vanilla ♡

sometimes u just need nsfw art of ur ocs to cope with the horrors

YOUR BRAIN IS HUGE ACTUALLY

I POSTED ABOUT IT AND NOW I CAN'T CLOSE A NOTIFICATION I GOT WHILE TYPING. DEMON IN MY PC!!!!

when I try to port the hair myself? texture actually displays as the monstrosity it is. when I try to have both hairs in textools at once to troubleshoot? textools crash. something evil going on here

I think I've encountered my first textools demon. instead of a normal hair texture there is a cloth and face texture. when you import the packed mod its in there. grouped correctly and everything. and yet it displays perfectly fine like it is a normal hair texture

other ancients seeing wol as just a familiar and confiding in them because of that makes me hurt about hermes more because to other ancients we are essentially a therapy animal. but for hermes, someone who saw creations as equals in life, was genuine in his relationship with wol

2:30pm and I have learned that texture pathing is the easy part and the hard part is rigging and weight painting. I have yet to make my own working mashup. on the bright side porting hairstyles is the easiest thing ever now

the things I will do to free myself from a rat tail

not even 10am and I am slowly driving myself to insanity trying to figure out how to make mashup hair textures work on my own without a guide (I am a fool and am now looking up a guide)

I should still probably see if the dragonborn scales match up with sharps/talons enough for my taste before I do it all again... that's a task for tomorrow me

honestly also speaks volumes I accidentally used the wrong set of scales to do that and the idea of doing it all again to see which one I prefer isn't filling me with dread. I am like yayyy I get to see how much easier it is to do a second time now that I Get It

ignore the clipping in these I was just SOOOO happy I got it working on my first attempt (and with having to undo a mistake mid-process at that). cai gets his cute horns and his cute blue tongue and his cute chompers and his cute qestir masks... many blessings all at once

gpose of caikhatu qestir, a male au ra in final fantasy xiv. a mask hides most of his expression, but he appears to be smiling.

gpose of caikhatu qestir, a male au ra in final fantasy xiv. he's smiling wide!

just wanted to drop a huge thanks @reverse-cascade.etheirys.social for the good horns, AND making such an in-depth and easy to follow tutorial so I can still use masks with them! taught me some very useful textools/blender essentials in the process as well. thank you so much! ♡

in related news horn swapper is maybe the best mod ever made and the one I will be the most grateful for forever. the way my life changed when I realized you can use custom scales with it because it applies any texture changes made to f au ra horns...

I specify m because there is an extra level of challenge in them being generally less catered to specifically as well, meaning you have to work a bit harder to piece things together. and often even diy changes you want to make since theyre so customizable

I think more than anything the reason I really like playing m!au ra is that wrt mods there are a lot of different pieces to play with and figure out what works. its like it turns making your oc look cool into a fun puzzle for you to solve

he still isn't exactly diving into complex tomes for fun, but he can hold his own now, and is very particular about his handwriting being pretty! he cares far too much about appearances and that's bled into at least trying to seem highly-educated.

vanilla: was illiterate until he arrived in eorzea. he had to sheepishly ask miounne to write his name in the adventurer's guild ledger, and dedicated himself to learning at least the basics if only to spare himself that "indignity" again (guy who hates asking for help)

gorgeous raen au ra on my timeline making me want to make a gorgeous raen au ra of my own

I guess the closest matches for my gaggle of xaelas/malaguld are miqo'te, hhetsaro, or viera, lorewise, but I would be incredibly sad to give up all the extra customization you can play with as a lizard, as well as all the steppe (and surrounding areas) influences...

honestly, I would have a different main entirely. a lot of vanilla's charm for me is in the androgyny that comes with mviera, and we didn't have anything all that close to it before.

if I had to pick, though? probably tmasc elezen. severely underrated combo and fits his vibes the best

emetwol❤️

hardest part of creating any character for me is deciding on the color palette because why are they BOTH cute... do I want you to be pink or miku quiet boy...

thank you for posing kaworu! it looks so lovely, the composition is wonderful! ❤️

Love APs, great spots to practice Gpose
(hope they came out okay)

#LofiArtParty

omg thank you for gposing him!!! this might just be the prettiest he's ever looked...

gpose of Kaworu Malaguld

Kaworu.
#LofiArtParty #gposes #GPOSERS #XIVAPSnaps #elvashade

very simple doodle as I'm very out of practice but I do love a cat with fluffy hair
#lofiartparty

2025 applesycrus week thread ft. wol/amon+ ancient/hermes+ and lil sprinkling of fandaniel/wol

ao3 links and gpose entries below 🌹🍏