.oo5 ; The Many Looks of Yuveria's Miqo'te.

Sorry about the lack of blogging lately! I've been a bit busy with real life, and some achievement chasing in FFXIV, which i'll talk about in another post :3  But I got a job in real life! yaaaaayyyyy, supah excited. So now that I've dialed down on the active searching, and achievement hunting, I decided to make a post about my various looks in FFXIV, not all of them, but some of them! Becauseeee, lets be honest, there's A LOT of outfits I have in FFXIV. So, that'll take a very long time to make, and get together, and another honesty; I like to keep some of my looks private! Gotta try to stay some what original ^^;;  So, enough rambling, here are some of my looks <3.

*These images are actually really large, so feel free to click on them for a better view. :3

That's all I wanted to share for now c: I hope you enjoyed <3

Hopefully thing will clear up for me so I can post more often xD

.oo4 ; All About Au Ra's *Character Creation Spoiler Alerts

Since there's not much left for me to do in FFXIV before expansion besides level classes, and make gil, considering I've farmed all FCOB I wanted to long before echo came out, I decided to mess more with Au Ra's from the benchmark SquareEnix gave us.

Here's what I've made as my two top choices for my character. (click all images for a larger view)

I'm not too sure yet on which faction to go with. My Miqo'te is luckily the best racially stat'd for healing, so I really lucked out there. But as I stand right now, I really like the Raen over the Xaela for me personally. I just can't pull off the dark, seductive-succubus look very well xD; I'm also not too into grey-tones for my own characters. I have nothing against grey-tones for skins, I use my character as an extension of myself, so my existing Miqo'te actually looks like myself. So that's why I'm more attached to Raen.

But I didn't just want to talk about my character creation, I wanted to share with you all the information about Au Ra's I could gather. :3 *Use CTRL+F to open a search bar to locate specific chapters you're looking for.

- Au Ra Information Index -

.o1 - Male Racial differences Raen vs. Xaela

.o2 - Skin Color Palette

.o3 - Tail Options

.o4 - Full Body Scales 

.o5 - Hair Style Options

.o6 - Facial Options (View for Horns)

.o7 - New Eye Feature *Au Ra only

.o8 - Scales (otherwise known as Facial Features)
.o9 - Preview of the Au Ra Race Attire.

.10 - New Hairstyle options for All Races.

- .o1 Male Racial Differences: Raen vs. Xaela -

The scaling is the same colors for both female, and male races. Raen's will always have the off-white cream color, while the Xaela's will have the dark off-black navy blue scales. Females are short, similar in height range to Miqo'te female, while males are tall, similar in height range to Elezen & Roegadyn. The biggest difference between the males, is in their eyes.
You can notice that the Raen's have normal eyes, iris with normal sclera(fancy smachy word for the white part of your eyes surrounding your iris.)  When you take a look at the Xaela, you'll quickly notice that their sclera is black, giving the male Xaela a much more demonic-look. (See picture down below for a better view)
*reason why I didn't do female, is because females have the same differences, but both races have white sclera's. Which is shown in my first two screenshots.

-.o2 Skin Color Palette -
 Each racial side has a different skin palette to choose from as well, for both male Raen & Xaela, and female Raen & Xaela. The people descended from Raen are of a more peach to tan range in skin color, with minor variations of creative warm colors and a few cool tone options, while the Xaela are primarily given darker, more gray-toned skin options that range more on the cooler side of colors.

Click for a Larger Imagine

-.o3 Tail Options -

Au Ra's tails act much like Miqo'te's do in character creation in the sense that you can adjust the length of the tail. So far in the given benchmark there are only four tail options to choose from, none of which change color, and are stuck as the racial scale colors of your choosing: Raen's being cream-white, and Xaela's being a dark blue. In the given lore about Au Ra's, they're descended from a dragon race, so these tails aren't that of a lizard, these tails are made from dragon scales. Which explains why the tails have spikes on them. Both Raen and Xaela's, as well as females & males, have the same tail options to choose from, just FYI. A view of all tail options one by one, can be found below :3

-.o4 Full Body Scales -

While you can change facial features, like scales, you cannot edit where the scales are on the body. So keep that in mind when you're thinking about going Au Ra. Here's a view of all Scales for both male and female.

-.o5 Hair Options -

As much as I'd like to show you ever single hair option specifically made for Au Ra's, I'd like to at least leave some of it a surprise to some extent. So I've decided to take a picture of the hair styles icon's out of the selection area.

 

-.o6 Facial Options (Horns) -

This is another section of character creation I'd like to leave somewhat a surprise. Sadly, the horns are attached to the faces, so there's no way to take one face, and match it with another horn style, they come in a package.

