#his hesistancy and closed off tendencies in the face of loss
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Thinking about thancred at 5am I guess
#owen plays ffxiv#i love the characters arcs for so many of the ffxiv characters but#Thancred’s is I just think he’s neat territory#he’s introduced as the whole flirty subterfuge sort of character with a touch of womanizer. guy likes things in life and there’s this#not quite smug but he’s a guy who knows himself#but you get more into things and you uncover his relationship with Minfilia and his kinship with her and the duty he feels towards her#but you know from the start that there’s a reason why he’s with the scions. why he has the neck tattoos#please don’t make look them up along w the twins grandfather’s name#but he was chosen for a reason and I dare say that thancred as a character is one especially shaped by those around him#being a kid growing up on nothing and being taken in by all these people. these pseudo family units over his life#he’s got this strong sense of duty towards Minfilia and Louis something don’t make me say it#especially towards Minfilia who he had something of a hand in raising her#as a way to repay her losing her family (by his own perceived lack of being able to stop the tradegy from occurring)#if there’s one of several things I wanted more out of ARR in retrospect it’s more fleshing out the two of them#which we do kinda get right at the end of the warriors of darkness bit and later in ShB#definitely in ShB#which that expac takes what we know of thancred and turns it into….all that happens l#his complex relationship with ryne. his difficulties with coming to terms with minifilia’s fate in front of him through ryne#who is very much her own character and her responses to thancred#his hesistancy and closed off tendencies in the face of loss#her perception of his dislike of her because she isn’t ‘his Minfilia’ and the conversation he had with the real Minfilia in Arang#she just others herself so much. distances herself so much from her existence. comparing herself to the real Minfilia#the whole of her saying the real Minfilia is just. YEAH#no doubt her life is much better with thancred but there’s such this back and forth#going on with him in his perception of her and his own inability to let go of the past#those feelings of how he didn’t do enough for minifilia. the letting her down the feeling like he didn’t do enough for her l#him and ryne are so….gosh they’re so wonderful#thancred is such a nice character with how he’s…steeped in having/benefiting from someone to Follow#someone to care for. someone to protect which feels so natural looking at his life#it’s all through the lens of duty but never resentful duty
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