#theres something so paternal about this era

[elvisgasm]

Absolutely. Understood. Abso-fuckin-lutely

[minarcana]

spspspsp 📂 one for each muse :)

laurel - she genuinely, for real, 100% does not comprehend the eorzean general view of sex and gender being in any way linked and gender-exclusive words. shed say like 'i want to be a husband/father' bc in her view, in a couple with children the 'father' is simply whoever didnt bear the child themselves and oftentimes the one who will go out to provide while the 'mother' is whoevers currently babysitting, and laurel doesnt expect to be bearing a kid herself. usually. theres a few exceptions she'll wife herself for. lack of gender and sex linked for her language is mostly because viera have super low male population so theres a lot of lesbianism going on, harold, and gendered loanwords instead just became shorthand for 'whoever is filling that typical role, as borrowed from eorzean culture'.

nero - since he's high rank and decently involved in the eorzea campaign, he was expected to learn some of the regional languages, so he speaks french ishgardian. this is for me a fun fact that since garlemald is based on moscow, in the late tsarist era, french was a highly fashionable language for the elite to learn to the point that noble children were often better at french than russian. im hitting nero with my beams.

urianger - tataru has taught him how to knit. he's not great at it but he does his best. sometimes he's helped her on her outfit-making endeavours-- while he has no outfit design abilities, he can cut and measure as instructed.

estinien - he has weird standards for food, if something's offered to him he'll probably eat it regardless of what it is and not complain. but he also has a lot of opinions on food with decided favourites and if he has money and ability he's much pickier. when he's somewhere new he likes trying things he hasn't before, it's a part of his desire to expand his world.

rusi'a - he's an omnigatherer/omnicrafter but his worst talent is blacksmithing. it's just a bunch of heavy sweaty work that's worse than mining, in his opinion. he doesn't want to make armour, it's such a pain to deal with shaping metal when if he needed armour he could just make reinforced leather gear, bah.

secret bonus muses merlwyb - she views slafyrsyn as a paternal figure after she had to kill her father, but neither he nor she will ever admit that in their lives. on the topic of merl and people in limsa with secret identities, she is also well aware of who carvellain actually is and considers it a diplomatic secret, since he's good for business.

aroro, my tonbebbie - she wants to take the place of levemete at some point because she has a sincere enjoyment of doing paperwork so long as its for helping people. she gives a meaningful stare at the uldah adventurers guild every time she takes a leve. he doesnt know what it means but feels, somehow, threatened.

esugen - he can embroider, and gets a handful of weaving work tossed at him too on top of cooking for the entire dawn throne. he takes less pride in that, though, but at least he's gotten better about not intentionally doing a half-assed job on any of the buduga groups clothing. just some of them that are intentionally annoying. he probably takes care of magnai's clothing too considering all the men are too busy beating the shit out of each other and the unwed women generally avoid magnai so it leaves esugen to deal with him.

[pespillo]

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

its VERRYYYYY complicated to explain without delving into certain little personal traumas and childhood experiences ive had but its like, hmm how do i explain, like, the Collector doesnt have good role models for WHAT IS a "family" or what really "friendship" entails, everything is very transactional, a lot of trying to impress the other so they take you seriously, the Collector has their standards on the ground, and thinks that a promise to be "friends forever" is worth GIVING IT YOUR ALL to one sole person, cuz like well, hes a kidddd hes tiny, they dont get it. They dont even really get what they feel for Philip in the sense that really like, Philip could have been an older brother figure for him, like how Caleb was the older brother to Philip.

but he is always projecting a lot of the Titan on Philip (they are old, they are bitter, they are eternal and "boring") , i do ESPECULATE that the Titan and the Collector were sort of allies in one era but SOMETHING happened that lead to the Titan punishing him to the disc, and the Collector wants to transform Philip into a paternal figure but like, well, Philip is just a huge son of a bitch and we already know how the story goes.

meanwhile Philip has that thing of, objectifying people, he objectifies and deshumanizes the grimwalkers, and its probable that he teach Collector to do the same with all the time they spent together making them, he maintaned Collector trapped in the disc because it was way easier to to manage them in that form, and Kikimora MENTIONS that the guy "feared" the kid but like i find that strange cuz like Belos would have had to either READ or HEARD about these things before meeting them right? unless the kid threw a tantrum at some point? but i find it weird considering how the Collector only starts screaming and crying at THE LAST MOMENT in the day of unity as hes being betrayed, but what do i know, we dont know yet!!! the thing is that i believe Belos has a point of desperation when trying to get something, mostly hes always using things like, compliments or vague promises of pre-destination, or trying to give pity, a lot of dirty games, he likes to predate on people´s insecurities and most of all gaslighting them, the thing is that Philip has the bad habit of running his mouth and insulting people to their face when he thinks everything is already going his way, like at Kiki, which would be goin BADLY if he tries to recover them to his side.

