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#Aitiascope made me cry but I also as able to heal effectively in it so that one #ktisis hyperborea too though I like it

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“A knight lives to serve. To protect. To sacrifice. There is no greater calling. Leave me to mourn, and give chase. For my son, and for the nation he loved”

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Let’s catch falling stars together 💫🐉

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#it'd be a tough choice between Ishgard and Doma #but PROBABLY Ishgard bc Etien lives there

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machine that gives you a painful electric shock when you she/her the fae in ffxiv shadowbringers

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a dream, a promise

#lizard lady love

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WoL: You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile. Aymeric: You think my smile is beguiling?

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Unpopular opinion:

I like Fourchenault. He sucks.

Imagine being an emotionally-stunted man who's in this society that's all about peace and nonintervention and Knowledge, so obviously you know better than anyone else in the world and their petty conflicts.

And then you get told that the world will end in your lifetime - and then you get two kids, which makes you panic about it all the more. So when your kids come of age and go off to explore this world while you're figuring out the Evacuation Plan for End Times, and then come back having involved themselves in almost all the petty conflicts you've heard about, you get mad.

You think they're being rebellious children who don't know any better, so you decide the best course of action is to disown them of the family name so they're suitably punished, don't get support, or don't get in the way if they ever rock up to your doorstep. And then you can shove them kicking and screaming onto the Noah's Ark you're making when it's time to scoot off this planet. Flawless plan. Cool.

Within, let's say, a month - your kids, with their very powerful friends, rock up to your front doorstep just as your promoted to the leader of your life's work. And after agreeing that they won't work against your plans, your kids proceed to systematically hijack your entire life's work, using all the knowledge, allies and experience they have accumulated during their trip into the rest of the world. Everything that you have lacked.

You're actually proud, but you are struck dumb because every single thing you thought was right has been flipped on its head. Because your kids (and your wife) are too smart for you to comprehend. So, you swallow your pride and you relinquish the wheel to your whole operation. And the Doomsday Evac plan never happens. It doesn't need to. Your children and their friends do the impossible - they stop the world from ending.

You're lucky that your family is willing to give you forgiveness in the face of all this - because you will forever be plagued by the looming presence of the Warrior of Light, whose attitude will range from "Fuck the narrative, these are my kids now," to "I respect your kids' decision to forgive you, and I will work with you, but you are on Thin Fucking Ice."

The cherry on the top is that if your Doomsday Evac plan had actually happened, your distant collaborators would have only been able to provide food in the form of carrots.

You would have been stuck eating your most hated food for perhaps the rest of your life.

Just, mwah. Poetry.

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this is just zenos and aulus' dynamic in a nutshell

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1st Level - The Crystarium - Lakeland, Norvrandt Final Fantasy XIV

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↳ ʜᴀᴜʀᴄʜᴇꜰᴀɴᴛ ɢʀᴇʏꜱᴛᴏɴᴇ ✦ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ ꜰᴏʀᴛᴇᴍᴘꜱ ✦ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪʟᴠᴇʀ ꜰᴜʟʟᴇʀ

— ʙᴜᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ, ɴᴏ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ʜᴏᴡ ꜰᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴀʏ ʀᴏᴀᴍ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴀʏ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴄᴏɴꜱɪᴅᴇʀ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴏᴍᴇ.

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I have my gripes with FFXIV but I have to admit the decision to use a longsword as the substitute for a crucifix when making Ishgard's French Catholic aesthetic was artistically fucking brilliant and I still haven't recovered from it almost a decade later.

#YEAH

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Unfriendly reminder, but Azys Lla with the context of Endwalker, is now clearly Amon and his peers attempts to recreate Elpis but is twisted by the Allagan Empire need for conquest and capturing of primals and the noble's need to create twisted experiments for their own enjoyment. Just another society Hermes serves in with a different kind of apathy.

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Emmanellain is such a clotheshorse he’d definitely have the Metian gear as soon as it arrived in Eorzea. Naturally, he would have a set made for Artoirel too, but it would take some convincing to get his saturnine older brother to wear it.

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Regardless of whether or not you as a player like Zenos, or whether your WoL is like the "mirror" he thinks they are, his presence in the story forces you to think about that. To think specifically about the WoL's relationship to violence - because as of Stormblood, fighting and killing is an inextricable part of what makes the WoL the WoL. Are their battles simply a means to an end, or an end in and of themselves as it is for Zenos?

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Mister Aulus bunny Asina... 😳

#👀

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