#ffxiv rambles

[celest-star-collection]

I am so bad at sharing art consistently but AAAA here is my attempt

Was having trouble figuring out her appearance/body type but here it is, a character idea I have had for a while that I finally made with one of my wives, Artemis @glassknight and a bestie Sami @shadowchroma

Name: Anima Grave ["Soul; Breath; Spirit"]

Real name: Isolde Briarrose ["Fair lady; Iron ruler, Ice ruler; Thorny Rose"]

Origin: Lapis Manalis a small village in Cerulean Ingens, Ilsabard

Occupation: Butcher, Now "Warrior of Darkness" Anima Primal Proxy

Ancient name: TBA

Nameday: 10/31

Race: Garlean/Midlander, Hyur

Gender: Female

Age: ~28 (ARR)

Sexuality: Demisexual

Height: 5'2”

Relationship status: Single, Uninterested at the moment

Fighting style: (MNK) -> later (RPR)

Fighting style: Agile, swift, very mobile and a lot of aerial movements/flips. Will go for the knockout/kill shot when open. Will steal the LB from Tsu

Trivia:

- Due to being the proxy of a primal Isolde ages much much slower than she should. Aging a year for every 5-10 after she reached her prime.

- Grew up knowing and having been raised around reapers so she has the aptitude for it but not the skills yet at the start. After meeting Drusilla again after 20 years the old woman decided to train them properly for it.

- Is obsessed with death, animals and plants, has a hard time understanding people but would like to try.

- Alyx is the oldest of the group, follower by Tsu and then Anima.

- Her chocobo's name is Corpseguard, he is a pure black chocobo

Tsukuyomi is Sami’s girl and Alyxander is Arte’s.

Base for the first made by DesireeU on DA.

[rin-khatayin]

Pictured: local woman reaches for clown makeup bag upon reaching Solution 9

(Current Dawntrail sentiment: Zones 1-3 FUN! Zone 4 & cutscenes OH BOO. BORING. BOO. Zone 5: I'm listening 👀)

[vagabond-sol]

Oh boy! I can feel it coming! The need to rearrange/rewrite Caz lore because nothing can sit still forever. Eh at least it’s fun to do.

[okami-zero]

So, I have discovered/realized/been reminded of something.

Whenever I write about Akagi's path through Ultima Thule, I will need to rewatch cutscenes to verify some things (and find a list online). But also, I may will definitely be bawling my eyes out the whole time. Because as much as there were times before this that FFXIV made me cry, Endwalker punched me so very hard in my feelsbox. Twice. TWICE! The second time was the hardest.

I couldn't listen to "Close in the Distance" without tearing up before, because of the events happening when it is first heard, and the words in the song. After The Primals revealed that it is Ardbert singing to the WoL, well...

It is a gorgeous song, I absolutely love it to pieces, even more so with that lore. And after two very talented animators made videos regarding that information...

I cannot hear it without tearing up very hard.

Because it's that memory of Ardbert saying "If you need a push, I'll be right there behind you" that pulls Akagi back to his feet. Because maybe it wasn't just a memory...

[vivinavina]

Vivina Vina- Getting memory lossed is a great way to trans your gender. Genuinely, I headcanon lalafells have a much more lax relationship with gender than the other Spoken races, so her becoming a woman during Heavensward was very chill. She was a girl, she might decide to not be a girl someday, who knows? She actually got a bit uncomfortable when people went out of their way to treat her differently, but they all came to a happy medium.

L’rhen Rhel- You know what else is a great time to trans your gender? When you’re a continent away from your abusive/neglectful mother! She wasn’t well socialized as a kid, and never really had the language to describe her dysphoria. And once she figured it out, she kept closeted even though it would have been socially acceptable out of fear of her mother’s disapproval. So when she came to Eorzea from Sharlayan she hesitantly began using femme name/pronouns. She would probably do something drastic rather than go back to being a man.

Varina- She/He? I dunno. She feels weirdly cis to me, so my instinct is to inject some Gender in there. But honestly, Varina’s chill with her gender, in whatever way that eventually shakes out. She’s free from the angst, she goes with the flow. I feel like she likes a lot of masculine forms of address (Sir, Bro, King, etc.) but not in the gender-neutral way cis guys use them. If asked to her face, she’d say she’s a girl, just one who has a masc itch she needs scratched on occasion.

12/26/24

What are your wol(oc)'s thoughts on their gender?

[rynpost]

Side note - it's during the beginning of ShB that Rynianger starts ramping up. When Urianger goes down shortly after Thancred, Rynia is distraught, more so than she was expecting, but she has to put it aside to help Alisaie.

When Thancred tells her they're heading to Urianger's house she starts rushing forward, desperate to see him again even if she won't admit it to herself. Thancred knows, though. She bursts into tears on seeing Urianger and flings herself at him, and he is so caught off guard by it that he actually picks her up and holds her close just for a moment.

Thancred stands there smirking while MinfiliRyne is just like ?????

[ravyncursing]

thoughts at the end of the universe

recently added some glowy hair to his normal hair and i vibe with it. i like to think that it's the excess dynamis he channels, in place of aether he physically can't channel.

[teddypixels]

so I guess I'm really going for it- the title for maxing out my Trust levels in Shadowbringers

my lalafell alt is my achievement hunter and now he threatens to take over the position of main at the rate things are going

I'm so proud of the lil guy

[vivinavina]

Vivina

Gender: Trans’d (She/Her)

Skin: Soft+more freckles (Wild what taking care of yourself will do)

Hair: Dyed and short

Build: Chubbier (perfect potato roundness)

Glasses: Needed (too many explosions sent in her direction)

Hands: Bandaged more often than not for compression (swinging weapons hurts the hands after a while)

Sense of Style: Unparalleled

What's the biggest physical difference from ARR to Dawntrail in your WoL?