maybe really really deep inside him, Philip has some sort of twisted form of affection towards Collector, but in a very similar way to how he sees the grimwalkers, they "arent" human, but "they look" human, and for Philip what only truly matters are human beings (and its twisted that he keeps insisting hes doing a favor to Luz and by extension Camila), any kid near him that he can project that familiarity of Caleb is sufficient for a while, but if they dont do what he wants, he already considers them a dead object, it doesnt entertain him and the illusion is broken because he cannot accept theres something wrong WITH HIMSELF.

tengo la reverenda curiosidad d saber sobre como ves la relación de belos y el coleccionista bc como los dibujas me deja mordiendo el teclado(/pos) interpretándolo AND I NEED TO HEAR ABOUT IT

es REEEEE complicado de explicar sin terminar denotando ciertos traumitas personales y experiencias de la niñez que tuve pero es como, hmm como lo explico, como que el Coleccionista no tiene buenos modelos de rol de QUE ES ser "familia" o que realmente entorna "la amistad" , es como todo muy transaccional , mucho tratar de impresionar al otro para que te tome en serio , como que el Coleccionista tiene los estandares por el piso, y piensa que la promesa de ser "amigos para siempre" vale la pena DARLO ABSOLUTAMENTE TODO a una sola persona, por q bueh, el es un chicooo es chiquito, no entiende. Ni siquiera entiende muy bien lo que siente for Philip en el sentido que realmente, Philip pudiera haber sido una figura de hermano mayor para el , como Caleb era hermano mayor para Philip.

pero es como que tambien proyecta mucho del Titan en Philip (son viejos,son amargados, son eternos y "aburridos") , como que yo ESPECULO que el Titan y el Coleccionista eran aliados en una epoca pero ALGO paso y termino con el Titan castigandolo al disco, y el Coleccionista quiere transformar a Philip en su figura paterna pero bueh, Philip es como es y es un hijo de puta ya sabemos la historia.

mientras Philip tiene esa cosa de, objectificar a la gente, objectifica y deshumaniza a los grimwalkers , y es probable que le enseño a hacer lo mismo a el Coleccionista con tanto tiempo que estuvieron juntos haciendolos, lo mantuvo al Coleccionista atrapado en el disco por que es mas facil de manejar de esa forma, y Kikimora MENCIONA que el tipo le tenia "MIEDO" al pibe pero me parece raro por que Belos tuvo que haber LEIDO o ESCUCHADO sobre esas cosas antes de conocerlo no? a menos que el mismo chico le hubiera tirado una rabieta en algun momento? pero me parece raro considerando como el Coleccionista solo se pone a gritar y llorar A ULTIMO MOMENTO en el Dia de La Unidad cuando lo estan traicionando, pero igual yo que se no se sabe todavia!!!

la cosa es que yo creo q Belos tiene un punto de desesperacion cuando quiere conseguir algo, mas que todo siempre usa cosas como, cumplidos, o vagas promesas de pre-destino, o dar pena, muchos juegos sucios, le gusta predar en las inseguridades de otros y mas que todo invalidarlos, la cosa es que a Philip le corre la boca varias veces y insulta a la gente a la cara cuando piensa que ya tiene todo dado hecho, como a Kiki, lo que le viene MAL si quiere tratar de recuperarlos a su lado.

tal vez muy muy adentro suyo, Philip tiene una especie turbia de afecto hacia el Coleccionista, pero es muy parecido a como ve a los grimwalkers, no Son humanos, pero "parecen" humanos , y para Philip , los unico que valen en realidad son los seres humanos (y es turbio que sigue insistiendo que le esta haciendo favores a Luz y por extension Camila) , cualquier niño cerca al que pueda proyectar esa familiaridad a Caleb le es suficiente por un rato, pero si no hacen lo que el quiere, ya los da de objecto muerto, no lo entretiene y la ilusion se rompe por que no puede aceptar que algo esta mal CON EL.