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OC Holiday Cards going all the way back to 2018

#fynta wolfe #aric jorgan #trev brawlin #ma'at stasmas-techtmar #ume oc: tuathal techtmar #ume oc: noara starspark #torian cadera #dingoat oc: ahuska #isashi tosho #chaos art #dingoat art #i hope everyone is safe and happy this holiday season #swtor #happy life day #ffxiv #happy starlight

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Auraugust Day 6: Scion

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #isashi tosho #warrior of light #scion of the seventh dawn #au ra #FFXIV #thancred waters #alisae leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #g'raha tia #estinien varlineau #y'shtola rhul #urianger augurelt

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Who’s Your Daddy?

Word Count: 1,396 Thanks to @tishinada​ for letting me borrow Zas for this harrowing moment! And to @dimigex​ and @kunoichi-ume​ for encouraging my nonsense!

Isashi sipped her tea, reveling in the peace of a world where no one needed her to fix anything. The company house’s proprietor was a talented craftsman and could always be found in the lower levels tinkering with something new. His wife had recently gotten the itch to redecorate again, making it the third time in as many moons that Isashi had walked into the building and wondered if she had the right place. Add that with the myriad of other talents within the company, and Isashi had a haven where her laziness wouldn’t be noticed.

“How does it feel being back in Ul’dah?” Zas asked the young miqo male who’d accompanied her as of late. 

Isashi took another sip and surveyed the boy over the rim of her cup. He couldn’t be long into manhood, with full cheeks and not a scrap of hair on his chin. There was a wide-eyed innocence to him that had likely tugged at the older adventurer’s heart. From what little Isashi had heard, Zas had rescued the boy from a band of Ixali somewhere in the Shroud, and the two had become inseparable. 

Salix, as Isashi had been introduced when she joined the duo in front of the hearth, nodded with enough enthusiasm to bobble his ears. “It feels…right.” His dark eyes sparkled as his chest expanded in a deep inhale. “It smells right.”

“Will you tell us of your family?” Isashi asked, settling into the plush cushions of the common room. Their company house wasn’t large, but well furnished and inviting.  

Salix’s midnight skin darkened around his ears in what Isashi assumed was a blush. The youth didn’t appear to be fond of any sort of attention, looking to Zas for rescue that the older adventurer refused to give. Likely, the elezen archer had been working on teaching her young ward to stand on his own. Though, if Isashi had to put gil on it, she’d guess Zas had done her fair share of interventions for him too. The woman was as hard a fighter as Isashi had ever met, but with the soft center that she herself lacked.

Digging in his jacket, Salix produced a small, wooden figure that looked like it might be a gladiator once there was more than a head and torso carved from the block. “It’s big,” the boy said, talking more to the figure than Isashi. A small knife followed, then a cloth draped across his lap much like his mentor usually did. “I’m the youngest of ten, the first nine were girls, and—”

“Bloody hells, that sounds like a right nightmare. Heya, Sashi.” Kirin trumped up the stairs, shaking sawdust from his pants with each step. The former pirate went straight to the bar and made himself comfortable next to the ingredients for his favorite mixed drink.

Isashi watched Kirin in silence, waiting to see if the miqo’te had any other pearls of wisdom to share, then motioned for Salix to continue. The boy swallowed, keeping his eyes on the older male while he spoke. “It, uh, it wasn’t bad, most of the time.” He shrugged and went back to his whittling. “It was family.”

Kirin leaned over the bar, banging around with his back to the rest while he searched for a mixing flask. He wasn’t a member of their free company, but he and Isashi had been friends since close to Salix’s age. So long as he helped when the owner requested it, Kirin was allowed to stop by to shelter from whatever storm plagued him. 

“Did you have a favorite sister?” Zas asked as she worked on the strings of her bow.

There was a marked difference in Salix’s responses to the elezen than to anyone else. He straightened in his chair, ears flicking forward. “Osi was only four months older than me. We played together until she was old enough to hunt, but she was always kind.”

