#haurche is there like 'affectionately. why are you like this.'

[galadae]

If you’re taking requests, 28 for calafant? 🥺

thanks meg!! hope this works :D

28. “So then I- oh, you’re already asleep.” | 476 words

(this is sometime before the end of ARR, they're just friends here)

Calantha’s visit to Camp Dragonhead has been more eventful than anyone expected. She holds a mug of tea, now lukewarm, in her left hand, and looks up at Haurchefant from her infirmary bed through half-open eyes. With her splinted hand, bandaged head and bruised face, she looks absolutely miserable. “I've fought three primals. Surely a single hunting mark should be easy.”

His face flickers between amusement and concern. Now that her injuries are tended, he has to admit it’s a little bit funny. He shakes his head. “If you needed company for this endeavor, you should have said so. I would not have refused.”

She scowls, thumbing at the rough bandages under the splint. “You're a busy man. I had it handled.”

He gives her a pointed look. “I dread to see what would have happened if you hadn’t. ‘Having it handled’ got you a broken hand and cracked skull. Here,” he says, handing her another pillow.

"How was I supposed to know it would slam me against a rock? The Echo doesn't predict the future,” she mutters. She tries to adjust the pillows with her splinted hand out of habit and winces. “Ugh.”

Haurchefant takes the mug from her, freeing her good hand. She puts the second pillow behind her neck and flops back against them. "Besides, I'll be fine if you're around to haul me back to safety."

“I would rather you not rely on me for such a purpose," Haurchefant sighs. "At least warn me next time you go after another foe like this, so I can know the place from which to haul you.”

She laughs and closes her eyes. "I suppose that’s only fair."

"Good.” He smiles. “It won’t do to leave you floundering in the wilderness every time you decide to fight something alone,” he says.

Calantha’s eyes snap open. She glares. “I wasn’t floundering.”

“Perhaps my knights lied about how they found you, then?”

She smirks and leans back onto the pillows. “Perhaps they did. Every last one of them.” She yawns, shutting her eyes and nestling into the blankets.

“I must speak with them about it,” Haurchefant chuckles, turning the mug in his hands. He stares at the dark liquid as he swirls it around. “And perhaps I could join you on your next attempt. I should be glad to see you triumph, or aid you, if need be. I don't doubt your strength in battle, but it is likely the next time will end in the same manner without allies at your side.” He looks up. “Calantha, I- oh.”

Calantha is drooped against the pillows, eyes shut, breathing softly. It was only a matter of time before she slept, with her injuries. He rises, careful not to make a sound. He leaves her to rest. Who knows when she’ll be needed for another heroic endeavor, after all?

#hannah words #ffxiv #fic #sleepy prompts #this is inspired by the time i tried to fight an a mark bc i thought it was a normal fate #haurche is there like 'affectionately. why are you like this.' #this one was fighting me real hard askdjfhd but i’m posting it anyways #oc: calantha lenn #haurchefant greystone

[elfyourmother]

out of the blue random ask but what pets do gisele and the elfpile have?? mounts and housecats n everything

Gisele has two cats. Lady Belle Meowington (Fat Cat) was a tiny bedraggled little stray kitten that wandered into their camp one night on the road trip, and Gisele kept her. Mimi is much newer, a Yanxian cat that she got in Radz-at-Han; Ahewann’s cat had a litter of kittens and he was trying to find homes for them all so Gisele ended up with one. Belle washes her a lot. And then there’s Nosferatu the little bat, who flew up Gisele’s sleeve after her fight with Hesperos and followed her home through time from Pandaemonium XD I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the Great Serpent of Ronka, who similarly followed her home from the First. Belle washes him sometimes too. And Gisele makes little outfits for all of her pets btw.

Simeon is Aymeric’s cranky old white Persian kitty who doesn’t like anybody except the elfpile. But Aymeric is a crazy cat lady and feeds all of the neighborhood strays and has named all of them. There are a few he rescued and brought to the Congregation, all of whom are honorary knights with names like Ser Whiskers and such.

Stephanivien keeps an orange tabby at the manufactory named Allan (after the wrench). He was a stray that Steph kept feeding and decided to keep him as a mouser. Even though he’s Steph’s cat he’s sort of the community kitty for all the machinists there, everyone spoils him (especially Joye).

Ysayle loves all sorts of critters, and specifically keeps birds; her family trained falcons for the Ishgardian nobility (it was what Falcon’s Nest was known for, hence the name) and so she was around them from a young age. But she’s especially fond of them because they were some of her only companions when she was in the wilderness as a child (she used them to hunt). Which you would think is not terribly compatible with all the cats around but 🤷🏾‍♀️ Anyway nowadays she has a small peregrine falcon named Anaïs whom she found in Dravania with an injured wing and nursed back to health.

Estinien doesn’t have any pets of his own and helps take care of the others. He loves animals and always has; he’s as much a Disney prince in that regard as Haurche but people never suspect it. He had a sheep dog as a boy on the farm but unfortunately lost him along with everyone else.

Haurche is similar; he did have a cat as a boy growing up but the Countess got rid of him after he clawed her favorite chaise and Haurche was quietly devastated by the whole thing and was never allowed another pet after that. It’s why he got so invested in raising the chocobo, that was a practical thing he could justify as knights needed mounts. But there’s an old mouser at Camp Dragonhead that he was very fond of, a Scottish Coerthan fold named Valiant. He “retired” under Emmanellain’s command of the fortress and enjoys a comfortable life in the commander’s quarters.

As mounts go, everyone’s got chocobos

Gisele: a white one named Kael’thas, ostensibly named for a dashing Elezen prince in one of her favorite romances, but is actually a reciprocal meta gag. In my Warcraft fics, Prince Kael’thas’ white hawkstrider (the WoW knockoff of chocobos) was named Gisele, ostensibly after a beautiful Quel’dorei sorceress in one of his favorite stories as a child. White chocobos ofc being historically associated with magic in FF because they used to restore your MP in the older games. Anyway the black chocobo Haurche raised and gave her is named Chretienne.

Haurche: another black one named Vivi, and this isn’t actually an FFIX reference but rather a joke about his pony play kink because “Vivi” is Gisele’s affectionate nickname for Stephanivien.

Ysayle: yet another black one. Victoire is her name.

Aymeric: a blue one obviously. Her name is Mireille.

Stephanivien: a yellow one named Parcival. But he tends to prefer his mechanical mounts.

Estinien: a black one named Reinette, for the Saint.

In addition:

Gisele’s unicorn from the CNJ quest is named Soleil and is her mount of choice, though she also kept the White Devil from Livia (she took it to get out of Castrum Meridianum after their duel).

Steph is the sort who names all his gadgets and such so has a manacutter he named Bleu (after Aymeric 🥰) and Cid gifted him a custom SDS Fenrir motorbike for his nameday that he named Silver (after Haurche 🥰). And he absolutely anthropomorphizes them too. He takes care of Maggie for Gisele, like she’s his child even, and sometimes rides her around (she loves him nearly as much as she loves Gisele).

Estinien hangs out with various dragons.

#this was so cute to think about ty #simeon the cat #lady belle meowington #gisele surana #the elfpile #kuroimarzipan #ask bisho