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[eriyu]

had a random brain event of old Kea and ARR!Tataru interacting like

ARR!Tataru, being somewhat flummoxed by the sudden presence of two quite different Kea: um, I'm not always this scatterbrained I swear!

Old Kea: Tataru, I've known you for half a century.

ARR!Tataru, crestfallen: oh...

Old Kea, continuing: I know few friends more dependable than you have been.

ARR!Tataru: !! oh! um.. well... of course! <beams>

#😭💖💖💖 #ff #ffxiv #xiv ocs #kea #q

[eriyu]

#my phone is pretty new because my old one just decided to stop working one day #it was perfectly fine #i set it down and plugged it in #and when i picked it back up the motherboard had shorted!!!!!!!!!!! #that was in february which i know because i searched discord for when i liveblogged the ordeal to my best friend #polls

[eriyu]

real pic of elfliker69

#ff #ffxiv #hw #soft and tender #q

[eriyu]

[eriyu]

I strongly prefer it when the Scions *don't* have Ancient counterparts.

I think it means more if they're part of the new souls born to the star either after Zodiark's first summoning or after the Sundering. Which is a whole thing!

Importantly, those were the souls that the Convocation were going to sacrifice to Zodiark to bring back the Ancients they lost.

To me, I think it's vastly important that G'raha, Y'shtola, Urianger, Thancred, the twins, that all of them are people Emet-Selch would throw away without a second thought. That to him, you're the only one worth half a damn... And broken as you are, only half a damn. And before he lets himself accept that you really are what's left of Azem, you're just someone else he's convinced isn't a person.

But I think these are the very souls Azem left the Convocation to save, even if Azem still didn't want to break the world. And these are the souls that Venat and the Twelve did break the world to save.

To me that's so much more important than any reincarnation romance (much as I adore that kind of story too). That to Azem and to you, these people matter anyway.

#this is sooooooo good yes #there is that one alisaie line indicating she has a reaction to the starshower even tho it doesn't give her the echo #but i think the point here still holds even if it doesn't apply to ALL the scions #(op i see your tag — also an option!!!) #on a sorta related note it is so important to me to believe that none of the scions are any SPECIFIC ancients we know #that everyone can do great things. that history isn't just made over and over again by the same few “important” souls #that everyone matters #ff #ffxiv #ew #xiv lore #q

[eriyu]

... Holy crap

At one point I speculated that Fandaniel's throwaway comment about Zenos being a case where Emet-Selch "finally succeeded" was about Zenos' corporeal aether being as dense as an Ancients'. Not his soul, but his body at least being 2x as dense as the average Source inhabitant (and 14x as anyone from a Shard).

One of the big reasons for the Sundering was that extremely aether-dense people can't interact directly with Dynamis. You can hear Meteion bc your aether is so thin. People turn into monsters bc Dynamis overwhelms and consumes their Aether.

What if Zenos cannot directly interact with Dynamis. At all.

What if THAT'S why everything seems dull and boring to him? There's a whole spectrum of emotion & feeling that he straight up can't feel because his booty too fat his corporeal aether is too thick. But he's still a sundered soul, so part of him still needs Dynamis to feel connected to other people (unlike the Ancients who seem fine?). But his corporeal aether blocks it. The same way that Zodiark's shield kept us from hearing the Endsinger for all those centuries (& by extension the whole universe really), Zenos' thicc aether literally prevents him from feeling connection to others.

This explains why he so easily no-sold the WoL. In addition to supernaturally thick aether, he's also mostly immune to our Power of Friendship crap.

... Mostly.

Because obviously the Ancients still weren't immune to the Endsinger, her effect was just different. They didn't turn into monsters, but their imaginations turned on them, causing their creation magic to manifest ravenous nightmares. In the same way, some part of the WoL's Dynamis was so potent that it broke through. And that's why he became so completely addicted to us. We're literally the only person with powerful enough Dynamis that he can feel any connection at all.

#oh shit #i kinda love this #solving the “throwaway line” problem #also coming up with a specific concrete reason for why zenos is so strong bc i know some people have a problem with that #in a way that meshes perfectly with like. everything else #ff #ffxiv #ew #xiv lore #q

[eriyu]

this was a part of the endwalker final credits to me

#ff #ffxiv #ew #comic #q

[eriyu]

Lethe

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Greetings from Furcacauda waiting room, I usually arrive to fish windows super early so I doodle my surroundings while I wait.

#ff #ffxiv #ew #q

[eriyu]

ryne and ysayle print from february 2020

#ff #ffxiv #shb #q

[eriyu]

The way Final Fantasy 14 explores the themes and lore of its deities and other bosses through the song lyrics in their boss music is very underrated tbh. It's one of the best aspects of the game to me, yet I don't see it praised as much as other things.

And there's such variety, too. Menphina's theme is an upbeat song that explores how the world's cat people find safety and comfort in worshipping the moon. Sophia's theme is a sad parable that shows how the goddess' idea of balance is harsh and inhumane. Lakshmi spends her song trying to seduce you into accepting her ideology of blissful sloth. Shiva mourns her own plight. Suzaku sings of lost love. Athena sings about how she is the shit and she's gonna kill you.

It's all just really great.

#ff #ffxiv #ew #q

[eriyu]

FFXIV players who want their WoL to kill the Elementals: "My WoL would be applauded for freeing the Shroud of their evil and their death will fix Gridania's shortcomings, prejudices, and xenophobia."

The actual likely consequences of that scenario:

#yeah... #same as i said in my own post it's the lack of interest from the game's writing that sucks the most #ff #ffxiv #ew #q

[eriyu]

club membership revoked

#ff #ffxiv #shb #comic #q

[eriyu]

#yeah #q

[eriyu]

fray

#ff #ffxiv #hw #q

[eriyu]

Do you think the WoL dreams of Ardbert sometimes. Or. Like….

They unified their souls. Do you think that changed them. A WoL who used to hate a certain food finding themselves craving and loving it (perhaps Ardbert loved it, when he was corporeal) like. Am I making sense?

… that got off topic really quick but like, idk. I think it could be interesting. What would that do to you?

#on rare occasion his mannerisms or preferences will peek through ehriyu's actions yeah #and it surprises her how okay she is with it? she notices it happening but it feels right and not weird at all #more often tho she just knows exactly what he would say or think in situations; with absolute confidence #it makes me so feral in 5.2 when elidibus is using his body we GET dialogue options but there is no “well maybe it IS ardbert” #no “maybe something happened without me noticing” #the wol KNOWS. EMPHATICALLY. with italics #ff #ffxiv #shb #ehriyu

[eriyu]

what the fuck is a salesforce. we're briefly alive for a few violent decades

#tl #q

[eriyu]

(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#almost picked making the bed because i'm happy to leave it unmade #but i'm hoping that having it magically done includes putting fresh sheets on because that is a NIGHTMARE with my bed #instead i'll do the laundry; i don't mind laundry #polls