#so even with support-pet carbuncle he needs some new travel buddies

[neriyon]

Oh uh it might sound like I'm killing the other two off - no, no one is dying, it's just that the owners of Hawu'li's co-wols have been very busy and their characters have been in this weird limbo of "well they are on a vacation, but might come back later".

Think I never really talked about the whole co-wol thing here too much so as a little background thing: me and 2 friends started ffxiv together, and even if the two others have been cutscene skippers since the start bounced lots of story and oc ideas off of eachother. So, 3 wols that went through the main story as a weirdly built party (healer, dps and an all-rounder). Lore wise we made it that Hawu'li left Gridania to became adventurer, found half dead elezen man (Drae, also new adventurer) after he went against too many enemies alone. After healing him and some talking back in town they set out again together, along with an elezen girl (Nana) Drae found at the markets and convinced (pestered) to join them.

It's been fun and it's definitely given me ideas for Hawu'li that I'd never thought otherwise. His fear of being alone came from the fact that I rarely played without them - when I wanted to play solo I went to play on Maito (or other alts). Many other smaller character quirks too came from us messing around together.

Dre and Nana were put on "vacation" at the end of 6.0, with them finally getting married and possibly thinking about starting a family, while Hawu'li continued to work with the Scions.

But with Hawu'li being literally built to never be alone and the possibility that his co-wols might stay retired (unless their owners decide otherwise) looming around, I got to thinking if I should just make him a new co-wol or two. Possibly rework some other alts into it? I've been thinking about reworking N'jinh almost entirely, and Einn sits at a kinda awkward spot where I'm not sure what to do with him either, so either of them could work. Or that sad elezen I've been rotating around in my head since cloud test. He could have someone with him whenever story makes it so that the Scions can't be there, his old co-wols could have their happy family life, and Scions don't have to worry about their world saving catboy having a mental breakdown because someone forgot to accompany him to some longer fetch quest.

Also I wouldn't need to check every single msq related lore thing with the other two lol. It's fun to bounce ideas but it really takes time when you have to check if this or that is okay with them (and I'd rather not bother them constantly about that stuff)

Been doing some thinking about Hawu'li's lore today and it might be time to write his co-wols out 🤔