#bahamut ffiv

[estinininininen]

FFIV fans, hearken unto my half-kidding "Fusoya is kind of an asshole" propaganda:

•dunno if he could leave the moon or what sort of watcher rules he has to follow as a Lunarian, but KluYa broke the rules, which means Fusoya can too, even if it's a one-way trip

•did not take that trip to help his child nephews

•did not tell Cecil about his brother and give him a chance to process . . . That and be ready to support Golbez after freeing his mind

•booked it right the hell out of the Giant leaving us to ??? fucken' die? Golbez I understand making a hasty decision in the moment ("HOLY SHIT WJAT HAVE I DONE") but the Giant being Lunarian tech I think Fusoya could have known it was going to collapse

•never once thought to wake up another Lunarian?

•needs human help to save his own bacon and then has the audacity to say "wow humans are pretty cool! maybe one day they'll be as cool as us lunarians"

•doesn't want to hang around at the end like "what are you going to do now?" is a polite way to say "why are you still here on the moon and keeping me from my nap?" c'mon hang out with your nephews some more dude

•has to remind himself Golbez is a Lunarian too like that wouldn't be constantly rolling through my head if i were fusoya like "oh my god kluya's babies don't know anything i have to teach them how to be proper moon men"

•the moon? DISAPPEARS? from orbit? fusoya was the only one who would know how to do that! yeah golbez wanted to isolate himself, but it's the MOON? and yeah they didn't want to repeat the zemus corruption problem, but that coeurl is out of the bag

bahamut and his two attendants watching earth and the eidolons that worship him disappear into the distance: 🫡

[estinininininen]

AH. okay. that's probably what square intended at the time with the shadow dragon. well, headcanons are only headcanons for a reason after all

I have the idea that the armors of Baron dragoons were originally bestowed by Bahamut, maybe that all the Baronian armors that are so distinctive and they wear all the time have superstitions around them. And if Kain is in the party when they fight Bahamut (which he should, it's much easier with him than Fusoya), then Kain swears to Bahamut that after Zemus is defeated, Kain will not wear the dragon-armor around others til his honor is restored. Something along those lines. Bahamut is concerned but he gets it

there's a fan rom, Final Fantasy IV: Unprecedented Crisis (let's play archive link), that rearranges a lot of beats until it evolves into its own story. Only skimmed it but highlights include Cecil able to choose whether or not he becomes a paladin or stays a dakr knight and Rydia because of circumstances staying a girl.

Anyway, it's still a barebones early SNES style plot, but in it Kain has a clever plot reveal that removes the "how did you get mind-controlled twice" embarrasment, and he also hangs out and trains with Bahamut at the end instead of disappearing up Mt. Ordeals!

Watching a playthrough of ffii again and relearning that the dragoons had the ability to speak the language of wyverns... and despite there being a distinct lack of wyverns in ffiv, i can't help but wonder if kain was too young to remember learning wyvern tongue from his father or any of the other dragoons. in my mind, it's generational, latent knowledge, only emerging at the proper time.

[zottower]

Here is the fight against the Cyberphallus King and the Vulvae princesses. As I was making researches about the antique figure of the flying phallus, I realized that there also was the walking vulva in the medieval culture. The funniest thing is that they were used for pilgrim medals (used to show which sanctuaries the pilgrim visited) ! That's surprising. The article I read can't give any solid interpretation about these creatures. They weren't use for fertility problems, maybe more for luck or health problems ... But I wonder if it's not just a medieval prank, just as we can buy a fake license plate : "2SEXY4U". We'll never know. Anyway, I think they are convincing as an addition to the bestiary. Vulvae Princesses make me think of Atomos, actually. lol

[dertherck]

Flash Commissions for clients on Twitter! I think I haven’t shared these before I don’t know. I’ve been on the bird site so long I’ve forgotten what I have and have not shared posted here. Oh well.

