#Mallow & Ana'a

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Ana’a loves his Mallows and from this angle is looks like he’s hugging her tightly. She’d been looking rather ‘mom’ lately. Tired, worn out, and just fallen into that same old rut of looking the same day in and day out. He gave her his wallet and told her to go treat herself. She hesitated at first before taking the plunge and getting her hair done and picking out a new dress and shoes for home. She wondered if he’d like it, even though it seemed to be on everyone else. “The stylist said it was trending.” she told him as he knelt down to her level and looked her over. She looked brighter, happier, like a plant he’d forgotten to water and was doing it’s best to hang on till he remembered. She gave him a lopsided smile, as he reached out and touched the soft clean cut ends free of breakage with a smile before pulling her into a tight hug. The flop of his tail on the stone and rumble of approval in his chest wordlessly showing how he liked it, and silent apology for not noticing her rut sooner.     

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How much is Mallow Haus worth?

While I’m not going to get into the gritty details of it I did some more math to figure out how much the items in Mallow Haus has cost them both. Mind you that they are ICly renting a small home in Ishgard. They have sold some of their old things to make the move easier and have a bit more money to work with. I had Ana’a help me with keeping track of the items currently in the home that can be bought from vendors, and restricted vendors. 

Their current Small House worth of vendor items?  234,350 gil The rest of the items had to be hand crafted or purchased over time. Ana'a, guaranteed, made or bartered most of their furniture to negate the cost of buying it from a vendor or the Market board. All of Mallows pots, pans, metal baking dishes and knives were made by him since he's a Blacksmith. Very few of her items have been bought. Once again, to put the work they do to make ends meet into perspective, they got their little girls a bunk bed. Right now they're too small to use both top and bottom so they just sleep in the bottom together. Eventually, they'll get a little older and bigger and one of them will be sleeping on the top. For now it acts as a high play area, storage for laundry and toys or a time out spot if they're fighting.   Mahogany Bunk Bed 4 Mahogany Lumber (Limsa/Costa)   - 12 logs 5 Undyed Felt (Gridania, Thanaland, Coerthas Central)   - 5 natron (effervescent water & rock salt) , snurble tuffs, 10 fleece 5 Apkallu Down (Limsa/Costa) 2 Steel Rivets (free Ana'a is Blacksmith) Travel cost to gather by hand: (Note is is only travel no meals, rest or mending) Starting in Ishgard Camp Dragonhead - Free travel by foot/chocobo South to Gridania - Free travel by foot/chocobo Further South to Thanaland - Free travel by foot/chocobo or pay 120 gil in Gridania to take the Airship or cut corners and go to the Gold Saucer for free and then take the free airship ride back to Ul’dah. (Mallow’s extreme gil saving techniques at work) To Limsa next. The options, ride to West Thanaland to Vesper bay and take Sea Ferry for 80 gil to Limsa and then ferry again to Costa for another 40 gil but round trip back to Limsa will cost 80 gil in total. Airship back to Ishgard 150 gil  (Grand Total 310 gil) Or Go to Ul'dah and take airship for 120 gil to Limsa and then pay 80 gil for round trip to Costa. Airship travel to Ishgard 150 gil (Grand Total 350 gil)   Or Take sea ferry to Limsa in Vesper Bay for 80 gil and then ride to Costa through Eastern La Noscea before traveling back to Limsa and paying 150 gil to travel back to Ishgard. (Grand Total 230 gil) OR Take sea ferry to Limsa in Vesper Bay for 80 gil and then ride to Costa through Eastern La Noscea before traveling back to Vesper Bay for 80 gil, and ride all the way back up through Thanaland, Gridania into Coerthas. (Grand Total 160 gil) All in All the cheapest route is going to cost a total of: 160 gil This isn't including how much TIME it will take to reach these locations, sleeping at an Inn or outside, meals, mending or chocobo feed. ...Putting it that way she'd probably see him in about a year. :D I'm kidding. Mahogany Bunk Bed with all the travel expenses, meals, gear mending, inns in total cost or estimates to be around 3000 gil or higher. That's not including the time to craft all the parts and make it for the girls and set it up for them.  

Thankfully their little girls are too small to understand the cost of living and what their parents go through to make sure they’re fed, warm and happy.

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Jingly-shine Wine

The cost of Living in Eorzea an in character role-play perspective.  Ana'a and Mallow struggle to make ends meet and live comfortably despite him being a full time blacksmith and she being a culinarian. For those of you just joining us here’s a brief run down of the situation they are currently in Rp wise.  Now currently Ana'a and Mallow are in Ishgard, having moved there due to business opportunities since the gates are opening. The city is heading into a new era and direction as well as rebuilding. They're banking on being new revenue since the gates have been closed for so long.  Ana'a's essentially taking a gamble on it with Mallow and their two kittens, Berry and Dulcie along for the ride. They have sold everything and taking the money they got from their home, furniture and items being sold off they enter the gates into the snowy north.

OOC Lore-ish roleplay analogy tid-bit ... and MATH I got curious on exactly how hard it would be to live in game if you literally existed off what currency you got rewarded from doing the fetch quests for people and the cost of items in shop from the vendor.  Eorzea isn't cheap and this isn’t a complaint rant. It’s just putting the cost of living into perspective and just how hard our characters would have to work in order to make it.    While looking up quests and their rewards I found that on average for Stormblood main scenario quests, reward you less than 1,000 gil. Around 600-800 gil per quest with the really important ones jumping to 2-4,000. A dungeon, which is considered a life or death situation/adventure, nets you 5,000 gil. The average Heavensward MS quests get you about the same reward. Though around a 100 gil less, 500-700 gil. To put these numbers into perspective I went to the Jeweled Crozier in Ishgard and looked at shop/vendor pricing. Mestonnaux the Carvery (meals) are on average 400 gil per. Meaning if you have 3 meals a day you need to make 1,200 gil.  Just to eat.  Norlaise the Armorer for a level 50 chest piece  14,000 - 21,000 gil. That’s just for the chest piece. An entire level 50 outfit, normal quality and left side only costs: DoW  96,998 gil (left side only no weapons) DoM 78,463 gil  (left side only no weapons) That’s not including your weapons or right side accessories, or the cost to mend them back up.  (Mallow is a caster and Ana’a is physical melee or ranged.)

