Emil nan Fortunas (progging Caffeine Withdrawl EX)

It's okay. It's hard to know where to start sometimes.

Does anyone else have the issue of brainstorming something, putting a bit too much energy and time into writing it down, then realizing it makes no narrative sense with the rest of the associated headcanon?

The torch was passed, hope entrusted, and a seed of doubt planted.

But here was a steadfast soul that may have acted as a hero would have but for harrowing moments. Fire consumed the sky, and as the brand of Althyk was invoked, a confused Emil was dragged into the pillar of light in "Meteor's" place. The simple conscript sent into the temporal rift instead.

Emil snapped out of his daze. That someone had actually defended him was a shock, and while that tenacious will to survive had him reacting in kind, neither anticipated the end. The re-sealing failed, Bahamut's rage, and Louisoix's final gambit. "Meteor" was injured gravely. He wouldn't make it.

Bahamut razed the land, sparks of Tetraflare raining from the sky. A stray coil of destruction headed directly for Emil. For what reason he'll never know, "Meteor" was the one who spared him this fate. Intervening at the cost of their own strength. The very hero of Eorzea he was told to despise.

As Eorzea and Garlemald clashed, Dalamud erupted, sending shards of itself and Bahamut's sparks across the battlefield and forces of either side scrambling in panic. Whether it was awe, terror, or thoughts of release from his struggle, Emil was one of the few who couldn't flee the disaster.

Just another cohort in a sea of others fighting in obligation to a nation not their own, the only thing that set him apart was a reputation of being a "willful beast that won't stay down" among his peers, his stature, and proclivity for wielding uncommon weapons like those of Othard.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

It wasn't a life he wanted, but it wasn't his choice. Thankfully, Emil was tenacious, determined out of spite, for both the scornful nature of the Garleans towards him and of his family who'd essentially offered him up as so many pawns.
Eventually he'd wind up shipped off to Carteneau.

His parents, some auri craftsmen from a territory annexed by Garlean conquest, sought favor with the empire rather than rebellion like many others. So they sent their eldest of three into service in the imperial military, securing them conditional citizenship and eventually relocation.

Emil was never meant to be the Warrior of Light. He was never a Scion. He isn't even the analogue for "Meteor", though he wound up the 'meteor survivor' all the same. Emil was simply one of the masses of imperial conscripts thrown at the forces of Eorzea at Carteneau.

Forcing myself to write down #OClore for a change instead of just hoarding it in my brain because of a cinematic I imagined on the drive home from work listening to an acoustic version of Answers.
Anyways. #EmilLore

Or alternatively for Emil:

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Basically Koios' overall role aesthetic:

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Basically Emil's overall role aesthetic:

Emil:
Tank= Warrior/Gunbreaker
Magical DPS= Black Mage
Melee DPS= Samurai/Viper/Dragoon/Reaper
Ranged DPS= Machinist (Or if we're talking non-canon jobs GunDancer)
Healer= Sage

Koios:
Tank= PLD
Magical DPS = RDM/BLU
Melee DPS= MNK/NIN
Ranged DPS= MCH
Healer = AST/SGE combo. 'Cosmedicus'?

Emil would freeze amid whatever manner of undress, eye the person up and down, expression unchanging before speaking,
"Francoise, Protocol 3; lock-down and deploy magitek turrets. Locate cause for security breach and isolate intruder."

I'm not even kidding. YoshiP, Toei, hit me up. I've seriously got ideas.

PLD = Sword Form
WAR = Axe Form
DRK = Altair Form (Maybe add a MCH weapon for the crossbow)
GNB = Stike Form/Neo Den-O
DRG = Rod Form (add a tool for FSH for laughs)
MCH = Gun Form and/or Vega Form
DNC = Wing Form
VPR = Gaoh?

IF SQUEENIX (sorry, Creative Business Unit 3?) NEEDS AN OUT I KNOW DEN-O IS STILL SUPER POPULAR, AND IF NOTHING ELSE WOULD DO WILDLY WELL IN THE WEST DESPITE OUR LACK OF TRAIN CULTURE, AND THERE ARE SOOOOO MANY APPLICATIONS FOR MAKING COSMETIC SETS LIKE WITH THE GARO CROSSOVER USING THE IMAGIN FORMS

Final Fantasy XIV x Kamen Rider

Ah yes, the scrunch machine.

"fifteen straight hours of sleep"
"more caffeine than is legally advisable"/"ten cans of that S9 tonic"
"head, with excessive eye-contact"
"an aggressive makeout session with a toxic redhead"
"another giant robot"
"a newer, flashier transformation belt"
"this new magitek sword"

Saying just factually incorrect, inane things. Straight up "Etheirys is actually flat" conspiracy theory regressive pseudo-intellectual slop gets under his skin after about three sentences.

Emil never even had stuffed animals, he never had the privilege, and while he enjoys the infrequent experience of having a bedpartner more than he'd like to admit (and he never will), he usually sleeps alone, like so.

Seeing more and more moots lately feeling bummed with that feeling of "this commission will never be delivered" bc of wishy washy artists. If you're an artist, please don't accept more comms than you can deliver. Don't open comms slots when you still have several on a waiting list.