#and this completely destroys ingo naturally. bc he doesn't remember it but it's just his brother leaving him all over again

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every time i remember "ingo is an ascian/ancient who literally forgot everything about that" it still kills me. so much staying power in the idea of the protagonists rocking up to ishgard having the worst day of their lives and there's a fucking ASCIAN just chilling waiting for them and they're like fucking dammit now we have to deal with THIS. and then he's not. like he's literally just chilling. he is so very much just some guy. and they're like why the fuck are you dressed like an evil wizard then and he's like they're comfy robes :(

#swift plays ff14 #the nemesis speaks #not that it makes sense for ingo to be dressed like an ascian if he is in fact the watcher as previously proposed #but this is so hysterical to me so idc. slight amendment to fashion senses that's just how all ancients dressed forever #so like naturally ingo wouldn't wanna change. ancients famously don't like having more than like #2 outfits conceptually and generally just the one #venat and themis greatest rebels ever wearing (checks notes) the same ass robe but in white #anyway the other slightly less funny more serious part 2 is irida pulling the thordan Thing w/ the eye #becoming a vessel for palkia etc. diff motives obviously but same outcome #and this completely destroys ingo naturally. bc he doesn't remember it but it's just his brother leaving him all over again #this would also be the point where the protags actually buy that he really isn't an evil space wizard #because he is IMMEDIATELY kill-it-with-fire the SECOND he sees a primal. not exactly ascian behavior #anyway. meaningless rambling over #edit: oh yeah they also find out then that he's immune to tempering which is like ok you're not evil but that's goddamn weird #but nobody has much time to properly register or consider it bc. they are fighting evil dragon irida. not much time to pause and chat