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ren!!! @strwpup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

day 1: 1.x / stars She knew what Yda looked like. She never had an opportunity to truly see Lyse’s face. Y’shtola's fingers brush lightly along the side of Lyse’s face, tracing her cheekbones and petting her hair. archiveofourown.org/works/93488181 #xivwomenweek

a shot with the slight sepia filter of the echo. back in the time of 1.0, y'shtola laughs at the enthusiasm of a woman called yda. it's almost impossible to see yda waving, as it blurs into memory

a shot using the aethervision filter, set during 3.5. if one focuses, they can make out lyse sleeping in y'shtola's lap as y'shtola feels along the browbone, mapping out a face she has never seen

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ren!!! @strwpup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

here's a little photoset i took getting emotional about right before stormblood lyseshtola. it goes along with my fic from yesterday's ffxivwrite and the first xivwomenweek sets!

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Jun @hnjun.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

G'raha warm up doodle

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Sori is lost in the writing mines @sorielblackfeather.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 30, Vestige Spoilers for 7.56 ellipsus.com/read/VQOO2s8...

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"There were times in our past that a Nunh was not strong enough to wield the power of the stone," D'laqa said quietly. "If he were qualified in every other respect, then his predecessor would transfer a portion of his own power, to continue lighting the way of the future. In this way, our fire would not waver, no matter what the future held."

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Celestaux - FFXIV Write prog @duskwightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 30: Vestige Finishing it off by torturing that catboy one more time! Happy last day!!! CW: G'raha's identity crisis post Exarch soul merge. Minor suicidal ideation. ellipsus.com/read/3tceMLd...

When G'raha Tia awoke in his Tower to the Warrior of Light smiling and crying tears of what seemed to be joy, or perhaps hope, overtop of him, he didn't know how to feel. He had no idea how much time had passed, what may have occurred, what caused them to weep, or – least of all – what was to come for him.

There had been barely any explanation given to him as, what he would come to learn, was the soul transfer vessel of the Exarch – another version of himself, of his soul – was thrust towards him while the Warrior looked on with so much hope in their eyes. He'd do anything for them, do anything to please his inspiration, his lodestar, his hero… so he made no comment to them on how excruciating the merging of souls was.

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goose · higher, oh higher 🦢💙 @goosecatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

day 30 - vestige to be loved is to be changed. #ffxivwrite2026 #xivwrite magnificat anima mea domina | gen | 464 words | #HerringMage archiveofourown.org/works/93582856

Given the breadth of expertise and materials available in the Musica Universalis stalls, it was easy enough to find a length of black fabric of a suitable size and shape for his task. Thancred, the first time he saw Sam wearing it, had raised a knowing eyebrow but had remained blessedly silent on the matter. Alisaie, too, had stared suspiciously. Mercifully, she had not found an opportunity to corner him about it.

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hammy @hamhamfantasy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i like when minfilia haunts the narrative so bad it’s hurting herself and everyone around her and the entire reflection #hamhammedia

the ghost of minfilia and the haunted blonde ryne asking: do I look like your girlfriend? a reference to the niche indie game silent hill 2. because i think the physical representation that’s projected onto ryne would go crazy. that’s an essay for someone else.

thancred is here with no comment.

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shuuzaar @shuuzaar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Afraid to fail (2023)

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reason (G, 675) AAC heavyweight M2 is so much fun!! archiveofourown.org/works/93574516

A furious thumping wracked his frame. It took a second to realize it was the crowd stomping in rhythm as they cheered for the duo and booed for him.

A'chago could feel the anticipation, the sweet restlessness of the fight in his muscles, the sharpness of his surroundings. The near-weightlessness of his chakrams, despite their heavy material. They begged to be thrown. His fingers itched with the need to loose them. The great burning in his chest, the beating more, more, more. He loved to fight.

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Rojya @karamelkotak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

commission for Hime #rojyacomm #FFXIV

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Celestaux - FFXIV Write prog @duskwightdancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 29: Layer I decided I needed to torture that catboy again. CW: describing the Exarch's crystallization process in detail, so the injury and crystal necrosis and him reacting to the pain ellipsus.com/read/s3Al5yt...

