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Coming in with a steel chair
FROM A CORPSE OF A GOD SHE RISES
SHE’S BAD
SHE’S MAD
RAGE GOD 2.0
#fantasy high junior years#fhjy#jace stardiamond#buddy Dawn#fantasy high#spoilers#ish#cause#pre finale stuff#BUT#fanart#llorsdood#though keeping design born from this#perhaps to use#for a future🤞fantasy modern campaign#🏍😎#she goes by Ruth and wields a chain and nails covered bat#and I ADORE HER#keeping backstory of divorced (no longer corrupted) goddess parents that got back together and now it’s awkward
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A missed apology.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#veilguard spoilers#spoilers#Emmrich volkarin#da manfred#my art#I just finished the game and am too full of feels rn#so I couldn’t draw tonight#it was just full of angst#so this is what I can muster ahdidhdj#I’m like#both happy and sad af#post series depresso is hitting so hard rn ahaha#I’ll be drawing more after I’m done marinating in my feels#drawing bigger stuff I mean#insert keyboard spam incoherently here#that fight pre final battle is still in my head so doodle#my thoughts are all over the place
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Does croissant and gale get married in your story?
It's certainly something they plan to do!
But not just yet.
🥐 Croissant Adventures Masterpost 🥐
#FINALLY! MORE BREADWEAVE! JUST FOR YOU!#Thank you for asking this - what a good way for me to segue into some post-game stuff! (this is pre-epilogue)#Croissant was never super into marriage so it's something they don't mind waiting on. And they want to make sure ALL their friends are ther#I also feel like Croissant never felt like they had a Purpose - so they've never had a place to direct all their energy#Now that they have this task they're going to go full Gale mode about it lol#Which I think Gale would be happy to oblige - reading a bunch of books to solve a problem seems right up his alley#Bc I'm not sure if I'll draw this - I envision Croissant focusing on figuring out how to magic Karlach's heart back to normal#while Gale works on some magic artifact to allow Astarion to be in the sun again#Both of them will be bad about having a proper sleep schedule#bg3#baldur's gate 3#croissant adventures#gale#gale dekarios#breadweave#asks#comics
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Pre-banishment AU
Kinda?
I've had this idea since I started this account but never got around to making it. Mainly because I didn't have a clear idea of what it will be. If you guys have any ideas, lemme know! I would love to hear your thoughts <3<3
#minecraft#minecraft fanart#herobrine#minecraft steve#herosteve#minecraft art#artists on tumblr#myart#pre-banishment au#I made this au because of the ANGST potential#You have cute slice of life stuff than BAM BANISHMENT EXECUTION GENOCIDE HAHAAHHAH#I had drawn this design for Hero monthssss ago#was excited to finally draw it properly#its similar to the other one I have drawn. I never really liked it so had to redesign it with PROPER REFERENCES LOL#I tried to give him a crown prince/commander feel#I tried to make his design culture appropriate but not sure if I got that lol#also i LOVE the green on him. Never thought it would work but suprisingly it does#you guys can guess whats happening here lol did steve steal someone's uniform or did he make a royal set of armor#to ge these flowers delivered#dedicated#Steve DID NOT think that hero would memorise his handwriting lmao plan failed
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more of this au... i kind of like it actually
[id: sketches of dsmp!wilbur and qsmp!wilbur in a comic. q!wilbur is sitting in a chair, watching tallulah sleep. behind him, leaning against the wall, his dsmp self says, “i tried, you know. changing things. making my world ‘better.’ you want to know how that worked out?” and he replies “not particularly.” dsmp!wilbur approaches him, and says “hey, i won’t stop you. you can play at peace for as long as you like. maybe some of those friends of yours will even join you.” he leans close to wilbur’s face, smiling, and says “but sooner or later... something’s got to give.” end id]
#some stuff about how this au works... basically dsmp q and wilbur end up in qsmp invisible to everyone but their alternate selves. they're-#-from pre finale; like at their worst possible selves when they're both obsessed with vengeance and each other#they dont know why they ended up in qsmp; quackity thinks he was sent to help his other self become 'stronger'. the same way he tried to-#-mentor charlie#wilbur doesnt really know why hes there. he just decides to sit back and watch the show#qsmp#dsmp#dream smp#art#fish makes art#wilbur soot
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oc time again! + her town & culture (heavily inspired by pre-roman italic populations)
she is suri sauthon. her story is linked to my swtor imperial agent, tar'x, but most of her life except for the one year away where she meets him, is spent in a town in the mountains of mirial.
