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yes, she does have sex.

yes, she does enjoy it.

no, she is not sexually attracted to her partners.

Can I talk about Aureia's ring? I'm gonna talk about Aureia's ring. (✿◕‿◕✿)

(or at least the most important ring in her ring collection, all of them are important but this is The One.)

This ring was gifted to her by Nanamo as a thank you for her services to Ul'dah. When she received it, she didn't intend to wear it permanently. She didn't think much of it, to be honest. But over time it became symbolic of Ul'dah as her anchor; the city has a lot of problems, but going there set her on the path to turn over a new leaf and become who she is now. In some ways it is a reminder that she is who she chooses to be, and she does not need to let her past haunt her.

So when she is exiled from the city she has slowly come to love and consider home, having a reminder of it on her finger just about breaks her.

The beginning of Heavensward is rough on her, and she is in fight or flight mode throughout most of it. Though she has the support of House Fortemps, she spends most of her time actively avoiding Haurchefant's aid and dodging Edmont—she desperately wants to be on her own, and she does not want to be dependent on a wealthy family for her personal finances, especially if her relationship with them ever sours. She doesn't live at the manor and takes up residence in the Forgotten Knight, and she pawns most of her belongings to create her own personal fund.

Which includes the ring.

It takes her a while to let it go, but the silver and gemstone is valuable and she manages to get a good deal on it. She parts with it and doesn't think on it anymore.

Months go by. Thancred is back in the picture, but they're fighting and generally not on good terms. She's with Aymeric and has very firmly shut the door on him. He finds her ring in a pawnshop, recognizes it immediately, debates what to do about it, and goes back and gets it. It takes a while for him to actually give it back to her (it's sitting in his pocket for an embarrassingly long time) because he is concerned about her taking it the wrong way, but when he finally does give it to her it's at a time they are both ready to forgive each other for their shitty behaviour.

Aureia keeps the ring on her after that. But it has been lost a few other times, including:

in the shallows of the ruby sea (had to be fished out)

in the bottom of a well in Ala Mhigo (thrown off intentionally, retrieved later)

in an amaro dung pile being used as fertilizer (gardening mishap)

This ring is a boomerang. It will find its way back to her.

ways your muse says i love you.

the thing(s) your muse thinks about before falling asleep.

clothing style (if you want to throw some pics too feel free!!)

- @fourteenthz

HI HELLO MWAH! 😘

—ways your muse says i love you.

Ways Aureia says "I love you:"

She will tease you! She loves to gently tease the people she cares about.

She will fix things for you. Worn out clothes, tarnished gear, that stain that is never going to come out—it's the little bits of small maintenance on ordinary things.

You will see her soft side. It doesn't come out unless she actually cares, otherwise she's a wall.

She will not be afraid of the hard conversations because she respects you. This can take a lot of different forms—sometimes she is quietly listening, other times she will say outright what she is thinking if she thinks you need a little bap on the head, but the point with all her relationships is that she is not just there to validate what they're feeling. She can be argumentative and stubborn, but if she loves you she is going to talk it through.

I actually think a sign that Aureia and Aymeric's relationship is falling apart is when they can't talk about a multitude of different things because everything is a difficult conversation and they don't know how to navigate being mad at each other and work through it.

—the thing(s) your muse thinks about before falling asleep.

Answered here!

—clothing style

Aureia leans towards utilitarian clothing. She wears a lot of black and other dark clothing because it's easier to match if she doesn't have to think about colour. When she does wear colour, it's usually blues, reds, browns, and sometimes earthy oranges and greens.

She has a preference for strong and elongated silhouettes that make her look taller than she actually is (not that she is short—she is painfully average), and she has a multitude of long coats in her wardrobe.

Since this has come up again recently in my fics, she absolutely 100% can't help but smile whenever her partner is flustered when she teases them. She's done this with Aymeric, she's done this with Sid, she hasn't done it with Fordola yet but I'm sure she has at some point, she has done it five million times with Thancred—but Aureia likes the tease the people she cares about. It's a very understated and dry humour kind of teasing, and it can ease the conversation if they're discussing something serious or if her partner is falling back on some of their particular habits.

The smile is kind of a way for her to say: "I love this peculiarity of yours even when I find it annoying, because it's you being you, and I love you."

The smile is also: "ha! I win."

Because everything is a competition with her, let's be honest.

Aureia actively tries not to think too much as she falls asleep, otherwise her mind is consumed with worries and anxieties big and small. Depending on where she is going to sleep, she tries to stay on task. If she is travelling and needs to make camp outside, is the fire under control? Has it been put out? Has someone been assigned to keep watch? Are they keeping watch? Can she trust them to keep watch?

(She does not trust Alphinaud to keep watch.)

If she is falling asleep somewhere safe, she tries not to fall into the pit of what have I done? what am I doing? I am a horrible person and retreading everything she has done that she hates about herself, but sometimes it strikes in the dead of night and the only thing she can do is lie on her back and stare listlessly at the ceiling. She may get up at this point and try to find something to occupy her hands—usually doing upkeep on her equipment or patching old clothes (or Thancred's clothes let's be honest)—until she gets so tired she has to sleep.

If she is in a safe place and falling asleep with a partner in the room, she can pass out immediately and sleeps like a log.