Ramen

Doodles n stuff will be goin here! Sketches before bed. Grish, Hammerbeast, random lala

It was a vision of the past that brought with it the feeling of ice water being splashed into your face and a painful sensation running up from your stomach to your chest. When your eyes well up with tears and you stop yourself from crying so there is this uncomfortable stuffy feeling in your face like a dam about to explode. Even in her old age she was like a goddess. Maybe a silver goddess. The lines in her face did very little to distract from the beauty of the midlander woman sitting across from Grish'a in the Limsan restaurant. Green eyes, faded blond hair now a silver waterfall cascading down here sides. Her dress spoke of wealth attained sometime after they had parted ways. The old Keeper with his caterpillar eyebrows and grumpy face could only flinch in his forever irritated expression. Gaze softened to a mixture of happy and sad that you would think was impossible and would look stupid but by the gods his eyebrows went one way while his lips went another. "You aged rather gracefully." The old woman ran a finger along her glass, head resting in her hand as she observed Grish'a. Grish'a returned what looked to be a dream filled gaze with a confused one. She continued "No, maybe not gracefully. Perhaps you simply grew into what you always were meant to be. A grumpy old man." There was a moment of silence that hung in the air between them in the night air. A cool breeze snapped them out of their contemplative quiet with a burst of laughter from each of them. The aged male stroked the graying scruff at his chin after that. "I is not always being the old male you is seeing. There is being time I was animal. You remembering time like this, right Brunhilda?" Brunhilda smiles. "Nobody has called me that in quite some time. They call me Hildy now." She held her glass and pointed at the miqo'te, smiling as she wags her finger at him, "And I'm a married woman now so you keep it together you hear?" Another moment of silence filled the air. This one was not punctuated with a friendly laugh. Grish'a stared across the chasm of silence, the rapturous joy crushed by the weight of what could have been for him. It should have been, it could have been, it never was and never will be. "I am glad you is found happiness." "And you?" Hildy asked before sipping on her wine glass. Grish'a considered her words and his ears fell flat. Was he truly happy? Grish'a spoke then in his native tongue, not sharing with her the depth of how he felt but expressing it in his tone. He wanted his words to come out properly for a change. <<"The world feels smaller now than it ever has. As I get older it shrinks more and more. As travel becomes easier and as forces draw nearer.... as the people begin to flood in.">> Grish'a looked out to the docks, to the water, to find his next words. <<"The sense of wonder is gone. Adventure can only be found in one place now. I'm close to accomplishing my dream. I'll have an airship soon and I'll be able to explore new frontiers. But there is still this lingering sense of smallness about everything.">> Grish'a laced his fingers together and leaned against the table. <<"We keep stumbling across the ruins and rubble of the past and eyeballing it, trying to reclaim what we feel was lost or trying to salvage technology that we are nowhere near ready for. It never feels like we're on a frontier. It always feels like we're just trying to remember what we'd lost. Our adventure isn't discovering anything new, it is rediscovering what was lost. The only sense of awe is what others had done before us. Not what we can do. Not what we can see. I feel a creative emptiness as an engineer and explorer...">> Grish'a returned his gaze to the woman who looked lost as to what it was exactly he was saying. "I am being ah... the depressing yah? We is the old friends reuniting!" He holds his arms out and offered his usual spirited grin. "I is having airship building and apprentices and we is going out and fighting!" A smile returned to the old midlander's face as the miqo'te livened up a bit. She didn't know what it was the male had said prior but it always sounded so much better when he spoke his native tongue than common. The meaning just filled each word. She understood what it was at least. There was a sense of longing in the miqo'te. She set her glass to the side then and elegantly moved to sit in the chair nearest to Grish'a. "It feels cruel us meeting up like this again. I should have written." "So should I." "Your hand writing is horrible." She smiled after the fact and let her arm rest upon the miqo'te's shoulder. Grish'a flinched but did not move away from the sensation. He missed it, really. He missed her. "I got better." Hildy pressed against Grish'a. "I think you know why I asked you to meet me here." "I know." Grish'a spoke lightly. "It couldn't have stayed buried forever." "I know." "Then you know you have to walk those old roads again." Their spurts of conversation were bookmarked with silence once again. Grish'a looked absolutely miserable. This was cruel. And perhaps what magic was there no longer sparked. She truly was gone. "Why did you leave?" he asked, speaking as slowly and as clearly as he could. Hildy did not respond. She only reached for her wine across the table. After drinking the last of it she left a note on the table and leaned in to place a small kiss atop Grish'a's forehead. The old Keeper was left alone in the Limsan night. Around him tables filled with people laughed and talked well into the night. The old Keeper held in his hand the note that may well mean going back to when he first arrived in Eorzea. To those dark times. Grish'a wanted a bottle of wine.

I'm good with rping with any character really.

I'm going to be leveling Lancer and Archer in prep for Machinist which is the class Grish'a is going to become. I'd be happy to start something though! I haven't really been a part of any plots in FFXIV and I'm not sure how one would operate here. I'm so paranoid about breaking lore lol. Why the revamp after Heavensward? Lost interest in the character mostly due to various OOC reasons. I haven't been able to regain my former interest, so rather than delete her I was thinking about using a fantasia to make her something else. And I hear you on the lore, lol. I get worried constantly that I am doing the same, and sometimes just have to take a deep breath and let the cards fall as they may. Thing about FF14 is that there really is no solid compendium of lore out there so unless you're willing to read all the quest dialogue, even the random stuff between objectives, and all the leve quests it can be hard to see what is lore breaking and what isn't. We have an awesome lore forum here however for when you're stumped. ^^ And yeee! Either Sae or Enla work for me, we could work something out and see how either of them work off of your characters. I know dem feels. I look forward to getting something organized.