It started slowly, almost imperceptively.

G'raha Tia hadn't noticed it at first, hadn't noticed the pin prick of crystal that started on his chest, just above his heart. It was an annoyance, an itch.

When he did notice it, he rationalized it away. It was a trick of the light, a scab from some wound that only looked to be crystal – anything other than the truth. He wasn't yet ready for the truth.

Though, nothing could've truly prepared him for the truth.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LRT except actually i think the reward is the personal gratification you get from knowing how you act (calling out/discouraging/preventing sexism) matches what you believe in (equality/feminism)

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Sori is lost in the writing mines @sorielblackfeather.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 28, On Thin Ice Set somewhere post-7.3. CW for trauma response, traumatic memories, unhealthy relationships, and ableist/body shaming language ellipsus.com/read/cN7oERD...

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A glimpse of unruly black hair with red-dyed ends made his heart jump to his throat, his thoughts coming to a screeching halt. The eldite squinted in the brightness of the midday sun, his face scrunched up into a scowl. Hades pushed away from the building he'd been leaned against, his feet carrying him to the other before he had a thought to greet him. He collided into his side, arms flung around him before the man had even a chance to acclimate to the world he'd just stepped out into. Hades didn't care.

Garnet was here.

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JUG @juuggg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sketch

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ren!!! @strwpup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

day 28: on thin ice some 3.5 lyshtola! archiveofourown.org/works/93488181 #FFxiv2026

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She knew what Yda looked like. She never had an opportunity to truly see Lyse’s face.

It is only her and Lyse, atop this tower. The younger woman has fallen asleep with her head in Y’shtola’s lap. Y’shtola's fingers brush lightly along the side of Lyse’s face, tracing her cheekbones and petting her hair.

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🌙hearoto☀️ comms closed @hearoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't posted this one properly, made a quick portrait of my beautiful babygirl Ophelia for commission a while back. She's my barbie that I dress up regularly and put through things 💜 #FFXIV #femroe

Portrait of a female sea wolf female roegadyn in a vintage style outfit smiling at the viewer

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emi !!! ☀️ @ishbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#xivwomenweek day 1 - Nael and the moon 🔴

an illustration of nael van darnus standing in front of a bloodshot moon (dalamud). In her right hand is her weapon, whereas her left hand has blood dripping from it. Bahamut's silhouette can be seen flying in the distance.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

chago will say "wow this is just like bozja" about things that are not at all like bozja things that are just like bozja: - psychonekrosis in the arcadion - tataru denying him PTO - sharlayan food - Iq Br'aax (because of the Xbr'aal) - getting dragged into endless sphene's permawar plans

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Haru @haru-hzp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

remember the random budots during #CoMetMNL2026 ? so yea as promised, here it is in full ! 😉 (cover illust by @vivelaraia.bsky.social)

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

chago childhood trauma gauntlet just dropped archiveofourown.org/works/934190...

Title: The House That Killed You

Summary: A'chago Tia was born in Meracydia, but nobody knows that. He doesn't like to talk about it.

Nobody makes it out alive.

Note: 2nd person chapters will be trauma-focused, 3rd person will be more general childhood memories & backstory

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goose · higher, oh higher 🦢💙 @goosecatte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

day 27 - free day - hallowed late one evening, sam has a long overdue conversation. #xivwrite #ffxivwrite2026 corona martyrum | gen | 930 words archiveofourown.org/works/93410891

His footstep echoed on the flagstone as he crossed the great threshold of Saint Reymanaud's. It always had, ever since his family had arranged a special service with the bishop for his consecration to Saint Daniffen.

The sound felt hollow now.

Pausing inside the doorway, Sam made the sign of Her aegis and bowed his head, as he had been taught since he could walk. An incense-soaked silence loomed in reply from the ceiling vaults and the clerestory.

