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apocalypsegay

Do you remember them?

apocalypsegay

thatrhen

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amaurots

ul’dah: airship docks.

laceart

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ai-no-kokuhaku

my 600 follower giveaway for @anpan-chan! there’s a pretty high chance that these will move to twitter from now on so if you aren’t following me there yet I’d recommend doing so!

just-pug-things

“N'yans why didn’t you use Dissipation for extra Energy Drains or Chain Strategem for more DPS?”

They were already on cooldown, that’s why!

apocalypsegay

"i don't condone emet-selch's actions, i just think he's a very well written antagonist" and why you're wrong:

the moment a fascist is written as a tragic and sympathetic figure, the writer has already failed

you think nazis irl dont think they’re the heroes of their own stories? that they’re unsung protagonists in a world that will never understand them? i can assure you every white supremacist out there is already convinced they’re fighting for an ~old world they must restore~

i can also assure you every one of them doesn’t see non-white people as people, as alive, therefore what they do isn’t murder. ive literally seen people say emet-selch’s situation as “whale vs krill” as if dehumanization of this scale isn’t the mentality REQUIRED for nazism to justify itself.

am i saying that by liking emet-selch you’re suddenly a right winger nazi apologist? no. but i’m saying you just bought into a little bit of propaganda disguised as a real tragedy.

whether the MSQ starts dispelling his lies eventually is to be seen, but as it is nobody can deny that he was written to be sympathetic… and yall NEED to see that’s actually not a good thing for a character of this caliber.

austinonymous

I get your point op, but I don’t agree with it.

Because let’s be honest- the story does not view Emet-Selch with sympathy for his actions. His motives, sure, I can sympathize with his motivation to bring back a world of paradise that was lost the same way I can sympathize with people who put their faith in the Nazis cause they promised economic revival (or people who voted for a certain president in the states for similar promises.) But honestly, thats part of being human; most humans, even those who are racist or serial killers or the like, honestly believe something that is tragic or that we can sympathize with.

I mean, hell, if there is a man who is mentally ill in some way and believes he’s getting messages from god and it drives him to do awful things, I can sympathize with the tragedy of his circumstances. I can see the tragedy in the illness that led him to believe such a thing and cause harm to people.

But does that mean suddenly his actions are okay? Of course not! Just because you can sympathize or view someone’s circumstances as tragic does not mean you excuse their actions.

Similarly, does FFXIV ever become an apologist for his actions? Does anyone who isn’t an Ascian look at what he says and say “Oh, well now that I know your reasoning I guess we really are worthless and you should step on us.”

No! Alphinaud directly says that their lives are worth just as much as the Ascians even if they are not the same, and narratively speaking we triumph over the Ascians despite being “lesser” in their eyes- its a narrative affirmation that the lives of the multiple worlds are worth just as much.

Even Emet-Selch’s final moments where he asked his people to be remembered, its said with acceptance. Given that he was Tempered by Zodiark, it may have even been his last moment where he wasn’t driven by the need to bring the worlds back together- and he doesn’t bemoan losing to us, or some other “ants should not defeat me”. All he asks is that the people from before us, people who (its basically stated) that we once were a part of.

If he and the few others who could remember the world as it once was are gone, who will remember all those sacrificed to Zodiark and Hydaelyn? His last request is that we remember them, the good and the bad.

Nowhere in the FFXIV narrative is Emet-Selch’s empire-building validated or endorsed.

And if we can’t sympathize with villains or make villains tragic- hell, how the hell is an author supposed to make a realistic story that we can connect with?

Of course, the villains we write think they’re the Heroes of their own stories a lot of the times - that’s human nature. That’s real life. As you said yourself- ANzis thought they were right. Obviously, they weren’t, but if we do not acknowledge that there were circumstances that made their rise ‘tragic’ or ‘sympathetic’ to some people, how do we prepare people for when they met them in real life?

If you’ve only ever heard Nazis as pure evil incarnate, anything less than that will be excused because “they aren’t really Nazis. There’s no way they could do what they did.”

You may disagree with that… treatise I just wrote, but that’s my kneejerk response.

(and for the record, Emet-Selch is not my type and I did not find him that attractive so none of what I said was motivated by the people your warning is for; unless you meant metaphorically in which case uhhhh I think Im still in the clear???.)

shofie-ffxiv

That’s a whole lot of bad faith goal-post moving, there buddy.

