#post ARR glam

[stormbabylore]

I just... really love them both a lot. ;-;

A great deal of Stormbaby WoLship rambling below:

My intention was to roll Aeryn through this entire game without her forming any romantic attachments. I knew she was ace and thought she might also be aro, too; and with the backstory I was slowly brewing up for her, I felt she would be too focused on discovering herself to even think about complex interpersonal relationships. In a place where she woke up with nothing but her name, it seemed natural that she might secretly yearn for family and friendship, for belonging and for home - but no more than that.

She had a unique and close friendship with Ywain that I thought might develop into an innocent little crush if I ever wanted to explore something different for her, but it wasn't something I felt she had time to consider with all the early ARR happenings and her own internal strife. Ywain (and the guild) became a safe haven for her to return to. She trusted him, and she enjoyed his company because he accepted her reticence without question and didn't belittle her lack of strength - only offered opportunities to grow stronger. It seemed like a decent foundation for a Potential Something if I ever wanted to go that route with her.

But then I got her to the Waking Sands, and Urianger flipping opened his mouth. My entire brain short-circuited. I Could Not Even with the poetic language and the voice and the hiding his face and the everything. The more partial I started feeling toward his character, the more I thought about sweet moments that might occur between him and Aeryn. A good friend would tell you that I maintained for months that they would just forge a very strong friendship and soulmate-level of understanding, even while side-writing fic that I maintained wouldn't be canon to Aeryn's story.

Some 85,000 words later, now... oops?

I don't think I can deny anymore than I have a very strong bias toward my little WoLship.

/shrug

[fantasmagoriam]

First day in Gridania

[sundered-souls]

FFXIV Vanilla #1 — Job

Even back in ARR, you knew looking at her that she was no ordinary adventurer. She took jobs with confidence and caution both, clothed in garbs that spoke of experience, evolving among people with the ease of someone that—strangely for a foreigner—seemed to already know what to expect.

[impossible-rat-babies]

eyrie’s glams 1/??

brd: SB + early ShB--> late ShB --> post EW

rdm: post EW | smn: post EW | sge: post EW

dnc: EW --> post EW | drk: post EW

[rudy-redd]

I overthink what i post, look at my fucking guy

[tinytveit]

a realm reborn - 

often she would traipse out past the aetheryte at quarrymill to the little campfire inside the giant log, jehantel teaching her another song or the like. after the garlean threat had been dealt with at the praetorium, and her teacher had nothing left to offer her, she would still find herself wandering out there to sit with him. perhaps it calmed her, a quiet moment amidst the storm. 

[luckydxy]

Got around to actually starting Ara's ffxiv save ... peace out ✌

[sheyshen]

Hustling Layla through ARR so she can do the crossover event and taking the chance to get good shots of her as I go. she's such a cutie

[kokiri]

It's so so sooo funny to me that Estinien started as a faceless edgy shounen antagonistic grump in the 1.0 Legacy/ARR Dragoon quests. Now he's a main supporting character and part of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn.

And he's also becoming FFXIV's official thirst trap at this point. Like.

Remember that official promo illustration (x) that was posted on the FFXIV Twitter during the height of the pandemic? The one with a very sweaty, very scarred, very ripped Estinien in naught but boxer shorts doing one armed pushups. No other character had an illustration that was so overtly horny bait.

And then in Endwalker, Estinien shows up at your room in leather pants and a mostly unbuttoned shirt with rolled up sleeves in a scene straight out of a dating sim. It's one of the more expensive scenes in the expansion according to Yoshi P (x) because of the part where they animated Estinien jumping out of your window. But not before a lingering shot of his foot stanced on the balcony railing and his leather clad thighs and crotch region. But not before it looks like he's walking towards your bed when he enters your room. But not before he tells you that you have his lance in a tone of innuendo. Also he never wears those clothes again. Estinien shows up in a glam of which the pants and shirt together typically run at over one million gil... just for that optional scene.

I don't know who on the FFXIV dev team is leading the march of making Estinien into fanservice fodder... but I'm not complaining.

[hydaelyns-bitch]

i just love this glam a lot

it's her canon post-ARR/early HW glam now

[farfromdaylight]

cálei's glams throughout msq

ARR: The Heart of the Party (Lancer) ARR Patches: Of the Silver Lining (Scholar) HW: Unbeliever (Dark Knight) HW post-Vault: The Redeemed (Red Mage) SB: Tempter of Fate (White Mage) SB patches: The Red (Red Mage) ShB: Lightbringer (Red Mage) ShB patches: Shepherd to the Stars (Red Mage) EW: Living Memory (Dark Knight) EW patches: The Seventh Dawn (Red Mage)

[fantasmagoriam]

[dalmascan-requiem]

Vierapril Day 10 - Free Choice

Some shots of Kris in his ARR fit. :) I'll probably do an Eorzean Collection page for the glam soon!

