Easily one of the best twins moments ever

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Easily one of the best twins moments ever
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
And thus was night returned to The First
have i ever shown u people my hand sofa
my prized possession is this loveseat I bought from a divorced dad who couldn’t tell me anything about it and in the years i’ve owned it i’ve never been able to find out who made it or where it came from. it’s got nails and finger creases and palm lines but they’re all kinda hard to see in this pic.
I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.
where's your fight, o' Azure Dragoon of Ishgard?
quick ventures
Dangers of working on a set.
That’s what I said.
Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.
But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.
#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore
Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:
he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks
refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel
basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible
often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended
repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off
had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming
the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained
carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington
an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot
infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot
Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface
It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity
i will also say about that scene
estinien shows up to your door, says "good. you're alone." he's wearing tight leather pants that hug his ass and his shirt is unbuttoned at least 4 buttons down his chest
he was 100% there to fuck and then chickened out in the last moment and escaped in the most autistic way he could think of
by dramatically diving off your balcony into the night
gotta draw him once a month or I start sublimating
Dragoon headcanons
1.) The WoL's brand of Dragoon is slightly different from everyone else's because they are partaking not just of Nidhogg's essence, but of Midgardsormr's.
2.) Also since the WoL isn't Ishgardian (at least not by default), they're probably not descended from one of the bloodlines cursed by Ratatoskr's murder, which could make Nidhogg's essence fight against them a little less? 3.) When we use powers with a distinctly Red hue we're drawing more directly on Nidhogg's essence, whereas Blue powers are more aspected to Midgardsormr.
Blue: Mirage Dive, Gierskogul, Battle Litany, LB3, active Blood of the Dragon
Red: Rise of the Dragon, Nastrond, Stardiver, active Life of the Dragon
Both: Wyrmwind Thrust
Neither: All the Spear Stuff that we learned with the Lancer's Guild that's just normal ways to channel aether through a polearm without any Draconic influence, but that fits together nicely with all the leaping strikes that we pick up after exposure to the Eye of Nidhogg.
4.) This is not to say that Estinien is inferior in the Dragoon arts to the WoL. Estinien became so saturated with Nidhogg's essence that Nidhogg was able to be temporarily reborn using his flesh, and a generous portion of that essence is clearly still in there. If anything the WoL needed a boost from the Father of Dragons to catch up.
5.) Nidhogg's still in there for real. Not just a memory, not just an energy source, but a presence, an intelligence. Mostly dormant and submissive to Estinien's will, but it may grow in time. Probably not into another catastrophic Rage Monster though. I fully believe that if we came back to Etherys in two or three thousand years, there would be five living members of the First Brood once more, just one of them would also remember having been an Elezen child in Ferndale, having been a knight in service to Ishgard, having been one of the heroes who saved the world from the Endsinger, and the lived experiences would temper the new gestalt entity. I think Estinien knows this, and is at peace with it.
6.) I think the rest of the First Brood know this and are also cool with it. Nidhogg's essence is going through an unexpected phase, but the Dragons of FFXIV are weird and absurdly complicated. Azdaja and Midgardsormr are also rebuilding themselves basically from scratch after mostly dying, so Nidhogg being a current of aether inside of this mortal isn't that weird.
7.) Speaking of currents of aether, I think Ratatoskr is still in the people of Ishgard. Maybe just the tiniest sliver, maybe not enough that she could ever truly regain memories or any sense of continuity with the Ratatoskr that was, but enough that one of the Ishgardians who have been transformed into dragons by drinking dragon blood might some day re-evolve into a new Ratatoskr.
8.) I think Bahamut is irretrievable though. The Allagans were thorough as fuck, and what essence of his lingered on may have been caught up by Tiamat's summoning ritual and incorporated into the Primal. And if being absorbed by a Primal is enough to kill one of the Unsundered Ascians, I'm going to say it could erase any possibility of an ancient dragon coming back as well.
9.) If the WoL can draw strength and abilities from their connection with Midgardsormr, pacts with other dragons could be forged that don't require the dragon's eye to actually be popped out of their head first. In fact, stealing their eye is probably just a way to force such a pact from an unwilling dragon.
10.) The surviving Knights Dragoon might just figure this out, as Ishgard and Dravania establish closer ties. Rather than the Dragoons dying out, they could be reborn from a partnership where young Ishgardian knights seek out a specific Dragon to form a personal bond with.
11.) Bonds with other First Brood, or with particularly ancient and potent dragons from later generations, would also deviate from the baseline job as its manifest by the current Knights Dragoon.
A Dragoon of Hraesvelgr might manifest ice and holy light instead of searing flames, and have themes of self-sacrifice and preservation of allies. They might even be a Healer instead of a DPS job!
A Dragoon of Tiamat might have characteristics of exceptional, unwavering durability and resistance born of long penance, and be a Tank job.
A Dragoon of Vrtra might be much more teamwork-oriented, although probably taking the greater burden of risk in a fight, as a Tank job with support elements not unlike a Paladin.
