#AetherSick
free hurt/comfort fic of your WoL taking care of an aethersick companion that wasn't part of the initial thavnair team
October 27, 2026 at 12:02 AM
ultimately didn’t have any direct ploy relevancy but having her aethersick in garlemald and scared of not seeing in thavnair painted her as vulnerable in a way she usually doesn’t allow herself to be… my yshtola pear wiggler……
October 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
some of my favorite wybs
October 7, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Oneself in the Aetherial sea.

Miah, a gleaner, can do trips from Sharlayan to Gridania every couple days, but Sharlayan to the Moon leaves her aethersick and in need of a several more days of rest before she can make the trip back.

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September 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
the beehive version of this tho is like pov you are wyra mewrilah you are deliriously aethersick and are looking for a place to lie down. the room with the couches now has women who have turned you into a couch
know i'm a "writing a distinctively *not* queernorm eorzea" person but sometimes i gotta suspend the disbelief of society(tm) to have multiple women in a lominsan brothel or the beehive hanging off of wyra. it's for the image of it. you understand.
September 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
might be time to write something so self indulgent for xivwrite I explode (wyra being sick on top of being aethersick during shb) (y’shtola takes care of her for a lil)
September 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The main reason he doesn't is he can't attune to them.

That little stint with using the unnattuned aethryte with Sharlayan taught him that he gets violently aethersick if he tries

Poor Estinien got fleeced REAL BAD because Otho couldn't move without hurling rainbows.
September 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
She was like “if he does the math and says anything that’s on him.”

And yeah… we almost got Y’shtola and Boysenator during Endwalker til she got aethersick bc Garlemald’s vibes are rancid 😔
September 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
when I hover over him protesting he can still help out despite being aethersick (true and something he would say) and instead immediately slide my cursor down and pick the option where he’s like 😩 okay mommy (also something he would say)
August 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
teleporting makes wren aethersick, so she’ll do it but avoids it if she can. (she’s always a bit unwell in msq if going back and forth.) she prefers her mounts (yol, red hare, etc.) for daily travel but really enjoys being on the sea when there’s no rush for longer trips.

#wrenlore
what is your wol/oc’s favorite method of transportation? chocobo, airship, by sea, etc. Or do they prefer teleporting?

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January 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Meline is an elezen whose connection to aether was warped and twisted at birth so she cannot fly or teleport. She is connected to nature in a viseral way and if she is away from the ground, even on a rental chocobo flight or airship, gets violently aethersick.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
i think she just gets aethersick sometimes, and has this constant really annoying feeling that there's something present just beyond the corner of her eye. but i feel like kasmira loves it when the boss is sick and whiney and wants hot cocoa
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
very cherished very minor npcs:

- ardbert's bunny boy stay at home wife
- little mermaid princess lizard girl
- merlwyb's gay directionless hyur brother
- aethersick aetherologist catboy who is indisputably fisher wol's canon pookie
- get this sensible woman out of camp cloudtop please god
May 27, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Marina's surrounded by enough scholarly types who can assure her the bonds of the soul keep it together during aetheryte transit, so she's never been particularly afraid of it.

That said, she can't teleport herself anymore. She can piggyback with someone else, but is quite aethersick after.
The topic of transport got me curious so #wolqotd how does your WoL/OC feel about using aetherytes?

To explain: The process aethertravel consists of breaking down the physical body into aether particles through the teleport spell so it can flow through the stream and be tangible again upon arrival.
January 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
- starts humming or singing when lost in thought while doing something
- actually slowly needs reading glasses
- *extremely* skilled at losing or misplacing linkpearl
- gets aethersick very fast
- has troubles manipulating aether; gets "drained" fast with slow recovery
December 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
The person going with him has to be able to teleport to their destination themselves. No teleporting people to places they haven't been to. For example, his mom can teleport from Gridania to Sharlayan, but on her own she's going to be aethersick for a couple days and ...

(2/3)
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In canon, Cae'a uses his chocobo when in Eorzea, rides his Yol when in the far east, an amaro when in the First and an alpaca when in Tural.
He could teleport his chocobo with him around Etherys, but Choco gets extremely aethersick with bigger distances.

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What mount(s) is/are canon to your WOL?

Reina’s are her chocobo, the mega shiba, white griffin, blissful kamuy, lunar kamuy, fenrir, and kyuubi
January 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
very funny for them to share a tent in the ilsabard contingent and they never end up fucking bc y’shtola gets aethersick bc garlemald has shit tier vibes and wyra is considerably not in the mood because of The Plot
February 16, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Eve can get a little aethersick when it comes to longer travel (like traveling from the Source to the First) but simple travel between aethernets in towns don't bother her
The topic of transport got me curious so #wolqotd how does your WoL/OC feel about using aetherytes?

To explain: The process aethertravel consists of breaking down the physical body into aether particles through the teleport spell so it can flow through the stream and be tangible again upon arrival.
January 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
that second bit is something she doesn't really learn to harness properly until stormblood however. The connection also powers her red magic- since it gives her body extra aether, it thus powers her red magic, so her endurance is wild. It does have its drawbacks tho, she can get aethersick easily
October 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Varrekai started as a Miqo'te girlie lmao. HW came around, showed the AuRa, and I said "ok bet"

It wasn't until 5.0 when any actual backstory got established. Being ballsy enough to basically make us aethersick for a period of time got the brainworms going and they haven't stopped.
November 26, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Zikuh prefers not to use them if she can help it. For one thing, she tends to get aethersick, which i figure is like carsickness. For another thing, she has trouble focusing on a destination and gets frustrated when she ends up somewhere else entirely.

Third, and certainly not least, if she--
#wolqotd how frequently does your WOL canonically use the aethernet systems to get around cities? Is it based on how you play the game, or does your WOL's use of them differ from yours?
December 3, 2024 at 2:08 PM
it took hydaelyn almost ten years to yank helios's soul out of the lifestream again. but saeran was born really, really aethersick, and he would be too young anyway. it was too late. right?
May 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Galqar would be like, "I will personally fly Aymeric here in the Regalia so he can see this without getting aethersick. I will bring popcorn."
March 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM