#self‑insert: world's last vestige (linaria)

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I have woken up this morning with emotions about Meteion. That is my baby sister and I care about her so so much.

I have a fair bit of lore for how she fits in to my version of the FFXIV plot, but not a lot of illustrative images. Suffice it to say.. my self-insert Linaria (yes, same name as my DQIX one) was an inspiration for Meteion’s appearance before she was created by Hermes, and shares a few traits with her, leading to Meteion (and thus all the Meteia) seeing her as a big sister after meeting her.

Even 12,000 years later - when Linaria has been sundered into Lorenza and the universe faces an end to all new life driven by the Meteia’s collective song - they all still see her as the same being she was before upon encountering her when the party reach their nest, and they never forgot the kindness she showed them all.. even if Lorenza isn’t actually that same kind person anymore. This ends up nearly killing her, but she’s thankfully rescued in time by Clio and the others - and after everything is over and the universe is saved, it’s Lorenza who then brings a Meteion back to the world she first took flight from, to live amongst life and determine her own answer.

It’s a bit complicated, but it does all work out in the end. Sort of tragic siblings.

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today is Ephemer’s birthday!! happy birthday to Ephemer!! he is a treasured friend~

at this point I think I still only have the ruby AU so I can say one of my self-inserts actually gets to interact with him, haha (in this case it’s Linaria). But, since Clio takes the role of KHUX’s Player, she also gets to meet him and interact with him! which is fun

May his story finally be further told once Missing Link stops being missing..

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aHA I found the stained glass descriptions!!!

I’ve written out the text from the images under the readmore with a couple of extra details if that’s easier, but!! This is what I mean by stained glass stations from dives to the heart being something that is really fun to play with as a characterisation device~

Arc 1 heart station: (NB: this is probably going to be the most accurate for her outside of the RP context this was originally written for)

image of Aria flying on black wings, with an empty black silhouette of Ves (Linaria) at her back.

The stained glass is entirely dark pink, with the Heartless symbol going around the edges.

The circles are filled as follows: Clio at the top, Livi and a star of Lux next to each other below her, the Heartless emblem in the centre, Aria's initial mask and a silhouette of a feather next to each other below that, and a blue heart-shaped sapphire at the bottom.

A tangle of darkness and cherry blossoms obscures much of the right half of the circle.

Arc 2 heart station:

Same image of Aria flying on mottled black-and-white wings, but the image of Ves is no longer in silhouette; she is facing away (her head is in profile) and she has her eyes closed; she is wearing the blue scarfed outfit she was drawn in alongside The Voice. [NB: picture attached below]

The stained glass is dark pink on the left and becomes a more dull pale green on the right, with the Heartless emblem repeating around the left half and silhouettes of the astral plume repeating around the right half (the changes to the right become more obvious as more petals fall from Aria’s hairpin in the real world).

The circles are filled as follows: Clio at the top, Livi and a star of Lux next to each other below her, a five-petalled cherry blossom flower in the centre (the petals disappear from it as they fall from her hairpiece), Nyx and an astral plume next to each other below that, and.. something to represent the Fatebreakers overall at the bottom, maybe?

The tangle from before still persists, but it recedes as petals fall.

Current heart station: [NB: “current” here refers to Aria’s personal chapter of the story, which was the last one we played/before the final one. Aria herself is currently out of commission.]

The image of Aria is in black silhouette, leaving Linaria and her white wings visible; she is wearing her original (Celestrian) attire and her eyes are now open, and look sad.

The stained glass is half-obscured on the left, showing a light green on the right; benevolessence repeats around what is visible of the edge of the circle.

The circles still visible show a silhouette of Clio at the top, the next below it is not visible but a piece of benevolessence is next to it (where the Lux was previously), a silhouette of the Celestrian emblem in the centre, the next below this is not visible but a lily-of-the-valley is next to it, and the silhouette of a spider lily at the bottom.

Any still-visible plant life appears dead.

^-^