(ARR: Storm Captain Sha'dow Weaver, Scion of the Seventh Dawn HW: Sha'dow Weaver, Titansbane, Scion of the Seventh Dawn SB: Sha'dow Weaver, Champion of Eorzea, Scion of the Seventh Dawn ShB: Sha'dow Weaver, Stealer of Pants EW: Sha'dow Weaver, the Oncoming Storm DT: Same as Above)

(Since #Halo is trending, friendly reminder Steve Vai did guitars on the Halo Theme.)

(Sha'dow's bangin' Lamaty'i. And Sphene. And Shale.)

(Sha'dow is FROM the D&D Universe Originally. They're gonna **YEET** that deck so far away that the TWELVE can't find it with a telescope! Ain't no way they're drawing a card! ... Though they might try and tempt Rowena to draw a few after using Wish to ensure that the top cards are THE WORST.😈)

(Iunno. What defines "conventionally attractive?" "Average?" "Not at all?" I guess I let you lot decide. *I* think Sha'dow's pretty hot, but then again, I designed them based off of what *I* find attractive. YMMV)

(Sha'dow has a new pupper, that's what! 🥰)

(Sha'dow an any of their partners really, but especially Landra, Dra'lesgosiir, Karine, Kaelith, Ascilia, Ysayle, Haurchefant, Mide, Lyse, Fordola, Ameliance, and Yugiri. Every one of them (but Landra and Dra'lesgosiir) are members of the Endless Celestial Waltz, and have been reborn over and over🥰)

(Quoth my partner: "If being gay were a choice I'd be GAYER." 100% bang on spot.)

You've had a thousand lives Now you're down to one Tryin' to survive In the Shadowverse Every borderland Every hungry wolf Now to make your stand In the Shadowverse Out of Time Out of Time and Fading Out of Time Out of Time Hearts Waiting...⤵️

archiveofourown.org/works/710023... (Sorry it's late! Still dealing with that accurséd migraine, but I felt I couldn't put this off another day, so here you lot are! It is... not a happy. Though if you read my stuff, you SHOULD know by now I don't really DO happy😅 Enjoy! Or not, I'm not your mom🥰)

(What kind of person is Sha'dow, you ask? Trever Belmont in this clip. Just 100% Sha'dow coded (since Sha'dow was around LONG before this series was))

The gods shit in my dinner once again...

(Keeping the ones they love safe. They don't always succeed (see: Ascilia. Haurchefaunt. Ysayle. Mide.), but by the gods, they TRY.)

archiveofourown.org/works/72657211 (This. This right here. It's also my most recent. Nearly 1700 words of just... "Despair All Ye Who Enter Here," "HE CAN'T SEE WITHOUT HIS GLASSES!" level of trauma. Read it. Go ahead. I'll wait.🥲)

(Badly)

(Gonna be some slight delay with today's chapter. I have a migraine from hell. It'll get posted tomorrow, most like. I apologize.)

(In tonight's D&D, the Warlock tried to bury Lizard Sha'dow in sand to "cure" him. Sha'dow took exception to this, and Dimension Door'd the Warlock *just* high enough to not kill him, but leave him with "several broken bones."🥰)

(Reposting this, because so far, it's my best hit/kudo ratio fic. Apparently, I did something right with this #FFXIV #FFXIVFanFic #FinalFantasyXIV #Fanfiction. If you've not read it yet, give it the ol' shufti. It's less than 1700 words, so it's a short read! Or don't, I'm not your mom.🥰)

(So we all know that in #Fallout4 romance companions are canonically bisexual (LAME). But what if BGS did the Obsidian thing, and made them ya know, NOT (like Veronica is lesbian, Arcade is gay, Sharon of Rose Cassidy is Heteroflexible, so on)? What canonical sexuality do you think each would be?⤵️

(Why yes, the #BrotherhoodOfSteel ARE in fact Fascists, how astute of you to notice! Side with the #Railroad. Save the synths. #Fallout4)

(Really depends on the event, honestly. This year's Rising was part of Karine's lore, for example, and she's one of Sha'dow's partners. Sha'dow was off in Alexandria at the time)

archiveofourown.org/works/72657211 (My latest #WoLFilia #FFXIV #FanFiction, takes place during #Shadowbringers. I have included the tags on this one, because seriously. You lot need to know what you're getting into. It is rated M. Because seriously. Enjoy! Or don't, I'm not your mom.🥰)

(Those curious about my #Tav, yes, Grail is romancing both #Shadowheart AND #Minthara. Canonically in game you can only go with one, but if canon is WRONG, just throw it out. You can DO that, you know. HEADCANON THAT SHIT! As a long time Elder Scrolls fan, as we say: "The C0DA Makes it Canon!"😜)

(Grail "But the perfect weapon already exists and it's called 'Heat Metal?'"🤣 Shadowheart: "Grail, dear, I love you, but you are SO so simple sometimes... Think like an ARTIFICIER... GO BIG!" "Calcium is a Metal." "You terrify me sometimes, love." Minthara: "This is why *I* love you.")

(Grail and Shadowheart have an adopted daughter. Her name is Ryne. She's 15 years old. She's the Oracle of Light. Her girlfriend is Gaia, the Oracle of Darkness. TECHNICALLY Thancred Waters would be her dad-ish? But since he's back on the Source, and Grail elected to stay on the First after getting⤵️

(I feel accomplished. I have been called a monster by one of my partners for the snippet of my fic I sent them😈. This is the goal. Tomorrow... Tomorrow you will all get to see the full thing.)

