#rjoli

[cosmicseashanty]

Art party sketches from 2022

#tmtobeachparty

#sepiaartparty

#MacArtParty

#MayaBeachParty

#EncoreArtParty

#oldwolartparty

#starlightdays

#YerenBirthday

[windupnamazu]

bolt to the blue

ffxivwrite2021 #15: thunderous

⮞ lunya, fistoflightning's zaya, blackestnight's hanami, verbroil's rjoli, and winduphaurchefant's reese. a mention of windup-dragoon's kirishimi! 921 words. ⮞ post-shb, but pre 5.3, with a spoiler for the ffxv collab event. ⮞ lunya may be less inclined to show it like zaya does, but she does cause problems on purpose. or: water/lightning aspected siblings pioneer the dumbest form of travel eorzea's ever seen.

thunderous: relating to or giving warning of thunder.

"I can't let you do this," Reese insisted, wringing her hands in her robes as she paced before them. "It's way too unsafe—what if you get set on fire, or—or—what if you fall?! You will fall! Oh, gods, what am I going to say to the Scions..."

Lunya rolled her eyes. "Calm down, Mom. I can give us a safe landing." She snapped her fingers. "Like this."

A warbled scream erupted from Reese as she slowly began to float off the ground, glittering with faint traces of stardust. "Please put me down please put me down please put me—"

Rjoli reached out and grabbed her sleeve, smiling patiently as Reese wrapped herself around him like a koala and clung to him even after Lunya returned her gravity to normal.

Dark clouds were beginning to roll in over the Floating City of Nym as the party stood on the cliff's edge, the winds kicking up fiercely as the rain approached. Lunya relished the feeling of an authentic La Noscean storm—it was too bad Wyda couldn't be home to enjoy it too. Kind of embarrassing, actually, that she was making her friends do something like this instead of heading back over to help out with the research. But Zaya was stretching at her side, a spark in their eyes that she hadn't seen in some time between everything that'd happened on the First. Their enthusiasm was palpable, rolling off them in static waves that raised every hair on Rjoli's body until he was a giant pink puffball. Every bit of movement any of them made created small crackling sounds.

"This is not how Noctis did his warping," Hanami said, crossing her arms as she eyed the storm warily. It was hard to tell if she was just as worried for them as Reese was or if she figured they'd learn their lesson the hard way.

"Well, I don't see Hien and Kirishimi warping around with 'the power of kings,'" snipped Lunya, unless Kiri knew something she didn't. Hanami and Zaya both made complicated expressions at the mention of the Doman lordling. "So we gotta do the next best thing."

Privately, Lunya knew full well that going out of her way to get hit by lightning wasn't at all the next best thing and nowhere close to what their otherworldly friend employed in battle. The technique she was going to use came from another of the Warriors of Light and Seven happened to use it without this dangerous aspect, which frankly just wasn't as fun. She sure as hells wasn't about to tell Reese that, though.

"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Rjoli signed, a bit stifled by Reese continuing to cling to him like an oversized stuffed bear. "Isn't Zaya's aether…"

"I know Zaya's whole aether situation is like trying to put a sweater on a greased goobbue, that's why they have me," Lunya emphasized with a wiggle of her incandescent, aether-coated fingers.

"That's why I have Lunya," Zaya agreed, giving them all a not very reassuring thumbs up, way more excited about this than any of the others felt they should be. Reese and Rjoli looked at them doubtfully.

The rain rushed in. When the first crack of thunder slammed above them, Lunya clapped her hands with glee, bouncing up and down on the spot. Zaya knelt on the dirt, her back turned to her. "It's time!"

"Like a frog," Hanami muttered, which Lunya luckily didn't hear.

Lunya climbed on Zaya's back. A iridescent sheen rippled across Zaya's scales and horns and down their skin as she pressed a hand to the back of their head, condensing her aether into a thick protective layer over them both. If her hair wasn't already a mess from Zaya's latent static earlier then it certainly was now as tension completely pooled around them and the rain began to soak them through. Every single hair on her body was standing on end and there was a low buzz that hummed in the air.

"At your ready, Cap'n Zaya!" she cheered. The others stepped far, far back, crammed together beneath Rjoli's Serpent of Ronka umbrella.

"Hold on," Zaya said raspily, teeth bared in a huge grin. Threads of aether swirled in Lunya's hands as she gripped Zaya's shoulders, electricity beginning to arc across their skin. The smell of ozone was overwhelmingly sweet in her nostrils, weighing metallic on her tongue.