despite mirial being cold and desert, and many cities developing underground, her town flourishes thanks to a force nexus, venerated in the form of an ancient, sacred, alive crystal. the ecosystem of that mountain depended on what "the horned crystal" was capable of giving them, but mirialans couldn't live off of that alone, so they developed trade and some rudimental technology, even if oftentimes it was bought thanks to the highly profitable trade of a plant used to make medicines that slowed down aging and had overall healing properties.
note: everything that's generated by this nexus has these healing properties BUT they have to be processed, except for those who bathed in the waters of the cavity under the crystal - the "real" nexus, but not the worshipped one. the waters were sacred but they were not thought to be miraculous, unlike the crystal, who instead was thought of as the keystone of the ecosystem: without it, everything would fall apart (and that is partially true: the cavity was the "real" nexus but thanks to the crystal, also strong in the force, the properties were spread all over the mountains). those who bathed in the cavity's waters - so, all of the town, who had a sort of baptism there - could eat the plant, make whatever food with it, and not only that plant, but everything generated by the nexus, that, again, had similar properties. this allowed people to live up to normal life-spans without advanced medicines or, much, really. to those who didn't live there, though, after the processing, had incredible effects, slowing down aging - for those who took it regularly - and making people able to live up to half a century more than the average]
originally, there were four tribes of nomads that lived thanks to horned farm animals that decided to settle down into one bigger town and other smaller settlements, to live off of transhumance. this division of the tribes stayed into the political and social organization: every person belonged to one tribe specifically, and had slightly different rituals and culture. for examples, each tribe had their own priests and healers, with different techniques and traditions. the town, tho, was guided by a group of people in the high priesthood, a position you could reach only by having earned the trust of all tribes. those high priests had many roles: they guided the people into sacred processions common to all the tribes, they managed the trading with outsiders, they did the maintenance of the temple of the summit (the one that functioned as casket to the crystal) and created a special liquid to offer the crystal that helps it grow.
this particular temple was important because 1. it was very visible, from every angle of the town, and it became an important identity symbol; 2. it stored the venerated horned crystal; 3. it had the altar where sacrifices were made for the crystals. that altar had a hole connected to the cavity, that allowed the liquids to reach the underground; 4. it had various symbols: statues representing each tribe + the high priesthood, and typical mirialan tattoos carved into the wood of the trees that served as columns for the temple, symbolizing 8 values that who dared to enter HAD to have; 5. it was on the way to an important lake (called "mother lake" because the lake the town was built around to depended on the waters of that other lake) where they traveled to in important processions; 6. it was said that a the wizard who unified the tribes made it with its magic, making the plant grow to hold the temple's roof. this wizard was, actually, a force user, obv.
BACK TO HER THOUGH: she's daughter of one of the high priests, who was in charge of managing the trades with outsiders, and lives in a house on the mountains with her mother and him. her parents are from different tribes (that's one of the things that earned him trust from the 4 tribes): when a child is born from two different tribes, they don't pick one to allign to, but they're usually linked automatically to the one with more relatives in it (in her case, the father's tribe: she had many uncles and aunts on his side while her mom only had one sister).
later, though, she got quite tied to her mother's tribe due to a mysterious illness that only her mother's tribe healer was able to cure. she spent 4 years (from 10 to 14 years old) living with the healer and learned her secrets. to better study, she wrote them down. when she returned home, she studied to become a priestess with her father. at 22 (the average age: you can't become priest before your 20s), she was supposed to take a test and become a priestess, but the healer of her mother's tribe died and the tribe asked her to take her place. she couldn't technically do that, but both tribes estimated both her and her parents and she was allowed to become both. she then decided to try to become a high priestess, and became one at 25 (a quite young age). being part of the council, she tried to convince the various tribe healers to unite their knowledges and write them down, and eventually made it. healers still remained tribe based but they now had an "upper, inter-tribe level" similar to high priesthood.
