[oc] Sketchdumps Feat. Style Studies And Some AUs

FFXIV culture and geography questions!

Trying my hand at one of these lists! Reblog if you want people to send you a number, or just answer them all for character development reasons. I'm not the boss of you.

Is your WoL/OC of a species considered native to the area where they grew up? Are they an immigrant? A refugee? A member of an established diaspora? Did they grow up moving around?

Most of us are travelers, but does your WoL/OC currently have a particular place they consider 'home'? Is it the same as where they grew up? If not, what makes it home for them?

How does your WoL/OC relate to the culture of their species as established in lore? Do they consider themselves a typical example of their kind? Are they in touch with their heritage? How does this affect their interactions with others of their own kind?

Is the city associated with your WoL/OC's starting class the place where their journey actually began? Did they actually come to it from outside as shown in the game, or were they born there? Do they feel welcomed or alienated by the city and its culture?

Which, if any, of the major cities or cultures does your WoL/OC consider to be their childhood point-of-origin? Why did they leave? Do they go back and visit? How do they feel about coming from this place?

Has your WoL/OC ever canonically fantasia'd to another species? Have they considered doing so? If so, what made them choose that species? How does that affect their relationships with those who were born as the species they changed into?

(I sometimes just drop art here and run, but I’m lurking to read the tags! Would also like to apologize to new followers because I’m still getting an insane amount of spam bots!)

before you date someone, consider the following: would you want them in your party in a jrpg?

(blood + spoilers for g-witch) Redraw of That scene - I used a few screenshots for this, so the crop’s a bit different!

Still don’t quite know how much to / what to reblog / etc, but I’m lurking!

also here's a DEEPLY unserious wip

[WIP] Twitter got it already, but here’s a Gregor Limbuscompany. I like him a normal amount

FFXIV area-themed asks (Inbox these!)

Limsa Lominsa 1. Does your character enjoy the sea? 2. How does your character feel about piracy? 3. Is your character adventurous? Ul’dah 4. Is your character a royalist or monetarist? (Do they side with the crown or the syndicate?) 5. How does your character feel about the influx of Ala Mhigan refugees? 6. How important is wealth to your character? Gridania 7. Does your character enjoy nature?  8. Is your character suspicious of new people?  9. How well does your character treat animals? Ishgard 10. Is your character religious? 11. How does your character view outsiders? 12. Is your character aware of the disparity between the rich and the poor in some city-states? How do they feel about it? Sharlayan 13. How important is formal education to your character? 14. Is your character secretive? 15. How does your character view magic? Ala Mhigo 15. Is your character easily intimidated?  16. Tell me one (or more) things your character resents. 17. How would your character react if they discovered a likeable acquaintance was Garlean? Violently? With suspicion? Or would they ignore it altogether?     Thavnair 18. How does your character view alchemy? 19. Do you think your character would cope well under the scathing heat of the desert for a few weeks? 20. Does your character trust Alchemy or Magic more? Garlemald 21. How domineering is your character? 22. Does your character have a mean streak? 23. How obedient to authority is your character?

If terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening and horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing, name a time your character has been terrified and a time they were horrified. How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

A time your character was terrified

I make a lot of "Sena's dead boyfriend" jokes, but the moments leading up to that were pretty much exclusively this. He doesn't know where his friend went, anticipates the worst, and then something he's been scared of up to that point actually happens.

For things that happen in-story, he has a few of these, but being left alone in Ultima Thule really freaks him out.

More under the cut! Contains full spoilers for Endwalker.

A time they were horrified

THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY SUPER HARD TO ANSWER.

I want to say the massacre early in ARR, which got to him pretty bad; he starts to come out of being an "I only care about this one person" type edgelord, he starts getting along more with people, and then those people die and he goes right back to that.

Also slightly unusual one, but the combination of dragoon and having issues with his scales makes the conversation with Vrtra deeply unpleasant for him in a way that isn't quite horror, but comes close.

How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

Sena tends to deal with his negative emotions in general by covering them with anger and then not actually dealing with them, but even moreso when he's scared. Him wanting to be strong is an extension of this; he wants to protect his friends, but also, if he can fight it, he has agency in the situation.

Complete silence stops him in his tracks, though.

Working on a path…