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Aerith as Kainé is kinda a perfect match when you think about it

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extra things that i took out of this ear hc post bc it would have been way too long or simply didn't fit with the overall subject:

Physical therapy is essentially ear wiggling. yes this is as funny as it sounds. Unfortunately, this does not work for Alphinaud as some of his ear muscles are paralyzed and he could not realistically build the strength needed to hold up such large ears.

Auricle Misalignment Syndrome DOES get called names such as Infantile Ear Syndrome or even things like Baby-Ears, but such terms are generally regarded as being in poor taste, especially if the person with the condition is older. It didn't stop people in Ishgard or other places though.

Alphinaud's ears turn pink when he gets upset/embarrassed/angry and he HATES it (Alisaie's do too)

Mentioning his ears in a way that implies they're unique or different will often oh-ko him even if you're being nice. sorry it can send him into a spiral.

Alphinaud's hearing is mostly fine, though he might have to turn to face you directly more often than other elezen.

Alisiae is half deaf after her ear injury tho so he can hear notably better

Alisaie pretends she can't hear him when she's annoyed with him

He knows she's pretending

She still does it (will even plug her good ear with her finger)

Alphinaud isn't violent or aggressive by any means but touching his ears is instantly hitting his limit. do not do that. that's literally mean anyway fuck you

ageha-sds

Fray Myste, the Onyx Shade

do u think he gets the murder munchies inside of us

professionalchaoticdumbass

cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

professionalchaoticdumbass

you come onto my post and be funnier than me

skillet issue

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borrowing grief

my horrific beast

thetinyscald-blog

a meeting of the minds

only-tiktoks

kawree

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

edoro

In the fan favorite expansion of critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, Shadowbringers, at one point you go to the DMV. Not a regular DMV either. It's a ghost DMV. It's the bittersweet memory of a long dead civilization's DMV crafted from the mind of the only surviving member of that civilization, who is apparently the kind of guy who takes great comfort in meticulously recreating the fucking DMV. And you have to wait in line, despite the fact that you and your companions are the only living beings there and everyone else is a ghost. At the ghost DMV. Because that's what you do at the DMV, obviously.

And the guy's dead wife is there. At the ghost DMV. The dead wife is a ghost and he's the ONLY ghost who knows he's a ghost. In the ghost DMV. You make friends with the guy's dead wife (while waiting in line) (at the ghost DMV) and he tells you that the lunatic immortal wizard who's making you defeat his seven evil bureaucratic processes while you die of magic cancer before you can even fight him directly is really just a silly sentimental fella.

Then in the next expansion you get to live through the dead wife flashbacks yourself. You get to meet the dead wife when he's alive in the past, outside of the DMV. And it turns out he works at the real DMV, in the past. And he has pink hair. And he and the past-self version of the insane immortal wizard (who sent you to the ghost DMV) pull off a sick prank to help you close the timeloop.

Later, you run into the dead wife's real ghost on the moon, which is actually a spaceship full of immortal bunnies.

plothooksinc

#and one of the best moments is when the insane immortal wizard in the past#says 'pshaw i will for sure not become an insane immortal wizard. i would never do that'#and then due to Fuckery ends up forgetting all about that until he dies#and then presumably has a beautiful moment of 'oh fuck i DID become an insane immortal wizard'#ffxiv is truly the game that keeps on giving via @kratosaurioned

unseenphil

My favorite is when you later meet the past self of a -different- insane immortal wizard and tell him about his future and he's just like "Yeah, that sounds like sort of shit I'd do, actually,"

el-jarado

It’s still something that fucking sends me that Shadowbringers delves into the lore of the insane immortal wizards and you find out their ominous names are job titles from the elder days.

You have been apocalyptically beefing with “chief engineer”, “messenger boy”, and “director of public transport.” Millions have died. The most powerful sorcerer in the universe just really wants to go back to his job at the DMV.

koukouture

i saw a reblog under my post of azem haunting the narrative and it said smth like "ffxiv is a story where you haunt your own story" and it's just. wow. yeah it is. literally everything we know about azem can probably be summarized in a couple of sentences and yet their influence just reaches so far and so many things just end up leading back to them and then so many characters embody the idea of the traveller in so many different ways and it's just aaaahhhhh

it's such a masterclass in subtle character building tbh. like obviously they can't make azem too overt in their actions and the fact that they didn't join venat either makes them ambiguous enough that the player can project and think "hmm what would my azem do" but it also gives them a pretty solid idea of where azem stood and what they did. the player can still decide why they did it but it's still open ended enough. azem you will always be famousssss

and you the player? you are haunted by the actions of your old self. almost everything in ffxiv would be different if azem hadn't done what they did. if they weren't the person who they were. but who are they? i don't fucking know. nobody does. that's for you to think up in your own mind. honestly i don't think squeenix gets enough credit with how well they handle the self inserts aka wol and azem. they both have a set list of characteristics and embody certain values but it's kind of up to you as the player to decide why and how they do that.

i'm still so idk just amazed by that idea. you haunt your own story. you did all this and you don't even know it. or, you don't know the full extent of it.