Four au ra reuniting with each other on the outskirts of Sil'dah. Kaede is giving Kai a warm, friendly hug and Pike is taking a flying leap at Hex. They're in their Heavensward-era garb.
#AuRaApril2026 Day 10: Heavensward #KaeGP #HexGP
After so long apart on their divergent journeys, the friends finally reunite. So much has changed, but their bond is still strong.
Three au ra conversing in the wilds of mor dhona. Hex and Kai are dressed as adventurers, Pike and Kaede are dressed in the Crystal Braves uniform. Pike has on eyewear to protect him from the flashing colors of the sky.
#AuRaApril2026 Day 5: A Realm Reborn #KaeGP #HexGP
Kaede and Pike joined the story later, seeking a new beginning as Crystal Braves. They would become lifelong friends with the Warriors of Light, Kai and Hex.
Two auri men stand next to each other. The taller, white haired xaela, Hex, has his hand on the other - Kaede's - back. His stance is casual with a hand on his hip, and he's turned toward the other man in conversation. Hex's expression seems like he's apologetic. Kaede has a hand up to his fin-shaped left horn and an expression of light embarrassment. His other hand is at his side. They are on a beach.
#AuRaApril2026 Day 2: Horns #KaeGP #HexGP
On first meeting, Hex accidentally misgendered Kaede due to his horn shape. Au Ra were few and far between in Ul'dah, so he'd never considered they were shaped in an effeminate way. His horns were seldom bound as a child, so they mostly shaped themselves.
Hex wearing a party hat and drinking a coffee while saying "happy new year, sluts"
Happy New Year #hexgp
xaela au ra wearing a black leather outfit with a mostly bare chest, spiked arms, elaborate boots, and red goggles pulled up atop his head. He's lounging on a solution nine couch and has his feet rudely propped up on the table.
In a fight, right?
#hexgp
a xaela male in a standing pose beckoning with his hand. he carries a black and red figmental scythe, which matches his clothes, and is smiling. He's in front of a red stormy sky and mountains.
Been a hot second, dyed my scythe again
#hexgp
the poster's three male au ra characters in ffxiv. the first (Raiden) is a white-haired raen with glowing eyes and long nails posed in a relaxed and dignified manner, arm raised. He has a standard build. He's in a bright purple low-cut top and has facial tattoos of a similar tone. The second (Hex) is an almost white-blond xaela with a fanged smirk, and he's confidently posed with his hands on the others from the middle. His outfit is an open-front yukata in black and red, and he has a top-heavy body type. The third (Kaede) is a heavyset raen with blue hair and vibrant blueish/yellow eyes wearing a cropped dark brown fuzzy jacket exposing most of his midsection. He looks gentle and excited to be here.
LIZARD SQUAD #hexgp
(DAWNTRAIL) Hex relaxing in nighttime waters outside of Tuliyollal. He's wearing swim trunks and floating in the shallows in front of the restaurant. He has a beach ball floating next to him but is otherwise enjoying the moment alone.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 31: Your Choice #HexGP
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At the end of it all, he deserves a chance to relax in the tropical waters of Tural 🌴
(SHADOWBRINGERS) Hex illuminated by screens in blue as he sits in the G-Warrior pilot chair, tapping the hologram screens with a jovially mischievous grin on his face - Hex has always been fascinated by vehicles, especially those of the Ironworks. Being a high octane thrillseeker, he is a bit of a liability to put inside one as a driver. He would be OBSESSED with the Gundam. Pictured is one of the happiest moments of his life. We didn’t fly the G-Savior because they were scared of what he would do. Promise.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 30: No Words #HexGP
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All they heard from the cockpit was devious, almost sinister laughter as Hex readied the G-Warrior for combat. Urgency had made them cast their old agreement aside: DO NOT LET HIM PILOT THE ROBOT!
(STORMBLOOD) Hex aloft with his spear in combat with Susano - this quote fits him well, as it’s everything he’s resolved to be. Susano is also the primal he has the most in common with so far via a shared joy in combat.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 29: Quote #HexGP
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Wild and pure and forever free!
