II. dream/awake ❄️
His thumb presses into her thin tendon. A trap for a runner.
[Alphinaud on the First keeps having dreams. Perhaps nightmares. He isn't sure which nomenclature is appropriate.]
archiveofourown.org/works/753995...
[ #wolphinaud ; #wolphinaudweek ; #izziphinaud]
Which, of course, they had wanted and knew they would do the moment they finally got on the same page after 6 years of uncertainty. Classic them to basically just jump right into marriage lol.
They have a huge wedding in Sharlayan with many heads of state invited!!
#izzielore #izziphinaud
Alphinaud, waking to the same bone-cracking cold that also burns his skin, blearily stares at the bowl shoved into his face. Steam stings his eyes. He sits up slowly, gloved palms to the rocky dirt. The aches compound, and then suddenly swirl down to a single throbbing point in his chest when he sees Izzie staring at him so intently she might be trying to catch him on fire. She is in my tent, he thinks, reverberating. How odd. Izzie snaps her fingers in front of his face. He starts immediately. "Oh, I apolo—" "Are you feeling—" They both shut their mouths. Izzie continues to stare at him through the steam of the offered…soup, it would seem. It smells only half-appetizing, but that's an improvement over the usual fare of this trek through the gods-forsaken Dravanian wilderness. Her eyes are so big and wide, vulnerable as glass bowls in a quake. The sight sharpens the pain in his ribs. He presses his fingers to his temples, hard, to pull focus somewhere else. "Eat this," she insists, slopping it at him hard enough a little spills onto his pants. "Hells, sorry. Eat it." A single moment of apologia before harassing him further. He opens his mouth to—
"None of Noel's paprika." She squints a little. "I know you don't like it." "I was not…you remembered that?" "Of course I remembered," she snaps — no heat. "You don't eat enough as it is." Her skin starts prickling orange. Alphinaud tilts his head, too bleary from fever to remember not to be charmed by it. "That is remarkably kind of you." "Well it's—-well." Izzie's nostrils flare. He's close enough to see. That, and her blush worsens. "It's not that remarkable." You idiot somehow threads through the words. "Eat more. Maybe you wouldn't have gotten sick. Anyway—oh, you are definitely still sick." Her words turn softer on the single turn of a gilpiece, which would be remarkable as well, except her knuckles brush his forehead, followed by the insistent press of her palm. She frowns; it's nigh as bright as a smile when she does it because it's so omnipresent upon her face. She clicks her tongue. "Okay. I'll tell Noel and then I'll tell Estinien to shut the hells up if he says anything. Rest." Izzie presses, insistent, upon Alphinaud's shoulders.
"I cannot eat if I lie down," he says. His voice feels far away. "Which would you prefer I do first?" "Shut up," she says, immediately. "Oh. Right. You're being serious." Alphinaud blinks. Blood roars loud in his ears. "Why would I not be—" "Eat. Be quiet. Stop talking. Um. I'll get Noel." She is gone from the tent in an overbearing flash of razor-cut red hair. A smile comes to his face, stretching over fever-aching skin. She remembers what he likes to eat. Some part of him lives in her head, just as she increasingly stomps about in his own. The thought makes the spoon tremble a little in his hand as he eats — though it could, logic dictates, be the fever.
day 1: remember/forget
The Dravanian wilderness is no place for being sick.
[ #wolphinaudweek2025 ; #izziphinaud ; #wolphinaud ]
Izzie and Alphinaud is complicated because he's like The Boy of the Game right. The whole game would be different? But if he never received his ARR Absolute Defeat... I'd have to think about that one lol
#izziphinaud ; #izzielore
Alphinaud learns to focus on shield healing because he's watched Izzie relish taking too many hits. His shields have to be perfect. Seams sharp as needles. And they have to be fast to keep up with the zephyr of her.
But he also learns how to wield aether as a leash...
#izziphinaud
I think sometimes about how Izzie's first thought upon seeing the Leveilleur house is "why would he ever want me" while all Alphinaud can think of is what it would be like to live there with her one day, just as he always has.
#izziphinaud
my name is Ember and I've been a writer by trade for as long as I can remember. You can find my ffxiv works here: archiveofourown.org/users/witchf...
The following snippets are from:
boreas ( #izziejullus)
a long way out to reach the sea ( #wolphinaud ; #izziphinaud)
go on, let it fall (woljullus)
#izziphinaud: braiding her hair. "it will be well." a gentle hand between shoulder blades. will he be by her side? it is never in doubt.
