ghoulmouse | Entries tagged with !fandom: final fantasy 14

Encountered this extremely strange bug in FF14 where no matter what minion I summoned, when I changed zones it would always reset back to the minion I had out when I logged in.

This happened to be the Golbez minion, so it was like Golbez was just hellbent on coming along and would not let up.

This was made infinitely funnier by the fact that 1) the minion I kept trying to summon in his place was Scarmiglione and 2) unlike the other minion versions of NPCs, for some reason the Golbez minion is not chibified at all, it's just like a tiny version of regular Golbez.

Well, I guess he's had a rough couple of patches so maybe he deserves a break. Definitely need art of Golbez chilling on a tropical vacation (still in full armor, tbh I think FF14 Golbez can't remove it).

Other than that, I've spent a lot of time mesmerized by my catboy's new higher-definition fluff, contemplating how I have truly created the absolute pinnacle of catboy-hood. A perfect being walks among us and he has extremely pettable ears.

Also he can wear glasses with hats now, that's nice.

Fandom: Final Fantasy 14
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit/Sicard
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1.8k words
Notes: More Kiss Battle stuff. This was in response to an anonymous prompt, and it took me a little bit to write, so I hope Mystery Shipper sees it someday. Let it be known that I am never one to pass up my OTP (or OT3 in this case, Sicard can come too). Warning for ambiguously teenage Honoroit as usual, and I apologize for Emmanellain barely being in this (the prompt kinda necessitates it tho). Also, I tried not to make Sicard sound like a renn faire pirate but GOD is it difficult.

( Prompt: The inevitable 'if you hurt him I'll hurt you' talk )

Title: Let Sleeping Dragons Lie
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~6k
Summary: Being transformed into a dragon comes with a few challenges that Emmanellain is ill equipped to deal with on his own -- but luckily, someone's looking out for him.
Notes: I dunno what to say about this, except that I saw a friend's prompt about Emmanellain turning into a dragon and temporarily lost my mind. Literally just monsterfucker porn that doesn't fit with either the lore OR the timeline of the game, but you know. Some light "in heat" themes, also its sort of implied that Honoroit is a teenager in this but it isn't really a focus.

( As always, when it was all said and done, Honoroit found himself having to do all the work himself. )

Title: Stand and Deliver
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~5.1k
Summary: Master and servant put on a little pantomime in the woods.
Notes: One of the approximately a zillion smut fics I had sitting around, many of which are actually this specific pairing, lol. Everything I wrote started to gravitate towards the 5k mark and beyond, I think, which started to make everything feel like a huge undertaking to finish and clean up, which lead to just this giant pileup that I'm still sorting through.

This doesn't take place at any specific point -- I think I actually started this one before Endwalker, that's how long I've been sitting on some of this stuff -- but Honoroit is significantly older in this one, though still not full grown elezen tall. Also, they ARE roleplaying a ravishment fantasy (apparently a favorite topic because I keep writing it), so it's a little rough and there's some pretend lack of consent, but it's all pretty silly IMO and obviously just a game.

( A naive young nobleman found himself accosted on the road by a cruel and cunning highwayman )

I was working on this Unukalhai (FFXIV) fic a while back, but I ran out of steam for a variety of reasons. One was that the glimpses of the Thirteenth prior to becoming the Void that we've gotten in the game are like, JUST different enough from what I had in the story that I don't think it works anymore but not different enough to spark a new direction. The other was...I just could not for the life of me nail down Elidibus. Unukalhai obviously has mixed feelings about him and I could not figure out the right...balance? Something?

This was the only scene I actually liked upon poking at it again but I genuinely have no idea if it makes sense out of context as its own vignette. Elidibus retrieves Unukalhai from some kind of voidsent torture dungeon shortly after the Flood of Darkness; Unukalhai is unconscious for a while and Elidibus leaves him in that structure on the moon to recover; when he wakes up he's obviously fucking terrified. I think there was supposed to be a scene where he tries to flee and ends up getting caught by Emet-Selch and handed back to Elidibus that I never wrote, because obviously I wanted to get to the part where Unukalhai tries to graphically murder Elidibus.

( The Part Where Unukalhai Tries to Graphically Murder Elidibus (warning: graphic) )

Current Mood: pensive

Just got back from Fanfest 2023! Definitely had a great time overall but I...did also get very sick on Friday from a combination of too much heat, zero sleep, no food, and hormonal migraine. Oops. Saturday was fine though, even though I wore my costume the whole day including the rock concert.