Keep reading

apocalypsegay

"i don't condone emet-selch's actions, i just think he's a very well written antagonist" and why you're wrong:

the moment a fascist is written as a tragic and sympathetic figure, the writer has already failed

you think nazis irl dont think they’re the heroes of their own stories? that they’re unsung protagonists in a world that will never understand them? i can assure you every white supremacist out there is already convinced they’re fighting for an ~old world they must restore~

i can also assure you every one of them doesn’t see non-white people as people, as alive, therefore what they do isn’t murder. ive literally seen people say emet-selch’s situation as “whale vs krill” as if dehumanization of this scale isn’t the mentality REQUIRED for nazism to justify itself.

am i saying that by liking emet-selch you’re suddenly a right winger nazi apologist? no. but i’m saying you just bought into a little bit of propaganda disguised as a real tragedy.

whether the MSQ starts dispelling his lies eventually is to be seen, but as it is nobody can deny that he was written to be sympathetic… and yall NEED to see that’s actually not a good thing for a character of this caliber.

#ff14 #ffxiv

leaquruart

After what may be a year I finally upload something to this blog.

And it’s a shitpost.

#finally some good fucking content

baskervillelair

pom-friend

- Playing Shadowbringers for the first time -

Emet-Selch: Remember us…and know that we lived…

Me: :( wow how sad, I actually feel bad.

- 2 months later -

Me: actually you know what, fuck your ‘remember us’, you inflicted similar cataclysmic loss and suffering upon millions, all because you didn’t consider them 'whole’ enough. Dozens, maybe hundreds of civilizations were wiped out directly by your hands, and you’re gonna tell us to remember you? The fuck out of here. Who is going to remember them, asshole? You don’t fucking know, all of those fragmented souls, across different worlds of experience, the parts now are probably greater than the whole for what they all have known and lived could have amounted to making them much greater and more whole than anything they could’ve known in any other form. 'Remember us’. I’m gonna remember that you were a little bitch.

thatrhen

Emet-Felch who? I don’t remember anyone by that name.

#seriously #fuck that guy #fuck anyone woobifying him #good riddance space nazi

shofie-ffxiv

Prompt #2: Bargain

She folded her arms over her chest, a scowl settling onto her face. “I don’t like it.”

Kiht’a’s patience was already wearing thin. He folded a fist up and planted it on his hip. “You don’t have to like it, Shofie, you just have to agree to it.”

They stood inside of Rhen’s lavish office, the entirety of the room designed to impress guests. Kiht’a was unimpressed, however, and remained irritable and bristly as ever. Rhen was seated casually in his chair, his feet kicked up onto the desk, his face propped up on one hand as he watched the exchange between the pair.

Shofie looked to Rhen for an answer, but his face was set in it’s usual stoic, calm, unreadable countenance. He wasn’t going to give her an easy out on this.

She scrunched her face up into a pout, and focused on the green bottle across the room intently, not wanting to look at either of the men. Both men allowed her a moment of silence as she mulled over her options. Kiht’a was there to help them deal with the stolen amulet. Kiht’a was an astonishingly accomplished mage in his own right, and he knew about the amulet and how dangerous it was, and he knew better than anyone else how to contain it, to safely handle it. Even Shofie, for all her research on the subject, had learned only that it was dangerous to handle, and it required a seal of magic to be dealt with safely. The amulet had been entrusted to The Wolves for safekeeping, but before they could claim it from their contact for storage in their vault, it’d been intercepted and stolen from the courier. They needed to get it back from the thief who’d stolen it, presumably before they used it and caused even more trouble.

Shofie frowned more, her jaw flexing as she ground her teeth. The green bottle was half-full.

Kiht’a, powerful as he was with magic, also wasn’t very suited for fighting, and needed protection to even get the amulet. He needed their help, much as he hated to ask her, of all people, for it. Shofie hated that she was the one getting roped into doing it. There really weren’t many people better suited to protecting people than she was, and they both knew it.

“Ugh.” She relented, bring her eyes up to Kiht’a. He’d never taken his eyes off her, waiting for her decision. “You’re an absolute prick, you know that, right?”

She heard a soft snort from Rhen. Shofie never really was one to pull punches, if she didn’t like someone, they knew it. Shofie definitely did not like Kiht’a. She unfolded her arms, and extended her hand, making a big show of it. “Fine! Fine. I’ll play nice. Happy?” Kiht’a stepped toward her, towering over her, taking her offered hand. “Alright. You protect me, and I’ll make sure the amulet is sealed.”

She crushed his hand as she shook it. He flinched but didn’t withdraw from her. She spoke between gritted teeth.

“Bargain struck, Kiht’a Nbolo. But if I find out this is a trick, I’ll kill you myself, assuming the amulet doesn’t first.” He looked offended. “Ugh, please, I’ve better things to do than steal from you and yours.”

He gave Rhen a wary glance. “Especially yours.”

————————————- @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast #FFxivWrite2019