#Yda Hext

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Bonus Poll: Most Boopable Scion

#final fantasy xiv #boop #ffxiv huggability #ffxiv #thancred waters #y'shtola rhul #yda hext #stormblood spoilers #lyse hext #papalymo totolymo #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #minfilia warde #estinien varlineau #g'raha tia #krile baldesion #urianger augurelt

[zoruathemageknight]

Lmao I’m only on Stormblood

#meme #zorua talks #final fantasy #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #time to tag them all #tataru taru #minfilia warde #urianger augurelt #haurchefant greystone #kan-e-senna #raubahn aldynn #merlwyb bloefhiswyn #aymeric de borel #papalymo totolymo #nanamo ul namo #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #yda hext #thancred waters #nero tol scaeva #y’shtola rhul #g’raha tia #zenos yae galvus

[capriccio-ffxiv]

Suddenly very upset that Lyse never got to go visit Old Sharlayan with us.

That's as much her childhood home as Ala Mhigo -- much moreso, even. Yda took her to the Sharlayan Colony and then much like Thancred, they were basically "adopted" by Louisoix and taken to the mainland to study. I figure Lyse probably *did* go to school alongside Yda, but being much younger than Yda never got her Archon Marks. Possibly she was working on it when Yda died, but then in her grief and depression couldn't finish it (extremely relatable; I know so many people who never finished university because of circumstances like that).

And I just.

Lyse is done so dirty by the narrative. The Yda reveal is poorly handled and means nothing to us (and apparently didn't mean much even to 1.0 players, which was baffling to me when I found out.) At the same time, when you actually read the short stories and her backstory, it really is a powerful story about grief, about impostor syndrome... but the game just. Fumbles the ball on that.

I just... can you imagine? Now-adult Lyse, having liberated Ala Mhigo, finally returning to Old Sharlayan. Lyse meeting Papalymo's father. Lyse, meeting Moenbryda's parents (Yda and Moen had been close, iirc, and Moen knew about Lyse's deception just like the rest of the Scions).

I know why the larger fanbase isn't super into her, Stormblood is the black sheep of the expansions (I liked it, but it's followed by freakin Shadowbringers, y'know?), but I just wish the game devs would give her another chance. Maybe during or after Dawntrail (maybe she can show up in the New World at some point initially as an ambassador from Ala Mhigo or whatever)

#lyse hext #yda hext #ffxiv #ffxiv stormblood #ffxiv a realm reborn #she's in the same narrative jail as poor Aymeric only worse because the fandom *loves* Aymeric so they beg for him to come back #while Lyse gets kinda ignored because she's not a handsome elf man and seriously the writers flubbed her narrative arc real bad #the bones of a good story are there but the execution... oops

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Minfilia: What are Thancred and Yda arguing about this time?

Y'shtola: They have a bet going about what WoL is like in bed. Yda thinks they're secretly really romantic, but Thancred thinks they're kinky.

Minfilia: Yeah, they're actually both.

Y'shtola:

Minfilia:

Y'shtola:

Minfilia: I mean... How would I know? I don’t know what WoL's like in bed.

Minfilia: But I would assume they're both.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #minfilia warde #warrior of light #y'shtola rhul #thancred waters #yda hext #wol x minfilia

[anneapocalypse]

On the Scions and Sacrifice

(I am still mid-Stormblood, so no spoilers please. ❤)

Master Louisoix looms so large over all the Scions, and I feel like it's really given nearly all of them a complex where they feel like they have to be willing to sacrifice themselves should the need arise--and they're all just waiting for that moment that happened to Louisoix, that realization that there is no other choice. It might be death, it might be something else, but they're all so ready to take the bullet, literal or figurative.

We see it with Moenbryda, who says that she finally understands the choice he made seconds before she gives her life to defeat an Ascian. We see it with Yda and Papalymo, Thancred and Y'shtola, and finally Minfilia as one by one they stay behind, urging the others to go on, until only the Warrior of Light is left. We see it again with Papalymo when he gives his life to contain the primal summoned by the Griffon. We see it with Minfilia's willingness not only to hand herself over to Hydaelyn to be her voice, but to travel to a far-off star, maybe never to return, to help save a world she has never seen. We see it in Urianger acting alone to spare his friends the burden he carries for what he believes to be necessary actions. Even Alphinaud basically doesn't allow himself to be just a teenage boy and over and over keeps trying to take the world on his shoulders because he believes it's what he's supposed to do as Louisoix's grandson. Lyse in Stormblood is so ready and eager for revolution but over and over again we see the true cost of war and of resistance to overwhelming imperial power, and we are confronted with the question of what level of sacrifice is fair to ask of people who have already suffered so much and are just trying to survive.

And yes, sacrifice is noble and valiant and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think the effect is a net positive. Louisoix did what he did when there was very definitively, apocalyptically, no other choice. He probably wasn't wrong. But that doesn't mean that it's good or useful for all of his followers to be waiting on a knife's edge for the same. It makes them perhaps too ready to throw themselves to the fire, too quick to assume that a heroic sacrifice is the only choice. Because what if they assume there are other options left, and they're wrong? What if they fail to act at the critical moment? The Calamity scarred Eorzea, scarred everyone in ways both obvious and subtle, and I think this particular scar on the Scions is an ultimately negative impulse that I hope we see them find their way out of. Alisaie, notably, is not about that shit, and I look forward to her seeing what kind of influence she has upon the others.

