Crux of Fate

Alexander Mokhov: ArtStation

Athena is not a fan.

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

ala mhigo was torn by garlean invasion, their entire people scattered and forced to leave to the rest of eorzea. there are so many displaced ala mhigans that LITTLE ALA MHIGO EXISTS, FULL OF ALA MHIGANS WHO COULD NOT LIVE WITHIN GRIDANIA OR UL'DAH

Rejected by the elementals of the Twelveswood and unable to adapt to Ul'dahn custom, Ala Mhigan refugees eventually settled in southern Thanalan. In exchange for supplies, the residents allow the Immortal Flames to maintain a presence, and Little Ala Mhigo now serves as a post whence to watch the movements of the Amalj'aa

you literally interact with meffrid in A REALM REBORN

IN FUCKING GRIDANIA

WHERE THE PALACE OF THE DEAD THING IS. IN THAT SMALL CAMP. BECAUSE HE TOO WAS FORCED TO FLEE

how can you look at lyse in the eye and see stormblood in a vacuum and not understand that the entire point of lyse becoming the face of the resistance is the fact that ala mhigo does not abandon her children, regardless of where they are and who they are? that she rejects this position of power over and over because she understands she's unfit to lead as someone who didn't fight for her own homeland?

THE LITERAL GYR ABANIAN ANTHEM THEY SING AT THE END OF THE MSQ EXPLAINS IT. COME YE WAYWARD BROTHERS, BEREFT OF HEARTH AND HOME

this is why lyse is tied with hien, because he was born DURING garlean occupation. he has never seen a free doma, this is something they insist upon on his side of the story. they are linked because hien has never seen the country his father died for and yet he is here to continue the fight and ensure doma is liberated. its the exact same for lyse. hien's life hinged on the desire for freedom, if his own people didn't want to be free then he was going to kill himself because there is no point in him fighting for and existing as a symbol of freedom. both of them had their people acknowledge they're needed!

wayward brothers! in the lyrics of gyr abania's anthem!

wayward daughter! as the theme for tsukuyomi!

this is why yotsuyu is also important! why fordola is important! they are still, at the end of the day, daughters of their own countries who matter as much as anyone else who embodies the perfect upstanding citizen! it matters that yotsuyu is treated as doman (even after the questionable decision of giving her amnesia which just. feels like an easy "feel bad for her bc we couldn't figure out how to make a victim turned perpetrator seem empathetic"), because her pain and suffering came as a result of doman patriarchy. it matters that fordola grew up as a "priviledged" ala mhigan child within garlean camps! because neither group accepted her or her family in the end, because she was always going to be seen a traitor and a savage regardless of what she does and what she accomplishes!

Propaganda

Konora (Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends: The Legend of Zelda: Oath to Ordo):

What if a rude woman begrudgingly accepted the power of love and friendship into her heart to try and save the kingdom from an evil queen.

KONORA SWEEP!!!

Trans Woman Ganondorf better win on Tumblr.com, otherwise what’s the point of any of this

She's a seven foot tall grumpy woman with a situationship pirate girl that follows her around. She stole the triforce of power. She's got it all

Can we get some trans woman ganondorf love on this website

you know what i don't have so much pride that i won't discard it to encourage people to vote for my oc in a tumblr poll.

she's what if ganondorf was a shy but rude trans woman. she's got a quiet confidence that can sometimes edge into boastful condescension. she's very tall and very wide and can easily sling you over her shoulder to carry. she can't sing but she understands just as well as anyone that in this world music is magic and so will try her fucking hardest. she can use warlock punch at any time. and YES there is a special thief girl in her heart and YES they are trying to use all of their power and wisdom to crush the myths of empire in their fist until all of those illusions fall away, but that doesn't mean she has no time for love.....

vote for konora and it will please my heart forever.

Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2E):

6'7" silver-haired woman with an undercut, thigh and neck tattoos, and a battleaxe

Has a PhD in magic rocks but decided to also put stats into "muscle mommy" because she wanted to be able to cleave monsters in half with an axe. And she does! Often!

Sacrificed herself to save her friends and the world and is now "dead" but, through multiversal wizardly shenanigans, continues to exist but only as a memory; i.e. she can only exist as long as people remember her. Meaning if she loses this contest she will literally die

Summoned by Gwonam the wizard to Castlevania to kill Dracula because she (along with Lt. Worf of the Starship Enterprise and Squirtle, the Pokémon) was supposedly a distant relation of the Belmont bloodline, and was immediately like "yeah cool sounds great" despite not knowing what a Dracula was

FELL CLEAVE

I voiced this version of Moen. I do drop the accent after the first episode but whatever. Vote Moen. Give her the win.

Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn more like Moenbryda is gonna win

Mod Note: Please only vote for the Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn that appears in the podcast Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2e.

Despark

Maji/まじ: Twitter / pixiv

Magicked Card

Jurijus Chitrovas: Instagram / ArtStation / Studio Link

Summon: Primal Garuda

Tokima/とき間: Twitter / BlueSky / Website

Round One, Bracket 8

Propaganda below the cut:

Tomorrow starts XIV RarePair week on Bsky, so you can see what I did a day early here. If you want to join in it’s all on bsky and I can put the prompts below👇

I am Hildibrand

Greg is @punningway

Tomorrow starts XIV RarePair week on Bsky, so you can see what I did a day early here. If you want to join in it’s all on bsky and I can put the prompts below👇

I am Hildibrand

Greg is @punningway

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