[celestefox13]

One of my favorite parts about Dawntrail is that no one knows who the WoL is.

Like, Koana has a vague idea, sure, and Galool Ja Ja clocks that we're far from average in an instant, but no one else has a fucking clue who this adventurer the Third Promise brought with her is.

Cause it leads to so many moments that are absolutely hilarious for us as players (and arguably our WoLs if you rp).

The way every threat of violence against the WoL and the party, and every "I bet you've never seen anything like this" could absolutely get one of the responses about:

-how we've slain eikons and gods,

-how we've saved the Star multiple times,

-how we've channeled (and honestly probably still have some of) the power of dragons,

-how we've been to other worlds, the past, and the edge of existence

And instead we get to respond with things that are effectively intimidating smiles and humble confidence.

It's not "Bitch, you don't who you're messing with."

It's "Yeah, ok, bud." Which is arguably the funnier and the more insulting of the options.

This is Stormblood all over again, but x2 cause we've done so much more than help settle revolutions by now. 😂

[celest-star-collection]

My FFXIV hyperfixation has returned and I am excited cause some friends asked me to teach them the game! So hyped to show them around!

More ranting about new character ideas to play with them under the cut, talks are a little endwalker spoilers but I wanna put my thoughts into a concise box of information

Name: Belial Levent ["Worthless; Roughish"]

Real name: Sabri Ümit Kivanç ["Patient; Hope; Pride and Joy]

Origin: Yedlihmad, Thavnair

Occupation: Former Military Commander, Now Warrior of Light

Ancient name: Phobos, an ancient who spent their life in pursuit of understanding all of the emotions felt and why, an expert in Dynamis research.

Nameday: 04/15

Race: Veena, Viera

Gender: Male

Age: ~41 (ARR)

Sexuality: Bisxeual

Height: 6'0”

Relationship status: Single, Unsure but wants to be a father.

- WIDOWED, Father of two children DONT YOU JUDGE ME THE STORY IS SLOWLY WRITING ITSELF

Fighting style: (WAR) -> later (DRK)

Long breaking swipes intended to knock enemies off balance, wide swings to hit with as much force as possible, No Mercy.

Will probably edit (still in character creation making him or make a new post) for every expansion talking about his experience especially with his little light party

[blackwhitecheck]

I had a dream last night that I was replaying Shadowbringers and I was right at the end of it.

The Scions stormed Amaurot/the Garlean castle (which was all encased in ice for some reason) and the boss fight was about to begin. For some reason the game let me skip the fight because I was doing a New Game+, so the next thing I knew I was standing outside the ruins of the (ice) Garlean castle beside Emet-Selch, who was standing where the gate used to be, holding a huge tome containing hundreds of years of Garlean history, with a particularly dejected look on his face.

Usually when I dream I'm playing video games, at some point I'm not dreaming about playing anymore, and I start dreaming that I AM my player character. In this case, I was my WoL Alkahest, and when Emet-Selch and I looked at eachother I said

"Well I'm not sure what you expected us to do after you did what you did."

[travelers-ward]

Thinking about Krile.

Krile, who woke up one day from a coma to find that she was alone in the world. Who lost her home, her colleagues, her friends, the legacy of her grandfather, all in an instant. Who found out that the gift that she'd cursed for half her life saved her, and no one else. Who thought that maybe, at least her childhood friend and her dearest friend, both in distant Eorzea, might be safe and alive. Who received nothing but silence from either of them. And found out one day, months later, years later, that neither of them were ever coming back.

Krile, who continued on more alone in the world than ever before with nothing but a smile.

(Krile, who we didn't even get to see take a moment to hear about or process the fact that G'raha shut himself in a tower to sleep maybe forever without so much as a goodbye.)

(Krile, who learned that her dearest friend Minfilia was gone forever and simply carried on with a smile because there was work to be done. Much like Minfilia carried on with a smile when she heard her dearest friend Krile was in a coma. Because there was work to do. And to think, Minfilia never got to find out that Krile was all right.)

[ooeygooeyghoul]

You ever think about the crushing guilt Thancred must have about being a prisoner in his own mind and being forced to watch Lahabrea kill the Warrior of Light using his hands.

I do.

A normal amount.

[vivinavina]

Vivina Vina- 2’11”, almost the bottom of the height average. She’s happy where she’s at,

L’rhen Rhel- She’s like a hair under 5’ right now, but she’s still a stunted growing teenager. She’ll probably cap out around 5’3” and immediately start putting on weight once that metabolism switch get flipped

Varina- 5’11” wouldn’t hate being shorter to be on more even level with her friends and adoptive mother, but being big means more to hug

5/18/24

How tall is your wol(oc)? How tall would they like to be?

[ecosystem-administrator]

Teleportation magic in FFXIV is actually the craziest thing

like, it's established so early on you don't have to think about it, and I expect the writers also didn't think too hard about it when they were first putting together the worldbuilding. but we teleport through the Lifestream. we dip in and out of the afterlife every time we go anywhere long-distance. and this is such a normal part of everyday life that major settlements basically all have giant crystals in the middle that are meant to facilitate this kind of travel.

and to be absolutely fair, in a world where the afterlife really was a place underground, we totally would build a subway system through it and put Hades in charge. it's not like it doesn't make sense, it's just. wild.