#esti.nien is that. to me
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you know the day someone draws estinien with actual body fat and not like. fantasy ripped is the day I can die happy
#saint.txt#estinienposting#this isn't like a real complaint or burn or anything I'm not actually that pressed abt it or intending to make anyone feel bad but it's lik#do I think he’s strong and built? yes. do I think he has an eight pack? no!!!!!#give that man some body fat its protective!!!!!!!#you know that art of that blonde dude's body type from dung.eon mes.hi. idk I don't watch it.#esti.nien is that. to me#I also believe in built like a fridge haur.chefant so
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btw im a silly idiot and played thru ffxiv and paid no attention to the story bc my friends wanted me to be at level 80 right away. then i did a bunch of parties. i have 500 hours almost. also im a scholar main
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lil amaya thoughts about 6.4 (msq only, waiting for some friends to finish the raid so i can make hcs for our verses !)
...amaya cannot handle spicy food well so the start of the story was highly amusing. they probably just sat there, tail hanging low & looking miserable. the things u do to befriend a stray voidsent.
the middle section of the dungeon just made em go "I wanna live here,,," they love the sheep & greenery.
thanc.red saying to stick close to amaya & one will learn what trust means. amaya furiously turning red because it means so much to them. they know how they behaved in the past, how friendship & trust is something they cannot take for granted... & yet !! & yet !!! people care for them & love them.
look amaya understands the problems in garlem.ald & feels sorry for the people but they aren't a patient person & sometimes they are so close to snapping & going "quote your founding father at me one more time & I am telling you the whole truth about him & his so called love for you & yours" they don't snap tho ( they probably wanna do more to help but are aware that their presence might be. well. a bit of a problem. they are to garl.eans probably what zen.os was to eorzeans ).
amaya sweating bcs sure. friendship is trust & trust is friendship.......... right. totally. ( honestly to them it is more complicated but they won't say smth for now. zero is learning !! )
vrt.ra giving amaya azd.aja's eye is sweet. the eye might react a little to them since amaya's aether is now irreversibly mixed with that of a great wyrm. being near one already affects amaya in the sense that they act a bit more draconic. holding the eye doesn't help. :) people def heard em growl during this patch.
( disclaimer that this hc ofc is not forced on anyone writing those characters ) but considering amaya has been connected to the great wyrms since hw, they kind of see vrt.ra & azd.aja as family so seeing her?? seeing her bound?? does smth to amaya. similarly to how esti.nien seems to sometimes channel nid.hogg's personality when talking to dragons, for amaya it's hraesvel.gr. which is also why they feel vrtr.a's panic so strongly.
anyway hi they need a break after this patch
#❝ ᵇᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵗᵉᵉᵗʰ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜᵒˡᵈ ʷᶦⁿᵈ ᵘᵖᵒⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒᵒʳˢ ❞╱ about .#spoilers cw#ew spoilers cw#endwalker spoilers cw#6.4 spoilers cw
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6.1 spoilers bc I finished the msq today
vr.tra??? the most precious??? idc that’s not his real body, he’s adorable. little brother.
on that note, the line about dragons not being male or female in the sense mortals would define it??? so good. other games that are too busy sexualizing their dragons could never
we know next to nothing about her but I’m !!!! about azdaja. I love her already. big sister. possible void dragon. she. I can’t wait for us to have more so I immediately give in and add her to the muselist.
esti.nien was so good this patch. I adore him. I loved that they didn’t make him be deceived for real about money but see through the scheme and do along bc he wanted to help the boy who wanted to take care of his sister ok. the way he adopted that kid. and then how he went out of his way to encourage vr.tra to follow his heart and go after his sister. c’: I love him
raha my beloved. the only catboy for me. I’m so sad we didn’t really address the ‘we’ll go on an adventure’ promise.
but speaking of cats. the shtola content was really good? like, it was nice to finally have her around and open up and talk about herself and have embarrassing moments and you know. be less. idk if perfect is the word but yeah. I also thought it very interesting how she dealt with convincing montichaigne and fourchenault differently. maybe I’m reading too much into it? and I want to start by saying I don’t think she wasn’t being genuine, but even so, she chooses how to present her reasoning very differently for them both and it came across as a little manipulative to me. this is not criticism. it just stood out how with the first she was like to fulfill a promise to a friend and also find a way to traverse to all other worlds and solve all the mysteries I can bc I’m a scholar at heart and love to learn vs with fourche not saying any of that and being like to help a brother reunite with his long lost sister heavily emphasizing the idea of losing a loved one/reaching out for family. I do think she cares both for knowledge and to keep her promise to runar, as well as to reunite vr.tra and azdaja, it’s just the way she presented it to each of them that stood out for me. ANYWAYS I’ll stop analyzing the catgirl now
her interaction with than.cred was so good too, I loved it. I love thancr.ed in general. also uri.
