#oc: tiona eryut

[gunbun]

i heard @ahollowgrave wants birthday butts

here have some butts

[tehjai]

i'm gonna go with the fandom i'm in: tell me about legitimate sagacity!

OH THIS ONE

first of all the first 2 chapters of this are actually on my AO3, which you need a login to view because lmao eh aye amirite https://archiveofourown.org/works/44233537/chapters/111235243

ok have you ever seen the movie Real Genius? basically it's like a fandom fusion with that movie. my WoL Tiona goes to FUCKING SCHOOL, invents what eventually becomes a sustainable starship engine, all on her own, for an archon thesis that fourchenault leveilleur is making her jump through a quadrillion dumb hoops to get. jude rose and nero scaeva are on her ad-hoc research team along with a one-eyed loporrit named Thrustingway and yeah they do the popcorn thing and yeah ameliance is in on it.

and Tiona becomes an archon specifically because i said so

REGRETFULLY this one kind of stalled out because i am legitimately kind of burnt out on ficcing for FFXIV right now. which sucks because making Urianger say Val Kilmer's lines in his archaic declension is :chefkiss:

[gunbun]

wait what

a small but very nice thing in the graphics update: viera ears now match their skin tone !!

it always stood out for me with io's dark skin, but i love this adjustment. here are some pre-update comparisons:

[gunbun]

Gunbun's Attempt At A Tiona Eryut Explainer Because I Apparently Have Some Kind of Following Now

(For the record I'm bun.breaker on discord, just send me an ask telling me who you are and I'll gladly accept any and all requests if you wanna yell about OCs)

Preface: All references to things like "now" and "x years ago" are relative to the start of Dawntrail. I uh… look, the developers gave us a time bubble so I'm lettin' time happen. ANYWAY.

All of this is subject to change due to MSQ or because I fuckin' feel like it.

A HISTORY OF A VERY AGGRESSIVE RABBIT WHO IS ALSO THE SAVIOUR OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE follows below.

Tiona Eryut was born in the springtime as Tiona Eryut approximately 203 years ago in Yyasulani (now known as Heritage Found). She is the last of seven children to be born to the Eryut clan, a weird shetona hippie collective that had a couple of martial artists in it.

At some point in her youth, Tiona left Tural and ended up traveling far to Radz-at-Han in search of formal education and a desire to see the world. Not uncommon for Shetona.

Upon arrival in Thavnair, she spent a lot of time attending university at Radz-at-Han and learned about civil engineering. She was always good with her hands in addition to martial combat and paid her way via odd jobs… and then she discovered adventuring.

Over time she met a bunch of people who were viera refugees from Dalmasca who were getting their shit kicked in by the Garlean Empire.

She joined the Resistance. And did a few unnecessary civilian murder/terrorism things as part of that. She then got bumped on the head real bad in combat and forgot everything I just wrote down.

Tiona is recovering in a field hospital who-knows-where when she gets the cosmic text message to Hear, Feel, Think. Well, her hearing works. She feels like shit, and she thinks her name is Tiona Eryut, but anything more than that is just…. vague. To this day, apart from a few instances from her past that I occasionally bring up in fanfics for dramatic purposes, she doesn't remember much from before then. She also lost the ability to read, but chalked it up to her being in a new place. That new place is Limsa Lominsa.

The Main Scenario Quest pretty much plays out like it does; Tiona had a roommate named Keltgeim for awhile who helped her find her feet and eventually Tiona sets out to Be An Adventurer, because that's a decent living and she's here now, time to make the best of it.

Upon meeting and joining the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, she is taught (again?) how to read by Urianger Augurelt, but due to the particular nature of her bonk on the head, it's slow going.

Events continue, and Tiona and Urianger become fast friends. He lets her know that he's trying to get to the bottom of everything and might need to do deep cover missions. She was in a sort of military before, she gets it.

