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Final Fantasy doodles

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Tears in my Aerti eyes

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So K-pop demon hunters came out and who was my first thought when listening to Huntrix? YRP OF COURSE

I’m still on ff10 but I am so excited for 10-2 just for YRP considering how much I love Rikku and Yuna but maybe expect some sorta YRP/Huntrix crossover sketch from me

Also might make this digital

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Not too happy with this sketch but as someone said for more going into the sketchbook doesn’t mean it’s time to make a masterpiece it’s time to problem solve

I love Aerti

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Just finished the Ardyn dlc and besides all my new thoughts and feelings of Ardyns character there’s

One little thing

The fact this dlc continues to hammer the nail in the coffin of the fact that no matter what Noctis had no chance of surviving in anyway because of that stupid prophecy is still just as heartbreaking as every other time

It kinda reminds me of the warrior cats book ‘twilight’ the 5th book in the second series where a beloved character is told she is going to die in a prophecy and the reader or in this case with ffxv the player is holding onto this false hope that it’ll be fake and that their beloved character will make it out of this alive

But they don’t. They never do because the prophecy must be fulfilled

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Oh to be blessed with being in her presence…

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Ok everyone let’s hold hands and pray I don’t mess up the colouring of this tomorrow ok? Ok!

I keep seeing edits of rebirth Aerith with wings but I just wanted to draw her with the one originally I was gonna draw her in the Rosa outfit but I’m a sucker for the promises to keep one..

Also considering I put what I was listening to in my other Aerith post I was listening to Mamas boy because I was thinking about how Elmyra never got to hug or see Aerith again.

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Listening to Paris, Texas By Lana del ray while drawing this was lethal btw I think I had like 3 heartaches thinking about Aerith and this song

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Cause making the oc who is deathly afraid of large bodies of water, a mermaid is super smart 😭

IDK I THOUGHT ITD BE CUTE maybe a chocobro mermaid au would be better instead…

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Seeing a lot of Gladio hate cause of the train scene and guys I’m gonna be honest I love him cause of the train scene

It’s a difficult time for all four of em it’s supposed to be, with the loss of Lunafreya, Ignis losing his eyesight and Noctis grieving there was two choice of characters to push the plot along Prompto or Gladio and with what happens shortly after this it was best it Gladio.

Gladio is so different from Iggy when you think about it them showcasing Gladio being rather pushy in that way to get Noctis moving was a showcase of that.

It also shows the impact of the injuries on everyone they don’t know if Ignis would be able to keep up they’re hurt they’re scared

I personally think they needed a confrontation/argument scene for these guys and this was the perfect way to go about it but that’s just me.

[phoenixwithapencil]

Okay I have A Take on this-

Gladio is at his best on the train.

Yes. However Comma

Gladio I think is at his best because the train on top of forcing a confrontation and shift in the (atrocious) status quo, the whole thing is forcing Gladio to break his stoic silent ‘not gonna talk about it’ vibe I feel like he tends to have.

I think for most of the game, Gladio’s screwed over by not getting to show a full range of emotions the way Noctis or Prompto or even Iggy get to show.

(Yes I think this could have been helped if him getting shoved into the Regalia by Ravus was marginally more impactful and if he had been honest with Noctis about why he was dipping for a week and if he’d been more emotionally vulnerable during episode Gladiolus and if he got to actually fend off an equal or greater threat at the power generator but that’s… that’s a whole rant)

The point is that on the train, Gladio talks and you get to see his fears and his flaws and his values and how he handles interpersonal conflict. And that’s so much more interesting than the macho man archetype. Gladio’s at his best on the train because we get to see Gladio without the usual bravado on the train

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so i also have a take on this.

i think gladio's character arc was meant to be slightly different, once upon a time. i think that somewhere along the line, in some unspecified unknown draft of the story, iris was meant to die in lestallum.

that's why you were forced to spend time with her in the previous lestallum visit. you get to know her, you get to see how important she is to gladio... and then you complete the trials of ramuh, and she's not picking up her phone anymore, and when the bros get back to lestallum she's gone.

gladio was off frolicking in duscae, protecting noctis from imps and shit, while iris was murdered by the empire. so they go beat up the damn imperial base, and gladio is full of rage (definitely not grief), AND then gets his ass handed to him by ravus, and and and…

you see how he would be feeling weak. couldn't protect iris from the empire, couldn't protect noct from ravus.

so gladio delivers noctis to cape caem and tells him, i'm done. this is a losing fight, and it's just not in me to do it. and he leaves. and that's what episode gladio was meant to be about. cor finds him and is like, psst, gladio. let me explain to you all the ways in which you will come to regret this IF (when) noctis is gone.

gladio comes back genuinely stronger not because he has a cool sword or whatever, but because he genuinely understands how important it is to protect the very very very few people he has left.

but obviously that didn't happen. idk if its because it was never planned and i'm just tweaking, if they didn't want to kill two out of the four female characters this game has, or if they didn't want gladio to outright abandon noctis (even if for a time), and i guess i'll never know.

but yeah. i think there was always meant to be MORE to gladio's arc, and it got lost somewhere in dev hell, and what we're left with is very lackluster. so in the end he comes across like an asshole post altissia, instead of someone who's been through the same grief noct is going through, and is just doing to noctis what has been done to him.

