#ffxiv x fall guys

[just-pug-things]

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[cklukilutz]

Well this is disappointing… :/

They put in the effort for these to be visible on viera, but didn't fancy the amount of effort it'd take for us to wear them like everyone else.

And whilst I can't deny the "knit cap" display on viera is a cute little guy, it's NOT a cap at all. It could've been a whole other item that everyone could use tbh.

And the crown? Why can't we have an oversized, side-worn one too? Again, it could've been a whole extra item for players to work towards, or even a visor option.

It's like, SE/FFXIV can see the finish line, but just can't be bothered taking a few extra steps to get there anymore, and it's really disheartening.

[superiorthaumaturge]

My wife likes the lil bean guys.

[cyazurai]

Dez (@daisydezem) and I have been having fun with the Fall Guys event.

[gammawilson]

I got my damn hoodie now I can stop. Glad Didi is having fun though.

As grumpy as Genji looks I actually really like the event in all its competitive sparkle fever dream glory. It’s fun to play with friends and get competitive. Chaos Lalafell is my friends wol Didi. They are Genji’s best friend whenever he needs to step back from wol duty and relax. In this case, run an insane obstacle course just to win a sparkled hoodie.

[hyzenthlay-kagon]

This is the most chaotic event ever! And I'm living for it!

[anonymouscomrade]

i kinda love the lengths they went to to make the Fall Guys collab actually feel like Fall Guys? not even just trying their damnedest to get as close as they could to reproducing the obstacle courses in the FFXIV engine but also the UI and animations and everything? your character even does the stupid little dance while it's tallying up your rewards after you get eliminated

please tell me they didn't try to do Tail Tag though. i hated Tail Tag because fucking sucked at it

[adachimerica]

so the fall guys event ended at 10 am EST, so then a bunch of us stayed an extra 45 minutes in the lobby and basically parkour'd our way ontop of the rainbow.

[lemon-plort]

holy shit I'm so bad at this event...

[toadeyes-miqote]

Suddenly Ivalice Argath Thadalfus PTSD

At least I won't die... And Tataru won't yell at me for about putting myself in danger...

That fight with the book wall demon and ice floor thing in Gubal Library ....

Varshahn!!! You responsible for this spinning from Alzadaal's Legact ?!?!?!?! @_@

Ahem The world is safe!!! No more Panademonium Somehow this fit Margrat more...

Oh noes

-------------- Seems easier on the eyes than the Fall Guys version of the game which felt more like Leap of Faith to me.

[leftski]

this is surreal

[starrysnowdrop]

I’ve gotten a bunch of the Fall Guys stuff from the event already, plus I ran Aloalo Island twice, so I decided to put together a new glam to show off, along with Hali’s new hairstyle! What do you think? I personally am in love with Hali’s new look! 💖

[ravingsockmonkey]

Ra'vi has a little friend on his head! Of course I had to make sure to grab some of the Fall Guys gear for my pink bun!

[tritoch]

for those we have lost; for those we can yet save

just want to write a quick post about the most famous recurring line in FFXIV. People generally recognize it as something characters say a lot, but if you pay close attention to when and how it comes up it's actually very VERY interesting, and deployed in very specific ways. To me, It's Minfilia's line but also in many ways a reminder of Moenbryda, and is very specifically raised by characters close to the two of them. spoilers through 6.0 below.

it's Minfilia's line, first of all, in that she's literally the first one to say it. She says it in 2.55, right before you throw in with Ishgard and assist in the defense of the steps of faith. As the patch number suggests, it's one of the last things any of the Scions hear from her before the Bloody Banquet.

(Quest: Committed to the Cause, 2.55. All this dialogue from the extremely excellent resource xiv.quest, by the way.)

