CATBOY CONNOISSEUR

✧ HE/HIM • XIV SIDEBLOG ✧

[fandaniel]

[bsoisisis]

Missed drawing this lil guy

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DRK

*clenches fist* i just love the dark knight family so much

[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

[fistraid]

doordash, ubereats, and grubhub from ff14

[twinkle-art]

checking on my yuri stocks

[glysreia]

He would never be outright frightened but the sword blender will happen regardless

[sexybritishllama]

ffxiv free trial expanded to include shadowbringers you can now meet emet-selch for the low low price of £0 none of you have ANY excuses anymore

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ffxiv fans have voted emet-selch as "most wanted to get into a seinfeld-style predicament with"

[eriyu]

Lyse's relationship with Moenbryda in ARR feels considerably more fucked up to me than her relationships with any of the other Scions. like there's Papalymo, obviously, which is certainly complicated but ultimately they weren't lying to each other. and with most of the others, there's a bit of distance? obviously they're comrades, but she mostly just sticks to Papalymo's side like glue.

then there's Moen. she — or Yda — was so much closer to Moen.

and whether or not "Lyse" was planned yet during 2.x, the deception between them is never addressed. Moen was presumably in the same boat as all the other Scions: knowing about the switch, but playing along. so she and the real Yda were like sisters? that closeness has gotta make it so much more painful for both of them than the way the others tend keep things very business-like.

and what was Moenbryda's relationship like with Yda's little sister before Yda died? is there history there to paint over? i'm inclined to think so, with the way Lyse appears to have been genuinely really shaken by Moen's death.

i want to think that Lyse knew that Moenbryda knew the truth, like with Papalymo, and that the two of them had already been genuinely close. but i also think that if that were the case, they'd have said something at some point by now...

[siderealcity]

My headcanon/assumption is that Moen, Yda, and Lyse were all close.

So here's the breakdown: According to Encyclopedia Eorzea, Papalymo was 42 years old. Far and away the most senior of Louisoix's students.

According to Lyse, Yda fought alongside their father in the rebellion, and according to Gundobald "Yda" didn't look a day older even after twenty years.

Yda was therefore probably around the same age as Papalymo. If she had lived, she would have been 40ish years old. Probably 20ish at the time she arrived in Sharlayan, and therefore also served as Lyse's legal guardian. We never hear about any foster parents Lyse had, not even Louisoix.

Moenbryda, like Urianger, was 29. Much, much closer in age to 25 year old Lyse. Yda and Moen were both Archons and disciples of Louisoix, and I can easily see Yda viewing Moen as another sister.

But Lyse and Moen could have also been "twin sisters." Similar age, similar personalities...

Moen obviously must have known the truth. I mean... Yda would have been forty by now. But also... I sort of imagine Moenbryda was present when Papalymo gave Lyse the news. I mean, we never hear about any caretakers for young Lyse, who else would she have been with while her big sister was away in Ala Mhigo besides her other sister/best friend?

Moen's death is kind of the loss of the last family Lyse had.

[zakifairer]

Garleans think they're so cool but they've got names like Penis las Vegas

[vaatil]

Ishgard’s most fashionable citizen, Emmanellain de Fortemps

[ostensoria]

better times in elpis

[ffxivbestsmokespots]

Today's smoke spot is:

Noetophoreon

Hermes greened out here once, and then got really nauseous and… sorry, I should stop. He doesn't really like when I share things like that. But Azem comes here a lot! So maybe if you talked to Hermes he'd be willing to try it again.

Noetophoreon is a secluded area in Elpis and accessible only during the MSQ, or with flying unlocked. Because of this, you don't need to worry about others interrupting you. It's also pretty calm.

[halondrus]

[ribbi-ffxiv]

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I bet the drunk driving scene in garlemald kicks ass

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Nero doing 8 shots of the most disgusting liquor known to man and getting into a head on collision with this thing