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Rysk drives.

New hc: Aymeric is not a good driver.

To be clear, neither is Rysk, but Aymeric has the sense to know he's not comfortable driving. Rysk is my best dumb bitch, she does not care.

7/24/23

In your wolship, who would sit where?

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Cold Consumed Me (in the nighttime): an In from the Cold fic.

Exploring the events of the FFXIV MSQ quest "In from the Cold" and their immediate aftermath. Mind the tags on AO3, some of which I've included on this post.

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old sketch i’m fiddling with tonight

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Rysk as a teenager

(from a WoL ? otd thread I wrote on twitter)

(if FFXIV won't give me younger roes, I'll make them myself)

Rysk was loud, eager to prove herself, and purposefully caustic. Hard to befriend, but undeniably useful.

The few adults that she did connect with would recall her being stubborn and hard to love, but eager to learn as long as you didn't mention it. She learned most of her skills in life through trial and error, her dad's "teaching," or latching on to someone who would tolerate her and teach her what she wanted to know.

A fair number of adults saw through her rough exterior, but many of them didn't want to put in the effort with her. The few who did were not thanked or doted on, but there were a couple that Rysk chose to attach herself to & make sure anything they needed would be handled. Acts Of Service love language by necessity.

When it came to other teenagers, there were few in her life. She usually didn't understand their social dynamics and was easily offended. She'd often leave the situation if she could, but just as often got into fights with other kids she met on land.

She grew up fairly isolated from her own generation, save the occasional deckhand or cabin boy that would sail for a stretch with them.

She did sort of befriend a few of her contemporaries over her teen years, but her friendship was always unpredictable and volatile. Usually things blew up right when she had to leave town (subconsciously intentional on her part), and she would lose contact with those folks.

I think if she went digging now, she would find a few of those kids from her past that would be happy to see her, even if their last interaction was a shouting match (or sometimes an actual fistfight).

I'm considering a post-EW journey like that for Rysk. Give her some time to go back into her own past and see it all with a fresh perspective, not wondering every day if she would see this person again or even live through her next voyage.

So...tl;dr: Rysk was, and still is sometimes, a bit like a big, scary stray dog, nursing a wound you can't find. Since you can't see where she hurts, it's easy to set her off by accident. She doesn't understand why she hurts or what to do about it, but she knows to latch on & follow when someone cares.

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I suppose I've never shared it here, but I have a WoLmeric longfic I'm really enjoying writing. I've been in the middle of restructuring some things from my first draft before publishing them, but life has been hellishly busy this year, so finding time to write has been hard. But I'm 49 chapters in, and I don't have an end goal. Just writing along through MSQ and headcanons.

Anyways if you're interested in ships inspired by Beauty and the Beast, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice, and A Knight's Tale, you may enjoy this one! Please mind the tags. ♥️

There are also other entries in Rysk's lore in this series you can check out if you're interested.

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Asked by @orionbun-wolqotd on twt:

"How does your WoL act when talks with the crush?"

Rysk argues with him

Insults him, almost makes him cry

Clams up, but shouts, but bears her secrets, but won't speak her heart aloud

Quiet and earnest, loud and boisterous

Pushing every button to try to make sure that if he stays he'll stay in spite of everything—that he's ready to take the worst of her and won't leave her later just because of who she is.

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Rysk was born on an island of Aerslant, but she grew up at sea aboard her father's ship, the Ocean's Howl.

I wrote a short fic about Rysk's mother where I made up lore about the Roegadyn Warriors of the northern Roegadyn clans. You can read that here on AO3 if you'd like! (AO3 users only, sorry)

Her given name was Grymfyr, for context.

7/29/23

Where was your wol(oc) born? and where did they grow up?