this is my boy cyprus (yes, he did used to be my avatar a long time ago) and i love him to bits so very much and have tried to rp him so many times, up to and including annoying the crap out of everyone around me with my hcs for his canonverse, it's a major personal problem-

in all seriousness though, cy's story has changed a lot with my playthrough of the game, since ffxiv has been a game that i've been playing for a v v long time (i remember being too terrified of mechanics to farm tsukiyomi when it was current content, even if i was feral for the mount lol) and took huge breaks from seriously playing before i finally came back to it. i also play my canonverse where it's a bit more like the first in that all my friends' wols are also there as fellow wols so. yeah.

i have this whole huge long story for him since my boy actually goes through a timeloop after the end of 5.0 with the end of base shadowbringers (to explain me keeping the old characterization from before i got back into the game and the new characterization from my new playthrough), but the base of it tl;drs down to that he wakes up in a destroyed cottage near the border of ishgard and gridania with blood everywhere and no memories earlier than that, and he ends up having to go on the run + accidentally ends up with the scions purely by accident since he ends up befriending them + the other wols (a combo of my two besties', my gf's, and an ex-friend's pcs) while on the run. they all go on to help him with finding out his past alongside all the shenanigans, and when they end up in ishgard, it ends up coming out that he did actually do the murders, since he summoned a primal version of nidhogg + ended up under its influence (no blessing of hydaelyn for my boy, so say i) and has a whole arc about yeeting that out of him + getting his found family back. sb messes him up since, y'know, kind of hard to fight primals when you don't have the protection of the echo anymore, but midgardsormr ends up doing him a solid and gives him a sliver of his power so he won't be enthralled + this will work out for him up until he starts nearly getting consumed by the light in the first since, like i said, it's not hydaelyn's blessing, he's not built to eat this, and it nearly kills him before he manages to yeet it out of himself (and ends up finding out he did this all before, and it's weird, but he's made his life now and this is what he's moving forward with-)

give me like another 3 months and i'm sure i'll have more ramble about him (since i've only recently started working my way back through shb on the remake version of cy), but for now, this is where we leave it.



i've also got a new viera boy who moved into my head with my return and idk maybe i'll end up rping him in-game, maybe i won't, but his name is lucilius and he's from a clan who left the forests long ago since they were exceptionally powerful astrologian seers and he's haurchefant's childhood best friend (since haurche would take one look at the small viera child who starts fights in the playground over getting his ears pulled or being called a dumb nickname, decide to befriend him, and then be aghast when he starts picking fights with the other kids who called him a bastard) and bickers constantly with estinien (because heaven forbid estinien let him be right, the day that happens will be the day they both die) since he was the healer for their lil light party of bard aymeric, paladin haurchefant, dragoon estinien, and astrologian lucilius. after he successfully assists in burning the holy see to the ground for what they did in hw, he goes on a fun tour now burning the world to the ground while he copes with his grief (and keeps on with his job of making sure estinien doesn't get himself killed out of pure spite for all of them). i'm so excited to watch him continue to develop, there's no way it's not going to get funnier for what i know of what's to come-