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ffxiv (2017 work)

Page 8 [??/??/2022] of my watercolor sketchbook!

Page 7 [??/??/2022] of my watercolor sketchbook

Made this man from Saturday, it felt fitting to draw him since Saturday was hell lol

WoL as the pictomancer

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fucking around in procreate once again... 🩷

Morning sketch also it's cold here

just some toads

I miss her

Went shoe shopping and realized I had forgotten to finish whatever this was...

The met gala meme I did two years ago lol

My Warrior of Light avatar

also here's a DEEPLY unserious wip

[emerging from my cave] dawntrail

I really love this part in pandaemonium

Sena for @malaquill , an old valentine's day suprise art~

I - Inventor - How creative is their thinking? Do they seek out the opinions of others or rely on their own ideas? What’s their problem solving approach?

Sena is creative in specific ways, but I don't think he's creative in general - he might think outside the box during a fight as a survival / practical thing, but wouldn't have the patience for an art project or an elaborate strategy.

For the opinions of others, he actually puts a lot of stock into the opinions of the handful of people he trusts; in a lot of ways he sees himself as existing in relation to them, rather than by himself, and that extends to his antagonist arc where he's alone, lost, and lashing out. But he won't listen to like, strangers' advice without someone he trusts vouching for that stranger.

Problem-solving for him falls into either pragmatism (though not utilitarianism since he really only cares about his friends) or "I can fight it", to varying results. He's actually pretty observant and is quick to notice when things are off - though he could probably point them out a bit more tactfully.

As a bonus, since he curses a lot - most of his more creative curses are stolen from characters like SIdurgu or Estinien, because he has trouble coming up with his own.

@khepri-sunscale and I wanted to get started on Au Ra August early and put together a prompt list just in case! Feel free to use if you feel inspired!

K - Know It All - Are they a Know-it-All? Do they actively seek out new knowledge? How do they behave around others how have a great amount of knowledge on a topic?

Sena isn’t in the traditional sense, but I think there’s a lot of overlap between his cynical worldview and him thinking “I know more than you!”

Even pre-ARR, he thinks that most people are bad, which is something that gets reinforced pretty regularly. But for more concrete, specific topics…

He does want to get stronger to protect the handful of people he actually cares about, and actively pursued that! But him being so cynical sabotages his progress - he doesn’t always want help, which he equates with helplessness, and he doesn’t trust that many people, which means finding someone else to teach him things can be super hard.

He thinks people with greater academic knowledge are just nerds, though.

6. How important is wealth to your character?

Oooh, Sena's relationship with this is interesting!

He knows he needs money to live, and becoming an adventurer alongside his friend is something that I think was motivated by running out of money and needing to eat (at least partly). He doesn't care about wealth per se but a lot of his attitude in general is very survival-minded, and a part of that is being able to afford things.

I'd say his attitude is somewhere between this tumblr post where someone talks about how one of their life goals is to get an apartment, and they're asked why they don't want more, to which they respond with "I can't afford it / it's unrealistic / in this economy?" (I can't find it, I looked), and a few conversations early in Library of Ruina that boil down to "I can't be worrying about other people or dismantling the system or whatever, I have my own stuff to deal with!"

FFXIV area-themed asks (Inbox these!)

Limsa Lominsa 1. Does your character enjoy the sea? 2. How does your character feel about piracy? 3. Is your character adventurous? Ul’dah 4. Is your character a royalist or monetarist? (Do they side with the crown or the syndicate?) 5. How does your character feel about the influx of Ala Mhigan refugees? 6. How important is wealth to your character? Gridania 7. Does your character enjoy nature?  8. Is your character suspicious of new people?  9. How well does your character treat animals? Ishgard 10. Is your character religious? 11. How does your character view outsiders? 12. Is your character aware of the disparity between the rich and the poor in some city-states? How do they feel about it? Sharlayan 13. How important is formal education to your character? 14. Is your character secretive? 15. How does your character view magic? Ala Mhigo 15. Is your character easily intimidated?  16. Tell me one (or more) things your character resents. 17. How would your character react if they discovered a likeable acquaintance was Garlean? Violently? With suspicion? Or would they ignore it altogether?     Thavnair 18. How does your character view alchemy? 19. Do you think your character would cope well under the scathing heat of the desert for a few weeks? 20. Does your character trust Alchemy or Magic more? Garlemald 21. How domineering is your character? 22. Does your character have a mean streak? 23. How obedient to authority is your character?

If terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening and horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing, name a time your character has been terrified and a time they were horrified. How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

A time your character was terrified

I make a lot of "Sena's dead boyfriend" jokes, but the moments leading up to that were pretty much exclusively this. He doesn't know where his friend went, anticipates the worst, and then something he's been scared of up to that point actually happens.

For things that happen in-story, he has a few of these, but being left alone in Ultima Thule really freaks him out.

More under the cut! Contains full spoilers for Endwalker.

A time they were horrified

THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY SUPER HARD TO ANSWER.

I want to say the massacre early in ARR, which got to him pretty bad; he starts to come out of being an "I only care about this one person" type edgelord, he starts getting along more with people, and then those people die and he goes right back to that.

Also slightly unusual one, but the combination of dragoon and having issues with his scales makes the conversation with Vrtra deeply unpleasant for him in a way that isn't quite horror, but comes close.

How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

Sena tends to deal with his negative emotions in general by covering them with anger and then not actually dealing with them, but even moreso when he's scared. Him wanting to be strong is an extension of this; he wants to protect his friends, but also, if he can fight it, he has agency in the situation.

Complete silence stops him in his tracks, though.