wyrmblood/f!Aymeric de Borel - Day 27 - Benthos: Genfic (T) || Carvallain & Warrior of Light - Day 28 - Bow: M/F & M/M (T) || m!OC/f!OC & m!WoL/m!WoL - Day 29 - Debonair: M/M (T) || Estinien Wyrmblood/Aymeric de Borel - Day 30 - Abstracted: Genfic (T) || Alphinaud Leveilleur & Aymeric de Borel & Estinien Wyrmblood

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Too much time with the pirate girlfriend turns a scholar into an adventurer, it would seem