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catch Easily-lured prey.

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Hi, I finished Endwalker in under a week, I feel fine... I'm fine. ... I'm fine. It's fine. It's fine. Fine. Also G'raha Tia. He is the biggest WoL Simp and I love him. When do we get to bring NPCs to our Island Sanctuary, Square Enix? Anyway... Here some quick sketches and not so quick colored sketch of this catboy

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It's for tugging. We all know it. :3

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As Promised: The G'raha Essay

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While initially pretty annoying in his debut questline of the Crystal Tower raids, G'raha Tia has proved himself to be the person in all 14 shards most devoted to the Warrior of Light. Not only was he willing to throw away his life in the present to protect the world from misuse of the Crystal Tower, but he then spent 100 years slowly and PAINFULLY turning into crystal and fusing with the Tower just to yank the Warrior of Light across dimensions to save both their life and the future of both the Source and the First.

We know from patch 5.3 that the crystallisation process is incredibly painful and draining on G'raha's body, and the poor thing is literally crying out in pain during some of those cutscenes. When we first encounter him at the start of 5.0 his entire right arm has already crystallised. Moreover, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that the crystallisation by this point is already encroaching into his face, and one can only imagine that the pain from that must have been unbearable. We can therefore deduce that G'raha Tia has spent a hundred years slowly and periodically experiencing the pure agony of his body literally turning to crystal while he attempted to transport the Warrior of Light across the Rift. Furthermore, as we have seen in the MSQ, drawing upon the aether of the Tower guarantees a burst of the crystallisation process, which means that every time he pulled a scion across the rift, including the WoL, he experienced indescribable pain.

Not only can we reflect upon the physical pain he has undergone for us, but he must have also gone through incredible emotional pain. Firstly, the horror of waking up in a world post eighth calamity, where everyone he knew is dead, but also discovering the horrific fate that had taken the WoL. That alone would be enough to break most people, but not G'raha Tia. This man then went on to survive in this post-apocalyptic hellscape, which we know was a world akin to the nightmarish landscape of the Fallout series, which can only have added to his trauma, but also managed to discover a way to change history and prevent those horrors from ever happening.

Moreso, upon arriving in the First, he not only survived another nightmare-fuel world full of sin eaters, but managed to build an entire city and community, all while spending A HUNDRED YEARS preparing for his own death just to save the WoL's life. How many people would be capable of doing that? Especially when they knew their plan did not even have a guarantee of success?

This man must have lost countless friends and loved ones spending an entire century building and leading the Crystarium. We know from how he took in Lyna that he did not isolate himself, and made himself beloved by the city's people. The emotional toll that each death and loss over a century must have taken is incredible. And if his plan had gone as intended, he would have done all this without his name or true identity being known or remembered for it, even by the person he was trying most of all to save.

And then, when his true name was called at the end, and his identity revealed, he cried. He has shown time and again that he allows himself to show emotional vulnerability; even after spending a century working in secret and suffering so much, he still was not afraid to cry. And not just then, but at the end of 5.0 and 6.0 as well. He bravely shows the WoL his whole self, rather than hide anymore.

After returning to the Source, we see a change in G'raha Tia that has only convinced me even more that he is the most huggable character in FFXIV. With a new, and unexpected, life ahead of him, we see a playfulness in G'raha that had been dampened before. We see adorable ear wiggles, and him allowing himself to fanboy and get excitable. We see him has cheeseburger... and it is glorious. It is so unabashedly cute, that even if we discounted all of the above he would still be the most huggable character in all of FFXIV. His little arm rub when he's nervous or embarrassed is too freaking cute.

In conclusion, G'raha Tia has faced unimaginable emotion and physical pain for over a century to save the future and the Warrior of Light. He survived immense trauma and still remains able to show his vulnerability and emotions, and look damn cute while at it too. Plus, fluffy ears and tail. I rest my case.

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"Are you okay?"

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ffxiv sideblog

decided to make a separate blog for ffxiv content only!!! mainly just gposing / my wol's lore (maybe)

feel free to follow: here !! / @azyxiv

#sideblog #ffxiv #ff14

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swelter Letting the heat get to your head, my dear?

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Soft

A cute little thing I did :3 Having boyfriend privileges means he gets away with ..most things. 😳

#azywolship #gposers #viera #au ra #reshade

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Forgot to post these here! Friend and I decided to pair our characters together and with whatever power I have, I made these hehehehehe very cute tho I'm pretty sure there's improvements I can make in future gposing.

Lowkey proud of these at the time they were shot! These will go under a custom tag :3

#azywolship #ff14 gpose #gposers #ffxiv

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"Its been a long journey, hasn't it?"

I've been thinking of my main WoL's Azem for awhile, just haven't gotten around to creating their look cuz I just didn't want to make a new character just for Azem. Thank goodness for m*ds, huh?

Nameless Azem for now because... I can't think of a suitable name for them. Height is roughly around 165cm! Third picture didn't do their difference justice aaaa I'm sorry about that 😭

Azem's looks aren't final (I only made a rough look of how I view Kikyo's Azem) – there will be changes to their look in future gposing.

#azywoldump #wolazem #ffxiv #au ra #ff14 #gposers

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I forgot tumblr existed for awhile,,,

Happy belated National Hug Your Cat day!

Nothing like a cute kiss on the forehead for good luck before work~

#wolgraha #graha tia #gposers

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In his garden 💎

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demand He’s grown a little more confident these days.

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he has invited you for a drink wyd

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Finally the queue popped and I got to play this trial. Oh boy. Game, you hurt my heart.

Warrior of Light vs Warrior of Darkness

Aaaaaaaa- Oh hey I know where this is -aaaaaa!

...Hythlodaeus??

...no way.

Emet-Selch.

*screams*

*flails*

What. Why. I don't understand. How!?

With the help of Emet-Selch of all people, I and my summoned companions defeat Elidibus. But while the last of the unsundered is down, he's not out. And he's not giving up that easily.

But he and I both have forgotten about the Crystal Exarch!

Ohoho!

And when he falters...

...

Together!

W... Why is he so small?! He's just a little guy.

I gave him their crystals.

Oh no. Oh no he's crying.

Oh no, I'm crying.

I have done a wretched, horrible thing.

Think about that later. G'raha needs my help now.

We did. We did. We have won. You can breathe easy now. It's going to be okay.

I promise. I promise! You're going to be okay. Please be okay.

He's turning into crystal entirely. But I'll take him with me, I'll take him home.

*sobbing*

Oh hey guys, don't mind me. I'm just going to hug my boyfriend's friend's soul to my chest and cry.

It seems it was a damn good thing the Exarch's original plan went awry, as it turns out his death didn't send our friends home.

God Hydaelyn, that was emotionally fraught. I didn't even write a whole lot, but it was hard to write what I did. Wow. I need to breathe...

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'Tis good to see you awake, Raha.

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An afternoon in the study.