[moogleroom]

Just beat final fantasy iv (pixel remaster) good game 👍 If I ever find the cruel evil man that designed the final dungeon I will deliver unto them a million times the suffering I have endured

[dizzymoogle]

With today's patch I was able to buy the Zeromus mount, Lynx of Abyssal Grief, my last Lynx mount needed for the Apocryphal Bahamut mount (or as I love to call it, Bahamut with a car seat)

Since Endwalker had a lot of FFIV nods, this mount uses the look of FFIVs Bahamut

This was my first time doing all Extremes as current content, I was still leveling when Shadowbringers dropped.

I was only lucky with the drops for Zodiark (146 runs), Rubicante (36 runs), and Golbez (16 runs) All the others I had to wait till the mount was available to buy at the vendor.

I should also note that Zodiark was the only one I kept going for after 99 totems, the rest I stopped at once I got 100 totems.

As for my opinions on the fights. Rubicante was my least favorite (never could wrap my brain around 3 of the 5 (?) pipe mechanics)

Favorite, Barbariccia. I healed all 60 (ten extra since I bought the WHM cane) runs of Barbariccia and while it was the most insane, fast paced fight....I still look back on it fondly. I will be hearing "I'll slaughter you all!" in my sleep lol

I loved the music for the Golbez fight, "Voidcast Savior". Hearing the overworld theme for FFIV during the fight hit all my nostalgia buttons. The fight was also alot of fun....even if party finder couldn't get Gales 2 right the majority of the time. Also Golbezs' VA didn't have to go as hard as he did, but I'm glad he did. Loved his voice.

Zeromus was a fitting end to it all. Loved the fight, the FFXIV version of "The Final Battle" from FFIV that plays during the fight is incredible.

I also remember the first time I did the fight, at the end of the fight when "The Red Wings" started playing I was hollering at my computer "My nostalgia!"....as Zeromus used an ability called "Nostalgia" and I promptly busted out laughing

As for my favorite Lynxes? In order from favorite to least favorite: Golbez, Zeromus, Barbariccia, Zodiark, Rubicante, Endsinger, Hydaelyn.

Anyway....it has been an interesting fun ride doing these Extremes in Endwalker. (doing them all in PF too.....lol) I enjoyed seeing the Four Fiends and Golbez from IV again.

And if anyone is curious on time frames, I did take notes on the which patch each EX was released and when the mount was able to be bought from the vendor:

Now to see what awaits us in Dawntrail!

[solradguy]

I went all the way through the Mt Ordeals dungeon (FFIV) after the dude in Mysidia was like "there's something spooky in them hills" and once I got to the end there was nothing I could interact with lol So I had to slog all the way back out because APPARENTLY Cecil's TELEPORT SPELL cannot TELEPORT out of Mt Ordeals because they LINED THE WALLS WITH LEAD OR SOMETHING. Whatever

After that I went and got the Asura, Leviathan, Odin, and Bahamut summons. The Bahamut fight was fun. He literally just kills himself if you use reflect on his turbo laser.

Dumb bastard 👇

Dumb bastard 👆

I found a rat tail in a box. Enamored with the idea of Cecil opening a beautiful wooden chest, seeing a severed rat tail, and putting it in his pocket. Filing that into the same part of my brain where I've stored "Cecil will put his hand directly into a fire if you interact with one." Instead of, you know, just observing it. He doesn't have to put his hand in there but he does. I love Cecil Harvey The Moon Man

[coolest-dragon-bracket]

I know he did not get in. I am certain he did not get in. But please, feast your eyes upon Brachioraidos of FFIV Advance fame. He is so ugly and I love him to pieces. He is also absurdly strong and exists for no reason. In my eyes he is the ultimate dragon. Better than Bahamut.

holy shit, he's awful, i love him

[vermanaward]

according to today's devblog, the 'new' phoenix mount for the Rising is unique in as much as you turn into phoenix when mounting, rather than riding it like the heavensward or p4 or p8 ones. which is neat. kind of feels like a flex on old louis, but there we go. i'm not sure that riding on old louis would be any less questionable (as much equally as i'm sure there would be people okay with this. it just. considering how much his grandkids look up to us, you know?) but it's still nice that ten years later t12 phoenix is finally a mount. now that we already got several knockoffs.

