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INCOMING ANOTHER REBLOG WITH ANOTHER POLL

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ffxiv raid boss dialogue: A thousand centuries I have slumbered... Prepare thyself, mortal. I am the beginning and the end.

the music playing:

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As I've been revisiting the Warring Triad quests for fic purposes, I've been struck by just how prickly Krile is with Unukalhai when they first meet, how she immediately takes offense to him calling her "diminutive" and continues to needle him from that point on.

There's some really interesting stuff going on with Krile in Heavensward, I think. She's recently awakened as the sole survivor of a mysterious cataclysm that robbed her of her beloved grandfather as well as many close friends and colleagues; immediately after that, she learns that her best friend is missing, and sets off for Eorzea to help find her, only to learn that she's become Hydaelyn's emissary and isn't coming back.

Her first interaction with Thancred is also frankly bizarre, with seemingly neither of them really knowing much about Minfilia's relationship with the other despite both of them supposedly being so close with her. I think a lot of Krile's early interactions with the Scions bely some insecurity--understandably so. They're all friends, and she's the newcomer; they all had their own relationships with Minfilia that she wasn't a part of. So I'd venture that a lot of Krile's early prickly and over-the-top behavior boils down to that. She's trying to find her place in this group, she wants to be liked and belong and be useful (especially as she basically has nowhere else to go!) but she doesn't know their dynamic. She tries to break the ice with Thancred with teasing that lands very poorly because she doesn't know him like that, and doesn't understand his state of mind at the time, as his present manner doesn't much resemble the Thancred she heard about from Minfilia.

I also wonder if the offense she takes at any mention of her size has to do with her not being raised by Lalafellin parents--and misliking the reminder that she is "different" from the larger people she's always around.

In "When the Bough Wakes," early in the Warring Triad quests, Krile makes reference to "You Scions," implying that she does not yet consider herself to be one of them. This is in the context too of her admitting to being frightened of facing Sephirot, even at the side of the Warrior of Light.

Following Sephirot's defeat, Krile prods at Unukalhai thus:

Just what are you hiding beneath that mask of yours? Hmmm... A longing for hope. An appetite for power. A lingering sense of regret. And do I detect a desire to test your strength against a certain hero...?

Unukalhai's reaction suggests that Krile is not wrong. She subsequently assures him that the Echo does not allow her to read minds, and these were merely "wild guesses." I think perhaps they were not so wild, though--that Krile simply saw something of herself in Unukalhai, even without knowing his history. As we'll later learn, there are some striking similarities in what they've endured, as sole survivors who have lost their homes, their families, their people.

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can we get aymeric back please square

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being an ffxiv fanfic writer is hard because you have to remember how to spell shit like merlwyb bloefhiswyn

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sage advice from Urianger

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Take it...we fight as one.

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I understand why people see venats “no more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. henceforth, he shall walk.” as a #hardship breeds character #ease is bad statement but to me in the context of endwalker and in the context of Hermes’ whole deal it was more to me a “you are so fixated on heaven you think earth is a misery. I’m overturning the fast lane you are trying to pave to heaven. Everyone is taking the scenic route”

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New chapter time!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57893803/chapters/164384110

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Kinda fucked up that ffxiv was able to make a villain who says shit like "darkness reigns" and "the arcane is mine to command" during his big monster boss fight a genuinely compelling and sympathetic character. Like bitch you're not supposed to be saying dollar store darth vader shit while im crying about our inevitable yet tragic confrontation. How is this allowed? Is this legal?

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alphinaud leveilleur final fantasy fourteen! sorry in advance alphie

i'm not.

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New Chapter up!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57893803/chapters/163922737

Don't read if you're not at least 18

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It's been 84 years...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57893803/chapters/163763863

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[g’raha voice] if I were an ancient shady gay wizard with an unmistakable air of sadness from being the last living remnant of a dead civilisation I would simply not invent fascism about it. I can’t speak for others but personally having a society in unprecedented crisis pin their hopes of somehow guiding them through the end of the world on me has never made me want to commit genocide.