So what does this have to do with Ana’a and Mallow?  Look at how much just the left side of a level 50 outfit will cost them out of pocket. That’s normal quality, no bells or whistles, no materia, or dye job, just your average available gear set. To be able to even afford DoW gear they or he would need to successfully live through a dangerous dungeon 19.399 times providing he receives 5000 gil at the end of each one.  DoW lvl 60 141,775 gil (left side only no weapons) 28.355 dungeon runs with a 5000 gil reward at the end That’s a lot of dungeons, and odds are stacked against you and when you’re the provider for a family some risks are worth it but death is never an option. Now jumping back to the basic bits of living such as food. 

There are 4 mouths to feed in the family, Ana'a, Mallow, Berry and Dulcie. If they bought meals from the Carvery three times a day Ana'a and Mallow need to make 4800 gil per day to feed themselves and their children. But Mallow knows how to cook, so how much would it cost her to make their meals? I did several maths for this. Buying strictly from shop vendors first, then from the market board, and once more if gathering is possible. Retainers not included but I can definitely see them barely affording one from time to time after gathering up enough ventures to pay them for a while. So retainers for Ana'a and Mallow would be considered a luxury that would happen once in a blue moon depending on how good the year's been and how long their ventures to pay the retainer lasts.  How much does it cost to feed a family of 4?  Boiled Egg Chicken Egg 5 gil   Mineral Water 4 gil ___________________ 5*4 = 20 4*4=16 20+16 = 36 gil  just for a single Boiled Egg for breakfast.

Orange Juice 7 gil from vendor Orange Juice crafted  3 La Noscean Orange 8 gil per orange You get 3 bottles of juice per craft Current MB price as of 12/16/2018 La Noscean Orange 150 per orange 3*150 = 450 gil Mallow will need 6 oranges then so that everyone gets a bottle. 6*150 = 900 gil BUT MALLOW! I can hear everyone yelling. You can gather them for FREE! Why yes I can! If I pay the airship ferry fee in Ishgard to get to Limsa which is 150 gil one way, so 300 gil for a round trip. Plus the chocobo feed if she uses Toby or the cost of a rental chocobo and the time it will take to gather and get back home. So approximately two days ‘role playing’. That's not including the gear she would required for the botany or the mending that will be needed once finished gathering. You're nutty if you think she'd spend 300 gil and come back with just 6 oranges. (This of course is nulling the teleport fee, and not including the shards/crystals/clusters required to make the item) 7*4=28 gil - vendor bought juice 150*6= 900 gil - Market Board bought ingredients for juice 300 gil + 2-3days time - gathered orange juice Best option for them? Vendor purchase. IF the vendor is available in the location. Ok Mallow but a Boiled Egg isn't exactly a meal. Let's see you actually create something you'd feed the family for breakfast.Breakfast in Mallow Haus. Orange Juice 28 gil - vendor purchased  Dodo Omelette 75 gil - vendor purchased ingredients  Honey Muffin  38 gil - vendor purchased ingredients ________________________ 141 gil in total for homemade breakfast to feed four mouths not bad at all! Compared to the 2000 gil total in Market board ingredients (my server fluxes in prices) Of course this is only for one meal and its low end easy to make. Going higher into the Heavensward meals I can only imagine the cost of Royal Eggs. A recipe that includes items such as:   Okeanis Egg Hollandaise Sauce Seema Patrician Ishgardian Muffin

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TIMELINE

Also known as the Eternal Work In Progress Page

MALLOW TIMELINE

See these posts Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (this background is loosely still accurate considering I wrote it more than 3 years ago despite the publish date)

Mallow has been saving up for 3 years  before having enough to purchase a small home. 

2 years later she opens Mallow Haus of Cakes in Lavender Beds- Income is decently steady on a really good day making around 50,000 gil in current and future sales

ANA’A TIMELINE

Shrouded in fucking mystery because it’s Ana’a and that’s how he operates.

---THEY MEET---

Ana'a answers her help wanted ad using the location as a hideaway and escape to start his life over.

A year, year and a half later he makes it known that he's actually interested in her. His feelings solidified. She however doesn’t think he’s serious as she feels he’s too good looking to be with her.

Ana’a spends several months assuring her that isn’t the case.

She takes what money she's saved up from her business and pays for him to learn a trade. He chooses Blacksmithing in Limsa Lominsa since it didn't require too much prior school knowledge to swing a hammer.

Fateful hunting trip occurs, Ana’a is sent out to gather up some raptor shanks. He realizes he has killed a mother raptor and left its hatchling orphaned, took the baby home with him to Mallow. The hatchling is later named Shanks....Mallow fed him his own mother that day too.

Ana'a eventually saves up from his small commissions and buys her a ring.

She says yes!

Ana'a and Mallow begins to save up for their wedding

Several hard working months later-enough saved up to make the trip cross country to pray to the 12 and get married, invites immidiate family (Ana's family mostly: His step-mother Bevelle, father A'nulloh,  younger step brother and sister Asterron and Natividad, and her husband W'kohxah)

Roughly a year and a half to two years later, Mallow becomes pregnant with their first child Berry.

They have Dulcie, their second born, barely two years later. Running joke of his pull out game being weak ensues.