[meracydia-miqo]

hiii im star i like ffxiv way too much (no such thing as ‘too much’). probably mainly reblogs here but might occasionally share some art and gposes. i like talking about my wols a lot, so please feel free to send me questions!

beware spoilers! no guarantee everything will be tagged, so please tread carefully.

main wols: ahki lihzeh (light dc) | q’lhani rinh (materia dc)

please talk to me about meracydia. we are starving.

[tritoch]

variant dungeon storylines

the sil'dihn subterrane: come learn the dark truth of what happened to sil'dih...and the tragic but lovely story of nanamo's parents.

mount rokkon: ghosts sure are spooky! i wonder...do you think hancock has ever wanted to pway on da pwayground...?

aloalo island: help matsya catch the coolest fish! but watch out for bandi—THAT FAIRY HAS A GUN HOLY SHIT

the merchant's tale: 𝚐𝚊𝚢 𝚐𝚊𝚢 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚐𝚊𝚢

[livvyplaysfinalfantasy]

Natsuko Ishikawa went over her process for character writing, including the comprehensive background document she creates for each character. This information doesn’t necessarily make its way into the story, but it’s nevertheless helpful to determine people’s personalities.

She revealed information from some of the Doman characters as an example, confirming that Gosetsu did, in fact, have a wife and daughter before Garlemald.

[loveandlegacy]

as a rule it's always more interesting when two people who know each other outlive a third person that they both loved and then their relationship becomes So Much Weirder and more emotionally fraught, entangled, and charged when that third person dies

[spotofmummery]

Are You a Shy or Introverted Gamer?

Do you sometimes struggle in big or small ways in social online gaming worlds (such as FFXIV)?

I know you might be shy to respond to this (I'm shy, too!), but please tell me about your feelings or experiences! Even if it's just something short (ie. I'm anxious to run roulettes, I nope out of art parties, I wish I knew how to make gaming friends, I'd like to RP but... etc.).

Let me know where you feel social anxiety or introversion causes you to not do all the things you wish you could do in your online game of choice.

And please share this!

I have a project in mind that I'd like to develop for shy and introverted gamers - I will share this as soon as I get things in place, but I'd like to understand folks better in the meantime!

Thanks for your time! I'm thinking about you, friend! ♫♩♪♫

[ievaxol]

Once Alphinaud finally manages to detangle himself from the festivities following their triumph at Holminster for long enough to sneak back to their rooms, he finds that Alisaie has returned sometime during the night. She's a still, unmoving lump in the middle of her bed, illuminated only by sharp light spilling in through the bathroom door.

Alphinaud hesitates. Whilst him and Seike journeyed back to the Crystarium he put the pieces together enough to be able to guess at why she stayed behind, he just doesn't know what to do with it. Alisaie is never still.

"Alisaie --"

"Don't." Her voice is raw.

"Alright," Alphinaud replies quietly.

Before this, before collapsing and being brought to another world, he would have made a grand speech. Now he swallows down whatever else he wants to say and makes for the bathroom, eager to wash off the sweat, grime and various celebratory drinks that have rained down on the Crystarium this night.

He stands underneath scalding hot water for what surely must be an eternity but when he re-emerges Alisaie still hasn't moved. Slowly he makes his way over, sinking down on the mattress next to her when she doesn't protest.

At the first touch of her hair she jerks, pushing her face further into the pillow. After a brief pause Alphinaud persists, tugging still-damp locks free enough that he can untangle them with his fingers.

Then he sets to work, weaving the strands like he's done so many times before. The braid comes out crooked and the angle makes his neck hurt, but, that is what a brother puts up with.

He pretends he doesn't see Alisaie's shoulders shake nor hear her muffled sobs. Once he's done with Alisae's braid he does his own and skids down the covers, elbowing her until there is enough space for them to lie back to back.

Just like when grandpa left.

Sleep has just about taken hold when Alisaie quietly whispers a thanks.

