I would straight up ask #1-25 for both Emet and Thancred, cause I'm freaking curious but I won't get greedy-
#1-10 for tragic white-haired ffxiv man of your choice
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saved this one for last bc i knew i'd spend a ton of time on it willingly. i'll answer as many as i can for both because why not? gonna start with thancred x wol z’hana because that (self ship) doesn't stray too far outside of canon unlike the soul bond au, and i’ll post emet-selch x wol separately. fair warning tho, i'm not great at writing thancred... hence why there's so little of him in my works... but here we go! ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა
1. Do you get jealous or protective over your partner?
z'hana: i did get a little jealous in the beginning, but now that i know him well, not really. and i only get protective when he's overworking himself.
thancred: me, jealous? never. and perhaps i might be more protective if she hadn't already bested me in combat more than once, but i'll never shy away from a fight to keep her safe. (lies. he gets v. jealous.)
2. What are your pet names for each other?
z'hana: babe, darling, sweetheart, handsome, honey
thancred: the ones i can share, or the ones i can’t?… (cue glare from z’hana as he grins.) darling, love/my love, sweetheart.
3. What is your idea of a perfect date?
z'hana: i quite enjoy traveling with him. i still remember the time he whisked me away for an evening on scion gil right under tataru’s nose…. she was not happy, but it was an excellent night nonetheless.
thancred: i don’t ask for much…. a home cooked meal and the love of my life.
4. What are your names saved in each other phones?
z'hana: thancred
thancred: z’hana
5. Do you like cuddling? Why or why not?
z'hana: i enjoy it a lot, but too much and it’s overbearing.
thancred: i would agree, i’m much the same.
6. What do you think the others love language is?
z'hana: physical touch
thancred: physical touch
7. What’s the one trait about each other that annoys you the most?
z'hana: he still tries to brush things off with bravado and charm, even after multiple years together.
thancred: she’s the most stubborn woman i’ve ever met, right after y’stola…. don’t tell her i said that.
8. Coffee or Tea?
z'hana: coffee
thancred: coffee
9. What was your first impressions of each other?
z'hana: he was attractive, perhaps a little over confident. thancred: she was pretty. a competent ally.
10. What attracted you to each other?
z'hana: over time, it was our friendship…. it certainly didn’t hurt that he’s a sight for sore eyes.
thancred: i should say her tenacity.
11. When did you know you were in love?
z'hana: probably at some point during our time on the first…. it just sort of happened for me. he went from a friend i used to share a bed with to someone i didn’t want to be without.
thancred: my time on the first without her there made me realize i’d been a bit of an idiot. once we were reunited, i made a promise to myself that i’d never leave her again if i could help it… though we all know how that turned out in the final days.
13. What's the most noticeable physical attribute of your s/o to you?
z'hana: his back or his smile, i can’t decide.
thancred: will i earn another glare if i say her thighs?
14. Spicy: Favorite sexual position?
z'hana: oh gosh, haha. i don’t know, missionary is nice, i suppose? (lies.)
thancred: *eyeroll and a grin* she prefers modified doggy or prone bone, but i quite enjoy when she’s on top.
15. Who’s clingier?
z'hana: i am, hands down.
thancred: z’hana.
16. What do you two find to be the most attractive about one another?
z'hana: his loyalty, pragmatism, dedication…. he’s steady, whereas i can be a bit high strung and fickle.
thancred: i’m going to sound like i’ve gone soft when i say this, but it’s her kindness and strength.
18. PDA? Yes or No?
z'hana: i prefer it, yes. but subtle things, hand holding, maybe a hand on my back or an arm around my shoulder.
thancred: early on, we never did. once the rest of our friends (tataru) found us out, we started to be more open about it.
19. How often do you say I love you?
z'hana: frequently. all the time.
thancred: i say it when the moment is right.
21. Out of the two of you, who would be the one to kill / get rid of the spider?
z'hana: he is. i hate them.
thancred: i am.
22. Spicy What is your secret to getting the other in the mood?
z'hana: oh, you know. *nervous laughter* now that we’re not preventing a world ending calamity, he’s not difficult to get going. perhaps a certain look or turn of phrase.
thancred: a kiss or a gentle touch. i’m sure you can figure it out from there.
23. Would you rather never kiss again or go a year without sex?
z'hana: a year without sex. it would be a challenge, but manageable so long as i can kiss him whenever i like.
thancred: my drive for intimacy is quite high…. i’ll make the smart decision and defer to her.
24. Would you consider yourself lucky to have found each other ?
z'hana: yes. how could i not?
thancred: unbelievably so. in truth, without her, i’d have succumbed to my desire for liquor… though we don’t speak of those days much anymore.
25. What is something your s/o does that cheers you up instantly?
z'hana: he’s quite charming, i’ll give him that; he never fails to make me smile in that regard.
thancred: she’s very silly from time to time. her playfulness always brightens my day.