In context, "those we have lost" and "those we can yet save" actually have two pretty specific meanings! While "those we have lost" obviously encompasses all the fallen Scions, from Louisoix to the attack on the Waking Sands to Wilred, its particular meaning here is almost certainly in reference to Moenbryda, because 2.55 starts with you attending her memorial service, and because Moenbryda specifically dies to save Minfilia! "Those we can yet save" refers, in part, to the fact that you are about to risk your lives in defense of Ishgard against the Dravanians, in part due to Aymeric's argument that should Ishgard fall, all of Eorzea is at risk. For these two reasons—to honor the sacrifice of a fallen friend and with an eye toward preventing needless bloodshed—you willingly forsake your neutrality.

When Minfilia returns in 3.2, she says it to you again, an echo of some of her final words to you:

(Quest: The Word of the Mother)

Note how the intent subtly shades differently here. Rather than taking up arms for a cause that isn't yours, Minfilia's use of the line is to justify offering herself to Hydaelyn. Here the connection to Moenbryda becomes even stronger: like Moenbryda, Minfilia is sacrificing herself for the good of the cause and with the aim of protecting her friends. Her self-sacrifice echoes and reinforces the legacy of her friend's sacrifice for her.

She repeats it again in 3.4, and by this point it's clearly and specifically her catchphrase:

(Quest: One Life for One World)

And of course, her use of it here precedes a triple sacrifice: her journey to the First, to remain there forever, to guard against the Flood of Light; the sacrifices of Ardbert's friends, who have already died once for the First and will offer up their aether in death to empower Minfilia against the Flood; and Ardbert, who is about to undergo his own version of Hydaelyn's Endwalk in miniature.

Minfilia says the line three times, taking it on as a kind of mantra and core justification behind all of her actions, and now in 3.X and 4.X they'll let you, the Warrior of Light, do the same.

The very first time the Warrior of Light gets to say it happens in the very same patch:

(Quest: An Ending to Mark a New Beginning)

Minfilia dies (okay sacrifices herself to become a good guy Ascian which will lead to her permanent death), and the very first dialogue option you get in the quest immediately after that is an option to echo her final words.

Because just as she said them to remind herself that she was following in Moenbryda's footsteps and honoring the sacrifice Moenbryda made for her, now you will do the same in her memory.

The next use, right at the start of 4.0, pretty much reiterates the same idea:

(Quest: Crossing the Velodyna)

It's Alphinaud basically giving you a chance to choose in-character why exactly your character is willing to go from minor sellsword work, to saving Eorzea, to saving Ishgard, to taking the fight to the Empire directly. In context, it suggests a sort of fatalism: events keep happening, and all you can do is keep your head high and do your best to honor the sacrifices of those who came before.

(also, notice how even here back in 4.0, the option that boils down to "I just love fights, and also fighting" has Alphinaud specifically call you "an adventurer," a theme Zenos will later build on two expansions later to great effect.)

Its other use in Stormblood, in 4.1, has it as the only clear and concrete answer you're allowed to give Fordola after she sees your memories with the Echo and asks why you keep fighting:

(Quest: The Butcher's Blood)

Nothing against the other two answers, they're just intentionally very vague. Only #2 lets you give a clearer answer. You keep fighting because so many have died (so many of them specifically for you, to save you), and there are so many who may yet still be given a chance to live. To honor the fallen and to protect the living. For grief and for hope.

Now, just as Minfilia and the Warrior of Light say it three times to affirm it as part of their characters, Urianger and Thancred get a pair of uses each, and the ways they use it specifically honor and invoke Minfilia and Moenbryda.

Urianger is the first to use it in 5.0, when he accompanies you to hunt for Titania's relics:

(Quest: A Visit to the Nu Mou)

He textually invokes Minfilia at the start of his lines here, which are intended to explain why he so clearly feels he has some moral duty towards the First. And that's very specific phrasing he uses, ignore the plight: that's specifically invoking Louisoix's oft-quote "To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom—it is indolence." So even as he says he does it because it is right, he acknowledges that he also does it because he feels its the moral duty that Louisoix, Minfilia, and Moenbryda's sacrifices have placed on him: to labor for those he has lost, for those that they too wanted to save. For Urianger, it's an expression of his deep compassion and almost utilitarian desire to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people, bound up in his grief and regret.