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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

vi. Stay With Me | #Erenweek2026 | 3.2k words ↬ Like his heart carries with it the chaos of a brewing maelstrom, thunderous and deafening, entirely at odds with her near cloudless, boundless sky. He shouldn't feel so. Conflicted by this. He was the one saying goodbye.

#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville | #ffxivfanfic | #xivfanfic | #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

Erenville reaches out to grab her hand. Reaches out to press his lips to her knuckles. To draw his lips against her skin. Suddenly desperate and reckless and wanting, as his voice rasps something low— "Tell me to stay." He tells her. Demands of her. Begs and pleads with every ilm of his being, with a need that goes beyond the very boundary of his heart—because tonight feels like a finality. An ending. A goodbye. The kind that would sooner shatter ones heart if forced to do it again too soon.

He could not force it to. He couldn't.

And he hears—feels—the way her breath catches, the way her body goes still in surprise.

He forges on regardless.

"Tell me to stay, and I will." He says again, his words near babbling; breathless even, spoken with a flood of emotion that he knows is quite beyond him to control— "Tell me... tell me you'll miss me, and you'll hate to see me go. That my absence will hurt you, that it will break us both, and I will bound myself to you and never leave. I won't."

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Celestaux - FFXIV Write prog @duskwightdancer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 26: Susurrus No msq canon spoilers (but in my head it's set in post-dt, even if there's no indication of that). Have just me going off with my West Shroud and Foulques headcanons. ellipsus.com/read/2mfmqlk...

The wood was silent, only the sound of the wind blowing through the young trees adding to the peace. Even years after the Calamity, life as it'd once been hadn't quite returned to the West Shroud. Nearly a decade and a half past and the scars on the land were still prominant, even if the trees had started to recover and grass carpeted the ground again. There wasn't an animal in sight. No chirping birds nesting in the trees, no tracks cutting through the grass… even the wildlife knew that this was still a solemn place, a memorial.

Foulques walked silently through the regrowth, doing his best to disturb as little as possible.

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goose · higher, oh higher 🦢💙 @goosecatte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

day 25 - cynosure the mothercrystal contemplates her children, and one in particular. #ffxivwrite2026 #xivwrite stabat mater dolorosa | gen | 450 words | mom interlude archiveofourown.org/works/93273131

In the fair light of Elpis, he had been beautiful. All things were beautiful there, a garden of creation and boundless, glorious light and life. Yet even so, her gaze was drawn to his sorrowful green eyes, eyes that seemed much too old for his youthful face, and her heart had mourned her beloved star and its people, when he told his tale.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Susurrus (G, 1.4k) A scene from G'raha Tia's childhood. archiveofourown.org/works/93377491

G'raha curled up as small and tight as he could in his pile of furs. The other children were playing outside and daring each other to jump in the freezing river. He knew this because he had been dared yesterday, and now he was utterly infirm due to the resulting sickness.

'Dared'. Pushed was a more apt word. G'raha tugged the furs up to his chin and pouted. He had been minding his own business, on his way back to the sanctuary of the children's rhasht after finishing his chores, when G'rohlo had spied him. The older boy was an unimaginative oaf, so naturally, G'raha had ended up submerged in the deep, ice-cold river.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Prodigy (G, 1.1k) Zoraal Ja anticipates the rite of succession. archiveofourown.org/works/93329256

The greatest feat Zoraal Ja had ever accomplished was being born, and that was only by virtue of his being physically present. His birth was eclipsed by the fact that it shouldn't have happened, and that was the true achievement. To be born, despite every known law of nature...

Prodigy. A two-sided compliment for a two-head's son. Was he a miracle? Or was he an abomination?

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lev @u-andcloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

day 25: Cynosure experimenting with some saunderval (lysander's dads) ellipsus.com/read/3ViwDR1...

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Ellipsus makes it easy for anyone to write together.

