Content Request FFXIV Chocobo Companions

[Galadín]

Calling all Adventurers!​

The team over at Timber Maniacs are looking to feature the feathered friends who bravely stand at each hero's side as their steadfast comrade - the Chocobo Companions! We want to celebrate these loyal steeds in our upcoming issue and are looking for Adventurers to give us an insight into the personalities and stories behind their chocobos.

If you are interested in having your Chocobo included in this feature, simply submit a bio of your chocobo to this thread. Keep in mind, the more details you include in your chocobo's bio, the more we can get to know your trusted side-kick!

Below we have included some examples of information that you could include for your bio, feel free to use all or some of this info in your submission. Be sure to include screenshots though as we want to see your chocobo companion in the feather!

Sample bio information
Name (with the origin of name chosen if relevant)
Nicknames (if any)
Birth Location
Favourite Snacks
Favourite Barding
Favourite Location
Most Hated Enemy/Monster
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All)
Phobias/Fears
Any Minion Friends
Ever molted to a different colour
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life

NB: Please include screenshots of your Chocobo Companion in battle and/or out in the field.

All submissions used in our upcoming issue will be credited to the contributor, so be sure to also include your FFXIV character name and your server.

Thank you,
Timber Maniacs Team

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[Mitsuki]

I'll have to subscribe again soon so I can get a screenshot of my chocobo. I just checked my FFXIV Screenshot folder and I can't believe I don't have a single shot of my chocobo, one that qualifies as a decent entry. That's absurd... o.o

Who else is currently subbed in the game?

 

[shivas]

I love my chocobo!! I take him out with me all the time (levelling him all the way took forever though but it was worth it)

Name: Nero (I was replaying DMC4 when I first started playing XIV haha)
Nicknames: Chicken
Birth Location: Gridania
Favourite Snacks: Sylkis Bud
Favourite Barding: Lakshmi Barding
Favourite Location: Idyllshire
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Healer
Any Minion Friends: Morpho or Midgardsormr
Ever molted to a different colour: Salmon Red
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: He saved my life plenty of times, especially when I used to level my dps classes from the start! so glad I started spending the SP points on the healer section first

here are some pictures

back when I was levelling my Bard, I was obsessed with the Bismarck barding (body)

The Lakshmi Barding is sooooooo pretty! It's my favourite one so far!

The raincoat barding is so adorable too

and here's the most recent barding added to the game, the Yojimbo barding!

 

[JasonTandro]

I, uh, hope you like the color red lol. I thought this was a cool way to show off the two SB1 jobs. I'm a SAM main and my birb is a Red Mage. And it's sunset in Shirogane.

 

[Mitsuki]

Name: Starbucks
Nicknames: Starduck
Birth Location: Gridania
Favourite Snacks: Organic chickpea puffs
Favourite Barding: None
Favourite Location: Gridania
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Malboro
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Healer
Phobias/Fears: Goblins because they come in packs!
Any Minion Friends: Coeurl Kitten
Ever molted to a different colour: Sky blue and Turquoise
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: Starbucks aided me plenty of times when he's not goofing off, especially in the beginning stages. There's definitely been a few close calls.

 

[Jake]

Name: Serina. I named it after the AI in Halo Wars, haha. Great character!
Birth Location: Gridania.
Favourite Snacks: Serina doesn't believe in snacking. Clearly.
Favourite Barding: Reveler's Barding. Just look at that tail phew.
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Those STUPID things that give you a billion debuffs when your toe is in the AoE. Screw those guys.
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Attacker.
Phobias/Fears: Having terrible logs.
Ever molted to a different colour: I think it was blue or something. Technically I stole the required items from the FC before I joined
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: I don't think my chocobo has ever saved my life. Kinda useless really. I mean I forget to summon it 99% of the time but still.

 

[Six]

Old screenshot!

Name: Sparx.
Nicknames: Duck.
Birth Location: Ul'dah.
Favourite Snacks: Good old Gysahl Greens.
Favourite Barding: None.
Favourite Location: The Dravanian Hinterlands.
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Malboro, 100%.
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Attacker/Free stance.
Phobias/Fears: S Rank hunts.
Any Minion Friends: Fledgling Dodo
Ever molted to a different colour: Lavender... ended up not liking that though, shocker. Midnight blue it is.
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: Short story: It never happened. Hmph.

 

[Miasma Dragon]

Name: Destructor
Birth Location: Coerthas
Favourite Snacks: Everything meaty.
Favourite Barding: Sleipner Head, Horde Body/Feet
Favourite Location: Dravania-somewhere.
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Rats
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Attacker
Phobias/Fears: N/A
Any Minion Friends: Midgardsormr
Ever molted to a different colour: Not yet.
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: Never. He's lazy.

 

[Layle]

Name: Swiftbeak
Birth Location: Limsa Lominsa
Favourite Snacks: Thavnairian Onion
Favourite Barding: Black Mage (the hat keeps his neck from getting sunburnt)
Favourite Location: Coerthas
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Morbols!
Preferred Stance: Defender
Phobias/Fears: Morbols!
Any Minion Friends: He gets on well with the Ugly Duckling
Ever molted to a different colour: NEVER
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: I save his life more than he saves mine…

FFXIV Character Name: Felix Deimos
Server: Shiva

 

[Dionysos]

Name: Hewarkles (meaning Herakles in warkish).
Birth Location: Limsa Lominsa, presumably.
Favourite Snacks: Screaming lalafell.
Favourite Barding: Abigail barding (recalling his service for Queen Omphale).
Favourite Location: Aleport.
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Hydra (since Hewarkles' quarry is protected in a dungeon).
Preferred Stance: Healer Stance.
Phobias/Fears: Poisoned barding and pyres.
Any Minion Friends: Enkidu (probably cultural appropriation, but Iolaus wasn't available).
Ever molted to a different colour: Not since leaving his fledgling yellow. Now Lavender.
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: Polyphemos once forgot to equip his gear and his pecker saved him.

FFXIV Character Name: Polyphemos Bromios.
Server: Lamia.

 

[GothicSyn]

I wasn't going to do this because the origin story is super lame. But then again why not right?

Name: Tequila.
Nicknames: Quila.
Origin: Quite literally I was drunk when I named him!
Birth Location: Brentbranch Meadows.
Favourite Snacks: Gysahl Greens, perhaps Thavnairian Onions.
Favourite Barding: Red Mage.
Favourite Location: The Ruby Sea.
Most Hated Enemy/Monster: Coeurl.
Preferred Stance (Defender, Attacker, Healer or All): Free stance.
Phobias/Fears: Healing.
Any Minion Friends: Ugly Duckling.
Ever molted to a different colour: Some Blend of Purple.
Short story of how your chocobo may have saved your life: Well if it wasn't for Quilas healing, then I'd mess up way more FATEs than I tend to. It's his job to keep me alive.

 

[Dionysos]

We've got plenty of material for this article so we will close this for now.

Thank you for entering your chocobos and for your enthusiasm!