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Belsara Jsenti, Warrior of Light has a nightmare about Ultima Weapon, a dream about her own mortality, and comes to an important realization with the help of her Voidsent, K'darri, and Esteem. It is okay to *Want* again.
When faced with someone she's desired for so long, and who desires her in return, will she stay stalwart in her repression? Or will the allure of broken shackles drag her to a better place?
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Two years have passed since the events of Wheels of Thunder, and all Arashi and her lovers wish for is to enjoy a happy, peaceful life. But when an old friend arrives at their doorstep with a dreadful warning, it's clear that a new storm is on the horizon.
After his part in Garlemald's near-ruination, Zenos Galvus has avoided a homecoming for as long as he can. Now at last the time has come to face the sins of his past under Athena's control, but the wounds of his father have bled far deeper than he realised, and ghosts from long ago now rise to haunt his every step.
As dreadful foes and familiar faces new and old take to the stage, all signs point westward to the land of the golden dawn. Will the Turali Grand Prix bring glory or calamity? And what price will be paid by those bold enough to challenge it?
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- Part 11 of Storm's Path Collection
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They will tell you what they see, but only you know what the truth is by Theredthreadoffate
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
28 Nov 2025
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Just a convo about the archbishop Thordan
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- 438
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A series of one-shots and short stories in the world and times of Arashi Washi, Warrior of Light. For real this time, I swear.
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- Part 13 of Storm's Path Collection
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I wish that I, that we, could make you see that it does not have to come to this. [...] The fragments of his very soul thrash against the darkness turning him towards this facet of his self, against your urge for self-destruction.
Lucient has sins aplenty, and regrets overflowing. His flavour of escapism comes from the very malleable and very vengeful soul that's bound himself to his own, and if left unchecked, it will lead them both back to the point of no return. His shadow, entwined as it is with the foreign soul, watches on.
or: you're in a toxic codependent relationship with the dead man haunting your soul and your repressed inner self is desperately trying to keep you both from destroying each other.
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- Part 2 of The Light Of Another
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A short one-shot of the entrance to Yuweyawata Station, the first 7.1 dungeon. I always thought it was weird (and stupid) as hell to be allowing a small child into the Umbrella Corp dungeon...
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Just before the Lila can head off to Doma, she finds herself with some time on her hands and a shopping buddy!
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- Part 6 of Lila's Side Quests and Flashbacks
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- 768
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And fear, and grief, and pain by bloomknight (thenearsightedbi)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
26 Aug 2025
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“By the Twelve, are you… Fray?” Alisaie looked on in shock at her own words. A name she barely remembered. The ghost of a smile passing over Clover’s lips as the figure exhaled.
“Am I?” Clover’s head cocked to one side. “That name has not suited me in some time, I should think.” The shade considered, turning Clover’s hand over, back and forth in the air beyond them as they stared at the gauntlet it wore. “Fray, Myste, Heretic, Slayer, many are the names that once marked my aether, but now, I am simply… Esteem.”
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Traveling through Ultima Thule is proving to be more than Clover Bloom, the Warrior of Darkness can handle after the loss of her love, and so she finally let's herself surrender to the darkness within, even if only for a short time.
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- Part 10 of Blooming Dragonfire
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digest and apprehend it in your own way [the corruption and salvation of one gladiolus amicitia] by penthepoet
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XIV, Drag-On Dragoon | Drakengard (Video Games)
21 Aug 2025
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Gladiolus Amicitia takes the Dark Knight jobstone thrown at him during an argument with the Warrior of Light. What he finds simmering under his skin changes him completely.
[ Gladiolus's Dark Knight questline, from its beginning all the way to its culmination. ]
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- Part 4 of Dragoon's Reverie [Liscanon]
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May the Sun be Kind in the Morning by bloomknight (thenearsightedbi)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
17 Aug 2025
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“You’re alone… good.” He smiled, arms crossed as he stood in the hallway. “The twins thought now would be a wonderful time to pay a visit to my chambers. Rather than listen to them bicker about tonight’s snacks and tomorrow’s plans, I seized the first opportunity to escape.” Clover smiled up at him, admiring his exposed chest leading into the column of his neck. “To their credit, they decided against intruding upon your peace and quiet.”
“Care to take refuge?” Clover inclined her head into the room behind her, only a little suggestively.
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After a brutal vision from the Echo, the Warrior of Darkness finds her prayers answered as Estinien comes to her chambers before she can go searching for him herself. Set during the 'Returning Home' quest.
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- Part 9 of Blooming Dragonfire
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My name is Adalyn Keene. I am mute.
My hearing is fine. Please speak to me normally.It can be difficult to make your thoughts heard when you can't speak. Even as the vaunted Warrior of Light, it's much easier for everyone if she just nods along and does as she's told.
It's the people who care to listen that she comes to hold dearest.
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The son of Ul'dahn merchants, F'ynn had shunned his lot in life, choosing to take up arms as a Gladiator, eventually becoming a sellsword with the Immortal Flames. Little did he know that many years down the road, he would end up as a Dark Knight. The story starts from pre-ARR and continues through to Heavensward.
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meow meow meow meow meow
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The only thing left to do is press on, for it is the Warrior of Light's duty to see the story finished.
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- Part 8 of R'mina Tinthe - Warrior of Light
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Another collection of stories to celebrate WoLyse week, dating from 6th July to 12th July. You know what to expect by now, I'm sure.
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- Part 12 of Storm's Path Collection
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“Is it really about that? What I’d prefer.”
“Of course. Why wouldn’t it be?” Her smile twitches, her voice sharpening. “It usually is, after all.”
Paulecrain has a conversation with the Warrior of Light's Esteem.
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The Warrior of Light is Taking Care of Me After The Dragonsong War and I Can’t Possibly Be Falling In Love With Her
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“Such a pity that both of the Warriors of Darkness failed to live up to their titles,” Emet-Selch chided, his words an echo of scorn with no real sound beneath them. “One consumed by the light of Norvandt and the other by the darkness of his own heart… but alas, life is full of such disappointments.”
Teleportation magicks like plum plumes of dark energy began to swirl in front of him.
“Honestly, what is the point of a hero who can’t even save themselves?”
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A’loq’s inner darkness has a name- and when he loses it, he learns what it means to be incomplete within the depths of the Tempest.
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- Part 8 of angelsong
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You can try escaping from yourself, but you can't get far.
[DRK 30. Changes to character canon has led to this being disconnected continuity-wise.]
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There was no mercy to give.