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B'alith Tia is progging FFXIV Write again @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

25. Cynosure (NSFW) G'raha Tia tries and fails to give his not-quite-an-ex some space. Set shortly after the end of patch 5.3. (CW: nonconsensual voyeurism) ellipsus.com/read/1gdNp0R... #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVWrite2026 #FFXIVFanfic

The room next to B'alith's was not currently assigned to any of the Scions who were regular boarders at the Rising Stones. G'raha had thought a time or two of inquiring about claiming it for himself, but the way the Warrior of Light was still demonstrably uneasy around him had been an effective deterrent.

Well. It had been up until now, at least, when he had been irresistably drawn toward a sound he had replayed in his own fevered imagination so many times he had forgotten how much better the real thing was.

For all that he was in many ways a deeply private man, B'alith had always been incapable of keeping his voice down when he was getting fucked.

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☀️ UC ❄️ @beaknettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

every so often, this is just how it is for me

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

chago's unceasing optimism 🥺 not in a naive way in a faith-based "things will get better because if nothing else, i will be trying to make them better" i put that trait in him so he could keep it safe after life caused a massive backslide in my mental health & i could no longer believe in a future

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ren!!! @strwpup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

day 23: egress just realized i forgor to post this one. does the warrior of light is bisexual? is transfemmie real? only one way to find out archiveofourown.org/works/93174856 #FFxivwrite2026

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“D’ye got a problem, Emm? Ye know the both of us are bisexual, right? Shouldn't be a problem that Cisone is.”

“Of course, of course, I just…” Emm brushes his hand over Cisone’s tail. “Would you still love me if I was a woman?”

Her ear flicks. “What kind of question is that?”

“Ha, you're right, you're right, I only… so yes?”

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Celestaux - FFXIV Write prog @duskwightdancer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 24: Drift Post-canon, but Celestaux time. He's got a force ghost that has been along for the ride for quite a while. (Force ghost, of course, being @laspocelliere.bsky.social) cw: references to the death/murder of a child (not Celestaux's) ellipsus.com/read/7maxPQ7...

The wind blew in harshly, leaves drifting on the wind. Celestaux let his eyes track one, following its path across his yard before he turned his attention back to his daughter.

And the breath caught in his throat for a moment as he saw someone else standing there.

A woman – for a moment he thought he was witnessing the ghost of his mother, but no… his mother had never appeared to him like this woman had and the sharpness to her features gave her away every time.

Celestaux had a cousin once. Sort of.

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Sunday 🔆 @elvensunday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DILF Graha A redraw of an old work - for the moots 💕 #ffxivart ✦ #grahatia

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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

iv. Longing | #Erenweek2026 | 1.7k words ↬ —And he wonders if that's how he's supposed to feel. If it's normal for one to yearn for her the way he does. He's still trying so hard to understand that.

#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

As Erenville will sooner admit, with a certainty that prompted no question, that Jazzele, of all people, was categorically beautiful on a good day. Whether she was enveloped by the hues of broad and brilliant daylight, or when she was clad in the dull shadows of the most poorly lit alleys.

She was beautiful fresh out of bed with mussed hair and kiss-swollen lips. Beautiful when she was trudging through mud and chasing after an evasive wild hippo.

She was beautiful when she glowed with the strength of her fiercest convictions. Beautiful even when she was blood drenched and entangled with death, with the hush of a subtle darkness sweeping across her skin.

Jazzele was—is—entirely too beautiful.

But here and now—she all but gleams with the light of something outright incandescent.

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jupi 🐻 comms closed! @drkcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

girl with an aetheryte earring #minfilia #drkart

a painting of Minfilia (she/her) that mimics Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Minfilia, the girl in question here, wears an aetheryte earring while looking at the viewer with a neutral expression. The painting is spontaneously bright, featuring random pops of colored lines over what is otherwise "normal" colors.

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🐱steak🐱 @mistswarden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 22 - Train 866 Words | T | Stormblood As Steak dreads his upcoming confrontation, his uncle J'taqa offers him a path. #steakposting #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2026 ellipsus.com/read/4ASA8Yp...