#izziejullus: his hand at her wrist where the scars are. "mea vita". fingers tangled in the ends of her hair. always touching.
#izziehusbands
Alphinaud kisses Izzie before they leave for Ultima Thule. She freaks out on him and runs away...I think because she worries about breaking his heart amid the gnawing belief she may not survive the end.
He does it because he needs her to know, no matter what.
#izziphinaud ; #izzielore
Alphinaud Leveilleur, at his grown height with his hair long and unbraided. He holds Izzie, the Viera WoL, close to him, his fingers in her red hair. She looks to be expecting a kiss, so he better get on that!
"Somewhere the timing will all come together
The mishaps will turn into sunny Decembers"
This dreamy #izziphinaud comm is my WORLD today!! Thank you @thelilymage.bsky.social for making my kids so beautiful. They grow up so fast 🥲
[ #wolphinaud ; #izziepics ]
Izzie’s grip upon the tent-leg of the Dravanian tree turns slippery as she smears the rot colored bark with blood. “Izzie!” Alphinaud hisses upward. “You’re being foolish!” “So?” She glances down. Bad idea. The world does not spin but instead pinpoints on Alphinaud’s delicate brow, pinched with worry. “No one cares” She swears he turns pink. The color of candies she coveted in windows in Ul’dah as a kid. “That is fundamentally untrue.” “Stop worrying,” she grunts. She ignores the bloom of joy in her body, that he might worry, anyway. “I want to see if I can do it.”
#Vierapril 2: tree
Izzie takes out her frustration with the Dravanian expedition on Alphinaud's nerves.
[ #emberwrites ; #izzielore ; #izziphinaud ]
ask me questions about my ships!!
Izzie (wol) and Jullus
Izzie (wol) and Alphinaud. (Art by Sunday!)
🤸♀️
#izziphinaud, #izziejullus and also the boys together or all three of them or whatever combination thereof LOL
(thank you to @minicactpot.bsky.social and @sundaysmermaid.bsky.social for the pieces!)
"You twat. You went on an idealogue's mission mid-war, scaring us all to death -- we thought you were dead multiple times! -- and you did it because Izzie kissed another man?"
Alphinaud, affronted. "Don't be ridiculous, that wasn't the entire reason--"
"BUT IT WAS A REASON!"
#izziphinaud lmao
Omg... Krile meeting Izzie and Alphinaud and immediately looking upon Alphinaud both with her knowledge of him and the Echo and instantly being like "oh he has a CRUSH crush."
I think she was worried lol despite everything. He'd never been that serious about someone before. #izziphinaud
When writing Alphinaud and Izzie, he is often the one to say: "It will be well. All will be well."
It's a declaration of faith in their circumstances, and in her specifically -- something she needs from him most especially.
#izziphinaud
I think about this so much for Izzie's two. She and Alphinaud grew up together like two trees over a river.
And she explodes into Jullus's life like the dawn, melting the frost of him imposed by Empire to see to the truth in the center of him.
#izziejullus ; #izziphinaud
Izzie has a blue flower necklace that Alphinaud gave her the morning of their wedding (Jullus picked it out for him in the Wood!). And her wedding ring/bonding ring of course from each 💙🤍
#izziphinaud ; #izziejullus ; #izzielore
text post that reads: "there's this character dynamic that's not necessarily enemies to lovers, where one or both parties don't initially respect or trust the other person in much the same way that a feral animal sees anyone who tries to approach it first as a threat that's like cocaine to me" and then: Pylades: i'll take care of you orestes, edited: Like hell you will.
text post that reads: "actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually."
and here we have
#izziejullus / #izziphinaud
Izzie and Alphinaud have been "Do Not Separate" since the back half of Heavensward when they actually realized they were good friends lmao. The Scions all know this. Then Alphinaud went to Garlemald in 4.3. LMAO
#izzielore ; #izziphinaud
If you enjoy a longform story about two young people realizing the burden of the hero's journey is heavier than they ever could have known, perhaps you will like my fic! Um, one day I'll get back to it...
archiveofourown.org/works/514140...
#wolphinaud | #izziphinaud
#izzielore ; #izziejullus ; #izziphinaud
Trying these tags for more specific ship answers lol
