#admittedly the writers invited this sort of thing by explicitly including shards of the trolley boys but.
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memorys-skyscraper · 3 months ago
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seeing so much more of this bullshit post-DT and it continues to drive me insane
people are out here saying a guy in DT is a shard of lahabrea. the guy who is famously one of THREE people who was not sundered and therefore does not have shards. like. gamers. the reading comprehension. where is it.
for as much as i enjoy the lore about the sundering and shards and all that, it has absolutely poisoned character discussions of any kind across all of ffxiv
the sheer number of absolutely braindead "x is a shard of y" takes ive been forced to endure. like y'all. characters can be similar, have similar arcs, even serve similar roles in the plot without being literal fragments of the same soul
#ffxiv#ff14 liveblogging#ffxiv spoilers#dawntrail spoilers#my original post was about people stating 'golbez is a shard of azem' as absolute fact when there's zero actual evidence for it in the text#(aside from golbez generally being heroic)#which reduced discussion of golbez to the mechanics of shards vs. considering what his story might say about the wol or others#but it's even worse now bc people are saying this shit purely based on appearance#'this guy is a dark-skinned highlander with red hair who has fire powers- he must be a shard of lahabrea' do you hear yourself???#'this npc who is literally just set dressing for solution 9 is a dark-skinned elezen with light eyes- must be a shard of carvallain' why.#admittedly the writers invited this sort of thing by explicitly including shards of the trolley boys but.#their existence doesnt mean that literally everyone we see is a shard of someone we already know#anyway. DT has dumpstered what little remaining faith i had in the xiv community's ability to engage with a text critically#discussion has immediately been polarized to 'DT is shit' and 'DT is the best expansion and if you disagree you hate joy/are an egomaniac'#i personally was pretty disappointed by DT (especially in the moment-to-moment writing) but i didnt think it was irredeemably bad#and i would be interested in discussing where exactly DT fell short with people who felt similarly bc even now its hard for me to articulat#but nope. no room for that. which is how it goes with any piece of media on the internet i guess but. its still disappointing
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