Final Fantasy XIV A Realm of Cat Bois

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[airagorncharda]

I appreciate, at least, that they gave the dragon with the vore kink a vore mouth

I’M JUST SAYING

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As someone who’s not actually into vore, I’m going to rate FFXIV’s dragons based on their vore mouth quality:

Tiamat:

She’s got this beak-like thing going on. Tiny teeth, thin muzzle, all around not good for vore. 4/10. Would have been 3/10, but I just think she’s neat.

Midgardsormr:

His mouth scares the absolute crap out of me because it continues down his neck and that’s fucked up. Also I feel like it would be too easy to fall out the sides. Plus that’s just too many teeth. It’s just too many. This isn’t a vore mouth, this is a snuff mouth. 1/10.

Midgardsormr 2.0:

Suitable only for voring ants. Maybe he could eat a moth or a small frog. I’m not even convinced he has teeth in this form. 4/10, because I think it’d tickle if he tried to chomp on your finger, so at least the failure would be cute.

Nidhogg:

Nidhogg’s mouth is horrible, frankly. Gross, in fact. Also a snuff mouth, but with the added detractor of being attached to Nidhogg himself. -3/10

Vidofnir:

Vidofnir deserves better than to be part of this post, but alas, she’s got a decent vore mouth. Should go to her yearly dentist appointment for a basic cleaning, though. A little small, probably only suited for lalafell use. Solid 6/10

Shinryu:

Ugly teeth, too big to be satisfying, no visible tongue. I hate the retract/extend thing his teeth do. Please see a dentist. 3/10. He gets a bonus point because I like his hair, even if his mouth is an absolute disaster.

Bismarck:

Not actually a dragon, but he gets an honorable mention for the extremely horny vore mouth from the failure sequence, where he literally eats you and you die:

9/10. He loses a point for not being a dragon.

Hraesvelgr:

Roomy person sized space, fully rendered tongue and soft palate, clean and horny teeth. There’s a moment in one of his scenes where you can just let him stand there and pant threateningly at you, showing off the entire inside of his mouth, for as long as you want ;) Perfect for pausing and admiring everything he has to offer.

Plus he actually for real ate his girlfriend and managed to spin that into a romantic sob story. 13/10

[jabberwockprince]

me, 2 weeks into playing ffxiv: i dont respect any of these mfs whose names i cant even remember. i will probably uninstall later when i get bored

me, half a year into ffxiv: ok so the botanist questline in which the farmers at camp cloudtop get accused of heresy for infiltrating a non native crop into the country was PROBABLY a cover for house dzemael wanting to cause further stress on house haillenarte bc by destabilizing them, (the weakest link) this means house fortemps (powerhouse but kind of against the holy sees policies) will also be weakened by default. and fortemps controls the literal entry point to ishgard. its dangerous if they ever rebeled or revolted bc that can cut off ishgard from the rest of the continent. so it makes sense that the church would want them to have less influence or power overall, using house dzemael to do so bc we later know that house dzemael were the ones that tipped the fucking church abt the fucking vegetables. and house dzemael is the only house with active members that belong to the heaven's ward (grinnaux, violent guy whose murders were covered with coin & paulcrain, formerly of house fortemps. coincidentally the mfs who also arrest alphinaud and tataru of heresy)

[siderealcity]

I wonder if the reason that Moren always gets out a children's picture book to explain something that almost certainly has more in-depth texts available (I mean, there has to be a bunch of biographies of Eulmore's first Minfilia, for instance.) is because he clocked WoL as one of the Exarch's countrymen almost immediately, and knew from dealing with the Archons that Vrandtic uses an alphabet we won't be able to parse.

...how annoyed do you think Y'shtola was upon her initial arrival in the Cabinet of Curiosity? All these books and no way to read them without re-learning the alphabet first.

[ttenri]

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[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

[kimberlyeab]

The bulk of the scions are discussing strategy, trying to figure out how safely combat a new primal threatening the world.

Meanwhile, in the background, Estinien is javelin-tossing the WOL at a primal.

