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making a skykid loosely inspired by fandaniel in skycotl only to find out there's an entire questline acting out the 'blue bird of happiness' play endwalker seems to be based on is a WILD fucking experience
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GOD SAME I WOULD DIE FOR THEM ALL. funnily enough one of my other ffxiv OCs, liyen, is a lacuna character..... from a completely different universe, gdt's tales of arcadia, which i drifted away from a while before getting into ffxiv. (they're one of vex's dead kids lol)
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not adding it onto their post bc the victim in question is a) not an oomf and b) already deeply distressed by the stalking + harassment and just wants to put it behind them, understandably. but jfc we have GOT to start being WAY fucking meaner to weirdo parent's rights advocates in fandom
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hermes always looks like he's holding two frogs in his mouth and i'd die for him
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oh okay time to sob a lot about both hermes and meteion actually
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every time i feel the urge to talk about my Hythlodaeus Opinions (i think he's a huge creep, he reads to me as someone hades genuinely just kind of hated and wished weren't in his life, and they're both much more interesting that way) i hesitate bc i just Know people will flip out lol
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thinking abt why i feel how i do about hermes. i think one of the reasons he fucks me up so much (complimentary) is that in a sea of bad faith ABUSIVE PARENT DIDN'T KNOW BETTER THEY'D CHANGE THEIR WAYS IF SOMEONE EXPLAINED narratives, he's one of the few that feels like it'd be believable
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oh LORD. v'yeh and chalice started out as a big dramatic enemies-to-lovers, then deryk was a 'hey we saw you from across the bar and you just almost killed yourself in front of us, man are you okay' that eventually became smooching. really though the uniting thread is cults.
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i want someone to make zenos' ENG VA read this whole thing out as a thoughtful, menacing zenos monologue without a hint of bragging in it
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lrp oh god, every time i realize v'yeh would hate or like an NPC that i also happen to hate or like i have to fight the urge to turn to the camera and go THIS IS WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR SOMEONE WITH THEIR SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF TRAITS AND OPINIONS AND LIFE EXPERIENCES, I SWEAR ☠️
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good fuckin thread and PLEASE MORE OF THIS. it feels like a lot of media goes 'okay i made the aliens/foreigners/whatever and those are already Weird right. what do you mean cultures that don't look like mine have ideas of what's Unusual that don't necessarily center around my own normal'
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hey so fun fact this person is just straight up fucking lying about CSAM that does not exist to sexually harass someone for clout.
they are ALSO actively, publicly distributing something they claim to be CSAM, after admitting to SAVING IT TO THEIR DEVICE.
block and report them maybe!
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tl;dr equivalent for my ffxiv moots, from what i understand: imagine if three or four expansion-specific sidequest cutscenes--sometimes straight up MSQ patch cutscenes--were locked behind 100%ing each mogtome event. with no reruns, and no break between mogtome events. forever
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for both 'significant characterization' and 'marketing ragebait,' i think the prime candidate for v'yeh doing a heel-turn post DT would be a timeline where they're forced to follow canon and nuke Living Memory. it would turn them into the joker AND the discourse would be RANCID
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[looks at my WoL who was created solely because i thought it'd be funny to have a goon-coded OC to belligerently make out with one of lahabrea's goons and have a Mutual Crisis about it] [laughs] [laughs more]
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i feel like the two most likely answers here in v'yeh's case are either 'some incident of childhood neglect,' or 'almost died trying to get home to their family and make sure everyone was okay after the Calamity, realized none of them cared in turn, went no-contact afterward'
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miqittens on dash for miqo march. thank GOD
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ANOTHER BANGER THREAD OP 👏👏👏👏
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dasfdhdjfnfjfn i keep. fucking. talking about my ffxiv OCs including setting transplants and FORGETTING THE REBUILD 3 TEAM I KEEP MEANING TO TRANSPLANT TO THE FIRST. NOAH LORI JOHAN MR. PEANUTBUTTER AND LIEUTENANT ODA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS
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lrp jfc what a mood, it honestly really hurts to feel so compelled to self-censor critical aspects of various readings and OCs because i know things like 'v'yeh is a CSA survivor who has, by game's start, not registered that what happened to them was abuse' might go over poorly
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funny enough, v'yeh is my only WoL so far! and WoL!v'yeh is an AU version of them, no less. most of my OCs for ffxiv (whether homegrown, transplanted, or Heavily Rehauled canons from other fandoms) seem to fall into some variation of Just Some Guy, ascian, voidsent, or ancient
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you can have more than one writing style! if you keep finding yourself flipflopping wildly back and forth on whether you hate certain things about your writing, consider saving multiple versions when you go to rehaul a piece. it might just be that you're not in the mood for that style atm
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i do have thoughts about what i feel makes xiv come off that way (may take me a bit to follow up bc brain slow, apologies), and tl;dr i think--well-intentioned or not--the fact it keeps coming back to Major Villains Who Force You to Beat Them Up Bc They're Suffering is kind of the problem
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DASFSHDJDJDMFKJK FUCKING AMAZING
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tbh v'yeh is STILL changing bc there's huge parts of the story i haven't thrown them at yet--currently their story is very ShB/EW/ARR-heavy bc i initially got into the game secondhand to lose my mind about later expansions--but most notably they didn't start out as a WoL at all
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another banger thread that reminds me i need to explore v'yeh's own relationship to the echo more tbh, especially how it being awakened in them interacts with their pre-existing aether disability (which they had been doing their best up to that point to pretend wasn't Really a Thing)
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zenos heard vaccines give you autism and said 'promise? 👀'
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happy almost anniversary to the thread that nearly made me dry heave laughing
