Urianger Augurelt - Tumblr Posts
Posting this here too, in light of Everything™
Squad reactions to being told ‘I love you’ WoL: Thanks fam! Alisaie: oh no Alphinaud: cries I love you too Thancred: Sounds fake but okay Urianger: A flustered mess Y'shtola: can i get a refund
incorrect quotes are my anti drug now
ok so hc that the scions have board game nights like, tataru will be like "y'all need to rest" and stuff and the scions want to spend time together bc found family and all that but they really shouldn't take a full-blown day off because the world could start imploding at literally any second, and also they're all giant nerds so like once or twice a moon they'll have a board game night they'd probably mostly play hidden role games or trivia i think, because they're giant nerds (and estinien just likes lying and fucking with them). anything where some people have some information and some people don't. basically almost anything that polygon has played on overboard.
~more under the cut (character specifics)~
ALPHINAUD obviously would be super strategic about everything and probably be fairly competent, but in games where you have to try to read other people and their motives he can kinda fall into galaxy-brain traps where it's not as complicated as he thinks. In games with a "bad guy" role (like in mafia) it's pretty easy to tell when he's one of the "bad guys" because it doesn't seem like he's as eager for information as normal. lil bit to competitive but it’s all in good fun ALISAE stumbles ass-first into gaslight alley (where alphinaud and esitinien are waiting for her). she generally doesn't want to think that hard about stuff because she already has to think under normal circumstances (well, what's normal for them) and this is supposed to be her break. it's not exactly difficult for her, she just doesn't feel like it. accidentally says stuff that makes her seem guilty when she's innocent, and the inverse is also true. will go for the most batshit strategies just to see if they work. it's called "science," alphinaud G’RAHA will get accused by doing literally nothing. just, sitting there. we all know he's bad at lying unless he's been perfecting his deception for literal decades, and even then it's only okay to good. it won't even be anything specific when he's the "bad guy," sometimes he seems too bummed out and someties he's too gleefully malicious, but it's painfully obvious and very poorly excecuted. over time he gets harder to read because he begins perfecting always just being "like that." probably figures out who the murderer is in Clue right as alphinaud's about to open the envelope. THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT is obviously going to be vaguer/varried, but i think that in general they would have an excellent poker face when they want to (*glances at ARR*). gives nobody any information at any point ever about anything, quietly puts together as many pieces as they can. switches wildly between not talking at all and talking a lot (yet still not give any info??) with no correlation between that and whose side they're on. in performative/roleplaying games they can deadpan almost anything URIANGER is just there for the drama. about to win? he will purposefully temporarily screw over his team just because. overly dramatic about everything. perfect for roleplaying games. actually really good at most games but almost never wins because he gets greedy trying to see how long he can lead them on with his bullshit, and someone (usually aphinaud) figures everything out and steals the win out from under him. THANCRED isn't typically a suspect for anything. nobody 100% trusts him, but no one outright thinks he's the imposter or whatever. he'll make some jokes and generally be fairly chill about the whole thing, and overall there's a 50/50 chance that anyone will call him out on his bluffs. will occassionaly go for the most batshit strategies that somehow always work when he tries them. has threatened to quit the scions when he feels betrayed. will start singing if it's even slightly appropriate Y’SHTOLA is too competent for all this. she has fun and will sometimes get involved, but she's mostly an observer. there's a solid 10% chance that someone will figure out she's the traitor/imposter/werewolf/etc. pretty good at bluffing and somehow simultaneously seems to never be on the bad guy team and also always be on the bad guy team. a true neutral ESTINIEN is pretty easy to read if you know what to look for. he seems to be smiling (smirking) more when he's the bad guy. it's because he knows that he'll win by screwing over everyone else, and that's fun. mostly observes (or seems to be observing) regardless of what role he has in a game, though if someone says something slightly stupid or suspicious he'll point it out very quickly without drawing too much attention to himself. KRILE joins when she can but isn't usually there or is usually happy to just watch, though she always makes a point to see how much she can mess with alphinaud specifically. she doesn't care about winning (although it's always nice), she just wants alphinaud to lose. TATARU mostly watches on the sidelines but also joins sometimes, and becomes actively malicious for the duration or the game. absolutely brutal. she won't win, but she sure as hell will betray each and every one of them at least once, and each in a slightly different way. honestly kinda impressive they would also sometimes play board games back on the First! RYNE is an actual deathtrap. "look, she's so sweet and innocent, she hasn't done anything to inflict suspicion upon herself <3" NO. she has, you just all ignored it. don't trust her. what are you doing. no stop. she's lying. oh god, they're all dead now. what did i tell you. she won't win most of the time, but she'll manage to royally screw over at least half of the crew. they all know this, yet keep falling for it. thancred's always the first victim. he never learns (might add more later)
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn vs. Endwalker → First + “Last” Words
FFXIV Write - Day 15 - Portentous
Late Shadowbringers spoilers, some disturbing/violent imagery.
