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mor-and-more · 6 months

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Y'shtola for sure is one of the most NPCats ever :)

#ffxiv ramblings #traditional sketch #ffxiv miqo'te #y'shtola rhul #I love her dearly

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roboromantic · 8 months

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I was kinda wondering if ffxiv would have any special dialogue or anything for my boy meeting the Matanga in Thavnair but no 😔

they did have a sidequest where we help teach this Xaela girl not to be racist towards them, and I know she's like "oh you're the one who fought for the Mol! you inspired me to go on this journey, please help" so she'd trust the WoL regardless, but it felt less white saviour adjacent? than it could have since Khaljan also grew up on the Steppe and would be familiar with the Gajasura threat.

like with any other race I feel like it might could come across as an outsider dismissing her fears and trauma from her grandmother's stories and trying to ~enlighten~ her if that makes sense

but anyway with Khaljan she can be like oh hey, someone who understands! and he can say that he was startled at first too but the Matanga here aren't like that. maybe be like yeah the Xaela tribes aren't exactly all perfect themselves y'know and talk about how he had to grow up with the additional threat of being kidnapped by the Buduga or st and it'd be far more reassuring and credible I think.

side note bc I don't remember if I ever posted about it but the whole Naadam arc felt a bit strange since like. Khaljan could just represent his own tribe. but it was still significantly less gross than if I were playing as any other race. bc hoo boy is it bad about the whole "random outsider is better at this culture's thing than everyone who's actually part of that culture"

#ffxiv ramblings #I think? it's been so long I don't remember what tags I used for this stuff

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memorys-skyscraper · 5 months

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its wild to me that for as much as people rave about the voice acting in FFXIV (and rightfully so), i've literally never seen anyone talk about the performances for nidhogg and hraesvelgr???

like those VAs were having to deal with a conlang that looks like this:

and still managed to give really great performances with emotion befitting the content of each line

anyway this is an appreciation post for simon greenall (nidhogg) and steven hartley (hraesvelgr), absolute legends

#rambles #ffxiv #this post is brought to you by DSR prog #where the highlight of every pull is the p3 transition #when nidhogg shows up hollering SLOSKH AN GAHR / AHM IN LHEIN FHAIL #the latter part of which my static lovingly mistransliterates as I AM NAMED KYLE #also i learned while making this post that nidhogg and lolorito share an english VA lmfao

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ecosystem-administrator · 5 months

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Teleportation magic in FFXIV is actually the craziest thing

like, it's established so early on you don't have to think about it, and I expect the writers also didn't think too hard about it when they were first putting together the worldbuilding. but we teleport through the Lifestream. we dip in and out of the afterlife every time we go anywhere long-distance. and this is such a normal part of everyday life that major settlements basically all have giant crystals in the middle that are meant to facilitate this kind of travel.

and to be absolutely fair, in a world where the afterlife really was a place underground, we totally would build a subway system through it and put Hades in charge. it's not like it doesn't make sense, it's just. wild.

#ffxiv #thorn rambles

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capriccio-ffxiv · 10 months

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/pulls up a chair

what if the real "rejoining" is building bridges between all the shards and opening up trade

and instead of killing these split souls, opening a path for a way that the natural process of a reconnected Lifestream allows for a slow, gentle rejoining, with no sacrifice involved on the part of any of the newly born souls

what if we mend the broken world after all, but instead by building the pieces into something new, rather than trying to force the shape back to how it was

what if we fill our wounds with gold

and become transformed?

#ffxiv #ffxiv musings #ffxiv rambling #ffxiv theory #ffxiv lore #ffxiv speculation

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haunted-xander · 7 months

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Do you ever think about how Alisaie's biggest fear is losing the people she cares about? How the very first conversation you have with her alone, a deeply personal one, is about her confiding in you about those fears? Telling you that she hated the state of the world Louisoix died for because, to her, it wasn't worth the sacrifice? She tells you about all the allies she made and lost, who she watched die and could do nothing to save them.

Do you ever think about how Alisaie was consistently one of the first to act, to recklessly throw herself at danger throughout stb? She didn't care (as much) about herself getting hurt, but she'd be damned if she let her friends suffer without doing anything. She has to be fast and proactive, because if she can't protect them even when striking first, how would she be able to when acting after the fact?

Do you ever think about how every time her loved ones are in peril/are in risk of being in peril her heart just breaks? How whenever someone's safety is unsure she panics and immediately tries to contact them/rush to their aid? When Castrum Abania's cannon shot the tower that, for all she knew, Alphinaud was still in, she immediately stops what she's doing and runs to it in panic because her brother was in there and he might be dead.

