#once upon a time renoux was also a minty cat

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Renoux Luna: Then (2021) & Now (2025)

Here's possibly one of the first pics I took of Renoux that I have on hand (there might be earlier pics of her but I can't get to them since my PS4 is packed away). I actually started playing XIV as a miqo'te when A Realm Reborn came out on the PS3, but I went on a hiatus during Stormblood. When I came back to the game post-Shadowbringers I rerolled on a new server as a viera. While I really liked my viera, I was missing my miqo so I fantasia'd Renoux after finishing up Endwalker MSQ.

Left is one of the last pics of my ARR character (the inspiration for Renoux's overall appearance). Right is vanilla Renoux before the graphics update.

And this is Renoux today, still mostly vanilla except hair and make-up. Her journey was long (I actually had to use a few fantasias) but she's finally here!

This was a lot of fun going through all my screenshots from console -> Mac -> PC and seeing how my pictures have progressively changed. Thank you to @drowxiv for tagging me on this! Tagging @turpalauri @neriyon @juweldom @candycryptids @captainqster and encourage everyone else to share their "Then vs Now" stories/pics if you haven't already done so!