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Wandering my hallways and pacing around my home thinking about Final Fantasy XV and its myriad examples of the core cast casually dehumanizing themselves for the sake of what they believe to be something greater. Ignis has perfectly fine vision but wears glasses to correct to 20/20. "When you can't focus, I focus for you." All of Episode Prompto. Ravus seeing his sister's death as a tragedy, not just because she's dead, but because she's dead and she doesn't even get to rest. The repeated imagery of getting closer and closer to Noct's destined goal is literally him trying to hold very still and not flinch as he lets a sword hit him. The goddamn ending. The game is not in conversation with this theme. These are things that are true to the characters and they cannot imagine a world where they are not. I'm climbing on the walls.
#sometimes I start thinking too hard about how Ignis started looking after noct when he was six and I have to go stare at a wall#or the fact that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt his eyesight wasn't coming back and he still tried to downplay it#all of gladio's. everything honestly.#Born to die for you made to take hits for you molded to carry you#and he can't fathom it when Noct buckles under the pressure because to him he's never had any choice but to just shoulder it#and facing the fact that he's spent his whole life building himself to serve one person but if he doesnt have that one person he has NOTHIN#and then youre like oh both these guys are super fucked up from this lifetime of servitude but at least prompto had a normal life!#and then episode prompto hits#and on TOP of that theres prompto recurring story beats of changing himself to be 'good' enough. physically fit and chipper and cheery.#and his belief that being himself will actually just drag everyone down with him#AND LIKE! none of this is ADDRESSED#it doesnt get better they were all always slaves to something greater there is no other way this could have ended.#I have to go eat drywall#final fantasy#final fantasy xv#final fantasy 15#ff15#ffxv#ff 15#ff xv#chocobros#noctis lucis caelum#ignis scientia#gladiolus amicitia#prompto argentum#lunafreya nox fleuret#ravus nox fleuret
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...I started writing a jfo fic. i don't think i can write any Jason stuff until I get this idea out of my head >.< I know the whole "two cakes!" thing is like 100% true and real, but I can't help but go hmmm because there are so many talented writers and I'm sooooooo late to the party and all that......
#I only just got like...halfway (i think) through dathomir#I don't know how much of the game I have left#but I already want to buy survivor#and you know not consuming the source material has never stopped me from writing fanfic before#I actually have MORE jfo consumption pre fic reading AND writing#than I did ff15
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📷 Magna Fortia, train yard, Piztala
#final fantasy xv#prompto argentum#noctis lucis caelum#ffxv#ff#final fantasy 15#ff15#dayasanxv#the game says this chapter takes place in eusciello but judging from the map and the greenery the trainyard is actually in piztala#there is a very good post by lokton ive been using to locate some of these niflheim shots which i will reblog shortly
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do you think zack and prompto ffxv would be bffs. bc i think cloud would keep zack away from prom sheerly because cloud and prom look way too similar and itd stress him out. but theyve totally got bff potential
I'VE ACTUALLY DRAWN THIS BEFOREE!!!
god put them in different universes becaue EH KNEW THEY'D BE TOO POWERFUL AS BEST FRIENDS
ohhhh the ff15 ff7 crossover fic that lives in my skull alone
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I am cautiously excited about the new dragon age. DA2 is my heart game, and I remember feeling very sad that Inquisition, no matter how much I loved it, had character writing that never meshed with me as well. So I'm not expecting huge world changing things from DAtV but also do get a little kick from all the people saying it's going to be too much like DA2 as if that's a bad thing.
Also while Inquisition was not my favourite, it IS the place where I made Ista and the idea of being able to remake her in the new engine does have me a little emotional. I loved bringing Liadan Hawke into Inquisition, even if it did feel horribly right for her to stay behind in the the Fade (something i still feel like a monster about, ten years later.)
The audio dramas, for all that needing to listen to them gives me flashbacks to when I tried to get into FF15 a few years ago and ended up faced with a whole wall of lore not in the actual game, are very good. They make me want to know more about these characters, and maybe even write about some of them.
