"Because I believe that not even someone as horrible as you is truly irredeemable. If you set your mind to it, if you´re ready for several lifetimes worth of work..." -Ivonne "brutally honest optimism" Frigis.

Still kinda wanna give Val a stinger tail (or at least a tail long enough to do it) and fangs tbh.

Val and that red Arcadion Elezen... Ivonne and that red Arcadion Elezen...

I was trying to build my own Fran so I don´t have to use the "not a player model thus incompatible with (most) emotes" model we get ingame but I have been stopped as early as the hairstyle. I know there is one that has the circlet thingie but it lacks that massive magnificent ponytail.

I AM UNBOUND I AM FREEEEE

NEW ELEZEN UNLOCKED

Lyse should have stayed with the Scions so we can have 3 red Scions...

[pre-5.5] Licia: "Commanders... I was not expecting you both. And the armed guard following my every step is part of your hospitality too, I assume?" Raubahn: "And you know exactly why we can´t just let you walk free." Licia: "Of course." Lyse: "You can be glad that this is the extent of it."

I need to pose something around how Licia navigates the alliance council after becoming Werlyt´s representative (You might understand why Gaius would not want to make frequent visits to Ala Mhigo). Just a room full of faces who hate her (for good reason) and all that.

Thinking of this Bozja detail for my continuity: After Misija summons the queen and tempers all of the blades, instead of that one character from the Ivalice raids, it´s Samira who shoots Misija to interrupt the process. The only reason the shot isn´t lethal is because Eula puts her hand on the -

I feel like Akina´s clumsy ass has done this more than once.

*Breaks through a brick wall* DID SOMEONE SAY CORVOS

Internet is back online let´s go. Time to return to posing.

“Ivonne” is an oc from my own fiction, adapted into other verses like FF14. “Frigis” was a reference to how previous iterations of Ivonne were associated with the element of ice. “Coldwind” also references her other element, air. In FF14 specifically that’s also a reference to her home, Garlemald.

Val joins Licia in the group of OCs that stray far from the source material and intended outcome that they have become their own thing entirely.

but it isn't a given, and some spend the rest of their lives in a lonely vigil atoning for the person they had been. Redemption can be powerful *because* people don't deserve it. Redemption is not a prize given, it is an arduous path walked by the unjust because it is the just thing to do.

them to ever NOT be cursed and spat on *somewhere* they go. It's the choosing to do the right thing, to choose patience and empathy over the closed fist that makes the arc out of fiction and the journey in-fiction meaningful. In many cases, their new outlook will afford them allies and friends-

of the tar pit they turned their life into, out of the misery to others that became their normal. And then they walk that path, forever. Redemption, crucially, isn't about forgiveness. It's about intention and commitment. There are some characters whose sins are too foul and too numerous for-

I love redemption arcs, but I feel like a lot of people fundamentally don't understand what they are. Or have mislabeled what they are on account of fandom memes or tvtropes or something. A character can't be "worth" redemption. They can only "need" it. And so they strive to claw themselves out-

I need to make Val do this face actually, after she gets got by Honey B…

Love it when someone in our household decides to buy a new wifi router and then doesn’t know how to set it up or doesn’t have the necessary login info or whatever and we just don’t get internet. :)))))

This lighting kinda suits her I think.

Ivonne grew up in Garlemald, raised by a Magitek scientist. When it comes to modern ceruleum-based magitek, she is as good with it as someone can be. She might struggle with some Allagan and Alexandrian technology since it doesn´t translate 1 to 1, but she can work with it to a degree.

Timeline where Zero does her outfit change and Ivonne just picks up the old set to put it on. “Can’t say it wouldn’t suit me…”

Duality of S9 Val pairings: -Emotional and angsty story with Eutrope about helping someone find a cure for what is basically a terminal illness while searching for a purpose to her own involuntary immortality. -Honey B puts her in maid outfits and tries to make her enjoy cute things.

Her rank in the Doman liberation front is roughly equivalent to a captain, she also served as an honorary lieutenant and advisor to the Flames until the ivy incident. It’s not wrong to call her “my Lady” as well, as she is nobility, but she would rather be called anything else.

Oh, Bluesky does not translate well onto a tablet…

Yeah, before they leave Ala Mhigo, I think Licia and Ysayle should run into Fordola and the Skulls. It will make for one hell of a "Haven´t we met before?" moment later, haha-

Lady Iceheart ❄ #ysayle #YsayleDangoulain #ffxiv

Eula: "So how do I fit into your model of redemption and balance of the soul? I am curious how far your beliefs truly reach." Ivonne: "Nothing short of saving the entire world will make up for your actions, that much is certain." [Fast forward to Ultima Thule]

LRP Legit Ivonne and a good chunk of her philosophy.

speaking of thancred (and gaius)

The idea of Zenos clocking who this mysterious woman accompanying Licia might be and why they are in his province but not giving enough of a shit to call her out on it or tell his father. All he would care about is that their presence in Ala Mhigo means the Resonant project is progressing well.

A colleague of Licia´s looking at her and Ysayle during their post-Heavensward arc together and assuming she got herself a new adopted daughter or something. Like, Elezen: check, (at the time) Short hair: check, Vague goth aesthetic with unusual lipstick color: check.

AHHH I need a hair bun style that both leaves the forehead uncovered and isn´t too elaborate. AND is available for Elezen-F...

BROTHER IM FUCKING HOLLERING

"Well, aren´t you just delightful, darlin´~" "I am going to rip your throat out with my bare teeth..." "At least smile for the camera first, will ya?" "...AND GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT WITH MY HORNS."

Honey: “I have a lovely idea for our next show” *pulls out a black and yellow maid dress* Val: “How many lives are you willing to lose for it?”

People who sent an OC into the dome and had them live there for a whole 30 years, how the hells did you make it work? Especially coming up with what they would be doing during all that time.

LRP But like Val and Honey B You see the vision

First meeting #PokémonZA #Jacinthe #Lebanne #Jacinne

7.4 give me the void teaser so I can have an excuse to introduce Dextra into the story... I need Ivonne to have an actual hostility fueled 1v1 with one of her shards. Also the only one that can realistically keep up with her in a prolonged fight (sorry Rose darling)

HONEY B LOVELY HOW COULD I FORGET YOU Drafting some devious shit later

Inspired by nothing in particular, but I need to find a pretty princess girl character to put Val into a maid dress.

Polycule but they battle it out to see who gets to sleep with who every night. This is some shit that Ivonne and co would unironically do.

I still like the idea of Licia doing the last part of the GNB quest with Ivonne and the quest giver npcs specifically because she can beef with both her new old "colleague" Cato and so she can kill Vitus at the end. "It seems I have been tasked with taking out the empire´s trash as well..." style.

A question that I have asked myself multiple times is "Why were Livia & Samira never recruited for the Alaudae (the empire´s penal cannon fodder battalion)?" After all, one is well known for her fighting skill and the other was captured with a gun in her hand. A few reasons, probably: -

I need to pose Akina travelling the Source and learning about cultures foreign to her, as a resident of the First, more. Just taking notes, being an all around good listener, /taking a special interest in cuisine of course/ and being a nuisance to any elders she can find...

Seize the means of character creation.

It is kinda a shame how next to none of my favorite characters are famous enough to get fan merch. Rarely represented in fanart except by a few dedicated folks or in "I guess I have to include them here" kind of projects.