#THANK YOUUU ❤️❤️❤️ i love talking about how much rai loves birds

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tell me about raiden my friend raiden :3 can be anything you want but if you want a specific topic idk tell me about a minion or mount they use and why !! feel free to ignore that if you have something you’d rather talk abt though <3 mwah

MWAH ty grimsley :3 <3 i will talk about anything and everything about raiden !!!

The minion i've been using for him recently is the puffin from the newest dungeon

☝️ raiden & puffin. in the past i've used the hunting falcon & ofc estinien (of wind up & dress up variety. i've been wanting to make an edit of one of them to be foulques but...! modding is scary). it's mostly birds because raiden LOVES birds, especially chocobos. the chocobo chick was my favorite minion for the longest time i used CONSTANTLY because i had to be lore accurate and raiden would adore having a little chocobo follow him around.

for mounts, I'd say Raiden's favorite is the company chocobo u get. first mount ever. again he loves chocobos. (if there are more chocobo mounts than ones u get in msq i can get id love to know) he love's her her name is lexington (named after lexington, kentucky like the place with the horses) Lore wise his original chocobo was slaughtered at the bloody banquet so he couldn't escape & Haurchefants black chocobo was gifted to him because of that.

(i cant bear to part with lexington for one moment long enough to dye her so i could be lore accurate so she is still yellow. idk...)

Raiden has always loved birds when he came to Eorzea and saw just how abundant chocobos were for transport and the like he got a little obsessed (since there were none in yanxia, though he loved his friends yol). He had a very, very brief jaunt as a jockey because of that. so i try to incorporate chocobo stuff any way i can whenever the game lets me (half my island sanctuary animals are chocobos because of this) (the other half is karakul. for the elf wife, of course).

he had to quit because receiving his echo made them grow significantly, and just became too big to race anymore (like real horse racing, you have to be pretty light and small- though i'd imagine there'd be different divisions for different races since they vary so much in size & weight. raiden outgrew elezen division & was too small for roe 😭) oh, and also the whole "fighting primals" thing. I think that unfortunately took most of his attention away.