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sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Dec 4
You brought yourself this far - so now what? Right into a rat's nest full of charlatans and liars, if that one is anything to go by - and he told you plain they want something from you. Idiot. Fool.

...but what do you have to lose?

zefstory | duskwight | elezen | ffxivoc
Zefiris stands alone before the doors of a sandstone building - the Waking Sands. Arms wrapped around herself, she eyes the building: thoughtful, cynical. The afternoon sun strikes her in profile as she ponders. This is the beginning of something, though she doesn't know it yet. Closing her eyes with a resigned sigh, she makes her decision.
October 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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Sanctuary
January 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADD...
(transcription available in the yt description!)

#zefstory #wolgraha #grahatia #videos
Sanctuary
YouTube video by Sharlayan Dropout
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February 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Oct 2
Gridania
(June '23)

1561, 11 years before the Calamity. Zef at 16.

1/2

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
October 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Oct 7
Romance
(June '23)

Zef in Sharlayan, 1565 - 9

'...But as is seen frequently in the romances of that era, the hero's quest becomes an all-encompassing obsession; their great passion is their downfall, and all their striving leads only to madness and to ruin.'

zefstory | elezen | duskwight
October 22, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Sep 30
Family
(July '22)

c. 1560, 12 years before the Calamity.

1/5

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
October 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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#zefstory #rahastory #darkfuture
sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Oct 21
Surrogate

October 2024
wc. 1,870

Explicit, G'raha Tia/OC (gender unspecified)
*Please mind the tags!*

Part 2 of my 'Dark Future' series.
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/59758168

(Part 1 is a VN, which can be found here: archiveofourown.org/works/59278126)

#grahatia #ffxivwriters #ffxivfanfic
A rough room with lean-to walls, lit by candlelight, crates serving as tables and books strewn about the floor. G'raha Tia sits naked on the edge of a bed, facing away; his shoulders are hunched, ears flattened and his tail curled around his waist. Scratch marks score his back. Text overlay: 'Surrogate. Explicit - wc. 1870 - Dark Future series. 'Do yourself a favour. Bury your heart. Stick to this kind of thing - it's easier this way.' G'raha Tia receives some sound advice.
November 29, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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September 19, 2023 at 6:56 PM
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sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Sep 28
Bread and Butter
(Dec 2022)

c. 1557, 15 years before the Calamity.

1/4

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
October 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Knowledge
June 2023

#zefstory #zefraha #wolgraha #gpose
A stylized image of Zefiris and the Exarch. It is night; they stand back to back. The Exarch, facing camera, raises a finger to his lips; Zefiris, turned away from camera, looks back over her shoulder, glancing upwards, wary and suspicious. They are framed by the Tower, illuminating the dark, as the moon hangs overhead.
January 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Gridania
(June '23)

1561, 11 years before the Calamity. Zef at 16.

1/2

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
October 2, 2023 at 11:34 AM
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Closing Time
June 2024

Last orders at the Wandering Stairs.

#zefstory #zefraha #wolgraha
Last orders have been called at the Wandering Stairs; moonlight streams down through the city canopy on to the revellers below. Zefiris sits perched in G'raha's lap, an arm around his shoulders; G'raha, perhaps a little the worse for wear of the two of them, holds her close about the waist, his spoken hand lingering dangerously on her uncharacteristically bared thigh, his cheek pressed to her chest.
April 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Dancing Lessons
January 2023

'I think we're finally starting to get the hang of it - but my back is *killing* me. Feo Ul, your majesty, loveliest of branches, do you think you could...help us out?'

Struggling with height difference? Call in a fae favour 😉

youtu.be/swv79iL2rUk

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Dancing Lessons
YouTube video by Sharlayan Dropout
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March 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Bread and Butter
(Dec 2022)

c. 1557, 15 years before the Calamity.

1/4

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
September 28, 2023 at 9:50 AM
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Exarch
October 2023

'I am but an extension of it now.'

#zefstory #rahastory #grahatia #crystalexarch #gpose
G'raha kneels on the floor, stripped to the waist. His hands, both spoken and crystal, are raised to cover his face; with one eye visible behind them, he stares out with an expression of sick horror and despair. The walls of the Tower enwomb him: deep blue crystal chased with thick veins of gold, a vivid mirror of his own altered flesh.
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Family
(July '22)

c. 1560, 12 years before the Calamity.

1/5

zefstory | elezen | duskwight | ffxivoc
September 30, 2023 at 10:50 AM
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Love
October 23

Of all the roles I assumed, none was so unexpected - and for none am I more grateful. Never will I burden you with the knowledge; yet full oft you alone stood between me and the precipice. As long as I endure, no harm shall come to you - so I swear.

#zefstory #rahastory #grahatia
Firm and unyielding, the Exarch stands before the Tower under a sky afire with senescent Light. His crystallized hand holds his staff firmly; his spoken hand cradles a young Lyna, perched on his hip and clinging to his robes, a smile of perfect trust on her face.
January 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Triptych
Sep 2022/Apr 2023

Gen, character study

Three linked tales from the Crystarium, following the Scion's return from the Tempest.