Lightning struck them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA," they screamed in unison, like idiots, because seriously why did she ever think this was a good idea—but Lunya closed her eyes and searched, following the lines of aether that swirled in the air. She grasped at the lightning aether, grabbed her own in the other fist, and slammed them together. The lightning strike launched them upward and with her aetherial manipulation she pulled another bolt close and Zaya propelled them forward, high, high above the floating city. Lunya whooped in exhilaration as they leaped to the next lightning strike and the next and the next and the next, and the storm swelled fiercer and fiercer above them until they were out of sight, the only sign of where they were being the intensified sound of the thunderclaps and the shaking of the earth with each following strike.

"Um, now that I think about it," Reese said, breaking the silence that followed the first lightning strike for the three left on the ground. "Why did we let them take any ideas from Noctis when we watched him hit his fiancée with a car?"

[whitherliliesbloom]

The sun shining on us feels good We're looking at each other and smiling

@bolt-from-the-cobalt​  ☀ @ofthesilverlining​  ☀  @windup-dragoon​ ☀  @windupnamazu​  ☀  @mintdrop​  ☀  @verbroil​  ☀ @earthlystar​  ☀ @windupalisaie​  ☀

Part 2 (x)

[fistsoflightning]

COMBAT MODE // ZAYA QESTIR

★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  STRENGTH ★★★★★★★☆☆☆  —  OFFENSE ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  DEFENSE ★★★★★★★★★☆  —  SPEED ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆  —  DURABILITY ★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  ACCURACY ★★★★★★★★★☆  —  AGILITY ★★★★★★★★★☆  —  STAMINA ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆  —  TEAMWORK ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  STEALTH ★★★★★★★★★☆  —  MELEE ★★★★★★★☆☆☆  —  BLADES ★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  BLUNT ★★★★★★★★☆☆  —  RANGED ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  MAGIC ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  TRAPS ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  —  MEDIC

OVERVIEW:

Zaya grew up on the Steppe where fighting was almost guaranteed to be a daily occurrence with how they commonly went out “adventuring”, hunting, or parleying with their older brother for “khan experience” (especially when the Naadam was on the horizon), and as such has the combat experience to match. They’re extremely quick on their feet, hit hard and fast, and rarely let their guard down. Most of their combat set relies on being within melee range, but give them merely a few seconds and they’ll pull out either their chakrams or their bow to hunt you down.

With fighting experience linking back to a good dozen Naadams or so plus hunting experience, it doesn’t quite matter whether their enemy is monster or human; a life is a life, and a fight is a fight. Zaya does not hold back in a real fight, especially if the lives of others are at risk. It’s seldom known, but Zaya can and will call their yol down to spawn a thunderstorm if they need the extra advantage to win. They can also shock people themselves with their tattoo inscription, but they rarely do.

If Zaya finds themselves cornered or losing a fight (ex. Zenos during Rhalgr’s Reach), it’s very likely that they’ll overload their tattoo inscription to call down a very large bolt of lightning to turn the tides at the cost of their wellbeing; it’s killed them twice before, actually. There’s a reason they tend not to rely on it.

INJURIES:

If one didn’t know them personally, it would be an easy assumption to make that none of their injuries have left their mark on them; after all, Au’ra scale patterns differ from person to person... right? 

Those who do know them well enough know that their body is littered with scars; they’re merely hidden due to the fact that their scars fill in with scales. Among the numerous scars on their body, the most major ones lie on their calves, upper back, and left arm and hand; from shards of Ifrit’s nails, Lahabrea and Nidhogg’s claws, and Zenos several times respectively. These scales are much softer than the rest of Zaya’s scales, and need extra protection, which is why all of Zaya’s melee armor includes a pauldron and full armor cover on their left side, plus metal boots.

Their horns also bear numerous scars from unfortunate snaps, but those seem to have healed much better than the rest. Their quick speed has saved them from more... fatal injuries, like being blasted by Nidhogg’s Ala Morn or Hades’ claws swiping through their neck; a trait that also fools others into thinking they might very well be untouchable.

FIGHTING STYLE.

