#Midgardsormr

[itsmeishmi]

Year of the Dragon Year of the First Brood! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! With my attempt at a Bahamut and Ratatoskr too! ;v;

[radigalde]

A bunch of FFXIV stickers/Discord emojis I made for friends' server. Now, for you to enjoy as well.

Most are redraws of emojis from other fandoms or memes.

[absolem0]

3 out of 10 - looks pretty, but scares fish away with the light

[renasy]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

"Sephiroth? ...I knew he was strong, but still…"

[diadoescomics]

= Solo Duty: Midgardsormr=

Realised I never posted this before I got sick.

I'm reviving my sprout journey comics (as soon as this stomach bug goes away) and while I have a list of moments from the game, feel free to ask my impression or experience with any part of the story and who knows maybe I'll make something out of it (no promises tho).

All my comics are made possible with the support of my patrons

[varethane]

Sometimes I wonder if I should feel bad divebombing directly down at quest-giving NPCs in Ishgard when riding Midgardsormr...

I will not stop doing it, however.

[dovalore]

midgardsormr and the first beans

[pydiyudie]

[aislingsurrow]

“Aw, grandpa! It’s fine, you’re an ol’ dog, and we’re mighty high. Let your little wings take a breather- s’just payback for all my naps. Besides, ‘tis the perfect place to rest… ‘Cross all the seas, you can’t beat this view!”

Featuring Midgardsummer!

[capriccio-ffxiv]

sometimes I think about with Endwalker context, the whole reason Midgardsormr removes your Blessing of Light and tests you and watches you

is because he wants to make absolutely, 100% certain that you’re the person that Hydaelyn has been waiting for

for the past 10k+ years

like he trusts her, sure, but there’ve been others with the Echo, and if anyone knows the stakes, it’s him

he lost his world. his world is dead! of EVERYONE on Etheryis besides the Ascians, he alone truly understands what Venat is going through. His own people demonized and ridiculed him for the choice he made to try to salvage something from the wreckage of the Dragonstar. They said that it wouldn’t save their world and they were right... but it would save something.

I just.

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

Further thought about the dragons in Final Fantasy XIV because my power has grown beyond control because I was bored at work and it popped in my head:

It's mentioned a lot in Heavensward that dragons don't remember things the way humans do. Their memories are perfect to a degree that memories don't fade so for them every trauma is this gushing fresh agony in their mind, like how Nidhogg is so incredibly pissed off because he remembers in excruciating detail finding Ratatoskr's butchered corpse and the Ishgardians gorging on her flesh.

Well, not so much remembers as he's actively experiencing it. All the time. Forever. Dragons live in the now with an intensity humans can barely comprehend, and I really think they don't process time in the same we do. We experience time linearly. Past, present, future.

Dragons don't. For them existence is experienced all at once forever. I'm not sure they even entirely distinguish between present and past and future, because it all feels the same to them, and I think that it impacts them in strange ways.

Like I don't think dragons really plan the way humans do. Everything is experienced in the Now. So I think for the vast majority of them, human tinkering and building completely baffles them. Oh they see the utility but it's not something they'd come up with on their own.

This extends to things like buildings. They certainly have the raw strength to repair the structures there, but it's not something they'd ever think of. Because repairing the castles means scouting out the proper stone, quarrying it, planning the repairs, etc.

Nidhogg's war against Ishgard is the closest thing to planning we see from them, and that was literally "torture them forever."

Also why Nidhogg was batshit insane. Because for him, he's always and will forever be at that one moment in time: finding his sister's corpse as the Ishgardians she'd been fascinated by and befriended feasted on her flesh like a pack of jackals. He never left that moment. I mean, the narrative flat out tells us that, but really holy shit is that a horrifying thing to think about. Like existentially.

It's probably the reason he could bodyjack Estinien so easily: because until the end of Heavensward, whenever Estinien closed his eyes for a second he could smell the ashes and roasting flesh from Nidhogg burning Estinien's family and entire village alive.

Also, consider that Midgardsormr went through far, far worse. The fact that the guy mostly comes off as grumpy and old should tell you about just how ridiculously tough he is. And why he spends all his time sleeping. Because whenever Midgardsormr was awake he was watching his world burn.

That and probably why he loved Hydalen and his alliance with her and devotion to her. She was as tough as he was, and had been through so much and carried on despite unimaginable woulds and pain. And she still gave him shelter when he had nothing left. That kind of compassion and strength was something he respected.

As a side note, I would be interested to hear from Middy about his thoughts on Hydalen's passing. Then again, he might not mourn her. After all, she'll live forever in his memories, as whenever he closes his eyes he still sees the radiant woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders meeting an exhausted and desperate dragon with the last eggs of his kind and providing them shelter and safety. And he feels the intensity of the sudden hope he felt then with every breath. How could he not love her?

She'll always be with him.

[most-fuckable-ff14-lady]

BONUS ROUND MOST FUCKABLE FFXIV DRAGON

We've heard you all like to fuck some dragons, so we borrowed a few dragons from @most-fuck-able-ff14 (we hope you don't mind)

this one is for you, monsterfuckers

[nshi-ao3]

Midgardsormr mentioned! Almost time for dragon dad!

[absolem0]

He's just excited about the muffin

[halybs]

That one hue meme, but with the FFXIV mounts I like

[most-fuck-able-ff14]

MOST FUCKABLE FF14 MAN ROUND 2