#Papalymo Totolymo

[th1rt33n]

reigniting my love of drawing by realizing i have the power to just make an endless amount of these

[mosthuggableffxiv]

Bonus Poll: Most Boopable Scion

[zoruathemageknight]

Lmao I’m only on Stormblood

[tsorin]

Stealing this from my own Twitter because I think I'm hilarious

Also Papalymo deserved better and I miss him

[faragonart]

[the-random-tyler]

End of stormblood (It didn't stick and he got kicked out soon after)

[haunted-xander]

Redraw of the 2014 Rising artwork except I am physically incapable of making things easy for myself so I made one for each expac :)

[bloodsworn-marshal]

Reunited in the aetherial sea...

So that new lore book huh

[manaohu]

[joyejoyu]

Endwalker charms are done! I'll be debuting (and restocking) these for Toronto Kupocon in December ^-^

[anneapocalypse]

On the Scions and Sacrifice

(I am still mid-Stormblood, so no spoilers please. ❤)

Master Louisoix looms so large over all the Scions, and I feel like it's really given nearly all of them a complex where they feel like they have to be willing to sacrifice themselves should the need arise--and they're all just waiting for that moment that happened to Louisoix, that realization that there is no other choice. It might be death, it might be something else, but they're all so ready to take the bullet, literal or figurative.

We see it with Moenbryda, who says that she finally understands the choice he made seconds before she gives her life to defeat an Ascian. We see it with Yda and Papalymo, Thancred and Y'shtola, and finally Minfilia as one by one they stay behind, urging the others to go on, until only the Warrior of Light is left. We see it again with Papalymo when he gives his life to contain the primal summoned by the Griffon. We see it with Minfilia's willingness not only to hand herself over to Hydaelyn to be her voice, but to travel to a far-off star, maybe never to return, to help save a world she has never seen. We see it in Urianger acting alone to spare his friends the burden he carries for what he believes to be necessary actions. Even Alphinaud basically doesn't allow himself to be just a teenage boy and over and over keeps trying to take the world on his shoulders because he believes it's what he's supposed to do as Louisoix's grandson. Lyse in Stormblood is so ready and eager for revolution but over and over again we see the true cost of war and of resistance to overwhelming imperial power, and we are confronted with the question of what level of sacrifice is fair to ask of people who have already suffered so much and are just trying to survive.

And yes, sacrifice is noble and valiant and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think the effect is a net positive. Louisoix did what he did when there was very definitively, apocalyptically, no other choice. He probably wasn't wrong. But that doesn't mean that it's good or useful for all of his followers to be waiting on a knife's edge for the same. It makes them perhaps too ready to throw themselves to the fire, too quick to assume that a heroic sacrifice is the only choice. Because what if they assume there are other options left, and they're wrong? What if they fail to act at the critical moment? The Calamity scarred Eorzea, scarred everyone in ways both obvious and subtle, and I think this particular scar on the Scions is an ultimately negative impulse that I hope we see them find their way out of. Alisaie, notably, is not about that shit, and I look forward to her seeing what kind of influence she has upon the others.

[karmacaiman]

still my favorite scions

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Yda, swinging the door open: Boo!! Haha, sorry to startle everyone.

Papalymo: You loudly struggled with the lock for 30 seconds.

[marlindotzip]

Those little guys

[th1rt33n]

very serious doodles from when my friends were playing funny fantasy xiv

[mythiclings]

Them <3