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autumnslance · 2 years

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Help I got Lost in My Forbidden Wolkids Future AU Again*

See other entries in this tag and if curious about this alternate post-EW history and who these beans are, continue below the cut for the latest ramblings.

In this AU, Aeryn learns she’s pregnant as she’s recovering from the Final Day; the last quarter of EW allowed for some oops. Also contributes to her not realizing/taking her time/it’s already too late to simply end the pregnancy.

Dark, C’oretta, Iyna, other friends/companions start handling Hero duties, handling the Twelve, the Void, etc. Thancred does not travel; with Ameliance helpfully pulling some strings, he buys a small house desperately in need of renovations and repairs on the eastern cliffs of Journey’s End instead. Gives his anxious brain and hands something to do.

They discuss and formalize that marriage thing a lot sooner. Aeryn doesn’t change her name. It’s a very small affair with just the Scions, Aeryn’s immediate family, the Leveilleurs. Varshahn officiates. The Grandmothers try to get a promise for a big traditional Thavnair wedding post-delivery but Aeryn is firmly on the “no” side of that and Thancred backs her up.

Family’s time is split between Sharlayan and Thavnair as the kids grow. Varshahn is an amazing babysitter btw.

There was already a pre-arranged surgery scheduled after healing a few weeks from delivery, but the complications with Tesa's birth make it more imperative, and Aeryn can't have anymore biological children, which she's fine with.

Alphinaud also had some time to sketch an image of a seated Thancred holding Math for the first time, wanting to capture the absolutely stunned and soft look on his friend’s face for a proper painting later. It hangs in the Baldesion Gallery (created in a wing of the Annex to collect writings, art, trophies, mementos, and other artifacts of note to chronicle and archive the history of the Scions) and the painting is considered one of, if not the, greatest of Alphinaud’s works to date.

Over time and circumstances, Aeryn and Thancred also adopt Winter Thunder and Felicity. I know Winter's circumstances, Felicity's are still fuzzy.

All of the Waters kids have basic Limsan Rogue dagger, stealth, and sleight of hand skills. Thancred considers it Necessary and Aeryn doesn’t argue.

Mathur Waters "He reminds me very much of his father--not just in appearance, but in his easy charm. Far more assured and calm than Thancred was back then--though still prone to giving out nicknames." -Nanamo Math excels at strategy and tactics, learning mostly from Alphinaud. He's a reserved, calming friendly, especially next to his twin sister's higher energy. Like his mother, Math seems to be proper, laidback, and levelheaded, but once you scratch the surface, he's got his gremlin side--if it manifests more toward confounding his opponents than in reckless heroics--and has his showboat side. Math prefers Ranged Physical combat, so he can see what’s happening and call orders and encouragement both. Can swap between guns, bows, and chakrams; Math is a True Bard, and knows the Kriegstanz. When he must Tank, Math prefers the gunblade’s versatility and flair. As a Healer, his mother’s connections means he’s learned the Scholarly discipline of Nym, and trains with the reborn Nymian Marines. The analytical approach suits his style.

Natesa Waters "Regardless of faith, I know from the teachings of my youth there is a cosmic law of balance. Only fair my first daughter's so much like me, with her father's charms thrown in the mix." - Aeryn Tesa is a firebrand who gets in your face. She's also charming enough to get herself out of most trouble she gets herself (and her siblings) into. She combines some of her parents best--and worst--qualities in more visible ways than the other three tend to outwardly show. It keeps eyes on Tesa and her shields, after all. And yes. She's a hopeless flirt and secretly a romantic. Prefers Tanking; she likes being the center of attention and keeping others safe. Due to her lifelong fascination with Ishgardian Knights and Ul’dahn Sultansworn, she favors fighting as a Free Paladin, but can use greatswords, axes, and gunblades. When pressed, she can also forgo defensiveness to push damage from her usual weapons, preferring to remain in melee. She’s very good at the family rogue fighting style, passable with katanas, lances, and her fists. As a Healer, Tesa prefers the aggression and defensive capabilities of Sage.