(Sha'dow has MANY partners, but Fordola will sometimes dance when she thinks no one is paying attention. Sha'dow sees her though, and loves watching her. She doesn't dance often, and she genuinely only dances when she THINKS she's alone. But Sha'dow knows where she goes to dance, and they enjoy the⤵️

(Common, Elvish, Undercommon, Dwarvish, Infernal, English, and can speak TO and be understood BY anyone of any language even without the power of the Echo due to their planeswalker spark)

(Sha'dow is very egalitarian, and a servant leader for THEIR people, and an absolutely RUTHLESS military mind to anyone who would threaten them. They would rule exactly like they did as Ruler of the Kingdom of Hailspire (I wrote a 43k word novella about the war between Hailspire and Soulvale)

(I've thought of a NonWoL!Sha'dowverse, where they still end up with the Scions. If another Scion becomes the WoL, I think the most likely candidate is Ascilia. If Sha'dow took her place in the Narrative, I think fans would react better than they did to her because most of the hate towards her *I*⤵️

(A little teaser of the #WoLFilia fic I've written based off The Midnight's song Sanctuary. It is ALL HURT NO COMFORT. It is ANGST WITH A SAD ENDING. It is PAIN. ONLY SAD. Despair all ye who enter here. If you like #Minfilia, if you like #WarriorOfLightMinfilia #FanFiction, this is for you.)

(Not me writing an All Hurt No Comfort #WoLFilia fic. Nope. Not me doing that AT ALL. Absolutely not writing Ascilia's final moments with Sha'dow on the First. Nope. Why would I write something so heartbreaking and tragic? TOTALLY not basing it around THIS song. Nope. Not me. I'd NEVER do that!🥰)

(*Minthara voice* In Menzoberranzan...)

(What if they keep getting into clashes with someone and they both are just miserable over it but keep coming back for more because they love each other but hate the situation but can't quit each other? Ya know, something like in this song)

(This is my least favorite quest in FFXIV history. I nearly unsubbed from the game over this quest, genuinely. There are MORE than a few... SA undertones to it, and as an SA survivor myself, it was badly done, badly handled, and just not a good quest. On TOP OF THAT, as a war/genocide survivor⤵️

(MIDE HOTGO. The most beautiful and perfect Au Ra that ever Au Ra'd. The single most perfect NPC. THE ABOVE POST HAS BEEN ILLUMINATI LIES AND SLANDER SHA'DOW DOES NOT, HAS NOT, AND NEVER WILL LOVE MIDE HOTGO THEY DO NOT MISS HER TERRIBLY THEY DO NOT CRY THEMSELVES TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT OVER HER)

(Remember, OpenAI/ChatGPT is going to allow smut content come December, so be sure to bring that up in your calls! What's good for the goose is good for the gander, obviously if they're processing payments to OpenAI they have to for small creators as well, or it's literally just queer censorship)

("It's a constant battle to universally idiotproof things while the universe continues to churn out better idiots"-my ex vocalist 🤣)

(Why does #FarCryNewDawn suck so bad? Like seriously, I wanna know. #FarCry5 at least had a fun gameplay loop, even if the ending was kind of ass (OK, OK! It's been called "the worst ending in video game history" by MORE than one game news outlet). New Dawn didn't even have THAT. It was a SLOG.)

(Grail would sacrifice the WORLD to save SHADOWHEART. TF you talkin' 'bout? "There is no world without her light. There is no life without her laugh." Grail's a druid. She'd 100% do something like in this Reddit Comment)

(So many things. My WoL is basically the pinnacle of Humanoid Form. Meanwhile, I'm a hopeless lump of flesh.😅)

(As a #FanFiction writer, I truly believe in "Write What You Want." Like, genuinely. Write WHATEVER you want. No holds barred. You wanna write some disgusting, absolutely taboo smut with the worst kind of shit in it? Go for it. You wanna write some horribly graphic gory murder stories? Write it.⤵️

(A Few: @qara-ocs.bsky.social, of course. Absolutely stunning work that just makes me wish my gposes were so much better. @burgiethewriter.bsky.social's writing has driven me to make my own prose less cheeks. @silverhorn.moe doesn't just inspire me, but acts as a soundingboard for ideas and⤵️

(Grail is fine with open relationships, but she's not nearly as poly as her older brother (my main OC, Sha'dow (or to give their proper Drow name, Filtar'rak Do'val), who is AGGRESSIVELY polyamorous. Like, she knows Shadowheart has a thing for Karlach, and would never stand between that, EVER. ⤵️

(Grail being an ABSOLUTE chaos gremlin. Like, she's a druid. I expected her to be more true neutral, or neutral good. Not "I AM FULL CHAOS ALL THE TIME," with Shadowheart ENCOURAGING IT. Also just how... Okay, so her brother is my FFXIV WoL (planeswalking shenanigans), and THEIR first reaction is⤵️

(I don't write smut. I write tasteful fade to blacks, or interruptions. And yes, you read that right. Alisaie. And Johnny Gat. The Third Street Saints. In FFXIV. And yes. Johnny Gat has a flamethrower. What could **possibly** go wrong?🤣 #AlisaieLeveilleurBeingAlisaieLeveilleur)

(So yeah... The Midnight's New Album has me in a chokehold, specifically Sanctuary... Don't mind me in the corner crying my eyes out, missing Calypso)

(Sha'dow gives whichever partner they're in bed with an apologetic kiss on the forehead, slips out quietly, and goes outside to fire up the forge. They'll swing hammer by starlight until they can't lift it anymore.)

(Yes. The bottom of a bottle of rum. Usually several bottles. "Makes th' corners round, innit?" So yeah... If they're particularly stressed, they'll take a few bottles and hide out in the Solar of the Waking Sands, all these years later...)

(After Haurchefant, Ysayle, AND Mide, back to back to back. Sha'dow crawled into the bottle and about didn't come back out of it, honestly. Three month bender, no linkpearl, not even TATARU AND "THE BALDESION WOMAN" (as Esti lovingly calls her) could find them.)