In Need You Find A (feathered) Friend Part. 1

In need you find a (feathered) friend part. 1

@yuafukuda​ As i promised to your friend @slackersouls​. There is this ... little crackhead fic with our glaives and chocobos. XD Sorry, it will be put into two posts, cuz it got quite long and I am still rewriting the second part.

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“Stupid, fucking car! It wouldn´t bulge a bit. The carburetor is dead.” lamented Tredd when he tried to fix their cars with zero success. They were just on their way from assignment, tired as hell when their air conditioning stopped working ,and then the cars broke completely. Sonitus softly exhaled, while trying to help with the repairs. “It´s because the nobles reduced our subsidies.” 

”Again ...” Chipped in Pelna, who was sitting in one of the cars with his laptop, monitoring terrain for enemies with his drones. “So this month´s money went for a medical supplies and new tents.” continued Sonitus. “Ah, thank god! I was dying in those old ones, hopefully they bought those that are waterproof.” Said Crowe who was sitting under the trees with Nyx and Libertus, hiding before the harsh sunlight. All of them looked weary and pissed.  Meanwhile Luche ended his phone call, looking absolutely exhausted with what news he´s got to share. Ahh, he could feel already the migrane forming behind his eyes.

 “Everyone bundle up and listen. Cindy Auburn said she will repair our cars and let us take shelter. Yes, it means food and warm showers.” collective cheer and relieve washed over the glaives. “But she will get here in aproximately four hours.” 

Luche winced sympathetically at the groans from his friends all around him, he wasn´t exactly trilled by this either, but they really didn´t have much choice. “Fuck, you´re aware we´re still in fucking warzone, right? By that time we can be dead if the Nifs sniff us out.” Libertus angrily spat, the heat and hunger was getting to him. Nyx put arm around Lib shoulders, trying to calm down his hot headed “brother”.

 “Calm down, big guy. It´s not Luche´s fault, he did what he could.” Libertus crossed his arms pouting slightly. Nyx just patted him on the back reasuringly. “ Does any of you have any other ideas, then? Because there is probably no other way around this.” Luche asked. His question was met with silence. “We are closer to Malacchi hills, right?” Axis said to everyones suprise, he´s usually on the quiet side and his Lucis wasn´t greatest. Luche and Pelna nodedd, they both studied the maps after all. “Well, I may know someone who will help us....”

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Wiz Chocobo post was written on the sigh. Our glaives finally got to their destination. The sweat was dripping of them, many of them took off parts of their battle uniforms. “There better be a fucking beer ...” said Tredd who went examine the goods in the shop, Axis went with him looking for someone. Luche just shook his head, in disbelief. The post was actually pretty decent place, and everywhere were chocobos. “Chocobos! Choco babies!” said in unison Nyx, Pelna and Crowe who already went to the barn to pet them. Libertus and Sonitus went to sit down on chairs under the umbrella, sighing happily.  “Guys, come on! We shoudnt split up.” Luche said tiredly, but sat alongside his comrades. “Well well, look what chocobos brought us! If it isn´t Axis Arra from Galadh!” said older male in hat while he looked at the squadron of tired glaives. Axis smiled happily at the man and went to him. “Good to see you too, old Wiz!” The old man grinned and hugged Axis.

Nyx Ulric  ►  [24/?]

You shouldn't feel bad about your blog changing. It's your blog, you should post whatever it is that makes you happy! Luv ya, keep making great art no matter the theme

Thank you, you have no idea what this support means to me ❤️❤️❤️

I just have got like four messages from different people about the yellow rose that Luche holds and what does that mean.😂

Well, the reason is actually really simple. Its all in the meaning in the flower itself. (I had once as a hobby flower language. It was really nice and maybe I should pick it up again) Anyway, yellow/gold rose means joy and friendship. And those two things are actually significant to Luche. (or are related in way to him) Joy is actually more of the thing that he needs, because during the movie did we ever saw Luche be happy or even smile? And friendship ......we all know, what happened in the movie, right?

