#sassbox

A situation came up where we (the moderators of my Discord FFXIV server and I) were made aware by numerous people from across the community's discord and social media spaces that certain individuals were actively harassing the moderator of a prompt event unrelated to xiv. Mods reviewed everything and determined the individuals behaviors were egregious enough to present a potential safety risk for our community, and, combined with past, unacceptable behavior, they have been removed from my server. While we understand not everyone can see eye to eye all the time, harassing someone to a point of damaging their mental health is unacceptable and dangerous.

I'm only posting this here for the chance that you'll see defamation and harassment targeted towards me, my server or my mods. There's much I can say on this - too much, really - but I'd ask that anyone with concerns comes to me directly. The people I know and respect in this fandom already know of these people and what they've done.

Anyway just to say how great I think your Gposes are and how much I enjoy seeing them - not just for the skill involved in their composition, but their emotional impact as well. Thank you so much for sharing them.

What's this? A mysterious stranger with fabulous hair and a stylish mustache in my asks?

💕 Thank you so much! Since I'm not able to do physical photography anymore gpose really scratches that same itch, even if I just use premade poses.

And can I give a huge thank you to pose makers? Living with a disability has been a constant treadmill of learning new ways to adapt, and with how much pain using my PC is nowadays, premade poses that do most of the base work for me make it actually possible for me to gpose. I'm so thankful for everyone who chooses to share their work so I can keep up my hobby as best I can!

Tagged by @sylaurin, @elliewiltarwyn, @amalthea-felsblood, @irisopranta and @floweramongstthecold, thank you all! Though I fear I'm about to underwhelm you...

Then:

Now:

Extensive Changelog:

Jess went from eyebrow 2 to 3 in DT

Varrus no longer has eyeshadow beneath his eyes

They now have fingernails

1 and 2, the original thought that led to the character and how far they've come to get to where they are, if I recall correctly!

As I mentioned elsewhere, Jess started in Terraria of all places - I made a brown haired, brown eyed human because that's what I am and I wanted to give her the most simple name I could: Jess. It also sounded good with my, uh, friend's character at the time, Jayce.

So when that friend asked me to do DnD with his friends, we decided to use those two characters in the campaign, which is where Jess first really got her personality. She was intended to be a very just and fair paladin, someone with a silver tongue who had the grace to work her way out of any situation - and through playing it quickly became obvious she was charmingly awkward and definitely didn't have the patience for justice, something that has carried over until today!

During that campaign, she, uh, accidentally got married to my friend's character (aka the DM got tired of the two of us flirting and started roleplaying people mistaking them as a married couple and we just went with it) and I discovered through that that she's a very loving, devoted partner - and she's way more fun to develop when she's in love. I know, I know, that's cliche - and many people would say it's lazy writing and using romance as a crutch but I don't caaaaaare. The love is there and it always matters.

Over the years I used her for many, many things - every game except the Bioware games, for some reason. So when she got to XIV she was pretty well developed.

But she only really blossomed - and I know this is cliche - when that, uh, friend I mentioned, who I now call my husband, used his free ARR fantasia and emerged from his inn room as a purple-haired Elezen. As soon as my brain got ahold of the idea of "FFXIV except it's a romance with two WoLs", it was all over.

Prior to meeting Varrus what was Jess' attitude to Elezen in general?

Did she see herself, as a Hyur, having an equal status to the Wildwood Elezen of Gridania. Did she make any distinction between them and the Duskwight Elezen? Especially given the apparent propensity towards brigandry by the latter?

How was this impacted by Varrus' arrival? Presumably this was one of the first times she'd met an Ishgardian Elezen, so perhaps she was surprised by the cultural differences between Gridanian Wildwood Elezen and their less aboreal cousins from the Holy See?

Oh this is a fun question, thanks Mimble!

So Jess has the fun of not only being a Hyur raised in the Shroud, but a Highlander and an Ala Mhigan refugee at that. So she definitely very much felt different from the Elezen around her, and even from other Hyur. The Elementals, of course, had deemed that the refugees were unwelcomed, and as such she and the others were shunned and left to fend for themselves.

Being the youngest of the group, she was looked after by all the rest, and when she spoke of the Echo to the others, they took her to the local hearer, who at first thought perhaps she was hearing the voice of the Elementals and maybe she was a Padjal. But just as soon as it was discovered she wasn't, the locals had little use of her and pretty much discarded her like the rest.

All of that of course left her feeling very unwelcomed and unfriendly towards the local Elezen, and the Hyur as well. She grew up thinking they had proverbial sticks up their asses. That attitude definitely didn't improve when she began working at the tavern, and had to now serve those same Elezen, only this time while they were drunk and behaving as such.

As such, when she first saw Varrus, she fully expected him to be just the same as the others - and thus was incredibly confused when he was instead polite and charming and annoyingly handsome.

Though all of her negative feelings towards him disappeared pretty quickly once he showed her his lance (while training, not like that) and told her he was a dragoon from Ishgard. That pretty much filled her with a childlike wonder as she wanted to ask him a million questions about his home and his experiences.

She's since become a lot more forgiving towards the Gridanians, and much less enthused about Ishgardians (and that's another story).

She pretty uwu

I love her strong jaw and soft chin and big round eyes, and I love how expressive all of those things make her.