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Another thing. A sort of 'metric' post to showcase my own personal evolution through the past couple years as I've gained more and more insight into modding and newer, more advanced tools enter the scene.

4/14/2024

Previous iterations below.

11/23/2023

7/24/2023

12/6/2022

4/14/2022

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv elezen #elezen #duskwight #tsuwamono seiei #Introspection is cool 👍

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“O Saint Shiva, still the hatred within our hearts and bless us with eternal grace!“ 

Shiva Final Fantasy but she’s actually male and has floating multiple arms alluding to an actual Hindu god ashflhf Just a fun AU idea where Aymeric volunteers as a vessel to summon Shiva. I’ll make a design sheet soon!!

#ffxiv #ffxiv art

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VIERAPRIL 【第 15 天】 SPARK ✨

This sparks joy.

#ffxiv #ffxiv viera #viera #OH I LOVE THIS #Cackling-mad pyromaniac vibes #Biting them chewing thrashing deathrolling

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something to hold onto--

#ffxiv #ffxiv elezen #elezen #that's intense #In a sorrowful dreary kinda way #I love the vibes of this so much though this is amazing

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Matching outfits

[ft. Flidais from @selnyam]

Bonus meme

#ffxiv #ffxiv elezen #ffxiv viera #Hi I'm fucking gay #God they both look so good in that dress though

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With the advent of the benchmark and the information that's given us in way of textures, models, and materials: This is going to be the final experiment with this specific body texture before Dawntrail. If I can help it I'm going to be directing my efforts to making a new texture entirely, hopefully one that's completely custom made.

Fullbody + Kinda shitty closeup under cut lol (also very scattered and chaotic exposition)

So why this design? Well the short answer is that Seiei is a monster/demon. Even in early drafts of her lore she fell to corruption and had her entire being changed irrevocably.

The long answer is given both the nature of her being, her past, and the area she lived in I wanted to try and draw upon specific themes she has when designing this more beastial form to get a more truly finalized picture of this character.

The biggest themes being Corvids, Emotions (namely rage), Tengu, and the final player that spurred the decision to add scales: Alatreon (yes, from monster hunter). Going in reverse order to explain starting with Alatreon; it was the final piece of the puzzle as every aspect of it fits Seiei nearly to a T with a short blurb of it stating: "Known as a symbol of destruction, people fear even uttering its name. It’s rumored to control all of the elements, but most, if not all, records of its existence have been burned." Going hand in hand with much of what is stated in this writing I posted a while ago. This on top of the fact that when fighting, Alatreon is inherently chaotic and easily enraged, much like Seiei.//

Given the area that Seiei is from—that being Doma—Tengu seemed to fit the bill as well. The decision to include this only reinforced by Swallows Compass.

There is significantly more to unpack here than with Alatreon as well as some still loose ends but the main reasons Tengu play into her design are because they are often depicted as yokai, sometimes even 'evil spirits.' In art and media they are portrayed very commonly with avian characteristics which ties into the whole Corvid thing. I could very well argue that the evolution from Corvids to Tengu is due to her corruption twisting that aspect of her into something monstrous. Oh and the big nose...

But more than that there, are a few stories that portray Tengu as legendary martialists that can employ extremely powerful and dangerous magics, which Seiei has in the form of her prior kenjutsu training and "black smoke". And yes, keeping with typical depictions, she does also have a feather fan, but I'm not sure I've really ever posted her with it.//

Emotions, specifically rage, was the baseline theming for her when I was drafting up her original lore (that needs heavy refinement now but I'll worry about that later). As one might guess this also hooks into 'Dynamis'. You see; Seiei was created shortly after I'd finished Endwalkers MSQ and the idea of "Dynamis" was still fresh in my head. Specifically it's observed ability to spiral out of control (much like real emotion) and create horrid abominations that the people of etheirys do not understand (Much like how rage causes people to do things they otherwise wouldn't with no sound logic behind it).

