#maqui ffxiii

[givelightningherharem]

I’m so happy, I finally have yeuqui food 🥹🥹 thank you SO MUCH @akimojo for taking on this comm, I’m so friggin excited to have such cute art of these two, I adore them sm, their potential is amazing and the amount of fluff with just that touch of angst is so good😭 thank u so much once again 🥺🥺💕💕🙏🙏

[tenebraetrash17]

When you can’t decide if your favorite type of ship is a pure and innocent duo with a crush or two bitter people ready to judge the world together.

Silver’s Rare Pairs: 1//?????

tagging @givelightningherharem per request!

[oerbadiafanille]

Ffxiii -> Favourite Friendships: 2/?

NORA

[thecommoncurator]

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Final Fantasy XIII 2

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Snow is the Ideal Lightning: an FFXIII Analysis

I don’t really see this brought up a lot, and I would like to talk about it. FFXIII spoilers.

Snow and Lightning’s relationship is one of the most complex friendships in the FF franchise. The combination of insecurity, jealousy, humor, tension, reconciliation, and eventual familial love is what solidifies itself as intricate and impressionable. In this thoughtpiece I would like to explore a less discussed aspect in Snow and Lightning’s dynamic.

Lightning and Snow, despite surface impressions, aren’t that fundamentally different as people.

To start, they share similar backstories and attributions derived from said backstories. Snow and Lightning are both orphans who suffered from lack of parental guidance, and in turn, they became the parental guidance figure for the people around them. Snow for the NORA members he grew up with since his orphanage, and Lightning for Serah’s sake when the Farron sisters were bereaved.

As a result of this, Snow and Lightning both place emphasis on heroism and familial values for the sake of others. Snow grows into his hero role as a vigilante group leader, but also acts as a family man towards them, even drawing Maqui out of his shell of introversion before he joined NORA. Snow even states he wants to have a “big happy family” with Serah, and a large part of his heroic efforts in XIII in general are for her sake at a constant. Lightning also strove to obtain her idea of heroism, but the methods she used to do so weren’t beneficial in the long-term. The bereaved Lightning, at the age of 15, had an idea of heroism that focused on physical strength as means of protecting and providing for her family, and thus joined the army. Regardless of effectiveness, both fundamentally follow very traditional models of heroes to embody a pillar of physical and parental strength for the people around them who depend on them.

Where Lightning and Snow are disparate is the effectiveness of their values and how they conduct themselves, emotionally, in their ideas of heroism. Snow wears his heart on his sleeve, and also is very emotionally accommodating (when not being oblivious). He fulfills the roles of his (unpaid) job and family in almost every aspect. Lightning, on the other hand, interpreted being emotional as weakness when she constructed her martial persona as a teen, and also was described to have been emotionally inept in social situations with others as a child. This later spiraled into being destructive, both physically and emotionally to her family and teammates––essentially having Snow’s morals but with am aggressive approach.

Snow and Lightning’s worlds collide when Snow tries to marry Serah, or effectively merge his idea of family with Lightning’s. He even calls Lightning “big sis” in the JP version ( just “sis” in ENG ) to both be accommodating and inclusively familial to her. Lightning sees this as a threat, regardless of Snow’s good intentions, for a number of reasons.

In their first encounter, audio dramas and official novels, Snow and the rest of NORA meet Lightning on a GC mission and effectively save her life from monsters in the field. Amodar, Lightning’s own boss, praises Snow and his teammates for his work, even asking him to join the GC. Snow, of course, immediately denies. Thus begins Lightning’s insecurity towards Snow and everything he and his group stands for.

When prompted by her boss if she had heard of NORA as an organization, Lightning immediately lies out of jealousy as a form of preserving her dignity. Snow & co. were able to accomplish her same job as her without being professionally trained, and were rightly prideful in it, which made Lightning insecure about her own abilities and pride.

Lightning spirals into further insecurity and jealousy when Serah, accompanied by Snow, breaks the news about Serah being a l’cie at Lightning’s 21st birthday party, and also news of their engagement.

Lightning interprets this as a ploy by Serah to have an excuse to get married to Snow. She lashes out by threatening the possibility of killing her as an intimidation tactic, and also did this because she wanted control over the situation to mitigate the insecurity over “losing” Serah. Regardless of her intentions, she emotionally hurt Serah who straight up runs away, the opposite of what she intended to do: to protect her.

In the novels it is shown that Lightning had been emotionally dissonant with Serah prior to this fiasco. Ever since she joined the Guardian Corps, she was consumed with her career and estranged herself from Serah, chasing and becoming a toxic idea of heroism while unintentionally running away from her problems. She becomes aware of how she negatively affected Serah after the encounter, but she does not understand that the problem is not only from not spending time with Serah––the emotional strain between them is from her own toxicity and escapism, which the game itself tackles.

