Digital illustration by @xandraws.art for the fic 'To Sail Your Seas' by @pakchamkae/catboystargazer on ao3. An unconscious Aymeric lies in bed, his body covered beneath a blanket up to his chest. Bandages wrapped around his abdomen peek from behind the edge of the blanket. To his right, and behind from the perspective of the viewer, Leofard sits leaning forward on the back of his chair without his customary goggles, wearing a pained expression. Golden light filters in from the portholes on the left, and a glass lamp filled with red crystal sparkles in the light. The rest of the room is in semi-deep shadow.

#XIVRarepairWeek2025 Day 4: Uncharted Waters

Sharing an old fic bc i still love them and i need more people on this ship :'3 art by the lovely @xandraws.art

To Sail Your Seas | Aymeric/Leofard (M/M)

✧ 26k words ✧ Rated T ✧ AU, angst with a happy ending ✧

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Leofard snorted in response. “You’d read Lord Duremert’s copy every time you visited the manor, without fail,” he replied. Aymeric turned to him, surprised that he would bring it up. The low dusk light made it hard to see the Hyur’s expression beneath his goggles, but the corner of his mouth had curled ever so slightly. “Made me think you’d fallen for a long-dead man, sometimes.” Aymeric floundered at the accusation. “I-I wasn’t…” he sputtered at a loss, mortified by the joke. But the sound of Leofard laughing swept away any annoyance he might’ve felt; his shoulders shook lightly as he chuckled, softening the sky pirate’s demeanour by a pleasing degree. Perhaps too pleasing. Aymeric prayed the heat in his cheeks would be seen as mere embarrassment under the encroaching cover of night.

6. From To Sail Your Seas (sinbad AU aymeric/leofard, my rarest of rarepairs):

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