years later, the sacred horned crystal is stolen from the temple by some Hutt mercenaries looking for a profit. given the trust she has earned from all the tribes and the fact that her father is the high priest that deals with outsiders (and she's been hearing stories and advice about it since she was little), she is the one tasked with getting it back. without the growing crystal, the keystone to their ecosystem, the village would have lasted only a few years. in hrr quest, she meets imperial intelligence agent tar'x laran and, as they "solve the mystery" and fight to have it back, they get closer. they'll get married and have a daughter, Vegoia (who's the only one who actually will get to the plot of my story. this was all background)
#i overdeveloped this part of the background. IT'S QUITE LITERALLY USELESS. like. Vegoia will have so few memories of it (she'll become jedi)#i will make a post about her too when I'll finish designing her and outlining her story BUT that may be difficult cuz the frame for the mai#story is quite difficult to match with how developed the other stories are getting and i have to figure it Much Stuff yet#so I'm using these post to like. fix a certain part lf the lore because even my own notes are getting older and messy. better to start over#ANYWAY for those curious & who are still reading (if u exist. WTF THANK U!!); my main story is actually a research file in the jedi archive#BASICALLY i was trying to write my own story for years but then i watched a video (tcw doesn't hold up by sheev talks i think) and i finall#understood how to frame all of these stories together in a way that i feel can add to the star wars lore (because. the others were just#like. okay but who cares unless me? and i did want to have a cool frame that maybe some nerd would be interested in looking into)#so: when ahsoka anakin and obi return from mortis; they tell the council about it (yoda knows about it in s6). sheev talks complained that#it was incredibly full of stuff that was done so poorly it could ruin a big part of the original sw story itself and it was never brought u#again. and honestly i agree. SO my story is about a jedi that is tasked with research on the celestials & by having him figure out stuff i#can minimize/limit/reframe some of the controversial things in there (i love mortis arc so bad but i also agree with his critic. I'll Fix™)#so. many stories will be about people who have previously seen the celestials or have been to mortis one way or another (pre-tcw obv) & hav#had experience & knowledge that the researcher is looking for. so i get to have an anthology with many stories#and have a cool frame I'm intrested in developing + i can experiment with different storytelling styles depending on how he finds out stuff#+ there was another sw story with a similar frame i think? so if i decide to write the story as if it was the file itself and not the searc#i can have even a REFERENCE of what a file like that is supposed to be. LIKE. IT ALL FITS!!!#sw#star wars#swtor#the old republic#star wars oc#imperial agent#star wars fanart#mirialan oc#mirialan#star wars story#star wars the old republic#oc: suri sauthon
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heavensward wol/minfilia... an eternal farewell (for now)
#myart#xivart#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#wol#minfilia warde#wolfilia#wol x minfilia#heh a lot of their stuff i wrote pre shb so i didnt know she was returning for shb....#so truly HW was when he'd thought he'd bid his last farewell to her
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Like a Dragon Gaiden ↳ Substory: End of Destruction
#kaito masaharu#higashi toru#like a dragon gaiden#lad gaiden#like a dragon#yakuza#yakuzaedit#ryu ga gotoku#rggedit#gamingedit#my gifs#my stuff#judgment#judgmentedit#< technically not I know but since they're judgment characters stealing a cameo#you know I had to gif my boys and their little appearance#this is pre-dissolution of the tojo and omi so it really is a wonder how kaito dragged higashi out here lol#well but I guess by this point the tojo is basically in tatters anyway#hilarious that we finally got higashi playing detective and due to the timeline he immediately dropped it to go run an arcade#he is allergic
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Why am I obsessed with the rift?
From my first fic to the many many many many season 5 fics I've written, to the fic where the whole thing could've been averted in season 2, to my no-villain-era-for-Lena in season 3 (twice) and season 4 fics......... I seem to have developed a bit of a rift pattern.
A reasonable person might ask: Why?
There's something that itches in my mind: I think either woman would've been fully justified in walking away from their friendship, and yet they ultimately didn't.
