Coerthas

Anonymous Coward · 2y

what would amir's reaction be to seeing the moogles get absolutely wasted

You would find her drinking with the moogles, completely stonefaced (she holds her liquor well)

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

Was there anything that majorly inspired the personalities of your XIV OCs?

If I’m to be perfectly honest, a lot of it is character archetypes from media I like!! For Amir, it’s characters like guts, fenris, and fran. Stoic warriors with a hidden tenderness underneath. I also drew heavily from the themes of the drk questline.

Amir was the first OC I wrote, so I wrote Sébastien as a foil, contrasting with her personality and drawing out hidden sides that wouldn’t be immediately obvious. In that way, he’s the complete opposite: on the surface, he’s outgoing, witty, sarcastic, charming, and doesn’t take life too seriously. Deeper inside, he’s sardonic, cynical, selfish, which contrasts with her quiet tenderness and hope for humanity.

I like playing with these opposing themes a lot, Amir’s selflessness as the wol contrasted with her selfishness in her personal relationships. Sébastien’s individualistic nature contrasted with how uncharacteristically selfless he can be with the select few he loves. There’s a lot of ways I’ve made them exact opposites of each other. In a way what inspires my OCs personality the most is each other, since I write them around the character dynamics I personally find appealing.

Orwen is still a WIP, but he started as a foil for Sébastien, a hyper rational, cold, almost irredeemably callous person, a wall seb can’t charm or joke himself around. A “straight man” to his laid back personality, if you will.

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

Here's a what-if for Seb: one day he's offered an ultimatum that he can watch Amir's dangerous life play out alongside her or receive a guarantee she would no longer need to be the WoL with the condition he'd never see her again, what does he do? Does he pick? Does he do something else?

Sébastien has a very Laissez-faire attitude with life, so he’s the type of person to respect people’s wishes even if he disagrees with them. Argumentative as he is, if being the WoL is Amir’s desire, he wouldn’t do anything that would force her to change. Instead of whether or not he would change her destiny if given the chance, to him it becomes a personal question of whether he would stay or leave as she follows the path of the WoL. He’s very proud and set in his ways, and has a weird mix of being egotistical, but with a selfless, hands off approach to his relationships.

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

also, do amir and sebastien have canon mounts? or rather mounts canon to them

Amir’s canon mount is the Amaro, in rememberance of Ardbert. Sébastien is Just a Dude in their shared canon, so he goes around by foot/aetheryte/chocobo porter like most regular people. However whenever I play on his character I like to use the Sleipnir mount, I think it matches his aesthetics (:

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

would amir have an opinion on whether baby dragons are cute or not

Amir actually loves animals! Her idyllic retirement goal is to become a small farmer and raise chickens, she finds baby dragons (and most small animals) cute but doesn’t openly express it in front of other people.

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

How can I get muscles like Amir???

Amir's muscles are built on 7 years of the daily, grueling workout of lifting the heavy weight of pre-rebalance Living Dead

Coerthas · 2y

Anonymous Coward · 2y

Does Amir have any aftermaths, being them physical or psychological, after being close to turn into a lightwarden?

Physically not much changed other than the vision in her previously scarred left eye getting blurrier and more distorted. The body horror part was the easiest one to compartmentalize, comparatively speaking; Amir can take a lot of punishment, and has been through a lot of duress throughout her life. Psychologically, it was a harrowing experience, another notch on her belt of "traumatic things that should give me PTSD, but instead of coming to terms with it I decided to instead push them to the back of my mind and ignore. Surely this will not have negative future consequences."

The most long lasting consequence came in the form of her personal relationships, and becoming more keenly aware of the increasing strain her role as the WoL has been placing on the people closest to her. It's easier to throw yourself at dangerous things when you're on your own, harder when people are forced to helplessly watch from the sidelines. Particularly, it tinged a lot of her relationship with Sébastien into something very bittersweet (in the time between shb and ew), as the farewell she had with him before storming the tempest meant he had to go through the process of having to mourn her likely death (and then having her coming back from it) a second time. Once is exhausting enough, but twice is too much. After 5.0, Amir has to wrestle between the selflessness of her role as the WoL, and the selfishness of clinging on to people for their warmth, even if the extents of her duty hurts them, and she cannot abandon her role to save herself - or them.