And the baby griffon makes me unreasonably happy.
#datv#just musing into the void#playing on console is going to feel bloody weird though#ista trevalyan#liadan hawke
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Kh Worldbuilding headcanons: Destiny Islands Edition
No one ever talks about the original worlds in kh and i find that a travesty because these places are a really, REALLY good mine to play around with. (u can also use them or expand on them if you really like)
So im gonna share some HCs i have about the original kh worlds, starting with Destiny islands..... but before that some basics: also this is kinda long so under the read more it goes
In general:
Kh "worlds" arent really floating in space. the stylized icons we see in game are more akin to dimensional rifts rather than actual planets (seriously who thinks this is how the world looks fr)
Following on with the dimensional rift: as the "worlds" arent really pieces of the original world, they are something more akin as parallel dimensions or something along the lines of something like ff14 (mostly because i would rather die first than live in a world with 5 different versions of britain existing at the same time)
As much as dark road is cool, the explanation for the empty worlds is dumb and for the purposes of this exercise, instead ofthe worlds filling the people gradually after it is created, i consider that the worlds as they exist are the result of the surviving children of the war making their stories real in the fractured reality of the original world (it also follows the weird theme of reality/unreality that kh4 seems to go for) and it turning into a different version of earth as we know it, with some exceptions, such as monstropolis (which exists independently as a parallel land to earth in its canon) and Deep space (which is straight up NOT earth and was more like, the rift of lilo and stitch's world pointing at the high counselor's fleet BEFORE the actual movie started) and also the OG worlds who dont have something to be based on for reasons to be explained later.
the only world that exists in the ocean between as it is, is the Keyblade graveyard. because it was so majorly fucked up by the war it both shattered in the physical and dimensional way after it happened.
Now that that rant is out of the way, LETS GO TO THE MOST UNDERRATED WORLD IN THE SERIES:
Destiny islands is in fact, more than 2 islands, being a big archipelago with a bigger "main island" where our three protagonists live at. this one we have seen before in kh2
Destiny islands, is, by far, not the only chain of islands in the world. in fact, theres way more islands beyond the horizon.
We know the islands have a mayor, thus we know that they must have cordial diplomatic ties with different islands near them.
Due to FF characters existing here, i am very tempted to assure that some of the races from ff8 and ffX exist in this world (you are now imagining kimahri playing with a tiny kairi after diplomacy stuff with her dad just ended)
Due to DI being an original world, it is actually a shard of the original world that didnt really changed much compared to the other original ones. its major difference is that it is an ocean world like Wind waker hyrule or the Grand line from One piece
Magic is a real thing in the original worlds populace, you just really need to get good at it, learn it, be magical by default, or cheat and get a keyblade somehow
Religion in the og worlds strike me as something akin to the way people prayed to the aeons of yevon in ffx or the astrals of FF15. with people praying to the ff summons on a case by case basis and depending on their preference for patron gods. Ie: Leviathan being a goddess of the ocean and water who is prayed to by sailors or fishermen, while scholars prefer ifrit using an interpretation of the fire of knowledge. (you know. like a furry prometheus that doesnt get eaten by an eagle daily)
I'll probably go on more detail later, but for now, the summons that get prayed to the most in DI is probably Leviathan for the aforementioned reasons, Ramuh for nature and agriculture reasons, shiva for tradition and combat reasons (related to riku in my particular headcanon) And Titan for economical reasons, wow alex making the rock man into the economy guy i wonder where you have heard it before
Speaking of economy, DI currency totally has tiny paopu fruit symbols in its coins and bills, and its a legal course currency in its neighboring islands because they too dig the paopu fruit symbolism
Munny looks like malleable diamonds because it probably just morphs into the appropate currency depending on the world we're in, moogles only use them as they are because they are both the people doing synthing and also shady as hell. do not trust the pompom people.
Going back to the Paopu fruit: its quite a common tree fruit in the islands and in fact is industrially harvested in some islands both as an export and in-island use.