Next is Thancred:

(Quest: The Truth Hurts)

This one really hurts. Obviously, Thancred uses it because he's talking specifically about Minfilia, but he's not talking about her sacrifice. He's talking about the loss of her father, and about the idea that he failed to ever repay that first harm. For him, pressing on is not just about honoring her sacrifice, but about atoning for his unpardonable sins. It's about guilt.

And the irony in Thancred deploying it here is that in his own eyes, he says it as he attempts to expiate his sins by honoring Minfilia's sacrifice and giving Ryne a chance to choose her own future. Yet at the same time, he is adding to his sins because this time, in his eyes, his hands are also on the knife. Before, Minfilia's fate was an unlucky break, a black swan event. The Banquet, Hydaelyn, Urianger's machinations, the Warriors of Darkness, all of that was beyond his control.

But now, he will willingly stand by and let Minfilia die for a final time, because she has asked him to do so.

He is still learning from her, and from her choices:

(Quest: Full Steam Ahead)

To me, his use of it here, after the fight with Ran'jit when he kind of seems like he might die, is almost rueful. Like he never fully understood the import of her words until now, couldn't see past his own grief to the meaning at their core. But now he gets it. He understands why she had to do what she did, and how in turn he can honor her legacy not by clinging to her memory but living life as she would have.

"Your kindness, your compassion, your love..." he says, and this too is an echo of something she said at their parting. The last half of the line is: "These are your gifts to me, and our gifts to them, forming a bond which transcends time and space." Gifts passed from brother to sister, and now back again, and on to the future through Ryne.

Urianger gets the final use of it through 6.55, and it both honors all the uses of it prior and points the way to new lines of thinking:

(Quest: Back to Old Tricks; FFXIV's love for allusion shines through here but rather more subtly than with the Hamilton lines, as "dreadful algebra of necessity" is a direct pull from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series)

Here, the use is explicitly and textually tied to Minfilia and, for the first time since 2.55, Moenbryda. And Urianger is the first person in the text to explicitly question the line, painting it not as the principled output of noble martyrs but as a justification that the people those martyrs leave behind cling to in their grief, something they tell themselves to convince themselves that the sacrifice was justified. Or worse, the reasoning of a cold and bloodless utilitarian, who would willingly sacrifice his own friends and loved ones for the greater good.

They are dead, says Urianger, and we are not. What of those we cannot save? And, no less, what of us, who must go on in this world without them? How can anything ever justify this? How can we ever make peace with this?

It is the Warrior of Light who gets to answer Urianger, but he ultimately takes less from your answer itself than from the fact that you too struggle with the question:

Endwalker is, as ever, interested in the idea that perhaps some questions aren't quite answerable, but that the universality of the questions itself can be a great uniter and creator of purpose. None can easily make peace with the "dreadful algebra of necessity", but from Louisoix, to Moenbryda, to Minfilia, to you and the Scions, to Ryne and others, a rough, developing ethic has arisen: each of you, and the sacrifices you have made, honored the work and the will of those who came before, to pave the way for those who will come after.

Hope, arising from grief.

[anonymouscomrade]

fucking

impossible game for aliens

[blissfulalchemist]

OC Smash or Pass

Tagged by @statichvm and @adelaidedrubman to throw some ocs in the ringer. So have four of them to pick from. Sending tags out to: @belorage @unholymilf @strafethesesinners

@florbelles @confidentandgood @jackiesarch @leviiackrman @shallow-gravy and anyone else that wants to do it!

rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

Clídna (ffxvi)

QUICK FACTS.

full name: Clídna Warrick-Rosfield (don't blame her blame me I didn't think to come up with a last name doesn't seem relevant) height: 5' 9" (175.26cm) age: 28 cir. 873 / 32 cir. 878 gender: Female pronouns: she/her sexuality: bisexual/gay other features: has multiple face scars, with the biggest one being an X on her left cheek down into her neck. Others include one on her left eyebrow, on her right cheek, left side of her mouth, upper right forehead, and smaller ones that aren't very noticeable from afar.

