hi hi there!! i saw some accounts with little introduction pins and was like ohh… maybe i should do that…
so anyways, hi! i’m ren! i’m fairly new to tumblr and tumblr etiquette but i wanted so badly to make a ff4 account so that i could interact with the fandom. i’m very (not) normal about this game, and could talk about it for hours, so my hope was to meet like minded people and interact with them (which has been going well so far ily all.)
i write and draw sometimes but i’ve been super busy and lazy recently. at the moment i’m just trying to make up for it by being silly funny, but i do want to do something bigger at some point.
i do rp as well, but again, i wouldn’t have the energy to upkeep an actual rp account as things are right now, but i will throw it out there if anyone wants to write together!
ummm! in addition to ff4, i also really really like
- ff14
- dissidia
- the legend of zelda
- fire emblem
- dunmeshi
most of my non-ff4 postings can be found on my other blog @elidibuns.
i think that’s all i’ve got in terms of introductions… feel free to raid my dms and talk to me anytime!!
i have been so painfully dead i am sorry (i’m lit rally 21 now…. the 20 in my about is a testament that i have not opened tumblr since august at least)
hyperfixations switched (though i will always be crazy about ff4) and i’ve been reluctantly consuming honkai star rail like water in a desert - specifically sunday honkaistarrail and his bartender not-so-boyfriend, and i just. looks at cecil harvey. looks at sunday. looks at the king of baron. looks at gopher wood. sigh
Currently in the final dungeon of ff4 DS and.... I was thinking about some enemies you can see there. Among Arhimans, dragons and giant robots you can see these two :
Moon maiden and Dark sage (Kary and Warlock in the english sness version i think?). Who the hell are they and what are they doing on the moon? Are they Lunarians? Are they shapeshifting monsters? Another species? Humans for some reason?
In the french version, the moon maiden is called "Garde sélénite". the thing is, "sélénite" is what the lunarians are called in french so i always assumed they were lunarians left behind to protect the core (and maybe were corrupted....?). In some version they are called "Selene Guardians" (which is probably where "garde sélénite" comes from) which just means they are related to the moon in general but still... who are they
While I don’t have enough yet, I want to throw it out there that I hope to have the prologue and first chapter of my ffiv au posted on ao3 by the game’s anniversary. That gives me a couple of weeks, yes, but I need someone to read through what I have and give me feedback— I desperately need it.
I’m usually the one doing the betaing, but I succumb to my own critical eye too quickly with my own work. Eventually, if there is anyone willing, I would me most indubitably appreciative of someone were able to skim over what I have and offer some constructive criticism.
...so three (3) of you were nice to me and i blacked out and word vomited two documents of scene mapping and worldbuilding. my ideas are still jumbled, so here's what i have ambitions for as copy-pasted from ren and I's dms:
long post, all non-canon, lots of blabbering, but i'm happy about it below.
reworked dark crystals, new dungeons, and new archfiends! archfiend names are open to constructive criticism lol
- mist pass: the still-in-progress passage that workers of both baron and damcyan attempted to construct after the collapse of the mountains per Rydia's titan summon. soldiers and workers kept disappearing, so eventually damcyan and baron just quit sending people there and deemed the place cursed. time passed as cecil and the crew ventured to try and save more crystals, and holy elemental creatures began making their home there. this includes Seraphitz, archfiend of light, a creature in possession of the light crystal that was corrupted by its holy power.
- adamant mines: different from whatever was in tay bc screw tay. the crystal of energy is kept well hidden in the labyrinthine mines that connect to the underworld as a sort of back entrance. the adamant ore is difficult to harness amidst all the lightning-elemental monsters, thus the mines are largely abandoned. ghostly automatons trudge around poorly-lit tunnels with too many corners, all of which condense and lead to statigge (stati-jey), archfiend of thunder and guardian of the energy crystal.
- serpent's lair: a winding undersea shipyard (in an underwater passage connecting the overworld and underworld) littered with many a ship lost to the sea. it is suspected that this was cagnazzo's domain, forgone as he took control of baron under Golbezemus' command. the deeper the party travels, the colder the air grows and the more ice monsters begin appearing. ghiaccio, archfiend of ice, has seized control of the area and is not keen on trespassers.
- the sealed cave: it pretty well stays the way it is, except the demon wall boss happens on the way *to* the shadow crystal, the prize of the dungeon. after the crystal is acquired, the party is revitalized by the crystal (and are confused by such) only to find malnotte, archfiend of shadow, waiting for them outside where the demon wall was originally fought.
other ideas:
- the tower of zot is actually a dreadnought protected by heavy winds from barbariccia, which is why it can't be seen on the world map. when barbariccia destroys the place after her defeat, the dreadnought falls into the sea off the southern coast of troia. it can be explored as an optional dungeon later (ruins of zot).
- something new has to happen with mt hobbs. it's so big with so little significance. i need to concoct something to happen there.
- i also want to revise travel mechanisms. i now need something for underwater travel, or perhaps rydia and leviathan can work something out and he can big snake bus the party down to the ice dungeon or ruins of zot. chocobos imo are underutilized, esp the black chocobo, as well as the hovercraft from edward. we get not one not two but THREE airships and only three narrative-required deviations from airships to reach dungeons.
- the devil's road should not be a mini-dungeon like in tay, but instead function similarly to teleport in ff2: the party loses significant health after passing through. it's killed people before, those who passed through and didn't possess the vitality, and that's why it was sealed off.
- if anyone has an ffiv oc, please let me know!! i want to write them in!! i want to give more life to the villages and towns. i already intend to write in some friends here on ffiv tumblr as shopkeepers, innkeepers, or just townsfolk!! you wanna be a hummingway? be a hummingway!!! LMK!!!!!
this is only a few ideas i have. please let me know your thoughts!
. . . Instead of white being his natural color, what if it becomes white after holding out against the dark knight armor for so long and then his soul being cleansed to become a Paladin?
And Golbez's hair also turns white after Fusoya wrests him from Zemus.
It explains in the DS flashback why Golbez's hair is brown and Kluya's dark hair. That's just their natural colors (and Kluya wasn't having to dye their hair to blend in)
cecil's hair is either white or very pale blond in the ds childhood flashback soooooo this is just a possible headcanon. on the one hand, lunarians all having pale/translucent/iridescent hair is very cool. on the other, physical after effects of possession go brrr
hey remember when i said i tried sketching the baron trio as that one ot3 thing? i decided i felt like posting my sketches even though theyre very incomplete and well. sketchy
the second one is the more recent one (if i try to make one an actual full drawing it'll probably be that one unless i just start over)
baron’s finest paladin buttbuddies judging your sense of fashion.jpg
cecil makes kain wear part of his cape and they walk around like that all day because otherwise, there’s a 98% chance of kain getting butthurt over something, mumbling something along the lines of the mountains are calling and i must go, and leaving baron. again.
fucker was gone for 17 goddamn years last time. cecil’s not taking any chances anymore.
