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Girl help she batted Hydaelyn

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24) Can they play any instruments? If so, what do they play?

26) What flower do you associate your OC with?

THIS GOT SO LOST IN MY INBOX BULLSHIT IM SORRY. AAAAAAAAAAA

estelle plays the piano!! she had a Ladies' Education that taught her multiple instruments, but she preferred the piano most of all. it's difficult to find places to practice -- not exactly a cheap instrument, and it's allagan- and garlean-style instruments that are the best-sounding, so it's rare to find a place to play. (they have the industrial equipment to make grand pianos; before truly solidified industry, pianos were restricted pretty much entirely on how tightly people could tighten the strings and how much tension the frames could endure. it's a very modern instrument, all told!)

in terms of flower, i associate estelle with the chinese wisteria!

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OMG: estelle and sadu.....!

there's almost no romantic possibility here, but they would have the absolute nastiest sex that keeps the entire camp up. in the morning, sadu, shameless, the most cod-swanging-est, cat-who-got-the-cream ass looking woman alive, just demands breakfast and food for the road for estelle. it honestly could not be any more complicated than that. it happens maybe 2 or 3 times max.

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Please tell me the tale of Estelle and Ameliance Leveilleur

this one is also very fun once we get past the "i'm your new mom now" dynamic with the twins.

the thing about estelle and ameliance is that she's had this kind of relationship before.

it's a staple of nobility: one party has absolutely everything to lose (ameliance is, by all accounts, quite happy with fourchenault, and in a great political and economic position, and she has two wonderful children she adores more than life itself, and stands to lose A LOT in the divorce) and so it becomes a matter of keeping everything Status Quo...except on the sly she sees estelle. in ishgard, this was normal if taboo to speak about: if primogeniture favors males, then women have to marry men in order to access power, and meeting romantic needs will naturally sublimate outside the marriage and often outside of strict gender hegemony. estelle had a few dalliances in this way, but came away dissatisfied that she couldn't be the focus. what's the point! what's the point of being good enough at the expense of being even better.

it's a good fit. i think, if they were of equivalent age -- ameliance is about 10 or 15 years older than estelle when they finally meet, i think -- and went to university together then they'd be an amazing match. they have different attitudes but very similar functions and they'd cancel out each other's flaws and enhance each other's strengths in a great way. but the reality is that ameliance has a family, a husband, and an estate that estelle would be loathe to break up. she's done this before; she's been The Other Woman. is it really worth doing it again? alas.

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estelle and aymeric but in the sense of what would HAPPEN to the state of ishgardian politics

this one is so funny because in estelle's canon this is the one that EVERYONE expects to happen. EVERYONE expects estelle and aymeric. the other city-state leaders have actually had powwows over strategy in the event that ishgard gains the warrior of light as an explicit resource of the ishgardian state that is occasionally on loan to the others. so many noble houses put their weight behind aymeric purely because they're 98% sure he's going to marry the warrior of light and they want to be on the side that's clearly ascending in power. it makes sense! devout son and daughter of ishgard, compatible temperament, close personal friendship, very pretty together in the paintings, etc, etc. the fact that this DOESN'T happen for real, that estelle shows up post-shadowbringers with this little manlet sharlayan catboy who can't shut up in tow, throws EVERYONE for such a loop.

so in the AU where this actually happens it's less of a nuke on ishgard's political scene so much as the inescapable crushing power of The Hydraulic Press. people are prepared for it but they either go with it or they fight against the inescapable tide. aymeric survived one assassination attempt, he's got a couple more in him. try to ruin estelle's reputation? she proudly deposed the sitting archbishop, what could they even do. they are the definition of a power couple. and it would be fraught: aymeric is planted in place, while estelle can't possibly be caged, so he's stuck weathering attempts on his base of power that she isn't around to help him handle while she's off handling bullshit that he can't possibly pull himself away to help with. when she comes back around, it's time spent putting out fires instead of engaging in the relationship. they present the face of a unified front, but whatever romantic feelings they have for each other are eroded within the first year. it is so horribly and so incredibly just like every other highborn marriage. the friendship can endure, but like many political marriages, the love gets lost in the gap very quickly.

tldr: GREAT time to be on aymeric's side in the ishgardian political scene. TERRIBLE time to be aymeric or estelle

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ok im by no means an estelle scholar but im thinking for au relationship, someone just deeply odd but maybe sort of relatable. how bout like. gosetsu?

OOOH A STRONG ONE OUT OF THE GATE. in her canon, they're good friends in the way a college student strikes up a nice relationship with an elderly neighbor. estelle likes gosetsu a lot as just like, a person. loud, warm, boisterous, easy to talk to. he's the fun grandpa for a woman who never got to have a fun grandpa. (estelle's critical weak point is also "anyone who seems to treat her like family and have her actual wellbeing in mind.") for gosetsu, estelle radiates Wifely Energy and/or Older Daughter Energy but she's also much younger and he has a lot of shit tied up around losing his wife and daughter to the garleans.

what this results in is almost definitely this weird sort of Older Man Pays For An Emotional Support Escort relationship. like, it would work, but it would always be sad to think about; he spends his twilight years with a companion that he overwrites with his wife, and she cares for him as he grows older until he finally passes because it's the something sweet that's better than nothing. this would be a cannes film festival winner if someone made a movie out of it.

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Send me an OC + an alternate love interest for them and I’ll tell you what I think of the idea

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mutuals always making masterpieces and I think wow. and you're following me too. wild stuff

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day 18 comrades.

"Your half-hour lunch break has been over for three hours."

"Come on, Kethry, it's not like the world's gonna end."

"No, it actually is."

"Fine. One more fish."

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Roevember 18: Comrades

To say Robyn was initially intimidated by the Scions is a bit of an understatement. Dealing with a group of highly intelligent and well educated scholars was not normally in her wheelhouse, and she often felt a bit embarrassed at her own humble upbringing.

But she quickly found refuge with their approachable receptionist, and a fast friendship was born. The trials they faced in Ishgard and Kugane only strengthened their bond. As much as Robyn has protected Tataru over the years, Tataru has also protected her from those who would try to take advantage of the hero.

And one day, Tataru helped Robyn take on perhaps her greatest challenge yet - learning how to read. (Look, she may have been motivated to do more than have Tataru read her letters to her and secretly pen her responses, especially to a certain miqo'te woman back in Eorzea)

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More vanilla gpose shenanigans :D

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Half-finished actual dialogue meme template below. doing these was fuuuun

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Roevember Day 17: Blood

Storm of blood Born from blood Of our their fallen brothers Borne upon our hands Cradled in our arms Swelling in our hearts

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Omg rio have you not seen Haurchefant asking the wol to be his "personal steed" in the 2014 heavensturn event. Canon freak

HOLY FUCK I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS. WHAT!!!!!!! SQUARE YOU ARE CRAZY FOR THAT

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Roevember 17: Blood

Please hold on

Please...please stay with me

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prompt 17 blood.

"Get out."

"Ma'am, the servants must tend th-"

"I said get out."

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RoevemberXIV #17: Blood

heart on her sleeve and blood on her hands

very much inspired by this piece by Zuzanna Wuzyk