The paopu folk story is actually mostly just a misconception for an older tale. originally involving sailors and a promise to return home safe. it eventually turned into "sharing one will entwine your fates forever"
Paopu pastries are a common dessert, and paopu wine is used often in weddings.
Monsters ARE real in the islands and roam the most inhabited places. These are often hunt for game and for safety reasons
THAT MEANS, chocobos are also a thing people use in the most rural parts of the islands for fieldwork, transportation and sometimes food.
Blitzball is MAD popular and they Often do tournaments involving several islands. DI itself was almost a perpetual champion up until jecht retired, then they win every so often instead of always
Boating licenses are a thing, but kids can still use their little boats because they have to row them. think like, the difference between a bicicle and a motorbike.
There are bridges for tram systems between islands that are close to each other, usually reinforced for sea and storm reasons.
Legally speaking, equal marriage is a thing and even polyamorous ones because why being an ass about it.
Healthcare is mostly public, but there are Specialty care stuff in the main islands that costs money because of course it is
Because sora and riku are japanese names, i prefer the island to be something like a tropical japan, so most of the people in DI have japanese names.
That would be all for now. tune in next time when i tackle on Twilight town, who may or not be in perpetual twilight (is not)
#kingdom hearts#Kingdom hearts headcanons#shoutout to the sorikai server peeps for enabling this madness#Destiny islands#Sora#Riku#Kairi#worldbuilding#Headcanons#Alex rants about stuff#Alex plays kh#sorikai#that one is tangentially related
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I'm doing a tag game!
What are your 3 historical gaming moment?
Anything related to videogames: be it achieving the highest score in the arcade, defeating that final boss after 100 tries, winning a PS5 in a raffle, getting a photo or autograph of a VA, cosplaying a videogame character... anything!
Then tag 5 people (minimum) and let's reminisce. Spread some positivity!
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Here are my 3 personal best (in no particular order)
1.Tekken 3
The first time I truly enjoyed playing a fighting game (I still hate playing PvP in fighting games cuz an actual human is way better at it than me) was when I finally approached a real Tekken pro. A big arcade opened up in my city and I was the only girl who went there every weekend and buy 30 tokens (Php 90.00) to feed the various machines. I saw this tall college dude play King and I was mesmerized watching him pull all of Kings grapples. After several months, I watched him from behind, playing Tekken 3 until I muster up the courage to ask him how he pulled off all his moves. The college dud pulled a piece of paper and pen and began to write down all of Kings' combos and grabs, and gave it to me! Since then I have practiced on every Tekken 3 machine, pulled off all Kings' impressive grapples to a growing audience who couldn't believe their eyes that this little highschool girl is playing Tekken 3 and beating it! Oh and I became good at the games that I reduced my 30 tokens to 5.
2. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
This game came with the console my mom gave me. First time I popped the disc in and chose Leon S Kennedy on normal mode, I was piled upon by zombies and died. That game over screen traumatized me and I did not pick up RE for months! When I did gave it a second chance, I notice there was a 3rd mode: ARRANGED. It made the game ridiculously easy by giving me all the weapons, and so I plowed through Raccoon City with my machine gun and rocket launcher. It was fun until it wasn't. I decided to play the game on Normal, got eaten and died, then powered through it. Finally beat the game on Normal and Hard. Also went for the S Rank and bonus content. Now I love all horror and survival horror games (Silent Hill, Outlast, Evil Within, etc). It became my favorite genre.
3. The Witcher 3
Had it not for this game, I wouldn't have made The Nilfgaardian Collection or started digital art. I think it was December 2019 (or 16 I dunno, it was Xmas), my brother gave me two choices: TW3 or FF15. I wanted FF15 cuz I have always been a fan of Final Fantasy and TW3 was hyped to the heavens. I wanted to know if the hype was justified and so I got TW3 GOTY edition. The hype... was well deserved! I was hooked, I plat the game, I decided to make fanarts of my fave character (Emhyr) and gave myself a goal: to have the biggest collection of Emhyr and Nilfgaard pics and be known as that crazy chick with an unhealthy obsession to Emhyr and his Nilfgaardian empire. Thus cemented the Nilfgaardian Collection in the fandom!
