Shrike stands behind a bar counter in the foreground, a flagon of ale resting on it. He gazes ahead as if sizing up an approaching patron while idly cleaning a wine glass with a cloth. He wears a loose shirt, open to reveal his upper chest, a corset around his waist, and rugged pants.

The bartender seems to regard you with disinterest, but that searing draconic eye scrutinizes with the all the precision of a chirurgeon's blade.

#NemesisPoses | #Furyslayer | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shrike holds Hilda in his arms, while Hilda cuddles against him, looking at him lovingly. She caresses his face gently as he looks back at her.

Happy Butch Appreciation Day! Shrike will always be cherished and beloved. 🖤🔥

#NemesisPoses | #Shrilda | #HildaWare | #gpose | #xivwlw

Shrike putting one leg up on a chair and leaning his elbow on it, looking towards the ground with a pondering expression. He wears stripped-down leather armor over chainmail

POV: You thought you had his measure and now you're bleeding on the floor and he's figuring out what to do with you.

#NemesisPoses | #Furyslayer | #gpose

A past-apparition of Yotsuyu, dressed in her signature black and red kimono, coldly and intently strangles the present day Yotsuyu before her. The latter looks stunned at her past self, and struggles against her grip.

[CW: Asphyxiation, self-recrimination]

You don't deserve to struggle for your life.

#NemesisPoses | #Yotsuyu

Shiina stands on a dock on a bright summer day, striking a pose with a hand on her hip and other hand on forehead to shield from the sun. She wears a light blue hoodie and a black bikini bottom. Her paired katana and wakizashi are secured to the back of her waist.

Unsurprisingly, the Goddess of Storms thrives in the summer

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #gpose

Shiina strikes a sultry pose, wearing black lace underwear.

Shiina strikes a pose, wearing black lace underwear. Shot of her back.

Shiina in lingerie is warranted. On occasion.

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaAfterDark | #nsfwgpose

Yotsuyu stretches, looking sleepy. She wears an oversized white shirt, unbuttoned enough to reveal her black bra beneath. Her legs are bare.

trying this new antidepressant called Sleepy Wife in Oversized Shirt

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Yotsuyu perches on the ledge of a tower overlooking Monzen, Doma Castle, and the mountains beyond. She gazes out reflectively while she idly twirls a kunai on her finger.

Yotsuyu perches on the ledge of a tower overlooking Monzen, Doma Castle, and the mountains beyond. She gazes out reflectively while she idly twirls a kunai on her finger. Alternate close-up focused on Yotsuyu's expression, a cautious but gentle smile.

"This land will never be my home... but maybe peace can still be found here."

#NemesisPoses | #Yotsuyu | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Yotsuyu stands amidst the ruins of the empty thoroughfare of Monzen on a fog-shrouded night, gazing at the scene with a melancholy posture. She lightly grips Tsukuyomi's mirror between her fingers.

desolation.

#NemesisPoses | #Yotsuyu | #gpose

Shiina sits on the edge of a dock on Yanxia's One River, overlooking the ruins of Doma Castle, the waterfalls, and cloud-veiled mountains beyond.

A close-up of Shiina sitting on the dock. She holds a smoking pipe off to the side, and her katana and a bottle of sake rest next to her as she looks out at the scenery contemplatively.

"No matter how much this land changes... I'm only ever me."

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ffxivlandscape | #gpose

Shiina and a girl seemingly identical to her stand in a vague, spiritual realm in shallow water, a torii gate looming behind them. Shiina holds her sheathed katana in her offhand and caresses the other Shiina's face, looking distraught. The other Shiina reassuringly grips Shiina's hand with her own, smiling back at her. The other Shiina, notably, wears a simple blue kimono and lacks the real Shiina's scales, horns, and facial markings.

Life For Life.

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Yotsuyu embraces Shiina in the night, baring her fangs and pulling away from the latter's bloody neck with a trail of crimson spit. Her fangs are stained with blood, and she looks up at Shiina with lucent, glowing eyes. Shiina embraces her back, looking somewhat dazed. Two visible puncture wounds on her neck bleed.