My cosplay turned out super good and I'm very proud of it -- I'll post pictures once I get the nicer ones back from my friend who took them. There was some comically huge furniture in the lobby that made for some great shots where I look extremely small and cute, lol. I was a little sad I didn't register for the all-skill-levels cosplay showcase until I actually saw it, and then realized that stepping onto an actual stage in front of 15,000 people with multiple gigantic screens projecting my face would have caused me to instantly pass away. Lots of people recognized me (and a couple of them even pronounced the character's name right), though someone did address me in-character kinda and instead of saying something really fun and clever I froze up, which made me pretty upset at myself for a while.

They announced the new expansion and a graphics update and everything but the most important announcement of all was that they're adding a cosmetic eyewear slot so you can wear glasses with hats. Very important for those of us who main Scholar and/or roleplay nerds.

Honestly the most exciting thing was the sticker exchange, which was organized by attendees and...well my friend came with 200 stickers printed and gave away ALL of them. I didn't get quite as many because I died halfway through the event on Friday and only had sporadic trades on Saturday but there were still SOOOO many people there and everyone was so excited to share their characters. Since I don't really draw I instead hand lettered my character's IC business card and got it printed and handed that out, which...well, it was annoying to have to explain it was my own calligraphy to everyone but people did seem to like it. One person read it out loud which was...embarrassing but nice, also. It was just a nice show of fandom enthusiasm and friendliness and talent overall -- it's really cute that everyone is so excited about their OC in this fandom. Normally I don't care for other people's OCs, even of the "customizable game protagonist" variety, but there's something charming about how enamored people get over their FFXIV characters. One girl told me she literally learned how to draw JUST because she wanted to make art of her catgirl that badly.

I think it also helps that fear of making a "mary sue" seems to be largely dead. There's a certain level of just not being interesting that infects a lot of fandom OCs (as opposed to just, I guess, regular OCs people make for their own stories/art/whatever) and and I'm pretty sure a lot of it comes down to the ridiculous level of self-policing people used to do in order to avoid the dreaded mary sue label and potentially getting your work slapped up on a "sporking" comm for everybody to laugh at or used as an example in sanctimonious "what not to do" posts for months on end. Especially with the kind of media I'm personally into, though, an OC that's too tame just does not fit in with the story at all.

People are also just like...so much nicer in person than on social media overall and it's good to be reminded of that once in a while.

OmegaMart was...insanely good. I regret only getting to spend 2.5hrs in there, I don't think I even saw half of it. Definitely going to go back and also visit their other exhibits if I ever get the chance! Like I was just completely blown away by the level of detail and creativity. Might make a more detailed post about it but right now I just don't have a lot of coherent thoughts other than "impressed".

My friend also wanted to visit some landmark that was in Fallout: New Vegas (which I've never played) which was cool but it was also like...I think one of the tallest buildings on earth and standing up at the top of that thing WAS kind of a struggle for me. I hadn't been up in an extremely tall building for a very long time, so I didn't realize it would trigger my problem with heights that badly. Whoops. They had some kind of ride at the top that tilted you over the edge of the building and just LOOKING at it made me dizzy lol.

Overall I had a lot of fun and I'm glad I went for the cosplay despite my reservations, but also I really wish it had not been 112 degrees the entire weekend. That is too many degrees.

This weekend is Gencon. I am going to be so tired.

Objectively I don't THINK I have more stuff to do the next two weeks than usual, but for some reason I'm feeling an extreme sense of overwhelm. Just like constant stress like a coiled-up spring.

Traveling any distance always stresses me out, I guess.

Anyway, I have been crossposting fic and I realized that it's kind of dumb to like, keep it all squirreled away until I'm done, for some value of done, so I pinned my fic masterpost. Kinda satisfying looking at a compact text list of stuff.

Right now it's heavily weighted towards FF14 because that's a lot of my more recent stuff that I also didn't think would need an overhaul -- I have a tendency to lose track of what's going on moment to moment in a story and doing dumb shit like having someone take off their pants twice in a scene and I think that should probably be rectified.

Also, looking at my old fic leaves me with some questions, such as:

1) Why did I tag a story with "Water"? Just "Water". Like people would be cruising the archive for some water fics.

2) I had completely forgotten that I had a story where Dr Lugae was an exiled royal scientist from Damcyan, which I think was because of that "Damcyan is technologically advanced" headcanon I mentioned earlier, but like...holy shit was I implying Edward knows this guy????? what on earth. Wondering if I should stick with this for a fic I'm working on because it's kind of an insane idea, but on the other hand...it's kind of an insane idea.