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19. Has your OC ever had an experience with the paranormal or the divine? What happened? Was it a one time encounter or is it a normal part of their life? Did they find it terrifying or thrilling?
Thank you so much for the ask! ˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ It was fun to share this stuff because I don't usually go into it very much with folks!
I should preface this by saying I find the paranormal a fun concept to play with in FFXIV because it’s actually real in that world, so I enjoy messing around with it a lot! It’s something which fascinates me IRL, and I always find it more fun to add things I’m interested in learning more about to my RP OCs because I feel it helps give them a bit more longevity for me as the writer!
So, with that said, both Ren and Oli have a good deal of experience with the paranormal, I built it into their character concepts.
Because I type too much, I'll start with Oli, and those interested can find Ren under the cut!
Oliviede’s experience with the paranormal comes in a pretty traditional occultist fashion, involving old artefacts she owns, and maybe slightly macabre rituals she researches and practices; which she believes provides her with a deeper connection to the will of the elementals both within and outside of the Shroud. Many of these rituals contain elements which her studies have led her to believe are precursors to some of her family’s alchemical and herbalist traditions.
In the spirit of trying to rediscover the knowledge that she lost when her family passed in the Calamity and their home was destroyed, she’s taken to practicing these rituals regularly, and that’s how the tattoos and brands on her body come about. (I personally headcanon these rituals as from the time of Mhach and Amdapor. But of course, because real canon information on these time periods in the game’s history is sparse, they’re just riffs on real world occult stuff I’ve found interesting and spent time playing around with conceptually to create a lorebent version of them within the game’s setting. It was the description for the Demon Door of Amdapor that first sort of spawned all these ideas.)
Another way to put all this is: she takes loads of psychedelics, ritualistically brands and tattoos herself and then tries to commune with the elementals.
For Ren the paranormal and inexplicable has been part of her life since she was a child.
Ren’s mother, the aforementioned insane perfectionist, is a brilliant aetherologist and astromancer whose work has extensively focused on the aethereal sea. She’s also almost entirely devoid of basic decency, so she tested one of her prototypes for trying to trace signatures within said sea by asking her six-year-old to look through its eyepiece. Because that was the person most readily available to her at the time. Her six-year-old, was of course, Cyfrenne, and it’s fair to say the experience was terrifying for a child. And it most certainly did something. Changed the colour of her eye for one, which became a permanent reminder of the events. But it did something else too, in so far as it gave Ren access to a great many memories which aren’t actually her own.
She doesn’t have visions; she doesn’t see anything. She just knows things she shouldn’t, and the knowledge will occur to her at arbitrary times in her life, and it isn’t always useful. She might be cutting the crust off a finger sandwich and suddenly know an entire story about a lost key that belongs to someone who she doesn’t know at all. They might even already be dead and she’s just remembering what they remembered, as if they’d told her over a cup of chai. Probably because Ren had a bit of a lonely childhood, this oddity has never really bothered her. She’s endeared to it. Most of Ren’s research into arcanima and aetherolinguistics has been wholly focused on finding ways to give these memories form that she could better study them, and perhaps make better use of them for herself. That said she doesn’t tell most people that’s what her research is focused on.
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shadowbringers musicebbajgeghbahebjgb some lyrics!
“in monochrome melodies, our tears are painted in red”
“we’re nothing more than scions and sinners”
the whole of ‘to the edge’ tbh. that stuff absolutely ruins me always
“like broken angels, wingless, cast from heaven's gates (our slumbering demons awake) / we only fly when falling, falling far from grace (hell take us, heaven can wait)”
“the road that we walk, is lost in the flood / here proud angels bathe in their wages of blood”
“AUTHORS OF OUR FATE, ORCHESTRATE OUR FALL FROM GRACE, POOREST PLAYERS ON THE STAGE, OUR DEFIANCE STRIVES US STRAIGHT TO THE EDGE”
“A REFLECTION IN THE GLASS, RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR PAST, SWIFT AS DARKNESS COLD AS ASH, FAR BEYOND THIS DREAM OF PARADISE LOST”
as you can tell i especially love those two. and everything tbh. but i’m listening to ‘shadowbringers’ rn so hi (’to the edge’ makes me so emotional though everytime)
“riding home, dying hope, hold onto hope...”
all lyrics in the shadowbringers expansion tbh. and the whole of ffxiv
THE LYRICS IN RELATION TO THE STORY. AND EVEN WITHOUT. IT IS JUST SO GOOD
shadowbringers is literally the best i am so obsessed with it i am so in love with it shb means everything to me omfg
this post is about lyics so i will stave off the want to talk about the music symbolisms and all haha. also no spoilers btw so dw
“la-hee” :))
“for whom weeps the storm, her tears on our skin”
“STAND TALL, MY FRIEND” <//3 <33
tomorrow and tomorrow always ruins me
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