Junelezen 23--Hobbies

Junelezen 23--Hobbies

"I'm not a professional, but herbs...fascinate me. I owe my life to kelleran fern, so. Cooking I do, but tea's my passion--the number of ways people all around the star make hot herb water.

"...Excuse me, I need to drink this. Been a while since I said this much in a go. Tea's ...special." [Cough, cough!]

RUBS MY HANDS TOGETHER. OK. Satoshi Hiwatari. My god this boy. Daisuke, the MC, gets a funny little shoujo whoopsie where he transforms into his alternate magical boy self when he sees his crush? That's cute. Satoshi gets the other half of that curse, where instead HIS magical boy self sniffs out Daisuke's like a gay yandere bloodhound, and RIPS himself out of his host body to go pursue the guy to the death. This more or less dooms him to an early death where he has to secure an heir even as young as _junior high school_ because if he doesn't no one in his blood line will stay alive to try and fix this. Cause oh yeah, it's HIS artsy fartsy ancestor who decided to fuck around with forbidden magic that made this happen. So not only is he living a cursed, shortened life solely based around trying to fix his ancestors mistake, he can't even make stuff of his OWN since people of his blood line are fated to make work with a life of its own, and a life intrinsically meant to suffer.

This boy catches a break literally only once, and that is by transforming without hurting himself a single time thanks to experiencing one (1) positive emotion that helped him transform the same way Daisuke does. He's in so much pain just being alive that a singular positive emotion is more or less a turning point in his whole life. And he still finds time to be the commander of an entire police department, top student in his class, and bisexual disaster. I stand my incredibly sad boy inflicted with chronic 'other people's problems becoming his death sentences" syndrome.

DAMN OKAY

Excellent propaganda! I am now intrigued! This has been copy-pasted into my spreadsheet in its entirety. Thank you very much.

This crafted top, and some scion pants! A friend crafted it for him, and now he’s never let it go. Perfect for every class!

Does your WoL have a signature outfit (show us pictures too!) ?

Hullo lads, sorry for the hold up on Junelezen! A certain someone demanded a date night, so dinner and flowers were in order. I’ll play catch up tomorrow!

Junelezen 17-Autumn

The King of Il Mheg offered their crown to the anguished hero, and wracked with the fate of worlds, he took it. In the dignity of the faeries halls he was consumed by light, a King of Dreams the world had never known before.

His faeries would play. The people would dream of black and jeweled skies. Salvation would come kindly to them, until every soul saw stars even in the day.

That was it's kindness. That was the kindness of the Autumn King.

To decay in silence.

Such was the reign of Forgiven Betrayal.

(credit to @venusbeautyshock for turning this incredible lewk! Lets go bad end boys!)

After the events of Heavensward and Stormblood, where he both remembered and was forced to embody his pre-amnesia identity as a spirit-broken traitor to the realm and enemy of life, finding out about his ancient self as Janus became an obsession. Finding a meaningful, loved, powerful self from a perfect world had become a needful pursuit he fully intended to lose himself to in order to escape the pain of what he’d learned about the sins of his mortal self. To become, even embody, that old blameless self and bring him forth—it was an unnamed, impossible dream he doggedly pursued throughout Endwalker.

Ultimately an impossibility. At the end of that road, no matter how many scraps of Janus he tried to cram inside of him, no matter how well he began to remember that life and self, anything that was there for him was in a very old grave. The self he wanted to be was not past, but present. His future was forward, not back. To accept the good with the bad and go on to tomorrow instead of trying to reconstruct an innocent halcyon past—perhaps there was a reason he and Emet-Selch had always been drawn to the same places.

At least Aelaeis has the chance to move on.

(Credit again to the lovely @venusbeautyshock !)

A WoL question for the day, since I'm home sick and feeling awful:

How much does your WoL know about their Azem (or their ancient if they weren't Azem)? Have they unlocked the memories in the memory shard? How do they feel about their past self? Gimme your lore.