I taggeth @bittersweetbark, @alphagravy, @rotatingremains, @regis-favorite-raven, @oblakovka, @smehur, @laurikarauchscat, @jawanaka, @traumschwinge, @valandhirwriter
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21+ | 🕊️🍪 | oc x oc | mxm | Dark Themes| Dead Dove | I'm looking to play the dom (but I can sub if you're a hard dom) | Real face claims only (unless we need monster forms, etc) | Anything goes (except for bathroom play) | Discord Private server RP with Tupperbox | Semi-Lit to Novella, I match my partners. | Looking for active people/people who love OOC/world building/aesthetics | Filling some time gaps between my slower partners, so they don't feel pressured to reply to me more quickly! I love and want them to feel pressure-free :) |
Theme: Bodyguard x Guarded Individual, OR something similar. I'm still looking for more partners!
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Hello! If you're still reading this, that means you're interested in all the basics I posted above. I'm a 21+F and I don't care what you are. I'm looking to hammer out some bodyguard-esque themed RPs--preferably with a fantasy, supernatural, monstrous or otherwise magical twist. Knights would be so freaking good right now. 😭❤️ But yes--I'd like to play it out where the pair absolutely cannot fall in love, for example, the Regis x Clarus ship from FF15. I'm not looking to play out that ship, but if you know, you know.
I'd really love some Prince x Knight, or something along those lines, be it modern day (with Knights still being a thing because lore and world building reasons!) or set in a fantasy world with names that we can actually pronounce, I'm so down for this. If you're looking for hardcore high fantasy with Ageulisk Maximu'sklur as your main character, I'm not sure we'll be a fit. I can do high fantasy, but please don't expect me to invent complicated locations/names for things.
I usually RP every day, but frequency of posts depends on how much I have on my plate and how bad my health is. I'm on a year-long medical leave, so I have tons of time on my hands. Anyways, I'm not opposed to monster shenanigans, with monsters doing the plowing, nor am I opposed to the bodyguard being forced into his position as a slave. The dom character can be either one, I don't care. I prefer my subs to be dynamic characters, not just pretty things to look at who throw themselves at my muses. I can also mumu, if we see fit for the story. Lots of growth here. Potential 🍪 if they're growing up together or with an age gap.
I love me some healthy dose of smut, but if you love storybuilding and plot that comes WITH a healthy dose of smut, then this is the right one for you.
Please like this post if you're interested and I'll get back to you! :)
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#oc roleplay#oc x oc rp#oc x oc roleplay#fandomless oc rp#fandomless roleplay#find roleplay#find rp#dead dove#mxm rp
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A Thought I had today while thinking about Mikey's Imaginary Friends; if Leo is HoH, then what if Donnie still needs glasses? Just running around with everything blurry af and both boys have to cover for each other, hehe.
Ooh yes! i usually have Donnie need glasses for whatever reason, (though it's usually not that he needs them 24/7 b/c his eyesight isn't bad. Similar to Ignis from FF15, who wore glasses not because he had bad vision, but because he wanted his vision to be crystal clear. That's how i usually figure donnie to be.) But having Donnie have actually bad vision for this au? I love it. (i have shitty eyesight myself and am totally down with inflicting Donnie with one it lol)
Like Donnie being nearsighted as fk. he wouldn't be able to read signs that are across the room, and if the thing isn't within like two feet of him, he has to squint to see it properly. Reading is usually alright, as long as he has the book close, but it would give him a headache if he reads for too long.
Those classroom lessons with their caretaker would be torture for him, especially if they had a standard classroom like setting with a chalkboard he was expected to see.
But, like you said, Leo would cover for him just like Donnie covers for his hearing. He'd tell him what the board says, make sure that Donnie could see whatever Draxum was showing them during training.
Just things like Donnie's eyes getting too tired to read so Leo takes the book and essentially reads to him via mind meld!
