#ok zenos

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku

[1driedpersimmon]

Baby Au and doodles :)

[deckitout]

slowly... teaching myself to draw everyone

[florestxiv]

Zenos nyator Galvus 🌸✨️

[mizukissies]

yuukei yesterday × kuroaka posting

[fisherrprince]

little weirdo beast mode

[purplepenguintime]

Watching and Dreaming alternate ending leaked

[alihchka]

Suit man

[perrypixel]

The more I hear from others the Luz and Hunter’s VAs don't support lunter is laughable bc the way they were bantering and flirting with each other in Hunting Palisman like they really thought there was a chance that they were each other's character's love interest at the time of recording that episode

[tillman]

got really into this guy over maint. for some reason.

[starrysharks]

my little human?

some ref sheets i finished down below:

[thefandomexpert]

ok. dawntrail opinions

Overall I enjoyed it! my expectations were met, which is about all i can ask for coming off of the arr-ew epic. I do think they had some issues trying to ‘recapture the vibes’ though. There are several points where things are introduced as direct analogues to things the wol has experienced (provided you’ve done the earlier expansions) when they should have been left as their own, new experiences.

The most obvious of this is Zoraal Ja being stated, in game, to be a Zenos-equivalent. Which he is NOT. Zenos would never think about the consequences of his actions that much, his point is he doesn’t HAVE a reason. he says himself in ew: ‘would you hate me less if I had a good reason?’ that’s zenos. he’s there to make you confront how you view morality in that sense: what’s a ‘good enough’ reason to commit atrocities? if there is a ‘good enough’ reason, what if someone decides the line is somewhere else than you do? Zoraal Ja could have been a neat parallel where he does have a ‘good reason’ for turning to violence, but this, and the other major interesting thing about his character (ie. his relationship to his father and adopted siblings) is completely glossed over, ignored, and unexplored in favor of keeping him just a super strong ‘unknowable’ enemy. he’s a zenos equivalent only if you understand neither characters beyond their very basic plot purpose and it pissed me off they’d make the choice to POINT THAT OUT in a game that’s kind of made a living on making you examine grey morality.

Similarly, the last quarter of the expansion was a direct parallel to the decision we make in late shb and ew regarding the ancients and stopping the ascians. I feel like they felt like too many people were sidestepping the fact that we made a moral choice at The Dying Gasp; ‘they’re already dead/they’ve made villains of themselves.’ In removing the timeline fuckery of elpis and solidifying the shades in the amaurot equivalent, the alexandrian plotline seems to try very hard to corner you on those fronts and impress upon you that while the correct decision is to fight for your right to exist, it is a heavy decision and you Are Destroying Things, other people’s potential futures, in doing so. Again, I think this was well done (having whole areas of pretty assets erased after like 2 questlines in each one? bonkers. props to them.) but it was SO close to the ascian plotline it started to get distracting. like. They have Cahcuia say the ‘remember we once lived’ line. I love her (favorite va of the expac too) but why would you do that. get my grandpas words out your mouth rn. dead serious. This was a time for discussing the difference between permanent, remotely stored ‘memories’ of the departed and the fallible but active task of having the living population remember those they’ve lost, but instead they just. again, ignored the new interesting thing and decided to make sure you remembered the major plot line of the major villains of the past 10 years. like i love my ascians but if you wanted to do that you could have had whatever minor ascian enacted the lightning calamity be around!!! fuck!!!!

anyway the people who think wuk lamat is lyse 2 are just straight up wrong tho. They are NOT parallels they have the exact opposite character arc What are you Smoking

[florestxiv]

"But then came the light."

I am so very normal about WoL/Zenos. 💖

[fisherrprince]

I was taking some screenshots (excited about playing as my friends) but estinien pulled right when I took the SCREEN SHOT before I could even see what Alphinaud’s moves did—

[moniiiii112]

me drew aki

[genderdotcom]

fickle canon mount tally

company chocobo: she names it "contrarian" because of its innate ability to ignore anything she tells it to do in favour of running off to fight something. she thinks it's a male chocobo. one day contrarian will lay an egg and fickle will have an existential crisis

black chocobo: given to her by haurchefant, but MIA after being left at rhalgr's reach just before zenos attacked

argos: her mum left her a gay dog in the will

pod 602: even if she doesnt have any of these other mounts, she has this in her pockets somewhere

garlond GL-II: for inventing motorcycles and giving one to fickle, cid is raised to "honorary butch lesbian" status