#bear plays ffxiv

[bearlytolerant]

Lycelle flew away just for me to get a cutscene with some bosses from Power Rangers.

#it’s mighty morphin time I guess #ffixiv #bear plays ffxiv #<I’ll tag I’ll my ffxiv stuff with that for ppl who need to block my nonsense

[wine-dark-soup]

welcome welcome!

I play ffxiv - eos r/hododaktulos on chaos spriggan, come say hi if you want!

I also love fallen london! I'm Anneos or Anne Kridge (never know which name i'm supposed to give out), feel free to send a calling card!

Look at my wols and my tav in their respective tags #eos, #entgeim and #selas

I have this ao3 account here

❤

#i play a lot of video games and i can switch interests quickly. please bear with me. i have adhd #censoring my ffxiv oc's own name bc i don't want this post to appear in google search results WHILE not wanting to hide my blog altogether

[norpies]

buddies

#my art #ffxiv #ffxiv art #ffxiv wol #viera #lalafell #heehee the alts my buddy and i play on sometimes. they have silly names and are best friends #the names being (in our mother tongue) teddy bear baby bear and bunny unny

[impossible-rat-babies]

i still enjoy thinking about pollux in 14 because he is absolutely just. oh you can be a wretch in the gremlin way. like he would be a defected garlean who joins the ironworks. has the moral compass of nero but doesn’t have “prove your worth” issues nero had going for a minute. fuck it we ball kinda vibe. cid sanctions what he does because he is going to do the thing either way. he was in bozja when it blew up and is Totally Well Adjusted about seeing his boss be tempered by bahamut and the explosion there. worked on the g-force warrior from the sorrows trial series and wishes cid let him put more guns on it. the sort of “that was fucked up what happened with the ruby weapon huh? *pause* anyway what is going on inside this thing.”

edit: he would be mean Nero until the end of the omega raids at which point he still be mean to him but it’s in a stupid Rude way, but not like a malicious rude way. (I think about what nero says in the omega raids + ew role quests a lot bc he’s just some cool dude)

#he would be Insufferable during the omega quests as this funny sidequest npc #who actually has some deep lore and insights if talked to #he would move to gangos if you did omega and then started bozja #would have like….big lore on how ordinary folks/low level military folks felt about the early meteor projects and the bozja incident #he doesn’t care about the WoL being the WoL really. they’re just Some Guy #either a beloved npc for the interesting lore and the not giving a fuck about the WoL’s status kind of npc #or the one people dislike because he doesn’t care/he has a lazy attitude about garlean politics and their actions #he doesn’t take responsibility for what happened—it’s not his responsibility to bear the sins of his country #did he have a role in bozja? yes. could he have done something about what happened? maybe #did he though? no he cared more about surviving #he isn’t a hero. he’s not hostile to the WoL like others are in EW #but he is quick to remind them of the fear and trepidation others have of them #Pollux would be not unlike maxima and cid—people who care about their country but are not blind to its flaws #he is deepest troubled by the bozjan incident and the meteor project #sjdjdjd gonna stop before I give myself brain worms #owen plays ffxiv

[lavampira]

how haunting it must be for venat to mentor astraea after the elpis events though. setting aside the responsibility of saving her world and her people, and having faith that fate will play its course and d’alia will keep her half of their promise to each other, but to come to terms with the fact that her successor on the convocation will one day die, that her soul will be sundered because of venat, and she can’t share a word of it with her, even though astraea has surely heard rumors of this supposed familiar of hers wandering elpis. not a word about this shard of her soul bearing an eye the same color as her. not a word about how brilliantly her soul’s color still gleams, nor the tale of how two warriors of light merged to make it so and protect another world from the man whom astraea knows best, nor the crystal she carries of her magic. not a word about the very similar justice-seeking, curious, adventurous, and hopeful nature that would possibly bring astraea comfort in her final moments to know that her legacy would live on through a woman such as her.

#such cruelty to bear the burden of knowledge but the hope and conviction to see things through. idk idk. #dani plays ffxiv #game: ffxiv #ch: venat #oc: astraea #oc: d'alia liveq #endwalker spoilers

[brightmoontrigon]

I have a son now in ffxiv too. btw. his name is Isramet Silverthistle and he's a very long way from home

#i wanted to play a bunny before i knew they weren't available on the free trial #and once i made viviel i couldn't bear to fantasia her into anything else #so viis alt! #ffxiv blogging #isramet

[dragons-bones]

that urge to completely take apart your small plot and redecorate, but don’t know to what

#dt plays ffxiv #this is helped partially by the fact that my small bears absolutely zero resemblance to synnove's canon house #so i have zero qualms about redecorating #it's just that...to what part that is the hangup

[okami-zero]

So after the fight with Hydaelyn, as she's saying her farewells and such, Akagi did not do the aloof savior of Eorzea bit. Because while yes, this was a woman who had basically become a deity to protect a world...