[ bold for often // italicize for situational // strikethrough for never ]

commander /  duelist / “honorable” / dishonorable / would have others do their fighting /  stealthy  / long-ranged / melee / technological / sorcery / superhuman abilities /  has fought in an illegal tourney / a lover of fighting / a hater of fighting  / cowardly / reckless / strategic / uses underhanded tricks  / renowned for their skill / trained /  untrained / keeps skills secret / won a battle / lost a battle / ruthless / merciful

FLAWS.

moody | short-tempered | emotionally unstable | whiny | controlling | conceited | possessive | paranoid | liar | impatient | cowardly | bitter | selfish | power-hungry | greedy | lazy | judgmental | forgetful | impulsive | spiteful | stubborn | sadistic | petty | unlucky

STRENGTHS.

honest | trustworthy | thoughtful | caring | brave | patient | selfless | ambitious | tolerant | lucky | intelligent | confident | focused | humble | generous | merciful | observant | wise | clever | charming | cheerful | optimistic | decisive | adaptive | calm | loyal

tagged by: @whitherliliesbloom. but i took some inspiration from @lordofcrowns! 

tagging: @sati-ffxiv @to-the-voiceless @windupnamazu @winduphaurchefant @verbroil @ofthesilverlining @stars-bleed-hearts-shine @nuclearanomaly and you! feel free to tag me even if i didnt mention you; these are super fun to read!

bonus notes below the cut!

EXTENDED OVERVIEW.

Zaya is reliant on being all up in someone’s face in most fights, since their strength is most of what they have. All of their jobs do physical damage, if you haven’t noticed; they’re basically the equivalent of a DnD character with all their stats in strength and dexterity with nothing in constitution or intelligence.

Speaking of which; Zaya is magically inept. An incident in the Calamity where they faced off against a shard of the fallen Dalamud led to them 1) dying and 2) losing all magical capabilities they had beforehand. To make up for that (seeing as they can cast some magic today, like song and dark magicks), they have a series of magical inscriptions/tattoos on their body. It’s a little frightening to look at with all their scales, so most of them are hidden away with glamour prisms. The only one that isn’t hidden by prisms (instead hidden by an armband on their right arm) is their lightning inscription from a long time ago; it confers them a lot of lightning related benefits, such as full lightning resistance and the ability to discharge collected energy (Greased Lightning >:3). It also gives them a bond with their thunderbird yol, Ochir!

Once in a fight, Zaya will do everything they can to avoid extra damage; unlike most of their fellow Warriors of Light when under the effect of their Blessing of Light, they don’t heal over time. A setback from their aforementioned magical incapability, but it really does blow when they’re the only one around to fight [insert monster name here] since they have to rely on potions specially brewed for them by Tehra’ir. They’re heavily reliant on not taking damage at all instead of just eating it, which changes up parts of their dark knight skillset. The only exception to this is acting as a meatshield; if someone younger or more injured than them is about to take a blow (for example, Elwin or A’dewah), they will more than likely leap into the path of danger, whether they have The Blackest Night, Riddle of Earth, or nothing at all.

In most fights, Zaya will simply stick to one of their various skills to finish the job; most of the time, they’re not running the risk of death should they need to run. However, for fights such as Zenos, Shinryu, Innocence, or Hades, they pull out most (if not all) the stops. Rarely will they be seen using their dark knight soulstone, since the whole concept relies on one having mana to spare; instead of mana, their dark knight skills take from their health in exchange for longer protection/more damage. (Blood Gauge indeed.) They won’t hesitate to play dirty to win if it comes down to it, and are more than willing to die for a better chance of winning the fight for others.

Much of their fighting style is built on quickly defeating the enemy; long, drawn out fights are not their forte. In a one-on-one fight, Zaya will constantly try to trip up their opponent through quick movements and dodges for more free hits, but won’t go so far as to taunt. Hardened, scaley knuckles and kicks from metal boots are enough to knock most soldiers over easily, and their strength from years and years of training only adds to that.

Zaya actually does know how to fight on yolback; it’s dozens of times more complicated without proper magic, but it’s doable. As long as Ochir is in the area (a giant fricking bird that’s like. the size of a fairly small house.) Zaya has a variety of options that are all immensely reckless in nature.

[80mbeb]

srabai tu pasti...gy mutu keungulang m rjoli...✌️ (at Bandar Tasik Selatan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEh86FBwUeUk24XeqeYvU6ASCip_9D16vOB8g0/?igshid=3w2zors5qvuw

[heavyedhunt]

RJoly Artist #rjoly80 #edhunt #edhuntart #courthouse #harcourthousemembers #harcourthousememberssale #theworks #yeg #Edmonton #Canada #Canadian #painter #artist #artforsale #fundraiser #theworksfestival #yegart #photo #painting #thebloom #distressedbloom https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJVDy1AMn8/?igshid=yv5xjbfdjpad

[cosmicseashanty]

A silly little old art trade with @verbroil... two nerds, and one tiny cookie thief.