Snow picks up where Lightning “left off”, and after confronting her, vows to be the one to protect Serah, implying Lightning has already given up this position despite being Serah’s blood family. Serah herself criticizes Lightning’s approach of good intentions with bad actions and emotional neglect, and how Snow was a bigger emotional support to her than Lightning was.

Snow does what Lightning can’t––but wants to do––through his constant direct action. Naturally, this causes the jealousy from Lightning’s behalf towards Snow in their relationship in the course of the events of the game.

In the first half of the chapters in XIII, Snow and Lightning collide at every turn, even so far as to get physical.

Snow’s belief and trust in Serah is his guide for a large part of his sense of hopefulness and positivity. Snow is willing to do “whatever it takes“ and because a combination of guilt and responsibility, he is bent on protecting Serah and keeping his word.

Lightning is also consumed by guilt over failing Serah, but runs away from addressing the actual problem or providing viable solutions not rooted in senseless violence/fighting. Lightning also wants to do “whatever it takes”, and even recognizes in Chapter 3 that Snow has the right idea, but her insecurity towards him prevents her from cooperating.

Another reason Lightning lashes out on him is, because instead of verbally acknowledging herself as the problem as to why she “lost” Serah, she thinks it’s easier to take her frustration out on Snow––the manifestation of her mistakes. Snow is also someone who shared similar values and even a similar job, played by the rules, and was able to fulfill the roles of family man not just to one person, but to multiple people, and thus excels in actualizing his desires and values, unlike Lightning.

Neither he government, l’cie curse, nor Snow were the ones who took Serah away from Lightning, in an emotional sense. The estrangement between the sisters and both the rapport between Snow and Serah is a product of Lightning’s own actions and deficiency, which she refuses to understand and own up to for a large part of the narrative.

Lightning eventually comes to terms with her impractical idea of strength and begins to unpack such mindset. She gradually understood the persona she constructed as a teen backfired, emotionally stunted her growth, and poisoned the familial relationship she was trying to preserve in the first place. The turning point of this mindset is when she shows weakness and honesty in making peace with the physical representation of her guilt and shortcomings: Snow.

At the end of the day, Lightning and Snow are both people with similar experiences, goals, and morals, but are different in their success in engineering their reality to match their personal values. They clash because of Lightning’s insecurity and jealousy, and it’s only when Lightning decides to give up her pride and talk through her problems that she is able to move on from such negative feelings.

In her emotional growth, Lightning admits she desired the ideal pillar of emotional strength that Snow provided for the team, and begins to channel and reapply herself into that same paragon. She becomes the ideal hero she wanted to be, but specifically in the emotional department, even supporting Snow in his times of despair, along with the rest of her teammates and family.

Disclaimer: I’m sorry if this makes Snow look angelic, he is very flawed as a human being and that’s literally the entire point of the Snow+Hope arc, this is just me talking about him in the context of Lightning’s perspective of jealousy, she herself even acknowledged some problems with his personality.

My sources are the trilogy, the Episode Zero Promise novels, and the audio dramas. Thanks for reading!

[sheiscandlelit]

Kupocon evening #kupocon #ffxv #ffxiii #prompto #noctus #maqui #cosplay #casualcosplay #ukcosplayer #cosplayer

[givelightningherharem]

What if I make a yeuqui (maqui/yeul) fancam

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tell us about johnny :0

hes like the same height as me and his favorite member of bts is j-hope and hes kin with maqui from ffxiii and demyx from kh and lotsa other stuff and his lockscreen and homescreen are both pictures of me (kuromi and zexion) and hes so gay and has orange hair … ogmfm

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Final Fantasy XIII

[givelightningherharem]

Happy Anniversary FFXIII-2!!🎉🎉

Ffxiii-2,,,,where do I start with this game,,,there is a lot to love about this game, from a more improved battle system, new beautiful music, the whole collecting monsters and using them to fight alongside you in battle, the paradox endings, and so much more. But, if I were to rank all three ffxiii games, this one would definitely rank the lowest for a few personal reasons. Regardless, that doesn’t make this game any less fun, it was amazing to see Serah come into her own, and ffxiii-2 Lightning is without a doubt my favorite Lightning for so many reasons.

Happy anniversary to this fun game! I’m glad to have it in my life. Even if I have my own gripes about it, that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable 🥺💕

[givelightningherharem]

That one time Hope tried to come out of his shell around new people, only for it to backfire on him ;w;

[givelightningherharem]

Team NORA when they first meet Lightning:

[givelightningherharem]

Since obviously I can't read what it says, I'm assuming the first picture is concept arts of what Lightning's gunblade could have looked like? Blazefire Saber is hella iconic, but these designs look hella cool!

The second picture is of Lightning using one of these gunblades and god damn, my queen is absolutely wrecking shit 😩✊

[givelightningherharem]

YeuQui edits because this ship deserves more love.