...she was also his friend. And a dear one at that. So as everyone was bracing for the passing of Hydaelyn, Akagi marched right up to her.

So he could give his friend Venat one last hug before she was gone.

#okami plays ffxiv #endwalker #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv spoilers #endwalker thinking #ugh i almost made myself cry >.< #he's such a bif softie #i think he's more of a big teddy bear than even Xano #and that's saying a LOT! xD

[ursahyperdrive]

acceptable schmoopies

#bear text #im gonna have to tweak things for them both i think but overall happy w the new graphics #also yay i can play the game on my current setup lol #ffxiv posting

[bearlytolerant]

Just discussing how best to handle Timbermaster Beatin’s wood.

#timbermaster beatin #I’m dead #I’m sorry #bear plays ffxiv #ffixiv #ff14 #ffxiv screenshots #oc: lycelle lecours

[redwayfarers]

reworked my character page to add the weird male spelling of valerian's name in french + the fact that she's smooching estinien when nobody's looking. i don't have it in me to replay arr with her yet, but please do know she's solely attracted to assholes.

canon,wayfarer!valerian is melchior's ex for reference

#nero plays ffxiv #valerian varyn #her tag will be weird bear with me

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

My overwhelming joy at seeing Estinien rejoin the MSQ was immediately CRUSHED by the extreme secondhand embarrassment I feel realizing, with dawning horror, that he's mistaking Alisaie for Alphinaud

Estinien, did your drachen helm make you fucking blind for the entirety of Heavensward? Do you really think Alphinaud would ever forgo pants as Alisaie does, or his penchant for wearing blue attire, for that matter? Please. You are KILLING ME, Estinien! You fool. You absolute bloody paper clip, why must you make me suffer so? 😩😩😩😩

#it's funny but i am literally nauseous right now #estinien bestie blease i am BEGGING you....cease the nonsense #my fragile heart cannot survive this #literally just been staring at the screen for thirty minutes at least cause i don't wanna miss the whole scene #but good lord i cannot bear to watch him make an absolute idiot of himself in front of everyone #rogue plays ffxiv #ffxiv #it was morning or noon in ishgard when this cutscene started and it is now like friggin midnight dbsnxjshsjdh #i just....i cannot. lord have mercy on my poor shriveled soul #i can tell by the beating of my heart that it is NOT PLEASED by this emotional turbulence omg #(also ffxiv mutuals i hope my suffering amuses you 😂 it is admittedly hilarious. but also please god i am suffering 🫠)

[reneelovesrobots]

I kind of hate that Shadowbringers is as good as it is? It blows the rest of the game out of the water in a way I find honestly frustrating.

Like don't get me wrong, Realm Reborn/base ffxiv is good... but tbh that's kind of all it is. And Heavensward is great! Reinvigorated my then-flagging interest in the game. Stormblood is pretty good as well, though bearing the curse of being wedged between two significantly better expansions.

But Shadowbringers is just insane. Like "if I played this at a formative age it would be an integral part of my personality" great. Fully a game to go feral over.

But it's hard to talk about because of that. "Hey play hours and hours of a decent game and hours and hours of a great game and hours and hours of a good game and then you can play this game I recommend it's really amazing" is something of a tough sell. And even just talking about it to someone I feel like I need to infodump the backstory because a lot of it is one of those stories you can only tell because the audience has a baked in familiarity with the pieces you're playing with. But I want to talk about it a lot because it's good enough to have nested inside my brain and laid eggs.

Truly maddening.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #shadowbringers

[yuri-is-online]

I guess I can call myself a returner of interest in Fyuuture kid au to the masses, and I'm proud of it🏅 the part with other four dorms was absolutely amazing! Thank you! And your reply to my previous message was so heartwarming. My baby boy🥹 Yuu really should beat the magical marshall with a slipper when they meet again, no one touches THE bestest boy😤

It seems like I'll have to write down my questions, cause I tend to forget them in two minutes 😔 but there's the one I remember:

It was discussed in one of the posts (Riddle!Yutu), how does Yutu look like?🤔 I thought he would bear more resemblance with Yuu, so everyone wouldn't quickly (or immediately with some fathers) make conclusions. Does he have beastmen characteristics if his dad's from Savannaclaw? Does he inherit Idia's hair? Can he transform into octopus/eel/dragon form? (In twisted wonderland, I mean, not in Yuu's homeworld. I've read that post💅🏻) Is he as tall as the twins? 🤔 imagine 190 sm or 6ft 3, duckling following you

Have a nice day/evening, take care of yourself!