Do you ever think about how when the Scions start getting their souls yanked to the First, Alisaie reacts the strongest? How, when Urianger and Y'shtola got taken, she fell to her knees shaking Uriangers body, screaming for him to wake up? And when Gaius appears with Alphinaud in the Burn, she immediately goes to fight him (before being stopped by Hien) because this man, who has been her enemy, is holding her brother's lifeless body. She doesn't care that she can't possibily beat him, he has her brother and she's already lost so much in such a short amount of time. She's lost Thancred, Y'shtola and Urianger already, she can't lose Alphinaud too.

Do you ever think about how you are the only one she can fully rely on at that time, but who is also at risk of being taken away? Of how she's so desperate for you to stay, to not be taken away, that Alisaie, who, for all her bluntness, prefers to rely on herself first and foremost, begs you not to leave her? She begs you. Alisaie does not beg. She yells at you to not do something, and she'll scold you to hell and back if you do it anyway, but she does not beg. But this time she did.

And then she ends up being taken away right in front of you. She cries out for help and uses her very last energy to reach out for you. And then she falls limp.

Do you ever think about how, when Alphinaud turns to tell her his plans at the end of Ultima Thule, she immediately rejects it without even letting him say it? She's lost so much and experienced so much grief, not only overall but also just in Ultima Thule. And she loathes to bring that grief onto another. Especially to one who has already lost so much, like you. She hates it. She ends up doing it, yes, but she hates it still.

DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT-

#AND THIS ISNT EVEN TOUCHING ON COILS OR GA BU OR LITERALLY ALL OF SHB OR LIKE 90% OF EW EITHER #SHE GOES THROUGH SO SO MUCH AND SHE LOSES SO MANY PEOPLE. HER LITERAL GREATEST FEAR IS REPEATEDLY SHOVED IN HER FACE SO MANY TIMES #I THINK ABOUT HER AN UNHEALTHY AMOUNT. I THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING SHES BEEN THROUGH ALL THE TIME #THE END OF POST-STB BROKE ME OKAY. HAVING TO NOT ONLY WATCH ALL THE SCIONS GET TAKEN AWAY #BUT ALSO HOW ALISAIE REACTS TO AND GETS INCREASINGLY MORE DESPERATE WITH EACH ONE #JUST. JUST BREAKS MY HEART #I LOVE HER SO SO MUCH OKAY I WANT HER TO AHVE ALL THE HAPINESS IN THE WORLD #ALISAIE :'((((((((((#alisaie leveilleur #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #xander rambles

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cute-sweet-corgo · 5 months

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Women's wrongs loves the fluffies apparently

#ffxiv #ysayle dangoulain #moogles #heavensward #doodle #lil art #ramble

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bakubunny · 6 months

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hybrid pet!reader brainrot go brrrrrr (f!reader)

thinkin abt you being your fave’s lil pet hybrid they just can’t resist, especially when you’re in heat. the way you whine is both heartbreaking and arousing annoying, grinding on anything that will give your cunt relief right in front of them. or on them.

they can’t help but sink their fat cock into your slick folds over and over. no matter how much your legs shake or how achy and swollen you get, load after load, you still feel unsated when you’re full of their cum without a knot.

but your fucked out look of desperation and the clench of your walls around them, pulling them back in, is enough for them to keep going instead of finding you a mate. and eventually, your dumb little brain craves the ache of never having enough.

relevant tags: @dcsiremc @neon-gothicc @zazter-den

#bunny that’s gross #sharing with the class #this was about aizawa and geto #and kirishima #shocking i know #revolutionary content from bunny #bunny rambles #bakubunny #bnha smut #jjk smut #ffxiv smut #bg3 smut #x reader smut #hybrid!reader

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kaytayto · 8 months

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very late estimeric week contribution, but i had too much fun drawing hair. this was for reunion? i think? the vibe is them pining for each other and then finally confessing post EW. i need this in my life constantly thanks

#estimeric week #estimeric #estinien varlineau #aymeric de borel #ffxiv #my art #you know i usually ramble in the tags but why not in the image description too hmm #i sure spent a week drawing armor and hair and then left my fugue state terrified of having to color all that shit #you have to draw all the dumb armor details at least once right #sorry sers you will simply have to be naked in all my other fanart of you so i dont have to deal with this again

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shebaa · 1 year

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My love for the karakul runs deep. Absolute peak sheep design.

