After taking a few weeks break to recover from the DLC, I'm back on my FFXV bullshit and oh my godddddd. I feel so emotional being reunited with my boyysssss. I had to immediately swap everyone out of their endgame clothes bc my heart couldn't take it, esp Noct in his lil king clothes (& sadly I am yet to unlock the Gladio shirtless wear so he's still in his shirt), but I am having a blast playing through the post-endgame content.
So far I've conquered the Pitioss Ruins and upgraded the Regalia to it's D and F types. Absolutely living for this car so here are some gratuitous Regalia shots plus bonus boys reaction pic bc why the f not.
What else should I be looking to do post-end game (other than endlessly sobbing and screaming)?
4000mg of ibuprofen | adam/declan, m - so tropey. but fun!
a thing with a name | adam/gansey, e - gonna be real fellas i wrote and posted this drunk and never looked at it again lmao.
ambilevous | handcat&matthew, handcat/declan, handcat/adam, m - secret night time encounters with a certain dream make certain people come to the most interesting conclusions.
be careful how you touch me | declan/ashley, m - outsider pov on declan. spoiler alert: he kinda sucks.
exhume our idols | declan-centric, t - moments and conversations about a certain absentee father all loosely woven together. (excised from a larger work that i may or may not ever finish so hopefully that explains why this is Like That.)
i am no excuse for your legacy | declan&mór, t - my first stab at writing mór. it's about her but really it's about declan.
i got more tongues than just this one | jh hennessy/mór, e - deadbeat milf sex. need i say more.
it's a gift to be simple, it's a gift to be free | aurora-centric, m - aurora is so normal. so normal. the high writing this fic gave me. oooough. good shit.
it's the sweetest in the middle | blue/declan, e - blue disrespects declan's time. by fucking him. at an event.
nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands | kavinsky-centric, m - rip kavinsky you would've loved the dreamer trilogy.
on concupiscence and other lesser forms of being | niall/reader, e - YOU'RE WELCOME
once upon a dream | gangsey but adam-centric, t - what if adam had a sword? also: im SO SORRY this isn't finished yet but im awful at writing gansey. i have the whole thing plotted out it's just. skill issue.
remembered | gangsey, g - the gang being besties.
smoke alarms, smoke alarms | declan-centric, t - a very declan childhood.
solipsism falsified | ronan-centric via jordeclan, t - ronan gets so horny he almost breaks out of the sweetmetal sea.
some things are best left repressed | declan-centric, g - a very declan childhood THE SEQUEL.
we're all falling into a deep oblivion | gansey/blue/declan, e - blue and gansey disrespect declan's time. by fucking him. at work.
without a me there is no you | mór/aurora, e - milfy clone fucking. need i say more.
final fantasy
in the garden sleeps a messenger (viii) | seifer&edea, t - i think seifer and edea had a weirdo fucked up thing going on and it was never properly explored. if there's one fic i could expand on it would be this one. i just don't have the voicing quite right. anyway. this one is dear to me.
bullet big enough to fucking kill the sun (xv) | prompto/ardyn, m - prompto didn't spend enough time in the anger phase of his grief and i was like. what if he did? just a little bit. as a treat.
piteous (xv) | gladio/prompto/ignis, e - i was so distressed by pitioss ruins i could only placate myself by imagining the guys fucking nasty in their endless boredom. hence.
the atlas series
head games | callum/parisa, e - a snipey not quite hate sex competition for fun and profit.
sort of a part 2 to my other post where i'm actually in the dungeon this time
btw I was like 2 hours into it and the clipping software I used was glitching and kept taking a clip every time I raised my voice slightly (even though I had the setting turned off)
i remember when i first read about pitioss ruins, I didn't get into all the details, but read that only Noctis is allowed inside, and it's like a big deal dungeon that you've got to use the flying car to get to and it's hard to land... and I was like "oooh... scary. I'll be on my own... dangerous..." but I had no idea it was dangerous mentally and not physically. And that landing the car was the least of our concerns.
A semi-exhaustive list of the mods I use, which you should use too.
Because we don’t gatekeep talent in this house, because most of my best screenshots would be impossible without these, and because I intend to wring every ounce of fun from this project that Square Enix killed before it’s time. Big love to the modding community for all their hard work. If you go ahead and download anything, please consider supporting these creators any way you can. I’ll modify and update this list as needed/as I can. Hope it helps.
