oh gods i thought the people who held up 1.0 images of estinien in funky lighting and said "see clearly he was duskwight! estinien was originally a duskwight elezen" were just coping because duskwight estinien would be rad as all hell. but i didn't see it, he just looked in shadow in the pictures they were using until i found an actual 1.0 cutscene and
he was TOTALLY duskwight?!?!?
c'mon there are now four wildwood scions (all with white hair!) and no duskwight main characters and unrealistic skin tones are COOL and SEXY
We were ROBBED
and yeah i know ishgardian elezen are technically like a separate clan that migrated before the split, but the game uses wildwood models for most of ishgard. but ysayle has a duskwight model. how interesting would it have been if a big part of ishgard's class division and closed borders was also cause of duskwight leaving gridania over time because racism and settling in rural coerthas.
estinien struggles in ishgard socially and drops his family name even though he's fighting for their vengeance. ysayle and estinien both instantly raise their hackles at each other an extra level when alphinaud unthinkingly implies they at least have a few things in common cause they're both duskwight, not realizing this is super demeaning from a noble wildwood elezen foreigner, but alphinaud is young so they turn their frustration against each other. (the wol slaps their own forehead for alphinaud.) estinien privately thinks she's proving all the negative stereotypes true and ysayle rolls her eyes at how much he's bought into holy see propaganda about his own clan. hmmm well actually maybe the ffxiv writers weren't well equipped enough to write it and not fumble it 😬