#they are the perfect creature #soft #rotund #even under the wool they're a round looking cryptid #thank you ffxiv for giving me this paragon of sheep kind #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #sheeb rambles #mi*

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mor-and-more · 7 months

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A really quick doodle about Khaer and haircuts, after this one time he let Jandelaine loose, with the only request "just dye up the whiteness, yeah, do whatever"

(Arisu is the one responsible for setting up and reminding of all the appointments, because the others either will forget, or get too anxious (buit also forget, yeah))

#ffxiv ramblings #shut up kevin #wol thoughts #ffxiv viera #sketchadoodles #they are my emotional support bunnies

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uldahstreetrat · 2 months

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musing to myself this morning about the idea of penpals in fantasy settings like XIV

I miss my penpals from college, we used to send each other tea and plant clippings and little drawings (several of which I keep hung up by my desk space yet), and it makes me wonder what that would look like in Eorzea - there IS a mail system, after all, and I wonder what people include for their friends in different places

do you think dragonets would find penpals? interacting with the wider world at large by learning to hold a pen and scribbling away in a language they don't totally understand?

I think I'd like having a little dragon penpal. I wish we got mail from the characters we've met in the past

#ffxiv #ff14 #I don't totally know what I'm rambling about here I just miss sending and receiving mail with any frequency #I miss buying stamps #I stopped the habit because I moved like three times in a year and mailing became very difficult #wonder if there's like a website to find penpals

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ooeygooeyghoul · 8 months

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I'll never forgive ffxiv for not letting the WoL show affection to the twins. You spend the whole game with them watching them grow and hurt and change, and I REALLY feel like they deserve some hugs or at least something more than a couple dialog options and the stoic silent nod lol. Alphinaud canonically looks up to the WoL as an older sibling, and Alisaie repeatedly relies on them as a close companion and guardian. Those kids be starved as hell for any kind of positive role model to tell them they're doing great (which is even more true later on aha).

I was so disappointed when the reunion with them in Norvrandt was just them talking at you. Thancred gets to give Ryne headpats, why can't I have that for the twins!! Let me show them how proud of them I am I NEED them to understand that I care them so much-

#ffxiv #ff14 #rambling #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #im a sucker for the big brother trope okay #both me and shiun are very protective of the twins i just want the game to reflect that lol #shb spoilers #found family trope addiction go brrrr

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ecosystem-administrator · 20 days

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Okay it's four in the morning and I'm not entirely right in the head and I absolutely have not thought through the ramifications of this in its entirety, but

Garleans can't use aether, but they can affect and be affected by dynamis. we've seen this in canon.

Culturally Garleans seem to have a lot of emotional repression, breaking through only when pushed to extremes, which has no doubt prevented them from actualizing the combat potential of dynamis in the past. There is now an opportunity for this to change.

as they rebuild and reform their culture we should see Garlean bards becoming a thing, and they should invent heavy metal

#ffxiv #worldbuilding #thorn rambles #this is a good idea with absolutely no downsides

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ahollowgrave · 3 months

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Odette Hollows, Warrior of Light Prudence Dubois, Scion

I just wanted an offical-ish shot of the both of them together! I have been thinking about their time in Shadowbringers a... lot.

#Pigeon Screens #Odette Hollows #Prudence Dubois #FFXIV Screenshots #Hyur #Middie #Midlander #lays on the ground #I might make a separate post about what I want to ramble about in the tags #ahhHHHHHHH #i'm fine i'm cool i'm fine #(filled with bees)

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haunted-xander · 3 months

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I think one of the (several) reason for why Shadowbringers is so good is because the narrative is more about the individual characters than it is the Greater Conflict.

Like, the Greater Conflict is definitely there, obviously, it's what keeps the story going, but the focus is always on the people, much more so than the other expacs. HW and STB also have some level of character focus ofc, but it's very selective and even then the focus is based on them in the specific context of the current conflict.

But in SHB, the story bends around the characters' narratives, rather than the other way around. The story forms to put them in situations that challenges their flaws and limitations, by forcing them to confront it and actually deal with it. Even just at the very beginning, you see the twins being dealt a terrible hand that very neatly clashes against their faults.

Alisaie is confronted with a situation that she can and could never do anything about. She has no means to help the patients (at the time at least). The only way for her to help them is by eradicating the source of the affliction itself: the Light. But the Light isn't just some Big Bad she can kill and be done with. Even when all the lightwardens are down the Light is still there, it's just more manageable. Alisaie learns to not only see the bigger picture, but to care for it for her own reasons. For all that she has participated in Big Operations, it has always been because that's what others were doing, what others cared for to be done. She feels for the people of Doma and Ala Mhigo, but she didn't set out to liberate their homelands because she has any personal investment in it. But other people do, and she cares about what other people- be they strangers or friends- care about.

Caring about other peoples feelings and opinions isn't a flaw by itself of course, but doing things without any sense of personal purpose, is. This is what SHB helps her fix and confront, because it is personal now, she does it because she cares.

