#wol x everyone basically

[agent-jaselin]

L’calem has the echo cause Warrior of Light and it’s fun in the context of Baldur’s Gate because it means getting to get in both non-infected people’s heads and in the other tadfools heads without them knowing. The catch being he has no control over it since it’s just the echo going “hey what if we had you experience their worst moments personally” whenever they do their exposition at him.

Meets Halsin the first time and gets flavor blasted with the origins of the shadow curse cause that’s definitely what he’s thinking about even as he’s telling you about everything else . Like that’s why he went to the camp. In part.

Halsin moves to ask about it later and Calem just cuts him off like “you’re going to ask about the shadow curse thing right? Yeah I’ll help it’s on the way.”

Though bonus it would be terrible for their relationship because he just assumes halsin sees a high stakes errand boy in Calem like everyone else on his home planet

[lilas]

dawntrail and the theme of duality and unity through visual motif

Hi, thank you for coming to my MEGtalk presentation, aka I’ve already yelled about this to my friends but they’re not as into theorizing as I am so I’m throwing this out to fellow theorists on tumblr dot come.

I want to discuss the motifs we’ve seen of Dawntrail so far, specifically evidence pointing to the theme of duality, unity, and two becoming one.

Discussion of live letters, marketing materials, teasers, trailers, and theories ahead.

reflection, parallels, and the motif of two and connection in official materials

Starting with Dawntrail’s poster, we immediately see reflection, pairs of two, and the idea of symmetry:

There is a sense of symmetry in the composition, where you can clearly mark a vertical line down the center of the poster

One side faces left, the other side faces right, visually separating Team WoL and everyone else/our rivals at least in the beginning

Gulool Ja Ja, the Dawnservant, is divided by the imaginary center line, with one head falling on either side of the composition

NOTE: Mystery woman at the top facing left towards Team WoL, foreshadowing her involvement with our success?

Twos throughout the poster design: Gulool Ja Ja’s two heads, his two swords, everyone placed in a pair throughout the composition (Erenville and Koana, WoL and Urianger, Krile and Thancred, Wuk Lamat and Mysterious Mamool Ja)

I’m not sure if this implies a parallel of character arcs in the story, but it is worth noting and revisiting after Dawntrail releases

The teaser for the main menu screen was released last week, and builds upon the visual motif from the poster:

Tuliyollal is reflected in the water

Clouds are reflected in the water as well as reflect across the imaginary center line

Looking at what I assume is the palace and home of the Dawnservant, its design is perfectly symmetrical; I believe this is the first straight on view we’ve seen of its architecture

As we see in the full trailer for Dawntrail and in the new world map, there is an extremely long bridge that connects the two halves of the continent:

On the map, we can clearly see a giant chasm physically separating the two halves of the continent

In the trailer, we see extreme visual differences between the two halves of the continent; one full of color and flora and the other an arid desert

They are two distinct halves of a whole

Even the new DPS job, Viper, Meteor’s assigned job for this expac and the newest job completely unique to FFXIV uses dual swords that can be apart or combined.

what we know about the story so far, from fanfest, live letters, and msq (sources to be added)

Multiple comments have been made about basic elements of the story:

Gulool Ja Ja is blessed with two heads, an auspicious sign

Gulool Ja Ja united the disparate peoples of Tural under the one unifying nation of Tuliyollal

To further signify the union of the people of Tural, Gulool Ja Ja adopted four children; several races under one household

Bakool Ja Ja is a contender for the throne; he is not royalty but has two heads like the Dawnservant

Yoshi P has made comments about the two halves of the story feeling very distinct

concluding thoughts

It’a clear to me the idea of duality and two becoming one is an underlying theme of this expansion:

Dawntrail’s poster child DPS job being built around two swords becoming one

Gulool Ja Ja’s two heads, one body

The bridge connecting two halves of the continent

There is also symmetry and parallels seen throughout available marketing materials. From this motif I suspect a few things to happen in this expac:

There will not be one ruler, but two governing heads of state, ruling as one

Tuliyollal and Solution Nine, both confirmed to be hub cities and potentially previously unknown to each other, will form a relationship or partnership; perhaps a story beat will be navigating the unease and awkwardness of this new political alliance

A major plot point during the 6.x patches was bridging the Source with the shards for traveling between worlds; I suspect some development on that front especially with Y’shtola’s involvement

Regardless of where the story takes us, I’m so excited and interested in what they do with the theme of duality and connection that they’ve primed us for, as it keeps popping up again and again in everything they show us and tell us.

please let me know your thoughts!

Did you notice these same things? Was there something I missed? Do you have new thoughts or theories based on this theme of duality?

[abimee]

what is pocket lint and what would joining it entail ? :0

Ardbert's Left Pocket Lint is a small (18 person) FFXIV server run on gasoline and paint thinner where we basically just hang out and do content together

Pocket Lint has a mystery beginnings but it ended up becoming a server where we (the people in it) can run unsynced extremes/savages and normal/side content together without the expectations that PF brings, such as reading/understanding guides, parsing, doing specific tricks/skipping specific parts, etc. PL is basically a place where ''raider brain'' isnt allowed and instead we focus on bringing an enjoyable experience to running content where nobody feels left out/incapable of doing things.