3) At what point do you officially start considering bladed weapons to be sexual implements because I'm up to a solid 4 fics about this specifically

4) god I have so many phrases i reuse across fics and they are all so weirdly specific and they're usually something kinda gross

Also, for the record I have no real intention of playing FF16 ever (don't own a PS5, don't like super realistic graphics, don't like action RPGs much) but i jumped on a bandwagon and now I am kinda obsessed with this screenshot I took of my WoL as Dominant of Diabolos, Eikon of Nightmares. I have no idea if it fits the vibe of the game -- everybody seems to be wearing armor in it. They've got wizards, right?

(Diabolos's element in most games, aside from "darkness", actually seems to be "gravity", or possibly "fractions", but you know)

Current Mood: stressed

Think I've finished all the actual sewing parts of this costume -- now all that's left is the "metal" ornamentation and the wig. Which I'm scared of. But at least the character's hair style has kind of a "I cut my bangs myself" kind of vibe.

Oh, and I need to find spirit gum out of season :x For the ears.

Every time I do this I think about how basically all clothing in the whole world is handmade to this day and I go insane.

I'm still trying to figure out if I am going to post pictures, and where...I am at least happy that a mask will hide most of my face, both for "feeling weird about my appearance" purposes and for like, not having to do any makeup except my eyes and the forehead scar (which is so cute and actually looks like a scar and not a perfectly smooth anime line, unlike literally every other scar in the whole game for some reason). I went in to look at Honoroit's actual model and did you know he's wearing lip gloss? Incredible.

My friend wants me to go to this meetup where people are exchanging stickers of their characters. Sounds cute but god FFXIV fandom on social media is insane so part of me is nervous.

Also, of course most of my favorite characters in this game come from the Snowy Place and are largely dressed for the weather, when I'm going to a con in the DESERT. I have been to a con in the desert before (Tucson mid-July to be specific) and had to help a cosplayer to her room after she literally passed out from sun/heat (she was fine after a bit of rest so that's good) and I'm afraid this time it's gonna be me.

Nonconathon deadline has passed and I've shaken my gift and now I can't wait to read it X_X And I still need to get on posting some doodles for Multifandom Doodle. It's...hard.

I do really wish it wasn't running on AO3, which is like the worst place to view art, but I don't know what the other options are that don't involve hand-matching with a spreadsheet (there are none, probably).

Current Mood: stressed

I'm getting...close to done on this costume, which is the first one I've made since I got embarassingly obsessed with a fighting game joke character in 2014. I was really worried about it for various reasons -- the character is a willowy teenage boy and I'm kinda...not; the character is someone I've written r18 fanfiction about which I'm sure a lot of people would find objectionable; my craftsmanship is not professional tier and I feel like I hardly ever see photos of cosplays actually at conventions anymore, it's all photoshoots and the kind of stuff you can put on for an hour spent posing is quite different from the kind of stuff you can wear all day at a convention. I already got some shitty comments on my previous costume because I wasn't sporting a five foot tall prop, which I'd left off because I'd 1) run out of time and 2) could not figure out how to comfortably attach it to my back and still be able to like, navigate a dealer's room. In the game, because it's a video game, it just kinda floats there. Sadly I can't do that in real life.

My worry about the craftsmanship is sort of a general sense that the bar for sharing your creative work has gotten insanely high, but I also saw a post on Twitter that was like "I love the 'just guys being dudes' vibe of original Trigun cosplay!" accompanied by a photo of some guys at a con in 2002 dressed as Vash and Wolfwood, clearly just kinda made using whatever materials they could get ahold of and some minimal sewing skills. And I was like...that's because it IS just some guys! They just made those costumes because making things is fun and hanging out with your friends dressed as anime characters is fun! Is this a foreign concept to people now?? What the hell!

But I guess the more I work on this jacket, the more I just kind of stopped caring. I like making it. My seams aren't very straight, it's not perfectly sized, and it's largely made out of curtains I found at Goodwill, most everything EXCEPT the jacket is a little half-assed because sorry I'm not going to MAKE thigh high riding boots (why does everyone in Ishgard dress as though they might be called upon to do dressage at any second?), but. It's just satisfying to shrug yourself into a piece of wearable clothing you made.

It IS really dangerous to make a costume with so many white details when you stab yourself with pins hard enough to bleed approximately every half hour while working, though.

Honoroit is not a major character by any means so I doubt anyone else has ever cosplayed him, or ever will. But, I mean. Long-suffering valet of a relentlessly insecure and sheltered fop. Adorable teenage boy who inexplicably talks and behaves like a grown adult with a PhD. Spends a significant amount of his screentime verbally destroying his master but still super devoted because he's seen a side of him nobody else has. In one quest he promises your character that he will under NO circumstances allow his employer to get laid, making him perhaps Eorzea's greatest unsung hero. Of COURSE I'm obsessed.