(actually with the ex trial meta-mount being ffiv bahamut they're really leaning hard on the nostalgia, but. this should not come as a surprise i guess. xiv bahamut mount for ucob totems when)

[aywren]

In this week's Wayrift webcomic, the crew makes their way to Bahamut's Cave - nevermind the levitation over the large moon rock standing in their way. (They have plenty of mages that can make that happen.) 🌙

[estinininininen]

thinkin bout Golbez (ffiv) and that Shadow Dragon. he likes it? one of his only positive associations as a mind controlled dark overlord. what is the Shadow Dragon? where did it come from?

if it's an eidolon then why didn't he keel over dead when Cecil and the gang killed it? a theory i think i read on tv tropes is that the Mist Dragon is the only eidolon able to kill their summoner because Mist takes some hp to attack if i remember correctly? and little Rydia just misunderstood that.

anyways I think the Mist and Shadow Dragons, the only two named dragons on the Blue Planet, and those two kid . . . guards? attendants? . . . that hang out with Bahamut are connected. and if they canonically aren't then they should be. they make a nice thematic pair, mist and shadow

like maybe Golbez inherited Shadow from Kluya the way Rydia did Mist? A fanfiction (i think of someone on tumblr!) had Shadow as the only friend Theodore/Golbez had after everything went to shit. the parallels between him and Rydia, Rydia narrowly avoiding also being captured and made like Golbez as well as avoiding dying. i feel like rending my clothes and frothing at the mouth over a thirty year old barebones plot fairytale vidya game help

[st-highwind]

Ramble, Bahamut Knight edition!

In my own little ffiv offshoot/au/whatever you wanna call it, I have different ideas for Kain. Ofc.

I politely and respectfully (against my will) dislike the Holy Dragoon getup. This idea initially stemmed from my dislike of the armor alone. However, the more I thought about it and as I actually played (and again, respectfully disliked) The After Years, the more the idea/concept developed.

Kain becoming a Holy Dragoon, to me, takes away from his whole spiel of “I didn’t kill off the dark parts of me, I just accepted them as part of me”. The gist of becoming a “Holy” anything is that the dark is completely purged, removed, eradicated— Kain explicitly does not “kill” his Dark Side, rather he absorbs it. The dark is there, but honed and harmonized. Of course, I don’t want this alteration or Bahamut’s involvement to detract from Kluya’s spirit recognizing Kain’s strength. I feel that that detail fiercely emphasized the bond Cecil and Kain share, for Cecil’s dead father to share power he’d once granted to his son to what I can only assume is another son figure for him. I do feel Kluya’s spirit’s involvement is a testimony to their brotherhood and devotion to one another.

I want to connect Kain to Bahamut, first and foremost. As the dragon god of the eidolons, Bahamut’s gotta know something or another about dragoons or, if we’re feeling pretentious, Mr. Highwind himself. Kain fights Lunar Bahamut during his Lunar Trial, and I want to build on that. A lot. Bahamut likely would’ve also known about the slaughter of dragoons and wyverns in the ffii storyline.

In my mind’s eye, I picture Kain defeating Dark Kain during his trial, Lunar Bahamut appearing and, upon its defeat, its scales flake off and the real Bahamut emerges like something of an odd cocoon. Hatching out of an egg, maybe. For symbolism.

