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⊗ 2/01: closed log || closed log for tifa threads
  » tifa: the promised dreamscape date; it first starts on the airship and he takes her to the society headquarters; after a brief introduction of his group, he takes her to one of his secret hideaways up in the forests where they share some intimate spicy times together...twice; they return to the airship and tifa does a dumb and while standing on the railing (after eustace kept warning her not to!!) she falls over; eustace immediately jumps off after her and shifts into a lindworm to fly down and catch her; he flies over the water, sharing a magical disney moment before they share deep feelings; spurred on by it, he flies up to the top of the mountain where they indulge in each other, reaffriming their vows and low to each other...and then again when tifa wants to give him new memories under the moon after he admits his complicated feelings towards it; after promising to bring her to other places, they exit the dreamscape...for one last passionate round(s)
  » tifa: after the events of the masquerade, both are feeling rather tense with cloud's appearance; eustace is first to fully express his desires with tifa reflecting the same; but over the week, tifa starts showing signs of possessiveness that eventually culminates to the bleeding heart; lots of suggestive nsfw spice

⊗ 2/04: log: lyria || lyria has an interactive dream of when she was back in erste empire facilities; eustace saw the passive portion of it and dreamwalks in to find himself in his child form and stuck in a cell; using dreamotion he breaks them out; just as they reach the end they almost get caught and lyria summons leviathan

⊗ 2/07: network: madhuri || congratulations on hers and g'raha's engagement with offer to provide recommendations or advice if neeeded

⊗ 2/09: network: beatrix || she's awakened from her sleep coma; catch up a little, mention lyria; beatrix stop being stubborn

⊗ 2/11: network post w/ tifa || joint post with tifa announcing her new café, Starflower Sanctuary, and the birth of new puppies from rhonwen and cadoc
  » mei : THE PUPPIES ARE NOT THEIR CHILDREN
  » beat: he is going to murder beat
  » madhuri: commiserates in having people mistake animals as their children......
  » denji: starts with cute puppy talk and then goes into talking about devils??
  » ken: wants to see puppies and eustace promisese he can when they're older; talk about his shiba inu and suggest using the well
  » isabela: her brother can speak with animals
  » kisara: puppies!!
  » trahearne: will the puppies chew on him... but trahearne can name one of them
  » vanitas: eustace has given up on the "they are your children" comments
  » phantom: at least phantom understands...
  » norimune: be on the look out for a pet
  » zenkichi: they have a lot of animals they know—
  » reaper: left on read
  » beatrix: teases her for wanting to help with the pups
  » susato: puppy talk

⊗ 2/15: inbox: lyria || lyria leaves both him and tifa valentine's presents and they give one in return

⊗ 2/15: event toplevel || masquerade event: half of a pair; dancing; gardens
  » tifa: starts with her making him chase him out to the terrace where things get a little heated before they're interrupted and need to leave; they head to the bathroom so tifa can freshen up and more questionable flirting before tifa's terrible shakespeare makes eustace run away; eventually dancing, more romantic stuff, and then cloud will edit this later
  » shealtiel: demonstrates dreamotion in the greenhouse
  » sol: brooch pair; has to state he's married; have general discussion about songerein
  » lyria: adorable dancing
  » trahearne: brooch pair; they don't recognize each other but have odd familiarity; dance together
⊗ 2/21: event (tdm): cloud || forced to dance together

⊗ 1/08: inbox: tifa || the two go to check on the new location eustace acquired for tifa's café and start figuring out where things can be put; just as they are uh, ahem, trying the counter's...sturdinesss, they hear a sound upstairs and discover a sprinkle covered fairy cat; they name it sprinkles and head outside to continue inspecting; they run into a fairy, maribelle, who claims to be the caretaker and "mother" of the kitten; they strike a deal with the fairy so that she can remain and help around the café; eventually they call it a day and return home where tifa has something to give eustace; she presents him with her original birthday present she had prepared for him back in avalon but had been unable to give him because of him falling asleep and inevitably disappearing; they are a matching pair of locket pendants with a silly picture of them when they went to the movies inside; they then share several intimate hours continuing where they left off until the dogs warn them of lyria's arrival; they spend the rest of the evening with her and before sleeping the topic of having lyria in their home comes up along with tifa's curiosity about her; eustace can only say so much since he feels that's something lyria should divulge, but he does tell her some basic information; he also reveals his initial mission to first monitor and then receiving the order to eliminate her as society originally viewed her as a threat, something he managed to overturn; they end with a promise of a dream date from eustace to show her some of his world to her

⊗ 1/10: event: lyria & tifa || set to after the gingerbread event, eustace and tifa take lyria back to their home; on the way they exchange a few stories; introduce lyria to all the dogs and eustace is just feeling very happy and full seeing lyria and tifa together

⊗ 1/10: network: susato || susato has a public dream depicting various death or near death scenarios, including the time eustace went noctaere and tried to drown her; he contacts her out of concern and after a brief discussion they agree to meet; he takes rhonwen with him knowing that susato favors her; the two just have some idle talk, discuss a little of some parts of her dream, and also about what susato is trying to do for herself now

⊗ 1/15: network post || eustace announces his endeavor to find a way to permanently stay in songerein and requests for any assistance or information that could help with this; comes with a sign up post
  » kainé: has nothing left in her world so she's definitely in for helping; prefers fighting action
  » phantom: discuss the question of aging and whether nightmare energy might play a part
  » beat: probably wouldn't stay but would want to help; questioning and research is not his strong suit so action preferred
  » rob: would want to stay since his world is probably going to explode in some form; learn about the void and the strange tv world rob is from
  » yuri: volunteers to be a test subject for whatever they do; mentions his soul space curse thing
  » lyria (then later tifa): lyria wants to help with research, but when she heads upstairs eustace notices she's been crying; lyria reveals how lonely she's been in trying to adapt and there is a lot of feelings before she falls asleep; eustace takes her to bed where he meets with tifa and discuss what happened; they wait until she wakes up and tifa has a chance to give and share her own support; it all ends with them becoming firmer as a little found family unit
  » hans: wants to stay; try to diplomatic relations with dragons
  » sorey: learn about spirit resonance
  » nuadha: could try exoflecting to create a new bond to the world
  » zelda: topic of wishing well brought up her sheikh slate
  » zenkichi: brings up concerns of what could happen and the risks involved
  » ferran: uncertain of if he would stay; brings up possibility of bonding with an object to learn from
  » kaiba: might consider staying; has done some research/study into traveling dimensions
  » alisaie: discuss research and if they can reach the tapirs; alisaie offers to share her experience so they set up to meet in person

⊗ 1/20: network: beat || beat has problems spelling; beat's real problem is he has two girls he likes and eustace tries to give him some advice about it

⊗ 1/24: inbox: lyria || lyria sent eustace an ADORABLE PICTURE OF CORGIS AND HEART BALLOONS and he immediately goes down to thank her for it; she learns eustace can speak with dogs and wants to learn; the topic of her primal summon ability comes up and they decide it would be worth checking to see if she can; time for her first horsey ride!!!

