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Junelezen 7- Friends
To be surrounded by a rag-tag group of companions was the norm rather than the exception in the adventuring circles of Eorzea, but getting a truly good one was a true exercise in luck. A discipline, thankfully, Aelaeis seemed booked and blessed with in ample quantity.
(In this photo are the many friends who convinced me onto FFXIV to begin my journey, not least of all @venusbeautyshock who has all but carried me every step of the way. One day I'll pay you back for this life changing journey! Don't...ask how yet. Im working on it.)
Junelezen 8-Beauty
There was nothing quite like the Empress when she smiled. The Emperor would be certain that for every stuffy portrait she was forced to take, one would be purely focused on making her smile from her heart.
No portraits of her smile currently remain in the royal palace. Where they went remains a mystery.
(credit to @venusbeautyshock for this stunning work!)
Junelezen 9-Mirror
Seek the truth. Flee from it. Rush to embrace it. Hide from it. Devour it until there is not a crumb left, then beg for more.
It doesn't matter what you do. Even should the whole world turn their eyes away, it will always be there.
(credit to @venusbeautyshock for this incredible editing and shotwork!)
Junelezen 10-Summer
Not a glamour shot or story, but a real moment--though I cursed a storm and lost faith in reality a grand number of times, with @venusbeautyshock's support (and willingness to play living checkpoint with me should I have needed it, though I managed without eventually), I was finally able to make it to the top of the Moonfire tower for the first time!
The pride was unimaginable, and the strangers next to me were just as eager to share in the victory with me. Hard won, and hard celebrated. From the player who auto-ran their way into a ditch and got ganked by jellyfish to this!
Junelezen 14-Night
When there's a moon shining as bluely as this one,
Mysterious wonders can happen at night.
Somewhere deep in the heart of the forest,
Wandering slowly am I.
(credit to @venusbeautyshock for this awesome filter!)
Junelezen 16-Magic
There's never a certainty to it. Any of it. But there's something so utterly right about feeling the stars speak through you, and tell you with cosmic certainty that everything is going to be alright.
Ok this one was easily my FAVORITE photo shoot I did just myself, so I'm including bonus pics below! Astrologian pretty and make brain go brr
Junelezen 19-Travel
In the days where his feet would wander after answers, purpose and coin, Aelaeis would take the time to trace old steps and greet familiar faces. Some were waiting for promised loved ones to return. Some were working hard to create miracles by their own hand. Some were content to trade tales and chat over tea.
But some could only be greeted, and kept companion. Of those, he most enjoyed visiting his friends in Mor Dhona. Crystal was worse than dirt by far for sleeping on, but the light of the Tower and the shadow of the Keeper were enough to know he was sleeping in good company.
Junelezen 22-Harvest
"Phew! Sure is a scorcher out here today! I'm not looking forward to going out mugwort picking today, but I guess the ocean's right there. I can just dunk myself whenever. That actually sounds pretty good, after all this."
"Welp! Time to get back to it! I'm pretty sure this was how this thing was meant to be used :)"
Junelezen 23--Hobbies
"I'm not a professional, but herbs...fascinate me. I owe my life to kelleran fern, so. Cooking I do, but tea's my passion--the number of ways people all around the star make hot herb water.
"...Excuse me, I need to drink this. Been a while since I said this much in a go. Tea's ...special." [Cough, cough!]
Junelezen 25-Cozy
Every portion of the house was constructed to be cozy. A place that screamed 'home' for those who had never heard of the thing themselves. But easily, the coziest part of the house was the knitting corner, right between the bookshelf stairs and the fireplace. It was a spot that begged for pajamas, half finished scarves, cups of tea kept warm on the mantle, and a really good book (or two. Three. As many as the bookshelf could hold, really.)
Junelezen 26-Relaxing
In the old wards he'd stayed in a lifetime ago, they hadn't had public baths like this. The renovations were much appreciated, and often enjoyed--Kugane was the king of bathhouses, the chill of the snows with the heat of the baths created a unique, refreshing cycle that could keep a fellow soaking for hours without waning.
(Not that one should. Ishgard could learn a thing or two from the East, in terms of having suitable refreshments on hand after a soak. Knight's Bread and ale didn't cut it exactly.)
Junelzen 27- Fancy Clothes
"See Ael? You really do look stunning when you let yourself branch out! Who says Elezen don't have any bums? The proof is in the pudding! And the cake, as it were. Hehe." "....Couldn't have found a dress?"
"It doesn't always have to be a dress, Ael."
"I like dresses :( "
(Credit to @venusbeautyshock for the lovely shot and wardrobe!)
Junelezen 28-Family
Family wasn't defined by who birthed him. Family was not cold-eyes and absent warmth, by blithe profiteers off of of a young child's indignity and shame. Family wasn't the ones who had shown him that the only thing in life worth relying on was oneself.
They had found him a dead man on the other side of the world, and placed themself between him and a sure end. They were the ones who had welcomed him even has he healed from wounds that would never truly mend. Family was here, now. And never had it felt realer than this.
(Credit to @venusbeautyshock again for the wonderful work getting all our characters together!)
Junelezen 29--Holiday
Starlight was one of the worst times in Ishgard. The rich were tucked away warm in their houses celebrating the coziness, while the rest got to count their fingers and see how many were still pink. 'Won't be a change for you to go blue, would it lad?' joked a man who'd been found dead of the cold the next day.
The strings of festive lights looked like a taunt, to Zardyn. They blocked out the light of the very stars, and left all still so very, very cold.
...He'd live in a nice warm house someday. All by himself. And it would be the best life ever.
(Thank you to @venusbeautyshock for baby Ael! Hes BABY)
This crafted top, and some scion pants! A friend crafted it for him, and now he’s never let it go. Perfect for every class!
Does your WoL have a signature outfit (show us pictures too!) ?
After the events of Heavensward and Stormblood, where he both remembered and was forced to embody his pre-amnesia identity as a spirit-broken traitor to the realm and enemy of life, finding out about his ancient self as Janus became an obsession. Finding a meaningful, loved, powerful self from a perfect world had become a needful pursuit he fully intended to lose himself to in order to escape the pain of what he’d learned about the sins of his mortal self. To become, even embody, that old blameless self and bring him forth—it was an unnamed, impossible dream he doggedly pursued throughout Endwalker.
Ultimately an impossibility. At the end of that road, no matter how many scraps of Janus he tried to cram inside of him, no matter how well he began to remember that life and self, anything that was there for him was in a very old grave. The self he wanted to be was not past, but present. His future was forward, not back. To accept the good with the bad and go on to tomorrow instead of trying to reconstruct an innocent halcyon past—perhaps there was a reason he and Emet-Selch had always been drawn to the same places.
At least Aelaeis has the chance to move on.
(Credit again to the lovely @venusbeautyshock !)
A WoL question for the day, since I'm home sick and feeling awful:
How much does your WoL know about their Azem (or their ancient if they weren't Azem)? Have they unlocked the memories in the memory shard? How do they feel about their past self? Gimme your lore.
@devolawrites I’m sorry this took so long! The FFXIV fanswap was weeks ago, but finally after an overseas trip and somw hijinks with digital coloring I finally decided to give this one the old traditional media treatment. Their absolutely STUNNING couple in one of my favorite photoshoots of theirs—check out their work, the screens are gorgeous and the characters are so fun! Happy swap!