[phoenixwithapencil]

A. How dare you leave that bit about Gilgamesh should have been Ardyn’s shield- a *failed* shield in the tags

B. I actually really like this. And I think just the minute change of- yes still wanting to prove his strength to some degree but also being bitter and angry and *done* with the fight because Iris died and Ravus The Angry Twink shoved him Radically Changes Everything. Okay— namely it changes how Gladio’s interacting with Gilgamesh and his trials, how I think Gladio would behave with Noctis, and also carries some dramatic irony for Altissia

Coming at Gilgamesh from a place of rage and a place of Giving Up and a place of I Can’t Do This Anymore makes Gilgamesh’s whole ‘bro you need muscle and mettle’ *mean* something. Because it gives Gladio the chance to develop something he didn’t have before if he’s explicitly not able to stick it out with Noctis through hell or high water

Iris’s death I think would force Gladio to be the first one in the party to go through ‘the person I loved most in this world died and I wasn’t there to protect them when that’s my *purpose*. Which means on the train, he wouldn’t be coming at that fight from seemingly a place of not getting what Ignis and Noct (especially Noct) went through in Altissia. He gets it. He gets why Ignis did everything in his power to protect Noctis. He gets why Noctis is crumbling with his grief. But they have to stand up and keep moving. This war is only winnable that way. They need to direct their anger and pain at the empire, rather than cut themselves down with it. However you’d want to actually frame this my point here is that these are lessons he can learn from Gilgamesh/lessons he can learn that Gilgamesh never did and it can make his DLC Matter

Do I still think we need a scene- maybe in Gralea- where Daemonic Ravus or Ardyn… prolly Ravus- go in for a quick stab at Noctis that mirror’s Ravus’s attack waaayyyy back at the base and Gladio gets to actually hold his own for a sec and give his friends time to join the fight proper and it feels like a triumph over his initial failing—- yeah. Yeah I really think he needs that scene. And that would be the cherry on this cake. Is getting to protect someone because he stuck it out. And he tried again. And he stood tall. And that pays off.

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GEEEZ WERE COOKING OVER HERE I LOVE READING THESE REBLOGS BUT ITS MAKING ME REALISE THE POTENTIAL THIS GAME HAD

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Seeing a lot of Gladio hate cause of the train scene and guys I’m gonna be honest I love him cause of the train scene

It’s a difficult time for all four of em it’s supposed to be, with the loss of Lunafreya, Ignis losing his eyesight and Noctis grieving there was two choice of characters to push the plot along Prompto or Gladio and with what happens shortly after this it was best it Gladio.

Gladio is so different from Iggy when you think about it them showcasing Gladio being rather pushy in that way to get Noctis moving was a showcase of that.

It also shows the impact of the injuries on everyone they don’t know if Ignis would be able to keep up they’re hurt they’re scared

I personally think they needed a confrontation/argument scene for these guys and this was the perfect way to go about it but that’s just me.

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So i recently really got back into final fantasy 15 like it hit hard

I’ve ended up having dreams about an oc and here she is

She doesn’t have a name or anything but she does have a Spotify playlist and a bit of lore

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Aerith doodles that I’m not a fan

I love aerith sm that it hurtsssss her in crisis core especially

Also was thinking about my opinion on Cloud and I can’t tell if I’ve changed it or not

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I’ve been trying to play ff8 cause I got it for Christmas but having no map or health bar on the enemy seriously has me tweaking can’t even beat the first boss 😭😭

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Drawing of Aerith I made yesterday tried out a new brush but I’m not sure about it, the drawing feels rushed cause I wasn’t aware of Aerith day yesterday but oh well…

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If I knew when it first went wrong, I never would’ve gone along.

I love thinking of characters and what songs they could possibly match like Tifa and Chitose Fujinomiya from Yakuza fit Nothing by Aidoneus

Tifa was actually the reason I got into Ff7 I bought the remake cause of her but Barrett ended up being my favourite

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He’s…interesting I guess

Definitely not my favourite character sometimes I pace around the house when he says something cause it annoys me that much

Doesn’t mean I don’t get him or understand his character I just like my main characters with personality

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I love Scottish cat finally some good representation where it’s not all “oh ho ho it’s Scottish so we can’t understand it!!!” I live for Cait sith and Mimir from Gow