#hades (ffxiv)

[kanamycine]

Quick to their ends, our candles burn until we're free

the fragmented selves of the "unsundered"

emet-selch | elidibus | lahabrea (soon)

long-winded notes under the cut

ah, emet. i realized just how much i missed him in revisiting this, shb emet especially :(

his “sense of self” is, by and large, the emet-selch we meet throughout our time on the first: split between the one that presents to us his phantom city of amaurot, and the one intoning his final words in front of that same city's skeletons.

the tiny, dwindling "slice" is of course hades, who despite emet's self-assured grasp on the past, is still incredibly different from him: idealistic, unembittered, and far-removed by a thousand thousand lives (emet a "megalomaniacal madman"; the tempest’s amaurot an "insult to the memory" of his people, etc).

of note here is his smile - quirked upwards on his left. a krn fan had noted this back in shb and it has stuck with me since (and i’ll link just the images so as to not raise their post from the grave): the right corner of his mouth quirks when he's "acting" or smiling sardonically, and the left corner quirks when he's being sincere, when his emotions are genuine. here, in his last moments, in entrusting us with the future, his legacy, it is one of two times in the entirety of shb that he puts his mask down and shares with us his real smile. this is my favorite detail of the piece tbh!

last but not least, some details i added in on a recent touchup:

a more prominent glow from the um, light source in his chest. and, of course-

the aetheric axe that did the job

yay!

[emetselcch]

chaos conductor

[mljdao]

a father’s heart

[itsmeishmi]

One of my favorite silly Endwalker things I've drawn!

[zakifairer]

Emet-Selch passing on his most important torch

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[hyythlodaeus]

[ilmarisart]

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[yozora]

saw this tweet going around

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[cosmodynes]

halycon days // past & present

two part comm for @menphinaea​!! [ timelapse ]

[nephiieatsuranium]

saintlike behavior

[ketunhanska]

[ transformed ]

[tattedmariposa]

do not squander it. the legacy i leave you.

[snail-fever]

I realize the lights of all retreating cars shine red I realize you will not take back any of those words you've said what did you say? what did you say? why didn't you stay?

here lie all the photographs all that I remember taken under, sent asunder how I drift through history, a small Sargasso sea rising, sinking, still I'm thinking

[x]

[mljdao]

Days Gone By, Days Yet To Come

[itsmeishmi]

Went and cleaned up this drawing of Emet(s) again because I wanted to maybe make MTG card sleeves from it maybe aaaaaa /////

[doodlenab]

Remember us.