#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.

[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?

[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.

[otterpedia]

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. 😂

[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."

[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

[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.

[battleonthebigbridge]

My fave thing abt XIV is that everyone just has that One Zone that they always find themselves coming back to. Where they take all their gposes, where they AFK to listen to the music and relax, where they think back on their memories in the game and can smile with knowing. Every time I go to the Omphalos I just have this breath of relief, it feels like home, it makes me feel comforted. If that makes sense at least.

[vivinavina]

Vivina Vina- Banquet. It totally sidelined her for the entire Braves fiasco, she was a mess. Wound up having to be carried out of Ul’dah. Led to her picking up healing arts. Overall was a positive experience, as anyone she felt awkward about being emotional around had already seen her at her lowest.

L’rhen Rhel- Rhitahtyn. It was the first time she killed someone and she couldn’t justify it in her head as rescue or self-defense. She was sent to assassinate someone, and he was right to fight her, to try and kill her. She wanted him to just run away or surrender, but survival instinct overpowered and she killed him. Some of the Scions went looking after a while and found her totally disassociated. They never learned the full story or brought it up afterwards out of giving her some dignity, content to let what happened try to be forgotten by all. (It didn’t work)

Varina- Um… Hm… Hard for me to think about, since she’s a supporting character to the WoL and very much tries to put up a cheerful facade when things get rough. Probably after Thordan, when the past 3 levels of MSQ story catch up with her and she tries a little too hard to be positive.

8/20/24

When during the MSQ did your wol(oc) first cry? What was that moment like for them and those around them?

[deathandthesoul]

MMO players, type “I main [class] because” and let predictive text finish the sentence

[ravyncursing]

i finished decorating the patho fc house and now i got the crazy idea to redo my own house so well. we're doing it.

i had so many saved designs that i loved that i finally said fuck it and chose one at random. the basement of the house has been what i imagine zeph's apartment would be like but i think a change is good. besides, i can tuck that into the fc room or the apartment i have and still use it for tastey screenshots hehe