So thats my reasoning for the yellow rose. 🌹🌹🌹

Okay, okay, okay .... hear me out!

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Cillian Murphy as father of Luche Lazarus? Anyone!?

Maps of Galahd by Pockymun

I've been writing fic for FFXV for a few years now. One of the obstacles I've run into again and again was not knowing where the characters were at all. This made it hard to plan logistics like travel time, weather, and climates. So I decided to look at what maps we have from FFXV and create my own for the lesser-traveled regions (which is everywhere except Lucis, and even that map isn't that great).

This task in itself was frustrating because it's impossible to tell where the equator and the tropics are supposed to be. The climates of Lucis and Niflheim only confuse it further. If Lucis is based on America, it's pretty far up from the tropics. Accordo doesn't appear a warm enough climate to be in the tropics, either. (Accordo has a very coastal Mediterranean climate; just a note for the future).

There has been debate regarding where Galahd is in Eos. Most agree that it is the islands located behind Insomnia. It makes the most sense because of reaction to Galahd's invasion in Insomnia's news: Niflheim conquered land in Insomnia's backyard, and were knocking at the door. When Niflheim slowly conquered much of the mainland Lucis, nothing was mentioned regarding a reaction from Insomnia.

Being where it is, Galahd should be a much colder climate than what I have it as. It should be more like Norway or Finland. However, the Kingsglaive anniversary artwork depicted a scene with a lot of South/Southeast Asian influences. The proper places of climates never seemed to matter to the developers of Final Fantasy.

In a rudimentary attempt to map the ocean currents of Eos, I drew a warm ocean current that runs westward on the north side of Galahd. This would cause the islands to have a slightly warmer climate than what it should have considering its placement. Logically, it wouldn't be warm enough to be considered subtropical, but I really wanted there to be a jungle climate in FFXV and I think that's what the developers originally intended as well.

On the southern coasts of Galahd, there is a cool ocean current that runs westward. These waters are much calmer and are ideal spots for large fishing enterprises. The warm ocean current in the north brings storms and a lot of rain; the north side of the islands are much wetter.

The climates I described in the climate map are classifications that can be found on Wikipedia. I tried sticking close to climates found in Southeast Asia, while also giving some more temperate areas as well. While much of the material culture is SE Asian, there are some things, such as the braids Nyx and Lib wear, that seem to stem from ancient Indo-European/Iranic influences. There was a custom among one of these people in which only warriors braided their hair.

For place names, I used fantasynamegenerators.com and selected random South/Southeast Asian town names. There are two straits, the oceans, and the seas that I haven't named yet. The map became very cramped with one names I already put on it.

Some headcanons I came up with while working on this:

Galahd's climate provides some challenges to the transportation infrastructure. There is no major roadway nor any major settlement on the north edge of Lhasgar due to the dense forest and the risk of annual floods. Cities and towns are more firmly established further in the island.

When Lucis still controlled the islands, they attempted to improve the infrastructure by establishing major roads and railways. The climate did not allow much leeway for railway, however. Around the same time, Lucis relaxed its control over Galahd and allowed for autonomy.

The most common forms of transportation are by vehicle, bus, or boat along the waterways.

There are cities and towns. These were there before Lucis took over, although they had looked much more traditional back then. Most of the world believes Galahd to be a couple of islands full of small backwoods villages, but they were as sophisticated as any other culture at the time they were conquered, and modernized with everyone else. While modernizing, Galahd had also managed to stick with their traditional culture.

While the map looks crowded, there is still a lot of open land and wilderness. The rivers and lakes shown are only the major rivers and lakes; there are more, just as there would be for any other regional map. Water and wilderness are defining features of Galahd.

The mountain ranges had once been connected, just like how the Appalachian and the Little Atlas Mountain Ranges.

Feel free to use these maps when writing your own fics or headcanons! I would greatly appreciate being credited. These maps are just my interpretation, and don't stand in for canon material. They are flawed, but I worked with what I had. I made these using Inkarnate.