⊗ 12/03: open log || eustace's and tifa's wedding; they're officially married! eustace's toplevel is here.
  » trahearne, tifa: official ceremony with trahearne officiating; they exchange their vows, then the rings before officially proclaimed husband and wife
  » tifa: starts off with eustace bringing food to tifa and feeding her; after flirting they cut the cake and once again be cute as they feed each other; they take the starfruit and walk off towards the riverbank first to where they had been tossed into the river and then to the dock where they first met; eustace again proposes to her with the fruit; they somehow manage to it before losing control and start making out; eria interrupts them and makes them go back to the reception as they still had things to do; afterwards they send off the lanterns where eustace does his extra finale bit with flamek (heaven's starfall); they escape to the hot air balloon that takes them to the island (rip the monkey pilot having to deal with their PDA)
  » alastor: a little meeting with aerona that doesn't end in disaster, and then somehow end up dancing with the demon
  » toge: discuss the boar dish
  » oriphi: tipsy ori; is he going to be lockhart or what???; take a cute photo and be cute siblings
  » madhuri: managed to turntables the talk to make madhuri flustered and learn that she's the one g'raha is dating
  » millie: she tricks him into a dog race
  » g'raha: pressured into racing against each other
  » vanitas: pushed into the sleds to race
  » beatrix: talk a little of how eustifa life will be; eustace touches on the whole dohalim thing; learns of bea's reservations; reveals how he and tifa are looking to staying in the world permanently
  » beat: dogs team up to knock eustace into a sled so they can race
  » kisara: briallen gives kisara a special flower crown
  » sanji: discuss recipes; learn about pirates
  » norimune: dog sled racing
  » nier: talk about eustace's hunting history; receive some fatherly advice

⊗ 12/05: wedding: mei || ask her to dance and just have a cute time

⊗ 12/08: network: moxxie || discussion on naming weapons

⊗ 12/09: network: madhuri & g'raha || congratulations on their engagement announcement! also offers to provide info on services they used on their own wedding

⊗ 12/12: log: beat || go out snowboarding and then have to appease a fluff gumdrop by hugging. gross.

⊗ 12/17: wedding: dohalim || meet beatrix's lover at last—and interrogate

⊗ 12/21: event: tifa || turn into gingerbread and deal with the chaos of the entire house and dogs becoming gingerbread first before heading out to help collect the notes around town; go on the train and see a vision of a potential "future" that involves raising a family and that's just a mess of feels

⊗ 12/22: event: lyria || come across lyria who is a wooden doll and immediately takes her under his care

⊗ 12/25: inbox: susato || christmas gift

⊗ 11/05: inbox: tifa || tifa asks him to go into a dream with her and finds it set at her old bar, Seventh Heaven; they have a bit of fun pretending to be "bartender and client" and flirt as he tries a drink; dance

⊗ 11/06: network post w/ tifa || WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT; all threads were answered by both
  » ferran: don't diss the tree name; asks about gifts
  » dohalim: thanks for assistance; remembers he had to tell dohalim something but decides to wait
  » oriphi: warns her to not get carried away with tifa's bridal shower
  » alphen: asks if okay to give a weapon as a gift; eustace is now getting a sword??
  » madhuri: offers congratulations
  » reaper: usual banter; almost became "friends"
  » anya: recipe for dog treats to use for wedding
  » beat: eustace not impressed by beat basically forgetting; actually goes to his house to leave reminders; ends up cleaning and later finding the sketch beat was working on; swap stories on hobbies, revealing he plays bass guitar much to beat's surprise; will help beat find a suit later
  » ira: make plans to meet him one day
  » norimune: discuss his "kids"
  » beatrix: tattles on tifa who was the reason it took so long to announce; talk about changes in each other;
  » trahearne: checks with him to make sure the actual ceremony isn't too long
  » mei: will he wear a suit it's a surprise; learns about OTP shipping sort of
  » kainé: thanks her for being tifa's friend
  » hans: royal weddings sound stuffy; discuss gift options; tell hans their endeavor to try and stay permanently in song
  » sanji: rip sanji his goddess is getting married
  » sora: learn about the paopu fruit
  » vanitas: talk about his proposal; when are you proposing vanitas
  » nier: treats nier like tifa's father figure so a little joking around
  » kisara: discuss use of cameras and portraits
  » soldier: 76: eustace admits of getting exhausting from all the congratulations and dreading the thank you notes later
  » toge: requests toge to help watch the dogs just in case; toge shares an embarrassing story and eustace jokingly warns him to not do that at the reception
  » phantom: work on music placement for the ceremony
  » isabela: request her floral services for the reception
  » g'raha: learn about some wedding customs from his world; learns of g'raha's intent to propose to his girlfriend; eustifa first wedding to be held; share some deep thoughts about how he's changed to get to this point in his life

⊗ 11/08: log toplevel || trahearne threw eustace a bachelor party camping edition and more people were invited than expected
  » alastor: introduces him to a few odd wedding traditions as well as piano jazz which eustace has become partial to
  » phantom: asks eustace to join him to view the stars for some bit of quiet and relaxation and discuss what they are in their respective worlds
  » trahearne: gives eustace a beer and they discover there was a mixup on the invite list; shrug it off and discuss about trahearne's life as a sylvari and tyria
  » diluc: pokes eustace at taking first watch; diluc admits he's not sure what to think of eustace yet but if ori trusts him then he will, too; discuss diluc's nightmare problems
  » alphen: delivers promised sword as gift
  » ferran: surprised there's so many people
  » beat: beat go home you're drunk

⊗ 11/11: event: tifa || they visit the hot springs to see what they have to offer as prospective honeymoon destination; while getting a little steamy after a pocky game, they're interrupted by the two young dragons they helped back during the dream faire; they guide the dragons back to the nursery town located nearby and help out with some tasks to earn some vouchers; they finally get to tour the hot springs, but then have unfortunate luck in meeting the dragon that kidnapped eustace in her humanoid form; they still manage to get through and enjoy the rest of the trip

⊗ 11/14: log: futaba || uses his lightning dreamotion to try and figure out how the machines work

⊗ 11/17: log: loona || finds the wolf struggling under the heat and tells her to use the oasis; upon refusal he cools her off with his ice dreamotion

⊗ 11/29: inbox: beat || beat sends him a message about the rings going missing; eustace is not happy and immediately comes over; beat tells him it was a joke, but turns out they do go missing for a bit thanks to idris taking a turn at pranking; eustace still not happy but ring is found and all ends well

⊗ 10/04: log: tifa || tifa has a nightmare about the sector 7 plate falling and eustace goes back in with her so that he can see and help her through it; it's a recreation of the event with him taking cloud's place; she worries he'll think differently of her, but eustace has seen and experienced similar destruction as well as why she was part of AVALANCHE; they go to the remains of her bar and she tells him more about her life there; with his encouragement, she changes it to how it used to be including Barrett, Marlene, Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge, letting him meet them at least how she remembers them; she then gives him a tour and they eventually go to her old apartment where they unsurprisingly flirt and ends up fading to black—but not before some cute, soft feelings

⊗ 10/06: inbox: tifa || tifa surprises him with a backyard bonfire with the dogs helping; they enjoy some cool weather cuddle time and skewers as they discuss various things including wedding plans; things of course become more intimate and although he promised a dance, they put a rain check on it

⊗ 10/16: event toplevel || haunted carnival: cursed with vampire and a werewolf costumes; shooting gallery; haunted dollhouse (uncursed and cursed as a small doll); musical catacombs
  » tifa: date at the carnival starts with tifa turning into a sexy werewolf queen and eustace hiding her under his cloak and going somewhere private; hose is not needed as they remember what happened at the faire and walk through the carnival to see what it's about; idris and aerona are with them
  » rob: suffering together as they try the dancing game
  » alisaie: also suffering through dancing game but kind of gets the hang of it
  » reaper: cursed as a vampire doll and has to have reaper's help; very disgruntled about him

⊗ 10/17: event: trahearne || follows him into the abandoned house to help him through; shares a bit of his own past and how he's been able to deal with it

⊗ 10/17: network: mei || reads her post coming out with the panda curse and supports her

⊗ 10/24: open log || eustace and tifa take the corgis out on a tricks-for-treat where they will perform tricks for treats; costume themed as snow white and the seven dwarves with briallen as snow white, the other dogs and clover as the dwarves, tifa as the evil queen, and eustace as the huntsman
  » oriphi & tifa: oriphi plays along and asks them to fetch; they get into a bit of acting as they pretend to try and capture bri
  » anya & tifa: the doggos want pooka to join and perform "magic" tricks
  » toge & tifa: toge requests for a dance
  » dorian & tifa: dorian pulls out his flute to play music for them to dance to
  » susato & tifa: susato suggests a competition

⊗ 10/27: inbox: trahearne || figuring out a bachelor party and decide on camping trip; coming up with a guest list will be a trial...

