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Dear Creator Letter: Phoenix Down Exchange 2026
Candy Hearts Letter for CorpseBrigadier on Ao3
Dear Creator,
Thanks so much for taking the time to make something for me, and kudos on your great taste in the finest of Final Fantasies. I've listed a variety of prompts below that tend to elaborate on angsty/messy/offbeat ships I'd love to see for the installments in question. However, I'm a firm proponent of optional details being optional, so if your heart is set on a concept that isn't quite in alignment with some of the prompts/ideas here, feel free to follow your muse. I'm a big fan of the unconventional, experimental, and weird in fanworks, and I am always happy to be introduced to something new or offbeat. Whatever direction you opt to take, I'm very excited about whatever you choose to create and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
[NOTE: This letter will be functionally complete at the time it is made public, but it may be tweaked to adjust details/add requests through the end of sign-ups. It will not be altered save to correct grammar/spelling after the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy VIII | Final Fantasy Tactics
Do Not Wants:
• ageplay
• omegaverse
• pregnancy-related kinks (ex: breeding kink, mpreg, worshipful focus on pregnant bellies, etc...)
• scat/emeto (unsexy mentions of vomit and feces are okay)
Opt-Ins:
• all archive warnings for all canons in which I don't DNW one.
• comics, animated artwork, and illustrated fic
• epistolary fiction
• interactive fiction (I like IF a lot, you can check out myunconventionalfanworksex letter here for details.)
• non-linear narratives
• drabble sequences
• NSFW for all canons in which I don't DNW it
• whatever person/tense is your jam
General Likes:
• absurd humor
• angst
• bittersweetness
• black humor
• character death
• complex family relationships
• hurt/comfort
• illness and injury (plague and head trauma in particular)
• fever dreams
• existential despair
• stoicism in the face of terrible things
• surreal imagery
• torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism
• whimsy
• whump
Smut Likes:
• awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic
• blasphemy/sacrilege kink
• clothed or partially clothed sex
• drunk/drugged sex
• hate sex
• non-con/dub-con in general
• non-penetrative sex
• strangulation/breathplay
• undead sex
• violent sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
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I have a deep and profound nostalgia for the final Final Fantasy before Final Fantasy VII (and all the changes it wrought), and I think it remains one of the strongest installments in the series. I love how well it combines hard-hitting character drama with the complete absurdity of RPGs in general, and I love its sweeping, poignant explorations of human relationships in equal measure to its willingness to embrace that sometimes those relationships are offset by a talking purple octopus.
Shadow (Clyde)/Baram: Shadow is just a guy marked by his issues with abandonment, and so much of the game is navigating how he abandons his partner (criminal), his partner (romantic), his child, and--with frustrating regularity--your party. I think one could add additional spice by merging the various types of partners who get abandoned and having Baram/Billy be a case of both a romantic and criminal partner, adding additional dimensions to Shadows overabundant issues.
I'd love something softer and pre-canon that foreshadows (hur hur) Clyde's eventual transformation and life of walking out on people. I'd love something dark that reflects on Clyde's failure to kill Baram and the real horror and angst about whatever the imperial army would or did do to both or either of them. Feel absolutely free to really go whole hog with the angst/darkness here if it suits you.
Shadow/Cyan: There is so much potential here. One is a ninja. One is a samurai. One is a sad dad. One is a bad dad. I also think that the locations in Shadow's flashbacks (near the path of the train and the falls) could be arguably be used to read him as Doman. There is so very much potential for absolutely upsetting content here--opportunities for utter dysfunction and/or miserable hatesex abound. These guys have so many great ways they could bounce off of one another. They have clear shared issues regarding nightmares, parental angst, and train-related trauma, and I feel these could be spun into occasions for both deep sympathy and deep loathing. (Also, according to the Ultimania/Wiki, both men have as their most prized possessions pocket watches that contain family photos! What an opportunity!)
However you want to get these two into a dynamic (by playing into their focus on loyalty/disloyalty, by having revelations as to Relm's parentage and Cyan's reaction, by happenstance or there being only one bed), I'm game. What I'd love to see most between them, however they connect, is something that really shines a light on their similarities and differences and how the tragedies of their lives might intersect. Feel free to be as messy and cruel as you are inspired to be with these two. I love a mess.