(vierapril main post)

[fourteentheart]

A band of Makoh'tos inspired by the Dawntrail MV!

I pulled some stills I liked for reference. :3 Makoh'to is wearing all his official glams through each expac! From left to right: SHB+ENW, ARR+HW, Post-ENW, DT, and STB.

I listened to the mv on loop while working on this. When I heard it premier at FanFest I thought the sound was very Makoh'to-core! I feel it even more now :3

[yloiseconeillants]

so. cloudtestserver has been a whole little microcosm of my FFXIV experience which is „nothing here matters so i am going to give myself a fake deadline to achieve exactly one Simple Goal which is level dol/doh classes to the point where i can dye my alt‘s glam with a crafted dye (approx. level 30 for bot/min/and a crafting class: i chose alchemist because Lmao) which has resulted in me moving the goal posts to „finish the arr alchemist quests before the week is up“ and I was trucking along with levequests and gc turn-ins and the Ixal quests and I hit 50 and I had all my items ready to go

Except I forgot that I needed a grade 3 materia to finish the quests

And this particular materia is a quest reward for a quest that gets eaten by the scenario skip

So my only option is to grind out the level 45 caster gear in the hopes that i can extract the correct materia

And of course the only way I can grind that at this point is running level 50 fates in underleveled gear

Which is. Of course. The Harlequin gear.

Clown Hours Perpetual at yloiseconeillants.tumblr.com

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Miscellaneous Alts

So there are Other Alts besides the main four, I just either don't play them very much so I don't have as much to say about them, or ... well. Or because they're ridiculous that they exist in the first place.

Random picture because pictures are fun, then I'll actually get to babbling:

First up is Levi, a hyur fella based on yet another post-apocalypse character. He ran a drug den. He is also a babyfaced cherub.

I asked my husband what he thought of this glam, and he told me 'Teen Boy's First Adventure.' He's actually in his mid-20s, but literally every single one of my friends refers to him as a teenager. So ... babyface achieved, I suppose.

Another character I wish I played more often, but don't, is Nellwen:

Part of why I don't play her more often is because I only play her when my husband is playing her husband, Pellian. Alas, during lulls, my husband does crazy things like 'play other games,' usually. They're based on a married couple we played in a Pathfinder campaign (this is rare for us, we usually don't play characters that are romantic with each other). She was an arcanist that set all her problems on fire and/or rattled the bones of annoying people. Obviously, she's a BLM.

I made bunny versions of all the boys, and where Bjalla was Bunny Dusk, Svend is Bunny Mercuriel:

I barely ever play him, but his fuckin' attitude cracks me up, and I know he'll pop up occasionally picture-wise, so why not acknowledge him. The main thing I decided about him, is he also left the woods after getting fed up with being a feral forest hermit ... but doesn't want to admit it, and tries to pretend that no, he's always been a city boy and no he definitely has no idea how to hunt, kill and dress wild game or anything of the sort. Who told you he did? He'll bite their faces off.

So I know this is absurd, but I have, on occasion, made other Dusks on other servers. The first Other Dusk I made during the interminable wait for 5.3 to finally release, on a server that had Road to 70. I wanted to see how far I got leveling everything before I got bored and stopped. He hit all 50s before I got tired of trying to level everything, but I sort of wound up playing through the entire MSQ with him.

So if you see a picture of Dusk with this hair, it's likely Bertrand. The funniest thing to me about ol' Bert is for some reason I think of him as the most focused of the Dusks. Something about his hair just makes him seem a little more put together to me. And yet whenever he's sad, like in the picture above, he more looks like he's trying to remember where he put his keys.

Seriously, he just had them.

The OTHER other Dusk, I made on Seraph with Farron. Dusk is going by his real name, Bellinor, and Farron is technically doing the same, using Kare. We're sort of treating it as an AU, where the boys met at the start of ARR instead of the end of Endwalker, but the reason they exist at all is a) Road to <number> makes my brain light up and b) Farron hadn't actually played the bulk of the MSQ as Farron, what with rabbit dudes not even being a thing until EW. Yes, he could do NG+, but he likes having me along to nag him to progress. And honestly, being able to spam each other with silly cutscene faces makes it all a lot more fun, imo.

I don't know what it is about THIS hair, but I think it makes him look like the biggest airhead on the planet. He is the Dumbest Dusk, and we love that for him.

Kare is relatively new to being civilized, by the way, but Bellinor is doing his best to help:

Kare doesn't really know how to read very well, for example.

Bellinor thinks the lessons are going great.

Kare still is a regular-ass adventurer dude, Bellinor is still the WoL. Kare keeps getting dragged into shit he doesn't actually care about because this big dumb ?roommate? of his keeps making big puppy eyes whenever he asks Kare to come with him.