⊗ 9/03: closed log: tifa || cw: gore, death, suicidal ideation, trauma, just not a lot of fun stuff/topics covered here as well sexual themes referenced and addressed; this thing is 487 comments long so the blurbs are going to be more detailed lmfao crying

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• immediate post nocstace; a lot of pain and angst as the two work out what happened and how to navigate where they go from here

• as they sleep eustace has a horrific nightmare involving his noctaere form seemingly having its own identity and trapping him as a lindwurm; tifa is able to pull him out

• after the nightmare they talk about several topics: how both telling how they save the other; eustace slowly opening to tifa about his fears of losing her and knows she feels the same; makes the resolve to find a way for them to stay in songerein; their constant desire for sex as use in comfort and whether it's healthy or not, and decide that it's just how they are as it's always mutual and they still verbally communicate with each other

• they eventually get up and continue the conversation in the living room; eria and clover keep them from being gross and getting distracted by sitting on eustace's lap; eustace opens up on how he felt during that time as a noctaere and all the fears and emotions that led to it; voices his doubts on whether she should stay with him and the self-loathing and even considering returning to his world to keep her out of his mess; an explosive outburst as everything he went through and led up to this point comes out; bit of a yelling match that ends with tifa finally able to break through and calm him down; they restate their vows to each other and with both overly emotional, it's back to bed

• they were able to have a small nap and reset themselves for tifa's turn to open up and express her guilt about calling everyone; eustace calls her out on her always trying to take things on her own and keeping things to herself; tifa voices her insecurities and feeling weak; eustace suggests they do dream simulations with him as a lindwurm so they both can work to get over their fears and hangups; have another round before getting up to clean up and then turn in for the night

• eustace has another nightmare, this one more gruesome and full of the above content warnings (very graphic; a lot of dead tifas); tifa is able to enter his dream and after encountering noctstace again she manages to find eustace who is trapped as lindwurm and tortured by having to kill clones of herself; she fights him and realizing she's the real one he tries to stop but it's only with her help eustace is finally able to break free and stop himself; tries to do self-destruction so they get out of the dreamscape but tifa won't have it; leads to him asking the same questions from before and she once again refutes them; he has her use her dreamotion fire to essentially purify the toxic nightmare energy while he uses lightning from the inside; it works and when he is freed a grotesque skeletal version of tifa is seen wrapped around his back, the source of everything; tifa frees him and now relieved of the burden that's haunted him since he first killed her in the lindwurmeo dreamscape, the rotten ground gives way to clear skies and their starflower field; reaffirm their need to be and work together; remain in the dreamscape to wake up together in the morning

• time passes as they run the dream simulations and continue to work out the fears and guilt that still linger, but things improve over the next few days and weeks; tries to get cuddly on the couch but eria busts in with the corgis who are tired of always needing to stay out with the others; decide to go out a long overdue picnic outing with everyone and head to the corgi tree; eustace discusses about expanding their current home to have a lower floor exclusively for the dogs and occasional guests (with excellent sound proofing); also discuss tifa's future café and potential locations to scout; thinks about what to do with the corgi tree and perhaps turning it into some kind of wild dog sanctuary; go out for the picnic and eustace surprises tifa with the charm and dog tag necklaces, both repaired and needing to be refilled; after all the trauma and harrowing events, their love has grown much stronger for it and by the end of this are able to move forward again

⊗ 9/10: semi-closed log || recovering from the noctaere episode; mostly with tifa but an option to check on eustace individually; trouble with bri
  » beatrix & tifa: beatrix is one of the first to check on them and apologizes for not being able to do more; both are like no; after clearing up a few things, eustace asks her to help with security for the wedding
  » aerith & tifa: although the hardest visit for eustace, aerith is adamant they move on and is equally as firm on tifa who struggles with her own emotional and confidence issues; forces them out shopping
  » shirou: finds eustace being a bit down because of briallen avoiding him and shoves his lunchbox at him?? eustace is forced to take it but appreciates it a bit
  » susato & tifa: meets them at the dog park; has her own apologies and gives them special cranes and charms that help with nightmare energy; they walk her back to the clinic, and after leaving iris and rhonwhen with her they get into a group hug
  » oriphi & tifa: eustace and tifa were asleep so it's the dogs who greet oriphi first before getting them up with eustace being the one to greet the visitor to once—of course that's awkward; oriphi brought healing potions, dog treats, and some wine; oriphi decides to speak with the dogs as an indirect way to convey her thoughts on the matter, and the messages are received loud and clear; the dogs try to "help" by shoving eustace and tifa towards oriphi, but they end up tripping and end up in a dogpile kind of hug instead
  » trahearne & tifa: it's a crazy start with the dogs chasing the couple holding chocolate brownies and then a little awkward from lingering tension, but after clearing the air and exchanging apologies, trahearne gifts them with some blazing dawn flowers, a journal for eustace to document his experience, and a special notebook for them to document their future life together; eustace asks trahearne to officiate their wedding
  » ferran: run into each other near the dream board; ferran has heard what happened and checks in on him; eustace gives a few details
  » kisara: kisara helps eustace get closer to briallen by suggesting he tell a story; he tells a story from his home village of a flower fairy called "Pieria" that brings about the flowers during spring; bri enjoys the story, and kisara speaks of her own home city, which intrigues eustace because it's a city built above the trees; bri and eustace are able to come back together thanks to kisara (massive favor to be owed)
  » beat: coming back from walking idris and finds eustace and bri having trouble; offers to help by first offering treats and flowers; eustace is roped in to make a flower crown for her and it takes a shove from beat to actually put it on her; bri is happy and eustace turns to focus on beat and discuss what happened

⊗ 9/11: network: phantom || requests to speak with him to discuss what happened and get some advice and insight on how to better handle his nightmare energy

⊗ 9/11: network: beat || checks in on beat after seeing his dream; asks him to walk the dogs; talk a little about skateboards

⊗ 9/11: network: beatrix || checks in after seeing her dream; poking at her to not make the same mistake he did

⊗ 9/16: event toplevel || dream faire pt1: dressed as a pirate; cotton candy thunder clouds; starfruit ice cream; making dreamglass doggos; axing redcaps
  » mei: watches him make dreamglass and offers to get him a snack; comes back with the fiery kebabs and the chaos that ensues triggers her curse and she starts going panda; eustace tries to help by covering her up and carrying her off but only makes it worse; the moment he's able to give her privacy she turns panda; at a loss of how to help so he just keeps his distance
  » tifa: someone needs to spray them with a hose because they can't keep their hands off each other— there was definitely a suggestive innuendo when they were making their cotton candy cloud and they go home for a bit to "cool off" before returning to actually appreciate the faire; join a dance and...once again go home because they have problems.
  » susato: making glass jars; he offers her to take one of the glass corgis and gives her rhonwhen; she tries to make the snakes and adds ribbons for attachments; eustace considering to do the same for the corgis
  » beatrix: watches him making dreamglass doggos and eustace encourages her to give it a try; beatrix makes a wine glass; discuss potential hobbies, learn she's into watching theatre, and trying music instruments
  » trahearne: acting weirdly princely towards him as eustace puzzles over his frozen starfruit mix; eustace thinks about crushed ice and trahearne helps in getting the supplies; trahearne is oddly having fun while smashing it with a rock; eustace finishes it off
  » vanitas: vanitas witnesses his failure; eustace thinks about turning it into an ice pop; vanitas very supportive and he takes a taste
  » kazuma: also working the starfruit jam; discuss about what happened when he was a noctaere; asks kazuma how his experience was and advice on how to deal with it

