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angorwhosebabyisthis · 6 months ago

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i found this lore entry recently and have not stopped thinking about it since. it is HYSTERICALLY funny to me that fandaniel's villain origin story was just being a fuckin boomer

One of few great minds in a land that had seen the slow, yet steady numbing of its people's intelligence, Amon long lamented the sorry state of Allag , concentrating his early scientific efforts on developing medicines to increase mental capacity . He soon realized that it was not knowledge that the Allagans lacked. If anything, they had too much. What his people lacked was a leader. With a renewed sense of focus, Amon shifted his studies to the field of vivimancy, and soon was conducting experiments on his own flesh in order to attain his final goal - the resurrection of Xande the First.

— Encylopaedia Eorzea Volume I, p. 25

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ffxiv amon #ffxiv fandaniel #i just. i Just.#the fact that he tried to fix it by doing research to literally just give people extra brain cells #before deciding the problem was ipad babies is KILLING me #i don't know why it's so hilarious but oh my fucking god #like obviously his real problem with it was a) that whole post about how there's Fun and there's Satisfaction from Achievement #which you need a balance of; because if you don't get enough fun you get stressed #but if you don't get the feel-good chemicals that come from working at and accomplishing things #it will fuck you up Badly; and make you horribly depressed; and you will probably try and substitute more and more Fun in a vicious cycle #b) not only did he live in the depressing nightmare sinkhole of resulting society-wide mental illness #but his attempts to preserve his sanity with meaningful work kept being appropriated into Fun by other people instead #and c) his exposure to the endpoint of 'utopia'; where everyone is happy and all their needs are (supposedly) met #was watching people get Bored and proceed to entertain themselves with horrific sadism and cruelty #he doesn't come right out and explicitly make that connection out loud; but going by his speech in the aitiascope it's pretty obvious #there's a Lot going on there; especially once you start getting into how he leans *into* the cruelty he hated so much #i could go on and probably i'll write up posts about it. it's fucked up and tragic and on a serious narrative level it tracks #but it's also SO SO FUNNY #ffxivtag #FF tag #shitposting #ableism cw #endwalker spoilers

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