once more, with violent feeling. by: crystallineconflict Summary: "She isn’t sure why it shocks her, how quickly the dress comes off and comes apart. It’s easy enough to tear anything so delicate to shreds when you’re all sharp edges and unyielding steel, she supposes, stiffening as an armored finger — large, menacing in sheer size alone — comes to rest beneath her chin, tilting her face up, up further." The Warrior of Light has never been particularly good at goodbyes, even when it's the only thing left to say.

once more, with violent feeling.

sometimes your (not) bf gets tempered, and sometimes that gets him primalified. catgirls make do.
aka, monster(ward)fucking fic.

paulecrain/wol | explicit | 3.1k
link: archiveofourown.org/works/51826045

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #paulecelia ]

a screenshot from archive of our own. title: arcadia. author: crystallineconflict summary: "although commonly thought of as being in line with utopian ideals, arcadia differs from that tradition in that it is more often specifically regarded as unattainable." or, (not) xiv writes 2025. warnings will be specified by chapter summary.

hi. i am attempting (unofficial) xivwrites again this year.

link: archiveofourown.org/works/70312626

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic ]

with my love as your garden. crystallineconflict Summary: He asks, voice dry, “Is it really so bad?” Arcelia shakes her head, “No.” Pauses, before she goes on, “But it couldn’t hurt.”

with my love as your garden.

paulecrain/wol | teen | <1k
arcelia has a simple request. her (not) boyfriend obliges.

day seven: brush (free day)
#XIVRarepairWeek | #XIVRarepairWeek2025

[ #paulecelia | #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/66563620

where the delicate stops. crystallineconflict Summary: He says smugly, “I didn’t realize you enjoyed housekeeping so much.” She blinks and scoffs out a laugh. “You’re joking.” Arcelia buys a maid dress. It goes about as well as expected.

where the delicate stops.

paulecrain/wol | explicit | 8.7k
arcelia buys a maid dress. it goes about as well as expected.

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #paulecelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/66260512

take the dark, carve a home. by crystallineconflict Summary: There are a lot of things Zephirin could have done differently. Dealing with the stone, for one, should have been easy.

take the dark, carve a home.

zephirin/wol | mature | 3.3k
the archimandrite has his work cut out for him.

day five: blade
#XIVRarepairWeek | #XIVRarepairWeek2025

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/66146800

a taste of the divine.

grinnaux/wol | explicit | 2.9k
arcelia and grinnaux try something new.
or, grinnaux bullying fic.

day four: uncharted waters
#XIVRarepairWeek | #XIVRarepairWeek2025

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #grinncelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/66390721

provider.

grinnaux/paulecrain/wol | explicit
arcelia is just doing her best to make it through midterms. the rich guy she meets is more interested in her doing other things.

aka, sugar au.

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #grinnpaulecelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/65936521

reap what you sow. Summary: She catches the furrow of their brows and tells them that she’s fine, which is how they know that she is not.

reap what you sow.

grinnaux/paulecrain/wol | teen | 1.4k
on marred hands and how to (not) heal them.

day two: mend
#XIVRarepairWeek | #XIVRarepairWeek2025

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #grinnpaulecelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/65937769

“Is it really about that? What I’d prefer.” “Of course. Why wouldn’t it be?” Her smile twitches, her voice sharpening. “It usually is, after all.” Paulecrain has a conversation with the Warrior of Light's Esteem.

keep me sharp, test my worth.

paulecrain/wol | mature | 3.2k
fraycelia and paulecrain have a little chat.

day one: umbral
#XIVRarepairWeek | #XIVRarepairWeek2025

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #paulecelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/65937334

He already knows what she’s going to say before her lips part, the words tumbling out clumsy and desperate: “I can’t.” It is perhaps her favorite lie. Grinnaux just smiles back. “You will.”

diamond days

grinnaux/wol | explicit | 1.5k
grinnaux encourages the warrior of light to be a little more honest with herself.

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic | #grinncelia ]

link: archiveofourown.org/works/65084146

the warrior of light, a miqo'te, reaches out to grasp the spear piercing her chest, wearing an expression that could be pain or longing, as she is at the same time touched tenderly by a man in armor. afterimages of her past and future selves run past her on either side

medias res.

grinnaux/paulecrain/wol | m | 26.9k
arcelia is stuck in a time loop. it is not a good time loop.

or, heavens' legend, btw.

link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56273410
art by @/alfheimr.bsky.social

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic ]

apricity

grinnaux/wol | explicit | 1.9k
the warrior of light sleeps in. her bedmate doesn't seem to mind.

link: archiveofourown.org/works/41689581

[ #crystalfic | #ffxivfic | #xivfic ]

hi. i wrote another fic.

granson & warrior of light | gen | 2.5k
arcelia experiences some drk to drk communication.

link: archiveofourown.org/works/60647296

#crystalfic #xivfic