Then, i'd imagine Raph would be the one of the two other brothers to notice this first? Their hangout is the library. He's going to notice if Donnie is leaning close to books/computer screen, or squinting, or rubbing his eyes and forehead whenever they get tired. He would certainly notice Donnie passing the book he was reading to Leo (who complains briefly about not wanting to read about computer stuff) then put his head down as Leo starts to read said book.
I've got some more ideas for this, but basically yes! I love this. (it also gives me an excuse to give another teenage donnie glasses lol)
Thank you!!!
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Thinking a lot about how Ignis is given a prophetic vision and then immediately after loses his eyesight.
He sees himself, ten years from now, scars down his face, vision clearly gone, and still, still he doesn't hesitate to put on the ring. He knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that his eyesight won't come back, because he's seen it, seen himself, but he still tries to play it off for a while, give the others hope that his disability isn't permanent. How this makes his comment near the end of the game that he can sense light suspect, because we the player know he is 100% willing to lie about these things to make the people around him feel better.
And just. The fact that he also knows without question that their king will return. He has Seen it. The idea of him reassuring the others, burdened as he is with the knowledge of what will come after, that Noctis is coming back, he just Knows it. And he knows it's going to take a long time. Of course, he could use his vision to guess when it starts getting close, could know it by the length of Gladio's hair or Prompto adopting a goatee. But those details are a lot harder to keep track of when one's blind.
And of course, the fact that he doesn't need to see when they open up the door to the throne room, because he already knows what's going to be in there.
#i CANNOT get over ignis being the only chocobro to not talk about what happened to him when he was on his own#prompto barely gets the time but at least he tries#gladio does a full on campfire story#but ignis? actually goes so far as to lie#and the game does nothing to dissuade the player from believing he would go to the grave without ever telling anyone#what the fuck#final fantasy#final fantasy xv#final fantasy 15#ff xv#ff 15#ffxv#ff15#ignis scientia
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Hi there? I wanted to say thank you for translating DOTF and so much other FF15 stuff. Having read so much straight from the source, I wonder what your opinion is on Ardyn's background, the people who reject it and those who take it as canon? To me, the discourse feels weird. Is there actually a reason to doubt it happened or did some just not like it?
Hello! Translating the FF15 stuff was a lot of fun and taught me a lot. It was also very funny for me to translate stuff I didn't plan on using in fic, because I kept thinking of
To me, once canon spins off into multiple sources, it becomes a buffet: take what you want, leave what you don't. Otherwise you can do the Star Wars thing and sort stuff into six levels of canon and quasi-canon, but that way madness lies. Especially in a case like FF15, where we've got DLC that contradicts the base game, an AU ending in Episode Ignis, and whatever level of canon "we were gonna make an alternate ending DLC but it got cancelled so here's a book" is.
To me, everything that came after the base game is extra, and you can accept it or not as you want. We're all playing in a sandbox, and not using a particular bucket because you don't like the shape is perfectly valid. A lot of people have imagined backgrounds for Ardyn that are more fun than what the anime and DLC gave us - come on, Square, let him have still been a weirdo even pre-daemon goo - and I love to see them. But if people want to use what Square gave us, I won't judge them for that, either.
Thanks for the ask!
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**21+** | 🕊️🍪 | oc x oc | mxm | Dark Themes| Dead Dove | I'm looking to play the dom (but I can sub if you're a hard dom) | Real face claims only (unless we need monster forms, etc) | Anything goes (except for bathroom play) | Discord Private server RP with Tupperbox | Semi-Lit to Novella, I match my partners |
**Theme:** Bodyguard x Guarded Individual
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Hello! If you're still reading this, that means you're interested in all the basics I posted above. I'm a 21+F and I don't care what you are. I'm looking to hammer out some bodyguard-esque themed RPs--preferably with a fantasy, supernatural, monstrous or otherwise magical twist. Knights would be so freaking good right now. 😭❤️ But yes--I'd like to play it out where the pair absolutely *cannot* fall in love, for example, the Regis x Clarus ship from FF15. I'm not looking to play out that ship, but if you know, you know.
