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You know what'd be a nice lil piece of angst. If Emet does come back eventually, new life and all, and, as per the rules of the aetherial sea, his memory's completely, irreversibly wiped. Wouldn't it be fun for the wol to be the one that remembers.
#ffxiv#emet-selch#emet selch#text post#if this isn't canon by the time fragments gets there (i.e. like a decade ayy) i might do this
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#there are two ways to read this#1. he floats ominously#2. trademark drg pose due to his overexposure to vivi lmao#ffxiv#g'raha tia#own: next lvl
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✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 41 ✧✦✧
They celebrate the night by playing games even more unhinged than usual, imbibing floral nectar, and dancing until every last person drops dead \o/
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an old pic that stayed exclusive to my artbook for about a year
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Exarch's more ✨grey✨ than many people care to remember. Just to be perfectly clear, this's a character writing compliment coming from me. Holding him by the scruff and shaking a few times. Do you wanna go talk to Emet about this.
Re: shb trolley problem I find it kinda funny and hypocritical that so little care/sympathy is being shown towards the 8th Calamity Timeline and how underexplored that problem's in canon, it's ""okay"" to erase that timeline, along with Exarch himself (as per the 5.0 knowledge), just because a portion of that doomed Source's population (the Ironworks and others who worked on the plan) said it's okay, we hate it here anyway. Surely the rest of the star unanimously agreed with that.
#whether on purpose or not se sidesteps the detalization of both the 8th calamity timeline and the ancient world#'why do you want to know more about it. it's a world that existed. gone now. sacrificed for YOUR wol! don't worry about it hehe'#emet's wrongs are explored in detail#exarch's wrongs are mostly unaddressed or laughed off#dare i mention venat in the same breath#i'm not going into THAT discourse no but i'll mention it regardless. just as a food for thought#speculation and headcanons are fun i just wish se didn't act so heavyhanded in a story they previously tried to make ambiguous and nuanced#text post
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Re: shb trolley problem I find it kinda funny and hypocritical that so little care/sympathy is being shown towards the 8th Calamity Timeline and how underexplored that problem's in canon, it's ""okay"" to erase that timeline, along with Exarch himself (as per the 5.0 knowledge), just because a portion of that doomed Source's population (the Ironworks and others who worked on the plan) said it's okay, we hate it here anyway. Surely the rest of the star unanimously agreed with that.
#just random stream of consciousness i haven't slept well in weeks#feel free to add your thoughts#text post
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One thing that really gets me about Urianger comforting Minfilia in Amh Araeng is that when she says Thancred hates her, Urianger never actually says, no, he doesn't. He says instead, none of this is your fault, and the original Minfilia wouldn't hold anything against you, and in typical Urianger form he says some things about fate and faith, and his words are kind and beautiful--but he also completely sidesteps the question of how Thancred feels about her.
And I think this moment is very reflective of Urianger's relationship to Thancred and child!Minfilia as a whole. It reflects what we see when we first see all of them together in Il Mheg.
Urianger knows that the way Thancred behaves toward the girl is hurting her. He's spent enough time around the two of them to see that plainly. Theoretically, he could say something to Thancred about it; they're obviously close friends, and if Thancred was going to value anyone's opinion, it would be his. But he doesn't say anything, because he still feels guilty and responsible for all of it: about their Minfilia going to the First and what happened to her there, and thus for what both Thancred and child!Minfilia are going through now. Even though Thancred has never outright blamed him for it (however he may feel privately, which I think is hard to say), it seems like Urianger still feels like he has no right to say anything.
So he tries to compensate instead. He's kind to Minfilia, connects with her in his own way and gives her books, and by the time we see them together he's obviously become something of a familial figure to her. I would say that he and Thancred aren't so much raising her together as they're doing it... around one another. Thancred is gruff and cold and holds Minfilia at arm's length emotionally so that his protectiveness comes off harshly even when it's well-meant, and Urianger dotes on her and tries to make up for it all while avoiding the actual problem.
So that conversation in Amh Araeng is both touching and maddening to me, and it really drives home what's maddening about it when, upon overhearing it, the Warrior of Light turns to Thancred to ask him if he has anything to say to Minfilia--who has just said, out loud, that she thinks Thancred wishes she was dead--and Thancred just says, "Not today."
And so they both go on avoiding the actual problem, for just a little longer.
#i also love that the trolley problem of minfilia vs ryne mirrors the azem vs wol and overall ancient vs sundered world#and uriancred as a ship appeals to me bc its foundation isn't some silly 'uwu they're kinda hot together??'#no it's really messy and complicated stuff#both thancred and urianger's characters explode in depth in shb and while not being the main focus it adds a lot to my enjoyment of it#incredibly subtle yet hard-hitting angst my beloved#minfilia warde#ryne waters#thancred waters#urianger augurelt#long post#text post#analysis
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an old pic that stayed exclusive to my artbook for about a year
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"you would see the person beneath the hood?"
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soon in Fragments
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switch sunday or something
it's fuck the old man friday m'dudes
full: bsky | twt
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Thank you so much ;w; <3
Second Lightwarden down, second night scene. A massive contrast to the Holminster scene that's quiet and much more personal. The canon Il Mheg scene's also rather upbeat, but I decided to really go ham because I love the fae, they wouldn't only do all sorts of crazy celebration, but warp reality itself (or the mortals' perception of it) out of sheer joy.
I made sure for it to feel like we're at a peak, quite literally with Vivi and Feo being high up in the sky, and emotionally. Time to look around and remember that we're still in the ShB rollercoaster ride :3c
✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 41 ✧✦✧
They celebrate the night by playing games even more unhinged than usual, imbibing floral nectar, and dancing until every last person drops dead \o/
New reader? episode list on tumblr | webtoon
Read 4 more episodes: patreon | kofi
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✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 41 ✧✦✧
They celebrate the night by playing games even more unhinged than usual, imbibing floral nectar, and dancing until every last person drops dead \o/
New reader? episode list on tumblr | webtoon
Read 4 more episodes: patreon | kofi
#i see you typing some comment about the moon mount#i urge you to consider: this episode got released for patrons before the mount okay#like you're free to joke about it but it's nowhere near my original intention here and i'm grumpy about se's timing#ffxiv#vivien rell#feo ul#titania#alisaie leveilleur#alphinaud leveilleur#thancred waters#ryne waters#urianger augurelt#ffxiv: fragments#fragment ii: new world old friend#own: next lvl
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