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I was not as much a fan of this game when it first came out as I should have been, because I was a dweeby teenager who liked Final Fantasy and I could not yet appreciate having a Final Fantasy about dweeby teenagers who would probably like Final Fantasy. I love how goofy, experimental, dreamlike, and weird this game is, and I love how many gorgeous and fun little details are hidden throughout the game if you poke around. I love that its a psychoanalyst's wet dream of intermixed mother/witch/lover/sister figures, chock full of lunar imagery and wrapped up in all sorts of angst about memories and the irretrievable past. I love that I am always allowed to play Triple Triad no matter the degree of crisis. For the one ship I've selected, I'd be very interested in looking into all the ways the game is simultaneously very poignant and very goofy and wrapped up in people who are trying very hard to be cool while being massively vulnerable and dorky.
Seifer Almasy/Laguna Loire: The real turning point for me in realizing that this game was fantastic was understanding that Seifer's cool battle pose was lifted from Laguna's foray into low budget film stardom and that his romantic obsession with the figure of the sorceress' knight was in some way impacted by Galbadia's most magnificent himbo making stuff up on the spot. Seifer is such a fascinatingly blustery and insecure character, tying himself to a fantasy of masculine heroism that leads him to do violence and torture and ultimately never being able to grasp his ideal. Laguna, on the other hand, who got to briefly act in the role of that ideal, is painfully earnest, unaware and fumbles his way into every bit of heroism he accomplishes.
Anyhow, I think it would be very cool for Seifer to awkwardly encounter and make a pass at the chiefmost actor of The Soreceress' Knight film that left such an impression on him, and for Laguna to match whatever occurs with ample and abundant awkwardity of his own. Whether thing end up being requited, unrequited, or a muddle of complications, I think awkwardity is really key here. I think these two are a great pair of characters to contrast through the medium of shipping, and I'd love to see them placed in situations. (If you feel inspired to and wish to have Seifer understand the relationship between Laguna and Squall, feel free to play into that; I feel an added Freudian dimensions of "Hot dog! Gonna fuck my sworn rival's dad!" can only help add to the potentialities to get messy here.)
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This game has been my major fandom for a few years now. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom. In particular, I'm interested in the dynamics between characters who occupy similar narrative niches but never have the opportunity to meet in game.
Agrias Oaks/Milleuda Folles: Milleuda is a member of the commoner army who was disenfranchised by the Crown; Agrias is an overwhelmingly good egg who had dedicated her life to being chilvaric and honorable and defending that crown. I feel these two--being of roughly the same age--could well have met in the aftermath of the Fifty Years War and had some sort of rough back and forth about their respective roles as swordswomen in very different contexts, and I also think this likely bitter discussion on Ivalice's class system could have ended in angry makeouts. You don't have to incorporate TIC revelations that Agrias' family bought their titles and weren't originally part of the nobility, but this would add an additional dimension to their animosity and one could tie it in to Wiegraf eventually mocking Agrias for her father's actions.
In terms of art, I can envision Agrias getting a little flustered as Milleuda gets confrontational at some end-of-the-war fete. I could also enjoy fairly contextless images of some fighting or making out or fighting and making out. It would be cool to envision them as slightly younger before the aftermath of the last war solidified Milleuda's poverty and/or before Agrias was assigned to Orbonne.
Delita Heiral/Isilud Tengille: Isilud and Delita are implied to know one another based on Isilud's combat dialogue, and within the context of the church conspiracy they both inhabit, I think Delita would find Isilud highly insufferable. He's a naive true believer in The Cause where Delita is a cynical opportunist primed to be suspicious of power. I feel like there should be friction there--particularly given the ways in which Isilud brings to mind Chapter 1 Ramza in his simplistic view of the world and its stakes. As always, from that friction, I feel there should be opportunity for fraught kissing, and a potential comparison of world views.
Artwise, I feel like it would be interesting to show a slice of life in the downtime between Chapter's 1 and 2 of the game as Delita acclimates to being a church agent and no doubt is thrown into Isilud's company (sparring, praying, strategizing, etc...). I also think they'd just look neat next to one another, possibly in a stylized stained-glass or medievalesque manuscript style. Feel free to use images of fish/pisces in relation to Isilud--as I am ever a sucker for zodiac stone imagery.
Goffard Gaffgarion/Cidolfus Orlandeau: Ramza gets two incredibly different old man mentors over the course of the narrative and they both were fighters in the same armed conflict, albeit in ways that left them with very very different viewpoints. One is an exemplar of nobility and loyalty who feels that Ivalice was fighting the good fight when it unilaterally invaded Ordallia. One is a cynical sellsword who believes money is the only meaningful way to compete with the nobility and who ostensibly did some level of war crimes. I think it would be neat to see these two characters with very different ideologies born of the same conflict come into contact and compare notes--possibly as youths entangled in the Fifty Years War, possibly as older and supposedly wiser men looking back upon it. As always, I feel this type of ideological comparison is best captured by having it spill over into awkward sexual tension.
