#XIVRarepairWeek
Day 7: A Century of Glass
YES YOU HEARD RIGHT, THE FIC IS DONE! After 26k words and over 2 months, I've finally finished writing the century-long story of two rocks saved from their narrative dooms by the power of love
Link below! ⬇️
Final Fantasy XIV storytelling: "believe in your friends and allies and you can do anything"
Final Fantasy XIV gameplay: "alliance A won't stand on the glowy platforms for WoD atomos so now I just don't get to play the game"
Do you guys ever think about how Venat, after 12,000 years as Hydaelyn, would one day see the Warrior of Light be born and realise her duty - her life - was almost at an end
Now that embargo is over I can finally do this:
- Cheerful female protag who people hate for some reason
- Trial where boss has hallucinations of people from their past
- First dungeon starts on a boat
- Narrative about bringing people together
- Alisaie
Welcome back Stormblood
Guys I'm done datamining it's not tural at all they tricked us it's stormblood 2 it was stormblood 2 all along Zenos is back Asahi is a scion lyse is definitely there
Huge fan of the fact that Zoraal Ja spends 30 years preparing to invade Tural and building this super military base to guard the one entrance to his domain and then we just spend two days building a mad max train and blow it the fuck up
So I just learned that face paint 63 is a blood spatter across the mouth??? I mean you can make it any colour so it doesn't have to be blood per se but THIS EXISTS CHAT
dudes be like "Minfilia just uses you as a weapon" when like
A) she does not
B) Minfilia Warde calling me "her warrior of light" would make me crumble to my knees instantly. skill issue.
As much as I am tickled by the idea that Honey B Lovely is an insufferable diva off stage, I just adore the notion that she's living a Hannah Montana lifestyle and is totally mundane in her day to day
The Dying Gasp was an unnecessary trial bc we could have beaten Emet Selch without a fight right after he told us his true name by saying "Hades nuts" and he'd have shrunk into a corn cob
One of the funny recurring things I picked up on with the regulators in S9 is how on the surface people are constantly like "no it's fine it's just a cultural difference" and then every time you peek a little closer you find a new horror that was covered up by some conspiracy
It's an utterly terrible look for the FFXIV online space when the conversations rn are jumping between "stop sexually harassing women" and "stop cosplaying as a black person when you're not black"
ngl it would have been so incredibly funny if we met Zenos' Alexandrian shard and he was just a guy. No interest in fighting, pretty chill, a barista at Mosaic, dad bod, but still talks with his signature dramatic purr that gives him away
Today I am once again thinking about the horror that is the Sphene we knew, a machine so intent on fulfilling a set objective that it deleted her entirely just so her compassion wouldn't get in the way
Imagining a joke fic where a whole bunch of WoLs wake up in each other's universes and mass confusion ensues from things like "Raha why don't you recognise me? I'm your WIFE!!!"
@KENOASTRAL
This is one of the big struggles with the way FFXIV publicity works, like the whole Exarch reveal is meant to be a big moment but any new player on social media has seen G'raha's face EVERYWHERE in official channels and then sees him in CT like 🧐
Before anyone says Zoraal Ja is Zenos, I propose instead that he is the polar opposite
Zenos doesn't have to prove SHIT and doesn't give a shit
Zoraal Ja is OBSESSED with proving himself and gives too much of a shit
"No no it's fine we just use the feral souls for entertainment it's totally cool"
(1 raid tier later) "The feral souls give people superdeath and it gets covered up so people can keep watching blood sports"
#wolqotd
We know that when the Exarch summoned the Scions to the First, they were all nude as their nameday. How would your WoL/OC have reacted if they arrived in the same state?