Therefore our only two hard rules are as follows: - We do not allow any sort of advertising of static forming, raiding, etc. No "does anybody wanna come join my static?" or "does anybody wanna run [current savage tier that cant be unsynced]?". anything that happens in pocket lint should be done With the people in lint, and nobody should feel left out - we go into content prioritizing fun over optimzation, and dont allow others to put people down for their abilities in the game or to feel superior (no X legend btw type behavior, no ''you should switch to X job'', no ''pure essence no healer DR'' run type stuff. Everyone is allowed to play what they want how they want in content as long as theyre playing the game at all). We wanna have FUN

we also do lots of other stuff to encourage friendship and comradery. we play jackbox games and watch movies rogether and we have plans for stuff like:

among us

lethal company

roblox experiences (we played dress to impress in private lobbies, and fishing simulator together)

we also do WOL AND TELL, where people make a presentation of their WOL/ff14 oc's story and present it! we also have channels for everyones characters to put memes, lore dumps, etc

heres our current list of Things We Wanna Do Soon, were in the middle of trying to prog p4s unsynced and we've gotten to 40% of the second phase (around the third part of it iirc???) and we're always down to have more people join us and come experience a really funny(?) prog for clear/farm

in general pocket lint is (TO ME) the best ff14 server you can join. imo. we're also normal people who think Dawntrail was an amazing expansion, we're not weird about the twins, we're all LGBT adults and we're super friendly. If you wanna join we're always looking for more to join and become lint with us :]

[xiv-wolfram]

XIV Rarepair Week: Star-Crossed (Day 1)

WoL x Raubahn Aldynn. A look into Wolfram's thoughts after returning from Elpis in Endwalker. It starts out dark but shows how he's already started rewiring harmful thought patterns and taking positive actions in his journey of healing. 🙂 Probably more interesting for folks who know his basic backstory. (Vague mention of past suicide attempt.)

As Wolfram approached the glowing tower he spared a moment to look up at the starlit sky hanging over the Crystarium. Everything on The First had been odd…

In his world, the night was a time of danger. When the horrors of the void felt just that little bit closer. When beasts stalked their prey. When he'd committed his first sin…one of many. For hadn't he thanked the shroud of night as he crept through the ruins toward that cursed book? Hadn't he been grateful for the silence in that temple-turned-tomb making the sounds of his chanting all the clearer? Hadn't he begged for the shadows that had crept forth from the portal? He thanked that darkness for allowing him to avenge whilst claiming he wished only to protect. Was that very lie why the shadows turned on him?

There had been a time - let's be honest, many times - when the Warrior of Darkness questioned his place in the world. What right did he have to exist when he'd watched his own tainted hands shred the flesh of those who had given him life? He had believed himself the vessel of a voidsent and rather than end himself to protect others he'd stepped away from the literal edge. Selfish. Even free of the hellhound’s control he'd continued to kill. Gleefully even, when he felt they deserved it. What he deserved was far worse.

So many times he thought he'd changed - when he met the love of his life; when he chose the hero's path; when he'd been made humanity’s champion by a goddess.

No. A bloody Primal.

“Remember what she is - a lying bitch who killed my friends,” Wolfram muttered through a clenched jaw, shaking his head to clear the image of Venat from his mind. Venat… walking the fields of Elpis with that lovely smile and easy laugh that had made him feel at home even in the past he shouldn't have seen. Who had casually mentioned Azem’s partner while giving him a knowing grin - surely hoping his curiosity would override his desire to hide his identity. In the end, it mattered not. Whoever they were, they died along with Azem and the rest of their society.

Should he have listened to his instinct? Spared everyone their future right then and there. That instinct had been to kill. Kill Meteion to stop the pain inherent in her abilities - he knew better than any the agony that empathy can bring. To order Hermes to bring back her sisters so he could grant them mercy too. To kill the future Fandaniel, a man whose morose feelings mirrored his own, for giving life to such creatures whose only purpose was to meet a cruel fate. Somehow find a way to kill every one of the ancients, no matter how much inexplicable kinship he felt for them, for creating a false utopia where that corrosive pain was allowed to take root and spread its rot. Wolfram’s instinct was to kill in order to protect… and avenge. Further proof that after two decades and countless adventures - he hadn't truly changed.

Wolf’s instincts hadn't changed… but he also hadn't acted on them. Was that for good or ill? He could have spared all those fallen stars… maybe they could have recovered without the entelechy’s interference? Etheirys, even in its emptiness, would have been better off. With no ancients, there would be no Primals. No Allagans. No Garleans. No Calamities. Even he wouldn't exist. His pain wouldn't exist. His sickness. His darkness…

…Wolfram's friends wouldn't exist either. His love would have never been born… Were his intentions even noble or had his selfish instinct simply won out? Perhaps his instincts to protect others versus himself would now be at odds with each other. Perhaps that was a good thing? Perhaps he was being too hard on himself…. and ‘overthinking’. Hells! Hadn't Rau accused him of that too?! Just days ago. One night as Wolfram was a sobbing mess fighting the transformation into blasphemy as his friend tried to break through his haze of misery to convince the mage he was loved, pleading for his continued existence. And again the next night... as he was a grateful lovesick fool thanking the gladiator by falling into his bed with recklessly impulsive enthusiasm.

