#RoevemberXIV Day 14: Heart #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 13: Abandoned If the Light had progressed further, those feelings of betrayal, abandonment, despair, rage... would've curdled into a Lightwarden, a grotesque mockery of the Warrior of Darkness, intent only on bringing everyone down with her. #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

I'm so incredibly normal about Fraeswys ending up the Zidane to Aymeric's Garnet

#RoevemberXIV Day 12: Strut "What do you mean this isn't the sort of catwalk you meant?" #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 11: Tender... or, well. Opening scene of an old fic of mine I've wanted to pose for a while - Fraeswys jumping Aymeric with a *very* strong hug. #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 10: Current Ready to sail in search of adventure yet again! #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

Fraeswys... definitely admires her own muscles from time to time. She hasn't trained so hard NOT to!

#RoevemberXIV Day 9 Free day, so I thought I'd take some shots of my [square?] dancer glam! (Canonically Fraeswys should probably have even more abs, but I don't yet feel the need to turn to crime for that :P) #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 8: Collection +To make up for missing Threads, here's a... collection of some rare Fraeswys job glams I might otherwise forget this month! #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 7: Rain Inspector Doerdyrfwyn trying to hit her best noir. #femroe #roegadyn #gpose [comically indulgent narration below:]

#RoevemberXIV Day 5: Shoreline #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 4: Creature Fraeswys's blue chocobo Kass, named after the legendary... Vanu Vanu?... bard. #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 3: Near Miss #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

Fraeswys can't complain; she lives pretty frugally, has modest savings, and plenty left over to donate most of. She mostly takes side jobs just for something to do!

#RoevemberXIV Day 2: Campfire It was in trekking through the Forelands that Fraeswys started to grow into herself as an adventurer, ditching her (clearly useless) old mask forever. #roegadyn #femroe #gpose

#RoevemberXIV Day 1: Starting Out Some time after the Calamity and her old pirate crew breaking up, Fraeswys washed back up in Limsa Lominsa to start anew as an adventurer. Her disguise was... ill-considered, but no one there paid it any mind. #femroe #gpose

No. Fraeswys is a rebel, fighter against fate, and herself. The only thing she'll accept she got from her soul is power and responsibility. Without the Calamity, she would've happily stayed a pirate, and never have even met Aymeric. All the more special that chance brought them together.

A muscular Roegadyn pirate continuing her fight for the smallfolk.

gonna go with a helmeted water toad, look at the size of that thing!

Fraeswys is an enthusiastic if not perfectly graceful dancer, mostly-learning new moves over her travels. She still favors Limsan step, though she's a Square DNCer. Aymeric's taught her some Ishgardian ballroom; she prefers to lead. And absolutely.

Fraeswys has long stopped caring about trying to be Conventionally Attractive or "pretty" vs. handsome; if some ABSOLUTE COWARDS can't handle a buff 7' green woman, their loss. She's definitely hot, IMO, just a little more niche.

Axe Gal Solidarity! 🤝 Fraeswys enjoyed playing mentor but also picked up a few new techniques from the Turali traditions from Wuk Lamat herself. They became pretty good combat friends. Fraeswys was also a HUGE Ketenramm fan and *totally* normal about somehow getting to meet him.

Fraeswys's pirate crew kept a pretty small cut for themselves to give a lot to the poor. She's done the same with her adventuring earnings, especially after saving a little for retirement just in case.

Fraeswys did NOT care for Aymeric at first at all. 2.x was a rough time for her, last thing she needed was *another* schemer treating her as a tool. (He was nicer after, of course, but putting himself on the line for his beliefs in HW is what really started winning her over.)

So Limsa canonically "elects" a new Admiral by boat race. Proves they can form & lead a crew, at least. Fraeswys would mostly continue Merlwyb's modernization efforts, ticking off some old pirates, but rule with less of an iron fist; build more proper institutions, introduce more democracy.

Fraeswys has picked up just enough Ishgardian to tease Aymeric. She'd love to know more Old Roegadyn beyond what the Sea Wolves have kept for names.

Fraeswys was a pirate trying to blend in in higher places. So she doesn't show much of a Limsan accent, but she's still a bit less formal than the major characters. Incomplete sentences, more contractions, "prob'ly" a bunch for some reason? Sometimes she slips back into nautical phrases.

Fraeswys doesn't want to retire; being useful and important again as a mentor is the one thing she'd love about it. She'd go all-out as a sensei. She'd really try to emphasize not doing things alone - both because possibly no one else could (*she* barely did!), and no one should have to.

New Hildi releasing was the spark I needed to finally put together my Ace Attorney #ffxivgpose of Inspector Doerdyrfwyn!

