#but i can safely say that i am satisfied with achille's family tree now *throws confetti*

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WIP wednesday

I was tagged by @chadhunkler @archaiclumina and @icehearts for this, ty for the tag! I've seen people post writing snippets for this, but I'm gonna showcase a new oc I've been cooking instead:

meet pelleas myste, a former ishgardian knight that made the mistake of falling in love with a warrior nun who took a lifelong vow of celibacy

since I've reworked tauvane's backstory to something I'm personally satisfied with, I decided to do the inevitable and remake achille's dad entirely to address timeline and consistency issues for the final time, which means any lore I posted about him is now retconned (I'll figure out what to do with takami someday lol)

not tagging anyone so this is an open tag. feel free to jump in!

random wip facts I conjured up for him under the cut:

was an angry and bitter orphan from the brume that managed to eke out a living. he had no immediate family other than pet birds he kept for company

joined the temple knights at 17 to get out of poverty. he proved to be a prodigy and rose through the ranks fairly quickly as a lancer, but he could shoot a bow just as good

sole survivor of a dragon ambush, and his entire unit was killed. he lost his left eye and was grievously injured in the attack

tauvane and her swordsisters arrived too late to save his comrades, but they took pelleas back to their convent in order to save his life. he spent the next few years in recovery, but he was unable to wield a lance as proficiently as he did before the slaughter

had a massive crush on tauvane that lead to him falling in love with her. his relationship with tauvane was slow to take root; tauvane found him insufferable when he was able to walk and talk again. pelleas would tease and irritate tauvane because she was 'as stiff as a corpse' with no sense of humor

tauvane eventually abandoned her vows to run away with him, something that's akin to heresy in the order. they eventually settled in the eastern highlands, started a farm, and had their only child, a boy named achille

pelleas didn't live long; he was executed for heresy—which was false—when achille was still a baby. tauvane fled west with achille to avoid persecution from the order, but in the end she had to give achille to chiron when he accepted a bounty to kill her. tauvane, in her guilt-ridden rage and grief, swore to take revenge against ishgard for taking away the only person who truly loved her. her crusade against the city-state is in pelleas' memory

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #meta. #ty for the tag! #tag game #the first time i ever made a blond character but he looks good with the dark beard :) #my ocs are like playdoh in that they can be molded and remolded over and over and over and over- #i'll keep takami in the archives for now because i love his design too much to delete him #i'll eventually include him and his sister in the overall story. maybe as a friend of paris during msq #but i can safely say that i am satisfied with achille's family tree now *throws confetti* #once again. i have a problem with creating hot dads who die tragically #achille is not a natural blond so this raises the question of: what if he took more after his dad #considering that the actual achilles in the iliad was said to have been blond iirc #he did get pelleas' personality tho. they're both doofuses with hearts of gold #q.