Aya (azem brainrot)

xiv/gi/multifandom switching a bit, on xiv burn out

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Lahabrea to Azem: Go to hell.

Emet Selch: I own hell. I don’t want them.

[apathmakerstale]

FFXIV EVERCOLD SPECULATION!!!!

I think, just via watching the new trailer and the keynote on how this new saga is about "Uniting the stars," AND how the trailer specifically calls out 'The Traveler' aka Azem, so we're gonna be seeing what Azem was doing during the Sundering.

I think, since the Winterer's seem to be preparing for a 'great freeze' as in due to Zodiark dying, the Source and Shards aren't bathed in massive amounts of ambient aether imbalance everywhere, thus they start to 'wither' and 'nature's proclamation' is that the lives of the Source and Shards can't be currently sustained by the amount of aether now in the system of life. It's an unnatural way of living, not due to souls, but the fact that the environment itself suffers. Even though we can survive in harsh conditions, other life and the world can't always after all.

I.e we killed the biggest aether battery in the star, and now we're in a aether deficit.

Zodiark was born of the star being sundered into 14 Shards, the current arrangement of the stars is unnatural. It's not how 'nature' is supposed to be. By bringing it together it stands to reason it would be fix the 'withering' like if you cut off enough tree branches the original dies.

Now, 'that's what the Ascians wanted to do,' well yes but the way they wanted to was the equivalent of smashing a meteor into Earth and hoping it reforms slightly bigger while also killing off everyone they considered inferior.

With Azem the Traveler's key, someone whose entire job was to unite people, I think their magic is the key to bringing the stars together safety without mass death. It would make sense their magic works like that and why so many people are coveting the Key. It would also give chance to show how Venat did the Sundering in the first place, as she being the former Azem, would have access to the same type of magic. So it makes sense we'd be able to 'learn' and end it properly.

Azem's duty was Shepherd to the Stars in the dark and it's a Shepherd's duty to bring their flock back together safely.

[jrpgdog]

[hivemindcoroika]

I’m a few days late, but I drew my azem for draw a centaur day

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

One of my favorite parts of Endwalker is Emet-Selch seeing the Ghost WoL, immediately clocking it as Azem Something and going No, Not Today Satan while Hythlodaeus is sitting down beside the Ghost WoL and making pspspspsp noises at them and offering them free hugs and Emet's Aether and giving Emet the biggest wettest puppy dog eyes of Can We Keep Them?

Meanwhile WoL is having some emotional whiplash and an existential crisis.

[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.

[itsartbyjonathan]

i think the apples rotten right to the core

[miaiminnis]

through me, the flood

[nephiieatsuranium]

choose your fighter: sleepover edition

[koukouture]

Oh Azem... nobody can haunt the narrative like you <3

[ayaseiwhale]

Some wriolette art <3

[ayaseiwhale]

haur doodle

[ayaseiwhale]

au ra

[ayaseiwhale]

some aymeric shtuffs in the past month or 2

[ayaseiwhale]

lizert with 2 elfs

happy starlight

[eaotheelf]

Reblog if your an FFXIV blog!

Help the lost Twitter spirits find us all.

[spiribia]

look at the japanese text for what fray says to you at the very end of the lvl 80 dark knight quest (in place of where ENG’s “was it ever mine…?” speech is) 😭

[weatheredfailnot]

The translation was done by @bakemeatz on Twitter and a thread about it can be found here~ There are a lot more DRK quest translations linked in the thread!