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And while I'm on my Lancer bullshit, here's me figuring out what my character looks like in her stealthsuit.

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Emma and JW, the Kids <tm> of our party, enjoying some vibes atop JW's mech. It's supposed to be a Tokugawa but I nerfed the hell out of the collar so that you could actually see its head My Lancer group is amazing and I'm so absurdly lucky I get to RP (and blow things up) with these people.

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Portrait of my Lancer character, Emma Tansy! Tried to mimic the "official" art style.

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Portrait of my Lancer character, Emma Tansy! Tried to mimic the "official" art style.

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Junelezen Day 6: Mount

“Brouillard is…difficult, to be sure. Loyal, it would seem, to me alone. He has bitten many a stranger, and even many he knows. But he’s been with me for years now, and I know I could entrust him with my life.”

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Junelezen Day 4: New Adventure

I feel the pull of distant lands. The plight of distant peoples. I wish to be more than a shield to Ishgard alone....

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Junelezen Day 3: Spring

When others lives may yet be in danger ... a knight has no choice but to act.

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Junelezen Day 2: Home

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Junelezen Day 1: Portrait

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Darklight part 3 is live! Agent Quiet tries to decompress from his forest encounter, but there’s no time – as his boss has arrived with a new, and complicated, assignment

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Darklight part 3 is live! Agent Quiet tries to decompress from his forest encounter, but there’s no time – as his boss has arrived with a new, and complicated, assignment

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clarity does not come easy

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I’m terrible at this sort of thing

And thus I’m way past the deadline for expressing my appreciation and admiration for Sounsyy. Part of it was hoping to get a bit of art done in time, but since that can’t happen I have to settle for measly words now instead. orz

I don’t even know what to say that others haven’t expressed better and more eloquently. All my friends wrote such heartfelt things and my brain’s just been stalled the whole time. How do you adequately express gratitude to a literal pillar of your community? Someone who’s given countless volunteer hours for a passion project they’ll never get paid for? Who does it purely as a service for others? I’ve been haunting this damn game since ARR and I can’t think of a single RPer I’ve met who hasn’t referenced Sounsyy’s work. Mirke’s Menagerie is an island of sanity for all of us trying to navigate the often convoluted waters of XIV lore, doubly so if you’re a nerd for it.

Hell, so much of this community has come and gone in the decade-plus that XIV has been around. Many of the old RP resources we used to have, that once seemed like institutions, are gone. Sounsyy’s outlasted them all. Still here, still writing, still helping out.

As someone once crazy enough to create and run large-scale events in the past, I legitimately don’t know what we would have done without Souns. I still don’t know what we’d do without them. Maybe this community doesn’t deserve their hard work, but we’re sure as hell all better for having them in it.

Thank you, Sounsyy, for giving all you have to this community. If I see you in Vegas, let me buy you a coffee or beer or something.

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Character Summary: Basile

alias/nicknames: Bas, Bellerose, Hunk, Luscious Locks, Dumbass

gender: he/him/his

age: Early-to-Mid Twenties. Time Is Very Wimey Here In This House!

zodiac: (Real world: Libra; Eorzea: Halone)

abilities + talents: Basile possesses a impressive innate ability for martial combat. He took to it readily as a young boy and his days as a squire only reinforced it. He's the sort of guy that was just infuriatingly good any he decided to try. At least when to came to athletics. Academics are a different story.

He also uses a particularly unorthodox method of battlefield traversal in which he captures an aetheric detonation from his gunblade within a ward only to release the pressure in a single direction. Effectively jet-propelling himself through the air.

Basile's real ability and talent, however, is his unwavering and unassailable sense of justice and optimism. He believes whole-heartedly that he will always be able to pull through in the end to see the the day is saved. He will be the ever-burning light in the dark.

alignment:  lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

languages: Common

family: Garland Bellerose (Father), Yvonne Bellerose (Mother), Violette Bellerose (Older Sister), Valérie Bellerose (Older Sister)

friends: Basile is the sort to quickly make friends. He's gregarious, charismatic, and kind. He's not one to force his company on anyone, but unless he's told to go away he probably will try to be your friend in one way or another. Friends of note would be his comrades amongst the Knight-Lieutenants in House Requingris.

sexuality: heterosexual / bisexual / pansexual / homosexual / demisexual / asexual / unsure / other

relationship: single / partnered / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating yet / it’s complicated

libido: sex god / very high / high / average / low /very low / non-existent

build: slender / average / athletic / muscular / curvy / other

hair: white / blonde / brunette / red / black

eyes: brown / blue / gray / green / black / other

skin: pale / fair / olive / light brown / brown / dark / other

height: 7'2'', Exceptionally tall for an elezen.

scars: None of note.

dogs or cats || birds or bugs || snakes or spiders || coffee or tea || ice cream or cake || fruits or vegetables || sandwich or soup || magic or melee || sword shield dagger or bow || summer or winter || spring or autumn ||past or future

A few songs that remind you of them:

Drill to Heaven with Your XXX!! (Gurren Lagann) The feeling in this song sums up Basile's energy 1000%

Aftermath (MechWarrior 4)

I'm Still Here (Treasure Planet)

Zero To Hero (Hercules)

It Doesn't Matter (Sonic Adventure)

tagged by: @dragons-ire and @tea-and-conspiracy

tagging: Seeing as how I'm late to the game, whoever wishes to do it!!

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MIRKESWEEP

5 years ago, I started playing XIV to RP with my friends again. Someone immediately pointed me to Sounsyy's guides and it helped me when I was trying to build a character.

I'm a stronger writer and I make better characters because of her work, and I still use them to flesh out what I do.

(I even write poetry based on lore trivia in the game on occasion)

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MIRKESWEEP

Roleplaying has a habit of getting you to look up the more obscure parts of a world’s lore. In a lot of fandoms there are whole wikis or communities, but in FFXIV you just hear one name when you have a lore question. “Sounsyy wrote about that!”

Sounsyy is a megastar and the work they do is invaluable and SO appreciated. Need to know about Aether? Sounsyy’s got a masterpost. Need to know about a region that’s a region that’s mentioned four times? Sounsyy’s got them all listed AND gives context for the surrounding areas.

That’s what I said on my twitter thread about it, but here I want to offer some further thoughts. Some anecdotes.

I play a nerdy arcanist born in a tiny Shroud village, and an ex-imperial whose family hails from near Thavnair - Corvos, specifically. Before 6.0, there was about three pieces of information total about Corvos. And Sounsyy had gathered them all, and provided enough of a picture of the place that I could work that into my character’s lore.

And when it comes to my arcanist, Wyda? Aether, magic, Shroud place names (and specifically Shroud place names referenced in OLD material, like 2.0 Leves or 1.x content). The differences between types of magic. That’s a LOT of information that is needed for actively roleplaying, or writing the backstory, of Hyrtwyda Eyhafrynwyn. A lot of information, found across dozens and dozens of questlines. There’s no ONE source that talks about aether in FFXIV - different details are revealed about it in different questlines. The only source that brings it all together is Sounsyy. And that’s incredible. It’s invaluable, and without them the community of this game would be a very different place.

Archival work isn’t usually thought of as transformative, but Sounsyy’s work truly has transformed the shape of FFXIV.

In case you’re reading this, in amongst what I hope is a huge outpouring of love from other people too: thank you, Sounsyy.