[cosmicseashanty]

Some art I did for my Abyssos static! A little Starlight treat, and trying to understand how our RPR's Viera fit inside his Halloween glam

[cosmicseashanty]

Some more assorted 2020 Albi art, featuring @verbroil's art of Rjoli, for an event our FC ran!

Also included are some AUs (Crystal Exarch, NieR), Albi's parents Otho and Dehn, the period of time when Albi wore a different hairstyle for like a month, and a rough take on people designing their own AF gear sets.

[windupnamazu]

a bouquet of wols 💐

@windupnamazu | @winduphaurchefant @to-the-voiceless | @bolt-from-the-cobalt @sati-ffxiv| @bobacupcake @verbroil | @umbral-heart

[windupnamazu]

you shake up my heart, you shake me up i’m falling, falling for your love

@whitherliliesbloom 💖 @to-the-voiceless 💖 @bolt-from-the-cobalt 💖 @sati-ffxiv 💖 @nuclearanomaly 💖 @verbroil 💖 @umbral-heart 💖 @winduphaurchefant

— happy valentione's to my very cute friends!

[windupnamazu]

did some raids with some cutie pies yesterday and today!!

top pic: @verbroil | @to-the-voiceless | @bolt-from-the-cobalt | @sati-ffxiv | @winduphaurchefant last pic: @windup-dragoon | @whitherliliesbloom | @meepsthemiqo

[windupnamazu]

doing grand cosmos with friends? more like doing grand cosmos with chaperones :O(

[fistsoflightning]

faeblessed, faeobsessed | rijoli/urianger playlist

for the newest member of the mom squad (although whether rjoli’s a mom is ambiguous) @verbroil!!! pink cat...

“Thine friend seemeth happy,” Urianger says, opening one of his eyes to look where Eos hovers innocently, hands behind her back as she flutters around them. Her glow brings Rjoli’s hair to a pale pink as she lands there, sitting silently.

“Oh, don’t worry, she’s likely plotting something somewhere in her head.��� Rjoli laughs as Eos stomps a small foot on his head, fluffing up his hair. Urianger merely leans further into Rjoli’s embrace.

“If thou had the nerve, mayhaps thou couldst have acquisitioned this comfort at thine earliest wishes,” Urianger mumbles softly, hands curled in Rjoli’s despite all of Eos’ fluttering about. Only when a small ‘click’ sounds do the two of them bother to look up closely at Eos.

She’s holding a tomephone up in her arms, a small snickering coming from behind it as she continues to snap pictures of the two of them.

[windupnamazu]

bioelectriccell replied to your photo “i glitched the new deck furnishing to be an actual deck and its…so...”

i am coming over... to snoop.... -rjoli

ashdhfdshhdj i saw your message!! thank you for visiting!!! im sorry about my low lalafell ceilings TwT

[windupnamazu]

real winners quit!

ffxivwrite2022 #03: temper a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm.

alphinaud & lunya, with alisaie. appearances and mentions of other scions + @fistsoflightning's zaya, @verbroil's rjoli, @nuclearanomaly's ninira, and @whitherliliesbloom's illya. mmo gamer au. 1120wc. ⮞ "so," alphinaud said thinly as alisaie once again dropped an aoe on him, "this is the fabled tilted towers."

"Congratulations, little man," was the first thing Alphinaud heard as he joined the one other person sitting in the FC's voice chat. Lunya's smug grin was audible in each word. "You've been chosen for «SCION»'s P5S blind prog tonight! And by tonight, I mean in 30 minutes."

"As a healer," Alphinaud sighed.

"As a healer!" Lunya cheerily confirmed. "How was class?"

Exhausting. Why did the new Savage tier have to drop in the middle of the school week anyway, and on the day he had lab with his professor from hell? Why did he even choose general zoology as an elective course anyway when he was a med student?! His only answer for Lunya was a long groan that got her cooing sympathetically.

The idea of raid night wasn't all that promising either—Alphinaud loved his FC. He really did. They had a great dynamic and ran every content available in their favourite MMORPG and even grouped up to play games outside of it. But the Scions of the Seventh Dawn was also comprised mostly of players with the full capability to be hardcore but fucked around so much in prog that they were ultimately a casual group. Depending on who else Lunya pulled for prog this night was either going to be smooth or traumatic.

"Let's see… we've got me and Raha, of course." A no-brainer. The FC's favourite and-they-were-roommates! came as a pair more often than not these days, especially since it was Lunya who introduced G'raha to the game. "Raha's running Paladin so I'm getting Thancred to MT."

Oh, thank goodness, Alphinaud heard G'raha say somewhere else in the room through Lunya's mic, causing Lunya to giggle.

