Zef is like a starless night; silent and opaque at first glance, but revealing subtle shades as your eyes adjust. The poised moment when the lights of civilisation behind you cease illuminating your path, and you step into the wilder-dark, exhilarated but unafraid; finding home. #zeflore

Not only does she love it, it's one of her favourite ways to wake up of a morning. But we'll get in to their whole somno thing another time!

#zeflore #zefspice

'Give me an NPC and I'll tell you their relation to my OC'

A portrait image of Zefiris on an evening in Ul'dah, back where she started; she looks off-camera, thoughtful.

I would love to do this as a little brain/writing warmup over the weekend if anyone would like to leave an ask! I miss talking about her 🥹 #zeflore

*opens wallet, a million blushing Zefs fall out*

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Zef's speech patterns are something I've put a lot of thought into, but I don't feel like I've done as good a job as I'd like of portraying so far. It's something that changes a lot over the course of her story - in certain company at least 😅 Thread in replies with more details! #zeflore 🧵⬇️

I've written a thread about this before from the contraceptive perspective before that I'll link below - but std's aren't something Zef ever really comes up against, being profoundly demi and only having had two partners. Howeverrr she's not without some experience of the downsides... #zeflore 🧵⬇️

G'raha first proposed to Zef the night before the Scions parted after EW; a promise to bind them as his path took him back to Sharlayan, where she couldn't bring herself to follow.

A thread with snips and poses from a very old (and rough 😅) fic that I *will* redraft and finish someday! #zeflore 🧵⬇️

Zef and G'raha split their time between three residences - the Annexe, their small home in Ishgard, and the Island when time allows. The house is their bolt-hole, somewhere to escape their other commitments and just be. An older thread with some more details linked below! #zeflore 🧵

Zef left her finances almost entirely in Tataru’s care since joining the Scions, until post-EW. She’s always continued to take odd jobs here and there, and barely spends; added to the stipend she still receives from the Flames, she has means enough for her modest living. #zeflore 🧵

'I thank you for your friendship.'

He spoke in a way that could have been directed at all of them stood at the doors - Zef told herself afterwards that it was. But he meant it for her alone; to acknowledge her hard-won trust as the rare gift it was, and to apologise for spurning it so. #zeflore 🧵

When Zef was a child, she rarely referred to them as anything - there were only ever the three of them around, and it was always clear who was talking to who. Moreover, something always felt strange to her about those titles - uncomfortable, like she didn't deserve to use them. #zeflore 🧵

Since there's a couple of parent-based questions on the TL today here's a little compilation of lore threads, fics and VN's featuring Zef's parents - Alastor and Jirelle Desrochers, who were killed in a bandit raid when she was around sixteen. #zeflore 🧵

Plants are Zef's quiet passion, and what she lacks in any kind of healing ability, she makes up for in being able to rescue virtually any withering houseplant from the brink of death with a bit of care and patience. She routinely abducts forgotten succulents from researcher's...
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This snip is from one of the very first things I wrote for Zef back in 2022. I might have been a bit overinvested in pasting in game mechanics at the time, but I still vibe with the idea 😅 There's a more recent thread linked in the replies too where I've talked about some of this before! #zeflore

Amalthea was confidence embodied - utterly certain, at ease with herself - Complete. Her arrogance matched Hades' own, but where he yet kept faith with something greater than himself - Amaurot, and all it represented to him - she lived wholly by her own whims, scornful of its mores. 🧵 #zeflore

An info sheet titled 'Meet my OTP', detailing information and ship dynamics for my WoL, Zefiris Winterheart, and her partner G'raha Tia.

ZefRaha ship dynamics!

Just remembered this one - I did this a while back, but never posted it here. I've always found myself a bit stuck doing these, since the answers change a lot over the course of their story - but this is where they're at in DT!

