#YoshiP

[nijohirjesyho]

Don't look at the NPCS levels that's not important rn, why is Zero here?

[roegadynroost]

It's been a wonderful ten years, and I hope we get ten more!

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

[xshrimpcake]

Alisaie Leveilleur, stealing LBs and taking vulns i have a blank here

[ancillaryjurisprudence]

oh cool the old 1.0 period patch notes!  Lets see what features they were adding in the year after the official release of the game!

*touches ground* something terrible happened here

[ikeimen]

he is enjoying the sun ☀☀☀⛱⛱⛱😎😎😎

[baconplasm]

the girlies.....................

[pyururen]

My shadow and I

[zylphiacrowley]

Heavensward Era

(spoilers for one of the worst-kept secrets in all of XIV below as well as some personal lore for this catboy)

I've been playing around with more of X'vahl's lore between the start of ARR and Endwalker and my brain will not let go of this so allow me to spill some more lore I've been kicking around for him.

So in X'vahl's canon Haurchefant did indeed have romantic feelings for him. It was an open secret and pretty much everyone in Ishgard who knew Haurchefant knew about it. Unfortunately X'vahl did not feel the same way. He counted him as a very close friend but he was still very much in his "I'm not ready for a relationship" mindset as well as some additional "I am not worthy of love" thoughts that had crept their way into his mind. So when Haurchefant confessed these feelings to him, X'vahl, thinking that he could not give Haurchefant the feelings and relationship he deserved in return, gently turned him down. Being the kind of person he was, Haurchefant accepted X'vahl's decision with grace and vowed that he would be happy to simply stand beside him as a valued friend and ally.

Then of course, The Vault happened. Watching Haurchefant die and knowing the feelings he had for him compounded the guilt that X'vahl already would've been feeling at the time. He blames himself for what happened and when he finally gets time alone with his own thoughts, all he can think about was the many different ways that things could've been different and how he could've prevented his death (this is what prompts him to run to the Astrologicum and rush his way through learning how to use healing magic, despite Alphinaud insisting that even had X'vahl been an expert healer there would've been nothing he could've done and magic of any kind is not something one should rush into).

Everyone knowing how Haurchefant felt made them treat X'vahl with an uncomfortable kind of pity that really just made things even worse for him because now everyone is feeling bad for him, meanwhile he's thinking that he's literally the last person anyone should be feeling bad for since he's one of the primary causes of his death in the first place. Like X'vahl just wants to scream every time someone sees him and gets that look in their eyes like they're silently apologizing to him for his loss. Like "NO! STOP! It's my fault that he's dead! I'm the reason Ishgard lost one of it's kindest and most loyal souls! You should be furious with me! You should be screaming at me! Pray The Fury strike me dead where I stand! I don't deserve kindness! Just... give me your pain and rage."

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Fast forward to pre-DT and he's in a much better place but then being asked to help with what he sees as another delicate political situation by someone that he's struggling to allow himself to admit that he's developed feelings for and he can't help but have these flashbacks to what happened in Ishgard. He's finally considering allowing himself to be happy again but he's downright terrified of what might happen because he knows if he loses Erenville he might never be able to recover (at the time he's thinking these thoughts, it's already too late for him though because his heart is already in too deep to back out now).

It also makes Estinien noticing that there's something more between X'vahl and Erenville a bit more layered since he definitely knew about Haurchefant's feelings (albeit he was a bit preoccupied with his own situations during HW, that didn't stop him from learning about how Haurchefant felt). I think if he didn't think it would be wildly inappropriate to bring it up, he'd probably tell X'vahl that it would please Haurchefant to know that he had forgiven himself and found some measure of happiness.

[avirael]

Febhyurary 2025 Day 01 - Hello, World

"Hello, World! I'm Elsie and I used to work as a fisher in a tiny village off the southern coast of Vylbrand. Nowadays I live on a small tropical island in the Cieldalaes with a group of people who helped me out of trouble. It's a lovely place with even more lovely people but there is also a lot of work, so I do my best to help where I can and repay them for their kindness."

[ilovelumity3000]

Just finsihed Elpis questline in Endwalker like an hour ago, and... i thik im gonna go insane. This game has some of the best cast in any video game, ever:

Hermes - a brillitant yet deprresed scientist with the gentlest of hearts, crushed upon revelation that we might be alone in the universe, with every civlization other then his home either dead or on the brink of death

Meteion - esseantially a space travelling AI with the power of sueper-emapthy, which after scoruing the universe far and wide, decided that the answer to lifes meaning is death and nihlism

Emet-Selch - a dutiful public servant, who, even though we will fight him one day, etrusted us the future of his planet, all while being a grumpy tsundere

Venat - a retired badass grandma who went up against her own people and shattered the world, making it "imperfect", all in order to prove that humanity is worth existing

AND THIS IS THE CAST OF JUST 1 QUESTLINE

HOW IS THIS CAST REAL

[fatewalker]

[howdygravytrain]

i've been busy testing m0dz n shit and haven't had time to do any new gposes, so have some goobers that snuck away from ishgard to go to radz-at-han for a lil getaway that i did a few months back UwU

[xshrimpcake]

quick painting of the cutest baby in eorzea

[gamemakerm]

[tatsu-misu]

when i get my hands on you sidereal whale...

decided to illustrate my suffering with trying to catch this fish :)) im in pain please save me from whale jail

based on this image-