A Dragoon of Azdaja would be weird as hell, and almost certainly reflect on the ages spent lost or imprisoned in the 13th with some frightening Darkness-Aspected powers.
A Dragoon of Bahamut, if one could scavenge enough of his aether to forge a bond, could just be a weird backwards way of becoming a Summoner? Probably more of a Caster than a Melee DPS in any case, Bahamut seems to have had more of a penchant for blasting the shit out of things from a distance than his siblings. Or that could just be a characteristic of the twisted Primal reflection of him.
A Dragoon of Ratatoskr could, like Vrtra, have a great deal more teamwork-oriented traits but be more focused on providing support where needed rather than being the anchor point around which the battle takes shape. I think a Ratatoskr Dragoon would be another Healer, but a "pure" healer while the Hraesvelger type would do shields with ice effects.
I can think of a dozen other powerful dragons in the setting who might grant unique gifts. Maybe an individual Dragoon could collect blessings from multiple sources, like the WoL already has?
Anyway, I have no real proof of any of this, I just like the idea that there may still be Dragoons in the future but they'd be dramatically different than the ones who were only empowered by Nidhogg's stolen eye (and possibly the lingering wisps of Ratatoskr's essence in most of their bloodlines).
You know, I don't think as a fandom we explore what being a Dragoon WoL means the same way we do like, Dark Knight.
Because the Eye of Nidhogg resonants with the WoL when they met Estinien for the first time. The Eye that (iirc) only 'chooses' very specific kind of peoole for Azure Dragoon - If Estinien and to a lesser degree Alberic is anything to go by. Vengeful, angry people. People who have been hurt and are seeking revenge for it.
Personally, I'm of the headcannon that this is because Nidhogg (able to sense where his eye is and kinda feel things through it? Maybe even see through it) is trying to get those people worked up enough to possess them. Like with Estinien during the DRG 50 duty.
So what does it mean for a WoL who is also a Dragoon? Who has done that series of quests and had the Eye look at them and go:
"Ah yes. You. You too feel hatred and rage and pain enough that you could easily lose yourself over it. You want revenge for something, vengence. You want to make someone or something else hurt just as much as you do right now."
Idk I just think it's interesting and feel like I don't see it very much for WoL meta.
Something I'd like to point out about Estinien.
When you first meet him, especially if you haven't run the Dragoon quests, or even if you have, it's easy to think he's this gruff, stoic asshole of a dragon slayer, right? But the interesting thing is, he's actually kind. A lot kinder than he first appears. And you can hear it in his vocal tones.
Given that he wears the helmet of his Drachen Mail all the time, we can't rely on visual cues. You really need to pay attention to his voice. And it really begins to show when we go with him to meet Lady Iceheart, Ysayle that first time.
He's stressed, he's trying to get Nidhogg to back off the city, and it seems like he's being stymied at every turn. But when Ysayle tells him the story of Hraesvelgr and Shiva, he listens. And says, "I believe you." He's running out of time, both literally and figuratively, but he's trying.
His voice is gentle and kind. To the woman who who broke the magical wardings on Ishgard and enabled a massive assault to occur against the city. He lost brother and sister Dragoons in that fight. He could have raged at her for it. Instead, he chose to listen and to be kind to her.
That kindness doesn't come from nowhere. He is literally putting his ass on the line, trying to make himself a bigger target to Nidhogg, to keep him from destroying the city of Ishgard. For the many people that he's never even met. Because he doesn't want to see his home burn again due to Nidhogg.
And then he gets told by Hraesvelgr that every Azure Dragoon has died before they reached two score and a half years. In plain speak, before they reach fifty years old. He's thirty-two. He's running out of time. And even though he's a man on a mission... he takes the time to teach Alphinaud to collect firewood and how to build a fire. Something that keeps being referred to as we go along.
Because he didn't have to do that. He could have just done it himself. But he did because he could see in Alphinaud, the little brother that he'd lost. So, rather than snapping at him, he teaches and guides him. Being a big brother. Showing kindness.
Hydaelyn herself says that Estinien is a man with a heart filled with love. And he is. His gruffness just hides how kind he can be.
I love Estinien being accused of being dumbed down in recent expacs I love Estinien healing and learning who he is after 20 years of defining himself by a single trait I love Estinien experimenting with food and wandering through life and living for himself and realising that helping people is a part of that and I love that he parts from the group whenever he feels like it because he’s still getting acquainted with himself beyond an incredibly niche skillset and that’s something he needs to do on his own I love that he takes inspiration from the freedom of WoL’s lifestyle and openly expresses love I love that he sends Aymeric a hideous souvenir from abroad for being a nag and that he remains in contact with Alberic I love that despite the distance and the time spent apart and the permanent reputation of being a lone wolf Estinien is always delighted to see WoL and reiterate the strength of their bond and his loyalty to them and Alphinaud and most of all I love his fuckass self-cut bangs
repost your art day 13: Artist
The Artist Alphinaud 😁
Drawn in May 2021
drawing men is still a mystery for me
it's been a while. quickly doodled Estinien being my forever mood