I'd never been invested in FF's magic system until this point either as it seemed very straight forward and bland to me even with astral and umbral alignments. But with the introduction of Dynamis as the sort of 'antithesis' to Aether I was locked in. My mind had interpreted it as a sort of matter vs anti-matter type of deal given that where one is abundant the other is near absent and they do not generally play well together, so naturally I wanted to try and explore that avenue more.

It was difficult trying to figure out how to get a character to reasonably function with Dynamis at first, especially with her lore being from pre-arr. However, if you know about "The Burn" and it's alleged lack of Aether, one needn't stretch very far to see how Dynamis could have affected Seiei. Or really any character from Othard. I'd love to do a real deep-dive into this at some point but for now you get my very scattered and very raw exposition.

As a sorta related aside, this was all thought up during a very difficult time in my life. So in a way this character started out as 'vent art' to release pent up emotion.//

Anyone who's been around a while knows Seiei's original last name was 'Warcrow'. When I'd made the character at first this had literally zero meaning outside of "I like bird :) " but as time went on I started to see where it could fit.

Without going into an insane amount of detail though because I'm sleepy: The crow motif is more closely tied to her adoptive father (The bunny man) who was exceptionally clever and tricky much like crows are. However, when he had passed our Seiei inherited much of what made him who he was and subsequently twisted it (cannot emphasis enough how much I love corruption). As a result for our Seiei, the meaning of crows is no longer relates to their intelligence or trickery but their more superstitious interpretations of approaching disaster and death. Also because I like the bird and it goes hand in hand with the Tengu thing lol.//

Also:

#tsuwamono seiei #oc ramblin #Yes the boys will be next #They're supposed to be like hybrids/chimeras so it'll be interesting trying to get that to work #endwalker spoilers #incase

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14. Embarrass (SE_bunboi prompt list)

"-Oh! And the time she had dragged a stray waterfowl to school with her excuse being "Papa brings HIS bird everywhere!" "

"Father, PLEASE! He does not need to hear this!!!"

#srb

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eye c u.

#ffxiv #ffxiv hyur #hyur #Is that also a play on words for ICU cause #You know the horrors and experiments... #If not it should be retroactively

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the major arcana, shuffled: 1/??

THE LOVERS; ⤉ kindred spirits, major choices, soulmates, perfect union ⤈ disharmony, trust issues, conflict, detachment

#ffxiv #ffxiv hyur #hyur #could have sworn I rb'd this when I first saw it... #oh well #this fucks severely and deserves to be seen again

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14. Embarrass (SE_bunboi prompt list)

"-Oh! And the time she had dragged a stray waterfowl to school with her excuse being "Papa brings HIS bird everywhere!" "

"Father, PLEASE! He does not need to hear this!!!"

#ffxiv #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv viera #viera #vierapril #vierapril 2024 #tsuwamono seiei #The joys of embarrassing your child in front of someone they like #He would have been an awesome grandpa I think #It's a shame he's dead 😭 #Bigger shame that there is (logically) no AU where he both lives and Seiei (elf) has kids.

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No caption just look at my lady ty

#ffxiv #ffxiv elezen #elezen

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VIERAPRIL 【第 12 天】 PROGRESS

What is he even thinking about?

#ffxiv #ffxiv viera #viera

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I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them

#Kingdom atoel #Castle atoel

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decembhyur, day 30: future

regardless of everything that you endured, in the end... everything will be okay.

#ffxiv #ffxiv hyur #hyur #Considering what you've told me about all the horrors™ this hits hard 😭 #vomiting and screaming and crying

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sweet sixteen.

#Yeah I'll rb this again #ffxiv #ffxiv hyur #These still slap #Though clearly not as hard as whatever slapped that one fella

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lets out a single agonized bloodcurdling scream but doesnt elaborate on why and just walks it off

#Me waking up

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Edge of Darkness by Ben J

This artist on Instagram

#art #horror #Me getting up out of bed to turn my lights off