Visually, I'd be really interested in seeing your take on a younger Gaffgarion and Cid and what they look like during an earlier phase of life when The War(tm) is only a Twenty Years War. I'm also here for them fighting/posing/making out as we see them in game. Feel free to provide overpower-sword-arts old man yaoi for this request.
Simon Penn-Lachish/Zalmour Lucianda: There's only really two characters committed to the office of the Inquisition full time in the history of the game (I know Elmdore is also affiliated, but he has other stuff going on). One of them has a mysterious "incident" in his past that led to his retirement to Orbonne. One of them is presented as an unwavering religious fanatic completely confident in his actions. I would love to hear the story of whatever led Simon to abandon his post. I would also love to see interactions between Simon and Zalmour when both are in the Inquisition, with one clearly headed towards a loss of faith and one moving towards fanaticism. As always, I think the key to these interactions in which we compare tangentially related character arcs is for the characters being compared to make out at some point--which could be interesting here as a catalyst for the changes in career both men face.
In terms of art, I'd once more be gung ho about seeing reimaginings of the characters as younger, and I'd once more be very keen in something that goes wild with religious imagery and iconography. Feel free to get a little abstract and symbolic if it suits you. Images that draw on specific episodes of the Glabados mythos (icons, wells, gallows) would also be welcome.
Valmafra Lenade/Meliadoul Tengille: Much like Delita/Isilud, this ship is about two church conspiracy members where there's a large gap in precisely how much they seem to believe in the validity and good intentions of the church. I also just think it's cool to have an honor-bound swordswoman who does her best to be a good girl tossed into the company of a far more world-weary and cynical witch who seems to have a lot of cutting things to say about the ideals of others. I think it would be very cool for Valmafra to critique Meliadoul's beliefs and make some moves towards seducing her out of them. I think it would be very cool to play with the particulars of religiousity and witchcraft. Please feel free to make up whatever cool pieces of witchery/Glabadosian belief you feel would best enhance any scenario between these two--as both are fairly underdeveloped in game.
In terms of art, going with imagery pertaining to witchcraft and religion would be awesome. I'm also--as with all of the ships for this canon, very down for medievalesque styling, ostentatious use of symbols (feel free to add archers/Sagittarius imagery for Meliadoul) and simple illustrations of the characters posing, sparring, and/or making out.
Zalbaag Beoulve/Wiegraf Folles: This is my highly unintuitive OTP, and I am absolutely happy to receive anything imaginable for it. I adore all the potential here, and if you want a very TL:DR breakdown, I wrote an extensive ship manifesto explaining my rationale for this ship. Zalbag and Wiegraf are two characters of roughly the same age who had their lives impacted by the same war, and I'd love to see things that look to how their different respective outlooks and social ranks affected them before they went on to star in some capital T Tragedy and turn into a boss battle. I'm particularly into hate sex and high toxicity for these two, but I'm stoked to see any take on them you can imagine. If you are so inspired and can pull off fluff or happy endings for these two, have at it. Feel free also to set things whenever and wherever you want. Pre-canon, mid-canon, AU: it's all good!
In terms of art, I'm similarly of a stance that anything goes for this. Draw them as pre-canon Fifty Years War soldiers, as mid-canon opponents, or just abstractly two cool guys hanging out. I am really A+ 110% all right with some injury and blood as it is applicable, and I continue to be up for dumb animal imagery in FFT art. Sheep are great. I will never get tired of Wiegraf being drawn in conjunction with or as sheep. If you're doing something appropriately cutesy and want to throw in a monkey too (Zalbag was jokingly referred to as "Monkey Bag" in the sound test menus for the game in Japanese), go for it.
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Dear Creator,
Thanks so much for taking the time to make something for me, and kudos on your great taste in the finest of Final Fantasies. I've listed a variety of prompts below that tend to elaborate on angsty/messy/offbeat ships I'd love to see for the installments in question. However, I'm a firm proponent of optional details being optional, so if your heart is set on a concept that isn't quite in alignment with some of the prompts/ideas here, feel free to follow your muse. I'm a big fan of the unconventional, experimental, and weird in fanworks, and I am always happy to be introduced to something new or offbeat. Whatever direction you opt to take, I'm very excited about whatever you choose to create and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
[NOTE: This letter will be functionally complete at the time it is made public, but it may be tweaked to adjust details/add requests through the end of sign-ups. It will not be altered save to correct grammar/spelling after the end of sign-ups.]