I used to roleplay him which was delightful fun but also a bit stressful, as in order to be properly in character practically every sentence out of his mouth had to be an absolute banger.

Current Mood: satisfied

Playing through FF4DS Lunar Subteranne and I got killed by this stupid monster-in-a-box red dragon with heat lasers SO many times. Way harder than Bahamut (whom I killed in one go) and Dark Bahamut (which took me 2 tries). I didn't count how many times I died but I would not be surprised if it took me less time to beat Zeromus when I get there.

Cecil had better be appreciative of how hard I worked to get him those sparkly crystal gloves. (Someone watching me play commented that Cecil probably looks like a magical girl by the time you get to Zeromus fully outfited in crystal armor and a glittering holy sword, which...you know, that rules actually.)

Also it's really funny that Cecil (in this version at least) can equip Kain's top-tier armor set but Kain can't equip Cecil's. I feel like that would make Kain mad.

The menu thought bubbles continue to be the best addition to this game or possibly any game ever, and I love that throughout the game it makes it 100% clear that Edge has no fucking clue what is happening at any given moment lol. He almost loses his nerve in the final dungeon, too, which makes him a lot more endearing to me. It's such a small, simple addition and it adds SO much. I also thought Kain being like "Cecil, if you can forgive me, you should forgive him as well" (about Golbez) was...interesting. Kinda shines a new light on Kain's relationship to Golbez which doesn't really get fleshed out in much detail in the original.

Speaking of Golbez I drank a lot of wine last night and decided to blind prog Golbez EX in FFXIV, which was fun. I was like "man I haven't watched a guide but I HAVE read a lot of erotic fanfic about a guy with the same name and hat" but, there was not a phase where Golbez puts like a [Mindfuck] debuff on a random melee DPS, unfortunately. No [Sexual Tension] tethers or...idk that mechanic in Hades where he puts you in a little cage that deals damage until someone breaks you out, that one would be in theme here. That one's definitely on my list of sexiest raid mechanics (yes I have a list).

We got about halfway through the fight, which I think is pretty good when one of the healers is trashed and doesn't know what's happening.

Title: And a Bottle of Rum
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Alisaie/Lyse
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.k words
Summary: Alisaie makes an all right pirate when she's properly inspired.
Notes: Written for an exchange. Alisaie and Lyse fool around in an inn after a misadventure, roleplaying a bodice-ripper ravishment fantasy with Alisaie as a pirate and Lyse as a hapless maiden. I think I went overboard on the silly pirate talk, but maybe Alisaie would too. Also features bondage, knife hilts used as sex toys, and girls being dumb.

( Thinking quickly? Not your strong suit. )

Title: Star-Crossed, Star-Misled
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Jannequinard/Carvallain
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~5.1k words.
Summary: Carvallain commits one last sin as a Durendaire.
Notes: Written for Relationshipping 2021. A slight AU where Jannequinard's trip to Kugane goes a little less smoothly. Sibling incest where one party (it's Jannequinard, of course, lol) isn't fully aware of the blood relation. Carvallain and Jannequinard have kind of a nebulous relationship in canon -- there's some stuff that seems to suggest he's Carvallain's younger brother, but Jannequinard is also said to be Charlemend's nephew (making him and Carvallain cousins). I wanted them to be brothers here, though, so brothers they are (even if that doesn't seem to be the current intended interpretation). Background implied parental abuse, and implied past Rufin/Jannequinard.

( Carvallain had once imagined himself a mathematician. )

Title: The Measure of Her Reach
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Alisaie/Lyse
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~3k
Summary: Alisaie just can't help being an over-achiever.
Notes: Set right after 4.0, maybe handwaving Alisaie's injury a little. Fisting, and no it was not TOTALLY an excuse to use the title, though it kind of also was.

( Lyse kept finding herself with her hand up Alisaie's skirt practically every time the girl opened her mouth )

Title: Barrel of a Gun
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Livia/Minfilia
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.5k
Summary: Livia so rarely loses her temper.
Notes: For an earlier Nonconathon, set during Minfilia's imprisonment at the end of ARR. There's really no way to put this delicately: Livia fucks Minfilia with a gunblade in this one.

( And on top of all that, the woman was damnably stoic. )

Title: Final Steps
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain, Honoroit, Artoirel
Rating: Teen
Length: ~2.2k words
Summary: Honoroit prepares for battle.
Notes: Gen fic going over some of Honoroit's feelings before and during the final battle with Nidhogg. Written basically right when Final Steps of Faith came out, so quite a while ago at this point. This grew pretty much directly out of me RPing Honoroit at the time, so a lot of the specifics of Emmanellain and Artoirel's characterization was inspired by my RP partners who played them, to whom I am eternally grateful. I also tried to lean heavily into portraying fear, an emotion I think video games tend to gloss over -- but of course, I always identify most with the characters who are scared of things.

