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But What Is A Soul?- A LaDS/FFXIV Idea

Brain wyrms activated again, so here, have a premise/start of a fic. An elongated idea thought whatever. Idk. A What-If even.

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“Can you hear me?”

“Hnng…”

A sigh was breathed in the space between dreaming and waking. “Hey, can you hear me? Hellooooo?” But the girl in the bed did not wake. She simply rolled over. “Well then.” Ghostly fingers slipped through soft locks of short hair, not quite touching. Full lips quirked down at the corners. “We’ll connect eventually.” She glared at the bars of this dreaded cage. The ghost then faded away as the padded room’s door opened to let in another scientist in a pure white lab coat. A name badge gleamed on the older woman’s chest.

The nameless girl woke, crying out in terror as she was dragged away to the labs. Her fellow experiment reached his small hands out to her through his own cage to no avail.  And then she didn’t remember anything at all when she died on the table. Again.

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Tilly watched over and over as the child she was tethered to died, revived, and forgot only to be forced to do it again. Seeing one of her fellow remaining Azem shards suffering this way was terrible. Made worse as well by the fact she couldn’t touch anything which meant no rescue from Tilly’s part of existence. Not for the girl or the other child, a boy named Caleb, desperately trying to shield her. And it made her furious. All her strength from before was made meaningless!

Was this how Ardbert felt? Useless? Unable to touch or affect anything physically? Forced to witness such suffering and unable to render aid beyond encouraging words to the one person who could even see him? This helplessness in the face of evil was beyond the pale.

No. There had to be something she could do. And so Tilly turned her eyes onto the scientist named Josephine. When she wasn’t haunting the little Azem Shard, she whispered guilt into the woman’s dreams. Until finally she broke. The final cataylst happened soon after which finally spurred Josephine into action after nearly losing the girl in the chaos that followed.

The Chronorift Catastrophe.

The rip through time and space affected Tilly hard as the girl died. For the first time after years of limbo, she felt pain and it came from her living tether. Frantic, she threw herself at the child’s soul to prevent her from losing all of her memories. The Warrior of Light plugged holes with her own eight times rejoined soul as quickly as she could. Most memories of the lab leaked away except for some of Josephine and Caleb. The child woke again, lost and confused, after Tilly was done. And then she vanished into sleep within the child’s Aether Core bound heart. She never saw the flash of Light that carried the girl away out of danger from the Wanderers during the incident. When Tilly next woke, everything changed. For she and the girl had truly became one.

A soul born from a sundered Azem, now nine times rejoined.

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TBC???

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| Sylus |

Time to do some prints and photocards for the big babygirl! Zayne won the poll so he'll be the next one!~

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Rafayel~

Will be available as photocards and prints on my Etsy once I'm done with all of them!

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| Sylus |

Time to do some prints and photocards for the big babygirl! Zayne won the poll so he'll be the next one!~

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Rafayel~

Will be available as photocards and prints on my Etsy once I'm done with all of them!

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It is done 👌 It was mesmerizing to see the downfall of Ogata 🥲

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WIP Day

This fic haunts me during off hours when I'm not working on it so here, have a little tidbit today.

~SNIPPET~

“I am capable, thank you!” Tilly jerked her treacherous gaze away. She hurriedly washed her hands and dried them before scooping some plain rice into the cooker’s inner pot. Concentrating only on just what she was doing, she removed the pot to turn to the sink to wash the rice. “Go sit down, okay? I’m sure you’re tired after a long flight.”

“It wasn’t so bad.” He was moving around the living room now; she could sense it from how attuned she always was with him. “What are all these paper planes in the garbage, pipsqueak?”

The hunter whirled around, the washed rice in the pot sloshing. “Caleb, stop being nosy!” she exclaimed. Her mind frantically raced to remember if she had written about her feelings in any of the paper planes. “You’re as bad as Tara!” The pot was abandoned on the kitchen isle as she hurried around it.

