#catboy pics

[aoife-asturmaux]

an ao3 commenter invited me to check out a menorah they'd set up in their FC's front yard, so I took T'zekh there for a visit! using the amdapor lamps and changing their color for each night is such a cute idea....

If you also want to see, it's over on Aether - Faerie lavender beds, ward 21 plot 51 :D

[maguneedsalife]

T'zekhwalker - Final Zenos Fight

i spent so much time here it needed its own post. i'd be lying if i said this one scene wasn't a main reason i pushed t'zekh through the main story (the other was i wanted him to get to 90/get the rdm artifact gear so he could wear his canon glam but you know)

so, some background for folks who are new here: t'zekh was the main wol for stormblood. he was the one zenos became obsessed with, and he has spent most of endwalker trying to get zenos to leave him alone. he knows zenos desperately wants t'zekh to kill him--to come at him with fire and rage and bloodlust--but t'zekh refuses to kill anyone no matter how much they deserve it.

i had been waiting so long for t'zekh to be able to do this dialog choice and the answer i had envisioned for him actually changed from the time i did this with aoife. originally i'd thought he'd go with option 2, but by the time i got here, 3 was more his style.

which ended up being a good thing, because zenos's response to that answer was fucking perfect for t'zekh

small aside--it drove me bonkers back when spoiler embargo first lifted and ppl (mostly on twitter) were INSISTING that answer 1 was the only possible canon answer and if you picked any of the others you were clearly playing the game wrong. even despite yoshi p confirming that there was no "correct" answer and the team had tried to write it so that players could respond to zenos the way they felt best reflected their own character's experience. people were STILL out there like "sorry but if you didnt pick option 1 you're just wrong"

so to see the text validate my choice and my hcs so perfectly has me feeling vindicated in this chilis. it is okay for people to have a different experience of the game than you!!! (i'll get off my soapbox now)

option 3 was perfect for t'zekh because he is finally fed up enough with zenos that he's finally willing to cast aside his moral opposition to killing in order to make sure zenos can't hurt anyone else in his name.

and zenos caught on to that and responded in kind.

anyway then i took a fucktillion pictures in the instance (most of which i'll put on my wol blog)

it was so hard to get them in the same frame lmao

and then i did the solo fight! not too bad on red mage, surprisingly enough - was very thankful to have vercure though lmao

this punch is still just as satisfying the second time

On my way to the last credits sequence i learned that you will actually fuck up the music timing if you skip or speed up the credits. it was playing revenge twofold when it was supposed to be playing flow together. that was very jarring. i don't know why they haven't set it to just start playing flow together for that sequence. dont skip the credits folks

and that's a wrap! i uhhh might have abandoned him before finishing out the quest so i could go farm memoria misera with aoife but im very happy to have (technically) beaten Endwalker with him before the year ended, which was one of my goals.

I think I started main story with him in January, so it's taken me about a year to get through... mostly what set me back was i had to make time/build emotional strength to make progress through parts I knew would be difficult emotionally. But I committed to not to skipping any cutscenes and just pressing on through a second read, and I'm glad to have embarked on this journey.

as soon as i finished endwalker the first time i knew it was going to be equally aoife and t'zekh's story. they both ended up having stakes in the plot in different ways, and getting to play through and see things from t'zekh's perspective was so much fun.

i still keep thinking abt the version of the ending in my head, wherein t'zekh is lying at the edge of the universe and all he can think is "i want to live, dammit!!"

and he hears a voice calling out to him.

"there you are!" aoife shouts, "I was looking all over for you!"

T'zekh has spent so much of the story kind of in aoife's shadow, grappling with what it means to be a "hero" in his own way. he spent a lot of stormblood resenting her absence.

but by the end of endwalker… i think they end up really close friends

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Next, it'll be Banri's turn.... skipping as many cutscenes as possible so i can get him through before Dawntrail!

[aoife-asturmaux]

making additional catboy glams while i wait to get lucky in orbonne one (1) time.

ok yeah this is just a t'zekh version of aoife's lunar envoy glam but listen. if it aint broke etc. I rly like that the blue on the aiming version of this top is really close to t'zekh's signature color hehe (even if it's nearly impossible to match w dyes.... ceruleum blue at least looks closer without shaders on lmao)

[aoife-asturmaux]

Desert Rogue

Won this cool top from my moogle tome weekly and decided to throw a glam together for it on a whim!! while i farm ivalice raids for the other glam i wanted to make lol

i missed my catboy...... he's so handsome ;v;

[aoife-asturmaux]

yep, the lighting at the top of ridorana still slaps

shoutout to the people who thought i was a sprout thanks to watching the cutscenes & not only waited for me (the single cutscene watcher) but also explained how to do mechanics/rescued me out of danger/etc. i actually very much appreciated the help!!! i havent been in this fight for like over a year and forgor all the tells. not beating the sprout allegations this time

[aoife-asturmaux]

long time no catboy!! i spent some of aoife's variant dungeon currency on one of these tops for t'zekh ^p^

still trying to decide on a pair of pants for this fit...... proper glam pics will come later hehe

[aoife-asturmaux]

been slowly taking the rest of my alts thru the event lmao. here was t'zekh's hideous final cake

[aoife-asturmaux]

Classic Plague Doctor

T'zekh threw this year's all saints wake costume together from things he had lying around in his closet (aka I had overwritten the glam plate with his old costume and felt like putting a new look together anyway). was initially thinking I'd go for a priest look with this coat, but putting the plague doctor hat on activated my brain and so I ended up coordinating the outfit around that!

dunno if I'll end up making spooky glams for all my alts (who are doing the event), we'll see...