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins) | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy VIII | Final Fantasy Tactics
General (DNWs, Likes, Opt-Ins, Etc...)
Do Not Wants:
• ageplay
• omegaverse
• pregnancy-related kinks (ex: breeding kink, mpreg, worshipful focus on pregnant bellies, etc...)
• scat/emeto (unsexy mentions of vomit and feces are okay)
Opt-Ins:
• all archive warnings for all canons in which I don't DNW one.
• comics, animated artwork, and illustrated fic
• epistolary fiction
• interactive fiction (I like IF a lot, you can check out my
unconventionalfanworksex letter here for details.)• non-linear narratives
• drabble sequences
• NSFW for all canons in which I don't DNW it
• whatever person/tense is your jam
General Likes:
• absurd humor
• angst
• bittersweetness
• black humor
• character death
• complex family relationships
• hurt/comfort
• illness and injury (plague and head trauma in particular)
• fever dreams
• existential despair
• stoicism in the face of terrible things
• surreal imagery
• torture; religious, mythological, and/or plant-based symbolism
• whimsy
• whump
Smut Likes:
• awkward, bad, or inept sex that's still enthusiastic
• blasphemy/sacrilege kink
• clothed or partially clothed sex
• drunk/drugged sex
• hate sex
• non-con/dub-con in general
• non-penetrative sex
• strangulation/breathplay
• undead sex
• violent sex
Art Likes: I like things with dynamic poses; things that are cute/cartoonish; things that do something offbeat and a little bit exaggerated/surreal; and things that are a little over-stylized and dripping with symbolic imagery. Limited palettes and starkly inked black and white pieces are close to my heart as I am a rotten colorist and have an affinity for styles I could conceivably emulate. I also tend to like things that are de-saturated or a washed out looking. As with my general likes, I'm a sucker for anything that has cool symbolism with plants and religion in it.
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Final Fantasy VI
[Requesting FIC]I have a deep and profound nostalgia for the final Final Fantasy before Final Fantasy VII (and all the changes it wrought), and I think it remains one of the strongest installments in the series. I love how well it combines hard-hitting character drama with the complete absurdity of RPGs in general, and I love its sweeping, poignant explorations of human relationships in equal measure to its willingness to embrace that sometimes those relationships are offset by a talking purple octopus.
Shadow (Clyde)/Baram: Shadow is just a guy marked by his issues with abandonment, and so much of the game is navigating how he abandons his partner (criminal), his partner (romantic), his child, and--with frustrating regularity--your party. I think one could add additional spice by merging the various types of partners who get abandoned and having Baram/Billy be a case of both a romantic and criminal partner, adding additional dimensions to Shadows overabundant issues.
I'd love something softer and pre-canon that foreshadows (hur hur) Clyde's eventual transformation and life of walking out on people. I'd love something dark that reflects on Clyde's failure to kill Baram and the real horror and angst about whatever the imperial army would or did do to both or either of them. Feel absolutely free to really go whole hog with the angst/darkness here if it suits you.
Shadow/Cyan: There is so much potential here. One is a ninja. One is a samurai. One is a sad dad. One is a bad dad. I also think that the locations in Shadow's flashbacks (near the path of the train and the falls) could be arguably be used to read him as Doman. There is so very much potential for absolutely upsetting content here--opportunities for utter dysfunction and/or miserable hatesex abound. These guys have so many great ways they could bounce off of one another. They have clear shared issues regarding nightmares, parental angst, and train-related trauma, and I feel these could be spun into occasions for both deep sympathy and deep loathing. (Also, according to the Ultimania/Wiki, both men have as their most prized possessions pocket watches that contain family photos! What an opportunity!)
However you want to get these two into a dynamic (by playing into their focus on loyalty/disloyalty, by having revelations as to Relm's parentage and Cyan's reaction, by happenstance or there being only one bed), I'm game. What I'd love to see most between them, however they connect, is something that really shines a light on their similarities and differences and how the tragedies of their lives might intersect. Feel free to be as messy and cruel as you are inspired to be with these two. I love a mess.
