umbralnym

Shadowbringers MSQ: Ha, look at his sassy little hand wave.

I'm gonna add that, aside from the floating chunks of land and the free roam experiments, the building designs are even remnisciant of the unsundered world.

#THIS MAKES ME SOOOOO INSANE#FANDANIEL WILL BE LIKE: lol im not hermes i never felt connected to those memories#BUT HE FUCKING TRIED TO RECREATE ELPIS.#HE REACHED OUT TO THE STARS FOR HOPE. LIKE HERMES.#JUST.... FANDANIEL CANNOT HELP BUT GO AROUND AND AROUND IN HIS HAMSTER WHEEL OF LIFE#RECREATING HIS OLD LIFE BASED OFF THOSE DAYS IN ELPIS SEARED INTO HIS MIND#its about cycles#its about self fulfilling prophecies#its about doing the same thing over and over and hoping maybe someone will drag you out of it this time#fandaniel can say he's not amon and he's not hermes but he's lying. to himself most of all#he has never left elpis. he has never left ktisis hyperboreia.#fandaniel only really makes sense as a character if he is viewed as the endpoint of hermes#he cannot be divorced from hermes#it HAS to be hermes -> amon -> fandaniel. its one very long arc. one very long trail of memories#and god. the reason amon is the version of hermes that finally broke is because like#the allagan empire sucked so bad. it was so antithetical to who hermes was and just. of COURSE he broke! of course he did!#god and like. xande was him looking for hope. looking to be proven wrong.#like he pulls someone back from death and is like 'but there's meaning#right? there's meaning in living?'#and xande was like. no. lol.#he just reaffirmed his worst fears#god this rant got out of hand#anyways i love hermes and fandaniel and amon i think about them. normally. as a normal person would#<- lying#ffxiv