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22 - Train | B | Ellipsus

Ellipsus makes it easy for anyone to write together.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

its his lil thingy!!! and the significance is my friend went into bozja first & said "ohhohohohhhhhhhholy shit jay you gotta see this one hairstyle" & everyone in the server liked it so much for him that they got it for me before i even unlocked bozja 💞

artist's WoL, a male miqo with brown skin, black hair, & bright orange eyes. hes wearing a red hoodie & a white bandana on his head.

artist's WoL, a male miqo on the beach. he is wearing a white bandana as a headband.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fusion (M, 1.2k) The Warrior of Light reacts poorly to the events of the Cinder Drift. archiveofourown.org/works/93168086

Were they her hands, or Hydaelyn's? Did the girl in the Ruby Weapon look at her own hands while she was in the machine, and see only Gaius's?

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✨Lady J✨ @itsladyj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

iii. Refuge | #Erenweek2026 | 2.7k words | moderately explicit ↬ —he shouldn't. He shouldn't. It was not the time, not the place, and he allows her enough of her indulgences as it is. Temptress, indeed. And how could he say no?

#Erenweek | #Erenweek2026 | #wolerenville #ffxivfanfic #xivfanfic #ffxivwriters | #erenwol

"Hmm." She hums lowly into the silence, her voice near soundless as she finishes the rest of the snip. "And you dare call me a tease."

"Hah." He huffs in short laughter as he leans in, nuzzling himself lightly against the soft tufts at the base of her ears, still refusing to pull away. "That you of all people should say that. I daresay there's a fair difference in intent between me and you."

A fair difference indeed, for how insistently she manages to tempt him, with her hush of low whispers and ever sinful attentions. Her fingers so often trailing delicately against his skin, yet her body always dancing just steps out of reach when he begins to want.

There is a difference there, yes. Surely there must be.

He would not mull over the specifications of it now.

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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

only I could spill tea on the graphic tablet and break it mid drawing so here is unfinished Zero 🤣

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Sei 🪓🐻 @seiryuuden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Commission for Evie 😊✨

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B'alith Tia is progging FFXIV Write again @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

22. Train An adolescent B'alith finally finds his calling, with a little help from an unexpected spark. ellipsus.com/read/1K83rWZ... #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVWrite2026 #FFXIVFanfic

B'alith fidgeted with the hem of his tunic as he watched his father coax the flames to life again, studying the way he performed a seemingly mundane chore with a newfound interest. The elder Miqo'te had claimed a knack for thaumaturgy, a proclamation utterly at odds with B'alith's understanding of the Boar tribe's current Nunh as a man more skilled with his body than his mind. B'jinh Nunh was hardly a fool—he would not hold the position he did if he lacked the necessary acuity with numbers which made him such a shrewd negotiator—but B'alith had a difficult time imagining those heavily-muscled arms and scarred hands performing the more delicate gestures he assumed were required of mages. One way or another, he would find out soon, and he did not want to wait a single moment longer.

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jaybird @jayb-ird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chago just kinda assumes everyone either wants his help or wants him dead. It's a pretty reliable assessment lmao

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Xiao✨消咒 @ashes8012.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

21 - Better Late Than Never Sunny does not quite get along with her brother. The feeling is mutual. CW: God's most uncomfortable family interactions.

That evening, as the sky was streaked with red and blue like Sunny's hair, she came downstairs to see Mama was already awake. The house was quiet, no conversation settling over the kitchen or footsteps creaking in the hall, and Mama was worrying her bottom lip the way she did when she was nervous.

The cause for that was a slim, blue-haired Miqo'te in pale blue robes with a missing arm.

Kiah'a sat at the kitchen table, an untouched mug of tea in front of him. Mama had a mismatched mug, her hands wrapped around it to hide the subtle shake that Sunny could see if she squinted. Kiah'a had his carbuncle by his feet. The creature looked a lot like a rabbit-dog, but apparently was made of magic. Sunny didn't really understand how it worked. It looked up at her and then sat back down, satisfied with what it saw.

There was no steam rolling off the cups. Sunny hadn't even heard the kettle whistle. How long ago had the others awoken, and why was she the last?

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