Pros

🛡️Extroverted but will never drag you out to social things just wants to hang out with you 🛡️Strong. She can fireman carry Clive which like I mean he a big guy soooooo 🛡️Will guard you and protect you like the knight that she is. 🛡️Has ice/water powers so never have to worry about getting too warm ever.

Cons

🛡️She is a terrible patient. You will have to tie her down to the bed to rest. 🛡️So much trauma that isn't talked about. You aren't a magic user in that world and not have trauma 🛡️Has a tendency to run into danger to protect you and those that she loves/cannot protect themselves.

Demos (ffxiv)

QUICK FACTS.

full name: Demos Reyes height: 6' 3" (190.5cm) age: 32 cir. ARR / 37ish cir. Dawntrail gender: Male pronouns: he/him sexuality: bisexual other features: Has multiple scar on his body but the biggest one is on his face. A side slash right in the middle of it.

Pros

🌱 Good with his hands 😏 He's a healer, an artist, and blacksmith, they are multitalented. 🌱 An artist in multiple mediums. He's a blacksmith, drawer, painter, sculptor, you name it! 🌱 Very polite and sweet. Will treat you right, will do pretty much anything for you. He's a nice Eorzean small town man need I say more! 🌱 Saved the world multiple times.

Cons

🌱 Saved the world multiple times so his name and face is well known in places meaning you will have random strangers approach you. Don't worry he hates it too. 🌱 He's quiet. You wouldn't expect him to be but he is. 🌱 Dislikes the fae, has a huge mistrust of them. Despite this he is in a pact with their king. 🌱 Likes to wander and get lost. Will end up climbing trees and falling out of them and no this habit doesn't go away and won't until he is unable to do such things so good luck.

Tia (bloodlines)

QUICK FACTS.

full name: Hypatia "Tia" Caro height: 5' 9" (175.26cm) age: 27 gender: Female pronouns: she/her sexuality: mostly straight species: dhampir

Pros

🌄 Has fun colored hair which means she enjoys a lot of whimsy in her life! 🌄 Has a dog Mesa and a red tail boa named Paps. Both travel with her in her VW bus. 🌄 Well traveled and will go anywhere you suggest. 🌄 Very smart in math and has magical powers on top of being dhampir.

Cons

🌄 Likes to travel meaning she won't stay in one place for too long. 🌄 Can be stubborn with a my way or the highway mentality. 🌄 Has an old and powerful witch that was once a vampire and a secret organization after her. She's a criminal. 🌄 Will refuse to dress warmly/properly for cold weather, this means the desert is her favorite place to be.

Stasia (bloodlines, ffxiv)

QUICK FACTS.

full name: Stasia (given name Liana Enache) height: 5' 6" (167.64) age: ranges from 500 to 3,000 years old gender: Female pronouns: she/her sexuality: bisexual but self identifies as ace species: human witch to vampire to human witch. travels universes and is a half unsundered half human mage

Pros

🗡️ Is rich and has influential power. 🗡️ Will be upfront with you. No mind games here she ain't got time for that. 🗡️ Her loyalty is everything and beneficial for when you're in trouble. And she will have the utmost faith in you and your competence. 🗡️ She has magic powers and is immortal like need I say more? She also can make you immortal in some fashion to which ever suits your fancy. 🗡️ She comes with a bonus girlfriend!

Cons

🗡️ You cross her, you won't live to regret it. If you no longer prove useful you die. 🗡️ Has "creator" issues both vampirically and familial. She traded one for the other when going to a different universe but in the other universe its called Daddy Issues™️ 🗡️ You're not really in a relationship with her ever and will at times treat you like you're no one special but she does care....mostly.....you hope? just prepare yourself to have something complicated to explain when others ask. 🗡️ She's pretentious as fuck about a lot of things. And judgmental, you'll also find she will always speak to you in a bit of a condescending manner.