Wolfram had finally allowed himself something good. His far more honorable friend deserved whatever he desired - if that was a scarred mage with a broken mind then Wolf would stop fighting the undeniable fact that they belonged together. He had never considered himself to be the sundered Azem before visiting Elpis so why should anything change now? Why should he bother his mind with the fates of the dead? His soul didn't belong to Azem - it belonged to Raubahn Aldynn. The kindest, most courageous man in Eorzea trusted him with the fate of their people. That passionate night in Ala Mhigo - every kiss, every caress, was a promise to the Commander that he would save them all. Fuck the ancients. This was their time.

He chuckled at himself, grateful as ever that only he was privy to his innermost ramblings. The Warrior of Darkness lifted his eyes back towards the dim heavens. Looking up at this dark glimmering shroud blanketing the land in its comforting embrace… It felt odd, even after so long, to think that he was responsible for it. A man so full of his own darkness that it had warped his very grasp on reality - he'd been the one to return the night to this painfully bright world. Odd yes. Oddly fitting. Rather than fear his darkness… maybe it was time to truly embrace it. He had been the perfect person to save this world - surely he could save another.

Wolfram continued to the tower with a confident smile.

[starrysnowdrop]

Hey everyone, this post might be a bit long, as I’m just wanting to get my thoughts out on stuff. Feel free to ignore it and skip. I might ramble a bit, so I apologize in advance! But first, an Aymeric dote for a much needed serotonin shot! 😘

I wanted to thank everyone who sent well wishes for my son! He just has the common cold, but since he’s special needs, it is really hard on him, and he usually has meltdowns whenever he gets sick. Needless to say, I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted to the point that I had an asthma attack earlier and I’m just now getting to relax. But don’t worry, I’ll be alright.

Along with my son being sick, it’s been hectic with IRL stuff as well. Not getting into too much extraneous detail, as it’s not important to the main point, but it’s been hard just finding the time to get gposes or any writing done with everything I have to do IRL.

Because it’s been so difficult getting anything accomplished that I already have on my WIP List, I know that I just don’t have the time or the energy to do Lalapril, or any other event for a while. I’m hoping to do Wolmeric Week though, which is the first week of May. I think that will give me the time I need to plan ahead what I want to do for it, and since it’s only a week, I think it’s pretty manageable next to a whole month for Lalapril. It will also be something of a present to myself, as my birthday is at the end of April after all.

What I can do, however, is support my fellow lala peeps out there, and cheer you all on if you are planning on doing Lalapril, or if anyone else is doing one of the other April events (Why there’s a million events just in April I have no idea…)

This next point might not be much of a surprise, as this has been kind of a thing for a few months already, but I’ve decided to put my first WoL OC Yume on hiatus for a while. I’m NOT getting rid of her, and I’m still insanely proud of the years of work I’ve put into her story and development. However, I haven’t had inspiration for her for a while now, and it is bothering me that she’s still prominent on my pinned post when all of my inspiration has been for Hali ever since I created her.

I know this might be a disappointment for those of you who have followed me for years and/or those who followed me for Yume or Yume x G’raha. But I need to do what makes me happy, and Hali makes me so happy that I want to pour my limited energy reserves into her. If this makes me lose some followers, then so be it. It can’t be helped.

But what I will do is I will make a Masterlist of all of the important Yume info, basically everything that is on my pinned post right now, and put in on a separate post. Then I’ll link that Yume Masterlist onto my pinned post instead, so that Yume’s info is still easily accessible to everyone who is curious to read it, but it’s not as misleading as it is now.

I think the last thing on my mind is the live letter, and that I’m super excited for the end of Pandaemonium, but I’m still iffy on the MSQ, as I just haven’t been that invested in it since 6.1. I am hoping that this all ties into 7.0 somehow, because right now, it is feeling like the filler arc in an anime, and I’m just ehhhhh. I don’t know if that’s part of my problem with my lack of inspiration for Yume, but it might be. I’m not sure anymore.

Anyways, if you’ve actually read all this, I thank you dearly for putting up with my rambling. I hope you all enjoy your weekend! Love ya! 💖

[tcfactory]

I would absolutely read that ffxiv x svsss fic if you ever did it! I love the world building you so would love to what would when you smack them together!

I don't have anything really defined as far as ideas go, but dropping someone on QCMS for a while would be really funny I think because like

Compared to whatever is the norm in the SVSSS verse, people on Etheirys (the world ffxiv is set in) are practically made of qi. Or have so much of it anyway that they might as well be made of it.

Which, as far as I can tell, is extremely not normal in a cultivation setting. Even the Garleans are made like that, they just can't control the energy. Imagine a person with more qi than some cultivators ever amass in their entire life who at the same time can't even circulate it. They are capable of manipulating it in other objects to a degree, but their own boundless qi? Completely inaccessible to them.

Also just asking anyone to talk about where they come from would be a trip. "One of our moons fell, the dragon imprisoned in it got out and wrecked shit, caused wide-spread environmental destruction and now one of our city states is stuck in permanent winter and this is just a thing that happens every now and then" would be wild to listen to for someone who is not used to the concept of Calamities.

Or take "well we don't actually know if our gods even really exist or not in the form we worship them, because when we try too hard to commune with them all we get are fakes that enslave the minds of people and drain the land dry".

Lots of very wild concepts in ffxiv that would make MQF think that he must be having a qi-deviation or a fever dream, because there's no way this person (demon??? most races would get mistaken for one. oh god can you imagine an Au Ra or a hroth or god forbid a lala getting dropped in there) is actually saying all these things with their full chest in complete sincerity. You don't even need to bring the WoL ("Hi, so my dayjob is to fight and kill fake gods?"), basically anyone would cause A Stir.

