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WOL: "Step aside while I drink the pond dry! That way, we'll find it in no time!"

Alisae:

AT LEAST SHE SEES MY ENTHUSIASM!! (Glares at Lucia from across the Ice fields)

I think Garlemald is turning me into a different person. There's something in the air making me silly and Alisae is my reluctant handler 🍃

ffxivhika

Whenever my 2m burst lines up with a raid-wide

frogginboggin

I really like how FFXIV subverts stereotypes kinda accidentally. Like everybody has their own thing going on and the plot is based off of final fantasy elements but still. Also spoilers for Endwalker.

For example:

The Knight- Estinien. You expect him to fight dragons. And he does. However the dragons are justified in their wrath and Estinien is later corrupted by the dragon eye.

The Prince- Graha Tia. He is technically a prince and follows his stereotype of being the last of the royal bloodline/wanting to be a hero.

He ends up being the one locked up in the tower then later gets kidnapped.

The Wizard- Mysterious wise mage who is shrouded in mystery and prophecies? That's urianger? What does this trusted advisor do? Betrays you. (Technically) Twice!

The Damsel- Pretty pink priestess who gets kidnapped a lot ends up possessed by her goddess and freaking dies.

The Hero- (you) some rando that rides a pig and doesn't sleep

mmhberry

ffxiv shadowbringers and zelda twilight princess are the same games if you squint really really hard and have the right vision

soupercatte

Some say the Clyteum doesn't even exist at all...

ffxivhika

outofcontextdiscord

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kintsug1kitsune

to begin to wind a doll, you first make the heart. when the heart is made, you make a key, and only that key can start the heart. the heart will tick down without being rewound. there is no way for a doll to leave the one that makes it, but perhaps it prefers it this way; if it only stole the key, it could wind itself. but no, it does not.

it wants this, it says to itself. it prefers it this way.

perhaps it does.

kintsug1kitsune

on the subject of what makes a doll so, many posit that it is that one does not have a 'self.' no innate identity, desires, or general personality to consider, although it is, like all things, still conscious.

however, most of those experienced in the craft or ownership of dolls can attest that most are made with a Purpose. to be ornamental, or to service, or to write or paint, or to make tea, or so on, and further, that the specificity of this Purpose may give it a kind of 'self.' a fashion doll, yes, but for gothic styles, or a service doll but specifically a maid, and perhaps what kind of maid can further specify it. and thus do they have a personality, or specific thing that they 'are.'

the only question those seeking this answer may find left is one to wonder over for a time:

if this is what makes a doll's 'self,' is it, and how much is it, or in what way is it,

the same as what makes a 'person?'

m3s-txt

repost if your not human

kintsug1kitsune

a doll does not say 'I,' 'Me,' Mine,' 'Myself,' rather it says 'This one,' 'It,' 'Its,' 'Itself,' and on occasion other pronouns, but always third-person.

for a doll is possessed, it does not possess; it is an object, something that is owned, cared for, admired, played with, used, or so on--it does not do the owning or using, except in the case of other tools as needed to fulfill its own use.

and that is why: because saying I or Me implies a certain self-possession, an ability and willingness to refer to oneself and make statements of oneself that are not necessarily its to make. rather, it can only ever refer to the property of someone else, even that property being the doll itself.

when you next use whatever pronouns and personage you use for yourself, stop and think: who owns the words you use? and who owns what they refer to? is it you?

is there, in fact, something there to own anything?

bunbunfarn

Me right now

tialinffxiv

Behold The Warrior of Light, Hydaelyn's Chosen, the Champion of Eorzea, Slayer of Gods, Khagan of the Azim Steppe, the Bringer of Light, Warrior of Darkness, the Stealer of Pants.