I'd really love some Prince x Knight, or something along those lines, be it modern day (with Knights still being a thing because lore and world building reasons!) or set in a fantasy world with names that we can actually pronounce, I'm so down for this. If you're looking for hardcore high fantasy with Ageulisk Maximu'sklur as your main character, I'm not sure we'll be a fit. I can do high fantasy, but please don't expect me to invent complicated locations/names for things.
I usually RP every day, but frequency of posts depends on how much I have on my plate and how bad my health is. I'm on a year-long medical leave, so I have tons of time on my hands. Anyways, I'm not opposed to monster shenanigans, with monsters doing the plowing, nor am I opposed to the bodyguard being forced into his position as a slave. The dom character can be either one, I don't care. I prefer my subs to be dynamic characters, not just pretty things to look at who throw themselves at my muses. I can also mumu, if we see fit for the story. Lots of growth here. Potential 🍪 if they're growing up together or with an age gap.
I love me some healthy dose of smut, but if you love storybuilding and plot that comes WITH a healthy dose of smut, then this is the right one for you.
Please like this post if you're interested and I'll get back to you! :)
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So I've been reading/hearing about a strange argument recently regarding Cloud and Tifa's relationship in the FF7 compilation. It goes something like this: 1) a common trope in Anime and Asian dramas is that the childhood friend competes with a new girl/guy for the male/female lead's romantic interest; 2) the childhood friend usually ends up on the losing end and suffers unrequited love; 3) therefore, Aerith must be the one Cloud chooses in the end since it agrees with that trope.
What I find strange about this argument is that the opposite of 2) is more often the case, at least from the few dozen Asian dramas (Korean and Chinese, mainly) I have watched, where the childhood friends (or at least those with some unknown childhood connection) who secretly/openly like each other (and maybe have a relationship that ends for some reason) end up reuniting years later as adults, and end up together in the end. This sounds exactly like what happens in FF7 for Cloud and Tifa.
For the Final Fantasy series, in particular those that involve romantic subplots involving main characters with either other main characters or guest party members who grew up together, it seems like all of these cases resolve with the childhood friends ending up together romantically. The specific examples I can think of at the moment are:
FF3: Ignus and Princess Sara
FF4: Cecil and Rosa (BTW this has an actual love triangle in the plot as well as the narrative, unlike FF7, which is in narrative only)
FF7: Cloud and Tifa (I mean, it's the plot after all, and their romantic chemistry/tension in the remake trilogy is so obvious that the other party members actively bring it up)
FF8: Squall and Rinoa (this is one is a bit of stretch, but they are loosely connected through their parents' tragic love story)
FF10: Tidus and Yuna (also a stretch, I know, but their parents were close comrades 10 years prior to the story, and Yuna also notes that it must be fate that brought them together)
FF12: Vaan and Penelo (I mean, he says "I'm coming Penelo" in the last scene of the game, Balthier constantly refers to Penelo as "your girl" to Vaan, and it's not like he's going to be with Ashe or Fran at the end)
FF13: Snow and Serah (yes, as nauseating as they are sometimes, and obviously excluding the sequel storylines)
FF15: Noctis and Luna
FF16: Clive and Jill
I mean, nobody would claim that any of these couples are nothing more than ships (FF7 debates aside), as they are all obviously canonical. The point I am trying to make is that the argument laid out above does not seem to hold water for FF7. From the examples I gave, it would seem instead that the FF series is remarkably consistent in having the childhood friends end up together. Just wanted to put my thoughts out there to the world, so they don't keep me up at night...
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Crisis Core was your first FF game right? What were your actual frst impressions of Angeal Genesis and Sephiroth?
Technically yes, CC was my first FF game, though I'd watched a playthrough and hadn't actually played the game itself until the Switch port. My FIRST played game was FF7. And I've also played FF8, FF9, FF10, FF6, parts of FF15 and a very clunky Dirge of Cerberus. I'm really looking forward to 16!
