Ty's Blog featuring FFXIV

SAM vs RDM (ffxiv)

sorry reposting first half again but I FINISHED THE SECOND HALF... catboy is my son and lizard is my friend's :D skills used are dawntrail pvp skills

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It's such a raw, compassionate moment from Emet-Selch that gets so overlooked. He may not share Hermes' sentiments about the ethics of creationism, but when he sees how much it hurts Hermes to be so deeply involved in the process he can only think about how to ease his suffering.

You are invited to meddle in the affairs of a major political power. These events with extremely serious ramifications for global politics include gardening, animal herding, mountain climbing, and a bake-off.

Night City travels diagonally through time and fuses with a small town in Arizona.

An uplifting Hollywood movie pop-gospel song about unity plays over a montage of you and your friends building a bomb.

You down a suspiciously beaver-themed energy drink and briefly go super saiyan.

The temporally anomalous catboy dad deepthroats two scoops of nothing-flavored ice cream in an attempt to ease the tension at his work friend's family reunion. Somehow, this actually achieves the desired effect.

An AI-generated ghost attempts to burn all of the world's people and resources to extend the life of their metaverse Disneyland for other AI-generated ghosts. In response, you proceed to fight a robotic biblically-accurate angel inside their mind palace.

There's a lot we don't know about Venat, a lot that is open to headcanon and theorizing about what exactly she's doing offscreen in critical parts of the timeline that she don't see. But if you wanted to, I think you could make the case that by telling her the future, the Warrior of Light sets Venat on her path to becoming Hydaelyn and perhaps convinces her that there is no way to prevent the future from unfolding as described--whether that's true or not, and who can really say if it is?

If you wanted to take it a step further, you could even argue that Elidibus, the heart of Zodiark, in his final act sends the Warrior of Light back in time as an act of self-preservation--to ensure that history unfolds such that Zodiark comes into existence.

Two things are true of primals as we understand them for most of the game's story:

They are created through the faith of their devotees. Their adherents create them, not the other way around.

Many display a self-preservative nature that is inherently destructive, both in drawing aether from any and all surrounding sources and in tempering their adherents to sustain their existence.

The WoL's (and subsequently Venat's) belief that Hydaelyn must come into being creates Hydaelyn, and Hydaelyn by Her blessing shapes the WoL into a person who believes She must come into being. Elidibus's belief that Zodiark must come into being creates Zodiark, and Zodiark shapes Elidibus into the person who believes that Zodiark must come into being. These things can be philosophically true whether or not either cycle involves tempering in the literal sense we know it.

So she streamed the msq on Auvo for me. Let me pick all the dialogue choices, let me design his glams. Prodded me about his backstory until I started writing.

And when I tried again, and actually got into the game, and eventually bought it...she fanta'd the OG Auvo, and we each re-named our characters. I liked the lala I first designed, but I don't think I ever would have come up with Auvo on my own. And I love him.

Going through a bit of an art block so have a color study with KH2 Riku.