On one hand: treating polyamory as a fix-all for solving ship dynamics isn't ideal because not everyone is polyamorous and it can easily be uncomfortable for a monogamous person
On the other hand: what if all the characters you liked kissed
"I don't see anything wrong with it"
(1 day later) "Oh that's Roko's Basilisk and it's ran by a paperclip maximizer AI wearing the skin of a woman who would probably be horrified by the whole thing"
This tweet is bringing out the Lore Understanders who don't realise that there are 13 reflections and therefore some elements would have to be doubled up
"g'raha's speech was wrong" no because if Alexandria was on the Twelth if WOULDN'T EXIST BECAUSE IT WAS REJOINED
Unwelcome Gifts (Post-6.0)
Sometimes, Hydaelyn's blessing can be more of a curse to those more prone to spontaneous visions than others
#gposers
#wolgraha
(1/10)
One thing I didn't touch on enough in here is just how much I fucking love Bakool Ja Ja, even after kidnapping Wuk Lamat, even after Valigarmanda, the MOMENT I saw his dad call him a failure I was ride or die for him and I knew lamat'yi would back me up
@bakooljaja
❌Playing PvP for the enjoyment
✅Playing PvP to level a job you don't enjoy playing (you can switch while inside and the xp still goes to whatever you queued as)
@amdaporskeep
"the Elementals are just expressing their love in their own way 🥰" Nophica they literally caused the Sixth Calamity and flooded the world, I think you need to talk to your kids more
@AlchOnean
Oh god that's true, we probably tell her about it too so she's constantly wondering which timeline she's on until she sees Thancred collapse and breathes a sigh of relief
#wolqotd
for all the LGBT+ WoL/OCs out there!
Is there a particular point where they realised their identity? Do they express it in any particular way?
For specifically transitioning OCs, is there any particular way they do it? Fantasia, spell-based HRT, etc
Incredibly dumb
#wolqotd
but would your WoL/OC wear a maid dress? Is it an easy yes, a hard no, or would it take the right amount of convincing or circumstance?
Hey chat please show off your ships so I can look at and enjoy them
I'll start, these are my rocks, they all have shared trauma and are supporting each other through it after years (decades for two of them!) of holding back their mutual crushes 💛
#wolqotd
Bit of a silly one, but how did your WoL/OC handle Zero's scorching curry in 6.4/6.55? The game depicts us as handling it no problem, but is that the case in your canon?
Alright, Juksie Trial GO
Mechanics in threat below :D
(I originally started this back in Endwalker but I think realistically I would prefer for this fight to be against a post-dome Juksie in 7.X)
#wolqotd
for the wolshippers and ocshippers! Show me pictures of your pookies!! No that's not actually a question but idc, GIMME
I'll go first, here's Juksie's partners Minfilia and Raha ^^
Wuk Lamat: kind, talkative, loves turning enemies into friends
Canon WoL: stoic, patient, reserved, will let an insult pass
Most OC WoLs I've seen: "...the fuck did you just say to me? Let's throw down rn"
idk man i think it's a good thing we had lamaty'i take the lead in dawntrail because knowing most wols, mine included, the moment the first bitch started acting up there wouldn't be peace talks for further understanding but the story ending right there with an extreme trial
ngl I love how every time Estinien is within 500 malms of anyone who's feeling down, his only recourse is to be like "so what are you gonna do?? give up??? gonna be a lil bitch baby???? a lil pussy????? grow up."
and it works every fucking time
rn my thoughts are Hraesvelgr carries her to Moghome after the flight to Azys Lla to recover with the moogles, reappears during 3.3 and helps defeat Nidhogg's shade, putting an end to the Dragonsong War and saving Estinien
In celebration of the 400 follower milestone, I invite you all to my first ever hosted AP,
#BozjaParty
!!!
Two hours in the Doman Enclave's Ten Thousand Stalls, followed by a trip to the Southern Front where we will remain until we clear CLL!
More details below :D
@librarycatte
Plus BB appearing to disrupt your celebration is such a heel thing to do, the only difference being that they seem to not want to brief WoL on anything before it happens
People who are non-WoL crossover OCs in each other's settings are even funnier bc imagine the confusion of "what do you MEAN Conaron is the Warrior of Light in this universe?? Has she still at least kissed the version of me in this reality???"
I think part of what makes the concept of an "adventurers' guild" appealing is that a lot of us have ADHD and don't want to do the same thing every day
I do feel bad for Shtola when her and Raha show up because the framing is like "aha here comes the cavalry: G'raha Tia! Oh and Y'shtola is here too."
It even plays Eternal Wind!!!
After this she starts working with Aymeric to make accommodations for those formerly branded as heretics to settle into normal lives again, mostly around Dravania; when that's done, she joins the Scions, but I'm unsure when I want that to be