#ffxiv replay

[midasmagus]

Our alts are in HEAVENSWARD BABYYY @ 5pm CST specifically

🎮 FFXIV

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[kitty-highball]

Eventually, as i attempt my grand return lol, i plan to add a new muse over here! Her name is Zephyrine, she's a miqo'te and she's who i'm currently playing as in a ffxiv story replay with @kolak-magiya

She's a bit flat, sarcastic and full of bad puns, but she's pretty sweet <3 Currently shes a Black Mage, but i plan to switch to either Dark Knight or Reaper when i'm high enough level- something thats more melee but keeps her dark magic-y theme since i've decided thats a big part of her.

[itsblorbotime]

woowoo stormbloog ng+ time

as an introduction: i started playing ffxiv around patch 4.2, so... oh my god six years ago what the fuck?? SIX?? IVE BEEN SAYING FOUR THE WHOLE TIME --

anyway i felt a lot of pressure to hurry through the msq to get to endgame to do content with my fc, so i wasn't paying as close attention to the story as i probably should have; plus, a lot of plot threads introduced in arr, hw, and stb would later be re-contextualized by retcons and additions made in shb and ew that were not present at the time i was playing through them. i've also changed characters since then; i started on a catgirl with an entirely different backstory to my current main, who is a dalmascan refugee with a more personal stake in the activity of the garlean empire. (i've also changed my opinion on zenos as an antagonist and character.)

i'm a stormblood apologist. i don't think it's a bad expansion, not even the msq, which a lot of people rank the lowest of all in terms of story quality. it's definitely the most divisive of them for a reason, but i think it's really important because of the way it tightens up and really starts to solidify some of the worldbuilding of previous expacs, dives back into the garlean stuff which becomes VERY important in endwalker, and provides some pretty crucial character development, especially for alisaie.

i think people are too hard on it because 1) they don't like lyse, and 2) they expected an expansion that laser-focused on ala mhigo and got a large swathe of the msq pivoting to focus on doma/hingashi/yanxia instead to the point of neglecting the ala mhigan side. i'll talk about lyse probably because i honestly do not remember what beef people had with her, it's been SIX YEARS SINCE I PLAYED THIS??, but i do share the majority opinion that ala mhigo kind of got robbed in this expansion and that's frustrating.

anyway i'm gonna go unsync raubahn's wall (extreme)

[sonderwrit]

outside satasha:

meanwhile, the wol's inventory:

i technically got over 50 pots for free but i used some in battles against mobs

poor edda...

[lufdraws]

giant chitinous boyfriend g̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶

[deathflare]

can you hear me?

[kaldwinroyalty]

Thinks about Emet-Selch, villain of all time

First scene gets shot, plays it as a comedic gag, when he first meets the WoL he takes two seconds before revealing his secret identity, offers to help then when asked to help goes "mm no I don't think I will", dramatically gives a whole speech that leaves you feeling that you had a whole divorce with him you don't remember, uses the most powerful wizard spell of all time gun

[tearlunars]

a silver of faith.

[windupaymeric]

emet, my man..........

ITS FUCKING RAINING...

[sasseebeee]

ohhhh my god zero defining a friend as "someone you trust" and then the wol immediately thinking of zenos. like just having it click that the reason that he considered them a friend was because he trusted them. i'm unwell.

[budugaapologist]

still dont see how so many people say that dawntrail is poorly written in comparison to other expansions like. what, did you realize you had to learn about a new culture and immediately not care anymore lmao? you've done it before, was this one not white enough for you?

genuinely i think more people should do side quests during msq so idk you can form a heart about the characters you're interacting with if you struggle with that and understand the land better so when impactful shit happens your illiterate ass can actually read and have empathy. theres no excuse for this.

if you can't handle storybuilding and character introductions from the expansion that feels like stormblood and shadowbringers had passionate gay sex that got one of them pregnant and birthed a beautiful daughter they both love and care about then idk what to tell you, maybe youre just lame and can't read. best of luck with that.

[dadcred]

frenchbringers notes (7/?)

[to ran’jit]

EN!THANCRED: not another step! you’re fight’s with me.

FR!THANCRED: you, you stay right there! i won’t let you shatter the dreams of those whom i made my sister [minfilia] and my daughter [ryne]. they are my only family! 

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THANCRED EXPLICITLY CALLING MINFILIA AND RYNE HIS SISTER AND DAUGHTER RESPECTIVELY AND DECLARING THEM AS HIS ONLY FAMILY (in present tense because earlier, thancred says he still defends minfilia’s ideals because it’s proof that she existed; so this is how he keeps her alive) fucking killed me man i am s o b b i n g at this translation

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Alphinaud, seeing Estinien after thinking he's dead: Oh no... You've come from the afterlife to collect me, haven't you? I'm finished.

Estinien: ...finished, you say?

Estinien: If you're that ready to die, I won't bother with any speeches.

Estinien: Alphinaud... I sentence you to death her and now. Prepare to die--

Alphinaud: Ack, wait!

Estinien: What's the matter? Come at me. I'll make it painless for you.

Alphinaud: But... I don't want to die.

Estinien: You don't?

Estinien: Then don't let me ever hear you say you're "finished".

Estinien: If the afterlife sends someone to collect you, you put that messenger in the ground.

[itsblorbotime]

continuing my heavensward ng+ replay commentary here on the tumbls bc twitter is a dumpsterfire and this is a better avenue for it anyway...

[harbingersecho]

neath dark waters

[of-the-eventide]

"You know... Even before you joined the Scions, you caught our eye quite quick." "Was it my good looks and pleasant personality?" "...I see what you're doing there... But no, most definitely not."