I miss my children and the first thing I suggested when esti was like we should get some help was alphi and alisaie. my kids. I want them back. yes, I know they’ve been around like virtually all the time, I just miss them aksdjfnsjkdfn
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I know we only ever see his angry phase but I kinda wish we at some point saw estinien like….as the actual leader of the dragoons. Not in the azure sense, in the sense that he’s literally grown up with all these guys and that he’s their leader.
The closest we get is Heustienne in DRG quests, who competed with him for the title of azure and lost but still works to match him by training under the newest azure, aka you.
I know SE wants his vibe to just be that angry rage monster pre-character growth (despite my opinion that he wasn’t really that as-written) but he was also personable enough to be elected leader of a whole organization, and special title or not I refuse to believe that he just never got along with the people he grew up with and spent all of his time alone. He was angry and traumatized and had some bad opinions in HW but it’s pretty deliberate that outside of his issues with dravanians he’s a surprisingly caring person (at least with alphinaud) with a dry sense of humour and enough of a sense of duty to come with you despite his misgivings.
idk so much of him is wasted bc of a weird insistence on his character being like…two things only. He can be angry *and* be a good leader of people at the same time. He’s skilled enough at training other people, probably bc he’s done it before in the dragoons, that vrtra feels comfortable at asking him to train the radiant host.
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#estinienposting#I always say gr//aha is the king of lost potential to me but actually it’s esti.nien bc nothing is ever done with his interesting parts
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some of the threads probably could've been handled better but as a whole I love alphinaud's HW character arc so much
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#ishgardposting#long post#in tags#the reason him being the mouthpiece for ish.gard at zenith annoys me so much is not just bc he robs esti.nien of a much-needed moment#but also bc alphi.naud should not be seeing himself in the ishg.ardians. he should be seeing himself in the *vault.*#HW spends most of its runtime explicitly forcing alphi.naud to see for himself the real actual cost of war after an entire series#of patches where he has played with soldier's lives like they're distant toys or tools and even then doesn't fully conceptualize it#until esti.nien extremely bluntly tells him he's sending someone he cares about into mortal peril like he's asking them to go to the store#as much as I hate it HW through sohm al directly challenges him bc he just blindly follows the ishg.ardian assumption that all#drav.anians are vicious and violent monsters hellbent on destroying poor innocent ish.gard and in his own complacency#he has directly participated in perpetuating the violence and war crimes committed against the drav.anians.#I don't want alphi.naud standing in for esti.nien to relay how badly the vault has betrayed its people#I want alphi.naud's threads to line up and for him to have a genuine realization that he has done a horrific act of violence to an innocent#party and have to struggle with what this means for his sense of self. He killed dragons in sohm al and justified it as self-defense.#alphi.naud should stand there at zenith and for all his conviction realize that he sees himself in the vault. bc he has directly sent#soldiers and friends who trusted him directly to their deaths with a flick of his wrist while he sat nice and safe from on high#nice and safe and protected from the realities of his violence / and perpetuated a great act of evil bc of his own complacency.#that he treats someone he cares abt more like a tool and never considers there is a real chance that for every battle he sends them into#they might never walk out of again - just as the vault sends scores of dragoons and knights to die needless deaths against dragons#and he only realizes this fact once someone else very well-acquainted with the cost of war points it out to him#HW's threads of 'you do not need to be intentionally evil or an asshole to perpetuate evil acts' is so good
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also the bitter irony of slaughtering tens upon tens of dravanians in 'self-defense' that are also just defending their home and sacred space from what they feel - from both past experience and the very real possibility that nidhogg/tioman is forcing them to defend sohm al with their very lives - is an invasion from a hostile enemy force on what the gang insists is a diplomatic peace mission. and the fact that this is never acknowledged as an awkward clash of intention.
like no fucking wonder hraesvelgr still thinks ishgard is nothing but brutal murderers and warmongering power-hungry tyrants. for all intents and purposes you showed up on his doorstep still soaked in the blood of his nieces and nephews. and that was before estinien stormed the aery.
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#ishgardposting#it makes me sad that this is just. never mentioned. bc the narrative at all times sides with esti.nien.
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sorry I'm whinging about these dungeons again bc I just hate them
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#ishgardposting#estinienposting#sorry I started thinking again abt how utterly fucked up it is that dragoons are deliberately retraumatized over and over and over again#until they have instinctual reactions to the sound of a dragon roar bc their helmets are specifically designed to make that noise#as the wind passes over them during a jump or fall#and how utterly fucked up that is in the context of esti.nien being who he is and and what he has been forced to live through#and how much the process of the dragonsong war completely and utterly abused him#and how he's a literal child soldier and how this trauma means nothing to his character in the grand scheme of things bc his HW writing#never manages to live up to its potential bc he's just so flat and fails to fulfill even his role as the ishgardian foil to nid.hogg#bc as written he is not actually an angry character in a way that's actually a character flaw#which made me remember this conversation and how much I hate the aery / sohm al and what they represent dvhbbjhgdf#and like it's particularly disappointing bc even if we have to keep both they *do* have actual potential but they just don't.#both of the dungeons are fucking horrific events in the course of the war. this is never engaged with seriously bc the Horde have no nuance#They are just enemies for you to kill and the morality of immediately slaughtering dragons in their own sacred spaces and homes#esp. after you have literally just learned they are sentient and have lives and are not responsible for the war you're fighting#is never engaged with and is glossed over bc the Horde are mindless animals to kill and esti.nien as a man is always right#it just annoys me so much bc all the pieces are literally right there.