It starts with Kara, who is ultimately a fractured person. She deeply values the truth, and yet she's forced to live with various lies, unable to be her full self.
Her identity is in the in-betweens. She feels adrift between two cultures, she knows her alien state while reaping the privilege of passing, she hides core aspects of herself on a daily basis. I'm sucked into the rift, in part, because of who she is and how she struggles to put it all together. I think her frustration will resonate with anyone who's stuck in the in-betweens.
Kara's struggle for identity plants the seed for the rift. The bigotry of society meant she had to have a secret identity in the first place, and keeping the secret from Lena was certainly reasonable for a time.
We can debate endlessly about when Kara should've told Lena - I think it's really hard to find the line between "too soon" and "too late" - but it ultimately doesn't matter. Because it's Kara's kneejerk reaction to Lena's kryptonite that forms the first sort of betrayal, not the secret itself.
Kara screws up - she says something she regrets, she doubles down when threatened and scared. These are common mistakes... but we have super-level circumstances, so we get super-level consequences. And the engine she has inside her that fears loss (which she's suffered to a level that is unimaginable to anyone on Earth) kicks in. She can't lose another person she loves.
But who is she holding onto?
In the series, and in flashbacks, we watch Lena's progression from idealistic techie to cynical recluse. While she's experienced loss and isolation, that's not the cause of her shift.
It's in experiencing her idol and protector become the madman who kidnaps her. It's in realizing her best friend has betrayed her by taking the one thing that could've saved her brother. It's in moving to a new city to start over, and meeting a mentor who uses her to start a global invasion. It's in her partner in scientific discovery being a pawn to her brother, colluding behind her back.
And then there's the final downfall. Her new best friend - her trusted confidant, her hero, the one who made her feel not so alone anymore - is the super who denigrated her, maligned her, spied on her. Lena had two important people in her life at that point, and she sacrificed one for the other... only to find out the other was a lie.
With betrayal after betrayal - Lex and Andrea and Rhea and Eve and Kara - she loses faith that anyone is above their worst impulses.
So she falls to her own.
How can good people do bad things?
There's a saying I heard around MIT sometimes: there are no technical solutions to social problems. It's easy to forget - when you're surrounded by people seeking to improve the world via science and engineering - that you can't solve humanity via technology or logic or rules. Lena forgot this.
Myriad marks a shift in the rift. Kara lied to Lena, antagonized her, spied on her - but her wrongs were directed towards Lena. Lena's initial response - the petty manipulation and the plan to out Kara - were directed back at Kara.
But then the rift fundamentally shifts.
At this point, Lena's wrongs are no longer just about Kara - she's trying to brainwash the world. She mindcontrolled Malefic and enslaved Eve. This went beyond the fallout between two friends.
It's clear that her intentions are still good here. She's not a megalomaniac like her brother, she's not forming an us-vs-them mentality like her stepmother. She's an anti-villain at this point in the story - desperate to find what's true, in a world full of lies.
It's a hard line to walk, acknowledging Lena's trauma and well-intentioned motivations while realizing she's still ultimately culpable for her own actions. But it's important to try to balance, because Lena is still redeemable.
But getting back to the relationship itself - Kara played a large role in pushing Lena to the edge of her trauma, which was entirely motivated by Kara's own trauma.
You hide things so you don’t lose people. I run from people who hide things. I guess we were bound to explode.
Lena says this in my first fic mentioned earlier, and it summarizes the rift as succinctly as I can put it. Their traumas were incompatible, and their relationship should've failed.
And yet.
Delving into how the CW screwed up the rift could be its own essay. They gave us a complex and layered situation, only to gut it with It's a Super Life (beloved/beloathed), the narrative retroactively justifying Kara instead of examining her foils, glossing over Lena instead of delving into her ethical blindspots. The rift was cancelled.
What does that leave us with?
Well, I guess it left me seeking the rift, over and over again. I'm certainly not the first author to do a rift fic, and I doubt I'll be the last. There seem to be a few different approaches:
Some authors delve into the nuance, having the two characters hash out what they've been through in a way that feels balanced and real. In particular, I love the @searidings fic with the birds i'll share this lonely view. I don't think I have the skill to pull off that type of story.
