#but look at me. its been over a year and im STILL thinking about endwalker. and its OVER. DONE WITH. NO new content

[abimee]

despite how much WOL art i make i still have the ''I NEED TO DRAW 14 ART'' crave in my gut like i need to draw canon scenes and canon characters and such. it is disgusting how much this game motivates me to pick up a pencil and write or draw NOTHING has ever pushed me like this

[maguneedsalife]

T'zekhwalker - Final Zenos Fight

i spent so much time here it needed its own post. i'd be lying if i said this one scene wasn't a main reason i pushed t'zekh through the main story (the other was i wanted him to get to 90/get the rdm artifact gear so he could wear his canon glam but you know)

so, some background for folks who are new here: t'zekh was the main wol for stormblood. he was the one zenos became obsessed with, and he has spent most of endwalker trying to get zenos to leave him alone. he knows zenos desperately wants t'zekh to kill him--to come at him with fire and rage and bloodlust--but t'zekh refuses to kill anyone no matter how much they deserve it.

i had been waiting so long for t'zekh to be able to do this dialog choice and the answer i had envisioned for him actually changed from the time i did this with aoife. originally i'd thought he'd go with option 2, but by the time i got here, 3 was more his style.

which ended up being a good thing, because zenos's response to that answer was fucking perfect for t'zekh

small aside--it drove me bonkers back when spoiler embargo first lifted and ppl (mostly on twitter) were INSISTING that answer 1 was the only possible canon answer and if you picked any of the others you were clearly playing the game wrong. even despite yoshi p confirming that there was no "correct" answer and the team had tried to write it so that players could respond to zenos the way they felt best reflected their own character's experience. people were STILL out there like "sorry but if you didnt pick option 1 you're just wrong"

so to see the text validate my choice and my hcs so perfectly has me feeling vindicated in this chilis. it is okay for people to have a different experience of the game than you!!! (i'll get off my soapbox now)

option 3 was perfect for t'zekh because he is finally fed up enough with zenos that he's finally willing to cast aside his moral opposition to killing in order to make sure zenos can't hurt anyone else in his name.

and zenos caught on to that and responded in kind.

anyway then i took a fucktillion pictures in the instance (most of which i'll put on my wol blog)

it was so hard to get them in the same frame lmao

and then i did the solo fight! not too bad on red mage, surprisingly enough - was very thankful to have vercure though lmao

this punch is still just as satisfying the second time

On my way to the last credits sequence i learned that you will actually fuck up the music timing if you skip or speed up the credits. it was playing revenge twofold when it was supposed to be playing flow together. that was very jarring. i don't know why they haven't set it to just start playing flow together for that sequence. dont skip the credits folks

and that's a wrap! i uhhh might have abandoned him before finishing out the quest so i could go farm memoria misera with aoife but im very happy to have (technically) beaten Endwalker with him before the year ended, which was one of my goals.

I think I started main story with him in January, so it's taken me about a year to get through... mostly what set me back was i had to make time/build emotional strength to make progress through parts I knew would be difficult emotionally. But I committed to not to skipping any cutscenes and just pressing on through a second read, and I'm glad to have embarked on this journey.

as soon as i finished endwalker the first time i knew it was going to be equally aoife and t'zekh's story. they both ended up having stakes in the plot in different ways, and getting to play through and see things from t'zekh's perspective was so much fun.

i still keep thinking abt the version of the ending in my head, wherein t'zekh is lying at the edge of the universe and all he can think is "i want to live, dammit!!"

and he hears a voice calling out to him.

"there you are!" aoife shouts, "I was looking all over for you!"

T'zekh has spent so much of the story kind of in aoife's shadow, grappling with what it means to be a "hero" in his own way. he spent a lot of stormblood resenting her absence.

but by the end of endwalker… i think they end up really close friends

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Next, it'll be Banri's turn.... skipping as many cutscenes as possible so i can get him through before Dawntrail!

[amaiuna]

ian's endwalker job gear photoshoot: melees

ah yes melee jobs... i still prefer melee than caster but my smol brain only has the capacity of learning one melee job.. two if lucky 😂 and ninja would've been my first choice for main job (since dual blade is always my weapon of choice) but alas! it's! so! complicated! brain = gone! so double hand bonk it is.

monk: tranquility, starry cliffside

i'm in the pic!! shoo shoo ian!!! but after i dyed it pink (lmao) this monk job gear is actually not so bad 🤔🤔 i still think i like shb one better but this one can be in 2nd place. mm yes talking about monke gears, made me want to make (more) monk glam plates (gonna do it next time i login)

dragoon: looking down the city at dawn

😩👌mmmm yes drg, after all these years, still the best thing to fangirl at HAHA job gear still as amazing as ever, and that idle pose is *big cheat* too HHH. i still don't wanna play drg cos im v content on watching (and gushing over) other people play the job HAHHAH

ninja: the leveilleur estate, observing from the shadow

must admit nin job gear for ew looks.... quite cool...... like its not too ninja-ish, and ian's hair complements the color lmao. had some weird memories about nin cos of some people back in eu server, but i dont even play the job so i can at least appreciate the aesthetics 🤷‍♀️

samurai: tranquility, nature's embrace

this is also my fav of all the sam job gear LOL (i dont play the job but i saw the previous ones.) looks so sleek and authoritative idk 😂the undereye.. ornament.. thingy is actually quite stylish too :o (ps: sorry about the pixel grass still 😂)

reaper: the studium, soul culinary (oof lemme quietly chuckle at myself.)

the edgeee is here HAHAHA and i appreciate the edge so.. this good 😂😂 the peekaboo design is also an A+ 💯💯 iirc the location was ian's choice and.. it worked, good enough 😂😂😂