I've never seen this man in my life
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sometimes you just need to spin your blorbos in your head
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She would have to be a half sister because Zenos's mother died shortly after giving birth
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friend had a dream i drew her a pic of zenos playing a tiny piano
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the Ancients choosing to live solely for the sake of the star, except their over-emphasis on their duty leads to Hermes's crisis and through him their downfall. On the flipside there's nothing inherently wrong (putting aside all the atrocities for one second) with Zenos choosing to live solely for his own pleasure except that it's shown to be a lonely and empty existence.
I hate criticisms of Hermes that blame him for being too sensitive or too depressed, but if there's any fault that he committed it's that when he had his whole existential crisis, he chose to make Meteion to find answers for him rather than find them for himself, and then accepts her answers without arguments when she returns. Shit, even Zenos understands that the meaning of life, of each individual's life, has to be decided by them:
Endwalker shows you a variety of potential answers to the question of meaning, but you don't get to choose from them. To explain, when Venat asks you how your journey has been you get interrupted before you can answer. When Zenos asks you whether you thought life was a gift or a burden, you are also unable to answer. It would be impossible for the game system to account for all the potential answers one could choose to either question, and forcing you to choose from a small list would essentially railroading you into understanding the story a certain way. I think what Zenos says here is a large part of Endwalker's existential thesis: That you have to decide for yourself.
(wait, does that make me a hypocrite then for trying to explain the meaning of a story who's meaning is to find meaning for yourself? AGH)
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*"A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES" followed by the sound a dodgeball makes when it hits you*
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Once upon a time in celebration of male bunny suits w
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Trying to remember how to draw after a week of being seriously sick with some shitposts
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Zenos yae Galvus
I'm tired of this human duet
No civilizing hides
Our animal impulses
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I am fingers crossing that by increasing the opacity on the top I can avoid flagging but lets find out
together
BUT ANYWAY
there was another FFXIV Gala event on twitter that I participated in and since the theme was Fairytales and I am someone who looks for any excuse to bring up my favorite folktale, I had to pay homage to Prince Lindworm by depicting Zenos as the titular Lindworm and Earley as the shepherd’s daughter.
You can read the folktale here!
There’s also a process video available for Patrons! (which I try to do with all my illustration pieces)
Design notes below the cut for interested folks
The goal with Zenos' outfit was to communicate shedding skin, with each layer getting more raw. So its a matte wool suit layered with shiny red satin and the underlayer being soft velvet (originally the suit had iridescent sequins sewn near the cuffs to imply scales but I couldn’t find a way to depict it nicely, though I think it would look stellar IRL)
Earley's was heavily inspired by Queera Wang's gender neutral wedding designs, which also worked well with the layered "fine shifts" in the story. Other elements minorly borrowed from folk designs (it was a stronger influence earlier in the design but a lot of it got discarded) and I’m very sad her boots could not be shown off in the final composition
there's also...another theme in the designs but I think you can figure that out~
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