Tiona was developing feelings, and was about to say something to Urianger about it when Moenbryda came… and went. He was so grieved that she compartmentalized that fact for probably longer than she should have.

Heavensward proceeds for Tiona pretty much as advertised. When the Warriors of Darkness come around and Urianger finally gives the jig up she yelled at him about how THAT was his SUPER SECRET DISGUISE? Dude. (But hey, it worked… somehow?). Same with Stormblood.

Except by now Tiona and Urianger are dancing around the fact that there's this mutual attraction thing going on. They finally put on their Big Scion Pants and make plans for a date --

-- and then Crystal Exarch fucks up his gacha pull.

Now we get to Shadowbringers. Tiona was Big Mad at Crystal Exarch, even knowing who he was. And then The Plot got in the way of her and Urianger even having any kind of discussion about what was happening between them, and besides, it had been years for Urianger. So much could have changed.

Well, no, nothing changed, and right after Urianger's Big Lie, they skipped like eight steps in the relationship process and had some eager, rushed sex and I-love-yous before going off to the Tempest.

I WROTE A FANFIC ABOUT THIS PART. THREE OF THEM ACTUALLY, YOU CAN READ THEM HERE.

Don't worry. Tiona and G'raha Tia work it out and become bros.

Endwalker happens. Again, mostly as advertised. Tiona is doing her maximum emotional compartmentalization to get through it all.

At the end of all things Hydaelyn says to her that she will finally be granted the clarity she was looking for, because she found the answer to the big questions. This puzzles Tiona, who forgets all about it when she discovers that Sharlayan. Was Building. A Starship.

Adventuring AND engineering? Sign her up! During this time she notices that she's actually able to read things more quickly, but chalks it up to adrenaline.

The Scions of the Seventh Dawn become Etheirys' very first astronauts. Somehow she manages to hold it together through all of Ultima Thule and the big fight with Endsinger. She pats Meteion on the head, tears Zenos Galvus into pieces at the edge of the universe, and then promptly dies of her injuries.

BUT HEY REMEMBER, WE'RE IN A DYNAMIS FIELD. The Scions are shocked, but G'raha Tia has been shipping Tiona and Urianger across two goddamn timelines and he swore this one wouldn't go sour --

-- and the Scions accomplish a true resurrection to bring Tiona back to life. How? Why? IDK, dynamis.

Tiona is fucking wrecked from her fight with Zenos and has a prolonged recovery time and medical supervision from cutting-edge Sharlayan chirurgeons.

She decides that she's got nothing better to do and bullies Fourchenault Leveilleur into giving her Sharlayan citizenship and a chance to present an Archon thesis. (I'M WRITING A FANFIC ABOUT THIS PART BUT IT'S KIND OF HIT A WALL. THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS ARE HERE.) This appears to be what Hydaelyn meant when she said Tiona would obtain clarity. Her memories of her past will likely never come back, but she can move forward with everything in order to be the best version of herself.

Tiona Eryut spends the better part of two years in recovery developing the Azem F-1 aetheromagitek starship engine. Notable contributors to the thesis are Urianger Augurelt, Nero Scaeva, Jude Rose, and Thrustingway of Mare Lamentorum.

It's during this time that Urianger and Tiona do something highly improbable and MAKE A WHOLE BABY. His name is Alsault Eryut. Urianger heard somewhere that viera are matriarchal and Tiona doesn't even remember that she's from Tural so that sounds good to her.

Then 6.x patches happen, and riiiiight before we start hearing about going to Tural, 15 years pass. During this time Tiona and Urianger adopt a war orphan named Roroko Roko. Sharlayan formally commissions her to begin development on a useable whole starship based around the Azem F-1 engine. She calls up Nero Scaeva and the gang again and they get to work.

Oops, Urianger and Tiona fell in love with Nero along the way. Oops.

Dawntrail! Again! Exactly as advertised except when Tiona decides to let Erenville show her around Shaaloani, something interesting happens.