Violet eyes sparking with laughter glanced at her. “Am I now?” he wondered. One of the planes was cradled in his hand. “Did you write some wishes in these like when we were kids?” He laughed at the sound of her offended squeal and dodged her when she stomped into the living room. “Pips, the rice.”

“Jerk! You drive me insane!” Tilly jumped as he held the paper plane above her head. Her hand didn’t even touch it. “I’m going to kick out your kneecaps, I swear.”

“You shouldn’t announce your attack before you do it, honey,” Caleb said, dodging her barefoot when it swung for his knee. He leaned back. His palm spanned her forehead to keep her at bay. “Now let’s see.” He used his other hand and his Evol to unfold the plane. “Aw, nothing, how anticlimactic.”

~END SNIPPET~

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Xavier photocard is doneee~ I made a poll on instagram to see which one people would like to see next, so Rafayel it is!! ♥

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IT'S ALREADY THE 14TH HERE SO HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM XAVIER AND GRIMOIRE ♥♥

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WIP Friday

Debuting my Named!MC who is also a Tilly (listen, all my OCs are part of the Into The Tilly-Verse, all Tilly, all the time, sorry not sorry. No, this will not be a crossover. So just a heads up for FFXIV!Tilly lovers. Think of them as... sister souls, lol.)

This takes place btwn Long-Awaited Revelry and Prologue to Tomorrow.

(Sorry, I never prep for holidays so nothing is finished for Valentine's Day alskdfjlskjs)

~SNIPPET~

“So this is the café you like to spend your time in, kitten.”

Tilly grabbed her plate holding her other bagel half with both hands and practically hugged it to herself. “Sylus,” she hissed. Her hazel green eyes darted around but the other patrons were thankfully absorbed in their own business. “What are you doing here?”

A smug smile curled those thin lips. “Why, I’m just a simple man getting a cup of espresso,” Sylus said. He held up a white cup with its matching saucer, both cradled in his big palm. “No need to fuss.”

A flush heated up her cheeks, the tan skin of her face turning ruddy. “And you had to bother me?!” Tilly huffed and scowled. Can she not get one day off from the people in her life?

“If a certain someone would have just answered their phone these past few days, I wouldn’t have to resort to this.” The towering crime boss folded himself into the seat opposite of you. His legs were so long that they invaded her half of the space under the table. They tangled with her legs bared by her jean skirt. Sylus peered over the tops of his sunglasses. The ruby red of his eyes gleamed under the lights of the café. “And you keep shooing away Mephisto every time he tries to check on you. Really, sweetie? Swatting at him with a broom? You shouldn’t bully him, you know.”

That damn crow…!

“Maybe he shouldn’t be so nosy!” Tilly whispered though she also meant the bastard across from her. His smirk told her he knew her second meaning easily enough. Tucking a stray strand of her wine dark hair behind her ear, the hunter narrowed her eyes. “What do you want?”

“Can’t I check on my little kitten? After all, I wouldn’t want her to forget our deal.” The way his voice lowered into a dangerous growl with his second sentence made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. He sipped his espresso. “But you’re so clever, hm? Surely you’d remember.”

“I remember just fine, thank you! It’s only been two weeks!”

Two weeks since she had left the N109 Zone after breaking whatever weird shackle had formed between them when the Aether Core halves merged in her heart. Tilly tried not to think about it too much on her rare days off. She stressed enough about it any other day. The waiting for the possible consequences of what happened was going to give her the kind of heart palpitations that would make Zayne actually frown instead of his normal neutral face of disappointment.

“Very good,” Sylus practically purred, drawing her from her thoughts.

~~END SNIPPET~~

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IT'S ALREADY THE 14TH HERE SO HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM XAVIER AND GRIMOIRE ♥♥

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Shooting stars.

Evol Police Xavier my beloved </3 This anecdote ruined me

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I heard Lumière is a wanted man 🤭

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