Some writers lean heavily on one "side" or the other, often with lots of grovelling. This never resonates with me, because at some point in a relationship there has to be the realization that it's "us vs. the problem", rather than "you vs. me". In my mind, these fics miss the layers of trauma that led to the rift.
Some authors make the rift not matter. If you put the characters through hell and back, the anger will lose its thrust, and they'll be left wanting to heal.
I fall into the last category.
There's a moment from permanence by @itllsetyoufree that I especially love, where - in the aftermath of season 6 - Eliza asks Lena why she forgave Kara. Lena can't answer.
We like to think we're logically driven. But in my experience, forgiveness - and a host of other emotions - never work that way. Sometimes "sorry" cuts it, sometimes it doesn't. A lot of times, forgiveness comes from the realization that someone genuinely wants to connect, and that the fallout was relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
Of course, when your fallout includes extra levels of gaslighting and a bit of global brainwashing, making it relatively unimportant requires something drastic.
That's where I end up landing. Putting my blorbos in Situations helps them see the other in a new light - see the other's genuineness, the other's fears, the other's love. Often times, this comes with the simultaneous threat to someone's life (though that's not necessary, especially if it's earlier in Lena's breaking point cutoff).
I do assume - and sometimes imply - that they're also having those discussions, working things out in the background. Because of what I put them through in my fics, I don't think those end up being explosive discussions. It's about figuring out the practical aftermath of what the heart already knows at that point.
Whether I deliver on that is ultimately up to the reader, but that's my approach. Because at the end of the day, love is about cherishing and understanding the person in front of you - flaws and and traumas in all. These stories are driven by loving both characters, and trying to see them the way they see each other.
The rift is a story about love and connection - how those things can't happen without embracing someone else's trauma and without understanding one's own imperfection. Because that's what's at the root of all of us.
And that's why I write the rift.
#this felt good to finally put into words#(note: this approach made writing the pre-S5 fics particularly rough but that's a tangent that didn't fit in here)#(I don't delve into every ethical question either but I wish the show had)#supercorp#headcanon#mel stuff
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half the song’s boards are preeettyy much done! (YIPPEE!!) later half is going to be more action-y and dynamic (MANIFESTING) so itll prolly take me longer but im on solid pace rn with it
#chris animates#dave strider#hs#homestuck#song is slow motion by luke wild!#once i finish the boards im Actually Going to Do Pre Production Stuff I Shouldve Before Boarding#like i need to make a proper character turnaround#id like to tackle doing a color script too?#and i gotta do some render shot tests for what the final compositing + stuff will look like#i have no idea what vibe im going to go for w the bgs yet#and using light composites on an ffffff white character is gonna be Tricky#but i love a challenge
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this season is actually restoring my faith in this show. i finally have a season i can recommend to someone that isn’t 10+ years old, canadian, or comes with the “but the actual show wasn’t as good as the live feeds-“ contingency.
#bb26#and some people just don’t wanna watch pre-hd stuff and bbcan is so inaccessible#like they’re finally not embarrassing me#like the show is actually worth watching this season
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Steve: Look, Billy, you’re stubborn. And that’s an adorable quality
Steve: You wanna know what’s not an adorable quality?
Billy: Acne
Steve: Being dead
Billy: Yep, being dead
Steve: So I need you to stay alive, and that’s a threat
#harringrove#pre-s3 finale and stuff#billy hargrove#steve harrington#billy x steve#billy hargrove x steve harrington#incorrect harringrove quotes#harringroveera#harringrove textpost#incorrect billy hargrove quotes#incorrect steve harrington#steve x billy#steve harrington x billy hargrove#source: brooklyn 99
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Had to jump on this trend .