(Alternatively, it would be neat for Bahamut to hatch out of an egg and parallel the last wyvern in ffii that baby Kain bonded with…but I digress)

Anyways, the real Bahamut appears in Kain’s trial. Ideally, Kain will have done a bit better in accepting the darker facets of his persona within my au given Thrush’s presence and therefore doesn’t feel the need to fuck off to Mt. Ordeals for ten years. Instead, Bahamut would appear at the end of Kain’s trial and, with Kluya’s lunarian spirit shrouding the room in some sort of magical aura, Bahamut commends Kain for his strength, resilience, and willpower. He offers to boost his strength and bestow upon him the capacity for black magic.

Kain, knowing the regality of the lunar dragon, kneels and accepts. Bahamut then inhales and unleashes a plume of flame onto the dragoon, enveloping him in a biblical cleansing flame. Once Bahamut’s breath flickers out, Kain stands in a brand new suit of armor with a new weapon fitting nicely in his hand.

“Now,” Bahamut begins, his draconic voice emanating from every corner of the room. “I declare you the Lance of Bahamut.”

Kain, as a Bahamut Knight, now possesses the ability to use black magic. He may not bolster tier 3 attack spells, and as a matter of fact, he might utilize black magic in the same way that Cecil uses white. They may lack the most useful spells that Rosa and Rydia harbor, but they make great backups and can still wail out physical damage. Kain, now with Abel’s Trident, finds that his Jump ability has been replaced with Dive Bomb, a skill that when used, adds a selected elemental charge to Kain’s jump while also increasing the damage output. He withstands magic attacks a bit better and is still a deadly quick fighter.

The development of Kain into a Bahamut Knight rather than the Holy Dragoon makes more sense in my mind as it truly does encapsulate the acceptance and control of his inner darks. It is the honing of the very facets of his persona and channeled into carving a path to his future and fully restoring his honor and dignity.

Idk. Thoughts?

[bangpuddingmuffin]

Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy wasn't great. It might have been enjoyable at the time, but it's just so dated now. The story is incredibly cliche in today's world, and it's hard to look past it. It is fun seeing the elements that have persisted through the FF games (Bahamut, Tiamat, Cid), but ultimately it's a skippable game. Random encounters are annoying, and the dungeons are designed to waste as much of your time making a full circuit of the level as possible.

Still, better than The After Years.

Updated rankings: FFXII - FFIX - FFXIII - FFXIII-3 - FFV - FFXV - FFVI - FFX - FFVIII - WoFF - FFXIII-2 - FFIV - FFVII - FF - FFIII - FFX-2 - FFIV: The After Years

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOeTsMoezKbu1ckpTDIUlANrav9uVYbz

[wandringaesthetic]

Post Bahamut fight, a couple more things

Eikons are like Gundams, I guess. Clive and Joshua can fuse. How bout that classical score for this fight(s), huh? I'm still not sure what to think of the flower. How's this for sheer spectacle, huh? Maybe this is a darling that should have been killed or maybe this is just what this story is. The logical endpoint of taking that Bahamut ZERO materia in VII seriously.

Dion is very much "the hero of a different story." His character and situation bear a great resemblance to Cecil FFIV, but unfortunately Dion is a dragoon, so he has The Curse. Eventually I'll do a whole essay on Final Fantasy dragoons and their ego deaths (the more pure dragoon they are, the worse it seems to be for them), i.e. going through failure and/or loss so profound you have to restructure your identity after. Bonus points if you beg someone to kill you at some point.

(Clive also notably goes through this. Jill also! This being a story high on emotional pain.)

Go berserk in your giant dragon form, killing civilians you have thus far been doing your best to protect, because you murdered your father in an attempt to murder your brother. Who is possessed by some kind of ancient evil, but it's not like anyone ELSE knows that. Then you SUCCEED in murdering your brother and pass out, cackling and covered in blood. This is the guy who has been, up to this point, portrayed as The Paragon.

Good stuff. Love this.

I don't know if Annabella makes a lick of damn sense as a character. It depends on what she knew when and who was whispering in her ear, which is information I don't have atm. I've been trying to figure out her deal the whole game and have a couple of times just thrown up my hands and gone "oh she's just insane." And she kills herself in front of her sons and one of them's response is *shrug* and the other's is "😬 oof." As was earned. (Kinda feel like my WoL watching Zenos off himself). Also, it seems like she didn't age. Or maybe they just didn't want to make another character model for her.

