Apparently all my Ishgard friends are Ishgarding it up today and I'm loving it.

Keep posting about Ishgard and how much it sucks

ishgard needs to be as critically viewed and scrutinized as garlemald is and I'm Not Joking

I love Ishgard because it managed to do class politics in a way that isn't as flagrantly THIS IS BAD MMMKAY as Ul'dah and I really wish more people would play with that.

It also talks so much about the military industrial complex.

I love Ishgard as a socialist. So many toys for me.

Hey.

Points at you.

Let's RP.

Also I literally made Yves out of spite for people who want to RP nobility without the class politics to be the annoying asshole who shoves it in their face so hmu sometime <3

Everyone wants to RP Game of Thrones until you tell them that GoT's core theme is "History is written by whoever is in power and everyone in power sucks just as bad as you do."

It's because noble RPers want to live out their Bridgerton fantasies without realizing the whole point of Bridgerton was class politics.

It was always fun when I was in A Certain Ishgard RP Server as the only loud and proud Brume character who never stopped reminding them that their manors are built with blood and most of the RP requests I got were nobles wanting to "put him in his place."

i do not trust anyone who writes an oc of ishgardian nobility but doesn't want to broach the topic of class politics in their writing

imagine being Hydaelyn & having to liaison with academia-flavored libertarians bc they're the only ones who've managed to make consistent contact with you. no wonder she was worried abt mankind not being able to save the world lmao

(And for reference, if you compare the top 1% in America to the average of the bottom 99% now, that's a 2600% difference so you should be mad too)

That's a difference of 825%, and that's why Yves is angry.

"But what about the nobility he hates?"

I'm glad you asked.

From what sources I can find, IRL high ranking nobility made around $40k in just annual income. That comes out to 33,000 gil a month.

Lord Fortemps is rollin' in it.

"But a small house costs 3mil!"

Yeah, and those small houses canonically are meant only for adventurers. There are quests in each zone that tell you that they're not for sale to regular residents. I wonder why.

This also kind of explains why Yves doesn't like adventurers coming into Ishgard very much. They gentrify the place.

This kind of tracks since canonically a suit of armor for an adventurer is supposed to cost a few months wages for most and they vendor for around 2-3k sometimes.

Now that he works as an airship technician, his wages are more like $1.20 a day (based off boiler makers in the US), so double what he made before as an unskilled laborer, but still only 4k a month.

So when people charge that much ICly for a drink at a bar he's like ???????

Got bored randomly and decided to figure out just how poor Yves was.

Ishgard seems to be like late-1800s Europe now. An unskilled laborer made ~60 cents a day American. If we assume gil works like yen, that means he earned 60 gil a day, meaning he only made around 2000 gil A MONTH.

Enjoy this lil dude named Mr. Martian I made

@eevswah.bsky.social gave me the fun prompt <3

Idk maybe something like "Y-Dogg" and he can be like Bandit Keith or something.

The funny thing is that Yves has a "real life" equivalent name spelled the same way, but it's pronounced like "Eve" and I think that 4kids would find that "too queer"

you're making an analysis tool for the analysis tool. has science gone too far?

There's also a Painfully Ishgardian (TM) part of him that's begrudgingly grateful for the end of the Dragonsong War but also thinks "uh excuse me unbeliever this was not your fight to fight and how dare you decide for us how we handle it"

I don't headcanon details about them because I want to leave it open for anyone who RPs a WoL to interact with him. Just know he will likely be hostile.

Yes and Yves does not trust this person as far as he can throw them. He believes the WoL is a naiive yes-man who only exists to maintain the status quo the Eorzean Alliance desires. To him, Eorzea cannot have full autonomy with them around.

Like if we're going with Ishgard being Fantasy France then we have to reckon with the fact that medieval French peasants will party for any reason you can think of and it'll be a banger every time.

People decorate with whatever they can find and give gifts of homemade goods to help the new couple on their way. There's dancing and singing and unfiltered joy in spite of the circumstances. The world may not want them to celebrate, but dammit they're going to anyway.

One thing I feel a lot of people miss about portraying poverty is that it's not all doom and gloom all the time. There have to be some bright spots to make life worth living, and I feel weddings and feast days are the major ones in the Brume.

Thinking Ishgard thoughts...

I bet there's no starker difference between Ishgardian nobles and Brume people than how they celebrate weddings.

I headcanon that noble weddings are full of ritual and pomp where Brume weddings are basically one big community party.

She looks like a 40 year old divorced mom with 2 cats and I love that for her