“But there are no right words for such a circumstance— to send them on their way, that is.”
I did a write-up on this illustration over on my patreon. The post is public, includes only some Kingsglaive-related spoilers, and is written with non-XV-players in mind. Thank you so much for reading.
❀ AUs and Crossovers: see verse page for details and wishlist AUs/verses! Please don't be afraid to hit me up if you want to establish new verses/AUs with our muses.
About the blog
xMy Iris is very headcanon-heavy, though this doesn’t mean you have to agree with all of my headcanons and ideas. If you wanna switch up our muses’ interactions, relationships or headcanons, do let me know through ask and IMs. I'm always down for discussions and plotting!
xThe one HC that I will be a constant is Iris' nationality as half-Galahdan because of her mother, and using Philippine culture as influences for the village her mother grew up in. Totally cool with going along with other HCs regarding Galahd, though. Let me know if you'd like me to incorporate your HCs with mine :D
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xGeneral RP etiquette and respect is all I ask for.
Feel free to turn asks and meme responses into threads. Feel free to reblog from me and not worry about ‘reblog karma’.
Please make a new post and @ing/tagging me in it instead of reblogging ask posts.
I’ll allow a bit of godmodding if we’ve plotted the thread situations out beforehand.
Don’t hold back around my muses. If your muse is angered and aggressive, don’t be afraid to hurt/manhandle my muse if it works for the thread, but do expect them to react accordingly. Iris is tough, especially as a Daemon Hunter. Don't underestimate her.
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xMy eyesight is terrible and, in threads with me, I will most likely change small font sizes into regular size to make it easier for me to read. I hope you all won’t mind.
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xShippy, romantic stuff are great but platonic and familial relationships are also important to Iris! ♡ Crack interactions and relationships are also most welcome!! Since she's a multishipping muse, each relationship is set in their own separate verses/threads, or unless otherwise stated, like with polyamorous relationships.
xThat being said please let me know if you're uncomfortable with the way Iris (or I) are interacting with you or your muse. I'm a really excitable person but I don't want to take anything too far if it's not your thing.
About the MOD
x Yo! Call me XiXi, Filipinx, they/them, currently residing in Canada. Been RPing on tumblr for 7+ yrs. Active in the FFXV/VIIR and DMC rp fandoms.
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x I am of age (20+), and there are adult/dark content in this blog such as violence, gore, and other potentially triggering content. Sexual themes and the like are meant for my main verses (adult Iris) AND only reserved for partners and their muses who are both of age. All of said content will be tagged accordingly. Feel free to ask me to tag certain posts/content, too.
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x English isn’t my first language, sorry if I make a lot of grammatical errors! Feel free to message me if something I typed up didn’t make sense and I'll re-write it.
xI work a full-time office job and a part-time retail job, AND I can totally be a scatterbrain so often times the activity on my blogs are sporadic, and my replies trickle out slowly. Reminders on threads are okay, and thanks for your patience. Central Time Zone (CT), but activity hours heavily vary.
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xLastly, I draw my own fanart and make a handful of my own icons. PLEASE don't take them or use my art as icons/reactions without my permission.
Main Verses: (Mid-game/Comrades to End-game timeline)
"Fight Until the Dawn Breaks Once More" - Dæmon Slayer Amicitia / Hunter / Crownsguard status, ranges from 19 to 25 years old.
"To Endure the Trials to Come" - Hunter-in-training. 15 to 18 years old. Set around the Comrades' timeline with Iris helping the glaives and hunters around Lestallum. She runs a little clothing shop on the side while she trains with the marshal in secret to be able to help with hunts in the future.
"Like the First Morning" - Post-Timeskip. Sun light kisses Eos once again. 26 years old and on. Canon Divergent versions are grouped with Anno Lucis (In the Year of Light) as seen below.
Canon Verse: (Brotherhood to Mid-game timeline)
"Insomnia Lay in Pieces" - Early- to mid-game setting (up to post-Altissia events), 15-16 years old. She's either stationed in Lestallum or Cape Caem with her guardians and Talcott. Party member!Iris shenanigans included, woohoo!
"Before the Downfall" - Pre-game/Kingsglaive timeline, 12- to 15 years old. Life in Insomnia isn't quite amazing but the young teen is doing her best to make the most of everything.