[fabienlaguna]

Tataru: 1        Nero: 0

[cutiepotata]

I want to point out: While that scene plays out like a funny joke that is prime meme material, this might be one of the specific moments that allowed Shadowbringers and everything after to happen, actually.

Nero not only accepts that statement and his loss against her, but would have respected it to almost irrational degrees, if we hadn’t resolved Shadowbringers in the way we did.

In the sidestory about the 8th Calamity, we find out that Wedge tragically dies while trying to make a well (aka offer clean water in poisoned lands). The story ends with Cid making himself and Nero a coffee, using ‘a boilmaster’. At that point, Nero and Cid are around 70 years old, so Wedge’s Boilmaster was kept in working condition for at least 40 years. Sure, one could claim that this was all Cid.

But in Shadowbringers, we can enter the Crystal Tower and can find various notes and magitek creations. One of the enemies that protect the main center of the tower, the core where the very thing that allowed the tower to traverse time and space, THE most vulnerable and important part of the whole tower… One of the enemies guarding that center is called the “Mark CXLIV Thermocoil Boilbuster”. It’s a levitating watertank that attacks via boiling water.

So sure, one could say, that was probably also Cid. But Cid was never into things that can attack people. So maybe it was Wedge or his descendants? But Wedge also never had any interest in war machines unless they had a smart AI (which the Thermocoil Boilbuster has not), and this likely was the same for his descendants. Biggs is more or less like Wedge. But NERO. One of Nero’s main characteristics that Cid keeps complaining about is that Nero’s biggest passion is making weapons. Every time he creates something, it’s meant for battle. Every time he helps out, he can be caught suggesting uses for battle, attaching weapons, etc. He loved the Allagan’s Ultima Weapon, he adored Omega Weapon, he was jealous that he missed out on seeing Alexander, he is in fact very disappointed when the one time he doesn’t make a weapon and instead the brush during the Omega raid (decidedly not a weapon), he doesn’t get praised for it. As such, it is quite possible that Nero had either built or made the schematics for those boiler machines.

Why would he make boilers of that size and aggression though, when there would be much more efficient weapon designs than something trying to scald you with water? Because, as the shortstory mentions, the world is overrun by bandits and monsters after the 8th Calamity, there is sickness and a severe lack of food which led to the collapse of entire nations. A boiler can make clean water. Wedge DIED for clean water. The Mark CXLIV Thermocoil Boilbuster is as big as a Roegadyn, thus carrying plenty of water. It can spontaneously boil, so any impurities can be quickly get rid off. And it can fight, so anyone trying to threaten its water or those who have come to it for help can be fended off. It levitates, so terrain doesn’t matter. It has arms (and in fact looks like a mixture between Alexander and Omega, which Nero was obsessed with and which he and Cid researched as they neared the ends of their lives) so it might have been able to carry things, making it also a utility or perhaps even rescue machine. For being based on something as silly as a kettle, the Termocoil is incredibly strong, advanced and efficient. I’d argue that the Thermocoil and its previous iterations are one reason why people had survived that Calamity as well as they had, despite the tragically heavy losses. It also is likely one of the reasons why neither humanoid nor monster could mess with the tower when it arrived in Novrandt, having been deemed one of their best and strongest weapons, and thus sending it along to protect the tower. I’d argue that Wedge’s boilmaster was the small droplet that accumulated over the course of 200 years into giving people on the brink of survival the means to live and defend themselves, loooong after the man died.

Nero heard Tataru tell him that the best magitek of the Scions is a waterboiler. He shrugs but doesn’t say that her statement is false (likely because he hasn’t see said kettle). He most likely checked it out, and since we never hear him say something bad about it (which he loves to do) or tease Wedge for it (which he also enjoys), he likely acknowledges it as ok or even good. And we know he deems it a good kettle, because HE HAS IT. It’s with him and Cid during the Omega raids (or at least the same kind).