Like, the opposite of it would be less funny I think, because whatever a cultivator can say would probably go the way of "huh, there sure are some strange things in those far eastern lands" because you need to go very far to hit the threshold where things start sounding a little implausible for a better traveled person in the ffxiv universe. And even then if you get someone who's fully informed they might just break out the "have you considered you that might hail from another planet altogether?" and yeah no, that's not better at all.

A cultivator might get sick from all the aether all around too - it's Lingxi caves turned up to a hundred, in everything and everyone, without any filter on the energy. And as of Endwalker, we have Dynamis, which is a force that acts in the absence of aether and reacts very strongly to emotion...

[breezy-cheezy]

Trigun Stampede (+Milly) x FFXIV rambles

Vash:

Preferred job type: Healer (Sage)

Flex-

DPS: Machinist

Tank: I'd say Gunbreaker but I think he'd be drawn to the Paladin vibes ngl.

(the rest under the cut, this got LONG)

Viera, talks like a sprout/newbie even though he's been here forever. He's just so friendly!! Says hi!! And does a funny dance when queuing into any instance!! Always resurrects a downed party member, regardless of if they got there by being stupid or not. No matter how many times they die. He WILL raise them. He also maybe cries when someone falls off the stage (while everyone else laughs). Excellent healer, very attentive and knowledgeable about mechanics. Very encouraging!! Might get overwhelmed, even if very good at adjusting. Do Not Yell At Him He's doing his best.

Insanely good at DPS for some reason. He never wants to be the DPS. Heck if there wasn't a JOB depending on damage to heal, he'd do no damage at all. :/

Meryl:

Preferred job type: DPS (Monk. Punchy. Also Black Mage.)

Flex-

Healer: Sage (she's WAY too big on the DPS part. Opposite of Vash where if this didn't heal she'd do no healing....)

Tank: Warrior (so powerful, basically self sufficient)

Miqo'te Keeper of the Sun or Lalafel. Not sure, LOL. Always down to raid, especially if it's with friends!! Tends to jump the gun and trigger boss fights before tank is ready. She's lucky her tank (Milly) and Healers (Vash, sometimes Roberto) go with her anyway and don't let her die (like I would kJHSJDKLHF). Vash will start explaining mechanics and she'll just YEET into the room. Mechanics are for cars!!! Healers have to use Rescue on her alot....

She is, while blunt, still very kind to new people. She’s also always worried she isn't doing enough, so she throws herself into another fight before ready, MERYL NO-

Milly:

Preferred job type: Tank (Paladin, Gunbreaker)

Flex-

Healer: White Mage (simple, extremely effective)

DPS: Bard or Summoner (she loves playing the instruments! And the little friends from summoning :>)

Highlander Hyur. Always there if anyone wants to do anything, very easygoing and vibes with many different parties. She’s not....the fastest Tank (she’s not one to pull mobs from wall to wall) but she’s good at getting between the threat and her friends, and that’s what matters. As a tank she’s supposed to be leading but when Meryl’s in the group, she’s usually seen closely tailing her instead....also keeps putting the “Cover” spell (Take all damage intended for another party member as long as said member remains within 10 yalms.) on Vash even when he insists he can handle the damage.

PLEASE (politely) remind her to turn her tank stance on. She will forget.

She might get a little lost in admiring the scenery of the dungeons, or. Lost in general (as I have done hhhsdkj). Gently redirect her and you’ll be fine. Doesn’t quite know the mechanics but somehow does a great job anyway!

Roberto:

Preferred job type: Healer (Scholar. His weapon is a freaking newspaper.)

Flex-

Tank: Gunbreaker (please don’t make him tank, he is very slow, you’ll be there all day)

DPS: Black Mage (don’t have to move much, better on his back, big damage)

Highlander Hyur. Grumpy healer!! Very tired, but still very good at his job, always there when the going gets tough, no matter how much he complains. He’s given up on resurrecting downed party members when Vash is in the party because that kid is always on it. SOMEONE has to cover the healing when Vash inevitably runs his mana reserves dry doing this. Says he’s too old to raid, and yet has a surprisingly solid grasp on the mechanics. He does his research. Whether he takes the time to explain them though is another issue entirely....he will do callouts if needed.

Also has Rescue on a hotkey for Meryl, sometimes Vash. Will make fun of people for dumb deaths, might play limbo with health sometimes, but he’s reliable. He’s alert, and there are very few deaths on his watch. (Mainly because they don’t want his world-wary lecture, but shhhh)

Wolfwood:

Preferred job type: DPS (Reaper. because Undertaker. get it? haha. ha.)

Flex-

Tank: Dark Knight (giant unweildy weapon?? Angsty origins? Eyup.)

Healer: White Mage (He sucks at it, don’t make him heal. He just keeps using Glare and Holy.....)

Miqo’te, Keeper of the Moon. Used to be a tank main (and really enjoys co-tanking with Milly!!) but found Reaper worked for him really well. He’s the type to keep an eye on the healers, and is the first to run down wayward mobs that escape the tank’s notice. This is especially important with Vash, who gets so focused on healing he doesn’t realize he’s getting hurt. Plus, the faster they can kill stuff, the safer everyone is. Win-win.