⊗ 9/19: diluc || meet at the pop up bar, diluc obviously tense about him; eventually converse about what happened and eustace warning him that it could also happen to him

⊗ 9/19: event toplevel || dream faire pt2: dressed as a prince; help defend against and help the dragons; returning baby dragons; dragonnapped and has to deal with the ring he wishes to propose to tifa with getting lost or stolen, traversing through the castle, and dealing with the flying mounts (tifa is the one who rescues him)
  » oriphi: teases him for losing the ring and tries to get him to do a practice proposal which he adamantly refuses, so she then suggests he focus on tifa, which creates a path of starflowers right to the ring
  » toge: together they stun a dragon in place and toge runs off to find a dragon egg to give to the dragon
  » tifa: first together dealing with baby dragons before they finally find an adult to take them (his dragon liked diamonds); another dragon swoops in and starts making heart eyes at eustace before taking him away; tifa eventually reaches the castle and there is a bit of a run around as they keep missing each other; they finally reunite but it's cut short when the dragon returns and they have to run; make it out of the castle and find a pegasus; after annoying exchange they fly off the island and eustace directs the pegasus to a field; there he proposes to her for the fifth time, this time with the ring
  » dante: convince dante to stop attacking the dragon and they help find treasure; find a pool of gold and a leprechaun hiding in it; together they flush it out with eustace freezing it; they then freeze the gold so the dragon can take it all back more easily
  » ralsei: helps eustace with the dragon hatchling
  » asriel: helps eustace trap an imp that had stolen his ring

⊗ 8/03: toplevel || birthday party for the flower dogs; joint with tifa
  » susato & tifa: susato brought pupcakes the dogs go crazy
  » beat & tifa: overhears them talking about him and beat discovers that wolfie has fianceé

⊗ 8/11: closed log: tifa || (forward dated to 8/27ish) eustace and tifa go out to explore the old cliffside to try and find glowing dawn flower caves; lindwurm attacks and when tifa is critically injuried eustace loses it and turns noctaere

⊗ 8/16: event toplevel || saving oz: his role is toto and he looks like a cairn terrier most of the time; helps with digging victims out of porcleain rubble; help with poppy fields; hates singing in the yellow brick road
  » anya: eustace runs into the poppy fields while anya as tinman helps bring him back
  » alisaie: role is tinman; finds eustace as he's starting to turn into porcelain
  » tifa: they were separated and when he finally finds her she's a wisp; manages to change into the tinman role and rushes into the poppy field to find her; can't help but be reminded of her bloody corpse but is able to shake off the image to bring her back
  » beat: role is scarecrow; meet while at the porcelain rubble
  » aerith: role is dorothy; meet at porcleain rubble while he's a dog; eustace appalled as his excitement because of his role; is even more appalled when she PICKS HIM UP AND PUTS HIM IN A BASKET
  » vanitas: role is lion; eustace not having that sass to get people out of rubble
  » kainé: role is dorothy; have to sing and dance to the damn yellow brick road song

⊗ 8/23: nocstace plot log || after completely turning to noctaere, eustace has taken tifa, caerwyn, and briallen deep within the cliffs and it's up to beatrix, oriphi, trahearne, phantom, aerith, beat, and susato to stop him and save tifa
  » battle phase one: oriphi, beat, trahearne, and phantom team up to try and fight against eustace who is currently a large wolf; they are able to pin him down with vines and beat and phantom split to find the necklace; shortly after eustace notices the girls freeing tifa
  » batle phase two: eustace rushes into the room tifa was in and from there he starts taking down everyone one by one: oriphi and trahearne; beatrix; aerith; and finally susato, but not before she's able to break a jar of dawn flowers that help pull him out; unfortunately he has a different emotional breakdown and phantom and beat arrive just in time to help; beat smashes flamek over his head to stun him; tifa is able to get the necklace on him to finally pull him out of noctaere form and he passes out until they go to oriphi's home to recover

⊗ 7/02: log: tifa || on their camping vacation; eustace proposes using his old dog tags in lieu of rings (still being prepared); tifa accepts and also gives him special charms she had prepared for them; extreme spicy times; manage to wake up to see the sunrise; tifa finally tells him about her as a member of avalanche and what transpired before; discuss potential of opening her own bar, maybe similar to a pet cafe; regain eria and clover from avalon

⊗ 7/03: open log || seagulls; boatbuilders+seafood dining; choya; teleporting and limiters follow-ups
  » alastor: portal follow-up
  » g'raha: teleportation follow-up; try out crystals that act similar to revenytes
  » trahearne: help him kill choya; is it weird to watch a sylvari eat cactus...
  » emet-selch: limiter follow-up
  » shirou: had a bit of a negative first impression with the guy being jumpy about being on the boat, but they eventually smoothed it over and continued with testing the boat while fishing
  » zelda: discuss how she can seal someone's powers; learns she's helping phantom
  » nuada: limiter follow-up; a spell cast on an accessory that can nullify one's abilities using an opposing element; volunteers to test the limiter

⊗ 7/04: log: alphen || raid jude mathis's old office at the clinic for his research notes on nightmare energy and purification

⊗ 7/04: network: trahearne || sees trahearne's disturbing nightmare and checks in on him

⊗ 7/04: network: phantom || requests suggestions for possible bass guitar and piano music so he can play with tifa at the concert

⊗ 7/05: event toplevel || summer beach fun: slicing fruit with dreamotion lightning and ice; sand dog sculptures gone wild; encounter sea pups that are basically seals with dog heads and is so happy he is blindingly bright
  » beatrix: witnesses him slicing fruit and they later take a walk discussing things; beatrix asks him about his relationship with tifa and how it came to be; he tries to support her own potential endeavors which leads to discussion on her own growth, comparing how similar they are; HE IS LIKE WINTER AND TIFA IS HIS SPRING; eventually get their drinks to meet with tifa
  » anya: helps eustace round up the sand dogs and uses her ability to sing things to sleep to stop them
  » tifa: play with the sea pups; later meet up for the campfire and she's clearly tipsy; they are gross and cute as usual
  » mei: mei please; just watches eustace playing the fruit slicer game; afters some conversation suggest to mei she ask tifa for martial arts lessons
  » aerith: gets splattered with watermelon oops; work together to strength dreamotion so can slice watermelon; talk about tifa
  » beat: playing with sea pups and shows beat some dreamotion tricks
  » kazuma: compete against each other at fruit slicer, kazuma wins by setting everything on fire; chat about snake communication and other things
  » angel: is hit on and declares himself engaged; explains more about the world
  » asriel: feels some familiarity not recalling they met back in Avalon; shows him how to make sandcastles