Thanks! I'll check this out!

I'm going to be leveling Lancer and Archer in prep for Machinist which is the class Grish'a is going to become. I'd be happy to start something though! I haven't really been a part of any plots in FFXIV and I'm not sure how one would operate here. I'm so paranoid about breaking lore lol. Why the revamp after Heavensward?

I'd be down for that. I'm usually on in the evenings after 10pm est but like, Tues/Wed/Sat I'm on during the day.

Will there be drinking? Because I have a character who would come.

For a while now I've been on Balmung. I rp here and there but it is usually casual stuff. I don't know if you've seen me or not but I lurk around. I'm trying to break a barrier in myself and find my way in the world of roleplaying again. So this thread is about several things I guess. I want to make connections, get involved in plots and shenanigans, and build my characters a certain way. Grish'a Zolnerowich is a vaguely foreign miqo'te who works on machines. He wrestles bears, drinks, and questions the intentions of the young. He suffers from periodic "drink naps" which is his fancy way of saying "Passing out drunk" The second is Kade Hyre. Someone I've been working on recently and I'm still kind of trying to find my footing on. He is a blind wandering swordman and I'm attempting to play with that trope a bit. I've already made hints about his family's criminal background and such. I'm looking to develop a network with him. There is a third character coming. I want to make a mage but I'm still kind of wary of making a character like that. So I kind of want some help working on that as well. I really want to expand my horizons and meet people in situations and scenerios outside of "Oh hi" in the Quicksand or some such. And I want help developing them through roleplay. I've always had some shakey footing in FFXIV RP and I'd like a little help getting to where I need to go.

I was having a conversation with some friends about mixed drinks in RP. Giving modern mix drinks a FF spin on their names and such and I was wondering what drinks people could come up with for the setting or already have. I know Iksian orders Coffee/Whiskey and if he orders cream in it he calls it a Shifty Moogle.

So I've seen this at other RP communities and I liked it. So I decided maybe I'd give it a shot here in the Prompt Thread. Every Saturday I'm going to give folks a word/sentence/picture and folks can write about whatever comes to mind for their character in relation to the weekly subject. I've seen some fun/interesting stuff come from it before so I thought it couldn't hurt to do here and encourage some regular writing. You don't have a set time limit you can update it anytime. So to start off for this weeks writing prompt we'll do something simple and current: Last Night of the Moonfire Faire Happy writing!

NGL your art has become pretty great.

Holy shit this is going to turn into an Aeon reunion. I think Mandy mentioned you played FFARR. I sent a message to Gizmo on Devart asking if she did as well. I heard she did but I didn't know for sure. HI! Thanks for being welcoming!

Oh God I promise Iksian won't destroy Eorzea I PROMISE! NOT INTENTIONALLY he isn't a bad guy here. Well he is a bad guy but not a villain or antagonist.

Hi. People know me as Iksian from other RP sites. Or Ramen. I believe this is my second attempt at joining the community as my first one ended with some financial trouble and an inability to continue playing FFARR. So now that I'm here...HI! I've been lurking about the pubs and such and observing how folks RP and even joined a FC recently. I currently have two characters, one which is my main and the other is my alt. Iksian Ozerov: Main- Jaded professor currently studying dreams, aether, and the subtle nuances of race behavior. Kind of a dick. Junior Junior: A thug/engineer with a strange past and a stranger name. I'm currently in Balmung and I'm looking forward to meeting and rping with a good deal of the folks here. I'm trying to break out of the newbie shyness so I hope you'll be patient. I'm an artist as well and I hope to produce some great character art in the future. I look forward to learning more about the FF:ARR lore and the player characters who live in it.

Hi! This is my first thread on here I think and I thought I'd start off by saying the FFRR community has been very kind and open to me. I've met really nice people who have helped me out with my starting characters. I tried FF out on Gilgamesh a while back and now I'm on Balmung with a character named Junior Junior (fakest name in history of fake names.) The character appearance is heavily inspired by Rockabilly culture and I'm doing what I can to make him look like such with FF's current resources (I'm low level right now that don't help.) *Not a shady guy at all The character's background is generically shady but I have a vague idea of what it is. It will mostly be filling in the holes as I play through the game and meet people. He acts doofy, unintelligent, and ignorant and prefers to play it safe as your common every-day lackey instead of trying to gain any power for himself. Generally willing to do most things but has a good sense of when he might be in over his head. My request is I'm looking for like-minded, shady, questionable groups or individuals who take part in crime (organized or otherwise) who are looking to hire on additional help. He is a pugilist IG who has a passion for Chocobo racing and machines. I've already signed onto a non RP FC but I'd love to get involved in other people's plots shenanigans. Hit me up on a message IG under Junior Junior or a message here if you're interested in RP hook ups. Even if it is for casual RP or for me to play the bungling burglar. I leave you now with a random rockabilly song. _aKnwNkg_w8