-.o7 New Eye Feature for Au Ra's -

Each race has something unique about them, but I feel as if the developers gave it a little something special, and unique. As if the scales and horns weren't unique as is. You've probably noticed it in my earlier screenshots, the ring around the iris's. This is actually something you can choose to have, or not to have, and you can even choose the color about it. Though the colors are quiet bright and saturated, like neon versions of the actual color from the color palette, which is why I like to just go with plan black and white Limbal Rings. (Which is what this new feature is called by the way)

-.o8  Scales, otherwise known as Facial Features -

When creating characters, we all come to option of facial features. Stuff like facial hair, scaring, or beauty marks (aka that one black mole female models can have). but for Au Ra's, it's referred to as Scales, not facial features. Each set of scales varies from face to face, and I don't want to spoil everything, so I'll just show you one example :3 Leave the rest for you to find out on your own when expansion comes! 

As you can see, you can remove some, not all of the scales on the face(s). You can't hide your dragon heritage now :P!

-.o9 Preview of the Au Ra's Race Attire-

-.10 Preview of the new Hairstyles for all Races -

I was excited when I scrolled down the hair options list, to find two new hair styles that every race can use. So, as a little treat, I figured I might as well share this information too :3

There you have it. My super long post of super-longness is finally done and over with. So much worth went into gathering all the screenshots one by one, I'd forget things, so I'd constantly be going back and forth between editing the screenshots, then getting more screenshots to edit because I forgot to get them in the first place. GG me. >>; But now it's all complete, and I'm super happy about it, and I hope it helped someone out there <3

.oo3 ; Hello from Minecraft!

Something I always loved about video games was the ability to create things, like an alternative life in a world that can't exist because we can't have magical powers.. damn it. :l

Games like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and Rune Factory were some of these games that i consider to fall under that category for myself. So when I came across Minecraft years ago, I fell in love with it.

 I wouldn't go as far to say i'm a super fantastical builder, but I get the job done. I don't spend a lot of my time researching things to build, or how to build XYZ, I just go with what I can make up from my head.  A lot of the general population for minecraft enjoys making huge complex, almost unreal structures, that you'd find in fantasy movies or games, but I would consider myself the type of builder who tries to live out a "normal" life in a fantasy world. I build houses that present realistic uses: kitchen, living room, bedroom, armory, crafting area, porch in the backyard, pool, etc. As boring as that might sound to others, I actually really like it. Considering I'm 5"1 tall in real life, I don't really think I could build my own house with my own two hands in under an hour. lmao. 

But another reason I really love playing mincraft, is that I get to play it with my boyfriend :3 He's more into playing console games, like right now he's addicted to Sunset Overdrive, so I don't get to play FFXIV with him, but we share minecraft together. So we have our own server where we build whatever we like to, and do whatever we like it. bow chika wow wowoooooowow. pixelatedsex. wait what? Kiddinggggg. Calm down. On the current server we're playing on we started off building our own house. Sadly, that didn't go so well. Something cause my baby to lag, so we ended up tinkering with the items around, and found out the house was making him lag. Probably because of his texture pack being outdated, but never the less, we made a mansion only to destroy it block by block. We've yet to start recreating our house, but for some reason.. smaller houses seem.. much more homely. So sometime so we'll tackle making a new house together.

I don't know either. But I couldn't stop laughing.

Along side our house, we each have our own place we made by ourselves, because why not? I'm a girl, I do admit deep down inside I'm girly, I like the color pink, so.. I made myself a pink house :D #dealwithit. And he made a man cave, quite literally too. He built it inside a mountain. I'll definitely get around to taking pictures of our own places and give you guys a little tour :3
But until then, enjoy this random and old screenshot of my dodo killing time. LOL

I would love to see minecraft make more items, or at least make the fish that you catch become a real pet, so you can have makeshift aquariums in your house. I think that'd be an awesome idea. :T Make it happen people! Not to mention make a cat spawner ;-; please, i need muh bb. I just want a pet cat without searching my whole terrain for hours on end ;-; *coughs* A-anyways.. I know this post was shorter than the last one, but hopefully it was still enjoyable. :3

If you've read this far, I really appreciate the time you've taken to make it here. Have a great day <3

*we destroyed this house. LOL

.oo2 ; Hello from Final Fantasy XiV

In all of MMO history I've always mained a healing class of sorts, so it was only natural that when I started playing FFXIV I jumped straight into the healing class and never looked back. This is my FFXIV Story summed up as best I can :3

Meet my Miqo'te!