Likes to pull crazy stunts, has accidentally Engressed off the stage. Several times. Sometimes gets the Rescue Leash (just not as often as Meryl). Constantly bickering with Meryl over everything, who did the most damage, annoyance for running ahead (when he’s doing the SAME THING), scuffed mechanics, etc. Thinks stupid deaths should be left alone but....

“No Needles they need to learn their lesson, leave them-”

-rez sounds-

“Nevermind.”

Knives:

Preferred Job Type: DPS (Ninja, Dancer. Both throw very sharp objects. I think Dancer would be nice for him since it deals with Dynamis, and expressing emotion in alternate ways, etc. Bard for the piano playing.)

Flex-

Tank: Dark Knight

Healer: Astrologian (He likes the strategy of it.)

Viera, very rarely talks in chat. Does not emote often, but when he does it’s....rather extreme. Vash does alot of talking for him really. (”Nai said thanks!” “......”) Just wants to get the duty over with. Honestly doesn’t show up often but when he does, it’s clear he’s done extensive research so he does it near perfectly every time (he got lost in a beginner dungeon ONE TIME....). If someone fails a mechanic and dies they deserve it. As healer, plays limbo with the tank HP (unless the tank is Vash).

Do Not get between Knives and his uptime. Just don’t. He knows what he’s doing (Milly as healer used Rescue on him ONCE before he was ready, and he’s never forgiven her lmao. Then there’s Wolfwood and Meryl who do it on PURPOSE...please don’t make them heal). 

He has entirely too many weapons. Millions, you could say. His glam chest is FULL of them.

[oathofpromises]

All the fandom questions! <3

In what fandom did you start?

What is your favorite fandom in which you write?

Is there any fandom you regret exploring?

Have you ever developed an OC for a certain fandom?

1.I started writing in the Danganronpa fandom, I do love the characters and series a lot and at the time I was mostly writing for an oc and a few canon characters. I do have some on my carrd still but it’s not one I am that active anymore. At the time, I didn’t know if rping was for me so, it was definitely a testing the waters.

2.That’s so hard because I do love a lot of fandoms that I write for but at the moment it would be a tie between Resident Evil and Final Fantasy. I feel like both fandoms are ones that I’m super passionate about and the kind people I have gotten meet through them is what has kept me writing in both fandoms. I wasn’t sure how well my Ffxiv muses would be received but I am happy that so far it has lead me to meeting new friends too.

3.I do regret exploring the Danganronpa fandom..at least around the time I was writing. There was a lot of drama;; plus I was harassed by a group of people for almost two months. It was bad. I think if maybe I had started rping on here maybe that would’ve turned out differently but please don’t use amino. I still love Danganronpa series but some of the experiences I had definitely made me nervous to write any of the muses I can for it. They are still there on my carrd but I do get a little anxiety with it. Hopefully in time that will go away since I don’t want bad experiences I had there to impact how I feel about a series.

4.Yes, I have a few two are oc’s for Final Fantasy XIV. They aren’t warriors of light but connected to my Wol Stella and G’raha Tia. There names are Mako and T’sori. I do want sit down and write out a background for them soon but basically Mako is the ancestor of Stella. She was a Paladin and personal guard to T’sori, heir to the allagan throne. The characters are ones that existed long before Stella and G’raha but connected back to the two. I do also have oc in Dangranonpa Fandom but haven’t touched her in a bit due to the reasons stated above. I’m the type of person that enjoys developing characters and I know not everyone is a fan of it but I do love oc x canon ships. As long as you put thought into the dynamic and story and it makes sense let people pour their hearts developing those dynamics.

I’m a huge oc lover and have friends that have created such beautiful and in-depth oc’s too. It makes things more fun sometimes too when you can take knowledge you have of canon lore and work it around so it makes sense for your character to be there.

[wanderersoflight]

Hello everyone! This post has been a long time coming and we didn’t really expect to get as much traction as we have, but since we’ve managed to accumulate a few curious folk, we wanted to shed some light on this little AU for some of y’all who have questions but don’t know how to ask. The goal of this post is to answer a few basic questions for folks across the fandoms we tag so that there’s a bit of clarity around what the heck we’re doing here.

So without further ado, let’s begin!

WHAT IS THE WANDERERS OF LIGHT AU?

Wanderers of Light is a crossover au between two Moomin characters and the world of Final Fantasy XIV. It is an AU started by siblings who play two of our favorite fictional siblings going through the main scenario quest (MSQ) together. There is a bit of lore as to how these two started their adventure, but essentially, we're taking Little My and Snufkin from Moomin valley and transport them to Eorzea, Narnia style.

We go through the MSQ together, while also pulling shenanigans on the side. So if you like Moomins x high fantasy adventure setting, have a soft spot for sibling adventures that sometimes get a little TOO adventurous (think saving the world, killing corrupted authority figures, fighting wars, and leading revolutions among other things), or you're a FFXIV player who likes to see what other players are doing with their downtime bc oh look! G-poses, drawings, stories aside from the msq??? If you're any of these things, we welcome your follow and added interest!!

I'M A MOOMIN FAN BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT FFXIV IS, CAN YOU EXPLAIN?

Yeah! So FFXIV is an open world mmorpg where you play as the "Warrior of Light" aka your super customizable main character that can be of any of the playable races who work under any classes of your choosing.