You should be very proud of yourself annon I am having a lot of fun with this! The Magical Marshall's are a government organization so the image of Yuu charging a fed with a slipper gave me a laugh, but yes they should. How dare they hurt Yutu ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

imagine 190 sm or 6ft 3, duckling following you

Hand slipped. Anyway Yutu wears a pretty big sweatshirt sweater dress type thing that obscures a lot of his facial features though I did briefly play with the idea of him wearing a sort of mask similar to an FFXIV ash mask:

The justification was that the air in the future timeline! Twisted Wonderland was so polluted by blot and Yutu was so used to breathing it he needed some magical assistance... I think I also wrote some bullshit about the mask applying a glamour to Yutu so he didn't need to wear the big sweatshirt, but I feel like the mask would be more suspicious than just some guy who wants to keep his hood up.

As for those unique features, yes. With the exception of Malleus! Yutu, all of the non human Yutus found themselves transforming into an entirely different species when they came through the mirror into Twisted Wonderland. It was an extremely painful experience, imagine having your parent basically die in your arms and the next thing you know you are turning into a giant pacific octopus on the floor of a castle in front of a bunch of people. Yutu should be rewarded for not losing his shit then and there. The beastmen Yutus needed some time to adjust to having stronger hearing and senses of smell, the merfolk Yutus basically missed the first few months of magic education getting used to their merfolk forms, and Yutu Shroud had his hair instantly set itself on fire and had a massive panic attack. The beastmen Yutus have to keep their extra features tucked underneath their hoodie, which is very frustrating for Jack! Yutu who has a lot of floof that suddenly has nowhere to go. Lilia! and Sebek! Yutu don't have any noticeable appearance differences (unless you like the thought of him having Sebek's hair color), but I do like the idea of their teeth getting sharper. I prefer to leave a lot of Yutu's appearance up to the reader, but I had a super clear picture of Riddle! and Epel! Yutu as being short, and the more I think about the merfolk... I see Floyd! Yutu as being a sort of middle ground between his parents's height and Jade! Yutu as being about as tall as his dad. Oh and Azul! Yutu is taller than his dad, he is a bulky boy.

Now. Malleus! Yutu. So dragon fae hatch from eggs that can only be created out of love and constantly need to receive magic from their loving parent. That clearly didn't happen with Yutu, so I don't think he can transform into a dragon. He is still clearly inhuman, he has Malleus's eyes and ages much more slowly than other humans, even in your world he looked really young for his age. Think of Malleus! Yutu as sort of playing by half-elf rules, he's going to be living for hundreds of years and as he gets older he will grow tiny horns and some scales around them. He is also the strongest of the Yutus magically speaking, he did get some love from his father after all.

I did have a thought of sorts about the whole egg thing... I mentioned before that I had played with the idea of giving certain Yutu's siblings, and while I am still uncertain of the others I can see Malleus! Yutu having a twin of sorts who did hatch out of an egg, who can transform into a dragon, and who would have been left behind in Twisted Wonderland. I have so many ideas I wrote a lot of them down but this au is already so complicated I don't know if I want to add her. I do really like it though...

#<3 asks #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #future kid au #twst spoilers #the other yutus who had siblings were Jade! Yutu and Trey! Yutu #also sort of Rook! Yutu but i am less sure on that

[the-cinnaminion]

Happy New Year, everyone!!🎉✨ I hope you are ready to go roaring into 2024! To kickstart the year, I wanted to share some of the watercolour commissions I painted for Comic Fiesta 2023 last year! ❤️

I decided that I wanted to challenge myself by attempting different character designs and then painting them traditionally. After having completed my food zine, "Tales of Hearth and Home", I felt my soul was longing to get back to playing with watercolours again. Plus, it was also a way of giving back to my community, so thank you to everyone who cooperated with me for each piece!

It was definitely a fun ride! I gotta admit though, I was nervous at first, but by the end, I felt my confidence and skill had grown exponentially so that's a bonus! ❤️

Over the next few days, I'll be uploading all of my finished commissions for Comic Fiesta in batches, and tagging clients in the description so please bear with me!