Windward lover, step into the night. 🌗🩸

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu | #nsfwgpose

Shiina stands in a bloody, watery hellscape, surrounded by the bodies of fallen samurai, including Hien Rijin and Asahi sas Brutus. Face covered in blood, she turns her gaze away, gripping her malevolently glowing blade in her offhand.

A close-up of Shiina's face, showing the bloodstains. She gazes with the cold scorn of a goddess of war.

Our eyes clouded, our hands bloodied, our prayers answered.

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #gpose

Shiina and Yotsuyu sit on their futon, naked after having sex. Shiina sits across Yotsuyu's lap while holding her hand and wrapping the other around her waist, while Yotsuyu carefully caresses Shiina's cheek. Yotsuyu looks at her with loving concern, while Shiina smiles back reassuringly.

🌗: "I hope I... wasn't too rough with you."

🐉: "Not at all, persimmon. I know how much you care for me."

(because dommes need aftercare too)

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu | #xivwlw

Shiina and Yotsuyu, immersed within a hotspring at sunset, embrace and kiss passionately.

My Heart, Boundless.

🌩️💞🌗

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Shiinatsuyu | #Yotsuyu | #xivwlw

Shrike, wearing a hooded helmet, stands portentously before the unicorn banner of House Fortemps, sword planted firmly at his feet. Three burning spears are trained on the unicorn.

Age-old chants: Blood calls to blood. Dark omens arrive on darker wings. The end of days draws nigh.

#NemesisPoses | #Furyslayer | #gpose

Yotsuyu, currently possessed by Tsukuyomi, holds a blade up to her throat threateningly. She wears a manic, sinister grin as her eyes glow with lunar light. A half-moon hangs high in the sky behind her.

"As certain as the moon rises, you will never pry her from my grasp."

#NemesisPoses | #Yotsuyu | #Tsukuyomi | #gpose

On a bench in Kugane, Yotsuyu suddenly leans in close to Shiina and pulls her over with one hand, pressing near her face with a teasing smirk. Shiina, still clutching a stick of dango she was about to eat, stares back in surprise, wearing an expression that communicates "oh gods, oh fuck, I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay."

Shiina and Yotsuyu now kiss after Shiina has been caught.

Dango Distraction

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #Yotsuyu | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shiina and Yotsuyu pause along a trail on Mount Rokkon, with a vista of forest, mountains, and a pagoda stretching out ahead of them. They both are equipped in battle gear and have blades at their waists. Shiina speaks: "You see that pagoda, Tsuyu?"

Shiina points at herself confidently, grinning as she speaks: "One of these days, I'm gonna have a temple with enough of 'em to cover a whole mountainside!" Yotsuyu stands with her arms crossed, glancing towards Shiina in amusement.

Yotsuyu gestures vaguely as if holding a coin purse, speaking: "With that empty sake bottle of coins you call your savings? At best, we could get one of the monks here to give us some spare timber." Shiina puts a hand on her hip, pouting as she looks at Yotsuyu.

Shiina replies, shutting her eyes and sighing. "I know, I know... I've not exactly been on top of raising alms these past few decades. I don't know how humans can work as much as they do." Yotsuyu looks at her with a neutral expression, listening, now resting a hand on the hilt of one of her swords.

Windward I roam, homeward I near.

(1/2)

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu | #xivcomic

In a featureless void, Yotsuyu kneels, raising her hands desperately in prayer while averting her gaze from Shiina who stands before her half out of frame, cold and unyielding. Faint text depicting Yotsuyu's thoughts can be seen. "I'm filthy" "Please..." "Punish me" "I'm sorry" "Cleanse me"

In a featureless void, Shiina grabs Yotsuyu from behind, leaning into her anxiously while simultaneously tightening her hand around the woman's throat, suffocating her. Yotsuyu struggles to breath and attempts to remove Shiina's hand. Both are naked. Faint text depicting Shiina's thought can be seen scattered. "I'm nothing without you" "Don't hate me" "I need you" "I'll save you" "Don't forget me"

Dependents.