Weirdo statement, but I'm not sure this setting is misogynistic enough for Annabella to make sense as a character. Versus like Cersei in GoT. I'm really getting mixed signals on what the gender politics are here. The vast majority of physical fighters seem to be male, but at least among the common folk, a lot of the "pillars of the community" type characters are women. It's never been clear that women can't inherit &etc. You just don't have the world-building supports for this kind of character and plot, is what I'm saying. You're depending on the audience to assume some things I wouldn't necessarily assume.

I am very intrigued by Sleipnir (I think that's his name, Odin's white haired commander) and have been intrigued by him since the first scene he was in. I am interpreting him as Annabella's counterpart in Ash, but I'm not sure that actually makes sense. Knows something, but not as much as he thinks. Whispering in the king's ear, steering things the way the big bads want to go.

Jill continues to be severely under written. Feel like Martha and Vivian Ninetales are better developed than her. And whenever she and Clive are together they talk about the past, so I'm pretty unconvinced by them as a romance.

Something that is BOTHERING me. Did no one notice or care that things seemed to be worse after we blew up the crystals? Shouldn't things be starting to get more green in the Empire, at least? But no, now we have this eternal overcast and no one has connected the dots that we might have caused it. Are we sure Cid was right??

There has been precedence for this in FF that I could go on a tangent about . I just find it weird that we haven't addressed this in dialogue so far.

I assume we have two more Eikon powers to acquire , because there are two spaces for circles on the ability tree. And that's got to be Odin and Shiva. So either something really fucking sad happens with Shiva, or she's just like "oh, you need the last one? (For as yet undetermined plot reasons) here you go"

I'm intrigued/worried by Barnabas' little erotic vision with Benedikta and Hugo and... His mom? Oh he's that kind of unstable.

Have one Eikon left and like 1/3 of the game left. It's looking like the end of the world out there. Not sure where we're going from here. Let's find out.

Thoughts on FFXVI so far (Jill is awake and she and Clive are on the way to Rosaria) (spoilers to that point)

The game is beautiful. I've been taking a lot of screenshots like "man this pretty"/"man this almost looks real." I saw a few "this looks like a PS3 game" comments from earlier demo/gameplay footage, and I think I understand that, because the zones from the demo (the barren mountains where Titan and Shiva fight and the blighted village) are somewhat empty and have fewer/more muted colors. The story takes place in a dying world, and has the look and lighting of somewhere far north. You can quibble with the aesthetics if you like but not the graphics.

The thing that impresses me most in this generation in graphics is lighting, so. I keep being like "woa" and taking screenshots of water.

There is no minimap, and in "dungeon" zones, no map at all. I like this a lot, because I feel like I stare at the map if it's there instead of the very beautiful pictures in front of me, and I think it's appropriate to feel a little lost and disoriented and nervous about it in, say, the enemy castle you are infiltrating. But I imagine some people will not like this. Areas so far have been fairly linear, though I did get a little turned around in the first forest area (the greatwood?)

Bosses and midbosses are fun and very beautifully animated. Average field enemies feel like a bit of a waste of time and should either be a little easier or a lot tougher. I feel like, with skill, one could absolutely blaze through boss fights, and with either more caution or less skill they're a bit of a slow grinding down. Feel like I'm generally falling somewhere in between on these.

I'm playing on "action" mode and am not using any of the "timely" accessories. I have played some action-y games but am by no means a real pro gamer. I've had to retry some boss fights (when you do this, the game lets you restart the fight with a full inventory of potions (4 potions and 3 hi potions)) but I haven't felt like I've been "stuck" on anything yet. I feel like the "reward" of increasing your skill isn't necessarily just getting through the game (which you can probably do regardless of skill if you just grind at it) but feeling like a bamf as you do.

