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the little-death

Summary:

"Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration."

A series of prompts fromthe 2019 FFXIV Writing Challenge.

Table of contents so you can pick your poison. And there's lots of poison.

Highlights include lots of Haurchefant-posting in 2k19, Crystal Exarch, some good ole fashioned femslash, and more. Overarching theme of, you know, just - pain. Fear. Suffering. Like 2019 in general.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1: table of contents

Chapter Text

I have a feeling this is going to get ugly real quick, so let's get ahead of this.

FFXIV Write 2019 as articulated here via Tumblr's sea-wolf-coast-to-coast.

One - voracious
Haurchefant. Explicit. Female WoL, nameless, faceless. Post-Heavensward. Coping with loss. Voraciously. A bit shamefully.

Two - bargain
Haurchefant-centric, but he doesn't appear. T for teen. Second-person ambiguous WoL. Your buddy Thancred's there. Short and angsty. Alcohol.

Three - lost
Crystal Exarch. Explicit? Mature? Not sure. Ambiguous WoL. You're definitely fucking around. Exarch gets lost in his own pleasure.

Four - shifting blame
Aymeric. Oh, Aymeric. Foolish Aymeric, calling for the Eyes of Nidhogg to be cast into the abyss. This time, you'll let him have it. General. Ambiguous WoL.

Five - vault
G'raha Tia. Developing relationship? Real Crystal Tower hours. Cid is here. General, don't get too excited. Ambiguous, brooding WoL.

Six - first steps
Haurchefant. Teen. Big pain energy. First-person ambiguous WoL. Post-Vault. All is not well with the Warrior of Light.

Seven - forgiven
Ambiguous WoL says goodbye to their adoptive (lesbian) mom before heading off to the First. Featuring an OC Miqo'te that belong to comrades. Wholesome. General.

Eight - free day
Estinien. Female Dragoon WoL. A training exercise that ends (begins?) with some mild sexual tension. I think it's safe to call it t for teen because nothing graphic happens, really...but let me know if I'm wrong. Might expand later.

Nine - hesitate
Zenos. Ambiguous WoL is haunted by past encounters with this monster of a man. T for teen. It's short.

Ten - foster
Haurchefant-posting again. Naked cuddling, but probably t for teen. Ambiguous WoL begins to feel like part of the Fortemps family. Angst and fluff?

Eleven - snuff
Let's put Thordan down. From his perspective. Short. T for teen, I'm not sure. Dude's dying.

Twelve - fingers crossed
WoL and Lucia. Explicit. Aymeric's second-in-command catches you making a particular purchase and wants you to demonstrate. Femslash.

Thirteen - wax
WoLxExarch light. Implied? Haurchefant also implied. A letter written by WoL. Universe wherein WoL does not make it tothe end of ShB and the Exarch survives. Don't think too hard. General.

Fourteen - scour
Haurchefant. WoL female and smaller than he but ambiguous otherwise. Mature. Haurchefant helps WoL get a good knight's sleep however he can.

Fifteen - free day
1100+ more words of Haurchefant pain. Female Au Ra WoL, nameless. Mid-Stormblood, she considers her heritage and how well her lover took to it. Mature.

Sixteen - jitters
Haurchefant. Explicit. Great gods. Ambigious WoL. You lose your virginity to a beautiful elf man. Or do you?

Seventeen - obeisant
Haurchefant. Continued from "jitter." Both are explicit. You, ambiguous WoL, lose your virginity to an Elezen of note. God I wish that were me.

Eighteen - wilt
Possible Consequences for a Warrior of Light Upon Besting the Prince of Doma in Martial Combat...or Upon Letting Him Win.
Many ambiguous WoLs. Hien, obviously. Teen and a bit goofy, a bit sad. Based on WoLs of my friends and I, upon the suggestion of writing something about Doma's ruler.

Nineteen - radiant
Crystal Exarch. Explicit? Mature? He finds himself aroused by some of ambiguous WoL's qualities...and not the traditional ones...

Twenty - bisect
Something short and sad about G'raha Tia. General. About hiding his identity.

Twenty-one - crunch
Haaaaa...Aymeric. Explicit. There's one thing ambiguous female WoL and the Lord Commander must get done before heading into battle.

Twenty-two
Okay so I ran out of time to do what I wanted and...now you get to enter the private quarters of Sadu. Mature. Ambiguous (shy) WoL.

Twenty-three - parched
Ambiguous WoL regrets having said some harsh words to Thancred. Strongly implied past WoLxHaurchefant. Alcohol is involved. Continued from prompt two - bargain. Teen.

Twenty-four - unctuous
Haurchefant-light. Injured ambiguous WoL learns the master of Camp Dragonhead apparently cares for them a great deal. General.

Twenty-five - trust
Two short pieces featuring Estinien and Haurchefant (though not at the same time...yet). Both are mature. Light bondage/choking...erm...more is planned here...

Twenty-six - slosh
Crystal Exarch. Mature. I'm going to extend this I just ran out of time!!! Bath scene after ambiguous female WoL comes home from the Empty.

Twenty-seven - palaver
Haurchefant gets away from the palaver of running Camp Dragonhead so he can let off some steam before ambiguous female WoL gets back. Explicit if you can't take a hint. He imagines some fantasies, light bondage, and erm...some other things...

Twenty-eight - attune
Specific female Auri WoL plus some Miqo'te OCs. Very wholesome. Childhood. First attunement. General.

Twenty-nine - free day
Crystal Exarch. This became explicit, but it's really about pain and character growth. Ambiguous female WoL wakes to find her partner already up and troubled by the nature of his own survival.

T-t-thirty - darkness
Haurchefant has a conversation with the Warrior of Darkness. It's very one-sided.