"The Bliss and Melancholy of Jejunity" - Brotherhood timeline, 4- to 11 years old. The youngest Amicitia loves sneaking into the Citadel to roam its halls and bother both guards and glaives alike.
Canon Divergent: (verse/partner dependent)
"Peace onto the Insomniacs" - Niflheim never attacks The Crown City. Details vary between partners.
"Anno Lucis; Salve Rex" - Post-Timeskip, with Noctis continuing his reign as King as he and the retinues rebuild Insomnia from rubble.
"Anno Lucis; Salve Regina" - Post-Timeskip, featuring Queen Lunafreya at the helm.
Scourge-Tainted verses [full post here] - various verses in which Iris has been afflicted with the Scourge and is on the verge of becoming a Daemon.
Twin verse: "Seeing Double?!" - Interactions with other Iris blogs! Twin/sibling shenanigans! Alias: Īara
RoleSwap AUs:Flōris Arma
Fleuret’s Shield: "To Reclaim the Throne of Fleuret" - Sisterhood. The female cast in the roles of the Chocobros. Age varies.
Eldest Amicitia: "Just Call Her Titanide" - Age swap with Gladio, 23y.o. Iris is the Royal Shield of Lucis or the Oracle (partner dependent), 15y.o. Gladio is a rowdy lil bro tbfh but she loves him dearly nonetheless!
Young Amicitian Shield: "A Fragile Flower No More"
- Young Iris (between 15-18 years old; partner dependent) accompanies the bros, officially a Royal Shield of Lucis/Crownsguard/Kingsglaive alongside Gladio.
AUs:
Devil May Cry 5 - [verse info]. Parallels Iris' WoR situation as a hunter/survivor. Fortuna-born fighter trained by her elder brother (who was a Holy Knight trainee before Fortuna's downfall). Despite having lost use of her right leg while they fled their collapsing homecity and needing a prosthetic replacement for it, Iris and her brother now utilize their skills and strength as freelance bodyguards/escorts/mercenaries roaming the mainlands. They're a good pair of demon killers, sure, but Iris traversed to Red Grave in hopes of finding the rumoured weaponsmith who specializes in weaponized cybernetic prosthesis stationed there. If she could somehow get them to make an amazing prosthetic leg for her, she knows she'd be an even better demon hunter.
FFXIII AU: - [verse tag] Galahd Amicitia-Iris is a Retinue-in-training to the current monarch of the Pulsian city of Insomnia, Noctis. When an army from the Viper’s Nest raids and ruins their home city, Iris escapes along with her brother Gladiolus, the young prince, and the rest of his Retinues– Ignis and Prompto– and now traverses around Pulse with them to avoid being captured by Cocoon’s soldiers.
Kekkai Sensen: Blood Blockade Battlefront - verse with invisawolf. AU set in Post-Timeskip where a Blood Blockade has formed around a city where the people of Eos sought refuge to live in peace with their dæmon brethren. Iris is forced to join Libra after gaining psychokinetic powers.
Persona 5 - verse with immoralii. Iris struggles to get to know Shibuya and its bustling life after having recently moved to Minato, Tokyo and newly transfered to Kosei High School to pursue her artistic interests. The sudden appearance of a mysterious GPS app on her phone while she figures out how to traverse the subway stations deliver her right at Mementos' doorstep. Trouble awaits her, but so does a watchful creature called Arsène.
FFVII Remake AU: - full info TBA but the idea is to have Iris and Talcott training to become AVALANCHE members.
Astral AU: Messenger of the Gods!Iris - full info TBA
No name preference– totally adores having nicknames
Date of birth, age, place of birth, nationality
July 7th, 1991 [M.E. 741 according to FFXV calendar]. Presently 25. Born in Insomnia of the Kingdom of Lucis. Insomnian-Galahdan (mother is from Galahd) [I HC that-- in terms of irl nationalities-- Iris, Gladio, and their mother are of mixed races, but my Galahd HCs are inspired by Philippine culture]
Physical aspects
Eyes:Reddish-brown eyes Hair: Dark brown hair, thick and wavy Complexion: Olive skintone that boasts plenty of beauty marks and scars [scars chart here] Build/Height: Slender-athletic body type, presently 5′5″and bitter Laterality:dominant right hand but slightly ambidextrous Notable features:few prominent beauty marks on face, neck and shoulders; multiple ear piercings; full upper-body Garuda tattoo [art pending]
Health Issues/Disabilities
-Weak immune system as a child. Was quite sickly and frail growing up, causing her to miss out on the early crownsguard training that Amicitia children had to go through at a certain age. Anemia and asthma are prominent up until her teenage years.
