This sprout is trying so hard

I have a funny new HC I'm about to function with in EC if we get bamboozled with Zenos

He ate Hydaelyn's remains. He turned into Shinryu. Fought us, everything goes on along as it did in EW. Then all of a sudden he hears a peculiar voice telling him "hear, feel, think" and he....awakes?

Think what if he still has the Mothercrystal's essence coursing through him. Garleans would probably explode from that much magic and aether coursing through them since they're not built for it. But Zenos has the Resonant.

All of a sudden you have the one guy Eorzea despises, carrying the last remnants of their very goddess, and she lives through his own existence. She speaks to him in his mind alone on a daily basis. She helps him mirror the heroics that his friend, his enemy has shown him all this time.

And this keeps the Blessing of Light active for the WoL to be safe.

Okay, now imagine Hydaelyn going "My brave little spark, we cannot kill that guy, you're trying to mirror your friend's heroics, remember?" "Fine :(" as they make their way into the Fourth.

Listen to my voice.

Listen to our heartbeat.

BASTION - FFXIV: Evercold

No, I don’t take criticism (well)

Ysayle for the Berlin #FanfestWOLExchange! She'll be one of the random photocards you can get in each pack of the Giraffe Collection, alongside a bunch of other Elezen characters 💙

Stormblood Week - Cirina Mol

I made myself a namazu cuz I barely finished Stormblood and felt extreeeeme fomo about Dawn Trail ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

He's my precious bb, extra nakie (crispy) catfish.

extremely indulgent completely nonsensical crossover based on two of my interests.

you understand how the two scions you're introduced to in the gridania start are important for at most two expansions, one of which they barely appear in, before disappearing from the story forever aside from cameos? as opposed to the scions you meet in limsa and ul'dah, who remain important for the rest of the game up til today???

I'd also love to have the story take us to a Duskwight settlement/ whatever remains of Gelmorra because like...the reality is that the origins of a lot of the issues they deal with in Gridania are sorta self inflicted. They don't live in caves and resort to banditry (hence the distrust in Duskwightes that Gridanians have) because they were ostracized and had no choice; when everyone else left Gelmorra to found Gridania, the ancestors of the Duskwights refused to leave and insisted on *continuing* to live in caves and refused to integrate into society, to the point where they'd rather resort to banditry rather than live in Gridania.

This is the context in which Valdeaulin (Gaius's duskwight companion) referred to the people of Gridania as "city dwellers" as a derogatory term in the Werlyt quests, which is the only glimps of that side of the dynamic that we really get.

But again, because Gridania gets so horribly shafted in MSQ, most people won't know any of this and because they only see the Gridanian side of things (which yes, is problematic; completely innocent people are being punished for the actions of their ancestors/ other people within their cultures which is completely wrong), and we never see the prejudice from duskwights that lead to that whole dynamic, and MSQ doesn't touch on the fact that in the past Ala Mhigo instigated a war with Gridania, and we never see what could happen if the Elementals really got pissed off at people, people just kinda see how the Gridanians treat Duskwights, Ala Mhigans, etc and brush them off as Evil Racists when the reality is way more nuanced than that.

Shb. Burden of a secret + bonus