⊗ 7/11: event: mammon || sand dogs almost destroy mammon's many sheep

⊗ 7/11: event: rob || witnesses rob get hit by a watermelon and heals him

⊗ 7/11: event: oriphi || criticizes her story

⊗ 7/11: event: nene || finds her sitting at the shore; learns about her working with a ghost named Hanako to protect some kind of balance between the living and the supernaturals; learns she's cursed and turns into a fish when in water; tries to cheer her up by playing games

⊗ 7/11: event: kisara || get into intense match of volleryball

⊗ 7/10: inbox: susato || susato found ferran holed up in his tree as well as Iris and Rhonwhen

⊗ 7/21: network dream || dreams himself as a wolf going through various stages of his life, from how he used to be alone watching everyone to slowly joining the Grandcypher crew, to meeting tifa and eventually proposing to her; continues to show him with a family of two pups; ends with tifa's death and a voice reminding him the harsh reality that they live in a dream world
  » susato: checking in on them; confirms their proposal and learns about her and kazuma
  » tifa: they do not have a good time; end up leaving to go to the campsite to watch the sunrise; eustace discloses his fears over her death is worse than returning to her world and also reveals to her about his research into nightmares and concerns about himself; does reassure her that he doesn't feel anything; they reaffirm their feelings and their relationship is strengthened
  » reaper: piss off reaper—
  » trahearne: checks in and offers plants
  » diluc: wishes to speak to him later; eustace aware he's in a relationship with oriphi; diluc discusses his desire to learn how the story eater is traveling between worlds
  » oriphi: checks in and offers to help look after the dogs; later meet at the flowers; confirms proposal
  » beatrix: offers them to meet zidane's chocobo
  » nene: offers to show her hamster

⊗ 7/27: log: phantom || checks in on phantom after the concert, wishing him congratulations and inquiring if there will be more in the future

⊗ 6/01: inbox: beatrix || beatrix is out of sleep coma and found the Beashrek book they created back during flower festival; learns about dohalim a little

⊗ 6/02: network post || inquiring about sealing magic to help limit curses and nightmare energy, and teleportation magic for creating doorways to the various dog trees and potential future properties
  » alastor: offers to lend a hand with teleportation
  » kainé: suggest portal charms for the teleportation
  » emet-selch: can do both items but focuses on the limiters
  » nuadha: has knowledge on both, focuses on limiters using his mirrage artes
  » shigeru: interested in the limiters as he has powers that are similar to disapora's diassembling on an atomic level and if he becomes too negative it could turn him into a monster and it would be bad
  » ferran: has experience in making portals and volunteers to help
  » vanitas: can travel through the path of darkness; tangent on talking about planets having hearts and being able to speak and eustace is s k e p t i c a l
  » zelda: capable of sealing magic in a person and volunteers to help
  » alphen: interested in the limiters as shionne is now gone and with his nightmares his powers may be hard to control
  » phantom: thanks eustace for looking into things as he knows he's the reason; eustace asks for his help on purchasing a standing piano
  » oriphi: offers to show him how she can teleport and may be able to help with the portals; at the corgi tree helps eustace try to communicate with the dogs

⊗ 6/03: log: tifa || eustace and ferran are coming back from dealing with otto's mess and tifa spots them; learns eustace WAS SHOT and freaks out; bit of a stormy atmosphere until they go to a clinic and the trio split to return home; argue over wanting to protect the other and wanting the other to be safe; to prove his abilities he shows her a dreamscape first of a normal mission and then the fight against diaspora; tifa is a bunny in his pocket the entire time; smoochy times; discuss a little about flamek; tells tifa she's his "partner for life"

⊗ 6/08: network: beatrix || discuss her idea of town defense and touch a little about her personality changes

⊗ 6/08: log: nene || find her amongst the capybaras

⊗ 6/08: log alastor || finds alastor glitching and learns about his radio waves; learns about his fear of dogs; tests to see if he can connect to his communicator and he can; offers to let alastor use it when he needs to stabilize himself

⊗ 6/10: log: vanitas || they are being children by throwing toys around the capybara

⊗ 6/12: event toplevel || moon's huanted: helping lunar wolves; collecting items for elimei; collecting items for kaguya; two nightmares: the destruction of his family and home town and failing to destroy diaspora
  » tifa: rescue pups that had wandered out; get attacked and is bitten in the shoulder; make it back and is treated and they start talking about "puppies"; later eustace is trapped in a nightmare about tifa dying and he just has a very bad time with it; make plans to go camping because they need a vacation like damn
  » soldier: 76: both in wolf forms help defend pups against a noctaser; learns from 76 how he's learning to harness nightmare energy
  » phantom: finds eustace dealing with the disapora nightmare; manages to snap him out of it
  » oriphi: finds eustace dealing with family nightmare and coaxes him out; they have some sibling banter
  » alphen: has to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't lose control; please don't be emo around him-
  » balthus: balthus uses his strength to plow through bamboo
  » diluc: team up with diluc being a wolfie
  » sanji: take down a noctaser; go go sanji's powerful kicks!
  » law: have difficulties in coaxing a pup out because eustace is scary looking

⊗ 6/16: inbox: tifa || tifa has a dream about flamek in a human form and marrying eustace...it leads to many questions and further discussion about their relationship; eustace asks if she wants to marry in general; still not official yet even if they're practically married already

⊗ 6/23: tdm: beat || finds beat as a duckling and helps him get unstuck before they go after the pups who changed him

⊗ 5/04: log: tifa || tifa is in the process of moving into his treehouse and they cute domestic times; but on the final morning he accidentally discovers the goodbye letter "he" had written back in Avalon; his wish to know what their life had been like back then prompts his connection to be lost and "wakes up" from Songerein; tifa discovers him gone and the fallen letter and suffers alone for three days before he finally returns; by this time he's been updated to include his time in Avalon so their memories are completely aligned; when he returns he's out in a field and he first runs back to the treehouse to find it completely devastated from tifa's emotional fallout; not finding her there he goes to the corgi tree where she's "celebrating" her birthday alone with the dogs; there is a lot of emotional fallout as he has now left her twice; he tells her what happened and how he would have strange dreams that may have included her and eria; a lot of feelings why can't they just be happy; the dogs get in on the action; eventually go home, discuss more about what happened and reaffirming their feelings, and after much "making up for lost time" they hang up the name plaque he had gotten for them

⊗ 5/08: event: mei || girl has strange arms but whatever more importantly why is she ogling him

⊗ 5/08: event: nene || enter elimei's nightmares and chase after a rabbit with him as a wolf and nene as a fish; actually throw her to catch the rabbit

⊗ 5/08: event: sholmes || work together in dealing with the noctaere around the tree; swap gun stories

⊗ 5/08: open log || bookkeeping; flower blossom owls; giant flower jungle; rat infestation
  » susato: look to find fae moon mirror shards; learn about kazuma and snake speaking; go to greenhouse to pick up some glowing dawn flowers
  » beatrix: flower fest overflow; eustace learns to heal via dreamotion
  » vanitas: flower fest overflow; learn about vanitas dating and reveals his own status without naming tifa
  » g'raha: flower fest overflow; managed to soothe goose and split
  » kisara: create a little flower owl sanctuary in the neighborhood after discovering a nest
  » tifa: catches him trying to play bass guitar; tifa tries to teach him a bit and they later return home to chase out the rats; get tripped up with a "mom" and "dad" joke with the dogs

⊗ 5/10: network: trahearne || offers some info for trahearne's wikki archive; learns about trahearne's death