#constantly thinking these days about how much louisoix's totally necessary sacrifice also kind of fucked up the scions as a side effect #i have so many feelings about them #louisoix leveilleur #minfilia warde #moenbryda wilfsunnwyn #papalymo totolymo #lyse hext #yda hext #thancred waters #y'shtola rhul #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #scions of the seventh dawn #ffxiv #ffxiv spoilers #arr spoilers #heavensward spoilers #stormblood spoilers #afk by the aetheryte

[karmacaiman]

still my favorite scions

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #final fantasy #papalymo totolymo #yda hext #ff #stuff i draw

[7thastralera]

i made a wol + scion friendship chart! feel free to use with or without credit 💓

#i'm sorry there's no moenbryda or papalymo i was running out of space #ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #minfilia warde #ryne waters #thancred waters #estinien varlineau #yda hext #lyse hext #y'shtola rhul #tataru taru #krile mayer baldesion #urianger augurelt #alisaie leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #g'raha tia

[marlindotzip]

Those little guys

#art tag #final fantasy xiv #y'shtola rhul #yda hext #papalymo totolymo #thancred waters #minfilia warde #a realm reborn

[mythiclings]

Them <3

#ffxiv #ffxiv art #final fantasy xiv #yda hext #papalymo totolymo #lalafell #final fantasy 14

[haunted-xander]

ff14 doodles bc it's basically all I've been playing recently lmao

(Please don't spoil anything I am still playing through A Realm Reborn!)

#there IS a reason for why my avatar (aka me in game) is called banana pepper btw #uuuuh how to people tag the player character #warrior of light #<ig?? #banana pepper #<she gets her own tag now #minfilia warde #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #thancred waters #y'shtola rhul #yda hext #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art

[aplatonic-hagakure]

scions

#yda hext #papalymo totolymo #urianger augurelt #ffxiv #my art tag #ive been doing nothing but art trades and oc art the last months so thats why im not on here very often love and light

[queenraikichi94]

I had to redo this cause the last time I forgot Krile ;-;

#kaewaly lesrekta #thancred waters #yda hext #minfilia warde #tataru taru #papalymo totolymo #urianger augurelt #y'shtola rhul #g'raha tia #estinien varlineau #krile mayer baldesion #alisaie leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #ffxiv oc #ffxiv wol #veena viera #my oc

[autumnslance]

This is probably the most complete as well as one of the better quality uploads of the 1.x quest "Futures Perfect" that I've seen.

The Path Companion was a partner for the WoL, someone to make and give commentary during the storyline. They were customizable like a retainer; you chose their race/gender (of the available 1.0 options), class, and personality type. They were also Ala Mhigan originally, with a (variable) relative in the Resistance.

The WoL is defended, and spoken to at the end, by their starter city archon (this is during the Circle of Knowing/Path of the Twelve era, as the Scions were formed by combining the organizations after the Calamity).

This is also the introduction of Gaius van Baelsar as an imperial enemy; going forward there were scenes that include him shooting Cid for being angry and insulting, and also talking to WoL about how Gaius disagrees with Nael van Darnus's plans and the Meteor Project. But here, he crushes the Resistance's operation and gets into a fight with the archons--that only ends when he calls in an airstrike, sending WoL into a brief Echo vision before returning home to get medical aid for their companion.

#final fantasy xiv #video #1.0 #legacy #Futures Perfect #Lore #Circle of Knowing #Path of the Twelve #Ala Mhigo #Garlemald #Mor Dhona #Gaius Baelsar #Minfilia Warde #Y'shtola Rhul #Thancred Waters #Papalymo Totolymo #Yda Hext #Path Companion #Warrior of Light #ErickGage likes to say this is Gaius 'living his best Darth Vader life' and not wrong #Youtube

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Yda, swinging the door open: Boo!! Haha, sorry to startle everyone.

Papalymo: You loudly struggled with the lock for 30 seconds.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #Yda Hext #papalymo totolymo

[dawntrailing]

"Shall we meet here tomorrow?" "What?" Fordola managed. "Why?" Yda tilted her head in confusion. "Because we're friends!" "Since when?" Fordola fired back. This "Yda" may have saved her life, but that didn't make them friends. "Don't worry! If any more monsters turn up, I'll kick them halfway to Doma," the woman replied, staunchly missing the point. "So you'll come?" she continued, showing no inclination to let go of the idea or Fordola's hand. There was nothing for it. Fordola nodded. Accompanying Yda wherever she happened to be going became a regular occurrence for Fordola in the days that followed. She would never forget the joy of swimming across Loch Seld─or the trial of explaining away her salt-reddened eyes to her worried mother afterwards. She also learned to hunt. Her first kill, which Yda roasted over a campfire, tasted nothing like the meals her mother made, but was delicious nonetheless. And for the first time since her father's death, Fordola found that she could smile again. Yda spoke often of her younger sister after that. She too had faced their father's death at an early age, and Yda had been desperate to cheer her up, to take her anywhere that might bring a smile to her face. "You reminded me of her, you know. I couldn't just leave you like that."

- Set with the Sun, Tales from the Twilight

#fordola rem lupis #yda hext #ffxiv #final fantasy series #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv: music #tales from the twilight #ffxivedits #was conflicted on whether to use child model for fordola #she's roughly... 14? i felt the child model was too young #then she joined the empire afterwards #anyway this should have been in msq

[otherwindow]

i love yda and papalymo's dynamic

#ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy #yda hext #Papalymo Totolymo #video #my video #my stuff