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Anonymously tell me something you like about my OCs

The subtle character design details that tell a story about their journey.

Thanks~!

I feel like this mostly applies to Aeryn, as I've definitely added on to her signature items over time, but all of them have changed as time goes on and various things show that. Hairstyles, most often, I think! Clothing options they each favor, maybe. How they smile (or don't) in pics taken of them, perhaps.

But man I wish some of these faces had better scar options. For someone who doesn't mod, the baseline scars are 'meh' and cutesy IMO.

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Anon I like your characters: beyond being just well written in their stories, each one has their own set of weaknesses and issues, different from each other, and with their own unique coping mechanisms. Really helps each one feel like a whole person, which in turn fleshes out the stories they live in.

Having my characters feel "same-y" is a thing I worry about, possibly cuz they all live in my own head. I feel this way about some RP characters over the years too. And OCs in my original stories...

Anyway. Yeah, with each story there are different reactions and reasons for them, even if on the surface they may seem at a glance similar, but even something like Aeryn's impatience and impetuousness is different from C'oretta's hyper-activity (and -focus). Dark's patient solidness comes from a very different place than Iyna's attempts to be serious and in control of herself. And they all come with drawbacks and ways to blow up, decompress, stress, relax, etc.

Thank you for noticing and reminding me I do, in fact, show that more than I think.

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I love your character portrayals and how realistic you made Aeryn's parents' relationship, especially with her mother and her recovering from her loss.

Thank you~!

I think one of my favorite fills ever is "Halcyon" because of that close look at Aeryn's parents. Tanzel was in the right place in his own journey after loss to be the understanding support Emelia needed. Their relationship definitely has had an impact on how their children see families and romance, and I have brought it up now and then for Aeryn as she navigates her own relationship.

Emelia's dealing with her grief by finding any means necessary to get her children home to Thavnair where she felt they'd be safe has been there since the beginning of Aeryn's story, and has fleshed out over the years.

Aeryn still has complicated feelings about her birth father, but he was a complicated guy in a complicated situation she knows much more about now. That was a surprise storyline I hadn't initially intended, but when it came to mind, puzzling out how to keep the characters and their choices grounded was important, as that makes the fantasy elements work better.

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fromsoftware comic

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Even if OP is being a bit tongue in cheek (IDK honestly) prev tags:

#housing is very badly setup in ff14 #I think framing it as a money hostage situation is a bad take though #demolition is a response to people buying houses decorating them and then disappearing for months and years #leaving their homes to sit there and be pretty and empty #it's a symptom of the core problem not a designed intent

The lottery RNG is bad yeah - and is still better than what we had before! Which was first-come-first-served click on the sign as soon as the house became available and hope you got lucky over the jerkass using a bot to do it for them.

We also have had people buy up entire wards on their characters (before you could only own 1 a world regardless of alts) and hold those wards indefinitely as their own personal private playgrounds and housing showcases. Which, when the population was much smaller, wasn't so much of an issue. I think a few people still have those grandfathered houses.

The real problem with FFXIV housing is it's all bandages atop of bandages. They never expected to be one of the biggest MMOs in the world, they were just trying to survive after the disastrous initial release and revamp. Housing came in the ARR patches and has been iterated on and expanded and rules changed since to try to make it more fair to active players, instead of keeping people currently playing locked out of the chance for houses cuz someone who hasn't played since Stormblood has a house sitting there.

And when there are disasters or issues, they will turn off the demo timer in regions to keep affected players from losing their homes, like wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.

Does the housing system need a revamp? Oh boy it sure does. But that's going to take a massive overhaul of the system, which is time and money that's hard to come by for a side feature. Hopefully WoW's coming implementation (taking pros and cons into account from multiple other MMOs) is a kick in the pants SE needs to do something about FFXIV's housing situation, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that, either.

As for people feeling held hostage to their housing: honestly, that's a sunk cost fallacy skill issue people have got to grapple with and accept on their own. If you're not enjoying the game and need a long break or to quit altogether and your house is keeping you there? It's pixels. The real money and your time and peace of mind is more important than a pretend house and game you are not enjoying or can't afford. I have seen some people willingly surrender their house to not feel beholden to subscriptions when they can't/don't want to play.

Also, apartments never demo. They're small and limited compared to a house, but still a place for one's character, easier to get one, and able to leave decorated as one likes for however long.

kids these days don't even know how good they have it. they don't even know about the final fantasy 14 artificial housing crisis

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And so they came, at a friend's behest. To Ishgard, shining city on the mount, overlooking the dominion of Coerthas... A land that after a thousand years of war had forgotten what it meant to be at peace. 

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Heavensward.

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Anonymously tell me something you like about my OCs

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Some improvised weapons are better than nothing. Others were so good that they became military issue across Europe for several centuries!

Anyway, here’s Patreon

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hey? can someone send me a screenshot of an ixali with a bow? i'll give you ten bucks please

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You know…not long ago, I would have scoffed at the notion of working alongside the people of Sharlayan. But when I came here and beheld the whole of our star for the first time, I realized how small the Empire is. How pathetic it was to fixate on something so trivial as borders between nations. Truly, there is no greater windfall than this journey into space…and I am grateful to you for affording me the chance, even if indirectly.

-Justa, Cosmic Exploration, Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail.

In which a former 1st Legion engineer speaks to WoL about what best serves her homeland and the world post-Final Days.

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[I am falling

I am fading

I am drowning

Help me to breathe

I am hurting

I have lost it all

I am losing

Help me to breathe]

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tried to write something about people disliking venat's character and failed miserably so i'll just say this: she's probably one of the best written character ive ever seen, her final choice is meant to be imperfect (and so are all the choices she made - or couldn't make - as hydaelyn) and there was actually no perfect solution to save the world. The people who says she's intrinsically evil or as controlling as someone like athena? Have missed the point imo. I think you can be mad at her in the sense a religious person can be mad at god for, idk, letting their child die. But to say shes a bad character or just, the source of all evil, well. Theres no unique source of pain in the universe and to believe otherwise is to follow the hermes or emet selch path. Venat is just an extremely tragic character for, the second the world is sundered, having to bear the responsability for all that is good and evil and neutral while becoming powerless and still trying to keep her strength of will

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All of this ☝️

But Also: those video essays are just emotional click bait, gang. They are coming up with something because they need easy content they can produce fast and that will make you click so their numbers go up and they make money. That's it.

Play the game. Talk to your actual friends. Decide for yourself how you feel about the game, not what some random youtube "influencer" (it's right in the dang title even) tells you based on their own subjective opinion and really dubious "evidence" they pulled out of their ass for monetization.

(also maybe reconsider inhaling new patch content in the same week it drops + also playing other games during lulls or when you're bored or annoyed or whatever, as the producer himself recommends, cuz we know the patch cycle timing, and the story and content in FFXIV is always relevant unlike in a lot of other MMOs.)

You guys, FFXIV is not dying. These video essays about how "the game is dead" are wrong. Just because you aren't enjoying the current content, does not mean the game is dying. FFXIV is doing fine. It has a set schedule that's been the same since StB (possibly HW) and always has low pop times and high pop times.

This whole "omg the game is dead it's bad abandon ship" trend is stupid.

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Yes there's a typo in the first option but I am not redoing the whole thing

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thancred's that i forgot about

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Goin' Fishin'