“What of your mother?” Isashi was curious about the sole woman in the tribe bearing a boy. Did she protect him from the pecking of older sisters, or did she train him to leave the village from an early age?

Isashi knew of traditional Miqo’te tribes. Matriarchal societies allowed a single male to sire children until they were done with him. Then, he moved on, and the women resumed their normal routine while raising the next generation. 

A note of sadness entered Salix’s tone, and he cradled the figure closer to his chest. “Her name is C'seife. I look like her, not a hint of my dad in me, according to her.” Salix looked up, mouth open to add more, when Kirin opted to rejoin the conversation that he hadn’t been invited to.

“I once knew a lass by the name of C'seife.” Kirin turned around and propped his elbows on the bar, sipping contentedly from his glass. “Ain’t thought o’her in years. Met her in Ul’dah shortly after leaving me crew.”

Kirin’s head tipped to one side as he studied the boy. “Come t’ think of it, she looked a might like you, boy. Dark on dark, with eyes as big as the moon.” He sighed dreamily and took another sip. “That was a night to remember. Ain’t met another like her since, this would’a been, well shit, twenty years back?”

Isashi saw Zas’s brows raise a hair before hers followed. Salix’s mouth snapped shut with the click of his fangs. The only one among them to not grasp the implications of Kirin’s boast was the man himself. That struck midway through his next drink and sent the prized mixture sputtering in a fan before him. Thankfully, Isashi was out of range.

Wiping the back of his hand across his mouth, Kirin’s eyes narrowed at Salix, who appeared to be rooted to his seat. “Nah,” Kirin half growled, then his ears dipped. “Unless…but that—” He shook his head and glared at the poor boy frozen in place

“How old are you, Salix?” Isashi asked, softening her tone for fear that the lad might bolt if anything moved too quickly. His answer was muttered, but there was no denying that the dates matched. Isashi turned a scrutinizing gaze upon her long-time friend. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

Kirin, whose ruddy complexion had darkened substantially, rubbed the back of his neck. “I mean, can we all just admit that we’re more surprised this hasn’t come up sooner?”

“You can’t be—” Salix blurted in an uncharacteristic shout. His jaw hung open, eyes wide with either horror or hope. “My father was killed in the Shroud. He—he was pale with red hair. A renowned warrior. He—” Salix ran out of steam, then sank back into his seat. 

Isashi let the boy process in his own way while she continued to stare at Kirin. She’d always loved the pale blue streaks distinguishing Kirin’s green hair, though she’d never give the man more to preen over than he already did. That same blue dominated most of Salix’s close-cropped style. It was the only resemblance that Isashi could find until the boy looked up at the man who might have truly fathered him. “Do you think?”

Kirin shrugged and swirled his drink. “I’ve known a lot o’ women, me boy. Yer mother very well could’a been one of 'em. Now that I see ye better, there’s no doubting that ye’ve got her eyes. She was a hell’ov’a hunter. We met in the Saphire Market.” Kirin looked into his drink, then sighed and set it on the bar. “What say I buy ye a proper brew, lad?”

And then Isashi saw it. The smile that exploded into existence brightened Salix's features in an almost mischievous way. The crinkle around his eyes turned him from gangly youth into dashing rogue. “Bloody hells,” she breathed, catching Zas’s startled expression. The bard had seen it too, having known Kirin long enough to rebuff his flirtations. While Kirin’s smile was sly and seductive, Salix’s was joyous and pure, but their shape was the same. 

Isashi needed no other proof. Her bastard of a friend, the man who’d slept with her husband years before they’d met, who irritated her to madness, the same man who’d cared for her through Haurchefant’s death, then gotten himself abducted by his own pirate crew, that man was now a father. “May the gods help us.”