⊗ 5/15: otto's reactor log || when otto's nuclear reactor begins to implode, eustace runs into ferran, luca, and alastor and they devise a plan to deal with things
  » confrontation: fires the shot to neutralize otto and has to deal with reaper
⊗ 5/16: event toplevel || mermaid dreamscape hosted by sora; forest of seaweed; noctaere; atlantica castle
  » ventus: forced to play an instrument; manage to escape
  » tifa: tangled up in the seaweed; manage to get out and swim around, relaxing a bit before heading to the castle
  » aether: play impromptu duet together

⊗ 5/29: event: kor || fighting shocktaere and figure out how to use his electricity

⊗ 5/23: phantom's castle || eustace and trahearne work through the castle to find phantom and bring him back to normal

⊗ 4/01: inbox: hilda || trolls her a bit by sending a message of thanks for the dating advice

⊗ 4/01: inbox: nier || nier drops off goodies for corgis

⊗ 4/02: network: ferran || offer to help figure out how to take care of sitron while hans sleep comas

⊗ 4/08: event toplevel || flower festival: doggos and flower crowns; games; tree of memories; final day as a fairy knight
  » nene (tdm): smothered by flower doggos
  » lumine (tdm): adventure through the book
  » beatrix: terrible adventure through book where eustace is a princess and beatrix the knight (based off shrek)
  » vanitas: playing games
  » oriphi: saving oriphi from book cage
  » g'raha: through the flower maze
  » aerith (tdm): scaling tree to check if there are any prisoners; reminded of tifa
  » gran (tdm): surprised by gran's return
  » izumo (tdm): adventure through the book
  » ace (tdm): flower doggos
  » tifa: date part 2: try out the bubble dart game which includes a "remedial lesson" for tifa and bubbles turning into hearts; make an r19 erotica story adventure much to the owl's dismay; they take a ride up into the tree on a butterfly for a break; petals fall around them and they reveal images involving the two of them; one in particular is of a dream family with tifa (tifa has one implying a wedding) which stirs numerous different thoughts and feelings in him; intimate moment is ruined when eustace gets snatched by a book cage and he has a bad time as the book drains him of his dreamotion, cursing at being trapped again and twists his doubts and fears about their relationship; it's a tough struggle but tifa gets him out and the butterfly takes them to a safer spot to recover before eventually dumping them at his treehouse; he treats her and they discuss what happened and the main issue the cage brought up: what their future would look like in this world; while resting, eustace decides to take the plunge in asking her to live with him for now but is disrupted by giant butterfly so question postponed until later

⊗ 4/08: event: tifa || date part 1: they try to make flower crowns but he makes her a flower ring instead; tifa makes their flower crowns and they flirt around in the flowers before her flower crown turns into a flower veil; it keeps growing as they continue to think about each other and they finally manage to stop it; eustace makes her a new flower crown; talks a little of when he was younger and making flower crowns with his mother; take the veil to be held at a store before going back out to the festival

⊗ 4/24: event: tifa || date part 3: tifa is crowned flower king but is stuck in a crazy feather costume and eustace is a fairy knight; he tries to help see if it can be removed and it doesn't go quite as planned; they separate to meet others at the festival (mostly tifa) and then later meet for flowerworks after the costumes have been removed; he takes her to an abandoned barn he found and they sit up on the roof to watch the flowerworks; after a lot of reflecting, eustace asks her to live with him and she accepts

⊗ 4/19: open log || cat bees; mandragoras; flower pruning; crystal fishing; observatory
  » alphen: too many flowers in his tree, alphen helps get rid of them (no can't use swords to prune flowers)
  » otto: get trapped in an elevator at the observatory and have to break out of it
  » trahearne: stopped from razing a field of mandragoras and they end moving them to their own special field
  » six: six lures the cat bees away from the poor pups
  » phantom: out fishing; although phantom's crystals aren't great bait, his shadow skills prove useful in pulling in fish

⊗ 3/01: log: tifa || night after their confessions, tifa dreams of camelot and runs to him; he also had his own nightmares and is awake, starting to write down everything; he shows her some of it while hiding the worst; tifa shares some of the memories from camelot up to the stalker lady but withholds their relationship there; asks her out on a date since she claims to have missed out on the fake date plan

⊗ 3/03: network || anonymous post asking for dating advice
  » zidane: ZIDANE IS MARRIED?? also how dare he figure out it's him
  » sora: why is kissing first important-; spend time together; STOP TRYING TO PLAN A WEDDING WITH ZIDANE
  » toge: will be careful of trolls; general advice on how to behave; food popular suggestion
  » mammon: no for compensation; think about what she likes and what they like to do together; (eustace gets his idea for star viewing here)
  » g'raha: surprise with something from the heart
  » vanitas: figure each other out; learns about vanitas's dating life and the changes coming with it
  » oriphi: can do more than holding hands ori; does doing normal stuff in a relationship count for dates?; camping trip idea established; going out to a flower field established; please ori he doesn't want to know your dating spots—
  » hilda: suggest to spoil her; receives advice for women because SHE'S THE ONLY OTHER GIRL WHO RESPONDED; denies request to let her know how date goes (he later sends a message)
  » balthus: same general advice; suggestions for places to go; idea for garden established; good luck finding your own love balthus
  » thoma: has to describe tifa and is awkward; suggestion for cooking and receives a recipe; imparts "advice" for thoma to not make "it" so obvious, referring to the hickey he had left on oriphi during the dreamscape
  » marui: general behavioral advice
  » nier: suggests flowers and something relaxing; surprised that nier is giving advice by what he's seen
  » hans: under anonymous; is not impressed when the first suggestion is to not let their date DIE

⊗ 3/08: open log || gathering intel about people who've turned noctaere; dog park; dealing with vine traps; four leaf clovers; collect elemental cores
  » soldier: 76: gains info on what 76 went through; learns about the Glowing Dawns flowers that help repel nightmare energy some and receives a few samples for his own use; referred to Yujin Mikotoba and Jude Mathis; 76 later leads him to the caves where the Glown Dawns are grown and protected by special Ents
  » vanitas: collecting clovers
  » anya: visits dog park; discuss her time in the Story Realm and learn a little more about the Story Eater; dog talk
  » trahearne: helps the sylvari learn how to use dreamotion to deal with the vines
  » gorou: playing with doggos
  » zidane: under anonymous; logs another noctaere experience that occurred while they were dreamwalking
  » phantom: wants to learn more about nightmare energy and how it might affect him due to his condition; eustace visits him to learn of the potential threats; agrees to work with him to figure out how to deal with his nightmare energy and an alternative seal for the collar
  » susato: visits dog park; shares experience in helping someone (kazuma) when they turned noctaere
  » kazuma: under anonymous; details his two experiences as noctaere; eventually reveals himself after eustace confides in his own warning signs
  » ferran: under anonymous; shares his experience as a noctaere; first report of dying as one; admits to being pessimistic
  » oriphi: asks if he can share his research; tells him of the winged noctaere from the lindwormeo dreamshift and how much more advanced/evolved it was to the usual noctaere; asks how he and tifa are doing and eustace dodges the answer; "threatens" to ask the dogs
  » diluc: meet at the dog park; clear up misunderstandings from their run-in back in the dreamscape; eustace still (jokingly) remarks if diluc or thoma hurt oriphi he'll act
  » hat kid: almost gets dogpiled after she threw ball towards him; learns of the corgis' history

⊗ 3/09: network: beatrix || supports her idea of a defense guard

⊗ 3/09: log: tifa || the promised date and it is ~magical~; cooking lessons to make a souffle; walk through the gardens where they get rainbowed and then pranked to have ears (tifa) and tails (both); questionable cuddle times in a gazebo; picnic out in a field after a romantic horse ride; and then back to his place for a very spicy night to cement their relationship with one another