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Final Fantasy VIII
[Requesting FIC]I was not as much a fan of this game when it first came out as I should have been, because I was a dweeby teenager who liked Final Fantasy and I could not yet appreciate having a Final Fantasy about dweeby teenagers who would probably like Final Fantasy. I love how goofy, experimental, dreamlike, and weird this game is, and I love how many gorgeous and fun little details are hidden throughout the game if you poke around. I love that its a psychoanalyst's wet dream of intermixed mother/witch/lover/sister figures, chock full of lunar imagery and wrapped up in all sorts of angst about memories and the irretrievable past. I love that I am always allowed to play Triple Triad no matter the degree of crisis. For the one ship I've selected, I'd be very interested in looking into all the ways the game is simultaneously very poignant and very goofy and wrapped up in people who are trying very hard to be cool while being massively vulnerable and dorky.
Seifer Almasy/Laguna Loire: The real turning point for me in realizing that this game was fantastic was understanding that Seifer's cool battle pose was lifted from Laguna's foray into low budget film stardom and that his romantic obsession with the figure of the sorceress' knight was in some way impacted by Galbadia's most magnificent himbo making stuff up on the spot. Seifer is such a fascinatingly blustery and insecure character, tying himself to a fantasy of masculine heroism that leads him to do violence and torture and ultimately never being able to grasp his ideal. Laguna, on the other hand, who got to briefly act in the role of that ideal, is painfully earnest, unaware and fumbles his way into every bit of heroism he accomplishes.
Anyhow, I think it would be very cool for Seifer to awkwardly encounter and make a pass at the chiefmost actor of The Soreceress' Knight film that left such an impression on him, and for Laguna to match whatever occurs with ample and abundant awkwardity of his own. Whether thing end up being requited, unrequited, or a muddle of complications, I think awkwardity is really key here. I think these two are a great pair of characters to contrast through the medium of shipping, and I'd love to see them placed in situations. (If you feel inspired to and wish to have Seifer understand the relationship between Laguna and Squall, feel free to play into that; I feel an added Freudian dimensions of "Hot dog! Gonna fuck my sworn rival's dad!" can only help add to the potentialities to get messy here.)
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Final Fantasy Tactics
[Requesting FIC or ART]This game has been my major fandom for a few years now. I love how immensely unrepentantly bleak it is, how it's full of Church-flavored horror, and how it is just filled to the brim with unhappy families. I'm entirely here for political backstabbing and endless misery 24/7 in this sad little world of grid-based warfare. I love pretty much everything within it, and I would frankly be happy to receive almost anything for this fandom. In particular, I'm interested in the dynamics between characters who occupy similar narrative niches but never have the opportunity to meet in game.
Agrias Oaks/Milleuda Folles: Milleuda is a member of the commoner army who was disenfranchised by the Crown; Agrias is an overwhelmingly good egg who had dedicated her life to being chilvaric and honorable and defending that crown. I feel these two--being of roughly the same age--could well have met in the aftermath of the Fifty Years War and had some sort of rough back and forth about their respective roles as swordswomen in very different contexts, and I also think this likely bitter discussion on Ivalice's class system could have ended in angry makeouts. You don't have to incorporate TIC revelations that Agrias' family bought their titles and weren't originally part of the nobility, but this would add an additional dimension to their animosity and one could tie it in to Wiegraf eventually mocking Agrias for her father's actions.
In terms of art, I can envision Agrias getting a little flustered as Milleuda gets confrontational at some end-of-the-war fete. I could also enjoy fairly contextless images of some fighting or making out or fighting and making out. It would be cool to envision them as slightly younger before the aftermath of the last war solidified Milleuda's poverty and/or before Agrias was assigned to Orbonne.
Delita Heiral/Isilud Tengille: Isilud and Delita are implied to know one another based on Isilud's combat dialogue, and within the context of the church conspiracy they both inhabit, I think Delita would find Isilud highly insufferable. He's a naive true believer in The Cause where Delita is a cynical opportunist primed to be suspicious of power. I feel like there should be friction there--particularly given the ways in which Isilud brings to mind Chapter 1 Ramza in his simplistic view of the world and its stakes. As always, from that friction, I feel there should be opportunity for fraught kissing, and a potential comparison of world views.
Artwise, I feel like it would be interesting to show a slice of life in the downtime between Chapter's 1 and 2 of the game as Delita acclimates to being a church agent and no doubt is thrown into Isilud's company (sparring, praying, strategizing, etc...). I also think they'd just look neat next to one another, possibly in a stylized stained-glass or medievalesque manuscript style. Feel free to use images of fish/pisces in relation to Isilud--as I am ever a sucker for zodiac stone imagery.