Ironically, through it he also learns first-hand that properly boiled clean water is imperative, when he accidentally drinks boiled sea water from it. I believe he (probably in cooperation with Cid) spent the rest of his life improving on the waterboiler as a side project, latest after Wedge’s death. It’s the CXLIVth Thermocoil. The 144th boiler. Wedge made 14 before he was proud enough to gift his to Tataru. And I think Nero went and made over 100 more iterations after Wedge’s death before he was satisfied…or died. Because he had respect for Wedge as an engineer. Because Tataru told him that it was the very best technology they had. Because Nero thinks Eorzeans are primitive, but he loves smart Magitek.

When the Scions all died, whose mission it had always been to keep the realm and its people alive? When, if not then, is a machine that gives clean water to the thirsty the most brilliant thing one could make?

Tataru didn’t win that argument with 1 vs 0. In the grand scheme of history? She won that argument by thousands of points, because it IS the finest technology, of highest innovation. And all Nero can do about it is shrug.

[orionbun-wolqotd]

Is your WoL a night owl or a early bird?!

[eriyu]

everyone talks about saying "by the Twelve" and incorporating Uriangese into everyday conversation, but nobody talks about the impulse to describe a color as Rhotano Blue in everyday conversation

[the-worrier-of-light]

Hey I have a wol question that’s almost certainly been asked before, but…

How does your wol/oc text?

Paragraphs? Too many emojis? Are they leaving you on read?

[yyymmmrrr]

finally met him in msq! he is very handsome and cute, so i decided to sketch him a bit

[unionizedwizard]

ok so like. imagine. you're a high-ranking government official and one of your colleagues has announced his decision to step down and retire, and named his successor, so you and your coworker-bestie-husband(™️) go on an official administrative business trip to go meet said guy. and then you arrive and you find A Cat in the bushes outside the office. it's in poor shape but its microchip says it actually belongs to your other colleague-and-friend. you are bullied into taking the cat to the vet AND letting it tag along despite your protests. and you finally find the guy you were supposed to meet and the cat is like. staying in the room. where you are supposed to conduct aforementioned highly confidential job interview. and you try to shoo it away but the guy you're trying to interview is like No i want the cat to be there. Because i'm nervous. About the job interview. Let the cat stay. I trust him because my pet bird loves him :). so the cat gets to stay. and then you keep going and you bump into yet another old acquaintance of yours (now retired and living her best hippie life) (which is highly frowned upon) and she goes Oooooh! Is that my cat you've found? :) and you're like, what the fuck is the deal with this goddamn cat, but you can't say that outright because you are a government official on a very important mission, so you go "i wasn't aware you even had a cat? also the microchip says it belongs to our other colleague" and she goes "oh well no i don't but clearly this cat is wearing the collar i give to all my pets so it must mean he's come from the future :) where i will own this specific cat :) hi little kitty! pspspsp!" and you're like, what the fuck is wrong with everyone today? and then the cat looks at you and says "she's right. i come from the future. where everyone has been turned into cats since the world ended. also i will kill you in about twelve thousand years from now. fucker."

[terramythos]

@mistressofmuses

[softscales]

What is your Wol/ffxiv character's eating habits like?

Can and will eat anything

Archon loaf enthusiast

Calorie Counter / Granola mom / Health nut

Picky eater

has an Illness / intolerance /dissability

Needs to be reminded to eat

Normal about it

Voting ended onJan 20

[fenrishion]

brOOOOOOoooooO....

[thegreatyin]

happy 6th birthday to the best final fantasy 14 tweet of all time

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Goals include but are not limited to:

Wanting to go home

Wanting people out of your house who shouldn't be there

Trying to find a reliable babysitter

Trying to deliver a letter or package

Trying to do a favor for someone

Wanting to see a specific thing, place, or kind of animal

Wanting to collect the money somebody owes you (the lower the debt the better)

Trying to win a bet

Wanting to punch a specific person in the face

[mystic-dahlias]

"How am I supposed to keep going?" / "I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person."