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Name: Zefiris Winterheart Warrior of Darkness/Light Damage - Black Mage and Reaper Zef is non-selectable if language filters are active. Character Select: 'If you're Sure...' 'Fair Enough.' (with other Scions) 'Alright - let's go. Initiating Combat: 'Come on then!' (with other Scions) 'Heh. You don't know what you're getting in to.' Protection/Healing: (Second Wind) 'Fury - that stings!' (any healing on others) Sorry - this'll hurt! (sharing Manaward/Crest) 'Get behind me - I'll try to hold it!' Limit Break: 'Enough - I won't let you hurt them!' 'If it kills me - this ends now!' (at low health) 'Just - fucking - die!' Low health: 'For fuck's sake...' 'Made an arse of that, didn't I?' 'Leave me - watch yourself!' Defeat: 'Careless...fucking...idiot...' 'One foot in front of the other, eh? Heh...' 'Useless...' Revival: 'Sorry - I'll try to make it worth your effort!' (to Scion healers) 'What would I do without you?' 'You always know when I'm going to mess up - thank you.' Battle Behaviour: Aggressive - Quick to Act Limit Break: Uses conditionally. Defers to Estinien when partied together. Alisaie will cast first if partied together. Special Interest: Only available as BLM until post-EW duties, then available as RPR with mixed BLM abilities. Can share effects of Manaward/Arcane Circle with others with limited effectiveness. Hell's Ingress usually used for last second escapes. Brief Recruitment Description: Taciturn and foul-tongued by turns, Zefiris is a practitioner of thaumaturgy and void magicks who fights best alongside comrades she knows well. Only in the company of those whose actions she can predict as well as her own can she achieve focus enough to call forth her most devastating arts - but the vast destructive potential of those arts is not to be ignored. Note: Combat dialogue is very rare in pre-ShB duties, much more likely in post-EW duties. More likely when playing as RPR than BLM, & when grouped with at least one other Scion.

Zef battle style/quotes. Graphic design, passion, etc 😅

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For a long time they were content enough with the promise they made to one another after EW - there was no real urgency to fulfil it. But as G'raha wakes beside Zef in the For'ard Cabins after the events of DT, it occurs to him that the time has never been better. Snips from an old WiP! 🧵 #zeflore

Zef returns from the First in a storm of urgency. She tears through the Find, grabbing the first bird she sees and urging it mercilessly toward the Toll. She sees to the Scions first - not only are they her family, but their preservation is what G'raha had sacrificed himself for.

Big 🧵!⬇️ #zeflore

Neck, shoulders and back - but mostly her back, and that's a lot of real estate 😅 She'll come apart from nothing but a firm massage under the right circumstances, though it takes a while. A tight grip on her hips or waist - or better yet, biting - helps. 🧵 #zeflore #zefspice

I wrote this a while back as a warmup & not really something to share, but I have the strangest urge to post any even vaguely nsfw stuff I have to hand out of spite 🤔 This is pure rambling first-draft unedited stream of consciousness word-soup, but it gives the idea 😅 Flagged for nsfw text. #zeflore

Poor Steph had never been so disappointed in his life 😅 Zef's ranged aim is absolutely dire, and even he had to give her up as a lost cause. That said, some of the tech he develops later might be more up her alley...that remains to be seen! #zeflore

Screenshot of a twitter thread dated 16/07/23 (damn I should have posted this yesterday) with the following text: Ok if we're doing G'raha crystallization/Tower bonding headcanons I'm just going to repost this from discord, strap in, this is long af, and apologies if you've already read it 😅

There's a few old G'raha hc & zeflore threads from over on twt I'd like to preserve, so here's one on G'raha's bonding w/ the Tower/crystallization. Some of these hc's have seen further development since then, but this is still pretty much the backstory I'm using when writing 'my' G'raha 🥰 #zeflore

Zef had an instinct not to mourn him, but it wasn't until visiting Seto that she realised Ardbert still had a conscious presence in her mind. He mostly slept; she'd be aware of him occasionally, a wry thought or intuition not her own, but they didn't talk directly until Ultima Thule. 🧵 #zeflore

Zefiris and Lyna start out in a place of strong mutual respect, but their relationship wavers at the end of ShB, when Zef and G'raha reveal their relationship. While Lyna is overjoyed to see her grandfather happy, her protective nature makes her suspicious towards Zef - who will, after 🧵 #zeflore

Fk no it's her favourite thing in the world 😅 But her other favourite thing in the world is being thoroughly made a mess of so...whatever works for them both at the time. As for potential consequences, they were thoughtless of it to begin with - both would admit how foolish that was now... #zeflore

The end of their story is one of the very first things I wrote for them, and one of the most important to me. 'Coda' is a three-part VN - I've not reposted it on bsky yet, but it's up on ao3 if you'd like to read it ❤️

archiveofourown.org/works/518274...

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Zef accepted his challenge - it felt like inevitability itself. She had nothing to lose, and thought she'd likely drop dead mid-cast and rob him of the satisfaction of killing her anyway - but behind all of that, in some twisted way, she understood his need, and felt like she owed him. 🧵 #zeflore

She wouldn't! 😅 On paper, Zef is pan and demi, but those words wouldn't mean anything to her - she's still growing accustomed to the idea she's allowed to feel attraction *at all*. Similarly, she understands the difference between fem & masc presentation & characteristics, but doesn't... 🧵 #zeflore

When Zef lived in Sharlayan, she'd always get her 'Archon Loaf' from one vendor who had a little stall set up near the cheap room she'd taken. They barely interacted, barely looked at her - just took her coin and turned away, and she liked that just fine, so never went elsewhere. 🧵 #zeflore