(there is a kinship with FFVIII in this regard)

I've done....4? Sidequests so far. They are very reminiscent of FFXIV sidequests. Go rescue this girl and grab the supplies she was supposed to gather. Be Valisthea's surliest waiter. Not too exciting but they fulfill what I think is their primary function of fleshing out the world building.

The intuition I had regarding the "bearer" tattoos from the trailers and the demo was that they were magical and either sedated or memory wiped the bearer or somehow made it impossible to escape (need to the spell renewed so often or they kill you or something like that). And it turns out, no, the system of slavery is so ingrained and the odds of being cast out and then hunted down are so high that they don't need to be magical. The mark is enough.

I ALSO thought the bearers were generally POW slaves acquired through conquest and weren't necessarily people who can use magic. THEN I thought they were ALL people who could use magic, but no and no. They are ALL people who can use magic WITHOUT a crystal (excepting dominants, which are special) and Clive was actually a weird cultural exception as the first shield of Rosaria BEFORE he was branded and then fell into the general norm after. Which makes a terrible sense! We do not like what we can't control! Also makes Annabella's weird disgust towards him make more sense!

I think probably part of the reasoning behind that awkward Yoshi-P statement saying "everyone in this game is white because we didn't want it to be about race" is probably BECAUSE slavery is a major plot and world-building thing in a system that in some ways mimics but mostly doesn't real world chattel slavery. Whether making it all be white on white crime is effective or worth it is something I'm going to reserve judgement on for now.

Oh Cid. Cid. What are you doing, Cid? I didn't understand what he wanted at all at first, and now I get the idea that he is good intentioned but has no coherent plan. Free as many bearers as possible and then eventually we'll have a revolution? But you don't want to say that because you're already pretty sure you'll fail. a lot of the people you're freeing are old or infirm you're not exactly forming an army. This is only working because the powers that be are too busy fighting each other to notice you. What are you going to do when they do, Cid? I'm going to do what I think is right until they come kill me and then God can judge me??

I enjoy Cid. He is just some guy who is trying and not at all an inspirational figure.

This game is pretty brutal, huh? I keep thinking about the guy who ended up as a blood spatter under a rock in the first few minutes of the game and the blood pooling under some of Shiva's ice later.

(the ice and the rocks creaking and the subtle controller vibration as you walk through the aftermath of Shiva and Titan's fight really sold the scale and also that this is all about to come crashing down)

I feel it's more tasteful, if you're going to do violence, to have semi-realistic violence rather than bloodless violence. Also I just personally like it. I like bones crunching. I like the post battle blood on your heroes clothes and armor. Enough to be slightly gross but not Dragon Age style ridiculously drenched in blood. Just right.

There are a weird number of surprise lethal axe throws though.

Alas, Benedikta. We hardly knew you. She has a kinship to Yotsuya. I actually wonder if there is a Japanese trope both of them fall under with the long pipe.

None of the soldiers in this game seem to be women. The only women we see fight are Jill and Benedikta, who are both dominants and therefore exceptional. Which... I will reserve judgement on whether that adequately makes sense later. Valisthea is in other ways not a nice place.

I get the idea that the eikons/dominants aren't always passed down via blood. It seems maybe each eikon has its own rules? I wonder if they always have a gender preference for their host.

I like the little overlay arrows showing where you can climb up or under something. It feels like that breaks immersion less so than all Horizon Forbidden West's foot and handholds being yellow, for example. Or all the walls you can run on having a certain texture, or w/e.

The music is good, ofc. Maybe my new favorite main character theme? I have to meditate on it.

Oh, the one huge awkward guy is named Goetz, which is speculated to be what Guts Berserk's name is "supposed" to be. Or Gotz, some Germanic shortening of Gottfried or similar via translation party shenanigans. I don't think this has any significance but it might be a nod. (Which make me wonder whether FFV's Bartz/Butz was supposed to be something like that now. Hmm.) Also I lay like 50% odds he's going to end up as Titan's dominant by the end of the game.