#ffxiv drabble #kirin mir'sheb #salix tia #none of this was planned #but it fit together so perfectly #bless salix #kirin it the absolute worst role model #tish ffxiv oc: zas #bless her too having to protect salix from kirin's terrible influence #isashi tosho #she will NEVER let kirin live this latest development down #honestly i think he'd be a good father #with questionable morals #au ra #miqo'te #miqo boy #x2 #elezen #I have no one to blame but myself

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Auraugust Day 21: Shadowbringers

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #shadowbringers spoilers #thancred waters #urianger augurelt #ryne waters #ffxiv lyna #ardbert #this was my favorite expansion #i didn't think anything could top heavensward #but this did it

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Moonfire Faire 2022: Isashi and Kirin made a night of it to watch Fynta blow herself up on The Challenge.

#cinlat plays ffxiv #rough edit #because I'm tired #maybe I'll make a better one later #au ra #isashi tosho #miqo'te #kirin mir'sheb #FFXIV #moonfire faire

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Auraugust Day 7: Family

Shout out to all the people who plan this wonderful game with me! Isashi has the biggest family around. @tishinada @reignbow @dimigex @kunoichi-ume @rainofaugustsith just to name a few.

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #ffxiv with friends #ffxiv with family #my husband and kids all play #and so many other friends

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Isashi: What happened?

Those three: ......

Isashi: Gods...why me?

#cinlat plays ffxiv #au ra warrior of light #isashi tosho #kirin mir'sheb #lyse hext #alisae leveilleur #these three are trouble together #au ra #miqo'te #FFXIV

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Auraugust Day 10: Date Night

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #isashi tosho #au ra warrior of light #kirin mir'sheb #reformed pirate #sundered hearts #enemies to friends to besties to lovers #he was her best man at her wedding to haurchefant #she was the one who bailed him out of awkward relationships #then suddenly they saw each other #au ra #miqo'te #FFXIV

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Auraugust Day 16: Ice

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #she's a big fan of cold places #she finds snow fascinating #ice is the most beautiful

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Auraugust Day 25: Dark

After Haurchefant’s death, Isashi went a bit dark. Kirin finally put a stop to it when he stood up to her, but it was a near thing. She did a lot of reevaluating after that.

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #miqo'te #isashi tosho #kirin mir'sheb #she went down a dark path of destruction for a bit #kirin was the only one who could reach her #sundered hearts

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Auraugust Day 17: Astral

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #and all the realms

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Auraugust Day 14: DPS

In order from top to bottom, left to right:

Dancer | Dragoon | Samurai | Monk | Machinist | Ninja | Bard | Reaper

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #dps classes #au ra #isashi tosho #dancer #dragoon #samurai #monk #machinist #ninja #bard #reaper #did I miss any?

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Shout out to @tishinada for helping up teach our youngest (Fennic) How to tank tonight. We started off with Zas, but it was too much to resist bringing in Kass to back up her Lala companions. My husband decided to make a new character, his is the little Lala Lancer aptly named Weeboy Jenkins.

#cinlat plays ffxiv #ffxiv with friends #ffxiv with family #next generation of ffxiv #quality family time #lalafell #everywhere #i was the tallest for the first time #sastasha #tam-tara deepcroft #rose inferno #weeboy jenkins #tish oc: zas #tish oc: kass #isashi tosho

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Auraugust Day 27: Endwalker

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #endwalker spoilers #endwalker #it was a good story #shadowbringers is still my favorite #but this was good too #the fight scenes were amazing #not to mention the locations

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Auraugust Day 19: Lens Flair Light

Okay so, I know this should be an easy one, but....can we take a moment to appreciate this game’s impeccable lens flairs?

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #i know that she's the warrior of light #but I wanted to be more literal #mostly because i like these shots and don't know where else to use them

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Auraugust Day 18: Stormblood

Isashi went blonde for this one...and I rushed through it tbh, so I remember literally nothing about Stormblood about from Hien is adorable.

#auraugust #auraugust 2022 #au ra #isashi tosho #stormblood #i still don't know why she was blonde #it was a phase