Someone calls her by name.

That's fuckin' weird, Tiona thinks, remembering nothing. Erenville, ever helpful, asks some leading questions and we learn that Tiona and he are from the same general area!

-- oh it's the dome? Well, shit.

Cahciua says "you look like one of my cousins!" and Tiona laughs it off and isn't really thinking too much about what happened in Shaaloani, there's world-changing weird-shit going on--

Then the MSQ got in the way and we were partying hard in Tuliyollal, happy to end Yet Another World-Ending Threat.

Erenville does Tiona a solid and gives her the following information:

Yatzil Eryut - Tiona's father. (Imagine a viera who looks just like Danny DeVito.) He has the same blue hair she does. He's living in Solution 9. He is a cousin of Cahciua. (that means Tiona and Erenville are first cousins once removed, but she was born ages before he was, so this is just a fun factoid at this point.)

How Erenville feels about having Tiona, who makes Wuk Lamat look like an indecisive scaredy cat, as a blood relative, is yet to be determined.

Chel Eryut

Seti Eryut

Nima Eryut - Three of Tiona's six siblings. All women. Alive, but locations unknown.

Alsault Eryut followed his little-big sister Roroko Roko to college after partying around Tural with his dad and Uncle Thancred. He's about 19 or so now. Kind of a himbo but a very accomplished artist.

[gunbun]

tiona and urianger are hhhhhh

Hey! I'm in big dumb shipfeel city, so give me a reblog and show me your favorite screen of your XIVship, I wanna see them!

Whether it's OCxCanon, OCxOC, or CanonxCanon, whatever! Or even if it's a platonic, besties relationship and not romantic, whatever! Maybe share your favorite thing about them if you want?

[tehjai]

Hello, dear! You've been visited by the random character question fairy! :D ~☆

Does your character ever 'fuck around and find out'? In other words, do they sometimes do things just because they can? If so, how has that turned out for them? If not, do they ever regret not being more adventurous?

So with respect to Tiona Eryut, hell yeah she does.  It has certainly put her into the very interesting position of being the guy who’s gonna save the world.  Sometimes she wishes she wasn’t so adventurous, there are days where she’d just like to stay at home and bake cookies and cuddle with her spouse and play with her dog.

[dragons-bones]

A pair of boss ass bitches (featuring @gunbun)

AKA

The Rising cutscene kicking you out in the most opportune location at the most opportune time.

[gunbun]

"do i have to?"

"striple triad was YOUR idea. you lost. so you know what you need to do." "verily. thou art a woman of thy word, after all."

"FINE."

[gunbun]

what about rabbits

I need to find and follow every FFXIV WoL blog on this site immediately. I need to get deeply invested in the lore behind every lizard, elf, catboy and lala in existence.

[gunbun]

your friend @punchelf has a vegetable garden

and you are a rabbit

[gunbun]

you just found where you came from. after all this time.

damn shame it's there.

[gunbun]

it's been 15 years, you've picked up a new boyfriend, and you still don't know how to swim. #woliangerweek2024 Day 2: Vacation

[gunbun]

Tiona is a Certified Culinarian.

But it's just because she likes to cook and she likes to eat more.

i am grumpy and hungry so i bring you a wol question

does your wol/oc have a canon crafting/gathering job?

we all have our combat classes, of course, but is there a particular crafting or gathering job they vibe with? is it a hobby or perhaps a source of income for them? was it something they picked up prior to msq? and, for some bonus points, is there one crafter/gatherer they just cant stand?

[gunbun]

"Hey, it's real nice moving around up here. You don't seem to get tired. You really hop like a bunny."

Alan Bean, Apollo Astronaut and Painter (1932-2018)

[gunbun]

sometimes the crazy ex-war-criminal-spaceship-makers are too busy to argue in the literature so they settle their differences using alternate means

[gunbun]

kiss kiss fall in love (again) (for the third time that day)