I am also on High Berserk Fan Alert due to the eclipse in the one live action trailer/advertisement.

I have NO IDEA what we're heading for here in terms of overarching plot or what the final showdown is going to be, and since I don't have enough freedom to just dick around in the game I'm getting a little antsy about that. And where's that second time skip gonna land?

(oh man I just happened to encounter the shortened version of that commercial in the wild in the break room on tv FATE WILL FALL that music aaaaaa)

There's a shot in the very beginning of the game that's a Gandalf versus Balrog visual reference and Clive opens double doors by dramatically throwing his arms wide. There are a lot of small details that feel a near copy to Game of Thrones. Clive grows up in the castle with his father's ward who is like a sibling to him. He's second fiddle to his brother. His mother figure hates his face. He has a loyal doggo. He's Aragorn. He's Jon Snow.

I've often thought that the storytelling of FFXIV feels more like doorstopper fantasy novel storytelling than video game storytelling (or movie or tv show storytelling for that matter). FFXVI seems to be continuing that. Opening up the active time lore menu (I love this feature, BTW?) feels like flipping to the glossary.

Alexander O. Smith cites A Song of Ice and Fire as inspiration for the style of Vagrant Story and FFXII. And I'm glad he did, because when I played those games in a world pre Game of Thrones television show, I was like "is anybody else seeing this???" It turns out the Venn diagram overlap of "people who play epic fantasy video games" and "people who read epic fantasy novels" is SURPRISINGLY SMALL. Smith overdoes it but just occasionally, imo. By which I mean, if you use the phrase "mummer's farce" there had best be some fucking mummers in your story. It took a long time for anyone to hit approximately this correct tone in video games again but.

I'm digressing.

ANYWAY. I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE INITIALLY ADDED THIS FLAVOR IN EX POST FACTO IN THE LOCALIZATION AND NOW WE'RE GOING FOR IT INTENTIONALLY THE WHOLE TIME. Because this was written simultaneously in English and Japanese. I find it interesting that we started by being inspired by the tabletop gaming heirs of fantasy literature and now we're taking after fantasy literature itself.

We're also seeming to go for the Game of Thrones thematic thing where the nobles are squabbling amongst each other when everyone ought to be banding together against the oncoming climate apocalypse.

But we will (most likely. Hopefully.) Be reaching a conclusion in 40-80 hours of action RPG instead of leaving me hanging for the rest of my natural life. And I would be shocked if we have some sort of red wedding situation in the works.

I'm having a good time, overall. Hesitant to quantify how much of a good time at this juncture.

Sometimes I feel like we need to put the F-word privileges back on the shelf for a minute, but mostly the swears are effective.

Oh gosh, I glanced upon this subject in tags, but I do love Clive's post accepting he killed Joshua freakout. And how Cid's all "well, why don't you just track this guy down anyway, and if he wasn't involved THEN you can kill yourself ;D" because it comes right after a moment Clive was standing on a bridge, and there's not any attention drawn to it but you KNOW he's thinking about jumping. And then Torgal bounds up to him and the moment passes.

And Cid's "welp, you're alive so you may as well make yourself useful" attitude is not the BEST but it's also not the WORST, you know?

Anyway, like I said, having a good time. Having a good time having a bad time.

[mymagicalgathering]

Rydia's story was tragic from the start and I loved her for it. She was one of my favorite FFIV characters when I first played it way back on the SNES, back when it was still referred to as FFII. I loved her evolution from a little girl to a young adult and I always admired her determination. Here I made her into a Planeswalker. I wanted to pretty much make her a summoner, and that's exactly what she does, fueling your creature casts and storing up her Loyalty for the biggest, baddest dragon there ever was, Bahamut.

#FFIV #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyIV #Rydia #custommtg #fantasy

[8bitmagnetsco]

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