#hydaelyn

[yhane]

“To all of my children”

Inspired by “Answers” and “Your Answer”. The fight with Hydaelyn makes me cry so much. I love how Endwalker reveals deeper meanings to “Answers” and how “Your Answer” echos to “Answers”.

“Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?”

「あなたの旅は、良いものでしたか？」

Glad that I played FF14.

[picaroroboto]

One of the typical imageries associated with the concept of "hope" is the image of light amidst darkness. FF14 does a lot of stuff with light and dark of course but in Shadowbringers they made light a thing of horror so they can't rely on the light image all the time.

Another usual image is a bird - "Hope is a thing with feathers..." from the Emily Dickinson poem. Meteion, the bird, was created with hope, but becomes a thing of despair.

So what's left as the image of "hope" in Endwalker is this:

From the cutscene "Live, Die and Know", where Venat monologues about hope and light everlasting while the camera cuts back and forth between her, blackened with blood, and the WoL succumbing to the Light corruption, both limping and stumbling along their paths. This is the face of hope in FF14 - broken, dying, bloodstained, yet defiant. That's what makes playing the hero in FF14 so damn magnetic.

Early ARR, I was cringing at the cliche chosen one, light vs dark type concepts. Further along I began to doubt Hydaelyn, given her ineffectiveness and the cruelty of the fate she bound the WoL to. But from Elpis to the end of Endwalker and beyond, I was proud, for the first time, to be called a Warrior of Light.

[asleepinawell]

ffxiv fans will see a chunk of quartz and be like that's my mom

[twinkle-art]

reunions at sea

[itsmeishmi]

"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth he shall walk."

[marikafoxtail]

"Well come and well met, my brave little spark~"

[diadoesart]

I humbly offer my ideas on how the Pictomancer LB3 might flashbang the Alliance raid in Dawntrail (Bonus blank one so you can make your own, but please tag me if you do I'd love to see them)

[anneapocalypse]

Yet another reason Ysayle should have lived is she ends up being such a major piece of foreshadowing for the truth about Hydaelyn. Ysayle summoning Shiva into herself is the first piece of evidence we get that a person can become a primal, which is the setup for the eventual reveals of Hydaelyn and Zodiark's true nature. For her to be there when we finally meet Hydaelyn in the aetherial sea? It would have been an amazing full circle moment.

Also I think that as a treat Ysayle should have gotten to mutter under breath, "Oh, but everyone made a fuss when I did it."

[ahhhtai]

Henceforth, he shall walk. (v2)

[herssian]

godkiller

hq wallpaper

[texff14]

Answer the call

[raphfish]

Something that annoys me when people discuss venat is when they debate whether or not the Sundering was justified when to me that's not the point

Her decision was flawed yes and that's the point. She needed to find a way for mankind to go forward instead of giving up in search of a past they couldn't have reclaimed, and she needed to do it before more people were sacrificed to Zodiark.

She isn't and never was the perfect god that would end mankind's suffering. And she never wanted to be that. And that's what makes her such a compelling character.

[celaziel]

[pydiyudie]

[twinkle-art]

i merely do my duty

[itsmeishmi]

What if Hades was lurkin' around the Aitiascope? >:]c