My first ever class I played was Conjurer, the pre-requisite to Whitemage :3 I had so much fun leveling it, I actually didn't mind making another character to play as (free name change! because 2013 had no available name changes to buy with cash >:o ). I still remember my very first day playing, and my very first friend that I ever made in that game, who invited me to his Free Company(Guild/Clan), and all that good stuff! Even though I started out on Whitemage, when I attempted to do Coil of Bahamut Turn 1, I was on Scholar, with full Royal set from Labyrinth of the Ancients. My heart started pounding so bad when the Snake split into two "oh shit oh shit oh shit" XDD I went from panicking on my very first raid, to farming T13 like it was nothing. Time really does fly by.

 Considering I've 'diagnosed' myself with a healing addiction, it was natural that I decided to level and play Scholar as well. c:
When I officially started raiding, I actually did raid as Scholar. 1st and 2nd group I ever raided with required a Scholar, so I gave it a try. When my second group reformed I changed to Whitemage, only to return as a Scholar for my 3rd group, then once more changed to Whitemage for my 4th group, and my 5th (current) group. 
But don't make any mistakes! I can still play my Scholar just fine in Final Coil of Bahamut (: 

Scholar feels nostalgic to me, like a Disc Priest from WoW, which I mained, almost feels natural. But I feel comfortable wherever I am as long as I'm healing.<3 

You can bet all your Gil i'll be leveling and playing Astrologian when expansion comes out! Definitely gonna get all three healer Relic weapons first >:3

My last class I thoroughly enjoy playing at this current moment, would be Blackmage! You really can't deny that you like those huge crit numbers when you Flare back to back in dungeons with huge mob pulls *q* It's a really nice break from healing all raid long. Considering I have my Scholar to 50, I also have my Summoner to 50, but I don't have the Dreadwyrm book for Summoner yet >: While Summoner is fun, and spreading DoTs is nice, the Flare damage is makes me drool with excitement *q*... I MEAN WHAT. *cough* I just like Blackmage more than Summoner.. Y-yea.

I've been leveling throughout this gap before the expansion. When I first started, I only leveled the magic classes to 50, and Archer high enough for Raging strikes. Then over a year later I finally decided to get Bard to 34 for Quelling strikes, which lead to Bard getting to 50! Now I'm working on Dragoon, and Ninja Simultaneously.  Then it's off to the tanks for cross skills for Dark Knight >:3 Then all that's left is Monk! I'll get all the battle classes to 50 some day! Hopefully before expansion.. 

Last but not least.. Crafting and Gathering!!

When I first started this game, I wasn't pro at crafting, or gathering. Only once way after when the Artisan glasses came about was when I really got into crafting. Though only recently was when my crafting took off, and I obtained my weaver Lucis. Now I dabble in 3/4 star crafting when I got spare time, and free ehcatl sealants saved up, as well as spare demimateria lying around.  I originally made my Gil off Botanist, which wasn't a lot, but I still love gathering my own supplies, and gathering overall. Lucis Botanist Relic weapon, i'm coming for you! 

While there's no new content to do until expansion, I don't think I'll ever stop playing. I still have much to do until expansion. (saving up for a small house, leveling other classes, Lucis Botanist Relic weapon, to name a few) I'm even planning in real life how to go about the expansion, and what to do first. :x But I'll talk about that another time :D

For now, enjoy this Spriggan creepin on you <3

For those of you who read this far, you're the bestest, and I'm /hugging you. Can you feel it Senpai? *u* huehuehuehue, i'll be quiet now <3 plsdon'tkillme kthxbai.

.oo1 ; Who is Yuveria?

Hey guys, I guess first thing you should know about me is that I've been playing video games since I was four years old- Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time on the N64 was my very first game. Though it was more of my Dad finishing the bosses, and the temples, and me doing all the games and spamming songs on the ocarina and adventuring around. N64 was my very first console, and I recall playing Super Mario 64, Star fox 64, Smash Bros., and others, as I grew up.

I first got into anime when I went to my favorite childhood game store, and saw the SailorMoon Figurines lying around on the shelves. So eventually I looked around and found it had a show. (Or more so my parents did.) I believe I was six or seven at the time. All I know is they were VCR tapes, and it was when I was a little kid.

Though I technically dub "FLCL" as my first real anime, considering I saw all the episodes, and completed the series. I never got the chance to track down all the VCR tapes for SailorMoon, so I've yet to even complete the original series :T

When I was around 12 or 13, I got into my very first MMO- Fly for Fun (FlyFF) a f2p MMORPG published by Gpotato. Ever since then I traversed through the F2P MMO world, and then wound up playing WoW towards the end of High School when Cataclysm was fairly new.
  As for the present i'm currently obsessed with FFXIV:ARR (Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn), and HotS (Heroes of the Storm) Closed Beta.
So expect some posts about my random adventures throughout those games :3

But for now, I shall be quiet about myself, and I shall post more about video games soon enough.

PS. I wear glasses.