If you get him a bit sauced, yeah. Just don't be surprised when he fixates on someone cute and starts serenading them.
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:smiles at Damien Haas:
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Generally, yes. Him being predisposed towards doing this is actually the entire reason he becomes the WoL in his timeline; it wasn't just saving Nanamo that was his proof of worth, it was also his choosing to stop and help Papashan hand out pretzels without promise of reward.
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:smiles:
He's so good at it he can even fool himself.
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Lily's the same, but rather than egis he summons primals as a limit break in the same way Yuna summons her aeons in FFX: the necessary faith stems from a close bonds with others. So for Ifrit it's Kazagg Chah and Thancred, Shiva is Ysayle and Estinien, and Phoenix is the twins.
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The bouncer.
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To quote a friend: “it’s like hentai girl mindbreak shit for him.”
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"The artist Alphinaud and his assistants."
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Yep, he and Y'shtola both mirror and foil each other; they're both very ambitious with a broad scope of study, but where she views magic as something to be understood, he views it as something to be felt. And that keeps their perspectives grounded - magic is both serious *and* fun.
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He already does this sometimes for fun.
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Yep, it's very rare that you'll see him without a gold triangle pendant on his left ear. It was originally a U tribe clan earring, but was given to him as a going-away present by his first bedpartner when he left Ul'dah for Limsa Lominsa. He's worn it ever since.
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He uses a deliberately informal register which will occasionally betray either his education when it shifts into something more poetic or his past with Jacke when a bit of Thieves' Cant slips in.
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Lemons! The abbey where he grew up kept a lemon orchard and citrus still feels like a treat to him. Preserved, candied, lemonade... all good stuff.
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Yes.
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Watsonian: White because piety; I hc it's the color Ul'dahn tradition associates with philosophers, mystics, and ascetics (i.e. Thaliak's domain).
Doylist: White because it's a metaphor for his aspiration (light composed of many colors) and highlights Ifan's dualism with Fray.
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Either friendly, charming, or slick (derogatory), but usually lazy and unserious regardless.
Which is, of course, exactly what he wants people to think.
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I have two hc's regarding fantasia:
1) Recreational varieties of fantasia for specific short term changes are a thing, and yes ofc Ifan has used it.
2) All kinds of fantasia taste like shit. Like the dankest robitussin you've ever had.
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He doesn’t. Being truly seen is his deepest fear to the extent that was the crux of the conflict between himself and Zenos.
Why be a magician, then? Because the center of the performance is simultaneously the best and yet the riskiest place to avoid being truly seen.
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Probably like an 8? Not like a professional, but he's a very good dancer both because it's something just you grow up doing in Ul'dah and because his master believes mages need to know how to dance or sing in order to hone their sense of rhythm.
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Oh, so many.
- Lying
- Not paying the aetheryte fee
- Using magic for shit which he could easily do by hand
- Lying
- Forgetting his guild fees at the Ossuary (Yayake hates him)
- Unintentionally juking with ground markers (Alisaie hates him)
- F*cking people's relatives
- The. Lying.
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"How many references to classical literature and Hellenistic religious practices can we fit into one character"
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Illusions. One of the benefits of his echo is he can kinda 'feel' the emotional texture in a spell; illusions invariably tend to read as having the intent to deceive, so he's got a knack at spotting a fake even if he can't necessarily see what's being hidden.
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*gestures*
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Less a bit of lore and more a bit of reframing, so: the Hingan we see in game is not actually Japanese, it's a register of a common East Othardian language (as are Doman, Nagxian, etc.) which uses Japanese as a narrative placeholder the same way Old English is for Rohirric in LotR.
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Me: Cunning, charming, kind.
Him: "Fuckarse prat magician."
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Yea. His Echo's a tacit metaphor for autism.
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Probably the Rising since it's the one event he canonically attends every year. You'd see him sitting somewhere watching the fireworks with his old master, Dedelai; no chat dialogue either, just enjoying each others' company.
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Ye, the Stardust Rod. He sacrificed it in order to defeat Shinryu in Ala Mhigo; not replaceable for obvious reasons and he was a little bummed about losing it, but considering what it purchased he'd say it was a fair trade.
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Probably another pair of shoes tbh.
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