( Honoroit tried to keep the trembling from his voice; he had to be stronger one, always. )

Title: Wing and a Prayer
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Ardbert/Seto
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~1.9k
Summary: Ardbert and Seto spend a night under the stars (kind of).
Notes: Written for Yesfest 2020, so this is pretty fluffy and sweet. I honestly thought this pairing would be more popular -- it's basically dragonfucking, right? People love that! -- but at the time of writing this story is the only one for the pairing on AO3. Alas. Seto in this story is sentient obviously but isn't capable of talking yet. Also, this was written before there was any info on Seto's backstory with Ardbert so some of the details might not match current canon.

( Of course, if he slipped and fell, he could count on Seto to catch him. )

Title: Slick Sharp Wet Red
Fandom: Final Fantasy 14
Characters: Asahi/Zenos
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~1.7k
Summary: Lord Zenos deigns to allow Asahi to touch him.
Notes: Probably one of the grossest things I've ever written. Extreme submission, gore, vomiting, supremely inadvisable acts with a katana. Technically consensual but really fucked up.

( The other man was dead before he even hit the ground. Asahi stayed kneeling. )

Title: What the Servant Saw
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Artoirel, Honoroit
Rating: Mature
Length: ~2k words
Summary: There is a ghost haunting Fortemps Manor.
Notes: Written for Chocolate Box 2020. Sibling incest from an outsider POV, in the form of Honoroit (who is uninvolved, for the record). Features some vaguely described sex and a lot of flowery language.

( Like many boys his age, Honoroit both believed in spirits and considered himself above being afraid of them. )

Title: And the Devil Makes Three
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Fray/female elezen Warrior of Light,
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.7k words
Summary: Going mad is tiring work, but the business of being a hero is more tiring still.
Notes: Written for Yuletide 2015, when Heavensward was the most recent expansion and FFXIV was still Yuletide-eligible. This doesn't match up with later info we got about Fray -- at the time I assumed Fray was some kind of entity that appeared to all dark knights and was never a specific real person, which turned to not quite be the case. The WoL in this fic is just one I made up for this story, though my own character appears briefly as a corpse, lol. Since she's a female elezen, so is Fray. Selfcest, with more angst than porn.

( Being renowned for one's heroism, she supposed, did have its perks from time to time. )

Title: Pray Tell Me, Sir, Whose Dog Are You?
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~10k words
Summary: Lofty Emmanellain de Fortemps falls to vice. His manservant Honoroit catches him.
Notes: This is a Dom/sub themed age gap romance fic! Be aware that while the obvious progression of time makes Honoroit older in this story than he is in the game, he is still a teenager (or at least pre-elezen-growth-spurt, I didn't have an exact age in mind).

( It began, like many such complicated situations, with the simplest of things... )

The Bog

wallowing in it

Entries tagged with !fandom: final fantasy 14

Well i know from fanfiction that this dude does NOT take no for an answer

Fic - FF14, Emmanellain/Honoroit/Sicard

Fic - "Let Sleeping Dragons Lie" (FF14, dragon!Emmanellain/Honoroit)

Fic - "Stand and Deliver" (FF14, Emmanellain/Honoroit)

Fic fragment I dunno what to do with

Dying in the Desert

Screaming: Internally, Externally

Ishgard's Okayest Tailor

A Gentleman of Unassailable Principles

Definitive Ranking of Moon Dragons

Fic - "And a Bottle of Rum" (FF14, Alisaie/Lyse)

Fic - "Star-Crossed, Star-Misled" (FFXIV, Jannequinard/Carvallain)

Fic - "The Measure of Her Reach" (FFXIV, Alisaie/Lyse)

Fic - "Barrel of a Gun" (FFXIV, Livia/Minfilia)

Fic - "Final Steps" (FFXIV, Honoroit gen)

Fic - "Wing and a Prayer" (FFXIV, Ardbert/Seto)

Fic - "Slick Sharp Wet Red" (FFXIV, Asahi/Zenos)

Fic - "What the Servant Saw" (FFXIV, m/m, Emmanellain/Artoirel)

Fic - "And the Devil Makes Three" (FFXIV, Fray/fWoL)

Fic - "Pray Tell Me, Sir, Whose Dog Are You?" (FFXIV, Emmanellain/Honoroit)

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