I. Homecoming wc. 4241
2. Veracity wc. 2765
3. Break a Leg wc. 1358

🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/46222519

#zefstory #zeffic #wolgraha #ffxivwriters #ffxivfanfic
A title card, showing a long shot of the Crystarium under a night sky. 'Triptych' I. Homecoming 2. Veracity 3. Break a Leg Three tales from the Crystarium, on the Scion's return from the Tempest.
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Wanderer
July 2023

#zefstory #rahastory #grahatia #gpose
G'raha Tia, seated in a vibrant field of flowers in a land which we recognise as Il Mheg. He is dressed in the same sturdy longboots he wore at the Find, centuries before, and light archer's armour retrieved from the Tower; a travelling pack, and a lightweight bow rest at his side. His right hand is fully crystallized to the wrist, though yet lacking the gold veining we will come to be familiar with. He wears a leather cuff in an effort to protect the raw flesh at the seam, but worries at the back of his hand regardless. His face, too, is now marred with a slash of blue across his cheek - an injury sustained in transit from the Source, which healed in crystal. Indistinct in the background, as yet unseen by G'raha, a familiar fae figure flits, intrigued by the newcomer.
January 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Solitude
October 2023

'Thought it were me imagination, 'til I mentioned one night in the Stairs, well in me cups - and t'other Guard all nodded. We've all heard it some time or other, faint on the wind: an old piano, playin' the loneliest tune you ever heard.'

#zefstory #rahastory #grahatia #gpose
The grand Theatre in the upper levels of the Tower; the Exarch sits playing a grand piano in the center of the room, his eyes closed, lost in his melancholy music.
January 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Adventure

October 2023

G'raha Tia, Student of Baldesion, arrives in Eorzea to join the Crystal Tower expedition.

Extra shots and ficlet in replies!

#rahastory #zefstory #grahatia
G'raha Tia, of the Students of Baldesion, disembarks the ship which has brought him from Sharlayan. It is a bright day, and the sun is high; he stands on the Lominsan docks, backpack in hand, with his right arm raised to shield his eyes from the sun as he looks to the horizon.
October 31, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Reposting Zef's story so far in chronological order gives me an ideal chance to re-share this incredible gift from @mischiefmilly.bsky.social, which sits right around here on the timeline!

I love this fic with all my heart - forever thankyou to milly for taking such good care of them! 💗

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mischiefmilly.bsky.social cozy milly 🍂 GWF prep @mischiefmilly.bsky.social · Oct 31
lovers in moonlight 🌕
⠀⤷ #millywrites ⟡ #millycomms ⟡ #wolexarch ⟡ #wolgraha ⟡ #ffxivwriters, 1.9k, explicit, post-5.0 established relationship

Or, an evening with Zefiris and the Crystal Exarch.

🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/48134827
🎁: @sharlayandropout.bsky.social 💗
lovers in moonlight by etravesura (mischiefmilly) summary: But the crystal winding up his cheek, the creeping grey in his hair and tail – these features were physical evidence of just how desperate he was to save her. Evidence of his devotion, of just how far he’d go. That he would sacrifice his all to do it, happily. Or, an evening with Zefiris and the Crystal Exarch.
February 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Since I have no finished works at all set in SB - a thread of the broad strokes!

Zef spends the majority of SB consumed by grief and rage. She's on autopilot - dully doing as she's bid in a dissociated haze; or she's raging, furious, lashing out - mostly at herself.

🧵 #zefstory #zeflore
November 23, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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The Vault
June 2023

#zefstory #elezen #duskwight
Zefiris and Haurchefant at the Vault; they run up the cathedral stairs together, side by side. Sunset light streams through the tall windows, illuminating everything in gold. He looks to her as they run, and she him - smiling despite the circumstances, as though there is nothing they cannot do together. Alphinaud and Rivienne, a comrade of Zef's from her Flames squadron, bring up the rear.
November 19, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Cross

sfw, gen, oc character study
wc. 3188
CW: anxiety, depression, panic attacks, dissociation

An adventurer arrives in Ul'dah...

Read it here: archiveofourown.org/works/46951180

Captioned illustrations for the fic can be found here: archiveofourown.org/works/497807...

zefstory | ffxivfanfic
November 5, 2023 at 11:08 AM
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Reposts have reached ARR! 😅

Zef's arrival in Ul'dah, and the road she walked to get there. This is an older fic and a bit rough, but it gives you the idea 😊 The illustrations can now be found as a second chapter at the first link.

#zefstory #zeflore
sharlayandropout.bsky.social Zef - Sharlayan Dropout @sharlayandropout.bsky.social · Nov 5
Cross

sfw, gen, oc character study
wc. 3188
CW: anxiety, depression, panic attacks, dissociation

An adventurer arrives in Ul'dah...

Read it here: archiveofourown.org/works/46951180

Captioned illustrations for the fic can be found here: archiveofourown.org/works/497807...

zefstory | ffxivfanfic
October 25, 2024 at 8:33 PM