(CW: Sexual assault-adjacent imagery, metaphoric depictions of trauma, self-recrimination)

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu

Shiina stands atop a rock amidst a lightning storm, looking down with a smirk in issuance of a challenge. She wears samurai armor and a pair of monk's fists, raising one and adjusting it with her other hand. Her katana is sheathed on her waist. She is surrounded by an array of weapons shining in the storm. A few float while the others are thrust into the rock. The weapons include a longbow, a naginata, a second katana with no adornments apart from a cloth grip, and a matched pair of wakizashi. A boss title card reads "Benzaiten, Boundless Thunder" subtitled "Shiina Muramasa"

[ TRIAL: THE DIAMOND REALM ]

"I'm not called a Goddess of War for nothing. Now show me that you are worthy of calling yourself a hero!"

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shiina embraces Yotsuyu from behind, cupping a hand over one of her breasts and holding her other hand. She leans in close to whisper in her ear. Yotsuyu leans into her, placing her hand over Shiina's and smiling lovingly. Both are naked.

"We'll keep going as slow as you need, persimmon... my time is for you, and you alone." 🪷🐉

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaAfterDark | #Shiinatsuyu | #Yotsuyu | #xivwlw | #nsfwgpose

Shiina stands amidst a throng of people in the evening on Kugane Dori. The crowds move around her, carrying about their lives and business, as if she isn't there at all.

"Even if my name never touches your lips, even if the memory of my face melts away like snow upon water... I'll be here, traveling beside you all on your journeys."

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shiina sits on a bench in a Kugane garden, with Yotsuyu comfortably laying down and resting her head on her partner's lap. Shiina intently plays a song on her flute, and Yotsuyu smiles gently in her rest.

Shiina has now put her flute aside, and she and Yotsuyu hold hands. Shiina looks down at Yotsuyu affectionately, petting her head with her other hand. Yotsuyu looks back at her, warmly and lovingly.

Winds to carry away your burdens; song to soothe your tempestuous thoughts.

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu | #xivwlw | #gpose

I will always eat up culturally and thematically fitting clothing/armor #cammymods

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shiina stands on the battlefield of the Ghimlyt Dark, donned in full samurai armor. She holds her blade parallel to her body, drawing it from its sheathe, the blade obscuring one half of her face. Her eye glows as she glares with cold, placid wrath.

"Let the world know, once again, that I am a goddess of war.

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Shrike, shirtless apart from bandages, stands amidst ruins, sky alight with a lightning storm. He raises his arm up, allowing a glowing crimson falcon to perch on his hand and spread its wings. Flame envelops his other hand.

"What would you know of my plight?! You, who flail against Strife itself? So much courage born of pride. Come then, Warrior of Light, and show me what I know you can do!"

Because I had to channel Shrike as Prometheus from Hades II

#NemesisPoses | #Furyslayer | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Yotsuyu and Shiina, both in their underwear, embrace in bed. Yotsuyu rests in Shiina's lap, enveloping her. Shiina's face is hidden where Yotsuyu's neck meets her shoulder, kissing her.

Close-up of previous; Yotsuyu smiles affectionately while Shiina kisses her, her lips faintly visible amidst the couple's embrace.

Nightbloom, to be nourished.

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #Yotsuyu | #xivwlw

"I'm not done yet, Warrior of Light!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfNC...

(Theme: Sword Saint - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice)

#NemesisPoses | #ShiinaMuramasa | #ElvaShade | #gpose

Yotsuyu kisses Shiina in a garden, the dim dawn sky casting gentle light upon them. Yotsuyu presses a hand on Shiina's chest, while Shiina grips the woman's shoulder.

Shiina and Yotsuyu hold hands and press their foreheads together, smiling at each other with deep affection.

A new dawn breaks, and with it, the chains that once bound my heart.

#NemesisPoses | #Shiinatsuyu | #ShiinaMuramasa | #Yotsuyu | #ElvaShade | #gpose