Already lost you? Ok so take Little My, she's a Lalafell who's a warrior class, so she's the smallest race available who swings a big froggin axe! And Snufkin's a Miqot'e bard (but started as an archer!), so he's a cat boy with a bow/arrow and an array of instruments at his disposal.

(screencap courtesy of our friend, Tristan)

Back on track, as the Warrior of Light (WoL), you start out as an adventurer with the class you've picked in character creation. Depending on how you want to play the game, you can follow the msq where you meet a cast of lovely characters with a storyline that packs some heavy punches in each arc--or as we call expansions, which our pinned posts are made to indicate where we are in the story so as to let people know not to mention spoilers. You can also play the game for completely different goals, like g-posing (essentially playing dolls with your characters and posing them for pretty pictures), pvp fights, Dungeon crawling/Raids with friends and complete strangers, home decoration, crafting up clothes, AND SO MUCH MORE! But for most things available, you have to unlock via msq, so be ready for that!

The community is full of friendly people who LOVE new players!!! Like if you enter a dungeon with a party of strangers and you tell them in the chat that you're new, they will be SO patient and supportive bc generally everyone wants you to have a good time here.

The story of the game revolves around you, the WoL, having time-traveled 5 years into the future from the original upload of the game where a great dragon, Bahamut, destroyed much of the world of Eorzea, and you--along with your friends, the Scions--are helping the land recover and rebuild after the Calamity.

I'M A FFXIV PLAYER AND I THOUGHT YOUR BLOG WAS CUTE, BUT WHAT ARE MOOMINS AND WHO ARE THESE CHARACTERS?

HI!! Welcome! So, I could go on about Moomins, in fact I don't think I could do much justice in a couple paragraphs. But for this au, I can give some brief explanations.

So if you google Moomins, you'll find these little white plump creatures that look so pleasant, right? Those are the titular moomintrolls created by the lovely Tove Jansson in her Moomin novels in the mid-1900s that have since expanded and exploded into a world-wide phenomenon. You have the books as well as the comics Tove and her brother created together, as well as multiple film/tv adaptations of the characters and stories. Some of the most well-known tv depictions are the 1990s anime and the 2010 Moominvalley, but there are also gems in the fuzzy-felt version, other stop-motion, and even live-action adaptations! The Moomin stories cover subject matters regarding love, loneliness and aloneness, family, friendship, growing up, and freedom among other things. It’s definitely something much deeper than what it seems on the surface!

Anyway, as you google the Moomin family, you’ll notice that among their cast of characters, you'll find an angry little girl in red and a polite looking fella in green:

Those are our siblings! Half siblings, actually, which is why we've given them different races because Snufkin's papa (The Joxter) is often depicted as a cat-like creature, so he mostly takes after him.

Little My is the smallest of mymbles (which is commonly believed to be her race/species type?) who is known to be the mischievous, not afraid to speak her mind, and has an honesty in her that sometimes people don’t want to hear. She's also Snufkin's older sister. Snufkin is the baby younger sibling of the two and arguably the wisest of their friends. He's well-traveled and loves his alone time, but is a friendly fellow to find on the path. Both value their independence but usually make a great team, especially when wreaking havoc together!

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So that should be a fair introduction! If you have any questions, we welcome asks and may even draw them out if the mood suits us. But yeah, this is basically a self-indulgent au between us that we wanted to share with the communities here. Hopefully this explains why some of y’all keep seeing them in certain tags, and let us know if you’re interested in either of the content this post has enlightened you about!

[sundered-souls]

Ironically I'm not a huge shipper but both my WoLs have a ship (well, two).

Aïcha ends up with Estinien during/post-Endwalker. They were attracted to each other pretty much from the start, but both had more pressing things to attend to and a mutual understanding that they were not ready for that kind of commitment. So it's very much a game of patience, yearning and friendship that develops all through the story (she had a way to contact him, though she hid that from everyone) until That Cutscene(tm) in Endwalker. And he still attempted to leave through the window lmao That ship started in a rather classic way I think. I was just wondering what her love life could be like and who, among the NPCs, could interest her. Estinien quickly came to mind.

There's also another ship for her that jumped on me a few days ago and made everything more interesting in my WoL verse in a very fucked up way. The gods know she's lucky Estinien's patient with her bullshit x) But this ship starts in hatred and ends in death and I'm not sure yet if I'll keep it canon for her (probably, though, because it says a lot about her and the consequences are fun to deal with and also fix a few issues I had). That specific ship came to me when I was wondering how to make a certain part of the MSQ work with a pair of WoLs rather than just one. I'm honestly surprised it works so well for the story!

Inge's has a QUIET love life that took her by surprise in both cases x) She's married to Yersinia in her RP verse as well as her WoL verse. A wedding she doesn't remember very well tbh, because that was basically the equivalent of two people getting drunk-wedded in Vegas, but she has 0 regrets about it x) OOCly, it started when @inah-ffxiv made a lala, then turned her into a Roegadyn, and we joked-rp them a few times... except they meshed really well so Yersinia ended up as a full fleshed character in a fwb-but-are-we-really-just-friends relationship with Inge x)

And in her WoL verse, she also ends up with Y'shtola. I think it really started during the quest where you go with Y'shtola to the Steppes and developed more or less slowly from there. Idk why but Inge and Y'shtola always felt like an inevitability, and I've spent the longest time fighting it because I didn't want to ship her with an NPC, let alone one so popular. Look at me now lol I also considered Rowena and Raubahn for a short while, but that was really just me being in denial about Y'shtola I think. Though she wouldn't say no to casual hookups with Rowena (less so Raubahn since Teledji and Adeledji).

