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i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

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i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3
estinien the real representation for someone who likes being alone yet is still always kinda up in someone's business. stopping next to fourchenault just to tell him that his son could take his forum seat one day. remarking on fordola's 'eyes filled with sorrow'. always on alphinaud's case ("why is he always bringing up the firewood? we can't take him to the gold saucer he's too optimistic"). Everything and Anything with the first brood dragons In General
To be a sprout liveblogging the game must be a trip sometimes because youll get a crowd of ominous monks in darkened hoods keeping Forbidden Knowledge gathered around observing you all giggling to themselves like young girls at a sleepover
this has been an ass month already. somebody come tell me about their favorite minor NPC in XIV, who do you wanna grab and squeeze and let your WoL drag em around like a squeaky toy? define minor here however you wish, I mostly just mean non-reoccurring scion lol

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Doing an NG+ of Shadowbringers, like you do, and I'm struck this time by how often the story pits "the one who survived" against "those who want to move on." There's so many ways in which Shadowbringers is about grief and mourning, but I don't think I had noticed this pattern before.
Ran'jit is the first example of this we meet, and kind of the poster child for it in Shadowbringers. Why is Eulmore's general an assassin? That doesn't make a lot of sense, and we see throughout the plot that while he's very dangerous, he's not good at strategy or leadership. You know. Things generals do. But he was never supposed to be a general. His father had been the general. Zal'bard turned into a Lightwarden and then Minfilia had been Eulmore's general. She was the strategist, the leader. And then she, too, died. And Ran'jit was the one who was left.
Ran'jit's inability to cope with his grief over the deaths of his father and who knows how many Minfilias is what pushes him to follow Vauthry.
Titania is a more direct example. Because Titania survived their victory over Il Mheg's Lightwarden, they became the impediment to their people moving on. All of Il Mheg had to devote their efforts to simply keeping Titania in check.
Emet-Selch is another obvious example. One of the few who survived the sundering, trying to bring back the past that he lost instead of moving on.
Even Magnus in Twine fits the pattern. His wife and son died, and now he's literally stopping us from moving forward down the trolley tracks.
The Viis kind of do this, too. The survivors of ancient Ronka are stopping people from learning anything from their fallen empire purely because that's what they were told to do.
And the forces that oppose them (other than the WoL) are all people who have chosen to move on. For Ran'jit--both Minfilia and the Crystarium have chosen to live for tomorrow. Like, that's the Crystarium's theme song. Even when it's the Night's Blessed vs. Ran'jit, it's the group that's working toward the future versus Ran'jit and the group that's waiting for the end. The final obstacle to slaying Titania is persuading Seto to have hope for the future. Magnus' opposition is Jeryk and Thaff actually fixing the trolley. The Viis are convinced by the seal that they don't have to hold on to the past anymore.
Ardbert's arc is kind of the culmination of all this. He was the one left behind. He's initially pretty indignant that you can't do anything and there is no future for his world. And he gradually changes until he wants to see the First have a future so much that he will make that future happen.
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i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3
everyone’s always like if you engage with the story it pays off in shb and ew but it imho it pays off in a much more tangible way far earlier in sb if you gaf about Arenvald (him talking to A’aba and Aulie while everyone else is congratulating you is one of my favorite parts of the game), if Gallien saying you might not remember him but he remembers you means anything before the summoning of shinryu (he’s also an oft-unmentioned part of the drk quests), if doing the For Wilred questline and walking back with Bertliana to Ala Mhigo means anything to you. and to possibly do that you gotta engage a little with the world beyond the parts that boost your wol’s personal angst portfolio
Okay, wait, wait. I'm going to reblog this again to add to the list: Fighting Lakshmi in the throne room.
This moment hits so hard if your character is Ala Mhigan, but even if they're not, this is three refugees and an outcast war criminal standing together to save a nation that all of them have an extremely fraught relationship with.
This is just moments before Raubahn gets fired by Nanamo. He fought the king whose empty throne is standing behind Lakshmi. Winning against Theodoric cost him his country. He spent the last twenty years trying to move on and help the other refugees however he could, never expecting that he'd ever be able to come back, let alone live here. His oldest friend betrayed absolutely everyone and everything just to force him to come back and fight. And now he's here, once again having cast down the tyrant ruling Ala Mhigo, only to have another one appear from within. He's repeating the past, and the last time, this ended with him fleeing Gyr Abania.
Lyse came into Stormblood grieving Papalymo's sacrifice--the latest in a long list of important people in her life who sacrificed themselves. Her father, Yda, Louisoix, Moenbryda, Minfilia, and now him. She is carrying burdens of identity, inadequacy, expectation, and survivor's guilt that would crush anyone. She's lived her whole life outside Gyr Abania, in the shadow of her father and sister's sacrifices, knowing she couldn't do anything to help the cause they died for. She wanted so much for Yda to have been the one who survived, she tried to become her. She's the leader of a Resistance that she was never a part of, on the basis of her father's name. And her first interaction, upon finally returning to the home she fled when she was five, is being told that she doesn't live there, and isn't one of them. She organized this meeting, and it's about to destroy any hope that Ala Mhigo could possibly recover from the occupation.
Arenvald--definitely not Ala Mhigan enough for his countrymen. Half-Garlean, abandoned by his own mother, lived his whole life outside Gyr Abania. He's never had a place anywhere. Too Garlean for Ala Mhigo, too Ala Mhigan for Garlemald, both of those are hated by everyone in Eorzea. Finally finds acceptance in the Scions and they promptly get torn apart. His closest friends killed. He has had almost nothing in his entire life go right, and now, right after finally, finally, getting a win and a tiny shred of hope for his future, he's basically re-enacting the surprise attack on the Waking Sands.
And of course, Fordola. Intensely angry at her own people for her father's murder. Considered worse than merely being a Garlean like Arenvald, but a traitor for having chosen to serve the Empire. Like everyone else here, she has never had a place. Not Garlean enough for the Empire. Not a true Ala Mhigan. Actually the enemy for most of the time. She has fought her whole life to be seen as a person by literally anyone, and her chance here comes at a cost of having an absolutely horrific power that was bestowed upon her by the Empire. It's not her, it's the Echo they want in this fight.
Half of them shouldn't even be in this room. It's such a stupid and reckless thing they do, and I love all of them for that.

