#ffxiv ragnarok

[myude]

2024/06/25 タタル艦長のラグナロク

タタル「ラグナロク発進でっす！」

[tritoch]

in general trying to write a fully canon-compliant wol, as i conceive it, is an interesting project because the wol's life involves such a staggering amount of direct interpersonal violence it is almost beyond comprehension. the only people in the real world who did anything comparable are like, certain executioners for totalitarian states, and that's obviously a very different form of violence.

and like obviously combat in FFXIV should not in any way be taken as a 1:1 with real world violence, not least because the game repeatedly points to the idea that combat can in some sense be a joyous and glorious form of personal expression (as with ravana, susano, zenos, etc.), which doesn't really square with the reality of doing violence. but to even begin to conceive of a character who's capable of doing what the WoL does from ARR on and trying to take it somewhat seriously means basically making an extremely detached killing machine, who's fine using those skills for any rando willing to call the hit they're hiring you for a "quest".

it ends up dovetailing really nicely with the games as written, though; you start ARR being like "i am an instrument of violence directed by others :)" and not talking much or ever registering your own thoughts on anything, because who cares? you're a violence-doing machine. and then one of your friends gets mind-controlled and you gotta fight a might-makes-right fascist and you meet multiple people who think you personally are a really cool person with inherent value in their own right just by being a person and it's like, hm. maybe there are other ways to live. and that parallels really nicely with DRK in HW, and then you and alphinaud deciding that you are tired of endless sacrifices in the name of progress and you are going to save estinien, and then the WoL getting to walk into stormblood having really consciously chosen this fight rather than letting someone else choose for them.

obviously there are a lot of stories you can tell with your WoL but to me this is a big part of why my approach to it necessarily revolves primarily around violence and regret. you spend the core game and two expansions becoming a terrible angel of death and then get teleported to another world where you learn that some people literally consider you a psychopomp who escorts the dead to their final rests. then in the next expansion you meet someone who was unfortunate enough to be on the other end of things during your implacable killing machine days. THEN you accidentally cause the flower that symbolizes grief to be invented. the wol's whole life is haunted by overwhelming grief (mostly that of other people) and terrible violence (mostly their own).

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 15: Giant

"In the darkness, she could feel a power pulling at her, trying to drag her down, to what she couldn’t be sure. But as Akira wondered at how she was resisting it when, even in this darkness, she was drained of everything she had, she realized she wasn’t resisting it — something else was."

-- An Echo Calling Me, an AU where Hythlodaeus and Hades decide to return after Ultima Thule.

[esfiart]

taking a break from ffxiv but started playing RO again, so i drew my viera in the rune knight outfit. was torn between her short hair or long pony tail, i like both....

[azim-steppes]

AURAUGUST - Day 27: Companion

Yeke-Bukha bringing his soulmate's axe with him to experience a wonderful new journey together.

[iona-xiv]

I can hear you screamin' out, callin' me It's my fault, made you fall for me So, to save you, I'd give my all

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"Simple plan, little sparrow. You go in, distract, entertain—keep their eyes on you, not my crew. Your establishment gets the gold in return."

[pitchbog]

Rescue (?)

[proteasomec]

Standard monthly shop-post! Tarot orders have slowed down, so these probably will be the last of them before they go out of stock permanently.

[astralflows]

i am free from frontline hell im going to cry

[rigaudon]

appreciate my hotkey setup.

[memoryjoule]

some pin designs i’ve been working on!

[roguelioness]

truly ironic that what gets Aly through Endwalker is the fear of the people she loves turning into blasphemies

but once the threat is taken care of she's the one who gives into despair

[kulvefaggoth]

Listen i don't remember what happens at the end of the Shadows of Mhach storyline and if this is even possible i just think it would be very funny if in 6.4 we pull up to Golbez's house using the fucking void ark

[stormsworn]

damn i really need more people to follow if i’m gonna start usin this more again, ain’t got shit in terms of activity on my feed.

anyway hi i like ffxiv, ragnarok online, .hack (more specifically imoq and sign), hatoful boyfriend, wolf’s rain, zoids, pokemon, zelda, and such.

[makiveliyus]

Ragnarok Online reimagined in Final Fantasy 14.

5 - "Let's journey southwards to the fabled land of Comodo."

[izayoi-sakuya]

Don’t think I’ve ever shown off my Cinder here.