I don't have any screenshot of Inge and Y'shtola or Aïcha' and her cursed ship but I do have pics for the other two:

Another random WoLQotD/OC question

I thought I'd ask this while I worked on my other questions. :)

If you're a WoL x NPC shipper, what drew you to that ship and why? What makes that ship the pinnacle for you and your oc? Is it that you love the canon character you write them with, you find their dynamic interesting or something in between?

If you're not a WoL x NPC shipper, but you have a ship with another person, how did that come about? What makes that ship fulfilling for you? Has the ship impacted your relationship with that other person? Feel free to gush, I wanna hear it!

Oh, and pictures are a must (if you have them).

[black-novas]

Tell me abt your ocs !!

ok so I have a lot lmao

I have some ffxiv chars that actually are a party in my head and they accompany my protag (commonly referred to as 'wol' = Warrior Of Light) all the time. I commissioned my wol and am excited to get the artwork :) but I definitely love the others just as much. one of them (the healer) is his childhood bestie, the other (his fellow damage dealer) is his husband, and the last one (the tank) is an incredibly troubled and emo bunny girl with a huge sword who doesnt like talking about herself. my wol is a big middle aged cat man who loves traveling and exploring. he is a huge fan of the beauty of the world he lives in and basically started out as a druid in the forest, though he is versatile and in the progression of the story tries out other ways of protecting what is important to him. he grew up in an incredibly strict household that had a very strict path foreseen for him and only in breaking out and travelling on his own for a while was he able to truly discover what he wants

In the Sims 4 I have a werewolf x vampire couple. the species hate each other in the game and because they live in a neighbourhood full of werewolves, the vampire has some trouble making connections. He works as a doctor and is a vegetarian so he makes all his food from fruit (his husband offered him his blood once but according to the game it tastes like dog water so they don't do that anymore). His husband is a shy guy and while his lycanthropy would grant him easy access in the neighborhood, he is very socially awkward and also everyone hates his husband. oh and the vampire got pregnant accidentally and i'm very excited about that

In DnD I currently play a neutral centaur sorcerer. Not gonna say too much bc I have mutuals who are in that campaign as well and they don't know her entire backstory but she crossed over from the Feywild and spent a significant amount of her teenage years with a human woman who treated her like her daughter and taught her a lot about their world. At some point she (the woman) got killed by an elemental which got my character to leave and travel the world. She's in Icewind Dale with her party now and kind of has a crush on the cleric of the town, the woman who also inspired her to pick up that class herself and build a connection to the God Amaunator. my character is very impulsive and can make some tough (and sometimes cruel) choices if necessary but she is trying to treat every creature with respect and wants to learn the peaceful approach.

I have more (especially from original story ideas and just. from my head in general) but i don't want to spam haha

[katarh-mest]

so I finished FFXVI and

in this essay I will weigh a point and counterpoint about the ending.

below the cut due to spoilers - not just for XVI but for VIII, X, XIII, XV, and XIV through Endwalker.

So the ambiguous ending that has everyone in a tizzy is being hotly debated. We've got Schrodinger's protagonist - did he survive? or is he dead on the beach?

Let's look at historical FF games and other media to see how they might reflect upon it.

(Spoilers for MANY final fantasy games follow)

Point: Clive is dead

Lighting is dead (or at least turned to stone) at the end of FF-2. but, you know, not dead dead. Just mostly dead. It takes a god to revive her.

Noctis is dead at the end of XV. He survives in the novel but it doesn't count since it was cancelled DLC.

Tidus is dead at the end of FFX. But was he truly alive to begin with? He only got to come back in X-2 because the last of the fayth took pity on Yuna.

Squall is dead. Seriously, there's a great crack theory that Squall died halfway through VIII and was just having a potential future flash before his eyes. https://squallsdead.com/

Spock died at the end of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan to save the Enterprise. He got magically reincarnated by the next movie though.

Ysayle died at the end of Heavensward. It was her way of atoning for taking the lives of so many people. She's basically XIV's version of a Dominant, one of the few humans that can morph into a primal (eikon.) Her death is probably the most directly relevant to XVI plot wise, in that respect.

Counterpoint: Clive Survived

Thancred survived the end of ARR and Shadowbringers. We were pretty sure he was going just stay dead at the end of the Battle of the Dads with Ranjit, but somehow he eked it through.

The cost: of surviving ARR He lost all his magic. His is the strongest direct parallel out of the "they lived" crew.

2. The Warrior of Light survived Endwalker. Dragged to the edge of the universe to have one final fight with Zenos, they won after throwing everything they had at each other. And the WoL getting to land a punch at the end got repeated in XVI, which pleased me.

Here's my WoL. Zenos is probably still a corpse there. Good riddance.

The cost: Nothing, really, the WoL is covered in plot armor.

3. Naruto and Sasuke both survived. Even though Sasuke didn't deserve it.

The Cost: Both their arms.

In Conclusion

I think Clive survived. Jill cried out because she lost her Dominant connection to him, but that was because all the magic was gone. Meteia (the XVI moon, not the depressed birb from XIV) disappeared because the magic was gone. Ifrit was gone. But Clive survived.