Anyway my first impressions were:
Angeal="Diet Mufasa"
Sephiroth="The evil guy from Smash and Kingdom Hearts but he's sad in this"
Genesis="Holy shit shut the fuck up already"
How times have changed lmao little did I know.
#asks#ff7#ffvii#crisis core#final fantasy 7#sephcanons#sephiroth#genesis rhapsodos#angeal hewley#Loling#Genesis went from being one of my least faves to my precious irreplaceable trash king#When I tell people I love Genesis they disown me#More for me then
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Oh wise and ancient elder of Veld fandom, I have a question for you. Do you know where the last name Dragoon came from? (I want to post a picture of Veld and that's his last name to me, but I don't want to be using it publicly if the OG inventor wants to keep it for themselves.)
AHAHAHA UHH YEAH ACTUALLY I DO
I DEFINITELY DO
I don't know precisely which of us it was, but it's from my first online RP group. I think Liz (crankyoldman on AO3) was the first to use it, as I'm like 99.999% sure she's the first person in western fandom to write him at all, but it might have been Drak (drakonlily on AO3), who is now Liz's spouse but was not at the time we were initially RPing together. Neither of them are really in the fandom anymore (they both fell out of public fandom in general for quite a while during college/university/grad school, came back to jump into FF15 with both feet, and are now pretty exclusively in the FF14 scene), but none of us ever really cared about the proliferation of that particular headcanon.
What's funny is that I actually use a different surname for Veld (Augustine!) to differentiate between work relating back to that group and work that's strictly my own, but at this point it's kind of irrelevant because the "Dragoon" surname is so ubiquitous. I tend to tag my work featuring the character with "Veld of the Turks" at this point.
You're absolutely welcome to use it, and people will presumably know what you're talking about, but it is utterly and completely nonexistent in the source material! It came entirely from a bunch of queer folks in their late teens and early twenties RPing/writing/drawing a sad old man online in the mid-aughts, but because we were the only ones doing anything with the character it just kinda became accepted as "correct."
(tmk Drak is also largely responsible for "Sinclair" being Reno's accepted fanon surname, but there's no canon on that either and she kinda regrets its proliferation; I originally used it as Zack's surname in like 2003, before I even knew Drak, but when Zack got a canon surname she fleetingly snagged it for use on Reno and it just...spread through the fandom from there by vectors unknown.)
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Watching the FF Versus XIII trailers and
- what would eventually become ff15 thing has been into development since 2006??? Jesus
- it used to be for the ps3 lmao
- so many familiar characters?? Aranea was there from the start ah
- the trailers show a fair amount completed! Aside from graphics overhaul, it's super easy to notice similar locations. I wonder how much of the game actually got produced. Because there is a LOT of mechanics that seem fully finished, various locations, and some plot
Speaking of the plot though, I get the feeling it wasn't very long either. I wonder if that's why they changed it to a main series game?
- full (affectionate) offense to ffxv but them actually fighting their way out of insomnia after noctis gets a power trip is fascinating and much better than the, admittedly fun though awkward, "ardyn is feeling like projecting himself and his fiance onto noctis and luna and arranged their marriage but Regis got the wedding set in a different country thus getting noctis out of insomnia"
- like I understand why they did the change-- noctis /aquiring/ his op power is the main plot of the game and its already short -- but the original one sounds much more fascinating. Like where exactly was the plot supposed to go from there if noctis starts out with his full armiger??
- that said I do like the stabby stabby armiger acquisition from ffxv.
Though It's impossible to compare with "death goddess gave it to me" bc versus13 didn't get made at all so I don't know how it would vibe
- also I get the vibe that some of the strongest parts of 15 are remnants from versus13. BUT like I said, i also get the vibe that versus13 was already suffering from lack of really meaty plot. All the trailers only focus on noctis and Co escaping insomnia/fighting in accordo, with some little hints of weird death magic (?). Of course a game trailer showing just the first 1/3rd of a game is smart but it does make me wonder just... what this game was supposed to end up as?
Like it's clearly sold as a revenge tale with fantasy strangeness in the trailers. Would it have been them going after the empire????
- prompto looks SO different and it's weird.
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