'Twas never an easy thing, to behold the specter of the apocalypse rolling in from afar. Worse still was finding oneself with a front-row seat as the events unfolded. Though these portentous events were not his to experience, in truth, but the words and memories of another.
It didn't make the visions that haunted his dreams any less vivid. Though he'd made of G'raha Tia's lived experiences a portent, he'd relived the events recounted in them in his nightmares so oft that it lent a terrible credence to his words of prophecy when spoken aloud.
Some nights, Urianger saw his dearest companions in the Scions fall unconscious one by one, suddenly dropping as if the strings of their lives were cut by some capricious reaper. One moment, alive and well and happy, the next... gone.
Those nights were considerably easier than the vision he found himself faced with this eve.
He'd never been to Garlemald, nor heard much of it from natives, but his mind could well paint the picture of a frozen landscape covered with metal buildings and cut across with roads of smooth black stone composite. He could see his old charges, Alphinaud and Alisaie, dressed for the weather in matching ensembles of red and blue as they addressed Emperor Varis himself in some attempt at peace talks. Standing with them, strangely alight by the flourescent glow of the overhead bulbs, was Xander. The Warrior of Light.
...his beloved, by then, if G'raha's words could be believed. If the ring adorning his left hand within the dream-world spoke true.
And then the Emperor's face warped with sadistic glee. There was a sudden hissing in the air. Cries of alarum and coughing as hands flew to throat and face. Desperate, clawing, gasping for breath as Black Rose subsumed the available oxygen, smothering aether and the very energy required to sustain life itself.
Xander tried to choke out an order for the twins to run. Tried desperately to cover their mouths, their faces, to filter the gas with something, anything, before it worked all-too-quickly on their smaller bodies.
It wasn't long before he curled on the floor next to them. Coughing, choking, gasping and pleading as he fumbled with his linkpearl to communicate the danger.
It would have been easier to watch him fight to the last breath for life. Instead, Urianger witnessed the moment the light of hope- of life- died in his lover's eyes. The moment he resigned himself to his fate, and pulled the twins to his side in what might, in brighter days, have passed for a gesture of familial comfort.
Urianger longed to save them, to run to their sides, to protect them. But when he forced himself to move, it felt as if his legs were mired in a pool blackest pitch.
And all throughout Garlemald- nay, the world- lives crumbled, and the rest was silence.
He awoke in a puddle of his own sweat, gasping in the still, stagnant air of the First. It wasn't pleasant, but it was a marked improvement over what he'd just experienced in his dreams. Pixies fluttered to and fro outside his window, chattering about inanities amongst themselves.
A sense of normalcy returned, despite the oddness of his current circumstances.
'In the end, 'tis but a dream. And a foul dream it shall remain if I can but stay the course until the end.
An old Urianger that I still like
Urianger doodle
the scions reporting for duty support
Unto a world weary of heroes, a hero wends his way... Urianger GBA styled portrait
Best boy, there is no debate
Day!! 4!! Let's!! Go!!
I also really need these to stop saying New Session. Day 4 - Off the Hook No warnings. No spoilers. Just Urianger and Alisaie and shenanigans.
Day 4 - Reticent
No warnings or real spoilers in this one! Just Estinien talking to Urianger.
Mild awkwardness ensues.
Unintentional Estinien Funny HERE
Day 17 - Sally
Endwalker Spoilers!!
A small group gathers before what should be a small adventure.
Short discussions of what treasure is are had.
More friend cameos!
Did you know Au ra horns do regrow canonically? I HC that many choose to cover broken horns with prostheses or cloth while they regrow because who really wants a fly in your ear. This is not relevant to the story but you're learning it today!