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svarna —rank 7: sworn

Been thinking A Lot about an AU where Allie goes to school in Old Sharlayan... :)

My goal was... could I convey my message in 3 panels? Then I just wanted to mess with lighting to frame subjects lol

it appears that those who share your metaphysical capabilities are prone to complicating simple cognitive processes ...

Still thinking about this kid... I had to get a screenshot from our first encounter when I played through on the bunny after this exchange in the Alpha and Omega quests.

The first line has stuck with me since I first played, I just didn't know what else to say about it except that it was adorable that Vrtra played with the kids in the city and it was one of those lines they stuck in that made him my new favourite character in the whole game like, IMMEDIATELY.

He played with them so often that they think of him as part of the squad and know he's the slowest but still look out for him. Like, that makes THEM protective of HIM and just speaks to them clearly knowing him really well like they have all his Kid Stats for games like normal human children do :')

And this thousands year old dragon just bopping along after them trying to either maintain his dignity and not tear after them with abandon, or just being worse at piloting a kid mech suit than a normal kid inherently is at running and not normally having to put that much effort in to run and jump and swim when doing his dignified little thousand year old creepy kid job. And just being The Worst in the group, but they all still love him and want to play with him, and it doesn't bother him to be the clumsy weird one who's trailing after the group all the time because he's not been socialised as a little human child and also is not taking anything away from this except I'm sure total glee that he gets to play with them.

(I mean this line alone makes it way less weird that he kept on making children for his undercover boss routine... It's very funny to me how the Radiant Host pre-unveiling legit ask Varshahn if he's like. In Trouble. And I can see them loving that kid so much it panicked him that they might try and overthrow the Satrap for child abuse for making him work so hard and he had to reassure them he wanted to be there. Lines which are MUCH funnier once you know the whole situation on a replay. Then in hindsight is just another moment where he was so endearing to his people :))

And then when you come back to talk post-EW, this same boy misses his friend, of course. But he also shows us in a way how Varhahn/Vrtra has aged out of that. Not only is he just really busy doing all his work as satrap right when the most work needs doing after the whole apocalypse thing, but when he does go back, he no longer pretends to be a kid with them, because he's a good honest dragon and they know who he is.

It's almost like it didn't occur to him to code switch with them and offer to play or turn down the Ancient Dragon vibes for the sake of the kids, but he now inherently moves about with the creepy child vibes (affectionate) he only occasionally gave off before where he acts his age. And it shows he's passed a line in the sand of a second growing up arc where he can't and doesn't want to pretend to be a child, not even for the sake of getting another afternoon of playtime in with his old friends. Like, yeah, he's busy, but that's also just not who he is any more.

He WANTS to use grown-up words and move among his people with them knowing who he is, and he's enjoying this new time in his life where they all adore him for who he is and are delighted to be the coolest city in the world because they have a DRAGON for a leader. So it's not just his time constraints but his whole personality that have moved on. Being a kid was fun while he was in hiding but he was the one who chose to approach his old friends with formality and they themselves responded to it by finding him strange and too grown up for them now. They can't sink into that pretense and it's sad that he's "grown up" from that perspective but also amazing that he grew up from every other perspective since it shows him maturing into being a leader and how he's fulfilling his role now. This is just a necessary thing he had to leave behind, but it was lovely for them in the past and he has memories of what it's like to have a childhood in his own city which is adorable and great perspective for him.

I do hope the long arc sees him get an adult body for Varshahn and this is a part of sort of moving him on from being seen as a kid/seeing himself as a kid. But also I guess there are world leaders who literally are also perpetually child-like and literal children walking around talking to/with the authority of world leaders so it's not UNPRECEDENTED... Still, it would be a nice symbol of Vrtra sort of emerging more into his role if he did eventually 'grow up' in that respect too...

Anyway if you need me I'll just be over here thinking too much about this sweet dragon :')

Yume Aino 💫 Patch 6.15

Omega: Beyond the Rift

Just some random screenshots from the Omega questline that debuted in patch 6.15. I just thought my girl looked so beautiful here!!

he does

i am stealing all the baby hippos i can

The way Ameliance stares right into the WOL’s soul 3x within this one cutscene is killing me

14 doods

Daddy Fourchenault makes my heart hurt it's not fair

Voice of the Dust

Twitter tag: #FF14キャラ入り風景SSの会

Doin’ hero stuff

Okay I did really enjoyed this part, it was a lot of fun.

I can't decide if my favourite Hippo Riders quests minor character is:

the courier who gets distracted and nearly eaten by a pack of valrus because he saw an ADORABLE baby tortoise and dropped everything to protect it so you have to save him from an enormous hungry valrus even though he's meant to be a fierce warrior

the woman in Palaka's Stand who starts talking about how delicious hamsas are for like three paragraphs, drooling and already heating up the oven and preparing the sauce in her head to the point that it's actually kind of concerning

The ending of 6.1.....

What if there was only ONE room?

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I'm a dick and I don't care about that guy 2. I did and do actually. THE MOST UNCHARITABLE UNHEROIC RESPONSES EVER LMFAOOAOAOAOAO GOOD THING I CANT GIVE A DETAILED RESPONSE AND INSTEAD HAVE TO STUPIDLY PICK WHO I THINK IS "MOST JUSTIFIED" AS IF THAT SHOULD EVEN BE THE MAIN CONVERSATION dude are they datamining the answers that's funny as hell