⊗ 2/04: open log || working on dog park; help gather herbs for witch's brew apothecary; spider thread traps
  » tifa: go on a not date on valentine's that ends up with him being affected by the bleeding heart and makes him unreasonably jealous especially when a cloud lookalike appears; much spice and even more spice after it's taken care of; relationship still questionable but it's becoming more definite as they clearly are into each other
  » balthus: help with dog park construction
  » knight: helps the bug out of a trap
  » oriphi: run into her while looking for herbs; learn more of her backstory;
  » ferran: assaulted by dogs— ; eustace gets defensive when ferran seems wary of their abilities; helps with dog park planning
  » beatrix: catches iris; eustace tries to teach her how to relax and enjoy the joy of doggos; swap a little of their backstories
  » tenn: discuss the potion at the apothecary

⊗ 2/09: log: noel and otto || although not threaded, eustace participated in the investigations of noel's attacks on various shops and then was later involved in apprehending otto. turns out lightning is very effective against him

⊗ 2/12: event: tifa || he and tifa are cast as romeo and juliet in the lindwormeo dreamscape event (tifa starter)
  » scene 1: love at first sight: the two meet in the garden and at first share a dance until tifa realizes eustace has the curse and is upset; they share a touching, romantic tryst and eventually share one more dance before they have to part; tifa is banned from speaking in shakespeare
  » scene 2: balcony: share a very passionate musical rendition of Rewrite the Stars but are left wondering if it's their own feelings or the influences of romeo and juliet
  » scene 3: elope: the two elope at the chapel and move to romeo's hideout; they share an impassioned night together as their true feelings are once more tested as they feel certain what they share is their own and not of the original characters; the curse worsens and eustace attacks tifa, forcing her to find the cure on her own while eustace locks himself in the room, horrified at what he'd done
  » scene 6: tragic ending: the curse continues to worsen as knights of both familiies begin their pursuit; eustace makes tifa run away without him as he stays to fight them off instead; tifa returns and tries to help him, however because the curse is based off the hatred towards the capulets he ends up losing his mind and kills her instead; he goes berserk and completely transforms into a lindworm, killing everyone around him before he's finally killed; there are some signs that he might have started to turn into a noctaere

⊗ 2/15: event: oriphi || runs into her prior to his meeting with tifa; both are montagues; notices a hickey mark and comments how he also saw her dancing with someone else; learns that oriphi is dating two guys, diluc and thoma; jokes about her harem; she helps him find tifa outside

⊗ 2/21: event: diluc || meets after oriphi; diluc is a capulet; both are influenced by the family faction that they get into a heated exchange with eustace threatening the capulet scum to stay away from his cousin; challenge each other to a duel later (doesn't happen)

⊗ 2/15: tdm: six || runs into six and explains what's going on

⊗ 2/17: log: nier || help nier in building a little corgi garden in the neighborhood; no you can't use swords to chop wood

⊗ 2/17: log: zidane || catches him in the act of stealing from another guy only to learn he's returning it to the original owner; turns out there's a ridiculous love triangle story involved and they're all idiots

⊗ 2/17: log: zelda || encounters her while herb gathering

⊗ 2/17: network: jiang cheng || he's being ridiculous about a duck and dogs are better anyway

⊗ 2/23: log: tifa || night they return from the dreamscape and everything is bad with mental and emotional trauma from killing tifa, but they finally confess their feelings of love for each other and officially become an established couple; eustace becomes concerned about the nightmare energy starting to accumulate around him

⊗ 1/02: log: tifa || they somehow get into a joint dream with their childhoods mixed together and tifa's is predominant, the setting in nibelheim and it being eustace's birthday; neither are aware despite feeling the odd twinge of incongruity; the dream continues to follow the sequence of sephiroth's and zack's arrival all the way to sephiroth destroying the reactor; eustace is frozen in place unable to do anything; he realizes it's all a nightmare, specifically tifa's memory; no longer in the form a of a young boy, he eventually manages to wake her up; out of the dream, eustace tries to comfort tifa while figuring out some things about the dream; learns he took cloud's place; he once again recognizes the budding feelings he has for tifa and tries to distance himself; however because of a lot of emotions, the two hook up with mutual consent and enthusiasm; afterwards there are some doubts and regrets given how unclear things are, but they at least confirm it wasn't shallow; in the morning they decide to put things on pause as they figure things out as things have been a rollercoaster ride up to that point; eustace does give tifa an ultimatum of sorts that he would help her forget cloud if needed

⊗ 1/05: open log || corgis are free announcement; corgi outing/sledding; reindeer wrangling; interactive nightmare of his childhood past
  » zidane: entered his dream and helps child!eustace
  » hunter: corgis almost ran over a kid whoops
  » basil: corgis almost ran over this kid too and knocked away his camera
  » tifa: it's tifa's turn to help him through his childhood trauma while also entering the depths of his heart; afterwards tifa comes over to share some drinks and learn a bit more about the drink; he gets drunk and tired enough to kiss her, but they wisely pull away; she helps him to bed and stays the night sleeping in a chair after he's fallen asleep, later making him breakfast before leaving on awkward terms
  » toge: checking in on the corgos
  » hans: corgis almost cause an international incident almost knock hans off his horse
  » balthus: offers to help look after corgis, eustace gratefully accepts
  » nier: checking on the corgos
  » mirai: in his nightmare and able to coax child!eustace
  » tifa: a little awkward, but they babysit baby owl that includes making it a plush toy, going through town (and suffering) to give it some food, buy it two more plushies (a white dog and black haired girl); he does get a surprise kiss on the cheek, that's a plus; they return it to its mother but there is a small sibling tiff as one of the siblings try to steal its toys, but it manages to fend it off; they can finally leave the owl and toys with the mother; they go on a coffee and shopping "not date" after to have a normal day together; tifa reminisces on how they first met in camelot and the pet café they went to; she tells him about her bar and how she started it; brief discussion of how she wants to open up something and he'd help with the set up; they spend the rest of the day shopping and do not get cursed with bad luck for once

⊗ 1/09: network: alphen || discussion on why people fight and is introduced to shionne

⊗ 1/09: network: luca || discussion on crystals as a power source

⊗ 1/09: log: oriphi || enters oriphi's childhood dream and is in his child form

⊗ 1/09: log: beatrix || assist in dreamotion training

⊗ 12/02: network || requesting assistance in freeing the corgis
  » susato: transcribe assistant get
  » soldier: 76: honey get (blue honeybees???)
  » ferran: so what if he has a dog theme-
  » nier: offer to help gather fish scales
  » zidane: volunteer story sharing (cont in log)
  » oriphi: shares a story about friends and plays with corgis
  » hans: story share about ice queen (elsa)
  » alphen: talk about sharing stories
  » balthus: offer to bring fish scales, stories, and plays with the doggos
  » vanitas: he is not a dog dammit

⊗ 12/04: log: tifa || ice fishing at the lake to gather scales for the corgis brings out the singing fish (that eustace almost electrocutes on sight); the fish offer to give some after they ice skate; although disgruntled, they start with tifa needing help from eustace to relearn how to skate; they manage to have fun skating around before a red gumdrop appears, causing them to return to their gear; the gumdrop traps them in place and demands a kiss; tifa tries with a quick one on his cheek but it's not satisfied and it causes the ice beneath them to break; they're dropped in and eustace manages to pull them out; tifa is unresponsive and he manages to bring her to a cave to try and revive her; after a chance to warm up, the gumdrop forces them back into a kiss abd eustace takes the initiative this time; gumdrop leaves satisfied as feelings stir between them, but they're left awkward, disappointed, and uncertain as they remain unsaid

