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@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 11:24 PM

Also thinking about a potential future Saran who manages to combine her past and present self??? I've legitimately never felt so conflicted about a character before. Of course now I've written down her backstory and designed her past self I'm immediately getting the urge to rewrite

#SaranAU

An alternate Saran with purple hair and pale lilac skin.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 11:21 PM

I don't know what happens when you pour Light-aspected aether into a voidsent but I'm thinking ahead to potential ShB Saran and... oh... 😳

#SaranAU

Two screenshots of Saran, a female Au Ra with fin-like horns, from the front and side. Her usual black scales, blue skin and blue-and-pink hair have all turned to white.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 12:06 AM

Hello and welcome to my FFXIV account! ✨

Here you'll find gposes and assorted rambling about my XIV blorbos! I share a co-WoL canon with @strixthings.bsky.social for Roscoe's story 💜

🔸 Roscoe: my main! Lalafell GNB/MCH. Tag: #Brambleverse
🔸 Saran: my alt! Au Ra (voidsent) DRK/RPR. Tag: #SaranAU

My two main FFXIV characters in two separate images aligned side by side: Roscoe, a masc lalafell with grey hair, goggles and whiskers, grinning and posing, and Saran, a female Au Ra with blue-and-pink hair, dark fin-like horns and black armour with a fur collar, smiling confidently.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 10:38 AM

For anyone who may be curious to see the full portrait from my last post: the OG Saran and her current form. Given her long time in the void, she has limited memories of her life before, and is slowly piecing things together as time goes on

#SaranAU

Saran's original form on the Thirteenth: a Hyuran woman with light skin and long pink hair, wearing full armour. She is portrayed in a portrait with a serious and focused expression.

Saran's current form on the Source as a voidsent in a host body: she is an Au Ra with pale blue skin, long pink-and-blue hair, and dark fin-like horns, wearing dark glasses and black armour with a fur collar. She is smiling confidently.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:33 AM

I've been working on the #SaranAU recently and thinking on her previous existence on the Thirteenth - had the idea for this pose for a little while and wanted to give it a go. I'd like to revisit it in the future and maybe see if I can do it better, but I'm pretty happy with it for now!

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:08 AM

That's a wrap on base HW for the sprout gang! Didn't take any good screenshots, so have a totally normal woman instead :)

#SaranAU

Saran in the cutscene where Thordan asks "Who - what are you?" She is silhouetted with a backlight indicating her outline and her face in shadow.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:59 PM

Ultimately Saran is... not un-Ascian-like in her possession of a host body and she is painfully aware of that. She doesn't like it, but currently has no other way to carry out her mission in the Source, because Elidibus did not deign to grant her another form when he sent her over the rift

#SaranAU

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:57 PM

Also thinking about her appearance. I picked her hair colour on a whim, but what if the blue is the hair colour of her host body, and pink was her original hair colour back when she lived in the Thirteenth, slowly coming through as she remembers who she was before the Flood of Darkness? 👀

#SaranAU

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:55 PM

I picked up PLD as her first tank and I DO love the sword and shield I picked for her (this is how I ended up deciding her voidsent form looks something like a scorpion, thanks to a friend's suggestion). But perhaps a part of that was clinging onto what she remembered of her old life

#SaranAU

Saran as a paladin with her sword, which has a purple blade, and a shield with a pink-and-purple border and a scorpion on the front.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 1:53 PM

Thinking Saran thoughts today. Thinking about how DRK is cathartic for her beyond everything else going on in the quests. DRK is about casting aside your shield and your previous allegiances - Saran WAS a knight of Baron, but Baron is gone. She has no one's cause to fight for but her own

#SaranAU

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 7:05 PM

Hahahahahahhaa well. About that

#SaranAU

Saran talking to a knight who says "Surely there is no need for concern. I mean, 'conversing with a corpse'? What fools do they take us for?"

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 12:45 AM

A chorus of voices cries out for a hero, and she comes.

She smiles. She nods. And she remains silent.

But she too has a voice...

#SaranAU

Saran, a female Au Ra with long blue and pink hair and dark scales, wearing black armour with a fur collar, stands in front of the shadowed figure of Fray, a person in full armour with only their eyes visible. Both have eyes glowing a faint pink in the gloom. Saran's expression is cold and distant.

@bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 11:11 PM

I forgot that when you have your meeting with Thordan they take your headgear off. Just imagining the guards at the door holding out a hand and going "glasses," to Saran before she walked in. She was just squinting for this entire scene

#SaranAU