Winter Thunder (Wintdoen Rhotfalksyn, Winter Waters) "I need to learn how to heal cuz you know my younger siblings." "Having known thy parents as long as I have, I can but imagine thy frustrations. Thus shall we delve into the secrets of the stars together." "Thanks Uncle Uri." Child of a young Sharlayan Hellsguard researcher who got tangled up with a faithless Limsan Sea Wolf. Winter was a toddler when his mother studied with Aeryn, and when the woman took ill and passed, Thancred tried to find his father, learning the sordid truth—that the man had also died while out at sea, leaving a widow and three other children in Limsa. So Winter became part of the Waters family. He’s about two and a half years older than the twins, but a meek, quiet man, happy to let Math take charge while Winter ensures everyone's taken care of. He's never tried to contact his half-siblings. He's not even sure they know he exists. So he leans on the Hellsguard name his birth mother gave him, keeping the Sea Wolf name in the background. He jokingly went by "Winter Waters" at Studium, and once also teased "Wintdoen Thancredsyn" but that was vetoed by his siblings. Prefers Healing; his main skill is with Sharlayan Astrology, taught to him by Urianger and Leveva, but he can use the tools and skills of Geomancy, Conjury, Arcanima, and Sages. If he must deal damage—and he’d rather not—he falls back on Arcanima. He is surprisingly adept with an axe, for those who think him too gentle to play a defender role, and is adept enough at magic to summon himself an icy weapon as he must.

Felicity Waters "Felicity, darling, please do your dear old dad a favor and stop trying to give me heart attacks." - Thancred An elezen girl of unknown origins. Small, fair, red-haired and green eyed. Youngest by 18 months, adopted as a yearling. Tends to be fascinated by magic and power and pushes limits she perhaps shouldn’t. Prefers Caster Damage; takes after Aeryn’s Red Magery, but also pushes into Black Magic on top of Thaumaturgy. Knows and swaps into Arcanima and Blue Magic also. When she must heal, Felicity relies on Conjury/White Magic. She thinks her parents don’t know she’s learned Dark Knight skills from one of Sidurgu’s students. Sid keeps tabs on her for Aeryn’s sake and reports back as necessary. She also thinks her parents don’t know she’s studied Reaping with the Lemures, but Aeryn and Iyna’s contacts there also keep the girl under watchful eye.

Aeryn next to her grown kids, and then the kids together. I apparently didn't get any pics of Tesa with Winter, but Tesa and Aeryn are the same height. Felicity is very short for an elezen, while Winter is a very tall roe. There's already pics of Math and Tesa together in other posts; Math is a bit taller than average for a midlander, but not the tallest.

I shoulda picked different filters and lighting, as Math & Tesa seem a bit light; they aren't as dark as Aeryn (and she's not very, depending on lighting, filters, environment, etc), but they aren't as pale as Thancred, either. Also not sure all the heights translated to Carbuncle properly.

The kids are in mixes of gear not currently available to their preferred roles, perhaps, but hey who knows what'll happen in Eorzean Fashion in the next couple of decades. More about their favored styles anyway; most of them preferring light, flexible adventuring gear thanks to their parents' influences and that early Rogue training.

Anyway. That's the latest about this AU from me. It'll be another few months before I trot them out again.

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*Still @gunbun and @punchelf 's faults. My FC does NOT help. They're like sharks in the water when they sense Shenanigans, and encourage them thoroughly. 😘

#Final Fantasy XIV #Lyn Edits #Lyn Meta #Lyn Writing #Forbidden Wolkids AU #Aeryn Striker #Thancred Waters #silliness

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autumnslance · 2 years

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Enablers.

The bullet points of very general ideas I noodled with for wolkids AU (along with a tad bit of pregnancy choices talk) and maybe some screenshots below the cut.

Aeryn very much has never wanted to be pregnant. She's not afraid of it, just no desire to ever go through it. So when she finds out there's serious consideration of not going through with it. Adopting infants, small kids, pre-teens, adolescents, she's more than happy to do! But carrying? Hrm...

(And an adoption of one or two will happen anyway over time once Domesticity settles in.)

Thancred is...not happy that's an option she's considering; he's terrified but also excited by the idea of fatherhood, of family (especially after all his screw ups with Ryne, but also how they were able to fix much of that in the end). He'd rather keep it, but it's Aeryn's choice and he respects that. Still, it's a friction point for them.

Aeryn, being Aeryn, needs time to think about it and consider those options, especially since her partner's on a different page. After all she's got a bit of time to decide, right?

Doing everyday things together, things are a bit tense, and then Aeryn's like "Theoretically, if we were to have a baby, where would we want to raise them?" And they end up debating the merits and issues in the various regions of Eorzea.