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how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u
baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer
the thing about misogyny is that femininity is both devalued AND forced on women (and those misgendered as women). if you fail to meet the arbitrary standard of Womanly Charm you're ugly and unwanted and hate yourself and if you succeed you're shallow and brainless and weak. if you don't try to conform you're lazy and if you do you're vain. it is not possible to beat this system. feminism needs both "feminine doesn't mean weak or less-than" AND "women don't have to be feminine to have value", and if you are fighting for one of these the people fighting for the other are not your enemies, nor are they privileged over you.
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I wonder if the reason that Moren always gets out a children's picture book to explain something that almost certainly has more in-depth texts available (I mean, there has to be a bunch of biographies of Eulmore's first Minfilia, for instance.) is because he clocked WoL as one of the Exarch's countrymen almost immediately, and knew from dealing with the Archons that Vrandtic uses an alphabet we won't be able to parse.
...how annoyed do you think Y'shtola was upon her initial arrival in the Cabinet of Curiosity? All these books and no way to read them without re-learning the alphabet first.
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I'm about halfway through my Stormblood replay and I just love watching how Lyse is progressing here as a character. I think she says a lot of things that come across as ignorant especially when meeting cultures she's not familiar with, but critically a lot of them are questions; she is trying to learn. And it stands in an interesting contrast to when she was playing Yda and every time she would say something silly or uninformed, Papalymo would be there with a withering remark. And I don't want to come down too hard on Papalymo, because ultimately he was just trying to protect the cover she chose, and would have preferred her to drop it altogether if she was willing.
But as "Yda," Lyse put herself in a position where she couldn't really grow, because she had to pretend to be an Archon. She did not have her sister's education or experience but had to pretend she did, and any time she let the mask slip someone was there to remind her that she was supposed to know more than she did. She couldn't ask too many questions because that would reveal how much she didn't know.
So there's a good reason why Lyse comes across as immature in early Stormblood: she's having to speedrun 6+ years of personal growth she didn't allow herself to have, under high-stress high-stakes circumstances! And it's so important that she's inquisitive and curious and receptive to learning, even if she often puts her foot in her mouth, because that's what it take for her to learn and grow.
I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

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Okay, okay, the thing with G'raha is: Concealment is not just a core part of his character. It's a core part of his culture. His tribe has been hiding Allagan secrets for five thousand years. And then the Darnus family moved in and they had to amp that secrecy up to 11.
He gets sent to Sharlayan as a child in order to hide who and what he really is. Even though his own family don't fully understand what secret they're keeping.
So, yes, for him pretending to be a bold adventurer or a wise exarch is kind of like breathing. Don't let anyone know the true you has been drilled into him since birth.
Of course he's fucking terrified of being himself after Shadowbringers.
Also, everyone on the Source knows him as the Evil Voice that ripped the Scions' souls out. Why would he not be nervous all the time?
You see him start to relax more and more as he actually admits the truth to people. The first thing he does is put his absolutely forbidden Allagan knowledge and royal blood to use! Publicly! To devise the tempering cure! And even over the course of that one plot, you can see him settling into his own skin. When Master Matoya waves away his apology for the botched summonings is kind of the final moment where he really seems to decide, Okay, I can actually be G'raha Tia, whoever that is.