AO3 (FFXIV, Stargate Atlantis, Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Love and Deepspace.)
Prompt-based ficlets: #ink and silver stars.
WoL
A Seeker of the Sun miqo'te, whose canon universe is the Seasons and Promises verse, an MSQ adjacent story where a plan thousands of years in the making culminates in a reunion in Ultima Thule. A mother of three, married to Hades and Hythlodaeus. Main battle classes Dancer and White Mage. Enthusiastic baker and botanist. Azem's reincarnation.
Tags: #stitched by starlight // #aesthetic: stitched by starlight.
Azem
The Fourteenth seat, who adores her people and their city, yet cannot help but see their flaws. Rumours of her being a creation and 'not real' have followed her since childhood. Content to bend the rules as suits the purpose to aid others; unrelentingly kind in the most stubborn of ways. Married to Hades and Hythlodaeus. Main classes Dancer and Paladin.
Tags: #woven in sunlight // #aesthetic: woven in sunlight.
Izeira
What happens when a tangle of Azem's most extreme emotions stored in an unidentified concept crystal meet a new soul in the aetherial sea? A sweet girl burdened with increasingly desctructive powers, Izeira is yet attempting to learn how to lean into her 'gifts'. When not adventuring, she resides in Ishgard. Married to Aymeric and Estinien.
Tags: #spirit of hearthlight // #aesthetic: spirit of hearthlight
Yskari 'Kari' de Riva ('Rook')
A Crow originating from Clan Lavellan, given to the Crows in her teens following quiet warnings from her Inquisitor cousin. Heartsblood is an AU that tells her canon story, while the Moonlight and Midnights universe follows game canon. Soft heart underneath it all β big fan of hugs. Involved with Lucanis. Codex entries.
Tags: #heart of firelight // #aesthetic: heart of firelight
MC
Tags: #elixir of midnight // #aesthetic: elixir of midnight
Writing for prompts:
FFXIV
Azem/Emet-Selch/Hythlodaeus + pairings within the trio.
WoL/Emet-Selch/Hythlodaeus + pairings within the trio.
Izeira/Aymeric/Estinien + pairings within the trio.
Opens with Darling, set during the Final Days. After learning the truth of the future from Venat, Azem tells her daughter stories about her family and attempts to work out a way to save her from being sundered.
The continuation begins with One Step Closer, where the WoL tries to work out what life looks like after the choice she made in Ultima Thule.
A look at some of Antonia's (WoL's previous but one incarnation) story, As Sun Upon the Snow, fits within this universe, but contains no direct references to it.
Fics and aesthetics: #seasons and promises verse.
Reflections
Azem/Emet-Selch/Hythlodaeus, Modern AU.
Reflections in Stardust
Of course Hythlodaeus' new roommate and oldest friend is a musical theatre snob and playing in productions of Shakespeare at the National...
Fics and aesthetics: #reflections verse.
Regency
In which there are myriad rumours surrounding the taciturn and anti-social Hades, but fellow not-quite-outcasts Azem and Hythlodaeus are not one bit deterred.
Is a marriage of convenience really a marriage of convenience when it's also quite plainly for love?
Fics and aesthetics: #for want of a ribbon.
Fate Eternal
A soulmate AU detailed here, in which soulmates can feel one another's intense pain and both the WoL and Emet-Selch endure more than one sort of agony over the course of the MSQ.
Fics: #fate eternal.
Betwixt the Stars
A sci-fi AU detailed here, in which Amaurot's civilisation is divided amongst a fleet of starships, with much of its key functions and defense centered on its fourteen flagships, captained by the Convocation. Hades and Hythlodaeus command The Underworld, while Azem's ship is The Shepherd. Their marriage is the worst kept secret in the fleet.
Fics: #betwixt the stars.
Souls in Bloom
A WoL x Hades x Hythlodaeus flower shop AU, in which the so-called Witch of Elpis is a sparingly spoken florist who has an uncanny ability to know which flowers her customers need, something Hythlodaeus and Hades discover when the former insists on seeing if the rumours are true.
Fics: #souls in bloom.
Of Tea and Tempests
A reincarnated Azem crosses paths with Emet-Selch during a protracted conflict between the people of her nation and that which he has decided to lead into battle. Stems from drabble six of Metempsychosis.
Fics: #of tea and tempests
Royalty AU
The crown was never meant for Hades. Azem and Hythlodaeus were never meant to return to court. After ten years apart and a decade of heartache, is there anything of what they were that they can save?
Fics: #a dance by heart
Supernatural creatures AU
When a so-called witch nurses a rather tame 'wolf' back to health, it brings a vampire to her doorstep. And it turns out that the wolf would quite like to stay...
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She, Hades and Hythlodaeus decided that they were married and that was that, though they have contemplated the idea of an actual ceremony. She has three children: Astraea, who was born to Azem in the unsundered world; Faith, who was born about a year after the events of Endwalker; then Themis, who arrived when Faith was about three. Faith is the only one of her children to have inherited her Miqoβte features, while Themis takes after her in terms of hair and colouring. All three of them have the Ancient eyes. Astraea has demonstrated some empathic abilities that no-one can quite pin down, but Hythlodaeus suspects she inherited the latent ability from Azem, while Faith has inherited her fathersβ soul sight.
Does your OC have any physical scars? What is the story behind them?