(Aeryn vetoes Coerthas immediately. They think about the other city-states, but also the Politics given who they are; Mor Dhona's outside all of that but a rough frontier still. Thancred champions Sharlayan for educational opportunities, the space program, and how it's opened up to the outside since the Final Days and Aeryn agrees that'd be all right but you do realize Ameliance would decide she's Auntie, Thancred says it works cuz Fourchenault's kinda of like a dickish older brother, anyway.)

"Theoretical" what-if conversations keep happening as Aeryn "is still thinking about it" as days turn to weeks. By the time they get to discussing Names, Thancred's pretty sure she's made up her mind and just hasn't admitted it to herself yet.

(She insists they use the name Waters. Hers has too much weight, and she saw what a legacy-heavy name did the Leveilleur twins when they were young. Any kid of Thancred and Aeryn will have enough Issues to deal with. Besides, who cares about the "legacy" of her family name when they can create something new using the one Thancred was gifted?)

(They also eventually settle on a couple simpler Thavnairian names that wouldn't be out of place in Eorzea)

And then yeah, it's too late so oh well guess this is happening!

She's really irked with him though when it's twins.

("My understanding is it's usually the mother's side where such...right, I'm going to go crash on Urianger's couch.")

"Definitely not doing this again."

Fraternal boy & girl pairing cuz I'm a sucker for tropes like that. They don't look so alike as certain other twins though.

The boy looks a lot like his dad but with tanner skin, a bit blonder hair, and his mama's eyes. Also is taller than his dad; not quite max midlander, but slider's at 80. Striker height. Thancred's average adult man height leaves him comparatively short once more.

The girl looks a lot like her mom, but slightly lighter skin, her daddy's eyes, and a bit of his nose, too. Tall (for a midlander) like her mom.

(Auntie Rashae: "Gods Aer, they're too skinny" "I KNOW!")

They end up adventurers of course (not sure what disciplines), alongside their adopted siblings and other Scion kid "cousins", sometimes running into people who knew their parents but they got their own things to deal with and their own names to make, it's fine. Really. Honestly.

(is there anyone in the realm Mom doesn't know?! And why are half the older women in Thanalan so irked by mention of Dad...?)

Not sure what's up with all the fairies and dragons, though. May ask Mom later.

Anyway that's what I've got. And some fiddling in Benchmark CharGen cuz it was maintenance and I was bored.

Mostly took Thancred's chardata and adjusted a couple things, then took Aeryn and adjusted a couple other things.

#Final Fantasy XiV #forbidden wolkids au #Lyn Meta #silliness #boredom #blogging #shippy nonsense #Thancred x WoL #wolcred #Thancred Waters #Aeryn Striker #haven't 100% figured out names cuz it's a forbidden future AU

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autumnslance · 2 years

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This is still @gunbun and @punchelf 's faults. They started this.

These two still don't exist in game for real, but playing with tools to recreate what I made in Benchmark...

Son: Took the Thancred Face 1 lookalike, used his HW skincolor, made the hair a bit more blond, Aeryn's eye color, changed the eye shape to try to get closer to her shape, too, and changed his mouth. He's also at 80 on the height slider, so not quite the tallest for midlander boys, but taller than Dad.

Daughter: Using Aeryn as base, went up and left 1 on skin color to be slightly lighter and different in tone, changed her eye shape, and her eye brows and nose especially to try to get closer to Thancred's. Also the color of her eyes I wanted closer to the darker brown he sported in ARR & HW, but still pretty much her own. Like Aeryn, she's max height midlander girl. I like her face a lot.

Both are also max muscle slider; like Aeryn, they have trouble keeping a healthy amount of body fat, which sorta sucks when constantly on the road adventuring in multiple ways (especially if one goes by magic healing as drawing on the body's reserves to fuel the speeded repairs).

I dunno what disciplines they study, but they both multiclass to cover 2 to 3 roles. Preparation for any eventuality is a Thing in the Waters household, as is fostering interest in various skills.

Leaning on the names Mathur (Math) and Natesa (Tessa; he's the only one allowed to think about calling her "Nat" or worse, "Natty," and even then only under specific circumstances or else).

About the only other thing I got is of course Tessa had her Dad wrapped around her little finger from the moment she was born; it's Thancred, after all.

#Final Fantasy XIV #forbidden wolkids au #Lyn Edits #silliness

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