#gui plays ffxiv

[helladventurers]

trying out a new Red Mage glamor! the pitch for this one is that I wanted an outfit with a bit heavier than the usual mage robes (because rdm usually has higher defense than other mages in older ff games), as well as something that played more into the sword Duelist aspect of the job, and I'm quite happy with this

as usual, huge ups to @dewpriism for the help, both in finding good top that worked for what i was going for, and finding a good leg armor option that would work with the jacket lol that was way more of a pain in the ass than I expected

[faefellangel]

it's wawa

[verflares]

collection of some loz origin au stuff i've been chipping away at for awhile now ^_^ with a healthy amount of dunmeshi insp for good measure LOL (the ooccoo isnt relevant she's just here for size comparison purposes)

feat my beloved good friend @linkvcr's hylia design also. because i am obsessed with her and you should be too 🫵

[lisawn]

handsome stranger

[cloudpalettes]

some scones

[lavampira]

alia’s korpokkur is now kolossus 🌱

[gigues]

ever since i saw that post a while ago. ajfsdhasjgadf

[fyllophobia]

never knew what hit him

[nekhcore]

it's much too soon for you to die. our dance is not yet done.

i had to write a long ass thread about misha’s emotional state through hvw/patches/stb to figure out how he feels about zenos. tl;dr zenos is representative of all his greatest failures, and salts the wound of his job change. when zenos tells misha to live for him, misha’s first thought is that he should die to spite him.

[liketheinferno2]

These aren't full ref sheets but I was trying to take some clear pictures of Hephaistos for later art reasons and then got side tracked doing all of the Pandaemonium bosses so here they are in order. Also for anyone following who doesn't play FFXIV and knows it as the catgirl game, enjoy this instead? VISUAL SPOILERS obviously.

Asphodelos

Warder of the Condemned: Erichthonios

Mythic Creation: The Hippokampos

Mythic Creation: The Phoinix

(+ familiars)

Hemitheos: Hesperos

(+ sexy fanfic redesign by Nemjiji)

To be brutally honest I never really liked either of these designs compared to every other Hemitheos we get, I think the really brutal black and red of the Phoinix is weakened by gold accents, but I still am always down for gay vampire surf rock. The Savage version kind of looks like Ultimalius as well if you've played XVI.

Abyssos

Mythic Creation: Proto-Carbuncle

Hrgrhhgrhrgrh

Hemitheos: Hegemone

^ My favourite detail on this is you can see the parasite's outlines in her robes and in her legs, then right through the eye holes on the mask to wrap around the torso. I'm convinced this version of Hegemone is functionally an ant being piloted by a cordyceps infection.

Hemitheos: Agdistis

She's very big

Perfect Imperfection: Hephaistos

I'm probably biased by Abyssos being the first raid I was there for day of release but these really are all fantastic. It's also when the story abandons all pretense of not being (at least partly) about family abuse and is loudly using the body horror and shackle motifs to talk about that. It's great. Hephaistos specifically is constantly bulging and twisting in and out of different forms like a highly unstable chimera and the more I look at these the more I notice parts that just should not be there. He's giving everything.

As for the Savage design It's a hard thing to rate as such but my favourite part is the veins that grow down from the eyeholes in his mask like bloody tears.

Thanks Abyssos I love you

Anabaseios

Mythic Creation: Kokytos

Dæmoniac Dungeon: Pandæmonium

It's really hard to communicate how huge this nasty tumor crab I zoomed out as far as physically possible in the game engine and subsequently ended up at a goofy angle staring up his nose.

Ephemeral Justice: Themis

Best boy. The double ended lance and second pair of arms are fantastic for this character.

Theos: Athena

In.. almost every final fantasy adventure you're fighting the real villain not at the very end but a little beforehand, the big iconic end boss is often more a metaphorical figure representing everything wrong with that first person's ideals. Athena cut out the middle man and became her own JENOVA.

I do like the moth angel, especially the hollow body full of dubious orbs, but with her eyes closed all the time it gives off the impression of this not even being the true body but some kind of anglerfish lure in the shape of a fairy... which might be true because this exists:

I really really love her twitchy anemone feelers and how the moth body ends up grafted to the rest of it waist down.

Anyway there's the gang I did not specifically intend for this to be design reviews I just wanted to have clear photos because when you actually see them in game there's other things to focus on. In hindsight I can appreciate more the theming of each tier and then the series as a whole, but my only (extremely obvious) observation for now is that every character Athena had a personal hold over is decorated in chains somehow and so I should have seen the Hegemone thing coming lmao. Heph and Aggy are still my favourites I don't think that's changing any time soon. I'm also noticing that Anabaseios is now just old enough for random DF parties to fuck up severely and I find that fun so I'm going to go fight the crab mansion now.

[helladventurers]

i started playing Viper, and I love how much of a blatant reference to monhun thery are LOL I hope I like the class enough to make it into a main for that alone

[nabaath-areng]

I have way too many alts that I keep to myself (which is why I generally refrain from posting them), but I'm going to ignore that habit for a moment just because I'm feeling particularly insane about this guy.

[1driedpersimmon]

I’ve started Shadowbringers!

[ahollowgrave]

-- it feels better biting down.

see also:

Selenite: Go fuck yourself. Sulfur: Fuck me yourself, coward.

Also an additional shot of Selenite's expression because I love how done she looks:

[unyanizedcatboys]

Guess who finally caved and decided to try FFXIV, following in @demilypyro’s footsteps playing the best class, enjoying my time so far even though i haven’t even left Ul’dah much yet :3c

[mmhberry]

Regarding the current situation with bans in SSO…

Can’t believe I am defending SSE right now but there’s so much misinformations on the Instagram side and especially the TikTok side of the SSO community about the ongoing cheat bans it drives me nuts

“SSO is banning half of their community” what are you talking about, they banned like 0,5% of the active players. “Even ReShade gets you banned” I have used reshade for years I never got banned for it and my account is still up since the update, SSO has already confirmed since years that they fully allow reshade.