Essential:
Flagrum. A lifesaver. A must. A tool I cannot live without. Skip the hassle of altering your files to install mods in favor of a simple on-off toggle system. Some mods even require it to function. Honestly, if you have Windows Edition, there’s no reason not to have this.
God Mode & Collision Remover. Explore Lucis like never before. Go out of bounds. Visit cutscene-exclusive locations. Get up close and personal with far-off unfinished textures. Live your open-world dreams.
Chocobo Outpost Christmas Event. As someone who was too late to the party to experience the Chocomog Carnival and the Assassin’s Festival, this mod astounds me. It’s beautiful, and there’s surprisingly quite a lot to enjoy. Nothing says Christmas quite like festive music, new weapons, new outfits, a shockingly difficult boss battle, and little baby chocobo chicks with little baby santa hats.
Gameplay:
Ascension Rebalanced. Because I’m not grinding 999 AP for anything short of a new DLC and a can of Ebony.
Hide UI For Stays. Enjoy the resting animations unhindered. They’re pretty fun, if you’re paying attention.
Expand Type F Flight Area. For a roadtrip without the road.
Older Party Pre-Timeskip - Noctis, Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto. For if DILFs are your thing.
Young Party In The World Of Ruin. For if DILFs aren’t your thing.
Ardyn In The Main Party. For people who hate happiness and stability. Full disclaimer: I haven’t road tested this one yet, but it seems solid nevertheless.
Access New Areas:
Sylleblossom Garden. A great place to go and cry, so I hear. Floating high above Tenebrae, so you will need collision remover & god mode to access. Choose whether or not your party joins you.
Exeneris. Access the power plant at any time.
Easy Access To Pitioss. My hottest FFXV take is that completing Pitioss isn’t nearly as hard as getting to that small strip of land to access it. Cheese your way to suffering by removing an invisible wall.
EPA Insomnia. What it says on the tin: the World of Ruin is swapped out for the festive Insomnia from Episode Ardyn. You can’t do much except walk around and break a few things, but it’s a good time nevertheless. You can also remove the festival leftovers if you want to.
G'raha is a well - studied historian who works under Heidegger with the Turks as a planetology researcher for the Ancients . He takes a particular interest in their connection to the life stream & their ability to commune with the planet , & his fascinations take his research to the next level . His interest and knowledge on the subject earned him his place beneath Heidegger , but G'raha didn't understand he was being used by Shinra . I think his research could tie him easily into interactions with Aerith & I know he'd just be infatuated with her ( even though no one is supposed to know of her being a Cetra , I think G'raha would because of his position with Shinra ) , but I also believe that his interacting with her could be a slippery slope into leading to her capture by the Turks . I think he's intuitive enough to notice the patterns of Shinra's manipulation of him & quit before things went intensely awry , but because of what he knows , he does not escape them with ease , & spends much of his time running away from them , which could be the cause to the join the main party . I see him as kind of an optional character you might find whilst adventuring Midgar's slums .
FINAL FANTASY XV .
Born as a prince in Solheim of ancient past , G'raha grew up with great knowledge of magiteknology and eventually went to study it & its history . He dedicated a mass amount of his time to developing a mechanism that could take him back to a time in society before mankind went corrupt , when peace filled the lands , & Ifrit loved his people . He eventually managed to create something that could assist him with timelessness , but it failed to take him to the past as he'd intended . Instead , it led him into a deep sleep , the crystal he'd worked with putting him into a stasis of sorts , only for him to maybe wake up to Noctis's presence in the Pitioss Ruins . That is to say , if you have a character in FFXV , we can always jump ahead to their meeting point or form something pre - established , given these events transpire ! Just note that G'raha is from a different time and he is not used to way things go in modern society .
KINGDOM HEARTS .
For this verse , I have a lot more work to do which might involve developing alongside KH muses in order to make it work ! I want to have him be found in Quadratum , perhaps aiding Sora or Riku on his adventure , but also has ties to Yozora and the others . I kind of want to work with connecting him into that universe as someone who assists with knowledge of the city's history & whereabouts . Right now , we don't know much about Quadratum aside from setting , so it'd be a lot of discussion and headcanon / lore building until the new game is released , but I think it'd be a fun idea to tamper with !