Estinien mistakes Alisaie for Alphinaud - LPS remake

taking suggestions on what cutscenes i should remake next!~

For the angsty questions ask Pura/Raza "are you still mad at me?"

🐝  *  ―  𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑺𝑻𝒀 𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑻𝑺.

"are you still mad at me?"

"Are ye still mad at me?" Pura almost jumped when Raza spoke. She'd thought they were asleep. Her fingers settled back in their newly short hair, just managing not to wince at the jagged ends.

"I was never mad at you," Pura assured Raza, abandoning their hair in favour of rubbing at the base of their ears, "I was worried and shocked, but not mad."

Silence fell, and Pura hoped that Raza was going back to sleep. It appeared not to be as they dislodged her hands and sat up.

"I'd understand if ye were, Purry," they said, stretching their arms above their head, "ye've been tryin' so 'ard t'keep me safe an' I go do somethin' so fuckin' stupid, an'-"

"Hey!" Pura cut Raza off, sitting up quickly and holding their face in her hands.

"Don't talk about yourself like that. You're not well. That's hardly your fault. And I promise you, I'm not mad. I'm not mad now, I was not mad then, and I will not be mad about this in the future. Although if you don't let me clean up the ends once we've had some more sleep, then I might get a little grumpy." Pura hoped the joke would at least make Raza smile.

It didn't.

But they didn't fight as Pura pulled them back down, securing the blankets around them once more.

slowly talking myself into fantasiaing ilya's right eye white.

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-

what i think about thriller bark re zosan (whether romantic or not) is that it’s the time sanji actually understands zoro’s purpose on the ship.

like i think what most annoyed sanji about zoro is that zoro does nothing — he drinks, sleeps and curses at ladies. he’s good at fights, sure, but so is sanji, but sanji also wakes up at 3am to cook for 100 people (luffy), sanji helps behind the scenes and sanji generally cares for the crew (meaning ladies). zoro is simply an annoying and unnecessary attachment.

then thriller bark happens and the realization hits that zoro is the guardian. no matter what or how he will protect the crew — which can’t be said about sanji himself, he won’t fight women, he won’t use his hands, he won’t turn his human part off. zoro will protect their crew no matter the consequences same way luffy will give freedom and defeat the bad guys even if death comes knocking.

sanji did nothing but fight with zoro, yet zoro wastes no time protecting him, with the same selflessness he protects others, because sanji is crew. sanji already is familiar with idiots who decide on priceless sacrifices to protect him, and he’s already familiar with being indebted to them with no way to pay back, so while he should be grateful, he’s terrified that reiju keeps being proven right, that these idiots keep finding him. he’s furious, jealous, scared, they keep fighting and bickering, sanji isn’t about to let the idiot win, to let him know, and yet.

sanji asks zoro to kill him if things go sour — he knows zoro will do it simply because such is his role on the ship.

FFXIV script complete through 5.55! it's endwalkin' time!!!

i can't believe i've made it this far to be honest.

Me explaining that Emet-Selch often uses the rhetoric of fascists and eugenicists to describe the ancients and he speaks to the scions with a bad faith mentality and his entire character arc is about being unable to let go of the past and I need you all to understand that these things are not coincidence and this is the story explicitly trying to tell you that if you are not careful your nostalgia will become worship of the past which will in turn become horrific fanaticism

One of the biggest beauties of ShB is ambiguity. Personally I would've loved if there was no "right" side ever, but of course, the mmo medium needs bosses to fight, heroes need their villains.

We're told all the time, the Source and the reflections, the original and the copies, the greater and the lessers, but Lakeland, the place that welcomes us into a new [lesser] world, looks gorgeous, and the Crystarium's literally designed to be easy to love, no, not by the game devs, by the Exarch himself. However he couldn't have built it all on his own, countless people of the First must've contributed. It's not just a thing architected by a guy from the Source, it's a flower of the First, that one stubborn plant that grows in a crack of a paved road.

It's a post-apocalyptic world. The entire thing could've easily looked like Amh Araeng or the shanty town around Eulmore. People could've easily been as unlikeable as many of those who we save in the Source over and over again. Or at least, not interesting. Yet, this [lesser] world's vibrant and captivating, rich with history, albeit most of it's just hinted at, still, it makes you believe and wonder. You don't see the First as a lesser world as you walk it. I think it adds to the overarching theme of ancients vs sundered.

The dev effort that went into building a new world from scratch, making Norvrandt feel tangible, has paid off in so many ways, this being just one of them.

urianger panting and sweating after sprinting back and forth between the empty and the ocular because I keep rapidly teleporting between the two to try and catch him lacking

god i want. an au where it dosn't work. where it's just arr g'raha who's woken up, and he doesn't have all these memories and all these people keep looking at him like they're mourning someone. the world has changed and time has changed and all the people he knows have changed, but he hasn't changed, he was just sleeping, just sleeping, and the world nearly ended several times and apparently he helped prevent yet another end but he has no memory of this. they want him to join the scions. he does not know these people. (he barely knows the warrior of light, now, but did he ever truly know them in the first place?) his little sister is alive and well. she looks at him like a ghost. she's changed, and she's older than him now. he acts bratty and loud and brash to cover up the fact that he does not know anything it seems, and he is tired but he was sleeping for so long, so how could he be tired?

he doesn't know these people. they seem to know him. he wonders if he'd killed someone, when it was him and not that exarch who woke up. he wonders if it should have been him who was "killed" in that way, if it is him that lives and not that man who had known and become friends with all these figures from legend. he wonders if he'll always be fated to be a historian one step back from everything, because he simply cannot be a hero.

"It sure is, isn't it..."

(A little continuation from this...)

Ridel had always wanted to see the Steppe... and Vatii always wanted to show him.

(ft. @pali-himbo 's Vatii)

テミス GIVE. ME. MORE. PANDAEMONIUM.

You raised a child together Thancred what did you expect

+ a bonus I came up with while drawing this lol