She has a lot of scars, and she unfortunately canβt remember how she got all of them. Some of them, she pretends she doesnβt know, as she and Hades know perfectly well that he was responsible for them, particularly a scar that curves around the base of her ribcage. Zenos certainly inflicted some, and she simply wonβt talk about what happened there because she has a complicated relationship with the idea of why he is how he is (her last but one incarnation, Antonia, was his great-grandmother). Some of them are from her childhood and her grandmotherβs misguided attempts to suppress her Echo (no-one knew what it was and they wanted to make her βnormalβ enough to be a good and proper heir).
What are some assumptions others make about your OC? Are any of them true?
Those she isnβt close to would assume that sheβs cold and distant, and sheβs perfectly happy for them to think that because itβs exactly what she wants them to believe. She doesnβt want to offer up any tells that suggest she can be manipulated, especially as she knows that throwing her strength behind someoneβs cause has the potential to tip the scales very drastically. And the truth is that she is cold and distrustful towards anyone she hasnβt known for a long time and hasnβt chosen to let into her life β most recently Shunye is the only exception to that in many years. She also tends not to speak very much in-front of those she doesnβt know, so theyβd probably think she either doesnβt care, isnβt well educated, or does as sheβs told. There are times in the past when itβs certainly been a combination of the three, but she has become very well-read and taken advantage of every educational opportunity she can.
For Emet Week 2026, day 1: Identity. A drabble sequence containing references to A Constellation of Scars.
i.
The first year is full of silences.
Secrets that would have been his and now belong to the man he loves, the weight of them most obvious in those early months, Hadesβ shoulders bowed by griefs untold and all that he cannot share.
The wound at his shoulder, once such an awful blackened and bloody mess, heals in its own time, resistant to encouragement and interference.
Yet the months pass and the scar lightens, bringing with it the brightness that has been missing from his husbandβs eyes.
The new Emet-Selch stands a little taller.
And Hythlodaeus remembers how to smile.
ii.
He means to tease.
Discovering him missing from their bed, their journeying wifeβs absence still fresh and painfully noticeable, he pads through to the living room to find Hades sat before a table of the most frightening-looking paperwork.
Draping himself about his shoulders, Hythlodaeus murmurs about the dedication of the most devoted Emet-Selch.
...Hades flinches.
It is a distant realisation, to understand he has not named him so within their home.
He brings him back to him kiss by kiss, easing him so willingly back onto that paperwork to chant his name and chase away the memory of the other.
iii.
They are at odds, the three of them.
Emet-Selch, Azem and...
(Who is it that he is, again?)
It is not, Hythlodaeus knows, Hades and their beloved wife entrenching themselves ever-deeper in opposing ideals. No, they are as one in heart and longings, and yetβ
The masks. The Third. The Fourteenth.
He wonders if they are but making caricatures of themselves, dancing the steps as others expect, and now cannot retreat.
More and more, it is Emet-Selch who gazes upon him. Emet-Selch who coaxes him into bed and falls to uttering promises he cannot keep.
Emet-Selch he must leave behind.
iv.
He drifts.
The screaming of the souls he keeps company with has quieted over the years, as more and more have forgotten themselves and what reasons they have to howl.
Sometimes, he is aware enough to let his attention drift to the star. Sees a man with golden eyes in never quite the right shade from one lifetime to the next. More names; more masks. What began in the dying days of their fading Amaurot, he sees unfold over many thousands of years. A role carefully shaped, crafted, and honed into overt and overplayed delight in cruelty.
Is all lost?
v.
Hythlodaeus does not think to make himself anything β anyone β other than who he is as his soul blessedly slips from one realm to another.
But he wonders, bracing himself for which version of the man he has been pining for since before their final parting he will meet.
There is a fearfulness to the figure before him. A trembling. An unwillingness to impose himself.
Which is why he most determinedly folds him into his arms and holds on tight. Eventually eases back enough to study him andβ
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One of the things she always keeps with her is the crystal that Hades created for her to summon Grani. There's also usually a tangle of old ribbons, likely frayed, that she hasn't managed to part with, usually because they're ones that her daughters picked out for her. There might also be clippings from plants or seed pods that she's collected to see if she can grow them at home. If she's carrying a bag, there's usually a book, most likely fiction or history, in there, as well as what bits and pieces she might need to maintain weapons. She's tried to get better about bringing things such as bandages around with her, but tends to think that having them with her is essentially inviting disaster. Though she does carry some coin, she tends not to have a lot of it with her simply because she doesn't have a habit of spending a great deal at all.
Mini papercraft commission of Hythlodaeus, Azem, and Emet-Selch/Hades from Final Fantasy XIV! It's always interesting to make characters who wear the same uniform, because my dueling instincts are to A) keep all the patterns of their clothes the same, because, well, they're meant to be uniform! or B) BUT IT'S FUN TO USE AS MANY PATTERNS AS I CAN!!! I pitched down the middle for these by using the same pattern for the base of each black cloak, but they all get different hoods and mask patterns. ^_^
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If your OC could revisit their childhood, what would they want to change about it, if anything at all?
If she remembered her childhood, she'd probably want her mother to have taken her with her when she fled. She would absolutely deny it - and I think even if she did remember now, she wouldn't want her mother anywhere near her - but there would be some small part of her that wished she was important enough to her to take with her. In the days when she did remember, she knew it wasn't a noble thing that she couldn't forgive her for what she'd done, but, deep down, even so, she wouldn't have wanted her to stay and endure what ended up happening to her because of her mother's absence. Ultimately, she's content not knowing anything about her youth, because whatever it was that happened, it led to her eventually finding her own family. If she was to remember, it would certainly cause more harm than the memory loss and an awareness of the possibility of losing more memories.
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