1) Bokuto (Haikyuu!!!) for Yasmin (@/2ndRandomizr) 2) Balrog Lune (Saint Seiya) for Pui-San (@/snow_and_apples) 3) Uriel for Eunhwa (@/eunhwa.shin) 4) Eisei Malaguld (FFXIV) for Valis (@/valistarri)

#the-cinnaminion #myart #my art #commission #illustration #comic fiesta 2023

[driftward]

Title: FFXIV Write 2023 - 9. Fair Characters: Scions of the Seventh Dawn Rating: Teen Summary: What kind of game -is- this anyroad Notes: None

G'raha floated along the outskirts of the party that was happening at the Baldesion Annex, taking in the sights and sounds, ever observing. Scions past and present milled around in small groups, talking shop, swapping stories, and playing games. There was one table in particular that held his attention, however.

Thancred had invited him to a game of cards, and he had politely declined at the time, which Thancred had taken in stride. Now Thancred sat with some of the older, more long-running members of their group, deeply engrossed in their game, an island in the greater ocean of activity that was the Annex space.

While Thancred may have meant to invite G'raha, the person who was now watching was the Crystal Exarch. Decades heaped upon decades of experience had taught him how to observe, how to watch, how to care, and how to make his move, and he was bringing that to bear now. Part of that was a simple desire to know what he would be up against when he did at last bring himself to the table.

Another part of it was a bit of boyish glee at the idea of having a shot at showing up these living legends. A crow swooping in on his first day at the table, to steal their chips at play! It would make for a fabulous tale.

But some stories needed more work than others, and he was intent on making sure his would have the desired outcome. So, first, he observed the players, each in turn.

Thancred and Urianger were interesting, each more alike than he suspected either would ever admit to. Both were consummate bluffers at the table. Both played the long game. Urianger did so through blatant misdirection, seeming to have obvious tells, his face telling a story as cards were dealt and played. However, as G'raha stole glances, he noticed how the man was perhaps the most careful at the table with his plays and his bids, chips dancing around mathematical uncertainties. Thancred on the other hand simply hid in plain sight, carrying on conversations, his face seeming to be open but in truth betraying nothing. He went for larger plays than Urianger did, but smoothed out his activity over time. And between the two, G'raha was certain that Urianger was playing to the math, while Thancred was playing to the people.

He'd have to watch more games to be sure.

Moving on, Aenor was much like Thancred, except more boisterous, living up the bard traditions of tall tales with taller heroes, sharing herself readily at the table. Thancred was reading people, but Aenor was engaging them, applying social nudges, and making some of the largest plays of the game. Boom or bust cycles seemed her way, and G'raha wondered which would win out.

Hoary, G'raha was not sure how Hoary was even in the game still. Every table had its mark, and with his obvious tells and the way he kept falling for Aenor's gambits, he seemed to be the one for this group. He did not grow frustrated, however, and G'raha suspected his good humor and willingness to take advice and pointers led the group to go easy on him.

And certainly, it probably helped Hoary that Y'shtola was playing him a bit. It was in the best interest of a canny player to do so, G'raha realised, and keeping Hoary around until endgame meant she could play the others to defeat and leave herself with an easy cleanup. That kind of clever deviousness he might have expected to come from Thancred, had he been asked before hand, but he was perhaps not surprised to find out that she had the capacity for that kind of cold-bloodedness. And as he watched, he found that her self control meant that she had no tells at all. She was completely unreadable, and so he found himself having to try to catch her plays, to see if there was at least some pattern he could glean. In the end, he only figured that of the entire group, she was the least likely to bluff, and if Urianger was playing to mathematical likelihoods, she was playing to mathematical precision.

It was when he was watching Coultenet that the first real discrepancy came up. If every table had a mark, every table also had its quiet player, and Coultenet was that for this table. Watching carefully. Playing carefully. G'raha was more than experienced enough to know that he could not ignore any of them, no matter how unseeming they may be at first blush, and though the quiet ones often went overlooked by less canny individuals, they could often hold surprises. So he made certain he was paying attention to Coultenet's play, and that was when he saw it.

Something exchanged carefully behind Thancred's back, between Hoary and Coultenet, so smoothly that they must have had some sort of agreed upon signal before hand.

G'raha boggled at seeing such a brazen display of cheating. He thought to intercede, but decided to hold, instead, and watch carefully for further evidence of malfeasance. Better to wait and see if they tried again, and expose them in the act. Though inwardly, he felt his mind coil upon itself. How could they do this to their friends, he wondered.

In fact, he wondered if he -had- seen it anything at all, even. The movement had been swift, and he hadn't really caught full sight of what had changed hands. It was possible it was instead perhaps a note, a message, meant more for privacy so as to not disrupt the game, and not a method of deception being acted out between two otherwise quite honorable men.