(ARR) Hex sits atop a piece of rubble with his spear on back, with vivid magenta and blue skies, the crystal tower, and keeper of the lake behind
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 28: Wow! #HexGP
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Always loved Mor Dhona in gloom.
(ARR) Hex is doing a Manderville flex. The Scions look on in confusion and exhaustion.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 27: Huh? #HexGP
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When you use friend group B humor with friend group A
(ARR) hex points his spear at Nabriales in the chrysalis, who hovers above the battlefield. Kai looks up at him too.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 26: Zealous #HexGP
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No matter the foe, no matter the stakes. Triumph.
(DAWNTRAIL) Hex is at the taco restaurant in Tuliyollal. He’s looking extremely eagerly, glitteringly even, at the spread of food including tacos and kebabs. Kai is smiling because he knows that Hex is about to eat this place out of stock.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 25: Yummy #HexGP
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As soon as “it’s on the house” was mentioned, the look on Hex’s face made the shop owner regret it. (They’d pay anyway, they aren’t animals!)
(ENDWALKER) Gpose of Two au ra in Elpis. Hex (xaela) is giddily reaching for axolotl efts in the bushes, looking back at Kai eagerly. Kai (raen) looks on in a smiling, eye-rolling way with his hands on his hips. Behind them are transparent figures of their corresponding ancients. Behind Hex is a white-haired man with a similar braid to Kai and with the same expression (Hex’s ancient, Erebus) and behind Kai is an orange haired man with his hand outstretched and looking delighted (Kai’s ancient, who is Azem). — Azem (optimistic wanderer) reconnected with his childhood friend, Erebus, after joining the convocation. Erebus was charged with putting down rogue concepts but found the work depressing and wanted to return to the star and end his duty. Azem invited him on “one last adventure” before doing so, and they had their “last” adventure many times over as they became inseparable lovers, something their friends found either endearing or obnoxious. By the final days and in the moments prior to sundering, Azem had hardened his heart in the chaos and Erebus instead found in the reconstitution he had once wanted a chance for hope, promising to meet him again. In turn, they became sundered souls, but their personalities had essentially swapped when reborn again - Hex as the adventure-loving optimist and Kai as the serious, realistic one.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 24: Xenolith #HexGP
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Pieces of the old remain within the new.
A group of xaela around a fire with a karakul sheep. Most wear Mol colors, including Cirina and Temulun, but the foremost wears Dotharli blue. Most seem fine, though a few appear nervous.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 23: Warm #HexGP
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The Mol were welcoming and generous to their guest, though a few looked on with anxiety - this was a wolf among lambs, after all - but their faith reassured them. Aigarn had never felt so grateful.
The golden asaya instanced area from endwalker hildibrand adventures. No, my queue still hasn’t popped yet. Help
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 22: Vivid #HexGP
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Average wait time: more than 30 minutes
Larger au ra holds up the smaller as they kiss in front of the sanctum of the twelve. Hex is dressed in a dark gown adorned with glowing butterflies. Kai is in a white suit
Hex carrying Kai off post ceremony. They both look extremely joyful. Hex looks back at the camera with a toothy smile of mischief, Kai gives a thumbs up — As Kai is non-religious and Hex believes in Nhaama, the Eorzean wedding was for their friends. They both had their own customs (or defiance of them) that they performed, but this was a fitting wrap up to their eternal bond. Pre-DT.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 21: Unity #HexGP
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The scions meant to spoil their heroes by getting them the most lavish of weddings at the sanctum…but forgot that neither worships the twelve. Their Eorzean-style union was fun and joyful, reprieve from the danger and doom.
