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✨ she/her 🌙 it's FFXIV autism hours

[ghostkingshenwei]

FUCK I LOVE TIFAS OUTFIT BUT Aerliht would never ever ever wear it and also it will probably look bad on her bc of the weird roe scaling on the clothes

[enbylucina]

[terramythos]

a fucking typing game 😭

[hsiadolllllllll]

Memoria crystal and Paladin Zero💜💙🩶

[gjjuddmk2]

[ahhhtai]

Henceforth, he shall walk. (v2)

[ghostkingshenwei]

My wife has spent the past like. three weeks. trying to get the paperwork to work from home for the next month until her surgery is completely healed. Which her boss is totally fine with but HR kept asking for more and more paperwork. And they finally got back to her yesterday like "your four weeks of *leave* has been approved. Apparently because her doctor filled out the wrong part of the form and HR never noticed it was different than the emails my wife was sending them?? And since part of it goes through a state program for medical leave, we think she's probably not legally allowed to work now for the next four weeks lmao. The funniest part is she was back working (from home) for exactly two days before the approval went through.

[toboldlymuppet]

death and liberation ☠️☀️

[moment-live]

In the dark you will not stray

[mumblesplash]

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

[argentiell]

self portrait sketch

[ruderubicante]

Return of the night sky

[absolem0]

[parallelkozak]

anglerfish

[ghostkingshenwei]

I accidently made Aerliht a really great Azem because all she wants is to (1) be a hero and (2) to see new places and meet new girls people. All of this established in like HW, so it was lucky it worked out.

Rei, I think, just wants to fuck up Garlemald and also gain forbidden knowledge/power (in like a cosmic-horror-adjacent wizard sort of way).

[medi-melancholy]

"oh how did you come up with that new lore or quirk or dialogue for your wol--" they just did that

[siderealcity]

The symbology of the Convocation of Fourteen is just... one of my favorite details in ffxiv. And yeah, I know they have zodiac signs because Final Fantasy Tactics had zodiac signs and FF12 had zodiac signs, but 14's spin on them is inspired, and I don't think that gets enough appreciation.

Each of the Ascians is characterized to at least superficially match their sign. Emet-Selch seems like a Gemini, seemingly on both sides of every issue. Fandaniel seems like a Leo who wants to be the center of attention. Lahabrea, The Creator, seems like an artsy Pisces... just...y'know, a horrible one.

And it's not as if "terrible, messed-up version of Zodiac symbol" is new here. Tactics definitely had that already. The thing ffxiv adds to the trope is the presence of the Sun.

Azem's symbol being the sun and not a constellation tells us exactly what their role in the Convocation was supposed to be. The sun's path through the constellations is what gives all those signs their meanings. You can't be a Gemini unless the sun is in Gemini. The sun's passage through the zodiac is supposed to illuminate the best way forward. This is why Emet-Selch calls them both "Shepherd to the stars in the dark," and "Counsellor to the star's people." They're meant to inspire people to become their best selves. This is inadvertently what WoL does in numerous places and times across the game, (and one of the ancients in Elpis even comments on it) because apparently repeatedly dying at the hands of their coworkers and friends for eons did not get them out of having to do their job.

When the sun protested their unspeakbly terrible plan, they went all in on their hubris by casting it down forever. They never replaced Azem. They don't even want to remember they ever had a sun. They don't have the light that illuminates their best selves, their better future. So they can't find it anymore. They don't know how to be themselves anymore, in Azem's absence. In Elidibus' case, literally. He is so desperate for the guiding star he can't even remember having, that he constantly, instinctively, seeks out Azem in different forms. Wearing Ardbert's corpse, and wandering up to WoL for awkward chats, and looking back to the heroes of the past who were definitely Azem shards.

The sun, torn from the heavens, leads to the maker's ruin.