im unwell i love him

fc friends and i made a static for learning ex and savage content and we had our first session today and it was SO FUN OMG!!! we did SoS EX unsynched as an intro to harder content because a few people in the group have barely even done any normal lvl90 raiding at all but everyone did so well, we only wiped once in two hours and i'm!! so proud!!!! of all of us!!!! 😭💖

and a well-deserved rest afterwards uwu

Oof.

Beanified my hrothgal, also named her Linnea :)

obsessed with paladin myrri atm and the fact that i have the invisible shield glam on her at all times so something something i don't need a shield, i AM the shield because her body is what stands between evil and eorzea LONG before she even picks up that job so really, what difference does a tiny plate of metal make?

i made these as an apology to both Hien and the baby after yesterday's post

Know our places, for worth is wordless

Evanescent, this writing on the wall

i wanted to do something for lesbian visibility week but i couldn't think of anything other than "put on the gayest glams i have" so. perceive my lesbian femroe, i guess :3

bonus:

lesbian can be stored in the brain

vierapril day 26--weapon

"and failing that, i'll have my trusty warrior of light box the ears of all concerned."

5 Character Associations: A'myrrhis

↠ Emotions

✽ love in all its facets ✽ hope against all odds ✽ courage to face the unknown ✽ perseverance in the face of adversity ✽ grief for those lost

↠ Colors

✽ a rich red ✽ a deep black ✽ a slightly tarnished gold ✽ a brilliant white ✽ a soft violet

↠ Scents

✽ a crisp ocean breeze ✽ freshly chopped wood ✽ flowers ✽ worn leather ✽ the smokey smell of a warm fire

↠ Objects

✽ a well-loved wooden hair clip ✽ a crystalline necklace ✽ a matching pair of bracelets ✽ a sturdy shield with hairline fractures ✽ a portrait of her family, carefully tucked away and kept close to her heart

↠Body Language

✽ a steady, open gaze and confident posture ✽ reassuring touches; squeezing someone's shoulder or ruffling someone's hair ✽ subtle ear twitches that give away lies ✽ humming quietly to herself while doing mundane tasks ✽ absentmindedly playing with her hair when in thought

↠ Aesthetics

✽ the endless open sky ✽ a crackling campfire under the stars ✽ sparks of magic, and of steel hitting steel ✽ a meadow of wildflowers stretching as far as the eye can see ✽ warm hands firmly holding on to each other

When someone does a terrible thing, in both real life and in fiction, we as onlookers find ourselves immediately asking "Why?". In real life even an understandable or relatable motive rarely justifies most crimes, while in fiction, we may actually judge evil actions less harshly if they were done with good intentions (or if the perpetrator is hot, but that's another issue)

(forgive me for interrupting my scheduled Fateposting for Zenosposting. again.)

From the moment he first appears on-screen, Zenos is just so dang weird that I think most players' reactions to him, whether they like him or not, is to wonder "Why?" - "Who is this guy, why is he like this, why does he do what he does, why is he obsessed with my player character?" and so on. What's interesting about this urge to know what's up with him is that understanding/not understanding others is a key theme of Zenos's character. He doesn't understand other people or care about their motives, doesn't even really care to try because he treats others as if they're a different species of animal than him, and doesn't even care to explain or justify his own motives until confronted. To him any motive is as good as any other, he's just chosen to live for his own hedonism. Even on a meta-level he resists being understood - which is to say that it's very possible to get a shallow reading of him, "Oh, he's just crazy.", and run with that without ever looking at the deeper level because you've already decided that this perceived insanity doesn't justify his crimes.

This is why it feels like such a huge and meaningful change that his character development in Endwalker is marked by him asking the WoL so many questions - genuinely trying to understand them instead of projecting himself onto them, genuinely trying to connect with another person for the first time.

Now that I reach the end of this post I realize that there's not really any major points here that I haven't made in other posts. When I played Endwalker, I approached the idea of the final confrontation with Zenos with my WoL wanting to ask "Why?" - not that he's looking for a justification, because he finds Zenos's actions unforgivable, but because he's the type of hero who wants to understand even his enemies. Ironically, or fittingly, that need to understand is what keeps him human, from being like the mindless beast Zenos thought he was.

I don't really ship ZenosWoL because I can't see the feelings as being mutual for my WoL, but the desire to understand one another counts for something. His pursuit of the WoL might be what constitutes "love" in Zenos's mind, but as far as I'm concerned, "wanting to understand" another person is what I consider "love".

Dunno if you know but there is a Yo-kai watch event in ff14 right now.

Oh my god.......they're alive. And HE'S there.

Do final fantasy players know what his deal is. Do they know he's a desperately lonely and always slightly horny middle aged alcoholic trapped in the body of an off-putting dog. Do they know how happy he'd have to be to be isekai'd into Final Fantasy and captured by a bunnygirl adventurer.

Do they know he's so hilariously unpleasant that humans see him as possibly just a normal dog and he still got put in human jail for making women uncomfortable

These aren't complaints, this is the funniest fucking character a collectible monster franchise has ever had. if you play this final fantasy please give him as good a home as you feel he deserves

one time he bought booze for a child but really I think that one's on the bar for selling sake to what they thought was a dog

normal sentence of the day

little guys! these'll be stickers for a small AA I'm going to but I wanted to share them 🥺

I love Themis for many reasons but not least among them is the fact that despite having a voice that sounds like he got triple dipped in testosterone achilles river styx style he literally looks like this

Y'shtola Rhul