"Something the matter, G'raha? You're staring." asked Krile, wandering up to him with a small plate of canapés. She held it up, and he gratefully took one.

"I am... not certain," he said. Krile glanced over, and smiled faintly.

"Wish I could still keep up with them," she said.

"Ah," he said distractedly, turning his attention to her only slowly. "I would think your talents with your blessings might give you an edge."

"You'd think so, wouldn't you?" she replied cryptically, but she did not expand further as she instead shifted the conversation to talking about the restoration work, and he lost track of the game for a while.

But it stayed, in the back of his mind, bothering him.

When she took a moment to step away for some other business, he turned his attention back to the game, looking carefully at Thancred's back. Hoary and Coultenet had not made another exchange as far as he could tell, but if it did happen again, he wished to catch it.

Which is how he caught when Thancred reached up to scratch the back of his neck, and as he did so, G'raha was nearly certain he saw a flicker of fingers and slight-of-hand whispering a card from his collar to his sleeve.

Surely not. Not Thancred, of all people. Honorable, reliable, loyal Thancred. Thancred was the dashing rogue that rescued princesses from towers and oracles from keeps, not a scoundrel who cheated at cards.

Now, G'raha refused to believe what he was seeing. He simply had to be mistaken. So he began to watch the game like a paranoid man. Before he had been looking at faces and bodies for tells, cards and chips for statistics, plays and gambits for strategies. Now he watched the whole table, behind it, under it, around it, for hints and signs of further malfeasance. He orbited the table, making sure to engage with other activities and people in the Annex, attempting to be as clandestine as he knew how - and the Exarch knew how! - but before, he had only been idly keeping an eye on the game. Now, he was watching it.

And so he saw.

He had an idle thought earlier that Urianger had an odd way of shuffling, but now he was certain, the man was stacking the deck when it was his turn to shuffle, the way his deft fingers flexed and bent and slid cards in where he wanted them. Coultenet and Hoary had an entire second language they were using above the table, too subtle to call out, but there nonetheless. Aenor he caught palming chips at one point. And just when he thought that perhaps Y'shtola, at least, was playing a clean game, he thought he chanced to notice a pattern in where she tended to glance during those times she looked away from the game.

A nixie, one of its little droplet hands showing a number, and the other a card suit, floating almost invisibly high in the rafters, drifting behind different players.

It was then that Krile found his way back to him, and she laughed. He blinked down at her, and felt his jaw snap shut. He was not aware he had been gawping.

"Feeling left out, G'raha?" asked Krile. "They're always happy to have another, and I'm afraid I'm poor sport these days."

G'raha tried to sit on the ground as casually as he could manage, to look like he was just taking a seat next to his good friend, but he gestured her closer. When she was quite near, G'raha dropped his voice to just be barely audible.

"Krile, I am not quite sure how to broach this topic, so I ask your apologies. But I believe every single player at that table is cheating."

Krile looked at him, her eyes wide and mouth agape in shock for a brief moment, before that expression melted away into the broad smile and crinkled eyes of amusement as she covered her mouth and giggled at him.

"Why, of course they are, Raha," she said conversationally. "For you see, that's the game."

He squinched his eyes shut for several long moments, trying to process that.

"That's the game?"

"Oh, yes! Just so. I think they must have gotten bored of the more traditional way of playing ages ago, or perhaps one of them started and the rest of them joined in. But to be certain, they are all indeed cheating. The trick is how long they can go without being caught by their peers, or to successfully keep up the cheat until one of them wins."

G'raha stared over at the table, as the endgame apparently occurred. Urianger stood up theatrically, picking up his last hand and fanning the cards out in front of him before taking a dramatic bow. Aenor booed playfully while Thancred clapped at his success. Hoary sheepishly rubbed the back of his head and Y'shtola lifted a glass to Urianger in recognition.

(The after game conversations were starting. "You've somehow gotten even better at controlling your tells," he caught Thancred saying conversationally to Y'shtola. "Well, now that I enjoy the nigh fanatical joy of game in the company of a mathematical savant these days, I find I must needs expand my other talents to keep up," she replied cooly. Coultenet and Hoary exchanged some kind of complicated handshake while Aenor complained about how she could not quite figure out their secret language and wanted in on that action next time)

"That hardly seems fair," he said, distantly, finding himself unable to believe this of his friends, of these living legends, of these stalwart heroes.

Of this table of absolutely shameless cheaters.

#ffxivwrite2023 #final fantasy xiv #scions of the seventh dawn #fair #202309-10 #biot writes