⊗ 12/04: log: zidane || tour of lindblum in his interactive dream

⊗ 12/05: open log || attempt to make gifts with fairy dog flowers; trying dreamotion with a plush shiba inu; designated spot for corgi help; gumdrops on request. note: all of eustace's ugly sweaters will be dog themed with a heavy chance of it featuring corgis and their butts.
  » zidane: delivered fish scales, shares story of choco and mene to corgis, drops off his own story without telling eustace it's about himself
  » toge: stops by to play with corgs
  » vanitas: learning how to deal with dogs
  » tifa: after the dreamshift and unknown to eustace, del delivers a christmas gift he had been delaying giving to tifa and after figure it out tifa goes to the corgi tree to find him and deliver her own to him; he still feels a bit awkward after what happened during the dreamshift, but they get over it to open the gifts; he receives a gun maintenence kit, tifa gets a jar of dried flower candies, potpourri, and a hairpin (courtesy of rose); instead of leaving, eustace allows tifa to stay to look after the dogs as he works on finishing the spell to help them leave the tree; after she gives a few a bath she offers to make dinner; it gets a little domestic and there are surprise flowers in the dish (from tifa's emotions but he doesn't realize it); he walks her back, they act cute, and when they reach her house eustace gets punched with realization of his attraction and maybe feelings towards tifa when he almost kisses her

⊗ 12/06: log: madhuri || secret santa drop off for chizuru

⊗ 12/15: log: oriphi || encounters oriphi as dog and mistakes her as a real one; much awkward when she reveals the truth

⊗ 12/19: event toplevel || dog sledding gift retrieval; fixing decorations; toy factory; reindeer games; in reindeer getup for the event
  » susato: dog sledding to find presents and rainbow crystals, encounter mimic that drops special present that turns into pumpkin pie
  » tifa: both are reindeer; at the toy factory, eustace covers tifa and guides her to his spot before they have to move before the toys reach them; tifa goes down to help the elves escape with eustace covering her; elves make it out but tifa is trapped when a mountain of boxes fall, forcing eustace out to try and help; he gets pulled into a box instead and tifa follows after, leaving them both trapped in very awkward compromising position; the sexual tension is real as they try to escape; when they finally manage it is very awkward
  » luca: help light up decorations
  » ventus: save ventus from gingerbread man and work together to take down machines
  » basil: put up string lights, get max rating
  » oriphi: suffer humilation as a reindeer with antlers stuck in branches
  » zidane: trying to be a reindeer
  » nuadha: cover as nuadha deals with machines

⊗ 12/21: event: law || race to the present

⊗ 12/26: inbox: oriphi || christmas gift exchange

⊗ 11/06: network || joint network post with nier dispensing info regarding the mutton man
  » tenn: swap information about muffin man vs. mutton man and what tenn found in the hut
  » joshua: possibility of entering the dreamscape like they did
  » zhao: no you can't just stab it-
  » jude: discuss mutton man and how dreamotion abilities work
  » rose: somehow talked about eating monster corpses...
  » kainé: just stabbing won't work dammit LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR DREAMOTION

⊗ 11/07: network: soldier: 76 || learn about the captured eraser in the jar and mention mutton man encounter

⊗ 11/07: network: hilda || offer to help with dreamotion training

⊗ 11/09: open log || helping chase squirrels away from the treehouses; assisting the farmers in orchards and herding; special "save eustace from corgis quest" featuring alice
  » tifa: at corgi treehouse; eustace has no memory of her and believes she's a threat, so big fight; she manages to make him remember part of his past, but it ends up causing a negative reaction that renders him unconscious; owl appears to tell her to get the cala lilies so he can drink the nectar; bit of embarrassing almost cpr occurs but he recovers consciousness; they work through his altered memories until they figure out that something happened to the previous guardian and eustace had been cursed to take his place; he tries to step outside and at first nothing happens until he sees the remains still outside; he has another episode and after tifa pushes him back in he's able to recover and explain the tragic story; they work to clean the dogs and the house and eustace slowly regains his memories in the process; they eventually break the curse by running through a magical barrier
  » ventus: at corgi treehouse; slowly recovers more memories while taking care of dogs
  » oriphi: help with herding cloud sheep and learn she can talk to animals; might try to learn through dreamotion abilities to do so with dogs
  » nier: meet the fairy dog family

⊗ 11/13: log: beatrix || try and help with her thorny home problem

⊗ 11/21: log: kanji || "adopts" a plush shiba inu that works off of dreamotion and promises to keep notes on how it functions under his care

⊗ 10/05: log: nanako || happy birthday with fairy doggo friends

⊗ 10/10: event toplevel || halloween pt1 - costume party; candy corn golems+bonus; wedding bonus: goblin seal; interactive nightmare: world without dogs; is a vampire
  » zidane: eustace has issues transforming and hijinks ensue; he eventually get it; zidane is a werewolf with a coywolf pup form
  » vanitas: work together to take out goblin seals
  » tifa: eustace can't resist petting werewolf tifa's ears, and it gets worse when they both transform into dogs and he can't control wanting to cuddle with her SHE WAS TOO ADORABLE... after chasing after the kids they turn back, but eustace has a strange episode of actual vampire urges and tifa body slams him just in time. very awkward.
  » gran: puppygran in his dream
  » momo: investigate the house the candy golems went to; strange papers with symbols on them

⊗ 10/15: event: nier || DO YOU KNOW THE MUTTON MAN

⊗ 10/19: event: balthus || couldn't resist touching ears; witness balthus run off to chase after a ball

⊗ 10/19: event: jiang cheng || jiang cheng is in lame werewolf costume but he still pets and has to explain

⊗ 10/21: event: tenn || halloween pt2; return to hut after mutton man and help tenn with his paws and discuss findings

⊗ 9/05: event: zidane || run into each other at the riverbank and after zidane tells his little "story" he kicks eustace into the river (deserved)

⊗ 9/05: event: tifa || meet again at riverbank and they are cursed with the zodiac stickers; eustace had been kicked into the river and had just come out, and then one of the flower pups rush in to send them both into the river where the singing fish tease them with romantic songs; once they're out he can finally apologize

⊗ 9/08: event: nanako || tdm carryover

⊗ 9/10: event: wei wuxian || that's a lot of rabbits

⊗ 9/10: open log || taking care of fairy dogs!! | toplevel: bathing puppies; basic training; sprucing up the home
  » tenn: journal; asking about feeding
  » frisk: puppy escaped bath and is playing with frisk instead
  » kazuma: puppy obstacle course
  » ferran: training disruptor
  » roxas: puppy baths
  » chara: discuss frisk helping take care of pups
  » steve: help with puppy baths

⊗ 9/25: log: alice || chasing foxes

⊗ 9/28: network: dojima || discuss story eater threat

⊗ 8/18: tdm || explore the town; find flower puppies!!!; deal with pests and cleaning up treehouses; hunting candy and noctaere in dreamscape tutorial
  » gaelio: learns how his emotions are affecting things and explains a bit about himself
  » zidane: annoying monkey brat but helps with cleaning up the houses
  » nanako: help gather puppies to take back to residential area
  » tifa: tifa recognizes him from camelot but he has no memory of it; although tifa tries to tell him what she knows, eustace remains suspicious and he walks away from her, leaving them on negative terms (he made her cry!!!)
  » ryotaro dojima: learns he's been in another world (realm of stories)
  » vanitas: are the noctaere intruders or are they?
  » nier: exterminate bugs

⊗ 8/20: tdm: gran || reunion and official declaration of vacation