aster is gay and cannot drive

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i'm gonna be so real with you i think his fight or flight kicks in first (it's always fight)

it helps that he is. cat. whether he actually goes for the sword is another matter but i think getting startled while vulnerable gets his hackles raised lol

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like there are a lot of xiv npcs i love and that potentially have chemistry with aster but aymeric is so right time right place. i struggle to conceive of a hw arc that doesn't involve the ship occurring

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aster only became a real person after shadowbringers/5.0 by which point i had done my smn -> drk swap and could craft a lore-valid reason for him to have done so ... but drk is also, i think, one of the easier job swaps you can do in-character. it's kind of baked in

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ya!! aster is from a farm(ing family). he does not grow crops (but he can), but he does like potted plants.

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i don't have any Real AUs but like half the drk playerbase i have thought about why tf this guy keeps fostering kids with the wol

zenos in the "we could make each other worse" way

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aster doesn't carry a grimoire anymore, generally. if he has to, he just summons bahamut thru arcanima glyphed onto his back

i take the repercussions of dreadwyrm trance very seriously

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#adrastea i think "befriend" is not the word but i also don't think he feels so detached from the experience. i guess he moved kind of naturally into the mentorship space of feeling like wuk (and koana) need guidance and he's in an ok position to pitch in if asked.

not gonna have sleepovers but

as someone who plays pretty by the book on the dark knight questline,

Not his first abruptly adopted child and probably won't be the last

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both of them are/could be sacrificial for the other, but i think only aster has the potential to burn it all down ... aymeric is too good ... i think about the caster role quest where one of your dialogue options to him is like "i'd sooner become a beast than you"

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an image of four characters in final fantasy xiv sitting on chairs around an altar with a pendulum swinging behind it.

an image from final fantasy xiv of my wol, aster, sitting cross-legged in front of an altar. aster is a pink-haired catboy. he's the focus of the image, and is wearing a mechanic-style outfit with a pink jacket, black shorts, and steel-toed boots.

Saint of Sorrows achieved

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he's the cutest boy in the world i fear #adrastea

bro he already can't get pto. immortality? to steward the star from now until eternity? that's a scam

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wait this one is funny because aymeric is obviously priest-coded but he's making bedroom eyes at you for half of 3.x-3.3 while aster is going thru incomprehensible horrors

so i think, actually,

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ya he's baby

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shadowverse worlds beyond ...... which appears to be a story about people from doomed worlds in an endless war?

Uhhhh G'raha throw wide the gates again #adrastea

aster is ... chaotic neutral. in private/informal company

probably neutral good or chaotic good otherwise. i feel like he rejects chair. it's my gay shrimp rubbing off on him #adrastea

#adrastea HONESTLYYY ... i'm feeling sickly child emperor

okay listen. he's sickly child emperor with aymeric and other people he can rely on he's warrior general in more public spaces (which i suspect many wols are)

condemnation but idk what the actual animation is

i get a lot of his lightwarden form inspo from anima so probably something in the same vein as oblivion but with more greatsword and less. um. the horrors of being chained to eternal suffering #adrastea

aster became super disillusioned with academia but if he wasn't he would qualify for an archon mark on something related to allagan summoning (maybe specifically trance?) and bahamut #adrastea

probably the usual rural gay moves to the city trajectory. he still grew up farming-adjacent and still left to pursue Academia

his special interest has always been allag so i'm leaning anthropologist but i also have a lot of anthro friends and am biased #adrastea

on Official WoL Business, particularly if he's armored, yea it's kind of hard for dark knights not to give off aura

but i think moving around in his daily life he is pretty chill and doesn't draw attention to himself. obvs wol is recognizable to some extent but he's not Exuding anything #adrastea

we were watching wicked (2024) last night and i made a joke that aster's wardrobe looks just like glinda's

picking four outfits was nightmare tier hard but these are some of his pinkest fits (and aspho just because i love it) #adrastea

aster has two moms he loves very much! i think they generally avoided getting into suncat customs and just struck out to be a normal farming family so he doesn't really have any deep thoughts about Fathers. they are the parental alternative to his mothers. #adrastea

probably raha but. it would be such a different dynamic ... aymeric really grounds aster and raha is sooo wrapped up in the mythos of the wol

i think aster would be a lot less stable/adjusted bouncing off raha's own brand of insanity #adrastea

i feel like i've talked about this so much but i don't remember what i've said. he'd do scholar since it comes from the same arcanist root and is kind of an "academic" healer, so i think he's like. Fine. at it. but he doesn't like it

what's this nym shit. y'all got any bahamut around here #adrastea

omf ... i feel like for average joe aster goes for 3/4 depending on height, but 2 if it's someone he cares about + there's time #adrastea

i don't know ... his ring name ....... is "the warrior of darkness" too much. "shadowbringer" mayhaps. (shows up with a floral sword) #adrastea