"Urianger and Rjoli are on a date so your co-healer's gonna be Shtola today."

Y'shtola started maining Black Mage during the last expac after a seven year streak of playing White Mage and White Mage only, but he hadn't realized she was keeping WHM geared up too. Skeptical, Alphinaud asked, "Really? What's her ilevel?"

"600. Good luck."

The night was getting more and more stressful by the minute.

Alphinaud breathed in deeply. "Okay. Who's the magic DPS?"

"Thaaaaaaat would be Alisaie."

Oh, gods have mercy.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't mandatory to invite him and his sister to everything together—they were twins, but their own separate people. It mostly happened because their schedules lined up so they were online at the same time, save for days Alisaie had fencing practice or Alphinaud had debate club. He didn't have an issue with it, seriously, because just like he loved his FC, Alphinaud loved his sister. He really, truly did. Really!

"Why not Liya?" Alphinaud asked a little desperately. "Or Ninira?"

"Uh, Kaye's static already scooped up Liya," Lunya said, her tone clearly suggesting she was thinking I thought you knew this? Fake Illya stan. "And Estinien invited Nini but she ate too many boozy chocolates at Book Club today and is suuuuuuuuper messed up right now. In the drunk way. So she's napping it off."

"I… didn't think it was possible to consume the amount of those things you'd need to get drunk before you got sick from the chocolate."

"I thought so too, but, well, it's Ninira," Lunya could only say fondly, if not a little disturbedly. "Anyway, our melee DPS for the night are Estinien and Zaya. You're welcome."

Estinien, Thancred, Y'shtola.... They were all good at keeping things in line, though Thancred was prone to getting swept up in Zaya's shenanigans (generally involving trying to squeeze as much uptime for them as they could), and Lunya's gremlinbility skyrocketed when her pseudo-sibling was around. G'raha was normally composed but everyone knew that if Lunya told him to jump into the death wall at 0.5% enrage he would do it. But while prone to silliness, Lunya loved the thrill of winning more than anyone else and knew how to behave herself during Savage raids.

No. The issue was ultimately going to be Alisaie. Alisaie, who Fantasia'd into a Galka just so she could block his view of his significantly shorter Hume so he couldn't see if he was properly in the safe spot for the last part of last expansion's EX3. Alisaie, who thought Estinien wasn't cool. Alisaie, who stole his pants drop for giggles two raid tiers ago when she already had hers. Alisaie, who caused more wipes than she saved. Alisaie, who used her RDM LB3 specifically to maul the whole party during Storm's Crown just last week.

Alphinaud rubbed his temples.

Girl Power, Alisaie's Galka, sprinted towards his body as the others scrambled across the arena in a blind attempt to survive Devour, sliding right on top of him and immediately leaning back on an invisible wall.

Using the emote was an innocuous action, but Alphinaud knew she had taken a ride through the dark side lately. Paywalled assets stolen from other games, "upscaled" textures run through waifu2x, the modifying of the dev team's hard work and the stomping on other's loving character designs, running illegal plugins that would give her an advantage over others… No, he knew what she was doing.

"Alisaie," Alphinaud said, hand trembling around his gamer mouse. "Please stop Fortnite dancing on my corpse."

"Oops." She was not one bit sorry even as the Proto-Carbuncle took a loving bite out of her head and she joined him on the floor. "I meant to hit Verraise."

"Wait, wait, wait," Lunya cut in, surprisingly not yet dead as she just barely En Avant'd out of the last AoE. "Me too!"

To Alphinaud's horror, her Tarutaru sprinted over to both dead bodies on the floor and leaned against an invisible wall as she stood on them. Zaya wheezed a breathy chuckle.

"Mitigate," Y'shtola intoned over the chaos, not that it would matter with no shields and her piddly i600 heals. Thancred and G'raha overlapped Reprisals.

RAGEQUITTING IS CRINGE, Alphinaud reminded himself. ESTINIEN WOULD NEVER RAGEQUIT. This was a lie, of course, because Estinien did in fact ragequit from E8S one time when Ysayle refused to stop spinning the boss and he kept dropping his combos from missing positionals. He still hadn't forgiven her for it to this day, though they changed the positional requirement with the current expansion.

If it sucks, hit da bricks, Estinien advised Alphinaud after everyone left so they could pick him up again and reinstance. Or at least, he thought that's what Estinien said, but it was hard to tell at the time because Estinien's cat Orn Khai had crawled into his lap and started screaming for dinner as he was saying it.

Alphinaud opened the Duty menu, and just this once, he allowed his cursor to drift to the Abandon Duty button.