ffxiv is a dumb game and i hate it

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[hiveswap]

Not attracted to that character i just want him to experience being scared for his life and panicking

[magellanica]

G'raha Tia this time!! I have barely drawn him, but it was fun!

[hotshotriot]

its like strippers and the economy to me

[artctrlcee]

Empty nest syndrome

Based on the outtakes by Thancred's English VA (link to bsky)

[tboylucifer]

I don't think Estinien ever worries about the WoL, not because he doesn't care, but because anything you do he just assumes you'll succeed, even if it shouldn't be possible. You brought Ishgard and dragons together, you and Alphinaud saved him from Nidhogg's eyes, and then you immediately freed two more countries, of course you're going to save this other world and bring the scions' souls home. He doesn't really understand it, but it sounds like you have it covered. The world is ending? Man it's a good thing we got you on our side. Fought a god of despair at the edge of the world? That's a Tuesday for you, right? The WoL is seemingly dying on the spaceship floor? Nah, watch this, they're gonna perk up in about ten minutes and give us each a high five. (Alisaie smacks him for saying this, but he's absolutely still right.)

Estinien may not be the smartest of the scions, but he is wise, and he may not fully understand what plot armor is, but he's definitely clocked that you got it.

[tboylucifer]

@aufreane

I was actually thinking about making a post about this. Up until now we've been carried a bit by Hydaelyn, but at Ultima Thule Hydaelyn is dead and you and Zenos are still coming back again and again when you go down in the fight. It's explained that it's the dynamis, but dynamis is like aether, a power source just one that carries emotions. Zenos has absorbed the power of a primal previously, and we as the Warrior of Light have not just the faith of Estinien and the scions, but that of every person we have saved across the world and even the enemy in front of us. If faith in something in this world can create a god I would not be surprised if we already count as one.

[moment-live]

You just know everyone passed out in Wol’s inn room after ultima thule

[katalean]

today instead of working on my thesis film I chose to be happy

[flyingbunniesart]

i swearrrr i've been working hard and not only drawing raha topless haha. [sweating profusely]

[anistarrose]

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

[anistarrose]

no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent

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[anistarrose]

hour 1 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: idk it would've been nice if she had more screentime

hour 100 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: ok but despite having only eight lines of dialogue she is literally THE most interesting nuanced and tragic character in the entire series and these writers had no idea what they even had. how is no one else seeing this it's literally so objectively obvious

[nohoperadio]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*

[voidsentprinces]

[jabberwockprince]

fortemps brothers that live rent free in my head because sure yeah, artoirel's status as The Oldest & The Heir can heavily haunt his dynamic with his brothers on account of one being The Favorite & The Bastard and the other being Irresponsible & The Spare. in order, they're sons born from duty (artoirel), love (haurchefant) and precaution (emmanellain)

we all know how haurchefant reacted to Everything thanks to the novel and we can easily assume how artoirel might've reacted but i cant help but look at emmanellain and think. yeah ofc he gives ignored neglected & neglectful attention seeking gossiping irresponsible socialite vibes. he has two insanely capable brothers that overshadow him in every aspect that matters within the noble families of ishgard

but he also just. picked up a fucking kid off the streets, taught him how to read and do maths and then sort of adopted him as his main servant? which is incredibly fun for me to think about considering how emannellain acts during heavensward. his responsibility as honoroit's guardian doesnt register until after honoroit is physically injured as a result of his actions. so why did he even reach out to teach him in the first place? their own dynamic highlights his immaturity and neglect for the lower classes and his impact on them, yes. but why did he even do it in the first place?

the silver fuller got his spurs, the freedom and distance that camp dragonhead offers, after saving an 11 year old francel. if emmanellain can passively pretend to act like someone befit his station (the good way, the correct way, the artoirel way) then he can too follow haurchefants footsteps in his own misguided way. theyre his brothers after all, theyre his betters and whatnot. they know better while he knows absolutely fucking nothing

him reaching out to help honoroit on a whim because it required minimal effort from his part to teach an orphan child math and literature. because his entire family says youre supposed to serve others. because he saw himself in an unwanted child. to see if he can recreate what haurchefant had with francel to earn his own freedom from being "the third and spare heir should anything happen to artoirel". it makes the fact that emmanellain later gets his shit rocked with lessons that both of his brothers knew by heart already and then gets stationed in camp dragonhead honoring haurchefant is much more compelling to me than the idea of emmanellain being THAT selfless when he reached out to honoroit

the youngest son being isolated and overlooked by virtue of being the last. the youngest son fumbling to find the same success as his older brothers by half heartedly and playfully following their footsteps, because everyone in the world (including himself) already kind of assumed he wouldnt have it in him to Truly Be Like Them, so surely it isnt that serious. he can afford to fail, because artoirel and haurchefant are there. its the safety and the burden of knowing his older brothers are good at everything that he gave up on and will never have bc he stopped trying. emannellain realizing that choosing to be good and wield your power in a way that matters takes so fucking much out of you. that it will eventually kill you. that it is by absolute luck that his father and brothers kept coming back from each battle. that the men he admired and was jealous of arent as invincible as he believed them to be. that he himself wasnt as much of a lost cause as he originally thought

and even then, he's still filling in for someone else's shoes. he's still living under someone else's shadow, the portrait looms behind a desk that will never be truly his to command. he too had to see edmont collapse with grief after haurchefaunt's death and wonder if his own father wouldve reacted the same if he was the one to die out there

[bunningstone]

the exarch, technically not lying according to any possible legal definition: no. there was no one here named g'raha tia when i arrived at the tower.

wuk lamat, sincerely: wow that's so crazy you lost a baby here 20 years ago, i was a foundling here 20 years ago! if there were any unaccounted for babies i would've seen 'em, but nope, just me. sorry for your probably dead lost baby. me, i'm just loving life and being alive.

[snail-fever]

a story about grief

song: world spins madly on by the weepies

[higharollakockamamie]

MMORPG players in Westworld: people torture the NPCs because they're not real and nothing matters

Real MMORPG players in real games: for a while there was a rock with textures that didn't load in correctly so people made a pilgrimage to Smooth Rock

[willowmp4]

remembering squapes…

[enflesheduncreature]

level 1 my beloved.....

[ratantics]

I needed to see this today.

[imptwins]

i am about to become the most annoying human being on planet earth.

[nights-at-crystarium]

when Azem comes back after 2 months of adventures