#rai's ffxiv crisis

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Cassiel Helisande

Cassiel is my Warrior of Light that I write bad fanfic with. She's technically an alt character (that I still need to take through EdW!), but based off the fem highlander I started my main on (because I really loved her). I don't RP with her, just daydream about her and Estinien.

Cass is 27/28 at the start of ARR and my canon has a couple years passing before EdW is over. She's from a small mining village in Gyr Abania and she escaped to the Black Shroud before Garlemald restarted their Eorzean campaign (a couple years pre-calamity). While blessed (or possibly cursed?) with the Echo, she originally comes to Gridania to be a botanist and miner, only picking up the lance incidentally. She soon finds herself fighting primals and meeting Ishgard's Azure Dragoon. She's a DRG and DRK canonically.

I'm not sure if I'll ever publish stuff I've written. I have previously published a very early, now completely rewritten version on AO3, that has since been deleted (I do still have an ShB piece that's just a bit of creative writing that I'm still proud of! Read it here). However, I will probably ramble about her, at length, given the chance. Her tag is #the abyss (Estinien's is #the song, their combined tag is #the song and the abyss).

See under the cut for some more screenshots! I have yet to play/look at her much in DT, I wasn't very happy with the changes in the benchmark, so I'm not sure how I'll feel.

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need to get good at art so I can draw all these hot elezen men

(this is maybe weird to see after all my bitching about ace/aro but I like fictional men existing in their little games and I can look at them, they will never be real and that's a good thing)

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and my current main, a very hot elezen lady who defies my usual character quirks (aka exclusively blue hair) but I love her anyway

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anyway have a cassiel

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Part 2 of my main through the ages! (Part 1 here) Last we left off, I was a very hot, very tall Roe (I have some very absurd MSQ cutscene screenshots). Next up...

Fem Au Ra! (Aug 2021). I made her as short as possible, which was very fun after being as tall as possible. I did an entire replay of ARR, HW, SB, and ShB with her. And I played EdW with her, I completely forgot that. (To be fair, I was under a lot of stress + pandemic stress, so my memory of that time is pretty shot).

And then I wanted to play the very pretty Viera! (June 2022). I liked her, but probably wouldn't go back.

I went back to fem highlander sometime in early 2023. I wasn't playing the game much around this time. I was doing big fishing and I have a lot of fishing screenshots.

I went back to m miqo for a few months before Dawntrail came out. I don't really have any screenshots, it's the same catboy as last time. Then DT came out and I fanta'd to fem hrothgar! (and got an ultrawide). I played through all of DT with her, but ultimately didn't enjoy fem hroth.

So I switched to fem Elezen, where I am now, and I'm quite enjoying it! I don't have many screenshots of her, I don't really have the patience for gpose anymore. And I have a very bare bones reshade with just LUT in it. And honestly, I think the ultrawide is making it more annoying to take screenshots.

I have 3.9 GBs of FFXIV screenshots, so thank you for taking a look through them with me!

Bonuses! I have/had some alts, including this m Au Ra I really liked for some reason. This character eventually became Cassiel (not in lore, just got a name change and fanta). I have some other alts for my solo FC so I can have an FC house, they're my m miqo, m hroth, and lalafell (appropriately named Wind-up Rai!).

This was from the 2018 valentiones event, my friend is an avid bard and we got our fortunes told as Amon.

When HoH first came out, if you went into gpose when someone was otter'd, they would be huge.

Stupid costumes for Prae runs will always be funny. Back when Prae was an 8 man, 45 minute dungeon!

Building the firmament!

And that's it! Thanks for going down memory lane with me! I'll make a separate post with Cass info

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My main through the ages! I started in July 2017 as a fem highlander (who you may vaguely recognize as Cassiel...). I played as her up until someone flirted with me/her in a dungeon and I freaked out.

Enter M Au Ra (Feb 2018). He's fun, I liked dressing him up. I took some good gpose screenshots with him when I still bothered messing with reshade. Also the white whittret makes it's first appearance, I got it on my first run and have used it almost exclusively since.

Alas, I missed my girl, so I was back to her around June 2018. And always forgot to hide my dear whittret. And then...

I got the lalafell bug (Jan 2019)! They are so much fun to play, just little balls of chaos. I had a lot of fun playing dress up with her (dress up is 75% of the reason I play this game). This was also when the namazu head came out (I love namazu) so I had a lot of fun with that.

And then hrothgar came out! (June 2019). I really love m hrothgar. They're big and goofy and adorable. They are such a bitch to glam though. It's hard styling a fridge. But I played him for quite a while, through almost all of ShB.

And then I made myself a smaller catboy! (August 2020). I quite like m miqo, especially the /joy emote (ear wiggles!!)

Back to lalafell at the very end of the expac (Jan 2021). I think this was when I was trying for the Saint of the Firmament title and losing my mind in the Diadem.

And then I had another crisis, but in the tall direction (April 2021). I wanted to play dress up and I wanted some boobs, so fem roe it was! I really liked being taller than Estinien for a while. I also really liked taking screenshots with her.

And I think that's about the picture limit for tumblr, so click here for part 2!