#smokespun

“Ah, you have found me then. It seems I am left with little choice..”

Deep into the heart of the Coerthan highlands did you chase the mage, the driving snow and biting wind proving a more formidable foe than you had anticipated. Somewhere southwest of the Dusk Vigil did you finally catch up with Lord Kistenian the Red, his intention clearly to seek refuge in the now abandoned fortress. With a sheer rock face to your right and a partially frozen lake to your left, the only option is to press forward or fall back.

FFXIV Boss Battle Ask Prompts

This is another ask I’m getting to pretty late. I know you’ve mostly stepped away since sending this, and I hope things continue to go well for you!

As a writer, it is definitely the interaction between characters. The dynamics between two volatile variables are so interesting for me, especially when things become as multi-faceted as real life. I enjoy bringing to the table a character who is so… strange? unpredictable? … and watching how he elicits reactions and himself responds, when he is so unapologetically himself. Where are these ships going? Nobody knows…

On a side note, kinda, I also love the creativity that writing inspires me to do, both my own work and others’. It makes me want to draw, write more, relearn old skills I’ve dropped, learn new things that I want to be able to do to bring our visions to life, and I definitely have learned and experienced so much more than I would if other people did not bring new things onto my radar.

As a person, I want to experience new and exciting things. Sometimes I wish I had more friends offline, but I am just… not that interested, I guess? I am very happy to go on dates with myself and experience for the first time many things on my lonesome. I in some ways feel this is more enriching for me, to not have anyone to hide behind, to put myself out there and just figure things out for myself, because I do have a tendency to rely on others to push me when I can’t make up my mind.

Aesthetic Ask Meme!

((Answered this here! But I’ll give you a bonus!))

“I used to run home when I knew Mama Adelie would be done with her work for the day and beg her to tell me a story. She and Mother would turn it into a sort of democratic little adventure, tailoring it to whatever sort of story I wanted to hear that day. The hero or heroine always had my name, and they did whatever caught my fancy that day - a prince or a princess, an air pirate, a knight, a mage - in those stories, I could do whatever I wished. I could be whatever I wished, and I could win the day by becoming Queen of Ishgard and all Eorzea (don’t laugh! I was a child!), or running away to live in a mansion surrounded by oldroses always in bloom. Mama Adelie always believed that of me. For a time, Mother saw that potential too. Whatever else happened - Mama Adelie abandoning me, Mother and... everything that she did after Mama Adelie left... I knew in those moments that they cherished me. They loved me in whatever ways they were capable of doing so. I felt warm, then.”

There is only one true fear I know I have and it is not just having to interact with people for certain things like talking to a lady at a counter or something. It is having to make calls myself most of the time in front of my parents or being forced by them to do it. I freeze on the spot and tremble to the point I’ve missed making appointments for my own health because my family is not really fond of me not being able to do something so simple before them. 

| @grapecatte asked this one too. Thanks guys! |

The only thing Bee ever does that would be considered lone wolf activity would be when she's hunting. She loves to be able to run and fight freely without having to worry if other people can keep up or not.

Back in 2015, when I had just started living in my dorms, my sleep schedule started shifting to pulling off almost full all nighters. During one of the many nights I did that, I was on Discord with my FC since most did the same as well, when suddenly I heard a loud single thud on my door. My room was the very last on a large hallway, and the only door next to me was the women’s bathroom mind you, so I knew I was not being loud for anyone to be bothered by me talking.

I opened the door somewhere around 3am when I heard the thud to find a single orange 2 meters away from my door. I didn’t do anything, I just left it there and went back to talking to my FC. But 40 min later, I went back to check on it, since I knew no one was active at night, and even if they were, it was easy to hear footsteps from my room which I didn’t hear. Still, the orange was gone.

And that’s how one of our most legendary airships in the FC, the ‘Shady Orange’ was born. 

Bonus:

A week after seeing the shady orange, I was walking back to the dorms on the afternoon and found a single ripe tangerine resting on the edge of an abandoned front yard, the plants were dieing from lack of water, and the sun was pretty much burning everything. But the tagerine was intact and fresh af.

Bee is probably the most gullible person in the world when it comes to anything that has to do with mysticism. She will take it all in with wide-eyed awe and believe every word of it. No matter how fantastical the story might be.