Fraeswys herself, a little towards Hardiboiled; not as humorless or quick to violence but always ready. But as Inspector Doerdyrfwyn: a gentlewoman of leisure, following a case wherever it goes, way more Hildi. Serious only to be funny. The only thing gritty is her coffee she doesn't even like.

Fraeswys took up scholarship (and summoning) after meeting Moenbryda. Magic, actual spells, and studying were a pretty big leap from her brute strength fighting, but she felt she needed to become at least a little more well-rounded after her example.

I'll never get over Fraeswys having a couple of ilms on Aymeric. Close enough to be convenient. Aymeric's cool about it, literally looking up to her... Fraeswys tries not to make a big deal of it, but does enjoy feeling that much more in charge from time to time.

Fraeswys's recovery was quick considering she'd just died but for her Inner Beast pulling her back, but agonizingly slow for her. She spent a day in the ship after landing before she could be moved to the Annex, a week mostly in bed, and had to take the next few easy. (1/2)

Fraeswys's fiercest rival is Sadu. She drops by the steppe for a duel whenever she can, always pushing each other to fight harder, there's non-zero sexual tension... Her rivalry with Gilgamesh is strictly platonic. She sincerely considers him a friend after StB Hildi.

Fraeswys would *love* action figures of herself, loves being recognized as a hero. (She'd really like a statue if it wasn't too much to ask.)

Fraeswys started realizing how much she missed Aymeric during the end of ShB, the Worst Possible Time. (Aymeric was pretty much there by the end of HW but didn't want to push things, and, well...)

Fraeswys picked up Scholar (and SMN) because of Moenbryda. She took up MNK and NIN training to get stronger, help Ala Mhigan/Doman refugees, and learn more to prepare for fighting there. And as a backup if she lost her weapons. (The meditation also helped with controlling her Inner Beast.)

I like the tension of "Fraeswys keeps adventuring, Aymeric feels duty-bound to mostly stay in Ishgard", but they do trade linkpearls after ShB to help. He also sticks around Sharlayan while she recovers after EW. After DT, she's dragging him on a vacation there. (Official diplomatic voyage ofc)

Not everyone agrees of course, but Fraeswys has zero regrets for Totally Justifiable Piracy Mostly Against Garlemald. So probably some of the city-states' dirty work circa ARR. Copperbell's whole premise...

Keep trying to make myself laugh. I feel like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a huge one, a dash of Pratchett... maybe still some A Series Of Unfortunate Events, more in humor than tone. I blame FFXIV itself for some of my gags and squeezing in references 😛

Fraeswys loves combat (and is a little uncomfortable with that.) Doesn't want to lose sight that she's fighting for a cause, not its own sake. Unlike- She'd rather not resort to it too quickly, but she's always ready.

It's a lot of pressure, sure, and Fraeswys has definitely held herself to unhealthy standards because of it. (Definitely needed the break she was forced to take after EW.) But being a Big Damn Hero is what she lives for.

Fraeswys [coped by being] mostly pissed he left WITHOUT EVEN LETTING HER FIGHT HERSELF out of the deal, come on, the ONE possible upside or cool fight he could've given her... and he ran off? She's very afraid of losing control; that hit hard. She just wanted to fight herself again even more.

Fraeswys's name gets picked up by the Dotharl; now, whether he's actually her reincarnation... I'm fine leaving ambiguous. He'd have heard the stories, of course. Too much for one person to live up to. Ends up traveling and trying to carve his own path; which is, frankly, a very Fraeswys move.

Fraeswys definitely has standing plans to expose, blackmail, and/or have Lolorito killed in a way that looks like an accident if he even THINKS of trying anything funny again.

The soul she's blessed/cursed with will eventually become someone else's gift/burden. As far as she's concerned, that's the end of her story; a reincarnation wouldn't be her. She's made her peace with death - she's more afraid of no longer being there to save the world.

As fellow warriors there was a lot of comparing axe technique. Fraeswys gave Wuk Lamat a few pointers, but she mostly picked up from watching, developing a blend of their styles. (Fraeswys also quietly learned a couple new techniques, from the Turali tradition, from her.)

Fraeswys had no interest in contesting the title again; she returned for the next Naadam just to give it back. Sadu's mostly won since. That said, she keeps coming back to the steppe to duel with Sadu (and win), so despite her best efforts many still treat her as a sort of honorary khagan.

Definitely Ilberd. As a pirate she obviously accepted some means as justified by the ends of fighting the Empire. Could she have been brought to worse? Possibly! (Still probably not... that far, though. They did keep a Code.)