#drk things

[blackestnight]

@draconian-empress asked: Send 🔮 to see them doing or wearing something associated with magic.

"Do not whine. When my mentor taught me the arts, he took my sword from me, and he said, 'I am going to hit you with this until you conjure a shield to stop me.'"

"...what did you do?"

"Bled until I learned."

[vermanaward]

every time i see do not seek forgiveness as though it’s the moral of that story im just. sigh. you missed the point

the point of 70 isn’t do not seek to ease the burden. it’s not you should carry your pain with you, that it is somehow right and just and noble. it’s that it’s okay to hurt, yes, and to admit that you hurt

but, by that same measure, the only way to move forward is to forgive yourself. forgive yourself for hurting. forgive yourself for the things you have done. forgive yourself for the things you could not do. forgive yourself for surviving.

and remember, always remember, that you are still a good person.

[of-the-eventide]

The succession of seats. Of shards. Of ideals... Of love. The Warrior of Light's soul could be considered heavy and clamorous if it did not give them a measure of peace as it has.

auraugust 2024 - succession

[roseluwakcoffee]

Danganronpa is such a series bc why the hell does Kyoko have a seven volume mystery story detailing a whole plot about some underground murder game and intricacies of the detective system in graphic detail while I know all of five facts about Makoto's childhood. Like damn what was his favorite toy or something

[tovaicas]

↳ ꜰꜰxɪᴠ — ʀᴏᴜᴠᴀꜱᴛʀᴇ ᴅᴇ ʟᴇᴜᴠᴇᴄʜɪᴇʀ ⇄ ᴇꜱᴛᴇᴇᴍ

Today, tomorrow — forever on, from one war to the next. Have you ever wondered when our war ends? Does it even matter? Were we not meant to be nothing but weapons from the day we were born, our edges kept sharp and bloody when needed and hung up and set aside like good, obedient little soldiers when not?

(Steel Temper! Heavensbreaker! The Warrior of Light! Our Weapon of Light!)

Look in the mirror. Do you still feel him crawling up your spine, setting within your bone? Do you feel it gnawing at the edge of your soul? Feel the blood in your fingers again. Remember your purpose. Remember the grind of the bone beneath your fist. Remember. Remember. Remember. Stare into my eyes and REMEMBER.

(Even now, you continue to deny it. Well. Deny me all you want. You cannot deny what we have done.)

You feel it, don’t you? There’s no point to hiding it. I know you. Feel the furious pulse of hot blood in your head. Feel it in your teeth. Feel it in your throat. Feel it in your heart. Feel my hand on yours, cloak it in scale, and grind it deep into where it needs to be. Again, and then again. One broken shield exchanged for another. It’s never enough. It will never be enough.

(Or you could beat every single one of them to death with your bare hands. You would like that, wouldn’t you?)

But you know as well as we — that it was never the Eye.

(I knew you would.)

It was always just you.

[exmeowstic]

collapses.

[demigod-of-the-agni]

Forgive me, forgive me. I ask, I beg, I pray, but it never comes.

You know I find it incredibly bewildering to see just how much kalki reflects myself in him like YEAH Duh of course he does, he’s my little guy it’s like his full time job. But at the same time he is a fully functional facet of my being and he is at the mercy of my whimsies, and whatever he discovers in his arduous journey of self realisation is ultimately a reflection of what I discover in the real world. It’s also incredibly funny because ffxiv lore for dark knights is really baked into the idea of (re)discovering yourself amongst the bloodshed and continuing to live and love and thrive despite the world working against us. who would have thought such a raw message could come from an mmorpg side quest about edgy emo boys of all places

also adamantite armour of fending i would lay down my LIFE for u

variant + phone bg version + ID below the cut

tch as if you guys are actually going to use artwork of my little guy as your phone background. i know. how dumb. let a girl dream. i should make an alternate version but it's of Fray and Myste

[START ID: A picture with a red background focusing on the character's bust that is placed to the left of the image's centre. He is coloured with a dark blue overlay, contrasting with the red background. He has brown skin, long black hair that falls over his shoulders, and is wearing blue and gold armour and earrings. He is looking at the viewer, right eye dark brown and the left an glowing unnatural red, with an expression that looks determined and angry and yet bitter and forlorn. In the foreground and on the right side of the piece, a miniature version of the character stands coloured in a light blue overlay and wearing the same blue and gold armour, looking as if he is glowing. He is facing towards the left of the piece, or perhaps at the character bust, his expression unreadable. Above the miniature character's head is the symbol representing the FFXIV dark knight, coloured in gold. END ID.]

[picaroroboto]

one wonders how any other protagonist manages to get by without the help of a shadow brain ghost who loves them

[lavampira]

I loaded into tender valley with one of my FC friends earlier, both of us drk mains but he was tanking this one, and we both basically went HUH? in the chat on the first big pull because the healer was like. oh wow. a drk who uses tbn!

[alannah-corvaine]

27. Favourite relic? (from @sundered-souls)

Get to Know Me: FFXIV Edition

There is only one answer to this question and it's Nirvana Zeta. It's the only WHM weapon glam I've used since I got it and I've twisted my own timeline like a pretzel to make the Zodiac Braves quests part of Alannah's canon.

Bonus runner ups include Lilith Zeta and Longinus Zeta, and I have to make special mention of Bravura Atma because it's Ardbert's axe.

Thank you for the ask!!

[blackestnight]

@mimble-sparklepudding asked: Send ⚫️ to see them doing or wearing something associated with the concept of “darkness”. 

“Close your eyes and hold out your hand towards me. Breathe deep through your nose─let the air fill your lungs, then let it pass from your lips. Slower, slower... Listen to my voice. Listen to your heartbeat. Listen...”

[emevergreen]

the astro whispering in my ear to pull wall to wall on mt.gulg (i already pull wall to wall on mt.gulg but this was so funny to me)

[abyssalmermaiden]

Okay okay but I had a dream that was essentially letting Esteem out to kill or at least severely frighten some guy who was a major asshole

And what I remember most clearly was him and his lackey (comrade? Hired muscle? Idk) loosing arrows, which I mostly deflected with Deathbringer - but the fist one definitely hit me in the stomach and I was aware of being in regular fabric clothes yet at the same fully armored so the arrow fell away harmlessly

Like I could see my dress/shirt whatever and a phantom of the chaos armor over it, but he just saw an armored knight wreathed in an aura of menace and fully ready to spill blood :)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ok i think the best part of the drk quests overall though is the point whenever you open up your journal midway through and abruptly realize that your wol has started taking notes in a completely different voice

[yloiseconeillants]

lightwarden thoughts are back on the menu so like. here's mothwarden - aletheia. it's playing so hard into the narrative of the warrior of darkness spun by two rival wizards that that's all that's left in the end. just a cracking shell of mythologized heroism holding back something cruel and resentful.

there's a playlist!

[ladyramora]

I see a lot of Fray art on my Twitter feed, and I'd just like to say that Fray has the prettiest golden eyes, he's just a little guy, he's the ice to Sidurgu's fire, canonically a conjurer as well as a dark knight, and I like him very much~