Amidst a vague realm of mist and snow, Hilda crawls forward on the ground, reaching one hand before her. Fear in her gaze, she shouts: "Don't go!" "Léone! Please!!!"

Hilda stalls on the icy ground, frozen in anguish. Shrike walks away from her without looking back, his black silhouette disappearing into the fog. Hilda cries out desperately, her voice breaking and growing smaller: "I can't live without you!!!" "Don't leave me..." "I love you!!!" "I need you!" "Don't leave... "Léone..." "Please..." "I'm sorry..." "Please..."

Hilda bolts awake from her nightmare, laying in bed against Shrike's chest, gripping him tightly. Shrike gently holds her hand and beckons to her with his own voice, softly. "Hilda..." "Magpie..."

Hilda, shaken from her nightmare, melts into Shrike as he embraces her tightly and protectively. He tenderly reassures her, nuzzling against the top of her head. "It's okay." "I'm here." "I've got you."

[CW: abandonment trauma/anxiety]

Recurrence / Respite

#OC:Shrike | #HildaWare | #Shrilda | #xivcomic | #gpose

Shiina stands on a cliff overlook, looking off into the distance with a scrutinizing, conflicted gaze. Ayaka, a Raen woman with long dark green-gray hair and pale blue eyes leans against a tree behind Shiina, listening intently. Shiina speaks: "Something about all of this... does it not feel wrong to you, too?"

Shiina and Ayaka remain standing on the cliff, now seen to be overlooking the Yanxian village of Namai on a rainy day. Ayaka continues leaning against the tree, replying to Shiina: "Only to the extent that... as your Regalia and Guiding Voice, I feel your woes as my own."

Ayaka remains where she is, gazing off into space with a difficult expression. She continues speaking. "And I can tell you... this is not a matter rooted in the disruption of order. It is... an ailment of your own heart."

Ayaka continues speaking from her position, now looking at Shiina with a piercing look. "You can't run from your true nature forever, Shiina. Take it from me... and the human life I once lived. Shiina looks pained, casting her gaze away.

A Guiding Voice.

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#OC:Shiina | #OC:Ayaka | #Shiinatsuyu | #Yotsuyu | #xivcomic

Shiina looks over her shoulder, coldly, eyes alight with divine scorn. She holds her blade over her other shoulder. She speaks: "Would any even mourn your passing?"

Shiina stands before Asahi. A number of golden thread-like fractures emanate from him, faint and weak. Shiina continues: "The very threads holding you to this world are like to *snap* any day now."

Bonds, soon severed.

#OC:Shiina | #BoundlessThunder | #xivcomic | #ElvaShade

A woman struggles on the ground as a village burns. She is backed up against a boulder, face twisted in fear as she raises her hand to block the sight of an approaching samurai, unsheathing his blade threateningly. She speaks: "This... this isn't fair... Please."

The samurai looms over the woman against the burning sky, flashing his blade from its sheathe. He smiles viciously, and speaks. "For chaff like you? That's just how life goes."

The samurai is interrupted, face contorted in shock, and jerks violently as a massive lightning-like slash diagonally bisects his torso. He yells out "ARGH!!!"

Where the samurai was previously standing now stands Shiina, who has slashed through him effortlessly, holding her blade out to the side where the cut ended. She gazes coldly where her foe once was.

Terms of the Sword.

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#ShiinaMuramasa | #BoundlessThunder | #xivcomic

Shiina stands alone in a forest, resting her hand on the hilt of her blade, bathed in late summer light. Behind her is an expanse of graves and large trees. She states: "It's always this time of year..."

Several gravestones block out the light, with Shiina visible in the background in a gap between them, still standing ponderously. In the foreground, a faint spirit can be seen standing, wearing a white kimono. She seems to have long hair identical to Shiina's. Shiina continues: "The haze of light and heat settles upon the world, drawing our eyes near and minds afar."

Shiina opens her eyes, surveying. She idly grips the hilt of her blade now, attentively. A mist has begun to settle over the graveyard. Behind a grave, the spirit Shiina glares at the real Shiina with black eyes and a deformed, gaping mouth. Shiina continues: "It reminds us that there is another world beyond this one. Even when we cannot notice it."

Shiina begins to draw her blade, still scanning for the source of an apparent disturbance. She seems to be semi-unaware of the ghost-Shiina now grasping her from behind, tracing her cheek with two fingers and glaring at menacingly. Shiina continues: "...And it's rarely more than a few steps away."

[CW: Horror]

Ikiryō: A "living ghost," a spirit that detaches from the body of a still living person, usually overcome with intense, harrowing feelings of grief, envy, jealousy, and vengefulness.

Partially inspired by @rasenkaikyo.etheirys.social 's #HyakkiYagyo !

#ShiinaMuramasa | #xivcomic

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.

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

"Submissive and Breedable" (2/2)

#O'vin #Miqo'te #Miqote #XIVComic #XIVshitpost #Miqotemen

Male Miqo'te looking down at his phone tapping on the screen as if he was filling a survey out.

Male Miqo'te looking shocked at results. Results: Submissive and breedable Oh, you poor little meow meow... You pout a lot and you activate a breeder's instinct by mere proximity. (If someone's picked up these vibes off a fictional character, these traits may very well be exacerbated in several fics where said character accumulates a harem of breeders)

Male Miqo'te suddenly starts to get receive notifications on his phone

"Submissive and Breedable" (1/2)

#O'vin #Miqo'te #Miqote #XIVComic #XIVshitpost #Miqotemen

It still haunts me...

#gwfinposes #ffxiv #ffxivmemes #xivmemes #gpose #xivcomic

Pizza

#Elezen #Miqote #gposers #xivscreenshots #xivcomic #xivfunny