#ffxv rambling

[ichilemonwritruoo]

Just your friendly reminder that Noctis is not an angsty teenage slob in Brotherhood--he is a teenager going through spiraling clinical depression. This is not the apartment of someone who is too lazy to clean up after themselves this is the apartment of someone who is too mentally distraught and weighed down to even bother with self-care. I will go to my grave saying Noctis has depression all throughout the events of FFXV and you cannot change my mind lol.

[let-noctis-be-happy]

Tbh one of my favorite things about the little interactions between the guys in FFXV when you do link strikes is that these aren't the moves of people who have a lot of irl experience. These are the moves of four guys who spent hours training and goofing off in a training room. This is the first time they're successfully executing these moves against a real enemy thus why they do their little celebrations! The fist bumps, the high-fives, or pumping their fists in the air. It's like "holy shit that was so cool and it actually worked!"

[aberooski]

It's been just shy of 7 years since FFXV released back in 2016 already and I'm STILL not over the last campfire.

That scene is my roman empire.

[zzpromptosides]

some final fantasy 15 camp things that i think would be fun if you could see them in baldur's gate 3:

- having animations of gale trying to cook with the food tav finds : like noctis finds for ignis and ignis then cooks with the ingredients.

- cutscenes of characters cuddling up with scratch and the owlbear cub : like noctis cuddling up with the chocobos after you rent them.

- just some random scenes of companions having fun altogether : like the scene in one of the hotels where the group play cards, noctis and prompto chasing eachother and stuff.

- the last camping cutscene in final fantasy 15 where noctis talks to everyone and they share their final meal together as friends...

[blossom-adventures]

Although the King and the Lord shield are well aware of their relationship, the Captain of the Kingsglaive and the Marshal of the Crownsguard need to keep it secret for the rest of the staff in the Citadel, presenting their relationship as purely professional when they are in the corridors of the Citadel, however that facade doesn’t continue in the private offices

I commissioned the incredibly talented artist @wombywoo to do this for me, thank you so so much, it’s gorgeous and I can’t stop looking at it!

I’m going to take this opportunity to also say I have finally named my FFXV fic, it’s still a WIP and I haven’t finished the prologue yet, but I am happy with the title as it works for the 2 main ships in the story

My story is going to be called…

Guard & Glaive

[krisssssssy]

Reviewing everything on Ravus made me kinda sad. When I first played I hated Ravus. But he was the only character who knew things were “fated” a certain way by the gods and he still tried to change it.

Luna, Noctis, Ardyn, they’ve all resigned themselves to their chosen fates (granted, Ardyn did try to resist but Bahamut took care of that…). Only Ravus is like, no, fuck all that. There’s something really honorable in that, and it made me think maybe him trying on the Ring of Lucii wasn’t as arrogant as I once thought.

And honestly screw the Kings and Queens of Lucis! They rejected Ravus because he ultimately served his sister’s interests, not Noctis’. And I’m supposed to root for the Kings and Queens who have fucking Somnus as their founder?

I’m glad in Dawn of the Future we got to see more of the characters resist their fates. But Ravus is cool in my book. And his song Ravus Aeterna is one of my favorites!

[poohbea]

hello, hi. 😮‍💨🥹😵‍💫GLADIOLUS AMICITIA 😩🥰🫠

that's all. thank you.

[primamchorus]

realizing I need more ffxv blogs to follow 🫠

[shitpostingkats]

The sad truth of the matter is that in the pursuit for photorealism in open world games, what you end up with is a bunch of fantasy continents that just feel like rural america

[transgenderdoctorwhomst]

like this man looking this skinny just feels wrong. tell me i'm not one of two people who feel this way

like. its wrong. wheres his fat.

[marmolita]

ffxv fic that I think should exist though I have no desire to either read or write it: one of the bros is dating Noctis and wants to break up with him, but can't figure out how to do it, because Noctis is The King and there's all kinds of potential consent issues involved. OR, Noctis wants to date one of them, likely in an everyone lives AU, and the other guy feels like he can't say no even though he doesn't really want to.

I don't really want to read such a fic because I love Noctis and can't imagine anyone NOT wanting to be with him 🥲 but I feel like there's probably something interesting to be said about it. Maybe if someone were to write it in a way where it got into that angst but then Noctis realizes what's happening and feels terrible about it of course but ends up happy with someone else? Like as long as Noctis isn't the Bad Guy and gets a happy ending I'm here for it but I feel like this plot in general would be most likely to not end up there...

[ao3-softwarecorruption-exe]

Final fantasy 15 makes me SICK and Ignis especially Jesus Christ I have so much I actually want to write for this fandom, so much angst to explore especially post-canon someone shoot me

[let-noctis-be-happy]

Anyone else think about the fact that Lunafreya politely told a sea goddess who had every intention of hurting her to quit being cranky about humanity not worshipping her because she's the one who forgot about mankind first? Because honestly, that was such a power move and I wish we got to see more of that.

[transmasc-rose]

You ever think about how Noctis FFXV was doomed from the start.

Like thats the POINT of the game obviously but I still keep going back to it. In most games, even if the protagonist dies at the end, its a defiance of fate. It's "I'll take you with me" or "I won't let you do this"

But in FFXV

Everything that happened with Noctis and Ardyn, both of their deaths, how they suffered, was preordained by the gods.

There are AU-type endings, like the one in Episode Ignis, or the one in the book, where things go better. And the book was the written version of what they were GOING to make the true ending. But they never made that into the game.

Noctis was born to die. He dies.

Ardyn was abandoned to die. He dies.

And that's just. It. Thats the ending. Thats where we land. Ardyn was doomed by god to take the role of sacrifice and antichrist, and Noctis was doomed before he was even born to the role of sacrifice and saviour and there's nothing to be done.

You don't fix it. You don't fight it. You just walk into your fate and die.

And there's just something so much more upsetting about that than in narratives where death is the defiance of fate. Like the story stares at you in the face, and tells you giving up is the right thing to do.

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

Lil' update from me because this chapter is taking me ages.

I'm making slow progress, but it's progress! I'm now 5 whole pages in. That's aaround 4k words. Still a bit to go, so this might be a long one ^_^

Also a question: How did I end up writing mostly slow paced political/character drama? I have no idea how this happened XD

[blossom-adventures]

It’s done guys!!!!

And this all you’re getting until after the con 😉