The cost: Curse finally hit our boy Clive and he will no longer have the usage of his left hand.

He's also on an unknown beach, but if one of his primary parallels is Thancred, he'll be fine. He's resourceful.

Maybe we'll even get a nutkin scene in a sequel game.

[flyingcookierambles]

I feel like, despite drama that comes with a group of extremely online nerds who are overly attached to the game sometimes, the ffxiv fandom is pretty friendly about WoL x NPC pairings, aka, OC/self insert x NPC and basically everyone is bi/pan for certain characters, especially hot elf politician man Aymeric de Borel and/or best husband minimum height cat boy G’raha Tia lol

No one is immune to them.

And even sometimes OC/self insert x multiple NPCs since everyone in this game is so dang hot with kind personalities (or potential to be woobied or OOC-ed or just crack interpretation-ed into good partner material), we can't only pick one, it is very difficult to only pick one lol

[alicelufenia]

Writing up mine under the break rather than include a million tags.

So Alice's main canon is just the MSQ + literally every Job quest (probably all the sidequests too). She's been adventuring since the Calamity and was already seasoned at the start of ARR. This is the one where Zenos dies, but his final dying wish is for her to live, for herself this time rather than for him. This one is the subject of my screenshots. I have difficulty seeing her continuing adventuring after 6.0 with this ending, it just makes too much sense that she'd settle down with G'raha and work on her Archon mark, but time will tell with the conclusion of 6.4 and the lead up to 7.0 whether that holds up or not. Tag: #The Boundless Queen

The canon I REALLY want to write for, and may become main canon if I can work it into MSQ right, in which Alice accidentally brings Zenos back with Dynamis in an effort to lay him to rest, roping G'raha into these shenanigans too. Lots of involvement with the tribe quests, starting with Omicron and creating a portion of Elysium with Zenos and G'raha's help, then progressing to the Loporrit quests with Jamingway's blessings, and eventually returning to Etheirys and Alice and a Zenos-disguised-as-Shinryu (now very small due to losing all his aether) are just thriving in Thavnair. Fans of Adventurer Zenos, Soft Zenos, Zenos Learns to Live would love it, basically everyone else would hate it lol. Too bad.

Also this isn't technically Zenos x WoL x G'raha (that ship is too powerful for me to wrap my head around it yet), basically it's Alice x Zenos and Alice x G'raha but not in a gross het love triangle way, they're just sort of incidentally in each other's lives and develop a platonic relationship in the process of following along with Alice's insane antics. Arguably the most healthy relationship Alice could have barring certain dead characters (Haurchefaunt) or characters she's become hopelessly alienated from (Lyse :'c). Ship Tags: #A Mirror for the Princess (Alice x Zenos) and #Griffin and Bear (Alice x G'raha)

Then there's the forbidden au. The roleswap au. The corruption au for Alice and ultimate "what if" for Zenos' thirst for fulfillment and G'raha's desires to be a hero. G'raha became an adventurer instead of getting spirited away by the Sharlayans, and is now the Warrior of Light; Alice sas Darnus got conscripted rather than fleeing Corvos, and has become an infamous and ruthless officer under Nael van Darnus (who lives in this au), committing atrocities far in excess of anything Gaius or (pre-Endwalker) Zenos ever achieved; and Zenos Baldesion is the lost princeling, having run away prior to the events of The Hunt Begins and found by the Sharlayans instead of G'raha, and by present day is an Archon carrying the Baldesion name, and travels to Eorzea to find the returned Warrior of Light, out of bemused curiosity to see such a figure of epics come to life, and sheer boredom of the Sharlayan archives. And yes, still will develop a fascination with Alice, but from the other side.

The crackship potential is off the charts with this one, I'm talking not just Zenos x G'raha but Zenos x Krile too (nothing weird, I was thinking in the way Krile and G'raha have a familial relationship in main canon), and Alice x Nael which is so cursed, Nael being one of the people main canon Alice hated the most for what he did to her hometown, and her parents dying in the Calamity he orchestrated. I love it and hate it at the same time, I want to slap myself for coming up with it but can't abandon it. I refuse. Ship Tag: #The Warrior the Witch and the Wayfarer

Anyway thank you for reading this I will be accepting your unfollows on my desk by the end of the day /j

Hi! I'm just curious how many people have a single AU or Headcanon that they stick with religiously for their OC, and how many people write their OC through several different AUs or follow through several possible Headcanons. I'd love to hear more about your AUs/Canons in the notes, tags, and reblogs!

And as always, feel free to reblog for variety <3

[noodlingway]

This was too many images for one post and I'm trying to do this on my phone so hopefully it's still legible!

Happy All Saint's! Just a week late, whoops!

[pebsterino]

Honestly I feel you on the ocxcanon. Who cares if people ship it as long as everyone is having fun! People are allowed to diverge from canon and make their own "timeline" or multiple of them. Draw all the ocxcanon stuff you want, I think there's more people who support it than hate it.

Absolutely! But that’s the thing for me this is basic knowledge but apparently lots of wow players don’t get it or it’s weird for them. I’ve encountered a lot of hate and weird messages when I was younger for shipping oc x canon ships from wow. And till this day people are weird ab it. I don’t know in ffxiv this problem do not exists, everyone ships their wol with lots of npcs. People support and encourage each other to keep creating. I just want to have fun and share my ships 🙏😭.