#pandaemonium spoilers

[arianwen44]

‘My people, my brothers… my friends.’

[sirensongsea]

unsundered.mp4

[Music]

[diadoescomics]

Mechanics

Maybe incredibly esoteric but I just love the weird names people give mechs

If you got any please share they're very fun to read

[dawnsnail]

I literally can't stop thinking about the WoL and Themis.

The realization that this person you thought was a villain for years is just a sweet little guy before he's thoroughly corrupted by the biggest sacrifice he'll ever make and the fallout of it. That he looks up to you, and you're the kind of hero he aspires to be.

That he respects you so much that he asks for your thoughts on his warring internal identity, because he's unsure if he can be a person when so much duty is on his shoulders.

The guilt that he might have volunteered to be the heart of Zodiark because it's what he thought you might do

There's so much heartbreak throughout the last tier of Pandaemonium -- the way he's so excited to show off his battle skills for you, then so grateful to just spend a few more moments in your presence. The exchange of aether, that the WoL volunteers to give him aether without a second thought to give him form for just a little more stolen time. The pleading for you to hear him out because he has feelings to share in his last moments.

And then he has the absolute gall to tell you that it all had meaning because he got to meet you and get to know you.

And despite finally, finally remembering everything, he chooses not to stay.

Then he dissipates into nothing??? And he's gone.

Because they never stay. Hades and Hythlodaeus didn't. Why would Themis?

But there's still an open portal to Elpis. You can still go back in time and interact with the Unsundered world, daily if you want to, and you have close friends and allies now who live there. So why wouldn't you send a letter? Why wouldn't you wait until Themis shows up again, just to spend another moment of stolen time together?

I will never stop being heartbroken about this 💙

[starrysnowdrop]

“She told me a falling star would appear before me, and I suppose you must be it. Truth be told, I did not expect the expression to be so… literal.” - Themis

The moment Hali “fell” for Themis.

See? She fell for him… Heh. Get it?

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Holiday Poll: Most Huggable FFXIV Dad

Which FFXIV dad (father or father figure) do you most want to hug?

Thancred Waters

Hephaistos/Lahabrea

Gaius van Baelsar

Godbert Manderville

Midgardsormr

Edmont de Fortemps

Ihnami (Yugiri's father)

Fourchenault Leveilleur

Wilfsunn (Moenbryda's father)

Voting ended onJun 17, 2024

Second poll here because there are some pretty glaring people that I accidentally left off.

ngl, this was harder than the mom one and I seriously considered doing a most punchable or rerunning the worst dad bonus poll I did a while a back since there are a lot of dads in XIV that unambiguously suck (here's looking at you, Varis).

Honorable mentions to Hildibrand Manderville (acting as Gigi's dad in the Heavensward questline), The Crystal Exarch (as Lyna's grandpa), and Chai-Nuzz (who doesn't have dad energy quite the same way Dulia-Chai has mom energy, but is still lovely)

[eemamminy-art]

Skeb style commission for @ lunsiuns on twitter! Our favorite mad scientist couple 🥰 I don't think I've ever properly drawn Lahabrea before so that was long overdue! And I'm always happy to draw Athena 😊🦋 Thank you for commissioning me!

[tahri-nhupuju]

It's interesting to me that despite being the only unsundered that doesn't appear, Pandaemonium actually does show us a bit about how uniquely nasty Emet-Selch is as a person.

Like, he has his whole spiel about how the sundered are not even human to him, and how all the unsundered would agree with him if they saw us.

But then a rejoined-with-Hephaistos, from-right-before-the-summinging-of-Zodiark Lahabrea sees the unsundered and goes "Oh, there are people here! Surely this means my plan succeeded and we saved the star!" Like he not only doesn't have any issues with the sundered, he just immediately accepts that they're people.

Likewise Elidibus and Erichtonios also don't seem to have any issues whatsoever accepting the sundered as people, but Lahabrea is the one who talks about/interacts with them the most.

When he finds out what he ends up doing to the sundered as an Ascian, he immediately accepts it, and describes what he does as monstrous, and pushes the point that it was the right thing to do to oppose and kill him.

And yes, sure, they all get tempered and go mad in various ways, but Emet-Selch is constantly shown as the most complete, the one who is the most like his old self. And while the Amaurotines are shown to have a fucked up relationship to non-human life, Emet-Selch is really the only one of the Unsundered shown to view the sundered as Not Human.