Alphinaud is forced into a situation where diplomacy and negotiations does and would never work. He can't talk himself into Eulemore, and he sure as hell can't convince Vauthry or the free citizens to let go of their life of ignorant luxury. The problem here also isn't as straightforward as a corrupt ruler, because even after Vauthry is revealed for the bastard he is, it takes considerable effort and convincing to get them to get off their asses and get to work. It's one thing to change the minds of people who wanted the same outcome just in a different way (like Ishgard- they rejected unity with the dragons, but they still wanted an end to the war), but it's another thing entirely to convince people that another way of life is even worth it.

And this is what SHB teaches Alphinaud, that words and deeds can achieve much, but that there is much more to diplomacy than appealing to their wants and/or sensibilities to convince them of an alternative outcome. His development may not be as immediately noticable as some of the others (largely bc he had a lot of it already from HW), but it is still very much there.

Urianger's development had already been build up and sort-of started already, but we don't really get to see it until it near explodes in his face after we kill Vauthry. Even after he swore off secrecy, he's forced to confront his morals when the Exarch bids his assistance. Urianger has always been looking at the greater picture, to the point he'd almost lose himself in it if it wasn't for the overwhelming guilt he feels. He works with the Exarch, because he knows he's the only one capable of it, and he hates the very fact that he is. When the climax of the plan is about to be executed, he is pained to the point that even he can't mask it anymore. He has betrayed their trust once more and once more it will result in the death of a friend.

But it doesn't, and that's what's needed for him to confront himself. As terrible and unexpected as the circumstances around it was, it did show him that there are other ways. There is no one way to solve a problem, the first choice doesn't need to be the only one. And he would find those other ones of he had just talked to the others.

The pay-off doesn't quite come until EW, where we see him actively make the choice to go against his first instinct of acquiesing to the Loporrits' plans, and instead chooses to consult us, but that scene wouldn't have made sense or even happened had it not been for his development in SHB.

Now, Y'shtola is a bit of an odd one because while she does get her due focus, she doesn't quite get the same amount of development as the others. Rather, it shows how she thrives when not held back by others interests and (often somewhat needless) bounderies. Her intelligence and charisma have the chance to shine, her independence and confidence now rewarded rather than punished. In ARR, she is constantly annoyed by the Maelstroms way of dealing with things, and how no one bothers to actually listen to her. Her advice and reprimands are almost entirely ignored until the problem blows up in their faces and they have no choice but to concede that she was right.

Being independent and confident aren't flaws by themselves, but her sometimes aggressive approaches to telling others off does her few favors. In SHB, she has the Night's Blessed who actually heed her word and respect her, they listen to her and actually take what she says- be it advise or reprimand- to heart.

She does also, however, have to deal with Thancred who, much like the Maelstrom, ignores her reprimands and doesn't listen to her. The difference here is that her bluntness actually serves a purpose. In ARR, her bluntness lacks tact and meaning, simply a result of frustration. The Maelstrom won't listen to someone who doesn't come up with fleshed-out arguments and solutions, but Y'shtola doesn't bother giving them any until she knows they'll listen. But with Thancred, she does give him the solution. It's just that the solution is him. His words, to be precise, and his acceptance. And he needs to be reminded of that, and she does. It doesn't automatically solve anything, but that's simply how it is with complicated situations like that.

Speaking of Thancred, his narrative is probably the most important of all for SHB. He's always been shown as a capable, but ultimately self-destructive man who genuinely does not know how to deal with himself in a healthy manner. Theoretically speaking he knows, he recognizes that he is self-destructive, but he still has no idea how to actually fix it. It's been shown as early as ARR when it results in him getting possessed, but it's not really made a point of until it almost ruins his relationship with Ryne. Up until now he could just ignore his problems, but with Ryne he can't because now The Problem(s) aren't just his anymore. Anything that would hurt him now would also hurt her, meaning that if he wants to continue doing the one thing he actually cares about (protecting his loved ones) then he needs to get his shit together.

But Thancred doesn't know how to. And for all that his friends try and try to help him, he doesn't know how to. He's paralyzed. Thancred is so deep into his self-destructive habits that it takes the threat of both his and the person(s) he loves the most in the worlds deaths to get him into action. He doesn't know if it's Minfilia or Ryne who will return, and I'm not sure he expected to survive Ran'jit. He only has this chance, and if he wants to die without (as many) regrets he has to do something now.

And he does. He does and what it is he does is tell Ryne that whatever happens, it has to be her own choice. That he will accept any outcome, that he will still care about her no matter what, that as long as she lives or dies as she wants to, that he still loves her. He still loves her. And it works, because that's what he's needed to do all this time, to be able to just tell her that she matters. That he cares.

He tells her to live her own life, and he learns to live his own too.

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