[stardustdiver]

hey so, if for any unspecified reason you are in the market for a new xiv webcomic to follow, might i recommend @1driedpersimmon 's 4 unending journeys

im invested with where we are going next with the lizards :0

also a solid handful of panels that are so pretty and so full of detail and whoa, ynow?

Read 4 Unending Journeys | Tapas Web Community

Read 4 Unending Journeys and more premium Romance fantasy Community series now on Tapas!

[fourteenthz]

popping up to also shout-out @/lucien-aventine wonderful comic that you can also find here on tumblr and support on patreon!

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[our-song-of-hope]

Dropping in a rec for Our Unending Journey by Saba Sabaton! The art is so amazing, but also pulls its weight in its writing, Saba has shown a genuinely impressive skill at weaving in a unique story with the plot of the game. It will go places you aren't expecting. It's also only in heavensward currently, so It's perfect for new players who aren't fully caught up. I'd recommend anyone interested in ffxiv fancomics to give it a try

Our Unending Journey - NamiComi

A party of adventurers makes their way in the world of Eorzea. General spoilers for FFXIV throughout. Beware!

[lionheartdancers]

@shivapvoid is working on Project Orion now, if you'd like to check it out!!

#project orion | shivapvoid

Posts tagged with #project orion

[1driedpersimmon]

Many amazing artists in this community!!! Go check them out!!!

(and thank you for the shout out!! 🥺💞)

[ksilberne]

Happy Pride!!!!

[wretchedmog]

When do you commend?

at the end of the duty

only if someone has excelled

only if someone is funny

only if everyone else was bad

only if someone was pretty

only in some other condition

Remaining time: 18 hours 26 minutes

[yhane]

The Winter Ghost

[siderealcity]

Okay, you know, re-reading the Haurchefaunt story "Thoughts Unspoken" just drives home how wildly different Haurchefaunt's view of his family was from Artoirel's. Because when Artoirel apologizes to WoL after their mission in Falcon's Nest, he says that their father "has never been able to say no to my dear half-brother." But Haurchefaunt in his letter suggests he barely ever spoke to his father, and certainly not to ask him for things--this request to take in the Scions was a struggle for him. From Francel's story "Vows Unbroken," Haurchefaunt ran off and avoided being at the manor as much as possible to get away from the Countess.

I... wonder if Artoirel was just continually told that Haurchefaunt was their father's favorite by his mother. Rather than actually seeing any evidence for it himself.

[veritableocean]

Look, there's something profoundly wrong and not okay with the all 3 of the Fortemps brothers, but especially Artoirel and Emmanellain and it is easy to see their Father's part in it (the neglect of who they are as people, the way he never sees them or what they contribute, the sideways comparisons to Aymeric and finding them wanting, the idealization of the knighthood and freedom that Haurchefant represents for him against their duties as heirs of House Fortemps, the fact that they mostly seem to exist to fill a part of his duty he'd rather forget he's trapped in), but their mother must have contributed too.

And how could she not, married to a man who had an affair, who openly acknowledged the bastard child who resulted, who constantly overlooked the children (heirs) she gave him. There's no mention of her by Edmont, she might as well never have existed for all he speaks of her. And you can feel her resentment of that fact and how she passed it on to especially Artoirel in early Heavenswards so very clearly. Emmanalein is the useless one, the one who doesn't fit, but Artoirel is his mother's son, he's the one who mentions her, who feels the emotion of what her place in the family was. And Artoirel's growth is subtle and background, but his acceptance of his father's shortcomings and disregard for him and decisions to do his duty anyway, to not resent Aymeric for being his father's new favorite the way he resented Haurchefant, to stand beside him and fight for a new Ishgard, is such a good arc in that light. He won't be consumed by the resentment that is fair at all the things his father is and isn't, he's going to do what is right and care anyway, he's going to be secure in his own worth rather than lash out anymore.

[rainofaugustsith]

On Emet-Selch, Golems and מת vs. אמת

Contemplating various things here and there has made me wonder if the writers of FFXIV considered Jewish history and lore when writing and naming Emet-Selch. 