Hex in the sunlight, removing the disguise that conceals his identity. He raises his spear high in triumph and pride as the glow of the ground sigil fades. — by winning the naadam and claiming the oovoo, Hex has become honored by default through showing he is worthy if the honor. He has thrown aside his mask to show his face, several years after his banishment from the steppe by the dotharl because he was believed to be a walking corpse and weakened, hollow mimicry of his former self, Aigarn, who was declared dead. The reactions he recieves from the others, especially Sadu, Magnai, and his old friends like Koko makes it worth it. He is here! He is alive! He has become more than his past, transcending “death” to be reborn as his own identity without losing his soul.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 20: Transcendent #HexGP
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As he laid claim to the oovoo, he unlatched his mask and threw it to the ground, making known his identity and his right to be here with a triumphant shout. Most didn’t recognize him, but those who did…
Kai smiling with laughter as he affixes a chocobo mask to Hex’s head
Hex feeling the size of the mask as it sticks off of his face
Hex staring blankly forward, expression hidden and unknowable behind the mask. He is dressed in extremely concealing robes from the steppe, which the party went ahead of him to buy while he remained in the cave.
Hex running out of the cave in a sprint to reunion. Kai chases him in exasperation. — Hex was banished from home by the dotharl who saw him as a reanimated body with no soul. As he was seen falling into the crystal of nhaama by his hunting party, “Aigarn” was deemed eternally dead. If someone recognized him, the entire party would be in extreme danger as the dotharl would try to eradicate him and everyone he was with. He could only remain unmasked and speak when around the Mol, Who saved his life years ago. He misses home severely no matter what, the food especially. His heart and stomach are indeed always in the Steppe.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 19: Silly #HexGP
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His disguise was ridiculous, but now he could go back home. The scent of Reunion’s stews was calling him.
He hadn’t realized he couldn’t eat with the mask on…
Two au ra lie on the shores of La Noscea. One is looking tired and miserable. The other seems like he just stopped coughing up seawater — this is an rp scene of our boys meeting pre arr! Hex was hired as a bodyguard for Kai on a research ship but the sahagin attacked limsa with waves and storms and the vessel was barely afloat. Hex was taken overboard after fighting on deck and Kai, being an aquatic raen, leapt in to save him by dragging him to shore. They are exhausted. After this Hex picks up an oar and insists he can still fight despite the water in his lungs and insists on continuing to protect Kai -he’s not proud of his performance!
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 18: Rainy #HexGP
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Their first meeting was certainly eventful.
A xaela is at the bottom of a set of stairs in Ishgard, posture suggesting a fall (or in this case, a shove). A raen stands strongly on the stairs above, facial expression difficult to read. -- This wasn't the first time that death had come up as part of his adventure as a WoL, but this was certainly the closest it had ever gotten. Hex had gotten accustomed to brushing it off. He'd started to construct a new sort of belief system based on the one he grew up with in the Dotharl: that those they lost would be reborn, possibly under better circumstances. Kai, having been in a serious relationship with Haurchefant, was overwhelmed with powerful grief. Though the au ra were allies, a tension swirled between them that Hex wasn't taking any of these terrible and world-altering events seriously; that he was being insensitive to the memories of the lives lost along the way. These feelings exploded when Hex tried to downplay the grief and Kai shoved him, then ran off to isolate. Picking himself up and walking off, Hex had to think about how his attitude had affected others negatively: how mortality and spirituality was varied so deeply, and that these feelings his companions felt weren't weakness - loss weighed heavy, as it should. He had some time to think about this after the confrontation, and he would emerge from it more mature. He still struggles to see death and loss on the same level as his Eorzean companions (and Kai) but would engage with the others in rituals and actions of mourning, opening himself up to their perspective and changing the weight at which he viewed death and -by extension - life: his included, which he was incredibly reckless with because he'd been seeing himself as good as already dead this whole time.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 17: Quarrel #HexGP
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Harsh words and a shove. Both well-deserved. He'd been insensitive this entire adventure, going from one thrill to the next...but life and its loss weigh heavy, and he'd do well to not forget that.
Two au ra running away from a hoarde of enemies in the sunken temple. Hex holds gemstones in his hands. Kai looks extremely disappointed
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 16: Plunder #HexGP
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“Stop grabbing all the shiny things before you kill both of us!”