#suggestive tw#suggestive cw#cotl#cult of the lamb#cotl lamb#cotl bishops#cotl narinder#cotl kallamar#cotl shamura#Ik this isn’t a full post but . dunno when I’ll doodle enough again to do a full one so *shrug*#motivation kinda sucks rn tbh#nyways#Kallamar is next yippeee!’#this has been a fun series hehe I wanna put them all next to their pre-banishment portraits afterwards#Monch my beloved……#she’s one of my fave non-lamb non-bishop characters#(Chemach is also a huge fave)#wanted to put my own spin on her design 🥺🤲#moot wanted a Lamb body-type ref so!!#Didn’t have time to add all of the notes I wanted before having to take the photo tho so 😔 is a bit incomplete#I can have Self Indulgent Shaynno Parent Fluff . As a Treat .#ANYWAYS-#Acension can be . Rough (especially when it comes to the opening of new eyes) 😔😔#And Finally#Wanted to jump in#was fun sketching their lil fleece n stuff 😩#Might take a break from the Lord designs after Kallamar to digitalize them 👀
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@bumble-the-sun-bee y oull never guess who :3
(close up under the cut <3)
#hsgdhfgsdj i couldn t find the og post but i saw one that said smth like that ↑#once i find it ill just put a screenshot of it to credit op cuz that was the truest shit ive ever heard#<i fOund it!!!!!!#aLso ive never done an audio post before lmk if it blows up or something idk how they work-#i jsut#djkfgsdjkfsdjgdkdgkv#hes so pre t yy#also i think!! ive finally found a solid way of drawing his torso that works best!!!#ebebebeb#hdgfhsg ive had plenty of practice with my literal dozens of times drawing him at his point-#ebeb fun fact: i actually posed for this myself#i just set up my phone cam with a self timer :D#oughfbdhdf honestly this was just alot of fucking around with diff stuff i can do on photoshop#since thats what i use lmao-#like the diff gradients n stuff#ebebebebebebebebe#malware my beloved#dca oc#mutuals oc#audio post#my art#storm draws#Spotify#malware my beloved but more
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i can't tell if i'm just not paying attention or if mouthwashing just doesn't make any sense
#random thoughts#mouthwashing#watching a playthrough and am on the Big Twist so more stuff may happen or whatever#like jimmy raped anya. none of her behavior before this really like clued this in but whatever#doesn't really. add anything to the story so far. could really replace it with anything and the story would still be the same#seems like it's just there to give jimmy a reason to crash the ship#also don't like that he crashed the ship. curly crashing it made him more of a compelling character for me#like it's established he gives the same answers every time in the mental health check ups#make him like. succumb to the pressures of the job. instead of just being kind of a shitty normal boss#and like. anya doesn't want to give jimmy his check up and be alone with him while he makes up sexually deviant lies. could be foreshadowing#but she asks him to give curly his medicine. she doesn't seem to OBJECT to him becoming captain.#she was also a lot more compelling when it seemed like she was struggling due to the pressures of the job#i like swansea. reminds me of uncle billy from the outcasts of poker flat#his final where's johnny moment is kind of out of nowhere. is it because jimmy has the gun?#i doubt it's about the rape. did jimmy do something else? did swansea find out he crashed the ship?#i wish i didn't get to see curly's face before the crash. like give me some room to ponder dude#daisuke and swansea's dynamic is really fun! especially in the pre-crash scenes#my main problem with anya is she didn't have any single character to play off of. daisuke had swansea. curly had jimmy.#she's just kind of there. and miserable. and sucks at her job#also why is curly still alive??? like she killed herself in front of him but didn't take him out? tf anya#there's like 30 mins left so idk maybe some of my complaints will be rectificed. or maybe mouthwashing just isn't for me#literally my main complaint is the rape subplot so if they do something interesting with that then we're golden
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"But I could never live up to those expectations! Why would you risk so much by entrusting this duty to me of all people? Once the star falls to ruin, don't you dare say I didn't warn you!"
#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#ff14#final fantasy 14#azem#ffxiv azem#my azem#gpose#ffxiv gpose#ffxiv screenshot#my screenshot#my edit#iamus#my darling boy..... hes a mess#thrust into a role he never wanted but grew into despite all expectation#who defined himself by his cowardice only to be destroyed in a final act of bravery#i write stuff for him and post it despite the canon liberties i took#(such as him creating the elpis flower since i settled for iamus making solely flowers pre-ew and i screamed when the flower showed up)
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