-During the World of Ruin her hands and fingers have constantly received damage due to being a hunter (choice of fighting style is quite frankly that of a Monk Class; favours the use of enhanced power gloves) that even simply holding a pen and writing legibly gives her trouble.
Sexual orientation, relationship status, monogamous/poly/open relationship(s)
Panromantic/pansexual. Relationship status: single, but verse dependent. [established ships and tags pending]
She’s more than okay with being in a polyamorous relationship.
Currently or been in a relationship?
Yes– at the age of 19 she had a casual but very brief relationship with a Doman girl who resided in Lestallum during the worst of the dæmon attacks in the town.
The story Iris will relay to anyone not extremely close to her is that her relationship lasted a good three weeks before they had to part ways because of Iris’ role as a hunter being too demanding for her to stay in one place. Even so, only a handful of close friends and family know that Iris was unable to save her then girlfriend from a rogue MT’s gunfire during a raid on their small outpost.
Father’s name, status, occupation, other general info
Clarus Amicitia, deceased, Lucian-born, member of Lucian Crownsguard and Lucian Ruling Council. Was a strict man of high position though a kind father to his children (even if he wasn’t terribly present in Iris’ life during her childhood).
Mother’s name, status, occupation, other general info
Dea Nivenia { @galahdanwildflower }, deceased, Galahd-born. Played an active role in Galahdan politics and keeping the community safe as a skilled hunter and warrior before marrying into the Amicitia Household and becoming a member of the Crownsguard and Lucian Council alongside Clarus. Claimed to have been killed in action, Iris was 5 years old at the time.
Gladiolus Amicita, elder brother, alive and kicking ass, member of the Crownsguard and the late Prince Noctis’ personal bodyguard and friend. A loving, responsible sibling who had practically been a parent to Iris at a young age. Iris loves him dearly.
Seifer Almasy, (’adopted’) elder brother, also very much alive and kicking ass, Niff glaive and hunter. Despite the rather complicated family relationship, Iris still very much loves Seifer and will never stop thinking of him as family. Family verse with thekingsshield’s Gladio.
Somnus Lucis Caelum, adoptive elder brother, Lucian King and sweet mentor. Circumstances have brought the two together during the World of Ruin and Iris is grateful to have another person to love and care for like family.
Other close family, friends, relationships
Cor Leonis, adopted not-father-figure, Crownsguard Marshal and mentor. One of the most important people in Iris’ life; he’s been a prominent person in her life since her childhood and Iris practically owes her life to him.
-Jared Hester, Amicitia Household butler, deceased. -Talcott Hester, Jared’s grandson, much like a little brother to Iris. -Dustin and Monica Elshett, Crownsguard members and Iris’ loving caretakers. The Chocobros, of course.
Other important facts?
Phobias: -Developed Thalassophobia (fear of open water) around the time of her mother’s death, because all she had been told then was that her mother drowned in Galahd’s waters. The imagery caused her to have night terrors continuously. -Develops severe Monophobia (fear of being alone) during the World of Ruin. More info to come.
Favorites
Color: Moogle red, fuchsia, magenta, purple Least favorite color: yellow-green, bright oranges Music: upbeat pop songs and tranquil instumental music
Food: desserts, anything with berries, anything that isn’t spicy
Literature: fiction, or anything with a happy ending. She doesn’t read much anymore though
Hobbies: training physically, chocobo-riding, gardening, arts and crafts (primarily doll- and figure-making, even general sewing). During the WOR: hunting and weapon-making
Most prized possession(s): -Moogle and rabbit dolls made by her mother -Necklace pendant given to her by Gladio (a medallion with floral design) -Doman-style daggers, birthday presents from Cor