Image of Hex wearing warm clothes in the snows outside camp broken glass. He is attended by zenos’s avatar — Zenos only sees Hex for his might, not his warmth, so is a poor and sinister imitation that his friends would spot immediately even so far as his way of walking.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 15: Ominous #HexGP
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That’s not him.
Aigarn (Hex before the name change) and Temulun are watching the moon disappear behind the Steppe’s horizon. Hex is gazing up at it while Temulun looks serene as she discerns a prophecy for him. — Temulun of the Mol, listening to the elder gods that the tribe follows, is the one who directed Cirina to find Hex as he crawled near-dead from the House of the Crooked Coin. They cared for him and got him back to health, though as soon as he was better Temulun shared her words with him regarding his fate. The soothsayer shared her moon-related prophecy expecting that it was meant for this once-stranger to hold close. With that he was asked to leave and obliged. After this he returned to the Dotharl, who believed he was a reanimated body with no spirit since the warriors Aigarn had been with saw him enter and not leave the Crystal’s cave. He was cast out by them and stripped of his name, because as far as they were concerned this weakened warrior was an empty, sorcerous shell and Aigarn had reunited with Nhaama. Temulun’s words would hold when “Aigarn” returned to the Steppe as Hex, masked and cloaked to hide his identity and protect his companions. His party would find Cirina at Reunion, a fitting name for a place that Temulun’s new and old prophecies would collide. She could not have known that the man she had been directed to save from death would win the Mol the Naadam years later and become one of the saviors of the star.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 14: NPC #HexGP
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“Where does the moon go when cast from the skies at dawn? Across the star, bringing her radiance to places unknown. Yet we always have faith that as darkness falls on the horizon, the moon will return to again light our path.” - Temulun of the Mol
Dotharli warrior approaching the glowing stone in the house of the crooked coin, arm outstretched as though hypnotized
The xaela is now falling into the gap between the crystal’s branches. Dotharl approach this crystal with the intention to end their lives and rebirth cycle to be one again with their deity Nhaama. Aigarn had no such goal - it was like he spaced out on sight and fell onto generations of time-softened bones. This was his journey as the warrior of light’s true beginning that took him away from his old life. He developed the Echo in the fall which helped him act quickly to save his own life. Using the last of his strength he climbed out over days, being found and nursed back to health by Cirina and Temulun of the Mol. He would ultimately be told to leave upon recovering because his fate was no longer in his land of birth. From here on the Dotharl would see him as a lost ghost and exile him, rendering him nameless and purposeless until he found the next piece of his destiny on a distant shore.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 13: Mythical #HexGP
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Entranced by Nhaama's majesty, his feet lost their purchase. Down he plunged, only the broken bones of his self-sacrificed kin to break his fall...yet he lived, echo awakening. Was this her will? For him to be broken, nameless, and outcast?
Hex, weakened and fallen over from the buildup of light inside of him, has led everyone to where their final destination is in sight. He can practically go no further. Kai, bearing feathers instead of horns, places a hand on his back in comfort. Though he has been borderline unresponsive since Gulg, it appears that the horizon has caused him to stir as he takes over from here. They are walking into the unknown in a race against the clock, dangerously close to the loss of their own lives.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 12: Lost #HexGP
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As far as one can go.
Two au ra holding up the orange crystal. — As dual wols, Kai can use it naturally but has passed it along symbolically to Hex, who may not have the soul of its original bearer but does have the spirit. It is used in tandem.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 11: Key #HexGP
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A power shared.
A xaela au ra leaps high into the sky in labyrinthos, fighting a minotaurlike enemy. He is seeming like he’s fighting with a spear, but instead bears a scythe. — after light corruption weakened him and left him feeling powerless, he changed weapons from the spear to scythe, but maintains a surprisingly aerial style with both reaper and dragoon job crystals.
#AuRaAugust2025 Day 10: Jump #HexGP
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Even with a change in weaponry he fights like a dragoon.