If you translate Emet-Selch''s name, the 'Emet' part in Hebrew, אמת, means 'truth.' Selch doesn't directly equate to a word, but I've read things saying it could be 'shelkha' (your) or 'selach' (forgiveness). So you would either have "forgive the truth" or "your truth." 

That's telling enough for our erstwhile frenemy, but then you get to other places the word 'emet' appears in Jewish lore: golems.  There's a lot to be said about golems and I am not always particularly happy with the name being used in video games and fantasy, but the word means something different now than it originally did and stories change over time and all. So we're not going to get into that here. What we are going to talk about is how a mainstay in a lot of golem lore is that they have the word 'emet' inscribed on their foreheads or on their chests. What if you need to deactivate the golem, temporarily or permanently? You take away the first letter, the א (yes, remember in Hebrew one reads right to left, so that is the first letter of the world) and that gives you 'met', מת, Which means 'dead.' 

The golem in many stories, like the Golem of Prague, started out as a protector and defender, but eventually caused so much carnage he had to be stopped. So roll that over in your mind again: Emet-Selch is the Convocation member in charge of the underworld. He later has a 'third eye' on his forehead, sort of like a golem mark. In Shadowbringers he seems to vacillate between cruelty and protectiveness. And, we learn in Endwalker, he missing a very crucial part of his memories that were deliberately taken away. 

End result...the Hades/Emet-Selch in Elpis becomes an Ascian who commits countless acts of mass murder and other atrocities. Truth turns to death. At the end of Shadowbringers, the Warrior of Light and Scions have no choice but to stop him.

I don't know if it's deliberate on the part of the FFXIV writers, but given how deeply they seem to delve into lore, I wouldn't doubt it. 

[tinygameralec]

Given the English naming conventions of the smaller sin eaters as 'Forgiven X', I've always had the feeling that Emet-Selch was named that because it translates fairly well into 'Forgiven Truth' or 'Forgiving Truth'.

Which suits his role in the story down to the ground.

But this is a bloody good post and I encourage all my followers who have finished ShB and EW to read it!

[rainofaugustsith]

...!!!!!

Thank you so much for bringing up this amazing observation. Translating his name to Forgiven Truth makes so much sense in the context of Shadowbringers. Also, the whole deal with the sin eaters is that they have been distorted into something extremely different than the people or animals they once were. They may have been kind and peaceful when alive, but when infected by that much light, they become very dangerous entities who kill others and take their aether to survive. Given what happens to Emet-Selch, it's an apt comparison. The grouchy but well meaning man in Elpis who tends to the underworld becomes a fearsome Ascian who commits atrocities and tries to kill others and rejoin entire planets to survive. He also tries to recruit the Warrior of Light/Darkness to his cause as a monstrous light warden, in the same way the sin eaters infect others to essentially 'recruit' them. ooh, this is good. Thank you again for reblogging with these thoughts!

[36363636log]

break the cycle

[aioniopyr]

to fire and sword

[lilas]

Anyway

What’s your favorite queer headcanon about your WoL or any NPCs? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

ALL queer interpretations welcome! ( ˘ ³˘)♥

[anneapocalypse]

While I'm talking about Zenos and his relationship to the WoL, one other thing I'll say is that if you are going to point to specific optional questlines as evidence of things that are Universally True of the Warrior of Light, then all optional content is fair game for counterarguments. If Dark Knight gets to say something profound about what it is to be the Warrior of Light (and I don't deny that it does) then White Mage does too, and the very first Conjurer quest, for example, involves the mentor character addressing the WoL's potential reticence to take life. That's just as canon as anything in the Dark Knight quests, in that both are paths the Warrior of Light may take and experiences that may ring true to the character. Not every questline portrays the WoL as enjoying violence inherently and there is room to interpret their relationship to violence in different ways without, I think, diverging much if at all from the WoL as written. We are all to some extent cherry-picking the content that resonates with our character the most, and I think that's worth keeping in mind when discussing the fundamental nature of the Warrior of Light.

With regard to Zenos I think what sets the WoL apart is their engagement with the world and with other people, which leaves a lot of room for different motives and outlooks on the world.

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Meteion to WoL: no one is coming to save yo-

Scions: wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.