Goffard Gaffgarion/Cidolfus Orlandeau: Ramza gets two incredibly different old man mentors over the course of the narrative and they both were fighters in the same armed conflict, albeit in ways that left them with very very different viewpoints. One is an exemplar of nobility and loyalty who feels that Ivalice was fighting the good fight when it unilaterally invaded Ordallia. One is a cynical sellsword who believes money is the only meaningful way to compete with the nobility and who ostensibly did some level of war crimes. I think it would be neat to see these two characters with very different ideologies born of the same conflict come into contact and compare notes--possibly as youths entangled in the Fifty Years War, possibly as older and supposedly wiser men looking back upon it. As always, I feel this type of ideological comparison is best captured by having it spill over into awkward sexual tension.
Visually, I'd be really interested in seeing your take on a younger Gaffgarion and Cid and what they look like during an earlier phase of life when The War(tm) is only a Twenty Years War. I'm also here for them fighting/posing/making out as we see them in game. Feel free to provide overpower-sword-arts old man yaoi for this request.
Simon Penn-Lachish/Zalmour Lucianda: There's only really two characters committed to the office of the Inquisition full time in the history of the game (I know Elmdore is also affiliated, but he has other stuff going on). One of them has a mysterious "incident" in his past that led to his retirement to Orbonne. One of them is presented as an unwavering religious fanatic completely confident in his actions. I would love to hear the story of whatever led Simon to abandon his post. I would also love to see interactions between Simon and Zalmour when both are in the Inquisition, with one clearly headed towards a loss of faith and one moving towards fanaticism. As always, I think the key to these interactions in which we compare tangentially related character arcs is for the characters being compared to make out at some point--which could be interesting here as a catalyst for the changes in career both men face.
In terms of art, I'd once more be gung ho about seeing reimaginings of the characters as younger, and I'd once more be very keen in something that goes wild with religious imagery and iconography. Feel free to get a little abstract and symbolic if it suits you. Images that draw on specific episodes of the Glabados mythos (icons, wells, gallows) would also be welcome.
Valmafra Lenade/Meliadoul Tengille: Much like Delita/Isilud, this ship is about two church conspiracy members where there's a large gap in precisely how much they seem to believe in the validity and good intentions of the church. I also just think it's cool to have an honor-bound swordswoman who does her best to be a good girl tossed into the company of a far more world-weary and cynical witch who seems to have a lot of cutting things to say about the ideals of others. I think it would be very cool for Valmafra to critique Meliadoul's beliefs and make some moves towards seducing her out of them. I think it would be very cool to play with the particulars of religiousity and witchcraft. Please feel free to make up whatever cool pieces of witchery/Glabadosian belief you feel would best enhance any scenario between these two--as both are fairly underdeveloped in game.
In terms of art, going with imagery pertaining to witchcraft and religion would be awesome. I'm also--as with all of the ships for this canon, very down for medievalesque styling, ostentatious use of symbols (feel free to add archers/Sagittarius imagery for Meliadoul) and simple illustrations of the characters posing, sparring, and/or making out.
Zalbaag Beoulve/Wiegraf Folles: This is my highly unintuitive OTP, and I am absolutely happy to receive anything imaginable for it. I adore all the potential here, and if you want a very TL:DR breakdown, I wrote an extensive ship manifesto explaining my rationale for this ship. Zalbag and Wiegraf are two characters of roughly the same age who had their lives impacted by the same war, and I'd love to see things that look to how their different respective outlooks and social ranks affected them before they went on to star in some capital T Tragedy and turn into a boss battle. I'm particularly into hate sex and high toxicity for these two, but I'm stoked to see any take on them you can imagine. If you are so inspired and can pull off fluff or happy endings for these two, have at it. Feel free also to set things whenever and wherever you want. Pre-canon, mid-canon, AU: it's all good!
In terms of art, I'm similarly of a stance that anything goes for this. Draw them as pre-canon Fifty Years War soldiers, as mid-canon opponents, or just abstractly two cool guys hanging out. I am really A+ 110% all right with some injury and blood as it is applicable, and I continue to be up for dumb animal imagery in FFT art. Sheep are great. I will never get tired of Wiegraf being drawn in conjunction with or as sheep. If you're doing something appropriately cutesy and want to throw in a monkey too (Zalbag was jokingly referred to as "Monkey Bag" in the sound test menus for the game in Japanese), go for it.
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