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my serious hcs abt estinen’s trauma re: his scarring versus my right brain’s desire to see every artist make him undergo sluttification right now this instant: fight
#saint.txt#estinienposting#joranir/estinen#on one hand draw him slutty please for the love of god. on the other he would not show that much skin in public for everyone to see#more seriously he+rouvastre have similar issues w/ vulnerability/body issues so intimacy is Weird:tm: for a while but they heal together <3#not me thinking abt wolst.inien and how esti.nien probably doesn’t get held or hugged or touched all that often and how for years and years#the only times he gets touched are to heal or to harm. I think if rouvastre gives this man a hug and runs her nails on his scalp#he'd collapse instantly. I think they're one of those cute disgusting couples who are always finding reasons to lie on each other#once rouvastre starts spooning him it's fuckin OVER he's never leaving. little spoon esti.nien truthers rise up
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recent dev comments got me malding I'm sorry
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#estinienposting#it just fucking kills me bc when he asks why you can't conceive of him and love in the same sentence he genuinely sounds bothered#like esti.nien is fully aware of how he comes off and is genuinely bothered that you take it face-value and think he's cold and unempatheti#and like so much previous content establishes that esti.nien is self and socially aware and is tuned to how people are feeling#and is capable of navigating those situations with a surprising amount of grace so yeah I think acting like he's also somehow unable#to read a room (despite being for a significant portion of his life in charge of people) is more than a little annoying.#especially in the context that esti.nien is literally a child soldier (children fighting in war is normalized in ish.gard)#who has grown up under the constant abusive surveillance of the halonic church and has only within the last few years escaped it.#like I said his writing is all over the place. he's uniquely emotionally intelligent and empathetic except when he isn't bc that's when#we want him to be our funney stupid joke man bc man stupid is hilarious.
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there is something to be said though abt how through HW estinien, knowingly or not, systematically kills nidhogg's mate and children (tioman's death in sohm al angers and upsets nidhogg deeply and directly) one by one in a way that mirrors the way nidhogg killed his family.
maybe it was intentional. maybe not. but it is an interesting angle and it makes me really wish estinien wasn't so flat in HW bc a rampage of revenge against nidhogg that, like him, is understandable even if it isn't morally justifiable, that has estinien dipping into the same overt, self-destructive cruelty that drives nidhogg and prolongs the war would've been an actually great story arc had they been willing to actually make estinien unlikable and in the wrong for a minute.
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#estinienposting#ishgardposting#like I said once I think ysa.yle should've been on the edge of actually managing to get through sohm al safely#before esti.nien's impatience and trauma gets in the way and he biffs it for everyone.#centres the conflict on the actual issue which is the fact estinien's supposed to be the ishgardian nidhogg and like him#he has suffered something he (at that point) views as unforgivable and holds all dravanians but especially nidhogg as personally responsibl#the dungeon is still gross bc you're still invading a sacred space for indiscriminate slaughter but it's at least a better setup.#the aery as much as I hate it also works better as one man's self-destructive rage spiral in the wake of the Revelations#and as a hard reminder that at the core this is about revenge for esti.nien and 'ending the war' is just a backdrop to his real deal#and that he's actually probably utterly terrified of ending the DSW bc who is he without the safe mantle of the azure dragoon.#though honestly I still think there's too many problems w/ the aery for me to ever like it lmfao
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I'm still so mad estinien and alberic didn't even speak in garlemald
#saint.txt#spoilers#major spoilers#estinienposting#WHAT'S HIS RELATIONSHIP LIKE WITH HIS ADOPTIVE DAD POST DRG-50 AUGHHHHH#HAS HE FORGIVEN ALBERIC FOR IT ALL?????#I mean probably given his post-HW development but#it's so sad to me that the only person who like seemingly is actually concerned with how esti.nien's doing post-HW is aym.eric#like I know the guy's a super competent lone wolf type who's really taken to the adventurer life but like still. it's so sad
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this was the more serious discussion on that topic btw
#saint.txt#estinienposting#spoilers#major spoilers#if you call esti.nien stupid or a himbo within earshot of me I'm manifesting snakes in your house
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i do want to make esti.nien a bit wet and pathetic. in the way i want him to be soft and kind towards me and worship the ground i walk on. very out of character but.............. you know.................
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anyways back to being nice. i thought about it all day but i would take esti.nien to a arcade date... i just really love arcades and he would probably be actually pretty good at dd.r and show me up LOL plus claw machine games.... i would have to push him to play games with me though but idk seeing him happy in that environment makes me very happy
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i wanna say me and esti.nien wouldnt get along but its just because we have clashing personalities i think.... hes very serious about himself and i am very joking and laid back
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