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in a lifetime slightly to the left he's the stonehearted leader of a band of mercenaries who'd maybe be the final boss of a 1-30 class quest. he wasn't particularly scrupulous in his adventuring days as a young man and stumbling into the scions was a much-needed morality chain
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he pretty much stops drinking alcohol entirely, and also stops accepting drinks of any sort (alcoholic or not) from strangers if he can avoid it. if he has to drink something out anywhere he's gotten used to sticking to plain water so there's nothing to hide any suspicious tastes
#xinraqotd #xinmin #xinraha #xinrazenos and xinraha again but in #girlraha (🏳️⚧️) verse 🙏
#xinraqotd #ruiqotd #meteorqotd #alisaieoflight
two oc wols + lalafied meteor and alisaie for funsies!
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he and g'raha are engaged as of the back half of DT 🙂↕️
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he is not only diurnal but a morning person 👍 sometimes he'll be waking up when the night owl scions are going to bed
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he stays in shape! his c+ is due for some tweaking because i DO want to try and show his body type changing a bit with age, but between being a skilled swordsman and working out regularly to stay fit, he's in good condition. alisaie and estinien both make very competitive workout buddies
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man who spent his teens in limsa taverns:
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i didn't really think this when i first played sky pirates but after doing the tataru quest and experiencing the insane vibes there: x'inra had a fun no-strings-attached one night stand with leofard at some point during sky pirates
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i've joked a couple times that him still riding the black chocobo to this day is the equivalent of him still driving his dead ex's beat-up hand-me-down car that was really nice 10 years ago
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this is less a "this is freaky" hear me out and more a "this is blasphemy" hear me out but. hydaelyn. his azem had a situationship with venat it's not his fault surely the scions were all thinking it-
...also fatebreaker but that one is getting IMMEDIATELY buried
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x'inra does come into some core traits in common with helios (strength of will and solidity in the principles he believes in, intense love for his friends) but on most levels they come off as complete opposites. it drives emet up the wall, because x'inra is more like hades than helios
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edgelord leaning against the wall at the edge of the crowd with a non-alcoholic drink and a clear view of as many exits as possible 👍
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post-endwalker, he doesn't like taking his eyepatch off in front of people other than the scions who already got desensitized while he was recovering. he's made his peace with the injury, but he knows it still looks pretty gnarly and he hates people's reactions of shock/pity.
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x'inra's thematically significant "tanking in the expac where that means thancred will literally never come out in duty support" experience
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i do not... think therapy exists in any recognizable form in eorzea. maybe sharlayan has some form of therapy but x'inra grew up in eorzea and would be far too distrustful of the concept to benefit even if someone qualified enough to handle wol trauma existed.
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their first night together was traveling back to revenant's toll from the crystal tower (the "getting together" was x'inra kissing him as soon as he woke up and it was clear the transfer worked) :') they were both nervous and distracted and afraid to Talk About It right away
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man is choleric as fuck
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he likes a good ear scratch from romantic/sexual partners but it's otherwise it's a no-go, it feels intimate and vulnerable in a way he's very selective with.
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that it's going to be really funny if 8.0 is the ff7 expac
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he's not exactly insecure...? he doesn't consider himself hard to love, he just categorically considers himself to matter less and be ontologically more disposable than the people he loves. which is naturally itself a part of him that's hard to love, but he doesn't. see that.
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he grew up in la noscea so he loves a good orange
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normal amount
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the shoebill has adopted itself, x'inra eventually gave in and started feeding it. he also still has haurchefant's black chocobo who has been his trusted steed ever since!
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minfilia's death has such sweeping effects over the entire rest of the game that it feels like it would be worse to act like she could just live without having to... rewrite the entire rest of the game, and x'inra is a "stations of canon" wol. her death has a massive impact on him!!
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he's pretty freely physical with people he likes!! no touchy if he doesn't. he is a cat
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x'inra's the only one of my wols to just 100% have a father/daughter relationship with ryne. he's her other dad who currently has sole custody on account of being the only one who can visit and they have a good relationship!! things were hard during shb proper but it worked out
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in the haze of First Real Loves that they never had the chance to actually try and... make work for real, minfilia would only be able to think of things like "he's too hard on himself"
g'raha on the other hand has the full relationship ft. x'inra's messy hot and cold commitment issues
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x'inra and zenos could do the death note tennis match
