redesigning apollon's character to make the fall from the unsundered world even more tragically buddhistcore—
also, unfortunately for yves his sense of humor got fucking sundered too along with the hairstyle. RIP
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short answer: he likes it :)
longer answer: he…likes it… :(
he really needs to figure out that when his longer-term relationship partners praise him and call him good it’s not just some kink kayfabe thing. god forbid he’s actually liked
the lack of overlap is partly why yves had a rockier start with them, being the uneducated one and not understanding magic/healing. estinien joining later is a relief, there wasn't competition between them since yves views his specific role as "blessing of light in weapon-shaped form"
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i fixate a lot on how each of yves's partners orient to his scars, they're such an unmistakable part of his appearance and a record of what he's endured. scar worship is a wonderful thing but yves finds it hard to accept that level of care...
(mild NSFW fic snippet warning!)
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yves knows he's hard to love (emotionally shut off, awkward/bad at bantering or flirting, etc), the rough part is he's convinced himself it's a necessary defense mechanism to keep himself and others safer. given his relationship history it's hard to blame him for thinking that way (1/3)
working out some more details about apollon's legacy and how it translates to present-day #yveslore. maybe it will explain why so many dang characters on yves's inspiration/relation chart are jaded-as-fuck time traveler types...?
Give me an NPC and I’ll tell you their relation to my OC
i would like to think more about the blorbos to in order to persist through the horrors, name any NPCs you’d like 🙏
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ashitaka from princess mononoke
phainon from honkai: star rail
archer from fate/stay night
ky kiske (holy order era) from guilty gear
yves-coded characters
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yves is from the outskirts of the twelveswood, somewhere between the south and east shroud map zones. the main thing keeping him from that part of the map specifically is that he became a friend of the sylphs at a young age, so he would have at least grown up within their territory!
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i projected my autistic inability to match names to faces onto yves which means he rarely remembers who exactly he’s helped in the past. part of the ShB exarch reveal being a shock to him is that he genuinely forgot about g’raha’s whole deal until he jogged his memory for a whole minute 😭
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yves’s ancient/azem form, apollon, had a far more free and capricious view of gender than yves does and would probably just self-ID as nonbinary if asked. that being said, while yves is comfortable with being called a man, he’s…not as rigidly cisgender as he seems either.
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yves genuinely is the kind of man to carry a roach in his bare hands to ferry it outside. with bugs at worst he’d be unnerved if a centipede or tarantula was crawling on him but still not take it out on the animal itself. that rural shroud upbringing hits different
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yves actually did get the full noble etiquette crash course, not so much because he was a ward but because he and haurchefant were angling to get engaged/married—yves did his best but being a kid raised in isolation in the backwoods of gridania, he...struggled. have an example snippet
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for yves:
Revenge Twofold (HW dungeon boss theme)
From the Heavens (final omega raid)
High Treason (ShB story mission theme)
Insanity (innocence trial)
Everything Burns
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a friend of mine asked "so what about fray" since he was missing from the list and i realized i NEED to give the cliff notes about how fucked their dynamic is too.
woe #yveslore #nsfw ship notes be upon ye
yves has the poor PTSD/neglectful childhood coping special of bottling his emotions and malding in bitter silence while refusing to share anything that could improve the relationship :)
the way that he dehumanizes himself and his own needs also spills over to how he views others... >>
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the abyssos partisan is now yves's mainstay weapon after EW, i headcanon that it and his asphodelos gear were given as a gift during the pandaemonium raid questline from themis and erich. a very important upgrade to keep up with the power of his enemies, but quite hard to repair
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what do you mean the hound-coded dragoon main job guy suffering from being too loyal to his ideals and who has karna in his character inspo list is a lancer. who could've known
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not a super rare pair but i love yves and hancock! the most unlikely two dorks but hancock truly is the only man able to woo yves (and fray) to the point of getting hitched in their side story AU. smth about being a comic relief character able to overpower the post-haurchefant trauma... >>
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yves is painfully awkward/bad at hugging even though he’s touch-starved and really needs it…he’d never offer a hug freely, just a shoulder pat at most, and if he is hugged he kinda freezes in place and doesn’t know what to do with his arms LOL
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two sets of translated lyrics from touhou arrangements for yves/hermes and yves/zenos respectively. i don't care if it makes me a weeb these get at the pairing moods PERFECTLY
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yves's stoic facade drops pretty quick at the following:
- flirting or dirty talk
- prolonged eye contact (he's real skittish about holding eye contact, it's the autism)
- any kind of ear or neck touching
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per the encouragement of the Yves Research Council i have revised my analysis of his cursed romantic life.
(now on version 3!)
i pray for his sanity that we do not introduce a fourth overlapping category any time soon
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judging by all my past writing you just need to *touch* yves while he's in his usual angsty/touch-starved state and he will be game. he has a high sex drive, just don't bring hero worship into the bedroom and you're good
as for the seducing others. err...
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yves is much more emotional and affectionate while drunk, but it also means he's way more likely to say out-of-pocket shit that will make him die of embarrassment the morning after (see bsky.app/profile/sola... for reference)
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you'd need to bully yves to ever get him to admit it aloud but his humiliation kink really gets him enjoying exhibitionism and free use.
he doesn't feel like he can let loose if people see him as the WoL though so some kind of masked/glamoured sex party situation is ideal.. >>
yves's permanent title since i unlocked it has been <Shepherd to the Stars>, it fits so well for the general themes of the WoL being the defender of the star and relates to his sheep appreciation in particular 🐑
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i made a whole wolship-based diagram just to describe yves’s canon divergences in the relationship department!
yes the ending where he gets vored is not a joke.
graphic design is my passion
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“Predestined Dating Disaster: Why Does Every Guy I Fuck Keep Getting Doomed by the Narrative (Or By Me)!?!”
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